Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2009

Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame

by Patrick Wood

In short, Obama is merely the continuation of disastrous, non-American policies that have brought economic ruin upon us and the rest of the world. The Obama experience rivals that of Jimmy Carter, whose campaign slogan was "I will never lie to you." When the Democrat base finally realizes that it has been conned again, perhaps it will unleash a real political revolution that will oust Trilateral politicians, operatives and policies from the shores of our country.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick133.htm



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Geplante Streckenkontrolle beunruhigt Datenschützer

Der Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz, Peter Schaar, befürchtet, dass die erfassten Daten bei der geplanten Streckenkontrolle im Straßenverkehr auch für andere Zwecke missbraucht werden könnten. "Das Verkehrsverhalten, aber auch die Frage, welcher Fahrer sich wann wo aufhält, wird durch solche Methoden immer umfassender registriert", sagte Schaar der "Frankfurter Rundschau".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19221



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Next-up News Nr 819

- CRIIREM Synthèse Résultats Enquête Riverains: "Vivre avec une ligne THT"
- Communiqué de Presse Enquête Riverains THT.
- Position Politique de la Coordination.

http://www.next-up.org/France/THT.php#1

Behind the Executive Orders

Jane Mayer, The New Yorker: "On Thursday, President Barack Obama consigned to history the worst excesses of the Bush Administration's 'war on terror.' One of the four executive orders that Obama signed effectively cancelled seven years of controversial Justice Department legal opinions authorizing methods of treating terror suspects so brutal that even a top Bush administration official overseeing prosecutions at Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, recently admitted that they amounted to torture. According to some of those opinions, many of which remain classified, President Bush could authorize US officials to capture, interrogate, and indefinitely imprison terror suspects all around the globe, outside of any legal process."

http://www.truthout.org/012909L



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Iraq, Afghanistan VA Patients Exceed 400,000

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Amid talk of a drawdown of troops in Iraq, new statistics from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) show that US casualties are still climbing quickly. Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield injuries and deaths number 81,361, up from 72,043 last January, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). Veteran patients - including those who didn't seek care until their return home - shot up to 400,304 (from 263,909 in December 2007). For the thousands of soldiers flooding the VA, mental illness tops the list of ailments.... However, many barriers to adequate care and compensation remain, particularly for veterans filing for disability benefits."

http://www.truthout.org/012909J



Purple Hearts: A Cold-Blooded Decision

Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus: "Behind the recent Pentagon decision to deny Purple Heart medals to soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a cold-blooded calculation: It saves money. The official rationale for refusing to honor what is widely considered the 'signature wound' of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that PTSD, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez, is 'an anxiety disorder caused by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event,' not 'a wound intentionally caused by the enemy.'"

http://www.truthout.org/012909N



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The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis

tomdispatch.com — For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans. In response, a range of extreme acts including suicide, self-inflicted injury, murder, and arson have hit the local news.

http://ga3.org/ct/Vp20pgF13So5/



Citizens, Not Subjects

On Thomas Paine's birthday, it's worth reflecting on the significance of an America in which the people themselves are the rulers.

http://ga3.org/ct/Kp20pgF13Sod/



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Arbeitslosenzahl: real 6,2 Millionen laut Bundesregierung: 3,6 Millionen

http://www.meta-info.de/?site=metainfo&lid=32922



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Turnaround expert, economist sees stimulus making economy worse

Heartland Institute
by Steve Stanek

01/28/09

Garret blames the financial crisis largely on excessive spending and borrowing by government, financial institutions, and individuals. Because businesses, individuals, states, and local governments cannot legally print money, says Garret, ‘they’re stuck, and we’re bailing them out. This means our federal government is going to print money for those liabilities, and that will mean inflation in another year or two at levels we haven’t seen in a long, long time. Also, when government distributes money quickly, there’s usually a lot of money going to where it wasn’t intended. This wastes resources’...

http://www.heartland.org/full.html?articleid=24622



Kitchen sinks? You betcha

FreedomWorks
by NSwift

01/28/09

Legislators have included everything they can think of that could require money in the ‘Stimulus’ plan. Maybe no specific kitchen sinks, but there are definitely kitchen appliances. The Wall Street Journal takes a good look at all the government growing, unnecessary, super-expensive, and non-productive waste in this bill. And, like Sowell yesterday, illustrates how the Left is taking advantage of this ‘crisis’ (market correction) to ram all their favorite projects down the throats of American taxpayers - and all, for nothing...

