World-News

Die Steuereinnahmen brechen in Deutschland noch heftiger als gedacht weg und von Wachstum ist keine Spur zu sehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147068



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

Militärische IT-Systeme zur "vernetzten Operationsführung" werden zunehmend im Bereich der "inneren Sicherheit" implementiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32066/1.html



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Video Interview with Paul Craig Roberts

The US now has a list of Americans that the country can now murder abroad if they are fraternizing with terror groups. Paul Craig Roberts says that all of this points to a sign that the United States has become a police state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24664.htm



Man Up, Obama, or Make Way for President Palin

By David Reilly

Obama needs to ditch his professorial, community-organizer mien and start cracking some heads. Unless, that is, he is intent on paving the way for a Palin presidency in 2013.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24666.htm



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By Prof John Kozy

If the Court has the final say, then democracy in America is a sham. It simply does not exist and the Constitution has been subverted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24663.htm



Fighting the Subversion of Our People's Sovereignty

By Jim Hightower

With their ruling, five unelected guys in black robes have subverted our people's sovereignty with a semantical perversion that twists special-interest things into "people" and money into "speech."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24858.htm



Corporations Aren't Persons

By Matthew Rothschild

Make no mistake about it: The court's ruling in Citizens United, if left to stand, will destroy whatever hope we may ever have had of democracy in this country. It will entrench corporate power as never before. And the promise of America will be dashed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25245.htm



The Death Penalty for Murderous 'Corporate Persons'

By Len Hart

If corporations are 'people', as SCOTUS has said they are, then, by law, a corporation committing murder should be executed! A corporation like Dow or Union Carbide perpetrating mass murder should be tried and when found guilty put to death! Because corporations are now 'people', the same criminal penalties must apply to them as well as to the rest of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25309.htm

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A Supreme injustice

In These Times
by Theo Anderson

02/15/10

January’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC stirred passionate and opposing responses. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that laws designed to curb corporate influence in politics violate the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. The ruling hinged on the idea that corporations are ‘persons’ entitled to the same constitutional protections as individuals. Left-leaning groups assailed the decision for tearing down a barrier that has protected American political life from overwhelming corporate influence...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5559/a_supreme_injustice



Eight words that could save our country

AlterNet
by David Morris

05/01/10

‘Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.’ These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember — and add to the Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/28tby67


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate 'Person'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/53?akid=9.124981.XaYMDd&t=24

Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Walmart Sam's Club Lowering Worker and Community Standards
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/25-7

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Corporations Are Not The People

This may well be the most important week ever in progressive policy advocacy.

As a first step to mitigating the terrible damage done by the edict of a rogue Supreme Court bare majority to give giant selfish interest corporations free rein in our elections, we must force full disclosure of what they are up to, by having Congress pass the Disclose Act.

So please submit the action page which will send real time faxes to all your members of Congress on this, just by clicking a mouse one time for the form below, where you will find more info on this bill.

Pass The Disclose Act action page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1045.php

In the meantime, we have been gearing up for this initiative by printing to have ready now tens of thousands of the "Corporations Are Not The People" bumper stickers. We need to give this issue maximum visibility, and we need your help to get these bumper stickers distributed and out there.

So please after you submit the action page above, consider picking one of the bulk packs of 25, for just a modest donation from the return page after you submit the form. Or you can go directly to the bulk order page here.

Bulk Corporations Are Not The People bumper stickers: http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_bulk.php

We have already given away tens of thousands of these ourselves, mailed singly, most entirely for free not even charging for postage, and we want to keep doing it. So if you can make a donation and pick up a bulk pack, that's what makes it possible for us to send free individual bumper stickers to anyone who cannot make a donation right now.

And absolutely, if you have not requested one for yourself, please go to the single sticker order page at the next link below, where we will continue to give them away to anyone who wants one.

Free Single Bumper Stickers: http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers.php

As the monumental damage being done by the underwater oil eruption in the Gulf is starting to come home to those who have managed to stay in denial this long, with help of the police under the control of BP keeping the news media away from the real story, and trying to hide the scale of the "leak" by driving the massive quantities of crude oil under water with toxic dispersants, we all know what the real problem is.

The real problem is that for the longest time no law has passed out of Congress without the express permission and intervention of the special interest corporations it presumptively was supposed to regulate. That is why there was an ridiculously low liability cap inserted into the bill that was supposed to prevent another Exxon Valdez oil spill. That is why BP felt they could take such experimental risks in the first place, because they had put in place a law that said they could get away with it for a token cost if things went drastically wrong as they now have.

