Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008

War Criminals Must Fear Punishment

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/03/9380/

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That's why I went for John Bolton

By George Monbiot

As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, we all have a duty to keep the truth alive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20035.htm



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Waxman Wants Bush, Cheney CIA Leak FBI Interviews

Daniel W. Reilly reports for The Politico: "House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey Tuesday to release FBI interviews of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as part of the investigation into the leak of the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame."

http://www.truthout.org/article/waxman-wants-bush-cheney-cia-leak-fbi-interviews

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Rep. Waxman Seeks Access to Bush, Cheney Interviews on CIA Leak
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/04/9418/



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AIPAC: Drumbeats of War?

Aijaz Ahmad: McCain ignores facts claiming Tehran poses an unacceptable risk.
http://tinyurl.com/4rut73



Bill Kristol At AIPAC

Obama And McCain "Don't Actually Differ" On Iran.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/bill-kristol-at-aipac-oba_n_104799.html



Only Nader Has Pointed Out the Danger
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20063.htm



Who Will Be The Next US President?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20064.htm



Dancing with AIPAC: Obama's Missteps

On his first day as the presumptive Democratic candidate for president earlier this month, Barack Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder.

http://www.counterpunch.org/bisharat06192008.html



John Bolton Says 'Best' Possible Outcome Of Obama Presidency Is 'More Bombings, More Attacks'

The facts are these: when it comes to driving an increase in "bombings and attacks," there are few things more successful than President Bush's Iraq War policies. According to the Center for American Progress.

http://tinyurl.com/4kfddb



The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20510.htm



Aipac's Hidden Persuaders

By Richard Silverstein
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22636.htm



Armageddon Now?

By Nadia Hijab

Of all the analysis generated by the Obama-Netanyahu meeting Robert Satloff's is the most significant. Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which serves as AIPAC's think tank. His piece, circulated Thursday, provides insights into what the lobby -- and Israel -- might do next. And it should ring alarm bells.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22713.htm



New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released

AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and circulated classified government information provided in strict confidence by US industry and worker groups opposed to AIPAC sponsored economic legislation.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/new-fbi-files-alleging-aipac,1199302.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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On some enemies of Middle East peace
http://lewrockwell.com/polner/polner25.html

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AIPAC Wall Beginning to Crack

Ira Chernus, Truthout: "For years, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has helped to stonewall the Middle East peace process by building a solid wall around the Israeli government, protecting it from criticism in the US. Senators and representatives have feared the wrath of AIPAC come Election Day, even in states and districts where the Jewish vote is negligible. Whatever they may have thought privately about Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, they've remained silent."

http://www.truthout.org/060909R



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Press accounts of NW Winter Soldier hearings in Seattle

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7557/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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US/IRAQ: "Enough Is Enough, It's Time to Get Out"

By Dahr Jamail
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42622




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World's Largest Media Source Controlled by World's Largest Drug Company

http://tinyurl.com/5m2w7w


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Friedensforscher warnen vor Rüstungswettlauf

Deutsche Friedensforscher warnen vor einer neuen Spirale des Wettrüstens. "Die neue Hochrüstung kann bedrohlicher werden als der Kalte Krieg", heißt es im "Friedensgutachten 2008", das fünf Friedensforschungsinstitute am 3. Juni in Berlin vorstellten. Besonders die USA, Russland, China und Indien rüsteten massiv auf. Von 2001 bis 2006 seien die inflationsbereinigten Militärausgaben weltweit um etwa 30 Prozent auf eine Billion US-Dollar gestiegen. Die Hälfte davon entfalle auf die USA.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18085



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Ex-Aufsichtsrat der Bahn verlangt Auskunft wegen möglicher Überwachung

Der ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete der Grünen, Albert Schmidt, hat von der Deutschen Bahn AG heute Auskunft über eine "mögliche Überwachung" seiner Person gefordert. In einem persönlichen Schreiben an Bahnchef Hartmut Mehdorn, fragt Schmidt, ob er "als Mitglied des DB Aufsichtsrates (1999 bis 2002) oder als Mitglied des Bundestages (1994 bis 2005) zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt im Auftrag der Deutschen Bahn AG" ausgespäht, telefonisch abgehört oder überwacht worden sei. Anlass zu dem Schreiben ist für den früheren Verkehrsexperten der Grünen "die aktuelle Berichterstattung über die langjährigen Geschäftsbeziehungen zwischen der Deutschen Bahn AG und der Network Deutschland GmbH". Diese Firma hat für die Deutsche Telekom Mitarbeiter ausgespäht.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18087



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Popcorn with the cell phone - Popcorn mit dem Handy



http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ



http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ju5yIFu4yY8



http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI


Informant: Pesché Jeannot

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Cellphone Popcorn Popping & Bird Flock Suicides!!

I notice a lot of pro and con discussion about popcorn and cellphones lately.

Notice that the popcorn kernels are surrounded by at least three cellphones with antennae pointed at the kernels. Kernels must be in middle of area so all cellphone antennae transmissions center on them.

I'm no physicist (B.S., M.E.), but after collecting info on unusual and rare event EMF effects, natural and artificial, since 1965, I see some possibe tie-ins here with at least three bird flock suicides I have on record.

1. Many bird flocks and schools of fish turn as one unit, almost instantaneously....kind of a "group mind" effect. We know birds and fish and other creatures (even humans??....charisma?) receive and transmit natural geoelectromagnetic and EMFs from each other, as well as interactions with the environment....it's called "survival"!

2. We are becoming more aware that specie-specific window frequencies and waveforms (not necessarily intensity) affect living systems in various ways. It's the information content of the signals that creates biological effects. Humans are not the only living things that transmit information contents with EMF signals!! .. alltho our artificial signals are often far stronger (and sometimes less informative) than most natural signals.

