Das Bundeskabinett hat am 4. Juni grünes Licht für ein Abkommen mit den USA über einen intensiveren Datenaustausch zum Zweck der Terrorismusbekämpfung gegeben. Die Vereinbarung war im März von Innenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), Justizministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) gemeinsam mit US-Innenminister Michael Chertoff und seinem Justizkollegen Michael Bernard Mukasey paraphiert worden. Dem Abkommen zufolge sollen Daten zu Personen übersandt werden, die von deutschen oder US-Behörden dem terroristischen Umfeld zugerechnet werden.
Four libraries in Paris have turned off their wi-fi internet connections after staff claimed they were causing health problems.
The latest to shut down its wireless network is the wireless Sainte-Genevieve university library in the 5th arrondissement after a member of staff threatened to take early retirement on health grounds.
„Die Bundesregierung macht mit dem BKA-Gesetz einen großen Fehler“, so das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte (MdB) zum heutigen Kabinettsbeschluss. Er erklärt:
Das BKA-Gesetz ist ein Großangriff auf die Grundrechte. Es ist unverhältnismäßig, weil die Bundesregierung dem BKA umfangreiche Geheimdienst ähnliche Schnüffelbefugnisse einräumen will und das BKA damit zu einem deutschen FBI umwandelt.
Das BKA soll fast 30 neue Schnüffelbefugnisse erhalten. Dazu gehören die Online-Durchsuchung, der Große Lauschangriff oder die Überwachungen von Wohnungen per Videokamera. BKA-Beamten soll erlaubt werden, heimlich in Wohnungen einzudringen. Der vom Verfassungsgericht angemahnte absolut geschützte Kernbereich des Privaten verkommt zur Farce, weil das BKA Daten aus diesem Kernbereich speichern und auswerten darf.
Das BKA-Gesetz sollte schnellstens entsorgt werden, denn Demokratie und Rechtsstaat vertragen keine Geheimpolizei wie Schäuble sie will. Ich appelliere insbesondere an die wenigen Kollegen der SPD, die das Gesetz kritisch sehen, mit Blick auf das neue Computer-Grundrecht den Antrag der LINKEN nach einem Stopp aller Überwachungsgesetze sowie der grundsätzlichen Prüfung aller beschlossenen Sicherheitsgesetze zu unterstützen.
Anlässlich des morgigen internationalen Umwelttages erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Wolfgang Methling:
Der Schutz von Natur und Umwelt kann zu mehr Gerechtigkeit auf der Welt beitragen und ist nicht zuletzt ein fundamentaler Beitrag zur Friedenspolitik.
Deutschland, Europa und alle Industrienationen müssen hier eine Vorreiterrolle spielen, da sie in der Vergangenheit und teilweise heute noch für die größten Belastungen der Umwelt sorgten und sorgen. Umweltprobleme sind grenzenlos. Der Klimawandel trifft alle Menschen auf dem Globus, allerdings nicht alle gleich stark. Viele Klimafolgen sind im reichen Europa vielleicht nur ärgerlich – zum Beispiel ein verregneter Winter oder wenn im Skigebiet der Schnee ausbleibt. Menschen in Entwicklungsländern dagegen verlieren durch Dürre- und Hochwasserkatastrophen ihre Lebensgrundlage. Die Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer bedürfen bei der Lösung Ihrer Probleme deutlich mehr Unterstützung als bisher.
Der von den Vereinten Nationen 1972 ins Leben gerufene und seit 1976 mit deutscher Beteiligung begangene Tag der Umwelt ist deshalb notwendiger denn je.
Denn angesichts der sich abzeichnenden Folgen des Klimawandels, des weltweiten Artensterbens, der sich wiederholenden Hungerkatastrophen, der Wasserknappheit in vielen Regionen, der Krise der Energiewirtschaft kann ein solcher Tag Anregungen geben und das Bewusstsein dafür stärken, dass unsere Umwelt und ihr Zustand mit all diesen Problemen in einem engen Zusammenhang stehen. Sofortiges weltweites Handeln ist unabdingbar.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho warns that further indulgence in GMOs will severely damage our chances of surviving the food crisis and global warming; organic agriculture and localised food systems are the way forward
Invited lecture at conference on TRADITIONAL SEEDS OUR NATIONAL TREASURE AND HERITAGE -Traditional and Organic Agriculture instead of GMO, 17 May 2008, Bewelder, Warsaw, Poland
The Brave New World of GM Science
In 1994, I met some of the most remarkable leaders in the Third World: Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (Institute of Sustainable Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Martin Khor (Third World Network, Penang, Malaysia), and Vandana Shiva (Navdanya, New Delhi, India), who persuaded me to look into genetically modified organisms (GMOs), especially GM crops, which they rightly saw as a special threat to small family farmers. The biotech industry was promising miracle GM crops that would boost yield to feed the world, improve nutrition, and clean up and protect the environment. Monsanto’s Flavr Savr tomato, the first GM crop, had just been commercialised, though it turned out to be a complete flop, and was withdrawn several years later..
The biotech industry’s aggressive campaign of disinformation and manipulation of science did nothing to obscure the signs that the dream would soon turn into nightmare; and I said so in my book first published in 1997/1998 [1] Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare, the Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business, which became an international bestseller, translated into many languages, and recently reprinted with an extended introduction to coincide with its translation into Indonesian. Everything predicted in that book has happened. It also explained why the science behind GM is obsolete; a story elaborated further in Living with the Fluid Genome [2] published in 2003.
