Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008

Congress Ignored Critical Bailout Oversight

American News Project (ANP)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/19-2



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The Betrayal of the Commons

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/19-1



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Military Plans to Violate Iraq Withdrawal Terms

US Military Defiant on Key Terms of Iraqi Pact
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/19



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Rachel's News #990

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/7da184d1733567d4?hl=de

Next-up News Nr 781

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/6d62c06e809131a5?hl=de

A good example of local democracy

Published Date: 19 December 2008

By Staff Copy

From: John Gordon, Whitcliffe Lane, Ripon.

THE issue of the Vodafone mobile phone mast which the firm wants to erect a mere 60 metres away from Greystone School has raised a interesting example of local democracy.

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Time to hang up on debate over masts

19 December 2008

I am bemused that Cllr Staight and Cllr Tyne continue to pursue a laborious exchange via the Recorder over phone masts.

In response to their questions: The Principal of Redbridge College approached me with a concern about the proposed telephone mast and I have campaigned against it in support of local resident apprehension.

Whether the college was in collusion or agreed to permit an application for a mast on their premises is questionable. I will assume however they were not approached considering the conversations I have had.

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http://tinyurl.com/4sqv8u

Bailouts unconstitutional failures

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

12/17/08

Jacob Sullum’s recent column argues that Bush’s auto bailout plan is an unconstitutional violation of separation of powers. We earlier argued that it was either illegal or unconstitutional. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve, with little public awareness, is attempting a financial system bailout far bigger than Congress ever authorized, resulting in one failure after another, as economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel explains in a recent editorial...

http://tinyurl.com/4unrxb



Bailouts aggravate financial crisis

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

12/29/08

In the New York Times, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University argues that the $700 billion financial-system bailout is impeding an economic recovery. Because of the ‘ad hoc,’ standardless way the money is being doled out, ‘the market doesn’t know what to expect and many financial institutions are sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see what regulators will do next. Regulatory uncertainty is stifling the ability of financial markets to engineer at least a partial recovery’...

http://tinyurl.com/9fj55b


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Superpower of Toilet Papers

By Matthias Chang

The US has been abusing its financial power by the use of its greatest invention, the "toilet paper printing press" (now, the modern "electronic printing press") to issue irredeemable fiat money. Now the world is flooded with trillions of this toilet paper, namely US dollars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21503.htm



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How to protect yourself from martial law

WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

12/16/08

What would you do if martial law were declared in the United States? After all, martial law is not a new concept nor a new reality to America. It was declared in 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion, in 1882 during the Civil War, in Hawaii during World War II, and in NYC after 9/11. Many analysts have commented on how the Bush administration has paved the way for Presidents to declare martial law in the future. … If martial law is declared, your civil rights will no longer be recognized by the authorities; basic rights — such as due process — will no longer exist. How can you protect yourself … right now and afterward?

http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2148


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Mass graves remain unprotected in Afghanistan

Miami Herald

12/18/08

A week after the revelation that remains had been bulldozed from a mass grave site that held up to 2,000 bodies in Afghanistan, the location remains unprotected, the United Nations hasn’t released its own investigation and the warlord who’s accused of the exhumation is comfortably lodged just down the street from a Starbucks in Turkey’s capital. None of the key players in Afghanistan — the U.S. military, NATO, the United Nations or the Afghan government — has taken responsibility for safeguarding the site at Dasht-e Leili in northern Afghanistan. Each says that someone else should take the first step...

http://tinyurl.com/5258zp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Piratenjagd auch auf dem Land

Der Bundestag entscheidet über die Beteiligung der Bundeswehr an der EU-Operation Atalanta und damit an der Teilnahme an einem neuen militärischen Abenteuer nach Afghanistan.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29395/1.html



Abenteuer Somalia

Der Kampf gegen die Piraten in Somalia könnte in einen Krieg wie in Afghanistan münden und islamistische Gruppen weiter stärken.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29419/1.html





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Der nächste Schritt zum Überwachungsstaat

