Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009

Bank Bailout Could Cost $4 Trillion

money.cnn.com — The cost of the bank bailout is likely to be much higher than $700 billion. While the Obama administration hasn't asked Congress for more money yet, some experts warn that government spending on support for struggling financial services companies will ultimately reach into the trillions of dollars. The first half of the $700 billion program to help banks has already been spent — mostly on buying up preferred shares of troubled banks. Part of the remaining $350 billion may be used to purchase troubled assets from bank balance sheets and place them in an "aggregator bank." And while taxpayers will surely recover some of that sum eventually, more money is likely to be needed in order for the bank rescue to work.

http://ga3.org/ct/k120pgF1s49d/



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Wirtschaftspolitiker Wend wechselt zur Post

Der SPD-Wirtschaftspolitiker Rainer Wend verlässt den Deutschen Bundestag und wechselt zum 1. April zur Deutschen Post AG. Die nordrhein-westfälische Bundestagsabgeordnete Ute Berg ist jetzt als neue wirtschaftspolitische Sprecherin der SPD-Fraktion gewählt worden. Die 55-Jährige setzte sich nach Angaben aus der Fraktion mit 101 zu 71 Stimmen gegen den niedersächsischen SPD-Chef Garrelt Duin durch.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19199

Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says

Richard Harris, NPR News: "Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the world will experience more and more long-term environmental disruption. The damage will persist even when, and if, emissions are brought under control, says study author Susan Solomon, who is among the world's top climate scientists. 'We're used to thinking about pollution problems as things that we can fix,' Solomon says. 'Smog, we just cut back and everything will be better later. Or haze, you know, it'll go away pretty quickly.'"

http://www.truthout.org/012709O



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Conyers Subpoenas Rove

Susan Crabtree, The Hill: "House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) subpoenaed former White House senior adviser Karl Rove, a sign that Democrats are not letting go of investigations the Bush administration stonewalled. The subpoena requires Rove to testify regarding his role in the Bush administration's politicization of the Justice Department, including the firings of nine US attorneys and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman."

http://www.truthout.org/012709K



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But What If Torture Works?

Steve Weissman, Truthout: "A well-thought-out nudge produces far better intelligence than does any effort to impose fear and control. It also yielded a much clearer understanding of why so many Iraqi Sunnis turned to Zarqawi's terrorists, whether for protection against Shi'a militia, a chance to earn money, or a sincere belief in a new Islamic Caliphate. These were nuances that Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and much of the military brass found hard to accept, as was the undeniable truth that Abu Ghraib and Gitmo encouraged far more ticking bombs than torture ever prevented."

http://www.truthout.org/012709J



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Cell Phones, Traffic a Deadly Combo for Kids

HealthDay

By Kevin McKeever

Monday, January 26, 2009

HealthDay news imageMONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Talking on a cell phone while crossing a street can be disastrous for children,a University of Alabama at Birmingham study shows.

The research, first presented in April at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology, is being published in the February issue of the Pediatrics. It found that 10- and 11-year-olds were less attentive to traffic and were involved in more collisions and near misses with traffic when using a cell phone to talk to a research assistant in interactive, simulated road crossings.

"The children who were on the cell phone and were distracted during their crossing were significantly more likely to get hit by a car in the virtual environment," study author Katherine Byington, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said at the time of the April presentation. "They were getting hit or almost getting hit at least [once], while the kids that weren't on the cell phone didn't get hit."

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Gentechnik-Pflanzen in Europa verhindern

Cholera-Kartoffeln verhindern
http://www.umweltinstitut.org/cholerakartoffel
http://umweltinstitut.org/gentechnik/aktionen/cholerakartoffel_nachtrag.html

Stoppen Sie den Gen-Mais
http://www.campact.de/gentec/aigner/andechs

Zerstört die Agro-Gentechnik unsere Zukunft?
http://www.zivilcourage.ro/


Aus: UIM Newsletter 02

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Erste Erfolge gegen Gen-Mais-Anbau

Beim kommerziellen Anbau genmanipulierter Pflanzen in Deutschland gibt es jetzt erstmals einen deutlichen Rückgang. Insgesamt wurden in diesem Jahr rund 800 Hektar weniger Gen-Mais angemeldet als 2008. Zudem werden auch in diesem Jahr zahlreiche Bauern bereits angemeldete Flächen zurückziehen. Den Anfang machte die TU München, die nun doch keinen genmanipulierten Mais auf ihrem Versuchsgut im Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck anbaut. Aktuelle Zahlen zum Gentechnikanbau in Deutschland finden Sie ab jetzt auf unserer Website: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/genmais_2009

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Umweltinstitut München fordert Anbauverbot für genmanipulierte Pharma-Pflanzen

Das Umweltinstitut München hat am Donnerstag (26. Februar) dem Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) in Berlin mehr als 57.000 Einwendungen gegen ein geplantes Experiment mit "Pharma-Kartoffeln" übergeben. Die Universität Rostock will die genmanipulierten Pflanzen in Üplingen (Sachsen-Anhalt) und Thulendorf (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) im Freiland anbauen. Die Gen-Kartoffeln sollen einen Impfstoff und ein Impfstoffhilfsmittel gegen die Kaninchenseuche RHD beziehungsweise gegen die Cholera produzieren.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19365

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Gentechnik-Pflanzen in Europa verhindern
http://www.keine-gentechnik.de/gentechnik-alarm.html



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Phone mast could make brain condition worse

By Hugh Ross

Published: 27 January, 2009

THE parents of a little girl born with brain damage have vowed to fight Vodafone's bid to build a phone mast yards from the family home.