http://tinyurl.com/awodd8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Suprynowicz responds to a “conservative Republican”

Freedom's Phoenix
by Vin Suprynowicz

01/28/09

To be of any use, Libertarian political activity has to confront people with truths, and for the most part (in the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, ‘A Few Good Men,’ 1982) they ‘can’t handle the truth.’ We have no choice but to tell them compulsion-based tax-funded schooling does more harm than good. … We have no choice but to tell them drug prohibition is an unenforceable moral evil, giving birth to the complete police state. … But these positions do not ’sell,’ politically. So anyone trying to win public office — or even raise funds to run for public office — soon learns to pussy-foot around such issues, using euphemisms that allow the listener to avoid confronting these unpalatable truths...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=044713


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Government and fraud

Liberty For All
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/28/09

Billions of dollars were recently lost in the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s self-described Ponzi scheme, in which too-good-to-be-true returns on investments were not really returns at all, but the funds of defrauded new investors. The pyramid scheme collapsed dramatically when too many clients called in their accounts, and not enough new victims could be found to support these withdrawals. Bernie Madoff was running a blatant fraud operation...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1971



A country of Madoffs

The Daily Reckoning
by Bill Bonner

01/28/09

Like Bernie Madoff, the CEOs put it over on everyone — the capitalists as well as the proles. The poor working stiffs had foreign labor breathing down their necks. If they got out of line, their employers would export their jobs to China. The patsy stockholders had no chance either. They knew perfectly well that the schmuck running the business wasn’t worth what he was being paid, but who could argue with ‘performance?’ Besides they had ‘compensation committees’ and consultants to tell them is [sic] was ‘reasonable’ or competitive. Retired CEO of DuPont, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., did. In 2005, he was chairman of the NYSE’s executive compensation committee. As to the need to pay such high compensation in order to get good talent, he replied with a single word: ‘bull.’ But did not the super-paid super-CEOs create super wealth? It was a ‘joke,’ said he. He blew the whistle. But no one came a running...

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/a-country-of-madoffs/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Defense doesn’t need stimulus

Cato Institute
by William D. Hartung and Christopher Preble

01/28/09

As the Obama administration and Congress move forward with a multifaceted economic-stimulus package with a price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars, yet another interest group has staked its claim to a share of those funds — the nation’s defense contractors. The arms lobby and its supporters in the think-tank world have made their case in a series of ads, articles and talking points. Martin Feldstein of the American Enterprise Institute describes defense spending as a ‘great stimulus.’ Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol agrees. Noting that the military was ’spending all kinds of money already,’ Mr. Kristol wondered aloud, ‘If you’re buying 2,000 Humvees a month, why not buy 3,000? If you’re refurbishing two military bases, why not refurbish five?’ Such comments ignore that military spending is supposed to serve one central purpose: advancing U.S. security. The defense budget is not a jobs program, nor should it be...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9914


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Obama the imperialist

Guardian [UK]
by Richard Seymour

01/27/09

The first Democratic president in the modern era to be elected on an anti-war ticket is also, to the relief of neocons and the liberal belligerati, a hawk. Committed to escalation in Afghanistan, his foreign policy selections also indicate bellicosity towards Sudan and Iran. During his first week in office he sanctioned two missile attacks in Pakistan, killing 22 people, including women and children. … It is tempting to dismiss the ‘pro-war left’ as a congeries of discredited left-wing apostates and Nato liberals. Their artless euphemisms for bloody conquest seem especially redundant in light of over a million Iraqi deaths. Yet their arguments, ranging from a paternalistic defence of ‘humanitarian intervention’ to the championing of ‘western values,’ have their origins in a tradition of liberal imperialism whose durability advises against hasty dismissal. In every country whose rulers have opted for empire, there has developed among the intellectual classes a powerful pro-imperial consensus, with liberals and leftwingers its most vociferous defenders...

http://tinyurl.com/byoeqc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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NSA could have prevented 9/11 hijackings

Raw Story

01/27/09

The super-secretive National Security Agency has been quietly monitoring, decrypting, and interpreting foreign communications for decades, starting long before it came under criticism as a result of recent revelations about the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Now a forthcoming PBS documentary asks whether the NSA could have prevented 9/11 if it had been more willing to share its data with other agencies...

