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We've heard President Obama on the TV alot talking about how he's promoting wind and solar power in the new stimulus bill. But in the Senate version of the bill, it's all a great, big, honking FRAUD, because the 50 billion in loan guarantees for "eligible technologies" there has been deceptively defined so that most of that money will instead go to finance nuclear and filthy coal power plants instead.

We know this because Republican Senator Bennett from Utah made sure that was the intent when he snuck this provision into the bill in the Appropriations Committee. Why it is still there after Bennett himself voted against the whole package is an outrage. But because the House bill lacks this garbage provision, we still have a chance to remove it in the reconciliation between the Senate and house versions.

And if that weren't bad enough, there is another billion for new nuclear weapons development. That's not the kind of infrastructure we were promised.

Because of the urgency of this action, please call your members of Congress toll-free at 800-828-0498 or 800-459-1887 to raise an immediate fuss about this. Then submit the action page below as well as a follow up.

No Nuclear/Coal Subsidies In Stimulus Bill: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum934.php

What a cruel and dishonest trick on the American people if this is all allowed to pass, to foist the sludge spill disasters of the future on us, in the sheep's clothing of a green energy spirit, which is what we thought we were all voting for in the last election.

All they've talked about for years is how vulnerable nuclear power plants would be to a possible terrorist attack, and now they want to build many more?? And this is on top to the fact we have nowhere to put all the dangerous nuclear waste existing plants have already generated. This is not the change we were promised and it's time to make that abundantly clear with our phone calls and emails. Please make your toll-free calls and submit the action page above.

If They Can Prosecute Michael Phelps They Can Sure Prosecute Bush and Cheney

In light of the growing movement for county by county prosecutions of the former murderous occupants of the White House, did you catch the story that Richland County, SC is hell bent on prosecuting swimmer Michael Phelps for getting photographed with a bong, and has already arrested 8 people. If they can threaten an Olympic champion with hard time for being in the same room with a water pipe, they can damn well bring charges against Bush and Cheney for the senseless murder of citizens in their own county.

On the same return page from the stop nukes & coal action page above, you can also find the new local county prosecutor lookup, which we are using to call, write and email local district attorneys, asking them to bring murder charges against George Bush and Dick Cheney as urged by Vince Bugliosi. If any resident of your county was killed a war based on false pretenses, Bugliosi says that district attorney has grounds to bring murder charges. At the top of all these pages, there is a link to a terrific YouTube video you can watch on this of Bugliosi's House testimony.

There you will also find the request form for the new "Convict Dick & W" caps, the ones with a little embroidered cowboy hat hung on the "W", intended to ridicule the original cowboy from Connecticut himself, who always looked about as at home on that fake Crawford ranch as Eva Gabor looked on Green Acres. So if you have not requested yours yet, you can get one from the return page after you submit the statute of limitations extension action page.

Convict Dick & W Caps: http://www.peaceteam.net/convict_cap.php

The local prosecutor initiative is an important long term back up action, intended to keep the heat on at the same time for a special prosecutor at the federal level.

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.

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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Marjorie Cohn, in an article for Jurist, presents legal background and analysis on the United States's practice of rendition under the Bush administration, and examines the legal opinions offered so far by the Justice Department under President Barack Obama.

http://www.truthout.org/021109A



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- GSM Samsung SGH-C450: SAR (radiation) "Declaration of Conformity ... non conforming!"
- The company Samsung Electronics withdrew a mobile phone SGH-C450 in the Netherlands.

- GSM Samsung SGH-C450 : "Déclaration de Conformité valeur DAS (irradiation) ... Non Conforme !"
- Le manufacturier Samsung Electronics procède au retrait de 140 000 téléphones mobiles SGH-C450 aux Pays-Bas.

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

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Samsung market phones for pre-teens
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Samsung frying kids brains for profit
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Julie Sell, McClatchy Newspapers: "Despite years of denials, new questions are being raised about Britain's possible involvement in the torture of a detainee now on a prolonged hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Both an American military lawyer who's seen classified documents on the case and the head of a special parliamentary committee said Tuesday that the British government might have been complicit in the alleged mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed. The former British resident was seized in 2002 and held in several countries - including Morocco, where he claims he was tortured - before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2004."

http://www.truthout.org/021109M

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UK terror suspect is in 'hell hole' at Guantanamo Bay

The British resident at the center of a legal battle over alleged torture could leave Guantanamo Bay insane or in a coffin if the case continues to be dragged out, his lawyer said on Monday.

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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Going on its seventh year, the Iraq war has taken its toll on not only the US military, but also on the states's National Guard units, which were called up when Congress passed the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq. Now a growing state-level movement is working to keep the Guard at home. Its logic: The AUMF's goals have been fulfilled. The authorization's explicit purposes were to defend the US against the 'threat posed by Iraq' and to enforce UN Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq's alleged ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein - along with his supposed threat - is gone, and the UN resolutions are no longer relevant, so there's no longer a mandate to keep troops in Iraq."

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Press and Journal - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, UK

By Iain Ramage

More than 1000 people who objected to a mobile phone mast
being placed within yards of an Inverness school got their message across
loud and ...

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ISIS Press Release 11/02/09

Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Brett Cherry

This article was submitted to the USDA on behalf of ISIS

Four different Roundup formulations of the herbicide glyphyosate manufactured by Monsanto are highly toxic to human cells, and at concentrations far below the recommended agricultural use levels. Researchers at the Institute of Biology in Caen, France published their latest results in the current issue of Chemical Research in Toxicology [1].

Roundup formulations are lethal cocktails

The four Roundup formulations are mixtures of glyphosate with various adjuvants. (An adjuvant is ‘helper’ substance added to aid the effect of the active ingredient.) The Roundup formulations are currently the top non-selective herbicides worldwide and increasing, as more than 75 percent of genetically modified (GM) crops are Roundup tolerant. Glyphosate and its major metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) are main contaminants in rivers. The adjuvants, not often measured in the environment, are usually considered ‘inert’ and protected as trade secret in manufacturing. Among them, the predominant one is polyethoxylated tallow amine (POEA). POEA is used as a surfactant in Roundup formulations to improve solubility and penetration into plants. Three human cell lines were tested: primary cell line HUVEC from umbilical cord vein epithelium, embryonic cell line 293 derived from kidney, and placenta cell line JEG3. All cells died within 24 hours of exposure to the Roundup formulations. The Roundup formulations (Rs) contain different amounts of the active ingredient glyphosate: Roundup Express, 7.2 g/L (R7.2); Roundup Bioforce, 360 g/L (R360); Roundup Grand Travaux, 400 g/L (R400); and Roundup Grand Travaux Plus, 450 g/L (R450). They were compared with glyphosate (G), AMPA, and POEA. All Roundup formulations in the study, along with individual chemical ingredients, were tested at concentrations from10 ppm (parts per million) to 2 percent (the recommended agricultural usage level), which means that the Roundup formulations were diluted up to 100 000 times or more. The researchers found that the presence of the other chemical ingredients in Roundup formulations, such as POEA, actually amplified glyphosate’s toxic effects. The toxicities of the Roundup formulations were not proportional to the amount of glyphosate they contained, and are most likely due to POEA and other as yet undisclosed ingredient(s) present in all the formulations. POEA by itself is much more toxic than the Roundup formulations, while AMPA is more toxic than glyphosate.

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ZDF - Germany

Das Problem: Der seit Anfang des Jahres einzige in Deutschland zulässige Standard für Schnurlostelefone, der so genannte DECT-Standard, sieht zwar eine ...

