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By Dr. Helen Caldicott
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- Dernière minute 15 10 2009 12h30 : une réunion extraordinaire de l'organisation a eu lieu en réponse indirecte à la publication du rapport de l'AFSSET et face à l'évidence des actions concrètes ont été décidées dont certaines seront des ouvertures de procédures en justice avec constitution de partie civile. Une communication va être diffusée, pour avancer merci d'apporter votre soutien aux actions qui vont être engagées.

- Sénat Santé: i TELE "interdiction des téléphones mobiles dans les écoles et collèges"

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

Schonvermögen soll verdreifacht werden

„Die finanzielle Situation von Langzeitarbeitslosen soll verbessert werden. CDU/CSU und FDP wollen das Schonvermögen für Hartz-IV-Empfänger von 250 Euro auf 750 Euro pro Lebensjahr verdreifachen, wie die Generalsekretäre der Parteien am Mittwoch erklärten. Damit können Hartz-IV-Empfänger künftig mehr von dem für das Alter gesparte Geld behalten. Zudem sollen sie mehr hinzuverdienen dürfen, ohne dass das Arbeitslosengeld gekürzt wird. Selbst genutzte Immobilien sollen nicht mehr angerechnet werden…“ ap-Meldung vom 14.10.09 http://de.news.yahoo.com/1/20091014/tde-schonvermgen-soll-verdreifacht-werde-3fc80be.html

Siehe dazu:

Buntenbach: Den Menschen Hartz IV ganz ersparen

„DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach hat die von CDU/CSU und FDP für die neue Legislatur verabredete Anhebung der Schonvermögen für ALG-II-Bezieher als unzureichend kritisiert. Der DGB fordert eine bessere Absicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit. Gebraucht werde ein Überbrückungsgeld, damit Arbeitslose nicht direkt in das Hartz-IV-System abrutschen. Derzeit ist dies bei etwa einem Drittel der neu Erwerbslosen der Fall. Doch "die schlimmsten Auswirklungen der Krise am Arbeitsmarkt stehen uns noch bevor", betont Buntenbach…“ DGB-Pressemitteilung vom 14.10.2009 http://www.dgb.de/2009/10/14_algII_schonvermoegen_buntenbach/


Kosmetische Korrektur

„Hartz IV ist unsozial und ungerecht. Diese Botschaft ist auch bei FDP und Union angekommen. So plädiert NRW-Sozialminister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) in den Koalitionsverhandlungen dafür, den Freibetrag für das Altersvorsorgevermögen zu erhöhen. Das soll Erwerbslose entlasten - sie würden eher Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) erhalten und wären seltener gezwungen, ihre Ersparnisse fürs Alter anzugreifen. Fraglich allerdings ist, ob das vielen Menschen nützen würde. Die Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) deuten daraufhin, dass der Effekt gering wäre. Zwischen Januar und September 2009 wurden nur knapp 25.000 Hartz-IV-Anträge wegen zu hohen Vermögens abgelehnt. Im Verhältnis zu den 5,5 Millionen Anträgen, die insgesamt eingingen, entspricht dies einem Anteil von 0,5 Prozent…“ Kommentar von Hannes Koch in der taz vom 13.10.09 http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/kosmetische-korrektur-bei-hartz-iv/


Ein bisschen Sozialkosmetik

„Jetzt ist es offiziell, und es gibt nichts zu leugnen: Für einen Teil der Hartz-IV-Empfänger ist es eine gute Nachricht. Wer fürs Alter gespart hat und dann arbeitslos wurde, darf in Zukunft viel mehr behalten als bisher. Ausgerechnet Union und FDP wollen also nun die "Gerechtigkeitslücke" schließen, die sie bereits im Wahlkampf entdeckten. Den Arbeitslosen, die in Zukunft mehr behalten dürfen vom Ersparten, ist das von Herzen zu gönnen, genau wie denjenigen, deren Häuschen künftig verschont bleibt. Aber man tritt ihnen auch nicht zu nahe, wenn man hinzufügt: Das schwarz-gelbe Gerechtigkeitsempfinden hat seine ideologischen Grenzen - wie gerade dieses an sich erfreuliche Ergebnis der Koalitionsverhandlungen beweist. Der Weg von der Gerechtigkeitslücke zur Gerechtigkeitslüge ist nicht allzu weit…“ Leitartikel zu Hartz IV von Stephan Hebel in der FR vom 14.10.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/meinung/2014468_Leitartikel-zu-Hartz-IV-Ein-bisschen-Sozialkosmetik.html