http://tinyurl.com/bz7kyv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US Army to report record number of suicides

CNN

01/28/09

The U.S. Army will report Thursday the highest level of suicides among its soldiers since it began tracking the rate 28 years ago, CNN has learned. Statistics obtained by CNN show the Army will report 128 confirmed suicides last year and another 15 suspected suicides in cases under investigation among active-duty soldiers and activated National Guard and reserves...

http://tinyurl.com/cdywes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Army Reports Alarming Spike in Suicides Last Month

Pauline Jelinek, The Associated Press: "The Army is investigating an unexplained and stunning spike in suicides in January. The count is likely to surpass the number of combat deaths reported last month by all branches of the armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the fight against terrorism. 'In January, we lost more soldiers to suicide than to al-Qaida,' said Paul Rieckhoff, director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He urged 'bold and immediate action' by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs."

http://www.truthout.org/020609L



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Senate Attempts to Waste up to $50 Billion in Stimulus Funds on Preemptive Bailout for Nuclear Industry

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/28-8

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The Nuclear Industry's Latest Money Grab

By HARVEY WASSERMAN

The desperate, dangerous nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion stealth bomb meant to irradiate the Obama Stimulus Package.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21892.htm



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'Organizing for America' Means Fighting for Human Rights Worldwide

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/28-0



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War on Terrorism Over?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/28-11

Obama Lets CIA Keep Controversial Renditions Tool
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/31-3



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Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can, Yes We Must

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/28-14



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Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/28



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KBR Must Be Accountable for Iraq Deaths: US Senators

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/28-6



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'Wake Up, World!': SOS From the Amazon

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/28-8



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Next-up News Nr 818

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Boomers and Seniors Caught in the Financial Meltdown

NOW: "The economic crisis is affecting people in all income and social brackets, but America's baby boomers and seniors don't have the option to wait it out. The housing meltdown, market crash and rising costs of everything from food to medicine have taken the luster out of seniors' "golden years," or worse, put them into deep debt. "

http://www.truthout.org/012809U



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Obama Lawyers Set to Defend Yoo

Josh Gerstein, The Politico: "In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify. But now President Obama's incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court."

http://www.truthout.org/012809S



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Economic crisis to claim 51 Million jobs

The economic downturn could result in the loss of up to 51 million jobs worldwide by the end of this year, a UN agency has predicted.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83958&sectionid=3510213



Financial crisis hangs over Davos

The World Economic Forum has got under way in Davos, Switzerland, as the international monetary fund slashed its economic growth forecasts, predicting the severe financial crisis would brake global growth to the slowest pace in six decades.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/20091289810432575.html



Rioting Greeks, angry Germans and why the euro may well collapse

The Brussels elite are pretending the question does not arise, but the financial world knows the question is there, hanging over the entire European Union economy: is the single European currency going to break apart?

http://tinyurl.com/d6mqmb



Europe's winter of discontent

Thursday's French national strike reflects growing despair on the Continent with the way governments are handling the recession, says Adrian Michaels.

http://tinyurl.com/bf47yu



Boeing to cut 10,000 jobs

Plane maker announces an additional 5,500 job cuts as demand for new aircraft is expected to remain weak.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/Boeing_job_cuts/



How top financiers paid themselves £1bn before the wheels fell off

A dozen senior bankers whose influence has shaped the financial world gave themselves pay awards valued at more than £1bn before the credit crunch spectacularly exposed the fragility of the profits they appeared to have secured for shareholders.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/28/executive-salaries-banking1


From Information Clearing House



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My Future As An Arms Manufacturer

By Terry Jones

I've decided to start manufacturing weapons. Nothing too ambitious, just some small arms, a few automatic weapons, and maybe a couple of bombs. You know the sort of thing. It's not that I'm keen on killing people. I haven't actually killed anyone myself yet. It's all to do with economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21864.htm



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Let's Rethink Military Escalation in Afghanistan Before It's Too Late

By ZP Heller

Why is our government sending an additional 30,000 US soldiers to Afghanistan? So far, not even members of the Obama administration seem able to answer this question.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21863.htm



Astonishing Incongruities

Is It Time to Bail Out of the US?

