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7:50am Saturday 9th May 2009

By Gavin Aitchison

A PHONE mast looks set to get the go-ahead in west York, despite objections from more than 100 local residents.

Planning officials say there is no legitimate reason to block Vodafone’s application for a 14.2-metre (47 feet) mast on the corner of Boroughbridge Road and Plantation Drive.

The application will be considered by a City of York Council committee on Thursday. Planning officer Richard Beal has advised councillors to approve it, despite 118 locals signing a petition against it and three writing letters of objection.

In a written report to councillors, Mr Beal said he recognised the “sensitive nature” of such applications, but said policies acknowledged that there was a need for such masts.

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http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/4355158.118_signature_York_petition_and_three_letters_of_objection__but_phone_mast_backed/

Pharmaunternehmen bezahlen Ärzte im Rahmen von Schein-Studien für die Verordnung bestimmter Medikamente. Mit Hilfe der Studien, so genannter Anwendungsbeobachtungen, würden vor allem therapeutisch...

http://medien.diagnose-funk.org/videos/gierige-helfer---pharmaindustrie-bezahlt-aerzte.html



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MSNBC News: "The Obama administration will retain a Bush-era rule for polar bears, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday, in a move that angered activists who noted the rule limits what can be done to protect the species from global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/050809EA?n



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David Vine and Miriam Pemberton, Foreign Policy in Focus: "At the 100-day mark, the new president has tackled an extraordinarily wide-ranging agenda, but one item will need his attention soon: closing the empire of US bases around the world. One place to start is to reverse the marine protection areas that the last president established in the Pacific."

http://www.truthout.org/050809S?n

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Construction on vast new US base in S. Afghanistan began as soon as Obama was in office
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8597/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Die Bewertung der mehreren tausend Milliarden an "Toxic Assets" dürfte nur ein Bruchteil der Probleme des Finanzsektors darstellen. Viel größer ist vermutlich die Unsicherheit bei den so genannten Derivaten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30268/1.html

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Es ist kaum zu glauben, aber einfach nachzurechnen. Und ist es auch Wahnsinn, so hat es dennoch Methode ...

Ruth Gill

Berechnung der Finanzkrise
Zwei Empfänger dieser Nachricht haben mich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass die Berechnung in der Präsentation falsch ist. Als ich die Präsentation erhalten habe, kam mir die Behauptung zunächst unglaubhaft vor. Deshalb habe ich mehrfach nachrechnet, kam dabei aber mit den vielen Nullen ins Schleudern - und habe es schließlich geglaubt. Rechnen war noch nie meine Stärke. Jetzt steht fest, dass das richtige Ergebnis der Rechnung 104 Dollar lautet. Herr H. schreibt mir dazu:

"Diese richtig gerechneten Zahlen sagen inhaltlich das Gleiche aus wie diejenigen in Ihrem gesendeten Anhang: die Unverschämtheit dieser ganzen Finanzaktionen. Jeder Betrieb, der bankrott geht, wird geschlossen, die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft gezogen. Bei den Banken ist es umgekehrt: Die werden mit der Summe belohnt, um die sie die Menschen betrogen haben. Natürlich würde nicht jeder Mensch gleich Millionär, wenn die Gelder an die Menschen ausgeschüttet würden: aber für die meisten Menschen wären genau die 104 lumpigen Dollar ein Vermögen, welches sie existentiell bitternötig bräuchten! Da sieht man das ganze Ausmaß des "Imperiums der Schande" (=Buchtitel von Jean Ziegler)."

Hier in Bolivien sind 100 Dollar für viele Menschen ein Monatslohn.

Bitte entschuldigen Sie den Irrtum.


