World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/30-11



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Funding+Bill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/07/29-1



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- Le Dauphiné la Une:
Le premier abri-anti ondes est drômois "Les électro-sensibles peuvent s'y ressourcer"
- Le Dauphiné EHS témoignage.
- Le Dauphiné Ondes : Pr Dominique Belpomme "Un problème de santé majeur".

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

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlined Wednesday the Obama administration's domestic approach to preventing terrorist attacks -- a strategy that will rely in large measure on refining and expanding initiatives launched under President George W. Bush.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124887586476590211.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
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By The Independent

Britain's national security and the lives of its citizens will be put at risk if the High Court publishes its findings on what happened to former terror detainee Binyam Mohamed at the hands of the CIA. That was the effect of letters from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and CIA officials, two judges were told in London yesterday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23165.htm



UK Government to be Sued For Involvement in CIA Kidnapping Program

Former Gitmo Detainee Alleges Stopover on British Island Makes UK Complicit in Torture.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8194127&page=1



Helping the victims of Guantánamo

Within a day of his inauguration the new US president, Barack Obama, promised the world, in no uncertain terms, that the world's most infamous prison's days were numbered. As of today, that's 190 days - and counting.

http://snipurl.com/obp6h


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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Within a day of his inauguration the new US president, Barack Obama, promised the world, in no uncertain terms, that the world's most infamous prison's days were numbered. As of today, that's 190 days - and counting.

http://snipurl.com/obp6h


From Information Clearing House



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

An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding

By Catherine Lutz

Asked why the US has a vast network of military bases around the world, Pentagon officials give both utilitarian and humanitarian arguments. Utilitarian arguments include the claim that bases provide security for the US by deterring attack from hostile countries and preventing or remedying unrest or military challenges; that bases serve the national economic interests of the US, ensuring access to markets and commodities needed to maintain US standards of living.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23167.htm



Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

By Chalmers Johnson

According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around the world, our empire consists of 865 facilities in more than 40 countries and overseas U.S. territories. We deploy over 190,000 troops in 46 countries and territories.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23166.htm



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Col. Timothy R. Reese

The general lack of progress in essential services and good governance is now so broad that it ought to be clear that we no longer are moving the Iraqis "forward." Below is an outline of the information on which I base this assessment.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23163.htm

Toxin linked to autism and neurological disorders to be included in shots

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Washington Post confirmed today that the swine flu vaccine, which is set to be rolled out nationwide this fall in what some fear could ultimately become a mandatory vaccination program, will contain mercury, a toxin linked with autism and neurological disorders.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/washington-post-swine-flu-vaccine-will-contain-mercury.html



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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung senden wir Ihnen folgenden Veranstaltungshinweis der ödp München.

Vortrag am 11.08.: "100% erneuerbare Energien: Vision oder schon Wirklichkeit?"

Referent: Otto Wiesmann

Dienstag, 11. August 2009, 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19:00 Uhr – Der Eintritt ist frei

In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses , Brienner Str. 39, Rgb., (Rahnstüberl) MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21).

In seinem Vortrag erläutert Otto Wiesmann eingehend die Gründe für das Erreichen von Peak Oil (Maximum der weltweiten täglichen Ölförderung) im Jahre 2006. Er erklärt die heftige Ölpreisentwicklung der letzten Jahre an der Börse. Wiesmann umschreibt mit einfachen Worten den Öl-Futurehandel an der Börse. Er erläutert die Ölpreisentwicklung von 1998, Öltiefstpreis 10,35$ pro Barrel bis auf 147,27$ pro –Barrel im Jahre 2008 an der Börse Nymex in New York.

Danach untersucht der Referent Erdgas als kurzfristige Alternative für den kommenden Energiebedarf. Er behandelt Kohle und Atomkraft im Hinblick auf externe Kosten und Kohlendioxidausstoss. Ausführlich widmet sich Otto Wiesmann den zukunftsfähigen Ressourcen. Erneuerbare Energien wie Wind, Wasserstoff und Sonne müssen ausgebaut, die Nutzung von Biogas, Erdwärme und Wasserkraft vorangetrieben werden. Anschließend erläutert er sein Konzept zum Einsatz regenerativer Energien.

