World-News

http://action.defenders.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=34661.3&dlv_id=58941



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=polar+bear

usatoday.com — The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew more than 50 percent compared with June a year ago, according to recent data. Nationwide, 252,363 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice in June, up 53 percent from the same month last year, but down 3 percent from May. One in every 501 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing last month. Foreclosure filings increased from a year earlier in all but 11 states. Nevada, California, Arizona, Florida and Michigan continued to have the highest foreclosure rates.

http://ga3.org/ct/t120pgF1IEg1/



343,000 Lost Homes

money.cnn.com — The number of Americans losing their homes to foreclosure continued to soar in June, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed properties. Lenders repossessed 71,563 homes in June. A year ago, just 26,369 homes were taken back. During the first six months of 2008, 343,159 Americans lost their homes, up 136 percent from 145,696 recorded during the same period in 2007.

http://ga3.org/ct/5720pgF1IEtV/



How McCain Adviser Phil Gramm Helped Create the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

i3.democracynow.org — In the midst the chaos of the 2000 election aftermath, Senator Phil Gramm slipped into a must-pass spending bill a 268-page bill that totally deregulated credit "swaps" — a market that's now about four times the size of Wall Street — and turned a large part of the economy into a secret casino where the stakes are high, rules are almost non-existent, and the high-rollers' gambling debts are paid by the rest of us.

http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/how-mccain-adviser-phil-gramm-helped-create-subprime-mortgage-crisis

--------

Fannie, Freddie `Insolvent' After Losses, Poole Says

Fannie Mae shares tumbled 13 percent yesterday in New York to the lowest level in almost 14 years.

http://tinyurl.com/6k3ejk



Government mulls Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac takeover

The U.S. government may take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if their funding problems worsen, the New York Times said on Friday, causing shares of the mortgage finance companies to plunge.

http://tinyurl.com/6g74nq



Fannie, Freddie May Need to Lose $77 Billion First

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders, battered by losses of more than 80 percent this year, shouldn't bet on an imminent government bailout of the biggest U.S. mortgage finance companies.

http://tinyurl.com/58whmu



Crisis wipes $1 trillion from financial stocks

U.S. financial companies have lost more than $1 trillion in value this year, and yet another decline on Monday shows concerns aren't going away soon.

http://tinyurl.com/6ap85s



Bernanke, Paulson outline strategy to make working class pay for Wall Street crisis

In speeches delivered Tuesday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson outlined the ruthless class policy being carried out to place the burden for the financial and housing crisis on the backs of working people.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/bern-j10.shtml


From Information Clearing House

--------

Fears Rise on Trillion-Dollar Trouble for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Rob Lever reports for Agence France-Presse: "A downward spiral for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was unabated Thursday despite reassuring comments from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, as fears grew about the firms which underpin trillions of dollars in the housing system."

http://www.truthout.org/article/fears-rise-trillion-dollar-trouble-fannie-mae-freddie-mac



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fannie+Mae
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+stocks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=working+class
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phil+Gramm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Corn

Atomkraft trägt laut Hohmeyer kaum zum Klimaschutz bei

Die Forderungen nach längeren Laufzeiten deutscher Atomkraftwerke stoßen bei dem Energieexperten Olav Hohmeyer auf deutliche Kritik. Man wisse sehr genau, dass die Kernenergie "keinen wesentlichen Lösungsbeitrag" beim Klimaschutz leisten könne, sagte das Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen am Donnerstag (10. Juli) nach der konstituierenden Sitzung des neu zusammengesetzten Gremiums in Berlin. Dies sei durch vielfältige Studien aufgezeigt worden. Das Interesse an Laufzeitverlängerungen für die Atommeiler habe mit dem Klimawandel wenig zu tun, bemängelte Hohmeyer, der auch Mitglied des Weltklimarates (IPCC) ist. Der Grund liege vielmehr darin, "dass man mal in eine bestimmte Technologie investiert hat und gerne möglichst lange mit dieser Technologie Geld verdienen möchte". Weder die Kernenergie noch Kohlekraftwerke könnten tragfähige Lösungen beim Klimaschutz bieten, sagte der Professor für Energie- und Ressourcenwirtschaft.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18328



RWE will Biblis A durch lange Revision über Bundestagswahl retten

Mit einer mehr als viermonatigen Revision will der Energiekonzern RWE das Atomkraftwerk Biblis A über die kommende Bundestagswahl hinaus am Netz halten. Der umstrittene Reaktor werde von Mai bis September kommenden Jahres abgeschaltet, sagte RWE-Sprecher Lothar Lambertz am Donnerstag (11. Juli). RWE-Vorstandschef Jürgen Großmann hatte allerdings bereits im vergangenen Dezember eingeräumt, beim Weiterbetrieb des Kernkraftwerks Biblis auf Zeit zu spielen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18330