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by Berit Kjos

Obama hired Pastor Joshua DuBois to head up his Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Considering their diverse backgrounds, the two seem surprisingly compatible. Notice how Pastor DuBois echoes the words of President Obama: "Our democracy demands that when people are religiously motivated you have to translate your concerns into universal rather than religion-specific values.".......

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AlterNet
by James Howard Kunstler

02/10/09

The argument about ‘change’ during the election was sufficiently vague that no one was really challenged to articulate a future that wasn’t, materially, more-of-the-same. I suppose the Obama team may have thought they would only administer it differently than the Bush team — but basically life in the USA would continue being about all those trips to the mall, and the cubicle jobs to support that, and the family safaris to visit Grandma in Lansing, and the vacations at Sea World, and Skipper’s $20,000 college loan, and Dad’s yearly junket to Las Vegas, and refinancing the house, and rolling over this loan and that loan … and that has all led to a very dead end in a dark place. If this nation wants to survive without an intense political convulsion, there’s a lot we can do, but none of it is being voiced in any corner of Washington at this time...

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/126104/we%27ll_never_be_happy_consumers_again_--_no_stimulus_package_can_bring_that_back/



Obama and the wrong road

Independent Institute
by Carlos Alberto Montaner

Last Jan. 9, President Obama declared that ‘there is no disagreement that we need action by our government, [for example,] a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy.’ He was wrong. A few days later, polled by the Cato Institute, some 200 economists from the best American universities answered him in a full-page ad published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal: ‘With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true.’ And then they briefly expressed their reasons: an increase in government spending in the 1930s did not liquidate the Great Depression or contribute to solving the crisis in Japan in the 1990s. To reprise that strategy was a triumph of hope over experience. What was the correct road to emerge from the crisis? No doubt, they opined, the best fiscal policy to revitalize the growth of the economy consisted of reducing taxes and the burden of government and initiating reforms that would eliminate impediments to work, savings, investment and production...

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The Weekly Standard
by Mary Katharine Ham

When Obama supporters gathered this weekend to build support for the first major legislation of the new president’s tenure, those who had campaigned for change found themselves talking about something unexpected — politics as usual. ‘I trust Obama. I’m disappointed in what has been put out here for this meeting today,’ said Ron, an Obama supporter from Alexandria who hosted an ‘economic stimulus house party’ Sunday with five attendees. ‘We were uniformly disappointed.’ When Obama and the Democratic National Committee asked Americans to host such parties, they supplied a 13-minute online video of DNC Chair Tim Kaine answering viewer-submitted questions and one page of talking points. There were as many as 3,000 parties across the nation, but attendees at two parties in the Metro D.C. area didn’t walk away encouraged...

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Global Research
by Tom Eley

02/08/09

Obama announced measures that purport to restrict executive compensation to $500,000 at financial institutions receiving billions in government assistance. … The measures are essentially a public relations exercise. Their aim is to provide political cover for a new and even larger Wall Street bailout, which Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will unveil next week...

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The “crisis” is not the crisis

Arm Your Mind for Liberty
by George Donnelly

02/10/09

According to politicians, the ‘crisis’ is that the economy stopped growing and loans are not available. People are losing jobs and businesses are closing. But what painfully few people realize is that this is a healthy reaction to the government-facilitated excessive spending and production of the last decade. If the politicians insist on creating bubbles, they have to accept the consequences of them bursting as natural, necessary and curative. The real crisis is both that which caused the ‘crisis’ and the politicians’ reaction to the ‘crisis’...

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Christian Science Monitor
by staff

02/10/09

To jolt the economy and end a recession born out of too much homeowner debt, Congress and the US Treasury this week plan to take on at least $1.1 trillion in new national debt. This ‘good’ debt will be thrown at ‘bad’ debt, in Keynesian logic. It’s not really a Ponzi scheme. But that’s true only if it works. At the very least, the expected stimulus of some $827 billion and a new bank rescue of $350 billion will serve as a safety net to keep jobless Americans and the economy from sinking further. Some $50-$100 billion, for instance, is expected to go for mortgage relief. But it is a leap of faith, even among Keynesian economists, that throwing money into a debt-ridden economy will thaw frozen credit markets and revive the kind of entrepreneurial risk-taking that creates jobs. Meanwhile, it takes little faith to see the debt costs of that leap...

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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/11/09

It’s amazing how quickly Obama started sounding just like Bush, because, when cornered by this question on the Afghan endgame, he reverted to waving the bloody flag of 9/11, just as his predecessor did in the run-up to war with Iraq, and long after the alleged links between Saddam and 9/11 had been thoroughly debunked. The president claims ‘you’ve got the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating in the FATA and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ and he promises a ‘concerted effort to root out these safe havens.’ … we have heard much about the alleged presence of al-Qaeda’s shadowy remnants in Pakistan, yet we have seen no evidence. Nor have we been offered any specifics. It seems to me that the president came pretty close to saying, definitively, that Osama bin Laden is in the tribal areas, without, of course, actually coming out and saying it. If he doesn’t know this to be true, then Obama is doing precisely what Bush and his gang did to gin up a war with Iraq — lying...

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Orange County Register

02/10/09

Stocks plunged today on Wall Street after Washington rolled out new plan for the federal bailout of financial institutions and President Barack Obama warned that inaction could lead to an economic ‘catastrophe.’ Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled plans for spending the second half of the $700 billion appropriated last year by Congress to revive the U.S. financial system. Geithner said the first $350 billion had failed to help. ‘Instead of catalyzing recovery, the financial system is working against recovery,’ he said...

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Trotz Verlust von 20 Milliarden Franken, wird die Bank 2,2 Milliarden Bonuszahlungen leisten und dafür weitere 2.000 Stellen streichen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29717/1.html



Gute Banken, schlechte Banken

Auch in Deutschland wird über die Einrichtung von "Bad Banks" diskutiert. Der Bundesfinanzminister befürchtet, eine solche Konstruktion könne bis zu 200 Milliarden Euro kosten.

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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that would impose fines or prison time on presidents or executive-branch officials who "knowingly and willfully" mislead Congress to gain authorization to use U.S. military forces.

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By: Eric_deCarbonnel

After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. 2009 looks to be a humanitarian disaster around much of the world.

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22 Pakistanis Reportedly Killed

By Christine Smith

So much for the peace activists who supported Obama - how deluded could they be? To have expected (or "hoped") for anything different was a daydream.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21952.htm



American Apologies

By Mickey Z.

During his inauguration speech, President Barack Obama declared: "We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense."

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Pakistan Parliament Will Authorize Shooting Down U.S. Drones?

By Talha Mujaddidi

Here is a 7-point Parliament resolution authorizing Pakistan Air Force to shoot down CIA drones coming from Afghanistan and killing innocent Pakistani citizens. - We the people of Pakistan must demand these actions from this government and must not fall into the disguised rhetoric of our corrupt leaders.

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Call Off Drone War, Influential U.S. Adviser Says

For months, Pakistani leaders have complained, loudly, about American drone strikes on their territory. Now, an influential adviser to American policymakers is raising his voice against the unmanned attacks, too.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/kilcullen-says.html



Anger confronts Holbrooke in Pakistan

Holbrooke will face a surge of anti-American sentiment on clear display by private citizens, public officials and increasingly potent television talk shows.

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Rethink Military Escalation in Afghanistan

Video

We must rethink our policy toward Afghanistan. Congressional oversight hearings on Afghanistan would facilitate a substantial public debate on this war. What's more, these hearings would coincide with President Obama's effort to craft policy that represents the diversity in public opinion and the wide array of tools at his disposal.

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Maliki says era of US Iraq dominance is over

His remarks were a pointed rebuke to US Vice President Joe Biden, who last week said Washington would have to be "more aggressive" in pushing Baghdad towards faster political reform.

