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Last updated 19:31, Thursday, 05 February 2009

THREE Vodafone mobile phone masts planned for Workington have won the backing of the town council, despite 71 objections from residents.

Workington Town Council, which was consulted on the plans by Allerdale council, has recommended that plans should be approved.

Plans include a 40ft mast to be erected in the car park of the Travellers’ Rest, a 40ft mast on Salterbeck Road and a 55ft mast installed behind the TA Centre on Harrington Road.

Phil Cram, 61, of Ashfield Gardens, who lives 50 feet from the proposed mast site at the Travellers’ Rest, collected 50 signatures on a petition against the mast.

He said: “I am very disappointed that Workington council has recommended approval. If they had been on a site visit they would have a different perspective on the application.”

Residents felt that the mast would be a visual intrusion, reduce the value of property and pose a risk to their health.

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http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/politics/1.509863

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "It is instructional that only one of the three tax-challenged Obama appointees has survived public scorn to claim a high position in the new administration. Oddly enough, it is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the man who will collect our taxes, whose career has not been stunted by his failure to pay them. What makes Geithner so special? The answer, provided by everyone from the president to the media pundits, is that his services are indispensable because he has the expertise in regulating markets needed to preside over the most massive government intervention in the economy. Are they kidding?"

http://www.truthout.org/020509M



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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "I could go on, but it all boils down to the one lesson of Vietnam that Robert Gates and his Pentagon brass do not want to accept - that Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis and other people in Asia, Africa and Latin America will no longer accept the United States and Europe occupying and running their countries. Counter-insurgency can prolong the pain, but it will never overcome the anti-colonial dynamic, as the British Empire, the French Empire and others all learned before us."

http://www.truthout.org/020509J



Whistling Past the Afghan Graveyard: Where Empires Go to Die

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "It is now a commonplace - as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently - that Afghanistan is 'the graveyard of empires.'... Far less attention has been paid to the 'empire' part of the equation. And there's a good reason for that - at least in Washington. Despite escalating worries about the deteriorating situation, no one in our nation's capital is ready to believe that Afghanistan could actually be the 'graveyard' for the American role as the dominant hegemon on this planet."

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



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Reason
by Jacob Sullum

02/04/09

Last October, while campaigning in Toledo, Barack Obama called for ‘a new ethic of responsibility.’ The nation’s economic troubles, he said, occurred partly because ‘everyone was living beyond their means,’ including politicians who ’spent money they didn’t have.’ In his inaugural address last month, Obama regretted ‘our collective failure to make hard choices’ and heralded ‘a new era of responsibility.’ Now President Obama, as one of his first priorities, is pushing a gargantuan ’stimulus’ plan that will add around $1 trillion to the national debt and cannot possibly work as advertised. Welcome to the new era of responsibility...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131468.html


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Fox News
by John R. Lott, Jr.

02/03/09

President Obama and the Democrats’ ’stimulus’ package will increase the unemployment rate. The changes they propose will also make us poorer, with fewer, less productive jobs. The most obvious explanation is the $36 billion in increased unemployment insurance benefits. Larger benefits at least for this year will encourage some people, who may be unhappy with their jobs, to be unemployed while they look for something better. … Yet the ’stimulus’ package will do something else that will increase unemployment at least as much. Most of the new jobs will be for people who are currently employed. By moving money from places where it is currently being spent to places where the government wants it spent, you move the jobs also. But it takes time for people to move between jobs. That is called unemployment...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487425,00.html



The pseudo stimulus

The Nation
by James S. Henry

02/03/09

So now that President Obama is in office, his economic team is in place, the largest stimulus package in US history is nearly complete, real interest rates are negative and the Treasury is about to announce a “big bang” version of TARP that provides even more capital to private banks, we’re good, right? Lo siento, no, as shown by last week’s steep stock market slide, even after his program passed the House. For once, the Republican wingnuts may be right. There really is much less to Obama’s stimulus than meets the eye...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090216/henry



Brother, can you spare a bonus?

