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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/15-14



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/15-0



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- Pour faire avancer la prise de conscience de l'irradiation (électrocution) de la population, merci d'essaimer ce reportage en fonction des remarquables et explicites témoignages des riverains d'antennes relais.
- France 3 "SFR démontage antennes relais et Témoignages Riverains": Revivre et pouvoir dormir!

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

Adam Graham-Silverman, Congressional Quarterly: "House leaders appear ready to push ahead with a floor vote on the next war funding bill as early as Tuesday. It's not yet clear that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has persuaded enough fellow Democrats to support it. Democrats are the ones who'll have to supply the votes because Republicans say they are going to stay united and vote against it. 'Nancy's working it,' said Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John P. Murtha , D-Pa. 'It's going to be a very close vote.'"

http://www.truthout.org/061509N



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Enough With the Obamathon

Bill Maher, The Los Angeles Times: "In conclusion, Bush was a jerk, but he never cared about being seen having a burger with Dick Cheney. He picked up the phone in the White House and said, 'I'm the president, bring me a burger.' And they'd say, 'Sir, this is NORAD. Would you please stop ordering burgers with the red phone?' I'm glad that Obama is president, but the 'Audacity of Hope' part is over. Right now, I'm hoping for a little more audacity."

http://www.truthout.org/061509K



Obama Looses the Manhunters: Charisma and the Imperial Presidency

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Let's face it, even Bo is photogenic, charismatic. He's a camera hound. And as for Barack, Michelle, Sasha, and Malia -- keep in mind that we're now in a first name culture -- they all glow on screen. Before a camera they can do no wrong. And the president himself, well, if you didn't watch his speech in Cairo, you should have. The guy's impressive. Truly. He can speak to multiple audiences -- Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Christians, as well as a staggering range of Americans -- and somehow just about everyone comes away hearing something they like, feeling he's somehow on their side."

http://www.truthout.org/061509M



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15. Juni 2009

Zur illegalen Sammlung von Mitarbeiterdaten bei der Post erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte:

Zu Beginn dieser Legislaturperiode waren sich alle Fraktionen im Bundestag einig: In einer gemeinsamen Beschlussempfehlung über alle Fraktionen hinweg wurde ein Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz als dringend notwendig erachtet. Dies geschah noch vor Bekanntwerden der Bespitzelungsaktionen u.a. bei der Deutschen Bahn und der Telekom. Nun ist ein weiterer börsennotierter Staatsbetrieb hinzugekommen: In Filialen der Post wurden Krankenakten geführt, aus denen Handlungsempfehlungen für die Beschäftigten herausgearbeitet werden sollten. Wer aus gesundheitlichen Gründen öfter fehle, solle doch dem Betrieb nicht weiter zur Last fallen und sich frühverrenten lassen, so eine der offensichtlich angedachten Optionen. Auch wenn das Verhalten – diesmal der Post – unter geltendem Recht illegal ist, ist es ein Beispiel für den aktuellen Trend bei Unternehmen: Der ideale Mitarbeiter ist gläsern und bis in die Privatsphäre hinein kontrollierbar. Offensichtlich sind eklatante Verstöße gegen Arbeitnehmerrechte nicht mehr die Ausnahme sondern System. Angesichts der regelmäßigen Überwachungsskandale muss nicht nur ein klares Zeichen gegen Datenmissbrauch und für Arbeitnehmerrechte gesetzt werden, der Gesetzgeber ist in der Pflicht, der Beschneidung von Arbeitnehmerrechten Einhalt zu gebieten. Dabei helfen keine Lippenbekenntnisse á la Schäuble und Scholz oder das SPD-Regierungsprogramm, das praktisch die Vertagung des Problems in eine vermeintliche zukünftige Regierungszeit manifestiert. Ein Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz muss noch in dieser Legislaturperiode auf den Weg gebracht werden, damit nicht auch in Zukunft gilt, dass Datenschutz, Menschenwürde und Grundrechte am Werkstor oder an den Personaleingängen enden.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/arbeitnehmerdatenschutz-handeln-statt-traeumen/



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„Über 200 Millionen Kinder zwischen 5 und 17 Jahren besuchen keine Schule und gehen stattdessen arbeiten. Vor einer weiteren Zunahme der Kinderarbeit warnt der Internationale Gewerkschaftsbund IGB am heutigen Welttag gegen Kinderarbeit…“ DGB-Meldung http://www.dgb.de/2009/06/12_kinderarbeit/


Kinderarbeit: Hammerchild

Der IGB hat ein neues Video veröffentlicht, um Druck auf die Regierungen auszuüben, damit sie konkreter gegen die Ausbeutung von Kindern vorgehen, indem sie zum einen finanzielle Mittel für eine gute Schulbildung bereitstellen und zum anderen die arbeitsrechtlichen Bestimmungen in Kraft setzen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWWGwg0KSo