Der Referent und Autor Otto Wiesmann (54) ist hauptberuflich seit 20 Jahren Ölhändler an der Terminbörse. Er ist anerkannter Ölexperte in Deutschland, Auftritte in Sat1, N24 und dem Deutschen Anleger Fernsehen, sowie Interviewpartner der TAZ, dem Energie Information Dienst usw. bestätigen dies. Außerdem ist der in Bayern geborene Autor Referent auf Anlegermessen und hält Vorträge an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt über Erdöl und Börsenhandel. Ende April 2009 ist sein Buch „Chance Peak Oil“ im Finanzbuchverlag erschienen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter (V.i.S.d.P.)
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp) Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46/V, 80333 München
Fon 089/452 474 15 × Fax 089/550 699 86
E-Mail presse@oedp-muenchen.de
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de


Veranstaltungshinweise zur kostenfreien Vortragsreihe:

In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses, Brienner Str. 39, Rgb, Rahnstüberl. MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21).

Die., 8. Sep. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Biogas - Konkurrenz zur Nahrungsmittelproduktion? - Mit globalen Nährstoffkreis- läufen auf dem Weg zur Bio-Biogasanlage“ Referent: Ansgar Blasweiler, BiogasSüd

Die., 13. Okt. 2009, 19.30 Uhr „Mediation statt Ehestreit vor Gericht – für eine menschliche Trennung ohne finanziellen Ruin“ Referent: Rainer Köpnick, Mediator


ödp – Profil

In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil – weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

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Steckt die Deutsche Windkraft in der Sackgasse?

Die vom BDEWveröffentlichten Zahlen belegen, dass 2009 insgesamt kein gutes Jahr für die Erneuerbaren Energien war. Gegenüber 2008 konnte die ökologische Stromproduktion nur um 0,3 Mrd. kWh gesteigert werden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741687808ms188



Studie: Erneuerbare Energien decken 2020 über die Hälfte des Grundlastbedarfs

Die Erneuerbaren Energien decken im Jahr 2020 über die Hälfte des Grundlastbedarfs im Stromsektor.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688028ms192



Deutschland kann EU-Vorgaben für Erneuerbare Energien weit übertreffen und dadurch hohen Nutzen erzielen

Der Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE) hat die verbindlichen Vorgaben der Europäischen Union für den Ausbau der regenerativen Energien bis zum Jahr 2020 aufgegriffen und eine nationale Roadmap dazu erarbeitet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688025ms192



Weltweite Vollversorgung mit erneuerbaren Energien bis 2030

Windkraft, Wasserkraft und Sonnenenergie könnten schon in 20 Jahren den gesamten Energiebedarf der Erde decken und fossile Brennstoffe komplett überflüssig machen. In ihrer Studie „Ein Plan für 100% erneuerbare Energien weltweit bis 2030“ erläutern die US-amerikanischen Wissenschaftler Mark Z. Jacobson und Mark A. DeLucchi die technische Machbarkeit.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688424ms200



Städte: 100 Prozent erneuerbare Energie möglich

Experten schlagen sieben Schritte zur Umsetzung vor.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688431ms200



Vollversorgung mit Erneuerbaren günstiger als mit atomaren und fossilen Energien

Wissenschaftler der Universitäten Stanford und Davis haben in einem Plan für eine emissionsfreie Welt bis 2030 errechnet, dass die weltweite Umstellung auf Erneuerbare Energien rund 100.000 Mrd. US $ kosten wird.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688451ms200



BEE kritisiert interessengeleitete Debatte um vermeintliche Kostensteigerung durch Erneuerbare Energien

Der Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE) bewertet die jüngste Debatte um vermeintlich steigende Strompreise durch den verstärkten Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien als verfehlt und interessengeleitet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688457ms200

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Europa könnte bis 2050 komplett mit Strom aus Erneuerbaren Quellen versorgt werden