Jan Catherall and partner Sarah Flint do not want the 11.4 metre high mast to be constructed because they are worried about the impact it could have on the health of eight-year-old Britney, who has encephalitis, which is inflammation of the brain.

Pressure is now mounting on Vodafone to ditch its plans to build the mast on St Ninian Drive beside Dalneigh Primary School.

The application will be considered by Highland Council's area planning committee on 10th February, but already some parents have said they will withdraw their children from the school if it is given the go ahead.

Members of the community fear the mast, which would be disguised as a telegraph pole, could give off harmful radiation waves and pose an unnecessary health risk.

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Parent warns against use of Wi-Fi in schools

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Next-up News Nr 817

- France 5 : "Les antennes de la colère" (vidéo reportage en HD 16/9)
- Next-up organisation : Intro Comprendre l'EHS Repacholi et OMS

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS.php#2

Stimulus for who?

Freedom's Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/26/09

This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package. In reality, this bill is just an escalation of a government-created economic mess. As before, a sense of urgency and impending doom is being used to extract mountains of money from Congress with minimal debate. So much for change. This is deja vu. We are again being promised that its passage will help employment, help homeowners, help the environment, etc. These promises are worthless. This time around especially, Congress should know better than to pass anything of this magnitude without first reading the fine print...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=044611


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Prosecute George W. Bush for illegal acts

AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

01/24/09

The Obama administration is reluctant to turn over too many rocks in the Bush administration’s conduct in the War on Terror. Obama has pledged to reach a post-partisan nirvana, and Republicans could condemn any investigation of Bush administration abuse of the republic as a partisan witch-hunt. Also, the Obama administration has a conflict of interest in pursuing investigations and prosecutions against Bush administration officials because now that Obama is president, he may not want to entirely discredit Bush’s precedents, which significantly expanded executive powers. Yet in the expanse of human history, the existence of republican government has been rare and short-lived by comparison. Even in recent years, when republicanism has spread the farthest, we forget how fragile the experiment is. The stakes are high, and the Obama administration needs to beat down the autocratic precedents left by the previous administration. The only way it can do so is by bringing criminal cases against the high level perpetrators...

http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=14130



Are we civilized enough to hold our leaders accountable for war crimes?

AlterNet
by John W. Dean

01/26/09

It is difficult to believe that Eric Holder would agree not to enforce the law, like his recent Republican predecessors. Indeed, if he were to do so, President Obama should withdraw his nomination. But as MSNBC ‘Countdown’ anchor Keith Olbermann stated earlier this week, even if the Obama Administration for whatever reason does not investigate and prosecute these crimes, this still does not mean that the Bush Administration officials who were involved in torture are going to get a pass. With few exceptions, the discussion about what the Obama Administration will do regarding the torture of detainees during the Bush years has been framed as a domestic matter, and the fate of those involved in torturing has been largely viewed as a question of whether the Department of Justice will take action. In fact, not only is the world watching what the Obama Administration does regarding Bush’s torturers, but other countries are very likely to take action if the United States fails to do so...

http://tinyurl.com/by55ek



Bush was a big-government disaster

Reason
by Nick Gillespie

01/26/09

The most basic Bush numbers are damning. If increases in government spending matter, then Bush is worse than any president in recent history. During his first four years in office — a period during which his party controlled Congress — he added a whopping $345 billion (in constant dollars) to the federal budget. The only other presidential term that comes close? Bush’s second term. As of November 2008, he had added at least an additional $287 billion on top of that (and the months since then will add significantly to the bill). To put that in perspective, consider that the spendthrift LBJ added a mere $223 billion in total additional outlays in his one full term. If spending under Bush was a disaster, regulation was even worse...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131264.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US lobbying spending tops $3 billion in ‘08

USA Today

01/26/09

Despite the sharp economic downturn, lobbying spending in the nation’s capital surged past $3 billion last year as industries and special-interest groups wooed Congress and federal agencies on a host of issues, including taxpayer bailouts for financial companies and automakers. The record $3.3 billion lobbying price tag is up from $2.9 billion in 2007 and is more than double what was spent four years ago, according to records compiled by the non-partisan CQ MoneyLine...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Secret US Plan to Expand Whaling

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/26-8



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How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

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The phony nature of most of what passes for “privatization” under neoliberalism

Center for a Stateless Society

by Kevin Carson

01/22/09

[T]he tendency of neoliberal capitalism over the past few decades, despite all the ‘free market’ rhetoric, has been to socialize an ever-increasing share of the operating costs of business, and to insulate big business increasingly from market competition through a draconian ‘intellectual property’ (sic) regime. Besides the war economy and the military-industrial complex, the internal security state and the prison-industrial complex have grown by leaps and bounds. Consider the irony of Dick Cheney, of Halliburton fame, pontificating that ‘the government never made anybody rich.’ We have been evolving, in recent decades, to a system of power in which the boundaries between the corporation and the state are increasingly a legal fiction, and the corporate capitalists administer the economy from their position at the helm of the state. The main difference between what the Nazis aimed at, and the neoliberal policies pursued in the Anglosphere, is that ‘free market’ rhetoric serves a useful legitimizing function for selling the latter...

http://c4ss.org/content/124


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Road to Ruin: Twenty-Five People at the Heart of the Meltdown