By Paul Craig Roberts

How can President Obama even think about fighting wars half way around the world while California cannot pay its bills, while Americans are being turned out of their homes, while, as Business Week reports, retirees will work throughout their retirement (which assumes that there will be jobs), while careers are being destroyed and stores and factories shuttered.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21867.htm



The Obama Spectacle

History, Hypocrisy, and Empire

By Larry Pinkney

Let us commit and re-commit ourselves to the struggle for systemic change in this nation, and not be duped by this latest dose of U.S. hypocrisy in the person of Barack Obama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21862.htm



The United Haters of America

By Guy Reel

Somewhere deep inside the authoritarian minds of the ultra right-wingers, the fear, helplessness and paranoia that have always been so evident have reached the boiling point. For them, Obama's election and, perhaps even more so, the sight of him standing on the Capitol steps and taking the oath of office, have brought home a grim truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21865.htm



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In Brasilien expandieren die Zuckerrohrplantagen

Brasilianisches Ethanol aus Zuckerrohr spielt für die Energie- und Klimapolitik der Bundesregierung eine zentrale Rolle. Es ist billig und wird in immer grösseren Mengen produziert. Der Amazonasregenwald wird dazu gerodet und die Arbeiter von der Ethanolindustrie auf unmenschliche Weise geknechtet. Pater Tiago und die Landpastorale CPT aus Brasilien klagen die dramatischen Missstände an.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=352



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Waldrodung mitten in Deutschland

Deutschland präsentiert sich gerne als Vorreiter beim Klima- und Umweltschutz. Die Bundesregierung unterstützt weltweit Projekte zum Schutz der Wälder. Doch im eigenen Land herrscht die Axt im Walde. Zum Bau einer vierten Landebahn auf dem Frankfurter Flughafen sollen 300 Hektar Wald vernichtet werden. Dabei ist das Flugzeug das Verkehrsmittel mit dem höchsten Energieverbrauch und der grössten Klimabelastung.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=353

More Bush Freedom Hokum

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard61.html

Usurpation Blather
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/fein-b2.html

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Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

By Amy Goodman

Without thorough, aggressive, public investigations of the full spectrum of crimes alleged of the Bush administration, there will be no accountability, and the complete record of this chapter of U.S. history will never be written.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21866.htm



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The Torture State Endures

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w75.html



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Protection Through 'Law Enforcement'?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy44.html



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The Greatest Depression in History

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1270856/12759198/72803/0/

Where Are U.S. Consumer Goods Prices Headed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff264.html



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Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009

Politik auf dem Weg in den Staatsbankrott

http://www.meta-info.de/?site=metainfo&lid=32921

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29. Januar 2009

Großzügiger Rettungsschirm für Banken – für Arbeitsplätze nicht mal ein Schirmchen

Zu den heute veröffentlichten Arbeitsmarktzahlen für den Monat Januar erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Statement vor der Presse (Video) politik/aktuell/nachrichten/videostatements/

Im Januar ist die Zahl der registrierten Arbeitslosen überdurchschnittlich gestiegen, um 387.000 auf 3,489 Millionen. Die Arbeitslosenquote stieg auf 8,3 Prozent. Hinzu kommen rund 400.000 Kurzarbeiter und Millionen Beschäftigte in atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen. Die Krise ist auf dem Arbeitsmarkt angekommen. Die Arbeitslosenquote ist im Osten mit 13,9 Prozent doppelt so hoch als im Westen mit 6,9 Prozent. Mit ihrem Konjunkturpäckchen hat die Große Koalition der Krise auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kaum etwas entgegenzusetzen. Statt zu klotzen, hat sich die Bundesregierung fürs Kleckern entschieden. Die konjunkturellen Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung sind kleinkariert und greifen viel zu spät. Während die Bundesregierung einen großzügigen Rettungsschirm für Banken aufgespannt hat, hat sie für Arbeitsplätze nicht mal ein Schirmchen übrig. Hinzu kommt, dass Union und SPD mit der Senkung des Arbeitslosenbeitrages um 0,5 Prozent die Arbeitsagentur der Mittel beraubt hat, die jetzt für arbeitsfördernde Maßnahmen dringend gebraucht werden. Statt mehr Geld für Arbeitsmarktpolitik steht der Bundesagentur nach eigenen Angaben für 2009 ein Fehlbetrag von knapp sechs Milliarden Euro ins Haus. Zu den ersten, die gefeuert werden, gehören Leiharbeiter. Statt einer besseren Absicherung von Leiharbeitern hat die Große Koalition dieses Thema erneut vertagt und lässt die rund 700 000 Zeitarbeiter im Regen stehen. DIE LINKE erneuert ihre Forderung nach verbindlichen Regelungen für den Schutz von Leiharbeitern und nach ihrer Gleichstellung mit Stammbelegschaften. DIE LINKE fordert einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn, der eine einheitliche, Existenz sichernde Lohnuntergrenze festlegt. Nur so können Hunger- und Niedriglöhne auf Dauer verhindert, Kaufkraft gestärkt und Arbeitsplätze gesichert werden.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/grosszuegiger-rettungsschirm-fuer-banken-fuer-arbeitsplaetze-nicht-mal-ein-schirmchen/

