World-News

4:40pm Friday 21st November 2008

By Mike Laycock »

ANGRY residents have attacked plans to build a 23-metre tall mobile phone mast in a field near York.

Vodaphone Ltd has applied to City of York Council to install the lattice-type telecommunications mast, along with three antennas and two transmission dishes, at Hall Farm in Church Lane, Huntington.

But one local resident, Tom Claxton, claimed today the mast would spoil one of the most attractive views in the York area.

Another villager, Michael Sherlock, who lives in Paddock Close, less than 200 metres from the proposed mast site, has written to the council to claim: “It will totally dominate the surrounding countryside and will be clearly seen by house owners from the Old Village.

“No attempt is being made to disguise the shape and it will be an eyesore. I most strongly object.”

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http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/3867436.Huntington_mobile_phone_mast_uproar/

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Huntington phone mast site defended

1:30pm Monday 24th November 2008

By Mike Laycock »

MOBILE phone giant Vodaphone has strongly defended its controversial plans for a 23-metre telecommunications mast in a village near York.

It said today it had examined 16 alternative locations for the mast before selecting the proposed site at Hall Farm in Church Lane, Huntington.

It insisted the mast would be neither visually intrusive nor a hazard to the health of local residents.

The Press reported on Friday that angry villagers had blasted Vodaphone’s planning application to City of York Council to put up the lattice-type telecommunications mast, along with three antennas and two transmission dishes.

Local residents claimed the mast would be an eyesore and a blot on the landscape which would spoil one of the most attractive views in York and dominate the surrounding countryside.

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http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/3872946.Huntington_phone_mast_site_defended/

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Urwaldfluss im geplanten Goldminengebiet Urwaldfluss im geplanten Goldminengebiet

Das schimmernde Edelmetall Gold ist seit jeher Symbol für Reichtum und Wohlstand. 78 Prozent des Goldes gehen in die Schmuckproduktion und zu Weihnachten ist Goldschmuck eines der beliebtesten Geschenke. Doch die Auswirkungen des Goldabbaus auf die Umwelt sind gravierend. In Costa Rica soll der Regenwald dafür gerodet und der Grenzfluss zum benachbarten Nicaragua mit hochgiftiger Zyanidlauge und Schwermetallen vergiftet werden. Mitten im Minengebiet lebt eine sehr bedrohte Papageienart. Für den Bechstein-Ara könnte die geplante Goldmine das endgültige Aussterben bedeuten. (Start: 20.11.2008)

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Titus Levi, Truthdig: "The American automobile industry occupies a near-mythic status in the nation's cultural and economic imagination. President-elect Barack Obama echoes the sentiments of many when he says that Detroit is 'the backbone of American manufacturing.' If it is - Detroit's economic importance is great but now occupies a lesser role than it did before it entered a slow-but-steady decline in the 1970s - then it suffers from acute and advanced damage that will require major surgery."

http://www.truthout.org/112108N

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Calling the Kettle Black
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters/peters26.html



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Julian Borger, The Guardian UK: "The United States' leading intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured, and some states are in danger of being 'taken over and run by criminal networks.' The global trends review, produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) every four years, represents sobering reading in Barack Obama's intray as he prepares to take office in January. The country he inherits, the report warns, will no longer be able to 'call the shots' alone, as its power over an increasingly multipolar world begins to wane."

http://www.truthout.org/112108M



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The American Worker

Rick Kepler, Truthout: "I am an American worker, and you are damn right I want the wealth to be shared and spread. I am talking about the wealth my hard work helped to create, but was taken from me by George Bush's base, the very rich, or as I know them, my corporate bosses. For the past eight years I have watched W.'s and McCain's (Country Club First) base grab the largest share of our country's wealth. Where did they take it from? They took it from my family's pocketbook, and my co-workers' families' pocketbooks. They stole the wealth that I was trying to build for me and my family when they stripped my pension plan from me and told me to invest in a 401k."

http://www.truthout.org/112108L

Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "The senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Thursday called for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department during its inquiry into the 2001 shoot-down of an American missionary plane by the Peruvian air force with help from a CIA spotter plane. The CIA's Office of General Counsel advised agency managers to avoid producing written reports about the incident 'to avoid both criminal charges against Agency officers and civil liability,' according to unclassified excerpts of an August CIA inspector general report released Thursday by Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra."

