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The Progressive Conscience in Action

Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, The Center for American Progress: "A progressive moral vision is deeply connected to the exercise of conscience. But the interface between conscience and policymaking is poorly defined, making the concept of conscience susceptible to hijacking by conservative political forces."

http://www.truthout.org/040909F



The Drugs of Capitalism

Philosopher Francois Flahault, Le Monde: "As we have seen, the faith in self-regulation applied to financial markets is altogether illusory. But if the role attributed to it in economic theory is questionable, there's another role it plays that the theory does not discuss, but which it fulfills particularly well: convincing economic actors (especially the most powerful ones), and, where possible, politicians, that it is useless to concern themselves with the common good, useless to worry about the long term. One need only leave it to the invisible hand: natural providence which all by itself achieves the common good."

http://www.truthout.org/040909G



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Bill Moyers interviews William K. Black on who's to blame for our current economic crisis, "liars' loans" and the Wall Street barons.

http://www.truthout.org/040909A

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Economy Turning Around? Watch this Shocking Video about the Bank Crisis
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thisiskent.co.uk - Tunbridge Wells, England, UK

MOBILE phone giant O2 has lodged a planning application to install a mast in Kemsing. The company embarked on a lengthy consultation process in October with ...

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/sevenoaks/Phone-firm-lodges-mast-plan-despite-150-strong-petition/article-876974-detail/article.html

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Pressemitteilung der ödp München vom 09.04.2009

ödp München ruft auf zur Teilnahme an zwei Groß-Demos unter den Mottos:
„Die Globalisierungsstrategie ist gescheitert – für den Erhalt der ländlichen und regionalen Strukturen!“ und „Stoppt das Patent auf die *arme Sau*! Stoppt Patente auf Leben!“

Die Münchner ödp ruft alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf, am 15. April 2009 in München an den Demonstrationen von Kein Patent auf Leben, Misereor, Greenpeace, BDM (Bund Deutscher Milchviehhalter) ABL (ARGE bäuerliche Landwirtschaft), Bund Naturschutz und demLandesverband Bayerischer Imker teilzunehmen.

Nach einer Sternfahrt aus ganz Bayern beginnt die erste Demo um 10:00 Uhr vor der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 1. Nach der Kundgebung (11:00 Uhr) Abmarsch zum Marienplatz wo um 12:00 Uhr die zweite Demo mit einer Kundgebung beginnt. Im Anschluss daran folgt der gemeinsame Marsch zum Europäischen Patentamt, Erhardtstr. 27. „Es ist höchste Zeit, dass unser ehemaliger ‚oberster Verbraucherschützer’ und jetziger Landesvater endlich für die Interessen von Bayerns Bürgern und nicht für die Gewinnmaximierung amerikanischer Konzerne wie z. B. Monsanto eintritt“, so JohannesGrössl, stellvertretender Münchner ödp-Vorsitzender.

Grössl weiter: „Die europäischen Patentgesetze müssen vollkommen neu gefasst werden, mit dem Ziel, Patente auf Tiere und ihre Gene ebenso zu verbieten, wie Patente auf Pflanzen und Saatgut“.

Fotomaterial Johannes Grössl: http://www.oedp-muenchen.de/pressefotos


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


Veranstaltungshinweise zur kostenfreien Vortragsreihe:

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

Di., 9. Juni 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Nicht der Tod macht mir Angst, sondern das Sterben - Wie umgehen mit Menschen in der letzten Lebensphase?“ Referent: Wolfgang Bader, Buchautor und Hospizhelfer Di., 14. Juli 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Die Säge am eigenen Ast – Wer trägt die Verantwortung für die Steuerverwendung?“ Referent: Sepp Rottmayr, Netzwerk Friedenssteuer e.V.

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


ödp – Profil

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

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters: "After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an AK-47 rifle, and waited for the police to respond to the domestic disturbance call his mother had placed. When two officers arrived at the front door, Poplawski shot them both in the head, and then killed another officer who tried to rescue his colleagues. In the wake of the bloodbath, we learned that Poplawski was something of a conspiracy nut who embraced dark, radical rhetoric about America."

http://www.truthout.org/040909N



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BBC News - UK

A mobile phone firm has pressed ahead with a mast installation despite
claims it does not have planning permission. Vodafone said North Somerset
Council was ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7992040.stm

Thursday, April 09, 2009, 09:20

A MOBILE phone mast could be built less than 50 feet from a row of terrace houses – but angry residents are preparing to fight against it.