Atomkraftwerk Biblis B soll mehr als 150 schwere Sicherheitsmängel aufweisen

Die atomkritische Ärzteorganisation IPPNW widerspricht der Aussage von Unionspolitikern, Deutschland habe die sichersten Atomkraftwerke der Welt, weswegen ein Weiterbetrieb sinnvoll sei. "Diese Behauptung ist absurd", sagte ein Sprecher der Organisation. "Manche Politiker sollten sich mal wirklich ein wenig mit dem Sicherheitsstandard der deutschen Atomkraftwerke auseinandersetzen." Ein internationaler OECD-Vergleich - gewissermaßen eine "Pisa-Studie für Kernkraftwerke" - habe gezeigt, dass die Kernschmelzfestigkeit von Biblis B und vergleichbarer deutscher Atomkraftwerke katastrophal schlecht sei. Außerdem könne man für das Atomkraftwerk Biblis B mehr als 150 schwerwiegende Sicherheitsmängel nachweisen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18334



Schluss mit der Atomlüge: Grüne wollen Atomenergie zum Wahlkampfthema machen

Die Grünen planen eine deutschlandweite Kampagne gegen ein drohendes Aufweichen des Atomausstieges. "Wir werden den Widerstand gegen die Atomlobby flächendeckend organisieren", sagte Grünen-Fraktionschefin Renate Künast dem "Tagesspiegel", "von Neckarwestheim über Biblis, Brunsbüttel bis Gorleben". Neben einer Anzeigenkampagne unter dem Motto "Schluss mit der Atomlüge" und der Verbreitung von Info- und Argumentationspapieren sind Aktionsveranstaltungen in Regionen mit Atomreaktoren und an geplanten Atommüll-Endlagerstandorten vorgesehen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18341



"Das Atomkraftwerk Biblis ist aus rechtlichen Gründen stillzulegen"

Nach Auffassung der Dortmunder Rechtsanwältin Wiltrud Rülle-Hengesbach ist das Atomkraftwerk Biblis B nach dem Atomgesetz stillzulegen, weil es nicht mehr dem aktuellen Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik entspricht. Die Anwältin vertritt drei Kläger, die gemeinsam mit der atomkritischen Ärzteorganisation IPPNW die endgültige Abschaltung des Atommeilers vor dem Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof in Kassel durchsetzen wollen. Die Klage wurde am 17. Januar 2008 eingereicht. Die Rechtsanwältin betont, dass das beklagte Hessische Umweltministerium in einem Behördenvermerk zugegeben habe, dass das Atomkraftwerk Biblis "nicht dem heutigen Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik" entspricht (ngo-online berichtete). Nach Auffassung von Rülle-Hengesbach muss diese behördliche Bewertung Konsequenzen haben.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18355



Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz warnt vor ungeklärten Risiken der Kernkraft

Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz hat angesichts der neuen Atomdebatte vor ungeklärten Risiken der Kernkraft gewarnt. Die Endlagerung des hochgefährlichen Materials sei entgegen Aussagen von Atomkraft-Befürwortern noch nicht einmal technisch gelöst, sagte Behördenchef Wolfram König der "Westfälischen Rundschau". "Weltweit gibt es bis jetzt kein einziges Endlager für hoch radioaktive Abfälle." Auch daher sollte am vereinbarten Atomausstieg festgehalten werden.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18371

--------

Mehr als ein Sommertheater?

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Können Ingenieure und Ökonomen tatsächlich unter derart großem Realitätsverlust leiden, wie es der Atomlobby derzeit zu passieren scheint?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28315/1.html

--------

Die Atomaufsicht wiegelt ab und trägt wohl eher zur Vertuschung als zur Aufklärung bei

Immer öfter kracht es in spanischen Atomkraftwerken. Wie oft und mit welchen Schäden für Mensch und Umwelt, bleibt nicht selten unklar, weil die spanische Atomaufsicht (CSN) ihrer Aufgabe nicht gewachsen ist oder ihr nicht nachkommt. Schwere Unfälle werden oft mit großer Verspätung bekannt, wenn Arbeiter die Vorfälle den Umweltorganisationen melden, wie zuletzt in Ascó. Vielleicht hat der sozialistische Regierungschef deshalb seine [local] Position gegen die Renaissance der Atomkraft bestätigt, weil weder die Aufsicht funktioniert und die Endlagerfrage völlig ungelöst ist. So mussten gerade die Pläne endgelagert werden, bis 2010 wenigstens ein Zwischenlager zu errichten, weil Atommüll aus Frankreich zurückgeliefert werden soll. Die versprochene Abschaltung der Uraltreaktoren ist aber weiterhin nicht in Sicht.

