World-News

Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney."

http://www.truthout.org/071409B?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pamela+Hess

Quil Lawrence, NPR News: "Nearly two weeks after U.S. combat troops officially pulled out of Iraq's cities, the government in Baghdad is hailing the withdrawal as a sign that it is holding the U.S. to an agreement stipulating that all American troops leave Iraq by 2012."

http://www.truthout.org/071409D?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=combat+troops
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Quil+Lawrence

Maurice Ulrich, L'Humanite: "Two hundred and twenty years after the taking of the Bastille, new Bastilles offer a challenge to reason. Hundreds of millions of men, women and children live on less than a Euro a day, but that's not all. Access to water, massive air pollution, access to health care, to education, the situation of women, children and minorities are so many abysmal and often criminal inequalities in a world that people say has become a village."

http://www.truthout.org/071409G?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maurice+Ulrich

3:40pm Tuesday 14th July 2009

Councillors are expected to rubber-stamp a plan to build a 12-metre tall mobile phone mast in a sedate corner of Mill End.

Telecommunications giant Orange plans to build the mast, disguised as a lamp post, in Berry Lane, adjacent to a railway bridge.

Three Rivers District Council’s development control committee, which will meet on Thursday to discuss the application, is expected to raise “no objection” – despite the concerns of residents living nearby.

Read More...
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4491772.Councillors__to_approve__phone_mast/

Mary Kane, The Washington Independent: "The time may be ripe for a shift in strategy as the foreclosure machine grinds on, and new foreclosure notices reach the troubling milestone of 10,000 per day. A weak economy has added job losses and falling home values to the mix of toxic loans that prompted the crisis two years ago, making an already difficult situation even more severe. Government measures from foreclosure freezes to loan modifications have only served, so far, to stall the inevitable - and to create an ominous backlog of millions of pending foreclosures."

http://www.truthout.org/071309V?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Kane

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

07/14/09

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa did not include Somalia, but the president needn’t go there to see that U.S. policy in Somalia has been an utter disaster. In fact, it would have been impossible for him to get anywhere near Mogadishu, because there is no real government to speak of, not to mention clean water, safe shelter, or even enough hopeful locals to greet him on the tarmac. The capital city is worse than a ghost town, it is chaos, a space defined by relentless violence and a symbol of every failed attempt to fix it. From the safe distance of Ghana, Obama was able to reiterate the next in a string of ill-conceived attempts to help Somalia...

http://tinyurl.com/n8pe38



Should Americans be humble?

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

07/13/09

After president Obama traveled abroad recently it became clear that he wanted to present himself and, indirectly, America as a nation, differently from how he believed President George W. Bush did this. In particular, Mr. Bush was generally seen by his critics as more of an ‘ugly American,’ following the character of the novel by that name, written half a century ago by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer (who exemplified the sort of American who tended to be insensitive to the rest of the world’s population, their customs and languages, etc.). Mr. Obama seems to want to change this by appearing to be less arrogant, swagger less than Mr. Bush. Instead Mr. Obama wants to be friends with virtually everyone, even those who have no interest it being friends with America and Americans, including him...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!994.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/10/09

In Washington, the rule is: If a little poison doesn’t cure the patient, give him more. This rule is being applied not only to health care, where massive doses of government intervention are being prescribed to treat the toxicity of past government intervention. It’s also being used in the attempt to end the recession. When Barack Obama took power he told the American people that an ‘economic stimulus’ bill was indispensable to fixing the economy...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0907c.asp



To mitigate economic Armageddon

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

07/13/09

The U.S. government is deeper in debt than it has been since just after World War II. When Bill Clinton, who actually reduced the federal deficit as a portion of GDP, left office, the Congressional Budget Office projected an $800 billion dollar yearly budget surplus for the years 2009 to 2012. Now CBO projects an annual budget deficit of a whopping $1.2 trillion. Although Republicans are blaming Barack Obama for this gargantuan budget gap, George W. Bush is responsible for 53 percent of the total, according to the New York Times. Another 37 percent is due to the recession of the early part of the decade and the global meltdown that began in late 2007. Obama is responsible for only 10 percent of the total. Yet the reason that Obama’s portion is so small is because George W. Bush, a big-government Republican, was in office for eight years, and Obama has been in office less than six months. Obama has been spending at a phenomenal rate — on a pork-filled stimulus bill and an expansive domestic agenda...

