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KATE SCOTTER

13 May 2009 17:00

Families are gearing up to fight off plans for a controversial phone mast - for the second time.

Last year, people living in the Wensum ward successfully campaigned against a planning application from mobile phone company Orange for a 20m phone mast on the Guardian Road Industrial Estate.

More than 600 signatures were collected on a petition against the mast and Norwich City Council planning officials refused the proposals.

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Jason Leopold: Truthout: "The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor's criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes will be compromised if the agency is forced to turn over detailed documents to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describing the contents of the tapes, according to newly released court documents."

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The "Suicide" Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi: Why The Media Silence?
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Matt Renner, Truthout: "Ask most people on the street how much money taxpayers are using to save banks and you will probably hear the number $700 billion. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed by Congress at the urging of the Bush administration and then Treasury secretary Henry Paulson, allocated an unprecedented sum of taxpayer money for the sole purpose of propping up the financial sector in its darkest hour. But the actual number is much bigger. The current block of taxpayer money that has been pledged by the US government and the Federal Reserve to prevent the system from collapsing, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News, is roughly $12.8 trillion as of March 31. In an interview with Truthout, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida), said the Federal Reserve is practicing 'Enron accounting,' and has 'socialized Wall Street's bad bets.'"

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First scientist to study genetic makeup of virus says it may have escaped from a vaccine production facility

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

One of the first scientists to properly analyze the genetic makeup of the so-called swine flu virus that emerged three weeks ago in Mexico and led to fears of a global pandemic states that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory.

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Friday, May 08, 2009, 12:00

Jessica Thompson

A FARMER from Eridge has slammed Network Rail for an "eyesore" communications mast put up while he slept.

Paul Russell, who lives and works at New House Farm on Sand Hill Lane, has criticised the rail operator for installing the mast, and claims there was no consultation with nearby householders.

The 20m structure was erected during the night on Wednesday April 29, according to Mr Russell, and stands just a few feet away from his farmhouse.

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How can they do this? When you think how hard it can be to get planning permission for work on your home or health and safety so over the top with things yet this still happens.

Adrienne.

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Sean Gangol

05/10/09

For years we have known how biased the mainstream media can be when it comes to certain issues. This bias could be attributed to the fact that most of these so-called journalists are completely ignorant about certain issues. Another possibility is that they think everybody else is ignorant and will believe whatever they are told. Whatever the reason, maybe this is why more people are turning to alternative media outlets such as Fox News, talk radio and various internet sources. These sources can be just as biased as any of the mainstream news networks, but at least there are alternatives...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle518-20090510-03.html


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CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

05/12/09

A statute’s words do not tell how the law will be interpreted and applied. All laws are expansively interpreted. For example: The Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was directed at drug-lords. Nothing in the law says anything about divorce; yet it soon was applied in divorce cases. …. With this in mind, consider the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Opponents criticize the bill for adding a second punishment to existing punishments for acts of violence. Assault, murder, rape are crimes regardless of motivation. The penalties are sufficient, or can be made so, without applying a new crime of motivation that creates specially protected classes, such as homosexuals and minorities. To commit a violent act against a member of a specially protected class will carry a heavier punishment. How will a court know whether a violent act was committed because of hatred or because of sexual lust or the need for money? As case law is made, the likely direction will be to eliminate intent...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts05122009.html


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Campaign For Liberty
by Ron Paul

05/12/09

While much of the country’s attention is on other issues, a serious situation is developing in Pakistan that threatens to plunge us into another fruitless and bloody war. It is very frustrating to see that many who were so vehemently against the wars of the last administration have suddenly lost interest in foreign policy simply because we were promised change. Those still paying attention know that nothing could be further from the truth. Very little has changed, except perhaps rhetoric, but what does that matter when the bombing missions are only getting deadlier?