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Die paar Milliarden Euro Schulden zahlt die Regierung "locker" zurück

Regierungskoalition stellt Schulden aus dem Sonderfonds für das Konjunkturpaket II als Peanuts gegen dem Erblastungstilgungsfonds dar, von dem aber gegen die Behauptung von Merkel und Steinmeier nicht einmal die Hälfte getilgt wurde.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29632/1.html

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Bund der Steuerzahler kritisiert Konjunkturpaket

Der Bund der Steuerzahler hat das zweite Konjunkturpaket der Bundesregierung kritisiert. Verbandspräsident Karl-Heinz Däke sagte dem Kölner "Express": "Ein Durchschnittsverdiener wird nur um rund 10 Euro im Monat entlastet. Das ist eindeutig zu wenig! Hier wurde nur gekleckert anstatt geklotzt."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19233



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Vorratsdaten: Überwachungstechnik als Wettbewerbsvorteil

In ihrer fast 120 Seiten umfassenden Stellungnahme zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung hat die Bundesregierung sich nur allzu deutlich demaskiert. Es lohnt sich, einigen Aspekten besondere Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) auf telepolis

Teil 1: Schwere Straftaten – ein zweckdienlicher Kunstbegriff vom 14.01.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29513/1.html

Teil 2: Merkantiler Mehrwert und bereits anfallende Daten vom 18.01.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29513/1.html

Teil 3: Datenspeicherung, Nutzung und Überwachung vom 21.01.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29542/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Januar 2009



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Wie gehen deutsche Unternehmen mit der Meldung von Korruption um?

„Die Meldung von Korruption und anderen Missständen innerhalb von Unternehmen wird ein immer wichtigeres Thema. Beschäftigte, Aktionäre und Rating-Agenturen interessieren sich zunehmen dafür, wie mit Whistleblowern umgegangen wird. Mit einer Fragebogenaktion wollen jetzt Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre und seine Mitgliedsorganisation Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V. Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Adressaten sind 50 deutsche Großunternehmen, darunter alle im DAX geführten Aktiengesellschaften. Ziel der Aktion ist es, ein Unternehmens-Ranking zur Whistleblowing-Praxis in Deutschland zu erstellen…“ Siehe dazu die Presseerklärung vom Whistleblower-Netzwerk vom 23.01.2009 http://www.whistleblower-net.de/content/view/101/1/lang,de/


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Januar 2009



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Datenschutz schnell und umfassend modernisieren

28. Januar 2009

"2009 muss das Jahr des Datenschutzes werden", sagt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte (MdB) anlässlich des heutigen Europäischen Datenschutztages. Auf die Initiative des Europarats hin wird heute europaweit zum dritten Mal der Europäische Datenschutztag begangen. Das Ziel des Europarates, mit diesem Tag das Bewusstsein für den Datenschutz bei den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in Europa zu erhöhen, teilt DIE LINKE uneingeschränkt. Dazu erklärt Jan Korte:

2008 war das Jahr der Datenskandale. Von Lidl über Telekom bis zur Deutschen Bahn, von Meldedatenverkauf bis gefälschten Internetgeschäften. Kein Monat verging ohne einen neuen Datenschutzskandal. Die Datenschutzgesetze, wie wir sie heute kennen, stammen aus den 70er und 80er Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Sie werden der rasanten technischen Entwicklung im Bereich der Kommunikationsmedien, der Datenerfassung- und Datenverarbeitung in allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen schon lange nicht mehr gerecht. Mit Datenschutzgipfeln und Selbstverpflichtungen der Wirtschaft ist es längst nicht mehr getan. Das völlig veraltete Datenschutzrecht muss endlich gründlich novelliert und die Datenschutzbehörden aus den Klauen der Innenministerien befreit werden. Das "informationelle Grundrecht auf Selbstbestimmung" sagt nämlich nicht nur: "Meine Daten gehören mir". Es besagt vielmehr auch, dass Bürgerinnen und Bürger wissen müssen, wer welche Daten von ihnen hat und was damit zu welchen Zwecken gemacht wird. Nur dann können sie selbstbestimmt handeln. Das wiederum ist eine Grundvoraussetzung in einer Demokratie. Eine umfassende Modernisierung des Datenschutzes ist – so verstanden – Teil der Demokratisierung unserer Gesellschaft. DIE LINKE begrüßt deshalb ausdrücklich die Initiative des Europarats für einen Europäischen Datenschutztag, weil sie Anlass gibt, der Datensammelwut des Staates, etwa bei der Online-Durchsuchung oder der Vorratsdatenspeicherung, durch die Sensibilisierung der Betroffenen Einhalt zu gebieten. Es ist Zeit für eine neue Bürgerrechtsbewegung, die im Interesse des Schutzes der Privatsphäre des Einzelnen der Wirtschaft und der Politik die notwendigen Grenzen aufzeigt. 2009 muss das Jahr des Datenschutzes werden.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/datenschutz-schnell-und-umfassend-modernisieren/

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Bespitzelungsaffäre bei der Bahn: Heftige Attacken gegen Mehdorn

„Wegen der Ausspähung von Mitarbeitern gehen die Bahngewerkschaften so hart wie nie zuvor mit Hartmut Mehdorn ins Gericht. Sie fordern nicht nur eine Sondersitzung des Aufsichtsrats, sondern auch eine Entschuldigung - sonst steht Mehdorns Job auf dem Spiel…“ Artikel von Klaus Ott in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 01.02.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/149/456813/text/


Begleiterscheinungen der Expansion

„Heftige Machtkämpfe im In- und Ausland begleiten die Expansion der Deutschen Bahn AG. Die Zukaufsstrategie des Konzernmanagements sei "aggressiv" und "anmaßend", beschwert sich der Vorsitzende der französischen Bahn. Britische Gewerkschafter werfen dem deutschen Unternehmen vor, die größte Güterbahn des Landes nur aus taktischen Gründen erworben zu haben und jetzt ihre Infrastruktur zu ruinieren. Während die Firmenspitze die deutsche Weltmarktposition mit Geschäften am Persischen Golf und in Ostasien stärkt, provoziert sie mit einem hartnäckigen Sparkurs gegenüber den Beschäftigten im Inland im zweiten Jahr in Folge Streiks. Neue Proteste ruft die Bespitzelung von 173.000 Mitarbeitern durch die Firma hervor. Kritiker sprechen von totalitären Praktiken. Das weithin als rücksichtslos empfundene Vorgehen des Managements gilt der Umsetzung des erklärten Ziels, zum "weltweit führenden Mobilitäts- und Logistikunternehmen zu werden"…“ Artikel bei den Informationen zur Deutschen Außenpolitik - german-foreign-policy vom 30.01.2009 http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57455


Deutsche Bahn: Das System Mehdorn

„Zu gern sähe Bahn-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn seinen Konzern wegen der Milliardengewinne und Millionenakquisitionen in den Schlagzeilen. Stattdessen gibt es dort Pleiten und Pannen: Spitzelaffäre, Streiks, Achsenprobleme und vielleicht Kurzarbeit im Güterverkehr. Das Scheitern des Börsengangs ist noch nicht verdaut, da muss sich die Bahn schon wieder im Krisenmanagement beweisen. Doch das, was der Bahn in diesen Tagen widerfährt, hat seine Ursache nicht nur in der Wirtschaftskrise oder bloßem Pech. Die Bahn-Führung, allen voran Mehdorn, hat dazu ihren Beitrag geleistet…“ Artikel von Kerstin Schwenn in der FAZ vom 30.01.2009 http://www.faz.net/s/RubD16E1F55D21144C4AE3F9DDF52B6E1D9/Doc~E0A7934D20C3E4F15A918BBA12C364A4B~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Februar 2009