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Jack Healy, The New York Times: "In a day dominated by fear and uncertainty, financial markets plunged in late trading, carving new lows, in a melee of selling that cut across every sector of the market. Energy companies took the heaviest blows as the price of crude oil fell below $50 a barrel, and financial stocks sank sharply on fears that billions in government aid have done little to cure the financial and credit crises. 'The market can only take so many punches,' said Quincy Krosby, chief investment strategist at The Hartford. 'This market needs a break. It needs clarity. The question is, when and how much?”

http://www.truthout.org/112108J



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Die Finanzkrise beherrscht die Medien – aber über die Finanzlobby wird erstaunlich wenig diskutiert. Dabei wäre es wichtig, sich mit der Rolle und dem Einfluss der Finanzlobby zu beschäftigen. Denn die Finanzbranche hat lange darauf hingearbeitet, stärkere staatliche Regulierungen zu verhindern bzw. bestehende Beschränkungen zu beseitigen. Wir haben einige Aspekte zum Einfluss der Finanzlobby in den letzten Jahren zusammengetragen.

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Weiterer Fehler im Externen-Bericht der Bundesregierung

Nach mehreren Anfragen beim Auswärtigem Amt (die sich insgesamt über Wochen zogen) ist nun klar: die im Bericht der Bundesregierung über externe Mitarbeiter genannte und nicht zuzuordnende “Deutsche Stiftung für Auswärtige Politik” ist in Wirklichkeit die “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik”. Das hatten wir vermutet - trotzdem stellt sich die Frage, warum es so solchen Fehlern kommt. Anscheinend werden die Angaben im Bericht nicht sauber geprüft. Bereits kurz nach Erscheinen des Berichts musste das Innenministerium auf unser Nachhaken hin einräumen, dass ein externer Mitarbeiter des VDI Technologziezentrums im Bildungsministerium nicht aufgeführt wurde (siehe Bericht vom 13. Oktober). Eine externe Prüfungsinstanz wäre offensichtlich sinnvoll. Noch besser: die Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in Ministerien ganz beenden.

Weitere Hintergrundinformationen:
http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=646



SPD-Abgeordneter wird EADS-Lobbyist

Der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Ditmar Staffelt legt sein Bundestagsmandat nieder und wird zum 1. Januar 2009 der neue Vorstandsbeauftragte für Politik und Regierungsangelegenheiten des Luftfahrt- und Rüstungskonzerns EADS in Deutschland. Für EADS bringt er gute Kontakte und einschlägige Erfahrungen aus der Politik mit: Staffelt war bis 2005 Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Bundeswirtschaftsministerium und Koordinator der Bundesregierung für Luft- und Raumfahrt. Im Bundestag ist er zur Zeit Mitglied im Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten und stellvertretendes Mitglied im Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Technologie.

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Published: 21st November 2008 05:51

At the recent meeting between Stockport Councillors and representatives of the mobile telephone network operators under the umbrella of the Mobile Operators Association and in response to enquiry by Cllr Helen Foster- Grime as to the status of the proposed T-Mobile base station at the telephone exchange on Bramhall Road South.

T-Mobile have responded by email " Whilst the rights to progress do, of course, remain in place, I can confirm to you that T-Mobile no longer has any foreseeable intention to build this installation at the Bramhall Lane ATE, Bramhall Lane South, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 2EB. As outlined at the meeting, T-Mobile's Network Development emphasis and activity is currently mainly focused on progressing the consolidation of the existing 3G networks of T-Mobile and the company H3G."

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Margaret White fears electro-magnetic emissions

By Rachel Dearden

Published Date: 20 November 2008

A one-woman campaign is halting plans to introduce free wireless Internet access in a Lancashire town.

Margaret White says South Ribble Council has not considered the health risks before steaming ahead with setting up a wi-fi network across Leyland.

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CounterPunch
by Benjamin Davis

11/20/08

Recently released reports confirm that the United States still has very important unfinished business with regard to torture. Civilians at the highest levels of government as well as military generals have committed crimes. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger, and documents from 2003 and 2004 provide further evidence that the White House endorsed the use of torture. The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of State, Intelligence, and other leadership have all been complicit. Congressional leadership has been far too passive and encouraged these acts. These are bipartisan crimes. They are crimes against the United States and the world community. As usual, we read in the press that no one will prosecute these crimes. They will if we insist...

http://counterpunch.org/davis11202008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Time for a bank holiday