3. I understand (comments here, please) that there is such a phenomenon known as interference, when two EMF or sonic frequencies intersect......Depending of phase of signal you get either destructive (reduction) or constructive (increase) interference....I believe this kind of situation creates a "standing wave" effect.

4. O.K., so, with three, or more, cellphone antennae aimed precisely at the kernels the transmission signals from the sound input to the cellphones all hit the kernels at the same time with the same signal phase, thus it would seem that an additive effect (constructive) interference of the transmitted beams concentrate in just one tiny area...an intense standing wave of microwave energy results,.and pop goes the corn!.....one cellphone won't do it....gotta have concentration and standing wave....

5. Now, back to the birds. It seems very likely (considering the large nuimber of antennae in close proximity in the environment now) that occasionally that two or more cellphone antennae transmission beams intersect and happen to be sending the same signal information at the same time, creating a standing wave. When birds hit this temporary standing wave microwave field, they become totally disoriented and confused and sometimes dive straight into the ground as a group. It appears their automatic natural altimeter and sense of direction is destroyed.

6. This happened in England several years ago, and last year a similar incident occurred in Austin Texas. Several years ago a homing pigeon racing event up in Philadelphia area had to be held during the week, because weather prevented the contest during the weekend. Almost no pigeons made it home. Pigeons, which we know are very sensitive to geoelectromagnetic natural signals, do not seem to fly in flocks like blackbirds and starlings, so I suppose there was a lot of general confusion.

So, there are my comments on the popcorn situation.

Condemnation before Investigation is a great way to prevent progress!


James B. Beal
EMF Interface Consulting

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Cell-phone popcorn a hoax, radiation changes aren't

Scripps Howard News Service for June 17, 2008
By Martin Schram

It was the pop heard ’round the world.

Four pops, actually. Faster than a speeding kernel _ YouTube viewers around the planet became eyewitnesses to something that looked like corny fun-time science. Here’s what they saw: Four corn kernels on a table cloth, surrounded by four cell phones, lying flat and pointed at the kernels. Four young folks dialed their cell phones. The ringing commenced. Suddenly _ pop…pop...pop...pop. Lo, right before our eye-witnessing eyes, the corn jumped and popped into popcorn.

The popping of the popcorn set the blogs buzzing. In English, French, Japanese. The buzzing of the blogs begat the babble of the 24/7 cable news anchors _ hey, this was their kind of story. After all, hadn’t a world of cell phone users just seen, with their own eyes, evidence of a scientific truth, at last _ proof of the perils of cell phone radiation?

Well, no. It was a hoax.

Not a hoax pulled off by youthful pranksters. It was a hoax pulled off by corporate hucksters. After putting three cell-phony videos on YouTube and letting the buzz and babble build for about a week, the business people who run Cardo Systems, a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of wireless Bluetooth headsets, put out the word that it was all a hoax _ and they were the proud hoaxsters.

“We wanted to generate more buzz about Cardo Systems,” Kathryn Rhodes, Cardo’s national marketing director, said in an interview, speaking from her cell phone to mine. “We found it tremendously successful.”

They had used some sort of gimmick to make the corn pop. Hot stove under the tablecloth? A microwave beam from above? “We don’t intend to explain it,” Rhodes said. “We’ll keep it a trade secret.” Then she tossed in one last kernel of corporate corn: “We want to preserve the integrity of the videos.” Say what? For a minute I thought I’d heard a fifth “pop” _ only a corporate marketeer would think that “integrity” and Cardo’s “videos” belonged in the same sentence.

Before Cardo Systems confessed its sins, this columnist was on the receiving end of just a bit of the buzzing. Friends and strangers sent me the YouTube videos. Because in 2001, I had co-authored a book with Dr. George L. Carlo, entitled “Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age.” Carlo, an epidemiologist (and yes, coincidentally his name does rhyme with Cardo), had been the insider of the cell phone industry. He’d been hired to run a program of scientific studies that the industry figured would prove that cell phones posed no hazard; but when studies began to show that radiation from cell phones seemed to cause some changes in biological cells, Carlo followed the science _ and the industry began to discredit Carlo.

Our book contained results of studies that had showed that changes in blood cells that had been exposed to cell phone radiation _ they developed micro-nuclei (which are also found in cancerous tumors). The book also noted a study that indicated how far inside a skull radiation can penetrate into the brain when a phone is held against the head: Just near the surface in adults, but penetration was said to increase the younger the cell phone user, so that it went quite far into the skulls of small children.

Carlo, who now heads the Science and Public Policy Institute and the Safe Wireless Initiative, said this week that a number of recent studies have confirmed the risks posed by extensive usage of cell phones. He noted that a Swedish study by Dr. Lennart Hardell and Dr. Kjell Mild showed a correlation between cell phone use and tumors on the side of the head where the phone is regularly held. And another study conducted in 12 European labs replicated findings of genetic change in cells produced by cell phone radiation _ which is not related to the sort of heat that pops popcorn.

Those findings deserve to be major news in a world of more than three billion cell phone users. But the sad truth is that the popcorn hoax got far more coverage than any scientific study ever did.

“What the studies are showing is that there is a fundamental disruption of the normal physiology in cells and tissues and organs,” Carlo said. These changes could increase the risk among those who might be susceptible. “Not everyone who is exposed to pollen sneezes and not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer,” Carlo said. “But those who are more susceptible are at greater risk.”

The risks are real. They were discovered not by hoaxes but by science. That’s why we urgently need more industry-independent studies. And just this once, we don’t need a congressional investigation of Corngate.

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=SCHRAM-06-17-08

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Cell Phones Pop Corn, Toast Brains
http://www.jonbarron.org/blog_published/2008/06/cell_phones_pop_corn_toast_bra.html

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Mobiles boil eggs!

