World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/07-2


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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

Rachel Stohl, Center for Defense Information: "On Oct. 23, 2008, the Congressional Research Service released the most recent version of its annual arms transfer report, 'Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2000-2007.' According to the report, U.S. arms agreements to both developed and developing countries increased from 2006 levels, re-establishing the U.S. position of top arms supplier to the developing world, a position that Russia claimed in 2006."

http://www.truthout.org/010709C



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rachel+Stohl

Reuters: "U.S. private-sector employers shed 693,000 jobs in December, a private employment service said Wednesday in a report that was far worse than expected and pointed to more ugly news from the government's jobs data due later this week."

http://www.truthout.org/010709B



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss

... contaminations-chimiques.info - Le Noyer, France

Avec la participation du Professeur Olle JOHANSSON, professeur associé au Karolinska Institute de Stockholm (Suède), co-auteur du Rapport BioInitiative, ... http://www.contaminations-chimiques.info/?2009/01/07/510-paris-colloque-telephonie-mobile-wifi-wimax-et-sante-etat-des-lieux

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CHAMPS ÉLECTROMAGNÉTIQUES: NOUVEAU RÉQUISITOIRE POUR LES CHSCT

Planetefacility - Paris, France

... plus contraignantes, ou encore des chercheurs américains, nordiques, autrichiens et chinois dans le cadre du rapport BioInitiative publié fin août 2007. ...

http://www.planetefacility.com/index.php?id=922

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Ouvrons les yeux

01net - Paris, France

Vous ne parlez pas de la principale référence en matière d'études à savoir le rapport bioinitiative qui recouvre plus de 1500 études en la matière. il en ... http://www.01net.com/editorial/399842/faut-il_avoir_peur_des_ondes_des_telephones_mobiles_et_des_a/?forum=399842&post=210978

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Téléphonie mobile: dialogue de sourds

VivAgora - Paris, France

Le rapport Bioinitiative (3), réalisé en 2007 par une vingtaine de scientifiques américains, en examine 1 500 et conclut, pour sa part, que « l’exposition à ...

http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?article387

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Appareils électriques et électroniques
http://www2.canoe.com/techno/nouvelles/archives/2009/01/20090121-080341.html

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L’ARTAC décrit le syndrome d’intolérance aux champs ... contaminations-chimiques.info - Le Noyer, France

Néanmoins, des données toxicologiques et biologiques telles qu’exposées dans le rapport de consensus international «Bioinitiative» apportent une preuve ...

http://www.contaminations-chimiques.info/?2009/01/23/525-lartac-decrit-le-syndrome-dintolerance-aux-champs-electromagnetiques-sicem



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Johansson
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=BioInitiative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice: "Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA) - located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun's national security correspondent, David Wood: 'The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour.... The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages.'"

http://www.truthout.org/010709M



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nat+Hentoff

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Your greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what you have done. Your greatness will stand forever if we never, ever forget the hard, bitter lessons you taught us. We are responsible for this republic, for our Constitution, and for each other. We are our brother's keeper. You taught us that by becoming our Cain. You nearly slew us, but here we stand, and we defy the place in history you would relegate us to. We defy you, and by doing so, we rise."

http://www.truthout.org/010709J



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://www.prisonplanet.com/eu-launches-1984-style-crackdown-on-light-bulbs.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=light+bulbs

Watford Observer - Watford, England, UK

By Neil Skinner

Determined residents campaigning against the building of a mobile phone mast near their homes hope to scupper the scheme with a planning...

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4029946.Village_Green_application_may_scupper_phone_mast/



Residents may soon be receiving mobile calls via God

Deadline Press & Picture Agency - Edinburgh, Lothian, UK

By Cara Sulieman

ANCIENT religion could be connecting with modern-day technology when a mobile phone mast is installed in a church spire. ...

http://deadlinescotland.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/residents-may-soon-be-receiving-mobile-calls-via-god-451/



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

Published Date: 08 January 2009

By Staff reporter

A COUNCILLOR concerned about the construction of mobile phone base stations around Carrickfergus wants residents opposed to new masts to give planners a piece of their mind.