Wenn ein leistungsfähiges europäisches Fernübertragungsnetz und ein vereinter Elektrizitäts-Binnenmarkt geschaffen werden und mit ähnlichen Netzen und Märkten in Nordafrika verbunden werden, können bis zur Mitte des Jahrhunderts Erneuerbare Energieträger in großem Maßstab genutzt werden. Das geht aus einem in der vergangenen Woche von der Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft PricewaterhouseCoopers veröffentlichten Bericht hervor.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688478ms201

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100 Prozent bis 2050

Erneuerbare Energieträger können die Energieversorgung in den nächsten Jahrzehnten vollständig übernehmen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147434



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
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Enzkreis-Bedenken abgewiesen

Pforzheimer Zeitung - Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Zum dritten Mal haben Gremien des Gemeinderates in Illingen den Antrag auf Errichtung einer Mobilfunkantenne abgewiesen. Diesmal wurde die Bitte des...

http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Muehlacker/Enzkreis-Bedenken-abgewiesen-_arid,134075_puid,1_pageid,87.html

New students informed: No jabs, no enrollment

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Another major school institution has implemented a mandatory vaccination policy that bars both new and current students who haven’t received the meningitis and MMR shots from enrolling for the coming academic year.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/university-of-alabama-implements-mandatory-vaccination-program.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mandatory+vaccin

http://www.naturalnews.com/026731_CODEX_food_health.html


Informant: Iris Atzmon



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

Mother Jones
by Nomi Prins

07/28/09

Bank holding companies (which all the biggest financial firms now are) come under the regulatory purview of the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC. The capital they keep in reserve in case of emergency (like, say, toxic assets hemorrhaging on their books, or credit derivatives trades not being paid) is supposed to be greater than investment banks’. That’s the trade-off. You get access to federal assistance, you pony up more capital, and you take less risk. Goldman didn’t like the last part. It makes most of its money speculating, or trading. So it asked the Fed to be exempt from what’s called the Market Risk Rules that bank holding companies adhere to when computing their risk. Keep in mind that by virtue of becoming a bank holding company, Goldman received a total of $63.6 billion in federal subsidies (that we know about — probably more if the Fed were ever forced to disclose its $7.6 trillion of borrower details)...

http://tinyurl.com/lpa59f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by Will Wilkinson

07/29/09

Whatever happened to income inequality? George W. Bush’s last term was a golden age of the moralizing polemic decrying a widening income gap. Since then, this once paramount concern has completely evaporated. Yet if the question of income inequality was ever interesting or urgent, you’d think a transformative shock to the American economy would make it more urgent still. A wealth-obliterating disaster has put our economy in the dump along with the livelihoods of millions of lower-income Americans. So why have we stopped talking about income inequality?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10391


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Mit dem EU-Emissionshandel wird der Klimaschutz unterlaufen. In Frankreich werden unterdessen erste Gehversuche in die Zukunft des klimafreundlichen Lufttransports unternommen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30822/1.html



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Für Eliot Spitzer, den früheren Gouverneur und Generalstaatsanwalt von New York, war die US-Bankenrettung der größte Betrug aller Zeiten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30816/1.html



Auslaufmodell Dollar

Auch die Mercosur-Staaten wollen den internen Handel nicht mehr in Dollar abwickeln.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/142677



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Festgenommene Demonstranten werden entlassen, Gefängnisse geschlossen, Kritik an Ahmadinedschad nimmt zu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30821/1.html

The U.S. is seeking to dissuade Israeli from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities - when such an act is likely the only way to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, says former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.

Bolton: Israeli Attack Best Option on Iran
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bolton_israel_iran_attack/2009/07/29/241402.html



John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran

By Daniel Luban

Discussing Iran during a Tuesday speech at the University of Chicago, Bolton appeared to call for nothing less than an Israeli nuclear first strike against the Islamic Republic. (The speech, sponsored by the University Young Republicans and Chicago Friends of Israel, was titled, apparently without a trace of irony, "Ensuring Peace.")