The Nation
by William Greider

11/19/08

Henry Paulson’s $700 billion plan to save the world is dead or dying, but the bailout was not killed by his arrogance or his grossly misleading claims about what the public’s money would buy. The plan collapsed because it didn’t work. The Treasury secretary has launched a PR offensive to revive his falling influence. Too late. The Democrats should be equally embarrassed. In September their leaders in Congress rushed to embrace the Paulson solution, no hard questions asked. They now claim they were duped...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081208/greider



The trouble with bailouts

Tennessean
by Joe Scarlett

11/20/08

In the old days bank robbers went to jail. Today, the bankers and the robbers are one and the same, and they are being rewarded for incompetence with huge bags of extra money, courtesy of us taxpayers. We have centuries of history that prove that markets don’t go up forever. Bankers, more than almost any other group, should know this and if they do not, they should not be bankers. When bankers give mortgages to those who obviously can’t repay, there is a serious shortage of basic common sense (or maybe just plain stupidity) as well as a lack of financial responsibility to stockholders and customers. When you look at today’s banking and real estate crisis, it is clear to even the least sophisticated among us that common sense has been lacking and basic ethics are out the window...

http://tennessean.com/article/20081120/BUSINESS01/81120031


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Die Lebenshaltungskosten in den USA sind im Oktober um 1% gefallen, so stark wie seit 1947 nicht mehr.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29186/1.html



Wann kommt die Große Depression?

Die US-Ökonomen Roubini und Farrell prognostizieren eine schwere Wirtschaftskrise und das Platzen der US-Staatsverschuldungsblase.

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Passage of the US-Iraq security pact under the terms both countries' leaders have advocated could violate the constitutions of both countries, specialists told a congressional subcommittee yesterday. - They instead pressed for an extension of the United Nations mandate authorizing US troop involvement in Iraq, which expires Dec. 31.

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Iraqis hold protest against US pact

Thousands of followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Shia leader, have protested in central Baghdad against a security pact with the United States.

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Mahdi Army warns of new insurgency in Iraq if US troops stay until 2011

At one point the effigy of the outgoing US President, dressed in a black suit and carrying a suitcase labelled "security agreement", was hoisted up a parapet where the Saddam statue once stood in Firdous Square.

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Iraq war illegal, bring on the trial

A senior British law lord, former Lord Chief Justice Lord Bingham, stated yesterday in a speech at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London that the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 was "a serious violation of international law".

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From Information Clearing House



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The 'dark side' of US counter-terrorism took center stage Wednesday in the case of a mentally ill Pakistani woman accused of attacking US officers in Afghanistan.

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From Information Clearing House

By Joseph L. Galloway

With two months still to go before his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama and his transition team are already getting off on the wrong foot, signaling that they have no intention of investigating anyone in the Bush administration for possible war crimes.

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Video

These are the stories of former agents who dared to break away from the CIA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21282.htm

Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia

By ROGER BURBACH

Observers of U.S.-Latin American policy tend to view the crisis in U.S.-Bolivian relations as due to a policy of neglect and ineptness toward Latin America because of U.S. involvement in the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. In fact, the Bolivia coup attempt was a conscious policy rooted in U.S. hostility toward Morales, his political party the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and the social movements that are aligned with him.

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Long live Haiti!

Famine in Haiti Made In The U.S.A

By G. Dunkel

In Baie d'Orange, a community of 20,000 associated with the municipality of Belle-Anse in southeast Haiti, 16 children and two adults died from hunger in the last week of October. Pierre Antoine Diléné, a doctor working in Belle-Anse, confirmed the deaths and emphasized that many were also suffering from dysentery, fevers and skin diseases.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21277.htm

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Children Dying in Haiti, Victims of Food Crisis

Jonathan M. Katz, The Associated Press: "The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly. In pockets of Haiti accessible only by donkey or foot, children are dying of malnutrition - their already meager food supply cut by a series of devastating storms that destroyed crops, wiped out livestock and sent food prices spiraling."

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Confront the Delusions

By Jim Kirwan

In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. We ask to be indulged and entertained by clichés, stereotypes and mythic narratives that tell us we can be whomever we want to be, that we live in the greatest country on Earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities and that our glorious future is preordained.

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By Mickey Z.

