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Die ehemalige US-Sicherheitsberaterin und Ex-Außenministerin Rice hat bereits 2002 die als Waterboarding bekannte Folter-Verhörmethode der CIA genehmigt. Das geht, wie die "Tagesschau" berichtet, aus Dokumenten hervor, die der US-Senat jetzt veröffentlichte.

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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Almost like clockwork, the reports float up to us from thousands of miles away, as if from another universe. Every couple of days they seem to arrive from Afghan villages that few Americans will ever see without weapon in hand. Every few days, they appear from a world almost beyond our imagining, and always they concern death -- so many lives snuffed out so regularly for more than seven years now. Unfortunately, those news stories are so unimportant in our world that they seldom make it onto, no less off of, the inside pages of our papers."

http://www.truthout.org/042409D



What Are Afghan Lives Worth?

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "In the two weeks since, however, that's been on my mind -- or rather the lack of interest our world shows in dead civilians from a distant imperial war -- and all because of a passage I stumbled upon in a striking article by journalist Anand Gopal. In 'Uprooting an Afghan Village' in the June issue of the Progressive magazine, he writes about Garloch, an Afghan village he visited in the eastern province of Laghman. After destructive American raids, Gopal tells us, many of its desperate inhabitants simply packed up and left for exile in Afghan or Pakistani refugee camps."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The US occupation of Iraq, which has become the full responsibility of President Barack Obama, is once again a bloodbath. Not that it had ceased to be violent, brutal and chaotic, for not one day has passed since the US invasion of Iraq was launched that hasn't found several Iraqis being senselessly slaughtered."

http://www.truthout.org/042409A



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6:00pm Friday 24th April 2009

Concerns have been voiced over plans to make Barnoldswick the North of England’s first “wi-fi town”.

Residents believe the proposed web portal to make the wi-fi wireless network possible could have health implications.

And they are backed by experts, who say those exposed to electromagnetic fields could experience symptoms including memory problems or nausea.

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http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4313448.Health_fears_raised_over_bid_to_create_wi_fi_town/



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Torture

John Cory, Truthout: "Harsh interrogation techniques, coercive tactics, enhanced techniques - These are the rebranding tools for torture. In order to avoid turning our eyes away or burying our heads in the sand, we grab politically acceptable words and terms to diminish the sting and shame of actual torture, so we can brag about being a moral society open to the discussion of stressful questioning of enemy combatants. Sterile words remove us from the very real sins of torturing human beings."

http://www.truthout.org/042409J



Holder Won't Selectively Release Terror Memos

Devlin Barrett, The Associated Press: "Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play 'hide and seek' with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations."

http://www.truthout.org/042409K



Obama Rejects Truth Panel

Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane, The Washington Post: "President Obama rebuffed calls for a commission to investigate alleged abuses under the Bush administration in fighting terrorism, telling congressional leaders at a White House meeting yesterday that he wants to look forward instead of litigating the past."

http://www.truthout.org/042409B

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Urge Nancy Pelosi to ensure the speedy appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate US torture

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"Verbrennt die Banken. Und dann verstaatlicht sie"

Rekordbesuch am Ostersonntag beim New Yorker Left Forum. die kleine radikale Minderheit sucht Wege. Der vielleicht interessanteste Vortrag kam dabei von Doug Henwood, seit langen Jahren Herausgeber des "Left Business Observer". Er zog darin eine Zwischenbilanz der Krise: Zum Beispiel Obamas Change, der Wechsel besteht darin, dass der oberste Wirtschaftsberater jetzt von einer anderen Bankrotteursbank kommt als vorher. Zum Beispiel Rettung der Automobilindustrie: Voraussetzung scheint ihm die Zerschlagung der Gewerkschaft. Zum Beispiel Gewerkschaftsbund: Der AfL-CIO brauche keine Massenkundgebungen, Lobbyismus bei Senatoren sei wirksamer, meint der designierte kommende Vorsitzende. Zum Beispiel millionenfache Hausenteignung: Die Skizze eines (in seinen eigenen Worten: enttäuschenden sozialen Gegenprogramms). Und anknüpfen an die Tradition von Seattle 1999: "Capitalism, no thanks - we will bury your banks!". All das nachzulesen in "Nationalize the banks?" publiziert im LBO am 20. April 2009: http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/nationalize-the-banks/