Julia Finch, Andrew Clark and David Teather, The Guardian UK: "The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/012609S



The Union Way Up

Robert B. Reich, The Los Angeles Times: "Why is this recession so deep, and what can be done to reverse it? Hint: Go back about 50 years, when America's middle class was expanding and the economy was soaring. Paychecks were big enough to allow us to buy all the goods and services we produced. It was a virtuous circle. Good pay meant more purchases, and more purchases meant more jobs. At the center of this virtuous circle were unions."

http://www.truthout.org/012609T



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Companies in U.S. to Slash More Jobs, Business Economists Say

More U.S. companies project they'll pare staff in the next six months as pessimism mounts the economy will contract this year, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics.

http://tinyurl.com/c8pl8e


From Information Clearing House

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Major US Companies to Slash 45,000 Jobs

Howard Schneider, The Washington Post: "American companies announced job cuts totaling 45,000 this morning, as the global downturn slammed the profits of exporters like Caterpillar and a domestic recession hit hard at retailer Home Depot."

http://www.truthout.org/012609LA



The Ailing Economy Is Making People Sicker

Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe: "At Massachusetts General Hospital, patients whose blood pressure was in check just weeks ago now find it rocketing out of control. They blame the economy. At Boston Medical Center, obese patients who had been shedding weight are packing on pounds again as they resort to cheaper, high-calorie food and abandon gym memberships. They blame the economy."

http://www.truthout.org/012609HA



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'Rescued' Citigroup Buying $50M Jet

Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet - only this time, it's the taxpayers who are getting screwed.

http://tinyurl.com/akraab


From Information Clearing House



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Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points

Barack Obama might have been in office for less than a week, but the euphoria is beginning to wane. The new President's approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest - although still impressive - 68 per cent.

http://tinyurl.com/b2ajom



Bad news: we're back to 1931. Good news: it's not 1933 yet

Barack Obama inherits an economy already contracting at an annual rate of 6pc, much like the mid-Depression year of 1931 (-6.4pc).

http://tinyurl.com/bn7o3k


From Information Clearing House



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US will strike Pakistan if needed

The Obama administration has inherited "a real mess" in Afghanistan and an increase in US casualties is likely as troops try to reclaim territory, Vice-President Joe Biden said on Sunday. He said if there is an actionable target of high-level al Qaeda personnel, US will not hesitate attack inside Pakistan.

http://tinyurl.com/aa9mod



U.S. must stop drone attacks : PM Gilani

"I want to put on record that we do not have any agreement between the government of the United States and the government of Pakistan," Gilani told an American news channel in an interview at the World Economic Forum.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?210669



Pakistan rips U.S. missile strikes in its border area

Pakistan on Wednesday strongly criticized the U.S. missile strikes inside its borders, saying the strikes were "counter-productive" to its efforts to counter terrorism.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/28/content_10731044.htm



Pakistan: Former minister urges downing of US drones

If United States aircraft continue to carry out airstrikes inside Pakistan, the Pakistani Air Force should shoot them down, a former interior minister, Lt. Gen. Hamid Nawaz told journalists on Wednesday.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2959735133


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: Senators demand end to US drone attacks

Pakistan Observer

01/27/09

The members of the Upper House of the Parliament on Monday demanded of the government to assert full energies for putting the drone attacks in the tribal areas to an end. The opposition criticized the government over remaining unsuccessful in stopping drone attacks on FATA killing hundreds of people while the treasury benches expressed inability on account of few limitations. Professor Khurshid Ahmad, Jamaat-e-Islami legislator, speaking on point of order, pointed out statement of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on floor of the Lower House of the Parliament that drone attacks would end after the administration of Barack Obama takes charge of the White House. ‘But, on the contrary, number and pace of drone attacks have increased by many times and the recent attacks have claimed almost 22 precious, innocent lives’ Professor Khurshid observed...

http://pakobserver.net/200901/27/news/topstories03.asp



The mailed fist and the velvet glove
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/28/09

President Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya television is remarkable in several ways, but what strikes me the most is that it coincided with the first air strikes on Pakistan under his administration: 22 people were killed, including between four and seven Taliban/al-Qaeda bad guys. In the Arabiya interview, Obama was at his charming best, and the easily charmed were bowled over. Andrew Sullivan, for example, fairly swooned, and announced it’s ‘about the same thing as inviting Rick Warren or supping with George Will: it’s about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.’ What would you say if the police came into your neighborhood to confront reported criminals, killed a few — and also managed to knock off 18 or so bystanders? Would you say this shows the police respect the neighborhood?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14152


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Missile Strikes in Pakistan Will Continue: Gates

Reuters: "The United States will continue to carry out missile strikes against al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/012709S



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In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-Ending Event

By Paul Craig Roberts

Truth cannot be spoken in America. It cannot be spoken in universities. It cannot be spoken in the media. It cannot be spoken in courts, which is why defendants and defense attorneys have given up on trials and cop pleas to lesser offenses that never occurred.

