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Die normale, billige und umweltfreundliche Glühlampe war in Neuseeland verboten worden, aber am Mittwoch, 17.12.2008 teilte die neuseeländische Regierung das Ende des Verbotes mit.

http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org/Lampen.505.0.html#6919


Peter Schlegel, Dipl. Ing. ETH/SIA
Güeterstalstrasse 19
CH-8133 Esslingen
Tel. ++41 +44 9840039
Fax ++41 +44 9841936
info@buergerwelle-schweiz.org
http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org

Neuseeland hebt das Glühlampenverbot wieder auf


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- EHS USA : Mary Jodi Rell, gouverneur de l'État du Connecticut:
- "Le mois de la prise de conscience de l'Électro Hyper Sensibilité (EHS)"
.."... ATTENDU QUE, les symptômes de l'EHS incluent des changements dermatologiques, des engourdissements aigus et des picotements, des dermatites, des rougeurs, des maux de tête, des arythmies,
des faiblesses musculaires, des acouphènes, des malaises (vertiges), des problèmes gastriques, des nausées, des perturbations visuelles, des problèmes sévères neurologiques, respiratoires, des problèmes d'élocution et de nombreux autres symptômes physiologiques".

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

LES LEOPOLD

alternet.org — We're at the moment Wall Street has been waiting for: The time where we begin to forget who brought the economy down.

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JOHN DUNBAR AND DAVID DONALD

The Bad Guys of Subprime Lending Are Raking in Bailout Billions

alternet.org — The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or bankrolled by banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges.

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ADRIANNE APPEL

Banks in Recovery as Home Foreclosures Hit Record

ipsnews.net — The banks are selling stock and debt, and racking up excellent returns on mortgages, loans, high credit card rates and refinancings. Meanwhile, home foreclosures in April were 342,000 — the highest level yet — and average national unemployment rose to 8.9 percent, the highest level since 1983. Some communities are just barely hanging on.

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ART LEVINE

Corporations Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics

huffingtonpost.com — A definitive new look at the scope of employer ant-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.

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JOHN KAY

Bail-out Kings and Backbench Barons Beware

ft.com — We need to reassert the notion that roles of authority are positions of responsibility rather than declarations of personal merit and routes to personal enrichment. That notion goes with old-fashioned concepts of social obligation and public service. An insistence that power is a duty, not a prize, is probably the most important reason why some countries in the world are rich and others poor. The point needs to be brought home in equal measure to legislators, chief executives and bankers.

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AlterNet
by Marie Cocco

05/19/09

The partisan firefight over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary allegation that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ — torture — is a blessing. It turns the compelling case for a public inquiry into the Bush administration’s policies toward terrorism detainees into an urgent necessity. Americans must finally own up to what was done, at whose order, with whose acquiescence, and why. The United States government must at last hold accountable the architects of this calamity — not only the underlings like Lynndie England and Charles Graner and Janet Karpinski, those frontline military personnel who paid the price for bit roles in the scandal after the first stomach-turning photos of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison came to light...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/140108/time_for_a_truth_commission/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

05/19/09

Dick Cheney’s ‘Shut Up and Listen’ tour continued last week on CBS’s Face the Nation. There, the former veep reiterated his favorite theme: Obama is putting America at risk by ‘taking down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe.’ What in the world is Cheney talking about? Granted, Obama’s anti-terror policies are clouded by rhetorical ‘Hope’ and euphemism, and the new administration is less given to chest-thumping than its predecessor. Otherwise, Obama’s approach to terrorism is virtually identical to Bush/Cheney’s...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10217


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cheney's Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/22



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CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

05/20/09

As the Obama administration prepares to relaunch Dick Cheney and David Addington’s reviled Military Commissions (with claims that they will be used for less than 20 of the 241 prisoners still held), senior officials have been largely silent about the eventual fate of the rest of the prisoners, with the exception of a few recent remarks indicating that they are also thinking of pressing for a form of “preventive detention” for 50 to 100 of the prisoners.The irony — that all the prisoners have been enduring a form of “preventive detention” for over seven years — is apparently lost on the government, which has also maintained a resolute silence in response to a handful of habeas corpus cases (in which the prisoners are seeking to have their cases dismissed by the courts, as mandated by the Supreme Court last June) that have resulted in judges pouring scorn on the government’s supposed evidence...

