World-News

Paul Krugman of The New York Times writes: "While homeownership rose as the housing bubble inflated, temporarily giving Mr. Bush something to boast about, it plunged - especially for African-Americans - when the bubble popped. Today, the percentage of American families owning their own homes is no higher than it was six years ago, and it's a good bet that by the time Mr. Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in."

http://www.truthout.org/article/home-not-so-sweet-home



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

Report

Eric Lichtblau reports for the New York Times: "Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used 'political or ideological' factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/report-illegal-hiring-practices-justice-deptartment



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Justice+Department
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Lichtblau

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9437


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9430


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+machine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=total+war

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9438



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rule+of+law
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For McClatchy Newspapers, Marisa Taylor reports: "A federal appeals court for the first time has rejected the military's designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned as 'invalid' a military tribunal's conclusion that prisoner Huzaifa Parhat is an enemy combatant. The court directed the Pentagon either to release or transfer Parhat or to hold a new tribunal hearing 'consistent with the court's opinion.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/in-a-first-court-overturns-guantanamo-hearing



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marisa+Taylor

„Wir fordern: Stoppt das Sterben! Menschenrechtswidrige FRONTEX-Einsätze sind einzustellen! - Menschenleben müssen gerettet werden. Wenn jemand vor unseren Augen zu ertrinken droht, müssen wir helfen. Flüchtlinge müssen geschützt werden. Der Zugang zu einem fairen Asylverfahren in Europa ist zu gewährleisten. Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention und die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention müssen eingehalten werden…“ Siehe dazu die Sonderseite von Pro Asyl. Hier kann der Aufruf auch online unterschrieben werden. http://www.stoppt-das-sterben.eu/


"Migration und Flüchtlingsschutz im Zeichen der Globalisierung"

Die von den Organisationen PRO ASYL und medico international gemeinsam herausgegebene Broschüre (pdf) http://www.proasyl.de/fileadmin/proasyl/fm_redakteure/STARTSEITE/medico/medico.pdf


Erneut Ansturm illegaler Einwanderer auf Grenze in Melilla

„Dutzende illegale Einwanderer haben am Sonntagabend erneut versucht, die Grenzanlagen der spanischen Exklave Melilla im Norden Marokkos zu überwinden. Die afrikanischen Einwanderer seien von marokkanischen und spanischen Grenzpolizisten aufgehalten worden, berichtete die Nachrichtenagentur Europa Presse unter Berufung auf lokale Behörden. Bereits in der Nacht zuvor hatten rund 70 illegale Einwanderer versucht, einen Grenzposten Melillas zu stürmen. Nach Angaben der Stadtverwaltung gelang es dabei nur wenigen Einwanderern, die Grenzanlage zu überwinden…“ AFP-Meldung vom 23.6.08 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE953O-0sl7EEzRhw_RJA2XMnQdw

Siehe dazu auch:

Akt der Verzweiflung. Afrikaner stürmen spanische Enklave im Nordosten Marokkos - Grenzpolizei immer besser gewappnet

„Tanger - Mit Steinen und Stöcken bewaffnet, stürmte am frühen Sonntagmorgen eine Gruppe von etwa 70 Schwarzafrikanern den Grenzübergang von Melilla. Trotz des Überraschungseffekts gelang nur wenigen die Flucht in die spanische Enklave im Nordosten von Marokko. Die meisten wurden entweder von marokkanischen oder spanischen Grenzern festgenommen. Der Sturm über den Grenzübergang ist ein Akt der Verzweiflung, wie vor drei Jahren, als mehrere Hundert Immigranten über die Grenzzäune von Melilla und Ceuta, der zweiten spanischen Enklave auf marokkanischem Territorium, stiegen. 14 Flüchtlinge kamen dabei ums Leben, 161 schafften es auf spanisches Hoheitsgebiet. Heute ist das unmöglich. Spanien rüstete die Grenzanlagen mit Radar, Nachtsichtgeräten, Pfählen und einer Sprinkleranlage für "Störmittel" auf…“ Artikel von Alfred Hackensberger in Die Welt vom 23. Juni 2008 http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2134670/Akt_der_Verzweiflung.html


In Europa unerwünscht und was jetzt? Bleiberecht statt Abschiebepolitik! Demo gegen das Ausreisezentrum in Trier am 06.09.2008