Ruth Gill



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US unemployment hits 25-year high

A US government report says the US economy lost 539,000 jobs in April, catapulting the unemployment rate to 8.9 percent -- its highest point in a generation.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94037&sectionid=3510203



Fannie asks for another $19 billion

FNM 0.82, -0.06, -7.1%) asked for an additional $19 billion from the Treasury Department on Wednesday, the firm revealed on Friday.

http://snipurl.com/hn1wg


Poorest, most vulnerable paying for bank bailouts

"Here we have just this transfer, this massive transfer of public wealth into private hands," Klein explained, "and that's continuing and it's much, much larger, just on a much larger scale than any of the investments we're seeing through the stimulus or the budget."

http://snipurl.com/hn1xq


From Information Clearing House



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The Pentagon's proposed $534 billion budget calls for more spending on projects like Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 fighter jet, a naval destroyer built by Bath Iron Works and Sikorsky's Black Hawk helicopters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_bi_ge/us_budget_defense_programs


From Information Clearing House



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By Anwar Iqbal & Ron Paul

'We are bombing a sovereign country. Where do we get the authority to do that? Did the Pakistani government give us written permission? Did the Congress give us written permission to expand the war and start bombing in Pakistan?' asked the US lawmaker.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22568.htm



Red Cross Warns of Crisis in Pakistan

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that up to half a million people may have been uprooted by the fighting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/world/asia/08pstan.html?_r=1


From Information Clearing House



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By Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, and Mark Matthews

Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras; Agency denials refuted.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22573.htm



School of the Americas CIA Torture Manual

Manuals used by the U.S. Army's School of the Americas between 1982 and 1991 appeared to condone executions, beatings and other human rights abuses, the Pentagon said in a disclosure that prompted renewed calls for the school's closure.

http://mediafilter.org/guest/Pages/September.21.1996.23.26.32



Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

By Noah Shachtman

It makes the Pentagon's secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside, "roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan," Sweetman adds. All in all, about seven and a half percent of the Defense Department's total spending is now classified.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22571.htm


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By Stephen C. Webster

Under fire from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that he had approved of rendition - essentially, "legalized" kidnapping - apparently more than once during his tenure as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22569.htm



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By Elliot Cohen

The Obama administration is now considering reinstating the Military Commissions Act after a four-month suspension, in contradiction to the president's promise to end military tribunals for detainees and to close down Gitmo.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22567.htm



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By Ted Rall

American soldiers serving in Vietnam wondered what they were fighting for. U.S. troops in Afghanistan don't have that problem. They know exactly what they're fighting for: rapists.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22574.htm



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By Patrick Cockburn

Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22572.htm



Violent protests follow deadly US air strikes

Furious protesters vented their frustration in the western Afghan city of Farah after the reported killing of up to 100 civilians during US-led air strikes earlier this week. US military and Afghan officials have stepped up an inquiry into the raids.

http://www.france24.com/20090507-violent-protests-follow-civilian-deaths-us-air-strikes-afghanistan



After US Strikes, Afghans Describe

"Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies"

By Jeremy Scahill

As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up. Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increase.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22578.htm



Afghanistan: DOD Makes Excuses, CNN Rushes to Repeat the Spin

Yesterday, while Sec. of State Clinton was expressing "deep regret" over Monday's civilian deaths in Bala Baluk, US military spokespeople were telling a different story.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/07/afghanistan-dod-makes-excuses-cnn-rushes-to-repeat-the-spin/



Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April

In the past month, warplanes released 438 bombs, the most ever. April also marked the fourth consecutive month that the number of bombs dropped rose, after a decline starting last July.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/05/airforce_april_airstrike_050409w/



Massacre of civilians overshadows "AfPak" summit

The airstrikes carried out by the US military against remote villages in Afghanistan's western Farah province have provided a grim warning of what the US escalation will mean for the peoples of the region.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/afgh-m08.shtml



Afghan leader demands air strikes end

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday demanded an end to US air strikes, which he said killed as many as 130 civilians and were infuriating the public.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090508/wl_afp/afghanistanunrestuscivilians



Afghan villagers list 147 killed by US air strikes

Residents of two villages hit earlier this week by US air strikes have prepared lists with the names of 147 people killed in the attacks, the deputy governor of the province where the strikes took place said.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=174789



Karzai "very serious" on ending air raids: official

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is "very serious" about a demand for foreign forces in Afghanistan to halt air raids, even though it was rebuffed by a top U.S. security official, his spokesman said on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE54A12420090511