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=75


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe
by Carol Rose & Michael German

05/12/09

Information is power and law enforcement seems hungry for both. A recent report that police in Massachusetts pried into personal information about movie stars and sports heroes by trolling the Criminal Offender Record Information system is the latest example of the abuse that occurs when police and other government agencies have unchecked power to collect, use, and even share personal data about citizens. This kind of abuse doesn’t stop with the stars, and it doesn’t stop with CORI. The misuse of law enforcement databases, as reported by the state auditor, can have serious consequences for ordinary residents as well as celebrities. Unmonitored access to poorly regulated databases gives power to local law enforcement to pry into and share information about innocent people and potential criminals alike...

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by Lynn Stuter

Why does the United States government want this information on you? Two reasons. The first reason is control. Information that will allow them to control you, by coercion if necessary. Need medical care? You will only get it if it serves the government's interests. You speak out against the government? No medical care. Your death means one less resister!......

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Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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Why don't we stop hurting the planet?
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The Mistake of Afghanizing Pakistan
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Global Wamring Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year
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Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?
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Sucker's Rally, Not Green Shoots
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Obama's Stock Market Mini-Bubble
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Is America Overstretched?
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ISIS Press Release 06/05/09

Banking for bankers and corporations

The events of the past year have led to many hard questions being asked about our financial system and ‘free market economy’. Commentators are finally starting to challenge the assumption on which so much has depended, that the market is always right - the invisible hand will guide the economy to make the most effective use of resources – and if there is ever a deviation from this optimal state, the market will correct itself. That is why the bankers and their allies insist governments must not interfere with the operation of the market. In practice, however, it means that all important decisions are taken by the people who run the banks and the big corporations.

This is a very convenient theory for bankers, whose telephone number salaries are one of the things we are not to interfere with. But the theory is simply wrong.

To be sure, the market is generally able to correct small disturbances from the optimum. If there are too few pizza restaurants to satisfy the demand, more will open; if there are too many then some will go out of business. As a result, we should end up with about the right number. For that sort of thing, the market generally works a lot better than having some bureaucrat in charge.

Unfortunately, how a complex nonlinear system reacts to small perturbations is not in general a good indicator of how it will react to large ones, and that is certainly the case with economies. Markets frequently go to extremes and show no signs of returning to normal on their own, in complete contradiction of what the theory predicts. As George Soros points out [1], in recent years alone governments have had to intervene in the international banking crisis in 1982, the bankruptcy of Continental Illinois in 1984, the emerging markets crisis of 1997, the failure of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and more besides, including of course the current credit crunch. The same bankers who demand free rein when times are good are quick to run to the government for help when their excesses get them into trouble.

The first priority of governments is clearly to get the economy moving again and people back into work. Now that the myth of the market has been so obviously demolished, however, they should ignore what Soros calls the “market fundamentalists” and put in place measures designed to stop it going wrong in the first place. To a large extent, this would mean simply bringing back rules that were abolished in the 1980s and 1990s, when the neo-liberals dominated economics both in theory and in practice.

Light touch regulation failed to protect savings and pensions

It is now argued that there should be strict regulations governing what banks can do. They would not be obliged by law to comply, but those that did not could not expect to be bailed out by the taxpayer if they ran into trouble. We would also include a rule that because of the extra risk, pension funds and public bodies should not be permitted to invest in banks that have not signed up to the code. If we cannot prevent some people gambling, at least we can stop them doing it with our money.

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Jeremy Rogalski, KHOU-TV: "Take Houston's heat on a miserable summer day and add 40 degrees, making temperatures 130 or more. Next, add an extra 100 pounds of life-protecting gear to your body: bulletproof vests, guns and ammunition. And then imagine not having enough water around to drink. Stories of short supplies have haunted the US military throughout the war in Iraq - things like inadequate body armor or unshielded Hummers. But while many soldiers say they had good access to water and even Gatorade, the 11 News Defenders discovered that others, stationed all over the country and during all phases of this desert war, say something else was often missing."

http://www.truthout.org/051209T?n

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "There are many reasons progressives will mobilize behind the campaign of Marcy Winograd, who announced on Monday that she'll challenge incumbent Congresswoman Jane Harman in the 2010 Democratic primary."

