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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS

A Growing Outrage

politico.com — The "Masters of the Universe" on Wall Street — through their greed, recklessness and illegal behavior — have plunged this country and much of the world into a deep recession, causing millions of Americans to lose their jobs, their homes, their savings and their hope for the future.

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SHOSHANA ZUBOFF

Wall Street's Economic Crimes Against Humanity

businessweek.com — By refusing to consider the consequences of their actions, those who created the financial crisis exemplify the banality of evil.

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James K. Galbraith, Washington Monthly: "Barack Obama's presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the economics. Did the president and his team correctly diagnose the problem? Did they act with sufficient imagination and force? And did they prevail against the political obstacles - and not only that, but also against the procedures and the habits of thought to which official Washington is addicted? The president has an economic program. But there is, so far, no clear statement of the thinking behind that program, and there may not be one, until the first report of the new Council of Economic Advisers appears next year."

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Friday, March 20, 2009, 12:00

RESIDENTS filled the Crowborough council offices for a Wealden District Council planning meeting last week to find out if a mobile phone mast was to be built near their homes and schools.

It's not often that an issue draws so much interest from the community, but applications by telecommunications giant Vodafone have resulted in the formation of several pressure groups.

One town, four potential mast sites. But what effect does this modern day issue have on a town like Crowborough? Do phone masts bring residents together or push them apart?

WHEN two mobile phone mast applications were lodged by Vodafone last year the Crowborough school community banded together in a concerted effort to oppose them.

In an unprecedented move, Vodafone met with school representatives to consider two new locations, despite having received planning permission for both previous sites.

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RODDY ASHWORTH

Last updated: 20.03.2009 08:45:00

NEGOTIATIONS to relocate a controversial mobile phone mast in an Essex town have taken a step forward.

A barrage of complaints and objections were received by Colchester Borough Council when telecoms company O2 applied to erect the mast in Norman Way, Lexden.

As a result, the authority's planning committee refused to allow it to be built at the site, which is close to St Mary's School, Colchester County High School for Girls and St Benedict's College.

But due to an administrative error the council's refusal came too late and missed the legal deadline, meaning O2 were automatically given permission to go ahead.

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Lexden: New site found for phone mast

11:20am Friday 20th March 2009

Exclusive By Wendy Brading

A SOLUTION may have been found to the on-going dispute over Lexden's controversial phone mast.

Residents were furious after phone company O2 was allowed to put up a mast at the junction of Lexden Road and Norman Way because Colchester Council had not made a decision in time.

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A war resister speaks from prison

Common Dreams
by Robin Long

03/19/09

The invasion of Iraq was clearly an illegal act of aggression. The U.S. was not under attack or the imminent threat of attack from the nation of Iraq. The action was also not approved by the U.N. Security Council. By taking this stance, the Conservative government is condoning the invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq. Is this what Canadians want? A majority of Americans want it to end and have also realized it to be a mistake. Canadians have long known it to be wrong. Why is the minority Conservative government still holding onto the idea and still deporting war resisters? Why are they separating families and being complicit in the incarceration of morally strong young men and women? What message is this sending?

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I’m tired

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by Don Cooper

03/20/09
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/19/09

Since the debate will be posted online, I won’t go into the details of how things transpired. For me, one of the most fascinating parts of the debate occurred near the end. Throughout the debate Boot had chided me for describing the U.S. government’s foreign policy of empire and interventionism as ‘morally degenerate,’ a term that he continued to mock. As the debate was drawing to an end, I pointed out that one of the reasons that Boot and other pro-war supporters felt the Iraq occupation has been a success is been the fact that ‘only’ a few thousands American soldiers have been killed...

