World-News

9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: A Force for Peace Emerges from Within Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/14-9

CODEPINK: America Demands A Peace President!
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/14



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

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/14-7



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Derrick+Jackson

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/14-5

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Job Losses Cut Across 41 States

money.cnn.com — The number of states suffering monthly job losses more than doubled in September, with Michigan losing the greatest number of jobs, according to a government report released. Private sector and government jobs fell in 41 states and the District of Columbia last month, the Labor Department said. By comparison, only 18 states reported monthly job losses in August. The widespread job losses are a sign of a recession, said Bob Brusca, an economist at Fact and Opinion Economics in New York. "You expect to see job losses across the board, across the country," Brusca said. The numbers underline the grim condition of the nation's job market.

http://ga3.org/ct/q720pgF1DYj0/



Job Losses May Fuel Foreclosures

marketwatch.com — If 2008 was a record year for mortgages entering foreclosure, 2009 could look even worse: While home-price declines have been driving foreclosure starts recently, mounting job losses could add another layer of stress on American homeowners, the chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association said. A recession appears to be underway, according to the MBA's annual economic forecast, which projects negative economic growth through the middle of next year. The MBA presented its forecast to reporters at its annual convention, being held in San Francisco.

http://ga3.org/ct/z120pgF1DYjT/



Homeless Numbers 'Alarming'

usatoday.com — More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation. Local authorities say the number of families seeking help has risen in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and Washington. "Everywhere I go, I hear there is an increase" in the need for housing aid, especially for families, says Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates federal programs. He says the main causes are job losses and foreclosures. Other factors have been higher food and fuel prices hitting families with "no cushion," says Nan Roman of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

http://ga3.org/ct/ap20pgF1DYjY/

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Foreclosure Crisis Falls Hard on Veterans

Malcolm Garcia, The Kansas City Star: "It was always hard for him to make the house payment. James Wilson, a disabled veteran of the Iraq War, knows his monthly mortgage payment of $532 doesn't sound like much. But living on a fixed income with a family to support caused difficulties he had not anticipated."

http://www.truthout.org/102208D



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=elections+2008
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeowner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/14-1



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

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/break-the-addiction



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

Reuters: "Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said on Tuesday the U.S. housing sector faced more losses and the economy was in recession even as authorities moved to stabilize the financial system. Volcker said the priority for U.S. authorities in the credit crisis was to stabilize the financial system even though that meant heavy government intrusion."

http://www.truthout.org/101408D



Reckoning

Laurent Joffrin, Liberation: "We still don't know how much the rescue plan discussed in a whirling water wheel of international meetings this weekend will cost. Even less do we know whether it will suffice to return confidence to a banking system totally incapable of saving itself and the leaders of which seem dissolved in their own panic. But we do know one thing ..."

http://www.truthout.org/101408E



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Volcker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laurent+Joffrin

Suzette Hackney and Kathleen Gray, The Free Press: "Even as voter turnout in the Nov. 4 presidential election is expected to reach record levels, fear - fed by rumor, innuendo and misinformation - is running high that droves of eligible voters in Michigan and other battleground states could be turned away or tricked into not voting."

http://www.truthout.org/101408A



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+suppression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=elections+2008

http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/ray-lotta-financial-hurricane-batters-world-capitalism/


Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news



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

Columbia Independent Online - Columbia, NY, USA

... the area of primary forest is decreasing by about 6 million hectares each year; in some regions, the area affected by fires, insects and diseases is ...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=248&dept_id=505345&newsid=20163437&PAG=461&rfi=9



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

Published Date: 13 October 2008

A GIANT mobile phone mast is set to go up just yards from a children's playground and across the road from a primary school.

Vodafone has applied for permission to put up the 14-metre (45 ft) mast at Preston Road, Linlithgow.

If approved, the structure would be placed on the roadside verge at the corner of the new playpark, near Linlithgow Primary School and next to the Union Canal.

Linlithgow Community Council is planning to fight the proposal and Jack Thompson, planning spokesman, said: "We are not in favour of masts that are too close to where children will be playing or going to school because of the potential hazards.

"We will be submitting a formal objection on the grounds of location and size."