Salon
by Mike Madden

02/05/09

Yes indeed, the Wall Street life ain’t easy these days. Of course, for any bankers freaking out about the new rules that President Barack Obama announced Wednesday, which cap pay at $500,000 for firms that take federal aid to stay in business, there is one easy way to keep rolling in the dough: Don’t run your company into the ground so quickly that the only way to survive is to get on the dole. The new rules apply only to firms that take part in future bailouts; without federal aid, there are no strings attached. But administration officials, and Obama, seemed resigned to the fact that the $700 billion already spent to rescue Wall Street won’t be the last of it, and that the rules will probably be applied fairly soon. Cracking down on runaway salaries, in fact, seems to be an attempt to smooth the political path for the next round of bailouts...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/05/executive_pay/


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Bei der Fahndung nach Terrorverdächtigen vor allem Menschen bestimmter Ethnien oder Nationalitäten unter die Lupe zu nehmen, ist nicht nur diskriminierend, sondern auch ineffizient - wie ein US-Forscher mathematisch zeigt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29653/1.html

Die deutsche Politik rettet die Banken mit viel Geld und wenig Verstand.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29665/1.html



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U.S. stock index futures gained more ground after the data. U.S. government bonds, which usually benefit from weak economic data, pared their gains after the ADP report.

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Auto sales hit 27-year low

U.S. auto sales plunged to a 27-year low in January, a steeper-than-expected drop that took the slumping U.S. market below China's for the first time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5124RB20090203



Foreclosures Now One in Five Home Sales

The declines mean that U.S. homeowners lost a cumulative $3.3 trillion in home values during 2008, with much of that loss coming in the fourth quarter.

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Rugby Today - Rugby, England, UK RESIDENTS in Brownsover are being urged to campaign for the removal of a mobile phone mast which they say was erected overnight without prior notice. ...

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George Orwell's secret police have nothing on two new NSA systems designed to read people's minds.

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BILL MOYERS: Marilyn, what did you think last weekend when four days into the Obama administration we read those reports of the strikes in Pakistan? MARILYN YOUNG: My heart sank. It absolutely sank.

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Grimsby Telegraph - Grimsby, England, UK

A REPORT into a controversial mobile phone mast has been blasted by Humberston parish councillors. As reported, local residents are up in arms over plans by ...

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Mobile-phone-mast-report-blasted/article-673011-detail/article.html

"It's a unique trial, not only in Poland but also in Europe or even in the world," a court spokesman told the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "The last such case to have found its way to court was probably in relation to US Army activities in Vietnam."

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UN chief urges end to Afghan deaths

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has called on US and Nato forces in Afghanistan to prevent more civilian deaths.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/200924104956759493.html


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By William Blum

The Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly brings down upon humanity. And to the extent that Barack Obama is willing to clearly reveal what he believes about anything controversial, he appears to believe in the empire.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among President Bush's last words as he left office was the warning that America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21906.htm



James Bamford: The Spy Factory

Video By PBS - Includes Transcript

"it (the NSA) also has turned its giant ear inward, listening in without warrant on thousands of American citizens, many of whom are on the government's secret watch list, now more than half-a-million names long."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21902.htm



How I Saved The USA: Cheney warns of new attacks

By JOHN F. HARRIS & MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI

An Interview With Alledged War Criminal Dick Cheney.
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Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public

Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Administration legal positions on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Dozens_of_secret_Bush_terror_memos_0203.html



Pentagon pick shows challenges of Obama's ethics rules

The man President Obama nominated to become the No. 2 manager at the Pentagon isn't the first person for that job to come from the defense industry. But Mr. Obama's own executive order on ethics has now become a stumbling block as the White House seeks to push the former lobbyist through confirmation.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0204/p02s01-usgn.html


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Tom Bearden, PBS NewsHour: "Even today, it's difficult for anybody who hasn't been to Kingston, Tennessee, to understand how big the problem is. Video just doesn't do it justice. In the pre-dawn hours of December 22, 5.4 million tons of ashes created by 50 years of burning coal to generate electricity here burst through a dike, spreading like an avalanche for more than a mile, burying 300 acres of riverbank several feet deep, spilling out into the nearby river itself."