„Mittlerweile existiert das Ausreisezentrum in Trier schon seit fünf Jahren. Menschen werden dort ohne rechtlichen Schutz durch psychischen Stress und seelische Gewalt gequält. Sie stehen alleine vor einem übermächtigen Gegner. Sie erfahren staatlich legitimierte Folter und ihnen wird ein Eindruck der totalen Ausgrenzung vermittelt, den der Staat mit dem Verweigern jeglicher finanzieller Mittel, zu schaffen weiß. (…) Der globalisierte kapitalistische Konkurrenzkampf, der auf dem Rücken von armen Ländern ausgetragen wird, fordert seine Opfer. Diese gilt es zu schützen und nicht auszugrenzen. Die Schließung aller Abschiebeknäste und Ausreisezentren kann dabei nur der erste Schritt zu einer Globalisierung von unten sein. Also kommt alle am 06.09.2008 nach Trier um zusammen gegen die Missstände zu demonstrieren, den Insassen des Ausreisezentrums Mut zu machen und Zuversicht zu geben.“ Aufruf von Passierschein A38 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/migration/trier060908.pdf

Weitere Infos folgen demnächst. Siehe zum Ausreisezentrum Trier:

Informationen von Humanitäre Hilfe Trier auf der Dokumentationsseite Ausreisezentren http://www.ausreisezentren.de/az/index.php?~%7B4454bd6fa89d0%7D


"Zentrum für Hoffnungs- und Orientierungslosigkeit"

Reader zum Ausreisezentrum Trier und zur Asylpolitik (pdf) http://www.agf-trier.de/documents/reader.pdf


Bundesdeutsche Flüchtlingspolitik und ihre tödlichen Folgen. 1993 bis 2007

Die 15. aktualisierte Auflage der Dokumentation von Antirassistische Initiative e.V liegt nun auf CD-Rom vor. Siehe weitere Infos und Bestellmodalitäten auf der Homepage der Initiative http://www.ari-berlin.org/doku/CD_Anzeige.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juni 2008

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Für ein globales Recht auf Migration – Solidarität ohne Grenzen gegen Rassismus, soziale Ausgrenzung und Überwachungsstaat

Demonstration am 5. Juli 2008 in Berlin (14 Uhr Schlossplatz - Berlin Mitte). Aus dem Aufruf: „Der 15. Jahrestag der Grundgesetzänderung ist für uns Anlass, unsere Forderungen lautstark auf die Straße zu bringen. Wir leben im Herzen der Festung Europa und es reicht längst nicht mehr, das deutsche Grundrecht auf Asyl zurückzufordern. Alle Menschen müssen die Möglichkeit haben, vor Verfolgung und Armut zu fliehen. Alle Menschen müssen die Möglichkeit haben, dort zu leben, wo sie es möchten und wie sie möchten. Mit allen Rechten, die dazugehören.“ Siehe dazu

die Aktionsseite „Für ein globales Recht auf Migration – for freedom of movement and de*fencing the nations“ http://www.recht-auf-migration.de.vu/

Dort neben allen Details den Aufruf http://www.jpberlin.de/antifa-pankow/pberg/defence/DerAufruf.htm

Siehe auch die Aktionsseite „6. Juni + 5. Juli 08: de*fence! Party und Demonstration für ein globales Recht auf Migration“ http://venceremos.antifa.net/antifaaktion/050708de_fence.html


EU-Richtlinie Immigration - Reaktionen

„Am 18. Juni billigte das EU-Parlament die Richtlinie zur Abschiebung von ImmigrantInnen ohne Papiere. Acht Millionen Menschen sind nun von einer Verschärfung betroffen. Ein erheblicher Teil von ihnen stammt aus den Ländern Lateinamerikas. Deren Regierungen reagieren nicht nur mit scharfer Kritik sondern auch mit praktischen Konsequenzen..." Artikel mit vielen weiterführenden Links von tierr@ vom 25.06.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/06/220766.shtml


»Für jede Vorladung gibt es 250 Euro«. Ausländerbehörden zahlen afrikanischen Botschaften »Kopfgelder«.

