World-News

Congressman Dennis Kucinich
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0715-01.htm

Hearings A 'Modest Gesture' Towards Bush Impeachment
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/16/10391/

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A win is a win

Common Dreams
by Dave Lindorff

07/17/08

There are two ways to view the news that the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on impeachable crimes by President George W. Bush. One view would be that this is all a charade and that after all, it will not be a real impeachment hearing, but rather, simply a hearing into the impeachable crimes of the Bush administration. As committee Chair Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) put it, ‘We’re not doing impeachment, but he [Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who introduced 36 articles of impeachment] can talk about it.’ Viewed that way, this is not such a big deal. Rep. Kucinich gets to make his case that the president is committing high crimes and misdemeanors and abuses of power and war crimes, but then Congressional Democrats will continue to ignore all the crimes as it has done since taking control of Congress in November 2006. But a second way to view this is as a significant victory over the quisling Congressional leadership, which has been ducking its responsibility to defend the Constitution and to stand up for the rule of law not just since November 2006, but since the inception of the Bush/Cheney presidency...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/17/10422/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Interview With Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Immediately before Congressman Dennis Kucinich brought a new impeachment resolution against President Bush to the floor last Thursday, Truthout's Maya Schenwar sat down with him to discuss the implications of impeachment - as well as his vision for a route to lasting peace and unity.

http://www.truthout.org/article/interview-with-rep-dennis-kucinich



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laurie+Kellman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/15/10374/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/15/10389/

Obama Moves Right? Pundits Cheer
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0715-12.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Hayden

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/15/10383/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+lawbreaking
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/15/10388/



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DISAPPOINTMENT has been expressed by a Horsham district councillor over Parliament's rejection of a call for greater controls on mobile phone masts.

A change in the law to put more planning restrictions on companies building mobile phone masts was proposed by Liberal Democrat MP Andrew Stunell who moved an amendment to the Planning Bill on June 25.

Read More...
http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/horsham-news/Dismay-over-mast-call-rejection.4290484.jp

EPA on Trial

In These Times's Joel Bleifuss writes: "Former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman interrupted investigations into her agency's endorsement of sewage sludge as fertilizer, according to the former chief investigator of the EPA's National Ombudsman Office. As the chief investigator for the EPA's National Ombudsman Office, Kaufman had a bird's eye view of how the public health and safety were routinely subordinated to corporate interests. For more than six years, Hugh Kaufman has been battling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), his employer for 37 years, with a whistleblower lawsuit."

http://www.truthout.org/article/epa-trial



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Josh Meyer, of The Los Angeles Times, reports: "Osama bin Laden's former driver can use testimony by alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and some other detained Al Qaeda operatives in his upcoming military trial at Guantanamo Bay because it might help exonerate him, a military judge said Monday. Defense lawyers said at a hearing that they wanted to call Mohammed and seven other prospective witnesses in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the first detainee at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to be scheduled for trial. If the proceedings begin next week as planned, it will mark the first time the United States has held a military tribunal since World War II."

http://www.truthout.org/article/judge-allows-testimony-guantanamo-detainees



Guantanamo Interrogation Video Released for First Time

Colin Freeze and Omar El Akkad, of The Globe and Mail: "Before the rage, the resignation and the tears, came the trust. Teenaged prisoner Omar Khadr seemed sure that his countrymen from Canada had come to Cuba to help him and spoke freely when they asked questions. The teenager realized the obvious. The Canadian agents weren't there to help. They were there to mine him for information. So he wept."

http://www.truthout.org/article/footage-guantanamo-interrogation-released-first-time

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Help Me - Help Me - Help Me

Another proud moment in US history

Omar Kahdr's Interrogation Video From Guantanamo.