Ursprüngliche Meldung:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28366/1.html



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: BBU
Gesendet: Samstag, 19. Juli 2008 18:06
Betreff: Fwd: CSU-Göppel gegen generelle Laufzeitverlängerung der Atomkraftwerke

BBU e.V.
Prinz-Albert-Str. 73, 53113 Bonn
Tel.: 0228/214032
http://www.bbu-online.de

----- Original Message -----
From: CDAK-Bundesverband
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 4:38 PM
Subject: CSU-Göppel gegen generelle Laufzeitverlängerung der Atomkraftwerke

CSU-Göppel gegen generelle Laufzeitverlängerung der Atomkraftwerke Kernkraft kein Ausweg für Wärme- und Treibstoffversorgung. http://www.goeppel.de/bundestag/index.php?artikelid=1992

Josef Göppel ist: # Umweltobmann der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion # Vorsitzender des Umweltarbeitskreises der CSU in Bayern


Reaktorkatastrophe würde Schäden von 4000 Milliarden Franken verursachen.
http://www.baz.ch/news/rss.cfm?objectid=299E4651-1422-0CEF-702FF978AB56B3B9



Gut für das Klima und den Geldbeutel?

SWR-Nachrichten 21.07.08

Und was passiert, wenn die Sonne nicht scheint und der Wind auch an Nord- und Ostseeküste nicht weht? Skeptiker befürchteten in diesen Fällen Schwankungen im Netz, die sogar zu einem kompletten Stromausfall führen könnten. Doch dass eine Energieversorgung komplett aus Erneuerbaren möglich ist, wurde Kanzlerin Merkel bereits auf dem Energiegipfel 2006 vorgestellt: Gezeigt wurde ihr eine simulierte Stromversorgung, bei der ein Kombikraftwerk 25 über ganz Deutschland verstreute Wind-, Solar-, Biomasse- und Wasserkraftanlagen verknüpft und steuert. Das Ergebnis: Der Strombedarf der Bundesrepublik konnte minutengenau gedeckt werden, weil Biomasse und Wasserkraft die unsteten Energielieferanten Wind und Sonne auffingen. Der Kommentar der Kanzlerin an die Adresse der Öko-Lobbyisten: ''Ich wusste gar nicht, dass sie bereits so viel drauf haben.''

http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/-/id=396/nid=396/did=3772118/wvvrph


Weitergeleitet durch das Dugi-News-Team am Montag, den 21. Juli 2008 mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kernkraft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomlobby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomausstieg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomaufsicht
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atommüll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biblis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Endlager
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zwischenlager
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laufzeitverlängerung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IPPNW
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Energiekonzern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kohlekraft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimawandel

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/10/10274/

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Presenting an Article of Impeachment of the President
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0710-17.htm

--------

Pelosi slips impeachment onto the table

The Nation
by John Nichols

07/10/08

As Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich moved a ‘privileged resolution’ to force the House to consider the question of whether President Bush should be impeached for lying to Congress and the American people about the reasons for invading and occupying Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised almost everyone by suggesting that the Judiciary Committee might indeed take up the issue. Pelosi, who famously declared impeachment to be ‘off the table’ before the 2006 election, now suggests that hearings on the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors are a distinct possibility. ‘My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee,’ the California Democrat told reporters Thursday. ‘This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee,’ Pelosi explained.”

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/336149


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=high+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31837



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Energiekrise
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraft

Dean Baker, for the Center for Economic and Policy Research: "As Senators McCain and Obama fine-tune their plans for Social Security in preparation for the 2008 presidential election, a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that, due to the collapse of the housing bubble, the vast majority of Americans have accumulated little or no wealth. This means that they will be almost completely reliant on Social Security and Medicare to support them in their retirement years."

http://www.truthout.org/article/housing-market-meltdown-cause-massive-losses



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

A mobile phone mast in Maryport has been refused by planners because of its visual impact and perceived health risks.

The application by the telecommunications firm O2 was for a 2.2m pole, with three antennas inside, to be erected at the Masonic Hall on the High Street.

The Allerdale Council development panel had received six letters of objection from residents.