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Bush was a dictator and the US government is a dictatorship

The Distributed Republic
by tarran

01/27/09

In many ways, the U.S. has become the most dangerous kind of dictatorship — a democratic one. While dictators are often quite violent and, well, dictatorial, they sometimes do to take a long view, since they expect to experience the long-term consequences of any misrule. On occasion, dictators can even be pretty decent, recognizing that a hands-off approach will increase their power far more quickly that a hands-on approach. I can think of no better example of this phenomenon in action than that of Singapore. In the U.S., on the other hand, the rulers can only expect to stay in office for less than a decade. Rather than worrying about long term consequences, they are far more likely to be concerned about how to maximize their use of the office in the short period they hold it...

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Guantanamo Bay is tainted by coercion

Arm Your Mind for Liberty
by George Donnelly

01/27/09

What Guantanamo fans don’t understand is that the torture, the ‘extraordinary renditions,’ the failure to respect the Geneva Convention and the utter disregard for basic human rights tainted the Guantanamo Bay and secret CIA prisons worldwide. Justice needs to be done for the victims of terrorist attacks, says Marine prosecutor Major Jeff Groharing, but what about justice for those many detainees wrongly held? What about the torture, stress positions and other abominations inflicted on suspects — not even convicts, but just suspects! Justice is a two-way street. It’s not about taking the side of the detainees. It’s about doing what’s right...

http://georgedonnelly.com/opinion/guantanamo-tainted-coercion


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bailout this!

Nolan Chart
by Andrew Hughes

01/27/09

Idiocy is usually described as ‘endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result.’ Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden et al are straining at the leash to get the Bailout Ball rolling once again. The stabilization of the financial sector, as elusive as it has been so far, has become the Holy Grail of Economic salvation. That makes $8.5 Trillion worth of trying and $0 of result. The Knights of the Oval Table are gathered to plan their mission as their beleaguered subjects are trying to batter down the castle gates. It’s no small wonder that Geithner wants to get the money out the door as soon as the end of this week...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article5903.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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17,000 more US troops to get orders to Afghanistan

ABC News

01/27/09

ABC’s Luis E. Martinez reports: When President Obama visits the Pentagon tomorrow he will be presented with plans that by week’s end could see as many as 17,000 additional US troops receiving their deployment orders for Afghanistan. Testifying on Capitol Hill today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there is little doubt that Aghanistan is the greatest military challenge for the US right now...

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Bailout firms have program recipients among their clients

USA Today

01/27/09

All six of the law and accounting firms hired by the Treasury Department to help manage the $700 billion financial bailout have clients who received the federal money, contracting and regulatory records show. The firms also have been involved in structuring complicated financial instruments tied to risky assets such as sub-prime mortgages, according to their websites and Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The collapse in value of those assets is one cause of the financial crisis...

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Folgen der Klimaerwärmung sind für lange Zeit irreversibel

Nach einer Studie von Klimaforschern würden Folgen der Erwärmung auch bei einer schnellen Reduktion der CO2-Emissionen für 1000 Jahre anhalten.

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Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das BKA-Gesetz

Der Text der heute eingereichten Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen Vorschriften des Gesetzes zur Abwehr von Gefahren des internationalen Terrorismus durch das Bundeskriminalamt.

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The Same Old Song

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Afghan Prison Poses Problem in Overhaul of Detainee Policy

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Former Lehman boss accused of trying to hide assets from creditors

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America Needs a Job

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The current political fight over President Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan, if conducted by responsible officials whose concerns lie only with the plight of the American worker, would be focused almost exclusively on the incredible national peril represented by these newest unemployment reports. That is not the case."

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The Case for Disunion

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Emperor Worship: Are we on the Roman path?

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Ron Paul: The Biggest Bubble in the History of the World

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Bernanke's Wild Ride (and Ours)
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California prepares to stop paying bills

Come Feb. 1, tax refunds, welfare checks replaced with IOUs
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=87175



Consumer confidence hits another low

A new year and a new president failed to boost consumer confidence this month, as the outlook dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Bloody Monday: Over 71,400 jobs lost

More than 200,000 job cuts have been announced so far this year, according to company reports. Nearly 2.6 million jobs were lost over 2008, the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945.

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US firms announce heavy job cuts

US construction equipment giant Caterpillar earlier said it was to cut about 20,000 jobs, after its profits slumped by 32 per cent.

