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Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen den FDP-Bürgerschaftsabgeordneten Oliver Möllenstädt

Der Vorwurf: Volksverhetzung gegen Hartz IV Bezieher

Bremen. Die Bremer Staatsanwaltschaft hat nach Angaben der Fraktionsvorsitzende der Linken in der Bürgerschaft, Monique Troedel, ein Verfahren gegen den FDP Bürgerschaftsabgeordneten Dr. Oliver Möllenstädt eingeleitet. Hintergrund des Verfahrens sind die beleidigenen Äußerungen des FDP Politikers zum Thema Verhütungsmittel-Kostenerstattungen für Frauen im Hartz IV Bezug. Anfang Dezember 2009 hatte Dr. Möllenstädt öffentlich gefordert, die Gesundheitsämter sollen die Kosten für Verhütungsmittel und Sterilisation bei Hartz-IV-Bezieherinnen übernehmen. Gleichzeitig sprach sich der FDP Abgeordnete gegen eine Anhebung der ALG II Regelsätze für Frauen aus. Laut dem FDP Politiker sei eine Erhöhung des Hartz- IV Regelsatzes nicht ratsam, da ALG II Bezieherinnen das Geld eher zum nächsten "Schnapsladen" tragen, als es zur Vorsorge und selbstbestimmten Familienplanung zu verwenden. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-gegen-den-fdp-buergers6523.php



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Nach Unctad-Chefökonom Flassbeck hat die deutsche "Nicht-Lohnerhöhungspolitik" zu einem Ungleichgewicht in der Eurozone geführt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31707/1.html



Irland muss drastisch sparen, um Rating-Agenturen zu befriedigen

Der Unmut im Land wächst angesichts der geplanten drastischen Kürzungen von Löhnen und Sozialleistungen durch die Regierung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31709/1.html



Der Zauber der Zahlen

Exakt 640.329 Arbeitsplätze sollen durch das Konjunkturprogramm Obamas gerettet oder geschaffen worden sein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146698

BBC Video Report: The Iraqi government is being accused of under-reporting the number of people killed after weeks of deadly violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8407023.stm



Who is counting the bodies in Iraq?

Mr Maliki's political reputation was built largely on his apparent success in bringing violence levels down following the US troop surge in 2007. Now, this image of a man who could keep Baghdad safe has been tarnished.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8405894.stm



Iraqi-American Christians blast U.S. policies in Iraq

Upset and frustrated, about 300 metro Detroiters with roots in Iraq, most of them Chaldeans, gathered Thursday night in a banquet hall in Warren where Michael Corbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, spoke to the crowd.

http://snipurl.com/tnlpd



Spoils of war: Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded

Shell and Petronas beat a rival bid from France's Total and China's CNPC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8407274.stm


From Information Clearing House



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On Monday, the anonymous blogger Security Crank noticed something interesting: all the U.S. and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan seemingly kill exactly 30 people every time. How can that be?

http://snipurl.com/tnlow


From Information Clearing House



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By Alan Bjerga

A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24163.htm



"Quit Feeding Stray Animals"

By Amanda Terkel

SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov't help to 'Stray Animals' who 'breed' because they don't know better.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24499.htm

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More Families Using Food Stamps to Feed Kids

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group."

http://www.truthout.org/109109foodstamps

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Once stigmatized, food stamps find acceptance

MSNBC

02/10/10

A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day and return the next just to get an application. The welfare commissioner said the program caused dependency and the poor were ‘better off’ without it. Now the city urges the needy to seek aid (in languages from Albanian to Yiddish). Neighborhood groups recruit clients at churches and grocery stores, with materials that all but proclaim a civic duty to apply — to ‘help New York farmers, grocers, and businesses’...

http://tinyurl.com/ykt5ldx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Tom Burghardt

That the American people have been kept in the dark when it comes to this and other affairs of state, remain among the most closely-guarded open secrets of what has euphemistically been called the "NSA spying scandal."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24166.htm



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By Carl Herman

WMD treaty violations and inspection refusal for biological, nuclear, chemical weapons. Iran? No, US.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24158.htm