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Against surge logic

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

03/19/09

Today, the conventional wisdom in the United States is that the so-called ’surge’ in Iraq has been a stunning success, and its critics have been discredited. That’s why surgeniks Max Boot, Frederick Kagan, and Kimberly Kagan can smugly write in the March 13 New York Times things like, ‘Make no mistake: there is hard, costly fighting ahead in Afghanistan. But the fight is worth pursuing, and the odds of success are much better than they were in Iraq when we launched the forlorn hope known as the surge.’ At the same time, the conventional wisdom in the United States also holds that the situation in Afghanistan has become quite dire. … Even more, the conventional wisdom is that the situation has become dire in large part because we’ve barely been trying in Afghanistan. As the three write, ‘The main challenge is to overcome years of chronic neglect in terms of economic development, government services and above all security, which has allowed the insurgency free access to large swaths of the country.’ I’m not accustomed to agreeing with this neocon troika, but they are exactly right to finger neglect as a key culprit. Which leads, naturally, to the question: Neglect by whom?

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by Marie Cocco

03/19/09

With due deference to George Orwell, all contracts are equal. But some contracts are more equal than others. Contracts entered into by the hotshots at American International Group for $165 million in bonuses, signed just months before their web of financial cunning unraveled, are inviolate. Contracts entered into by shop-floor workers at auto plants must be renegotiated, so that the taxpayers who bail out the industry don’t coddle supposedly overpaid union members...

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Let’s get rid of them all

Fox News Forum
by Eric Bolling

03/19/09

Look how we are constantly being told we ‘need Geithner’ to unwind the economic mess. We ‘need’ the AIG traders to help unwind the credit derivatives and swaps that are strangling the world’s biggest insurer. They invented this garbage that is causing this economic meltdown. Why do they deserve a penny, let alone another millisecond on the job? These are the same geniuses who put the banks, AIG, and ultimately, the economy in the current economic tsunami. I say get rid of them all. Anyone who was involved prior to the meltdown should go away...

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A government of men, not laws

In These Times
by David Sirota

03/20/09

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard likes to say that Washington policymakers ‘treat the people who take a shower after work much differently than they treat the people who shower before they go to work.’ … Following news that government-owned American International Group (AIG) devoted $165 million of its $170 billion taxpayer bailout to employee bonuses, the White House insisted nothing could be done to halt the robbery. On ABC’s Sunday chat show, Obama adviser Larry Summers couched his passive-aggressive defense of AIG’s thieves in the saccharine argot of jurisprudence. ‘We are a country of law — there are contracts (and) the government cannot just abrogate contracts,’ he said. The rhetoric echoed John Adams’ two-century-old fairy tale about an impartial ‘government of laws, and not of men.’ Only now, the reassuring platitudes can’t hide the uncomfortable truth...

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Frank Asks Fannie, Freddie to Halt Bonuses

Silla Brush, The Hill: "As Congress races to claw back bonus payments at firms taking government bailout cash, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) on Friday called on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to cancel payments at the mortgage giants now under government control."

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03/19/09

Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. ‘There are still innocent people there,’ Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. ‘Some have been there six or seven years’...

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Der Krisen-Test

Generalstreik in Frankreich: Wie groß ist das Potential an sozialen Unruhen?
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"Reclaim the Money"

Die Polizei in London bereitet sich auf Ausschreitungen und "Überfälle im Guerilla-Stil" während des G20-Gipfels vor.

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Rezession und Repression

Während die gegenwärtige Wirtschaftskrise sich weltweit vertieft, bereiten sich europäische Sicherheitsbehörden auf Unruhen vor.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29952/1.html

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Sechs Krisen – eine Weltwirtschaftskrise

Artikel von Winfried Wolf in Lunapark21, Heft 5 - Frühjahr 2009 (pdf) http://www.lunapark21.net/archiv/lp21/lp21_09_05_8-13.pdf


Every Bank is a Bad Bank. Du bist in der Krise. Dein Problem heißt Marktwirtschaft.