Interview in der jungen Welt vom 25.06.2008 von Julia Sergio mit Uche Akpulu, Sprecher des bayerischen Flüchtlingsrates http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/06-25/040.php


Aus: LabourNet, 27. Juni 2008

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"Sonntagsreden" zur EU-Abschottung

Wenn Schäuble nur die Schleuser für Flüchtlingselend verantwortlich macht und mehr Frontex empfiehlt, gibt es für Pro Asyl einiges klarzustellen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28371/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FRONTEX
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Migration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Asyl
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Flüchtling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble

Guardian [UK]
by Gary Younge

06/23/08

It is a brutal allegory in which Guantanamo is not the exception but the rule: a grotesque exemplar of the Bush administration’s reflexive and opportunistic response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, from the bombing of Iraq to the phone-tapping of its own citizens. Like Abu Ghraib and the ‘black sites’ of rendition, the violations that have taken place there are systemic and systematic. Like the broader war on terror, they have been characterised by criminality and ineptitude. The camp has not hosted a single trial, and only 19 of the remaining 270 detainees have been charged.

http://tinyurl.com/457h74


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+Younge

USA Today

06/23/08

Lawmakers continue to blame large investors for their role in propping up oil prices, pointing out Monday that speculation in crude futures has nearly doubled since 2000. Pension funds, Wall Street banks and other large investors that have no intention of taking delivery of fuel have increasingly pumped money into contracts for oil and other commodities as a hedge against inflation when the dollar falls...

http://tinyurl.com/68yb7b


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+speculation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=crude+futures
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dollar+fall

John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.

http://tinyurl.com/6xyff7



US military chief to visit Israel for talks on Iran

The head of America's armed forces will make a hastily-arranged visit to Israel this week, fuelling speculation about a possible Washington-sanctioned Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear programme.

http://tinyurl.com/6jyudn



Former Mossad chief: Iran no threat to Israel's existence

Former Mossad Chief Efraim Halevi said Tuesday that "Iran is no threat to Israel's existence."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3559660,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Israel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Bolton

Video - Taken from a speech by Marcos calling the war against globalization

Despite the titanic struggles of dispossessed peoples around the world, the wealth of nations continues to reside in fewer and fewer hands. The economies of poor countries collapse under vicious IMF policies, and capitalism's global 'clubs' thrive ever and ever upward. Meanwhile, people keep struggling, ultimately downward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20153.htm



Alternatives to Free Trade: Fair Trade and Beyond

By Shamus Cooke

Capitalism cannot be reformed. In the dog-eat-dog world of profit-making and competition, "fairness" plays absolutely no role.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20161.htm



The Struggle for History

- Video -

An excellent lecture by the well-known American political scientist, historian, and media critic, Michael Parenti.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20154.htm



The price of hunger

We know the cost to end world hunger. What's the cost of neglect?
http://tinyurl.com/6zj2al


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IMF
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=globalization
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shamus+Cooke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti

By Dr. Michael Hudson

For the Middle East to use its export earnings to develop its own economies may require breaking with the U.S. diplomatic sphere. At the very least it gives the region an interest in getting the United States to end its occupation of Iraq - including the military bases it is now in the process of constructing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20159.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hudson

By Juan Cole

The apocalypse that the United States has unleashed upon Iraq is among the greatest catastrophes to befall any country in the past 50 years. It is a much worse disaster over time than the Burmese cyclone or the Mississippi floods.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20157.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=apocalypse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/732e5865ed6df95e?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+futures
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=speculation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankrupting

McCain Campaign Hopes For Terror Attack To Swing Vote
http://www.infowars.com/?p=2830


Informant: shane_digital

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Aide: Terror Attacks "Big Advantage" to McCain

Edward Luce and Andrew Ward report for The Financial Times: "John McCain's right-hand man hit a raw nerve on Monday when he said another terrorist attack on US soil would prove a 'big advantage' to the Republican nominee's general election chances. The comments by Charlie Black, who is arguably Mr McCain's most experienced adviser, put into words what many Republicans and Democrats have privately been stating for months."

http://www.truthout.org/article/aide-terror-attacks-big-advantage-mccain



The Same Old Politics of Terror

The Boston Globe: "When asked about the effect of another terrorist attack on American soil, John McCain's chief strategist, Charlie Black, responded rashly and bluntly. 'Certainly it would be a big advantage' for McCain, Black told Fortune magazine recently. Similarly, the strategist described the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto in December as 'an unfortunate event,' but said 'it helped us' in the contest for the nomination. It would be unfair to McCain, and to Black, to take this analysis as an indication that the Republican team is hoping for or counting on a terrorist incident. Still, Black's observation does bring up the question of whether the threat of terrorism will help Republicans, or whether the politics of security have shifted since the last presidential election."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-same-old-politics-terror