Schonvermögen wird verdreifacht. Geteiltes Echo auf Hartz-Änderungen

„Während sich Union und FDP in Sachen Steuerreform noch streiten, gelten Verbesserungen für Hartz-IV-Empfänger als sicher. Die wesentliche Änderung: Das Schonvermögen wird verdreifacht, damit Arbeitslose ihre private Altervorsorge nicht aufzehren müssen. Lob kommt von Arbeitsgeberpräsident Dieter Hundt. Das "Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland" spricht indes von einer Nullnummer…“ RPO-Beitrag vom15.10.2009 http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/politik/deutschland/770331/Geteiltes-Echo-auf-Hartz-Aenderungen.html


Presseschau zu Hartz IV: «Dauerbaustelle wird in Ordnung gebracht»

„Die Mehrzahl der Kommentatoren lobt die geplante Verdreifachung des Schonvermögens von Hartz-IV-Empfängern. Allerdings wenden Skeptiker ein, dass nur eine kleine Minderheit davon profitieren könne…“ Presseschau in der Netzeitung vom 15.10.09 http://www.netzeitung.de/presseschauen/1492979.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Oktober 2009



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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a European tour Wednesday by calling on Russia to uphold human rights and prevent attacks on activists who challenge the Kremlin.

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The forces jet fighters targeted suspected hideouts of the militants in Makeen area of South Waziristan killing five "militants", sources said. In another air raid in Brond area six "militants" were killed, the private channel Express reported.

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Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth

By Robert Scheer

If you want to know who actually runs this country, just look at the phone logs, released by court order last week, revealing Geithner's nearly constant calls to solicit the advice of the fat cats who caused the banking implosion. It's the same as when he was chair of the Federal Reserve in New York, before Obama appointed him to his current job.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23725.htm



How the Servant Became a Predator

Finance's Five Fatal Flaws

By William K. Black

Five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23723.htm



JPMorgan scores big $3.6 billion in latest quarter

JPMorgan Chase, the first in a series of big banks due to report this week, said it it earned $3.6 billion during the third quarter, or 82 cents a share.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/14/news/companies/jpmorgan_chase/



Goldman Sachs average pay and bonus to hit £500,000

The age of the City mega-bonus returned today after investment bank Goldman Sachs unveiled £2billion profits.

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Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds

Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms.

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Obama Dollar Retreats Most Against Commodities in Wealth Shift

President Barack Obama's effort to lead the world economic recovery by spending the U.S. out of its recession is undermining the dollar, triggering record commodities rallies as investors scour the globe for hard assets.

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Record Numbers Of Homeless In NYC

According To Coalition For The Homeless, More Than 16,000 Children Were In Shelters By End Of September.

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Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine
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2.3 Big Pharma lobbyists per lawmaker

Raw Story

10/22/09

The pharmaceutical industry spent $110 million in just the first half of 2009 in its efforts to influence health care reform, part of a booming lobbying effort that now has 2.3 drug lobbyists on Capitol Hill for every member of Congress, a new investigative report reveals. Writing in Time magazine, Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer report that Big Pharma’s efforts to protect their interests in health care reform amounts to an expenditure of $609,000 per day, and ‘they’re getting a pretty good return on their investment,’ Tumulty told CNN’s John King on Thursday...

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The Drug Mafia
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Robert Scheer, Truthout: "There is no indication that any of the contending forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are interested in bringing al-Qaeda back. On the contrary, all the available evidence indicates that the Arab fighters are unwelcome and that it is their isolation from their former patrons that has led to their demise. Every once in a while, a statistic just jumps out at you in a way that makes everything else you hear on a subject seem beside the point, if not downright absurd."

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General Mcmoreland in Vietistan
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Saving Face in Afghanistan

By Ron Paul

We overthrew the Taliban government in 2001 with less than 10,000 American troops. Why does it now seem that the more troops we send, the worse things get? If the Soviets bankrupted themselves in Afghanistan with troop levels of 100,000 and were eventually forced to leave in humiliating defeat, why are we determined to follow their example?

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The Wrong House

Ask Awal Khan About Obama's Prize

By Brendan Cooney

Khan was serving as an artillery commander in the Afghan National Army away from his home in the eastern province of Khost on April 8, when U.S. forces came knocking. In a case of "wrong house," they killed his 17-year-old daughter, Nadia, and his 15-year-old son, Aimal. They also killed his wife, a schoolteacher who taught villagers for free. They killed his brother and wounded another daughter.

