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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday sought congressional support for $ 700 million for Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund for the fiscal year 2010 as part of a massive $ 130 billion request for overseas contingency operations for Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

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Rettet den Regenwald fordert die Abschaffung der gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Beimischung von Agrosprit zu Benzin und Diesel und ein Ende der Steuererleichterungen. Die von Bundesregierung und Bundestag bereits beschlossenen Gesetzesänderung ist ein erster zaghafter Schritt in diese Richtung. (Start: 09.06.2009)

Protestaktion
http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=416



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Studie zu Folgen des ökonomischen Drucks

„Die psychischen Belastungen am Arbeitsplatz nehmen zu, gleichzeitig hat sich das Betriebsklima in vielen Unternehmen und Organisationen verschlechtert. "Die Arbeitswirklichkeit unterliegt tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, die in den vergangenen Jahren noch an Geschwindigkeit zugelegt haben", konstatiert Rolf Haubl, Professor für psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie an der Goethe-Universität. Dies belegen die Ergebnisse seiner jüngsten Studie "Arbeit und Leben in Organisationen 2008"…“ Pressemitteilung der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main vom 18.05.2009 http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news315808

Siehe dazu: Psychosoziale Kosten turbulenter Veränderungen

Zusammenfassung der Studie von Rolf Haubl und G. Günter Voß in Arbeit und Leben in Organisationen 2008 (pdf) http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/publik/Positionen%20Heft%201_2009.pdf

siehe dazu:

Arbeiten bis zum Umfallen – das falsche Motto. Betriebsärzte fordern Strategien zur Bekämpfung der psychischen Krankheiten

„Die Fehlzeiten aufgrund psychischer Erkrankungen sind im vergangenen Jahr Untersuchungen zufolge mit 7,9 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr stärker gestiegen als alle anderen wichtigen Erkrankungsgruppen. Betriebsärzte und Gewerkschaft sehen in diesem Trend eine ernste Gefahr für die Beschäftigten…“ Artikel von Manfred Godek im ND vom 09.06.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/150147.arbeiten-bis-zum-umfallen-8211-das-falsche-motto.html


Verband Deutscher Betriebs- und Werksärzte (VDBW) und IG Metall schlagen gemeinsam Alarm: Krise und Angst um den Job bedrohen psychische Gesundheit in der Arbeit

„Der Verband Deutscher Betriebs- und Werksärzte (VDBW) und die IG Metall warnen in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung vor einer dramatischen Zunahme psychischer Erkrankungen der Beschäftigten. „Schon in den letzten Jahren haben Erkrankungen wie Depressionen und Burnout erheblich zugenommen und die Ausmaße einer neuen „Volkskrankheit“ angenommen“, heißt es in dem vorgelegten Positionspapier…“ Pressemitteilung vom 28.5.2009 http://www.vdbw.de/Presse-Detailansicht.179.0.html?&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=376&tx_ttnews[backPid]=71&cHash=a1cb1535a8


„Psychische Gesundheit in der Arbeit – eine gemeinsame Herausforderung der Arbeitswelt von morgen“

Das gemeinsame Positionspapier von IG Metall und VDBW (pdf) http://www.vdbw.de/fileadmin/01-Redaktion/05-Presse/02-PDF/Aktuelles/Psychische_Gesundheit_Position_der_IGM_und_VDBW.pdf


Burn-out-Syndrom: Kollaps am Schreibtisch

„Sie sollen ständig erreichbar sein, verspüren einen brutalen Leistungsdruck - und brechen schließlich unter Weinkrämpfen zusammen: Immer mehr Menschen werden durch die Arbeit psychisch krank…“ Artikel von G. Bohsem in der SZ vom 9.6.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,ra7m1/jobkarriere/941/471481/text/


