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Sarah Lazare, Truthout: "At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, AWOL soldiers find themselves detained for months under difficult conditions in an extended legal limbo they cannot escape. Dustin Stevens is one of about 50 soldiers being held at Fort Bragg awaiting likely AWOL and desertion charges that seem like they will never arrive, he says. A former soldier who refused to continue military service seven years ago because he did not want to fight a war, Stevens says that he and his colleagues are being held in legal limbo - a no man's land of poor living standards and arbitrary punishments - while awaiting charges and possible court-martial."

http://www.truthout.org/061609K



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Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "Yesterday, as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) left the health-care hearing room, he leaned over to me and said: 'I used to sell insurance. The basic rule is the larger the pool the less expensive the health care. Today we have 1,300 separate pools - separate health care plans - and that is why health care is so expensive; 700 pools would be more efficient and less expensive and one pool would be the least expensive. That's why single payer is the answer.' Nothing like common sense."

http://www.truthout.org/061609M



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From APFN daily update



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TCS Daily
by Henry I. Miller

06/15/09

From the beginning of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, WHO’s decisions and pronouncements have been far from reassuring. Most flu and public health experts consider WHO to have been overly alarmist, and that their decision during the week of April 27 to raise the pandemic flu threat to the penultimate level, Phase 5, ‘Pandemic Imminent,’ far outpaced the data that had accumulated and was unwarranted. Even worse was their official declaration of a pandemic, which illustrates that WHO’s fundamental paradigm is flawed: A warning system based solely on how widely a virus has spread but that does not consider the nature of the illness it causes is prone to false positives; it would classify as ‘pandemics’ not only seasonal flu but also the frequent but largely inconsequential outbreaks of virus-caused colds and gastroenteritis, for example. It makes the term almost meaningless...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=061509A


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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New York Daily News
by Michael Goodwin

06/14/09

Big government is on a big roll. As Washington moves from bailing out banks to setting pay levels, from bailing out automakers to deciding which local dealerships will be closed, each day brings fresh evidence of its growing role in what used to be the private economy. It is happening at a breathtaking pace, driven not just by the economic crisis but also by deliberate policies of the Obama White House and Democrats in Congress. And they’re not done yet, with a push to expand government’s role in health care and energy policy next on tap...

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/goodwin/index.html



More government waste, corruption, and corporate welfare

Open Market
by Hans Bader

06/14/09

Rapidly-rising Medicare spending already threatens ‘to crush the federal budget,’ and much Medicare spending is wasteful, yet the Obama Administration claims it can somehow save money by creating Medicare-like programs to cover all Americans. In the New York Times, economics professor Tyler Cowan calls it ‘the new voodoo economics.’ Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson concludes that Obama’s health-care plan ‘is naive, hypocritical or simply dishonest. Probably all three’...

http://tinyurl.com/le8ure



The real crisis is Obamacare

Intellectual Conservative
by Alan Caruba

06/15/09

As this healthcare horror awaits its run through Congress, think of it as a massive Medicare, the government program for seniors that cost 3.2 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2008 and which will become insolvent this year! … This isn’t healthcare reform. It is the destruction of the best healthcare system in the world. It is the destruction of the nation’s economy...

http://tinyurl.com/mtdqow



Paying for Obamacare

Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

06/15/09

Much of the discussion to date about health care reform has understandably focused on the contents of the reform plan itself. But with the plan expected to cost $1-1.5 trillion over the first ten years, an equally important question is how the president and congressional Democrats plan to pay for it. While we won’t know for certain until we see the final bill, it looks like the answer is going to be higher — much higher — taxes. And many if not most of those taxes will fall squarely on the middle class...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10289


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor

by Larry Cox

06/15/09

With Dick Cheney and the infamous torture memos making headlines, President Obama and our nation face a choice. Should they prosecute or protect those responsible for the torture of detainees in secret CIA detention centers? If our leaders wish to steer our country back to the right side of the law, they must act immediately and unequivocally to prosecute. The problem is that leading senators want the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to complete its investigation into the treatment and interrogation of detainees (which could take between four and six months), before any prosecution is launched. Yet such a delay would potentially risk running out the clock on certain types of prosecution...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0615/p09s01-coop.html



