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Professor Christoph Butterwegge erwartet im Zuge des Sparwillens der Bundesregierung eine "politisch motivierte" Neuberechnung der Hartz IV Regelsätze. Butterwegge ist Professor für Politikwissenschaft am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften an der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Uni Köln. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/professor-erwartet-politischen-hartz-iv-regelsatz-4489.php



Wie sogenannte Bescheid-Erklärer Hartz IV–Bezieher von Klagen abhalten sollen.

In Berlin wird derzeit in einem Pilotprojekt getestet, ob sogenannte Hartz IV Bescheid- Erklärer Erwerbslose von Klagen abhalten können. Damit will der Senat in Berlin erreichen, dass die vielen Widersprüche gegen die Hartz-IV Bescheide reduziert werden. So berichtete das ARD Magazin "report mainz" letzte Woche über die Arbeit des ersten sogenannten "Bescheiderklärers" Deutschlands im Jobcenter Berlin-Mitte. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/die-hartz-iv-bescheid-erklaerer-9182.php



Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit befürchtet eine Klagewelle aufgrund der Zusatzbeiträge der Krankenkassen.

(14.06.2010) Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit befürchtet eine neue Hartz IV- Klagewelle aufgrund der von einzelnen Krankenkassen geforderten Zusatzbeiträgen. Laut dem Magazin "Focus" habe der Chef der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Heinrich Alt, einen entsprechenden Hinweis an den Bundestagsausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales gesandt. Alt sehe keinen Anspruch für ALG II-Bezieher, das dieser Zusatzbeitrag von den Behörden übernommen werden ssoll. Dennoch sehe er, dass zahlreiche Kläger sich auf die sog. "Härtefallregelung" berufen könnten. "Hier sehe ich Widersprüche und Klageverfahren auf uns zukommen“, so Alt gegenüber dem Focus. Derzeit würden die Behörden versuchen zu ermitteln, wieviele Menschen von den Zusatzbeiträgen der Krankenkassen betroffen sind. Das würde einen hohen "bürokratischen Aufwand" verursachen, so der BA-Chef. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-klagewelle-wegen-zusatzbeitraegen-3322.php

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Soziale Ungleichheit macht Arme und Reiche unglücklich

Chefökonom der Financial Times plädiert gegen die Niedriglohnpolitik.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/147855

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Bundesagentur für Arbeit will Datenschutz von Hartz IV Beziehern außer Kraft setzen

Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) plant augenscheinlich den Datenschutz von Hartz IV Betroffenen außer Kraft zu setzen. So weist die BA in einer Pressmeldung darauf hin, dass ab September 2010 Testweise eingehende Briefe, die an die Arbeitsagenturen in Thüringen gerichtet sind, von der Deutschen Post geöffnet werden, um diese im Anschluss zu digitalisieren. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/ba-kein-datenschutz-bei-hartz-iv-9980.php

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-datenschutz-anschreiben-an-peter-schaar.php



Arbeitsagentur-Sacharbeiter nennen die Namen von Hartz IV Betroffenen in öffentlichen Foren. Wie uns ein Leser aufmerksam machte, veröffentlichen augenscheinlich Arbeitsagentur-Mitarbeitern die Namen von Hartz IV-Betroffenen in einem öffentlich zugänglichen Forum des Social Network Anbieters "Studivz.net". So existiert dort eine Gruppe mit dem klangvollen Namen "Ich fürchte keine Hölle: Ich bin ARGE-Mitarbeiter!" Dort schreiben Arge-Sachbearbeiter zu aktuellen Themen und tauschen sich aus. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-arge-mitarbeiter-missachten-datenschutz-8894.php

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Die Arbeitsagentur und ihre "Kundendaten"

Bundesagentur für Arbeit will Briefe durch Postmitarbeiter einscannen lassen. Das ab September in zwei Bundesländern eingeführte Verfahren dient der Umstellung auf "E-Akten"

„Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit will Briefe aus Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen ab September von Postmitarbeitern öffnen und einscannen lassen. Anschließend sollen die Inhalte an die Sachbearbeiter weitergeleitet und Bestandteil einer elektronischen Akte werden. Betroffen sind neben Arbeitslosen auch Kindergeldempfänger, deren Ansprüche ebenfalls über die Bundesagentur geregelt werden. (…) Das Pilotprojekt in den beiden Bundesländern ist datenschutzrechtlich unter anderem deshalb problematisch, weil das Scannen der Dokumente nicht von Beamten, sondern von Geringverdienern erledigt werden sollen. Aus diesem Grund besteht trotz einer formellen Schweigepflicht der Postmitarbeiter und einer Zertifizierung des Verfahrens durch das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik nicht nur ein erhebliches Risiko, dass persönliche Daten an die Öffentlichkeit oder in falsche Hände gelangen, sondern auch, dass für die Einhaltung von Fristen wichtige Post verschlampt, falsch zugeordnet oder aus Überlastung weggeworfen wird. Allerdings gibt es dieses Risiko seit der Teilprivatisierung der ehemaligen Behörde auch im traditionellen Beförderungsweg: Nach Recherchen des Korruptionsforschers Werner Rügemer verschwinden täglich 30.000 Briefe. Eine Alternative zum Senden mit der Post ist das eigene Einscannen und elektronische Übersenden von Dokumenten…“ Artikel von Peter Muehlbauer in telepolis vom 25.06.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147892

Siehe dazu:

Neue Postleitzahlen - Fünf Richtige für Ihren Brief!

„Für die Agenturen für Arbeit und die Familienkassen gelten ab sofort bundesweit neue Postanschriften. Grund ist die Einführung der elektronischen Akte (eAkte), welche ab Mitte September 2010 in den Agenturen für Arbeit in Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen erprobt wird…“ Meldung der BA vom 22.06.2010: http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_27908/zentraler-Content/A01-Allgemein-Info/A016-Infomanagement/Allgemein/5-Richtige-Neue-Plz.html


BA gibt Datenschutz auf und schafft den gläsernen Erwerbslosen. Deutsche Post AG soll ab September Briefe an die BA öffnen und digitalisieren

Pressemeldung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland vom 24.06.2010 http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/25_252010250625_396_1.htm


Bundesagentur für Arbeit: Kundendaten sind sicher!

„Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) stellt zum heutigen Artikel in der BILD-Zeitung „Datenskandal! Post soll Arbeitslosen-Briefe öffnen“ fest: Daten von Arbeitslosen und Kindergeldempfängern sind sicher!...“ Presse Info 034 vom 25.06.2010 http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_27044/zentraler-Content/Pressemeldungen/2010/Presse-10-034.html

Aus dem Text: „…Richtig ist, dass neben BA-Mitarbeitern auch Mitarbeiter der Deutschen Post AG in den Scanzentren arbeiten. Aber – der Datenschutz ist zu jeder Zeit sichergestellt: Die Kundenakten und die eingehende Post werden in gesicherten und extra verplombten Transportboxen in das Scanzentrum angeliefert. Der Zugang zum Scanzentrum ist hoch gesichert. Alle dortigen Mitarbeiter haben eine Sicherheitsüberprüfung durch den Bund durchlaufen….“


Elektronische Erfassung von an die BA gerichteten Briefen

„Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Peter Schaar teilt zur heutigen Berichterstattung in den Medien zum Projekt elektronische Akten (e-Akte) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) mit, dass er über dieses geplante Vorhaben informiert gewesen sei. Er habe die BA bei einzelnen Fragen beraten und insbesondere auf die strengen gesetzlichen Vorgaben, die grundsätzlich mit der Beauftragung eines privaten Dienstleisters durch Sozialbehörden verbunden seien, hingewiesen. Die Umstellung bezieht sich nach Informationen der BA ausschließlich auf den Agenturbereich, so dass die Akten und die Post der Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger (Hartz IV) hiervon zunächst ausgenommen sind…“ BfDI Pressemitteilung vom 25.6.2010 http://www.bfdi.bund.de/cln_136/DE/Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Pressemitteilungen/2010/30_BADigitalerPosteingang.html?nn=408908


Musterwiderspruch gegen das Scannen von Post an die Arbeitsagentur http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/26_262010260626_397_1.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Juni 2010

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»Zug der Tagelöhner« endete in Berlin. Brandenburger Initiative mobilisiert Erwerbslose, Billigjobber und Leiharbeiter zum Widerstand

„Am vergangenen Mittwoch kam der »Zug der Tagelöhner« am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin an. Erwerbslose Brandenburger waren knapp zwei Wochen lang durch ihr Land gezogen und hatten in zehn Städten auf die Zunahme unsicherer Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse aufmerksam gemacht. Die Aktion wurde von der »Sozialen Bewegung Land Brandenburg« organisiert. Am Nachmittag hatten Berliner Erwerbslose die »Tagelöhner« zu einer Abschlußdiskussion in die Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg eingeladen…“ Artikel von Anne Seeck in der jungen Welt vom 31.07.2010 http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/07-31/049.php


Die Mitglieder des Erwerbslosen-Arbeitskreis (ELA) unserer Verwaltungsstelle nahmen aktiv am „Zug der Tagelöhner“ teil.