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23731.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates

On a surprise visit to Baghdad, Gates said Iraqi officials have acknowledged that they might need American military support past 2011.

http://snipurl.com/o8pqq


From Information Clearing House



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More British lives have been lost in the last one month than any other month in the last seven years. But British government's propaganda for war on Afghanistan continues.

http://snipurl.com/o8ped


From Information Clearing House



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

By Paul Craig Roberts

Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government's ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23157.htm



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By Amy Goodman

Anti-war activists in Olympia, Wash., have exposed U.S. Army spying and infiltration of their groups, as well as intelligence gathering by the U.S. Air Force, the federal Capitol Police and the Coast Guard.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23161.htm



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By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

Instead of U.S. citizens asking the question, What should we do about the current situation in the United States of America? (extended to those parts of the world that suffer beneath its myriad forms of violence and oppression), the Campaign for Peace and Democracy asks (#12): "What should we do about the current situation in Iran?"

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23160.htm



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"We Shall Remain"

From American Experience

By Jim Kirwan

"In the 1830's what we did to the Southeastern Indians was (and still is) ethnic cleansing." These crimes that formed our national beginnings cry out to the universe for consequences-maybe that is why we are where we are today".

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23156.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethnic+cleansing
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Sasha Abramsky, The Guardian UK: "Now, nearly a year after the fiscal collapse, get ready for structural readjustment. California, the richest state in America, finally passed an emergency budget revision on Friday that bears shocking similarities to the budgets foisted on third world countries by the World Bank and IMF in decades past."

http://www.truthout.org/072909X?n



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Amy Taxin, The Associated Press: "Immigrant advocates say the federal government has failed to meet its own standards for detaining immigrants, making it unduly difficult for immigrants to defend themselves in court and fight to remain in the country."

http://www.truthout.org/072909V?n



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Antoine de Ravignan in Alternatives Internationales surveys the main issues involved in the regulation and spread of genetically modified food crops, while in ZNet, Marie Trigona reports on an Argentine study that criticizes the GMO soy model from a variety of perspectives.

http://www.truthout.org/072909T?n



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By John Arendt - Summerland Review

Published: July 29, 2009 10:00 PM
Updated: July 29, 2009 10:39 PM

Residents living near the site of a proposed cellular telephone tower will conduct testing because of concerns over health risks from electromagnetic radiation.

A Victoria company has been hired to conduct current levels of electromagnetic radiation.

In addition, a general health survey, including blood analysis, is also being taken.

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http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/summerlandreview/news/52038107.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger164.html



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JEANNE CUMMINGS

dyn.politico.com - When the Treasury Department started bailing out banks, the Obama administration told them to curtail their lobbying activities on the issue. It was an edict aimed at easing public outrage and sending a signal that the government wasn't going to be pushed around by the big bank lobby. In hindsight, it also turns out to be largely irrelevant, given that none of the promises and orders included action on Capitol Hill.

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Published Date: 29 July 2009

By Liam Cosgrove
A mobile telecommunications giant has pulled out of controversial plans to extend a mast in one of County Longford's most densely populated areas, the Leader can reveal.

Top officials with Telefonica O2 Ireland opted against following up planning submissions lodged with Longford County Council last year to extend an existing 18 metre high structure by a further six metres citing the additional height to be unnecessary.

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http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/Phone-company-pulls-plug-on.5504144.jp

CNN report stokes fears of martial law, mandatory vaccination program

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

According to a CNN report, the military will assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant swine flu outbreak in the U.S. this fall, stoking fears that the pandemic, which has claimed relatively few lives so far, will be used as an excuse to implement martial law and a mandatory vaccination program.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/military-to-work-with-fema-during-swine-flu-outbreak.html

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All Of US VS THE NEW WORD ORDER
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/386733ca2b36f55?hl=de



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ISIS Commentary 29/07/09

A Lesson for Climate Change

Modern society is technologically far superior to any that has gone before, we have all the means to head off the worst effects of climate change and adapt to those we cannot avoid. History tells us however that the most common reason societies collapse is not inadequate science or technology but failure to take the difficult decisions necessary for survival Prof. Peter Saunders

Surviving environmental disasters

As the world faces the challenge of climate change, it is instructive to recall that this is by no means the first time humans have had to cope with similar problems. Many societies have found themselves in serious trouble because of an unwelcome change in their environment. It may have been something over which they had no control, like the onset of the Little Ice Age in the 15th century, or they may have brought it upon themselves, all too often by clearing forests, or perhaps a combination of the two. Some societies survived, others did not.