Obama adviser says US won't stop Afghan airstrikes

In a blunt rebuff of the Afghan president, President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Sunday the United States would not end airstrikes in Afghanistan even though they are blamed in the deaths of hundreds of civilians during the war.

http://www.adn.com/uspolitics/story/790432.html



US accused of illegal white phosphorus attack in Afghanistan

Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch and a former senior Pentagon intelligence analyst, said there has been widespread and regular use of white phosphorus by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/ht9gu



Probe reveals, US killed 140 Afghan civilians in strikes

An investigation appointed by President Hamid Karzai concluded on Monday that 140 civilians, including children, were killed in the US air strikes in Afghanistan last week, a police chief said.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214760



So Long Since Dreaming Made Sense

By Paul A. Moore

Barack Obama's national security advisor Gen. James Jones, rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai's demand the U.S. halt all aerial attacks in that country. Gen. Jones said, "we can't fight with one hand tied behind our back." With both hands free a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Farah province killed as many as 130 civilians.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22613.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner379.html



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

A very good article.

Martin


Potential hazards of wi-fi technology in schools

Friday 8th May 2009 at 09:00

ePolitix.com speaks to Philip Parkin, general secretary of Voice: the union for education professionals about the potential effects of wi-fi technology in schools on the health of children.

Question: You have strong views on wi-fi in schools, what are your concerns about the potential effects on children?

Philip Parkin: There are a number of them. There seems to be an increasing quantity of evidence being produced around the world which suggests that exposure to electromagnetic radiation can have long-term health impacts both on children and adults but particularly children. Exposing young children (from birth to 12 years of age) to electromagnetic radiation can produce changes in cell formation, genetic changes, and potential cancers.

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Philip Parkin speakes up against WiFi

Philip Parkin, general secretary of "Voice: the union for education professionals", has spoken out in a comprehensive interview covering a number of controversial areas of the existing education system. The first four questions were based on the proliferation of WiFi in UK primary and secondary schools and whether the rollout is appropriate in the light of existence evidence and understanding of the science on similar technologies. In response to these, Philip covered the most relevant points from the point of view of concern over the uncertainty of whether a risk will be present, and if so what sort of prevalence and severity the increase in risk is likely to be.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20090518_parkin_school_wifi.asp



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/08



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Debate Over Psychologists' Role in Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/08

Memo: Pelosi Knew About Use of Harsh Tactics
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/08-1

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The national commentariat is obsessed with the subject of torture
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo50.html



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Das Nilgiri-Biosphärenreservat in Indien beherbergt die größte Population asiatischer Elefanten. Bauvorhaben der indischen Behörden bedrohen die jahreszeitliche Wanderung der Tiere. Im Februar hat Rettet den Regenwald eine Aktion zum Erhalt eines wichtigen Migrationskorridors gestartet. Nach Erhalt von Tausenden E-mails aus aller Welt sind die indischen Behörden von dem Bauplan im Reservat abgerückt. Doch nun plant eine andere Behörde, ein Neutrino-Forschungszentrum im Nilgiri-Schutzgebiet zu errichten.

Protestaktion (Start: 07.05.2009)
http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=400

AlterNet
by John Byrne

05/06/09

United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup investigations. In all, 98 detainees have died while in U.S. hands. Thirty-four homicides have been identified, with at least eight detainees — and as many as 12 — having been tortured to death, according to a 2006 Human Rights First report that underwrites the researcher’s posting. The causes of 48 more deaths remain uncertain...

http://tinyurl.com/c3tkyu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Burnham-On-Sea - Somerset, UK

The Planning Inspectorate is to hold a public inquiry in Burnham-On-Sea next week regarding the location of mobile phone giant O2's 'temporary' phone mast...

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2009/o2-mast-apeal-08-05-09.php



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The Nation
by William Greider

Now it’s official. Prosperity is right around the corner. We have heard the good news from both Wall Street and Washington. President Obama is careful not to use those very words … [b]ut the Obama administration sees ‘green shoots’ sprouting all around and it offers hard evidence in the long-anticipated results of its ’stress tests’ for major banks. Good news! Nobody is insolvent. … They can all weather the storm, with a little more aid from Uncle Sam. The stock market turned bullish in anticipation, and so has Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. With few qualifiers, the Fed chairman announced a recovery is likely in the second half of the year. Well, maybe not for employment, but that’s a lagging indicator and financial markets always lead the way...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/greider2



Are we all doomed?