Kinderarbeit – Kinderrechte

Das Deutsche NRO-Forum Kinderarbeit hat am 8. Juni 2009 die Broschüre "Kinderarbeit - Kinderrechte. Beiträge zur Qualifizierung des Umgangs mit Kinderarbeit in kinderrechtlicher Perspektive" veröffentlicht. In dieser Broschüre geht es um eine Qualifizierung der Auseinandersetzung mit Kinderarbeit, die nicht selten von kurzschlüssigen Vereinfachungen geprägt ist. Deshalb entfaltet die Broschüre die Einsicht, dass es "die" Kinderarbeit nicht gibt. Sie beleuchtet soziale und wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge. Und sie skizziert neue Wege zur Verwirklichung der Rechte des Kindes. Die Broschüre bei NRO (pdf) http://www.pronats.de/fileadmin/pronats/documents/heidel_kinderarbeit_2009.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juni 2009



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Überkapazitäten, Lohnkürzungen, Entlassungen - die Automobilindustrie steckt im Schlamassel. Der Ausweg wäre einfach: Weg von der Fixierung auf das Auto, hin zur Herstellung von sozial- und umweltverträglichen Produkten. Artikel von Tom Adler in der WOZ vom 12.06.2009 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2009/nr24/wirtschaft/18002.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juni 2009

Freedom Politics
by Tom Lucente

06/12/09

For some reason, most Americans are simply confused when it comes to government. I suspect that most people, at some time in their lives, have railed against the government for one reason or another. We have grown accustomed to government scandal, year after year. For example, the list of current or former federal representatives recently or currently under investigation by law enforcement or congressional ethics committees is long indeed...

http://tinyurl.com/lbhdaa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Peter Schiff

06/12/09

We had a stock-market bubble because the Federal Reserve was too easy; they were too loose in the 1990s. Interest rates were too low, we created too much money, and that fed the investments in the stock market. And we had a lot of malinvestments. Companies were created that never should have existed. They were created not because they could generate a profit, but because they could go public, because investors wanted these stocks. It didn’t matter that they couldn’t make money...

http://mises.org/story/3493


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

06/13/09

Torture has been universally condemned and banned by both Geneva and United Nations Conventions for good reasons. It is also illegal under US law. It is widely recognized that torture is a line that should not be crossed, that it starts out with sleep deprivation and winds up with torn out fingernails and even death. On a practical level, it only is really good at producing confessions, many of which turn out to be false. It debases and turns sadistic those who carry it out and those who order it. It is a black mark on the government that condones it and it opens the door for other countries to engage in the same or similar practices...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=94


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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ABC News

06/14/09

CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests ‘he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.’ Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney ’smells some blood in the water’ on the issue of national security...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7837128


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Electronic Frontier Foundation

06/11/09

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups filed an amicus brief in Warshak v. United States urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to hold that the government’s seizure of email without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment and federal privacy statutes, as well as the Justice Department’s own surveillance manual. ‘During its criminal investigation, the Department of Justice illegally ordered defendant Stephen Warshak’s email provider to prospectively ‘preserve’ copies of his future emails, which the government later obtained using a subpoena and a non-probable cause court order’...

http://www.eff.org/press/releases/2009/06


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports: "It seems as though every week there is a new lawsuit filed against Blackwater for the killing of civilians in Iraq. While the Justice Department has failed to prosecute most of these cases (the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre being an exception), attorney Susan Burke has dedicated a substantial part of her practice to holding the company responsible for its crimes. She works in cooperation with the Center for Constitutional Rights ... beyond the specifics of her lawsuits, Burke is also alleging Blackwater/Xe remains firmly entrenched in Iraq, using affiliate companies like Greystone."

http://www.truthout.org/061409C



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Media Blackout on Agent Orange: Coverage Ignores Effects on Vietnamese Victims
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff10.1.html

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Agent Orange and Vietnam's Forgotten Victims

Geoffrey Cain, GlobalPost: "At 46, each year of misery seems to have etched new wrinkles around Tran Thanh Dung's angry gaze. When he was child in the early 1970s, Tran says he witnessed U.S. soldiers shoot his parents - both of whom were communist Viet Cong soldiers during the Vietnam War. Bent on revenge, he joined the guerrilla group within hours."

http://www.truthout.org/agent-orange-and-vietnams-forgotten-victims58230



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By ADAM EMERSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 12, 2009

Hillsborough County will now require a public hearing before cell phone towers go up near schools.

TAMPA - Families demanding to be heard before schools arrange to place cell towers on their campuses now will have a voice.

Hillsborough County commissioners Thursday night changed their land-use codes to force tighter restrictions on schools pursuing cell tower leases. Now a public hearing is required before the towers can go up.