CDU/CSU und SPD haben im Vermittlungsausschuss den zuletzt zwischen den Parteien der Großen Koalition ausgehandelten Kompromiss zum neuen BKA-Gesetz beschlossen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29396/1.html



Onlinedurchsuchung: BKA-Gesetz verabschiedet, alle Fragen offen

Das umstrittene BKA-Gesetz wurde verabschiedet, sein Inkrafttreten hängt nun nur noch von der Unterschrift des Bundespräsidenten ab. Die Äußerungen des BKA-Chefs sind einmal öfter Grund zur Sorge wie auch Zeichen für technisches Unverständnis.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29415/1.html



BKA, BDK, Lügen und Onlinedurchsuchungen

Das Heulen und Wehklagen um das "verwässerte" BKA-Gesetz nimmt zu. Und die Widersprüche werden deutlicher.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/120858

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19. Dezember 2008

SPD-Geschenk für Schäubles Gabentisch: bundesdeutsches FBI

Zur heutigen Verabschiedung des umstrittenen BKA-Gesetzes im Bundesrat, erklärt das Mitglied im Parteivorstand Jan Korte (MdB):

Das Weihnachtsfest ist für Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) gerettet, für die Weihnachtsgans leider nicht. Schäuble kann auf ein für ihn sehr erfolgreiches Jahr 2008 zurückblicken. Denn auch der letzte Baustein zum weiteren Abbau von Bürger- und Freiheitsrechten, das BKA-Gesetz, wurde heute im Bundesrat mit tatkräftiger Hilfe der SPD gesetzt. Wenngleich man sagen muss, dass das Abstimmungsergebnis heute denkbar knapp war. Aber Schäuble wäre nicht Innenminister, wenn er sich nicht der Gefolgschaft der SPD sicher sein könnte. Das muss man den Genossen lassen, sie haben die Quadratur des Kreises vorbildlich hinbekommen. Die Online-Durchsuchung bleibt zwar, liegt nun aber auch in Eilfällen unter einem Richtervorbehalt. Ein Sieg für die Bürgerrechte tönt es deshalb aus den SPD-Ländern. Klar, und die Erde ist eine Scheibe… Dass mit der Verabschiedung des BKA-Gesetzes im Eiltempo noch vor dem Jahreswechsel und ohne die Kenntnisnahme der Proteste zahlreicher ehrlicher Bürgerrechtler ein bundesdeutsches FBI geschaffen wurde, ist bedenklich genug. Dass die SPD mit ihrer Zustimmung zu dem umstrittenen Ergebnis der Verhandlungen im Vermittlungsausschuss auch noch Journalisten, Anwälte und Ärzte an die kurze Leine nimmt, ist in vielerlei Hinsicht nicht hinnehmbar. Mit der Einschränkung des Zeugnisverweigerungsrechtes für diese Berufsgruppen ist die Demokratie insgesamt beschädigt worden. Eine Kontrolle dubioser Machenschaften in Politik und Wirtschaft durch die Arbeit von Journalisten ist ab heute kaum mehr vorstellbar, weil schlichtweg unmöglich. Der Demokratie hat die Große Koalition damit keinen Gefallen getan. Das Kasperletheater der SPD, mit ihrer Zustimmung zum BKA-Gesetz vor Wochen im Bundestag, ihrer gespielten Empörung im Bundesrat und ihrer nun erfolgten Zustimmung in einer zweiten Abstimmung, hat endlich ein Ende gefunden. Lediglich in Berlin ist es durch den Druck der LINKEN in der Landesregierung möglich geworden, auch die Sozialdemokraten zu einem Nein bei der heutigen Abstimmung im Bundesrat zu bewegen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/spd-geschenk-fuer-schaeubles-gabentisch-bundesdeutsches-fbi/

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Bundesrat billigt weitreichende polizeiliche Befugnisse für das BKA