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The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates.

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By Gary Leupp

There is clearly a faction of the power elite that is, and has for some years been pressing, for a U.S. military attack on Iran.

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Are We Being Conditioned To Accept a Pre-emptive Attack on Iran?

By rds2301
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22599.htm



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THOMAS B. EDSALL

Crony Capitalism: How The Financial Industry Gets What It Wants

huffingtonpost.com — The tilt of American policy in favor of the finance industry — reflected in the policies of recent Treasury Secretaries Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin — cannot be attributed to any one person or institution. The industry flexes unsurpassed muscle in the political system, backed by billions of dollars invested in candidates and lobbying, a vast grassroots lobbying network of local bankers, the growing centrality of finance in the national economy, and widespread acceptance among public officials of a pro-market, deregulatory philosophy.

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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

Wall Street, DC, and the New Financial Euphoria

huffingtonpost.com — Talk about premature exaltation. The insider consensus seems to be that the worst of the hard times is behind us and that the economy is back on track. Or at least on track to be back on track. Not even the latest employment stats showing that another 539,000 Americans had lost their jobs dimmed the enthusiasm. Call it The New Financial Euphoria.

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- Next-up "École Gerson : Bouygues Telecom SA Ordonnance d'Assignation -TGI Lyon
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12. Mai 2009

Heute hat in Bochum die Hauptversammlung des Deutschen Städtetages begonnen. Im Zentrum stehen die Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Finanzlage der Städte und die Zukunft der Jobcenter. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Stefan Ludwig, Bürgermeister von Königs Wusterhausen (Brandenburg):

Die Folgen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind in den Kommunen bereits spürbar. Bei einem Investitionsrückstau von 700 Milliarden Euro sind die zehn Milliarden aus dem Konjunkturpaket der Bundesregierung kaum mehr als der sprichwörtliche Tropfen auf den heißen Stein, zumal die Kommunen Eigenanteile aufbringen müssen. Im Konjunkturpaket selbst sind Steuersenkungen mit enthalten, die die Einnahmesituation bei Städten und Gemeinden in den kommenden zwei Jahren mit ca. fünf Milliarden Euro belasten werden. Das wird die Handlungsfähigkeit der Kommunen weiter einengen. In einem Haushalt, der kein Geld mehr für freiwillige Ausgaben wie Kultur, Sport und Jugendarbeit hat, geht der politische Handlungsspielraum gegen Null. Die Bundesregierung ist in der Pflicht, die dringend notwendige Reform der Jobcenter noch vor der Bundestagswahl auf den Weg zu bringen. Durch permanentes Wahlkampfgeplänkel ist die Bundesregierung nicht mehr handlungsfähig. Die Lasten der gegenseitigen Blockade der Regierungsparteien tragen in diesem Fall die von Hartz IV Betroffenen sowie die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Jobcenter. Offensichtlich hoffen CDU und CSU auf eine neue Koalition mit der FDP, um dann Hartz IV vollständig in die Hände der Kommunen zu legen. Damit würde sich der Bund nicht nur seiner Verantwortung entziehen, die ursprüngliche Idee der Jobcenter, die eine Wiedereingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt befördern sollten, würde ad absurdum geführt. DIE LINKE fordert, dass alle Erwerbslosen von einer Anlaufstelle unterstützt, betreut und vermittelt werden. Diese Einrichtung kann nur eine unter sozialen Gesichtspunkten reformierte Bundesagentur für Arbeit sein.