20 Jahre Exxon Valdez - 20 Jahre Lügen

Eigentlich habe Mark Twain schon alles über den Großtanker, der 1.200 Kilometer Küste von Alaska auf Ewigkeiten versaut hat gesagt: "Es gibt Lügen, verdammte Lügen - und Statistik". Die Exxon-Valdez Katastrophe steht - wie das AKW Three Miles Island - für Beinahe-GAUs, die per Medien-Mainstream und "Aussitzen" ad acta gelegt werden, zumindest für jene, die nicht direkt betroffen sind. Diese keineswegs amerikanische Spezialität untersucht in dem Beitrag "Stick Your Damn Hand In It: 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie" Greg Palast in seinem Blog am 23. März 2009: http://www.gregpalast.com/stick-your-damn-hand-in-it-20th-birthday-of-the-exxon-valdez-lie/


Aus: LabourNet, 24. April 2009



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Not the better part of valor

The Jurist
by Marjorie Cohn

04/23/09

Ultimately, it is up to Obama to fulfill his constitutional duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. As he seems inclined to shirk that duty, it is up to us to pressure him, and Congress to hold accountable, those who violate our laws. Obama said that ‘nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.’ He is wrong. There is more to gain from upholding the rule of law. It will make future leaders think twice before they authorize the cruel, illegal treatment of other human beings...

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The torture commission trap

CounterPunch
by Michael Ratner

04/23/09

If we are to stop torture in the future we need to send the clear message that if an official tortures, prosecutions will follow. Without that message the next President or even this one, can again put us on the page of torture by signing another executive order. And don’t think that won’t happen no matter how many commissions reach results saying the US should not have tortured. It will and Cheney, Hayden and other have said so...

http://counterpunch.org/ratner04232009.html


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Our Future
by Isaiah J. Poole

04/23/09

The Obama administration this week got a warning shot across its bow against structuring a bank resuce plan that would amount to yet another taxpayer subsidy of the wealthy. It’s a shot that progressives who have the administration’s ear on economic policy need to echo. That shot was fired when Treasury Secretary William Geithner was grilled before the Congressional Oversight Panel on Tuesday. The panel is probing the federal government’s financial rescue efforts. Damon Silvers, associate general counsel for the AFL-CIO and a member of the panel, zeroed in on the administration’s plans for a Public-Private Investment Program, which would buy up so-called ‘toxic assets’ from financial institutions, using a mix of taxpayer and private-investor dollars...

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Black magic dollars

Asia Times
by Richard Daughty [The Mogambo Guru]

04/23/09

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is proving an ever-more adept apprentice of his predecessor, the sorcerer Alan Greenspan, as he creates yet more billions of dollars out of thin air, while a lulled and ever-more impoverished audience is told that inflation is actually falling!!

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KD24Dj01.html


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Adam Smith Institute
by Tom Papworth

04/23/09

Somewhere in the hour-long spectacle that was today’s Budget Statement, Alistair Darling made a very interesting claim: ‘This Government, and others, have learnt from the historic economic mistakes of the interwar period, that countries cannot deflate their way out of recession.’ This is a fascinating statement for two reasons. Firstly, because history proves no such thing. In fact, I can think of very few, if any, examples where actively deflating the economy has been attempted. By comparison, inflation has been the stock response by governments across the globe for three quarters of a century, and the results have included the Winter of Discontent and Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’...

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CNN

04/23/09

The Defense Department will release ‘a substantial number’ of photographs showing abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The release will be in response to an open-records lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the group said in a written statement. The statement released late Thursday said the photos were taken at facilities other than Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. ‘These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib,’ Amrit Singh, an ACLU attorney, said in the release. The photos are to be released by May 28, the ACLU said...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/aclu.prisoners.photos/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US to Release Photos of Abuse of Prisoners in Afghanistan, Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/24-1

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Pentagon to Release Photos of Detainee Abuse

By Ann Scott Tyson

"This shows that the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was not aberrational but was systemic and widespread," said Amrit Singh, an ACLU staff attorney involved with the 2004 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that led to the promise to release the photographs. "This will underscore calls for accountability for that abuse." Singh called for an independent investigation into torture and prisoner abuse and said it should be followed, if warranted, by criminal prosecutions.