Tanveer Thakur

CHANDIGARH, Oct 8: It is not quite the fastest way to cook an egg, but researchers have found that if a raw egg is placed in between four switched-on cell phones, it will be ready to eat in about 80 minutes.
Researchers at Panjab University studying the impact of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile cell phone devices on living matter, have found that the radiation adversely affect tiny insects, wheat and mustard grains, in addition to eggs.

Scientists have already linked the extinction of common birds like the house sparrow to the excessive electromagnetic radiation in the environment.

According to the researchers, Mr VP Sharma, Dr RK Kohli, Dr HP Singh, and Dr Upma Baghei, the radiation released by the mobile devices have two kinds of effect ~ thermal effect and non-thermal radiation effect.

These rays, the same as those in a microwave oven, generate heat and adversely affect seed germination in plants and impair cell expansion.
In the experiments, the mobile phones were connected to pre-recorded tapes and four of them were kept live with an egg in the middle. After around 80 minutes, the egg was found to be hard-boiled. The research is in its final stages and the effects of EM waves are being studied on enzymes, cells and top layers of plants. "The idea is to sensitise people about the harmful effects of using mobile phones and living in close proximity to cellphone tower,” said Dr RK Kohli.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=226038

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Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3778251/

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Missbildungen bei Hühnerembryonen unter EM-Feldern
http://tinyurl.com/6l9rhk
http://groups.google.com/group/archive_news/t/12c9d58bcbf69f29?hl=de
http://www.klimaforschung.net/tierversuche/index.htm

Handys beeinflussen Speichel und Wasser
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Jeder Mensch hat das Recht auf ein gutes Leben: "reclaim your life"

Zahltag in Berlin am 2. Juni 2008

Arbeitsagentur kein öffentlicher Raum für unabhängige Beratung und Begleitung? Teilerfolg der Erwerbslosengruppen bei „Zahltag“-Aktion

„Aktivisten der Erwerbslosenszene haben am heutigen Morgen erfolgreich versucht, einen großen Beratungstisch vor der Arbeitsagentur Mitte (Kochstraße 30) aufzubauen, um den wartenden „Kunden“ der Agentur ihre beratenden und begleitenden Dienstleistungen anzubieten…“ Pressemitteilung vom 2.6.2008 (pdf) von AG Soziales Berlin im Berliner Sozialforum, Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste und Erwerbslosenausschuss ver.di Berlin http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2008/berlin0206.pdf


Aktion vor dem Jobcenter Berlin-Kreuzberg

„Jobcenter verweigert Zutritt, LKA versucht, Infotische zu verbieten: eine Aktion der AG Soziales Berlin vor dem Jobcenter Berlin / Rudi-Dutschke-Straße erfährt ungewöhnliche Hindernisse…“ Bericht von Anna Panek vom 02.06.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/06/219037.shtml


Umgang mit der Entwürdigung. Erwerbsloseninitiativen organisieren Beratung vor Arbeitsagentur Mitte

Artikel von Peter Nowak im ND vom 03.06.2008 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/129733.umgang-mit-der-entwuerdigung.html


"reclaim your life". Aktionstag gegen Hartz-Gesetze, für soziale Rechte am 16.6. in Berlin

Unter dem Motto "reclaim your life" ist für den 16. Juni (der Tag der Anhörung zu den Regelsätzen Hartz IV im BT-Ausschuss Arbeit und Soziales) ein nächster "Aktionstag gegen HarzIV-Gesetze, für soziale Grundrechte" in Berlin angekündigt, diesmal am Brandenburger Tor. Beginn: 11h. Siehe Aufruf und weitere Infos beim Sozialforum Berlin http://www.soziales-berlin.de/sfb?page_id=130

Die Forderungen der sozialen Initiativen: 1. individuelle Grundsicherung in Höhe von mindestens 500 €, Abschaffung der Bedarfsgemeinschaft; 2. Abschaffung der Repressions-und Sanktionsparagrafen (speziell § 31 des SGB II); 3. individuelle Grundsicherung für alle Kinder; 4. gesetzlicher Mindestlohn von 10 € und Einschränkung der Leiharbeit.


„Jeder Mensch hat das Recht auf ein gutes Leben!“ Dreiländer-Demonstration am Samstag 7. Juni 2008 12 h in Freiburg i.Br.

Am Samstag den 7. Juni 2008 wird in Freiburg im Breisgau (D) – im Rahmen des Aktionsmonates „Zusammen die Utopie leben ...“ – eine Dreiländerdemonstration stattfinden. Mit einer politischen Stimme wollen wir unsere Forderungen erheben und rufen alle im Elsass, in der Nordwestschweiz und in Südbaden zur Teilnahme auf. Siehe den Aufruf auf der Aktionsseite „Zusammen die Utopie leben ...“ http://www.utopie-leben.de/neus/aufruf_3-landerdemo_7_juni_.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Juni 2008

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Widerstand gegen Sklavenhandel

DIE LEIHKEULE - Zeitung für Leiharbeiter

Leihsklaven! Jetzt geht’s looohooooos!