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Obama's War

Video - This program contains graphic language and violent imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.

Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires"? And can the U.S. stop the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan, where U.S. troops are not allowed and the government is weak?

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Byrd: “How much American blood?”

ABC News

10/14/09

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., isn’t seen much in public anymore. At 91, he rarely votes and almost never gives speeches. But today he dramatically appeared on the Senator floor to denounce the idea of sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. ‘How much more will all this cost?’ Byrd demanded. ‘How much in dollars; how much in terms of American blood?’ Speaking slowly and forcefully from his wheelchair, Byrd directly challenged counter-insurgency strategy proposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. Central Command...

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
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Economics and the Drug War
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Lew Rockwell on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
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The Untold History of Nullification: Resisting Slavery
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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from Guantanamo last week, was brutally tortured into making false confessions by US interrogators and repeatedly threatened until he confessed to terrorist activities in which he was not involved. In the summer of 2002, a CIA analyst interviewed al-Rabiah at Guantanamo and concluded that he was an innocent man caught at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Although al-Rabiah had said that he had met bin Laden and had been present in the Tora Bora mountains, he had provided an acceptable explanation."

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Während sich die internationale Gemeinschaft stark gegen die Atomgelüste der Mullahs macht, wurde bekannt, dass der Iran 10%-tiger Teilhaber der französischen Urananreicherungsanlage in Tricastin ist.

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Neue Dokumente über den CIA-Mann Posada Carriles bestätigen die Hilfe des US-Geheimdienstes bei dessen Anschlägen gegen Kuba.

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85 000 Kerben in einem Dominostein, der keiner war

Irak: Das Ministerium für Menschenrechte veröffentlicht neue Zahlen über Tote durch "Bomben, Morde und Kämpfe".

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L'essentiel: SENAT et GRENELLE, la réalité du débat politique.
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AFP report : EHS "France has its first radiation-free refuge in the Drôme"
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Despite the fact that the H1N1 virus has proven far less deadly than regular seasonal flu

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The establishment’s propaganda drive to convince everyone to take the swine flu shot has gone into overdrive, surpassing any previous effort in the domain of public health and stoking suspicions about the motivations of pharmaceutical giants, especially in light of the fact that the H1N1 virus is far less deadly than the regular seasonal flu.

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Big Pharma Reaps Billions From Swine Flu Fearmongering

Pharmaceutical industry more than doubles its money as a consequence of the H1N1 scam

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Pharmaceutical corporations are reaping obscene profits as a result of the media fearmongering behind the swine flu outbreak, despite the fact that the H1N1 virus has killed far less people that the seasonal flu.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/big-pharma-reaps-billions-from-swine-flu-fearmongering.html



Woman Blames Paralyzing Neurological Disease On Flu Shot

25-year-old can barely walk or talk just two months after being vaccinated

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009

A Virginia woman is adamant that a flu shot has caused her to contract a debilitating and irreversible neurological disease, while the CDC refuses to comment on her case.

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Leicester Mercury - Leicester, England, UK

Residents staging a live-in protest against a phone mast fear they will end up having Christmas dinner in their on-site caravan. ...

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by NWV News

WASHINGTON – With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration scheduled to begin nationwide delivery this week of swine flu vaccine to 90,000 government-approved locations, attorney James Turner filed a complaint Friday in federal court in the District of Columbia for a Temporary Restraining Order to halt the distribution, licensing and use of four controversial vaccines -- including their use under an existing Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) -- until there has been adequate safety testing and a full opportunity for public hearings.........

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Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
by Kent McManigal

10/12/09

Forced ’service,’ to individuals or to ‘the country,’ is slavery. Anyone who advocates forced ’service’ is advocating evil. They can dress it up in red, white, and blue and call it ‘patriotism,’ or they can wrap it in warm-fuzzies and say it is for the ‘common good,’ but slavery and collectivism under any guise is the same horror...

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ABC News

10/13/09

Among three different troop options currently before the President and his national security team, General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, as first reported here, favors the middle option, which recommends an increase of some 40,000 more troops. A source familiar with the document says that’s the minimum McChrystal believes is needed for a chance for success in Afghanistan. Although the debate is really about the middle option, there is a much higher number included in the McChrystal options. Other sources who have seen the request say the highest number of troops requested is 80,000...