„Alle reden von der Krise. Wir auch. Sich gegen die Zumutungen zu wehren ist richtig. Aber wer oder was ist eigentlich schuld? Taugen die gängigen Analysen und Rezepte? Und wie kann's weitergehen?“ Flyer zu Krise und Krisenverarbeitung vom März 2009 von und bei von "Emanzipation und Frieden" (pdf) http://www.emanzipationundfrieden.de/every_bank.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 24. März 2009

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Gewerkschaftliche Mobilisierung in der Krise

14. bis 16. Mai: Aktionstage der Europäischen Gewerkschaften - Demonstrationen in Madrid, Brüssel, Berlin und Prag: Berichte


Trade unions European Action Days: 350,000 people in the streets to demand ambitious action for employment

“Some 350,000 people have just taken the streets of Madrid, Brussels, Berlin and Prague to support the European Trade Union Confederations’
(ETUC) Action Days…” (engl.) Pressemitteilung von European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) vom 16/05/2009 http://www.etuc.org/a/6187

Siehe dort auch “Photo gallery of Euro-demonstrations in Madrid, Brussels and Prague” http://www.etuc.org/a/6178


330.000 Menschen bei den Aktionstagen für einen europäischen Sozialpakt

„An der Großdemonstration von DGB und Europäischem Gewerkschaftsbund haben sich am Samstag 100.000 Menschen beteiligt. Gleichzeitig protestierten 30.000 Menschen in Prag. Damit sind im Rahmen der Aktionstage vom 14.-16. Mai in Madrid, Brüssel, Berlin und Prag insgesamt 330.000 Menschen dem Aufruf der Gewerkschaften gefolgt.“ DGB-Pressemeldung vom 16.05.2009 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=3445

Siehe dazu auch die Fotogalerie „DGB Demonstration gegen Krise“ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakobhuber/sets/72157618271646482/


Zehntausende auf dem Prager Strahov: Tschechische Gewerkschafter forderten mit Kollegen aus anderen Ländern Kampf gegen die Krise

„Etwa 30 000 Gewerkschafter folgten am Samstag dem Aufruf des Europäischen Gewerkschaftsbundes sowie des Tschechisch-Mährischen Gewerkschaftsbundes CMKOS zu einer Demonstration auf dem Strahov. Wie die Protestmärsche in Madrid, Brüssel und Berlin stand auch hier die Aktion der Gewerkschaften unter dem Motto: »Die Krise bekämpfen – für einen Sozialpakt in Europa«. Artikel von Jindra Kolar im Neues Deutschland vom 18.05.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/149021.zehntausende-auf-dem-prager-strahov.html


Klassenkämpferischer Block bei DGB-Demo

„Wie bereits am 1. Mai auf der DGB-Demonstration gab es auch am 16. Mai bei der Demonstration des DGB in Berlin, die im Rahmen des europäischen Aktionstages des Europäischen Gewerkschaftsbundes stattfand, einen klassenkämpferischen Block…“ Bericht von linke gewerkschafterin vom 18.05.2009 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/05/250880.shtml


Krisenproteste reloaded

„Der DGB mobilisierte am Samstag nach Berlin – aber die Frage nach den Perspektiven der Proteste bleiben. Hier ein subjektiver bericht über die Demo und zwei Veranstaltungen in Berlin im Vorfeld…“ Bericht von lesender arbeiter vom 17.05.2009 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/05/250721.shtml


DGB-Mobilisierung: Unruhe oder Wahlkampf?

DGB-Gewerkschaften: Wo bleibt die soziale Unruhe?

Artikel von Markus Lehner in Neue Internationale 139, Mai 2009 http://www.arbeitermacht.de/ni/ni139/gewerkschaften.htm

Aus dem Text: „…Tatsächlich würde wohl die Positionierung des EGB/DGB zur Wirtschaftskrise ziemlich unbemerkt bleiben, würde es nicht hin und wieder solche „alarmistischen“ Äußerungen, wie jüngst die von Michael Sommer zu möglichen sozialen Unruhen geben. Dabei bleibt dies vollständig in der Logik des sozialpartnerschaftlichen Co-Managements. Ist doch dessen erstes Gebot (von jedem Betriebsratsvorsitzenden fast im Schlaf abfragbar): Auf jeden Fall darf keine Unruhe in die Belegschaft kommen! Und wenn das Kapital zuschlägt oder nicht auf die Bürokratie hört, dann ist die schlimmste Drohung der „Arbeitnehmervertreter“: Oh Gott, das könnte Unruhe in der Belegschaft hervorrufen! Tatsächlich werden die Gewerkschaftsführungen - speziell in der Industrie - immer nervöser. Es zeichnet sich ab, dass die bisherige Allzweckwaffe zur Ruhigstellung der Belegschaften, die Kurzarbeit, ihre Wirkung zu verlieren droht. Auch eine Verlängerung der Kurzarbeitergeld-Regelung auf 24 Monate wird nicht verhindern, dass die Fixkosten das betriebswirtschaftlich kalkulierende Kapital spätestens ab Sommer zu massivem Personalabbau übergehen lassen werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Sommer oder Huber derzeit etwas „alarmistischer“: Ihr Schmusekurs als Krisen-Co-Manager könnte abschmieren und sie wären Belegschaften ausgesetzt, die mit allen Mitteln gegen Entlassungen kämpfen wollen. Ihr Bestreben geht daher dahin, Politik und Kapital zu weiteren, wirksameren Überbrückungsmaßnahmen zu bringen, wenn die Kurzarbeit nicht mehr hilft…“