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20286.htm



Lawyers release Guantanamo video

The footage from February, 2003 covers seven and a half hours of questioning over three days of Khadr, who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/2008715121240167554.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khalid+Shaikh+Mohammed
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Meyer
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Sahimi: No evidence that Iran's nuclear program poses a threat.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1874



Iran and the US: Beyond the war of rhetoric

Prof. Sahimi: Both sides are playing to their domestic audience.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=172



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

15. Juli 2008

Beim Wort nehmen

Zur Forderung des CDA-Vize Weiß, den Hartz-IV-Regelsatz aufgrund gestiegener Energiepreise außerplanmäßigen zu erhöhen, erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Nach der Sommerpause wird im Bundestag ein Antrag der LINKEN zur Abstimmung stehen, der eine Erhöhung des Hartz-IV-Regelsatzes beinhaltet. DIE LINKE fordert seit langem eine Erhöhung auf mindestens 435 Euro. Der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete hat dann die Chance, nachzuweisen, dass seine Forderung mehr als eine Sommerloch-Ente ist.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/beim-wort-nehmen/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz-IV-Regelsatz

ACTION ALERT UPDATE
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Dear Al Gore, We Need the Full Truth Regarding Actions Sufficient to Avert Catastrophic Climate Change

By Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org and EcoEarth.Info, http://www.ecoearth.info

July 14, 2008

TAKE ACTION
Encourage Mr. Gore to tell the full truth regarding the magnitude of actions required for climate change solutions, including advocating for an end to coal and ancient forest logging, and personal sacrifice including reduced consumption

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=al_gore_full_truth

Al Gore is a global hero for the work he has done since leaving government to promote awareness regarding climate change. Yet I am sure he would agree that this and other long- standing awareness building efforts have failed woefully to turn such awareness into sufficient climate policy actions. Mr. Gore's efforts continue to do a disservice to prospects for achieving global ecological sustainability by downplaying the immense social and personal transformations necessary, including personal sacrifice, to build a low-carbon economic system that does not further undermine our shared biosphere. And frankly, it is sad to see someone of Mr. Gore's skills, resources and contacts not choose to lead by example and seek to dramatically reduce his own carbon emissions. Tell Mr. Gore if he really believes climate change is truly a global emergency threatening civilization, he should be leading by example and organizing mass protests in support of a rigorous and sufficient biocentric climate plan.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=al_gore_full_truth

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/07/alert_mr_gore_climate_awarenes.asp

Fox News

07/12/08

A lobbyist with close ties to the White House reportedly was captured on undercover video offering access to key Bush administration figures — including Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice — in return for large donations to a library commemorating the Bush presidency. The Sunday Times of London reported that Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1 million for the Republican party in recent years, said he would arrange meetings with senior administration officials in return for a payment of ’several hundred thousand dollars’ toward the library in Texas. During an undercover investigation by the newspaper, Payne was asked to arrange meetings in Washington for an exiled former central Asian president...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381341,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

07:00 - 15-July-2008

A GROUP of Beverley residents are bracing themselves for battle once again after phone giant O2 put in an application to extend a mast in the town centre.

In 2003, the Beverley Mast Action Group was set up to fight plans for a larger replacement mast on the Beverley Town Cricket and Recreation Ground in Norwood Park.

Residents won the day after the application was refused and O2 decided not to appeal.

But now, five years on, O2 has put in another application to extend the current mast by five metres and add on extra telecommunications equipment.

Read More...
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Beverley-residents-new-phone-mast-fight/article-219837-detail/article.html

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/368.html



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

Mit Indymac ist der größte börsennotierte US-Baufinanzierer kollabiert und die beiden größten US-Hypothekenfinanzierer könnten folgen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28317/1.html

Deirdre Conner reports for The Times-Union, "Confusion over how citizens can register to vote is threatening to muddle upcoming elections in Florida. Voter registration drives statewide are under fire from a new state law that establishes stiff fees for groups that undertake them. The League of Women Voters is challenging that law."

http://www.truthout.org/article/voter-law-florida-threatens-cloud-elections



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=register+to+vote

Herbert Lash, for Reuters, reports, "Renewed fears about fallout from the credit crisis on Monday overshadowed initial enthusiasm over a rescue plan for the top two US mortgage finance companies, dragging down stocks as investors turned to the safety of government bonds and gold."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-stocks-fall-credit-crisis-jitters-remain



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+stocks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fannie+Mae
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/15/business/15bank.php
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=By%20Louise%20Story&sort=publicationdate&submit=Search


Informant: bdpoe

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Analysts Say More US Banks Will Fail

Louise Story reports for the International Herald Tribune: "As home prices continue to decline and loan defaults mount, U.S. regulators are bracing for dozens of American banks to fail over the next year. But after a large mortgage lender in California collapsed late Friday, Wall Street analysts began posing two crucial questions: Just how many banks might falter? And, more urgently, which one could be next?"