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Juni 2009

„Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise wird von vielen Unternehmen dazu benutzt, Druck auf die Löhne auszuüben. Jetzt soll das zum Beispiel auch bei der Deutschen Bahn AG so laufen. Aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht kann man das verstehen. Jedes Unternehmen versucht, seine Kosten zu drücken. Gesamtwirtschaftlich ist das in der jetzigen Situation Gift. Deflatorisches Gift sozusagen. Heiner Flassbeck hat vor kurzem in der Berliner Zeitung am Beispiel der Lohnsenkungen bei Daimler vorgerechnet und erläutert, was das für unsere gesamte Volkswirtschaft bedeutet und wie falsch diese Sparversuche sind…“ Artikel von Albrecht Müller auf den nachdenkseiten vom 5. Juni 2009 http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/wp-print.php?p=3987

Siehe dazu auch:

Die soziale Entgleisung seit 2002: Brutto-Löhne um mehr als 200 Mrd. Euro gesunken

Text von und bei Joachim Jahnke in seinem Rundbrief global news vom 07-06-09 http://www.jjahnke.net/rundbr56.html#ent


Überbrückungsgeld: Kurzarbeit führt nicht immer aus der Krise

„In der Krise setzen etliche Unternehmen auf Kurzarbeit, um möglichst wenige Angestellte entlassen zu müssen. Das staatlich-geförderte Überbrückungsgeld bietet viele Vorteile. Doch Arbeitgeber sollten dennoch nicht die Möglichkeiten einer Kündigung aus dem Auge verlieren…“ Artikel von Wolf Albin im Handelsblatt vom 04.06.2009 http://www.handelsblatt.com/finanzen/steuerrecht/kurzarbeit-fuehrt-nicht-immer-aus-der-krise;2322969


Kurzarbeit: Beschäftigte verzichten auf 200 Millionen Euro

„Die Kurzarbeit in Deutschland geht mit Lohnkürzungen einher. Die 1,2 Millionen Kurzarbeiter in der Wirtschaftskrise haben laut dem Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund seit Jahresanfang auf mehr als 200 Millionen Euro verzichtet. Für jeden Beschäftigten sind das im Schnitt 210 Euro weniger Einkommen…“ Artikel von Flora Wisdorff in Die Welt vom 27. Mai 2009 http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article3816440/Beschaeftigte-verzichten-auf-200-Millionen-Euro.html


Spezifisch rheinisch feuern. Die politische Funktion von Kurzarbeitergeld

Artikel von Axel Berger in der Jungle World vom 14. Mai 2009 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2009/20/34703.html


Kurzarbeit: Sind Transfergesellschaften praktikabler?

„Viele Firmen beantragen keine Verlängerung der Kurzarbeit mehr, sondern müssen Personal entlassen. Gewerkschaft und Arbeitgeber in NRW machen sich bereits Gedanken über Transfergesellschaften, die die Entlassenen auffangen können. Die Politik dürfte mitspielen: Schließlich hilft im Wahljahr alles, was die Arbeitslosenstatistik schönt…“ Text der Westpol-Sendung vom 19.04.2009 beim WDR http://www.wdr.de/tv/westpol/sendungsbeitraege/2009/0419/kurzarbeit.jsp


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Juni 2009



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The Weekly Standard
by Matthew Continetti

It’s not every day that you get to witness the birth of a new social system. But General Motors’ June 1 bankruptcy, and the company’s likely reorganization under the ownership of the U.S. Treasury, does suggest the arrival of a novel relationship — at least for the United States — between the citizen and his government. We’ve all encountered the national security state, where individuals give up a degree of civil liberty in exchange for protection from internal and external threats. And we live in a welfare state, where the government imposes obligations on certain individuals, in the form of taxes and duties, in order to secure basic social benefits for the entire populace. But the national security and welfare states are oh-so twentieth-century. This is a new day. This is the dawn of the bailout state... (for publication 06/15/09)

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The American Spectator
by Robert Stacy McCain

06/08/09

Given the abject failure of the War on Poverty — as Ronald Reagan said, ‘Poverty won’ — now Democrats apparently have decided to go right for the heart of the problem, by making war on the poor. That’s the only plausible explanation for S.500, the ‘Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Credit Rates Act of 2009,’ introduced earlier this year by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois). The bill would limit interest rates in such a way that pawn shop owners say it would drive them out of business. Currently under consideration by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee, this legislation could only make sense to someone who (a) knows nothing about pawn shops, and (b) knows nothing about economics...