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Obama and the Big Dogs
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/23-8

Will Obama Reboot Capitalism Anew?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/23-4

Wall of Fear
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/23-3

Obama Plays Hamlet; Shredders Hum
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/23-1

Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/23-2

Advocacy Groups: A Quarter Million Americans Demand Torture Prosecutions
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/04/23-15

Amnesty International Members and Other Activists to March from Capitol to White House as President Reaches 100 Days Mark
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/04/23-11



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Ein Kommentar zu den immer düsteren Wirtschaftsprognosen und der verbissenen Heilserwartung an das wieder einsetzende Wirtschaftswachstum.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30188/1.html



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.

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Last updated 07:20, Friday, 24 April 2009

PEOPLE who live and work in Seaton have welcomed news that plans for a 50ft mobile phone mast have been rejected.

Mobile phone company Telefonica O2 wanted to erect the mast in the grounds of Seaton Rugby Club but Allerdale council officers have rejected the plan, under delegated powers, because it would be an intrusive, alien and unneighbourly feature.

The planning report also stated that Telefonica O2 had not given enough consideration to alternative sites.

Parents, teachers and residents had expressed concern about visual impact, property devaluation and potential health risks.

Allerdale council received 17 letters of objection and a petition with 234 signatures.

The council also received objections from Seaton Parish Council and Camerton Parish Council.

Lesley Grace, headteacher of Seaton Infant School, said: “We are thrilled and delighted that this potential health risk has been removed."

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http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/seaton_joy_as_mobile_phone_mast_plan_rejected_1_545381?referrerPath=home

Chris Metinko, The Oakland Tribune: "The foreclosure crisis is causing more problems than lost homes; it also is deteriorating the health of individuals and communities, according to housing advocates and East Bay officials."

http://www.truthout.org/042309HA



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Bill Moyers Journal: "As the demand grows for a new Pecora commission, the 1930's investigation into the causes and effects of the Great Depression, Bill Moyers speaks with economist Simon Johnson and Ferdinand Pecora biographer and legal scholar Michael Perino."

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Julie Sell, McClatchy Newspapers: "The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the US release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who'd been detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

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Tomoeh Murakami Tse and David Cho, The Washington Post: "The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department put considerable pressure on Bank of America to go through with its proposed merger with Merrill Lynch as the global financial system teetered in the final months of 2008, according to documents released today by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo."

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- Suite: Jean-Louis Borloo "l'écolo de tous les records" 3 millions de tonnes de CO2 !
- Enviro2b : Rémy Prud'homme Lampes à basse consommation "une fausse bonne idée"

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Coventry Telegraph - Coventry, England, UK

Now Warwickshire Lib Dem MEP Liz Lynne has called on the European Commission to do more to “dramatically reduce” the amount of mobile phone mast radiation ...

http://tinyurl.com/dbfn6f



To what research are they referring ? Certainly not Dr. Neil Cherry's, re the reduction of Melatonin in association with microwave emissions from transmitters. Proved by epidemiological tests in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland near a transmitter which had made peope ill for years! Nor the microwave expert Barrie Trower -see his Report on Tetra for the Police Federation and his 'Scrutiny' articles written for councillors' information. There is so much information proving the effects it would take me all day to write it here! Not to mention the evidence being ignored by the HPA; MTHR and the government - the symptoms suffered and which bear a direct relationship to the absence and strength of the emissions!

This 'rapid growth' has caused physical symptoms, not perceptions that 'maybe microwaves damage our health'! Not everyone suffers the same symptoms, because we have differing physiological strengths and weaknesses. e.g. Those with thicker skulls are less likely to suffer headaches.

It doesn't matter how many times we tell them, they won't listen until they absolutely have to! As France is asking for the precautionary measures (Sir William asked for them year ago!) and banning Wi-Fi until it is proved to be safe - and germany has told people not to use mobile phones but to use land-lines 0 and not to have anything to do with Wi-Fi - here's hoping the 'writing is on the wall' now!


Gill


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Residents protest about 'health risk' mast

Royston Crow - Royston, England, UK

Cllr Smith said: "A number of international scientific studies show that people living within 500 metres of mobile phone masts can develop life-disrupting ...