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+attack

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LivSW9zLg


Informant: shane_digital



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=WTC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/06/martial-law-license-to-loot-permit-to.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+N.+Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/bacon7.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/bacon

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/06/23/iran-war-resolution-may-be-passed-next-week/

Congressional Resolution Demands Bush Act on Iran
http://www.truthout.org/article/congressional-resolution-demands-bush-act-iran


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10885


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=270



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Unilever
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palmöl

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/23/9822/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/23/9816/

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Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

Ed Pilkington, The Guardian UK, says: "James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."

http://www.truthout.org/article/scientist-congress-oil-execs-commit-high-crimes



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Hansen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ed+Pilkington

The Los Angeles Times editorial board poses the question, "What would it really cost to end global hunger? The United Nations estimates that it would take at least $30 billion per year to solve the food crisis, mainly by boosting agricultural productivity in the developing world. Over the decade that it would take to make sustainable improvements in the lives of the 862 million undernourished people, that amounts to $300 billion. Three hundred billion dollars is a lot of money, and the U.S. government won't foot the bill alone. But it's less than half of 1% of the world's combined gross domestic products, not an unreasonable sum to invest in ending the misery and degradation of hunger. After all, Congress shelled out $21 billion last year for foreign aid and this week it approved $162 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal 2009. The U.S. spent $340 billion in 2006 alone on public and private research and development. Directing just one-tenth of that seed money to sustainable, high-yield agriculture in the developing world could trigger a second Green Revolution."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-price-hunger



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+hunger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis

In Baden-Württemberg hat sich einer Studie zufolge der Klimawandel seit 2001 deutlich beschleunigt. Wie das Landesumweltministerium am Montag (23. Juni) in Stuttgart mitteilte, erhöhte sich die Temperatur im Land im relativ langen Zeitraum von 1931 bis 2000 im Jahresdurchschnitt um 0,8 Grad Celsius, während allein zwischen 2001 und 2005 der Anstieg bereits bei 1,0 Grad lag.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18220

Im rheinland-pfälzischen Büchel lagern bis zu 20 US-Atombomben vom Typ B61, die im Rahmen der "Nuklearen Teilhabe" im Kriegsfall von deutschen Tornados eingesetzt werden können. Ein interner Bericht der US-Luftwaffe vom Februar 2008 kam offenbar zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Lagerung der Atomwaffen im Fliegerhorst Büchel in der Eifel nicht den Sicherheitsanforderungen des US-Verteidigungsministeriums entspricht. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden nun Rufe nach einem Abzug aller US-Atomwaffen aus Deutschland laut. SPD und Opposition forderten die Bundesregierung am Montag (23. Juni) auf, mit einem solchen Schritt ein Abrüstungssignal zu setzen. Auch die rheinland-pfälzische Landesregierung sprach sich für eine Abschaffung verbliebener Nuklearwaffen aus. Die Friedensbewegung ruft zu einer Demonstration am 30. August 2008 in Büchel auf. Die Bundesregierung will hingegen an der NATO-Strategie der atomaren Abschreckung festhalten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18215

In YES! Magazine, Maude Barlow writes: "It's a colossal failure of political foresight that water has not emerged as an important issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign. The links between oil, war, and U.S. foreign policy are well known. But water-whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold-will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous."

http://www.truthout.org/article/life-liberty-water



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maude+Barlow

Brian Stelter, of The New York Times, reports: "Getting a story on the evening news isn't easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network. 'Generally what I say is, "I'm holding the armor-piercing R.P.G.,"' she said last week in an appearance on 'The Daily Show,' referring to the initials for rocket-propelled grenade. '"It's aimed at the bureau chief, and if you don't put my story on the air, I'm going to pull the trigger."' Ms. Logan let a sly just-kidding smile sneak through as she spoke, but her point was serious. Five years into the war in Iraq and nearly seven years into the war in Afghanistan, getting news of the conflicts onto television is harder than ever."