Alderman David Hilditch told this week’s meeting of the Borough Council that his office has received “quite vociferous” objections to proposals by Vodafone to site telecommunications equipment at the North Road service reservoir.

An application, which Planning Service says it is content to approve, envisages a 20 metre-high lattice tower housing three antennae and two dishes, with an adjacent equipment cabinet and surrounded by a 1.8m fence.

Read More...
http://www.carrickfergustimes.co.uk/carricknews/Concerned-at-phone-mast-plans.4849064.jp

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/517.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex

Yahoo! News

01/06/09

The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. But even if Guantanamo closes, the controversial U.S. practice of jailing suspected al-Qaeda militants and other terrorists indefinitely won’t end, because such detentions continue on an even greater scale at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, 40 miles north of Kabul. Approximately 250 detainees are currently being held at Guantanamo; an estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090106/us_time/08599186951900


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29452/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EU-Verfassung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Irland

Zum Ende seiner Amtszeit will der US-Präsident sich vom Ruf des Klima-Kriminellen befreien.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29481/1.html

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/06-2

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Bush makes last-minute appointments

CNN

01/06/09

President Bush made another round of last-minute appointments Tuesday, giving 45 aides, supporters and others a parting gift as he leaves office: presidential appointments to boards and councils, with terms lasting three to six years after he leaves office. The full list as released by the White House after the jump includes attorney general Michael Mukasey, deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams, and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/bush-makes-last-minute-appointments/



Bush’s final purge

In These Times
by Christopher Moraff

01/05/09

The Bush administration is reportedly using its final months in office to exact retribution on federal employees who have spoken out against agency policies during the past eight years. Since April, the administration has dismissed — or notified of pending dismissal — more than a dozen federal whistleblowers, according to Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, founder of the civil rights group No Fear Coalition and director of the National Whistleblowers Center. Some have come as recently as November. They include staffers at the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Education and Transportation. And, Coleman-Adebayo says, those are only the employees who are willing to go on record...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4121/bushs_final_purge


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elliott+Abrams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adebayo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Moraff

Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Nobody needs to be told that our economy is going down the tubes at a rate unseen for decades. Every week brings new numbers that are setting records. In just the three months ending in November the job loss was 1.26 million, the worst since 1975. We have lost more than 2 million jobs in 2008."

http://www.truthout.org/010609S



Stimulus Plan: The Need and the Size

Robert Reich: "The core problem we face is not access to capital. The Treasury has already flooded Wall Street and the banking system with money, committing nearly $350 billion; the Federal Reserve Board has exchanged Treasury bills for some $2.2 trillion of troubled assets; other agencies, such as the FDIC, have guaranteed trillions more. But there has been no appreciable result. Banks will not lend because they fear borrowers will not repay; businesses will not borrow because they do not have adequate markets for their goods and services; individuals cannot and will not borrow because they do not have enough reliable income to do so."

http://www.truthout.org/010709D



Banks on a Wire

Le Monde's editorialist: "Gordon Brown is not happy. His rescue plan for British banks, which everyone - including foreigners - admired when he presented it in October 2008, is not producing the hoped-for results. In the absence of credit, shops are closing and real estate is collapsing ..."

http://www.truthout.org/010709F

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Obama’s terrible stimulus

The Liberty Papers
by Kevin

01/06/09

Obama’s plan is terrible for many reasons. The first obvious reason is that the country really cannot afford any new spending after blowing at least $8.4 trillion (in an overall economy of $13.8 trillion and shrinking) in bailouts for Bush and Paulson’s friends in the financial sector. The second reason is that very little of this new spending is actually permitted in the U.S. Constitution. The Federal government cannot ‘invest’ in ‘green collar jobs’ or any other type of jobs for that matter. The Federal government has no Constitutional role in education spending (which is another part of Obama’s ‘plan’). Thirdly, the areas where you can argue a legitimate duty of the Federal government, highway construction, is prone to abuse and wasteful spending through the earmarking process (which is the currency for corruption)...