That is why the environmental review process was limited to 30 days, to make sure it would never amount to anything more than a once over lightly if at all. President Obama now says that any laws that need to be changed to make sure this does not happen again will be changes.

Well, they ALL have to be changed. Every single law on the books has got to be totally revamped to stop giving self-serving corporations a pass when it comes to public safety and the public interest. It's time to stop letting criminal corporations like BP essentially regulate themselves like they could actually be trusted, with industry cronies installed in all administrative positions. And that goes for Wall Street, the medical care industry, and on and on right on down the line.

But the first step is to put the brakes on the outlaw Supreme Court's corporate coup, by passing the Disclose Act to shine the light of day on what is really going on with faceless corporations dominating our election process. So please submit the action page above. And get some bumpers stickers to pass out to all your friends, your political groups and let's get them out there where people can see them.

And here is the Facebook link for the Pass The Disclose Act action page further above.



[Facebook] Action Page: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1045

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1045

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

usalone395b:320027



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Whistle-Blowers: A Conversation with Ellsberg and Dean

Video

The Pentagon Papers revealed that the government knew early on that the Vietnam War was not likely winnable and would lead to many times more casualties than ever admitted. After failing to persuade a few U.S. Senators to release the papers on the Senate floor, Ellsberg decided to risk prison and leaked the documents to the New York Times.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24657.htm



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Video

Statements from Brig. Gen. Nicholson, commander of the operation, indicate that he feels he has leeway to use airstrikes in the civilian area.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24658.htm



Karzai says 10 civilians killed in Afghan assault

Ten civilians have been killed during a major US-led military offensive to clear a southern Afghan region of Taliban militants, the Afghan president said Sunday.

http://snipurl.com/ud1v2



Seven Afghans killed as Karzai urges NATO to avoid civilian deaths

President Hamid Karzai urged international troops to prevent civilian casualties during military operations in an emotional appeal on Saturday, as six civilians were killed in two blasts and another was shot dead by NATO troops in southern region.

http://snipurl.com/ugh04



Helmand elders want US-led forces out

Tribal elders in the southern Afghan province of Helmand want an end to the US-led anti-Taliban offensive there, citing Western troops' disregard for civilian lives as a reason.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119158&sectionid=351020403



Fears of Humanitarian Crisis in Marjah

Video Report

More than a week into the Nato-Afghan military offensive against the Taliban in the southern Helmand province town of Marjah, warnings of a humanitarian crisis are growing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24824.htm



US general: Marjah just the start

"This is just the initial operation of what will be a 12 to 18-month campaign" - "People who are ill cannot get to hospitals and others cannot bring them medicines," Ajmal Samadi, the head of the Afghan Rights Monitor group, said. "They cannot get food or even go outside to look after their farms."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201022214235669261.html


From Information Clearing House

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US Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major assault in the Marjah District in southern Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are in imminent peril. Will President Obama and Congress act to protect civilians in Marjah, in compliance with the obligations of the United States under the laws of war?"

http://www.truthout.org/us-poised-commit-war-crimes-marjah56863



Team America Kills Five Kids in Marjah

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "'Civilian casualties are inevitable,' said US officials before launching their weekend military assault on Marjah in southern Afghanistan, and in this case, they were telling the truth. Yesterday, The New York Times reported, a US rocket strike 'hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians ... killing at least 10 people, including 5 children.'"

http://www.truthout.org/team-america-kills-five-kids-marjah56968

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Civilians Die in Afghan Offensive
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/14-4

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Afghanistan: US rockets strike home, kill twelve civilians

ABC News

02/14/10

Two U.S. rockets slammed into a home Sunday outside the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, killing 12 civilians after Afghanistan’s president appealed to NATO to take care in its campaign to seize the town. Inside Marjah, Marines encountered ‘death at every corner’ in their second day of a massive offensive to capture this bleak mud-brick city filled with booby traps, hardcore Taliban fighters and civilians unsure where to cast their loyalty...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9832148



Learning from history: Can the US win the Afghan war?

AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

02/24/10

The primary reason that counterinsurgency warfare has not been very successful over time is that although counterinsurgents are usually much stronger than insurgents, they are also often foreign occupiers. This is one huge strike against them. People naturally get really annoyed when foreigners invade their country, as our own experience with British forces in the American Revolution attests. Even if the foreign troops are fairly benevolent — building schools, roads, and health clinics and handing out candy to children — they are still foreigners who are killing civilians by accident and arrogantly telling locals what to do at gunpoint, thus creating a nationalist backlash...

http://original.antiwar.com/eland/2010/02/23/learning-from-history/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano15.1.html

Terrorism Is Terrorism: An American Contradiction in Terms
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The Alarming Economic Future
http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo31.1.html



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Northside People

The 18.5 metre high structure was erected on the grounds of TEK United Football Club at Rockford Park in Stradbrook by the Meteor mobile phone company late ...

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- Les antennes relais et les téléphones mobiles sont considérés maintenant par la majorité des gens comme nocifs ou très nocifs pour la santé.
- Sondages INPES et TNS Sofres "AFOM la machine à perdre : le basculement"

Heartland Institute
by Benjamin Domenech

02/11/10

Right now White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel needs to do the first worthwhile thing since he came to Washington: He should lean over and whisper in President Barack Obama’s ear to remind him that he really is president of the United States — he’s not just playing that role on TV. The announcement over the weekend of Obama’s latest gambit to restart his stalled health care legislation came in a live interview with Katie Couric before the Super Bowl — a conversation full of forced informality, punctuated with tested lines repeated from his State of the Union address and stump speeches...

http://tinyurl.com/yla3zr9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Down With the Presidency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/down-presidency.html

A President's Day Message
http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem37.1.html



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

02/12/10

DOD Statement: ‘NCIS special agents who investigated this case found no evidence to suggest that the three detainees died by means other than suicide.’ NCIS considered no other way. Contrary indications were ignored, including not interviewing Tower Guards able to look directly into cells to monitor all movement throughout the facility. Several now contradict the official NCIS account. At least four witnesses have different views of what happened. Why weren’t they interviewed? Why were statements given of questionable value? How can they be considered trustworthy? The ’suspect statements are nowhere to be found in the investigative file.’ Leaving them out suggests whitewash...

http://tinyurl.com/ydydfvf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ruling Means Gitmo Detainees Have No Legal Protection: Rights Group
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/17-6

Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/17-19

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Urge Obama to support fair trials for Guantanamo detainees
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=hdJNLTMoF3JzEUK&s=bkLTK8OLLdIRIcPSKqE&m=jqLKIYNAL6JTF

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Gitmo 'suicides' torture gone wrong?

In an appearance Thursday on Fox News' Freedom Watch, Horton stated that the only real question in his mind is whether the men's deaths were deliberate murders or were "negligent homicides" resulting from "some sort of procedure that was performed on them."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0528/horton-discusses-gitmo-suicides/


From Information Clearing House



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Salon
by Jenn Kepka

02/11/10

Yes, friends, what we’ve known all along is finally be played out on the bigger screen: to believe in Sarah Palin, you must reject facts and rewrite history. Luckily, it looks like maybe only a small segment of the country is willing to do that. I’m getting around to making the very same point that TNC made in his post, which is this: Sarah Palin is not a major political force. She is the political equivalent to ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV’...

http://tinyurl.com/ydb89zt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sarah Palin's Gun-Imagery Takes Aim at Political Targets

Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor: "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's use of gun-imagery like rifle cross-hairs to target politically vulnerable Democratic lawmakers won't surprise many Americans as she stumps for her former running mate, John McCain, this weekend."

http://www.truthout.org/sarah-palins-gun-imagery-takes-aim-political-targets58073



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/11-1

The New Deal in Reverse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/11-6

An American Way of War for the Record Books
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/11-8

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Congress Must Stand Tall to Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/11-2

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One Free Market System for Wall Street, Another for Main Street

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org: "Washington is paralyzed by snow and partisanship. Nothing is getting done - even as the Great Recession pulls more Americans into its maw. In the midst of this paralysis, the President was asked about the giant pay packages of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co. ($17 mullion for 2009) and Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs ($9 million). First of all, I know both those guys, Obama said. 'They're very savvy businessmen. And I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That's part of the free market system.'"

http://www.truthout.org/one-free-market-system-wall-street-another-main-street56837

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Bash a fattie for freedom

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

02/10/10

The Militarization of American continues apace: now Michelle Obama, wife to America’s president, claims an ‘epidemic’ of obesity imperils — you guessed it — our all-important National Security. At a recent White House ceremony Mrs. Obama intoned, ‘This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.’ I was unaware that sitting in some dimly lit room down in Florida, punching buttons to fly Predator drones on the other side of the globe, required a ripped set of abs...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/123196.html



Is this how democracy ends?