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French Bill in the pipeline on wireless communication
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Zum 23. Jahrestag der Tschernobylkatastrophe warnt die atomkritische Ärzteorganisation IPPNW vor einer "Renaissance der Atomenergie", die jetzt auch die Internationale Atomenergie Organisation (IAEO) propagiert. "Die gesundheitlichen Risiken der Atomenergie sind nicht beherrschbar, angefangen vom Uranbergbau über den laufenden Betrieb der Atomkraftwerke bis hin zur Endlagerung", meint die IPPNW-Vorsitzende Angelika Claußen. Seit "der größten industriellen Katastrophe" in Tschernobyl gebe es eine erdrückende Anzahl von wissenschaftlichen Studien, die laut Claußen belegen, "dass die Atomenergienutzung Gesundheit und Leben der betroffenen Menschen gefährdet".

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Dringender Handlungsbedarf beim Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz

„Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Peter Schaar, hat heute dem Präsidenten des Deutschen Bundestages, Dr. Norbert Lammert, den 22. Tätigkeitsbericht für den Zeitraum 2007/2008 überreicht. Hierzu weist er auf Folgendes hin: „Das Thema Datenschutz ist im letzten Jahr in Gesellschaft und Medien so präsent gewesen wie seit langem nicht mehr. Insbesondere die Skandale, etwa der Missbrauch von Adress- und Kontoverbindungsdaten, das Ausmaß des illegalen Datenhandels und die unzulässige Überwachung von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern haben bundesweit große Empörung hervorgerufen und den Ruf nach einem besseren und effektiveren Datenschutz laut werden lassen. Getan hat sich aber bisher nicht viel. Zwar hat die Bundesregierung noch im letzten Jahr einen Gesetzentwurf beschlossen, der die Rechte der Bürgerinnen und Bürger stärken soll. Doch inzwischen haben sich die Lobbyisten der Werbewirtschaft, des Adresshandels, aber auch die Profiteure des illegalen Datenhandels massiv eingeschaltet. Es ist zu befürchten, dass der Gesetzentwurf scheitert, denn bis zum Ende der Legislaturperiode bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit. Auch die versprochene Stärkung der Aufsichtsbehörden steht noch aus. Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger erwarten zu Recht, dass es nicht bei Ankündigungen bleibt, sondern dass der Datenschutz tatsächlich verbessert wird. Sonst ist nicht nur der Datenschutz in der Privatwirtschaft gefährdet, sondern auch das Vertrauen in die Politik…“ Pressermitteilung vom 21. April 2009 http://www.bfdi.bund.de/cln_027/nn_533554/DE/Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Pressemitteilungen/2009/PM12__UebergabeTB.html

Siehe dazu:

Datenschutz: 22. Tätigkeitsbericht 2007-2008 (pdf) http://www.bfdi.bund.de/cln_027/nn_533554/SharedDocs/Publikationen/Taetigkeitsberichte/TB__BfDI/22TB__2007__08,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/22TB_2007_08.pdf


Datenschutzbeauftragter Schaar: "Der Staat hat die Bürgerrechte eingeschränkt"

„E-Mail-Überwachung, Speicherung von Krankendaten, Ausspähen von Kontakten – die Liste der Datenschutzverletzungen der Unternehmen ist lang. Auch der Staat hat nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 die Bürgerrechte eingeschränkt. Das sagt der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar, der heute seinen Bericht vorlegt…“ Artikel in Die Welt vom 21. April 2009 http://www.welt.de/politik/article3593924/Der-Staat-hat-die-Buergerrechte-eingeschraenkt.html


Die große Koalition versagt beim Datenschutz

Trotz der Skandale bei Telekom, Lidl und Bahn fehlt die Lobby für den Schutz der Bürger. Kommentar von Ewald B. Schulte im Tagesspiegel vom
22.4.2009 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/Datenpannen-Datenschutz;art141,2779227


Datenschutzbericht: Exorzismus ohne Erfolg

„Lidl, Bahn & Co. praktizieren das, was der Staat ihnen vormacht: exzessive Überwachung. Das dicke Buch des Datenschutzbeauftragten hilft da nichts - die Politik muss die Gesetze überprüfen…“ Ein Kommentar von Heribert Prantl in der SZ vom 22.04.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/266/465852/text/