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2546



A Second Stimulus Package? Yikes!

Cato Institute
by Alan Reynolds

07/10/09

Investors understand that increased government spending diverts valuable resources away from the private sector and ends up imposing even more demoralizing taxes on labor and capital. A major study of 18 large economies by Alberto Alesina of Harvard and three colleagues appeared in the 2002 American Economic Review. This paper, ‘Fiscal Policy, Profits and Investment’ found that the surest way to make economies boom can be through deep cuts in government spending — the exact opposite of the ‘fiscal stimulus’ snake oil...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10343


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GDP
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Reynolds

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

07/13/09

John Yoo wrote memos justifying anything and everything that the President wanted to do. He knew, or should have known, that most of what he was attempting to justify was a crime. Most of the things that he was writing about were very, very obviously illegal. In writing memos on these things he was not engaging in mere academic exercises. He was providing the misinformation needed to persuade people in the field to commit crimes. And if one wants to argue (rightly or wrongly) that some of the things Yoo addressed were genuinely gray, that is all the more reason to expect more of him, given his responsibility to provide accurate information for people who are not lawyers. The harder the question, the more important it is to get it right. If anybody gets off on the grounds of ‘just following memos’ then that is all the more reason to prosecute the memo writer...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/07/13/9483


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thoreau

'Unmanned Bombs Away'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/13-9



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/13-0

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The end is near

Boston Globe
by James Carroll

07/20/09

It used to be that apocalyptic warnings about the approaching end of time came from sign-holding religious nutcases. Now they come from hard [sic] scientists. Most discussion of the threat of global warming is conducted in measured tones, with even dire projections offered with the necessary proviso that the future is uncertain. But as governments fail to act strenuously enough against the villainous carbon emissions, and as the broad public continues in a state of environmental quietude, if not indifference, scientific voices are sharpening the alarm. E.O. Wilson, in his book The Creation, used the word Armageddon to describe the rapid shrinking of Earth’s biodiversity. James Lovelock has foreseen a small remnant of the human population in retreat to the Arctic by the end of this century...

http://tinyurl.com/l865qn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biodiversity

By Ron Paul

Video

The dollar now is worth 4 cents in comparison to what it was worth in 1913 when the FED was established.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23035.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

Crystal Ball Gazing

By Mike Whitney

The US consumer, long considered an inexhaustible resource, is tapped out. Without job security and access to easy credit consumer spending will slow, prices will fall, demand will flag and the economy will tank. There won't be a recovery.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23039.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deflation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=consumer+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By David Swanson

Prisoner with an ID (153399) is shown missing a good portion of his head. This is one of a number of dead bodies shown in the photographs. SBS (the Australian news outlet) found an Army report on his death and concluded that these dead prisoners had likely been shot by guards during a riot or murdered by guards in other circumstances. Others have claimed mortar attacks from outside the prison are to blame.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23046.htm



British soldiers 'made Iraqis dance like Michael Jackson'

British soldiers manipulated the cries of pain of Iraqi prisoners to sound like an "orchestrated choir" and made them dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa has heard.

http://snipurl.com/n5wp7


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baha+Mousa
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Swanson

By Cindy Sheehan

It's time to break the sick relationship that we have with the Robber Class and do something about it! They can only rob us, if we allow them to.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23034.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=robber+class
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FOXNews - USA

And big programs -- keep in mind, things like unemployment benefits, over 6.8 million people are filing for claims right now. Well, that's cost us thus far ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532420,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy

Austrian journalist (Jane Burgermeister) joins Drew Raines host of A Marines Disquisition and also Dr Carley talking about the criminal charges she has filed alledging that the 'Swine Flu' has been engineered for a sinister purpose.



part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu77FHM6GD8



part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPOgYpLKl2A



part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWbibVlJzM




part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17MzeQZIWZY


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Blogs about: Jane Burgermeister
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/jane-burgermeister/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis155.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis

http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston56.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=presidential+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/alston

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods118.html

Fed Independence or Fed Secrecy?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul554.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/woods
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...The issue came before the board at the request of Marbury Cllr Malcolm Byram (Con). Parish councillors, who were backed by Cllr Byram, conservationists and neighbours opposed the plans.