„Die Nullnummer der Leihkeule war nur ein Testballon, ob es überhaupt Interesse an einer unabhängigen Diskussion über das Problem der Leiharbeit gibt. Uns wurden die ersten Exemplare aus den Händen gerissen. Dann brachten wir eine Extraausgabe heraus für die Zeitarbeitsmessen, in denen die Branche mit Hilfe der Arbeitsämter versucht, günstige neue Leihsklaven zu rekrutieren. Die Frage nach dem Interesse ist somit beantwortet und hier ist die erste Ausgabe der Leihkeule…“ Leihkeule No.1 (pdf) bei chefduzen.de http://www.chefduzen.de/leih_keule_01_02.pdf


Extraausgabe: Zeitarbeitsbörsen (pdf) bei chefduzen.de http://www.chefduzen.de/sonder_leih_boerse1.pdf


Leiharbeitnehmer oder betriebsbedingte Kündigungen

„Mit der Abschaffung der gewerberechtlichen Schutzvorschriften im AÜG (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz) durch das „Gesetz über moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt“ – besser bekannt als „Hartz I - IV“ – hat sich der Einsatz von Leiharbeitnehmer/innen (LeihAN) als das entwickelt, was kritische Stimmen vorausgesagt hatten: als Maschine zur Senkung der Personalkosten und Abbau der Stammbelegschaft durch den befürchteten und auch tatsächlich eingetretenen „Drehtüreffekt“. Seitdem wächst der Widerstand in den Gewerkschaften gegen die z.T. unwürdigen Arbeitsbedingungen der LeihAN, aber auch gegen den Abbau der Stammbelegschaften durch den massenhaften Einsatz von LeihAN. Das LAG Hamm hat nun in einer – noch nicht rechtskräftigen Entscheidung – den Ausspruch betriebsbedingter Kündigungen für unzulässig erachtet, solange noch LeihAN auf vergleichbaren Arbeitsplätzen beschäftigt sind. Diese interessante und wichtige Entscheidung kommentieren wir im Mandanteninfo für September
2008…“ Mandanteninfo vom Bell & Windirsch Anwaltsbüro vom 1.9.08 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/psa/mandinfo2.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. September 2008



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Vogelgrippe-Erreger mutiert erstmals zu Human-Pandemie-Version

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/97332b3e0a18693d?hl=en



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The White House Lie Factory

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/330.html

US bringing 4th Fleet and 'gunboat diplomacy' back to Latin America

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7555/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Encounters with the Watch List

CounterPunch
by Ahmad Al-Akhras

06/02/08

Like racial profiling, the so-called Watch List hinges on a false premise that people commit crimes because of their racial, ethnic or religious background. This false premise caused huge suffering to African America, Japanese Americans and now Arab and American Muslims. The worst part of this is the assumption that practicing Islam, never mind being an activist at that, gives one an appetite for terrorism. In the process, people who are in good standing who did not have a criminal record are treated as ‘posing a threat to civil aviation or national security’ or as ‘potential enemies of the state’...

http://counterpunch.org/akhras06022008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Reiche shoppen weiter

Während die Subprimekrise in den USA inzwischen die obere Mittelschicht erreicht hat, steigt der Absatz im obersten Luxussegment ungebrochen weiter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28042/1.html

Next-up news N°594

http://omeganews.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/next-up-news-n%c2%b0594/

Outcry against mobile towers

Sanjib Chakraborty

KOLKATA, June 2: Residents from Paikpara Mouza of Ghatbaor Anchal near Bongaon in North 24 Parganas expressed their grave concern to administrative departments after five cell phone companies installed mobile towers placed close together. According to the residents it could radiate electromagnetic waves which would pose health hazards to locals.

Read More...
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=23&theme=&usrsess=1&id=206517

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English Bazaar Municipality to curb indiscriminate mobile tower installation

Statesman News Service

MALDA, June 6: The Chairman of English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) Mr N Tiwari said today that Municipality would restrict indiscriminate installation of mobile tower following the objection from the local residents.

Read More...
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=10&theme=&usrsess=1&id=207063



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Degrading Arctic Ice May Release Climate Threat

The Press-Enterprise's Elaine Regus reports: "Global warming could release long-dormant stores of methane gas trapped beneath the Arctic permafrost, causing an abrupt and catastrophic climate change like one that occurred 635 million years ago, University of California-Riverside researchers have determined."

http://www.truthout.org/article/degrading-arctic-ice-may-release-climate-threat



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ACLU Sues Denver for Weapons Information

Rick Sallinger, CBS4 News, reports: "The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the city of Denver after an open records request for information about the purchasing of security equipment for the Democratic National Convention was denied. The group wants to know what weapons the city is buying for crowd control during protests."

http://www.truthout.org/article/aclu-sues-denver-weapons-information



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Long-Term Contracts Show Plans for Continued Iraq Occupation

Walter Pincus of The Washington Post writes: "The depth of US involvement in Iraq and the difficulty the next president will face in pulling personnel out of the country are illustrated by a handful of new contract proposals made public in May."

http://www.truthout.org/article/long-term-contracts-show-plans-continued-iraq-occupation

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New agreement lets US strike any country from inside Iraq
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/06/03/10218150.html


From APFN daily update



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It's hard to believe in McCain's new interest in nuclear disarmament

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7552/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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The Oil-Price Bubble

http://mises.org/story/2999


From Information Clearing House



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Newest McCain official: President has "near dictatorial powers"

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/02/goldfarb/index.html


From Information Clearing House



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Ron Paul Things You Want To Know About, But Don’t (Yet)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods91.html



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How Academic Guilds Police Higher Education

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north632.html



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America's house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11465476

From Information Clearing House

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It’s only going to get worse

The Weekly Standard
by Lawrence B. Lindsey

America has not had a nationwide housing crash since the 1930s. At one point during that calamity, an estimated 60 percent of all mortgages were in technical default. The rather primitive housing credit system of the time, which relied on five-year balloon mortgages, certainly exacerbated the problem, but the bulk of the problem was related to the general economic downturn. There have been some regional housing crashes that were short and relatively mild, most notably in California, Texas, and New England in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most of those were caused by declines in key local industries: oil in Texas, aerospace and defense in Southern California and Massachusetts. The current downturn, by contrast, is due almost exclusively to a change in the housing credit cycle from excessively easy to modestly restrictive. Housing turned down before the economy, and even now, nearly 18 months into the housing recession, the national unemployment rate is still at what economists consider full employment. That is unlikely to last as credit problems spread into the consumer sector, layoffs spread, and the resulting rise in unemployment makes the consumer credit situation still worse... (for publication 06/09/08)

http://tinyurl.com/4z7322


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Civil groups to protest against US troops in Peru