Auch nach der Verabschiedung des BKA-Gesetzes reißt die Kritik an den umstrittenen Neuregelungen nicht ab. Die frühere Bundesjustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) sprach am Freitag (19. Dezember) von einem "schwarzen Tag für die Grundrechte". Linksfraktionsvize Petra Pau beklagte, das Gesetz wirke "wider den Rechtsstaat". Grünen-Chefin Claudia Roth wertete die Neuregelungen als "Bürgerrechtskiller". Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) begrüßte dagegen die Verabschiedung des Gesetzes durch Bundestag und Bundesrat "außerordentlich". Zuvor hatte das BKA-Gesetz im Bundesrat die letzte parlamentarische Hürde genommen. Einen Tag nach dem Bundestag billigte auch die Länderkammer die Einigungsempfehlung des Vermittlungsausschusses. Mit dem Gesetz werden dem Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) weitreichende polizeiliche Befugnisse eingeräumt. So werden ihm unter anderem die akustische und optische Wohnraumüberwachung sowie die Online-Durchsuchung privater Computer gestattet.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19100



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Workers Laid Off, Execs Paid Off

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/18-6



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Will War Crimes Be Outed?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/18-5

Committing War Crimes for the 'Right Reasons'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/18-4



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Indian GM Crops Battle Heats Up

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/18-3



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Where Have the Bailout Billions Gone?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/18-0

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Corruption Destroys Afghanistan

Michael Winship, Truthout: "Just when you've finally gotten your mind around the enormous $700 billion financial bailout - even if none of us are really sure where all that money's going - there comes an even greater, breathtaking price tag."

http://www.truthout.org/122008A



Where'd the Bailout Money Go? Shhhh, It's a Secret

Matt Apuzzo, The Associated Press: "It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it. 'We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, "Here's how we're doing it,"' said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. 'We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to.'"

http://www.truthout.org/122208C



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Obama still embraces myth of American exceptionalism

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8162/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Time to wake up

Information Clearinghouse
by Jon Ronnquist

12/18/08

For a time we were all kings, walking tall beneath the banner of imagined destiny. In the east the grateful poor toiled at our behest and sang songs of praise to their generous masters beyond the sea. Or so we dreamt even as we watched them dead and dying at the hands of our henchmen. Now that our halls are crumbling beneath the weight of our own greed and false complacency, let us not dishonour the dead with our hollow pleas of innocence and ignorance. It is only we who do not yet know real suffering, to the world at large it has long since become a matter of course.Were we manipulated into complacency? Of course we were. Does that absolve us of responsibility? Of course it doesn’t. Our very laws are founded on the principle that it can’t. It is all too easy to lay the blame at the feet of a handful of evil men. But you cannot stone the slave auctioneer when you are a profiteer of his trade. See reason and banish him by all means, but do not court hypocrisy by false disassociation...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21489.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Panel: Congress was misled on Iraq uranium issue

House panel: Former White House counsel misled Congress on Iraq uranium claims in 2002.

http://tinyurl.com/4x9d23


From Information Clearing House



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U.S. military's Iraq withdrawal plan differs from Obama's promise

The plan will make the withdrawal at a slower pace than Obama promised during the campaign, when he called for all combat troops to be out within 16 months -- by the summer of 2010.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/19/content_10527451.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq: Coup Plot Foiled?

US Fires on Fallujah Shoe-Throwers

By Juan Cole

The news from Iraq on Wednesday shows that the Iraqi government's hold on power is fragile, and that it faces shadowy coup plotters from within and a continued guerrilla insurgency from without.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21493.htm

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Iraqi Shoe Thrower Prompts Racist Rant From Bill O'Reilly

By RNIF

First he says that the shoe thrower is evidence of the ingratitude, "violence" and "irrational thinking" in the "Arab world", before going to on discuss the "danger from the Muslim world" and whether torture is the right way to go about dealing with it. Note also the graphic shown at the beginning and end of the segment of the American flag and a menacing, red-coloured star and crescent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21497.htm

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Flying Shoes, Bursting Bubbles
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w65.html



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Afghanistan is going to be Obama's War

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never been nearer to strategic defeat.