Great Budworth Parish Council said it had ‘grave concerns’ about the visual impact of raising the tower above the tree canopy.

The village Amenity Society also felt it would be intrusive.

Neighbours at Garden Cottage, 75m from the installation, said they were ‘seriously concerned’ about increased health risks and pointed out that Cransley School is within 400m.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/mq5ryw



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH

progressive.org - Congress was taken for a ride, and the American people's wealth went with it.

http://www.progressive.org/kucinich071109.html



The Right-Wing Prescription for Economic Recovery: Lionize the Rich and Demonize the Poor

alternet.org - Wing-nut commentary about the crisis blames the victims. As if things weren't already bad enough.

http://caf.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eoo7eT%2BemHqXgRiFpERCWzErf1BaXE1j



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_wolves_bighowl4?bighowl_bgd2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wolves
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Skandalöse Zustände bei der Bremer Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Integration und Soziales

„Der Datenschutz in der Hartz-IV-Verwaltung “BAgIS” (Bremer Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Integration und Soziales) sei zu beklagen. Persönliche Fragen würden im Wartebereich und in der Amtsstube vor ungezählten Zeugen erörtert - darunter fremde Sachbearbeiter, andere Hartz-IV-Kunden und die Leute vom Sicherheitsdienst. Dabei werde über ansteckende Krankheiten genauso gesprochen wie über Vorstrafen und sämtliche Vermögensverhältnisse des Antragsstellers und seiner “Bedarfsgemeinschaft”, berichtete der WESER KURIER online am 08.07.2009..“ Meldung bei Datensicherheit vom 8.7.09 http://www.datensicherheit.de/aktuelles/aushoehlung-des-datenschutzes-fuer-hartz-iv-antragsteller-4342


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2009



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Datenschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV

Es geht um zwei Grad Celsius

„Die Welt soll sich bis zum Jahr 2050 nicht mehr als zwei Grad Celsius erwärmen. Das ist das große Signal des diesjährigen G8-Gipfels. Damit setzten die Staats- und Regierungschefs den Rahmen für ein neues weltweites Klimaschutzabkommen am Ende des Jahres. Aber auch bei der Bewältigung der internationalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise stimmten sich die Länder eng ab…“ Pressemitteilung der Bundesregierung vom 10.07.2009, dort auch weitere Dokumente http://www.bundesregierung.de/nn_1264/Content/DE/Artikel/2009/G8/2009-07-10-g8-abschluss.html


G8: Drängen auf Doha-Runde entlarvt Krokodilstränen über Hungerkrise. Attac fordert Ende der Liberalisierung der Agrarmärkte

„Zum Ende des G8-Gipfels in Italien hat das globalisierungskritische Netzwerk Attac scharfe Kritik an den Beschlüssen der Staats- und Regierungschefs geübt. Die Globalisierungskritiker verurteilten insbesondere die Absicht der G8, die Doha-Runde der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) im Jahr 2010 zu einem Abschluss zu bringen…“ Pressemitteilung von Attac Deutschland vom 10. Juli 2009 http://www.attac.de/aktuell/presse/detailsicht/datum/2009/07/10/g8-draengen-auf-doha-runde-entlarvt-krokodilstraenen-ueber-hungerkrise/?cHash=9f0be55bd9


FIAN kritisiert G8-Strategie zur Hungerbekämpfung

„Zum Abschluss des G8-Gipfels in L'Aquila zieht die Menschenrechtsorganisation FIAN eine gemischte Bilanz. "Wir begrüßen die Zusage der G8, in den nächsten drei Jahren 20 Milliarden US-Dollar für die Landwirtschaft in Entwicklungsländern bereitzustellen", erklärte Ute Hausmann, Geschäftsführerin von FIAN Deutschland. Zugleich kritisierte sie Widersprüche in der G8-Strategie zur Hungerbekämpfung: "Solange die G8 die Länder des Südens zur Öffnung ihrer Märkte drängen, kann die Wiederbelebung der dortigen Landwirtschaft nicht gelingen."…“ Pressemitteilung zu G8 vom 10.7.2009 http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/gesell/fian/bfine118.html


