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Jonathan Martin, Politico: "In the latest round of the increasingly heated intra-GOP feud, former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday defended his Republican credentials and fired back at radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney, saying the party had to expand beyond its conservative base."

http://www.truthout.org/052509Z?n



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/05/25

The Awful Sound of Silence
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/23-3



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Spain's Judges Cross Borders in Rights Cases

Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post: "Spanish judges are boldly declaring their authority to prosecute high-ranking government officials in the United States, China and Israel, among other places, delighting human rights activists but enraging officials in the countries they target and triggering a political backlash in a nation uncomfortable acting as the world's conscience."

http://www.truthout.org/052509E?n



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60 Jahre Grundgesetz (1949 - 2009) - kein Grund zum Feiern! Die herkömmlichen Formeln und Formen von Politik und Ökonomie sind verbraucht

Pressemitteilung und Thesen des Grundrechtekomitees vom 20.05.2009 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=317


Gedenken ans Grundgesetz

„Unsere Regierenden und die vielen beflissen Mitregierenden sind entschlossen, die Bundesbürgerinnen und Bundesbürger in diesem Jahr 2009 monatelang in ein nationales Stärkungsbad zu tauchen – mit Geruchsstoffen, an denen wir uns künftig alle gemeinsam unterbewußt, aber um so wirksamer orientieren werden…“ Artikel von Eckart Spoo in Ossietzky 10/2009 http://sopos.org/aufsaetze/4a0ea71166e0c/1.phtml


»Das ist ein Wettlauf um den niedrigsten Standard«. Die staatlichen Attacken auf die Grundrechte treffen aber auf immer mehr Widerstand. Ein Gespräch mit Rolf Gössner

Interview von Claudia Wangerin in junge Welt vom 19.05.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/05-19/019.php


Ein greises Nervenbündel

Kommentar von Roberto J. De Lapuente vom 24. Mai 2009 im ad-sinistram-blog http://ad-sinistram.blogspot.com/2009/05/ein-greises-nervenbundel.html


60 Jahre Grundgesetz und Protestaktionen

„Sechs Jahrzehnte gibt es nun das deutsche Grundgesetz, die Bundesregierung hat aus diesem Grund ein gut besuchtes Bürgerfest am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin veranstaltet. Doch es gab auch einige Gegenaktionen zum Jubiläumstag, einige seien in diesem Artikel genannt…“ Bericht von Oskar die Supermaus vom 23.05.2009 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/05/251419.shtml


Jenseits der Menschenrechte – Die europäische Flüchtlings- und Migrationspolitik

„Wer trägt die Verantwortung für die über 200 afrikanischen Migranten, die allein Anfang April diesen Jahres auf dem Weg nach dem „Europa der Menschenrechte“ vor der libyschen Küste ertranken? Für die glücklich Geretteten, die nun in europäisch mitfinanzierten libyschen Lagern auf ungewisse Zeit ihrer Deportation harren? Die europäische Migrationspolitik zielt wesentlich darauf ab, die wirtschaftlich erwünschte von der unerwünschten zu scheiden. Das führt im Innern der EU zur menschenrechtswidrigen Ausgrenzung der Flüchtlinge in Lager und an den Außengrenzen zur todbringenden Abschottung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen u.a. Akteure von Migrationspolitik und -kontrolle in den Blick, zeichnen Linien des Widerständigen und der Solidarisierung mit Migrationsbewegungen nach und reflektieren Aspekte wie Kulturrassismus oder „Ausländerfeindlichkeit““ So die Informationen des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie zum Jahrbuch 2009 (Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2009, 280 S., € 19,90 ISBN 978-3-89691-760-7). Siehe dazu:


Inhaltsverzeichnis, weitere Informationen zum Buch und Bestellmöglichkeit beim Grundrechtekomitee http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=312

weitere Informationen zum Buch und Bestellmöglichkeit beim Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot http://www.dampfboot-verlag.de/buecher/760-7.html


Migrationen im Sozialen Weltkrieg

„Über die Straße von Gibraltar hinweg reicht der Blick bis ans andere Ufer. Afrika, Europa. Übersetzen müsste so leicht sein. Aber dieser Meeresgrund birgt das größte Massengrab der europäischen Nachkriegsgeschichte. An die Bilder der erschöpften Boat People haben wir uns fast schon gewöhnt. Die Bilder der Ertrunkenen rufen nur noch ein mattes Entsetzen hervor. Sicher in Europa, wird der kurze Aufschrei des Gewissens nur zu rasch von der Alltagsroutine eingeholt. Man lebt hier trotz allem nicht schlecht, in einer Gesellschaft, deren Grundlagen von einer Millionenzahl verschleppter Schwarzer und von Hunderttausenden asiatischer Kulis in Sklaverei und unter Zwang produziert wurden. Ob nun die Schwarzen ertrinken, verhungern oder ob sie sich gegenseitig umbringen – es erscheint dies als marginales, ohnehin kaum beeinflussbares Phänomen…“ Artikel von Eberhard Jungfer aus dem Jahrbuch 2009 (S. 16-27)(pdf) – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/asyl/jahrbuch09.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Mai 2009