No, I don't mean that Great Depression. I'm talking about the inevitable moment-maybe next week, maybe next year-when the Kool Aid wears off and the Obamatrons wake up to realize their hero offers nothing even approximating hope or change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21284.htm



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Moving on to Plan B

By Mike Whitney

The global economy is being sucked into a black hole and most Americans have no idea why. The whole problem can be narrowed down to two words; "structured finance".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21280.htm



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Die verschiedenen Versuche der letzten Tage, den Fordgewerkschafter Etmanov zu überfallen hatten wir auch im LabourNet bereits berichtet - er ist aber nicht das einzige Ziel: Eine ganze Reihe sozialer Aktivisten wurden innerhalb kürzester Frist überfallen, bedroht und verfolgt: Ein heißer November gegen soziale Bewegungen insgesamt. Gleich sechs Opfer der letzten Tage werden in dem Artikel "Crimes against Justice: Who Stands to Gain?" von Alexander Bikbov aufgezählt, den Chtodelat am 20. November 2008 in englischer Übersetzung publizierte. Er argumentiert darin, daß es sich nicht um eine zufällige Häufung handelt - und auch nicht um die übliche Einschüchterungstaktik der Behörden. Die Frage "Wem nützt es?" muß gestellt werden..: http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/the-attacks-on-russian-activists-who-stands-to-gain/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. November 2008

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Business Cycles, Not Our Fault
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LUCY BOLTON

21 November 2008 07:00

The chief planner at the Norfolk council at the centre of a row over a controversial mast plan has written to the government calling for a change in the planning process.

The Evening News last week called on O2 to scrap plans to build a mast in Reepham Road, Hellesdon, after it won planning consent by default due to a blunder by Broadland District Council.

Permission was granted for the mast after a letter sent to O2 by the council did not arrive quickly enough. Broadland has since changed its own procedures to ensure it could not happen again.

But Phil Kirby, the council's strategic director and chief planner, has now written to the Department of Communities and Local Government - the government office responsible - to change the law to prevent it happening at other local authorities.

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Sarah Massey, Project Vote: "America's system of voter registration, in which the responsibility is placed almost solely on individuals, took center stage in this election cycle. In the wake of historic interest in voting, and after months of controversy surrounding nonprofit registration drives, America's leaders, journalists, and voting rights experts are calling for a new registration system that reduces the need for third-party registration drives and shifts responsibility from the individual to government."

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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft. Ironically, its strength lies in the fact that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics, the relative power of Shiites or Sunnis, the influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It really doesn't matter what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or oppositional cleric Muqtada al-Sadr think about it. In fact, it's an argument that has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with us, with the American way of war (and life), which makes it almost unassailable."

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William Glaberson, The New York Times: "In the first hearing on the government's justification for holding detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release."

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'When it comes to Obama's foreign policy, it is not looking good'
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Bush Administration Misses Yet Another Opportunity to Guide America to a Sustainable Energy Future While Failing to Protect Treasured Public Lands
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/11/20-0



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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — Henry Paulson's main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana along with them.

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Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future: "Free fall. The U.S. has lost private sector jobs for 10 straight months. One quarter of all businesses in the U.S. plan to cut payroll over the next year. Retail sales fell in October by the largest monthly drop on record. Auto sales have collapsed, driving the auto companies towards the precipice ... 'The era of big government is over' is over. In the crisis, we are, as Richard Nixon once said, 'all Keynesians now.'"

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Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press: "Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat, under a regulation the Bush administration is set to put in place before President-elect Obama can reverse them. The rules must be published Friday to take effect before Obama is sworn in Jan. 20. Otherwise, he can undo them with the stroke of a pen."

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Ross Colvin, Reuters: "The US government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday." In Iraq, "a session of Iraq's Parliament collapsed in chaos on Wednesday, as a discussion among lawmakers about a three-year security agreement with the Americans boiled over into shouting and physical confrontation," according to Campbell Robertson of The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/112008L



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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion of the military into higher education. One example of the increasingly intensified and expansive symbiosis between the military-industrial complex and academia was on full display when Robert Gates, the secretary of defense, announced the creation of what he calls a new 'Minerva Consortium,' ironically named after the goddess of wisdom, whose purpose is to fund various universities to 'carry out social-sciences research relevant to national security.'"