Video G8: Manifestation against G8 in LAquila

Mehrere Tausend Menschen folgten dem Aufruf verschiedener politischer und sozialer Verbände zur großen Abschlusskundgebung am 10. Juli. Siehe Bericht zum Video bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/07/255881.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2009

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Die G8 und die Armutsbekämpfung – eine lange Liste ungelöster Probleme

Artikel von Jörn Kalinski bei Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.de/a_631_aktuell.asp?id=292


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2009



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hunger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut

Tectum-Chef lässt gegen ver.di demonstrieren

"Wenn die Mitarbeiter sich gewerkschaftlich organisieren, mache ich den Standort dicht."Unter diesem Motto bezahlte Hubertus Küpper, Chef der Tectum-Call Center, heute dutzende seiner MitarbeiterInnen und zahlreiche Aussenstehende, um für seinen Standpunkt zu demonstrieren. Dabei suchte er sich die Zentrale von ver.di am Standort Bochum aus…“ Artikel von Markus Lawrenz auf Indymedia vom 10.07.2009 http://de.indymedia.org/2009/07/255854.shtml


Tectum-Mitarbeiter demonstrieren gegen Verdi

„Verkehrte Welt – eine Protestaktion gegen die Gewerkschaft. Mit Rufen wie: "Wir brauchen Verdi nicht" und Plakaten demonstrierten am Freitag ungefähr 400 Mitarbeiter des Call Centers Tectum vor der Bochumer Verdi-Zentrale…“ Artikel auf DerWesten vom 10.07.2009 http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/gelsenkirchen/2009/7/10/news-125259511/detail.html


Verdi: "Sklaven-Zustände" in Callcenter

„Mitarbeiter und Gewerkschafter beklagen untragbare Arbeitsbedingungen im Callcenter von „Tectum” in Gelsenkirchen. Es gebe extremen Druck und Schikanen. Der geschäftführende Gesellschafter des Unternehmens widerspricht: An den Vorwürfen sei nichts dran. „Nur wer selbst brennt, kann andere anzünden”, steht auf einem Schild, das ein Vorgesetzter an einem Faden befestigt und unter die Decke gehängt hat. Es ist nicht allein: Zu Dutzenden baumeln Sprüche in den Großraumbüros von Tectum über den Köpfen der Mitarbeiter. Die Gewerkschaft Verdi würde sagen: wie ein Damoklesschwert, denn sie lässt kein gutes Haar an dem Ückendorfer Unternehmen…“ Artikel von Michael Muscheid auf DerWesten vom 02.07.2009 http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/gelsenkirchen/2009/6/30/news-124198000/detail.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2009



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Callcenter

- Opérateurs pollueurs (suite): Dr Roger Santini "Châteaux d'eau et Antennes relais"
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Eau.php#1

Annie Gowen, The Washington Post: "A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a new federal report released yesterday. According to 'America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being,' 18 percent of all children 17 and under were living in poverty in 2007 - up from 17 percent in 2006."

http://www.truthout.org/071309F?n



Boxer Faces "Challenge of a Lifetime" on Climate Change Bill

Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers: "If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more. She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children."

http://www.truthout.org/071309G?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=poverty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Boxer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Annie+Gowen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rob+Hotakainen

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "President Obama is in the process of losing what may be the most important argument of his young administration. The argument is not about health care, bank bailouts, the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, the environment or the auto industry, though arguments on these issues are indeed ongoing and hanging in the balance. No, the Obama administration is losing the argument about the past being less important than the future."

http://www.truthout.org/071309A?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=automaker
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Cato Institute
by Malou Innocent

07/10/09

Many prominent opinion leaders, including Henry Kissinger, argue that America should not withdraw from Afghanistan because doing so would boost jihadism globally and make America look weak. They concede that the war in Central Asia will be long, expensive and risky, but nevertheless claim it is ultimately worth waging. But those arguments and countless others rarely withstand close scrutiny. From a strategic and economic perspective, no tangible gains could outweigh the costs of America maintaining an indefinite presence in Afghanistan. Indeed, such a course would be counterproductive, as the US military presence in the region strengthens the very jihadist forces it seeks to defeat and erodes America’s already tattered reputation abroad...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10344


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kissinger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Malou+Innocent

Arizona Republic

07/12/09

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes. Zipping past Fisherman’s Wharf, his scanner downloaded to his laptop the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians’ electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he’d ’skimmed’ four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. Increasingly, government officials are promoting the chipping of identity documents as a 21st-century application of technology that will help speed border crossings, safeguard credentials against counterfeiters and keep terrorists from sneaking into the country.

http://tinyurl.com/nuk5hz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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ID Chips Raise Concerns Over Identity Theft
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1719439/id_chips_raise_concerns_over_identity_theft/

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Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears

This weekend millions of Americans learned about the dangers of RFID in driver's licenses and other identity documents, thanks to a major story by the Associated Press.