The Obama officials blocking accountability for Bush crimes

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/15/09

The argument Brennan made against release of the CIA torture memos is the same argument made to justify suppression of the torture photos: namely, ‘that exposing such details could spark an anti-American backlash.’ Precisely because Obama has retained so many people involved with or otherwise linked to Bush abuses, he is surrounded by people actively working to block any investigation into or accountability for those crimes. The most egregious example Mayer describes is the CIA official responsible for the abduction and rendition-for-torture of German citizen Khaled el-Masri, who turned out to be completely innocent …

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/15/brennan/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Afghanistan: Warum alle Fraktionen des Widerstandes sich jetzt Taliban nennen, wie die einfachen Leute überleben und die schleichende Islamisierung des Widerstands.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30514/1.html



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von Kathrin Handschuh

Die Öko-Leuchte, die bald Pflicht ist, enthält giftiges Quecksilber. Deshalb muss sie im Sondermüll entsorgt werden.

Weiter unter...
http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=549579



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RFID-Chips (Radio Frequenz Identifikation) sind kleine Funkchips, die sich an Kleidungsetiketten, Lebensmittelverpackungen, Kosmetikartikeln oder Ausweisen befinden. Die RFID-Technologie kann Lebens- und Persönlichkeitsdaten von Verbrauchern sammeln.

http://www.shortnews.de/start.cfm?id=770144

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Hofer: Anbringung von RFID-Chips in Bekleidung bestätigt

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria

(PR-inside.com 25.06.2009 12:48:04) - "Die Beantwortung einer parlamentarischen Anfrage brachte jetzt - vielleicht ungewollt - zutage, dass sehr wohl RFID ...

http://www.pr-inside.com/de/hofer-anbringung-von-rfid-chips-in-r1345394.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner389.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis151.html

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Report Blasts Terror Financing Laws and Investigations

Muslim charities in the United States are subject to unfair treatment by the government under terrorism financing laws, according to a new report which says the effect has been a chill on charitable giving that violates Muslims' right to freely practice an important requirement of their religion.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47252


From Information Clearing House



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Humanitarians must adopt a new mindset and respond to the global economic crisis by fostering a cost-effective culture of prevention

“The rising dangers of climate change require a response from governments equivalent to the one made to address the global financial crisis,” according to the chief executive of the world’s Red Cross and Red Crescent body.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686249ms159,Humanitarians+must+adopt+a+new+mindset+and+respond+to+the+global+economic+crisis+by+fostering+a+cost-effective+culture+of+prevention,72,a13092.html



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Beijing is diversifying its overseas investments and pressing U.S. officials for an "exit strategy" from the ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies that China fears will eventually inflate away the value of its U.S. bond holdings and fell the dollar.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/markets/dollar/2009/06/15/225175.html


From Information Clearing House



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Former Bush administration attorney John Yoo was ordered on Friday by a federal judge in San Francisco to testify in an appeal brought by Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was held for more than three years and allegedly tortured while in U.S. military custody.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/13/yoo-ordered-testify-padia/


From Information Clearing House



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Gordon Brown provoked fury today by revealing the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war will be heard in secret and will not report until after the next election.

http://snipurl.com/k6mox



Another Whitehall whitewash

Given what we know already from leaks, the secrecy surrounding the Chilcot Iraq inquiry is as absurd as it is scandalous.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/15/iraq-gordon-brown



Brown forced into climbdown over 'secret' Iraq War inquiry

Gordon Brown has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over the Iraq War inquiry after it was revealed some parts may be held in public.

http://snipurl.com/kdu16


From Information Clearing House



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A suspected US missile strike killed at least five people on Sunday in a tribal region where Pakistan's top Taliban commander is based, intelligence officials said, breaking a lull in such attacks and posing a test for growing anti-Taliban sentiment.

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From Information Clearing House



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Video

Former Guantanamo inmate Lakdhar Boumediene told FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview about his seven-year ordeal in the US prison camp, where his protestations of innocence were met with escalating brutality from interrogators.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22835.htm



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



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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/14-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/14



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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.

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