Read More...
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Mobile-mast-planned-next-to.4584780.jp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast

Berlin genehmigte 2007 mehr Rüstungsexporte als je zuvor – Teil I: Den Tod bringen Waffen aus Deutschland

„Seit Jahren rangiert Deutschland unter den Top Ten der Weltwaffen-exporteure. Als „Europameister“ lieferte die Bundesrepublik 2007 für 3,395 Milliarden US-Dollar Waffen in alle Welt – so viel wie nie zuvor. Das dokumentiert der Bericht des Stockholmer Friedensforschungsinstituts SIPRI 2008 für das Vorjahr. Panzer, Kampfflugzeuge oder Kriegsschiffe, Gewehre und Munition wurden „ganz legal“ an Krieg führende NATO-Staaten und an Menschenrechte verletzende Länder geliefert. Wie in den Vorjahren bricht die Bundesregierung damit erneut ihre eigenen „politischen Grundsätze“ zum Rüstungsexport…“ Artikel von Jürgen Grässlin Bach in der NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung vom 12.10.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12976


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Oktober 2008

„Die Entdeckung der „neuen Unterschicht(en)“ zu Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends ist kein soziologisches, kein wissenschaftliches Datum, sondern das Produkt einer der politischen Propaganda dienenden „öffentlichen Soziologie“, in der einige Wissenschaftler - vor allem Paul Nolte und Heinz Bude - als professorale Autoritäten, aber auch als aktiver Teil einer publizistischen Welle fungieren. Diese hat in Deutschland nicht zufällig im Jahr 2004 einen Höhepunkt erreicht: Sie begleitete und legitimierte die Einführung von „Hartz IV“: die Abkehr vom bis dahin dominierenden sozialstaatliche Ziel der Statussicherung hin zum Ziel der Existenzsicherung…“ Eine Kritik des Lehrers in einer Abendhauptschule Hans Otto Rösser vom 10. Oktober 2008 bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=3503


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Oktober 2008



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

400.000 Augen zudrücken

Videoüberwachung im toten Winkel der Rechtsauffassungen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28903/1.html



Wenn "gestohlene Daten" gesichert werden...

Das Thema der 17 Millionen T-Mobile-Datensätze, die unrechtmässig kopiert und veräußert wurden, mutiert von der einfachen Posse zur Groteske. Und lässt so manchen angesichts der Vorratsdatenspeicherung schaudern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28898/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=T-Mobile
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Videoüberwachung

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28896/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Horvath

Sameer Kumar Sharma
Posted: Oct 14, 2008 at 0143 hrs IST

Ludhiana, October 13 Fuelling another debate on the installation of cell phone towers in the residential complexes, the residents of Mission Compound near Kalvary Church are up in arms against a reputed Telecom firm.

The residents have written to the chief minister, district administration and the municipal corporation seeking the dismantling of the tower at the earliest, stating potential health hazards caused by radio frequency radiations.

Read More...
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/residents-protest-erection-of-cell-phone-towe.../373052/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=health+hazard
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=radio+frequency

Mike Lillis, The Washington Independent: "Health-care reform - an expensive and politically thorny proposition in any environment - could be particularly tough in the face of a plunging economy. Yet to hear the candidates tell it, the next president will usher in an era of sweeping changes. Both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are pushing overhauls of the health-care system that purport to save families thousands of dollars while covering millions of the uninsured. Some estimates put the cost of their plans in the trillions of dollars. Neither candidate has said specifically how he would pay the tab."

http://www.truthout.org/101308HA



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+care
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Lillis

Stephen Majors, The Associated Press: "Voter fraud was a buzz phrase for the Ohio GOP when it pushed voter identification requirements through the state legislature in 2005. It's now a driving factor behind a flurry of GOP lawsuits leveled against Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, seeking either to restrict early voting or mandate how voter information should be checked."

http://www.truthout.org/101308R



Amy Goodman Interviews Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner

Democracy Now! interview: "Ohio is a key swing state that ended up deciding the outcome of the 2004 election. But the state was riddled with voting problems, ranging from breakdowns in electronic voting machines to accusations of widespread voter disenfranchisement. We speak to Democrat Jennifer Brunner, who was elected secretary of state of Ohio in November 2006."