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„Schon häufig war die Kölner ARGE in der Kritik. Mit rechtswidrigen Praktiken soll sie auch – wie jetzt bekannt wurde – versucht haben, Erwerbslose dazu zu zwingen, monatliche Rücklagen für Ersatzbeschaffungen im Haushalt und für Renovierungen aus den viel zu geringen Hartz-IV-Beträgen zu bilden. Das ging selbst der Bundesregierung zu weit, die aber nach wie vor das Verarmungssystem Hartz IV weiter durchzieht…“ Artikel von Hans-Dieter Hey in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer vom 20. November 2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=13140


"Oskar für Herrenmenschen" an Sachbearbeiterin im Jobcenter Göttingen vergeben. Preis für die "menschenunwürdigste Sachbearbeitung im Fachbereich Soziales"

«Das Bündnis gegen Ämterschikane hat am 19. November 2008 einen ungewöhnlichen Preis verliehen: um 10 Uhr erschien eine Gruppe Erwerbsloser im Jobcenter Göttingen, um einer Mitarbeiterin den ersten Preis für die "menschenunwürdigste Sachbearbeitung im Fachbereich Soziales" zu übergeben. Ausgewählt wurde diese Sachbearbeiterin nach einer repräsentativen Umfrage unter LeistungsbezieherInnen. Die Beurteilung aller SachbearbeiterInnen fiel im Durchschnitt sehr schlecht aus. Außerdem entstand aus den Schilderungen der LeistungsempfängerInnen leider häufig der Eindruck, dass die Amtszimmer als rechtsfreier Raum betrachtet werden. Einige SachbearbeiterInnen sind den Auswerterinnen des Fragebogens jedoch besonders negativ aufgefallen. Um diesen Angestellten des öffentlichen Dienstes bewusst zu machen, dass ihr Verhalten gegenüber ALG II-EmpfängerInnen nicht unbemerkt bleibt, hat das Bündnis gegen Ämterschikane seinen "Oscar für Herrenmenschen" verliehen... » Pressemitteilung des Bündnisses gegen Ämterschikane vom 19.11.08 http://www.goest.de/aemterschikane.htm

Ausgewählt wurde diese Sachbearbeiterin nach einer repräsentativen Umfrage unter LeistungsbezieherInnen. Die wissenschaftlich durchgeführte Studie ist übrigens im Internet abrufbar (pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2008/zahltag_begleitschutz/goettingen/Befragung.pdf


Ermittlungen: Alles andere als integer. Die Krefelder Polizei vermutet kriminelle Machenschaften bei einem der größten Beschäftigungsträger im Kreis Kleve.

„Im Kreis Kleve sind sie stolz darauf, dass sie die Betreuung und Vermittlung von Langzeitarbeitslosen selbst regeln. Optionsmodell nennt sich dieses Konstrukt, bei dem die Arbeitsagentur außen vor ist. Glaubt man der Statistik, funktioniert dieses Modell sehr gut – die Zahl der sogenannten Bedarfsgemeinschaften im Kreis Kleve ist aktuell auf dem niedrigsten Stand seit dem Inkrafttreten der Hartz IV-Reform. Diese Zahl könnte aber bald wieder rapide nach oben schnellen: Einer der größten Qualifizierungs- und Beschäftigungsträger im Kreis Kleve steht kurz vor dem Aus und im Fokus polizeilicher Ermittlungen. 500 Menschen sind dort derzeit beschäftigt. Die Integra in Geldern ist eine gemeinnützige GmbH, gehört zum Diakonischen Werk und bietet Bewerbungstrainings, Berufsvorbereitung, Arbeitseinsätze für Ein-Euro-Jobber und Qualifizierungsprojekte an, eben die ganze Palette an Maßnahmen, mit denen Arbeitslose fit für den ersten Arbeitsmarkt gemacht werden sollen. Ende Oktober hat das Wirtschaftskommissariat der Krefelder Polizei dort eine Razzia durchgeführt. Die Kripo verdächtigt den bisherigen Geschäftsführer Rainer H. der Untreue und des Betrugs…“ Artikel von Jan Jesse in der NRZ vom 14.11.2008 http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/nrz/2008/11/14/news-90923049/detail.html


Aus: LabourNet, 20. November 2008

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ZAHLTAG in Köln geht weiter: Picknick und Umsonst-Flohmarkt in der ARGE am 30.11.2009