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Backdoor escalation

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/14/09

If the Nobel committee was attempting to preemptively block a further escalation of the Afghan war by giving the prize in anticipation of future actions — actions they hoped would be motivated by a desire to live up to the award — they were too late, and their efforts too little. Because Obama — in addition to the 21,000 combat troops he has already announced he’s sending to the Afghan front — has quietly added 13,000 more ’support’ troops to the mix, and there are plenty more where that came from. For an administration in which virtually every public announcement and initiative involves a careful manipulation of language, this kind of craftiness is a key tool in keeping the public hazy about what exactly is going on in Afghanistan...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/10/13/backdoor-escalation/



Pity the imperialists

Campaign For Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/13/09

Pity the imperialists. What do they do? They must realize that the longer they continue occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, the more they weaken the Empire. Hey, they don’t call Afghanistan the ‘graveyard of empires’ for nothing. America’s imperialists are discovering what imperialists throughout history have discovered: empires are costly. This one is no exception. Military spending on Afghanistan and Iraq and the rest of the Empire all over the world continues to soar out of control...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=268



Stalemate

The New Republic
by AJ Rossmiller

10/13/09

The situation in Afghanistan increasingly looks like Iraq did not too long ago. Not the actual political or military circumstances, of course, but the analysis and commentary. Phrases like ‘We’re entering a decisive period’ and ‘It’s now or never’ are being tossed around ominously as the debate over troop increases rages. One can hardly read an op-ed without being told that the situation is dire and that this is a critical time, perhaps even our Last Chance to Get It Right. Most notably, the report produced by General Stanley McChrystal announced that ‘the short-term fight will be decisive.’ There is not a single Afghanistan myth more prevalent or more specious than this one. To be at a ‘critical juncture’ implies that one side or the other is poised to decisively gain the upper hand and therefore to win. But the situation in Afghanistan is almost the exact opposite of that...

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/stalemate



Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics

MarketWatch
by Tom Bemis

10/12/09

In a decision as shocking as Friday’s surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday. While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he’s been in office, the same clearly can’t be said for economics. The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats... [satire]

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The Prince of Peace

Strike the Root
by B.R. Merrick

10/13/09

What is clear to me is that we mustn’t wait for prizes. We must walk away from these people, and throw their trophies in the trash. The only way to effectively bring about a revolution for the betterment of mankind is to reach the individual. The message is simple: You are freedom. You are peace. You are love. You are truth. You mustn’t wait for anyone else. You mustn’t be afraid. You mustn’t worry that mass murderers are continually lauded as bringers of peace. It will continue. But we needn’t continue along with it. They’ve set the table, but what they’re serving is rancid leftovers. Walk away. It will feel better when you do it in your own way, not the way some charismatic leader tells you to. If you are willing, you are The Prince of Peace’...

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CBS News

10/13/09

Like her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, Elizabeth Cheney doesn’t think highly of President Obama’s policies. And now she has a new organization, Keep America Safe, dedicated to pressing her argument. ‘Like a lot of Americans, we have watched with concern and dismay as the Obama administration has cut defense spending, wavered on the war in Afghanistan, and launched investigations into Americans serving on the front lines of the war on terror, while at the same time expanding legal protections for the terrorists that plot to attack this country,’ Cheney writes in an opening statement, which is also signed by fellow board members Debra Burlingame and William Kristol.

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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VIDEO: ‘Tortured Law’
http://www.ufppc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9070

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Indict Dick Cheney, Keep America Safe

By Scott Horton

If you enjoy fear-mongering, here's a not-for-profit organization for you: Keep America Safe. William Kristol and Liz Cheney are the dynamic duo behind it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23721.htm



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Technology Review

Immerhin: Anfang September 2008 gelang Mankins auf den Hawaii-Inseln die erste Langstreckenübertragung von Strom mittels Mikrowellen. ...

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Strom-aus-dem-All-821245.html

Der französische Atomkonzern Areva transportiert im Auftrag der EDF jährlich 108 Tonnen abgereichertes Uran nach Sewersk, wo es auf einem Parkplatz unter freiem Himmel lagert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/146340



Auch deutscher Atommüll rottet in Atommüllbehältern in Sibirien vor sich hin

Nicht nur französischer Atommüll wurde nach Sibirien gebracht, sondern offenbar auch ein Drittel des schwachaktiven Atommülls aus Deutschland.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31316/1.html



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Während die übelsten Folgen der "Private Equity"-Blase wohl noch bevor stehen, bahnt sich bereits der nächste Übernahme-Boom an.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31281/1.html



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Die Posse um den hessischen Verfassungsschutz-V-Mann "123" geht in die nächste Runde.