The green at the junction of Newpool Terrace and Tower Hill Road, in Biddulph, is being considered by Vodafone as a possible location for a base station and pole.

Engineers from the company have carried out preliminary investigations at the site and although a planning application has not yet been submitted, the company has ruled out at least six other areas nearby in favour of the green space, which is in a residential area.

Read More...
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Measuring-phone-mast-fight/article-884887-detail/article.html

- Irradiation artificielle micro-ondes de la Population et Surmortalité: Rapport étude de cas.

"... Par conscience sociale nous voulons véhiculer cette information à l'effet d'une bombe.
Suite à l'analyse du dossier, nous décidions du titre qui sera la gestion d'une crise spécifique.
De plus, le Cégep a voulu taire la situation catastrophique... "

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Surmortalite.php#1

Cameron Low has been suspended for a year by Burnside Bowling Club

by Catriona Stewart

A GRANDAD is locked in a war of words with his bowling club.

Cameron Low claims the Burnside Bowling Club committee banished him from the clubhouse after he campaigned against two mobile masts.

The club says he can't come back unless he appears before a disciplinary committee and apologises.

But the pensioner, who joined Burnside ten years ago, has dug in his heels - and vowed to take his plight to parliament.

The retired management consultant has appealed to both Holyrood and Westminster for help toppling the club's "kangaroo court".

Read More...
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2500889.0.man_is_bowled_out_after_mast_battle.php

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Pensioner banned by Burnside Bowling Club

Rutherglen Reformer - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, UK

The situation first started when the club announced plans to let telecommunications giant T-Mobile build a mobile phone mast on their premises, ...

http://tinyurl.com/cueqrc

„Für den Erfolgsschlager der Finanzkrise wird ein Anschlusshit gesucht: Nach Ansicht von Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgebern sind die Potenziale der Kurzarbeit bald ausgeschöpft. An ihre Stelle sollen nun die Transfergesellschaften treten. "Wir müssen Alternativen zur Kurzarbeit entwickeln", fordert Gesamtmetallpräsident Martin Kannegiesser. "Wir prüfen den Aufbau von Transfergesellschaften."…“ Artikel von Annika Jöres und Michael Bergius In der FR vom 07.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1712753_Transfergesellschaften-Rettung-vor-dem-Absturz.html


Arbeitslose bekommen weniger Geld. DGB: Leistungen reichen oft nicht mehr

„Die Arbeitsagenturen haben im vergangenen Jahr so wenig für Lohnersatzleistungen ausgegeben wie seit 18 Jahren nicht mehr. „Die Arbeitslosenversicherung trägt immer weniger zur Sicherung Arbeitsloser bei“, heißt es in einer Analyse des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), die dieser Zeitung vorliegt. Nur noch eine Minderheit der Arbeitslosen habe überhaupt einen Anspruch auf Arbeitslosengeld I. Zudem seien die ausgezahlten Beträge in den vergangenen Jahren gesunken – oft so stark, dass Erwerbslose zusätzlich Hartz-IV-Geld beantragen müssten…“ Artikel von Carsten Brönstrup im Tagesspiegel vom 6.4.2009 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/art271,2767630


Selbst Wendehälse kommen mit guten Vorschlägen: die OECD plädiert u.a. für eine wirksame Ausdehnung der Arbeitslosenversicherung.