Spitzeln schickt sich nicht

„Die Überwachungsmaßnahmen in Betrieben werden skandalisiert – aber mehr als moralische Verfehlungen denn als Instrumente der Macht des Kapitals über die ­Arbeiter und Angestellten…“ Artikel von Felix Klopotek in der Jungle World vom 23. April 2009 – wir danken der Redaktion für die sofortige Freischaltung! http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2009/17/34154.html

Aus dem Text: „…Dem Betriebsfrieden abträglich sind alle Nachrichten, die den Abhängigen deutlich machen könnten, dass sie sich selbst einen einseitigen, be­dingungslosen Waffenstillstand auferlegt haben, derweil die Gegenseite fortführt, was sie seit gefühlten 5000 Jahren macht – und dazu zählen nun einmal Bespitzelung, Überwachung und das Aufbauen von Druck bis hin zum Terror gegen Abweichler und Aufmüpfige im Betrieb. Die Verlaufsform der Skandale gestaltet sich anti-kritisch, denn sie zielt auf die Wiederherstellung des moralischen Gerechtigkeitsempfindens. Telekom, Deutsche Bahn, Airbus – das sind Unter­nehmen, die im Bewusstsein der Bevölkerung nach wie vor als Staatsunternehmen gelten, und Bespitzelung gilt als unschicklich. Die Sozialpartnerschaft zu wahren, hat hier einen hohen ideologischen Wert, aber auch einen ganz praktischen. Immer noch garantiert die Bahn den Zusammenhalt des Transportnetzes; immer noch ist die Telekom die Herrin über die elektronische Kommunikation. Streiks in diesen Unternehmen würden also direkt auf die Infrastruktur der modernen Gesellschaft zielen…“


Spezial: Überwachte Beschäftigte

Lidl, Bahn, Telekom, Daimler, Müller - manche Unternehmen scheren sich kaum um Datenschutz und Arbeitsrecht. Wie dreist sie ihre Beschäftigten bespitzeln - und die Folgen. Special in Frankfurter Rundschau online http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/spezial_ueberwachte_beschaeftigte/1729368_Mitarbeiter-Daten-Rasterfahndung-war-unzulaessig.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. April 2009



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23. April 2009

Der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst fordert in der Krise mehr Solidarität mit den Beschäftigten. Nötig seien konkrete Maßnahmen für Menschen, die arbeitslos werden oder vom Jobverlust bedroht sind. Er erklärt:

Es ist lächerlich, wenn die SPD jetzt Angst vor sozialen Unruhen schürt, die sie selbst heraufbeschworen hat. Angesichts der Ignoranz der Bundesregierung bleibt den Beschäftigten gar nichts anderes übrig, als für ihre Interessen zu kämpfen. Wir brauchen jetzt keine Angstparolen. Nötig ist jetzt Solidarität mit den Menschen. Überall dort, wo Beschäftigte um Arbeitsplätze und gegen Lohnraub kämpfen, brauchen sie Hilfe aus der Politik. Außerdem sind jetzt konkrete Hilfen für Menschen notwendig, die arbeitslos werden oder vom Jobverlust bedroht sind. Massenentlassungen in profitablen Unternehmen müssen verboten werden. Unternehmen, die Staatshilfen wollen, müssen auf betriebsbedingte Kündigungen verzichten. Eine längere Zahlung des Arbeitslosengelds, mehr Rente und höhere Hartz-IV-Sätze wären jetzt geboten. Um Vertrauen zu schaffen, brauchen wir außerdem eine Staatsgarantie für die Sozialkassen. In der Krise muss die Kürzung von Sozialleistungen verbindlich ausgeschlossen werden.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/wir-brauchen-keine-angstparolen-sondern-solidaritaet/



26. April 2009 Dietmar Bartsch

Überflüssige Debatte

Zur Forderung von Innenminister Schäuble nach Beendigung der Debatte um soziale Unruhen erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Diese Debatte ist überflüssig. Sie lenkt nur von der Unfähigkeit der Regierenden ab. Ein Schutzschirm für Menschen ist das Gebot der Stunde mit einem Verbot von Massenentlassungen, der Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen durch öffentliche Beschäftigungsprogramme, eine Verlängerung des Arbeitslosengeldes I und eine Erhöhung der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze. Die Geschichte zeigt: Soziale Unruhen kommen unabhängig vom Politikergequatsche.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/ueberfluessige-debatte/

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Sommer und Schwan warnen vor sozialen Unruhen

Wirtschaftsforscher und Gewerkschaften zeichnen ein düsteres Bild von der Lage in Deutschland. Nach Ansicht führender Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute befindet sich die Bundesrepublik in der tiefsten Rezession seit ihrer Gründung. Der Chef des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), Michael Sommer, warnt vor sozialen Unruhen. Auch SPD-Bundespräsidentenkandidatin Gesine Schwan befürchtet eine wachsende Wut der Menschen. CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer kritisierte die Äußerungen.