http://www.truthout.org/article/reporters-say-networks-block-war-reports



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lara+Logan

(redaktion/pm) Der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte hat die Politik aufgefordert, in einem jährlichen Bericht darzulegen, was sie in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten gegen Kinderarmut ... http://bildungsklick.de/a/61210/kinderaerzte-politik-soll-erfolge-gegen-kinderarmut-belegen/

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Kinderarmut in Ost- und Westdeutschland

„… Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet die Ursachen und psychosozialen Folgen der Kinderarmut in den alten und den neuen Bundesländern. Ein empirischer Vergleich der sozialen Situation von Erfurter und Kölner Schulkindern gab darüber Aufschluss, welche Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten der Lebenslagen in Ost- und Westdeutschland existieren. Schließlich werden Gegenmaßnahmen auf unterschiedlichen Politikfeldern vorgeschlagen, um Kinderarmut zu verringern und zu verhindern.“ So der VS-Verlag zum Buch von Christoph Butterwegge, Michael Klundt und Matthias Belke-Zeng (2., erweiterte und aktualisierte Aufl. 2008. 378 S. Geb., ISBN: 978-3-531-15915-7 EUR: 24,90). Siehe dazu: Informationen zum Buch beim VS-Verlag http://www.vs-verlag.de/index.php;do=show/sid=e0dc2266e759e8fe4de32f03bcdb0453/site=w/book_id=16267

Armutsverhinderung durch Gesellschaftsveränderung

Kapitel 5.8. aus dem Buch – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/kinderarmut58.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. September 2008



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

http://news.myspace.com/politics/newsheadlines/item/18659547


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Prez Sez: "I'm Addicted; Bigger Syringe, Please!"

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Several years ago, the President of the United States acknowledged that America is addicted to oil. He did nothing to address the addiction, protected its Drug Lords (the Big Oil companies) and their enormous profits, and now has demanded a bigger syringe so as to mainline his favorite drug into the veins and arteries of the American people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20156.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=addicted+to+oil

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/28356c9ece6f4746?hl=en



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

Die Bundesregierung plant offenbar, Hartz IV durch Workfare zu ersetzen. Workfare heißt soviel wie: Sozialleistungen gegen Arbeit, d.h. nur wer arbeitet soll auch Sozialleistungen erhalten. Workfare ist insbesondere in den USA ein weit verbreitetes Modell, das aber auch dort auf Fördern und Fordern setzt.

Lesen Sie weiter: http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e19ac30676501.php



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

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

06/20/08

The cost of this particular war is enormous, and therefore its of great importance. There is no single issue that is more important at this particular time. The war has, of course, made us less safe as a nation and damaged our credibility with allies and hostile nations alike. Moreover, years of growing deficits have been spurred on by the high price tag of war, and the decision to pay that price primarily by supplemental spending rather than traditional ‘on-budget’ accounting. War takes what would otherwise be productive economic capacity and transfers both that capacity, and the wealth it would generate in normal, peaceful, times into far less economically viable activities. It also impacts budget priorities in ways that are detrimental to our nation...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003392.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Union
by John Keane

06/22/08

There are few strategies that are used to control society that are more effective then ‘divide and conquer.’ Another is fear. Today America is more divided than at any time in recent history and fear has become patriotic. Why? Because we are unsure of ourselves. We all think that our opinions are valid. We immerse ourselves in media and social contacts that support our world view. We forget that every coin has two sides and then we find ourselves distracted by useless and pointless conflicts...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/22/9802/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j16BZVAVoE3Tey_0icx_2Bj6V_XQ


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

The US economy is likely to "stagnate" in the second half of this year, the International Monetary Fund warned on Friday, as stock markets in the US and Europe fell to their lowest levels since March and US bank shares hit a five-year low.

http://tinyurl.com/5azr6a



IMF Finally Knocks on Uncle Sam's Door

By David Hirst

The fact that the IMF is knocking on the very doors of its parents and waving legal papers about who lost the house, the car and the kids will, if the past is anything to go by, be buried in the US by pom-pom waving on CNBC telling all what a great time it is to buy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20206.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=International+Monetary+Fund
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Iran would be ready for all military possibilities including an Israeli attack on the country's nuclear facilities, IRNA news agency quoted parliament speaker Ali Larijani as saying Sunday. "We are ready for all possibilities but if they (Israel) really planned to take such an unwise action, then they would face much more damage than us" Larijani told IRNA.

http://tinyurl.com/5grbhx



U.N.: Bomb Iran and face Mideast 'ball of fire'

