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Daphne Eviatar, The Washington Independent: "Veterans groups and conservatives roared last week when news broke that the FBI was targeting veterans in a broad probe of extremist groups. But little noise was made in December, when the Bush administration quietly granted the FBI wide-ranging authority to investigate individuals or groups, regardless of whether they are suspected of criminal activity. The Attorney General Guidelines, proposed last summer and adopted by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, appear to be particularly problematic."

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LINKE warnt Bundesregierung vor "Bad Banks"

"Verschleuderung von Staatsvermögen"

Der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Linksfraktion, Ulrich Maurer, warnt die Bundesregierung angesichts der immer offener angekündigten Gründung so genannter Bad Banks vor einer "weiteren Verschleuderung von Staatsvermögen". "Bad Banks" seien in aller Munde. "Sie sollen die Banken von dem Giftmüll befreien, den die Banker treuwidrig produziert haben", so Maurer. "Für die bei Fälligkeit der Papiere anfallenden Verluste soll der Steuerzahler aufkommen." Die FAZ zitiert Experten, die das Verlustrisiko auf 500 bis 600 Milliarden Euro taxieren.

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Bad Bank oder Bankenverschrottung

Gesetz über Schrottpapiere noch vor der Wahl

„Für die Überwindung der aktuellen Wirtschaftskrise ist ein reibungsloses Kreditwesen enorm wichtig. Fachleute aus verschiedenen Ministerien, der Bundesbank und dem Sonderfonds Finanzmarktstabilisierung sollen deshalb schnell Vorschläge für den Umgang mit problematischen Finanzpapieren erarbeiten. Das hat die Bundesregierung nach einem Spitzengespräch am Dienstag in Berlin beschlossen…“ Meldung der Bundesregierung vom
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Bad Bank: Bürger zahlen die Zeche

„Die Steuerzahler sollen den Banken bei der Säuberung ihrer Bilanzen von Schrottanleihen helfen und so dafür sorgen, dass die Kreditvergabe wieder ins Laufen kommt. Darauf verständigte sich die Bundesregierung am Dienstag bei einem Spitzengespräch im Kanzleramt…“ Artikel von Markus Sievers in der FR vom 22.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1728590_Bad-Bank-Buerger-zahlen-die-Zeche.html


Gebrauchsanweisung für Bad Banks

„Das Wort geistert seit Monaten durch die politische Debatte: Bad Bank. Jetzt hat die Bundesregierung entschieden, dass sie solche Institutionen schaffen will. FTD.de erklärt die Modelle - und welche Folgen sie hätten.“ Dossier von Jens Tartler in der FTD vom 23.04.2009 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Modelle-und-ihre-Folgen-Gebrauchsanweisung-f%FCr-Bad-Banks/503995.html


Der richtige Weg zur Bad Bank

Die Politik diskutiert, wie sie mit einer Bad Bank die Bilanzen der Banken entlastet. Der Bonner Makroökonom Martin Hellwig entwickelt im FR-Gespräch mit Robert von Heusinger ein Modell. Interview von Robert von Heusinger in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 20.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/doku_und_debatte/1712695_Volkswirtschafter-Martin-Hellwig-Der-richtige-Weg-zur-Bad-Bank.html


Bad Banks - der finale Rettungsakt. Staat und Banken feilen an einer Billionenspritze für das Finanzsystem

„Wie soll der Staat sicherstellen, dass das Bankensystem seine Kernaufgaben fortführen kann, ohne den Steuerzahler auf unkalkulierbaren Risiken in dreistelliger Milliardenhöhe sitzen zu lassen? Um diese Frage zu erörtern, trafen sich gestern Vertreter der Regierung, der Bundesbank und des Bankenrettungsfonds Soffin zu einem Spitzengespräch in Berlin. Grundlage für den Gesetzesentwurf, der nun binnen vier Wochen von einer Arbeitsgruppe fertiggestellt und vom Kabinett beschlossen werden soll, ist ein Konzeptpapier des Finanzministeriums. Es sieht die Gründung staatlich abgesicherter Bad Banks vor, in die jedes Finanzinstitut Finanzmüll auslagern kann. Noch in dieser Legislaturperiode, so Regierungssprecher Ulrich Wilhelm, soll das Gesetz verabschiedet werden…“ Artikel von Jens Berger in telepolis vom 22.04.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30174/1.html


Brandstifter als Feuerwehr

„»Systemische Bedeutung« haben bankrotte Banken allein für die Finanzakteure. Für die Realökonomie sind sie eine große Gefahr und müssen deshalb in eine geordnete Insolvenz geführt werden…“ Artikel von Werner Rügeme in junge Welt vom 23.04.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/04-23/021.php


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Finanzmarktkrise 2008 international