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Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine: "Private security contractor Xe (formerly Blackwater USA) has fallen on hard times. Iraq has yanked its license, forcing Blackwater out of one of its former operations centers. Last December, five Blackwater employees were indicted on fourteen manslaughter charges and allegations they used automatic weapons in the commission of a crime. A sixth Blackwater agent pleaded guilty to two charges as part of an agreement to testify against his colleagues. Now the company faces more bad news. Bill Sizemore of the Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot reports that charges are being brought based on obstruction of justice."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Studies that go back to World War II have found that combat veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide as people in the general population. Other lesser known distressing facts are that nine percent of all unemployment in the United States is attributed to combat exposure, as is 8 percent of all divorce or separation and 21 percent of all spousal or partner abuse. The impact of all this extends to behavioral problems in children, child abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, incarceration, and homelessness, all of which have implication that go well beyond the individual and reverberate across generations. As both occupations continue into the indefinite future, we should not be surprised when we hear of more atrocities like what happened Monday in Baghdad, whether they occur in Iraq or in the United States."

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15:21 - 12 May 2009

PHONE masts are set to be erected in Royston despite objections from local residents and the town council.

Last month, members of the Templar's Gate residents group lodged a formal objection to plans, submitted to North Herts District Council by mobile network Vodafone, to put 3G phone masts on street lights just off Melbourn Road.

At Monday's meeting of the Royston town council planning committee, Cllr Lynn Berry, chairman of the committee reported that the town council would oppose the plans too.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 08:30

RESIDENTS have won a fight against a giant telecommunications mast, after telling Vodafone where they could stick it.

Vodafone dropped proposals for a site at Froghall Road, Cheadle, after a public outcry amid fears over potential health risks.

A public consultation exercise was held and residents put forward alternative locations, which Vodafone confirmed they are now exploring.

Residents in the Brookhouse area of Cheadle are still waiting to hear if they have won a similar battle against plans for a mast on their doorsteps.

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http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Residents-block-phone-mast-plan/article-984392-detail/article.html

May 12 2009 by David Black, The Journal

PARENTS and local residents look set to win their battle against a bid to erect a mobile phone mast next to a school on one of the region’s most affluent housing estates.

Telefonica O2 UK wants to put up the 12.5 metre high mast and associated equipment just yards from Darras Hall First School on the upmarket estate of the same name in Ponteland, Northumberland.

Eighteen letters of objection have been received from local people, most of whom are worried about the potential effects of electromagnetic radiation on youngsters at the 450-pupil school.

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12. Mai 2009

Insolvenzrisiko wird vollständig auf Steuerzahler abgewälzt

Zu den jetzt bekannt gewordenen Plänen der Bundesregierung zur Bereinigung der Banken-Bilanzen durch so genannte Bad Banks erklärt das Mitglied des Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstands Ulrich Maurer:

Das jetzt bekannt gewordene Modell der Bundesregierung dient vor allem dem Schutz der Gläubiger der Banken, während das Insolvenzrisiko vollständig auf den Staat und auf die Steuerzahler abgewälzt wird. Es ist in höchstem Maße intransparent und verschleiert die tatsächlichen Vorgänge. Dem jeglicher öffentlichen Kontrolle entzogenen Bankenrettungsfonds SoFFin eröffnet es einen Spielraum für nicht durchschaubare Operationen zu Gunsten der Banken. Die Bundesregierung folgt damit ihrer Politik der Sozialisierung des Risikos bei gleichzeitig größtmöglichem Schutz für die Anteilseigener. Vor allem Finanzinvestoren werden als Gläubiger der Banken von jedem Risiko freigestellt.

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Antonio Negri über verfehlte Kritik und neue Bedingungen der Ausbeutung.