„Anläßlich eines Prozesses gegen zwei ZahltaglerInnen ist es mal wieder so weit: ZAHLTAG in Köln am Montag den 30.11.ab 9:30 Uhr treffen wir uns zum Picknick und Umsonst-Flohmarkt in der ARGE. (…) Solidarität mit den Angeklagten der Kampagne 'Zahltag!' (…) Der Prozess findet am 30.11.2009, um 12:00 Uhr, im Amtsgericht direkt neben der ARGE statt. (Luxemburger Str. 101) Noch weitere acht Menschen erwarten in gleicher Angelegenheit Prozesse. Wir werden deshalb am 30.11.09 schon um 9:30 Uhr an der ARGE Luxemburger Str. sein, um dort mit Euch gemeinsam einen Umsonst-Flohmarkt mit Frühstück zu machen…“ Aufruf bei tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1874


Aus: LabourNet, 24. November 2009



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„Vor der Festlegung des neuen Einheitsbeitrags für die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (GKV) und des künftigen Beitrags für die Arbeitslosenversicherung spielte – wieder einmal – die Frage zur Höhe und den Folgewirkungen von Lohnnebenkosten eine zentrale Rolle. Der Gesamtversicherungsbeitragssatz müsse auf jeden Fall unter 40 Prozent liegen, argumentieren die Arbeitgeber und etliche Politiker. Ansonsten beschränke das »den Spielraum zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen«. Gerade jetzt würde ein Beitragssatzanstieg »den zu erwartenden Konjunkturabschwung noch beschleunigen«. Stimmt diese These? Wie stark beeinflussen die Sozialbeiträge die gesamten Arbeitskosten? Der folgende Beitrag kommt zu dem Schluss: Die These von den Lohnnebenkosten als Dreh- und Angelpunkt für Wachstum und Arbeitsmarkt ist lediglich ein Mythos...“ Artikel von Gerhard Bäcker in Soziale Sicherheit 10/2008 (pdf) http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/081111%20Hinweise%20Lohnnebenkosten.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 20. November 2008



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„…Die große Ausnahme bildet die Leiharbeitsbranche. Sie, die die Krise am härtesten trifft, schweigt vor sich hin. Denn hier vollzieht sich die Arbeitslosigkeit schleichend. Erst werden die Leiharbeiter von den Entleihfirmen zurück in die Zeitarbeitsfirma geschickt: 5.000 Leute bei Conti, 5.000 bei BMW, 880 bei Daimler, um nur einige zu nennen. Finden die Verleiher keinen neuen Arbeitsplatz für die Zurückgeschickten, folgt die Kündigung. Doch von dieser erfährt kaum noch jemand etwas. Denn niemand schaut den Zeitarbeitsfirmen so genau auf die Finger wie den Auto- oder Chemiekonzernen. Und sie selber sagen nichts, um ihr Image nicht zu beschädigen… Wo ist hier der Rettungsschirm? Wo bleibt der Kündigungsschutz? Wer macht Sozialpläne bei Massenentlassungen? Bislang niemand. Denn das würde bedeuten, dass die Arbeitsmarktpolitik noch mal überdacht werden muss. Wer Leiharbeiter nach normalen Standards beschäftigen will, wird feststellen, dass er mehr Arbeitsplätze braucht. Regierung und Tarifpartner könnten sich hier ein Beispiel an den aktuellen Lösungsansätzen der Industriekonzerne für ihre Kernbelegschaften nehmen: Arbeitszeitverkürzung verteilt die vorhandene Arbeit auf mehr Menschen. Wie das dann mit dem vollen Lohnausgleich funktioniert, wird man herausfinden, wenn man diese Frage wieder ernsthaft diskutiert. Und darum geht es jetzt.“ Kommentar von Beate Willms in der taz vom 19.11.08 http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/kommentar/artikel/1/die-stummen-verlierer/


IG Metall Köln kritisiert Arbeitsagentur: Adecco darf 379 Leiharbeiter früher feuern

„Die Kölner Arbeitsagentur hat zugunsten der Zeitarbeitsfirma Adecco die Sperrfrist für Massenentlassungen verkürzt. Deshalb dürfen 379 Leiharbeiter schon zum 30. November entlassen werden. Ohne Verkürzung der Sperrfrist müsste Adecco sie bis Ende Dezember beschäftigten. Für Witich Roßmann, den 1. Bevollmächtigten der IG Metall Köln-Leverkusen, ist die Entscheidung des Ausschusses für meldepflichtige Massenentlassungen der Arbeitsagentur "ein Skandal". Pressemitteilung vom 19.11.08 (pdf) http://netkey40.igmetall.de/homepages/bezirksleitung-nrw/hochgeladenedateien/pdf/Pressemitteilung%20der%20IG%20Metall%20Koeln%2019.11.08.pdf