Bankenrettung mit sozialer Note und Prinzip Hoffnung. Wie in Irland steigt die Arbeitslosigkeit in Spanien massiv, doch statt Steuern anzuheben, denkt Madrid über eine Bankenrettung mit sozialer Note nach, während in Großbritannien die Staatsschulden rasant wachsen

„Dass auf Spanien eine heftige Krise zukommt, war seit vielen Jahren klar
([local] Spanien vor Immobiliencrash?). Doch das Schlimmste steht noch aus. Im Schauglas kann der Absturz beobachtet werden: Explodierende Arbeitslosigkeit und Staatsausgaben, zu denen sich nun die gefährliche Deflation gesellt. Obwohl der Staatshaushalt wie in Irland aus dem Ruder läuft, denkt Madrid neben einer traditionellen Bankenrettung nun auch darüber nach, die Bezugsdauer von Arbeitslosengeld um 12 Monate zu verlängern. Auch damit sollen die steigenden Kreditausfälle begrenzt werden, die immer mehr Banken gefährden. In Irland geht man andere Wege, dort erhöht man Steuern, kürzt Sozialausgaben und bittet Geringverdiener für die Bankenrettung zur Kasse. Großbritannien will trotz der enormen Verschuldung viel Geld ausgeben und 200 Milliarden Euro neuen Schulden aufnehmen…“ Artikel von Ralf Streck in telepolis vom 23.04.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30184/1.html


Quo vadis Weltwirtschaft?

Die internationale Fragmentierung der Güterproduktion dürfte über globale "Supply-Chains" stark zur fast augenblicklichen weltweiten Verbreitung der Wirtschaftskrise beigetragen haben. Artikel von Rainer Sommer in telepolis vom 01.04.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30036/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. April 2009

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Finanzmarktkrise 2008

Inflationsanzeichen als Ende der Krise

Interview von Reinhard Jellen mit Lucas Zeise in telepolis vom 13.05.2009 über Zentralbanken, Konjunkturprogramme und die "Schuldenbremse" http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30289/1.html

Aus dem Text: „…Denn die von den Unternehmerverbänden befürwortete Wirtschaftspolitik lautet nun einmal: Mit allen Mitteln die Kostenfaktoren Lohn und Steuern gering zu halten, um die ausländische Konkurrenz von der Platte zu putzen. Um das zu erreichen, sind Ausgabenprogramme des Staates nur schädlich. Sie fördern die Konjunktur, senken die Arbeitslosigkeit, machen Arbeitnehmer und Gewerkschaften frech. Folglich wird das Gespenst der Inflation recht gefährlich aufgebaut und Konjunkturprogramme werden zunächst als wirkungslose Strohfeuer verteufelt. Wenn das nichts hilft, brechen angeblich die Dämme der Inflation. Lachhaft…“


Eine kleine politische Philosophie der Finanzkrise

- oder sollte man sagen auf dem Weg zu einer politischen Ökonomie der Finanzkrise (das aktuelle Bewältigungsschema). Artikel von Volker Bahl vom
14.5.09 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/finanz/krise08_bahl.html


Eric Hobsbawm: "Es wird Blut fließen, viel Blut"

„Billionen Euro und Dollar setzen die Politiker gegen die Wirtschaftskrise ein. Wissen sie, was sie da tun? Nein, sagt Eric Hobsbawm, einer der wichtigsten Historiker der Gegenwart. Schlimmer noch als die Große Depression, die er vor 80 Jahren in Berlin miterlebte, sei der Zusammenbruch heute. Er hat Angst, dass der Kapitalismus sich über eine fürchterliche Katastrophe rettet…“ Interview von Arno Luik in Stern online vom 13.05.2009 http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/maerkte/700669.html

Aus dem Text: „…Alles ist möglich. Inflation, Deflation, Hyperinflation. Wie reagieren die Menschen, wenn alle Sicherheiten verschwinden, sie aus ihrem Leben hinausgeworfen, ihre Lebensentwürfe brutal zerstört werden? Meine geschichtliche Erfahrung sagt mir, dass wir uns - ich kann das nicht ausschließen - auf eine Tragödie zubewegen. Es wird Blut fließen, mehr als das, viel Blut, das Leid der Menschen wird zunehmen, auch die Zahl der Flüchtlinge. Und noch etwas möchte ich nicht ausschließen: einen Krieg, der dann zum Weltkrieg werden würde - zwischen den USA und China…“


Im Extremfall droht die Staatspleite

„Die Bad Banks sollen dafür sorgen, dass die Banken wieder Kredite vergeben. Ob das Konzept aufgeht, ist unklar. Die vom Staat übernommenen Risiken sind kaum kalkulierbar. Und was nicht unklar ist, ist geheim: Der Bankenrettungsfonds Soffin entzieht sich jeder demokratischen Kontrolle…“ Artikel von Anton Landgraf in der Jungle world vom 28. Mai 2009 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2009/22/35149.html


Video: Bad Bank - Die Risiken für uns Steuerzahler

Gewinne der Deutschen Bank? In Wahrheit hat die Deutsche Bank seit Herbst letzten Jahres 4,4 Mrd € Verluste gemacht. Video der Plusminus-Sendung
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Beim Geld abheben – erschossen?

