World-News

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/MoneyTrail/story?id=6680531&page=1

Despite Crisis, Wall Street Gets Red Carpet from Obama
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Inauguration/story?id=6681555&page=1

Wall Street billionaires pump millions into Obama's inauguration bash
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/a-wounded-wall-street-helps-fund-inauguration-bash/

Barack Obama's billionaire backers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28695378/


Informant: Duane Roberts

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On false unity

Delaware Libertarian
by Brian Miller

01/20/09

One of the big themes of the upcoming inauguration, and indeed Obama’s administration (if media reports about his agenda are to be believed) is a concept of ‘unity.’ All Americans, we learn, are to unite around a ‘common purpose.’ There’s just one problem — it’s not so much ‘unity’ as ‘collectivism.’ And sorry, Obama, but I’m not interested. And fortunately, neither are millions of other Americans. First, there’s the little problem that ‘unity’ isn’t really what these guys are interested in. Oh, sure, they’ll invite Rick Warren (but not David Duke) to show that even people who dislike other groups and use laws to attack their fellow citizens are part of the Great Patriotic Union. But if you’re in an unfavored group, you’re still lacking basic access to various legal statuses. ‘Unity’ for you means, ’sit down and shut up’...

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-false-unity.html



What’s new is old again

Slate
by John Dickerson

01/20/09

It was a good speech but not a soaring one. This may have been because Obama has given so many strong speeches, he’s graded on his own special curve — or because he wanted the speech to be thoroughly conventional. His call to responsibility and sacrifice was rooted in American history — from the first settlers through the colonists to America’s soldiers. This is a familiar theme in a political speech. In fact, Obama gave his own speech using these themes last June, in which he made a similar call to a new patriotism founded on sacrifice. The use of ‘I say to you’ and ‘on this day’ constructions added to the feeling that this was a speech of the usual order. Appealing to America’s rich heritage makes Obama everyone’s president, knitting him into the lineup of the 42 men who have come before him. (Obama is the 43rd man, not the 44th, because Grover Cleveland served as president No. 22 and president No. 24.) But it goes only so far in helping him with his speech’s larger aim. His goal was to try to inspire us to give something up and reverse ‘our collective failure to make hard choices,’ which he says marked the responsibility-free era that created our current economic mess...

http://www.slate.com/id/2209252/



A new era?

The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

01/20/09

In his campaign and during the transition, Obama didn’t have many kind words for the free market economy. In his speech, however, he did. ‘Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched,’ he declared. He praised ‘the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things.’ Okay, Obama didn’t get carried away about the joys of capitalism. He said the economy needs ‘the watchful eye’ of government to keep it from spinning ‘out of control.’ Still, as one who wondered if Obama understands why free markets are so important, I was mildly, though perhaps only momentarily, relieved. I suspect some Republicans were as well...

http://tinyurl.com/7qvnr6



False dawn

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/21/09

As a new administration takes power in Washington and the promise of ‘change’ is in the air, we have to ask ourselves: when-oh-when is it coming? When will the dam break on the sclerotic foreign policy thinking of the past eight — heck, the past 50 — years? The first place to begin is, of course, the Middle East, scene of our latest — and worst — transgressions, starting with but hardly limited to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. What is the likelihood of change in this area?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14103



Oh, joyful, joyful coronation day

Liberty & Power
by Robert Higgs

01/20/09

I do not follow the news closely. Years ago, I discovered that no matter what the news media reported, I could recall their having reported the same thing ten or twenty or thirty or forty years earlier, so it seemed pointless to waste time absorbing information about events that differ only in the specific names and dates that fill in the blanks today. Nevertheless, I am aware, as todo el mundo are, that today in the imperial capital, a new emperor is being crowned. The media report that he will be acknowledged as a new Sun King, only more splendid by far than the original Roi Soleil. Louis XIV, they say, looks like small potatoes in comparison with the new emperor. Obviously, something has changed...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/60240.html



Obama’s promises

Intellectual Conservative
by Phillip Ellis Jackson

01/20/09

[F]or those of you expecting a rant and rave against the new Leader of the Free World and Commander-in-Chief of the World’s Most Powerful Military, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I suspect that I have as much of a concrete idea about what Obama will actually do with the power he’s gained as, well, Obama has. Your guess as to what our detailed policies will be a year from now are as good as mine, so I’ll avoid making any predictions here. What I will do is look at what Obama himself said he was going to do as President while running for office, and measure reality against that...