Siehe dazu auch: Massenentlassungen bei Adecco

„Mit den Stimmen der Vertreter der Arbeitgeberbank und der Vertreter der öffentlichen Körperschaften wurde die sogenannte „Regelsperrfrist“ (1 Monat) für Massenentlassungen auf Antrag der Zeitarbeitsfirma „Adecco“ um einen Tag verkürzt. Das klingt harmlos, hat aber weitgehende Konsequenzen für die betroffenen Arbeitnehmer…“ Presseerklärung der IG Metall Köln-Leverkusen vom 19.November 2008 bei Zoom http://www.igmetall-zoom.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 20. November 2008

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Rechtlos: "Ich will nur noch hier weg"

„Jan Mendes Hände sind zu geschwollen für seinen Ehering. Seine zehn Fingernägel sind weiß unterlaufen. Mende ist Krempler bei einem Autozulieferer im Ruhrgebiet. Wenn er hundertfach am Tag den Stoff über Autositze zieht, knicken seine Nägel oft um. "Wir müssen die scheußlichste Arbeit machen", sagt der Endvierziger. Wir, das sind Mende und 50 weitere Leiharbeiter, die in diesem Werk Innenausstattung für Autos von Opel und Ford fabrizieren…“ Artikel von Annika Joeres in der FR vom 25.11.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1635057_Ich-will-nur-noch-hier-weg.html

Aus dem Text: „… Die liberalisierte Leiharbeit ohne Zeitbegrenzung ist eine Idee der Schröder’schen Agenda 2010. So sollten Firmen bei guter Auftragslage schnell ein paar Arbeiter anheuern und auch wieder loswerden können. Es sollte eine Brücke in den Arbeitsmarkt für Geringqualifizierte und Langzeitarbeitslose sein. Doch inzwischen leiden auch die Stammbelegschaften darunter. Jede dritte Stelle der seit 2003 entstandenen Jobs ist Leiharbeit. "Dass sich so ein reiches Land wie unseres Arbeiter als Sklaven hält, ist furchtbar", sagt Dietmar Kupfer, Betriebsratsvorsitzender von Johnson Control in Bochum…“


Aus: LabourNet, 25. November 2008



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Thursday, November 20, 2008, 09:00

PERMISSION has been given for a phone mast to be erected next to a hospital despite it being near another pole belonging to a different company.

Vodafone has been given permission to build the 37ft structure containing three antennae, plus an equipment cabinet on the pavement, in Hilton Road, Hartshill.

It will be sited between two trees and will have a wood effect finish to make it look like a telegraph pole.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council's development control committee heard there is a T-Mobile pole about 50ft away, but sharing was ruled out because it would have meant extending the existing one and making it obtrusive.

Councillor Ian Mitchell said: "3G masts emit high frequency microwaves. This one is just in front of the hospital and new wards are being built there.

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20 November 2008

OVER the past few weeks letters have been published regarding the number of phone masts proposed to be erected in Redbridge.

Firstly, let me be quite open in the fact that I cannot take the moral high ground on this as I own a mobile phone and realise that in order to use it there has to be a mast in the vicinity.

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Reason
by Jacob Sullum

11/19/08

Remember when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned us that the economy was about to collapse unless Congress immediately authorized him to spend $700 billion on ‘troubled assets’ held by banks? Remember when he said banks would never lend again as long as they remained saddled with these bad investments? You do remember? So it’s not just me. I was beginning to think I had dreamed the whole thing, because a month and a half later the Treasury Department has yet to buy any troubled assets, and last week Paulson said it had no plans to do so. Instead the department is using its $700 billion to buy the banks themselves, which I could almost swear Paulson said was a bad idea a couple of months ago. Evidently the Bush administration is still calling the effort the Troubled Asset Relief Program for the sake of the acronym, which suggests a cover for something unsightly or embarrassing...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/130142.html


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Liberty For All
by Jonathan David Morris

11/19/08
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Robert Gates: As bad as Rumsfeld?

AntiWar.Com
by Ray McGovern

11/20/08

I suspect that those in Obama’s circle who are promoting Gates may be the same advisers responsible for Obama’s most naive comment of the recent presidential campaign: that the ’surge’ of US troops into Iraq in 2007-08 ’succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.’ Succeeded? You betcha — the surge was a great success in terms of the administration’s overriding objective. The aim was to stave off definitive defeat in Iraq until President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney could swagger from the West Wing into the western sunset on Jan. 20, 2009...

http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=13788



The audacity of … competence?