http://counterpunch.org/worthington05192009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jane Arraf, The Christian Science Monitor: "On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits. Except that Iraqi and American military officials have decided it's not. As the June 30 deadline for US soldiers to be out of Iraqi cities approaches, there are no plans to relocate the roughly 3,000 American troops who help maintain security in south Baghdad along what were the fault lines in the sectarian war."

http://www.truthout.org/051909C?n



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "US Army soldiers in Afghanistan took dozens of pictures of their colleagues pointing assault rifles and pistols at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees and another photograph showed two male soldiers and one female soldier pointing a broom to one detainee 'as if I was sticking the end of a broom stick into [his] rectum,' according to the female soldier's account as told to an Army criminal investigator."

http://www.truthout.org/051909A?n



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Charlottetown, The Guardian - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

“Federal guidelines for allowable human exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell towers are hopelessly outdated,” said Peter Bevan-Baker, ...

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=252430&sc=98>

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Every Household on the Hook for $109,887
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Housing construction, permits hit record lows

The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units -- the lowest pace on records going back a half-century.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-construction-drops-apf-15288681.html?.v=6



Present Economy worse than Depression

Video

Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw


From Information Clearing House



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The Illinois Senate has jumped into the deep water of foreign policy by passing a resolution that criticizes President Barack Obama's plan to step up military efforts in Afghanistan.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/may/12/news/chi-ap-il-xgr-illinois-afgh


From Information Clearing House



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Terming drone attacks as a serious blow to Pakistan's sovergnity, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday made it clear that US must review its policy.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Glen Ford

Saving the finance capital oligarchy has emerged as President Obama's central mission - the guiding focus of his young administration. Obama has found new and myriad ways to go where no American president has ever gone before, in funneling somewhere around $13 trillion of national treasure to the parasitical class that goes by the shorthand, Wall Street.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22658.htm



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By Cindy Sheehan

To those of you who don't support me, sorry to tell you, I am not, or never will give up. If I survived burying my oldest son for lies, I can survive any crap you or the Robber Class throws at me. The system seriously underestimates the love and commitment of a mother wronged. There are two illegal occupations raging, still, and more than enough work to do to wrest our country out of the hands of militarists/corporatists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22656.htm



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By Jeff Sparrow
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22654.htm



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By Robert Dreyfuss

Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can't win the war in Afghanistan. So what's the exit strategy?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22662.htm



Terrorism Breeds Terrorism

By Paul Balles
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22653.htm



Anti-American?

Ads You Won't See In The US Or Online

By Nicholas Carlson

History is written by the winners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22651.htm



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A Call to Disarm

By William A. Cohn

In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22655.htm



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Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "'Shock Doctrine' author Naomi Klein and Al Jazeera host Avi Lewis discuss the workers who are taking over their factories and plants rather than lose their jobs, some to owners who owe money to bailed-out banks. They also address the latest news in the nation's global economic collapse amidst the White House and Democratic-led Congress's rejection of single-payer health care."

http://www.truthout.org/051909LA?n



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Robert Draper, GQ: "Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics - his administration peers - are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't pretty."

http://www.truthout.org/051909R?n



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Media Matters for America
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/19-11



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Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-7

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Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law - a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun? Security reasons were, of course, alleged, but they remain hard to take seriously."

http://www.truthout.org/051909B?n



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Troy Davis Files Final Appeal to US Supreme Court
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/19

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3.000 Personen und Familien, die seit 2005 in Wohnwagen leben, weil der Wiederaufbau der Stadt New Orleans ohne sie geplant ist, haben jetzt Nachricht bekommen mit einer Frist, bis wann sie diese Wohnwagen zu verlassen haben. Damit wird die - in diesem Falle Bundespolitik - Konitnuität zwischen der neuen und der vorherigen US-Regierung hergestellt. In dem Beitrag "Obama Shows His True Katrina Colors" von Glen Ford, am 13. Mai 2009 im Black Agenda Report veröffentlicht, wird mit heftigen Worten diese Kontinuität kritisiert. Die Empfänger der schlechten Nachricht gehören zur einstigen afroamerikanischen Bevölkerungsmehrheit: http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-shows-his-true-katrina-colors