„Seit Jahren werbe ich dafür, die soziale Sicherung gegen Arbeitslosigkeit, also langes Arbeitslosengeld und Arbeitslosenhilfe wieder herzustellen und damit Hartz IV loszuwerden. Begründung: die Wiederherstellung einer einigermaßen befriedigenden sozialen Sicherheit. Jetzt kommt ein wichtiges konjunkturpolitisches Argument hinzu. Die Einkommen der von der Krise gefährdeten Arbeitnehmer und der Arbeitslosen müssen stabilisiert und verbessert werden. Andernfalls geraten wir in eine Spirale von weiter sinkenden Masseneinkommen, sinkender Nachfrage, sinkender Beschäftigung und wieder sinkenden Einkommen usw. - Selbst die OECD, die seit 1975 mit neoliberalen Sprüchen über die Bedeutung der Flexibilität der Löhne nervt, ist zur Einsicht gekommen. Der Generalsekretär der OECD Gurria warnte gestern in einer Rede vor den G8-Arbeits- und Sozialminister vor dem gefährlichen Absturz und schlägt eine Reihe von sinnvollen Maßnahmen vor. Siehe dazu die Pressemitteilung in Anlage 1 und den Text der Rede selbst in Anlage 2. Albrecht Müller…“ Dossier von Albrecht Müller bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=3860


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009



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„Französische IndustriearbeiterInnen warfen Holzschuhe (franz 'sabot') in die Maschinen, um sich die benötigten Ruhepausen zu holen. 'Sabot', der Holzschuh (für Sabotage) wurde neben der schwarzen Katze (für wilden Streik, engl. = wildcat und direkte Aktion) das Zeichen der Wobblies (IWW, Industrial Workers of the World). Mag Wompel ist Redakteurin von www.labournet.de, dem Treffpunkt für Ungehorsame, mit und ohne Job, basisnah, gesellschaftskritisch. Für die LeserInnen der Graswurzelrevolution analysiert sie Sabotage als Arbeitskampfform und stellt eine Begriffserweiterung zur Diskussion. (GWR-Red.)…“ Artikel von Mag Wompel in Graswurzelrevolution vom April 2009 http://graswurzel.net/338/sabotage.shtml


Arbeitskampf in der Krise: Der Aufstand der Verzweifelten

„Hungerstreiks, Geiselnahmen, Selbstverbrennungen - in der Krise greifen Beschäftigte mittlerweile weltweit zu aufsehenerregenden Mitteln, um gegen ihre Entlassung zu protestieren. Auch hierzulande geben sich die ersten nicht mehr mit Transparenten und Demos zufrieden. Vier Beispiele…“ Artikel von Patrick Beuth und Boris Schlepper in der FR vom 01.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1707304&em_loc=31

Wir verweisen in diesem Zusammenhang auf unsere Rubrik „Neue Protestform: Manager festsetzen“ unter Arbeit und -kämpfe in Frankreich http://www.labournet.de/internationales/fr/protestform.html


Beschäftigte im Dauerstress

„In vier von fünf Betrieben arbeiten Beschäftigte dauerhaft unter hohem Druck. Psychische Belastungen haben in den vergangenen drei Jahren zugenommen, sagen Betriebsräte. Die Wirtschaftskrise dürfte die Situation noch verschärfen. In 84 Prozent der deutschen Betriebe gibt es Mitarbeiter, die ständig unter hohem Zeit- und Leistungsdruck arbeiten. Betroffen sind in diesen Unternehmen nicht nur einzelne Beschäftigte mit speziellen Aufgaben, sondern mit durchschnittlich 43 Prozent große Teile der Belegschaft. Das zeigen erste Auswertungen der aktuellen WSI-Betriebsrätebefragung. Die psychischen Belastungen haben in den vergangenen drei Jahren zugenommen, sagten 79 Prozent der befragten Betriebsräte. Besonders stark unter Druck stehen demnach Beschäftigte in Dienstleistungsberufen sowie in den Branchen Verkehr, Nachrichten und Telekommunikation. Dort ist etwa jeder Zweite betroffen…“ Böckler Impuls 06/2009 http://www.boeckler.de/32014_94842.html

Siehe dazu:

Belastung: Stress am Arbeitsplatz wird immer größer. Wenig Personal, knappe Zeit und eine hohe Eigenverantwortung – Stress im Beruf wird zum Dauerproblem in deutschen Firmen.

Artikel in Tagesspiegel vom 07.04.2009 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/Stress-Arbeitsplatz-Studie;art271,2768324


Psychostress (nicht nur) am Arbeitsplatz - auf dem Menschen- und Verwertungsmarkt im Kapitalismus.