Abschliessende Pressemitteilung von Erwerbslosen-Arbeitskreis (ELA) der IG Metall Verwaltungsstelle Ludwigsfelde vom 30.07.2010 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2010/tageloehner.pdf


Krach schlagen statt Kohldampf schieben! Wenigstens 80 Euro mehr für Lebensmittel sofort!

„Wütend über Milliardengeschenke an Banken und Sparpakete für die Ärmsten der Gesellschaft? Ungläubiges Stauenen, wie gestern noch die Förderung von Kindern gepriesen wurde und heute das Elterngeld gestrichen wird ? Sauer, dass die Reichen immer reicher und die Armen immer ärmer werden ? Flaues Gefühl im Magen, weil die Gesundheit immer teurer, die Rente immer kleiner und die Zukunft immer ungewisser wird ? Null Verständnis dafür, warum es in einer reichen Gesellschaft kein ausreichendes Einkommen für alle geben soll ? Kein Bock mehr auf verlogenes Gelabere von Politikern ? Abgenervt von Westerwelle und Co? Oohnmachtsgefühle, denn was kann man schon tun? Komm am 10.10.2010 nach Oldenburg, bring Kochtopf und Kochlöffel mit!...“ Aufruf der ALSO zu einer bundesweiten Demonstration auf der Aktionsseite http://www.krach-statt-kohldampf.de/


›Wir sind nicht eure Geldautomaten‹ … Die Geduld verlieren! ›Die Verursacher und Profiteure der Krise blockieren‹: Einladung zur Aktionskonferenz am 21. August

Aktionsgruppe Georg Büchner: Aktualisierte Fassung der Einladung zur Aktionskonferenz (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2010/buechner1.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 3. August 2010

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Der Arbeitslosengeld II Regelsatz wird nicht angeglichen
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/6f8c1ad3d6cd779?hl=de



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/18-6

Jesse Jackson Calls Shirley Sherrod a 'True Freedom Fighter' Who Fought Back Against 'Attempted Character Assassination'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/22-2

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Anti-statists today, torturers tomorrow?

The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy

06/21/10

What Dionne and other conventional commentators present as a right-wing coalition that comes together under ’successful conservative politicians such as Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush in his first term)’ but threatens to fracture into extremism when out of power is actually something else: a fairly stable party elite that employs a rhetorical strategy to sell Americans on liberty when the GOP needs to assemble enough votes to reclaim power, but that once in command again doles out privileges to favored interests and conceals the growth of government behind moralistic and nationalistic bombast...

http://tinyurl.com/26xj9fy



Stop coddling the McCarthyite smear machine

Our Future Blog
by Robert Borosage

07/21/10

The right-wing smear machine that cost an exemplary Agriculture Department official her job should be denounced for what it is: a high-tech, low-rent McCarthyism that launches search-and-destroy missions with no purpose but poisonous partisanship. That the Obama administration keeps retreating whenever this hit squad starts strafing someone — firing Van Jones; disassociating itself from ACORN and contributing to its demise; and this week firing Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, over a slanderously edited video — is shameful. It only feeds the appetite of the zealots, with dozens now looking to collect pelts to hang on their walls, and propaganda outlets like Fox News, Limbaugh, and others eager to pile on the next target. It demoralizes those in public service generally. And it puts active progressives … on notice that they may be vulnerable to a random attack, distorting some moment from their past...

http://tinyurl.com/28djpuh



The heroism of Shirley Sherrod

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/21/10

Sherrod’s speech — which caused her to be fired — is simply inspiring in its uncommon candor, courage and wisdom. Few people are willing so publicly to confess to tribal biases and detail how they struggle to overcome them, even though that’s a challenge which any person who evolves at some point must confront. That process — far more than the pretense of having always been bias-free — requires difficult self-examination, and its public discussion offers vitally needed lessons for everyone. Many people are unwilling ever to engage that process privately, let alone candidly describe it publicly. Those with the courage to do so, like Sherrod, should be heralded for that candor. Instead, she was slandered, falsely disparaged, and fired...

http://tinyurl.com/2amu8hp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Opposition denkt über neuen Untersuchungsausschuss nach.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147848



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New data has been released showing that the massive BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is already contaminating one major protected North American Marine Ecoregion, containing more than 60-percent of America's tidal marshes, and is threatening at least two more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/bp-oil-slick-now-threaten_b_616556.html



BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard

59 Days Into Oil Crisis, Gulf Coast Governors Say Feds Are Failing Them.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-gov-bobby-jindals-wishes-crude/story?id=10946379



U.S. scientist warns impact of methane gas as result of Gulf oil spill

"The mixture coming up is now about 40 percent methane and 60 percent oil from undersea of the Gulf of Mexico," Kessler explained . "This means there are immense amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, being input into the Gulf."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-06/17/c_13355795.htm



ROV films oil leak coming from rock cracks on seafloor

This video was recorded from the Viking Poseidon -- ROV 1 on June 13th, 2010 at 2:58 AM EST.


http://tinyurl.com/295tzrq



How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon
http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175262/



Gulf oil spill: A Hole in the World

By Naomi Klein

This Gulf coast crisis is about many things - corruption, deregulation, the addiction to fossil fuels. But underneath it all, it's about this: our culture's excruciatingly dangerous claim to have such complete understanding and command over nature that we can radically manipulate and re-engineer it with minimal risk to the natural systems that sustain us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25773.htm



Gulf Fisherman: "It's Heartbreaking "

Video

Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP's Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25778.htm



Spill could last for up to four more years

BP oil spill caused by 'negligence or misconduct', says drilling partner.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/19/gulf-oil-spill-anarkdo-petroleum-blames-bp



BP chief's yachting trip 'a big mistake'?

Pictures of Tony Hayward yachting at the Isle of Wight billed as a PR nightmare and insulting to those affected by oil slick.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/20/tony-hayward-bp


From Information Clearing House

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Toxic Dispersant Use in Gulf is 'Massive, Uncontrolled' Experiment
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/18-9

BP 'Complacent' over Oil Well Risks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/18-1

Corporate Gusher, Public Sun
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/18

Top Republicans Offer BP Apologies, Tips to Avoid Accountability
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/18-5

Center for Biological Diversity: Lawsuit Seeks $19 billion in Clean Water Act Penalties from BP
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/18-2

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A deadly bubble?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/872.html

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Warning posted of 'horrific' rupture leading to 'wide-open well bore directly to oil deposit'

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9745/

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Will oil drilling become a pipe dream?

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

06/16/10

If President Obama’s Oval Office speech made one thing clear, it is that his administration and the activists who back it view the Gulf oil spill as simply an opportunity to advance their pre-existing agenda — which has nothing to do with cleaning up the Gulf, protecting the fragile coastal environment or fostering the region’s economy. The Obama administration’s May 27 order to stop all deep-water exploratory drilling in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico for six months, pending the report of a commission investigating the causes of BP’s Deepwater Horizon accident, is a case in point. Public and political reaction to the devastating oil release in the Gulf has revitalized a coalition of environmental and anti-energy lobbies that oppose not only deep-water drilling, but all offshore oil production and, in some cases, all use of fossil fuels. As usual, political opportunists have been quick to seize the moment...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2813



Justice and BP

A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan

06/18/10

It is very probable that BP and its associated firms will be found guilty of malpractice and assessed major fines and punishment. However, this hasn’t yet happened so it’s premature to punish BP at this point. Nor is it the role of the President of the U.S. to act as prosecutor, judge and jury in this case or any other. Where is due process in all of what he and Congress have been doing lately? Or has an anti-British or anti-business attitude wiped out the need for justice? Urging or imploring — even attempting to persuade — BP to set up the $20 billion fund could be a good idea but treating this as demanded by justice is utterly misguided. There should be no compromise of principle even in the heat of anger and the grips of outrage and sorrow. It is imperative to wait until the verdict is in...

http://tibormachan.rationalreview.com/2010/06/column-on-justice-bp/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With

The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy. There is a deafening silence from the very environmental organizations which ought to be at the barricades demanding that BP, the US Government and others act decisively. Environmental non-profit groups that have accepted donations from or joined in projects with BP include Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Audubon. That could explain why the political outcry to date for decisive action in the Gulf has been so muted. Of course those organizations are not going to be the ones to solve this catastrophe. The central point at this point is who is prepared to put the urgently demanded federal and international scientific resources into solving this crisis. Further actions of the likes of that from the Obama White House to date or from BP can only lead to the conclusion that some very powerful people want this debacle to continue. The next weeks will be critical to that assessment.