Read More...
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/12/parents-will-get-public-hearings-cell-tower-deals/news-metro/


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Mittlerweile gibt es rund 750.000 1-Euro-Jobs. Sie verdrängen reguläre Arbeitsplätze und bieten kaum Perspektiven. Offenbar wird nur 12 Prozent der Betroffenen überhaupt eine Vollzeitstelle angeboten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30478/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=1-Euro-Job

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/depression-heightens-class-distinctions.html



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Network-centric Warfare

By Tom Burghardt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13939


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://www.truthout.org/061409Z

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YouTube Video May Show Gunman Killing Protesters in Iran

In the clip, likely shot from a cell phone, a blue-shirted gunman fires an AK-47 into a courtyard from a second-story window.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22852.htm



Iranian bloggers upload clash video

This amateur video posted on Wednesday (June 17) purports to show members of the Basij militia firing at a crowd of demonstrators from the roof of their building on Monday.

http://snipurl.com/kblas



Young Iranians use video to tell story

With traditional forms of communication blocked, Iranians are using technology to keep the world informed about events.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8102676.stm



Iranian opposition leader calls for mass rally

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge Wednesday to the country's supreme leader and cleric-led system, calling for a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-17-iran-election_N.htm?csp=34



Iran rallies planned amid clampdown

Supporters of candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi called on Wednesday for a rally to go ahead at 5pm local time (13:30 GMT), despite the authorities imposing a ban on the opposition gatherings.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961781159912955.html



Robert Fisk in Iran: Extraordinary scenes

'The authorities are losing control of what's happening on the streets and that's very dangerous and damaging to them'.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/17/2600571.htm



US sees both Iran rivals as hostile

"It's important to understand that although there is amazing ferment taking place in Iran, the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised," Obama told CNBC news.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/2009616235841279404.html



Pictures from the protests in Iran

Warning - Images should only be viewed by a mature audience
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets/72157619758530748/show/


From Information Clearing House

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Iran elections: mass arrests and campus raids as regime hits back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/iran-election-protests-arrests1


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Never mind that "each subsequent novel flu that sweeps through the world
has been milder," Chin observes. "The public health community keeps waiting
for the ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-fumento14-2009jun14,0,2670943.story



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Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung vieler Städte im brasilianischen Regenwald erinnert an heute vergessene amerikanische Siedlungen, die nach kurzem Goldrausch ein langes Siechtum erlebten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30492/1.html

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Bundesregierung fördert Ausbeutung des Amazonasgebietes

Indianer in Peru verteidigen ihr Land und den Wald unter Einsatz ihres Lebens

Im Amazonasgebiet von Peru ist der Streit zwischen Ureinwohner und der Regierung eskaliert: Hintergrund ist die katastrophale Wirtschaftspolitik Perus bezüglich der Nutzung des Regenwaldes. Das Land verhandelt nun mit der Europäischen Union über ein Freihandelsabkommen. Die EU-Staaten möchten sich in Peru neue Absatzmärkte und den Zugang zu Rohstoffen sichern, die den ständig wachsenden Energiehunger der Industrie stillen soll. (Start: 13.06.2009)

Protestaktion
https://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=420



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A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that justified his alleged treatment, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/12/MND5186KL8.DTL



Why the h... should I feel sorry, says girl soldier who abused Iraqi prisoners

In this deeply disturbing interview, the - torturer who appalled the world by appearing in shocking 'souvenir' photographs remains utterly unrepentant and says she has 800 MORE torture photos that could rock the White House.

http://snipurl.com/k2er5


From Information Clearing House



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As US troops and private contractors surge in Afghanistan, a new report reveals a system rife with abuse. Also, why is an executive of a major war contractor on the commission investigating contractors?

http://rebelreports.com/post/122453587/a-perfect-storm-for-disaster-brewing-with


From Information Clearing House



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By CNBC.com

With $45 billion in capital and $2.1 trillion in assets, the central bank would not withstand the scrutiny normally afforded other institutions.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22825.htm



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By Joseph Stiglitz

The US has a huge corporate safety net, allowing the banks to gamble with impunity, but offers little to struggling individuals.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22823.htm



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Wie Wirtschaftskrise und Klimakatastrophe zusammenhängen und was international zu tun ist. Interview mit Franz Alt - Teil 1 u. 2.

http://tinyurl.com/n5d2mh
http://tinyurl.com/kr6u9m



Prognose: Neues Rekordminimum der arktischen Meereisbedeckung?

Der negative Trend setzt sich fort. Auch für den Spätsommer 2009 ist wieder ein kritisches Minimum des arktischen Meereises zu erwarten.

http://tinyurl.com/lolytz



Der Wert eines Baumes

Bäume sind Lebewesen, die bis zu 1.000 Jahre alt und über 100 Meter hoch werden können. Als „grüne Lungen“ sind sie unersetz­lich und als landschaftsgestaltendes Element haben sie eine hohe ästhetische Funktion.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686174ms158,Der+Wert+eines+Baumes,7,a12902.html