http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/06/obamas-terrible-stimulus/



More on the bogus Obama “jobs” program

Classically Liberal
by CLS

01/06/09

A construction worker hired to build some bike path, merely to create employment, at least builds a bike path. Sure his pay comes from taxing productive jobs and thus reducing their numbers. But as bad as that is the construction worker isn’t inflicting additional harm on the economy when he works. Government employees are largely destructive. They are paid for from the productive sector. But that is not the harm they inflict. More bureaucrats, doing what bureaucrats do, is destructive. They regulate, control and manipulate in ways that benefits themselves or their political masters. I have little doubt that Obama wants an additional 600,000 government workers since the trade union for bureaucrats tends to fund Democratic candidates. An addition 600,000 federal leeches will provide votes for the Democrats and a ready-made lobby group to push for more federal bureaucrats. Unlike the make-work jobs Obama will create these employees will be entirely unproductive and have negative value...

http://tinyurl.com/7hah8l



Politics and corruption, together again

Cato Institute
by David Boaz

01/06/09

Stories of ambitious men being corrupted by the political game have been plentiful since my youth. It amazes me, here amid many calls for the government to take an ever more active role in our country’s doings, that so many of these cautionary tales seem to be forgotten. … FBI investigations and anti-bribery laws will never take the corruption out of politics. The best way to limit it is to keep government small, with few jobs to fill and limited money to spend...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9876



For real stimulus

National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff

01/06/09

Congress is ready to ram through a half-baked stimulus package costing as much as $1 trillion. But if it’s stimulus we need, why not make it effective stimulus — tax cuts, say, instead of wasteful spending? The massive new spending program that is being pushed by congressional Democrats emboldened by their newly enhanced majorities may come up as soon as Tuesday, when they return from their holiday breaks.”

http://tinyurl.com/7ybg85


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Boaz

"Greed" doesn't cut it as a satisfying explanation for the current financial crisis. Greed was necessary but insufficient; in any case, we are as likely to eliminate greed from our national character as we are lust and envy. The fixable problem isn't the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhorn.html?_r=2&em


From Information Clearing House



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

The full stories of individual detainees like Iqbal are only now emerging after years in which they were shuttled around the globe under the Bush administration's system of extraordinary rendition, which used foreign countries to interrogate and detain terrorism suspects in sites beyond the reach of American courts.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/06/asia/06iqbal.php


From Information Clearing House

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Insulting the Constitution

Boston Globe
by staff

01/06/09

Within weeks after taking office, President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to draw a line between the Bush administration’s fast-and-loose treatment of the Constitution and his own commitment to stick to its terms in cases involving suspected terrorists. In 2001 in Illinois, US officials arrested a student from Qatar and later accused him of being an Al Qaeda sleeper agent. Since 2003, the administration has held the student, Ali al-Marri, as an enemy combatant without proving its suspicions before a jury. … Obama should end the government’s attempt to hold Marri in this way and decide whether to deport him or to try him in federal court on criminal charges...

http://tinyurl.com/85souh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism+suspect
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extraordinary+rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Marri
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates estimates the Pentagon will need about $70 billion more to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, on top of the $65.9 billion already approved by Congress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090106/ts_nm/us_usa_budget_pentagon_1


From Information Clearing House



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

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said he is trying to bankrupt the U.S. through its war on terror, a strategy he says felled the Soviet Union two decades ago in Afghanistan, according to a translation by al-Jazeera television of his full, videotaped statement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7202.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankrupt

By William A. Collins

As a finishing touch of "fight for pay," Congress has now voted to speed up citizenship applications for those aliens who enlist. Offering such a lure to foreigners makes plain just where the United States plans to find the cannon fodder for its military adventures of the future.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21655.htm



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

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21658.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keith+Olbermann

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north674.html

Do Americans Have Cognitive Dissonance When it Comes to Liberty?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski220.html



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

http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/articles/2009/january/010609internet-is-dying.html