Long before the Spanish arrived, the Mayans of Central America had already abandoned their magnificent cities because of drought. Deforestation destroyed the Easter Island society that erected the famous statues, though a very much reduced population continued to live on the island. Others, like the Norwegian settlers in Greenland, and the original inhabitants of Pitcairn Island, died out completely.

On the other hand, the Inuit who arrived in Greenland while the Norse settlements were flourishing are still there. The 18th century Tokugawa Japanese reversed the deforestation that had threatened their way of life. The inhabitants of Tikopia, a tiny island in the Pacific, have adopted a whole series of measures that allow them to survive in a difficult environment; one of the most striking 400 years ago was to kill all their pigs - high status animals in Melanesia and at one time a major source of protein on Tikopia - because they were too inefficient for feeding humans.

Societies collapse through failing to take decisive action

In his fascinating book Collapse [1] Jared Diamond describes and analyses these and other examples and looks for common features that would help explain why some civilisations survived environmental challenges and others did not.

There are many reasons why societies have failed to cope. They may not have anticipated the problem, and so neither tried to head it off, nor made sure they were ready when it came. The Mayans might have been better able to deal with the great drought of the 9th century if they had known such things could happen in their part of the world. Unfortunately, the last great drought was in the 3rd century, and had been forgotten. The Mayans did keep careful records, but only of things they considered important such as the exploits of their kings, not trivia like climate data.

A society may not even be aware of a serious problem when it is actually upon them, especially if the effect is slow. An increase in mean temperature of a degree or two per century can easily be masked by annual fluctuations or dismissed as part of some cycle.

It may also be that the problem is just too difficult. If you live an already marginal existence on an isolated island in the South Pacific and the rainfall decreases even further, there is not much you can do.

Diamond found that in the many societies he studied, the most common reason for their collapse was none of the above, but the failure to take decisive action that could have saved them. Surprisingly, even when it had become obvious that there was a serious problem, little or nothing was done to address it.

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whyCivilisationsCollapse.php

Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signaled Tuesday that his agency is likely to limit financial speculators' ability to drive up prices for oil and other fuels."

http://www.truthout.org/072909F?n



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Just like the myth of Iraq's 'sovereignty,' the myth of US withdrawal is just that. Until the latter occurs, the former does not stand a chance. This is particularly so, as long as Iraq, like Afghanistan, are arenas where the US military is being used to 'ensure that all major and emerging powers are integrated as constructive actors and stakeholders into the international system.'"

http://www.truthout.org/072909A?n



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Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post: "America, it seems, can't wait to get back to business - risky business - as usual. No matter how atrocious business has been. Newsweek's latest cover story declares that The Great Recession is over."

http://www.truthout.org/072809U?n



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Tod im Paradies

Weltweit sind mehr als ein Drittel aller Tier- und Pflanzenarten vom Aussterben bedroht, viele davon in Ozeanien. Woran das liegt und welche Rolle der Mensch dabei spielt, zeigt eine neue Studie.

http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/artenschutz/tid-15011/artensterben-tod-im-paradies_aid_421334.html

Am Ende des Artikels können Sie den Artikel bewerten und Kommentare an den Focus senden. Die Zeitschrift berichtet dann in Zukunft hoffentlich öfter über solche Themen.


TV HINWEIS

Auf Phoenix gibt es heute am Donnerstag den 29. 7.