http://www.truthout.org/article/analysts-say-more-us-banks-will-fail



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=home+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Louise+Story

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/dd2a8a69453e6963?hl=en



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz87.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson219.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis116.html

"We should have nothing to do with conquest"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer10.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+Foreign+Policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Scheuer

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff209.html

Terminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff208.html

Notes on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs83.html

Fannie, Freddie, and a Primer in Finance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson220.html

Fannie, Freddie, and Foreboding
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1034264/12759198/52161/0/?u=aHR0cDovL21pc2VzLm9yZy9zdG9yeS8zMDUz&x=3b24dcae

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Fannie-Freddie bailout may fundamentally alter structure of world economy
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7725/35/

[One of the possible consequences of the U.S. government's bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ( http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7721/ ) is that "the entire foundation of the American -- and dare we say global -- economy could soon be managed out of a single post office box" -- the Federal Reserve, the private intelligence firm Stratfor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor ) argued in an analysis of the current financial crisis.[1] -- Thanks to Aaron Dennis for sending this piece. --Mark]


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Fannie and Freddie symptoms of larger problem

AFL-CIO economist says this system amounts to "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor".

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1879

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Fannie and Freddie: Let the patient pass away
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/55802784059e5d36?hl=en

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Fannie, Freddie Spent $200 Million Lobbying

dyn.politico.com — Over the past decade, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. The two government-chartered companies run a highly sophisticated lobbying operation, with deep-pocketed lobbyists in Washington and scores of local Fannie- and Freddie-sponsored homeowner groups ready to pressure lawmakers back home. Fannie and Freddie's aggressive political maneuvering has helped stave off increased regulation and preserve special benefits such as exemption from state and local income taxes and the ability to borrow at low rates. When their stock prices took a dive last week, their government allies extended another helping hand with a plan for the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and, possibly, Congress to shore up the companies.

http://ga3.org/ct/jp20pgF1hEgA/

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Freddie and Fannie Hit Snooze on American Dream
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/16/10390/

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Eulogy For The "Ownership Society"

By Mike Whitney

The fact remains that the two biggest mortgage-lenders in the world are busted and last week's stock sell-off was tantamount to a run on the country's largest bank. Paulson's statement was really nothing more than a eulogy for the mortgage industry; a few heartfelt words over the rigid corpse of a close friend.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20305.htm

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Fannie’s lesson: The real scandals are legal

Huffington Post
by Dick Meyer

07/17/08

I know the prospect of reading a column about Fannie Mae, the mortgage crisis and government bailouts is as appealing as a bowl of cough syrup. So let’s consider the latest news about the giant company something young parents today call a ‘teaching moment.’ The lesson is about this old and ignored government truism: The worst scandals are the ones that are perfectly legal...

http://tinyurl.com/5whny4



Bailout bingo

Hawaii Reporter
by Taxpayers for Common Sense

07/18/08

As the economy continues to sour and the housing market sputters, lawmakers stand ready to unleash their response: a financial bailout. After losing more than 50% of their stock value in a week, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the latest suitors and Congress has promised to get this package done in time for August. But considering this deal could put taxpayers on the hook for tens of billions of dollars in losses, if not more, it is critical to attach some strong strings to this hastily arranged bailout...

http://tinyurl.com/6xj9gw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fannie and Freddie

Le Devoir's Serge Truffaut denounces the shenanigans that led to the Fannie and Freddie bailouts - and the regulatory regime that makes them possible.

http://www.truthout.org/article/fannie-and-freddie



Cost of Loan Bailout, if Needed, Could Be $25 Billion

David M. Herszenhorn, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "The proposed government rescue of the nation's two mortgage finance giants will appear on the federal budget as a $25 billion cost to taxpayers, the independent Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday even though officials conceded that there was no way of really knowing what, if anything, a bailout would cost."

http://www.truthout.org/article/cost-loan-bailout-if-needed-could-be-25-billion



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Why are you a Democrat in 2008?

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ynUZ6W7xw

Why are you a Republican in 2008?