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The Associated Press: "The man who waged a decade-long campaign to alert regulators to problems in the operations of fallen money manager Bernard Madoff told Congress today that he had feared for his physical safety."

http://www.truthout.org/020409R

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SEC's Madoff Miss Fits Pattern Set With Pequot

Gary J. Aguirre, Bloomberg: "Errant Wall Street elite, such as Madoff, go up against the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Congress created the SEC in 1934 after Wall Street titans -- the Madoffs of 1929 --took the capital markets over a cliff with the economy in tow. The SEC was supposed to keep a watchful eye on Wall Street, especially its elite. So far, the SEC's six investigations of Madoff read more like Keystone Cops than Sherlock Holmes. The SEC didn't merely fail to spot and connect the clues. Someone else -- Harry Markopolos, a former money manager - did that work for it."

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US Supply Routes to Afghanistan Suffer Two Huge Blows
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- Edition Spéciale, merci de diffuser ce jugement qui est une avancée majeure :

- COUR D'APPEL DE VERSAILLES: ARRÊT du 4 Février 2009.
- "Riverains Antennes Relais contre Bouygues Telecom"

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12.3m phone mast gets go-ahead

Lincolnshire Echo - Lincoln, England, UK

A mobile phone mast 12.3 metres high will go up in a residential area of Lincoln despite a 90-signature petition objecting to it. Vodafone is to install the ...

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/12-3m-phone-mast-gets-ahead/article-672391-detail/article.html



Phone mast for Totton means firm will relocate

Southern Daily Echo - Southampton, England, UK

By Chris Yandell

A COMPANY is planning to quit its headquarters and move elsewhere because a mobile phone mast is due to be built next door. ...

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4101900.Phone_mast__We___d_rather_move_thanks_/

Onlinekosten.de - Germany

Mit GPS kann die Angabe bis zu wenige Meter genau sein, schlechter fällt das Ergebnis mit WLAN oder über die Funkmasten-Datenbank aus. ...

http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel/33069/0/Google-Latitude-Handy-Service-ortet-die-Freunde

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Google Latitude: Freunde per Handy orten

FOCUS Online - Germany

Google als Überwachungsdienst: Die Handy-Anwendung Latitude zeigt den Aufenthaltsort von Freunden in Echtzeit an. Von FOCUS-Online-Autorin Claudia Frickel ...

http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/google/google-latitude-freunde-per-handy-orten_aid_367620.html

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Handy als Peilsender zweckentfremdet

Neues Deutschland - Germany

Sein neuestes Produkt Latitude ist ein mobiles Ortungssystem, dass dem Benutzer kostenlos via Handy den aktuellen Standort eines anderen Anwenders, ...

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/143622.handy-als-peilsender-zweckentfremdet.html

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Google Launch Mobile Tracker Service

Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow, Scotland, UK

The software plots a user's location - marked by a personal picture on Google's map - using mobile phone masts, global positioning systems or a wi-fi ...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2009/02/05/google-launch-mobile-tracker-service-86908-21098270/

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Privacy fears over Google tracker

BBC News - UK

The "opt-in" Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user's location automatically. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7872026.stm

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Google tracks mobile phone users

HDTV Org - London, England, UK

With GPS on the user's phone the system is accurate to a couple of yards using the mobile network's existing infrastructure of masts and global positioning ...

http://hdtvorg.co.uk/news/articles/2009020502.htm

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Google phone tracker puts privacy in danger, say MPs

This is London - London, England, UK

The Latitude system uses a combination of satnav chips found in many modern phones and mobile phone masts to pinpoint a user's location. ...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23659539-details/Google+phone+tracker+puts+privacy+in+danger,+say+MPs/article.do