http://www.truthout.org/101308VA



A Dose of Reality on the ACORN Hysteria

Zachary Roth, Talking Points Memo: "The GOP has accused ACORN of submitting fraudulent voter registration forms numbering in the hundreds or thousands in battleground states including Ohio, Indiana, Nevada and Missouri. But the most important point that's getting lost in the Fox-generated hysteria is that, according to voting experts, even when fraudulent voter registration forms are submitted, they virtually never lead to fraudulent votes being cast."

http://www.truthout.org/101408VA



Acorn Replies to Questions About Role With Voters

Michael Falcone, The New York Times: "A community organizing group that has been attacked by Republicans and the McCain campaign over accusations of fraudulent voter registrations sought to provide assurances on Tuesday that instances of wrongdoing were not widespread."

http://www.truthout.org/101508VA



Groups: ACORN Attacks Meant to Suppress Vote

Chris Good, The Hill: "Left-leaning groups Wednesday came to the defense of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), accusing Republicans of seeking to suppress voter turnout by attacking the group. 'This latest attack on ACORN follows a sorry pattern, played out in election after election,' said Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, outlining what he called a history of voter suppression tactics by the Republican Party."

http://www.truthout.org/101608M



The Acorn Story

The New York Times: "In Wednesday night's debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is 'on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history' and 'may be destroying the fabric of democracy.' Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we."

http://www.truthout.org/101708A



US Supreme Court Rules Against Ohio G.O.P. in Voting Case

Adam Liptak and Ian Urbina, The New York Times: "The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court's order requiring state officials in Ohio to supply information that would have made it easier to challenge prospective voters. The decision was a setback for Ohio Republicans, who had sued to force the Ohio secretary of state, a Democrat, to provide information about database mismatches to county officials."

http://www.truthout.org/101708R

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GOP dirty tricks 2.0

In These Times
by Adam Doster

10/13/08

In June, The Atlantic magazine’s Marc Ambinder reported that some people inside Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign were hoping to soften the GOP’s traditionally aggressive campaign against ‘voter fraud,’ partly because they thought previous efforts had created a backlash in public opinion. But the next day, the campaign’s top lawyer fired back, writing to Ambinder that ‘any impression that we’re not committed to stopping voter fraud is 100 percent false.’ Of course, federal officials have never found evidence of widespread voter fraud. But that hasn’t stopped Republican operatives from exploiting fears of ballot security to build a nationwide campaign of laws, policies and flimsy challenges that ostensibly prevent fraud while actually limiting voting access for the nation’s most marginalized citizens...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3965/gop_dirty_tricks_20



McCain calls for “voter fraud” inquiry

Los Angeles Times

10/15/08

Over the last year and a half, paid employees of ACORN, a liberal-leaning community organizing group, have helped 1.3 million mostly young, mostly poor people register to vote, enrolling more new voters overall than any nonpartisan group in the country. Why some applications reportedly were signed by Mickey Mouse and supposed members of the Dallas Cowboys, among others, emerged as the latest campaign controversy Tuesday when John McCain and Barack Obama traded charges on whether the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now has tried to pad election rolls with thousands of suspect voters. … McCain aides first accused ACORN of misdeeds last week. McCain upped the ante Tuesday when he called for an immediate investigation of what he described as ‘voter fraud going on’ in battleground states. He also sought to tie the alleged irregularities directly to his Democratic opponent...

http://tinyurl.com/4rk5sy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Republican voter fraud hoax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/13/election-acorn-voter-fraud


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACORN
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+registration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+fraud
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=suppress+vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Brunner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAACP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adam+Doster
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brad+Friedman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adam+Liptak
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ian+Urbina

http://www.infowars.com/?p=5262


Informant: Neo Mulder



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10541


Informant: Neo Mulder

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US poised to announce plans to expand bailout