Read More...
http://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/Mobile-phone-mast-plan-refused.4276937.jp

The American Conservative
by Timothy P. Carney

As food prices worldwide shatter records, a quixotic campaign has been launched on the Left and the Right to roll back the government programs that force ethanol upon the American population. Other countries, too, are rethinking programs that turn plants into fuel. The lobby to defend ethanol subsidies and mandates is entrenched — agribusiness, some venture capitalists betting big on government action, and certain hawkish conservatives hoping to end our dependence on Arab and Venezuelan oil. But with corn futures topping $7 a bushel, riots over food prices erupting around the world, and landscapes in the U.S. changing forever, political support for this subsidized moonshine may be on the wane. This much is clear: burning food for fuel threatens people’s ability to eat.” (06/30/08)

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_30/article2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=agribusiness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hawkish+conservative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+riots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+P.+Carney

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., $45.4 billion of the $631.8 billion in construction loans outstanding at the end of the first quarter were delinquent.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121494953423420859.html



Pending home sales fall 4.7 percent

"The overall decline in contract signings suggests we are not out of the woods by any means," NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

http://tinyurl.com/5f9vu8


From Information Clearing House

"If the real deployment of an American strategic missile defence shield begins close to our borders, then we will be forced to react not with diplomatic methods, but with military-technical methods," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its http://www.mid.ru website.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4775455

--------

Timing of missile deal betrays US intent'

Russia's NATO envoy told Reuters on Friday that The US has shown that Russia is the true target of its planned missile defense shield by signing a deal with Poland during an international crisis over Georgia.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=66661&sectionid=351020602


From Information Clearing House

--------

US missile deal enrages Russia

Eric Margolis: It's like August, 1914 - a movement of great powers towards war.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2061

--------

U.S. Missiles in Poland: A Catastrophe in the Making
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4543775.ece


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Margolis

A US Navy official speaking on condition of anonymity said Tuesday that the US Naval Forces Central Command moved the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Arabian Sea.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63029&sectionid=3510203



Iran: Ballistic might, solely defensive

Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the country's missile capabilities will be used to protect the nation from invaders.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63130&sectionid=351020101



Dollar continues to weaken after Iran missile test

Wall Street's performance was muted after oil prices rebounded sharply following news overnight of Iran's missile tests, triggering a sell-off in the dollar as investors no longer needed as much of it to buy U.S. assets.

http://tinyurl.com/5u3n5x


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weak+Dollar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price

One-sixth of Iraq's residents are displaced inside and outside of the country, UN secretary general's representative, David Shearer, said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/6bajum


From Information Clearing House



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

By Howard Zinn

Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20258.htm

--------

So Goes the Newsroom, the Empire and the World
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10497/



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

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/363.html



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

By Paul Street

"In Obama's world view, as in that of his Harvard friend and former foreign policy adviser Samantha Power, American crimes generally don't exist. They didn't happen." Denial is serious business. "Candidate Obama's foreign policy pronouncements have been loaded with promises of future criminality under an Obama administration."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20257.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+crimes

Paul Craig Roberts

The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay that is not performance related are permitting greedy and disloyal corporate executives, Wall Street, and large retailers to dismantle the ladders of upward mobility that made America an "opportunity society."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20259.htm



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

By Noam Chomsky

The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq - questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20260.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=it's+the+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

By Press TV

In a meeting with Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie on Tuesday, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani expressed his concerns over the security deal by calling it an excuse that will justify the presence of US forces in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20254.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sistani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact

Finanzkrise: Totgeglaubte leben länger

Die Finanzkrise bestimmt wieder die Schlagzeilen und führt erneut zu Panik an den Börsen und hektischen Maßnahmen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28286/1.html



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

Die tschechische Regierung will mit der Einrichtung des US-Raketenabwehrsystems die freie Welt verteidigen, tatsächlich droht ein Rückfall in die Zeit des Kalten Kriegs.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28283/1.html



Misstöne zwischen Verbündeten

Während die tschechische Regierung dem Bau einer Radarbasis für das US-Raketenabwehrsystem zugestimmt hat, stößt der Raketenstützpunkt in Polen auf Ablehnung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28278/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Czech
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

Lyndsey Layton reports for The Washington Post: "Federal officials inconsistently preserve government e-mail, creating gaps in the public record and making it difficult for the public to understand the activities of the government, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office yesterday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/report-finds-gaps-federal-e-mail-records



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Government+Accountability
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lyndsey+Layton

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/e88d3e82c5ee0937?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=petro+dollar