Sound Familiar? US Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs

By Agence France-Presse

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24160.htm



US refuses to allow UN inspectors to investigate its WMDs

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites, even though it stressed its commitment to a UN treaty covering such arms and invaded Iraq in part over its alleged stalling of -- UN weapons inspectors.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/refuses-inspectors-investigate-wmds/



Anthrax War

Video Documentary

In tracing the 2001 bio-terror attacks in the U.S. to the heart of the U.S. bio-defense program, this film raises an alarm. These attacks that helped prepare a country for war have also spawned a multi-billion dollar bio-defense boom. The line between bio-offense and bio-defense is becoming extremely thin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24159.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/taibbi/taibbi17.1.html

Looternomics: Make that Obamanomics
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/tcarney4.1.1.html

For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/boom-time-for-feds.html

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Barack promised change and sure enough, things changed for the worse

By Joe Bageant

Many who voted for Obama out of disgust for the Bush regime are now listening to the Republicans again on their car radios as they drive around looking for a suitable place to hide their vehicles from the repo man.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24161.htm



Turley: Obama bags Peace Prize while his lawyers are 'gutting' Nuremberg

Turley pointed out that several legal advisors to Germany's Ministry of Justice were convicted during the Nuremberg trials held after World War II for providing the legal advice that justified Nazi war crimes. Now the Obama administration, in its desire to uphold executive privilege at any cost, is willing to toss that principle aside.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/turley-obama-ignores-nuremberg/



President Obama 'creating torture impunity'

Director of ACLU's National Security Project Jameel Jaffer said "the Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture and now the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity."

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113436&sectionid=3510203


From Information Clearing House

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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Many people are troubled that Barack Obama flew to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize so soon after escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is now more than doubling the number of troops there when George W. Bush left office."

http://www.truthout.org/12110902



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Mankind Using Earth's Resources at Alarming Rate
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/6061955/

Rising CO2 Will Cause Catastrophic Sea Level Rise
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/6050262/

Global Warming Threatens Lake Titicaca, Imperils Millions of Bolivians
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/6047189/

Climate change the second most serious problem faced by the world today
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/6078353/

USA
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/USA/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

Omega-News Collection
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Omega-News+Collection/

EMF-Omega-News 12. December 2009
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/131/

- Norvège : Visuel explosion missile intercontinental. Vortex et induction électromagnétique.

- Ionisation, Irradiation électromagnétique, Désordres climatiques, Rayons cosmiques (vidéo Haute Définition 16/9)

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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-1



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rowena+Mason

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-3

The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-9

Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/11

Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-7

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Rep. Kucinich: "These Wars Are Corrupting...our Nation! ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31UW0ghOdA



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Polar Bears Can't Wait: Take Action Now
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1783

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Alaskan Polar Bear and Walrus in Trouble
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/30-3



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The We the People will not be Chipped - No Verichip Inside Movement, is based on the irrefutable fact, that mankind has inalienable human rights that are absolute and can not be debased, nor perverted. Human life can not be degraded to a 16 digit RFID chip number embedded under you skin under any circumstance. By uniting on this common ground, we can send a strong message to the IBM funded Verichip that...

http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/news.php


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Dipl.-Ing. Krzysztof Puzyna

Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

12/10/09

She’s smart. She speaks her mind. A lot of people love her and think she should be president. Sarah Palin? No, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Secretary of State Clinton, Washington’s No. 1 diplomatic salesperson, is fast becoming the foreign-policy hawk in a Democratic administration, while President Obama seems to be slow moving. Both believe in engagement with foreign adversaries, but Clinton believes in engaging from a position of strength. By contrast, Mr. Obama is now being faulted for engaging from a platform of weakness, if not appeasement. Clinton seems to be replicating as secretary of State the technique she employed when she became a senator...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1210/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Conservative
by Robert P. Murphy

12/10/09

First under the Bush Administration and even more so under President Obama, the federal government has been seizing power and spending money as it hasn’t done since World War II. But as bold as the Executive Branch has been during this financial crisis, the innovations of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke have been literally unprecedented. Indeed, it is entirely plausible that before Obama leaves office, Americans will be using a new currency...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/killing-the-currency/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bernanke's Faux Recovery