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Depression and Tax Resistance

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1220466/12759198/68943/0/



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The people at the Fed can destroy the system

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff247.html



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Nearly every day brings new reports of the collapse of a large financial institution

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Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008

Next-up News Nr 779

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/41913abf06eebdbc?hl=de

Ron Paul: Fear Based Bailouts Constitute Economic Terrorism

http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2008/181208Paul.htm

Bloomberg Misquotes Ron Paul Seconds After He Speaks
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bloomberg-misquotes-ron-paul-seconds-after-he-speaks.html



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DGB zum Urteil über „Ein-Euro-Jobs“: Unvereinbar mit internationalen Arbeitsnormen

Ein-Euro-Job mit Arbeitszeit von 30 Stunden kann zulässig sein

„Der Kläger dieses Verfahrens, der eine Ausbildung zum Ingenieur für Kunststoffe absolviert hat, steht seit September 2001 im Bezug von Leistungen wegen Arbeitslosigkeit. Die beklagte Arbeitsgemeinschaft bot ihm im August 2005 eine bis 17. Dezember 2005 befristete Arbeitsgelegenheit gegen eine Mehraufwandsentschädigung von 1,50 €/Stunde als Gemeindearbeiter im Umfang von wöchentlich 30 Stunden an. Der Kläger trat die Arbeitsgelegenheit nicht an. Daraufhin senkte die beklagte Arbeits­gemeinschaft die Regelleistung (Arbeitslosengeld II) für Oktober bis Dezember in Höhe von bisher 345 Euro monatlich um 30 vH (= 103,50 Euro). Hiergegen wandte sich der Kläger ua mit der Begründung, die angebotene Tätigkeit überschreite mit 30 Stunden das Maß des Zulässigen. Das Sozialgericht hat die Klage abgewiesen, das Landessozialgericht ihr teilweise stattgegeben. Der 4. Senat des Bundessozialgerichts hat am 16. Dezember 2008 im Verfahren B 4 AS 60/07 R entschieden, dass die Beklagte dem Kläger eine Arbeitsgelegenheit angeboten hat, die den gesetzlichen Anforderungen genügt…“ Medieninformation des Bundessozialgerichts vom 16. Dezember 2008 http://juris.bundessozialgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bsg&Art=ps&Datum=2008&nr=10707&pos=0&anz=57

Siehe dazu:

DGB zum Urteil über „Ein-Euro-Jobs“: Unvereinbar mit internationalen Arbeitsnormen

„Ein arbeitsloser Ingenieur hatte geklagt und verlor. Er verweigerte, 30 Stunden wöchentlich Hilfstätigkeiten wie ‚Folien um Bäume wickeln’ auszuüben – für 1,50 Euro die Stunde. Reguläre Beschäftigung werde verdrängt, argumentierte der Mann. Das Bundessozialgericht entschied, ihm könne das Arbeitslosengeld II um 30 Prozent gekürzt werden. DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach: „Ein-Euro-Jobs gehören auf den Prüfstand.“..“ Pressemitteilung vom 16.12.2008 http://www.dgb.de/2008/12/16_ein_euro_jobs.htm/


Bundessozialgericht legalisiert Zwangsarbeit

Mit der Zulassung einer Wochenarbeitszeit von 30 Stunden bei Arbeitsgelegenheiten hat das Bundessozialgericht den Bundesarbeitsdienst ausgebaut. Kommentar von Volker Ritter, Vorsitzender des ver.di-Ortserwerbslosenausschuss Hannover http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/ritter.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Dezember 2008

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Bundessozialgericht: 30 Stunden-Woche bei Ein-Euro-Jobs für rechtens erklärt

Als skandalös kann man das neuerliche Urteil des Bundessozialgerichtes (BSG) betiteln: Das oberste Gericht sah es als rechtens an, dass Hartz IV Betroffene 30 Wochenarbeitsstunden arbeiten müssen und dafür gerade einmal einen Hungerlohn erhalten. Dabei hob das BSG das Urteil des Landessozialgerichts in Bayern auf. Nimmt ein ALG II Empfänger die Arbeitsgelegenheit nicht an, so kann von der Arge das ALG II um 30 Prozent gekürzt werden, so die Bundessozialrichter.

