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Truthout's Bill Quigley writes: "There have been over 15,000 arrests for resistance to war since 2002. There were large numbers right after the runup to and invasion of Iraq. Recently, arrests have begun climbing again. Though arrests are a small part of antiwar organizing, their rise is an indicator of increasing resistance."

http://www.truthout.org/article/arrests-war-resistance-increase-again



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By Nick Britten

Last Updated: 9:03PM BST 19/06/2008

A community has called for a mobile phone mast to be torn down after it emerged that 34 people living near it have caught cancer.

Worried residents fear the mast is emitting fatal doses of radiation after 14 people died and 20 other contracted the disease.

The mast was erected in a council-owned field in 1995, attached to a disused water tower, and locals said they have suffered a spate of health problems since 2001 when more antennae and dishes were added.

Wendy Baggott, 52, who lives 200 metres from the mast and leads a protest group, said her husband had contracted skin cancer twice. She said four people on her road alone have died from the disease.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051908a.html


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CNN

06/18/08

House Democratic and Republican leaders have reached a deal on a war funding bill that will fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into early 2009, several congressional sources said Tuesday. The bill includes $165 billion to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the rest of this year and into early 2009, without any restrictions on the money...

http://tinyurl.com/6cf6jz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Congressman Obey, Along With Other So-Called Anti-War Democrats, Funds War He Says He's Against

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/19/9732/

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Congress Funds Another Year of War

Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "In a step that sealed the fate of Iraq war funding until next June, the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve $162 billion for the occupation, with no strings attached. The vote follows a series of compromises and revisions over the past two months, ultimately resulting in major concessions from Democrats. The first House vote on war funding, taken last month, failed due to the combined influence of antiwar Democrats and conservative Republicans: a sizable number of hard-liners refused to fund the war with a bill that contained any inkling of 'conditions' placed on the funds."

http://www.truthout.org/article/congress-funds-another-year-war



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Ein gefährliches Ungleichgewicht
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28049/1.html

US spy base to be built in Western Australia

Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted by construction of a new top-secret US military communications base in Western Australia.

http://tinyurl.com/4kg8q2



Spain and SA 'backed coup plot'

Spain and South Africa both "gave the green light" for a failed coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a British mercenary has told a court in Malabo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7461884.stm



U.S. Torture of Detainees Caused Severe Pain, Long-Term Suffering

A team of doctors and psychologists convened by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to conduct intensive clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees held in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay has found that these men suffered torture and ill-treatment by U.S. personnel, which resulted in severe pain and long-term disability. The men were ultimately released from U.S. custody without charge or explanation.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/6/prweb1033954.htm



Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show

Medical examinations of suspected militants formerly held by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba showed evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/18/guantanamo-report.html



Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross

The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41394.html



CIA Gave Torture Tips to Pentagon

Documents released by a Senate committee investigating the Pentagon's torture-based interrogation methods reveal that CIA advisers had a larger role in shaping the program than previously thought.

http://tinyurl.com/4q9t8w



Waterboarding, slapping, sensory deprivation: all on US tactics list

It also emerged at the hearing that US officials "hid" Guantanamo prisoners who had been harshly interrogated from the international committee of the Red Cross, the body empowered to monitor compliance with Geneva Convention rules on treatment of military prisoners.

http://tinyurl.com/6bu8e7


From Information Clearing House

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The semantics of Bush’s torture policy

Consortium News
by Jason Leopold

06/18/08

The Bush administration built a legal framework — relying on semantics and secrecy — to subject detainees at Guantanamo Bay to brutal interrogation techniques and then to hide the reality from human rights observers, according to internal government documents...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/061808a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US POWs during the Korean War
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10050



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The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major central banks.

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The Incredible Story of Youssef Nada

By Silvia Cattori

Under the cover of the " war against terror ", the United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police. Emergency measures which were introduced on a provisional basis in 2001, outside any judiciary control, have become permanent. Since September 2001, at least 80,000 people, mainly Muslim, would have been kidnapped, kept in secret prisons, and tortured by CIA and FBI agents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20120.htm



No Regrets: "I Freed Millions From Barbarism, Says Bush"

By Ned Temko

Bush defends his legacy, issues a stern warning to Iran ... and reveals his plans for a freedom institute devoted to 'universal values'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20121.htm



The tragic legacy of a disastrous president

Perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory.