DGB-Demo und SPD-Wahlkampfhilfe der DGB-Führung

„Gemeinsames europäisches Positionspapier »Für ein Europa des sozialen Fortschritts« sind ein Schlag in Gesicht für Arbeitnehmer und Erwerbslose in Europa. Das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland kritisiert angesichts der anstehenden europäischen Aktionstage die DGB-Führung heftig wegen des mit der SPD gemeinsam verabschiedeten Positionspapiers „Für ein Europa des sozialen Fortschritts“ als nicht hinzunehmende Form der Wahlkampfhilfe für eine Partei des Sozialabbaus…“ Pressemeldung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland vom 12. Mai 2009 http://www.elo-forum.net/aktionen/aktionen/-200905122224.html

Dort auch der Leserbrief: DGB macht Wahlwerbung für die SPD

„Für mich als Verdi-Gewerkschafter ist es ein großer Skandal und gleichzeitig auch eine große Provokation, dass ausgerechnet der DGB, dessen Aufgabe es sein sollte, die Interessen der ArbeiterInnen zu vertreten, einen offenen Wahlkampf zu Gunsten der SPD macht! (…) Alle GewerkschafterInnen und alle VertreterInnen von fortschrittlichen Organisationen rufe ich hiermit auf, bei ihrer zuständigen Gewerkschaftszentrale entsprechenden Protest einzulegen…“ Leserbrief von Wolfgang Huste, Ver.di - Mitglied Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, vom 13. Mai 2009


Rot dominierte ... obwohl der DGB bei der Demo am Samstag mal wieder einen auf Sozialpartnerschaft machte. Schulterschluß mit den Sozialraubparteien

Artikel von Peter Wolter in junge Welt vom 18.05.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/05-18/046.php

Aus dem Text: „… In Frankreich fliegen mittlerweile Steine, Firmenmanager werden kurzerhand von Arbeitern eingesperrt. Auch in anderen Ländern kocht die Empörung über Sozialabbau und Massenentlassungen hoch. Doch in Deutschland bleibt alles recht friedlich. Dank dem DGB, der sich rechtzeitig auf Sozialpartnerschaft und Wahlkampf an seiten der SPD besonnen hat…“


Der Streik in Frankreich und Deutschland: "Der Franzose hat das Recht... und der Deutsche begeht eine "unerlaubte Handlung"....

Das Elend der deutschen Gewerkschaften - und die TAZ: Wenn aus der Wut Widerstand wächst / Die Gewerkschaften an den Pranger ?

Ein Zwischenruf von Volker Bahl http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2009/finanz_gewbahl.html


Die Krise: Stürzen statt stützen!