Informant: shane_digital

http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2009/060109Collapse.htm

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Japan in the Tempest

Les Echos: "Les Echos summarizes a long editorial from Japan's Asahi Shimbun: 'The great Japanese daily newspaper blames the United States, free markets and the policy conducted over the last decade to bring the country out of the rut it has been stuck in for so many years.'"

http://www.truthout.org/010609E



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

Tom Krisher, The Associated Press: "Huge rebates and zero-percent loans couldn't overcome economic uncertainty as US auto sales plunged 36 percent in December, capping a dismal year that saw sales free-fall by 2.9 million vehicles from 2007. The bleak numbers, according to both industry officials and analysts, mean that record high rebates and low-interest financing deals will stick around until at least February. But those deals will likely disappear as the remaining 2008 models are sold and inventories are lowered to match demand."

http://www.truthout.org/010609N



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

Artikel von Helga Spindler aus dem Archiv für Wissenschaft und Praxis der sozialen Arbeit ,Heft 1/2008, dokumentiert bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=3680


Unser Zitat der Woche: Wirtschaft für Erhalt von Jobs "moralisch verantwortlich"

Der DGB-Vorsitzende Michael Sommer sieht die Wirtschaft für den Erhalt von Arbeitsplätzen "in der moralischen Verantwortung", so habe sich Michael Sommer lt. DGB-Homepage am 28.12.2008 gegenüber der Nachrichtenagentur dpa geäußert.


Demonstration 2009 zur Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise: Menschen vor Profite. Zukunft statt Kapitalismus

Nach Diskussion der Vorbereitungsgruppe am 2.1.2009. Diskussionsvorlage für das Bündnistreffen am Freitag, 9.1.2009
(pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2009/grossdemo09_2d.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2009



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

„Kinderarmut lässt sich auf verschiedenen Wegen bekämpfen. Man kann die Hartz-IV-Sätze für Kinder und Jugendliche auf ein Niveau erhöhen, das für ein menschenwürdiges Leben ausreicht. Man kann wieder mehr Sozialwohnungen für arme Familien bauen und diese schwerpunktmäßig in den mittleren und besseren Stadtvierteln ansiedeln, um arme Kinder aus den Armutsghettos herauszubekommen. Man kann den Kindergartenbesuch kostenlos machen und die in Kindergärten und Schulen grassierende und arme Kinder ausgrenzende Unsitte beenden, für Ausflüge, Theaterbesuche, Bastelaktionen und vieles andere mehr Eltern extra zur Kasse zu bitten. Wahrscheinlich muss man dies alles und noch vieles andere tun, um die dramatisch zunehmende Armut von Kindern und Jugendlichen Schritt für Schritt abzubauen und ihre Chancen auf ein eigenverantwortliches und armutsfreies Leben zu erhöhen. Die große Koalition tut jedoch im Verein mit dem Bundestag nichts von alledem, sondern senkt die Zahl der armen Kinder und Jugendlichen, indem sie einen Teil von ihnen wegdefiniert…“ Artikel von Martin Staiger in Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 01/2009 http://www.blaetter.de/artikel.php?pr=2978


Kindergeld – Kinderregelsätze: 10 € mehr für die einen - 40 € weniger für die anderen!

„Ab 1.1.2009 bekommen Kinder, die keine Hartz-IV-Leistungen beziehen, 10 bzw. 16 € mehr Kindergeld. Die Bundesregierung erkennt damit an, dass alle Kinder mehr brauchen. Nur Kinder aus Hartz IV-Familien schließt sie von der Erhöhung aus, denn bei ihnen wird das Kindergeld auf ihren Regelsatz angerechnet…“ Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung des Bündnisses gegen Kinderarmut durch Hartz IV vom 29.12.2008 auf der Kampanien-Seite http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/29-20081229123.html?f22a07302a5db0e3239fca4da9790342=c9c71c1b3c0ff18d1846f9be2026175e


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2009

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Jugendliche in der Armutsfalle: DGB-Studie zeigt: Über 900 000 zwischen
15 und 24 auf Hartz IV-Leistungen angewiesen