http://tinyurl.com/4xjdx8



Torture Began At The Top

By Tim Rutten

Apart from understanding how and why the Bush/Cheney administration tricked the American people into going to war in Iraq, no question is more urgent than how the White House forced the adoption of torture as state policy of the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20124.htm



Kucinich on Impeachment

By Dennis Bernstein

We've lost our country to deception, to fear. We need to regain our country. We need to regain America's moral standing, not only before the eyes of our own people, but before the eyes of the world. We need a program which will lead us to truth and reconciliation. Impeachment was put in the Constitution for the sake of protecting the democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20123.htm



Law School to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution

By Massachusetts School Of Law

"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20118.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The elephant in the room

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

06/18/08

The unwillingness of the nation’s news media to seriously consider the need for Congress to respond to and challenge the president’s clear abuses of power — even as they themselves condemn of those abuses of power — is a blot on the journalistic profession perhaps worse, and of more lasting consequence, than their failure to act as watchdogs and critics during the run-up to the Iraq War, when they acted more as patriotic cheerleaders than as news organizations. As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any — and probably every — future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent to ignore laws passed by the Congress, to go to war without Congressional approval, to spy on Americans in violation of the law, to ignore court orders, to abrogate international treaties, and to lie to Congress and the American people. Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff06182008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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From ufpj-news

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Claiming the Spoils: Big Oil Returns to Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/19/9730/

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Big Oil Firms Ready to Sign Agreements With Iraq

Ernesto Londono and Simone Baribeau, of The Washington Post: "Iraq is preparing to award contracts to several Western energy companies to help develop its vast oil resources, allowing them to consolidate their positions in a country that has seemed less threatening in recent months as security has improved. The two-year, no-bid contracts will be awarded to companies that have been advising the Iraqi Oil Ministry in recent years, said Asim Jihad, a spokesman for the ministry. He said officials expect that U.S.-based Exxon Mobil and Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, France's Total and British oil company BP will secure the biggest contracts."

http://www.truthout.org/article/big-oil-firms-ready-sign-agreements-with-iraq



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Weitreichende „schlimme“ Änderungen im SGB II (Hartz IV) und SGB III geplant

„Es liegt ein neuer Referenten-Entwurf für ein „Gesetz zur Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente" im SGB II (Hartz IV) und SGB III vor. Er enthält viele und weit reichende Änderungen. Vor allem werden die Maßnahmen und Eingliederungshilfen grundlegend neu sortiert. Anders als der Titel vermuten lässt, gehen die Änderungen aber auch über die arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente hinaus und betreffen beispielsweise die Sanktionsregelungen; besonders bei Hartz IV. Nach Informationen der Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen (KOS e. V.) soll noch vor der parlamentarischen Sommerpause ein „richtiger" Gesetzentwurf eingebracht werden und die Neuregelungen zum 1.1.2009 in Kraft treten…“ Meldung im erwerbslosenforum http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/04_052008050605_283_1.htm

Siehe dazu:

Referentenentwurf für ein "Gesetz zur Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente"

Der Referentenentwurf “Gesetz zur Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente“ liegt nun vor (pdf) http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Gesetzestexte%20SGB%20II%20+%20VO/Ref_Entw_Neuausrichtung-Arbeitsmarktinstrumente.pdf

Dieser wird gravierende Änderungen bei der Arbeitsmarktförderung für den Personenkreis ALG I und natürlich auch ALG II nach sich ziehen. Insgesamt birgt er fast nur negative Änderungen für Erwerbslose, Rechtsansprüche werden in Vermittlungsbudgets ungewandelt, bei Bildungsmaßnahmen findet nun Vergaberecht Anwendung, eine Reihe neuer Sanktionen werden eingeführt, ABM für SGB II’er gestrichen, Verschärfung bei der Zumutbarkeit von Arbeit, Eingliederungsverwaltungsakt-Verstoß wird nun sanktionierbar, Wegfall der schriftlichen Belehrung bei Sanktionen nach § 31 Abs. 2 SGB II …


Synopsen

Harald Thome hat dankenswerterweise Synopsen und Zusammenfassungen erstellt:

Eine erste inhaltliche Zusammenfassung (pdf): http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Referentenentwurf_ZUsammenfassung_0806.pdf

Synopse zum SGB II–Bereich (pdf): http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Dies%20und%20das/Synopse_SGB_II_Ref_Entwurf.pdf

Synopse zum SGB III-Bereich (pdf): http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Gesetzestexte%20SGB%20II%20+%20VO/Optimierungsgesetz/Synopse_SGB_III_.pdf