Alles Bio? Das Geschäft mit den Öko-Lebensmitteln

Film von Hanspeter Michel

20.15


Hunger und Wut

Warum die Welternährungskrise kein Zufall ist

Film von Petra Schulz

23 Uhr



Das Drama um das globale Huhn

Film von Marion von Haaren

23. 45 Uhr


Reinhard Behrend
Rettet den Regenwald e. V.
http://www.regenwald.org http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/artenschutz/tid-15011/artensterben-tod-im-paradies_aid_421334.html

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Artensterben weiter ungebremst

Bund und Länder stehen in der Pflicht. Röttgen: Weichen für wirksamen internationalen Artenschutz neu stellen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688302ms197



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/29/09

The worst outcome of Obama’s Middle Eastern ‘peace’ project would be for it to succeed, because, in that event, we would engender growing hostility from both sides, as the impracticality of the arrangements caused the Grand Accord to fall apart at the seams. The desire by the U.S. to take on this thankless task is based in the same sort of hubris that drove us to invade Iraq (twice). It continues to burden the rest of the region — and the world — with the costs of a seemingly endless war. Who are we, anyway, to be ‘brokering’ anything? Why, we’re the world’s only ’superpower’ — or, as the French would have it, ‘hyperpower’ — and it’s our obligation (yes, a moral obligation!) to lead. Right? Now we’re getting at the core of the folly that drives U.S. presidents to attempt the impossible, all without a thought for the costs...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/28/the-superpower-conceit/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dass auch das EU-Parlament ausgehebelt werden soll, erzürnt Parlamentarier in Straßburg.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/142663

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Abkommen mit USA: EU will Bankdaten preisgeben

„Geht es nach dem schwedischen EU-Vorsitz, dürfen amerikanische Behörden künftig die Daten europäischer Bankkunden fast unbegrenzt einsehen. Nicht nur Europaparlamentarier sind empört. Die Europäische Union will den USA nahezu unbegrenzten Zugriff auf Daten europäischer Bankkunden ermöglichen. Ein Entwurf der schwedischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft für ein Abkommen mit Washington sieht vor, dass amerikanische Terrorfahnder künftig legal Daten zu grenzüberschreitenden und inländischen Überweisungen in Europa auswerten können. Das Papier liegt der FTD vor…“ Artikel von Reinhard Hönighaus in FDT online vom 11.11.2009 http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:abkommen-mit-usa-eu-will-bankdaten-preisgeben/50036295.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. November 2009



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The word we are getting is that our "good for nothing but photo-ops and grandstanding" Congress may try to sneak through HR 2749 real fast, the latest phony food safety bill on a suspension of rules any day. Yes, we do need to take action to protect our food safety. But, no, this bill does absolutely nothing to identify or address the real problems. And by NOT addressing the real problems it can only do more harm than good.

But we now launching an incredibly powerful new advocacy tool, especially for the fight against HR 2749, and to stop all such future lunacy in its tracks, the People's Phone Lobby interface. It's so simple to use, just go to the page below and call your members of Congress and there is even a link to give you all their direct congressional and local district office phone numbers.

HR 2749 People's Phone Lobby: http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR2749

Then when you speak to the staffers in your congressional offices, you don't JUST tell them your position, first you ASK them for their position. Are they supporting HR 2749 or not? And THEN you give them your position and MAKE them defend theirs if they do not agree with us, that HR 2749 is just more very bad news, another deceptively titled bill that in fact does the opposite of what it purports to be about, assuming it is anything besides totally worthless.

Why is this such a powerful new approach?? Because when you go to the link above and record your notes of your phone calls with your members of Congress, it becomes a permanent public record of just how many of us are calling, and just how many of them are trying to completely ignore the voice of the people, that any of their constituents can go out and read for themselves.

To protect your privacy, the record you make of your conversations with them will only display your initials and your city and state on this new blogging site. But then ANYONE can see for themselves the real numbers as to how many of us are demanding real change, and which members of Congress think our calls can just go in one ear and out the other. Go to the page below and put it to work for you and your family now.

HR 2749 People's Phone Lobby: http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR2749

In fact, this is basically just what the corporate lobbyists do behind our backs day in and day out and all night too. They jam members of Congress about their positions on bills. And if they aren't falling in line they apply pressure. But now with this revolutionary logging tool, we can jam them right back. Why, we can see them huddled in small groups in their cloakrooms even now, talking about, "OMG, the people are on to us!!"