http://tinyurl.com/9j2gjn



Yet another coronation

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

01/20/09

I don’t know what Obama will do in office, but I do understand what it took for him to get where he is now, and that in itself is extremely discouraging. Much of the path to higher office lies in doing exactly what is expected by your party and supporters. You don’t get there by rocking the boat, and you don’t get there by implementing CHANGE, unless change means ‘even more of the same.’ That’s what I expect from President Obama … even more of the same policies that have driven this nation into dire economic straits and made us an enemy of most of the world. As with all newly-elected politicians, Obama and his party will bombard us with incessant propaganda that the media will parrot with glee, with the result that, irregardless of what he does as President, those who supported him will be able to find a way to excuse the results. Others will be blamed … Bush, the Congress, trouble-makers from around the world, greedy corporations, etc. ...

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2009/01/yet-another-coronation.html



Presidents and the Constitution

TCS Daily
by Jerry Bowyer

01/20/09

John McIntyre of RealClearPolitics and I were both on Larry Kudlow’s radio program on Saturday afternoon. Larry asked us both the same question: ‘Is there anything that Obama could say on Tuesday that will make you feel good about where he is taking the country?’ I answered that it’s not what he might say; it’s about what he definitely will say. Obama will swear an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, so help me God.’ The question isn’t whether he’ll say it; the question is whether he’ll mean it. You see, Barack Obama is, to my knowledge, the first American president to take this oath having in recent memory openly and publicly criticized the Constitution...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=012009A



If Obama’s plan doesn’t seem to make sense, it’s because it doesn’t

Liberty For All
by LP staff

01/20/09

America’s largest third party says that President-elect Barack Obama’s spending plans are based on flawed economics. ‘If you think Obama’s economic plans don’t make sense, it’s because they don’t,’ says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath. ‘Americans are taking a look at Obama’s economic plans and scratching their heads,’ says Redpath...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1940



An economy on life support is not recovering

Nolan Chart
by Darren Wolfe

01/20/09

With the government going into overdrive with all manor of so-called stimulus to revive the sick economy many statists are trying desperately to salvage the claim that President Franklin Roosevelt’s (FDR) New Deal saved the economy from the Great Depression to justify similar policies today. Despite the obvious fact that the Depression was the longest in US history, people such as David Sirota persist with articles like ‘Fox News: ‘Historians Pretty Much Agree’ That FDR Prolonged the Great Depression.’ Well, Mr. Sirota, it was pretty long...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article5841.html



Absolute power gets blamed absolutely

Asia Times
by Spengler

01/21/09

Inauguration day brings to mind the reason I don’t read science fiction. It’s never weird enough. Today, America will place more power than any peacetime president ever has wielded into the hands of a man nobody knows. He has convinced more incompatible constituencies that he takes their side than any politician in American history. And through no fault or merit of his own, he has stumbled into more power than the White House has had since World War II. From the day Obama was elected to 9:30am Tokyo time on Monday morning, the S&P 500 index has lost 17% of its value, after absorbing Obama’s proposed cabinet and hearing the gist of his economic stimulus plan. That can’t be blamed on Bush. It counts as the ‘Obama crash’...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KA21Dj08.html



President Oxybarama

Asia Times
by Spengler

01/21/09

The inaugural address of President Barack Obama contained so many nods in so many directions that the compass needle was sent spinning. Oxymorons abounded because, in Obama’s struggle to hold together so many disparate elements, incompatibility popped to the surface. Now we fear at every moment that the new president may be pulled apart...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/KA22Aa01.html



Inauguration Ad Nauseum

CounterPunch
by Christopher Ketchum

01/20/09

Oh happy day! Thus doth Change descend among us in the same old purple raiment and with the smiling largesse that the peons pay for. January 20 is a historic wasted opportunity. Obama might have signaled real change from the outset by canceling the whole rotten affair as the waste and silliness and ostentation that it is. Instead, a simple address, televised or better yet on radio, would have sufficed. Something like the following: ‘My fellow Americans, this is no time for frivolity. The country is falling down around our ears! The reason is mostly because we have blown our money in bad investments, whether it be in war or on Wall Street or on Main Street. Let’s not flush millions of dollars more down the toilet in self-congratulation and the flatus of long speeches. Nuff said. See you tomorrow when the work begins’...