The American Prospect
by Ezra Klein

11/19/08

The clear theme of Obama’s transition team, White House staff decisions, and leaked cabinet appointments has been experience. Rahm Emanuel. Tom Daschle. Eric Holder. John Podesta. Hillary Clinton. Jim Messina. Pete Rouse. Phil Chiliro. And on, and on, and on. There’s not much ‘change’ here. Rather, the emphasis is on folks who know how Washington works, with the clear operating theory being that they’ll know how to get things done. That’s a different conception of ‘change’ than presidents who come in and bring a lot of new people, which is what Clinton did (though, to be sure, Clinton didn’t have a successful recent administration he could draw on for talent). But it’s very similar to what Obama did in the primary...

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Change we can bank on

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

11/19/08

This is not change we can believe in. Not if Robert Rubin or his protege, Lawrence Summers, get to call the shots on the economy in President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration. Both Clinton-era treasury secretaries deserve a great deal of the blame for the radical deregulation of the financial industry that has derailed the world economy. They both should, along with former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, perform rites of contrition and be kept at a safe distance from the leadership of our nation...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/scheer


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Obama to Keep Gates as Defense Secretary

Mike Allen, The Politico: "Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national security team early next week that includes Gates at the Pentagon and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) as secretary of state, officials said. Retired Marine General James Jones, former Marine commandant and commander of US and NATO forces in Europe, will be named national security adviser, the officials said."

http://www.truthout.org/112608J



Custodians of Empire

Tom Engelhardt, The Nation: "The Obama national security 'team' - part of that much-hailed 'team of rivals' - does not yet exist, but it does seem to be heaving into view. And so far, its views seem anything but rivalrous. Mainstream reporters and pundits lovingly refer to them as 'centrist,' but, in a Democratic context, they are distinctly right of center. The next secretary of state looks to be Hillary Clinton, a hawk on the Middle East. During the campaign, she spoke of our ability to 'totally obliterate' Iran, should that country carry out a nuclear strike against Israel. She will evidently be allowed to bring her own (hawkish) subordinates into the State Department with her. Her prospective appointment is now being praised by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Henry Kissinger."

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Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post: "The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators formally dissented from the decision and four others criticized the move in writing."

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The New York Times: "Chronically ill Americans suffer far worse care than their counterparts in seven other industrial nations, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that has pioneered in international comparisons. It is the latest telling evidence that the dysfunctional American health care system badly needs reform."

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David Herbert, National Journal: "Anyone walking through Election Protection's headquarters on Nov. 4 could have been forgiven for thinking the invasion of a small country was under way rather than an election. Dozens of volunteers fielded calls from harassed or confused voters in a command center complete with a 20-foot-high wall of digital maps and statistics. Upstairs, teams of lawyers hunched around conference tables littered with soda cans and cups of cold coffee, working the phones and dispatching legal teams to troubled polling stations ..."

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Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "The National Association of Home Builders' housing market index fell to a new low of 9 in October, dropping 5 points from the September level. The Census Bureau reported that housing starts dropped 4.5 percent in October to an annual rate of 791,000. Construction of single-family homes fell by 3.3 percent to a 531,000 annual rate. The construction rate on single-family homes is the lowest since October of 1981, when it was at a 523,000 annual rate. The overall rate is the lowest since at least 1959."

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Colum Lynch, The Washington Post: "The United States, the world's largest international aid donor, is among the worst at promoting the independence, impartiality and neutrality of humanitarian aid deliveries to needy populations, according to a survey by a Madrid-based nonprofit group that monitors donors' performance."

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/2404614

I feel that this is an important petition; let's see if we can't get it up to the 5,000 signature goal.

Earle


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From: meriem
Date: 11/18/2008 3:43:44 PM
Subject: Borneo, ORANGUTANS - Please sign....

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Borneo Orangutans are being wiped out due to capture for black- market pet trade in Indonesia and abroad, as a delicacy meat by diners, by shopkeepers who sell the animals' skulls as souvenirs, and by loggers who are decimating their jungle habitat. These intelligent, gentle, and evolutionary cousins need our help to ensure the survival of their remarkable species, and ultimately our planets survival as well. To find out more about the BOS...go to http://www.readersdigest.com/orangutan for more ways you can help in their survival.



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