Interview von Themas Atzert und Alexandra Weltz in der taz vom 09.05.2009 http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/theorie/artikel/1/we-must-try/


"Von der Krise in den Absturz? Stabilisierung, Umbau, Demokratisierung"

Kurzfassung des Memorandum 2009 der Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik (pdf) http://www.memo.uni-bremen.de/docs/memo09-kurz.pdf


Nürnberg beendet Cross Border Leasing: "Froh, nicht draufzahlen zu müssen"

„Der fränkischen Metropole ist es gelungen, den Cross Border Leasing Vertrag mit einem amerikanischen Investor zwanzig Jahre vor Ablauf der Frist zu kündigen. Das Geschäft brachte der Kommune 10,6 Millionen Euro Gewinn ein – trotzdem konnte der Nürnberger Stadtkämmerer Harald Riedel (SPD) seine Gelöstheit über den vorzeitigen und vor allem glimpflichen Ausgang des Geschäfts angeblich kaum verhehlen…“ Beitrag von Reinhard Jellen im Telepolis-Nlog vom 02.05.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/137130


Pleiten, Pech und nun das Aus für ÖPP in Leimen

Das Frei- und Hallenbad in Boris Beckers Heimatstadt wird wieder städtisch. Ein Beispiel unter vielen. Zum Nachahmen. Artikel aus der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung vom 1.4.09 (pdf), dokumentiert bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/090402_oepp_in_leimen_beendet.pdf


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

Fight the crisis: put the people first

Die internationale Mobilisierungsseite von the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) http://www.etuc.org/a/5972


Am 16. Mai 2009 auf nach Berlin! Soziale Unruhen? Yes we can!

Mobilisierungsclip der Verdi Campus Gruppe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXY3lMI0Bw


Für sichere Arbeitsplätze und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Die Profiteure müssen zahlen!

Die Mobilisierungsseite von ver.di http://sechzehnter-mai.verdi.de/


Sozialprotest-Block auf Gewerkschaftsdemo am 16. Mai in Berlin:
30-10-500-Block („Triadenblock“)

Der Sozialprotestblock ist ein Demonstrationsblock, den alle Organisationen gemeinsam bilden werden, die auf der Gewerkschaftsdemo am
16. Mai in Berlin vor allem die drei Forderungen 30-Stundenwoche, 10 EUR Mindestlohn und 500 EUR Alg-II-Eckregelsatz (drei Forderungen, "Triade") in die Öffentlichkeit tragen und weitere Menschen dafür gewinnen wollen. Ort: Der Sozialprotest-Block (Triaden-Block) wird sich am 16. Mai ab 10:30 Uhr an der Rückseite des Hauptbahnhofs, an der Invalidenstraße (nahe Sozialgericht) treffen, genau an der Kreuzung Invalidenstraße, Ecke Heidestraße, Friedrich-List-Ufer. Aufruf von und bei ABSP http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2009/demo-mai16/


Aufruf zur Teilnahme der Bündnisgruppen „Wir zahlen nicht für Eure Krise" an der DGB Demo am 16.5. in Berlin (Demozug Hauptbahnhof) Aufruf vom Bündnis "Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise - für eine solidarische Gesellschaft" (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2009/16maibuendnis.pdf


Friedensbewegung unterstützt Gewerkschaftsprotest. Gegen Krise und Krieg: Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau!

„Die Friedensbewegung will sich mit eigenen Forderungen an der Großdemonstration der Gewerkschaften in Berlin am kommenden Samstag (16. Mai) beteiligen. Dies beschloss der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag bei seinem letzten Treffen in Kassel…“ Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/dgb-demo.html


Tabubruch in Stuttgart

IG Metall Baden-Württemberg ruft zu Aktionen gegen Krisenfolgen auf. DGB-Demonstration am 16. Mai in Berlin und Bildungsstreik am 17. Juni nächste Etappen des Protests. Artikel von Herbert Wulff in junge Welt vom
11.05.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/05-11/057.php