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc&NR=1


From APFN daily update

--------

Should Bush Be Tried for War Crimes?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/10/10273/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes

Kocherbote - Germany

Damit nicht nur unsere Kinder leiden - deren Kopf wir gerade für einen Freilandversuch in Sachen Mobilfunk-Bestrahlung hinhalten. ...
http://tinyurl.com/57qjjm



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north639.html



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

Laurie Kellman, for The Associated Press, reports: "A House panel threatened to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity."

http://www.truthout.org/article/waxman-threatens-mukasey-with-contempt

--------

Mukasey: Bush’s new “Mr. Cover-up”

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

07/10/08

Attorney General Michael Mukasey snubbed Senate Judiciary Committee concerns that he examine past abuses by the Bush administration as he emerges as the new ‘Mr. Cover-up’...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/070908.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contempt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laurie+Kellman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

The inconsistency of rules involving the care of children is striking. Mothers are in complete control of their child’s health while in the womb. They make choices against eating tuna, taking medications, smoking cigarettes and avoiding alcohol. Mothers may choose to even terminate the pregnancy. But the moment the baby arrives, control over their child’s body is forcibly surrendered to healthcare providers and the government. The leg is jabbed with shots, eyes are gooped with antibiotic ointment and the heel is poked to get a drop of DNA-containing blood. With the passage of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, signed into law April 24, 2008, the blood will be collected and warehoused for scientific research........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri19.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10219/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+election

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10233/

Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-Up
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10242/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yereth+Rosen

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10229/

--------

A last throw of the dice … ?

Asia Times
by Bob Rigg

07/09/08

A United States war against Iran is conceivable as a final apocalyptic manifestation of Pax Americana, but this would only hasten the decline of the US in terms of power, influence and moral authority...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG10Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=apocalyptic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pax+Americana

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10244/

--------

Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping

Barack Obama joined every Senate Republican (and every House Republican other than one) by voting in favor of it, while his now-vanquished primary rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, voted against it. John McCain wasn't present for any of the votes, but shared Obama's support for the bill.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/09/fisa_vote/index.html



US officials can now tap phones officially

Intelligence agents will be able to tap phones and Internet services without permission from a judge and telecoms companies will also be protected from claims for damages from their bugged clients.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=380492


From Information Clearing House

--------

Bush signs unconstitutional eavesdropping “law”

Washington Times

07/10/08

President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. He called it ‘landmark legislation that is vital to the security of our people’...

http://tinyurl.com/5aj7ub



Bush, Congress v. Article I, Section 8 and 5 US 137

KN@PPSTER
07/09/08

U.S. President George W. Bush won on Wednesday a bill to provide legal immunity to telecommunication companies that help in the government surveillance program. … the Senate passed the bill, by voting 69 to 28, that would shield telecommunications companies [which] help with the program from potentially billions of dollars in damages from privacy lawsuits...

http://tinyurl.com/66qesz



The worst of all worlds

Independent Country
by James Leroy Wilson

07/10/08

Why did nearly half the Democrats in the House vote for the ‘FISA Amendments Act’ that’s now pending in the Senate, when most of them had opposed warrantless spying and telecom immunity before? The answer is that they were bribed, using your tax dollars. The Washington Post claims a deal was cut: the Democratic Leadership would support the FISA bill if the President would agree to add $95 billion in DOMESTIC spending to the latest Iraq appropriation. In other words, House Democrats voted to continue the war and sold the Fourth Amendment for $95 billion...

http://tinyurl.com/665njn



After the FISA fight: An Interview with Sen. Russ Feingold

Mother Jones
by Brian Beutler

07/10/08

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) has emerged as one of the Senate’s most outspoken defenders of civil liberties, casting the lone vote against the Patriot Act in 2001 and leading the charge against domestic spying and immunity for the telecom companies that provided customer data to the government under the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program. His efforts were set back on Tuesday, when the Senate passed the Protect America Act, by a 69 to 28 vote (with 21 Democrats voting ‘aye’). The bill gives the government expanded authority to monitor domestic communications and grants retroactive immunity. In a recent interview, Feingold talked to Brian Beutler about the erosion of civil liberties, the Democrats ‘constantly pulsating fear’ of being seen as soft on terror, and how an Obama or McCain administration might approach the unprecedented expansion of executive power...

http://tinyurl.com/6z2xqu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Bush Signs Spy Bill and Draws Lawsuit

Randall Mikkelsen, of Reuters: "President George W. Bush signed a law on Thursday overhauling the rules for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects but immediately met a civil liberties challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in Manhattan federal court as Bush signed the measure and called for the law to be voided as a violation of constitutional speech and privacy protections."