Kommentar von Reinhold Schramm vom 07.04.09 bei scharf links http://scharf-links.de/57.0.html?&tx_ttnews[pointer]=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4631&tx_ttnews[backPid]=56&cHash=f272e95a60


Gute Arbeit – Schönwetterthema oder Element offensiver Krisenbewältigung?

Artikel von Klaus Pickshaus, erschienen in Sozialismus Heft Nr. 4 (April
2009), dokumentiert bei den Nachdenkseiten (pdf) http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/090327_gute_arbeit_in_krisenzeiten.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009



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Ostermärsche im ganzen Land. Die NATO weiter im Visier - und die Vision einer atomwaffenfreien Welt

Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 09. April 2009 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2009/baf.html


Nein zur Nato, Nein zum Krieg!

Ostermarsch-Aufrufe 2009 der Friedensbewegung. Teil 1: Baden-Württemberg, München, Nürnberg und Augsburg http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2009/aufrufe1.html


"Prämien für den Frieden – NATO abwracken"

Ostermarsch-Aufrufe 2009 der Friedensbewegung. Teil 2: Rheinland/Ruhr, OFFENeHEIDe (Stendhal) und Frankfurt a.M. http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2009/aufrufe2.html


"Kriege beenden" - "Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau" - "60 Jahre NATO sind genug"

Ostermarsch-Aufrufe 2009 der Friedensbewegung. Teil 3: Hamburg, Kassel, Kiel und Bremen http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2009/aufrufe3.html


Sonderseite beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2009/Welcome.html


Sonderseite beim Netzwerk Friedenskooperative http://www.friedenskooperative.de/om2009.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009



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Foundation for Economic Education
by William Anderson

04/08/09

While the political leaders of 20 countries around the globe met in London ostensibly to ’save’ the global economy, demonstrators outside chanted for the world to ‘abolish money.’ Given the direction that these ‘leaders’ have decided to follow — by throwing another trillion dollars into that financial black hole known as the International Monetary Fund — it won’t be long before governments everywhere have destroyed money to the point where it might as well be abolished. One way to gauge the success of a political gathering such as the G-20 is to read the comments from the politicians — and the economists...

http://fee.org/articles/g20-save-world-wreck/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Serve America lets Congress take another bow

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

04/07/09

Last week, the House passed the Serve America Act (SAA), which will triple the number of federally funded ‘volunteer’ positions, create a ‘Clean Energy Corps’ to weatherize homes, and make September 11th a ‘National Day of Service.’ Like many federal assaults on the taxpayer, the SAA is a bipartisan offense: It passed by huge margins in both houses. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, the primary sponsor, got a standing ovation after the vote was in, and co-sponsor Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, gushed that ‘the whole Kennedy family has been a service family.’ Hatch’s statement neatly captures the fallacy behind the act — the notion that service to America is principally service to the American state...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10107



A politics of national sacrifice

The American Prospect
by Kevin Mattson

04/08/09

On July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave the riskiest speech of his presidency. In what became known as the ‘malaise speech’ (though the word ‘malaise’ never appeared in it) the president riveted the nation. He delivered the speech amid rumors that he had gone crazy, his reputation plummeting in the face of an energy crisis and a breakdown in the country’s civic fabric. Ten days earlier, truckers and residents had rioted in usually quiet Levittown, Pennsylvania, setting bonfires to protest inflationary costs and limited supplies of fuel, made worse by recent machinations of OPEC. Abroad at the time of the riot, Carter cut short his vacation and returned to the States. His staff scheduled a televised speech, but the president canceled it...

http://tinyurl.com/caz6j8



Freedom is scary!