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“Sham” debate on masts and mobiles

The Connexion - UK

A DEBATE on the risks of phone masts and mobile phones taking place today has been labelled a “masquerade” by public health campaigners. ...

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Families vow to fight phone mast bid

Cambridge Evening News - Cambridge, England, UK

The mast is close to homes and is also on a route used by children walking to school. Town councillor Bob Smith is leading the resistance in his role as ...

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Acton Institute
by John Pisciotta

04/22/09

What should be done about earmarks? Some Republicans and Democrats call for reform. I propose total elimination of this political cancer. It is sickening the body politic by damaging its moral culture, destroying the good faith in government that is required for a just and effective rule of law. An earmark is a ’small’ spending provision attached to an appropriations bill by a representative or senator for spending in his or her district or state. Individual earmarks, typically in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, are too insignificant to receive scrutiny in the legislative process...

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The fatal thread

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

04/22/09

This is one reason why Barack Obama is so obviously reluctant to tug on the torture thread too hard. If you tear it out, with full-scale prosecutions and top officials locked up behind bars, the whole rotten skein would fall apart. Once you start genuinely subjecting government officials — including security apparatchiks and military brass — to the full extent of the law, there would be no end to the unraveling: senators, contractors, representatives, bureaucrats, generals, lobbyists, judges, corporate chiefs — the whole edifice of Establishment power would be shaken to the core as its leading lights went down, one after the other...

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Ten terrible truths about the CIA torture memos, part 1

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

04/20/09

In their attempts to justify the use of torture by U.S. forces, Yoo and Bybee not only sought to redefine ’severe pain or suffering’ and ’severe mental pain or suffering;’ they also sought to nullify the concept of ’specific intent’ by providing a defense for anyone whose actions were undertaken ‘in good faith,’ and, in addition, noted, ‘Even if an interrogation method arguably were to violate Section 2340A, the statute would be unconstitutional if it impermissibly encroached on the President’s constitutional power to conduct a military campaign’...

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part 2
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0904j.asp


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La Crosse Tribune

04/22/09

As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA’s request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique. Rice’s role was detailed in a narrative released Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It provides the most detailed timeline yet for how the CIA’s harsh interrogation program was conceived and approved at the highest levels in the Bush White House...

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ACLU: Judge Upholds Guantánamo Prisoner's Right to Challenge Indefinite Detention
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Amnesty International - USA: Senate Report Strongest Refutation to Date of 'A Few Bad Apples' Theory, Says Amnesty International
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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Torture and Accountability
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A Closer Look at Obama's 'New' Position on Torture Prosecutions
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Wieder einmal wollen Reproduktionsmediziner menschliche Embryos geklont und in Leihmütter eingepflanzt haben - noch ohne Erfolg.

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22 April 2009

By Andy Hughes

HUNDREDS of villagers have handed over letters objecting to plans for two mobile phone masts near their homes.

Vodafone wants to put up masts on two sites in Boldon – in Western Terrace, West Boldon, and on the Hutton Street Industrial Estate in Boldon Colliery.

But villagers living near both sites are unhappy about the plans and have vowed to fight them all the way.

More than 400 letters opposing the proposed masts have been handed into South Tyneside Council after mum-of-two Victoria Elphstone formed the protest group Boldon Against The Masts to urge fellow residents to put their objections in writing.

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VICTORIA NICHOLLS

Last updated: 23/04/2009 08:48:00

Householders in Beccles say they should have been consulted before permission was granted for a new mobile phone mast.

However, the council insists it followed procedures correctly.

Gresham Road resident Melissa Squire said she was “mortified” after returning home to find a T-Mobile mast being put up on George Westwood Way, less than 100m from her home.