By Mike Whitney

By usurping powers not granted under its charter, the Fed has resuscitated insolvent institutions and helped them continue the transfer of wealth from one class to another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24162.htm



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/11/09

This effort to create a kinder, gentler form of colonialism, to make a military occupation a true labor of love, is part and parcel of the loony faux-Maoist ‘COIN’ strategy championed by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), whose policy wonks have captured the civilian leadership of the Pentagon. Their efforts to construct a ’smart’ version of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ on the Af-Pak front are imbued with just the sort of pseudo-scientific claptrap that allows liberals to think they can similarly ‘experiment’ — as Gen. Petraeus puts it — on the American people as well...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/12/10/the-afghan-experiment/



Imperial Democrats line up for war

Campaign For Liberty
by John Walsh

In a scene replicated all over the country, a small, dispirited crowd protested on Boston Common following Obama’s West Point declaration of more war on the unfortunate people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama intends to out-Bush Bush on Af-Pak, which has finally thrown some cold water on his supporters. The large printed placards ordered up for the demo called for an end to the war on Af-Pak, but only three scraggily handmade signs mentioned Obama...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=426



One hot mess

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

12/10/09

This week offered a typical example of the disconnect that’s emerged between the United States and the rest of the globe. The eyes of the world are on the climate talks in Copenhagen, while the American political establishment instead watches Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry offer testimony on Afghanistan to Congress. The simple fact of the matter is that what happens — or doesn’t — in Copenhagen is much more likely to be remembered in history books than the details of America’s effort to stabilize Afghanistan. Either concrete progress will be made toward a global effort to forestall catastrophic climate change or else we risk slipping backward down the slope and undoing all the effort of recent years...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=one_hot_mess


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Is this what we're fighting for?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/748.html

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Tell the House Armed Services Committee to Read Eikenberry's Warning
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/04-1

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Georgetown Students Protest Gen. Petraeus During Speech

Student protestors gathered inside and outside Gaston to condemn Petraeus's strategy in the Middle East and the university's decision to invite him.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24629.htm



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Raw Story

12/10/09

A Washington political watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint with the Senate over robo-calls Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made, urging voters to pressure their senators into supporting a McCain-led amendment to the Senate healthcare bill. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed the complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee on Wednesday, saying the Arizona senator and former presidential candidate violated Senate ethics rule 38, which prohibits senators from using political money to fund official Senate business. CREW says when McCain used money from the National Republican Senatorial Committee to fund the robo-calls, he broke rule 38...

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/mccain-ethics-complaint-robocalls/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Double Doom Deflected: McCainiac & Sarah Sycophant

By Robert S. Becker

As McCain devolved into Joe the Plumber, the poised, educated Obama was cleaning his clock, proving few president hopefuls match him as orator or cheerleader. When brains and know-how mattered, McCain went dumb and dumber.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24643.htm



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Bozeman Daily Chronicle

12/10/09

Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Thursday. Blackwater’s role points to a much deeper connection between the company and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed and raises concerns over the legalities of involving contractors in the most sensitive operations conducted by the U.S. government...

http://tinyurl.com/yk5fy4k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Mercenaries Murdered "Militants"

Private Guards 'Took Part in Raids on al-Qaeda Militants'

By Giles Whittell and Tim Reid

According to former Blackwater staff, sent to protect CIA officers in the field, they helped to kill militants targeted in "snatch and grab" raids.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24164.htm



Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret C.I.A. Kidnapping

Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive activities - clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html


From Information Clearing House

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Extent of Blackwater and CIA Collaboration Uncovered

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "New details of Blackwater participation in clandestine CIA raids detail the extent to which private security contractors were involved in covert government antiterror operations."

http://www.truthout.org/12110909



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Klimaschutz nervt

In Nordrhein-Westfalen wollen CDU und FDP eilfertig Energiesparvorschriften aus einem Gesetz streichen, damit E.on Steinkohlekraftwerke bauen kann.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/146724



Weniger Staatsverschuldung durch mehr Klimaschutz

Klimaschädliche Subventionen streichen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/146746