Synopse zu anderen SGB's (pdf): http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Gesetzestexte%20SGB%20II%20+%20VO/Optimierungsgesetz/synopse_andere_SGB-s.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Juni 2008

„Kommunal- und Arbeitsmarktpolitiker streiten, wer künftig die 50 Milliarden Euro verwalten soll, die jährlich für die sieben Millionen Langzeitarbeitslosen ausgegeben werden. Jetzt ist erstmals durch Zahlen belegt, dass die Hilfebedürftigen kaum etwas von der enormen Summe haben. Im Durchschnitt konnten im ersten Halbjahr 2007 nur drei bis vier Prozent der Menschen, die auf Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, einen sozialversicherungspflichtigen Job ergattern. Das ergibt eine Studie, die die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) am heutigen Mittwoch vorlegen wird und die der Frankfurter Rundschau vorliegt…“ Artikel von Katharina Sperber in der FR vom 18.06.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?em_cnt=1352999

Siehe dazu:

Systemvergleich in der Grundsicherung: Arbeitsgemeinschaften und Arbeitsagenturen schneiden gut ab

„Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) stellt heute eine aktuelle Broschüre vor, in der eine zentrale Frage zur Arbeit der Grundsicherungssicherungsstellen beantwortet wird: In welchem Umfang gelingt es, Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II in Beschäftigung zu bringen?..“ Presse-BA-Info vom 18.06.2008 http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_27042/zentraler-Content/Pressemeldungen/2008/Presse-08-029.html


Übergänge aus Grundsicherung in Beschäftigung

Die Studie der BA (pdf) http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/zentraler-Content/Veroeffentlichungen/SGB-II/Uebergaenge-aus-Grundsicherung-in-Beschaeftigung.pdf


"Ich bin unzufrieden". Frank-Jürgen Weise, Chef der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, über die Versuche, Langzeitarbeitslose in Jobs zu vermitteln.

Interview von Katharina Sperber in der FR vom 18.06.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/?sid=81f4866edb03d5a7d78d09af82297724&em_cnt=1352981


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Juni 2008



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By Ben Thompson

Simon Densley, 37, is worried about radiation from the Love Lane mast

A Morden man who coated his house in aluminium foil to counter the effects of a phone mast is now petitioning the Prime Minister.

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The local paper Wimbledon Guardian has done a story on Yasmin’s and my visit to Downing street two weeks ago. Please excuse the fact that the report says that I helped ‘establish’ mast sanity. I didn’t tell him that – honest!

It may attract some comments and require some counter comments and it might not be appropriate for me to do the commenting.


Simon



Great lots of replies needed please!
Sara

http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.2350663.0.morden_man_coats_home_in_foil_to_counter_masts_effects.php

By Sarah Baxter, Washington

It is led by Brigadier-General Lawrence "Stutz" Stutzriem, who is considered one of the brightest air force generals. He is assisted by Dr Lani Kass, a former Israeli military officer and expert on cyberwarfare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20117.htm



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By Ramzy Baroud

Co-opting the UN has helped secure temporary legitimacy to the occupation. The international body, once rendered irrelevant, became a major hub for American diplomacy seeking to legitimise its occupation in a country that refuses to concede. Even willing Iraqi leaders, perfectly rehearsed elections and mass suppressions have failed to bring the desired stability and validation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20122.htm



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Leaked U.S. Military Manual

By JULIAN ASSANGE

Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, history making.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20125.htm

- RTL 9 TV : "Santé: les EHS s'expriment" (vidéo reportage HD)
http://videos.next-up.org/RTL9/BienvenueChezVous/LesEHSsExpriment/19062008.html

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Mercury in "Green" light bulbs: Use full spectrum bulbs instead
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18 June 2008

A TELEPHONE mast is to be erected despite being refused planning permission by a council.

Bexley council's decision to block a 12-metre high Orange mobile telephone mast opposite 103 Woolwich Road, Belvedere, was overruled in an appeal last Tuesday.

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Le Nouvel Observateur's European service Chief Jean-Gabriel Fredet talks about likely changes in US foreign policy following the Bush presidency, "which moreover, is certainly one of the worst in the entire history of the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/article/there-will-necessarily-be-a-break

The New York Times: "In the waning months of his tenure, President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president's powers to spy on Americans without a court order."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mr-bush-v-bill-rights



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/18/9724/

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Are They Really Oil Wars?