http://counterpunch.org/ketcham01202009.html



Meet the new boss

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

01/21/09

I just finished subjecting myself to the nauseating experience of listening to a bunch tyrant propaganda, also known as the ‘inaugural ceremonies,’ celebrating the coronation of Barrack Obama as the new King of America. (To call him a ‘President’ would imply that this is still a constitutional republic, and that there are limits on what ‘government’ can do to us. It’s not, and there aren’t, so I’ll call him what he is: a king.) In short, as in every such ridiculous exhibitions of authority-worship, there was a long stream of lies, and not a speck of truth to be found...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1946


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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„Heikles juristisches Erbe: Der künftige US-Präsident Barack Obama muss über eine Strafverfolgung seiner Vorgänger entscheiden. Mögliche Angeklagte sind George W. Bush und Donald Rumsfeld…“ Artikel von Wolfgang Kaleck in Süddeutsche Zeitung online vom 19.01.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/491/455168/text/

Der Autor ist Rechtsanwalt und Generalsekretär des European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. Er erstattete 2004 und 2006 in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Center for Constitutional Rights in New York die deutschen Strafanzeigen wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Folter gegen den damaligen US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld, den damaligen CIA-Chef George Tenet und weitere Mitglieder der amerikanischen Regierung und Streitkräfte.


Aus: LabourNet, 20. Januar 2009



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Protestkampagne gestartet

Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 20.01.2009 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/289/79/

Aus dem Text: “… Datenschützer und Internetnutzer protestieren scharf gegen einen neuen Gesetzentwurf von Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble, der die 2007 beschlossene Vorratsdatenspeicherung nun auch bei der Benutzung des Internet erlauben soll. "Das neuerliche Vorhaben von Bundesminister Schäuble geht gewaltig über die bisherige Vorratsdatenspeicherung hinaus", warnt Marcus Cheperu vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Gegen die verdachtslose Speicherung aller Verbindungs- und Standortdaten hatten vergangenes Jahr 35.000 Bürger Beschwerde beim Bundesverfassungsgericht eingereicht. Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung fordert Bundesregierung, Bundesrat und Bundestag auf, die geplante Änderung des Telemediengesetzes sofort aus dem Gesetzentwurf zu streichen. Er bittet alle Internetnutzer, bei den verantwortlichen Politikern gegen die geplante Vorratsspeicherung im Internet zu protestieren. Der Arbeitskreis hat dazu eine besondere Internetseite eingerichtet, auf der sich die Kontaktdaten der zuständigen Politiker/innen finden:
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Glaesernes_Internet


Aus: LabourNet, 20. Januar 2009



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„Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL), Brot für die Welt, FIAN und Germanwatch protestieren mit der Aktion „Exportsubventionen vergiften den Markt – Schwarze Zukunft für Milchbauern in Nord und Süd“ gegen die beschlossene Wiedereinführung von Exportsubventionen für Milchprodukte. Für Milchbauern in Entwicklungsländern sei diese Maßnahme ein Schlag ins Gesicht. Gerade in Zeiten der Hungerkrise müsse die EU alles vermeiden, was zu Verletzungen des Menschenrechts auf Nahrung führen kann. Ab diese Woche werden wieder Exporterstattungen für Butter, Käse sowie Milchpulver gezahlt, nachdem sie eineinhalb Jahre ausgesetzt waren. Das teilte die EU-Kommission vergangene Woche mit…“ Pressemitteilung von FIAN Deutschland, AbL, Brot für die Welt und Germanwatch vom 19.1.09 bei FIAN http://www.fian.de/fian/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=613


Aus: LabourNet, 20. Januar 2009

1:40pm Tuesday 20th January 2009

By South Wales Argus Newsdesk

PROTESTERS will gather outside Blaenau Gwent council’s planning offices in opposition to plans to build a mobile phone mast 70 metres from a Six Bells primary school.

Members of Six Bells Against the Mast Action group say they are worried about the safety of their children and are concerned about the effect the mast could have on their children’s health.