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/analysis-dilemm.html


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US Threatens UK: Keep Torture Evidence Secret
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/04-6



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Rationalize The Banks!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/04-7

Facing Foreclosure? Don't Leave. Squat
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/04-8



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American Fascism
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Le Monde's editorialist: "Workers on strike on the other side of the Channel demand 'British jobs for British workers'; an American House of Representatives that, under AFL-CIO pressure, tries to reserve its aid to businesses that use American steel; a Russian prime minister who denounces protectionism, but increases customs duty on foreign cars; the French minister of finance, known for his support of free trade, who - before he retracted the comment - deemed 'protectionism may be a necessary evil' ..."

http://www.truthout.org/020409F

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald - Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, UK

... parents with youngsters at Stanley Primary in Ardrossan have stepped up their campaign opposing the siting of a mobile phone mast near the school. ...

http://www.ardrossanherald.com/articles/1/33664

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New phone dish at Danby Motors?

devon.editorial@archant.co.uk

04 February 2009

MOVES to add another mobile phone dish to a mast in Pound Lane has been backed by town planners.

Adam Holmes Associates have applied, on behalf of Orange, to add the extra dish, at the radio base station at Danby Motors.

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Mobile mast plan cut off

Scotsman - United Kingdom

MOBILE phone giant Vodafone has lost its battle to build a controversial mast in a scenic part of the Lothians. The company was initially told in July by ...

http://news.scotsman.com/health/Mobile-mast-plan-cut-off.4944018.jp

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It's battle stations again over 'Nelson love nest' mast bid

Portsmouth News - Portsmouth, England, UK

By Rachel Hine

Campaigners are trying to stop a mobile phone mast from being put up where Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton are rumoured to have had romantic ...

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/It39s-battle-stations-again-over.4943252.jp

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Track your friends with Google

Latitude Mobile Computer - London, England, UK

Once you've signed up, the service gives a rough indication of where you are using nearby mobile phone masts. Your exact position can be pinpointed if your ...

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4. Februar 2009

„Gegen das um sich greifende Spitzel-Management einiger Unternehmen kann nachhaltig nur ein Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz helfen. Die Untätigkeit der Bundesregierung, die eine entsprechende Beschlusslage des Bundestages seit Jahren ignoriert, lädt die Unternehmen zu Missbrauch ein”, erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstands DIE LINKE, Jan Korte (MdB):

Mit dem Vorgehen der Deutschen Bahn ist eine neue Eskalationsstufe der Arbeitnehmerüberwachung erreicht. Wenn sich bewahrheiten sollte, dass im Jahr 2005 alle 240.000 Beschäftigten der Bahn in einer erneuten Rasterfahndung überprüft wurden und nicht „nur“ die bislang scheibchenweise eingeräumten 173.000 Bahnmitarbeiter und deren Ehepartner, müssen Konsequenzen folgen. Vielen Unternehmen wie der Deutschen Bahn oder der Telekom ist jedes Gespür für die Rechte und die Würde ihrer Mitarbeiter abhanden gekommen. Der gestrige Brief von Mehdorn an die Bahn-Belegschaft, der keinerlei Unrechtsbewusstsein erkennen lässt, ist ein Beleg dafür. Die gespeicherten persönlichen Daten von Beschäftigten und Kunden werden in Gutsherrenart wie das Eigentum der Unternehmen behandelt. Datenschutz und informationelle Selbstbestimmung? Fehlanzeige. Stattdessen grassiert das Spitzel-Management. Die präventive Überwachung der Mitarbeiter durch externe Sicherheitsunternehmen ist längst gängige Praxis und zur quasi betriebsgeheimpolizeilichen Methode in vielen Betrieben erklärt worden. Nach den Datenmissbrauchsfällen bei Lidl und der Telekom muss nun eigentlich allen klargeworden sein, dass es höchste Zeit für ein Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz ist. Seit mehreren Legislaturperioden wird die Bundesregierung kontinuierlich und unmissverständlich durch entsprechende Beschlussempfehlungen des Bundestages aufgefordert ein Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz vorzulegen. Die Untätigkeit der Bundesregierungen haben Zustände wie bei der Bahn AG oder der Telekom erst mit ermöglicht. Schön, dass sich jetzt zumindest die SPD zu bewegen scheint. Sie wird ihren Willen zur beschleunigten Einführung eines solchen Gesetzes in Kürze unter Beweis stellen können: DIE LINKE hat einen Antrag für ein modernes Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz vorgelegt. Man darf zustimmen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/untaetigkeit-der-bundesregierung-in-sachen-arbeitnehmerdatenschutz-ist-nicht-mehr-hinnehmbar/