http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-signs-spy-bill-and-draws-lawsuit



Spying Law Challenged

Spencer Ackerman, of The Washington Independent: "With the Congressional battle over revising the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ending in a victory for President George W. Bush last week, a coalition of civil libertarians and journalists has decided to take the fight to the courts. Late last week, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Service Employees International Union and The Nation magazine filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which Bush signed into law on Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/spying-law-challenged

--------

FISA "Compromise"completes transformation of U.S. into full police state
http://carolynbaker.net/site/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=581&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1#


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unconstitutional
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Leroy+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Beutler
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Mikkelsen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman

Agence France Presse: "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Tuesday what she called a 'landmark' missile defense deal with the Czech Republic, drawing immediate condemnation and threats from Russia. The accord permits the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil as part of an extended US missile shield that Washington says is necessary to ward off potential attacks by so-called 'rogue' states such as Iran. Moscow immediately threatened to respond with 'military resources' to what it sees as a threat on its doorstep from the proposed system."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-draws-russian-fire-signing-missile-defence-deal



Double Blow

In Le Devoir, Serge Truffaut deplores European passivity over US plans to install new military outposts in Eastern and Central Europe.

http://www.truthout.org/article/double-blow

--------

Czech Citizens Protest in Prague Against US Radar Base
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10226/

--------

Russia “extremely upset” over US-Czech deal

MSNBC

07/09/08

Russia will consider how to retaliate over a planned U.S. missile shield but wants to continue talks on the issue with Washington, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. Washington and Prague signed a deal on Tuesday to place a tracking radar in the Czech Republic as part of a system the United States says is needed as protection against any missile attack from countries such as Iran...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25600626/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Russian oil supplies to Czech Republic cut after missile defence deal with US:

Russian cut oil supplies to the Czech Republic have been cut by half, just days after the United States signed an agreement to build a missile shield radar station on Czech territory.

http://tinyurl.com/57gknb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Czech
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31831

--------

Armageddon im Nahen Osten

Die Vereinigten Staaten, Israel und die Militaristen im Iran auf dem Kriegspfad.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28266/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armageddon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Hagee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uri+Avnery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Max+Blumenthal

http://www.prisonplanet.com/mccain-jokes-about-killing-iranians-again.html



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

Ausufernde Amtshilfe: ob Fußball, Regatta oder Waldbrand, die Bundeswehr ist stets dabei

„Der Bundeswehreinsatz im Inneren ist zur Routine geworden. Dies geht aus der Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine kleine Anfrage der Linksfraktion zur Amtshilfe der Bundeswehr (BT-Drucksache 16/9402) hervor. Die Zusammenarbeit insbesondere zwischen der Bundespolizei und der Armee wurde auch im Zuge der Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2008 in Österreich und der Schweiz weiter intensiviert…“ Artikel von Christoph Marischka als IMI-Standpunkt 2008/041 vom 4.7.2008 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1787


Das Scheitern des Militarismus zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

„Es mag gewagt erscheinen, vom „Scheitern des Militarismus“ in einer Zeit zu sprechen, die geradezu gekennzeichnet ist durch die Renaissance regionaler Kriege und Bürgerkriege in aller Welt und durch die Relegitimierung des Militärischen in der herrschenden Politik vieler Regierungen. Die gegenwärtigen Tendenzen zur Globalisierung des Krieges – etwa im Rahmen des globalen US-Feldzugs „gegen den Terrorismus“ – dürfen aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der allem Kriegerischen zu Grunde liegende Militarismus sich historisch überlebt hat, weil er weder real effektiv im Sinne der Herrschenden ist, noch als ideologisches Bindemittel für die Gesellschaft taugt. Ich will das im Folgenden thesenhaft entwickeln…“ Ein Beitrag von Peter Strutynski aus dem Buch "Militarismus und Antimilitarismus" http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Weltordnung/strutynski2.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Juli 2008

--------

Im Visier der Häscher. Die Bundeswehr im Reklameeinsatz. Ein Überblick über die Werbe- und Rekrutierungsmaßnahmen der deutschen Armee