ABC News

10/13/08

The Federal Reserve plans to use $250 billion of the $700 billion approved by Congress to recapitalize ailing banks, and while the number of willing participants is unclear, the plan requires nine major banks to take part, officials told ABC News today. The move, expected to be formally announced Tuesday, comes as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spent the day in Washington meeting with the heads of major U.S. banks to pound out the details of a more far-reaching American rescue plan, including using some of the $700 billion approved by Congress to buy direct stakes in troubled U.S. banks...

http://tinyurl.com/4brkrc



Bingeing and purging

Orange County Register
by John Stossel

10/12/08

The bailout passed! Too bad. When so many politicians speak with one voice in support of the biggest act of government intervention in the economy in generations, I cringe. Everybody talked about the ‘freeze’ in the credit markets, but why, I wonder, were the cable news programs that repeated the credit-freeze mantra pausing for commercials from companies trying to lend me money? Ditech and LendingTree still hawk mortgages at under 6 percent. Some credit freeze...

http://tinyurl.com/4s3acc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hudson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Stossel

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/445.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+collapse

http://www.lewrockwell.com/manion/manion89.html



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

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1143264/12759198/61606/0/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Woods

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1143264/12759198/61605/0/

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Main Street's Road to Recovery

Eileen Appelbaum, Truthout: "As the outlines of a viable plan to rescue the global financial system begin to come into relief, it is time for policymakers to bring that same relief to Main Street."

http://www.truthout.org/101708S

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14 reasons Main Street loses while Wall Street sinks democracy

Market Watch

by Paul B. Farrell

10/20/08

Yes, we’re dummies. You. Me. All 300 million of us. Clueless. We should be ashamed. We’re obsessed about the slogans and rituals of ‘democracy,’ distracted by the campaign, polls, debates, rhetoric, half-truths and outright lies. McCain? Obama? Sorry to pop your bubble folks, but it no longer matters who’s president...

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/14-reasons-main-street-loses/story.aspx?guid=%7BF63EC448%2DD9C1%2D4138%2DAC18%2D97BF0FE68EE3%7D


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Main+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karen+De+Coster
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+B.+Farrell

How To Fix Our Depreciating Money
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/positive-program-for-money.html

The Evil of Bailout
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul484.html

Our Great Depression: The Perfect Storm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn10.html

The October Revolution of 2008
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w52.html

Stop Aggregating Wall Street
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vuk/vuk25.html

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The Capitalist Shakedown
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10546


Informant: Neo Mulder



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rockwell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/quinn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/vuk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1077297/U-S-begins-turn-GM-crops-report-claims.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GM+crops

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/13-2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+registration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brennan+Center+for+Justice

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/13-2

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Whistleblower: Oil watchdog agency 'cult of corruption'

Bobby Maxwell kept a close eye on the oil industry for more than 20 years as a government auditor. But he said the federal agency he worked for is now a "cult of corruption" -- a claim backed up by a recent government report.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/14/oil.whistleblower/index.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nicholas+Watt

Stephen Foley, The Independent UK: "Senior members of the Republican party are in open mutiny against John McCain's presidential campaign, after a disastrous period which has seen Barack Obama solidify his lead in the opinion polls.... From inside and outside his inner circle, Mr McCain is being told to settle on a coherent economic message and to tone down attacks on his rival which have sometimes whipped up a mob-like atmosphere at Republican rallies."

http://www.truthout.org/article/101308D



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

http://www.truthout.org/article/101308A



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fannie
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Freddie+Mac
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

Josh Meyer, The Los Angeles Times: "Darrel J. Vandeveld was in despair. The hard-nosed lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a self-described conformist praised by his superiors for his bravery in Iraq, had lost faith in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals in which he was a prosecutor. His work was top secret, making it impossible to talk to family or friends. So the devout Catholic -- working away from home -- contacted a priest online. Even if he had no doubt about the guilt of the accused, he wrote in an August e-mail, 'I am beginning to have grave misgivings about what I am doing, and what we are doing as a country....'"

http://www.truthout.org/101308M

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Guantanamo prosecutor accuses Pentagon of ethical misconduct in terrorist trials

A military prosecutor quit his job after concluding that the trial system at the US detainment facility Guantanamo Bay amounted to a "creeping rot" of injustice.

http://tinyurl.com/523xgb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes+tribunal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darrel+Vandeveld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Meyer

The Associated Press: "By the time deputies came to escort Addie Polk out of her home of 38 years, the 90-year-old had taken out her life insurance policy and placed it next to her pocketbook and keys in the neatly kept house. She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan."

http://www.truthout.org/101308N



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage

James Debono

The Education Department has given its blessing to the installation of a mobile phone antenna, just 70 metres away from the Dun Manwel Attard school for the disabled, in Wardija.