Aus dem Text: „Bundesweit ist die nächste Protestetappe die vom DGB im Rahmen eines europaweiten Aktionstags organisierte Demonstration am 16. Mai in Berlin. Obwohl die Gewerkschaftsapparate – die sich bei den von linken Gruppen und Basisaktivisten veranstalteten Demos am 28. März noch vornehm zurückgehalten hatten – die Mobilisierung tragen, kommt diese mancherorts offenbar nur schwer in Gang. Das könnte durchaus mit der von der Gewerkschaftsspitze vorgegebenen politischen Ausrichtung zu tun haben. Diese versucht recht unverfroren, den Protest in eine Wahlkampfhilfe für die SPD umzumünzen. Vollends offensichtlich wurde dies bei dem in der vergangenen Woche von SPD-Präsidium und DGB-Bundesvorstand präsentierten gemeinsamen Positionspapier »Für ein Europa des sozialen Fortschritts« (…) Zudem spricht sich Riexinger für weitere regionale Mobilisierungen noch vor dem Sommer und für einen bundesweiten Aktionstag mit örtlichen Protesten im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl aus. So könne ein Generalstreik »schrittweise vorbereitet« werden. Sobald dann nach der Wahl die Rechnung für die Krise in Form einer »Agenda 2020« präsentiert wird, sollte die hiesige Arbeiterbewegung auch vor diesem – anderswo durchaus üblichen – Mittel nicht mehr zurückschrecken…“


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Mai 2009



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BKA-Gesetz: RAV erhebt Verfassungsbeschwerde

„„Mit dem BKA-Gesetz steht nicht weniger auf dem Spiel als die freie Advokatur, d.h. die Ausübung der anwaltlichen Tätigkeit frei von staatlicher Kontrolle, Einschüchterung oder Bevormundung.“ Mit dieser Warnung begründet die Berliner Rechtsanwältin Andrea Würdinger, Vorsitzende des Republikanischen Anwältinnen- und Anwältevereins (RAV) den Schritt, gemeinsam mit zwei Vorstandskollegen aus dem RAV gegen das BKA-Gesetz Verfassungsbeschwerde einzulegen…“ Pressemitteilung vom 11. Mai
2009 http://www.rav.de/news.php#


Zusammenfassung der wesentlichen verfassungsrechtlichen Beanstandungen des RAV (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/terror/bka_rav.pdf


BKA-Gesetz gefährdet anwaltliche Berufsausübung. Der Republikanische Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein hat Beschwerde vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht eingelegt

„Onlinedurchsuchungen, Ermittlungen ohne Tatverdacht, Videoüberwachung innerhalb der Wohnung: Kritik gibt es an der Neufassung des BKA-Gesetzes vom Dezember 2008 und den der Behörde darin neu erteilten Befugnisse genug. Jetzt gehen auch die Anwälte auf die Barrikaden: Der Republikanische Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (RAV) sieht die freie Advokatur in Gefahr und hat heute Beschwerde vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht eingelegt…“ Artikel von Benjamin Laufer in telepolis vom 12.05.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30301/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Mai 2009



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Common Dreams
by Dave Lindorff

05/10/09

What a joke the Obama administration is becoming, as it keeps trying to prop up failing industry after failing industry. First we had the president becoming First Car Salesman, offering federal guarantees for GM and Chrysler car warrantees so that potential car customers wouldn’t turn away from those two companies’ showrooms fearing that the manufacturers would go bust and leave them holding the bag. Then he started touting the cars themselves, saying they were ‘great products’ and that people should go out and buy them. Now we have the White House and Treasury Department assuring us that all 19 of the country’s biggest banks are going to survive the credit crisis and the economic slump, and that they are all basically sound...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/10-4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

05/12/09

The problem with assessing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy after little more than 100 days is that it is nearly impossible to distinguish what has already become policy from approaches that might be termed more tentative. Does he really think that a continued American engagement in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and on behalf of Israel serves the national interest? Maybe not. There are signs that a broad reassessment of U.S. policy is underway, though critics who have been rightly soured by eight years of George W. Bush’s blundering note that Obama appears to have embraced the interventionist formula that has proven so disastrous. Nation-building will not work in Afghanistan, and interference in neighboring Pakistan has produced a nuclear country that is self-destructing. Taking the two countries together, it is clear that Central Asia has become the poster child for U.S. foreign policy ineptitude...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/05/11/saigon-again/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/11/09