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2009



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„Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) und Partnerorganisationen veranstalten am Samstag, den 23. Mai 2009 in vielen Städten einen Aktionstag gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Wirtschaft und Staat. Mit Grundrechtsfesten, Informationsveranstaltungen und Demonstrationen in über 20 Städten Deutschlands möchten die Bürgerrechtler die historische Errungenschaft der Freiheitsrechte als Erbe der Aufklärung in Erinnerung rufen und das Vertrauen in unsere Sicherheit in einer freien Gesellschaft stärken…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 18.05.2009: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/307/79/

Details zum Programm der einzelnen Städte finden auf der Homepage „Freiheit statt Angst“ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/304/153/


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2009



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ILO-Report: Zwangsarbeiter werden weltweit um rund 21 Milliarden US-Dollar betrogen

„Sie arbeiten in der Landwirtschaft, in Textilfabriken, auf dem Bau und im Haushalt. Auch im 21. Jahrhundert ist das Thema Zwangsarbeit weiter aktuell. Kaum ein Arbeitsbereich ist davon ausgenommen. Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation ILO beschreibt dies in ihrem Bericht »Die Kosten des Zwangs«. Doch es gibt auch wenige positive Entwicklungen, denn das Thema ist längst kein Tabu mehr…“ Artikel von Haidy Damm im Neues Deutschland vom 15.05.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/148847.entrechtung-und-globale-ausbeutung.html

Siehe dazu:

»Die Kosten des Zwangs«

Gesamtbericht im Rahmen der Folgemaßnahmen zur Erklärung der IAO über grundlegende Prinzipien und Rechte bei der Arbeit, herausgegeben von der Internationale Arbeitsorganisation ILO, Mai 2009 (pdf) http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_106233.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2009



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„Mit Empörung und Unverständnis hat die IG Metall in Olpe gestern auf eine Rabattaktion der Olper Zeitarbeitsfirma „S&F Personaldienstleistungen - Sauerland” unter dem Titel „Alle müssen raus” reagiert. Denn gemeint sind mit „Alle” die Arbeitnehmer von „S&F”, die im Rahmen der Aktion für 15 Prozent weniger Kosten (Stundensätze) von Unternehmen ausgeliehen werden können. Wie bei anderen gewerblichen Rabattaktionen ist der Titel „Alle müssen raus” mit einem Sternchen versehen - kleingedruckt ist am Fuß der Seite zu lesen: „Angebot gilt nur vom 27. April bis zum 30. Juni 2009.”...“ Artikel von Josef Schmidt auf DerWesten vom 14.05.2009 http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/olpe/2009/5/14/news-119682711/detail.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2009



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„Bund und Länder fördern mit Millionen Steuergeldern Betriebe, die Dumpinglöhne an ihre Beschäftigten zahlen. Dies geht aus einer Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine parlamentarische Anfrage der Linkspartei hervor. Demnach flossen zwischen 2004 und 2007 knapp hundert Millionen Euro an die Callcenter-Branche, die für eine extrem schlechte Bezahlung bekannt ist und in der es keinen Mindestlohn gibt. Entsprechend hoch ist der Anteil der Aufstocker, die zur Existenzsicherung trotz der Arbeit auf zusätzliches Hartz IV angewiesen sind. Nach Angaben der Bundesregierung waren im Juni 2008 von den sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten neun Prozent auf diese Hilfe angewiesen. Bei den anderen Jobs lag der Anteil sogar bei 18 Prozent...“ Artikel von Markus Sievers in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 18.05.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1759126_Callcenter-Steuergelder-fuer-Lohndruecker.html

Siehe dazu auch

Bundesregierung: Kein Mindestlohn für Callcenter-Beschäftigte? Armutslöhne kontra Staatssubventionen & enorme Gewinne