Flugblatt von Jour Fixe der Gewerkschaftslinken Hamburg, das in den Bussen und in Berlin verteilt wurde (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2009/finanzkrise_gewjf.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Unser Ziel ist es, das System, daß die Krise verursacht hat zu stürzen. Ein großes Wort, aber wir sind auch große Realisten: Wir wissen wie schwach wir noch sind. Dennoch ist unsere Parole richtig. Stürzen statt stützen, weil wir wissen, daß die Kraft dazu da ist: Bei den Menschen an ihren Arbeitsplätzen. Wenn sie ihre Kraft entdecken und einsetzen, können sie das System stürzen. Es ist ein Krieg um die Köpfe. Die 1.Mai-Parole des DGB in diesem Jahr heißt: „Arbeit für alle bei fairem Lohn!“ Der Spruch ist pure Illusionserzeugung. Arbeit für alle ist im Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr in Hochkonjunkturen möglich – das haben wir die letzten Jahre gesehen! Einen „fairen“ Lohn gibt es nicht. Es gibt nur einen erkämpften Lohn, weil es keinen fairen Kapitalismus gibt, sondern nur einen, der optimalen Profit aus der Ware Arbeitskraft herausholen muß!....“


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Mai 2009



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Who Owns Colorado's Rainwater?

Nicholas Riccardi, The Los Angeles Times: "Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law. Holstrom's violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride. The barrels catch rain and snowmelt, which Holstrom uses to irrigate the small vegetable garden she and her husband maintain. But according to the state of Colorado, the rain that falls on Holstrom's property is not hers to keep."

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Who owns the water?
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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

If there is any hope for lovers of freedom in this country, it will be found in individual States that are willing to shake off the filthy dust that has floated down from that putrid landfill on the banks of the Potomac, and stand up for freedom and independence the way Americans used to. And if the State we live in won't do it, we might want to consider moving to one that will, because if we lose our liberties, it will be our own individual State that will have run up the white flag........

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RUSSELL CLAYDON

Last updated: 20.03.2009 06:00:00

HOMEOWNERS and parents are being urged to oppose plans to put a mobile phone mast close to a children's play area.

Planners will meet next month to decide if O2 should be allowed to build a mast just 150 yards from Alexandra Park in east Ipswich.

A councillor is urging residents to object due to health concerns, as well as its visual impact and has already heard back from two worried residents.

Ipswich Borough Council's planning committee will meet on April 1 to make a decision on the Grove Lane application.

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The Unholy Marriage of 'Fiscal' and 'Monetary' Policies
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'Meltdown' Blames Feds for the Crash
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Who, Me? Yes You!
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Remember

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Six years ago, the United States of America began the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Since then, 4,259 American soldiers have been killed and tens of thousands more have been wounded. There is no accurate accounting of Iraqi dead and wounded, because as we were told, we do not do body counts. Because the Bush administration left its Iraq expenditures off the budget, and because of the tremendous amount of war-profiteering, graft and theft that has been involved, we do not know exactly how much we have spent. For the record, 2,192 days later, this is how we got here."

http://www.truthout.org/032009J



A Colonel, a Diplomat and a Peace Activist

Ann Wright, Truthout: "It was six years ago today that I resigned from the Bush administration and the US diplomatic corps in opposition to the war on Iraq. I remember the day so well. I woke up about 2 in the morning. Like so many mornings in the past months, I could not sleep through the night. I was very worried and upset hearing the comments out of Washington, that we, the US government, were being forced into taking military action against Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi government."

http://www.truthout.org/032009A



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Thomas D. Williams, Truthout: "Barack Obama is now the fourth president facing the scientific and bureaucratic conundrum gyrating around mostly US created ongoing wartime hazards producing disastrous health complications for soldiers and civilians. Many of those sicknesses are known as the allegedly 'mysterious Gulf War syndrome,' but they carry over to haunt soldiers and civilians in Kuwait and Afghanistan."

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The stench of human waste is enough to tell Falah abu Hasan that his drinking water is bad. His infant daughter Fatma's continuous illnesses and his own constant nausea confirm it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090318/wl_mcclatchy/3191674


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We Have Seen the Enemy...

By Timothy V. Gatto

When did political dissent become a reason to end up grounded at an airport because you found out at a most inconvenient time that your name had been mysteriously added to a "no-fly list"? When did the American government begin building FEMA camps and what exactly is their purpose? When did Congress become the rubber stamp for policies of reading the correspondence and listening in on the conversations of the American public?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22246.htm



Preparing for Civil Unrest in America

Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases

By Michel Chossudovsky

Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall Street, the administration's economic package, which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package for the financial services industry, coupled with massive austerity measures, contributes to precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.