A few — and only a few — prescient commentators have questioned whether the U.S. can sustain its informal global empire in the wake of the most severe economic crisis since World War II. And the simultaneous quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading more and more opinion leaders and taxpayers to this question. But the U.S. Empire helped cause the meltdown in the first place...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2498


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bloated Empire and the Financial Crash
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/12-5



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Agence France-Presse

05/10/09

More than 25 of the CIA’s war-on-terror prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation during the administration of former president George W. Bush, the Los Angeles Times reported. Citing memoranda made public by the Justice Department, the newspaper said that at one point, the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to keep prisoners awake for as long as 11 days. However, the limit was later reduced to just over a week, the report said. Sleep deprivation had been one of the most important elements in the CIA’s interrogation program, used to help break dozens of suspected terrorists, the paper said...

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

First, it was a Missouri Analysis and Information Center (MIAC) report; then it was a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report; now it is a New York congressman's bill. Each of these items, taken on their own, is problematic enough; taken together they portend "a clear and present danger" to the liberties of the American people. It is getting very serious now.

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin511.htm

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I’m a terrorist, you’re a terrorist

Wendy McElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

05/11/09

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security released its controversial report that warned against ‘right-wing extremists.’ … Although Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano eventually backed away from the report’s targeting of military veterans, she has not similarly withdrawn from viewing anti-government sorts — like libertarians — as threats to security. … Compared to the April 7th report, an 11-page memo entitled ‘Domestic Extremism Lexicon’ has received less attention — perhaps because it did not mention veterans. Dated March 27th, its public lifespan was a flicker; the document was yanked back almost as soon as it saw the light of day. The memo defined dozens of groups as potential threats to security …. Taken together, the two documents could chill the blood of anyone who believes in a free or civil society — not just libertarians but anyone who values freedom of speech, religion, the press, etc. ...

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“Thought crimes” bill advances

Cato Institute
by Nat Hentoff

05/11/09

Why is the press remaining mostly silent about the so-called ‘hate crimes law’ that passed in the House on April 29? The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in a 249-175 vote (17 Republicans joined with 231 Democrats). These Democrats should have been tested on their knowledge of the First Amendment, equal protection of the laws (14th Amendment), and the prohibition of double jeopardy (no American can be prosecuted twice for the same crime or offense). If they had been, they would have known that this proposal, now headed for a Senate vote, violates all these constitutional provisions...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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"Position ist Identität"

Der US-amerikanische Geograph Jerome Dobson warnt vor Gefahren der Ortungstechnik.

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Buchhaltungstricks pushen Bankgewinne

Das Bankenwunder an der Wallstreet ist nichts anderes als ein übler Buchhaltungstrick, der sich als gefährliche Zeitbombe herausstellen wird.

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Die Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik will die "heiligen Kühe" der deutschen Sicherheitsarchitektur schlachten.

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "Suppose that the federal government decided to give every newborn baby $200,000. That might seem like an extremely generous gift. However, by the peculiar accounting of those who claim to be watchdogs for future generations, this policy would be bankrupting our kids."

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- TAIPEI-TIMES : "La Commission Nationale des Communications - NCC
(ndlr: l'équivalent français de l'ARCEP) s'est battu pour proposer la limitation des antennes relais"
- "Alors que l'OMS dit n'y a pas de preuve qui montrent que les antennes relais sont dangereuses, un amendement proposé les limite maintenant à 3 par installation sur les bâtiments"
- De plus "l'amendement adopté stipule qu'aucune station de base d'antennes relais ne peut être installée dans les écoles secondaires publiques ou privées ainsi que dans les écoles primaires"



- TAIPEI-TIMES: "National Communications Commission (NCC) battles proposal to limit wireless stations"
- "The WHO said there was no evidence to show base stations are dangerous,
but a proposed amendment would limit them to three per building"
- "The amendment further stipulates that no base stations can be installed in public or private senior high schools, junior high schools and primary schools"

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

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