„Nichts sehen, nichts hören, nichts sagen – und vor allem nicht handeln. Das ist die Devise von CDU und SPD, wenn es um die Beschäftigten in den Callcentern geht. In dieser Branche gibt es seit Jahren ein Skandal: Beschäftigte arbeiten zu Armutslöhnen ohne gewerkschaftliche Mitbestimmung, während die Unternehmen Staatssubventionen bekommen und enorme Profite machen. DIE LINKE. hat dies im Bundestag mit Anfragen zum Thema gemacht. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse...“ Dieser Beitrag und weitere Infos zu Callcentern finden sich auf der Sonderseite von Sabine Zimmermann (MdB – Die Linke) http://www.sabine-zimmermann.info/callcenter.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2009



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- Non respect de la convention (bail) par l'opérateur Orange SA : "Philippe Kaltenbach, maire de Clamart en a marre des antennes relais d'Orange . . . Il les désactive"
- Invité du JT de France 3 Stéphane Audran. (vidéo)
- La communication par affiches de la ville de Clamart : Principe de Précaution (pdf - poster)
". . . Le Maire de Clamart, décide de ne plus louer de toitures de la Ville ou de Clamart Habitat à des opérateurs de téléphonie mobile et ne les autoriser que sur des bâtiments privés distant de plus de 100 m d'un établissement scolaire ou d'une crèche". (cf. Recommandation européenne 99/519 décret n° 2002-775)

http://www.next-up.org/France/Orange.php#2

Scarborough Today - Scarborough, England, UK

By Kirsty Beever

PLANS to place a mobile phone mast close to a pub and children's play area have sparked anger among residents. Vodafone has submitted plans ...

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Outcry-over-phone-mast-plan.5279177.jp

Real Clear Politics
by David Ignatius

05/17/09

Remember those ‘toxic assets’ that were clogging the financial system a few months ago? Well, despite all the billions in government bailout programs, they’re mostly still there. And in trying to clean up the system, the Obama administration has actually created a new category of toxic assets that banks desperately want to get off their books — namely the U.S. Treasury’s forced infusions of capital...

http://tinyurl.com/p78lxb



Obama’s magic bubble deflator

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

05/18/09

In case you’ve ever wondered what it must have been like to read Pravda, reading the American media’s treatment of the financial crisis and our wise leaders’ expert management of it all has given everyone a wonderful opportunity. For instance, check out this piece from several days ago on Politico. If you can’t bring yourself to click on the link, I’ll give you the headline: ‘Obama Would Regulate New ‘Bubbles’...

http://mises.org/story/3464


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

05/18/09

Although I reported last week about an important court case in favor of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo, there was little in the way of progress, during the first 115 days of the Obama administration, for the men who are still held, despite the president’s pledge to close the prison within a year. Just one prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, had been released, out of the 241 prisoners still in Guantanamo, but that, it was clear, was simply because his well-chronicled torture in Morocco and Afghanistan had become a persistent irritant to both the British and American governments in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0905h.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AlterNet
by Arianna Huffington

05/18/09

When it comes to addressing America’s disastrous war on drugs, the Obama administration appears to be moving in the right direction — albeit very, very cautiously. On the rhetorical front, all the president’s men are saying the right things. … But when it comes to putting its rhetoric into action, the Obama administration has faltered...

http://tinyurl.com/ozgvsj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

05/18/09

The nation’s top military officer warned Monday that the deaths of Afghan civilians caught up in U.S. combat operations could cripple President Barack Obama’s revamped strategy for the seven-year-old war. ‘I believe that each time we do that, we put our strategy in jeopardy,’ Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30815232/



Caught in a lie

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/18/09

When doctors started reporting that some of the victims of the US bombing of several villages in Farah Province last week — an attack that left between 117 and 147 civilians dead, most of them women and children — were turning up with deep, sharp burns on their body that ‘looked like’ they’d been caused by white phosphorus, the US military was quick to deny responsibility...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff05182009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Panetta: Airstrikes Have Been 'Very Effective'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/19-8