„Jung, arm und ohne Perspektive. Eine Studie des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) zeigt auf: Obwohl die Arbeitslosigkeit unter Jugendlichen zurückgegangen ist, bekommt jeder zehnte Jugendliche in Deutschland Hartz IV. Und für die meisten ist es schwer, aus dieser Armutsfalle herauszukommen…“ Artikel Von Haidy Damm im Neues Deutschland vom 13.02.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/143835.jugendliche-in-der-armutsfalle.html

Siehe dazu:

DGB-Studie: Hohes Armutsrisiko bei Jugendlichen

„3,4 Millionen Jugendliche unter 25 Jahren haben einen sozialversicherten Job. Dem gegenüber stehen 1,2 Millionen Jugendliche, die förder- oder hilfebedürftig sind. Auf drei erwerbstätige Jugendliche kommt also mindestens einer, der auf Hilfsleistungen angewiesen ist. Auffällig dabei: der Großteil braucht staatliche Hilfe, weil sie selbst oder die Eltern zu wenig verdienen, um davon leben zu können...“ Die Studie des DGB (pdf) http://www.dgb.de/themen/themen_a_z/abisz_doks/a/armutsrisiko_jugendlicher.pdf/

b) Druck zeigt Wirkung: Höhere Hartz IV-Regelsätze für Schulkinder unter
14 Jahren! Aber: Wo bleiben höhere Regelsätze für Jugendliche von 14 bis
17? „Die Bündnisplattform gegen Kinderarmut durch Hartz IV, fordert die Bundesregierung auf, sämtliche Kürzungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen zurückzunehmen. Das Bündnis ruft für den 14. März 09 zum Aktionstag auf, um die Ignoranz der Politik öffentlich zumachen und die Plattform für die Forderung zu verbreitern…“ Meldung bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1787

Siehe dazu den Aufruf auf der Aktionsseite http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/15-20090215131.html?f22a07302a5db0e3239fca4da9790342=93699faa419450a82af1b17977cdadc9


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Februar 2009

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Jugendliche in der Armutsfalle: DGB-Studie zeigt: Über 900 000 zwischen
15 und 24 auf Hartz IV-Leistungen angewiesen

„Jung, arm und ohne Perspektive. Eine Studie des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) zeigt auf: Obwohl die Arbeitslosigkeit unter Jugendlichen zurückgegangen ist, bekommt jeder zehnte Jugendliche in Deutschland Hartz IV. Und für die meisten ist es schwer, aus dieser Armutsfalle herauszukommen…“ Artikel Von Haidy Damm im Neues Deutschland vom 13.02.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/143835.jugendliche-in-der-armutsfalle.html

Siehe dazu:

DGB-Studie: Hohes Armutsrisiko bei Jugendlichen

„3,4 Millionen Jugendliche unter 25 Jahren haben einen sozialversicherten Job. Dem gegenüber stehen 1,2 Millionen Jugendliche, die förder- oder hilfebedürftig sind. Auf drei erwerbstätige Jugendliche kommt also mindestens einer, der auf Hilfsleistungen angewiesen ist. Auffällig dabei: der Großteil braucht staatliche Hilfe, weil sie selbst oder die Eltern zu wenig verdienen, um davon leben zu können...“ Die Studie des DGB (pdf) http://www.dgb.de/themen/themen_a_z/abisz_doks/a/armutsrisiko_jugendlicher.pdf/


Druck zeigt Wirkung: Höhere Hartz IV-Regelsätze für Schulkinder unter
14 Jahren! Aber: Wo bleiben höhere Regelsätze für Jugendliche von 14 bis
17? „Die Bündnisplattform gegen Kinderarmut durch Hartz IV, fordert die Bundesregierung auf, sämtliche Kürzungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen zurückzunehmen. Das Bündnis ruft für den 14. März 09 zum Aktionstag auf, um die Ignoranz der Politik öffentlich zumachen und die Plattform für die Forderung zu verbreitern…“ Meldung bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1787