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A Very Real New World Order

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Do you now see why it does not matter to a tinker's dam whether it is a Republican or Democrat who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? For the most part, both major parties in Washington, D.C., have been under the dominating influence of the international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, the CFR, and the Trilateral Commission. And this is also why it does not matter whether one calls himself conservative or liberal. For the most part, both conservatives and liberals in Washington, D.C., are facilitating the emerging New World Order. It is time we wake up to this reality........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin487.htm



More on the New World Order

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The American people need to wake up to the fact that the international banking interests that dominate our political and financial entities are working tirelessly to "see an end to nationhood." I am talking about the Rothschilds and Warburgs of Europe, and the houses of J.P. Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb, Schiff, Lehman, and Rockefeller........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin488.htm

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Obama: Regime Rotation

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21848.htm



The Torture Ban that Doesn't Ban Torture

By Allan Nairn

If you're lying on the slab still breathing, with your torturer hanging over you, you don't much care if he is an American or a mere United States - sponsored trainee. When President Obama declared flatly this week that "the United States will not torture" many people wrongly believed that he'd shut the practice down, when in fact he'd merely repositioned it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21844.htm



Us Army Field Manual (Still) Sanctions Torture

By Jeffrey S. Kaye

The new manual includes one restricted technique that will only be used on so-called unlawful combatants - such as Al Qaeda suspects -- not traditional prisoners of war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21841.htm



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Phone masts spring up across Plymouth

Monday, January 26, 2009, 15:58

THE number of mobile phone transmitters in Plymouth could hit the 200 mark by the end of the year, The Herald has learned.

Phone companies say they are being forced to add to their masts to keep up with the ever-increasing usage of mobiles, as well as a growing demand for new services such as mobile internet and 3G technology.

But some phone mast campaigners in the city are sceptical of the plans, which include rough proposals for more than a dozen sites across Plymouth.

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http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/PHONE-MASTS-SPRING-CITY/article-644605-detail/article.html

Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo

http://www.lewrockwell.com/worthington/worthington11.html



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Bush, Obama and the American State

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Bernanke Thinks He Can Print Us Out of a Depression

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon56.html

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Faith in free markets, according to Mr. Bernanke

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Matthew J. Novak

01/27/09

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke considers it to be time for more fund transfers to the coffers of struggling financial institutions here in the United States. The details seem to be basically more of the same proposed solutions from the fall of 2008. If you are interested in reading some of his thoughts as portrayed in the common news media, see his comments quoted in this recent CNN.com article...

http://mises.org/story/3308



Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style hyperinflation

Amercan Armageddon
by staff

01/25/09

Since the Lehman Bros. default, this money expansion rose dramatically by end October at a year-year rate of growth of 38%, has been without precedent in the 95 year history of the Federal Reserve since its creation in 1913. The previous high growth rate … was 28% in September 1939, as the US was building up industry for the evolving war in Europe...

http://tinyurl.com/d8p7r8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Gold, Stocks, and Government

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff262.html



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Money and Our Future

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/money-our-future.html



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Montag, 26. Januar 2009

Phone firm's mast bid blocked

Published Date: 26 January 2009

By Sarah Williamson

Councillors have thrown out a planning application from Vodafone to install a 17.5-metre high mast on the outskirts of Hawick.

The mobile phone company had submitted a proposal to build a monopole at the side of the road leading south to the Galalaw roundabout – along with a 3G antennae, transmission dishes, equipment cabins and fencing.

Read More...
http://www.hawick-news.co.uk/news/Phone-firms-mast-bid-blocked.4914412.jp

7 Formen solidarischen Wirtschaftens zum sofortigen Nach- und Mitmachen

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung senden wir ihnen folgenden Veranstaltungshinweis der ödp München.

ödp-Vortrag am 10.02.2009 - "7 Formen solidarischen Wirtschaftens zum sofortigen Nach- und Mitmachen“ Referent: Martin Schmidt-Bredow, ZeitBank e.V.

Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19:00 Uhr – Der Eintritt ist frei Neu! In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses , Brienner Str. 39, Rgb., (Rahnstüberl) MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21).

Mit richtiger Vernetzung lassen sich unsere Grundbedürfnisse günstiger und sozial sicherer erfüllen – einschließlich Wohnen und Gesundheit. Wer an mehreren Vernetzungsformen teilnimmt, von Genossenschaften bis hin zu den neuen alternativen Gesundheitskassen, spart nicht nur eine Menge Geld, er lebt auch mit ganz anderem sozialem Rückhalt als ihm unser jetziges strauchelndes System bietet, das uns mit Altersarmut bedroht. Diese teils alten und teils neuen Formen an Vernetzung gibt es für Gesundheit, Mobilität, Wohnen, Alter, Energie und nicht zuletzt auch mit anderen Tauschmitteln und Geldarten - sozial und inflations-sicherer als unser heutiges Geld, das sich über kurz oder lang im Finanzcasino verflüchtigt.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Herbert Brunner Pressebeauftragter (V.i.S.d.P.)
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46/V, 80333 München
Fon 089/452 474 15 × Fax 089/550 699 86
E-Mail presse@oedp-muenchen.de
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de


Veranstaltungshinweise zur kostenfreien Vortragsreihe:

Neu! Immer in den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses, Brienner Str. 39, Rgb. (Rahnstüberl). MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21).

Die., 10. März 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Wissenschaft unterm Hakenkreuz“ Referent: Wolfgang C. Goede, Politologe & Journalist

Die., 14. April 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Agro-Gentechnik - ein Fall für den UN-Menschenrechtsausschuss!“ Referentin: Christiane Lüst, Gründerin der Aktion GEN-Klage

Die., 12. Mai 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Der EU-Reformvertrag - Parallelen zur Sowjetunion?“ Referent: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender

Die., 9. Juni 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Nicht der Tod macht mir Angst, sondern das Sterben - Wie umgehen mit Menschen in der letzten Lebensphase?“ Referent: Wolfgang Bader, Buchautor und Hospizhelfer

Die., 14. Juli 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Die Säge am eigenen Ast –Wer trägt die Verantwortung für die Steuerverwendung?“ Referent: Sepp Rottmayr, Netzwerk Friedenssteuer e.V.