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by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

06/08/09

Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many in government thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the company, but as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable. The government will dump another $30 billion into GM and take a 60 percent controlling interest for it. Public officials are now involving themselves in tactical business decisions such as where GM’s headquarters should move and what kind of cars it will build. The promise that this is temporary and will eventually be profitable is supposed to ease the American people into accepting this arrangement, but it is of little comfort to those who remember similar promises when the American taxpayers bought Amtrak. After three years, government was supposed to be out of the passenger rail business. 40 years and billions of dollars later, the government is still operating Amtrak at a loss, despite the fact that they have created a monopoly by making it illegal to compete with Amtrak. Imagine what they can now do to what is left of the great American auto industry!

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Wichita Eagle

CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency’s terror interrogations would gravely damage national security. Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work...

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FBI director defends use of informants in mosques

Culpeper Star-Exponent

06/08/09

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday defended the agency’s use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists. Mueller’s comments came just days after a Michigan Muslim organization asked the Justice Department to investigate complaints that the FBI is asking the faithful to spy on Islamic leaders and worshippers...

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Mit Feedback und über den Druck des kollektiven Verhaltens sollen die Menschen in die erwünschte Richtung "geschubst" werden.

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America's Fed Addiction
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The U.S. economy cut 345,000 jobs last month alone. The count of total jobs lost in the current economic recession is 6 million. The unemployment rate, at 9.4 percent in May, has risen to the highest level since 1983.

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More than 600,000 seniors are delinquent in their mortgage payments or already in foreclosure, USA Today reports.

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US military expenditure rose 9.7 per cent last year to $607bn, accounting for 42 per cent of total global arms spending, the report said.

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Prof. Thomas Johnson said, the counter-insurgency is "essentially an information war" the Taliban have been winning hands down.

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By Irving Wesley Hall

The United States has degenerated from a world power based on industrial production to an overextended military empire based on debt and consumption. Our citizens have gone from well-paid industrial workers with comfortable savings accounts to cash-starved consumers with staggering credit card payments.

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Agence France-Presse: "Major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies, says a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine."

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Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet: "So let's get the worst out of the way right up front: You are going to be trying to carve out a career in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. You are furthermore going to be trying to do so within what appears to be a dying industry. You have abundant skills and talents - it's just not clear that anyone wants to pay you for them. Well, you are not alone."

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Mary Kane, The Washington Independent: "Not long after foreclosures started to take off in 2007 and the mortgage market's collapse began to cripple the economy, one lesson seemed obvious: The predatory lending practices that led to the crisis had to be reined in. But despite massive government bailouts of banks and lenders due to losses from toxic mortgages, that reform still hasn't happened."

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009, 00:00

A GLIMMER of hope surrounds villagers' attempts to scupper plans for a mobile phone mast near a primary school.

Parents united against the application to replace the existing antennas at Forest Row Fire Station back in March.

It was approved at a Wealden District Council planning committee meeting the following month, despite objections from dozens of villagers.

But now councillors are calling upon the government to reassure residents of the alleged health risks associated with phone masts.

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

In calling for a "world order," Obama blatantly said "Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation . . . over another will inevitably fail." Does everyone understand what Obama is saying? In order for this new "world order" to materialize, no individual nation can be preferred over another--not even our own. In a word, no country can be allowed to maintain national sovereignty, independence, or military superiority. All nations must be willing to surrender their sovereignty and independence to the new "world order." Furthermore, all nations must be willing to submit their militaries to a new global military. Oh yes, my friend, all of this is inferred in Obama's statement.