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By Paul Craig Roberts
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Restoring our Financial Sovereignty

A New Monetary System

By Nikki Alexander

Today the nation is essentially bankrupt and hoping Barack Obama's team of Wall Street advisors will forestall economic collapse. This expectation is equivalent to hoping that Al Capone will make our streets safe. Obama's economic recovery team is a Trojan horse filled with the same Wall Street racketeers that infected the global economy with a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, using deliberately deregulated mechanisms.

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The "Card Check" Hullabaloo

By Mike Whitney

Big business has launched a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into believing that if the bill passes it will trigger higher unemployment and a deeper recession. According to opponents, there's even the threat of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice Act or so called "card check" simply makes it easier for unions to organize.

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- EDF Fondation "Recherche : Le cerveau centrale électrique"
"Le cerveau est une véritable centrale d'énergie électrique, chaque neurone jouant le rôle de générateur.
Tout dysfonctionnement du réseau électrique du cerveau provoque des maladies très invalidantes.
En France, 1,5 millions de personnes souffrent ainsi d'affection neurologique. Épilepsie, maladie d'Alzheimer, maladie de Parkinson, sclérose en plaques, sclérose latérale amyotrophique ou maladie de Charcot."

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

19 March 2009

By Ruth Scammell

Plans for a phone mast at a site where Nelson is rumoured to have met his lover for romantic trysts have been given the green light. Councillors yesterday allowed mobile phone giant O2 to put a mast up in the garden of Town Quay House in Gosport Road, Fareham.

Lady Hamilton is believed to have once lived at the house, and she is also said to have looked out across Fareham Creek for the mast of Nelson's ship when he returned.

But residents have raised concerns over the appearance of the 41ft mast, and the health risks from radiation waves.

Councillor Dennis Steadman said: 'I'm very disappointed. It's going to be so intrusive for people who live there.

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Nelson39s-meeting-spot-to-get.5088853.jp

“Im Gegensatz zu den Medien, die die Ursache für eine dramatische Zunahme von Hunger und Tod in Länder der "dritten Welt" in der Weltwirtschafts- und Finanzkrise entdecken, macht Vandana Shiva, Quantenphysikerin, Umweltschützerin, Feministin, Bürgerrechtlerin und Trägerin des Alternativen Nobelpreises und des „Blue Planet Award“ der deutschen Stiftung “ethecon“, die großen Internationalen Konzerne dafür verantwortlich. Die Globalisierungskritikerin ist in ihrer Heimat vor allem durch ihr Engagement für die Rechte der indischen Urbevölkerung bekannt geworden. Hier ein Vortrag, in dem sie auf einer Konferenz von “medico internatonal“ zum Kampf gegen die europäischen und US-Konzerne aufruft, die ihr Land regieren.“ Text des Vortrags von Vandana Shiva in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online-Flyer vom 25.02.2009 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=13486


Das Weltwasserforum in Istanbul: Allgemeine Appelle, konkrete Interessen

Artikel von Dieter Sauter, Istanbul, in der WoZ vom 19.3.09 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/inhalt/2009/nr12/International/17670.html

Siehe dazu auch:

die offizielle Seite zum Forum (englisch) http://www.worldwaterforum5.org/index.php?id=1870&L=0

Türkei will Gewässer privatisieren!

„Stoppt den Ausverkauf der Erde! Die Attac-Kampagne Suko/Türkeiwasser organisiert deutsch-türkischen Protest gegen den Verkauf von Flüssen und Seen in der Türkei - auch vor den Toren des Weltwasserforums, 16.-22. März in Istanbul!“ Die Kampagnenseite von und bei attac http://www.attac-netzwerk.de/wasser

Water makes money

„Helfen Sie mit, dass ein kritischer Film zu der täglich fortschreitenden Privatisierung unserer Lebensgrundlage WASSER entsteht!“ Internationaler Aufruf zur Unterstützung des Filmprojekts auf der Homepage zum Projekt (mit Trailer und weiteren Infos) http://www.watermakesmoney.com/