Die., 11. Aug. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „100% erneuerbare Energien: Vision oder schon Wirklichkeit?“ Referentin: Ina Röpcke, Fachjournalistin erneuerbare Energien

Die., 8. Sep. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Biogas - Konkurrenz zur Nahrungsmittelproduktion? - Mit globalen Nährstoffkreisläufen auf dem Weg zur Bio-Biogasanlage“ Referent: Ansgar Blasweiler, BiogasSüd

Die., 13. Okt. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Mediation statt Ehestreit vor Gericht – für eine menschliche Trennung ohne finanziellen Ruin“ Referent: Rainer Köpnick, Mediator

Die., 10. Nov. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Gesundes Krankheitswesen oder krankes Gesundheitswesen - gibt es demokratische und solidarische Alternativen?“ Referent: Roman Huber, Geschäftsführer Mehr Demokratie e.V.

Die., 8. Dez. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Welchen Nutzen haben Komplementärwährungen? - Erklärungen am Beispiel des REGIO in München?“ Referent: Walter Neubert, Mitinitiator des Münchner Regios


ödp – Profil

In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil -weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

GOP Links Nomination to Torture Prosecutions

Ken Camp, The Northwest Progressive Institute Advocate: "In an effort to derail the nomination of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, it seems Senate Republicans are now resorting to extortion. They'll confirm Holder if he promises not to prosecute any Bush Administration officials for any involvement in acts of torture, according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Anyone familiar with the criminal justice system - especially those with experience as prosecutors or judges - should know that a prosecutor should make no determination about who to prosecute before he or she has all the facts, and particularly not in response to legislative pressure."

http://www.truthout.org/012609J

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It's Time to Choose Right Over Wrong

Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers: "While President Barack Obama was busy closing down our military prison in Guantanamo and shuttering the Central Intelligence Agency's secret Gulag around the world, Republicans on Capitol Hill were stalling a vote on Obama's choice for attorney general, apparently in hopes of negotiating a plea bargain on war crimes. Although it violates everything we know and believe about equality under the law, the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, led astray by Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, forced a week's delay in voting on Eric Holder's nomination to be the new attorney general in a crude attempt to get him to swear that he won't prosecute anyone from the Bush administration for violating our laws."

http://www.truthout.org/012609F



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Fooled by globalization

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/542.html



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Contact Your State District Attorneys To Prosecute Bush and Cheney

The Best Way To Light A Fire For Federal Prosecutions of Bush And Cheney Is To Get Collateral State Actions Going

After weeks and weeks of unbelievable work, we have completed compiling a database of the current contact information for every state district attorney, for EVERY county in the country. And we have put it all together into an easy one click lookup function to help organize contacting your nearest state prosecutor, to call on THEM to step up to the plate, to stand up for justice and accountability, by prosecuting George Bush and Dick Cheney for their crimes.

In particular, renowned former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has laid out a compelling case for charging both Bush and Cheney with the premediated murder of American service men and women, for starting a war with Iraq on patently false pretenses. By using this new lookup page you can instantly get the mailing address, phone, fax, and in many cases also the email of your local prosecutor. This action is SO critical we have dedicated our entire main site homepage to it.

Local Prosecutor Lookup: http://www.peaceteam.net

IMPORTANT NOTE: We are not asking anyone to file a "formal" criminal complaint yourself. Common sense tells us that a state prosecutor will only act, in the exercise of their OWN discretion, if they believe there is a non-frivolous case to bring. But by speaking out, we can let them know there is community support for them to do so.

There are nearly 3,000 county level state prosecutors in the country. And these are often VERY politically sensitive elected positions, where citizen pressure can have huge impact. Indeed, if you look at current members of Congress, a large number of them started out as district attorneys. Who among these 3,000 has the courage to take on the urgency of pressing these historic charges, and perhaps then replace some of the partially inflated punching bags that many members of Congress have allowed themselves to become?

To hear the Sunday morning Washington chucklehead pundits talk about it, whether to prosecute war crimes or not (as if it were optional) is an inside the beltway political decision. Oh really? Well maybe our United States of America is a little bit bigger than their little beltway.

Attorney General Holder is already coming under enormous pressure from rabidly lawless Republicans, for just simply declaring what any first year law student would have to say to keep from getting flunked, that torture is a CRIME. And if Bush and Cheney ordered torture, as they have recently brazenly admitted on TV, they MUST be prosecuted. End of story.

But we cannot ONLY rely on getting an honest attorney general who will do his duty (though we must have that too), nor can we rely much on the mostly whiny weenies in Congress to finally put together an investigation with teeth. NO!! The critical move NOW is to drum up collateral actions at the state level, as counselled by Bugliosi, and that will help force the hands of everyone else.

Imagine what it would be like if we found just ONE crusading state prosecutor to respond to the call of destiny. Imagine what it would be like if a DOZEN or more suddenly sprang into action, because of our many letters, and phone calls, and faxes and emails. We can open up an whole new third front, and keep it open.

We were still packing up more "Convict Dick & W" caps as we were listening to the presidential inauguration last Tuesday. Then we got out the first large shipment last Wednesday. And with that we officially inaugurate the Bush and Cheney conviction movement.