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Video

Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a "tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars." According to Kanjorski, this electronic transfer occured over the period of an hour or two.

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Die Weltbank hat der Regierung von Papua-Neuguinea einen Kredit zur Förderung von Ölpalmen vergeben. Die Ölpalmen sind jetzt schon für großflächige Regenwaldrodungen verantwortlich, was zu Armut, Mangelernährung und Missbrauch der Rechte der Einheimischen in dem Land führt. Bitte unterstützen sie den Aufruf der dörflichen Gemeinschaften und unterzeichnen sie einen Protestbrief gegen diesen Kredit. (Start: 06.02.2009)

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The battle is on
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5:20pm Tuesday 10th February 2009

By South Wales Argus Newsdesk

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build two phone masts in Pontnewynydd were given the green light by Torfaen Council’s planning committee.

The decision comes after council officials met to discuss the plans at a site visit two weeks ago.

Residents living near the site of a 17.5m mobile phone mast on and at Wilton Factory Premises, Estate Road, Pontnewynydd, are opposed to the application made by O2 to build a telecommunications mast.

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Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus - and a firm denial by a White House official - of an account of the Jan. 21 White House meeting suggesting that Obama had requested three different combat troop withdrawal plans with their respective associated risks, including one of 23 months."

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Grantham Today - Grantham, England, UK

By Jo Hall Tuesday, 9.15am - PLANS to build a 40ft mobile phone base station outside Grantham Hospital have been reconsidered after outrage from neighbours. ...

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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

02/09/09

The entire claim of ’state secrets’ in this case is based on two sworn Declarations from CIA Director Michael Hayden — one public and one filed secretly with the court. In them, Hayden argues that courts cannot adjudicate this case because to do so would be to disclose and thus degrade key CIA programs of rendition and interrogation — the very policies which Obama, in his first week in office, ordered shall no longer exist. How, then, could continuation of this case possibly jeopardize national security when the rendition and interrogation practices which gave rise to these lawsuits are the very ones that the U.S. Government, under the new administration, claims to have banned? What this is clearly about is shielding the U.S. Government and Bush officials from any accountability. Worse, by keeping Bush’s secrecy architecture in place, it ensures that any future President — Obama or any other — can continue to operate behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy, with no transparency or accountability even for blatantly criminal acts...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/09/state_secrets/



The real cost of the bailout

The Daily Reckoning
by Bill Bonner

02/09/09

Obama himself said we might be on the verge of ‘catastrophe.’ And Summers added, ‘If there was ever a moment to transcend politics, this is that moment.’ But what good is $1 trillion worth of boondoggle spending going to do? General Market has just erased $50 trillion assets. All together, the feds have probably been able to put back a couple trillion — at most. And most of what they are putting back is just taken from some other front … it is not really a net increase in the feds’ firepower...

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/the-real-cost-of-the-bailout/



Government officials don’t want a free economy

Hawaii Reporter
by Guy Monahan

02/09/09

The latest effort by Congress and our new administration to resolve our economic malaise is a good example of applying macroeconomic management to an economy that thrives when microeconomic management is practiced. We as Americans have been conditioned by academia and media to believe that only experts with national and international credentials have all the answers...

http://tinyurl.com/ajzndy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The 180-Degree Reversal of Obama's State Secrets Position
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/10-6

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"State Secrets" Privilege Not Gone with Bush

President Barack Obama has cast doubt on his promise to put an end to secret government by allowing his Justice Department to follow a path frequently taken by his predecessor.

http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=45719


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hayden
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National Review
by Henry I. Miller

02/09/09

The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, promised during her confirmation hearing to base agency policies and decisions on science, not politics: ‘If I am confirmed, I will administer with science as my guide,’ she said. ‘Political appointees will not compromise the integrity of EPA’s technical experts to advance particular regulatory outcomes.’ There are two reasons for skepticism. First, the EPA has long been a haven for zealots in career positions and for scientifically insupportable policies, so it has little integrity to compromise. It has a sordid history of incompetence, duplicity, and pandering to the most extreme factions of the environmental movement, all of which are likely to become even worse during the Obama administration. Second, Ms. Jackson herself is a veteran of 16 years at the EPA, during which she developed some of the agency’s most unscientific, wasteful, and dangerous regulations...

http://itshrunk.com/8e476f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency

Stimulus, yes; Bank Bailout II, no

Huffington Post
by Robert Kuttner

02/08/09

Here’s the problem with this whole approach. The government has not been shy about telling banks what to do, but has done so in an ad hoc manner, without adequate information, without a strategic plan, and without the authority that goes with ownership. The Wall Street Journal recently published a devastating investigative account of how the Treasury Department ordered Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch, a deal that turned out to be a disaster for the acquiring bank. Executives were warned that if they did not go alone with the plan, the Journal reported, there would be hell to pay. Basically, the government has been acting as if it owned the banks, but in a half-backed, scattershot manner. It would be far better to nationalize the large banks outright, sort out their balance sheets, and then decide what level of financial relief is required to get the banks functioning...

http://itshrunk.com/c3c332



Obama and the economy: When was he telling truth?

Fox News Forum
by John R. Lott, Jr.

02/09/09

As the final push for the 778 page, $827 billion stimulus package faces votes today and tomorrow in the Senate, President Obama is hammering his opponents and pushing hard for the bill. On Friday, Obama pointedly reminded Republicans that he won the November election and had the right to get his policies enacted. But the stimulus bill bears little resemblance to his campaign promises. It bears little resemblance his many promises he made just a month ago. If Obama claims a mandate, shouldn’t it be related to what he campaigned on?

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/02/09/lott_obama_economy/



A yes and a no

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

02/10/09

President Obama made two important points during his Monday evening news conference, the first of his presidency. One was when he observed that old habits are very hard to shed. How true that is and how his own policies vis-a-vis the economic calamity demonstrates it. After all, one of the oldest and worst habits human beings find nearly impossible to be rid of is the governmental habit, that of turning to government as if it could perform miracles, superhuman deeds. This idolatry about government and its officials as a terrible habit and needs to be tossed ASAP. The other important point, which was, however, completely wrong, is that the policy of stimulating the American economy by means of enormous spending programs is not opposed by economists around the country. This is false and it is difficult to imagine that President Obama doesn’t know it to be false. And if he does, then we have here the same old, same old Washington practice of lying to the American people...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!719.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Treasury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Merrill+Lynch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Kuttner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+R.+Lott
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan

Independent [UK]

02/10/09

In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the economic downturn, Ed Balls even predicted that its effects would still be felt 15 years from now. The Schools Secretary’s comments carry added weight because he is a former chief economic adviser to the Treasury and regarded as one of the Prime Ministers’s closest allies. Mr Balls said yesterday: ‘The reality is that this is becoming the most serious global recession for, I’m sure, over 100 years, as it will turn out.’ He warned that events worldwide were moving at a ’speed, pace and ferocity which none of us have seen before’ and banks were losing cash on a ’scale that nobody believed possible.’ The minister stunned his audience at a Labour conference in Yorkshire by forecasting that times could be tougher than in the depression of the 1930...

http://itshrunk.com/ffc31e



Losing our religion

Reason
by Ken Kurson

02/09/09

The speed with which venerable American institutions — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia — have disappeared or been gobbled up is jarring. But in most cases, that’s just creative destruction at work. What Joseph Schumpeter defined as ‘the process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.’ What’s far more disconcerting is how quickly Americans seem willing to throw off our last few vestiges of freedom and adapt a nationalized, Washington, D.C.-based set of standards — replete with pay caps, government-preferred industries (and companies within those industries), and massive new government employment — all in the panicky name of ’stability.’ Even more startling is that this new economic catastrophe is only about four months old...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131588.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Treasury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+catastrophe
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bear+Stearns
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lehman+Brothers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Merrill+Lynch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wachovia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schumpeter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nigel+Morris