By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Behind the drive to war and military adventures in the Middle East lie some powerful special interests (vested in war, militarism, and geopolitical concerns of Israel) that use oil as an issue of "national interest"-as a façade or pretext-in order to justify military adventures to derive high dividends, both economic and geopolitical, from war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20119.htm



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War Crimes Committed and Justice Denied
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/18/9728/

Easing of Laws That Led to Detainee Abuse Hatched in Secret
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/18/9706/

Gen. Taguba Knew Scandal Went to the Top
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9798/

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US General Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes

Truthout's Matt Renner and Maya Schenwar report: "Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (now retired) served as the deputy commanding general for support for the Third Army for ten months in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq occupation. In a statement released today, he bluntly accuses the Bush administration of war crimes and lays down a challenge for prosecution."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-general-accuses-bush-administration-war-crimes

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How secretive 'War Council' of Bush administration lawyers subverted the law
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7617/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Bush Cheney Team Torture War Crimes
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/50efa90fbd14abf4?hl=en

General Accuses White House of War Crimes
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/fb00b3e296537fc5?hl=en

INTERVIEW: WAR CRIMES
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/881442cce1cf5599?hl=en



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From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.abajournal.com/news/cia_lawyers_torture_definition_if_the_detainee_dies_youre_doing_it_wrong/

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Roadmap to Torture

Spencer Ackerman, for The Washington Independent, reports on Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee's release of numerous classified documents: "In a marathon hearing spanning eight hours and three separate panels, the committee revealed, in painstaking detail, how senior Pentagon officials transformed a program for Special Forces troops to resist torture -- known as Survival Evasion Resistance Escape, or SERE -- into a blueprint for torturing terrorism detainees."

http://www.truthout.org/article/roadmap-torture



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Derek Kravitz, of The Washington Post: "Reports of problems with defense contractor KBR Inc. just keep piling up. The Houston-based company's efforts to repair Navy facilities following Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina were deemed shoddy and substandard, auditors say, prompting one technical adviser to claim that the federal government 'certainly paid twice' for many KBR projects because of 'design and workmanship deficiencies,' according to a report released today by the Defense Department's inspector general."

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Reuters: "US President George W. Bush is ranked only slightly above the rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-trusted leaders in the world, a survey released on Monday showed. The survey, carried out by WorldPublicOpinion.org in 20 countries around the world, found that no national leaders inspired wide confidence outside their own countries. But Bush, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranked at the bottom, the polling showed."

http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-musharraf-ahmadinejad-least-trusted-leaders

McClatchy-Tribune: "A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demanded the documents from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey days before former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is expected to testify about Cheney's role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to the news media in 2003."

http://www.truthout.org/article/fbi-interviews-bush-cheney-subpoenaed



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Illegal logging is destroying the world's ancient forests and accelerating climate change. On July 23rd the European Commission is expected to vote on proposed legislation to combat illegal logging.

Public pressure is absolutely essential now to urge the Commission to help protect the world's forests and climate.

Please write to President Barroso today for a yes vote on July 23rd.

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18. Juni 2008

Heute beginnt der Kinder- und Jugendhilfegipfel. Zur dramatischen Situation in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst:

Der katastrophale Sparkurs in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe schlägt sich nun auch in der Statistik nieder. Die Streichung von mehr als jeder zehnten Vollzeitstelle seit 2002 ist ein Alarmsignal. Die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe steht finanziell am Abgrund. Wenn nichts geschieht, dann kann sie schon morgen ein Schritt weiter sein. Westdeutscher Spitzenreiter beim Zusammenstreichen der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe ist Bayern. Bayern hat jede fünfte Stelle in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe abgebaut. Das ist doppelt so viel wie der westdeutsche Durchschnitt. Kein Bundesland gibt pro Kopf weniger für die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe aus. 134 Euro pro Kopf im Jahr 2006, das sind mehr als 40 Prozent weniger als im Bundesdurchschnitt und sogar mehr als 60 Prozent weniger als das finanziell angeschlagene Berlin ausgibt. Das zeigt deutlich, dass der bayerischen Staatsregierung jede soziale Prioritätensetzung fremd ist. DIE LINKE im Bundestag fordert seit 2006 einen Sonderfonds für den Wiederaufbau der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in Höhe von 100 Mio. Euro jährlich. Dies wurde bislang von den anderen Parteien im Bundestag als unfinanzierbar abgelehnt. Jetzt sehen wir das Ergebnis dieser Untätigkeit. Es reicht nicht aus, immer nur mit Betroffenheit auf aktuelle Fälle von Kindesvernachlässigung und Kindesmisshandlung zu reagieren. Konsequent wäre es, die entsprechenden Gelder für die Vorsorge bereitzustellen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/kinder-und-jugendhilfe-finanziell-am-abgrund/