Here is a link to the article:

"Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200705.html

The article is a lengthy, in-depth investigation of RFID in driver's licenses and passports by AP reporter Todd Lewan, the same tenacious investigator who broke the story about implanted microchips causing cancer a few years back.

Please take the time to read the article in its entirety. It clearly indicts the poor security on so-called "Enhanced Drivers Licenses" or EDLs, the border-crossing ID cards that have now been issued to nearly 200,000 Americans.

As I wrote in Scientific American last fall, EDL's contain RFID tags that can be read from 30-feet away by the government, marketers, criminals, and anyone else with an off-the-shelf reader -- right through a person's pocket, backpack, or purse. They can be used to track individuals, identify them for marketing purposes, or infringe their right to anonymously assemble and speak out against injustice.

My article can be found here:

"How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-rfid-tags-could-be-used

Todd Lewan's article cites many pro-liberty folks, including Mark Lerner of the Stop REAL-ID Coalition, Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), security researcher Chris Paget, and yours truly.

I was thrilled to see the article appear on the Drudge Report, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, the Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Yahoo.com, and over 450 other newspapers and media outlets.

While EDL's are bad news, the good news is that the word is getting out. Please help us spread it even further by posting a link to the article on your website, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg accounts and everywhere else.


Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D. Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy

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ACLU and Other Privacy Groups Ask Lawmakers to Oppose 'Pass ID Act'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/13-7



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/12-3



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Resistenz gegen Tamiflu nach WHO "sporadisch".
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/141884



Ausbau der biologischen Hochsicherheitslabore in Deutschland

Deutschland bereitet sich auf die Ankunft der Schweinegrippe und anderer Epidemien vor.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30698/1.html



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Nach einer verlustreichen Woche ist die Diskussion in Großbritannien über den Einsatz in Afghanistan neu entbrannt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/141890

Kaitlynn Riely, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Nearly as soon as they arrived, people became sick - not just the soldiers, but also the KBR employees. First, Mr. Powell said, their noses would bleed and their skin would feel raw. They developed sore throats and skin sores and began to cough up blood. When asked, KBR told soldiers it must be allergies or a reaction to the sand."

http://www.truthout.org/071209W?n



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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "By refusing to release photos of those tortured by US forces, Obama sadly continues yet another element of the Bush regime, organized around an attempt to regulate the visual field, to mandate what can be seen and modify the landscape of the sensible and visible. And equally important, as Judith Butler points out, the Obama administration's application of the state-secrecy privilege grants it the power to determine 'which lives count as human and as living, and which do not.'"

http://www.truthout.org/071209R?n



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"China is beginning to cancel Congress's credit card," he told Fox News on June 10. It "doesn't want to lend much more money to the United States and especially is worried about the Fed's policy of printing money to buy new debt."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aKLGZEc7qoqA



Hundreds of Thousands of Workers Will Lose Unemployment Benefits Soon

Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.

http://snipurl.com/n3w73



Mortgage defaults spread as even 'safe' borrowers falter

No longer is the real estate bust simply the result of exotic, subprime loans that doubled payments and blew up in homeowners' faces.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2017811.html



Credit Losses Rising Anywhere and Everywhere

The delinquency rate on U.S. mortgages surged to a record 9.12 percent in the first quarter of this year. Late payments rose in ALL categories, including prime fixed-rate loans, the absolute "cream of the crop" in the mortgage world.

http://snipurl.com/n3w8n


From Information Clearing House



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A congressionally-mandated report by Inspectors General of five separate intelligence agencies confirms that the Bush administration carried out "unprecedented," massive surveillance activities beyond the warrantless wiretapping program that had previously been revealed.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/11/igs-massive-spying-program/



Bush Personally Ordered Visit to Ashcroft's Hospital Bed

George W. Bush personally ordered White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card to visit an ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital in March 2004 after Ashcroft's deputy Jim Comey refused to certify the warrantless surveillance program.