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60 Jahre Grundgesetz

Gibt es überhaupt etwas zu feiern?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30424/1.html



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Reports spin elitist confab as benign philanthropic plan, yet population reduction agenda is firmly rooted in eugenics and social Darwinism

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 25, 2009

Our speculation that the “secret billionaire club” meeting at the beginning of the month was primarily focused around population control. a cause célèbre embraced by David Rockefeller, Ted Turner and Bill Gates, has been confirmed by a London Times report.

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ISIS Report 25/05/09

The unstoppable groundswell of opposition to GMOs in Europe

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

The recent call for a moratorium on GMOs in Europe [1] (see Europe Holds the Key to a GM-Free World, 5th Conference of GM-Free Regions, Food & Democracy, SiS 43) reflects an unstoppable groundswell of opposition to GMOs from both European citizens and governments.

An online poll [2] on the question: “Should GMOs be banned in Europe?” conducted in April 2009 returned a 79 percent yes, 18 percent no and 3 percent don’t know. Days earlier, Germany outlawed the cultivation of Monsanto’s GM maize MON810, a surprising move that delighted campaigners. Germany became the sixth EU country to introduce a provisional ban on the GM maize, after France, Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg and Greece [3]. A source close to the EC said the German ban might bring a revision of the European legislation on GM crops. Germany also voted with the majority in March when the European Commission (EC) attempted to force Austria and Hungary to reverse their bans, and its ruling was overturned by a big majority [1].

Ban by Germany the tipping point

Germany’s move was broadly welcomed by its news media [4]. German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said she had legitimate reasons to believe that MON 810, posed “a danger to the environment,” a position which she said the Environment Ministry also supported. Aigner is taking advantage of a clause in EU law which allows individual countries to impose such bans. The left-wing Frankfurter Rundschau wrote: “Genetically modified corn is a risk to our environment, is totally superfluous in farming, represents industrial agriculture, causes pointless costs to food production in Germany and can even ruin beekeepers.” The left-wing Berliner Zeitung wroes: “The new studies don't show any new risks - they simply prove that the old warning about the risks was justified. It's a scandal that the subsequent ban was even necessary because the farming of genetically modified plants had been permitted without a thorough examination of all the possible dangers.”

Germany, the most populous country in the European Union
(EU) ranking fourth in land area, is also its most influential and economically powerful member nation. Monsanto applied for an emergency ruling to overturn the ban to allow for its 2009 planting [5], saying its ban is arbitrary and goes against EU regulations.

But the court in Braunschweig in north Germany rejected Monsanto’s application [6]. Significantly, a statement from the court said Germany’s law on GMOs does not require that a ban on a new plant variety is justified by proven scientific research which showed without doubt the crop to be dangerous; it was sufficient when research showed there were indications that the crop could be dangerous.

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Porter: The United States doesn't understand the forces it unleashed in Afghanistan.
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Adam Smith Institute
by Andrew Hutson

05/21/09

The latest high-profile BBC show, ‘Blood, Sweat and Takeaways,’ is a series of documentaries looking at how consumerism in the west is leading to poverty and exploitation within the Asian food industries, the first episode focussed on the Indonesian tuna industry. As can be expected with the BBC this show only presents half the debate. It puts across a very tainted view of the situation; it implies that we are demanding cheaper and cheaper food in greater quantities than before. In order for this food to be produced, workers in foreign countries need to be exploited. It hints at a neo-colonialist world where Asian producers are at the beck and call of our demands at whatever human cost. The evidence in the show is worrying, but the arguments are not conclusive...