The school caters for students with “diverse special needs” and “multi-disabilities”.

Although scientific opinion remains divided on whether mobile phone antennae pose any health risk to residents living next to them, the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls for “special consideration” when antennas are located next to schools.

Amid fears that the antenna poses a health risk to students on Thursday, Wardija residents presented an injunction warrant in the law courts to stop the installation of the antenna.

Read More...
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/10/12/t15.html

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No objection from ministry as mobile antenna sprouts near school
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/10/19/t4.html

"Freiheit statt Angst": Weltweite Proteste gegen Überwachung

„Am gestrigen Samstag fanden unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst – Stoppt den Überwachungswahn!" erstmals weltweite Proteste gegen Überwachungsmaßnahmen wie Vorratsspeicherung aller Telekommunikationsdaten, Flugreisendenüberwachung und biometrische Bürgererfassung statt. In mehr als 15 Ländern forderten Bürgerinnen und Bürger den Abbau von Massenüberwachung, einen sofortigen Stopp neuer Überwachungsmaßnahmen und eine unabhängige Überprüfung bereits beschlossener Gesetze…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 12.10.2008, darin auch Textberichte, Videos, Audio und Fotos von der Demo sowie Redebeiträge in Textform http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/267/79/


Freiheit statt Angst

Bericht zur Demo von H. Eckel vom 12.10.2008 bei indymedia mit vielen Fotos und Links zu Fotos http://de.indymedia.org/2008/10/229265.shtml


Wenn "gestohlene Daten" gesichert werden...

„Das Thema der 17 Millionen T-Mobile-Datensätze, die unrechtmässig kopiert und veräußert wurden, mutiert von der einfachen Posse zur Groteske. Und lässt so manchen angesichts der Vorratsdatenspeicherung schaudern. Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, so heißt es oft, sei "nicht bedrohlich, da die Daten ja nicht zentral vom Staat, sondern von Privaten (den Providern) gespeichert werden". Hierbei wurde einmal öfter unterschlagen, dass es letzten Endes egal ist, wer die Daten speichert, solange sie überhaupt gespeichert werden. Ob die Strafverfolgung (u.a.) im Zuge eines Gesetzes nun selbst die Daten bei sich aufhebt, oder sie den Umweg über die Provider geht, ist für die Gesamtbetrachtung der VDS unerheblich. Diese wird ja nicht deshalb abgelehnt, weil die Provider zur Speicherung verpflichtet werden sollen (auch wenn dies, finanziell gesehen, natürlich ein Argument der Provider ist), sondern in datenschutz- und bürgerrechtlicher Sicht aus Gründen der Verhältnismäßigkeit, des Panoptikumeffektes u.a. mehr…“ Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) in telepolis vom 13.10.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28898/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Oktober 2008

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Pressemitteilung des FoeBuD e.V. vom Sonntag, den 12. Oktober 2008

FoeBuD: Demonstrationserfolg ist historisch - Bürgerrechtsbewegung erreicht neue Dimension

* FoeBuD bewertet Erfolg der Demonstration vom Samstag als historisch
* 100.000 Teilnehmer/innen: Bewegung für Bürgerrechte erreicht neue Dimension.

Die Demonstration "Freiheit statt Angst" vom Samstag hat die Volkszählungsdemo vom 16. Mai 1987 um ein mehrfaches übertroffen. Damals demonstrierten 12.000 Menschen in Berlin, gestern waren es
100.000. Dies war die größte Demonstration für Datenschutz, die es in diesem Land je gegeben hat.