Siehe dazu den Aufruf auf der Aktionsseite http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/15-20090215131.html?f22a07302a5db0e3239fca4da9790342=93699faa419450a82af1b17977cdadc9


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Februar 2009

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Kongress 'Arme Kinder - reiches Land'

Attac Deutschland

07.01.2009 Presseinladung

10. Januar: Attac-Kongress 'Arme Kinder – reiches Land' in Karlsruhe

Der Arbeitskreis Kinderarmut von Attac Karlsruhe lädt zum Kongress „Arme Kinder – Reiches Land“ am 10. Januar 2009 in das Kulturzentrum „Tollhaus“ ein. Als Referenten konnten unter anderem der Bundesverfassungsrichter Prof. Dr. Siegfried Broß und der bekannte Politikwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Christoph Butterwegge gewonnen werden. Einen Höhepunkt des abendlichen Kulturprogramms wird der politische Kabarettist Georg Schramm gestalten.

Kongress-Organisatorin Carolin Franta sagte: „Durch die stetig wachsende Kinderarmut werden Grund- und Menschenrechte verletzt. Deutschland erfüllt durch die massive Verteilungs-Ungerechtigkeit immer weniger die verfassungsmäßigen Kriterien eines sozialen Rechtsstaates.“

Attac kritisiert, dass dieser skandalöse Zustand wachsender Ungerechtigkeit politisch nicht verhindert worden ist, sondern im Namen des Neoliberalismus über Jahre noch verschärft wurde. Franta: „Die neoliberale Ideologie hat die Deregulierungen und Umverteilungen der letzten Jahre gerechtfertigt. Die Finanzkrise, die wir heute erleben, ist Folge dieser Politik – und wird erneut auf dem Rücken der Kinder und der Ärmsten in unserer Gesellschaft ausgetragen werden.“

Während des Kongresses, zu dem sich bereits mehr als 200 Menschen angemeldet haben, sollen Forderungen und Strategien zur Bekämpfung der Kinderarmut und der ungleichen Verteilung entwickelt werden.

Nähere Infos zum Kongress finden Sie als Anlage zu dieser Mail oder unter http://www.attac-netzwerk.de/karlsruhe/kinderarmut.

Für Rückfragen: Carolin Franta, 07243 / 90367 bzw am 10.1.: 0176 / 505 45 994

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27. Januar 2009

Bundessozialgericht bestätigt Auffassung der LINKEN

Zum heutigen Urteil des Bundessozialgerichts zu den Kinderregelsätzen bei Hartz IV erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Das Bundessozialgericht hat zwar nicht die konkrete Höhe der Kinderregelsätze diskutiert, aber die Art und Weise wie sie festgelegt wurden, als verfassungswidrig bezeichnet. Eine schallende Ohrfeige für die alte rot-grüne und die neue schwarz-rote Bundesregierung sowie eine Bestätigung der Auffassung der LINKEN: Kinderregelsätze können nicht von den Regelsätzen der Erwachsenen abgeleitet werden, sondern müssen sich an den spezifischen Bedürfnissen von Kindern und Jugendlichen orientieren. Kinder und Jugendliche sind keine kleinen Erwachsenen. Es wird Zeit, dass die Bundesregierung diesen Grundsatz endlich berücksichtigt und eine grundsätzlich überarbeitete Bedarfsableitung für Kinder und Jugendliche aller Altersgruppen vornimmt. Ziel muss sein, Armut von Kindern und Jugendlichen auszuschließen und sie als eigenständige Personen mit eigenständigen Ansprüchen zu behandeln. DIE LINKE fordert in diesem Zusammenhang erneut die sofortige Anhebung der Kinderregelsätze auf rund 300 Euro und in einem zweiten Schritt die Einführung einer eigenständigen Kindergrundsicherung.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bundessozialgericht-bestaetigt-auffassung-der-linken/



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Wenn Millionen versickern. Immer mehr Cross-Border-Leasing-Geschäfte wackeln – "missbräuchliche Steuerumgehung"