Liberty For All
by Jessica Pacholski

04/08/09

Robert Heinlein wrote that ‘People fall into two categories: Those who wish to rule and those who have no such desire.’ I have never had any desire to lead, I also have no desire to follow, mostly I’ve always just wanted to do my own thing and allow others the same latitude. I don’t think I know what’s right for the world, mostly because over the last 36 years I have only been able to figure out what’s right for me. I know the laws I live by and they are not externally enforced, but rather my own code that I developed through trial and error. I have no need to force these views on others. However, I know the world is filled with people looking for a savior or looking to be one...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=2349


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor
by Walter Rodgers

04/08/09

These events are the latest warnings that our world is changing far more rapidly and profoundly than we — or our politicians — will admit. America’s own triple-A rating, its superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy. President Obama’s recent acknowledgement that the US is not winning in Afghanistan is but the most obvious recognition of this jarring new reality. … The global landscape is littered with evidence that America’s superpower status is fraying...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0408/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Free and Unashamed
by anonymous

04/07/09)

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely wish to be left alone. All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed...

http://tinyurl.com/cb9xzn



Ways of changing the world

Ideas
by David Friedman

04/08/09

I see democracy as equipped, like a microscope, with a coarse control and a fine control. The fine control is special interest lobbying, the coarse control is majority voting. It is coarse because of rational ignorance. Voters know their vote has a negligible effect on outcomes and so have no incentive to acquire the information they would need in order to do a good job of making sure that governments do good things instead of bad things. The result is that how they vote and the outcome of their voting are largely driven by free information — what everyone knows, whether or not it is true...

http://tinyurl.com/clqp4h



The people’s bailout

Adam Smith Institute
by Tom Clougherty

04/08/09

Oxfam has a new report out today, calling for a ‘people’s bailout.’ Their argument is that a fifth of the population already lives in poverty and millions more will become more vulnerable as a result of the recession, and that something must be done. Of course, Oxfam uses a relative definition of poverty, whereas what really matters is absolute poverty. Poverty is about being unable to satisfy basic needs, not just about having less than others. But let’s leave that aside for now, because however you define ‘poverty,’ it is clear that there are already plenty of people in Britain who struggle to make ends meet, and that the recession is only going to make that worse...

http://tinyurl.com/da89cl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

04/08/09

The computerization of personal health care records is one of the showcases of the stimulus. President Obama promised: ‘We will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years all of America’s medical records are computerized.’ Congress ponied up $19 billion to subsidize doctors and hospitals computerizing patient record and creating electronic health care tracking systems...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=36


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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New Military Electronic Records to Be Model for US

Jeff Mason, Reuters: "President Barack Obama on Thursday said the government would create a national electronic medical records system for the military that will serve as a model for broad reform of US healthcare administration. The system, organized by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, would follow military personnel from active duty through retirement, keeping records organized and complete."

http://www.truthout.org/040909S



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Interview mit Alexander Dill zu den Verantwortlichen für die Weltwirtschaftskrise.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30096/1.html



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Survive the Depression: Spend less on everything
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/spend-less.html



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Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg: "A congressional panel overseeing the US financial rescue suggested that getting rid of top executives and liquidating problem banks may be a better way to solve the economic crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/040809T



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Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: "Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among US intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to disperse into the country's heartland."

http://www.truthout.org/040809S



The Scream and the Drone

J. Sri Raman, Truthout: "The scream of 17-year-old Chand Bibi of the Swat Valley has been heard across Pakistan for over a week now. The drone of remotely operated US gunships over the country's mountainous western frontier has been heard for months. What the world needs to hear now is the voice of Pakistan in response to both the scream and the drone. Much of the world has by now heard the scream, too, and watched the merciless flogging of the teenage girl as Taliban punishment for alleged transgression of a misogynist code of morality: she had been caught coming out of her house with a male 'stranger.' The date of the incident was not clear and versions of it differed in minor detail. The local Taliban leader, however, proudly owned up to the punishment meted out for the insinuated, 'anti-Islam' offense."

http://www.truthout.org/040909K

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US Kills 3 People In Pakistan

At least three "militants" were killed Wednesday in the latest US attack in Pakistan's bordering tribal agency, said sources.

http://snipurl.com/fl7xr


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009, 16:37

VIEWS from a coastal beauty spot could be spoilt by a mobile phone mast due to mixed signals from planners.

Clevedon homeowner Peter Davis threatened to lie in front of diggers installing the mast, which he claims doesn't have planning permission.

Mr Davis, 49, of Ladye Bay, confronted workmen he spotted digging a hole in a field less than 100 metres from his home on Monday and was shocked to discover Vodafone's plans to install a radio base station to improve 3G coverage for customers in the area.