Genetic modification based on an obsolete theory and hence ineffective and dangerous
Genetic engineering of plants and animals began in the mid 1970s in the belief that the genome (the totality of all the genetic material of a species) is constant and static, and that the characteristics of organism are simply hardwired in their genome. But geneticists soon discovered that the genome is remarkably dynamic and ‘fluid’, and constantly in conversation with the environment. This determines which genes are turned on, when, where, by how much and for how long. Moreover, the genetic material itself could also be marked or changed according to experience, and the influence passed on to the next generation.
The best thing about the human genome project is to finally explode the myth of genetic determinism, revealing the layers of molecular complexity that transmit, interpret and rewrite the genetic texts [3] (Life Beyond the Central Dogma series, SiS 24). These processes are precisely orchestrated and finely tuned by the organism as a whole, in a highly coordinated molecular ‘dance of life’ that’s necessary for survival.
In contrast, genetic engineering in the laboratory is crude, imprecise and invasive. The rogue genes inserted into a genome to make a GMO could land anywhere; typically in a rearranged or defective form, scrambling and mutating the host genome, and have the tendency to move or rearrange further once inserted, basically because they do not know the dance of life. That’s ultimately why genetic modification doesn’t work and is also dangerous.
Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "The Department of Defense (DOD) now employs contractors to keep contractors in check in Iraq, under a new framework for war industry management solidified last month. In April, the Pentagon split its largest military contract in Iraq - formerly belonging to the Houston-based corporation KBR, Inc. - among companies Fluor and DynCorp, in addition to KBR. A fourth company, the British-American service provider Serco, is responsible for managing and overseeing the other three, according to its contract, signed last year and now in effect."
Its recent losses of special Congressional elections in formerly safe districts indicate that the Republican Party may be in the process of self-destruction. Deservedly so. The past eight years have constituted a disaster the likes of which America has never before suffereda disaster for the practice of constitutional government and the rule of law; for common Americans’ economic well-being; and for America’s true “homeland security”, both abroad and especially at home........
CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
06/03/08
The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the ‘war on terror.’ The government assured us that the draconian measures apply only to ‘terrorists.’ The word terrorist, however, was not defined. The government claimed the discretionary power to decide who is a terrorist without having to present evidence or charges in a court of law. Frankly, the Bush administration’s policy evades any notion of procedural due process of law...
Die Aussetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist Gebot der Stunde
Die Telekomaffäre hat der Debatte um die Vorratsdatenspeicherung neuen Auftrieb gegeben. Für den Bundesinnenminister gibt es jedoch weiterhin keinen Grund, an der umstrittenen Datenspeicherung zu zweifeln. Ganz anderes sieht dies Dr. Thilo Weichert, Datenschutzbeauftragter des Landes Schleswig-Holstein und Leiter des Unabhängigen Zentrum für Datenschutz.
US banks set aside a record $37.1bn to cover losses on real estate loans and other credits during the first quarter in a sign of the growing economic pain being caused by the global credit crisis.
He believes that the doubling in the price over the last year is partly due to investment institutions, such as pension funds, who are pumping money into indexes that track the cost of crude.
Billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions starve around the world, Jacques Diouf, the United Nations food agency chief, has told world leaders at a summit on food security in Rome.
Remember the run up to the Iraq war back in 2002? Well, the so called "liberal" US media sources, such as the New York Times (NYT) [1] and the Washington Post (WP) [2], are at it again, this time regarding Iran's nuclear program.
The American political process, especially at the presidential level, is inhuman and inefficient. It is a gruesome meat grinder where candidates have to campaign for months in primaries or caucuses in all 50 states, raise tens of millions dollars and see their private lives exposed and criticized. With such a system, it is no wonder that few Americans with high intellect and character are willing to submit themselves to such an ordeal.
The New York Times's Gardiner Harris writes: "Most medical schools in the United States fail to police adequately the money, gifts and free drug samples that pharmaceutical companies routinely shower on doctors and trainees, according to a ranking by the American Medical Student Association."
The New York Times's editorial board writes: "Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don’t mean dollars, though those are being squandered by the billions. The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when we look at what has been done and no longer recognize the country that did it."
Juliet Eilperin, of The Washington Post, reports: "An investigation by the NASA inspector general found that political appointees in the space agency's public affairs office worked to control and distort public accounts of its researchers' findings about climate change for at least two years, the inspector general's office said yesterday."
Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post, reports: "Army Sgt. Jonathan Strickland sits in his room at noon with the blinds drawn, seeking the sleep that has eluded him since he was knocked out by the blast of a Baghdad car bomb. Like many of the wounded soldiers living in the newly built 'warrior transition' barracks here, the soft-spoken 25-year-old suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. But even as Strickland and his comrades struggle with nightmares, anxiety and flashbacks from their wartime experiences, the sounds of gunfire have followed them here, just outside their windows."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
"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
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
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’...
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.
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.
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."
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."
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."
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trump and His Allies...
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rudkla - 22. Jun, 05:09
The Republican Party...
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rudkla - 26. Apr, 05:36
January 6 Committee Says...
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