"Damit hat die Bewegung für Bürgerrechte und Datenschutz eine neue Dimension erlangt. Und wir haben die Mitte der Gesellschaft erreicht", sagte Rena Tangens, Vorsitzende des FoeBuD e.V.. Deutlich wird dies für Tangens auch an der politischen Bandbreite der Beteiligten vom Samstag. Über 100 Initiativen und Parteien hatten sich dem Aufruf der Bürgerrechtsorganisationen im AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung angeschlossen. Darunter Berufsverbände wie die Journalistenverbände dju und DJV, die Freie Ärzteschaft, der Deutsche Anwaltsverein, Gewerkschaften wie ver.di und DGB, Beratungsstellen wie die AIDS-Hilfe und die Telefonseelsorge, Attac und Parteiorganisationen wie Grüne, Jusos, FDP und die Linke.

So großes Interesse für Datenschutz gab es zuletzt vor über zwanzig Jahren. "Da ist eine Aufbruchstimmung wie zu Zeiten der Volkszählung", sagte Tangens, die schon 1983 beim Volkszählungsboykott beteiligt war. "Angesichts der heutigen technischen Möglichkeiten ist die Bürgerrechtsbewegung heute noch viel notwendiger als vor zwanzig Jahren. Diese Bewegung kann nicht mehr ignoriert werden. Alle Parteien werden sich in den kommenden Wahlkämpfen fragen lassen müssen, wie sie zu Bürgerrechten stehen."

Der FoeBuD freut sich besonders, dass sich vor allem viele jugendliche und technikbegeisterte Menschen aktiv in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung engagieren. "Unsere Generation ist eben nicht unpolitisch. Gerade weil wir uns mit Computertechnik und Datennetzen auskennen, wissen wir auch um die Gefahren. Und wir wollen nicht, dass die Möglichkeiten der neuen Technik gegen uns eingesetzt wird.", so Florian Glatzner vom FoeBuD.

Auch für den FoeBuD als Organisation und Teil der Bewegung ist diese Demo ein großer Erfolg. "Wir haben die letzten Wochen und Monate beim FoeBuD kaum etwas anderes gemacht als diese große Bündnisdemo zu unterstützen und es hat sich gelohnt. Endlich erreicht die Demokratie Digitalien", so der Künstler padeluun.

Nächster Höhepunkt der Arbeit des FoeBuD wird die Verleihung des BigBrotherAwards am 24.10.08.

Kontakt:

FoeBuD e.V. Ansprechpartner Rena Tangens padeluun Tel: 0521-175254 Mobil: 0175-9849933 http://www.bigbrotherawards.de

Web:
http://www.foebud.org
http://www.bigbrotherawards.de
http://www.stoprfid.de


100.000 Menschen zeigen Gesicht für "Freiheit statt Angst"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935678974/in/set-72157607963502946/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2934826351/in/set-72157607963502946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935662846/in/set-72157607963502946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935667360/in/set-72157607963502946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935660120/in/set-72157607963502946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2934825245/in/set-72157607963502946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935692058/in/set-72157607963502946/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/queer-kopf/2935696484/in/set-72157607963502946/

(da gibt's natürlich noch viel viel mehr Bilder, die etliches von den spannenden Ideen und Transparenten der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer zeigen)

Bilder auf den FoeBuD-Seiten
http://www.foebud.org/datenschutz-buergerrechte/vorratsdatenspeicherung/demo-2008-10-11-berlin-bilder



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Telekom

by Joan Veon

The American people have just been severely violated in the name of the 2008 Credit Crisis. In the arena of investing, the concept of “buying and holding” a security has been gold. The idea being that the “market always comes back.” However, the problem is that you have to wait for the market to come back which may take years and you might break even. Last Friday one of the business channels interviewed a financial expert said that buy and hold was best. How......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Veon/joan161.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Veon

by NWV News

Baldwin is expected to comment on the latest government bailouts and the accelerating meltdown of the US financial system as well as other issues facing the United States and its citizens. The anxiously anticipated rally will be held at Medford's Ramada Inn Convention Center. The popular pastor and talk show host has repeatedly blasted the political establishment and its tools -- the news media, public education, and bureaucrats who work for........