„Die Commerzbank weiß, wie sie durch die Wirtschaftskrise kommen will: Sie setzt auf militärische Stärke. Die Idee kommt von einem engen Berater der Kanzlerin. Welche Freude: die in tiefroten Zahlen sitzende Commerzbank sagt für die Hauptversammlung an diesem Freitag ihren Aktionären eine rosige Zukunft voraus. Bis zum Jahr 2012 wird sie, das ist gewiss, wieder zwölf Prozent Rendite machen. Und im Privatkundengeschäft will sie Ackermann von der Deutschen Bank sogar mit 30 Prozent Rendite übertreffen. Dafür danken wir Steuerzahler recht herzlich…“ Gastkommentar von Otto Köhler in Freitag vom 15.05.2009 http://www.freitag.de/positionen/0920-beim-geld-abheben-erschossen


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Published: Tuesday, 21st April, 2009 11:30

By Mike Farrell

RESIDENTS of a Dumbarton housing scheme have raised concerns about an application to erect a phone mast in their community.

International telecommunication firm O2 hopes to put up a phone monopole in Bellsmyre.

But a residents group says it is worried about the radiation that the mast would emit and whether it poses a health risk.

This would be the first mobile phone mast in the scheme, although there are structures in other areas of the town — including another O2 pole in Strathleven Place, Dumbarton.

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Tortured posturing on harsh interrogation techniques

Independent Institute
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04/20/09

Although Barack Obama should be applauded for stopping torture by the U.S. government and pledging to close the infamous Guantanamo and worldwide CIA secret prisons, he is nevertheless playing politics with the issue to get the best of both worlds. To poke his predecessor, Obama released graphic memos from the Bush Justice Department that appallingly justified simulated drowning, sleep deprivation for extended periods (for example, an unbelievable 11 days), cramped confinement in a small dark box, stress positions for extended periods, forced nudity, and physical violence against detainees. At the same time, so as not to excessively rile the Republicans, who he must still work with to pass legislation, Obama said that CIA personnel who followed the twisted Bush legal guidelines authorizing such torture would not be prosecuted. He also came out against further inquiry into the matter because ‘nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.’ What a relief that we do not follow the same philosophy when murders or other illegal acts occur...

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Mr. President, war crimes must be investigated

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04/20/09

I understand why President Obama doesn’t want to prosecute those who believed they were acting under laws written by the Office of Legal Counsel. But that is not the only policy he and other Democrats can pursue. … if we are truly a nation of laws, committed to the decency and morality we embrace, we cannot let people who justify or commit torture and other war crimes to escape prosecution...

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On Thursday, the Obama administration released previously classified memos detailing interrogation techniques used against enemy prisoners. In the memos, Bush administration lawyers assured the CIA that waterboarding detainees and keeping them awake for a week or more was perfectly legal. Bush partisans insist that such methods aren’t torture, and that Obama has done grave harm to national security by revealing them. They’re wrong on both counts. Conservative legal analyst David Rivkin, one of Bush’s most reliable defenders, insists that ‘any fair-minded observer’ would conclude that the documents prove that ‘the Bush administration did not torture.’ But it’s hard to understand how anyone could call what the administration did by any other name. Rivkin’s assertion is on a par with left-wing diehards’ claim that President Clinton didn’t commit perjury...

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If President Obama doesn’t understand why the economy tanked, he surely won’t know what recovery requires. And if he doesn’t know that, he’s surely part of the problem, not the solution. In his speech on the economy at Georgetown University this week, Obama again showed that he hasn’t a clue what caused the economic calamity. He spent a few paragraphs of his speech ‘explaining’ to the students what happened — but he got it wrong. Had this been a class, he should have gotten an F...

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The Fed folly

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The nation’s ongoing economic woes should make for what kindergarten teachers refer to as a ‘teachable moment,’ as we must try to figure out the reasons that home prices are falling, jobs are evaporating, government budgets are awash in red ink and as scores of blue-chip companies and retailers go out of business. Even those citizens with stable incomes and secure nest eggs ought to at least have some intellectual curiosity about the hovering storm. Yet, unfortunately, one finds virtually no serious debate about economics. Everyone seems to agree on a handful of platitudes and cliches, and the nation’s political leaders — the folks who promise to navigate the ship of state around the protruding iceberg — seem most committed to advancing a storyline that ranges from the childishly absurd to the absurdly dishonest...