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSaYVgd7yk



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Committee

The FDIC is monitoring 90 institutions with assets of $26 billion that it has identified as troubled.

http://tinyurl.com/5jqt6t


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10337/

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Iran's Missile: The Goose, the Sauce and the Gander

The saying that the sauce that is good for the goose is also good for the gander - in other words, that the principle of equality should extend to personal and international conduct - has been stood on its head by absurd western reaction to Iran's missile tests.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley07152008.html


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10350/

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British MP: George Galloway Telling It Like It Is

Audio

George Galloway talking about the consequences of an attack on Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20281.htm



Iran: Battlefront In The New World War?

By Firmin DeBrabander

Iran is no third front in the War on Terror. War with Iran is a step beyond, to a new global conflict- a new Cold War, in a way- where the US plays its cards (in this case, the largest military in the world) to frustrate its opponents indirectly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20279.htm



Pentagon official says Israel has 'amber light' for Iran strike

U.S. President George W. Bush has given Israel an "amber light" to begin preparations for a military attack on Iran, a Pentagon official told The Sunday Times this week.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1001526.html



Iran to target heart of Israel, 32 U.S. bases if attacked

"In case the United States and Israel dare to shoot a bullet, Iran will target the heart of Israel and 32 U.S. bases in the region imminently," said Mojtaba Zolnoor, vice representative of Khamenei to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6449058.html



Iran tried to deceive world by 'testing' old missiles, US experts believe

Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, is to urge the Bush administration to adopt a tougher line against Iran and will try to persuade the American public of the need for military action during a three-day visit to Washington this week, a former top adviser said.

http://tinyurl.com/6cp6fz


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Galloway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Revolutionary+Guards+Corps
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uzi+Mahnaimi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Firmin+DeBrabander

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10358/

'The Best Thing That Could Happen to the Country Is If No Oil Is Found'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10346/

Our Cry for Cheap Oil Is Crude and Deadly
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10341/

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Saving money the government way

from Reason to Freedom
by Michelle L

07/14/08

The lamest of the lame-duck presidents has now, in a blinding show of ecological wisdom; lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling of the OCS and has challenged Congress to do likewise. Of course being the compliant and ever-bending-over-and-asking-for-more Congress we have all come to know and loathe, they will fall all over themselves to get in line. But the best part is that he and his oil-connected cronies are actually trying to sell this petroleum slight of hand to the public as a way to bring down oil prices and ‘trying to ease market tensions and boost supply’...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/saving_money_government_way.html



Three biggest Bush administration myths about offshore drilling

AlterNet
by Faiz Shakir

07/15/08

[P]olls show increasing support for expanded offshore drilling. Conservatives are preying on Americans’ concern overskyrocketing gas prices by propagating false myths that drilling for oil off our coasts will allow us to ‘pay less’ at the pump, that it’s ‘environmentally safe,’ and that drilling is already underway by communist China...

http://www.alternet.org/environment/91588/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Johann+Hari
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michelle+L

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10361/

ACLU: Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0714-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism+watch+list
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Mikkelsen

Jill Carroll, of The Christian Science Monitor: "During 21 years in the Marine Corps, Jeff Johnson saw young adults walk into his recruiting office and newly minted marines walk out of boot camp just a few months later. Now working at the other end of that pipeline at the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, he sees far different, troubling changes in those coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/article/when-war-comes-back-home



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

Sayed Salahuddin, of Reuters UK: "Afghanistan opposes U.S. use of its territory for launching a possible attack against neighbouring Iran, President Hamid Karzai said in an interview broadcast on Monday. Iran has threatened to target Israel and U.S. interests in the region in the event of an attack against the Islamic Republic which is locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear programme."

http://www.truthout.org/article/karzai-opposes-us-use-afghan-soil-against-iran



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

For TomDispatch, Tom Engelhardt examines "four wedding parties blown away by U.S. air power in Iraq and Afghanistan since the end of 2001," noting the mainstream media's quick dismissal of these tragedies.

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-wedding-crashers-a-short-till-death-do-us-part-history-bushs-wars



Suspect Soldiers: Did Crimes in US Foretell Violence in Iraq?