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Victory for Amington residents in phone mast battle

Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10:30

THERE has been a victory for residents protesting against a telephone mast being put up in their street after town planners turned down the application.

Tamworth Borough Council's planning committee voted against having the 10m high mast in Brindley Drive, to the rear of Selker Drive, Amington, but said they would work with applicants Vodafone UK to find a suitable alternative site – across the street has been put forward as a possibility.

The committee went against its planning officers' advice to refuse the application at a meeting on Wednesday night.

Their decision came after hearing the arguments of angry residents, who were all against the mast.

Lawrence Bright, who lives in Selker Drive, said residents had not been properly informed of the facts, and that the area was already saturated with telephone masts.

"We are going to end up with masts all the way down this place," he told the planning committee.

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Grausame Schweinemast auf Kosten des Regenwalds

Für Soja wird der Cerrado abgefackelt Für Soja wird der Cerrado abgefackelt

In dem kleinen Ort Haßleben in Brandenburg ist eine der größten Schweinemastbetriebe Europas geplant. Bis zu 67.000 Tiere sollen hier gemästet werden – ein Horror für Tier- und Umweltschützer sowie Anwohner. Gemästet werden die Schweine neben Mais mit Sojaschrot aus Südamerika und Palmölkuchen aus Südostasien. Für Sojaäcker und Ölpalmplantagen wird der Regenwald niedergebrannt. Stoppen sie das Projekt. (Start: 17.12.2008)

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=342



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The bailout state

Illegal lending practices

Reason
by Jacob Sullum

12/17/08

Even Americans whose knowledge of the legislative process is limited to the ‘I’m Just a Bill’ episode of Schoolhouse Rock know about the veto: If Congress approves legislation the president doesn’t like, he can refuse to sign it, in which case the law can be enacted only by a two-thirds vote of each chamber. President Bush’s plan to aid the auto industry relies on a more obscure maneuver: If Congress rejects a bill the president likes, he can act as if the vote went the other way. This maneuver, unlike the veto, is illegal by definition, not to mention unconstitutional, violating the separation of powers and the rule of law. But it is business as usual for Bush, who has shown no compunction about ignoring the law when it prohibits him from doing what he considers necessary in response to what he considers an emergency...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/130600.html



The bailout state

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

12/15/08

Ours is the Age of the Bailout. Bailing out failing companies is not new, but today the scale is unprecedented and the opposition is scant. The government today is committed to more than $7 trillion in various forms of stock purchases, loans, and guarantees. The Treasury secretary has been given awesome discretionary power to buy bad securities or shares in banks. The Federal Reserve now lends money to investment banks, not just commercial banks. It is also now buying securities that have no market value...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0812h.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Obama looking at $850 billion “stimulus” scam

Salisbury Post

12/17/08

Anxious to jolt the economy back to life, President-elect Barack Obama appears to be zeroing in on a stimulus package of about $850 billion, dwarfing last spring’s tax rebates and rivaling drastic government actions to fight the Great Depression. Obama has not settled on a grand total, but after consulting with outside economists of all political stripes, his advisers have begun telling Congress the stimulus should be bigger than the $600 billion initially envisioned, congressional officials said Wednesday...

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Blow for phone mast protesters

Published Date: 18 December 2008

By Ben Truslove

THURSDAY 10AM: Protesters who thought they had beaten the world's largest mobile phone company were dealt a blow recently when an application to build a mast were re-submitted.

Vodafone's plans for the base station on the corner of Grange Drive and Sapcote Drive appeared sunk when it was revealed the land belonged to Bargain Booze owner Amarjid Singh who refused permission.

But angry residents were shocked to discover a second application this month just six metres away on an area belonging to Leicestershire Highways - affectively tying planning officials hands.

Catherine Langley, who lives just yards away in Grange Drive, is prepared to chain herself to the railings to stop the mast being built.