Two years ago planning applications for the mast, along with two antennas, one microwave dish and radio equipment, were turned down by North Somerset Council because of environmental and conservation concerns, but Vodafone is insisting it now has deemed permission because of a planning blunder.

Mr Davis said: "We objected to the plans in the past which were refused but none of the residents have been consulted about a third application at all.

"There is no way they can put up a microwave mast so close to people's houses."

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Sophie Wahnich, Le Monde: "Twenty years after its bicentenary, the French Revolution is once again breaking through the surface of public speech. The President of the Republic acknowledges that it's not easy to govern a 'regicide country.' Alain Minc warns his 'friends in the ruling class' by reminding them that 1789 began in 1788 and that they must no doubt learn to renounce certain privileges. Jean-Francois Cope deplores the 'natural temptation to permanently redo 1793.'"

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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "A cartoon in the Sunday comics shows that mustachioed fellow with monocle and top hat from the Monopoly game - 'Rich Uncle Pennybags,' he used to be called - standing along the roadside, destitute, holding a sign: 'Will blame poor people for food.' Time to move the blame to where it really belongs. That means no more coddling banks with bailout billions marked 'secret.' No more allowing their executives lavish bonuses and new corporate jets as if they've won the mega-lottery and not sent the economy down the tubes. And no more apostles of Wall Street calling the shots."

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Der Computer ist nach Ansicht von Familienministerin Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) die nächste große Herausforderung für Eltern bei der Erziehung ihrer Kinder. Während in früheren Jahrzehnten Probleme wie der Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen oder Bestrafungen durch Schläge im Vordergrund gestanden hätten, so sei die Gesellschaft nun aufgefordert, Kindern einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Medien beizubringen, sagte die Ministerin bei der Vorstellung der Studie "Generationenbarometer 2009" am Mittwoch (8. April) in Berlin. Eltern sollten zum Beispiel kontrollieren, welche Seiten ihre Kinder im Internet besuchten.

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Abfackeln des Regenwalds für Agrosprit

Ende April entscheidet der Bundestag über die Beimischung von Agrosprit zu Benzin und Diesel. Agrosprit wird aus Nahrungsmitteln wie Zuckerrohr sowie Raps-, Soja- oder Palmöl hergestellt. Mit jedem gefahrenen Kilometer im Auto werden so der Hunger auf der Welt verschärft sowie die Regenwaldrodung und Klimaerwärmung angeheizt. Rettet den Regenwald fordert deshalb, keinen Agrosprit dem Benzin und Diesel beizumischen.

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ISIS Report 08/04/09

Corporations are aiming for an absolute stranglehold on scientific research and the flow of scientific information; that’s why patents on GM crops should be abolished Prof. Peter Saunders

Scientists blocked from independent research on GM crops As you may already know, you can’t just go into a store and buy genetically modified (GM) seeds. You have to sign an agreement with the company that produced them, and one of the conditions is that you may not save the seeds from your harvest. Anyone growing GM crops has to buy seeds from the company every year, which is a problem for all farmers, but especially for those in the Third World; as Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser’s epic battle with Monsanto so clearly brings home to us [1] (Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto? SiS 42).

What is less well known is that the agreements also prohibit you from using the seeds for research. That may not matter to most farmers, but it is important because it means that research into GM crops can be done only by the biotech companies or with their approval. If they don’t want a particular piece of research carried out, they can refuse permission to use their seeds. Even when they have given permission, if they don’t like the way the research is turning out they can stop it, or prevent the results from being published. Consequently, important decisions on GM crops and all GM organisms (GMOs) are increasingly based on evidence selected by the companies to put them and their products in the best possible light.

That’s why when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invited comments from the public in advance of two meetings on GM crops it was holding earlier this year, twenty six scientists submitted a statement protesting the “technology/stewardship agreements” they have to sign, which inhibit them from doing research for the public good. [2] As a result, “no truly independent research can be legally conducted on many critical questions regarding the technology”. The full statement is reproduced in the Box.