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- Dossier "Compatibilité ÉlectroMagnétique et Incident Airbus A330 vol Qantas QF72"
- Enquête préliminaire du Bureau de la Sécurité des Transports Australiens.
- EASA - Agence Européenne de la Sécurité Aérienne: Airbus A330 et A340
- Directive d'Urgence de Sécurité
- Photos de l'intérieur de l'Airbus A330 après l'incident.
- Sains et Saufs: Les passagers non blessés après l'atterrissage d'urgence.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Airbus.php#3

By Chris Hedges

Did they play Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world?

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Life Inside Gitmo: Former Detainee Speaks

Video and Text

He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight, and physically abused repeatedly.
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Bill Moyers and Jeremy Scahill Discuss Obama Foreign Policy
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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Dick Cheney and his lawyer, David Addington, pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2005 to quickly approve a torture memo that authorized CIA interrogators to use a combination of barbaric techniques during interrogations of 'high-value' detainees, despite objections from senior DOJ officials, according to emails written by James Comey, the agency's former deputy attorney general. In the emails, Comey also wrote that then Attorney General (AG) Alberto Gonzales was 'weak' and had essentially allowed Cheney and Addington to politicize the DOJ."

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MICHAEL LEWIS

huffingtonpost.com - Michael Lewis, the former Salomon Brothers trader who wrote "Liar's Poker" about the excesses of Wall Street during the 1980s, delivered a devastating critique of the financial industry and of the government bailout today on CNN. Lewis thinks that the government's rescue efforts have only served to postpone a "day of reckoning" for Wall Street.

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Bloomberg
by Caroline Baum

06/05/09

By the time the U.S. government unveiled its Public Private Investment Partnership in March, the toxic loans and securities clogging bank balance sheets had become ‘legacy assets.’ What if deficit hawks took the same tack and marketed the $787 billion fiscal stimulus as ‘legacy debt?’ ‘The $787 billion the U.S. Treasury will be borrowing or confiscating from you via taxation will saddle future generations with a legacy of debt,’ the press release might read. ‘Your children and grandchildren can look forward to higher taxes, a lower standard of living and minimal government support in their old age.’ Maybe the public would balk. And maybe some member of Congress would be bold enough to sponsor a measure to call off the still-uncommitted expenditures...

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The Nation
by William Greider

06/05/09

The governing party faced an awkward dilemma. People were hurting and furious at the government’s generous bailouts for banks. But how could the Democrats do something for the folks without upsetting their friends and patrons in the banking industry? Democrats think they found a way. They are enacting a series of measures described as ‘breakthrough’ reform and ‘unprecedented’ defeat for the bankers. Only these achievements are more accurately understood as ‘reform lite.’ The house is on fire and Democrats brought a garden hose. The Democratic Party is changing in some promising ways, but what’s impressive is how much it has not changed...

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CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

06/07/09

As they drafted his speech to the Muslim world, delivered in Cairo on Thursday, President Obama’s speech writers strove to suggest that cordiality towards Islam is soundly embedded in America’s cultural history. … An early version of the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ by Francis Scott Key, written in 1805 amid the routing of the Barbary states, offered a view of Islam markedly different from Obama’s uplifting sentiments in Cairo …. So America’s national anthem began as a gleeful tirade against the Mahommedans. And of course every member of the U.S. Marine Corps regularly bellows out the USMC anthem, beginning ‘From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.’ In short, America’s march to Empire was minted in the crucible of anti-Islamic sentiment...