Read More...
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Schnurlostelefone können mit wenig Aufwand abgehört werden
http://www.golem.de/0901/64712.html

Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter warnt vor Risiken bei DECT-Telefonen
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter-warnt-vor-Risiken-bei-DECT-Telefonen--/meldung/122033



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AlterNet
by Paul Krugman

01/19/09

Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. ‘I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,’ he responded, but ‘we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.’ I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Editorials Worldwide Pillory Bush One Final Time

Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters: "Editorial writers around the world have been taking their final printed whacks at George W. Bush, accusing the president of tarnishing America's standing with what many saw as arrogant and incompetent leadership. 'A weak leader, Bush was just overwhelmed in the job,' said Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung under a headline: 'The Failure.' 'He confused stubbornness with principles. America has become intolerant and it will take a long time to repair that damage.' Editorials hit out at Bush for two unfinished wars, for plunging the economy into recession, turning a budget surplus into a pile of debt, for his environment policies and tarnishing America's reputation with the Guantanamo Bay detention center."

http://www.truthout.org/012009L

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The Day the Earth Still Stood: What Will Obama Inherit?

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, discusses the impact of yesterday's inauguration and the legacy the Bush administration will leave behind.

http://www.truthout.org/012109F



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Idaho Liberty
by Ted Dunlap

01/19/09

The good news is that everyday people are beginning to notice the economy and declining value of the dollar. More and more articles reach us describing it. The unrestrained binge buying that grew high-end clothing stores and consumer electronics specialty marts has ended, with drying-up/blowing-away stores proving it. North Americans no longer think of houses as infinite-growth equity sinks. The complacency of job security is disappearing with people treating the jobs they do have with far more respect than in the past. These bits qualify as good news because the truth is finally reaching the commoners. … The bad news is that the creators of this mess are still granted credibility...

http://idaholiberty.com/?p=97


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Examiner
by Garry Reed

01/19/09

After warning in a recent speech that government (meaning the taxpaying public) is likely to be left with ‘trillion-dollar deficits for years to come’ you’d think the Man of Change would have arranged a simple ceremony in the Capitol rotunda where he could swear on the Bible to ‘observe and protect the Constitution’ (which every oath-taker immediately ignores) and have done with it. But, no. It’s the same old political party partying as usual...

http://tinyurl.com/8qbgde



Whose money is it, anyway?

Fox News
by John R. Lott, Jr.

01/19/09

Barack Obama claims that the House of Representatives’ new stimulus plan is needed to save the economy. Democrats promise to be ‘creating or saving of four million jobs.’ News media report in all seriousness: ‘The democrats vow no earmarks or special projects will be attached to the bill. The focus is on jobs.’ Also ‘more than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector.’ Unfortunately, though, the $825 billion ’stimulus’ package has nothing to do with creating or saving jobs — it has everything to do with moving jobs from industries that Democrats don’t like to industries that they do. The ’stimulus’ package is just a wish list of every government program that liberal Democrats have long wanted. As Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of staff, announced after the election last fall: Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480710,00.html



Why all the hoopla over Obama’s inauguration?

Nolan Chart
by Christine Smith

01/19/09

Obama doesn’t care about freedom — not yours as an American, and certainly not that of foreigners. He is neither benevolent or enlightened. So what’s to celebrate? The hopeful image of a United States with a president who cares about peace and justice has served its purpose — it got him elected. The American people, in looking for their own ‘benevolent dictator,’ don’t trust themselves. In choosing Obama they’ve said they’d rather the government take their money since it will better know how to spend it for them. And take it he will...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article5831.html



The peaceful transfer of violent power

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/19/09

At the risk of raining on the parade, I suggest that the inaugural festivities are not what they appear. Barack Obama says the pomp and circumstance are not about him but are a celebration of democracy. ‘For the forty-third time, we will execute the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next,’ he said. He’s right, but not quite as he meant it. The peaceful transition from the Bush to the Obama regime is indeed the occasion, but let’s focus on exactly what is being transferred...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0901h.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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ANP: Fed Lends Two Trillion Without Oversight

Video
http://www.commondreams.org/video/fed-lends-two-trillion-without-oversight



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The Role of Government: Keeping the Wealthy Rich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/19-9

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A nation of patsies in a world of hurt

The Daily Reckoning
by Bill Bonner

01/19/09

Tomorrow, the man called Obama takes up the president’s job. Poor man. He seems like a decent sort. A shame … something like that happening to him. But he hung around with the wrong crowd — lowbred types in high political circles — and look where it has gotten him. Tomorrow, he’ll be called upon to stand before a hundred million viewers, put his hand on a Bible, and lie. To the question — will he swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States America — he will give the answer he has rehearsed. Yes, I can! Then, like almost every American president since John Quincy Adams, he will ignore it...