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Fannie, Freddie may tap U.S. Treasury for $51 bln

The storm of rising delinquencies and falling securities values that led to the government's seizure of the companies in September accelerated in the last quarter, requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to seek more of the stop-gap measures organized by the U.S. Treasury and their regulator. Analysts predicted more capital needs from Treasury through 2009.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE50P7EG20090126



Forecasters see historic drop in retail sales

Half-percent downturn in '09 would be the first one in at least 30 years
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Halliburton Will Settle KBR Suit for $559 Million

Halliburton, the huge oil services company in Houston, said yesterday that it has agreed to pay $559 million to settle corruption charges with the U.S. government linked to its former subsidiary KBR.

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Britain must release Iraq war files: The tribunal said

"We have decided that the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of the formal minutes of two cabinet meetings at which ministers decided to commit forces to military action in Iraq did not... outweigh the public interest in disclosure.

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Iraq ruling

Only Robin Cook and Clare Short spoke against war, minutes show.
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Gates: U.S. lacks strategic plan to win in Afghanistan

After more than seven years of combat, the United States still does not have a unified strategic plan for winning the war against radical Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged today.

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Financial Elite Have No Shame

By Linda McQuaig

Let's imagine, for a moment, how different the public debate would be today if it had been unions that had caused the current economic turmoil.

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The U.S. Is Required To Bring Bush And Rumsfeld Before A Court

US War Crimes

Video

UN Rep Says, The U.S. Is Required To Bring George W Bush & Donald Rumsfeld Before A Court.

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UN official: Enough evidence to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told CNN's Rick Sanchez that the US has an "obligation" to investigate whether Bush administration officials ordered torture, adding that he believes that there is already enough evidence to prosecute former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

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Turley: Obama 'Accessory' To War Crimes If No Prosecution

By David Edwards and Ron Brynaert

"And the problem here is it wouldn't make Obama an apologist it would make him an accessory," Turley argued. "He would be preventing the investigation of war crimes. How could he go from that and say that he's all about the rule of law?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21857.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW): A Call to Action - CREW Asks Obama Admin to Release Bush Admin Records Withheld From Public

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/27-3

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ACLU Tests Obama With Request for Secret Bush-Era Memos

Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "Dozens of secret documents justifying the Bush administration's spying and interrogation programs could see the light of day because of a new presidential directive. The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Obama administration on Wednesday to release Justice Department memos that provided the legal underpinning for harsh interrogations, eavesdropping and secret prisons."

http://www.truthout.org/012809B

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Bush’s Secret Counterterrorism Law Book and the Demands to Release It
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LG ELECTRONICS RECALLS CELLPHONES IN CANADA

Tue. January 27, 2009; Posted: 10:36 PM

SEOUL, Jan 28, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- LGEPF

The Canadian subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc. (KSE:06657), the world's fifth-largest handset maker, said Wednesday it is recalling an undisclosed number of cellphones sold in Canada over health concerns.

LG Electronics Canada said on its Web site that it had agreed to a Canadian government-advised recall for the LG 150 mobile phone after it was found to emit electromagnetic radiation higher than a permissible level.

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Company recalls LG 150 cellphones

Letter to the Editor,

The article, "Company recalls LG 150 cellphones", by Chris Sorensen
(Toronto Star, January 28, 2009) [ http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/578317 ] clearly indicates that Health Canada is no longer in the business of protecting the health of Canadians. The "voluntary" recall by LG Canada was a responsible reaction to their cell phones exceeding federal guidelines for microwave emissions. The statement by Health Canada, namely that "the past and present use of the LG 150 should not pose immediate or long-term health concerns" is clearly irresponsible. This statement comes in sharp contrast to the warnings from other countries to restrict cell phone use, especially by children, and in sharp contrast to a growing number of countries reducing their maximum exposure limits based on scientific studies showing an increased risk of tumors after 10 years of moderate to high cell phone use. Why do we have these guidelines if they are not enforced? Why do other countries have guidelines that are much lower than those in Canada? Why is Health Canada more concerned about protecting the health of the cell phone industry than it is about protecting the health of Canadians? At what stage should the name of Health Canada be changed to reflect what it is truly doing . . . protecting the interests of big business?


-Dr. Magda Havas
Associate Professor
Trent University, Peterborough, ON


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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