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13. Dezember 2009

Politischer Klimawandel statt zukunftsblindes „Weiter so“

Auf der Weltklimakonferenz in Kopenhagen trifft sich derzeit die internationale Staatengemeinde, um Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel zu diskutieren und ein neues Klimaschutz-Abkommen auf den Weg zu bringen. „Eine wirkliche Trendwende und Abkehr von den Augenwischereien der vergangenen Jahre zeichnet sich dabei nicht ab. Die Logik des Standortwettbewerbs und der Vorrang maximaler Rendite vor den langfristigen Anstrengungen zur Bekämpfung der Erderwärmung bleiben unangetastet“, heißt es in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung des Vorstandes der Partei DIE LINKE und des Jugendverbandes [’solid] zum derzeitigen Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen. In der Erklärung heißt es weiter:

Die Bundesregierung reiht sich ein in den Wettbewerb um die Verlagerung der Kosten des notwendigen Umsteuerns, als Teil des Problems ignoriert sie den enormen Handlungsdruck und die hohen Erwartungen vieler Menschen. Statt mit ambitionierten Zusagen endlich auf die CO2-Bremse zu treten, verhökert die selbst ernannte Klimakanzlerin die Zukunft für kurzfristige Wirtschaftsinteressen. Dass die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels die Lebensgrundlage von Mensch und Natur existenziell bedrohen, ist inzwischen nicht mehr zu leugnen. Nach Schätzungen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation sterben bereits heute jährlich 150.000 Menschen an den Folgen des Klimawandels wie häufiger auftretenden extremen Naturereignissen und sich verändernden Niederschlagsverhältnissen. Die Klimakrise trifft die Ärmsten der Erde am frühesten und am schwersten. Ihre dramatischen ökologischen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen verschärfen sich und werden in Zukunft katastrophale Ausmaße annehmen, wenn nicht bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts die Drosselung der menschengemachten Erderwärmung auf einen durchschnittlichen Anstieg von maximal 2 Grad Celsius gelingt. Die 1997 im Kyoto-Protokoll für die Industriestaaten vereinbarten Ziele waren hierfür bei Weitem nicht ausreichend, zudem wurde ihre Einhaltung durch vielfältige Ausnahmeregelungen systematisch verwässert. Trotz der Integration von Nachhaltigkeit und Energiewende in die Leitbilder offizieller Politik beschränkten sich die konkreten Antworten auf den Klimawandel bisher auf unzureichende Abmachungen und noch schlechtere Umsetzungsversuche. Die im Rahmen des Kyoto-Protokolls beschlossenen Mechanismen erwiesen sich im Kampf gegen die globale Erwärmung als nutzlos und hatten zum Teil schwer wiegende negative soziale Folgen. Globale Klimapolitik muss von dem Grundsatz der Gleichheit der Menschen ausgehen. Pro Kopf darf dann auf jeden Menschen nur die gleiche Menge CO2-Ausstoss entfallen, die global auf Dauer klimaverträglich ist. Das deutliche Versagen marktförmiger Lösungsversuche zeigt: Ein grundsätzliches Umlenken auf eine Wirtschaftsweise, die Mensch und Umwelt verpflichtet ist und nicht im Interesse des Shareholder Value blind auf die Selbstregulierungskraft des Marktes vertraut, ist unerlässlich. Aus diesem Grund lehnen wir die Marktmechanismen des Kyoto-Protokolls, insbesondere den so genannten "Clean Development Mechanismus", als falsche Lösungen ab. Der EU-Emissionshandel ist ein untaugliches Instrument. Wir stehen für das Recht eines jeden Menschen auf Zugang zu sauberer Energie und treten deshalb für eine Demokratisierung und einen ökologischen Umbau der Energieversorgung ein. Diese sehen wir nur in einem öffentlich organisierten Energiesektor gewährleistet und bekräftigen vor diesem Hintergrund die Forderung nach einer Vergesellschaftung der Energiekonzerne. Zur unverzüglichen Reduzierung des weltweiten CO2-Ausstoßes braucht es einen weitreichenden internationalen Emissionsreduktionsvertrag, der sich Effektivitätskriterien und solidarisch-kooperativen Grundsätzen gleichermaßen verpflichtet sieht. Hierin muss für die Industrieländer die Reduzierung der jährlichen CO2-Emissionen um 40 Prozent (gegenüber 1990) sanktionsbewährt verankert und für 2050 das Ziel festgeschrieben werden, die CO2-Emissionen um mindestens 90 Prozent zu senken. Die großen Schwellenländer sollen Emissionsziele anerkennen, die sie bereits vor 2020 zur Stabilisierung ihrer Treibhausgasemissionen und danach ebenfalls zur Minderung verpflichten. Mit den Entwicklungsländern sind Strategien für die einzelnen Staaten zu einer emissionsarmen Entwicklung zu vereinbaren („low carbon development strategies“). Durch Technologietransfers, Finanzhilfen und Ausgleichszahlungen der Industrieländer müssen die Entwicklungsländer unterstützt werden. Die Mittel hierfür könnten zum größten Teil den Rüstungshaushalten dieser Erde entnommen werden.