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2009/DR011909.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In the last three months, at least 24 detainees have been declared improperly held by courts or a tribunal - or nearly 10 percent of the population at the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where about 245 men remain.

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Our financial institutions are fighting for their lives and the Treasury may not be able to bail them out. The government needs to get serious to avert meltdown.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/18/recession-banking


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Higher Wages and Debt Relief

By Mike Whitney

Barak Obama and Co. are planning to launch their own version of economic "shock and awe" in the opening weeks of the new administration. Aside from the $825 billion stimulus package, which will be used to create 3 million new jobs and make up for flagging consumer demand; Obama is planning a financial rescue operation for banks that are buried under hundreds of billions of dollars of troubled assets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21792.htm



The Stimulus Scam

Video

Peter Schiff says consumers need to spend less, not more.
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-stimulus-scam/30BBD59E-1582-4057-9EC0-51A5B4A65AA5.html


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Bill McKibben, Grist: "Given the sheer number of candidates for 'worst legacy of the Bush years,' it may seem perverse to pick the hundreds of coal-fired power plants that have opened across China during his administration. But given their cumulative effect - quite possibly the concrete block that broke the climate-camel's already straining back - I think they may be what history someday seizes on. And they are emblematic of George W. Bush's utter failure to help the world rein in carbon emissions at what may have been the last possible moment."

http://www.truthout.org/011909EA



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http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/19/america/19mccain.php


Informant: Duane Roberts



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Annys Shin, The Washington Post: "With the economy in the tank, companies are doing all they can to stay afloat. For many, though, even the most desperate measures have not been enough. Former giants in American business have recently tilted into extinction. Circuit City announced Friday it would follow Linens 'n Things and Sharper Image into liquidation and sell its assets. Over the next two years, analysts say, countless other businesses will simply fade away."

http://www.truthout.org/011909E



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Annys+Shin

Dean Baker, Truthout: "TARP II, the second helping of $350 billion that is supposed to restore the health of our financial system, will soon be dished out by the Obama administration. Ostensibly, much of this money will go to help homeowners stay in their homes. But, as is the case with many Washington policies, this money is also going to end up in the bankers' pockets."

http://www.truthout.org/011909A

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Requesting a TARP disapproval resolution

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by CEI Staff

01/15/09

On behalf of the millions of taxpaying citizens represented by the public interest organizations below, we write to strongly encourage you to swiftly pass a notice of disapproval on releasing the remaining $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. From the beginning, the TARP plan was questionable, but a number of Members nonetheless resolved to support it. It should be clear now that this was a mistake.

http://cei.org/node/21492


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Neighbours can nearly touch antenna from bedroom window – Castaldi Paris

James Debono Lija mayor Ian Castaldi Paris tomorrow will be filing a judicial protest against Melita plc and the Malta Communications Authority, calling for the removal of an antenna on the roof of a house in Preziosi Street. The antenna, which faces neighbours’ bedrooms, is so close that a resident “can nearly touch the antenna from his own bedroom window,” Castaldi Paris claims. MaltaToday is informed the house on which the antenna was erected is rented out to foreign students. The Lija council is demanding that the antenna be removed in a week’s time. The council is also holding the owner of the house, the MCA and Melita plc responsible for any harm caused to residents by the antenna.

Read More...
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/01/18/t13.html

Schlappe 150 Millionen Dollar plus X wird das Spektakel zur Amtseinführung am Dienstag kosten. Ein paar Dollar sind da natürlich auch für die Obdachlosen drin. So wie berichtet wird, weitet der Secret Service die „Sicherheitszone“ um das Spektakel herum ziemlich weit aus. Verboten sind für alle Besucher Rucksäcke, Handtaschen usw., also alles wo man eine Bombe verstecken kann. Und damit hat es dann auch die Obdachlosen erwischt, welche zusammen mit ihrem gesamten Besitz (ein Einkaufswagen, ein Zelt oder Schlafmatte) die Unverschämtheit besitzen, bei Temperaturen um den Gefrierpunkt, in eben dieser Sicherheitszone ums Überleben zu kämpfen. Siehe dazu:

Obamas Amtseinführung: Notstandsfeier ohne Obdachlose

„Um viel Geld auszugeben, braucht die neue US-Regierung kein Konjunkturprogramm: Die Amtseinführung von Barack Obama wird rund 150 Mio. $ kosten - bei Schnee noch mehr. Nochpräsident George W. Bush, dessen eigene Vereidigungsfeierlichkeiten 2005 nur 42 Mio. $ gekostet hatten, hat sogar den Notstand für Washington ausgerufen. Die Stadt hatte um die Einstufung als Katastrophengebiet gebeten, damit sie die Sicherheitskosten nicht allein tragen muss. Der Anblick von Obdachlosen soll dabei das Fest nicht stören. Busse sollen sie abholen und in Unterkünfte fahren, wo Getränke und Essen auf sie warten, berichtete die "Washington Post". Natürlich freiwillig. Man wolle nicht den Eindruck erwecken, die Obdachlosen sollten "weggekarrt" werden, so Stadtrat Tommy Wells.“ So der kurze Artikel von Sabine Muscat in der FTD vom 18.01.2009 http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:Obamas-Amtseinf%FChrung-Notstandsfeier-ohne-Obdachlose/461861.html


Where do the homeless go during inaugural?

“Clifton Wayne Lee, a homeless veteran, usually sleeps on a heating grate outside the Federal Trade Commission building. It would be a prime spot on Inauguration Day — just steps from the inaugural parade route. But he'll have to give it up. District of Columbia and federal authorities are telling homeless people that they'll soon have to vacate the large chunk of property that will be secured before President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday. The zone includes the National Mall, Capitol Hill and more than 10 blocks that make up the parade route…” Ein (englischer) Artikel von Kamala Lane( AP) erschienen im Austin American-Statesman vom 15.01.2009 http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/US_President_And_White_House_Advisers/Inauguration_Homeless.html


Alternative Aktionen

Auch ansonsten ist in Washington in den nächsten Tagen eine Menge los. Eine Zusammenfassung über alternative Events gibt bei Indymedia Washington DC „Inauguration Schedule For Activists” http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/145273/index.php


After the Inauguration: A Day of action for Immigration Rights!

Am Tag nach der Amtsübernahme veranstaltet die “The National Capitol Immigrant Coalition and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement” eine Demo für die faire Behandlung der Immigranten. Siehe dazu http://www.ncicmetro.org/


ARREST BUSH 2009

“We call for the arrest of George W. Bush for instigating an unwarranted war of aggression against a sovereign nation, wanton attacks on civilian populations, use of torture and violations of the Constitution of the United States and United Nations charter. Here is how you make a citizens arrest of a war criminal…” Am Tag der Amtseinführung versuchen Aktivisten vom „Washington Peace Center“, „After Downing Street“ und „Shoes For Bush” mit Plakaten (obwohl das strikt verboten ist) in die Nähe des FBI-Centers zu kommen und Bush’s und natürlich auch Cheney’s Verhaftung zu fordern. Surft auf der Seite vielleicht mal ein bisschen rum. Die haben da Videos, Plakate und viele weitere Informationen http://www.arrestbush2009.com/


Offizielle Seite

Natürlich gibt’s auch eine regierungsoffizielle Seite http://inaugural.senate.gov/2009/


Wer ist Barack Obama?

Die Vereinigten Staaten hoffen auf einen Neuanfang. Kann und wird ihr neuer Präsident die Erwartungen erfüllen? Noam Chomsky, Weltstar der Sprachwissenschaft und Amerikas härtester Kritiker, ist skeptisch. Ein Interview von Hans-Joachim Neubauer mit Noam Chomski im Rheinischen Merkur vom 15.01.2009 http://www.merkur.de/index.php?id=32125&type=98&uid


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Januar 2009



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Ein Beitrag des LabourNet Germany zur Diskussion beim Workshop „Privatisierung, Prekarität, demokratische Alternativen“ mit FISENGE (CUT Brasilien) während des Weltsozialforums Belém 2009. Text von Helmut Weiss (und vielen, die mitdiskutiert haben)(pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/wsf09/antipriv.pdf