Scientists’ Statement to US EPA

Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0836

The following statement has been submitted by 26 leading corn insect scientists working at public research institutions located in 16 corn producing states. All of the scientists have been active participants of the Regional Research Projects NCCC-46 "Development, Optimization, and Delivery of Management Strategies for Corn Rootworms and Other Below-ground Insect Pests of Maize" and/or related projects with corn insect pests. The statement may be applicable to all EPA decisions on PIPs, not just for the current SAP. It should not be interpreted that the actions and opinions of these 26 scientists represent those of the entire group of scientists participating in NCCC-46. The names of the scientists have been withheld from the public docket because virtually all of us require cooperation from industry at some level to conduct our research.

STATEMENT:

"Technology/stewardship agreements required for the purchase of genetically modified seed explicitly prohibit research. These agreements inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good unless the research is approved by industry. As a result of restricted access, no truly independent research can be legally conducted on many critical questions regarding the technology, its performance, its management implications, IRM, and its interactions with insect biology. Consequently, data flowing to an EPA Scientific Advisory Panel from the public sector is unduly limited."


All the scientists have been active researchers into corn insect pests, and many of them are in favour of GM crops, but they are very concerned about the restrictions placed on them by the industry that effectively stop independent research, and the resulting bias in the evidence being presented to the EPA and other regulatory agencies. This does not surprise those of us who have been complaining about the lack of independent research and regulators that routinely ignore and dismiss all evidence of hazards [3]
(see GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham, ISIS Scientific Publication).

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- Associations Assemblée Nationale : PROPOSITION DE LOI N°1500
présentée par Roland BLUM député
"relative à la recevabilité du recours contre certains actes en matière d'urbanisme".

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- Relay antenna Graph : average intensity of radiation at ground level in the axis of the beam.

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

Last week the House passed another budget that increases federal power, raises taxes, and increases the national debt. I voted against it, and was pleased to see that not a single Republican representative voted for it. Legislators often see bipartisanship as constructive, but I disagree especially where the destruction of our economy or our liberty is concerned. There has been too much bipartisan consensus on expanding government far beyond the bounds of the Constitution which we all swore to defend and uphold. Because of this, I have never been able to vote for a budget. However, it was good to see Republicans come together on this important vote, even if their alternative budget was almost as bad...

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CEO pay: The outrage continues

Our Future
by Sam Pizzigati

04/06/09

Despite the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, top corporate executives are still taking home staggeringly more than their counterparts a generation ago. Millions of Americans last year lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security. American CEOs last year lost some pocket change — and some of them didn’t even lose that. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported this past Friday, pay for typical big-time U.S. CEOs dropped a mere 3.4 percent, to a $7.6 million median. Two days later, the New York Times pronounced a 9.4 percent CEO pay falloff last year. But the Times put median CEO pay at $8.4 million, a higher total. The Journal figures cover the first 200 U.S. corporations with over $5 billion in revenue to file executive pay figures for 2008. The Times tally spotlights 200 CEOs at companies that last year took in at least $6.3 billion in revenue...

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Welcome to the new class warfare
Fox News Forum
by Judge Andrew Napolitano

04/07/09

We are in the midst of a new class warfare and our constitutional rights are eroding before our very eyes. The government has an ideological predilection toward egalitarianism — or forced equality. … The Constitution, which guarantees freedom of contract and denies the power of the government to take life, liberty, or property without due process (suing for it), is an obstacle for the government. Freedom is an obstacle for all governments. Thus, the administration will trample whatever constitutionally-guaranteed liberties it can get away with in order to acquire the power to re-order our lives so as to bring about its egalitarian vision for America. Unfortunately, we will all suffer before the government realizes that our financial prosperity has come from private, uninhibited initiative, not from Soviet-style central planning...

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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

04/08/09

As President Barack Obama launches a military effort that promises to dwarf the Bush administration’s Iraqi adventure in scope and intensity, the ‘progressive’ community is rallying around their commander in chief as obediently and reflexively as the neocon-dominated GOP did when we invaded Iraq. As John Stauber points out over at the Center for Media and Democracy Web site, the takeover of the antiwar movement by the Obamaites is nearly complete. He cites MoveOn.org as a prime but not sole example …. this cheerleading for Obama’s war is a bit of a turnaround for [Center for American Progress] and the Washington ‘progressive’ community. Their Stalinesque about-face — which recalls the disciplined hypocrisy of Communist cadre who were just as fervently antiwar in the moments before Hitler invaded Russia as they were pro-war every moment since — requires some explanation...