Aus dem Finanzierungsaufruf: „…Ein Film „von unten". Der Film „Water makes money " wird diese brisante aktuelle Entwicklung beleuchten. Er wird zeigen, was Paris und andere französische Gemeinden aus der Herrschaft von Veolia & Co gelernt haben und wie sie es schaffen, das Wasser in eigene Regie zurückzuholen. Beispiele aus Europa und Amerika ergänzen den Film zu einem Lehrstück für die ganze Welt! „Water makes money " wird Mut machen: Wasser in Bürgerhand ist möglich!...“


Krise sorgt bei Millionen Mietern für steigende Wohnkosten

„Der Deutsche Mieterbund befürchtet infolge der Wirtschaftskrise steigende monatliche Wohnkosten für Millionen von Mietern. In einem Interview mit der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ kritisierte Mieterbund-Präsident Franz-Georg Rips, ausländische Investoren, hauptsächlich aus dem angloamerikanischen Raum, die in Deutschland Wohnungen erworben hätten, schöpften „zunehmend sämtliche Mieterhöhungsspielräume aus, um die erwarteten Renditen zu erzielen“. Auch Instandhaltungen und Modernisierungen würden zurückgefahren, um Geld zu sparen...“ Artikel in der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ vom 14.03.2009 http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/interviews/200903141.html


„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” - Studie zu Privatisierungsfolgen bei Wohnungen

„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” ist der Titel einer wissenschaftlichen Studie, die im Auftrag des Mietervereins erstellt wurde. Ausgangslage der Untersuchung ist, dass sich nach der großen Wohnungsnot der 90er Jahre das Geschehen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt deutlich verändert hat. Heute beherrschen Begriffe wie „Privatisierung“ und „Heuschrecken“ die Debatte. 1,5 Mio. ehemals öffentlicher oder werksverbundener Wohnungen sind seit der Jahrtausendwende an Finanzinvestoren verkauft worden, zum Teil an Firmen, die es vor zehn Jahren noch gar nicht gab. Doch anders als in vielen Nachbarstädten sind die großen Verkäufe an Bochum scheinbar vorbei gegangen - Eisenbahnerwohnungen, Gagfah, LEG hatten in Bochum kaum Bestände. Dennoch haben auch in Bochum im laufenden Jahrzehnt zahlreiche Siedlungen die BesitzerInnen gewechselt oder sind in Einzeleigentum „zerlegt“ worden. Die Auswirkungen dieses Prozesses untersucht die Studie. Sie ist beim Mieterverein als Broschüre und als PDF-Datei erhältlich (pdf) http://www.mieterverein-bochum.de/index.php?id=26&type=1&jumpurl=fileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fpdf%2Fverwertungsketten-endversion.pdf



Aus: LabourNet, 19. März 2009



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This is the Army, Mrs. Jones!

Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod

03/16/09

The biting winds of change are blowing through ObamaNation. The same ‘volunteerism’ that kept America running since the days of its founding, wiped out with the stroke of a pen, will no longer be volunteerism. It becomes forced labor and like the practice of another era, presses American citizens of all ages and creeds, unknowingly into military service. On paper, H.R. 1388 is the ‘Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act;’ the more innocuous sounding ‘The Give Act,’ for short. But ‘The Give Act’ is not part of Obama’s distant future for unsuspecting American citizens, because it hits the House floor tomorrow. … ‘The Give Act’ puts tow-headed school children and silver-haired seniors in the official uniform of the new State, and encompasses every walk of life in main-street America...

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9374


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

Legislation intensifies fears about Obama's civilian national security force

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 19, 2009

The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill.html



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MSNBC

03/18/09

Top aides to President Barack Obama are recommending that the United States combine a boost in military deployments with a steep increase in civilian experts to combat a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. Several hundred civilians from various U.S. government agencies — from agronomists to economists and legal experts — will be deployed to Afghanistan to reinforce the nonmilitary component in Kabul and the existing provincial reconstruction teams in the countryside, officials said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29763867/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der "Krieg" gegen die Krise lässt den Krieg gegen den Terrorismus in den Hintergrund treten.