Non-governmental organisations in Peru have called for a general strike to protest against the government's decision to allow US troops helping the civil administration to carry arms.

http://tinyurl.com/6yws9o


From Information Clearing House

Zbigniew Brzezinski and William Odom: A Sensible Path on Iran

The United States would have a better chance of success if the White House abandoned its threats of military action and its calls for regime change.

http://tinyurl.com/54kxyq


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq cites problems with US security pact

Iraq's chief spokesman acknowledged differences with the United States over a proposed long-term security agreement and pledged on Sunday that the government will protect Iraqi sovereignty in ongoing talks with the Americans.

http://tinyurl.com/4tu3fj



Iraq says likely to miss deadline for US pact

A July target for negotiating an agreement on future relations between Iraq and the United States is likely to be missed, an Iraqi government spokesman said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/6xyfwe



US-Iraq security pact shapes up as major battle as Iraqi prime minister goes to Iran for talks

A proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement is shaping up as a major political battle between America and Iran, as the debate over the future of troops here intensifies ahead of the fall U.S. presidential election.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/03/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Security.php



Tell Iraqis No Permanent Bases

"The next president should commit to a speedy and complete withdrawal from Iraq," argues Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, "and tell the Iraqi people that the U.S. troops will be going home."

http://www.theweekly.com/news/2008/June/03/Bob_Barr.html



Iraq rejects any article within long-term agreement violates sovereignty

The official spokesman for the Iraqi government on Tuesday highlighted that the government asserted not to accept any article which violates the national sovereignty during negotiations to ink a long-term agreement with the U.S.

http://tinyurl.com/4v9kfl



Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security Deal

Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a "security pact" with Washington by the end of July.

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp06062008.html



Iraqi Officials Oppose US-Iraq Treaty

At an extraordinary hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, members of the Iraqi parliament hand-delivered a letter to members of Congress that rejected the idea of a US-Iraq agreement unless the United States agrees to a specific timetable to get out of Iraq.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/327163



Ayatollah Sistani rejects US draft

Ayatollah Sistani laid four conditions for any such agreement to be approved, adding that he was against any long term security pact with America.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=254979&n=31



Iraq Seeking to Cement Ties with Iran

Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki will make an official visit to Iran on Saturday to strengthen relations between the two countries.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8703160402



Iraq says it wants to restrict movement of U.S. troops

Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the presence of American troops on its soil.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080606/ts_nm/iraq_usa_military_dc



Iraq May Rebuff Troop Terms in New Security Plan

The Iraqi government doesn't want to extend the UN resolution and prefers to replace it with a bilateral agreement, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said yesterday. It might address issues such as whether U.S. soldiers have immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080606/pl_bloomberg/azm4qsqo9oqg



Iraq's Grand Ayatollah warns from uprising against US security pact

Al-Modaresy described the long-term treaty with the US as a 'sword directed over the Iraqis necks,' during a meeting with reporters.

http://tinyurl.com/47t9ro



Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,'sets 4 conditions for US pact

"The cleric stressed that any long-term pact in Iraq should maintain four key terms including safeguarding Iraqis' interests, national sovereignty, national consensus and being presented to the Iraqi parliament for approval." leader of the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament, Seyyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said quoting Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58791&sectionid=351020201



Iraq will not be used to "harm" Iran, PM vows

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sought to reassure Iran over a planned security pact with Washington on Sunday, vowing Iraq would never be used as a platform to attack the Islamic republic.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/352757/1/.html


From Information Clearing House

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Ominous opposition to long-term US military presence in Iraq

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

06/02/08

At the behest of Iraqi Shi’i leader Moktada al-Sadr, his powerful faction staged a formidable protest this week against a likely U.S.-Iraqi agreement to establish a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq, which would replace the United Nation-authorized U.S. occupation that expires at the end of 2008. This demonstration, and subsequent protests planned for the duration of the summer, should worry both governments...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2226


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control

Patrick Cockburn, of The Independent UK: "A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November. The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country."

http://www.truthout.org/article/revealed-secret-plan-keep-iraq-under-us-control



Iraqis Wary of US Security Agreement

Anne Flaherty, of The Associated Press: "Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing. Opposition in the US and Iraqi legislative bodies underscores the political hurdles facing Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as they try to settle the terms under which US troops can continue operating in Iraq after a United Nations authorization expires at the end of the year."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraqis-wary-us-security-agreement



US Issues Threat to Iraq's $50 Billion Foreign Reserve

Patrick Cockburn reports for The Independent UK: "The US is holding hostage some $50bn (£25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to information leaked to The Independent."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-issues-threat-iraqs-50-billion-foreign-reserve

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Iraqi MPs against US bases

Iraqi MPs say if bases are in the security agreement; most Iraqis will reject it.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1643

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Secret Security Pact Will Ensure Permanent Iraq Occupation
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2008/050608Iraq.htm

Iraq Lawmakers Want US Forces Out As Part of Deal
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/05/9430/

US Security Talks With Iraq in Trouble in Baghdad and DC
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/11/9565/



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Kunstler: "The Remorseless Algebra of a Deflationary Death Spiral"

By Mike Whitney

Look around. The evidence of a withering economy is everywhere. In "good times" consumers shun the canned meat aisle altogether, but no more. Today, Spam sales are soaring; grocery stores can't keep it on the shelves. Everyone is looking for cheaper ways to feed their families.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20027.htm



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Indefensible Spending

By Robert Scheer

You wouldn't know it from the most-exhausting-ever presidential primary campaigns, but the 2009 defense budget commits the United States to spending more (again, in real dollars) to defeat a ragtag band of terrorists than it spent at the height of the Cold War fighting the Soviet superpower and what we alleged were its surrogates in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20030.htm



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Monica Benderman: Justice?