Teil 2:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31286/1.html



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Streit um ein Phantom?

Die FDP möchte den Kündigungsschutz weiter aufweichen, ihr designierter Koalitionspartner will Auseinandersetzungen mit den Gewerkschaften unbedingt vermeiden. Doch was bedeuten Arbeitnehmerrechte in Zeiten flexibilisierter Arbeitmärkte?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31292/1.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/13-0



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Yesterday, we brought you the insurance company that wouldn't insure a 17-pound infant because he was too heavy. Today, we bring you the investment bank that manages to double its bonuses during the worst recession since the Great Depression.

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Utah bankruptcies soar 62 percent over first nine months of 2009

Bankruptcy filings nationally surged past the 1 million mark during the first nine months of 2009. It was the first time that seven-figure number has been hit in any nine-month period since the overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws in October 2005

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13546100


From Information Clearing House



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The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in memory - from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.

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From Information Clearing House

NATO is facing defeat in Afghanistan, and Russia and the states of Central Asia must be ready to pick up the pieces, Russia's ambassador to NATO said Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/shzi0



40% of Afghan aid 'never arrives'

The United Nations was presiding over an unco-ordinated and unmanaged mess, said Dr Cordesman, who has advised the Obama Administration and the US military extensively on Afghanistan and Pakistan as they plan a new strategy to defeat the insurgency. ''This is a major problem,'' he said.

http://snipurl.com/shzi9


From Information Clearing House

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Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/13-11



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Indigenous People Across Latin America Protest Spanish 'Genocide'

By Agence France-Presse

Tens of thousands of indigenous people took to the streets across Latin America on Monday to protest the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's 1492 discovery of the Americas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23718.htm



Where Is The Gold?

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

By Howard Zinn

Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23714.htm

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Columbus Day, the real story
http://brasschecktv.com/page/142.html



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Take America Back From the Banks

By Dean Baker

Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23717.htm



Student Loans are the New Indentured Servitude

By Mike Konczal

The prevalence of this debt, especially among the young and the poor/working classes, the transformation from a rounding error amount to a significant burden amount over the past 30 years, the length of term, the idea of mobility and "transport" to a job, debt secured not by property but by personhood, and limited legal recourse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23711.htm



One Nation, Under Illusion

By Neal Gabler

We've been living in a fool's paradise. The result may be a government that is as good as the American people, which is something that should concern everyone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23719.htm



We're Headed for Hooverville?

By Ted Rall

When Bush flew home to Texas, we thought we were getting an FDR to replace a Hoover. Instead, we got another Hoover.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23713.htm



Charge Of The Beckerheads....

By Sheila Samples

I didn't know Van Jones. I didn't know Van Jones was a friend of mine -- at least not until the stench billowing from the Fox Hate Channel became so foul I was forced to take a closer look at this terrifying creature. No -- not Jones, whom President Obama wisely had hired as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23709.htm

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One nation under Beck

Mother Jones
by Stephanie Mencimer

In which our reporter learns about the divine origins of the Constitution at a Tea Party seminar...

http://tinyurl.com/23jz8vf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Tammy Obeidallah

Sharing military technology with a nation that is known to use such technology against civilians is against international law; yet human rights take a back seat to the promise of job opportunities and economic growth at the expense of people half a world away.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23707.htm



"The UN Has Failed" D'Escoto

By Real News

Outgoing General Assembly prez says most powerful are to blame for UN failure to address war and poverty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23710.htm



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By Patrick Martin

In the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the newspaper's chief commentator on foreign affairs, Thomas L. Friedman, devotes his entire column to a grotesque celebration of the role of the American military, presenting its operations, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, as humanitarian and liberating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23712.htm



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Botswana

Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer

The controversial cell phone tower erected on the royal Phuthadikobo Hill, a few metres away from the royal palace, has been destroyed by the villagers, it was confirmed on Saturday.

Read More...
http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=189&dir=2009/October/Monday12


Informant: Martin Weatherall

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1929950,00.html


Informant: she4bikes



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