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Privatisierungskritische Eisenbahner fragen: Wurden auch wir im „System Mehdorn“ ausgeschnüffelt? Orwell lässt grüßen!

Die aktuelle Schnüffel-Affäre bei der Deutschen Bahn AG (DB) hat auch eine politische Dimension jenseits der Korruptionsbekämpfung. „Wurden auch wir ausgeschnüffelt?“, fragen Mitglieder der Gewerkschaft TRANSNET, die die privatisierungskritische Initiative Bahn von unten unterstützen…“ Ein Artikel von www.bahnvonunten.de vom 2. Februar 2009 http://www.bahnvonunten.de/DB_Datenskandal.html


Daten-Affäre: Mehdorns Spitzel-Bude

„Die zentrale Rolle in den großen Datenskandalen bei Bahn und Telekom spielt eine kleine Firma in Berlin-Charlottenburg: Nur sechs Mitarbeiter hatte Network Deutschland - und bekam von den beiden Konzernen doch riesige Datenmengen anvertraut. Ohne schriftliche Aufträge, ohne klare Beschreibung der Aufgaben…“ Artikel von Matthias Thieme in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 03.02.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1669210_Mehdorns-Spitzel-Bude.html


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Februar 2009

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Bahn-Chef wollte mit Spähaktion Informationslecks finden

„Die Bahn hat das massenhafte Ausspähen ihrer Mitarbeiter nicht nur zur Korruptionsabwehr genutzt. Nach Informationen dieser Zeitung diente die Aktion auch dazu, Informationslecks abzudichten, durch die Nachrichten an Politiker und Journalisten abflossen. Bisher hatte die Bahn ihr Verhalten nur mit der Korruptionsbekämpfung begründet. Ihm liege ein interner Brief von Bahn-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn aus dem Jahr 2002 vor, in dem jedem Mitarbeiter mit fristloser Kündigung gedroht werde, der unabgesprochen Informationen an die Öffentlichkeit bringe, sagt Horst Friedrich, Vorsitzender des Verkehrsausschusses des Deutschen Bundestages. Seinen Informationen nach seien bei der internen Rasterfahndung vor allem die gewählten Telefonnummern der Mitarbeiter mit denen von Politikern und Journalisten abgeglichen worden…“ Artikel von Alexander Dahl in der Hannoverschen Allgemeinen Zeitung vom 04.02.2009 http://www.haz.de/newsroom/wirtschaft/art659,795335


Interview mit Horst Friedrich: "Bahn prüfte Politiker und Journalisten"

Der FDP-Verkehrspolitiker Horst Friedrich erhebt im Gespräch mit FR-online.de vom 05.02.2009 neue Vorwürfe gegen Bahnchef Hartmut Mehdorn. http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/1670692_Bahn-pruefte-Politiker-und-Journalisten.html


Anzeige gegen unbekannt: Spitzel hört mit

„Die Spitzelaffäre bei der Deutschen Bahn weitet sich aus. Kritiker der Privatisierung verdächtigen den Konzern, sie ebenfalls überwacht zu haben. Eine Strafanzeige soll aufklären, ob das Bündnis "Bahn für alle" illegal abgehört wurde. Ihm gehören unter anderen Verdi, IG Metall, Attac und der BUND an…“ Artikel von Thomas Wüpper in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 05.02.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1670391_Spitzel-hoert-mit.html