Michael stands to go to trial this week, but Michael should not be standing alone. Every citizen who has not yet stood to see that justice is served in the name of peace shall bear responsibility for what we all are about to receive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20028.htm



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How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs

Analysis by Gareth Porter

For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate U.S. armoured vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W. Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed internally by military officials in January 2007, it was attacked by key administration officials as unsupported by the facts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20032.htm



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Montag, 2. Juni 2008

Going to War with Iraq Was Wrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Admits

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9367/

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Australian PM attacks decision to join war in Iraq

In remarks to parliament on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, which began Sunday, Rudd said the nation must learn from the errors of former Prime Minister John Howard, who sent 2,000 troops to support U.S. and British forces in the 2003 invasion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_iraq



Why Australia is leaving Iraq

Prime Minister Rudd criticized the US justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as 550 Australian troops packed up to leave.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0603/p04s01-wome.html



Howard war charges bid

AN AUSTRALIAN doctors' group is pushing to have former prime minister John Howard charged with war crimes for sending troops to Iraq.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/howard-war-charges-bid-20080602-2kwg.html


From Information Clearing House

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Australia Ends Iraq Combat Operations

According to The Associated Press, "Australia, a staunch US ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, ended combat operations there June 1."

http://www.truthout.org/article/australia-ends-iraq-combat-operations



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Students Protesting Pesticide Use Tasered

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9362/



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Pentagon's Raygun Demonstrated on Mock Protesters

60 Minutes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9373/

Iraq Death Toll 'Above Highest Estimates'

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9363/



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Save minke whales from slaughter

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Gramm-UBS Lobbyist Questions Dog McCain Campaign

Mark Hosenball, of Newsweek: "For weeks now, John McCain's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs. According to McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker, the co-chair position affords Gramm 'broad input into the structure, financing and conduct of the campaign.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/gramm-ubs-lobbyist-questions-dog-mccain-campaign



John McCain's Gramm Gamble

Patricia Kilday Hart, of The Texas Observer: "The GOP presidential nominee is relying on the ex-senator who helped bring you the mortgage crisis and Rick Perry. In the early evening of Friday, December 15, 2000, with Christmas break only hours away, the US Senate rushed to pass an essential, 11,000-page government reauthorization bill. In what one legal textbook would later call 'a stunning departure from normal legislative practice,' the Senate tacked on a complex, 262-page amendment at the urging of Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. There was little debate on the floor. According to the Congressional Record, Gramm promised that the amendment-also known as the Commodity Futures Modernization Act-along with other landmark legislation he had authored, would usher in a new era for the US financial services industry."

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Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has had enough of the war in Iraq, and she's had enough of the military contractors that are making it possible

Interview With Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has had enough of the war in Iraq, and she's had enough of the military contractors that are making it possible. 'These are the guys who carry guns - I would call them mercenaries - who are engaged in inherently governmental activities,' she told me in a recent interview, noting that while contractors carry out many of the same functions as the military, they are held to much less stringent standards. 'One has to ask, 'Is it the policy of the United States of America that contractors can get away with murder?' And frankly, so far, it seems like the answer is 'yes.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/interview-with-congresswoman-jan-schakowsky



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Tausende demonstrieren bundesweit gegen Überwachung

Aktionstag für die Grundrechte am 31. Mai 2008

„In 34 Städten haben bis zum frühen Abend Tausende Bürger an einem Aktionstag unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst" teilgenommen. Aufgerufen zu den friedlichen Protesten etwa gegen die im Rahmen des Telekom-Bespitzelungsskandals an Aktualität gewinnende verdachtslose Protokollierung der Telefon- und Internetdaten, die heimliche Online-Durchsuchung, biometrische Ausweisdokumente oder die elektronische Gesundheitskarte hatte der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Obwohl das Wetter vor allem im Norden und Osten bei Temperaturen über 30 Grad und strahlendem Sonnenschein eher zum Baden lockte, gingen die Menschen in vielen Großstädten auf die Straße oder brachten sich bundesweit auf Straßenfesten oder bei Kunstaktionen ein…“ Meldung auf Heise-Online vom 31.05.2008 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Tausende-demonstrieren-bundesweit-gegen-Ueberwachung--/meldung/108789

Siehe dazu auch: Protestaktionen in über 30 Städten für Grundrechte und gegen Überwachung

Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 31.05.2008 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/227/79/


Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit: Das Ende des Interviews?

Das Urteil zur Haftung der Medien für die Wahrheit von Interviewäußerungen Dritter vom 22.2.08 http://www.buskeismus.de/urteile/324o99807_markwort.htm


Interview mit Richter Andreas Buske vom Landgericht Hamburg über Interviews

„Sicherheitshalber distanziert sich der Heise-Verlag vom Inhalt dieses Interviews. Hilfsweise wird bestritten, dass es überhaupt stattgefunden hat. Vermutlich ist es frei erfunden. Der Vorsitzende Richter der Pressekammer am Landgericht Hamburg, Andreas Buske, gibt niemals Interviews, sondern zieht es vor, durch seine Urteile zu sprechen. Nun steht ein Urteil über Interviews in der Kritik. Telepolis-Interview mit dem Mann, der keine Interviews gibt…“ Artikel von Markus Kompa in telepolis vom 02.06.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27999/1.html

Nur am Rande sei erwähnt, dass es sich bei Richter Andreas Buske auch um „unseren“ im Falle Ixion handelt… Siehe zum Fall „Ixion verklagt LabourNet“ http://www.labournet.de/branchen/sonstige/masch/ixion.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juni 2008

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Chaos Computer Club fordert nach Telekom-Spitzelaffäre wirksamen Schutz vor Datenverbrechen

http://www.ccc.de/press/releases/2008/20080602/

Angesichts der immer weiter eskalierenden Enthüllungen über die Spitzelpraktiken der Telekom und anderer deutscher Großkonzerne fordert der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) eine grundlegende Neuordnung des Datenschutzes und eine Ächtung von Datenverbrechen in Deutschland.