Länderübergreifender Ausnahmezustand im April

Zum NATO-Jubiläumsgipfel in Baden-Baden, Kehl und Straßburg wird alles aufgefahren, was der Sicherheitsstaat zu bieten hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29668/1.html



Ausreiseverbote für Nato-Gegner mit teils "haarsträubenden" Begründungen

Ausschlaggebend ist meist, was in polizeilichen Dateien über die Ausreisewilligen gespeichert ist, dazu kann schon ein Polizeikontakt reichen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30064/1.html

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NATO-Gipfel April 2009

Jetzt geht's richtig los: Internationale Aktionskonferenz gegen Nato-Gipfel tagte in Strasbourg

„Etwa 400 Aktivist/innen aus zahlreichen europäischen Ländern trafen sich am Wochenende 14. und 15. Februar in Strasbourg zu einer internationalen Aktionskonferenz. Dieses Treffen diente der gemeinsamen Planung und Absprache der Aktivitäten gegen den NATO-Gipfel in Strasbourg und Baden-Baden Anfang April 2009. Zugleich läutete es die letzte Mobilisierungsphase ein: in sechs Wochen wird der 60-Jahre-Jubililäumsgipfel nicht ohne massiven Protest vonstatten gehen. Die Aktivist/innen und das von ihnen gebildete internationale Koordinierungs-Kommitee (ICC) kündigten für den Zeitraum vom 1. bis 5. April ein Protestcamp, einen Gegenkongress, mehrere Aktionstage und an den direkten Gipfeltagen 3. und 4. April Blockaden, Aktionen des zivilen Ungehorsams und eine internationale Großdemonstration an…“ Bericht mit grundlegenden Infos vom 17. Februar 2009 auf der iL-Seite für die Kampagne gegen den NATO-Gipfel http://www.dazwischengehen.org/de/story/2009/02/jetzt-gehts-richtig-los


Friedensbewegung fordert Ende der NATO. Großes Bündnis "Nein zur Nato" stellt Planungen zum Gegengipfel in Baden-Baden und Strasbourg vor - Erste gemeinsame Pressekonferenz

„Der NATO-Gipfel zum 60. Jahrestag des Bestehens des Militärbündnisses wirft lange Schatten voraus. Dies betrifft die offiziellen Vorbereitungen des Großereignisses genauso wie die Planungen der Gipfelgegner. Im Folgenden eine Agenturmeldung über den Stand der Planungen von Seiten der NATO sowie das Echo auf eine Pressekonferenz, die das Anti-Nato-Bündnis am 11. Februar 2009 in Berlin veranstaltete.“ Dokumentation beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/NATO/60/presse.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Februar 2009

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Protest beim NATO-Gipfel in Strasbourg/Baden-Baden: GewerkschafterInnen gegen Krieg und Militarisierung: Wir zahlen nicht für Eure Kriege!

Aufruf von GewerkschafterInnen gegen den NATO Gipfel (pdf) http://www.trueten.de/uploads/gewerkschafteraufruf-natoprotest.pdf

Zur Unterstützung des Aufrufes von GewerkschafterInnen gegen den NATO Gipfel werden noch bis 21. März Unterstützer gesucht. Bitte mit dem zu veröffentlichenden Daten (Name, Ort, betriebliche / gewerkschaftliche Funktion) melden bei Dirk Spöri (spoeri@gmx.net) oder Thomas Trueten
(thomas@trueten.de)

NATO-Powerpoint-Präsentation

„Die Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) hat zahlreiche Vortragsanfragen für NATO-Veranstaltungen zum Gipfeltreffen am 3./4. April bekommen. Das ist zwar einerseits gut, zeigt es doch das rege Interesse an dem wichtigen Thema, andererseits stoßen wir was unsere Kapazitäten anbelangt doch allmählich an unsere Grenzen. Deshalb haben wir eine Powerpoint-Präsentation erstellt, die womöglich hilfreich ist, solche Veranstaltungen selbst durchzuführen“ – siehe die Präsentation als pdf-Datei bei IMI http://www.imi-online.de/download/NATOPrae1.pdf

http://www.no-to-nato.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2009

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Internationale Erklärung - Krieg ist illegal

www.war-is-illegal.org ist eine internationale Erklärung, entstanden auf Initiative einiger Geschäfte und internationaler Künstler in Berlin – siehe die Aktionsseite: http://www.war-is-illegal.org/


Newsletter der Kampagne NATO-ZU Nr. 2 erschienen

„Mit geplanten 3 - 4 Newsletter bis zum Start der Aktionswoche wollen wir Euch auf dem Laufenden halten - mit aktuellen News zum Stand der Protestvorbereitung und natürlich speziell über die Aktion Nato-ZU.“ Er kann als e-mail-Dienst aboniert werden auf der Aktionsseite Nato ZU http://www.natozu.de/index.php?id=16

Siehe Newsletter Nr. 1 (Februar) (pdf) http://www.natozu.de/fileadmin/natozu/share/documents/NATO-ZU-NewsletterNr1_viersprachig.pdf


Vorankündigung: Zeitung gegen den Krieg - ZgK - Nr. 28 zu 60 Jahre Nato und Ostermarsch 2009

Der Druck erfolgt am 27. März; Vertrieb (Aufgabe bei der Post) 30. 3., die bis zum 26.3. bestellten Sendungen sollten am 1. April vor Ort sein. Bei dringenden TERMIN-Bestellungen können wir diese gegen Zusatzkosten per Spedition ausliefern lassen, sodass sie Montag, 30. März vor Ort sein würden

Schwerpunkte der neuen Ausgabe:
60 Jahre Nato – 60 Jahre Kriegsdrohung in Permanenz; Deutschland im Dauerkrieg – US-Stützpunkte auf deutschem Boden; Ausweitung des Bundeswehreinsatzes in Afghanistan; Waffenverherrlichung, Computerspiele und Amokläufe; Bundeswehr-Werbung vor und in Arbeitsagenturen: Bundeswehr wegtreten!; Welche Art Truppenabzug aus dem Irak?

Umfang wie immer: 12 Seiten Zeitungsformat Bezugspreise so günstig wie seit sechs Jahren: von 1 bis 50 Ex.: 25 Cent je Ex.; von 51-499 Ex.: 20 Cent je Ex. Und ab 500 Ex.: 15 Cent je Ex. Jeweils zuzüglich Porto und Verpackung. Bestellungen bitte an Zeitung-gegen-den-Krieg@gmx.de oder per Fax 030-227 76 179 oder per Telefon 033205 – 44 613.


Jetzt erst recht: Abgestufte Aufstandsbekämpfung - Crowd and Riot Control/CRC!