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Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?"

http://www.truthout.org/031809R



Recession-Weary Americans Outraged by AIG Bonuses

Andrea Hopkins, Reuters: "While US President Barack Obama tries to claw back bonuses paid to AIG employees, Americans facing pay cuts and job losses are outraged that some refuse to share the pain of the recession."

http://www.truthout.org/031809LA

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Perp walks, not bonuses

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

03/18/09

There must be a criminal investigation of the AIG debacle, and it looks as if New York’s top lawman is on the case. The collusion to save this toxic company in order to salvage the rogue financiers who conspired to enrich themselves by impoverishing millions is being revealed as the greatest financial scandal in US history. Instead of taking bonuses, the culprits should be taking perp walks. I’m not just referring to the swindlers in the Financial Products Subsidiary of AIG who devised and sold those insurance policies on derivatives that brought the world economy to its knees. They do seem deserving of a special place in h..., and presumably the same divine power that according to Scripture labeled usury a high moral crime and threw the money-changers out of the temple will consider that outcome...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/scheer



Government could’ve easily prevented AIG bonuses

Fox News Forum

by Ken Klukowski

03/18/09

The debacle over the AIG bonuses proves that opponents of the bailouts were on to something. There are at least three ways the federal government could have avoided this debacle, and now taxpayers are stuck with the bill. Insurance giant AIG is paying $165 million in performance bonuses (a stunning thought, given the circumstances). AIG says that these are legally binding contracts, so it has no choice but to pay them. Since AIG is living off government money right now, these bonuses are really being paid directly by American taxpayers. The reaction from our leaders in D.C. has been to howl in protest, and then suggest this could not have been prevented. Wrong. First, if AIG had been forced into bankruptcy, this latest outrage would not have happened...

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/18/klukowski_government_aig/



The real AIG conspiracy

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/18/09

Regarding qui bono, what does Sen. Schumer, Rep. Frank, Pres. Obama and other Wall Street sponsors gain from this public outcry? For starters, it depicts them as hard taskmasters of the banking and financial sector, not its lobbyists scurrying to execute one giveaway after another. So the AIG kerfuffle has muddied the water about where their political loyalties really lie. It enables them to strike a misleading pose — and hence to pose as ‘honest brokers’ next time they dishonestly give away the next few trillion dollars to their major sponsors and campaign contributors...

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03182009.html



AIG: Sinking money in a hole

Economics Junkie
by Nima

03/17/09

It’s time for our dear politicians to act surprised again. It’s time for Congress again to complain about the results of false policies that they themselves recklessly approved, against all warnings. It’s time again for Ben Bernanke to fire off mindless blather, platitudes and predictions that will, as always and without exception, turn out to be abysmally false. The AP has a shocking surprise for us, Taxpayers unlikely to be fully repaid in AIG mess …. Of course the taxpayer won’t get any of this money back. Is there a living creature with more than one brain cell that seriously expected the taxpayer would ever see this money come back?

http://www.economicsjunkie.com/aig-sinking-money-in-a-hole/



How the scam works

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/29/09

Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Treasury Secretary Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Bank stocks are soaring — thereby bidding up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as if the ‘financial industry’ really were part of the industrial economy. Why are the very worst offenders — Bank of America (now owner of the Countrywide crooks) and Citibank the largest buyers? As the worst abusers and packagers of CDOs, shouldn’t they be in the best position to see how worthless their junk mortgages are?

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03272009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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According to recently released legal memos from the Bush-Cheney administration, the former vice president believes that the federal government can ignore the First Amendment and suppress free speech and freedom of the press as part of its "war on terror."

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THREE Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush today when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

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The eye-popping national debt surpassed $11 trillion Monday, the largest in U.S. history.
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President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban leaders are orchestrating attacks into southern Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html?_r=1&hp



US spills Afghan war into Pakistan

From available indications, the key American objective is two-fold: optimally getting Pakistani help in the fight against terrorism and, secondly, reducing American expectations for military victory.

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Obama and the Democrats Deny an Age-Old Economic Lesson
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Congress Shrugged
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The FOMC's Plan to Buy $1.1+ Trillion of T-bonds, Mortgage Debt, and 'Other Financial Assets'
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