„Kommunen, Stadtwerken und Zweckverbänden drohen Millionenschäden. Mindestens 40 deutsche Kommunen, Stadtwerke oder Zweckverbände haben im Bereich der Ver- und Entsorgung über hochriskante Karussell-Verträge abgeschlossen. Sie verkauften Müllverbrennungsanlagen, Trink- und Abwasseranlagen sowie Klärwerke im Wert von rund 18 Milliarden US-Dollar an US-amerikanische Investoren und haben sie gleichzeitig wieder zurückgemietet…“ Beitrag bei ver.di Ver- und Entsorgung vom 30.12.2008 https://ver-und-entsorgung.verdi.de/wasserwirtschaft/themen/cross-border-leasing/defaultView?rnd=5881135.74435

Siehe dazu auch:

Alarmstimmung bei der Ver- und Entsorgung: Karussell-Verträge im Wert von 18 Milliarden US-Dollar

Mindestens 40 deutsche Kommunen, Stadtwerke oder Zweckverbände haben im Bereich der Ver- und Endsorgungswirtschaft hochgefährliche Cross-Boder-Leasing-Verträge abgeschlossen. Übersicht bei ver.di Ver- und Entsorgung (pdf) http://ver-und-entsorgung.verdi.de/wasserwirtschaft/themen/cross-border-leasing/data/tabelle_karussell-vertraege_.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2009

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Cross-Border in Bochum

Ausstieg aus dem Cross-Border-Deal kostet mindestens 26 Millionen

Meldung von www.bo-alternativ.de vom 02.03.09 http://www.bo-alternativ.de/2009/03/02/ausstieg-aus-dem-cross-border-deal-kostet-mindestens-26-millionen/#more-4128

Siehe dazu das special: Der Cross-Border-Leasing-Deal von SPD/CDU/GRÜNEN mit dem Bochumer Kanalnetz und seine Folgen

Eine Dokumentation von Meldungen von www.bo-alternativ.de zum Stichwort Cross Border Leasing http://www.bo-alternativ.de/category/cbl/


Aus: LabourNet, 5. März 2009



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„Datenskandal bei der Daimler AG in Stuttgart. Es wurden Gesundheitsinformationen von Mitarbeitern erhoben und ohne deren Wissen weitergegeben. Die Aufsichtsbehörde für Datenschutz fand dies bei einer Überprüfung des Unternehmens heraus...“ Artikel im Stuttgart Journal vom 05.01.2009 http://www.stuttgart-journal.de/tp/pool/nachrichten-stuttgart/sj/2009/01/05/news/stuttgart-datenskandal-bei-daimler/


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2009



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9:18am Tuesday 6th January 2009

A Chorley councillor has come out in support of residents opposed to plans to put up a 44-feet high mobile phone mast in Whittle-le-Woods.

Coun Mark Perks, who represents Astley and Buckshaw on Chorley Borough Council and the borough on Lancashire County Council, says the Vodafone mast - close to Foxglove Drive on the A6 - is not in keeping with the surrounding street scene.

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LewRockwell.Com
by Michael Gaddy

01/05/09

While we stumble along economically with bailouts, buyouts, and poor sales in almost all sectors, two products in America are seeing dramatic increases in sales: guns and ammo. People who never owned a gun before are buying; people are buying multiples of military style weapons and ammo is being bought by the case instead of by the box. Many explain this away as folks simply worried that Obama will move to ban certain firearms, especially those referred to by the ignorant as ‘assault weapons,’ I believe the motivation to buy firearms and ammunition goes much deeper. More and more Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the storm that is brewing on the horizon, a storm driven by the possibility of a complete economic collapse. The more astute are reading the handwriting on the wall: military combat units being assigned for stateside duty to quell domestic disturbances, a militarization of law enforcement, and the fear of what will happen when the state is no longer able to provide monthly checks to the millions currently living on government handouts labeled as ‘entitlements’...