„Aufstandsbekämpfung: Was hierzulande die Verschärfung des Versammlungsrechtes bzw. des Polizei- und Notstandsgesetzes ist, sieht in den Operationsgebieten des deutschen Militärs noch ganz anders aus. Eine ernsthafte Dokumentation zum Thema "Lustige Bundeswehrvideos" bei Thomas Trueten http://www.trueten.de/permalink/Jetzt-erst-recht-Abgestufte-Aufstandsbekaempfung-Crowd-and-Riot-ControlCRC!.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. März 2009

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NATO-Gipfel: Rechtshilfetipps für Frankreich

Grundsätzliches: „Vor, während und nach den Protesten: Bleibt in Gruppen, niemals alleine! Vergesst folgende Sachen nicht: Ausweis/Visa, Telefonkarten, Schreibzeug, Brille (besser als Kontaktlinsen), wichtige Medikamente (falls nötig). Hinterlasst bei eurer Bezugsgruppe euren Vor- und Nachnamen sowie euer Geburtsdatum und ruft diese Angaben den Umstehenden zu, falls ihr festgenommen werdet…“ Weitere Infos auf der Sonderseite von Rote Hilfe http://rote-hilfe.de/news/nato_gipfel_rechtshilfetipps_fuer_frankreich

und als pdf-Datei http://rote-hilfe.de/content/download/1760/15175/file/Rechtshilfetipps-Deutsch.pdf


Ermittlungsausschuss / Legal Team Strasbourg: +33 (0) 368 46 02 62 Ermittlungsausschuss / Legal Team Freiburg: +49 (0) 761 409 72 51


Anwaltsnotdienst NATO Gipfel

Zum Natogipfel hat sich ein anwaltlicher Notdienst konstituiert. Die Idee eines Anwaltlichen Notdienstes für den Nato-Gipfel 2009 ist entstanden aus den Erfahrungen der Arbeit des AND anlässlich des G8-Gipfels 2007 in Heiligendamm und Rostock. Es ist eine Gruppe von Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälten aus ganz Deutschland, die zu einem großen Teil bereits Erfahrungen in Heiligendamm gemacht haben und u.a. von der Baden-Württembergischen Strafverteidigervereinigung e.V. sowie dem Republikanischen Anwaltsverein (RAV) unterstützt werden. Kontakt: anwaltsnotdienst.natogipfel@googlemail.com und 0049/1522/6467860


Aus: LabourNet, 31. März 2009

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Grenzverbote für GipfelgegnerInnen. Polizeikontrolle in Freiburg

„Vor dem NATO-Gipfel in Strasbourg, Kehl und Baden-Baden wurden an der deutsch-französischen Grenze wieder Kontrollen eingeführt. Das Schengener Abkommen wurde außer Kraft gesetzt, was nach Artikel 23 der Verordnung Nr. 562/2006 nur „im Falle einer schwerwiegenden Bedrohung der öffentlichen Ordnung oder inneren Sicherheit“ möglich ist. Dutzenden aus Deutschland anreisenden DemonstrantInnen wurde am 1. April der Grenzübertritt nach Frankreich, Luxemburg und in die Schweiz verwehrt. Die deutschen Ausreiseverbote gelten bis zum 5. April um 24 Uhr und sind nach §10 Abs. 1 S. 2 PassG strafbewehrt mit bis zu einem Jahr Haft, die französischen Behörden verhängen Einreiseverbote…“ Communiqué vom 02.04.2009 von Autonome Antifa Freiburg bei indymedia-linksunten http://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/2385


Strasbourg: Für das Recht auf Demonstrationsfreiheit

Aufruf des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie im Info 2/2009 vom April 2009 (pdf) http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/files/articles/info2-09.pdf


Die NoNato-Aktionstage haben angefangen

Infobrief von Interventionistische Linke http://www.dazwischengehen.org/de/simplenews/2009/04/die-nonato-aktionstage-haben-angefangen


Indymedia-Linksunten-Newsticker online http://linksunten.indymedia.org/ticker/


Online spezial der jungen Welt: No Nato http://www.jungewelt.de/no-nato/

Siehe dazu auch:

Späte Schlappe für BKA-Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit. BKA empfahl der NATO die Akkreditierungsverweigerung und scheitert damit vor Gericht. Nato lehnt dennoch Journalisten ab!

„Wie in der Presse berichtet (s.u.) verweigerte die Pressestelle der NATO bisher mindestens drei Journalisten die Akkreditierung für den NATO-Gipfel in Baden-Baden, Straßburg und Kehl. Einer davon ist Björn Kietzmann, der für den ND berichten soll. Der andere berichtet für Le Monde Diplomatique und bekam bereits für den G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm keine Akkreditierung. Beide haben nun auf Wirken ihrer Anwälte beim Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden durchgesetzt, dass die NATO-Pressestelle neu entscheiden muss….“ Artikel der LabourNet-Redaktion vom 2.4.09 mit Dokumenten und Pressespiegel http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/nato09.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. April 2009

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NATO-Gipfel April 2009

Berichte und Bewertungen

NATO-Gipfel 2009

Dossier bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/04/246131.shtml

Live-Ticker und Berichterstattung bei Indymedia linksunten http://linksunten.indymedia.org/de

Sonderseite bei Gipfelsoli http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009

60 Jahre NATO. Dokumente und kritische Beiträge zum NATO-Gipfel 2009

Sonderseite beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/NATO/60/Welcome.html

NATO Kriegskonferenz 2009

Sonderseite mit Videoclips von KanalB http://kanalb.org/topic.php?clipId=294

„Frontbericht“ aus Strasbourg: Die NATO-Gipfelstadt im Ausnahmezustand

„Die Einwohner/innen der Elsassmetropole Strasbourg waren vergangene Woche, anlässlich des Jubiläumsgipfels der NATO in ihrer Stadt, einer regelrechten Belagerungssituation unterworfen. Die Polizei erprobte offenkundig eine Form der „Strategie der Spannung“: die Verrücktesten unter den „Randalierern“ und Polit-Hooligans ungestört ihr Werk verrichten lassen, und zur selben Zeit die Masse der Demonstrierenden angreifen! Die Demo litt zudem an einem seriösen Mangel, nämlich den an einem tauglichen Ordnungsdienst, u.a. wohl aufgrund der schwachen Präsenz der französischen Gewerkschaften. - Während mehrere Gebäude (äußerst sinnlos) in Flammen aufgingen, warfen die „Sicherheits“kräfte von Hubschraubern aus Tränengas in die Menge. Auflösungserscheinungen und Chaos prägten zeitweise die Demonstration. Die Berichterstattung am Tag danach wird durch die „Gewalt“frage dominiert...“ Artikel von Bernard Schmid vom 6.4.09 http://www.labournet.de/krieg/nato09bs.html


Welt beherrschen und Beherrschung verlieren. 60 Jahre NATO sind genug. Eine Geisterstadt als Filmkulisse für Kriegsherren

Artikel von und bei von Wolf Wetzel vom 04.04.2009 http://wolfwetzel.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/weltbeherrschung-und-beherrschung-verlieren-60-jahre-nato-sind-genug/#more-989


Grußbotschaft von Mikis Theodorakis

Grußbotschaft des griechischen Komponisten und Widerstandskämpfers Mikis Theodorakis an die Teilnehmer der Proteste gegen den NATO-Gipfel in Strasbourg, Kehl und Baden-Baden, dokumentiert bei Kommunisten-Online http://www.kommunisten-online.de/Kriegstreiber/nato_kriege.htm#Wo%20bleiben%20die%20Gewerkschaften

Siehe dazu auch:

Nato und das Demonstrationsrecht

NATO-Gipfel auf Kosten der Grundrechte. Gipfel-Beschlüsse stoßen auf Kritik aus der Friedensbewegung

„Die NATO hat sich nach Ansicht des Netzwerks Friedenskooperative durch die Verletzung der Grundrechte beim Gipfel als angebliches Wertebündnis für Frieden, Freiheit und Demokratie erneut diskreditiert…“ Pressemitteilung vom 05.04.2009 http://www.friedenskooperative.de/themen/nato-006.htm