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The myth of good intentions

Downsize DC
by James Leroy Wilson

04/07/09

A bill with a nice-sounding title, such as the ‘Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA),’ passes Congress. Later, when its defects come to light, even the law’s victims assume that the bill had ‘good intentions,’ but was ‘poorly written.’ I saw this sentiment expressed often while reading blogs about the CPSIA. But I think these assumptions about ‘good intentions’ are a little naive. After all, if Congress really had ‘good intentions’ they would have taken the time and care to write a better bill that wouldn’t have deprived poor children of second-hand winter coats...

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Talking peace in Prague, dropping bombs in Pakistan

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

04/07/09

While the usual gaggle of sycophants and media hive-minders — along with some ordinarily perspicacious analysts — tell us that Barack Obama literally changed the course of human history by disgorging a great load of thrice-chewed cud about nuclear disarmament in Prague this week, the high-tech drone war the great hero of peace is waging inside the sovereign territory of America’s ally, Pakistan, is helping drive tens of thousands of people from their homes and killing civilians almost daily...

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Beyond folk activism

Cato Unbound
by Patri Friedman

04/06/09

I deeply yearn to live in an actual free society, not just to imagine a theoretical future utopia or achieve small incremental gains in freedom. For many years, I enthusiastically advocated for liberty under the vague assumption that advocacy would help our cause. However, I recently began trying to create free societies as my full-time job, and this has given me a dramatic perspective shift from my days of armchair philosophizing. My new perspective is that the advocacy approach which many libertarian individuals, groups, and think tanks follow (including me sometimes, sadly) is an utter waste of time...

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WE MUST AMEND THE CONSTITUTION IMMEDIATELY OR AMERICA IS DOOMED … DOOMED, I TELL YOU, DOOMED!

Last Free Voice
by Rhys M. Blavier

04/06/09

The Constitution is a relatively simply document. Its length is only 4543 words, which isn’t all that much longer than this article. One key thing that is important about the Constitution is not what it says, but what it does NOT say. The Constitution does NOT say anything about social rules or the moral conduct of ‘we the people’ of The United States. The Constitution is an owner’s manual of how to operate our government. It does not tell its citizens how to live their lives. In fact, with the exception of our disastrous foray into social policy with the 18th Amendment, which gave us both prohibition AND well financed organized crime, there is nothing in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or any subsequent amendment which deals with dictating social or moral behaviors or beliefs to the American people...

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USA Today

04/07/09

The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage. The new program will take the place of one that had been awarded to The Boeing Co. The Pentagon canceled that project in 2005 because it was grossly over budget and behind schedule...

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Frustrated residents are considering launching a legal challenge against Vodafone in a bid to stop the communications giant building a phone mast near a primary school, Yourmedway reports.

The threat of court action was made by campaigner Mike Evans, one of a group of parents outraged that the 3G mast could be erected just 100ft away from St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Gillingham.

The determined parents are supported by members of the three main political parties – with all three Liberal Democrat Gillingham North ward councillors, the Labour MP for Gillingham and Rainham Paul Clark and the Conservative-run council voicing their opposition to the mast.

Council chiefs twice rejected Vodafone’s planning application but were overruled by the Planning Inspectorate earlier this year.

Work began on installing the mast last week.

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MP joins fight to block Vodafone plan

Published Date: 07 April 2009

By Helen Lambourne

HOUSEHOLDERS on Mansfield's Ladybrook estate have vowed to fight controversial plans for a mobile phone mast in the area –– saying it could have a serious impact on their health.

Industry giant Vodafone wants to put the 8m-high mast next to a playing field at the end of Ladybrook Lane, near Rosemary Street, but the plans have sparked outrage among folk.

They say the planned site is too close to houses, schools and the playing field and have launched petitions to stop the scheme –– while Mansfield MP Alan Meale has backed their campaign.

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