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Februar 2009

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"Datenschutz hat keine Konjunktur"

„Arbeitgeber haben zu teils kriminellen Methoden gegriffen, um ihre Angestellten auszuforschen. Kommentatoren deutscher Zeitungen kritisieren die Absicht der Regierung, erst in der nächsten Legislaturperiode ein neues Datenschutzgesetz vorzulegen…“ Pressestimmen zum Datenschutzgipfel in der FTD vom 17.02.2009 http://www.ftd.de/meinung/kommentare/:Pressestimmen-zum-Datenschutzgipfel-Datenschutz-hat-keine-Konjunktur/475433.html


Geschockt über das Ausmaß der Schäden durch exzessive Antiterrormaßnahmen. Der Bericht der "International Commission of Jurists" nimmt den siebenjährigen Kampf gegen den Terror in vierzig Ländern genauer unter die Lupe

„Die Angst zu Zeiten der Finanzkrise sieht anders aus als 2002. Mit der neuen Angst entsteht auch Distanz zu jener, die gerade nicht im Vordergrund steht. Der Blick auf die Angst vor Terroranschlägen ist ein anderer als noch vor ein paar Jahren. Doch die Gesetze, die in der Folge der Anschläge des 11.September 2001 weltweit in Kraft gesetzt wurden, sind geblieben…“ Artikel von Thomas Pany in telepolis vom 17.02.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29760/1.html

Siehe dazu den Bericht „Assessing Damage, Urging Action“ (pdf) http://www.icj.org/IMG/EJPReport.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Februar 2009

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Datenschützer Schaar rügt die Bundesregierung

Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar wirft der Bundesregierung Zögerlichkeit beim Datenschutz vor. Mit Blick auf die Bahnaffäre sagte Schaar der "Stuttgarter Zeitung": "Es bedarf wohl leider solcher Skandale, um die Politik zum Handeln zu bewegen." Im Umgang mit persönlichen Daten herrsche in der Wirtschaft "ein Wildwuchs, den man zurückschneiden muss".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19394



"Vieles im Argen" beim Datenschutz

Schaar kritisiert Missstände und wirft Politik Zögerlichkeit vor

Um die Sicherheit von persönlichen Daten ist es in Deutschland nach Einschätzung des Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten Peter Schaar schlecht bestellt. "Es liegt vieles im Argen", sagte Schaar am Dienstag (21. April) bei der Vorstellung seines Berichts für die Jahre 2007 und 2008 in Berlin. Einige Sicherheitsgesetze, darunter die Regelung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, seien "unverhältnismäßig". Hinzu komme die Vielzahl an Datenskandalen in der Wirtschaft. Diese hätten die Öffentlichkeit in den vergangenen Monaten zwar sensibler für das Thema gemacht. "Getan hat sich aber bisher nicht viel", kritisierte Schaar. Der Politik warf er Zögerlichkeit beim Kampf gegen Datenmissbrauch vor.

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8:10am Wednesday 4th February 2009

By Natasha Agombar »

COUNCILLORS are angry over plans to install another phone mast in Braintree.

District councillors in Braintree east have received letters about Vodafone’s proposal to put a 10metre high radio base station between the junction of Clay Pits and the A131.

The letter from Waldon Telecoms,on behalf of the mobile phone company, said there was a deficiency in 3G coverage across the area that did not meet Vodafone’s statutory obligations.