Ausreiseverbote für Nato-Gegner mit teils "haarsträubenden" Begründungen

„Ausschlaggebend ist meist, was in polizeilichen Dateien über die Ausreisewilligen gespeichert ist, dazu kann schon ein Polizeikontakt reichen. Vier Stunden lang wurde eine Gruppe von fünf Personen, die auf dem Weg in das Protestcamp bei Straßburg war, von deutschen Bundespolizisten kurz vor dem deutsch-französischen Grenzübergang kontrolliert und verhört. Die Suche nach verbotenen oder gefährlichen Gegenständen im Auto der Aktivisten blieb erfolglos, die Ausreise nach Frankreich, Luxemburg oder in die Schweiz wurde ihnen dennoch verweigert. Ursächlich hierfür sei der Verdacht auf eine mögliche Teilnahme an gewalttätigen Demonstrationen gewesen, beklagen die Betroffenen auf der Internetplattform Indymedia…“ Artikel von Benjamin Laufer in telepolis vom
03.04.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30064/1.html


LEGAL TEAM beim NATO-Gipfel – Berichte bei Gipfelsoli http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_Antirepression


Aus: LabourNet, 6. April 2009

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Wie weiter nach Strasbourg? Die Friedensbewegung muss Grenzen ziehen und ihr eigenes Profil stärken

Diskussionsbeitrag von Peter Strutynski beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/NATO/60/strutynski2.html

Aus dem Text: „…Die auffälligste Erscheinung bei größeren internationalen Protesten und Demonstrationen ist ihre zunehmende Gleichartigkeit. Ob es gegen einen G8-oder G20-Gipfel geht oder ob gegen die NATO demonstriert wird: Es sind zu einem gewissen Teil dieselben Akteure und es sind vor allem auch dieselben Parolen: Kaum eine Großdemo, bei der dem Kapitalismus nicht endgültig das Handwerk gelegt, zum Kampf gegen die weltbeherrschenden Transnationalen Konzerne und Banken aufgerufen und der globale Widerstand gegen die Regierungspolitik der führenden Staaten des Westens oder des „reichen Nordens“ organisiert wird. Es soll hier nicht abgestritten werden, dass all das – wenn es denn nur ein wenig differenzierter und präziser benannt würde – Grund genug wäre, täglich auf die Straße zu gehen, was doch allemal besser ist, als die Faust nur in der Tasche zu ballen. Die Frage ist aber, ob das Themeneinerlei der an sich verschiedenen Protestbewegungen – die ihre je eigenen politischen Ziele, Traditionen, Anhänger und „Sympathisanten“ haben – dem jeweiligen Protestanliegen gerecht wird. Davon zu trennen ist die Frage, warum die Akteure, oder sagen wir besser: die das Erscheinungsbild prägenden Teile der Akteure bei den genannten Protestanlässen so uniform auftreten…“


Wie man ein Desaster anrichtet. Die NATO, Strasbourg und der Schwarze Block

„Die NATO schafft bedrohliche Situationen, egal wo sie auftaucht. Das ist ihr Geschäft. Ob in Afghanistan oder in Strasbourg, das Auftreten dieser fremden Militärmacht provoziert gewaltsamen Aufruhr, vor allem bei jungen Männern, die sich herausgefordert fühlen. Ihre gewalttätigen Reaktionen werden ausgenutzt, um die Eskalation der repressiven Gewalt zu rechtfertigen. Und das läuft immer so. Dieser Zyklus der Gewalt spielte sich auch am letzten Samstag, dem 4. April, in Strasbourg ab, wo Tausende Polizisten und eine kleine Zahl "Straßenkämpfer" des Schwarzen Blocks einer Demonstration die Schau stahlen, die der Start zu einer neuen europäischen Massenbewegung gegen die NATO-Kriegspolitik hätte sein können. Die Friedensdemon-stration wurde an den Rand gedrängt und von der bewaffneten Polizei aufgelöst, weil schwarz-maskierte Jugendliche Steine warfen und Feuer legten…“ Artikel von Diana Johnstone beim Friedensratschlag (Originalartikel: Ingredients for a Disaster, in: Counterpunch, April 7, 2009) http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/NATO/60/blackblock-dt.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. April 2009

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Strasbourg an den Tagen danach: Die Polemik um die Polizeitaktik und „Strategie der Spannung“ dauert an

„Die französische Innenministerin nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, um die Einführung eines Vermummungsverbots zu fordern. Am Mittwoch Abend demonstrierten Bewohner/innen des Hafenviertels von Strasbourg, die sich durch die Polizeistrategie „geopfert“ fühlten…“ Artikel von Bernard Schmid vom 9.4.09 http://www.labournet.de/krieg/nato09bs3.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009

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6 Monate Haft für Anti-Nato-Aktivisten

„Am Dienstag dem 05. Mai fanden in Strasbourg Verhandlungen gegen fünf Antimilitaristen statt. Die Aktivisten wurden bei den Protesten gegen den NATO-Gipfel 2009 im April verhaftet und angeklagt. Gegen vier seit diesem Zeitpunkt inhaftierten Angeklagten wurde nun ein Urteil gesprochen, ein weiteres Urteil wird am 25. Juni erwartet. Drei französischen Genossen wurden vorläufig freigesprochen, gegen Matthias aus Berlin wurde eine Strafe von 6 Monaten Haft und 2 Jahre Einreiseverbot nach Frankreich ausgesprochen, er ist damit der dritte deutschsprachige Aktivist gegen den eine Haftstrafe in dieser Höhe ausgesprochen wurde. Weitere Verfahren gegen bereits Inhaftierte Personen stehen noch aus…“ Artikel von Break Out! auf Indymedia vom 06.05.2009 http://de.indymedia.org/2009/05/249584.shtml


Legal Team zählt 1700 Polizeiübergriffe

Vorläufige Bilanz der Repression während des NATO-Gipfels in Strasbourg. Debatte im Bundestagsinnenausschuß. Artikel von Frank Brendle in der jungen Welt vom 06.05.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/05-06/042.php

Aus dem Text: „…Für die Meldungen des Legal Teams und des Medical Teams wird sich die FDP wohl nicht interessieren: Diese haben am Montag in Strasbourg eine erste Bilanz der Polizeigewalt vorgestellt. Man habe bislang über 1700 Meldungen von Demonstrationsteilnehmern erhalten. Die meisten davon betreffen Schikanen der französischen Polizei bei Identitätskontrollen, beim Eindringen von Zivilkräften in das Camp der Gipfelgegner und während der Protestaktionen. Noch am 5. April, als die Proteste schon beendet waren, hätten Polizisten Checkpoints errichtet und Flugblätter, Fahnen, aber auch Fotoapparate und Kameras beschlagnahmt. Insgesamt seien 464 Festnahmen bestätigt worden. Die tatsächliche Anzahl derjenigen, die in Polizeigewahrsam gerieten, sei jedoch »unmöglich zu bestimmen«. Zudem habe die Polizei die rechtlichen Vorschriften nicht respektiert. Die Zahlen seien als vorläufig zu betrachten, weil immer noch täglich neue Meldungen einträfen, teilte das Legal Team mit…“


Keine Absolution für Friedensdemonstranten

Strasbourg: Kriminalisierung der Anti-NATO-Proteste / Drei Monate Haft wegen Besitzes eines Schweizer Messers / Vorläufige Bilanz der Repression. Verschiedene Beiträge im Pressespiegel des Friedenspolitischen Ratschlags vom 7. Mai 2009 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/NATO/60/nach-strasbourg2.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Mai 2009

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Abfangjäger beim NATO-Gipfel