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European prosecutors are likely to investigate CIA and Bush administration officials on suspicion of violating an international ban on torture if they are not held legally accountable at home, according to U.N. officials and human rights lawyers. … Some European countries, under a legal principle known as universal jurisdiction, have adopted laws giving themselves the authority to investigate torture, genocide and other human rights crimes anywhere in the world, even if their citizens are not involved. Although it is rare for prosecutors to win such cases, those targeted can face arrest if they travel abroad...

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Peter Phillips, Truthout: "Racial inequality remains problematic in the US. People of color continue to experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, unemployment, police profiling, repressive incarceration and school segregation. According to a new civil rights report, 'Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge,' by Gary Orfield, schools in the US are currently 44 percent nonwhite, and minorities are rapidly emerging as the majority of public school students. Latinos and blacks are the two largest minority groups. However, black and Latino students attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights era."

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Die Journalistin Marie-Monique Robin wirft dem Saatgutkonzern Monsanto vor, mit nicht überprüfbaren Daten die Harmlosigkeit seiner genmanipulierten Maissorten zu behaupten. Sogenannte Bt-Pflanzen...

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned credit crunch losses could reach $4 trillion (£2.75tn), damaging the financial system for years to come.

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World finance losses 'top $4tn'

Of the $4.1tn, an estimated $2.7tn comes from losses suffered from US financial institutions, the IMF said on Tuesday, double what it estimated six months ago.

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Profits rise at Bank of America

The bank said on Monday it earned $4.2bn in the first three months of 2009, compared to a $1.02bn profit in the same period a year ago.

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Big banks have a big credit problem

BofA managed to post the big profit even as it set aside more than $6 billion to cover future loan losses. The bank's loan loss reserve now stands at $30 billion -- double its year-ago level.

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Goldman Sachs Shook Tens of Billions Out of Tax-Payers, Now They're Whining All the Way to the Bank

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By Mike Whitney

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Stock Market Bulls Have Got it Wrong, Warns Nouriel Roubini

'Dr Doom' predicts further shocks in the market

By Nick Clark

Nouriel Roubini, the so-called "arch bear" economist who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, added further gloom yesterday after he wrote off recent rises in global stock markets as no more than a dead cat bounce.

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Big Bank Profits are Bogus!

Massive public deception!

By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.

First, I'll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I'll show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick on some of the fattest pigs ever raised.

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When We Are Led to Believe a Lie

Gregg Shotwell

We are led to believe a lie when leaders degrade labour in honor of false profits.
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The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV

By Glenn Greenwald

The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Bartow uncovered.

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By Ewan MacAskill and Robert Booth

He said his attorney general, Eric Holder, was conducting an investigation and the decision rested with him.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22469.htm



Publish and Be Damned, Mr Cheney

By Philippe Sands

The acts you authorised constitute torture, with all the consequences of criminality that follows. Bring on that honest debate, I say. Put your money where your mouth is. Call for all the evidence - all of it - to be put before the US Congress or an independent investigation.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22470.htm



Obama Open to Inquiry in Interrogation Abuses

President Obama on Tuesday left open the door to creating a bipartisan commission that would investigate the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, and he did not rule out taking action against the lawyers who fashioned the legal guidelines for the interrogations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22intel.html



Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations

According to newly released Justice Department documents, the psychologist provided ideas, practical advice and even legal justification for interrogation methods that would break Abu Zubaida, physically and mentally. Extreme sleep deprivation, waterboarding, the use of insects to provoke fear -- all were deemed acceptable, in part because the psychologist said so.

http://snipurl.com/ge5py



Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/19/BA68172JDM.DTL


From Information Clearing House

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Cheney Demands Release of CIA Memos Proving Torture 'Success'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/21-0

Torture Accountability?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/04/21

ACLU Response to Former Vice-President Cheney's Call for Release of Bush Torture Documentation
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/04/21-11



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"Club der Eliten"

Pauli kritisiert europäische Institutionen

Harsche Kritik an den europäischen Institutionen hat die Europakandidatin der Freien Wähler, Gabriele Pauli, geäußert. "Wir haben ein riesiges Netz- und Regelwerk, das Lobbyisten in die Hände spielt", sagte sie am Dienstag bei der Vorstellung des Europawahlprogrammes der Freien Wähler in Würzburg. Europa sei ein "Club der Eliten", in dem sich Politiker, die an keiner Kontrolle interessiert seien, Frei- und Machträume geschaffen hätten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19606



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Die NATO hat ihre Konzeptdebatte vertagt, der atomare Erstschlag ist weiter eine Option des Bündnisses. Sie konterkariert die Ankündigungen des neuen US-Präsidenten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19603



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama

5:00pm Tuesday 21st April 2009

By Paul Rogers

A PLANNING application for a mobile phone mast in Ross-on-Wye has been withdrawn.

Telecommunications giant Vodafone had asked permission to put the 10-metre mast on the junction of Fernbank Road and Eastfield Road.