CounterPunch
by Conn Hallinan

06/17/08

A recent study by the General Accounting Office found that, ‘Traumatic brain injury has emerged as the leading injury among U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.’ According to a Walter Reed Hospital study, ‘closed brain” injuries — injuries with no visible marks — outnumber ‘penetrating brain injuries’ seven to one. Other researchers put the ratio much higher. … TBI is a slippery beast, or ‘murky’ as Weiner puts it. It can cause symptoms ranging from depression and uncontrollable rages, to irritable bowels and emotional disengagement. It can suddenly appear long after the incident that caused it, and it is difficult and complex to treat. While medicine is beginning to understand more about the kind of TBI generated by car accidents, falls, or sports injuries, no one is quite sure exactly what causes the TBI generated by roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan...

http://counterpunch.org/hallinan06172008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Guardian [UK]
by George Monbiot

06/17/08

Three days before Bush arrived in Britain, the US supreme court ruled that the inmates at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to contest their detention in the civilian courts. This is the third time the supreme court has ruled against the prison camp, but on this occasion Bush cannot change the law: the court has ruled that the prisoners’ rights are constitutional. Symbolically the decision could scarcely be more important. Practically it could scarcely be less. The department of defence can transfer its prisoners to an oubliette in another country, where the constitution’s writ does not run. The public atrocity of Guantanamo Bay has provided a useful distraction from something even worse: the sprawling system of secret detention camps the US runs around the world...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/17/usa.humanrights


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Baltimore Sun
by Cynthia Boersma

06/17/08

‘No. Nope. No way.’ So exclaimed Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana when asked whether his state would participate in the federal Real ID program. Frustration with this misguided, expensive and unworkable federal mandate also compelled another governor, Republican Mark Sanford of South Carolina, to call Real ID ‘the worst piece of legislation I have seen during the 15 years I have been engaged in the political process.’ If Real ID has any friends in the states, they’re not speaking up. This sentiment is now percolating through the halls of Congress. In recent hearings before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, senators from both sides of the aisle were blistering in their criticism of Real ID...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Austin American-Statesman

06/18/08

President Bush, reversing a long-standing position, will call on Congress today to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling on most of the outer continental shelf, according to White House officials who say Bush wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur. … the topic of offshore drilling has been a sensitive one in the Bush family. Bush’s father as president signed an executive order in 1990 banning coastal oil exploration, and Bush’s brother Jeb was an outspoken opponent of offshore drilling when he was Florida’s governor...

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McCain on offshore drilling: a sad (and costly?) saga

Mother Jones

by Jonathan Stein

06/17/08

The easiest point to make about John McCain’s recently declared support for offshore drilling is that it is a flip-flop. When McCain ran for president in 1999, he supported the current moratorium on offshore drilling, slated to last until 2012. But speaking in the Washington area on Monday, McCain said, ‘There are areas off our coasts that should be open to exploration and exploitation, and I hope we can take the first step by lifting the moratoria.’ McCain added that drilling ‘would be very helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis.’ It’s hard to blame anyone for changing his or her positions on energy issues over the past eight years — markets have changed, America’s energy needs have changed, and prices have certainly changed. Even many Democrats have altered their positions on energy; most are much more supportive of climate change legislation than they once were. You can blame McCain, however, for switching to the wrong position...

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Straightening out McCain’s Straight Talk

Slate
by John Dickerson

06/17/08

The energy plan was supposed to showcase both McCain’s boldness in facing hard problems and his party-challenging, solutions-oriented approach. An ad released along with the kickoff speech heralded the fight McCain had with his party five years ago over whether to confront the challenges of global warming. (Did I mention that today was supposed to be about being bold?) Instead, critics won ammunition for a line of attack they’ve been pushing for the last year and a half. ‘I think John McCain has exhibited the ongoing debate in his own campaign between John McCain and John McCain,’ said John Kerry, no doubt relishing the chance to tar a Republican with the brush that killed him. ‘You don’t know what he means on torture, taxes, tolerance of Jerry Falwell, changed on drilling. … Here you have a flip-flop by John McCain, flipping to the right and then flipping backwards.’ Whether this bungled start does sustained damage depends on the durability of McCain’s Straight Talk brand...