Thank you for your patience. Researching thousands and thousands of websites (where many counties have none at all), cross-checking the best available lists, many incomplete and out of date, against hard to find local election results, took a massive amount of energy to create the new local prosecutor lookup function. But we had to make it the number one priority, and now it's done, and it works like a dream.

Local Prosecutor Lookup: http://www.peaceteam.net

So after you use the local prosecutor lookup at the page below, you can also request one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps from the same page, complete with a little embroidered cowboy hat on the "W". Yes, a tiny cowboy hat for a very small man, the Cowboy from Connecticut, our first presidential felon to be, George Bush. It's perfect.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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Legal Jeopardy For American Torturers Here and Abroad?

By John W. Dean

One would think that people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Gonzales, Yoo, Haynes and others, who claim to have done nothing wrong, would call for investigations to clear themselves if they really believed that to be the case.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21843.htm



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Sweden institutes near-total mercury ban

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/14/Sweden_institutes_near-total_mercury_ban/UPI-75861231945871/


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Well, but at the same time they introduce mercury-containing low-energy light bulbs on a massive scale...

"Left and right hand" - do they really know what they are doing...?


Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

&

Professor
The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden



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Vorschrift über die abgesenkte Regelleistung für Kinder unter 14 Jahre ist verfassungswidrig

Kinder sind keine kleinen Erwachsenen

26. Januar 2009

"Die Regelsätze für Kinder in Hartz-IV-Familien sind deutlich zu niedrig", sagt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping mit Blick auf die morgen anstehende Verhandlung vor dem Bundessozialgericht zu den Kinderregelsätzen bei Hartz IV. Sie erklärt:

DIE LINKE fordert die sofortige Anhebung der Kinderregelsätze auf rund
300 Euro und in einem zweiten Schritt die Einführung einer eigenständigen Kindergrundsicherung. Wenn Kinder in Armut leben müssen, ist dies für eine reiche Welt ein beispielloser Skandal. Die Regelsätze für Kinder in Hartz-IV-Familien sind deutlich zu niedrig. Abgeleitet werden sie von den Regelsätzen für Erwachsene, die ebenfalls extrem zu niedrig sind. Es ist nicht nachvollziehbar, warum Kinder und Heranwachsende nur deswegen weniger Bedürfnisse haben sollen, weil sie jünger sind. Im Gegenteil: Kinderbekleidung ist oft sogar teurer als Kleidung für Erwachsene und muss häufiger gekauft werden. Eine Aufwachsende hat eben wachsende Füße, spezielle Lebensmittel und Schulmaterialien kosten extra Geld. Kinder sind keine kleinen Erwachsenen. Sie sind eigenständige Wesen mit eigenständigen Ansprüchen. Es wäre zu begrüßen, wenn die Rechtsprechung diesen Grundsatz berücksichtigen würde.

http://die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/zurueck/presserklaerungen/artikel/kinder-sind-keine-kleinen-erwachsenen/



2. Februar 2009

Wenn zwei sich streiten, wird es peinlich

Zum Streit zwischen Minister Scholz und Ministerin von der Leyen über die Höhe der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze für Kinder erklärt die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Katja Kipping:

Minister Scholz und Ministerin von der Leyen spielen mit wechselnden Rollen „guter Minister, böser Minister“, Vorwürfe fliegen von einer Adresse zur anderen und letztlich werfen beide nur Nebelkerzen. Bei der Debatte um die Höhe der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze für Kinder möchte keiner der beiden Verlierer sein. Das wird den Problemen jedoch in keiner Weise gerecht. Weder die Vorschläge von Frau von der Leyen, noch die Berechnung von Minister Scholz, wonach der Regelsatz bei 6 bis 13- Jährigen um 35 Euro angehoben werden muss, würden das Urteil des BSG aufheben können. Beide sind Verlierer in einer peinlichen Posse zu Lasten von Kindern aus Hartz-IV-Familien. DIE LINKE hat vorgeschlagen, den Regelsatz sofort als dringende Reparaturleistung auf durchschnittlich rund 300 Euro anzuheben und schnell eine ehrliche Bedarfsfeststellung durchzuführen. Grundsätzlich gilt: Wir brauchen eine eigenständige Kindergrundsicherung, die jedem Kind das Existenzminimum garantiert. Das hilft auf jeden Fall mehr als großkoalitionäres Parteiengezänk um Zuständigkeiten.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/wenn-zwei-sich-streiten-wird-es-peinlich/

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Vorschrift über die abgesenkte Regelleistung für Kinder unter 14 Jahre ist verfassungswidrig

Der 14. Senat des Bundessozialgerichts hält § 28 Abs 1 Satz 3 Nr 1 SGB II, der die Regelleistung für Kinder bis zur Vollendung des 14. Lebensjahres auf 60 vH der für alleinstehende Erwachsene maßgebenden Regelleistung festsetzt, für verfassungswidrig. Pressemitteilung des Bundessozialgerichts vom 27.01.2009 http://juris.bundessozialgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bsg&Art=ps&Datum=2009&nr=10753&pos=0&anz=3

Siehe dazu:

Ruf nach höherem Hartz IV für Kinder wird lauter

„Nach dem Urteil des Bundessozialgerichts zur Festsetzung des Hartz-IV-Satzes für Kinder werden Rufe nach einer schnellen Anhebung laut. Der Deutsche Kinderschutzbund, Politiker aus Linkspartei und FDP sowie die Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft Ver.di sprachen sich für eine Erhöhung des Satzes aus. Die Unterstützung müsse sich wirklich an den Bedürfnissen der Kinder orientieren, sagte der Vorsitzende des Kinderschutzbundes, Heinz Hilgers, der «Nordwest- Zeitung» (Mittwoch)…“ Artikel in der Financial Times Deutschland vom 28.01.2009 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Ruf-nach-h%F6herem-Hartz-IV-f%FCr-Kinder-wird-lauter/467164.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Januar 2009

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Rechtsanwalt Martin Reucher: Schallende Ohrfeige für den Gesetzgeber. Erfolg für den Bochumer Rechtsanwalt Reucher und Hartz IV-Berechtigte

Rechtsanwalt Reucher und sein Beistand und Bürokollege Steffen Bundrück ist es gelungen, das Bundessozialgericht zu überzeugen: der 14. Senat des Bundessozialgerichts hält die Hartz IV-Regelleistung für Kinder bis zur Vollendung des 14. Lebensjahres für verfassungswidrig.

Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel: http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/reucher73623.php



VDK rät zu Widerspruch

Nach dem Urteil des Bundessozialgerichtes: Der VdK rät Hartz-IV-Familien, Widerspruch einzulegen Betroffene können Musterwiderspruch im Internet herunterladen

Der Sozialverband VdK Deutschland rät Hartz-IV-Familien mit Kindern, Widerspruch gegen Behördenbescheide einzulegen oder einen Überprüfungsantrag zu stellen mit dem Ziel, höhere Regelleistungen für ihre Kinder zu erhalten.

Lesen Sie weiter: http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartziv7266387.php



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Strengthening or weakening the economy?

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/23/09

The economic situation continues to deteriorate this week as past and future bailouts were discussed on Capitol Hill. The debate was over the accountability of already disbursed TARP money, and on whether or not to release remaining funds. Banks that had already been bailed out before are looking for more money to fill the black holes that are their balance sheets, warning that they are simply too big to fail. However, whatever ‘devastating’ consequences these banks are dreaming up and pushing on Capitol Hill regarding their own collapse will be nothing compared to the collapse of our currency if we keep debasing it through these foolish bailouts. It should be that they are too big to bailout. The world will not come to an end without this or that bank. The most troubling thing to me is this rhetoric that only government can save the economy, and must act. This is so counter-productive. We must ask ourselves what strengthens this country, and what weakens it...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003694.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boon or doggle?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

01/22/09

Even if government spending in theory could ’stimulate the economy’ in a genuine, sustainable way, it would not follow that politicians and bureaucrats would know how to spend the money intelligently. The pressures to do something now and the perverse incentives facing those in charge of the money guarantee there would be more doggle than boon. Government ‘countercyclical’ spending is notorious for kicking in after the recession has passed. The planners’ information is necessarily dated, and their capacity to act quickly is overestimated...

http://fee.org/featured/boon-or-doggle/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Palin: Don’t save the whales

Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

As a fierce high school basketball player, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was dubbed ‘Sarah Barracuda,’ a nickname that was revived on the campaign trail last year, when she served as John McCain’s enforcer. Now the ‘Barracuda’ is picking a fight with one of the biggest mammals in the sea. Last week, the state of Alaska announced it plans to mount a legal challenge to the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whale under the Endangered Species Act. (Placing the belugas on the endangered list requires a review of federally funded or permitted activities that could affect the health of the whales, the establishment of a recovery plan, and the designation of “critical habitat.”) This marks the second time in a year that Palin’s administration has squared off with the federal government over an ESA listing. Over the summer, her administration sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne after his agency conferred threatened status on the polar bear...

http://tinyurl.com/b92tkh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Must we be hawks?

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

01/24/09

While it is quite right that when government becomes oppressive it has abrogated its duty to protect the rights of the citizens, it doesn’t follow from this that other governments are now authorized or obligated to intervene. This is not because the oppressive governments enjoy sovereignty, so they may oppress their populations or do other violent things. Once they are oppressive, they have lost their legitimacy and may be opposed, even forcefully. The reason other governments may not interfere unless the oppressors have attacked them is that governments must serve the people who have established and maintain them. Just like body guards serve their clients, governments serve their citizens. Going off to serve the oppressed in other countries would in effect amount to going AWOL, leaving their proper posts...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!691.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The worst lies of all

Detroit Free Press
by Mitch Albom

01/25/09

But, folks, as long as we accept lies as part of doing business, we are going to get lying businesses. We need to get indignant. We need to change laws. We will jail a common thief for robbing a liquor store far longer than we’ll jail a CEO for robbing thousands of investors. Why? Why shouldn’t white-collar crime be as serious as drug trafficking or manslaughter? Don’t both crimes ruin lives, destroy families, even lead to deaths? How often have we read in recent weeks about suicides by people who were overwhelmed by business trauma? Don’t kid yourself that a white collar can’t run blood red...

http://www.freep.com/article/20090125/COL01/901250364



Consequences are for little people

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

01/25/09

If the CEO of a floundering company can continue to decorate his office while things are going to hell, and eventually collect a golden parachute while somebody else picks up the pieces, where, exactly, is his incentive to not ... up? I mean, the whole argument for capitalism is that the profit motive is supposed to get people to solve problems and make stuff work. Conversely, the whole argument against communism was that with no profit motive nobody will do anything productive. I dare say that a person guaranteed a golden parachute and freed from all consequences of failure is NOT facing any incentive to perform...