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Video

Are there limits to what corporations can exploit for profit? The disturbing truth revealed in this phenomenal three-hour free documentary.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/19/Will-Corporations-Control-Plants-Animals-and-Even-Your-DNA.aspx

The shrinkage of General Motors and Chrysler's dealer networks is putting more than 100,000 jobs in doubt at car yards in towns and cities across America

http://snipurl.com/iadbb


From Information Clearing House

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Auto bailout blues: Spin, lies and layoffs

The Nation
by John Nichols

05/16/09

The madness of the approach adopted by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to war in Vietnam was summed up by the American major who said after the destruction of the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre: ‘It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.’ The madness of the approach adopted by the Bush and Obama administrations to the renewal of the American auto industry has been summed up by the Treasury Department’s latest statement on the ‘restructurings’ of the Chrysler and General Motors automotive companies. … It may be true that the tens of billions in federal tax dollars that are being pumped into Chrysler and General Motors will save the names of these companies. But the auto-industry ‘restructuring’ is not saving auto plants that have been targeted for closing, tens of thousands of auto workers who face layoffs, auto dealers who are being ‘consolidated’ out of business and perhaps 100,000 service and repair employees who are soon to be jobless...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/436597


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned.

http://snipurl.com/iad6q



US Backing for World Currency Stuns Markets

US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is "quite open" to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22300.htm



Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds

Japan beware, crashes have a habit of bringing regime change.
http://snipurl.com/iad7v


From Information Clearing House



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With respect to concerns Israel might carry out an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, the US president said that since Israel is "right there in the range" of Iranian missiles, "their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute."

http://snipurl.com/iacsr



CIA to Israel: Prepare for a Nuclear Iran

Aaron Klein, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for http://www.WorldNetDaily.com and author of "The Late Great State of Israel," reports that during a secret visit here earlier this month, CIA Director Leon Panetta told Israeli officials the country should prepare for a situation in which Iran is a nuclear power with the ability to strike.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/990


From Information Clearing House



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By Nouriel Roubini

Traditionally, empires that hold the global reserve currency are also net foreign creditors and net lenders. The British Empire declined - and the pound lost its status as the main global reserve currency - when Britain became a net debtor and a net borrower in World War II. Today, the United States is in a similar position.

The Almighty Renminbi?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22643.htm

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Jim Rogers on the Chinese Currency

After Bernanke has destroyed the dollar, will the Renminbi be the next world reserve currency?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j11.html



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By Mike Whitney

I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your a... in jail. That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they don't believe in the underlying principles.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm



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By James Petras
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm



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Eine Gesetzesvorlage soll unter Strafe stellen, andere online unter "emotional distress" setzen. Die vagen Formulierungen von HR 1966 könnten zu Verwirrungen führen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/4/137897

CNN: "A coalition of progressive groups sought Monday to have 12 Bush administration lawyers disbarred for their roles in crafting the legal rationale for so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that many view as torture. Alberto Gonzales is among the former attorneys general named in the complaints."

http://www.truthout.org/051809S?n



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http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis147.html

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All options open on securing Pak nukes: Obama

US President Barack Obama has voiced confidence in the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets. But at the same time, he made it clear that he could consider all options to secure the nuclear weapons, if the country got less stable.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22184


From Information Clearing House



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Avoid the State, Seek No Popularity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker153.html



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By Charles Davis
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22644.htm



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Corinne Reilly, McClatchy Newspapers: "Stories of missing drugs, of desperately ill-equipped doctors and of patients left to suffer the consequences are everywhere in Iraq's public health care system. Some hospitals are filthy and infested with bugs. Others are practically falling down. More and more, the blame is being placed on Iraq's US-backed government, which by many accounts is infested with corruption and incompetence."

http://www.truthout.org/051809E?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Corinne+Reilly

Abdul Malik Mujahid, Truthout: "According to the CIA World Factbook, an Afghan's life expectancy is merely 44 years. That's 20 to 30 years fewer than neighboring Pakistan and all other surrounding countries. It is just one result of the ongoing devastation in that country."

http://www.truthout.org/051809A?n



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http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSLE883985



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