http://www.slate.com/id/2193749/



States weigh options in offshore oil fight
MSNBC

06/18/08

Governors in some coastal states promised to block attempts to tap offshore petroleum reserves, citing concerns about the environment and tourism. Others agreed with President Bush’s call to lift a 27-year-old federal ban on offshore drilling but said states should decide whether to allow it. Bush on Wednesday joined Republican presidential candidate John McCain in calling for the lifting of a prohibition on drilling along the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25252119/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Finding the Truth: A Response to President Bush's June 18, 2008 Speech Calling for More Domestic Drilling of Oil and Natural Gas
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0618-14.htm

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McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet

"That is not true, as far I know," writes Truthout contributor Dean Baker, "but it makes about as much sense as McCain's plans to drill off the coast of Florida and in other environmentally sensitive areas. This is McCain's response to the pain of millions of families hit by $4 a gallon of gas. While the pain is real, the former straight-talker's plan will not help, and he knows it. The facts on this one are clear: There is just not that much oil in these restricted offshore areas. Furthermore, we will not see any oil for close to a decade. This means drilling for oil in these restricted areas will do absolutely nothing for people struggling to pay their bills now and, in fact, it will provide zero relief throughout the next two presidential terms of office."

http://www.truthout.org/article/john-mccain-wants-drill-your-toilet

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Just Say NO to Offshore Drilling
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=200



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Colorado Springs Gazette

06/17/08

The U.S. military hid the locations of detained terrorism suspects and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents a Senate committee released Tuesday. ‘We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques,’ Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who has retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility — Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan — were using sleep deprivation to ‘break’ detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved that technique. -True, but officially it is not happening,- she told another person at the 2002 meeting...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Aachener Zeitung - Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Ein Schulbezirk in den USA stattet Schultaschen mit RFID-Chips aus. Damit können Eltern verfolgen, ob ihre Kinder im Schulbus sitzen oder sich anderswo ...

http://www.az-web.de/news/familie-detail-az/553079?_link=&skip=&_g=US-Eltern-ueberwachen-Schueler-per-Internet

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Eltern versehen Schüler mit Chips

Barebonecenter.de - Filderstadt, Baden Würtemberg, Germany

In den USA wurden 80 Schüler der Aquidneck School im US-Bundesstaat Rhode Island mit RFID-Chips ausgestattet, mit denen überprüft werden soll, ... http://www.barebonecenter.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8749&Itemid=139

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FDP will stärkeren Datenschutz schnellstmöglich umgesetzt sehen
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/FDP-will-staerkeren-Datenschutz-schnellstmoeglich-umgesetzt-sehen--/meldung/109722



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Marcus Raskin, Politik-Professor und Mitbegründer des "Institute for Policy Studies", über den Afghanistan-Krieg, die Gefahr eines Angriffs auf den Iran, den innenpolitischen Belagerungszustand und die Chancen eines Linksrucks in den USA.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28134/1.html

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/344.html



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In The American Chronicle, David Swanson writes: "For over half the days during any period of years you choose to select, the biggest story in US news outlets is the impending most important election in your lifetime. The story, of course, takes an infinite variety of forms, ranging from candidates' friends and associates to their diets, wardrobes, religions, childhoods, and hobbies.... But what if there were a story about the entire process that flipped the whole thing upside down, radically altering many of the assumptions never mentioned but always assumed in all of the endless 'reporting'?"

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-biggest-election-story-not-your-tv



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According to Adam Cohen in The New York Times, "At the height of the Great Depression, industry convinced President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress to enact a law allowing companies to collude to drive up prices. To balance out this giveaway to big business, the law gave workers something that they had long been fighting for: the first federal minimum wage."

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Brian Ross and Vic Walter, ABC News, say that "Mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side effects, an investigation by ABC News and The Washington Times has found."

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Agro-Konzerne gefährden Ernährungssicherheit. - Die Vertreibung der Bienen und Imker durch Genmais. Kontamination mit MON810 löst den Anspruch auf Schadensersatz aus. - Gentech-Riese Monsanto kontrolliert gesamte Nahrungsmittelkette, auch mit Gentech-Filz in Genehmigungsbehörden.

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Town Crier Today - St Neots, UK

Lynne Hickey, 48, who has lived on Monarch Road for 26 years, is concerned about the unknown effects the mobile phone masts could have on the health of her ...

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