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news102.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chuck+Baldwin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system

Patrick Pace, Mellieħa

In recent articles, stating that mobile base stations are harmless, the European Commission, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Commission of Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) were all mentioned to be backing this statement.

Then why doesn't someone inform the public and especially the concerned "unlucky people" that happen to live near mobile base stations without any choice, of the latest news? Well the answer is probably because it isn't really good news for those of us, "unlucky people", who have the antennae forced upon us; the news was not "mobile base stations are harmless" but more like "there are reasons for precaution".

Read More...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081013/letters/mobile-base-stations-and-health

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/10/08

Huntington denies that military spending is a drain on the economy, and blames ‘consumerism, not militarism,’ for America’s status as the world’s number one debtor. Yet how does he imagine we financed the biggest military build-up in world history? How did we manage to bloat our military budget until it grew larger than the defense expenditures of all the rest of the world combined? We rang it up on our national credit card. We built an empire on a mountain of debt, and now it’s all come tumbling down. Yet it’s more than an economic debacle: the Greenspan Bubble was made possible by a certain kind of psychology, a cultural ethos that gave little thought to the long-term consequences of US monetary and military policy, and lived only in the here-and-now. The Bubble pumped up not just the stock market, but also our pretensions, our hubris, our sense of entitlement — not only to big overpriced homes and a dozen different credit cards, but also to our global preeminence as world policeman. If pride really does cometh before a fall, then one can only observe that we had plenty of warning...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13573


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stock+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

Nolan Chart
by Timothy K. Perry

10/12/08

It truly amazes me when people continue to think in terms of Democrat, Republican or left-wing and right-wing. Why? Both carefully created polarities are financed, controlled and operated by the same oligarchical globalist order which has been patiently constructing and deconstructing nations, states, wars, famines, stock market rises and crashes for quite some centuries now. The modern twentieth and twenty-first century organs of this group are known to anyone who cares to do even the most basic research on the subject...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article5189.html



Abandon all hope

Reason
by David Weigel

10/09/08

On his post-bailout vote show, Lou Dobbs, the jowly arbiter of middle-American anger, called it ’stunning setback for voters who believed the House would stand up for the American people and refuse to be bought out by the Bush administration, political elites, and Wall Street.’ True, he always talks like that. But this time he was actually expressing what voters thought. A Tuesday CNN poll pegged the proportion of Americans who thought the bailout was ‘for Wall Street’ at 53 percent. Only 40 percent thought it was passed to ‘help ordinary taxpayers.’ Obama and McCain are stuck in another trap. They voted for the bailout. They can’t run against it. They went all in, literally, and now they’re stuck selling its merits while frowning and promising that it was the only choice they had...

http://reason.com/news/show/129357.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite

Dobbs has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper.

http://www.thenation.com/article/155209/lou-dobbs-american-hypocrite


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oligarch
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Weigel

In These Times
by David Sirota

10/10/08

Is Henry Paulson a crony-communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery. Understanding Paulson’s role in stopping — or fueling — the credit crisis requires a review of two axioms from Economics 101: 1) A credit crisis occurs when banks stop lending and 2) The amount banks can lend is a multiple of the capital in their vaults. Therefore, ending a credit crisis means prompting new lending — and that means maximally increasing bank capital. … If Paulson pays banks exactly what their mortgages are worth, he will not increase banks’ capital … he will merely convert one asset (mortgages) into another (cash), making no impact on the credit crisis...

http://tinyurl.com/3pn4qk



Welcome to the Third World, America
http://tinyurl.com/4bg6xx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Sirota
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

10/10/08

William Ayers and voter fraud. Cindy McCain on the attack. Say it ain’t so, John. The economy is in a tailspin, and so is John McCain. Our retirement plans and college savings accounts are shrinking, and McCain is shrinking right with them. He’s not just on the verge of getting clobbered in the election. He’s on the verge of becoming an object of utter ridicule. It isn’t pretty to watch. Even for a Democrat. It’s bad enough that 100 percent of the ads McCain is running are negative. That’s a sign of a campaign in free fall, with nothing affirmative to say and nothing positive to offer; a campaign that can’t win with the support it has now, that needs to find some way to move voters out of the other guy’s camp...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,436341,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Moment