Der Grundsatz der Datensparsamkeit hat sich in Jahrzehnten des Experimentierens mit freiwilligen Verpflichtungen und einem Datenschutzrecht ohne nennenswerte Sanktionsmöglichkeiten nicht in der Praxis durchsetzen lassen. Daher ist angesichts der massiven Datenskandale die Zeit gekommen, durch wirksame Maßnahmen die Unternehmen und Behörden zu verpflichten, so wenig Daten wie möglich zu speichern und den Umgang damit strenger zu kontrollieren.

Das vom Bundesverfassungsgericht im Urteil zur digitalen Intimsphäre [1] festgestellte Recht auf Schutz vor der Erstellung von Persönlichkeitsprofilen muss endlich in konkrete Gesetze gefasst und in der Praxis umgesetzt werden. Der durch das Zusammenführen verschiedener Datenbestände erst ermöglichte tiefgreifende Einblick in das Leben jedes Einzelnen stellt eine signifikante Gefahr für die freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit dar und muss mit drakonischen Strafen belegt werden. Die derzeitige Behandlung von Datenverbrechen als Kavaliersdelikt ist in keiner Weise den Folgen für den Einzelnen angemessen.

Der Chaos Computer Club fordert daher:

1. Sofortiger Stop der Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Die Verlängerung der Speicherung der Verbindungsdaten auf sechs Monate erlaubt das Erstellen wesentlich umfangreicherer Profile, als es bisher mit den bis zur Rechnungslegung gespeicherten Daten möglich war. Dies eröffnet bisher nicht gekannte Missbrauchspotentiale. Der Telekom-Skandal wird nur der Anfang einer langen Reihe von Datenverbrechen sein, sollte die Vorratsdatenspeicherung nicht sofort beendet werden.

2. Vollständiger Verzicht auf die Erhebung und Aufzeichnung nicht benötigter Verbindungsdaten. Die Telekommunikationsanbieter erheben nach den Bestimmungen der Vorratsdatenspeicherung derzeit auch alle Verbindungsdaten von Flatrate-Kunden, obwohl dies technisch in keiner Weise notwendig ist. Diese Praxis ermöglicht eine noch weiter gehende missbräuchliche Ausschnüffelung von Kommunikationsprofilen als im aktuellen Telekom-Fall. Kommunikationsdaten zur Rechnungsstellung sollten zukünftig nur noch so kurz wie technisch möglich – am besten jedoch gar nicht mehr – gespeichert werden. Das Bilden von Kundenprofilen anhand gespeicherter Kommunikationsdaten muss komplett verboten werden.

3. Rechtliche Sanktionierung und Einführung eines Schadenersatzanspruches für die Opfer der Datenverbrechen. Der bloße Austausch einiger Führungskräfte nach einem Datenverbrechen entspricht der Schwere des Missbrauchs in keiner Weise. Werden ohne Zustimmung des Betroffenen Kommunikations- und Bewegungsprofile erstellt, müssen die Verantwortlichen und Täter belangt werden können und das Opfer einen signifikanten Schadenersatz erhalten. Dazu müssen Zugriffe auf sensible Daten geloggt und personelle Verantwortlichkeiten jeweils konkret nachvollziehbar gemacht werden.

4. Persönliche Haftbarkeit von Vorständen und Geschäftsführern für Datenverbrechen ihres Unternehmens. Bei allen Datenverbrechen müssen die Täter klar benannt und die Taten strikt geahndet werden. Der Gesetzgeber muss gerade sensible Kommunikationsdaten auch durch Vorgaben für strukturelle Konzepte in der Datensicherheit stärker als heute üblich schützen. Die persönliche Haftung der Unternehmensführung ist der einzig erfolgversprechende Hebel, um konsequente Schutzmechanismen und -strukturen in den Firmen durchzusetzen.

5. Uneingeschränktes sofortiges Auskunftsrecht der Bürger gegenüber Unternehmen bezüglich der über ihn gespeicherten Daten, deren Weitergabe und Verwendung. Das neue Auskunftsrecht muss in kundenfreundlicher Weise vom datenverarbeitenden Unternehmen umgesetzt werden – etwa als eine kostenfreie Hotline. Über eine zufällige oder versehentliche Datenweitergabe haben Unternehmen oder Behörden ihre Kunden bzw. die Bürger von sich aus zu informieren. Größere Datenpannen müssen zeitnah publiziert werden. Werden Daten absichtlich in nicht genehmigter Weise verwendet, muss das Unternehmen dem Opfer Schadenersatz leisten.

6. Verarbeitung und Speicherung von Daten deutscher Bürger außerhalb des Geltungsgebietes des deutschen Datenschutzrechts nur mit aktiver Zustimmung des Betroffenen. Wolkige Klauseln in Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen genügen den Ansprüchen an den Datenschutz nicht. Die Praxis zeigt, dass das Kleingedruckte kaum wahrgenommen wird. Gut sichtbare Hinweise sollten daher dem Kunden deutlich machen, dass seine Daten weitergegeben werden. Nur durch eine konsequente Umsetzung dieser Forderung hat der Kunde in Zukunft die Möglichkeit, seine Dienstleister danach auszuwählen, wie datenschutzfreundlich sie sind.