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The death of trust

Richter Report
by Jim Richter

01/09

Do not think for one minute that a fiat currency/fractional reserve banking system is without consequences for any society which adopts it. To the contrary, such systems are violative of the ancient doctrine that one must use only honest weights and measures when conducting business. Fiat currency is not a system of honest weights and measures. Other than the configuration of the ink on the paper, a $100 bill is no different than a $1 bill. Both can be created at virtually no cost, and both have no real capacity to serve as a store of value. This is why fiat currency has such a corrosive effect upon all aspects of a society, especially in the area of morals and ethics. This is why our fiat currency system is the antithesis of the monetary framework which Jefferson and Madison intended for us...

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Reversal of fortune

Intellectual Conservative
by Bernie Reeves

01/05/09

Instead of lift-off to recovery, the ‘bail-out’ has left the rocket on the launch pad all gassed and nowhere to go. Banks are holding dollars our financial grandees proffered (derived from our taxes), the stock market is looking more like a Keno Board than an investment option, interest rates are so low no one can save money (and whatever happened to compound interest anyway?) and the cash you place in a bank is a deteriorating asset eroded by inflation anyway. And underneath any option the dazed citizens chooses there lurks some of the sleaziest and incompetent financial manipulators since the Italian bankers of the Renaissance. In other words, you can’t trust anyone anymore. And now you see why Christians were forbidden to lend money for centuries. Money made off money — when there is no tangible product created — creates an immoral edifice of greed and unethical behavior. At least the automakers actually produce something, yet our financial elite stated firmly the “bail-out” was for financial institutions only...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hawaii Reporter
by Jim Kouri

01/05/09

In a nation already suspicious of its intelligence agencies, is it wise to appoint a former Clinton crony as Director of Central Intelligence? Well, two Democratic officials leaked the story that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA, according to Los Angeles’ newsradio KNX. Panetta is a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world and a reputation as a ‘dirty-tricks’ maven when he worked for President Bill Clinton...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Panetta Open to Tougher Methods in Some C.I.A. Interrogation

Leon E. Panetta, the White House pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, on Thursday left open the possibility that the agency could seek permission to use interrogation methods more aggressive than the limited menu that President Obama authorized under new rules issued last month.

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Die 1,355 Billionen Dollar an zusätzlichen Fed-Dollars des Vorjahres brachten der Realwirtschaft nur 307,5 Mrd. USD an neuen Krediten ein.

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Police have been given the power to hack into personal computers without a court warrant. The Home Office is facing anger and the threat of a legal challenge after granting permission. Ministers are also drawing up plans to allow police across the EU to collect information from computers in Britain.

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From Information Clearing House

By Paul Craig Roberts

President George W. Bush was in his stand-up comedian role when he declared that he wanted to be remembered as a fighter for human rights.

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Somber Thoughts for the New Year

Will There be a Recovery?

By Paul Craig Roberts

In the 21st century real wages have not risen. Workers have spent more by accepting deteriorating household balance sheets. They have maxed out their credit cards and spent the equity in their homes. Imitators of the US government, American consumers borrow to pay their bills.

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Cracks in the Foundation

The End of Capitalism?

By Ann Robertson

The collective consciousness of the U.S. working class is on the brink of a profound transformation. We grew up being told that capitalism was the best of all possible systems, with apparent confirmation being supplied by the fall of the Soviet Union. But we are now entering a new reality that has the potential to overturn all the old, established assumptions perhaps, in the final analysis, even to overturn capitalism itself.

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EMMA KNIGHTS

06 January 2009 01:27

Villagers look set to win a battle against a proposed new mobile phone mast after taking on the role of land agents.

Instead of writing petitions or lobbying their MP, residents and the parish council in Colkirk, near Fakenham, took a constructive view when faced with having a 30m mast built in full view of their homes.

Mobile phone firm O2 already has a mast in Colkirk but aimed to move it because the lease on the land ran out in December.

Villagers did not like the proposed new location, 45m from the current site which is shielded by trees, so came up with a new site.

Not only that; they negotiated with the land owners, the diocese of Norwich, and got an extension to O2's current lease from current landlord T Banham Ltd in Church Road to give the firm time to explore the alternative site in the same road.

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