John Cory, Truthout: "Senator McCain. Was this the moment? The epiphany? The realization that stoking the flames of bigotry and fear had come home to roost? As I watched your town hall gathering, I wondered what was going through your mind when you came face to face with the incendiary results of your campaign tactics. What did you see and feel when that elderly woman said Obama was an Arab? Or the man who said he feared an Obama presidency? And all the others?"

http://www.truthout.org/101308J



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Cory

MSNBC

10/12/08

A watched clock never moves — unless it’s the National Debt Clock. In fact, the digital counter has been moving so much that it recently ran out of digits to display the ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, as of Saturday afternoon. The clock was put up by the late real estate mogul Seymour Durst in 1989 when the U.S. government’s debt was a mere $2.7 trillion, and was even turned off during the 1990s when the debt decreased...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27150961/



Global creditors end US spending spree

Washington Times

10/12/08

The crash unfolding on Wall Street is not just the fall of once-mighty banks and corporations that took on too much debt, but the collapse of an American economy and lifestyle that for decades has been purchased with credit cards. The nation’s creditors - many of them foreign countries such as China and Brazil with ample economic needs of their own - reached a point this summer at which they were no longer willing to extend new loans in light of burgeoning default rates...

http://tinyurl.com/4knrj8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+creditors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street

The Associated Press: "Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s. Republican candidate John McCain on Saturday called Lewis' remarks 'shocking and beyond the pale.'"

http://www.truthout.org/101208A



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Lewis

A heart patient fears a mobile phone mast due to go up just metres from his Lincoln home will harm his health.

Ken Marsh, who wears a pacemaker, says he will continue to fight plans for the mast following a two-year wrangle.

In 2006 he wrote to Lincoln City Council objecting to proposals for the 12-metre high mast in Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln.

But a "legal loophole" now means that company Vodafone can go ahead.

Mr Marsh (71) fears that emissions from the mast will interfere with his pacemaker or cause other health problems, such as cancer.

"Until someone comes up with some evidence to prove otherwise I will continue to worry that it will upset the settings on my pacemaker," said the retired engineer of Malham Drive, around 25 metres from the mast site.

Read More...
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Heart-patient-phone-mast-fight-pledge/article-393514-detail/article.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=pacemaker
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=cancer

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/416c0c3c6aaed13c?hl=en



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

Europäer lehnen in der Mehrzahl der Klonen von Tieren für Lebensmittelprodukte ab und sehen für die Verbraucher keine Vorteile.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28893/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=geklonte+Tiere

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/10/banks-financial-governments


Informant: Les Evenchick

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iain+Macwhirter

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d46e36c98f5206d6?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NSPD-51
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law

The Depression Reader
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/recession-reader.html

A Fake Banking History of the United States
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo153.html

Ain’t My Government: We Who Said No to the State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora56.html

The Debt We Owe to Trade
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker107.html

Bleak future for U.S. as Congress continues to undermine efforts to balance the federal budget
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi92.html

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My Depression - or Ours?

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Among my somewhat over-the-hill crowd - I'm 64 - there's one thing friends have said to me repeatedly since the stock market started to tumble, the global economic system began to melt down, and Iceland went from bank haven to bankrupt. They say, 'I'm just not looking. I don't want to know.' And they're not referring to the world situation, they're talking about their pension plans, or 401(k)s, or IRAs, or whatever they put their money into, so much of which is melting away in plain sight even as Iceland freezes up.... The point is: Why look? The news is going to be worse than you think, and it's way too late anyway. This is what crosses your mind when the ground under you starts to crumble. Don't look, not yet, not when the life you know, the one you took for granted, is vanishing, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it."

http://www.truthout.org/101408M

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Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park'

As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues that things risk spiralling out of their control.

http://tinyurl.com/4rwro7



European markets tumble as confidence collapses

Share prices in the UK plunged yet again yesterday, piling more misery on Britons saving for their pension, as world markets continued to come to terms with the prospect of a recession.

http://tinyurl.com/552ljy


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=The+Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
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