7. Kontrolle und Regulierung von privaten Schnüffelfirmen. Die aktuelle Entwicklung im Telekom-Fall hat gezeigt, wie umfangreich die Auslagerung von kriminellen Aktivitäten in die Grauzonen des privaten Sicherheitsgewerbes bereits ist. Dem muss der Gesetzgeber zügig einen Riegel vorschieben. Auf staatlicher Seite muss nicht nur das Trennungsgebot zwischen Polizeien und Geheimdiensten wieder gängige Praxis werden, sondern auch die "Hilfe auf dem kleinen Dienstweg" für die privaten Sicherheitsfirmen unterbunden werden. Die neue geplante Bundesschnüffelzentrale in Köln ist angesichts der aktuellen Spitzelaffäre ein vollkommen falsches Signal.

8. Die Position der Datenschutzbeauftragten muss gestärkt werden. Um dem Bürger zu seinem Grundrecht zu verhelfen, sind umgehend strukturelle Änderungen hin zu schlagkräftigen, unabhängigen Datenschutz-Instanzen notwendig, die auch über die notwendigen rechtlichen, personellen und finanziellen Ressourcen verfügen. Innenministerien, die selbst exzessiv Datensammlungen fordern, dürfen den Datenschutzbeauftragten nicht mehr weisungsbefugt sein.

9. Datenschutz in Europa wirkungsvoll durchsetzen. "Harmonisierungen" von Datensammlungen im europäischen Kontext müssen von der Bundesregierung aktiv als Chance genutzt werden, deutsche Schutznormen auszuweiten, und nicht als Gelegenheit, über den Brüsseler Umweg grundlegende Bürgerrechte auszuhebeln. Deutschland muss endlich anfangen, seine internationale Vorreiterrolle beim Datenschutz, die auf die weitsichtigen Urteile aus Karlsruhe zurückgeht, zu verteidigen und auszubauen.

10. Schutz von Whistleblowern. Arbeitnehmer, die Datenverbrechen in ihrer Firma aufdecken, müssen einen umfangreichen Schutz vor Kündigung und anderen Nachteilen erhalten. Wer seiner Bürgerpflicht zur Wachsamkeit nachkommt, darf nicht mit dem Verlust seiner beruflichen Existenz bedroht werden.

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Telekom-Skandal zeigen deutlich, dass die Warnungen des CCC vor den Folgen der ausufernden und unkontrollierten Datenspeicherung vollauf berechtigt waren. Technologische Entwicklungen ermöglichen ein immer detailliertere Ausforschung des Lebens jedes Bürgers. Dies stellt eine reale und unmittelbare Gefahr für Freiheit und Sicherheit dar und muss daher soweit irgend möglich unterbunden werden. Dabei haben die Gewinnerzielungsabsichten von Unternehmen und die Paranoia von Sicherheitsbehörden hintanzustehen.

Zudem macht dieser Skandal macht deutlich, dass es keinen Grund für einen Vertrauensvorschuss für Unternehmen und Behörden in puncto Datenschutz und Privatsphäre gibt. Wenn es schon bei der Bespitzelung von Journalisten und Aufsichtsräten keine Hemmungen gibt, muss der einfache Bürger annehmen, Freiwild für jeden Datenschnüffler zu sein. Ohne effektive und durchsetzbare gesetzliche Regelungen werden sich derartige Skandale weiter häufen und immer mehr Menschen betreffen. Bewegungs- und Kommunikationsprofilen z. B. von Journalisten und Abgeordneten bilden ein gewaltiges Erpressungspotential, das eine unmittelbare Gefährdung von politischer Willensbildung und Demokratie darstellt.

[1] http://www.ccc.de/updates/2008/trojaner-notschlachten?language=de Bundesverfassungsgericht schafft neues Grundrecht auf digitale Intimsphäre

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Datensammler: Verbindungsdaten und Bewegungsprofile
http://www.focus.de/digital/handy/datensammler-verbindungsdaten-und-bewegungsprofile_aid_305839.html



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Sen. Dorgan’s contracting fraud crusade

The American Prospect
by Brian Beutler

05/30/08

In the wake of a recent Defense Department report from the Office of Inspector General that documents the improper accounting of billions of dollars in war contracting funds, the issue of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq is once again in the spotlight on Capitol Hill. Those findings were amplified on Tuesday when the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington-based watchdog group, obtained a separate inspector general report that found that the number of Pentagon auditors overseeing military contracts has not kept pace with defense spending, which has doubled under the Bush administration — creating conditions that are ripe for corruption and abuse. While Congress has launched sporadic inquiries into contracting fraud, one legislator, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., has made it his mission to investigate contractor corruption...

http://tinyurl.com/6cfeot


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Byron+Dorgan

Debunking the food crisis

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27992/1.html



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Inflationary Recession Is in Place

http://www.shadowstats.com/article/292


Informant: zebra77a



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Next-up news Nr 593

http://omeganews.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/next-up-news-nr-593/

Another report on US gulag describes 'floating prisons' near Diego Garcia

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7547/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

Gee, now all we're missing is prison camps in space...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/usa.humanrights


Loring

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Prison ships, torture claims, and missing detainees

America may have held terror suspects in British territory, despite UK denials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/terrorism.terrorism


From Information Clearing House

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Floating Prisons: The Incredible Hulks
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/03/9377/

Ghost Ships and the Limitless Scale of US Detention Policies
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/09/9515/

Travelling 'Torture Caravan' Disturbing Sign of the Times
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/09/9516/



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Martial Law on the Installment Plan

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/05/martial-law-on-installment-plan.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law
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The Movie-Made War World of George W. Bush

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt337.html



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

Modern rituals of debasement

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz84.html



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A True Memorial

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese460.html



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