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FreedomWorks
by Rossputin

02/03/09

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to financial markets (which is probably somewhere between 0% and 2% of my readers), I’d like to point out that the Dow Jones was not only down 9% in January, but it’s down 17% since the election of The Chosen One. … Financial markets aren’t taken with the charisma of the Obamessiah. They don’t see hope for profits or any change for the better...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Reason
by Michael C. Moynihan

03/03/08

The Obama administration wooed anti-war voters and the left flank of the Democratic Party with promises of shutting down Guantanamo Bay, CIA ‘black’ prisons, and prohibiting ‘coercive interrogation’ against Al Qaeda suspects — and has, within his first week in office, fulfilled these promises. But as is often the case with Obama, who disappointed supporters after flip-flopping on granting immunity to telecom companies involved in NSA wiretapping programs, things aren’t exactly how they seem. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times pointed out that ‘Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States’...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131436.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Examiner
by Garry Reed

02/03/09

The never-ending bazillion dollar government toilet flushing of our tax money, forcibly transferred from our billfolds to the balance sheets of politically-connected billionaire bankers and business barons, will have to be repaid by the next generation of Americans. It’s time right now for that next generation to stand up and repudiate the debt. Announce that you don’t accept it and won’t repay it. It’s not your debt, after all, it’s the unprincipled politicians’ debt...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bank bailouts are an unprecedented fraud
http://www.breakthematrix.com/content/Congressman-Dennis-Kucinch-Bank-bailouts-are-an-unprecedented-fraud


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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The EU has increased its pressure on the US to reconsider the "Buy American" clause in the $800bn (£567bn) economic recovery package now before Congress.

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Bankrolling charitable gifts

Financial firms and other companies receiving billions of dollars in federal bailout money spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for meetings and charitable gifts on behalf of lawmakers.

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The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?

The Telegraph (UK) warned last month that protests over governments' handling of the crisis "are widespread and gathering pace," and "may spark a new revolution".

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/124836



Ford and GM see big fall in sale

Sales at Ford plunged 42% last month from a year earlier, while those at GM declined even further, slumping 49%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7868141.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Buy American, buy a trade war

Christian Science Monitor
by staff

02/04/09

American tax dollars directed at America’s ailing economy should be spent only on American products. That sounds logical — and compassionate to US workers, who can use all the lovin’ they can get. But the ‘Buy American’ provision of the megastimulus package winding through Congress makes little sense. … Last week, the House passed an $819 billion economic recovery plan with the stipulation that all public projects funded by the bill … use only iron and steel produced in the U.S. of A. The Senate version goes further, to include all manufactured products. The lawmakers’ thinking on this is understandable. … With an economy this bad, better take care of our own, they reason. But the gain in US jobs will not be worth the ultimate cost...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0204/p08s01-comv.html

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Protectionism is the embrace of fear, the rejection of hope

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Eli Lehrer

02/06/09

In the context of America’s $17-trillion economy, $12-trillion national debt and $4-trillion federal budget, a few billion dollars worth of international trade doesn’t sound like much. Yet Americans and foreigners concerned about free trade have every reason to get worked up about the proposed ‘Buy America’ mandate in Washington’s massive stimulus plan. Although modest in its likely economic consequences, a Buy America mandate represents the exact opposite of what the new president promised in his campaign — it’s a triumph of fear over hope...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday warned Iran it faced consequences if it failed to respect UN resolutions demanding a halt to its uranium enrichment activities.

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By Stephen C. Webster

California, the eighth largest economy in the world, is broke. "People are going to be hurt starting today," said Hallye Jordan, speaking on behalf of the state Controller. "There's no money."

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Alok Jha, The Guardian UK: "Corn-based bioethanol has higher burden on environment and human health, says US study."

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Gerald Epstein, Truthout: "The irresponsible, and even fraudulent, behavior of bankers and the financial regulators we trusted to monitor them have left the rest of us in deep trouble with no good financial options. Major banks, including Citibank, Bank of America and others, are on the verge of bankruptcy, if not already insolvent, despite the commitment already made on behalf of US taxpayers to spend or guarantee billions of dollars to rescue them. Meanwhile, the economic vortex is dragging the rest of us down."

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Big Deficits and a Weaker Dollar
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The Economic Crisis in Europe and America
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