TCS Daily
by Josie Appleton

05/07/09

Once, the apocalypse was an aberrant state of affairs, brought about by otherworldly forces. In traditional religion, some divine power burns up the earth and blacks out the sun, and creates a ‘new heaven and a new earth’ which is quite different from our own. In classic science fiction, the apocalypse comes from outer space or strange and mysterious creatures — the mutant from Mars, Triffids, giant leeches, or crab monsters. Cold War sci-fi presented threats to the world as coming from Them! or It!: the threats were extraordinary and Other. The world did not end every day. Now, the end of the world has become a resolutely everyday matter, the outcome of ordinary things...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=050909A


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US bank stress tests rigged to benefit Wall Street

It makes this assertion even while acknowledging that should the recession deepen significantly, the 19 banks could suffer $599.2 billion in losses over the next two years, and that their total loss rate for loans would be 9.1 percent, exceeding the levels of the 1930s.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/pers-m08.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk

05/07/09

Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as ‘human shields’ by the Taliban and we shall say that we ‘deeply regret’ innocent lives that were lost. But we shall say that it’s all the fault of the terrorists, not our heroic pilots and the US Marine special forces who were target spotting around Bala Baluk and Ganjabad...

http://tinyurl.com/cy2cx4



Obama and the “National Day of Prayer”

Christian and State
by Nellis Lake

05/06/09

Imagine a proclamation by Caesar that there would be a “National Day of Prayer’ happening in the time of Christ. How do we think Jesus would respond? Would He be ecstatic, or wary? What need the church of a declaration of a day of prayer by a secular or pagan state?

http://tinyurl.com/c5wefh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Campaign For Liberty
by Bretigne Shaffer

05/07/09

Ask anyone who has lived under a repressive regime and they can tell you how it changes people. There are the obvious things like the fear of the knock at the door in the middle of the night, the loss of control over even the most mundane aspects of one’s own life and people using the apparatus of the state to settle personal grudges. But beneath all of these are deeper changes to the the way people behave and the way they treat each other. There is the unwillingness to smile or speak to strangers, or even to open up too much to friends for fear of information getting into the wrong hands...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=66


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=obedience
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bretigne+Shaffer

Abilene Reporter News

05/07/09

President Barack Obama sent Congress a detailed budget Thursday boasting of cutting or killing 121 federal programs in a belt-tightening he likened to that of most Americans in difficult times. But the trims amounted to a tiny fraction of the new spending he wants, and some have already been nixed by allies on Capitol Hill. Obama said his cuts would amount to $17 billion — in a budget totaling well over $3 trillion for the fiscal year that begins in October...

http://tinyurl.com/op2q7c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30263/1.html



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Everyday is Doomsday in Washington
http://lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt379.html

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Manan Ahmed on the Politics of US 'Hysteria' Over Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/05/08

Smart Power in Pakistan/Afghanistan?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/08-6



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Published Date: 08 May 2009

By Holly Whitmill

Campaigners are celebrating after stopping a phone mast being built in open countryside.

Mobile phone company O2 had hoped to install a 12.5m mast and 1.65m high equipment cabinet in Old Budbrooke Road, opposite Montgomery Avenue, Budbrooke.

But objectors said the mast, next to a tree and backing onto open fields, would spoil the environment.

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Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy Gap

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "A front-page New York Times headline last week put the matter politely indeed: "In Pakistan, US Courts Leader of Opposition." And nobody thought it was strange at all."

http://www.truthout.org/050709U?n



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Betting on a Global Crapshoot

Steve Weissman, Truthout: "You have to hand it to Wall Street. It wreaks havoc on the global economy, and the rest of us - as taxpayers - prop it up so that it can do it all over again."

http://www.truthout.org/050709R?n



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