Just look at this profile in courage:
http://washingtonindependent.com/50466/bush-personally-ordered-visit-to-ashcrofts-hospital-bed



Keith Olbermann: Bush Authorized Illegal Surveillance Beyond Wiretapping?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDgSwyOfYU


From Information Clearing House



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What Arias does say is: "This year alone, the governments of Latin America will spend nearly $50 billion on their armies. That's nearly double the amount spent five years ago, a ridiculous sum in a region where 200 million people live on fewer than $2 a day and where only Colombia is engaged in an armed conflict."

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8779/


From Information Clearing House



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Interior Minister Rehman Malik , "They're getting mid-level people, not big fish," he said. "And they are counterproductive because they are killing civilians and turning locals against our government. We try to win people's hearts, then one drone attack drives them away. One attack alone last week killed 50 people."

http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81319&Itemid=38



Stop bombing us: Osama isn't here, says Pakistan

Washington does not directly acknowledge its missile attacks on Pakistani territory by unmanned drone aircraft but Pakistani officials say the US has carried out more than 40 attacks inside its borders in the past 10 months, killing hundreds of people.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6689741.ece


From Information Clearing House



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Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Tim Gatto

The truth is that political parties don't run this country, money does. Our entire political system is based on wealth. This has been true in some degree since the day we gained our independence, but it has never been as apparent as it is now.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23032.htm



Practically On The Table'

By Ralph Nader

Face it, America. You are a corporate-controlled country with the symbols of democracy in the constitution and statutes just that - symbols of what the founding fathers believed or hoped would be reality.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23033.htm



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By David Edwards and Ron Brynaert

When the committee was informed by Director Panetta, everyone was stunned across the board, Republicans and Democrats. As well as we should be in terms of having something absolutely concealed from all members of Congress. The top leadership of the Congress didn't know. So this is serious.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23030.htm

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More Democrats Call for Investigating the CIA

Alex Isenstadt, The Politico: "Calls for an investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency intensified this weekend amid revelations that former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the concealment of a covert agency spy program from Congress. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said that the Senate Intelligence Committee should 'absolutely' investigate the program."

http://www.truthout.org/071209T?n

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CIA lies

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

If this were the democracy that the Founding Fathers thought they were creating, word from CIA Director Leon Panetta that his agency had lied to Congress and specifically that it had lied repeatedly from 9-11-2001 through the end of 2008 concerning an as-yet undisclosed secret program, would have virtually every member of Congress in a state of rebellion, demanding answers...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07102009.html



Calls grow for probe of CIA al Qaeda program

MSNBC

07/13/09

Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The program, which never got off the ground and remains shrouded in mystery, was designed to target leaders of the terrorism network at close range, rather than with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday...

http://tinyurl.com/lrpra3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Bush and Cheney Revived the CIA's "Murder Inc."

About - News & Issues - New York, NY, USA

... the CIA had conducted in the early 1950s ("Project Artichoke") to develop interrogation and mind-control methods while using human guinea pigs. ...

http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/07/13/how-bush-and-cheney-revived-the-cias-murder-inc.htm

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THE CIA Assassination Program

By Adam Serwer

Siobhan Gorman reports in the Wall Street Journal that the CIA program recently disclosed to Congress by Leon Panetta was designed to target high-level Al Qaeda leaders for assassination--something the CIA has been explicitly barred from doing since the Ford administration.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23038.htm



Stop The Presses! The CIA Lied

By Emile Schepers

The C.I.A. was invented to spread lies, and to do a lot of other, worse things. It came into being after the end of the Second World War, when U.S. foreign policy was revamped to fight the Cold War, started out lying and has never stopped.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23036.htm



Cheney, the CIA, and Congress: Now What?

By Mcjoan

Senators are shocked, shocked I say, to discover that Dick Cheney directed the CIA to lie to them about a post-9/11 intelligence program. Certainly no one could have foreseen that.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23037.htm



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8839/

Afghanistan building boom pouring billions into military
infrastructure

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8840/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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I Was Just Following Orders
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What Is Justice?
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