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Agence France-Presse

05/21/09

NATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort, the top US military officer said on Thursday. Countering narcotics networks is crucial to weakening the Taliban and allied insurgent groups, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing. ‘Strategically my view is it has to be eliminated,’ Mullen said. ‘We have had almost no success in the last seven or eight years doing that, including this year’s efforts,’ he said. Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world’s opium, the raw material for heroin across Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East while cash from the trade helps insurgents buy weapons, according to officials...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

05/21/09

The Obama administration announced Thursday that it has invested $7.5 billion in GMAC, aiming to prop up the troubled lender and boost its ability to make loans to Chrysler dealers and customers. GMAC is the main source of financing for General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) customers and was recently tapped by the administration as the main lender for Chrysler...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Falls der bisherige Politikansatz des Westens gegenüber dem Iran so weiterverfolgt wird, könnte die iranische Atombombe zu einer selbsterfüllenden Prophezeiung werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30375/1.html



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Liz Sly, The Los Angeles Times: "'Where is the journalist Ibrahim?' one of the Iraqi soldiers barked at the grandparents, children and grandchildren as they staggered blearily down the stairs. Ibrahim Jassam, a cameraman and photographer for the Reuters news agency, stepped forward, one of this brothers recalled. 'Take me if you want me, but please leave my brothers.' The soldiers rifled through the house, confiscating his computer hard drive and cameras. And then they led him away, handcuffed and blindfolded. That was September 2nd. Jassam, 31, has been in US custody ever since."

http://www.truthout.org/052409B?n

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: President Obama gave a speech on Thursday praising the excellence of the American experiment, and claimed his own life was made possible by the promise of the documents and the ideals that founded this nation. As usual, his delivery and diction was perfect. Unfortunately, his behavior of late has fallen far short of the ideals he has given such eloquent lip service to. Two thousand pictures of Americans performing acts of savage torture on prisoners will not be released to the general public if Mr. Obama gets his way. Military commissions will continue to try prisoners outside the scope of American law, and will be free to use brazen hearsay as "hard" evidence against defendants. Mr. Obama continues to cleave to the most abhorrent aspects of Bush-era secrecy policies."

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Barack Obama told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that of all of his duties as president, there is no higher honor than serving as their commander-in-chief, and in that role, he promised to maintain American military superiority.

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The Poison in the System

By Mike Whitney

The question now is whether Congress will pull their heads out of the sand long enough to do the people's work and pass the laws that will re-regulate the system. There is a remedy, but it requires action, and fast. Without course-correction, the prospect of a derivatives meltdown gets bigger by the day.

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By Jennifer Shotts

This week so far, the dollar has fallen 4% against the British pound reaching a new low for 2009, 3% against the euro and Japanese yen, and also against the Canadian dollar. With major price levels being broken, many banks are reevaluating year end predictions for the euro vs. the dollar to reach $1.50 or higher. Is this going to be the new trend of 2009, dollar's death spiral? Here's some reasons why many say its time to chuck the buck:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22691.htm



Are Investors in the US and Abroad Losing Faith in the Dollar?

By Mark Trumbull

Are US debtors, from the federal government to the cash-strapped state of California, going to default? Will the Federal Reserve resort to inflation - debasing the value of dollar assets - in its efforts to lift a debt-bound economy back to growth?

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Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry

By Andrew Hughes

After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.

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Think you're safe while making a phone call while driving? Think again. A laboratory simulation showed that the risks are greater than you might imagine.

Read More...
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Circulated by Sarah Dacre

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Jeremy Scahill, Antiwar.com: "'There will always be a hostile third party in the fight,' Peters writes, calling the media 'the killers without guns.... Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts, and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants.'"

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The Sahwa played a critical role in the reduction of overall violence in Iraq. When the US decided to pay off the resistance (to the tune of $300 per month per fighter) that was effectively shredding occupation forces from late 2003 until mid-2006, the number of US military personnel being killed began to decline, and has, until recently, continued to decline. The Sahwa were also effective in finding and eliminating al-Qaeda in Iraq, so the fact that we are now seeing a renewing of horrific attacks against the Shia should not come as a surprise as the Sahwa continue to leave their security posts around the country. The Maliki government in Baghdad, which has perceived the Sahwa as a threat from the beginning of the group's formation, is systematically eliminating the perceived threat. Maliki has broken his promise to integrate the Sahwa into the government security apparatus, while continuing to forgo payment to Sahwa forces working in security positions around much of Baghdad."

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Green Zone Deaths Raise Security Fears

Ernesto Londono, The Washington Post: "An American working for a small company with a Defense Department contract was found dead in a vehicle in the fortified Green Zone on Friday morning, US officials said. Another American working for a contractor was killed later in the day in a suspected rocket attack near the US Embassy, US officials said. It appeared to be the first fatal rocket attack in the Green Zone in more than a year."

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UNO-Studie: Zu wenige Vorkehrungen in armen Ländern.
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Deutschlands Städte vernachlässigen Anpassung an Klimawandel

NABU-Projekt „StadtKlimaWandel“ für mehr Lebensqualität in Städten.
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