The fact is that a REAL food safety bill would be easy to write. Provision one, force the filthy factory farms, which are breeding all the antibiotic resistant bacteria and mutating viruses now, to clean up their act. And JUST the big factory farms, not the small, healthy organic farms that are the backbone of our real food safety.

Provision two, ban all ban GMOs until AFFIRMATIVELY proven safe and require full disclosure labeling of all such products, cows shot up with bovine growth hormone, etc. Of course, GMOs can never be proven safe because they AREN'T. Rats fed GMO soybeans get sick and die! That's right, they wouldn't feed this stuff to rats, but they want to give it to our children.

So Congress having gotten the directive from the corporate special interests that put profit ahead of our real food safety, a directive to IGNORE the real problems and look somewhere else, along comes HR
2749, which lacks even a preamble to identify why the bill even needed to be written in the first place, or what exactly it is intended to correct.

Instead, ALL HR 2749 does is grant the FDA expansive and unprecedented new POLICE powers to the FDA with no guidance of congresional intent as to how that power should be exercised. And who will be the administrators wielding this awesome new and truly frightening power, you ask? Why, President Obama just appointed a former Monsanto VP to oversee the FDA food safety group. There's a example for you. What a coinky-dink!!

Remember when Obama told us not to worry (because HE was the "decider") about all the drop dead creeps he was appointing to government administrative positions, the worst of the worst, the SAME people who were under all the rocks in the Bush administration? So what happens when THOSE same people are making all the real policy decisions because Congress has totally abdicated it's policy making function? Well ... we get wolves in sheep's clothing legislation put forward like HR 2749. It MUST be stopped.

And by getting on the phones now and making a public record of all our calls at the page below, we can generate so much bad PR for members of Congress who won't listen to the people, that even the most tone deaf of them will have to start dancing eventually. So let's get it started, and show the whole country how many tens and hundreds of thousands of us are on to them.

HR 2749 People's Phone Lobby: http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR2749

The problem with food safety is NOT that the FDA doesn't have enough Gestapo like police power to harass small farming operations. The problem is that the FDA is perversely determined not to look at the real source of all the filth in our food supply, and Congress is doing nothing by way oversight to make them do it. And HR 2749 just gives more powerful weapons to people who can't be trusted to use responsibly the ones they already have.

And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal comment you like.

@cxs #p996

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

usalone326b:327358



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29 July 2009

PEOPLE power has won the day in a battle against the installation of a mobile phone mast in Barnstaple.

In February this year, Sticklepath Hill residents rallied to oppose plans to erect a 40ft communication mast on the roadside verge by High Wall and in front of their bedroom windows.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/m64pza

Sticker Shock: $23.7 Trillion Bailout?

"The total potential federal government support could reach up to $23.7 trillion," says Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, in a report released today on the government's efforts to fix the financial system. Yes, $23.7 trillion.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=8140184



Report: FDIC Bailout Will Save Banks $24 Billion

The Wall Street Journal ran the numbers on a federal bailout program, this one run by the FDIC, and found it will save eight big U.S. banks "about $24 billion in borrowing costs during the next three years."

http://snipurl.com/o5wbc


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
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This is the same Citigroup that received $45 billion in bailout money. The same Citigroup that will soon be 34% owned by the U.S. government. The same Citigroup that has lost 95% of its share value since 2007.

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/07/27/a-100-million-bonus.aspx


From Information Clearing House



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And we call this progress?
http://snipurl.com/o5w09


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arundhati+Roy

A majority of the British public believes the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan cannot be won and British troops should be withdrawn immediately, according to a poll commissioned by The Independent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/28/world/worldwatch/entry5192952.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/28-11



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/28-11

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Earth experiencing sixth great mass extinction; this one may be caused by humans
http://tinyurl.com/nml9rf

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Humans Driving Extinction Faster Than Species Can Evolve, Say Experts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/08



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