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Patriot Act, Bespitzelung, Guantanamo, Folter?

US-Vizepräsident Dick Cheney verteidigt zum Abschied die nach dem 11.9. eingeführten Mittel zur "Verteidigung der Nation".

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29375/1.html



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Die FED legt Grundstein für den Dollar-Crash

US-Notenbank hat ihren geldpolitischen Spielraum fast völlig ausgereizt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29379/1.html



Von der Immobilienspekulation zum Zusammenbruch der globalen Defizitkonjunktur

Kurze Geschichte der Weltwirtschaftskrise.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29356/1.html

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„Aktiv werden für eine soziale Antikrisenpolitik!“

Beschluss des ver.di-Gewerkschaftsrats am 04./05. Dezember 2008 in der uns zugesandten Version als Beschlussvorlage (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/finanz/krise08verdigr.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Die ver.di hat, gemeinsam mit attac Europa, den Friends of Earth Europe und anderen am 10. Januar 2009 nach Paris eingeladen, um über die Konsequenzen aus der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise zu diskutieren, um eine Verständigung über die weitere Vorgehensweise auf der europäischen Ebene zu erreichen. Der EGB hat auf starken Druck des DGB, der Uni Europa und anderer deutschsprachiger Gewerkschaftsverbände erreicht, dass ein europäischer Aktionsplan beschlossen wurde. Dieser sieht vor, dass für den 1. Mai mit den Schwerpunkten Europa und Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mobilisiert werden soll und RednerInnen im europäischen Raum ausgetauscht werden. Darüber hinaus soll der EGB am 4. Dezember 2008 beschließen, dass in mehreren europäischen Städten Demonstrationen im März/Mai 2009 stattfinden. Dazu werden wir Materialien entwickeln. Der DGB Bundesvorstand hat einen Kapitalismuskongress beschlossen, auf dem über die zu ziehenden Konsequenzen aus der Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktkrise diskutiert werden soll. Die ver.di wird sich für einen offenen Kongress einsetzen, der noch im Frühjahr 2009 stattfindet…“


Konjunkturkrise - Hintergründe und Forderungen

Die wichtigsten Informationen zur Krise und ihren Folgen für Arbeitnehmer. Sonderseite bei der IG Metall http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A456501-DBE71E40/internet/style.xsl/view_19945.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Dezember 2008



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Next-up News Nr 778

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Vilsack Not 'Change We Can Believe In'

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/17-15



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What's Next For America?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/17

America: The Choice Ahead
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/17-5



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Too many unanswered questions

http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/letters_12_2008/Too%20many%20unanswered%20questions.htm

Climate Change: Chasm Widens Between Science and Policy

Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service: "The roof of our house is on fire while the leaders of our family sit comfortably in the living room below preoccupied with 'political realities' - that was essentially the message from 1,000 scientists from around the world along with northern indigenous leaders gathered in Quebec City for the International Arctic Change conference that concluded last weekend. Presenting data from hundreds of studies and research projects detailing the Arctic region's rapid meltdown and cascading ecological impacts, participants urged governments to take 'immediate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.'"

http://www.truthout.org/121708EA

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Has the Arctic Melt Passed the Point of No Return?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/17-3



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Obama's Betrayal of Public Education?

Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

Henry A. Giroux and Kenneth Saltman, Truthout: "Barack Obama's selection of Arne Duncan for secretary of education does not bode well either for the political direction of his administration nor for the future of public education. Obama's call for change falls flat with this appointment, not only because Duncan largely defines schools within a market-based and penal model of pedagogy, but also because he does not have the slightest understanding of schools as something other than adjuncts of the corporation at best or the prison at worse."

http://www.truthout.org/121708R



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Bolivia’s Amazon Riches to Be Plundered for Oil

ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.org/
December 17, 2008

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=bolivia_rainforest

President Morales must be encouraged to live up to his grand rhetoric, and end his government's hurried measures to decimate massive indigenous rainforest protected areas and their biodiversity and climate values, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the capitalistic system against which he rallies.