„Die Bundeswehr ist mittlerweile weltweit im Kriegseinsatz. Immer mehr Soldaten werden für gefährliche Auslandseinsätze benötigt. Auch im Inland will die Armee mehr Aufgaben übernehmen. Dafür braucht sie zum einen neue Rekruten für weltweite Interventionen, zum anderen muß die Armee noch fester in der Gesellschaft verankert werden. In Schulen und Universitäten gehen Jugendoffiziere auf die Jagd nach neuen Soldaten. Arbeitslose werden vom Amt gedrängt, auf Jobmessen den Stand der Armee zu besuchen. Perspektivlosigkeit treibt vor allem junge Menschen zur monatlich stattfindenden Wehrdienstberatung ins Arbeitsamt. Der Versuch einer Militarisierung der Gesellschaft schreitet voran: mit »KarriereTreff« und »Bundeswehr-Olympix«…“ Artikel von Michael Schulze von Glaßer in der jungen Welt vom 24.07.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/07-24/022.php


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juli 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Militarisierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Militarismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bundeswehr

Rob Warren from Bicton, speaks out at a public meeting.Up to 200 furious residents crowded a Shropshire village hall to fight against plans for a controversial phone mast.

Campaigners in Bicton, near Shrewsbury, claimed the proposed 12-metre high mast earmarked for Calcott Lane, could put people’s health at risk.

Read More...
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/07/09/angry-villagers-in-fear-of-health-risk/

AlterNet
by Javier Sierra

07/08/08

On June 17, the same day his campaign premiered a TV ad on which he boasted to have stood up to the White House’s global warming policy, Sen. McCain changed course by announcing his plan, which was supported by President Bush, to open up the rest of the country’s coasts to oil drilling. This, he said, ‘would be very helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis.’ But two weeks earlier, on May 29, the same Sen. McCain reiterated his opposition to opening up the country’s coasts to oil exploration by saying that the necessary infrastructure would take ‘years to develop’ and that ‘it would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels.’ Which McCain is right, the June 17 one or the May 29 one? Are you and the rest of consumers going to benefit from drilling our shores and our dearest and most pristine places? Let’s put all this crude rhetoric through the truth refinery...

http://www.alternet.org/environment/90828/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=energy+crisis

Heartland Institute
by Ralph Conner and John Nothdurft

07/08/08

The more government spends, the more it taxes. The more government taxes, the more it spends. That is why tax and expenditure limitations increasingly are being viewed favorably by tax and government watchdogs. Measures to limit how much government officials may tax and spend hold the growth in government spending and taxes to reasonable levels...

http://tinyurl.com/6k9k83


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Phillip Doe

07/08/08

Jonathan Swift, the great Irish political writer and satirist, is not alone in observing that great nations rarely fall from outside threats or attack. More often they decline and fall from internal corruption. The Congress is deaf to this warning it appears, for last week they passed legislation that is advertised as reforming FISA...

http://counterpunch.org/doe07082008.html



The new FISA compromise: It’s worse than you think

Cato Institute
by Timothy B. Lee

07/07/08

The 114-page bill was pushed through the House so quickly that there was no real time to debate its many complex provisions. This may explain why the telecom immunity provision has received so much attention in the media: it is much easier to explain to readers not familiar with the intricacies of surveillance law than the other provisions. But as important as the immunity issue is, the legislation also makes many prospective changes to surveillance law that will profoundly impact our privacy rights for years to come. Specifically, the new legislation dramatically expands the government’s ability to wiretap without meaningful judicial oversight, by redefining ‘oversight’ so that the feds can drag their feet on getting authorization almost indefinitely. It also gives the feds unprecedented new latitude in selecting eavesdropping targets, latitude that could be used to collect information on non-terrorist-related activities like P2P copyright infringement and online gambling. In short, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 opens up loopholes so large that the feds could drive a truck loaded down with purloined civil liberties through it. So the telecom immunity stuff is just the smoke; let’s take a look at the fire...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9530


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Finance, favors and FISA

ANP follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1858

--------

ACLU Will Challenge FISA Bill in Court

Nick Juliano, of Raw Story: "As the Senate voted to endorse a Bush-administration backed plan to expand its surveillance authority and grant retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated warrantless wiretapping, the American Civil Liberties Union unveiled plans to challenge the new law in court. 'This fight is not over. We intend to challenge this bill as soon as President Bush signs it into law,' said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project."

http://www.truthout.org/article/aclu-will-challenge-fisa-bill-court

--------

Stop the New FISA
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/11/10276/

FISA: Bush Signed. The ACLU sued
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/25827fdd4b954102?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Juliano
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jameel+Jaffer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+B.+Lee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

07/08/08

A popular Washington saying holds that ‘politics is about the future, not the past.’ Regrettably, that often translates into sweeping serious wrongdoing under the rug in the name of ‘looking to the future’ — a mistake the Democrats appear poised to make again in approving a new wiretapping law...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/070808.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