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Stop the U.S. Energy Industry's War on Native Peoples and Lands

Indigenous Activists March on U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen Urging Obama to "Stop the U.S. Energy Industry's War on Native Peoples and Lands".

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New Senate Climate Bill Is “Slap in the Face to Everything that Earth Day Stands For”

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Leaders of the Rich World Are Enacting a Giant Fraud

Every delegate to the Copenhagen summit is being greeted by the sight of a vast fake planet dominating the city's central square. This swirling globe is covered with corporate logos - the Coke brand is stamped over Africa, while Carlsberg appears to own Asia, and McDonald's announces "I'm loving it!" in great red letters above.

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US Senators: More Coal, Oil and Nukes Are "Solution" for Global Warming

Art Levine, Truthout: "A bipartisan coalition of US senators put forward a 'framework' for climate legislation that aims to dramatically increase offshore oil drilling, ensure a 'future for coal' and, above all, ramp up subsidies for the financially risky nuclear power industry. The announcement was timed, in part, to send a signal to negotiators at the climate conference in Copenhagen that the US Senate is supposedly serious about climate reform."

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Live from Copenhagen: Follow us at the Climate Talks
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Obama to permit oil exploration off Virginia coast

Reuters

03/30/10

President Barack Obama is to announce on Wednesday a plan to permit exploration for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia as a way to create jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Obama, who wants Congress to move a stalled climate change bill, has sought to reach out to Republicans by signaling he is open to allowing offshore drilling, providing coastlines are protected...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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That Unpopular Bank Bailout? Geithner Wants to Extend It
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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

According to an obscure report in the European Union Times (EUTimes.net), "Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to 'begin immediately' increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.........

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Während in Deutschland allmählich Lügengebäude zusammenbrechen, macht sich in den USA niemand die Arbeit, einen Feldzug zu verleugnen. In den Tagen vor Obamas Ankündigung, noch mehr Soldaten zu schicken, machten sich jedoch Sozialwissenschaftler die Arbeit, einmal auszurechnen, was mit den bisher ausgegebenen 60 Milliarden pro Kriegsjahr an sozialen Programmen hätte finanziert werden können - darunter vieles, das sich tatsächlich als bloße Geldfrage definieren lässt: Etwa täglich 30 Tote durch Tuberkulose oder 50 Frauen, die durch Schwangerschaftsprobleme sterben gelassen werden. Mehr zur sozialen Entwicklung in Afghanistan in dem Beitrag "There Hasn't Been Two Seconds Of Intelligent Discussion About Living Standards In Afghanistan" von John Hanrahan, am 3. Dezember 2009 beim Niemann Watchdog publiziert:

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Aus: LabourNet, 11. Dezember 2009



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Obama, Secessionist Movements and the Nobel Prize
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Obama Defends War as He Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
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Mr. President, War Is Not Peace
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The Nine Surges of Obama's War
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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama's Nobel Prize vs. Policies
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Norman Solomon on Afghan Escalation and Healthcare Fiasco
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Nelson Proposes War Bonds to Fund Wars

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Working to help fund ongoing wars without sharp tax increases or increased foreign borrowing has led Nebraska's Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) to introduce a new measure Tuesday: the US War Bonds Act of 2009. The legislation would authorize the Treasury to issue and market War Bonds to the American people to help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

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