Privatisierung, Prekarisierung – demokratische Alternativen

Einladung zum Workshop beim Weltsozialforum Belém (30. Januar 2009, 9-12 Uhr), organisiert von FISENGE (Föderation brasilianischer Ingenieursgewerkschaften) und LabourNet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/wsf09/workshop.pdf

Inputs: Márcio Monzane (Uni-Américas, Kontinentale Föderation der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaften), João Felício (Leiter Internationale Beziehungen CUT Brasilien), Helmut Weiss (LabourNet Germany)

Zum Hintergrund siehe Anders gegen Privatisierung. Über den Stand der Dinge bezüglich des von LabourNet Germany vorgeschlagenen Arbeitskongresses „Demokratisieren statt Privatisieren“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gats/labournet.html


Will an Alternative Global Labour Network Take Off and Take Shape at the World Social Forum, Belem, 2009?

Article by Peter Waterman (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/wsf09/waterman.pdf

Siehe dazu auch

Proposal for a Labour Network on and in the World Social Forum process

Sonderseite bei Labour and Globalization http://openesf.net/projects/labour-and-globalization/project-home


Peter Waterman - Work in Progess. Sonderseite mit Texten von Peter Waterman beim NetzwerkIT http://www.netzwerkit.de/projekte/waterman/


World Social Forum - Trade Union Perspective

ITUC Position on WSF frim April 2008 by International Trade Union Confederation http://openesf.net/projects/labour-and-globalization/blog/2008/08/03/ituc-position-on-wsf-april-2008/

Darüber hinaus alle Grundinformationen zum Weltsozialforum 2009 im neuen Special http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/wsf09/index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Januar 2009



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/16/09

Anyone with common sense and innocent of Keynes’s crackpot views will wonder what the fuss is. Saving and paying off debt are generally seen as wise for individuals, so it makes no sense that they are bad for society as a whole. Yet that is what we our ‘leaders’ expect us to believe. Ask yourself: can you consume your way to prosperity? Of course not...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0901g.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Common Dreams
by Robert E. Griffin

01/18/09

The media fixate on only a part of King’s dream. In the final years of his life, King moved from concentrating on civil rights for blacks to other issues he deemed important, even critical. King realized that poverty needed to be dealt with in America. Poverty was not as popular a message as civil rights. Favorable and abundant media coverage dried up. Then on April 4, 1967, King gave the ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech at the Riverside Church in New York City. Although he had been warned not to do so, King spoke out against the Vietnam War. Moreover, King spoke of a larger soul-sickness in America of which the war was only a symptom. This was not a popular message. King spoke out against the militarism and the hyper-nationalism that he saw in his country. He viewed it as a form of idolatry...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/17


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Alan Bock

01/19/09

While an Obama administration is likely to have a different tone than the outgoing Bush administration, and will also come into office with a reservoir of good will that may not extend beyond the superficial, much of the evidence is that there will be more continuity than change. His plan for withdrawing from Iraq is not all that different from what the Bush administration has begun to implement, and the likelihood is that even after ‘combat’ troops have been withdrawn there will still be tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq. Obama plans to issue an executive order early on to close the Guantanamo prison camp, but his aides stress that the process of actually doing so will be gradual and difficult and could take a year or so. Then there’s his apparent conviction that the real central front in what he also calls the ‘war on terror’ (an unfortunate misnomer with implications for how one confronts problems) is in Afghanistan...

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=14094



Fleas on a dog? Change? A new direction?

The Libertarian Enterprise
by David Earnest

01/18/09

We humans are an odd bunch. We like continuity, tradition and habit. When things happen outside the ordinary, the customary and the habitual we call that ’stressful.’ We don’t deal with change real well do we? Look around in your own world how you deal with change. Been fired lately? How did that make you feel? Been dumped by a woman or a man? How did that make you feel? Ever been first in line at the bank when 3 of 4 tellers go to lunch? Been in a speed trap? Try being rational with a 3 year old. Life is designed to be unfair, how well you deal with the intrinsic unfairness of life is a gauge of how successful in life you’ll be...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle502-20090118-06.html



Are we there yet, Martin?