But Dr Ilana Clark, health and science specialist, said it had been withdrawn due to a change in Vodafone’s “technical requirements”.

Read More...
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/4308091.Mast_plan_withdrawn/

Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, The Associated Press: "Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting US diplomats in Iraq, even though the company has no license to operate there and has been told by the State Department its contracts will not be renewed two years after a lethal firefight that stirred outrage in Baghdad. Private security guards employed by the company, now known as Xe, are slated to continue ground operations in parts of Iraq long into the summer, far longer than had previously been acknowledged, government officials told The Associated Press."

http://www.truthout.org/042109N



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

Nick Mottern, Truthout: "Barack Obama is not given the right by our Constitution to be the judge and jury for torturers. I include Bush and Cheney in this category although they committed other war crimes. Mr. Obama and our Congress took oaths to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. They must be reminded that they must do this job regardless of whether they think it is divisive or not. If President Obama and the Congress do their jobs of enforcing the law with respect to torture and other Bush and Cheney war crimes, they will begin unraveling the web of deceit that has supported the Iraq and Afghanistan wars."

http://www.truthout.org/042109J



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- Questions/Réponses: Dr Andrew Michrowski Champs ÉlectroMagnétiques artificiels
MO "Exposition occasionnelle (subie ou passive, non sollicitée) aux technologies du sans fil"

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

http://www.eyeonpalin.org/



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A group of us have set up a new site just to focus on protecting children.

Links put on any web sites would be helpful
http://www.wiredchild.org


Informant: Iris Atzmon

Illusionen einer Protestbewegung

„Angesichts eines weltweiten Finanzcrashs, einer tiefgreifenden Wirtschaftsrezession und einer drastischen Verunsicherung der politisch Verantwortlichen in den jeweiligen Industrieländern steht seit letztem Herbst die Frage im Raum, wie und wo sich der lange Zeit aufgestaute Unmut über die desaströsen sozialen Folgen dieser globalen Krise endlich Luft verschaffen wird…“ Artikel von Wolfgang Kraushaar, Politikwissenschaftler am Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, in Frankfurter Rundschau vom
03.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/doku_und_debatte/1709721_Globalisierungskritiker-I-Illusionen-einer-Protestbewegung.html


Ihr könnt nach Hause gehen!

„An den großen Demonstrationen der letzten Wochen beteiligten sich nur die üblichen Verdächtigen. Auch wenn es viele Linke nicht wahrhaben wollen, ist die Krise alles andere als eine Chance…“ Artikel von Stefanie Sievers in Jungle World vom 16. April 2009 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2009/16/34074.html

Aus dem Text: „…Solange die Krise sich hier nicht in Form von Massenentlassun­gen äußert, ist die Wut nämlich klein, aber die Angst um so größer. Und solange es noch etwas zu verlieren gibt, scheint den allermeisten verschärfter Konkurrenzkampf rationaler als Solida­rität. Wenn französische Arbeiter wütend sind, weil sie ihren Job verlieren, kidnappen sie vielleicht gemeinsam ihren Manager und handeln dadurch eine höhere Abfindung heraus. Wenn deut­sche Arbeiter Angst haben, ihre Stelle zu verlieren, arbeiten sie schneller als die Kollegen, ziehen sich gelbe T-Shirts mit der Aufschrift »Wir sind Opel« an und fotografieren die herbeigeeilte Kanz­lerin mit ihren Fotohandys. Die Kanzlerin schenkt strenge Fürsorge, der blaublütige Wirtschaftsminister zeigt feudale Souveränität, der zerknirschte Finanzminister mimt den Zorn der Gerechten. Was aber bieten schon jene Linken, die sich auf diesen Demonstrationen tummeln?...“


Gewerkschaftliche Mobilisierung in der Krise

Geschichte wird gemacht!

„Auch wenn die Reaktionen auf die Krise meist defensiv sind, gibt es Hoffnung für wirkungsvolle Sozialproteste – sofern die Gewerkschaften nicht den Willen der Beschäftigten zum Protest in drögen Sonntagsspaziergängen ersticken…“ Artikel von Bernhard Schmid in Jungle World vom 16. April 2009 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2009/16/34075.html


Die Krise bekämpfen. Sozialpakt für Europa! Die Verursacher müssen zahlen

DGB-Demo zu den EGB-Aktionstagen für ein soziales Europa. Die Protestkundgebung findet statt am Samstag, 16. Mai, in Berlin. Sie ist Teil der Aktionstage des Europäischen Gewerkschaftsbundes (EGB) vom 14. bis 16. Mai in Brüssel, Berlin, Prag und Madrid. Siehe die Sonderseite beim DGB http://www.dgb.de/termine/termindb/termin_single?termid=2664

und den Aufruf (pdf): http://www.dgb.de/termine/dokumente/dgbegbdemoberlin150509.pdf/