The New Republic
by Suzy Khimm

The Guardian says they have a leaked report from the World Bank that biofuels are responsible for 75% of the recent rise in food prices …. The study’s figures contrast sharply with the USDA’s assertion that biofuels only account for some 3% of the price hikes. But according to the Guardian’s description of the study, biofuels have distorted food markets by: 1) Diverting grain away from fuel; 2) Incentivizing farmers to devote land for biofuel production; and 3) Sparking financial speculation in grain markets. But though the report was finalized in April, the World Bank has yet to release the findings...

http://tinyurl.com/5rh4b2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USDA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=speculation

Reason

by Ronald Bailey

07/08/08

The price of staples like corn, wheat, and rice are escalating, indicating that demand is outstripping supplies. Why? Because of political and economic institutional failures, not overpopulation. First, let’s deal with the claim that human population, like the populations of all other animals, expands as food supplies increase. On a global level that certainly looks plausible. As the amount of food increased over the last century, world population rose from 1.5 billion in 1900 to 6.6 billion today. Case closed? Not so fast. Consider that countries with the highest food security are also the same countries with below replacement total fertility rates. If the availability of food was the chief determinant of birth rates, then one would expect Iowa farmers would spawn more kids than any group on the planet. Instead, it is countries in which food insecurity is greatest that have the highest total fertility rates...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/127428.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Women Hardest Hit by Food Crisis

Kevin Sullivan, of The Washington Post: "Rubbing her red-rimmed eyes, chewing lightly on a twig she picked off the ground, Lingani gave the last of her food to the children. 'I'm not hungry,' she said. In poor nations, such as Burkina Faso in the heart of West Africa, mealtime conspires against women. They grow the food, fetch the water, shop at the market and cook the meals. But when it comes time to eat, men and children eat first, and women eat last and least."

http://www.truthout.org/article/women-hardest-hit-food-crisis



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ronald+Bailey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Sullivan

Baltimore Sun

07/07/08

With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy. These programs — most of them highly classified — are run by an alphabet soup of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. They sift, store and analyze the communications, spending habits and travel patterns of U.S. citizens, searching for suspicious activity...

http://tinyurl.com/68lnv9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=law+enforcement+agencies

MSNBC

07/08/08

A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court. ‘The time has come to move these forward,’ Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25592197/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee

Gruselkabinett der Ideen

Der neue Entwurf zur Telekommunikationsregulierung liest sich wie eine lange Liste des Schreckens. Nutznießer wäre einmal öfter die "Contentindustrie", bzw. die Verwerterindustrie. Kein Wunder, wenn man sich manche Formulierung ansieht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28268/1.html

Richard Heinberg reports for Truthout: "Ask the major oil companies or the US Department of Energy why oil prices are beyond ludicrous and they'll tell you there's plenty of oil out there, there's just a lack of investment in exploration and production - particularly on the part of the national oil companies in OPEC."

http://www.truthout.org/article/want-cheap-oil-reduce-demand



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Heinberg

John M. Broder writes for The New York Times: "Two former secretaries of state have declared the War Powers Resolution of 1973 obsolete and proposed a new system of closer consultation between the White House and Congress before American forces go into battle."

http://www.truthout.org/article/war-powers-resolution-1973-undermines-rule-law



Put War Powers Back Where They Belong

James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher, for The New York Times: "The most agonizing decision we make as a nation is whether to go to war. Our Constitution ambiguously divides war powers between the president (who is the commander in chief) and Congress (which has the power of the purse and the power to declare war). The founders hoped that the executive and legislative branches would work together, but in practice the two branches don't always consult. And even when they do, they often dispute their respective powers."

http://www.truthout.org/article/put-war-powers-back-where-they-belong

--------

Panel calls for new war powers legislation

Miami Herald

07/08/08

The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher. In a report released Tuesday, the panel says the current law governing the nation’s war powers has failed to promote cooperation between the executive and legislative branches...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/597078.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=War+Powers+Resolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rule+of+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Baker+III
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+Christopher
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+M.+Broder

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/360.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=amalgam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FDA

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/8fd232bb42fef7e1?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+order
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA

It will 'be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum'
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69079

Scientist to Congress: U.S. risks 'catastrophe' in nuke EMP attack
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280

Experts say EMP blast could cripple country
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56112

The Doomsday Device Is Ignored
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20080714.aspx

--------

"Non-Lethal" Weapons: Where Science and Technology Service Repression
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9554


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EMP+attack

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north638.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/north