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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/08/09

Before an American secretary of state gets up on her hind legs and lectures the rest of the world about ‘the darker events of its past,’ complaining about the lack of ‘a public accounting of those killed, detained, or missing,’ let’s look at the record: in 1993, then-attorney general Janet Reno ordered the murder of 76 people in Waco, Texas, on grounds that didn’t sound all that credible at the time, and, in retrospect, turn out to have been entirely dubious and self-serving. Can it really be that the U.S. government — yes, the same people who ordered this and this — is hectoring China for unlawful detention? As a great philosopher once said, oh, puh-leeeeeeeze!

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Register [UK]

06/05/09

Police officers in Camden, north London, are deliberately targeting kids under-18 for arrest just so their DNA samples can be taken. The Met denies any such action has taken place, but an anonymous police officer told The Ham and High: ‘It is part of a long term crime prevention strategy. We are often told that we have just one chance to get that DNA sample and if we miss it that might mean a rape or a murder goes unsolved in the future’...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/05/dna_children_london/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank's growing power over the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZjQKyLci1AM&refer=us



Treasury bloodbath soaks top fund managers

Investors have been blindsided by one financial catastrophe after another over the last 18 months, but throughout the tumult, the government bond market has been their friend. Until now.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE55468F20090605


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Wiretap whistleblower says: The Bush Administration's FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.

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In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.

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The Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF) is probably the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, and it is free of many of the controls that most governments employ to rein in such lethal forces.

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One month later, after the bombings of a village in western Afghanistan that killed up wards of 150 civilians, we now get this half assed admission of culpability on the part of the US military.

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By Reuters

Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday.

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By William Blum

The fact that Obama says he's willing to "talk" to some of the "enemies" like Iran more than the Bush administration did sounds good: But one doesn't have to be too cynical to believe that it will not amount to more than a public relations gimmick.

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By Hizb ut-Tahrir

When the European conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt as part of his quest for world domination, he told the people: "You will be told that I came to destroy your religion; do not believe it ... I have more respect than the Mamelukes for your God, His Prophet, and the Koran" and many more sweet words besides.

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We Wanted a World Leader, We Saw Only a US President

Obama's long-awaited speech demonstrated little to suggest America will pursue any course beyond its own interests

By Ahdaf Soueif

This is hard. It's hard because we so need to believe that Obama is about change, that he's wise, that he's good, that he has the interests of the world - rather than just the interests of the United States - at heart.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22780.htm



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Times Online - Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand

By MARIANNE KELLY

THIRTY-FIVE mobile phone sites in East Manukau are already in action ... Newcomer 2degrees has four masts and service cabinets in place, ...

http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2009/06/full_extent_of_masts_is_exposed.php

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "I've poked around Washington today, talking with friends on the Hill who confirm the worst: Big Pharma and Big Insurance are gaining ground in their campaign to kill the public option in the emerging health care bill."

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Is Secession Treason?
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Jun 8 2009 by Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Post

Councillors have apologised to residents after a mobile phone firm legally installed a mast three years after the council refused permission.

Officers at Solihull Council forgot to tell T-Mobile that it was refused permission in May, 2006.

They were supposed to write to the company within 56 days of rejecting the application, but they did not.

The council is now powerless to stop T-Mobile, despite rejecting the application in the first place.

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Outrage as Solihull Council blunders yet again over Castle Bromwich phone mast

http://www.solihullnews.net - Solihull, Birmingham, UK

A BLUNDER by Solihull Council has allowed a telecoms giant to press ahead with a mobile phone mast, incensing residents in Castle Bromwich. ...

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- Saint-Rambert-d'Albon:"Le château d'eau prend des couleurs"
- L'essentiel de la réalité c'est: "Le château d'eau irradie les riverains"

http://www.next-up.org/France/Drome.php#1


- Image du jour: Élections Européennes "Michèle Rivasi, une victoire historique d'espoir"
http://www.next-up.org/divers/image_semaine1.php#1

Philip Willan, IDG News Service01.09.2009

Italy’s antiterrorism law, renewed by government decree at the beginning of this year, is being accused of stifling the development of Wi-Fi technology in the country.

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Informant: Martin Weatherall



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