MayDay 2009

Hamburg: 5 Tage 5Nächte Euromayday 009, Euromayday-Parade „KrisenFEST durch die Stadt“ und Konvoi nach Blankenese – Siehe Aktionsseite http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/


Berlin: Maydayparade ab 13:30 Uhr, Unter den Linden (Höhe Bebelplatz) – siehe

Aktionsseite http://maydayberlin.blogsport.de/


„Ich krieg die Krise…“ – und das nicht erst seit Gestern! Der Aufruf http://maydayberlin.blogsport.de/aufruf/


Von den Mühen der Ebene

„»Der Kampf gegen Arbeitslosigkeit beginnt in den Betrieben.« Wie Betriebskämpfe von linken Bewegungen unterstützt werden können, diese Frage diskutierten am Mittwochabend Aktivisten in Berlin. Eingeladen hatte das Berliner MayDay-Bündnis, das auch in diesem Jahr am 1. Mai zur Parade gegen prekäre Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen aufruft…“ Artikel von Peter Nowak im ND vom 17.04.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/147295.von-den-muehen-der-ebene.html


Bremen: Wat mutt, dat mutt: Her mit dem schönen Leben - für alle, weltweit! 1. Mai - Euromayday-Parade (Marktplatz Bremen, 13 Uhr) – Siehe Aktionsseite http://sozialkonflikt.de/mayday/


Mayday Parade Tübingen '09: Die Verhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen – Siehe Aktionsseite http://tuebingermaydayparade.twoday.net/


(Mini-)Euromayday in Hanau – Siehe Aktionsseite http://www.mayday.linksnavigator.de/


International – Siehe Euromayday-Netzwerk http://www.euromayday.org/

dort auch Mobilisierungsclip für die Paraden in Malaga, Terrassa, Barcelona… http://maydayberlin.blogsport.de/2009/04/20/mobilisierungsclip-fuer-die-parade-in-malaga/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. April 2009

Published Date: 21 April 2009

By Helen Lambourne

A CONTROVERSIAL mobile phone mast in Mansfield could be given the go ahead by councillors on Monday 27th — despite fears about its health impact.
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 residents are furious about the proposals.

Read More...
http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Council-set-to-give-phone.5189497.jp

Night is falling

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson

04/19/09

There is an old saying that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. Night is falling in America. The government is increasingly authoritarian, and increasingly bold about stealing property, thwarting individual liberty, occupying foreign countries, massacring women and children. Concentration camps are not a new thing in this country.

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle515-20090419-05.html



Bullies bearing badges

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

04/19/09

Politicians. Bureaucrats. Civil servants. Once upon a time these public poobahs knew their place; they worked for government and performed a service. Today they see it as their mission to rule, regulate and run absolutely every aspect of human existence. Politicians promulgate thousands of new laws every year. Bureaucrats relentlessly bombard us with regulations. Civil servants everywhere compel us to cope with a multitude of meaningless minutiae simply because they can. Rules, regulations and laws are meaningless unless they are rigorously enforced. And so the Thin Blue Line becomes the Thick Brute Slime and the Free State of America turns into the Police State of the political classes...

http://tinyurl.com/dbg3pp



Is government preparing us for censorship?

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

04/19/09

The idea that thought and speech are major obstacles to doing what is right isn’t new at all. As recently as the 1980s the one liberty that liberal statists could be counted on defending, at least in the United States of America, is the one spelled out in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alas, this was challenged some time ago by Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon of the University of Michigan school of law, in her short but prominently published book, Only Words (Harvard University Press, 1983). In it the good professor argued that words do not deserve the legal protection afforded them by the Constitution since insults and put downs, including jokes, can injure people good and hard. And such injuries should not be protected. The victims would have to pay too high a price for the fact that the law treats such injuries as ‘only words’...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!826.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Associated Press

04/19/09

Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents with a wealth of personal information about Americans and foreigners. President Barack Obama’s Justice Department quietly told a federal court in Washington last week that it would not second-guess the previous administration’s decisions to withhold some information about the bureau’s Investigative Data Warehouse...

http://tinyurl.com/cdoeux


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/20-3

The Jay Bybee Problem
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/04/24-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/20-8



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein

Unique opportunity this week (by 24th) to setback food and ecosystem based biofuels. Please take action and forward now! And the other alerts to which you are forwarded still need sending too.

Dr. Glen Barry


ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not Renewable, Does Not Address Climate Change

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark project with Rainforest Rescue http://www.climateark.org/ & http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ April 20, 2009

Let California Air Resources Board know all industrially produced biofuel crops from live biomass, edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs. It is clear that industrial biofuels are not "renewable energy" given that these inputs are all in limited supply, and indirect land uses lead to destruction of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere.