She said: “I think it's absolutely outrageous that they have let that mast go up without letting people know. I don't think that anybody in that council office would want it next to their home. It's really sneaky and downright unfair on all the people who live here.”

She said that she and neighbours were particularly worried about the potential impact on children's health, adding: “People's health is the most important thing. We don't seem to matter.”

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Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown

We pointed out that one of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect [1] named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called "enhanced interrogation techniques." The CIA has never acknowledged holding Ghul, and his whereabouts today are secret.

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Torture orders 'came from the top'

TOP US officials, not a "few bad apples" of low rank, were behind harsh military interrogation tactics that spread from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to Iraq, a new Senate report says.

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Report: Bush policies led to prisoner abuses

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee's chairman, said the report shows that abuse of prisoners was sweeping and not, as former Bush administration defense official Paul Wolfowitz once said, the result of "a few bad apples." As the No. 2 defense official, Wolfowitz was a major architect of the Iraq war.

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/04/22/D97NNNO00_us_interrogation_memos_senate/



'Top Bush hawks fed on torture'

It brought into attention the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's reported decision on December 2002 to give carte blanche to military interrogators to administer 'enhanced interrogation techniques' - a euphemism for torture used by the Bush administration.

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Adviser says Bush admin collected, destroyed dissenting views on torture

A onetime senior adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush Administration collected and destroyed memos by top officials arguing that torture methods used on detainees were wrong.

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Justice Department Memos on Interrogation Techniques

View Original Memos

The Justice Department on Thursday released detailed memos describing harsh interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency. President Obama said that C.I.A. operatives who carried out the techniques would not be prosecuted

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Bush legal adviser met with cries of 'war criminal' at debate

John Yoo, one of the legal architects of the Bush Administration's "torture policies," was met with outrage at a talk given at Chapman University in California Tuesday, where he reportedly faced cries of "war criminal" as he approached the stage.

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UN World Health Organization (WHO) officials are concerned by the warning signs, including rising malnutrition indicators - like increased cases of stunting, wasting and underweight children - and continuing high rates of anaemia among children and pregnant women.

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British soldiers 'tortured and murdered 20 Iraqis, then covered it up with firefight claim'

They were taken away to a camp where they were beaten with a rusty tent pole, punched, slammed against walls, denied water, blasted with loud music, and forced to strip naked in the presence of a woman, the court heard. The next day, only nine men from the group captured remained alive - and 20 corpses were returned to their families.

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Army officer: Report cites Abu Ghraib 'scapegoats'

Col. Janis Karpinski said Tuesday that "from the beginning, I've been saying these soldiers did not design these techniques on their own." She told CBS's The Early Showthat servicemen and women stationed in Iraq "were following orders."

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Major Charles Burney Confirms Torture Was Carried Out to Get False Iraq-al Qaeda Link

The Senate Armed Services Committee report does a very good job of describing the process by which Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld drove prisoner interrogation techniques into the realm of torture.

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US ‘Af-Pak’ strategy inadequate

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By Chuck Neubauer

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.

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Bush Torture Memos

Revealing the Secrets in Room 101

By Scott Horton

In the first of the four memos, we learn that one prisoner has been the subject of a careful psychoanalysis that had revealed a strong fear of insects, particularly stinging insects. The sudden onset of a phobia can produce automatic, uncontrollable reactions-the fear grips total control of the subject's mind.

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Harsh Tactics Readied Before Their Approval

Senate Report Describes Secret Memos

By Joby Warrick and Peter Finn

Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods -- and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect, Senate investigators have concluded.

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Torturers Should Be Punished

By Amy Goodman

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the OLC under Bush "became a facilitator for illegal government conduct, issuing dozens of memos meant to permit gross violations of domestic and international law."

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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "In America's relations with Islamic countries, a peculiar dishonesty reigns. It is all so hush-hush, and often done with a wink and nod, as the rulers of these lands lead Washington to believe one story while telling their own people the opposite. The media reports are hard to forget: Arab nations wanted the Bush administration to invade Iraq. Sunni Arab leaders are urging Israel and the United States to bomb suspected nuclear sites in Shiite Iran. And, from The New York Times last week, 'Pakistan Rehearses Its Two-Step on Airstrikes.'"

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