BRIEF BACKGROUND: Bolivia's Madidi National Park and Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve are communal lands containing some of the most biodiverse areas on earth. With the assent of President Evo Morales, the oil giant Petrobas and collaborators have begun an oil exploration assault that threatens not only these remarkable ecosystems, but also the culture and livelihood of the resident indigenous peoples. Mr. Morales must be encouraged to live up to his grand rhetoric, and end his government's hurried plans to decimate indigenous protected areas, local sustainable livelihoods and their rainforest lands' biodiversity and climate values.

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

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Planning chairman raises health fears over phone masts

Dec 17 2008

by Lynda Nicol, East Kilbride News

EAST Renfrewshire’s planning convener has put out the call to the Scottish and United Kingdom Governments to examine health concerns around mobile phone masts.

Councillor Ian McAlpine, who chairs the council’s planning applications committee, has contacted the area’s MP and MSP to call on an examination of the issue.

He said: “When we receive a planning application for a mobile phone mast it is examined by our council planners strictly on planning grounds.

“But residents keep raising health concerns. As planning convener, I cannot take these into account, our planners cannot examine them and our committee members cannot consider them when making a decision.

“Our residents are concerned but neither we, our national Governments nor the mobile phone industry are doing enough to answer their questions.”

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'75% in US bear the brunt of recession'

In almost one home in five (18 percent) someone has lost a job in recent months, and in more than a quarter (27 percent) a worker has had his or her pay cut or working hours reduced, the poll found.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=78781&sectionid=3510213


From Information Clearing House



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Guantanamo 'worst place on Earth'

AN Algerian-born man who has just been freed from Guantanamo Bay has described the US "war on terror" camp as the worst place on Earth, in an interview published in a Bosnian newspaper.

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From Information Clearing House



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Russia alarmed by planned U.S. bases in Central Asia

A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081216/118886117.html


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Stand Up Against Bush's Giveaway of America's Redrock Wilderness

By Robert Redford

In three days, this Friday, 110,000 acres of majestic Utah wild lands go on the auction block, to be sold to the highest bidders in the oil and gas industry. It's a last-ditch effort by a corrupt administration to further enrich its friends in the dirty fuels business. If they succeed, they'll leave a wasteland behind them.

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The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

By Chris Hedges

The multiple failures that beset the country, from our mismanaged economy to our shredded constitutional rights to our lack of universal health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle East, can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21487.htm



Why I Am a Socialist

By Chris Hedges

The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies.

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London Banker: "The market has failed, and officialdom is perpetuating that failure"

By Mike Whitney

It is now clear to me that policy makers in the West are determined to apply every available resource to underpinning failure, misallocation and executive excess. As this discourages the honest saver from parting with cash, policy makers are ensuring that deflation will wreak its havoc on the financial and real economies of the world.

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A Hypocrite as Our Diplomat in Chief

By John R. MacArthur

So far, the president-elect's Cabinet choices make a joke of the liberals who backed him in the hope that something fundamental might change in America's belligerent behavior abroad. As the neo-conservative Max Boot approvingly observed, the appointment of Gen. James Jones as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the retention of Robert Gates as defense secretary "could just as easily have come from a President McCain."

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The American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan

A Million McVeighs Now

By Chris Floyd

The "Good War" in Afghanistan - the Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win - continues to deteriorate before our eyes. Just like every other operation in the so-called "War on Terror" (another Bush-launched campaign that Obama has fully embraced as his own), the Afghan war, now in its seventh year, has proven entirely counterproductive to its stated aims.

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What's Next for Afghanistan?

Friday on Bill Moyers Journal: "As a new administration is set to take over in the White House, Bill Moyers checks in with author Sarah Chayes on the state of affairs in America's other war in Afghanistan. An author and former journalist, Chayes has lived the last seven years in Afghanistan, helping to rebuild the country."

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US War Criminals

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The Medical-Industrial Complex

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Government Spending Makes Recessions Worse

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