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/19/10

America faces a crisis of democracy. At its heart is a fiscal crisis. After the 2009 deficit of $1.4 trillion, we are running a 2010 deficit of $1.6 trillion. Trillion-dollar deficits are projected through the Obama years, be they four or eight. Long before 2016, however, holders of U.S. public debt will stop buying Treasury bills or start demanding higher interest rates to cover the growing risk of a default...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/19/is-this-how-democracy-ends/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission

The future of policing: Dissidents to be tortured into compliance by marauding unmanned vehicles

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 12, 2010

Illustrating once again that the prison planet being built around us far outstrips anything Aldous Huxley or George Orwell ever imagined, a Wired News report details how police forces worldwide are preparing to unveil drone aircraft that can not only conduct surveillance of protesters, but also zap them into submission with non-lethal weapons.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/surveillance-drones-to-zap-protesters-into-submission.html



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Center for Responsive Politics: Federal Lobbying Climbs in 2009 as Lawmakers Execute Aggressive Congressional Agenda

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Die Diskussion rund um das Lohnabstandsgebot wird unredlich geführt. Um die Einkommensschere zwischen Hartz IV und Arbeit zu vergrößern, müssen nicht Transferleistungen gesenkt, sondern die Löhne erhöht werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32068/1.html



Wer hat, dem wird gegeben

Nur ein Sechstel aller Haushalte in Deutschland tritt ein Erbe an - höhere Bildungs- und Einkommensschichten haben die größte Chance.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147053



Nur wer arbeitet, soll auch essen
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/147058

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Nach 5 Jahren Verfassungsbruch mehr Geld?
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/e8d87a55507389c0?hl=de

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Hartz IV wird gekürzt!?

Gestern hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht bewiesen und erklärt, dass die Bundesregierung bei der Berechnung des Hartz IV-Regelsatzes massiv betrogen hat. Die bei der Berechnung des Regelsatzes zugrunde gelegten Ausgaben der Ärmsten 20% (ohne Sozialhilfeempfänger) der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung wurden um Ausgaben für Pelzmäntel, Maßanzüge, Segelflugzeuge usw. gekürzt. Dass in dieser Bevölkerungsgruppe solche Ausgaben nachweislich gar nicht vorkommen, störte die Verantwortlichen dabei nicht. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-wird-gekuerzt-9712.php



Regelleistungen nach SGB II nicht verfassungsgemäß.

Bundesverfassungsgericht urteilte: Berechnungsgrundlage Hartz-IV nicht Verfassungskonform

Die Berechnung des Eckregelsatzes für Erwachsene ist verfassungswidrig, weil der Gesetzgeber bei der Auswertung der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 1998 und 2003 Abzüge vorgenommen hat, die bei der zugrunde gelegten Bevölkerungsgruppe: der Unteren 20% ohne Sozialhilfeempfänger, gar nicht vorkommen, oder nicht belegt werden konnten. Konkret wurden die Kürzungen bei "Bekleidung und Schuhe" für Pelze und Maßkleidung, bei der "Haushaltenergie" für Strom (-15%), bei "Verkehr" wegen der Kosten für Kraftfahrzeuge, bei "Freizeit, Unterhaltung und Kultur" u.a. für Segelflugzeuge und beim "Bildungswesen" (-100% = kein Anspruch auf Bildung) bemängelt. Lesen Sie eine Zusammenfassung:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/urteilsbegruendung-hartz-iv-regelsatzklage-8666.php

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Mehr Netto für Kinder

Am Dienstag hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht in einem wegweisenden Urteil die Festlegung der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze für grundgesetzwidrig erklärt - insbesondere die von Kindern. Wir überlegen gerade eine Kampagne zu starten, die von der Bundesregierung verlangt, Hartz IV so zu reformieren, dass die Chancen von sozial benachteiligten Kindern signifikant verbessert werden.

Wir haben Sie und 999 andere unter den über 200.000 Campact-Aktiven zufällig ausgewählt und bitten Sie, uns Ihre Meinung zu der Kampagne kurz mitzuteilen. Ob wir die Kampagne starten, hängt von Ihrer Rückmeldung ab.