In die Flugsicherung des NATO-Gipfels Anfang April in Baden-Baden und Straßburg wird auch die Bundeswehr eingebunden sein. Es seien AWACS-Aufklärungsflugzeuge und auch "Abfangjäger im Einsatz", um die Flugbeschränkungszonen zu sichern, sagte der baden-württembergische Landespolizeipräsident Erwin Hetger am Dienstag (17. März) in Baden-Baden. Die Frage, ob sie im Falle eines eindringenden, von Terroristen gekaperten Flugzeugs Schießbefehl hätten, wollte Hetger nicht beantworten. Dies sei "im Moment kein Thema". Zu dem NATO-Gipfel am 3. und 4. April in Baden-Baden und Straßburg werden 30 Staats- und Regierungschefs erwartet. Allein auf deutscher Seite sollen 14.600 Polizeibeamte für einen reibungslosen Ablauf der zweitägigen Veranstaltung sorgen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19474



Friedensbewegung will Proteste gegen die NATO notfalls juristisch erzwingen

Die Kritiker der NATO-Kriege wollen ihre geplanten Protestaktionen gegen den NATO-Gipfel in Baden-Baden und Straßburg notfalls juristisch einklagen. Am Mittwoch seien Briefe an die zuständigen Behörden geschickt worden, um "der Hinhaltetaktik" ein Ende zu bereiten und schriftliche Entscheidungen zu erhalten, sagte der Koordinator der Internationalen Proteste, Reiner Braun, am Donnerstag (19. März) in Stuttgart. Bisher habe es nur mündliche Absprachen, die keine juristische Grundlage böten, gegeben. "Wir werden an allen Aktionen, die wir planen, festhalten", sagte Dieter Lachenmayer, Sprecher des Friedensnetzes Baden-Württemberg. So sind weiterhin ein großer Demonstrationszug von Kehl zur Europabrücke sowie "Aktionen des zivilen Ungehorsams" geplant. Demonstrationsfreiheit bedeute, dass die Demonstranten bestimmten, wo und wie demonstriert werde. "Die Mobilisierungswelle rollt und nichts wird sie aufhalten", sagte Braun.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19491

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26. März 2009

Friedensfahnen in Straßburg und Baden-Baden

DIE LINKE ruft zu vielfältigen Protestaktionen anlässlich des
60jährigen Bestehens der NATO am 4. April auf. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Wolfgang Gehrcke:

DIE LINKE hat ihre Mitglieder und Sympathisanten aufgerufen, sich an den vielfältigen friedlichen Protesten gegen die NATO-Interventionspolitik in Straßburg und Baden-Baden zu beteiligen. Die NATO will sich als Wertegemeinschaft für Frieden und Stabilität in der europäischen Öffentlichkeit präsentieren. Die Werte der NATO sind die Börsenwerte und während die NATO vom Frieden spricht, führt sie einen völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg in Afghanistan. DIE LINKE fordert von der Bundesregierung und von der französischen Regierung, auch während des NATO-Gipfels das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung und das Recht auf Demonstrationen zu gewährleisten. Die Schengen-Verfügung von Einreisebeschränkungen ist nicht hinnehmbar und widerspricht rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien. DIE LINKE wird mit dafür sorgen, dass Friedensfahnen das Bild und Straßburg und Baden-Baden prägen. Die heutige Protestaktion von Abgeordneten der LINKEN während der NATO-Debatte im Bundestag hat das unterstrichen. Für Friedensfahnen im Deutschen Bundestag sollte das Parlament dankbar sein und nicht stattdessen Abgeordnete, die das praktizieren, mit einem Ordnungsruf belegen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/friedensfahnen-in-strassburg-und-baden-baden/



1. April 2009

Schaden von Demokratie abwenden

Zu Verbalattacken deutscher Sicherheitsbehörden im Vorfeld des NATO-Gipfels, erklärt das Parteivorstandsmitglied Jan Korte (MdB):

Ich rufe die Einsatzkräfte, die Politik und die Demonstranten auf, sich im Sinne der Verteidigung der Demokratie auf friedliche Proteste und Meinungsäußerungen in Straßburg und Baden-Württemberg zu beschränken. Bereits im Vorfeld des NATO-Gipfels werden freie Meinungsäußerung und die Versammlungsfreiheit, beides Grundpfeiler der europäischen Demokratien, massiv behindert, eingeschränkt und unterbunden. So wurde der freie Personenverkehr zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich bereits vor Wochen abgeschafft. Personen werden ohne Anlass überprüft, ihre Daten gespeichert. Darüber hinaus werden die zu tausenden angerückten Polizisten auf deutscher und französischer Seite durch das Militär unterstützt. Mit dabei Hubschrauber, AWACS-Aufklärungsflugzeuge, Spürpanzer vom Typ „Fuchs“ und natürlich Soldaten. Es wird sich zeigen, ob auch, wie bei den Protesten 2007 in Heiligendamm, Tornado-Kampfjets im Tiefflug über Demokraten, die ihre Meinung ausdrücken möchten, hinwegfegen werden. Die deutsche Seite setzt offenbar nicht auf eine Deeskalation der Situation vor Ort. Das wird nicht nur an den lediglich 100 Beamten sogenannter Anti-Konflikt-Teams in den Reihen der Polizei bei 15.000 Einsatzkräften insgesamt deutlich. Auch die Verbalattacken des Baden-Württembergischen Innenministeriums tragen nicht zu friedlichen Auseinandersetzungen bei. So erklärte der Landespolizeipräsident Hetger kürzlich, die Polizei hätte vorsorglich rund 200 Gewahrsamsplätze in einem Gefängnis und bei anderen Polizeidienststellen geschaffen. Innenminister Herbert Rech (CDU) sieht stattdessen in den Protestcamps rund um Straßburg „rechtsfreie Räume“. Derartige Äußerungen bedeuten nicht Ab-, sondern Aufrüstung. Damit reiht sich die deutsche Polizei nahtlos in die geopolitische Strategie der NATO ein, also jenes Bündnisses das am Wochenende geschützt werden soll. DIE LINKE wird das Agieren der Polizei- und Militärkräfte am kommenden Wochenende genau beobachten. Zu Fragen bleibt schließlich, ob beispielsweise weitere europäische Einheiten wie Europol, die paramilitärische europäische Koordinationsgruppe ATLAS und die European Gendarmerie Force in die sicherheitspolitischen Aktivitäten vor Ort eingebunden sind.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/schaden-von-demokratie-abwenden/



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Rights Group Hails Senator Leahy's Call for Independent Inquiry into Post-9/11 Abuses
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NOW: "Across the country, cities are in crisis because of the fallout from the mortgage mess - property taxes are way down, and abandoned homes are bringing down property values, inviting crime, and draining government coffers. Neighborhoods are being destroyed. Yet the federal bailout money is not going directly to desperate communities and homeowners, but to local and national banks."

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GM, Chrysler May Face Bankruptcy to Protect U.S. Debt

General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC may have to be forced into bankruptcy by the U.S. government to assure repayment of $17.4 billion in federal bailout loans, a course of action the automakers claim would destroy them.

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Bank to issue grimmest warning yet on economy

Mervyn King will this week present the Bank of England's most pessimistic assessment yet of the outlook for Britain's economy, after a slew of official figures confirming that activity has "fallen off a cliff" since the autumn.

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U.S. Delays Finance Plan as Officials Debate Debt

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delayed the announcement of the Obama administration's financial-recovery plan as officials debated proposals aimed at addressing the toxic debt clogging banks' balance sheets.