BRIEF BACKGROUND: Regulators at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are poised later this week to declare that biofuel from corn ethanol cannot help the state address climate change. In assessing the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, it was found this biofuel is worse than petroleum when total greenhouse gas emissions are considered. This is because as with all monocultures, corn ethanol for biofuels lead to numerous other indirect land use changes. Increased industrial agriculture results in rising land pressures and the loss of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere. Such a declaration disallowing corn ethanol biofuel from counting as emissions reductions would be a considerable blow to the corn-ethanol industry in the United States and would likely set a national precedent.

Ecological Internet and Rainforest Rescue are concerned with America's growing ethanol industry, and the precedent it sets for massive agricultural industrialization of the world's remaining rainforests and other natural wildlands. Please call upon the CARB to heed the overwhelming evidence that agrofuels worsen climate change through further deforestation and the destruction of other soils and ecosystems, drive food prices up, force more people worldwide into hunger, malnutrition and landlessness; and decimate biodiversity and ecosystems.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=corn_ethanol2

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/04/biofuel-from-corn-ethanol-is-n.asp



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- PARLAMENTO EUROPEO : Declaración por escrita Salud Acción CEM > 0,6 V/m: Informad a vuestros diputados para que firmen la Declaración escrita n º 47/2009:

Los diputados Elizabeth Lynne, Kathy Sinnott y Carl Schlyter, presentaron una declaración escrita la N º 47/2009 sobre los riesgos de exposición a la radiación electromagnética derivada de la utilización de la tecnología inalámbrica. La Declaración se pondrá para la firma de los diputados el 21/4/2009. Los autores de la "declaración escrita" puede recibir las firmas de la "declaración escrita" en sus buzones de correo y los signatarios el lunes por la tarde en Estrasburgo, el miércoles por la mañana y el viernes por la mañana en Bruselas, después de las sesiones. La actualización de la lista de los miembros de la UE signatarios puede facilitarse previa solicitud.

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

By Paul Cassell

April 21, 2009

Protesters are celebrating after town planners threw out proposals for a 13-metre high phone mast near their homes in Tilehurst.

Telecommunications giant Vodafone was refused planning permission to put up the mast and base cabinets on the corner of Elmstone Drive and Lower Elmstone Drive on Thursday.

A 200-signature petition and 27 letters of objection were received by Reading Borough Council opposing the mast with 36 more previously sent to Vodafone as part of an initial consultation.

Read More...
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2049288_victory_as_phone_mast_is_refused

On Thin Ice

NOW: "Seventy-five percent of the world's fresh water is stored in glaciers, but scientists predict climate change will cause some of the world's largest glaciers to completely melt by 2030. What effect will this have on our daily lives, especially our water and food supply? With global warming falling low on a national list of American concerns, it's time to take a deeper look at what could be a global calamity in the making."

http://www.truthout.org/042009U



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=glacier

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com: "'Too big to fail.' It's been the mantra of our economic meltdown. Although meant to emphasize the overwhelming importance of this bank or that corporation, the phrase also unwittingly expresses a shared delusion that may be at the root of our current crises - both economic and ecological."

http://www.truthout.org/042009T



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Elizabeth de la Vega, Truthout: "There is no doubt that sometime in 2002 - if not before - Bush administration officials and their lawyers began orchestrating a torture campaign, which they calculatedly attempted to justify through specious legal memos.... I am increasingly outraged by the day, disgusted by years of inaction, and impatient for results. Consequently, I would like nothing more than to join with so many friends and associates whom I respect in calling for immediate appointment of a special prosecutor. Unfortunately, however, I can't do it. Not yet."

http://www.truthout.org/042009R



Emanuel Rejects Trial for Memos' Authors

R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post: "The Obama administration opposes any effort to prosecute those in the Justice Department who drafted legal memos authorizing harsh interrogations at secret CIA prisons, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said yesterday."

http://www.truthout.org/042009S



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http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/article/wissen/Kritik-an-Energiesparlampe-waechst/36886

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Energiesparlampen sind gar nicht so sparsam

WELT ONLINE - Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Doch ihr Nachfolger, die Energiesparlampe, ist keine Erleuchtung, denn Elektrosmog, Quecksilber und die ungelöste Entsorgung belasten Umwelt und Gesundheit. ...

http://www.welt.de/finanzen/nutzwert/article3655234/Energiesparlampen-sind-gar-nicht-so-sparsam.html




http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Energiesparlampe

Großbritannien: Behörden, Polizei und der Energiekonzern tauschen "geheime Informationen" über einen geplanten Protest gegen das Kohlekraftwerk in Kingsnorth aus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/136397



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=E.on

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30157/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feldbefreiung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Grolm
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30165/1.html

Wo ist die Bank, der man vertrauen kann?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30031/1.html

Was Claudia Roth und Harald Neubauer gemeinsam haben
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30162/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Finanzkrise

http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald36.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/harmon-aipac.html

Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald38.html

Jane’s Harman Us
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers108.html

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Major Scandal Erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/20

CREW Asks OCE and DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility to Investigate Rep. Harman Immediately
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/04/20-12

Who Will Stop the AIPAC Before it is Too Late?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/06-14

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Harman-AIPAC-Gonzalez is really several scandals
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5503297



Harman Admits She Talked to American

Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban may have been involved

By Juan Cole

There is an immense irony in her faux horror that she was wiretapped without her knowledge, since the allegation against her is that then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dropped the investigation of her over the deal she seems to have made with the Israeli agent, precisely in order to retain her as an advocate of warrantless wiretapping.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22476.htm



Lawmaker asks for release of spy case transcripts

She urged Holder to investigate possible wiretapping of members of Congress and selective leaks of investigative material for political purposes, calling the recordings an abuse of power.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S888784.shtml?cat=145



Dem Rep Harman Did Urge Times Not To Publish Wiretapping Expose!

Dem Rep Harman appears to have worked behind the scenes to dissuade publication of a blockbuster expose about Bush that could have put her own party's nominee in the White House and changed the history of the last four years.

http://snipurl.com/ghcdd



Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It?

"One of the leading House Democrats on intelligence matters was overheard on telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency agreeing to seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage, current and former government officials say."

http://snipurl.com/ghcpu



U.S. Might Not Try Pro-Israel Lobbyists

The U.S. government may abandon espionage-law charges against two former lobbyists for a pro-Israel advocacy group, officials said yesterday, as a prominent House lawmaker denied new allegations that she offered to use her influence in their behalf.

http://snipurl.com/ghcsm



Harman's Wiretap Woes and the AIPAC Cabal

By Marcy Winograd

Who else has AIPAC colluded with on the Hill? If the tapes are out there, Harman got caught, but isn't this a much larger story than just one woman bedazzled by men with money in their pockets and nuclear warheads in their backyards.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22486.htm



Why Did The Harman Case Break Now?

By Philip Weiss
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22488.htm



Harman Wiretap Highlights Suspicions

Intel Concerns of Dual Loyalty 'Rooted Deep in the System'.
http://www.forward.com/articles/105045/



Some Might Call It Treason

By Philip Giraldi

Until the transcripts of Rep. Jane Harman's telephone conversations are made public, if they ever are, her transgression can only be assessed secondhand. It appears to have consisted of talking with someone who may be an Israeli citizen regarding influencing the outcome of the ongoing trial of ex-American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) officials Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22503.htm



CIA 'Whistleblower' Told Hastert About Suppression of Harman Wiretap

Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected "whistleblower" in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressing the existence of a wiretapped conversation between Rep. Jane Harman and a suspected Israeli agent.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003103377


From Information Clearing House

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Pelosi says she was informed of Harman wiretap

Bloomberg

04/22/09

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was briefed ‘a few years ago’ by National Security Agency officials about their secret taping of U.S. Representative Jane Harman’s phone calls, though she said she didn’t know the contents of the conversations. At a meeting with reporters today in Washington, Pelosi also said she was prohibited from informing Harman of the government’s eavesdropping. Her comments came a day after Pelosi, a California Democrat, said she was aware a member of Congress had been wiretapped, but didn’t know it was Harman...

http://tinyurl.com/d2kzpl



The shamelessness of Jane Harman

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

04/24/09

In a better world, a member of Congress caught on tape agreeing to obstruct justice at the request of an agent of a foreign power would have stepped down as soon as the news hit the headlines. In our shameless era, however, that isn’t likely to happen. Instead, the spies will get off...

http://tinyurl.com/cwr9ap



Is Pelosi a war criminal?

Human Events
by Jed Babbin

04/27/09

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — then the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — was briefed on CIA interrogation techniques including waterboarding when they were begun in 2002. She was among the ‘Big Eight’ present at the briefings — the Senate and House leaders and chairmen and ranking members on both intelligence committees. … what if Pelosi and the other Democrats had objected? [US Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO)] told me in a Friday interview that, ‘We know that when we object to planned activities by the CIA, they don’t do it’...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31611



The spies who got away
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/04/09

After five years of legal maneuvering and orchestrated protests from the Lobby’s amen corner, Israel’s point men in Washington have finally succeeded in their efforts to quash the prosecution of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who had been charged with committing espionage on behalf of Israel. It is a victory that not only signals the continuation of the Lobby’s dominance in Washington, in spite of growing popular revulsion against lobbyists in general, but also gives the Israelis a blank check to spy on their American patrons to their hearts’ content...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/03/the-spies-who-got-away/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Feds Drop Charges Against Pro-Israel Lobbyists

Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press: "Prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss all charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing U.S. defense secrets, ending a four-year legal battle that promised to put former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administration insiders on the witness stand."

http://www.truthout.org/050209C



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