Russell Carollo reports for The Sacramento Bee: "A yearlong examination of military and civilian records by The Sacramento Bee involving hundreds of troops who entered the services since the Iraq war began identified 120 cases of people whose backgrounds should have raised the suspicions of military recruiters, including felony convictions and serious drug, alcohol or mental health problems. Of those, 70 later were involved in controversial or criminal incidents in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/article/suspect-soldiers-did-crimes-us-foretell-violence-iraq



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strikes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

14. Juli 2008

Zur heutigen Sondersitzung der Arbeits- und Sozialminister bezüglich der rechtlichen und organisatorischen Ausgestaltung des SGB II erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Nachdem das Verfassungsgericht die bisherige Umsetzung von Hartz IV im Rahmen der Arbeitsgemeinschaften für verfassungswidrig erklärt hatte, konnten sich die politisch Verantwortlichen bisher auf keine Lösung einigen. Nun sollen heute die Arbeits- und Sozialminister der Länder zu einer Sondersitzung zusammentreffen. Allerdings sind keine kosmetischen Änderungen gefragt, sondern ein eindeutiges Bekenntnis zur gesamtgesellschaftlichen Verantwortung für Erwerbslosigkeit. Entscheidend ist, dass die Bezieherinnen und Bezieher von Transferleistungen nicht als Objekte der Verwaltung angesehen werden, sondern als Bürgerinnen und Bürger mit Grundrechten. Jede Veränderung ist also daran zu messen, welche konkreten Verbesserungen für die Betroffenen aus den organisatorischen Veränderungen folgen. Als Sofortmaßnahme fordert DIE LINKE, dass Widersprüche gegen Bescheide wieder eine aufschiebende Wirkung haben. Schon heute bekommen
41 Prozent aller Widersprüche ganz oder teilweise Recht. Die zu erwartenden Organisationsumstellungen werden zu noch mehr Unsicherheiten führen. Diese dürfen nicht auf dem Rücken der Erwerbslosen ausgetragen werden. Im Übrigen gilt aber: Hartz IV, d.h. Armut und Ausgrenzung per Gesetz, muss weg. Stattdessen fordern wir einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von 8,71 Euro, einen Ausbau der öffentlichen Beschäftigungsförderung und eine repressionsfreie soziale Grundsicherung.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/staerkung-der-buergerrechte-statt-kosmetik/

http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/antrag_energiekosten.pdf

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

07/11/08

The Democratic Congress passed and Bush signed the ‘FISA Amendments Act of 2008,’ legalizing the president’s longstanding illegal wiretapping program. The law allows broad warrantless surveillance of Americans in the United States, so long as the call or e-mail is thought to be international. Eavesdropping on domestic communications is legal for a week before court papers even have to be filed. The telecom companies that cooperated with Bush are immune from civil lawsuits. Most important, the administration’s illegal conduct has been retroactively approved and future administrations have wider powers than ever to spy on Americans. The Democratic leadership and virtually all Congressional Republicans approved the law. In a complete reversal of his campaign promise, so did Senator Barack Obama...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2263


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die französische Regierung will die angeblich "saubere" Atomkraft zum Verkaufsschlager des Mittelmeergipfels zu machen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28308/1.html



Tricastin: "Nicht irgendein Zwischenfall"

Frankreich will Grundwasser in der Nähe aller Kernkraftwerke untersuchen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/112950

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Durch radioaktive Abfälle droht Verseuchung - Doch das Umweltministerium gibt Entwarnung und die Franzosen lieben ihre Kernkraftwerke

Ein Unbehagen bleibt. Die französische Tageszeitung "Le Monde" berichtete in einem Artikel über die Panne Anfang Juli in Tricastin, dass entgegen den ersten Versicherungen der Behörden in den Departements Drome und Vaucluse das Grundwasser auf einmal doch anormal hohe Strahlenwerte aufweise. Dies hätten neue Messungen ergeben. Doch stünden sie offenbar nicht in Verbindung mit dem Uranunfall. Ursache für die Verschmutzung könnten 770 Tonnen radioaktiver Abfall aus Militärbeständen sein, die zwischen 1969 und 1976 auf dem Reaktorgelände in der Erde verbuddelt worden sind. Erst am 4. Juli, drei Tage vor dem jüngsten Unfall, hatte die unabhängige Forschungs- und Informationskommission für Radioaktivität (Criirad) nach alarmierenden Messwerten auf die Gefahr einer drohenden Verseuchung hingewiesen. Doch anstatt den radioaktiven Müll fachgerecht zu entsorgen, wurde er mit neuer Erde zugeschüttet.