Die Richter beanstandeten insbesondere die absurde prozentual am Erwachsenen-Bedarf orientierte Festlegung der Regelsätze für Kinder: Dadurch sind beispielsweise Ausgaben für Tabak, nicht aber für Bildung vorgesehen. Das Grundrecht von Kindern auf Chancengleichheit durch Bildung wird so verletzt. Daher verpflichtet das Urteil den Gesetzgeber, bis Jahresende ein nachvollziehbares Berechnungssystem vorzulegen, das das Grundrecht auf Gewährleistung eines menschenwürdigen Existenzminimus plausibel und transparent begründet.

Das Gericht hat offengelassen, ob auch die bisherige Höhe der Regelsätze an sich verfassungswidrig ist. Erste Politiker/innen der schwarz-geben Bundesregierung haben bereits verkündet, das Urteil zu nutzen, um die Hartz-IV-Bezüge zu kürzen. Wir wollen darauf hinwirken, dass die Neuberechnung der Regelsätze zu mehr Netto für Kinder führt.

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In der "Welt" durfte der FDP-Chef einen Gastkommentar schreiben, in dem er mit ideologischer Einfältigkeit dokumentiert, warum die Liberalen derzeit keinen Fuß mehr auf den Boden bekommen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32072/1.html

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12. Februar 2010

Westerwelle, der Klassenkampftraditionalist

Zu den Äußerungen des FDP-Vorsitzenden Westerwelle erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der Partei DIE LINKE, Dietmar Bartsch:

Wie schlecht muss es um die FDP stehen, dass sich ihr Vorsitzender Westerwelle so dermaßen im Ton vergreift. Kaum brechen die Umfragewerte zu Recht ein, keilt und tritt Westerwelle nach den Schwächsten in der Gesellschaft. Um die Steuervorteile für Hoteliers und reiche Erben zu sichern, schlägt er auf die von staatlichen Transfers Abhängigen ein. Westerwelle, der Klassenkampftraditionalist. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat in seinem Urteil zu den Hartz IV-Regelsätzen in ungekannter Deutlichkeit das Sozialstaatsgebot des Grundgesetzes ausformuliert. Wenn Herr Westerwelle darin "sozialistische Züge" entdeckt, ist ihm schwerlich noch zu helfen. Im Übrigen: Wenn er beklagt, dass eine arbeitende Verkäuferin mit zwei Kindern weniger verdient, als sie über Hartz IV bekommen würde, liegt das an der Niedriglohnpolitik, für die die FDP wie kaum eine andere Partei in Deutschland steht. Arm trotz Arbeit ist eine direkte Folge neoliberalen Denkens. DIE LINKE setzt dem "Gute Arbeit, gute Löhne" entgegen und fordert einen Mindestlohn von 10 Euro. Die Regelsätze für Hartz IV-Empfänger müssen auf 500 Euro steigen. Der kostenfreie Zugang für Öffentliche Dienstleistungen wie Bildung, Betreuung und Freizeitangeboten würde zudem Hartz IV-Bezieher und Menschen mit geringem Einkommen entlasten. Das ist zwar kein Sozialismus, das ist ein Stück Gerechtigkeit.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/westerwelle-der-klassenkampftraditionalist/

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Massive Kritik von allen Seiten: Vize-Kanzler, Außenminister und FDP-Chef Guido Westerwelle solle "besser die Klappe halten"

Kaum hatte das Bundesverfassungsgericht das richtungweisende Hartz IV Urteil gefällt und den Gesetzgeber dazu aufgefordert die Bemessungsgrundlagen für die ALG-II Regelleistungen neu zu definieren, entlud sich der FDP Chef Westerwelle in der Zeitung "Die Welt": "Wer dem Volk anstrengungslosen Wohlstand verspricht, lädt zu spätrömischer Dekadenz ein." Damit missachtete der Vizekanzler im Staat ein Grundsatzurteil des obersten deutschen Gerichtes. Aber dem nicht genug, in der "Passauer Neuen Presse" entlud sich Westerwelle nochmals und sprach im Zusammenhang der Diskussion über die Neuberechnung von Hartz-IV, diese würde "sozialistische Züge" tragen. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/westerwelles-hartz-iv-besser-die-klappe-halten-971.php



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