Nuclear agency chief's warning follows Israeli military exercises.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25298744/



The Myth of 'Weapons-Grade' Enrichment
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20162.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+facilities
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The Game is Over. There Won't Be a Rebound

By Mike Whitney

Bernanke is merely being polite in not rubbing the faces of European and Asian governments in the fact that unless they are willing to make a structural break and change the world monetary system radically, they will remain powerless to avoid giving the United States a free ride - including a free ride for its military spending and war in the Near East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20150.htm



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Born. December 15, 1791
Died. June 20, 2008

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20145.htm



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Report: North Korea Developed Nukes for Iran at Bombed Syrian Facility

By DPA

Experts believe North Korea provided assistance to Iran at the Syrian facility believed bombed by Israel Air Force in September 2007, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20147.htm



Presstitute and war pimp alert:

Special forces find proof of Iran supplying Taliban with equipment to fight British

Documented proof that Iran is supplying the Taliban with devastating roadside bomb-making equipment has been passed by British officials to Tehran, prompting fears that the war in Afghanistan may escalate into a regional armed conflict.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/22/military.afghanistan


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9790/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/22/9805/

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No Blood for... er... um...

For TomDispatch.com, Tom Engelhardt writes: "More than five years after the invasion of Iraq - just in case you were still waiting - the oil giants finally hit the front page. Last Thursday, the New York Times with this headline: 'Deals with Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back.' (Subhead: 'Rare No-bid Contracts, A Foothold for Western Companies Seeking Future Rewards.') And who were these four giants? ExxonMobil, Shell, the French company Total and BP (formerly British Petroleum). What these firms got were mere 'service contracts' - as in servicing Iraq's oil fields - not the sort of 'production sharing agreements' that President Bush's representatives in Baghdad once dreamed of, and that would have left them in charge of those fields. Still, it was clearly a start."

http://www.truthout.org/article/no-blood-er-um



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+war
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts250.html

'You Can’t Handle the Truth!'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters/peters22.html

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Torturegate

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

06/22/08

This has been one of the most extraordinary weeks in modern American history. The many isolated streams of evidence about the Bush Administration’s torture system — and the direct responsibility of the Administration’s highest officials for this vast crime — have now converged into a mighty flood: undeniable, unignorable, pouring through the halls of Congress and media newsrooms, lashing at the walls of the White House itself. In the course of the past few days, a series of events has laid bare the stinking sepsis at the heart of the Bush Regime for all to see...

http://counterpunch.org/floyd06212008.html



Where’s the anger?

CounterPunch
by Howard Lisnoff

06/23/08

My significant objection to the ‘Support Our Troops’ slogan, which has sometimes taken on the specter of cant, is that blanket support of the military allows for the glossing over of the imperialistic objectives of the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, wholehearted support is owed to those who have suffered the consequences of those wars; for those who have entertained thoughts of resistance to the military machine; and to soldiers who have become resisters. That support, however, must be tempered with the realities of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Haditha, so-called extraordinary rendition, the loss of many civil liberties at home, and the policies of torture and abuse that have been the hallmarks of the Bush-Cheney regime. The Nuremberg Principles were clear on the individual’s responsibility for war crimes. The Principles apply to both individual soldiers and heads of state...

http://counterpunch.org/lisnoff06232008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Prosecuting War Crimes for Today and the Future
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Prosecuting-For-War-Crimes-by-Lawrence-Velvel-080623-875.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/manion/manion86.html

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Haditha victims' kin outraged as Marines go free

Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/41817.html



Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani, our Iraqi video diarist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13452.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Imperial “justice”

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/23/08

Americans have such a sense of … drama. When they commit war crimes, they revel in it — and rationalize it in the name of necessity. That’s what happened after Haditha, where the defense lawyers for the Haditha executioners stoutly maintained, along with their clients, that the defendants’ actions were defensive in nature, because they believed they were under fire and in danger. Company commander Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to this day avers that he did the right thing, and that he would do it again...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13031


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9792/



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http://www.infowars.com/?p=2696


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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9796/

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Medical Consequences of a Nuclear Attack on Iran
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9409


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
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Must see shows which parts of USA will be gone Agenda 21

Will completely shatter anyones perception that Fluoride is good, and that there is no plan for population reduction..



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Informant: zebra77a



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