Salon
by Joan Walsh

01/19/09

Clearly Obama’s race as well as his commitment to equality and opportunity for all makes him a powerful symbol of King’s legacy. ‘I may not get there with you,’ King prophetically told supporters the night before he died, ‘but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.’ Some 40 years later, are we there yet? Obama echoed King (and Sam Cooke) on election night: ‘It’s been a long time coming, but change has come to America.’ But how much and what kind of change, and will it be enough?’ Of course King was an activist and agitator; Obama will be president. Comparisons may obscure as much as they illuminate. Still, on the day we celebrate King’s life, it’s hard not to think about the ways Obama does and does not resemble him, and will and won’t complete his work...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/19/mlk/



Very mixed feelings

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

01/18/09

Clearly I am not euphoric about the inauguration of Barack Obama, certainly not the way that millions appear to be across America. In fact some of this euphoria is very disappointing to me because, well, it is too tribal, too much a matter of ‘one of us got elected.’ Never mind his political vision, his prospective policies, his way of conceiving of his job. Then, too, the fact that Mr. Obama is talking about a ‘new Declaration of Independence’ is frightening — what on earth would he want to change about the old one?

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!674.entry



Hounding Obama Nation, part 1

from Reason to Freedom
by Peter Namtvedt

01/18/09

He committed to limit campaign spending by public matching funds for the presidential election …. He promised to stop smoking cigarettes. … He promised to hold open town hall meetings during the campaign with John McCain. Then he reneged, because of the huge inflow of contributions. Here is a list of more promises broken …. What a political candidate says ought to mean what he really expects to get done if elected. What a winning candidate says needs to be what he will do...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/hounding_obama_nation_part_1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

01/18/09

Whether we remain silent out of mere convenience or simply to avoid criticism from our peers, it almost always looks like we are trying to ‘get away with something.’ This is exemplified perfectly by a situation we face right now on the Libertarian National Committee. You see, we have a national Treasurer who is refusing to release the details of the budget recently passed by the committee unless those of us seeking the information promise not to forward it to anyone, including other committee members. He has even gone so far as to refuse to obey several direct requests from our national Chair to forward the budget. A document that was shown, debated, and voted upon in open session is now being treated as though it were some sort of State secret! Why, I ask, why?!

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1929


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/19/09

When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated, he sought to dismantle the evolving Federalist tradition of pomp and circumstance. In a ceremonial sense, royalism seemed to have been restored, or so it seemed to him. As this blogger put it, ‘Dressed in simple attire, Jefferson walked over to the Capitol with a phalanx of riflemen, friends, and fellow citizens from his home state of Virginia.’ In these last days of the American Empire, such austere republicanism would be considered impossibly quaint. Having long ago morphed into Jefferson’s worst nightmare, the closer we get to the end, the more glamorous our inaugurals become. The poorer we are, the more millions we’ll throw at a ceremony that is really the crowning of a monarch — and not just any old king, but an emperor bestriding the globe. Appearances must be kept up...

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14097


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Published Date: 19 January 2009

By Staff Copy

Vodafone has pulled plans to appeal against objections to two mobile phone masts.

Just last month the mobile phone giant told the Weekly News it would carry out a review of the decision and the reasons for refusal of masts at Beehive Hill and Oaks Road before an appeal would be considered.

But this week Kenilworth MP Jeremy Wright has revealed they have decided not to appeal, but are keen to look at other areas in the town.

Mr Wright said: "This is great news for the residents in these two areas and shows that people can really make a difference. Vodafone does want to talk to residents at another point, however, to discuss where future masts could go."

The proposals were thrown out by Warwick District Council planners twice last year, but the phone company is still looking at Kenilworth as a serious option for a new mast.

Read More...
http://www.kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk/news/Vodafone-drops-mast-appeal-plan.4880212.jp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald21.html



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Bush: Failure?

KN@PPSTER
by Thomas L. Knapp

01/18/09

According to a CNN poll, 68% of American’s regard George W. Bush’s presidency as a ‘failure.’ Are they right? Per the conventional wisdom, there’s little doubt — thinking of Bush administration from beginning to end, it’s an eight-year stack of epic fails which, taken together, comprise perhaps the ultimate, the Great Pyramid, of Fail. … But … ‘failure’ presupposes an objective which has not been achieved, and it’s by no means obvious that George W. Bush’s objectives were those contemplated in the Constitution...

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/01/bush-failure.html



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Teil 2: Merkantiler Mehrwert und bereits anfallende Daten
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29513/1.html



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Informant: Duane Roberts



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