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The rise and (almost) fall of America's banks

The federal government -- working without a road map, and without a net -- is putting together a plan to keep U.S. banks from collapsing. Not just to get the banks lending again. To keep them alive.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-rise-and-almost-fall-of-apf-14288120.html



Wounded banks: Only game left

Banks have become the only game in town for most businesses and consumers looking for loans, and that's why the government is gearing up for what could be the most expensive bank bailout ever.

http://tinyurl.com/dfsxry



Where has the U.S. bailout money gone?

Following is an outline of TARP funds spent or pledged so far.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5162DI20090207


Welfare benefits in danger?

More than 98,000 welfare recipients in San Bernardino County stand to lose their monthly cash benefits as early as March unless the state can cough up the money needed to fund the program

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_11658072



Key to success in the big bank bailout? Let 'em fail

One need not be a threat to the global financial system or be "too big to fail" in order to qualify for a handout. Just ask the lucky management of Flagstar Bancorp of Michigan, who, by sheer ineptitude in real estate deals, drove their company to the brink of collapse and their stock price down 97 per cent, and who were rewarded the other day with a $267-million (U.S.) cheque from Uncle Sam.

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The case for bankers

Slate
by Jacob Weisberg

Not long ago, American culture abhorred lawyers, mistrusted journalists, and envied bankers. Today we ignore lawyers, pity journalists, and despise anyone connected to Wall Street — for undermining their own companies, trashing the global economy, and being insanely overpaid. Public sentiment has judged the lot of them guilty as h... and sentenced them indefinitely to a mid-six-figure stockade. This reaction is understandable but hardly rational. While our financial system as a whole has been revealed to be deeply flawed — underregulated, overleveraged, plagued by reliance on faulty models and assumptions and suffering from horrendous conflicts of interest at the rating agencies and elsewhere — most bankers deserve the new loathing no more than they did the old fawning. What’s more, the opprobrium being heaped on a sector essential to our long-term economic vitality may well be making matters worse...

http://www.slate.com/id/2210720/



It still won’t work

The American Spectator
by Robert Stacy McCain

No amount of presidential persuasion, nor any conceivable quantity of federal spending, can repeal the basic economic law of supply and demand. Thus, if Congress should enact this idiotic ’stimulus’ — a neo-Keynesian pump-priming venture absurdly overbalanced to the demand side of the equation — nothing is more predictable than its failure to spur real recovery. Indeed, the Pelosi plan is so close to being the exact opposite of what our economy needs at this juncture, many informed observers do not hesitate to say that it will actually delay recovery and perhaps make the recession far worse than it already is...

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/09/it-still-wont-work



An economy is not about jobs

The Liberty Papers
by tarran

02/09/09

The temporary unemployment that accompanies recessions occurs becasue the price system requires the passage of time to reach an approximate equilibrium. Essentially, in a recession, people who were producing things that were not in heavy demand stop that undesired production and spend some finite period of time looking for othe rthings to do. Simmilarly prospective employers need time to figure out where the shortages are, or to identify opportunities to start expanding production again. By attempting to sabotage this feedback system, the proponents of the stimulus plan are setting the stage for long-term stagflation at best, and a future crash at worst. Not only are they shifting the problem of what to do with the unemployed into the future, they are encouraging, though false price signals, people to abandon productive pursuits in favor of the make-work projects being promoted by the state...

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The new banking crisis

Adam Smith Institute
by Dr. Eamonn Butler

02/09/09

Just as you thought the banking crisis was over, another one streaks towards you. The £6bn profit announced by Barclays must be relatively good news, even though bank accounts are always complicated and this set has some one-off features that might boost the bottom line. But at least we seem to have got through the fear that the banks could simply collapse. A ‘toxic bank,’ mopping up the remaining bad debt, might help further. Now we’re just in a pretty normal, if nasty, recession. The new banking crisis, though, is political interference. The state now owns large chunks, even majority chunks, in some of our biggest high-street banks. The politicians who arranged this initially said they had no desire to interfere in how the banks ran their business. I said at the time they wouldn’t be able to resist. I was right...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, will step through the grand entrance of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London tomorrow and demand the release of her client - a British resident who claims he was repeatedly tortured at the behest of US intelligence officials - from Guantánamo Bay.

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Whether Obama can get it right in Afghanistan will depend on how the Afghanistan story is framed for the American people. But if they are misled to believe that to surge or not to surge is the only story, the chances of success will look even worse than they do now.

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By Matthew Rothschild

We learned that Obama's Administration has reaffirmed one of Bush's egregious positions on rendition.

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Rendition case in S.F. to test Obama policies

The public is likely to get its first close look at the Obama administration's policies on torture, secrecy and prisoners' rights in a San Francisco courtroom today, when federal judges press a government lawyer for a position on the practice known as extraordinary rendition.

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Constitution Project Disappointed by Justice Department Secrecy Stance
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/09-8

Under Obama, Same Stance on Rendition Suit
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By Danny Schechter

"Last month, another 600,000 Americans lost their jobs," Mr. Obama said. "That is the single worst month of job loss in 35 years. The Department of Labor also adjusted their job loss numbers for 2008 upwards, and now report that we have lost 3.6 million jobs since this recession began."

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The Destructive Center

By Paul Krugman

What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist.

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Job Losses Continue at Accelerated Pace

Heather Boushey, The Center for American Progress: "January was a dismal month for U.S. workers: Employers shed 598,000 jobs and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent. The economy has lost 3.6 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007 and 1.8 million jobs just over the past three months. The United States has not seen job losses of this magnitude over a three-month period since 1945. The spike in unemployment in January brings the total number of people out of work to 11.6 million - 4.1 million more than a year ago."

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By Paul Craig Roberts

The Russians, overflowing with energy and mineral resources, and not in debt, have learned that the US government is not to be trusted. Russia has watched Reagan's successors attempt to turn former constituent parts of the Soviet Union into US puppet states with US military bases.

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Settling scores with Wall Street

The Nation
by Nicholas von Hoffman

America is an angry place just now. President Obama and Congress found out how angry when they hesitated before dropping Tom Daschle. People of all stripes and persuasions had zero patience for yet another tax dodger. It was too damn much. People are furious, all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons, most of which are good and sufficient, if not always prudent and well thought out, but they’ve used, gamed, duped, lied to, betrayed, ripped off, conned, humiliated, scammed, cheated, plundered, rooked, screwed over, hosed, dissed and dishonored. Americans, left, right and center, have had it...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090223/howl



You can’t “Obaminate” the American free spirit

Hawaii Reporter
by Ron Ewart

02/10/09

The rumors of the death of the American spirit and freedom are decidedly premature and she will not go quietly into the night without first engaging in a ferocious battle to retain her liberty. It will take more than one man and a false ideology to put her in her grave. It will take much more than just robbing the treasury of our material wealth and spending us into oblivion to seal her fate. No matter what you see and hear, the real America, the heart of America, is alive and well and beginning to show her teeth, once again...

http://tinyurl.com/bw4bqx



Memos to the people responsible for today’s economic crisis

Freedom's Phoenix
by Craig J. Cantoni

02/09/09

It is dawning on the American public that the system is rigged against them. Their anger, disillusionment, and frustration are palpable. Unfortunately, they are raging against everyone but the people most responsible for today’s economic crisis: themselves. Memo to the masses: You were given a constitutional republic, but you traded it for a majority-rule kleptocracy. Stated differently, you traded a government that limited itself to protecting life, liberty, and property for a government without limits that lets you vote for free stuff at your neighbor’s expense. Did you expect the trade to result in something other than an insolvent government?

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Editorial-Page.htm?InfoNo=045421


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WTO Chief Warns of Looming Political Unrest

By AFP

The global economic crisis could trigger political unrest equal to that seen during the 1930s, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a German newspaper interview Saturday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21940.htm



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