http://www.highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/01/25/9103


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Obama’s minimalist approach to Guantanamo

The American Prospect
by Aziz Huq

01/23/09

As majestic and spacious as it is vague, President Obama’s draft executive order directing the shuttering of the prison colony at Guantanamo is at once transformative and evasive. Obama has taken a critical step in the right direction. But he has also evaded the hardest moral and legal quagmires of the Bush administration, denying both his critics a target and the many innocent detainees the swift relief they deserve. The result is a masterpiece of subtle political indirection — one that captures and exploits the moral poverty and specious reasoning of national debate over Guantanamo, even as it offers a promissory note for transformation in the future...

http://tinyurl.com/c3eals


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Close Gitmo and Get Out of Cuba
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis134.html



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Obama’s Vietnam

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/26/09

Obama plans on doubling U.S. forces in Afghanistan, bringing the total up to some 70,000 — and with more, you can be sure, on the way. We are told that Obama’s magical diplomatic skills will compel the Europeans to do their part, with NATO taking the lead. Yet Afghanistan is not the former Yugoslavia, and if Holbrooke thinks he can impose a new Dayton on the rebel Afghans and the increasingly resentful Pakistanis, he is apt to run up against the same brick wall that has stymied would-be conquerors for 2,000 years, including the Soviets, the British, and Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde. The Europeans know this, and they won’t be too eager to jump into the fray. A Vietnam-style counterinsurgency conflict spreading across the Afghan-Pakistan border and reaching into the wilds of Central Asia would dwarf the present quagmire in Iraq by several degrees of magnitude. Yet Obama was and still is touted as a peacemaker and an agent of ‘change.’ Unfortunately, it’s a change for the worse...

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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Rad Geek People's Daily
by Rad Geek

01/25/09

[E]very day that United States government soldiers spend on ‘beginning’ to leave, instead of actually leaving — every day that is spent on that ‘responsibly’ instead of that ‘leaving’ — every day that is spent in the ‘forging’ of peace in Afghanistan, rather than in the practicing of it, by withdrawing all United States government soldiers immediately and completely — is another day when innocent Iraqis and Afghans and Pakistanis will be killed by this Peace President’s army and his policy of gradualism. Another day when yet more innocent people will be killed in the name of prolonging the final end of wars now universally acknowledged as catastrophic failures and stupid mistakes. Yesterday in Iraq, Barack Obama’s ‘responsibly leaving’ army blockaded a village, invaded a family home at 2:00 in the morning, and gunned a mother [and] father in the bed they shared with their 9 year old daughter. (The girl, besides being orphaned, was also wounded by the gunfire.) … Every one of these deaths is blood on Barack Obama’s hands...

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The coming fall

National Review
by Michael Novak

01/23/09

In January of the year 1992 [sic], I was called upon to give a talk at the Renaissance Weekend at which President-elect Bill Clinton and his ‘co-president’ Hillary were present (two for the price of one, the campaigner had earlier quipped). I said on that occasion what I now repeat on this: There was too much enthusiasm in the air, and too much false association with the Camelot of John F. Kennedy so early in 1960. Every president in my adult lifetime, I said, has come in with high hopes and been dashed into humiliation before his term of office had concluded. Kennedy. Johnson. Nixon. Ford. Carter. Reagan (dimmed by Iran-Contra). Bush 41. Clinton. Bush 43. The job of president is to cope with his own coming tragedy. No man can fulfill all the hopes that go with the office. His own strengths often undo him...

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Riskante Taser-Waffen

Eine aktuelle Studie demontiert die Versprechungen der angeblich nichttödlichen Elektroschockwaffen.

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The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change

The Rockefeller Plan, Part 4

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

Toward the end of the Reagan presidency, the Rockefeller Foundation partially funded The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change (1987). In this book, author Arthur S. Miller explained that “the old order is crumbling,… [and] a new vision is required to plan and manage the future, a global vision that will transcend national boundaries and eliminate the poison of nationalistic ‘solutions’.”.......

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The Power Elite and the Nazi Plan, Part 2

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

Hitler received funds via the August Thyssen Bank which was affiliated with the Harrimans of Skull & Bones in the U.S. The Union Banking Corporation (UBC) of New York was a joint Thyssen-Harriman operation, according to author Antony Sutton, and it had four directors who were members of the same Skull & Bones cell (D 115) as well as two Nazi directors (Johann Groninger and H. J. Kouwenhoven)........

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Church should show concern for neighbors' health

To the editor:

Looking down the street from my home, I can see the beautiful Trinitarian Church's majestic steeple reaching for the heavens. For me, since I was a child, it's been a beacon of hope, peace and inspiration. I recall going up in the steeple as a teenager and ringing the bells!

Unfortunately, the church's leaders and council have been inspired by less holy thoughts when pondering this historic religious edifice. Instead, they are being tempted by sums of money in exchange for allowing the steeple to house Metro PCS's and Omnipoint's wireless technology. Good for church's finances. Good for Metro PCS. Good for Omnipoint. A very bad gamble for the surrounding neighbors' health, wellness, and property values. It would appear that the church leaders want the church's bell tower to stand for phone relays, not God's love.

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Urge Congress on EMF Safety, Petition Now

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Peter Schiff: He Saw It Coming

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Tour the Worldwide Economic Crash

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