Ursprüngliche Meldung:
http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2233667/Frankreich_spielt_Atomvorfaelle_herunter.html


Weitergeleitet durch das Dugi-News-Team am Dienstag, den 22. Juli 2008 mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung.

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Nach einer ‚schwarzen Woche’ für die französische Nuklearindustrie: AREVA-Bossin ‚Atomic Anne’ strahlt

Frankreich plant unmittelbar weiteren Ausbau des Atomprogramms. Bei den Gewerkschaften ist die CGT dafür, die CFDT (eher verhalten) dagegen. Unterdessen erwachen die Anti-AKW-Bewegung und die ‚atomkritische’ Öffentlichkeit zu neuem Leben . Eine Kurzfassung dieses Artikels erschien am 3. Juli in der Berliner Wochenzeitung ‚Jungle World’ auf der Ökologieseite. Das Manuskript wurde nach der europaweiten und internationalen Demonstration für den Atom-Ausstieg in Paris am 12. Juli und der jüngsten Störfall-Serie nochmals gründlich überarbeitet. Artikel mit vielen Bildern von Bernard Schmid, Paris, 21.07.2008 http://www.labournet.de/internationales/fr/atomic_anne.html

Bernard Schmid betont gegenüber der Redaktion des LabourNet Germany, dass er wirklich bemüht sei, aktuell aus Frankreich zu berichten, er sich aber bei der Schnelligkeit der auftretenden Pannen in den ach so sicheren sicheren französischen Kernkraftwerken außer Stande sieht, die Manuskripte stündlich umzuschreiben. Wir bitten um Rücksicht und verweisen auf den Bericht „ATOMUNFALL: 15 Personen in Frankreich radioaktiv kontaminiert“ im Spiegel, gerade, am 22.07.2008 erschienen http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,567123,00.html

Ach so, bevor wir es vergessen: „…Die Experten seien nach der Inspektion einer Baustelle untersucht worden, dabei seien leichte Spuren von radioaktiven Elementen gefunden worden. Die Kontamination sei aber ohne gesundheitliche Konsequenzen, und die Betroffenen hätten ohne Behandlung nach Hause gehen können…“ Na dann ist ja wieder alles gut!


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Juli 2008



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Mit Vollgas gegen die Wand
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28280/1.html

Gefälschte Bilder und Raketen?

Iran könnte nicht nur Bilder manipuliert, sondern auch den Besitz von besseren Langstreckenraketen vorgetäuscht haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28306/1.html



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

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100004420



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7720/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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The Real-Life "24" of Summer 2008

Frank Rich writes for The New York Times: "We know what a criminal White House looks like from 'The Final Days,' Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's classic account of Richard Nixon's unraveling. The cauldron of lies, paranoia and illegal surveillance boiled over, until it was finally every man for himself as desperate courtiers scrambled to save their reputations and, in a few patriotic instances, their country... The latest and perhaps most chilling example arrives this week from Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, long a relentless journalist on the war-on-terror torture beat. Her book 'The Dark Side' connects the dots of her own past reporting and that of her top-tier colleagues (including James Risen and Scott Shane of The New York Times) to portray a White House that, like its prototype, savaged its enemies within almost as ferociously as it did the Constitution."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-real-life-24-summer-2008



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/365.html

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Amber alert!

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/14/08

Wurmser gives the odds of the Israelis attacking Iran before Bush leaves office as ’slightly, slightly above 50-50.’ If that happens, then it is only a matter of time — a very short time — before the U.S. is involved in a large-scale conflict with Iran that will send oil prices skyrocketing past $300 per barrel and bring the world economy to a screeching halt. Not only that, but war with Tehran will upend the American political landscape and give John McCain more than a fighting chance to beat frontrunner Barack Obama. In this context, the Israeli pressure for military action can be seen as a direct attempt to influence an American election that, so far, is not going to their liking...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13130


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

U.S. says Iran has missile that could hit Europe

Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, told reporters he believes Iran now has a missile with a range of 2,000 km, but he declined to say whether the weapon has been test-fired.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1532412820080715


From Information Clearing House



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