F. William Engdahl, Author



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Rejected Iraqi asylum seekers deported from the UK have claimed they were beaten by British border guards forcing them onto a plane.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Ellen Brown

[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25766.htm



A Return to Feudalism and the City-State

"Europe's Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government"

Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson

Economic crisis in Europe created by predatory lending.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25765.htm

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Corporations, mercantilism, and capitalism

The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith

06/27/10

People tend to have mixed feelings about corporations. Just as it’s said that ‘Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,’ it’s equally true that everybody wants a secure job with good pay and generous benefits, but nobody wants to spend their lives in a cubicle, or on an assembly line. Likewise, everybody wants inexpensive goods and services of a reliable, predictable quality, but nobody wants to surrender their freedom of personal choice or individual sovereignty...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle576-20100627-02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

Huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives. "This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25764.htm



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By Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg and Coleen Rowley

It is a safe bet that NSA, CIA, FBI and other agencies have been instructed to do all possible to make an example of Wikileaks leader, Australian-born Julian Assange, and his colleagues. Much is at stake -- for both Pentagon and freedom of the press.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25758.htm



The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks

By Glenn Greenwald

From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons. In an attempt to obtain greater clarity about what really happened here, I've spent the last week reviewing everything I could related to this case and speaking with several of the key participants (including Lamo, with whom I had a one-hour interview last night that can be heard on the recorder below.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25767.htm



Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament

At 4 a.m. on Thursday, at the end of an all-night session, Iceland's Parliament, the Althing, voted unanimously in favor of a package of legislation aimed at making the country a haven for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whistle-blower Web sites like WikiLeaks, which helped to craft the proposal.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/victory-for-wikileaks-in-icelands-parliament/



WikiLeaks part II: Adrian Lamo responds

The hacker at the heart of yesterday's post about WikiLeaks and military espionage responds with corrections and new info.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikileaks-part-ii-adrian-lamo-responds-580-0



WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan

As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/wikileaks-preparing-release-video-alleged-us-massacre-afghanistan/story?id=10954929



Pentagon Rebuffs Leaker's Lawyers

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hired lawyers to represent the Army intel analyst accused of leaking State Dept. secrets. But the Pentagon sent them away. Philip Shenon reports.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-18/wikileaks-/



Stop Trying to Hide the Truth from Us

By Kevin Zeese

The peace movement needs to stand with Bradley Manning and Wikileaks in their efforts to let Americans see the truth about what the military is doing in our name.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25993.htm


From Information Clearing House

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WikiLeaks Aftermath Puts Spotlight on Obama Administration's Crackdown on Whistleblowers

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy NOW!: "Pentagon investigators are reportedly still searching for Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who helped release a classified US military video showing a US helicopter gunship indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. The US military recently arrested Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who may have passed on the video to Wikileaks."

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-aftermath-puts-spotlight-obama-administrations-crackdown-whistleblowers60542

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Rowley, McGovern and Ellsberg -- Statement on Wikileaks

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/18-12

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WikiLeaks May Be Under Attack - Courage Is Contagious

One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted according to his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani. The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people, mostly children. Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist" who then worked with the US government to detain him. WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating in an advers arial, high-security environment which can make communication time consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also difficult since they require high levels of trust. To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends of WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most countries and would like to see them be a strong and independent force. Please write to friends@sunshinepress.org if you are interested in helping with Friends of WikiLeaks in your area. You will receive further instructions. We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal team to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were $50,000 all up). Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance. Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious.

Julian Assange, Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks

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Bradley Manning, American patriot

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/07/10

Army Specialist Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who leaked the ‘Collateral Murder’ video of US pilots shooting down Iraqi civilians (including two Reuters photographers) in cold blood, is finally being charged. For revealing to the American people the truth about what’s going on in Iraq, Manning faces horrendous legal consequences — nearly sixty years in prison if convicted on all counts. One of the charges, incredibly, is espionage. He was a ’spy,’ according to the US government — for letting Americans in on the ’secret’ that we are committing war crimes in Iraq, and around the world...

http://tinyurl.com/34hwgkw



What makes Bradley Manning a hero?

Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

07/21/10

Everybody must deal with stress and everybody makes mistakes. A hero is not someone without weakness. A hero is someone who manages to do the right thing in spite of his weaknesses. Manning realized the tyranny of an organization he played an active part in. Instead of force-feeding himself more propaganda or eating his gun, he did something positive about it. As Henry David Thoreau said in Civil Disobedience, ‘Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?’

http://c4ss.org/content/3223


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By John Grant

There is no reason why Americans should not see what US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing in their name and with their tax resources. In a free society, the fact something may discredit the military is the military's problem. Using the power of courts, prisons or worse to quash the truth is, as a Times editorial put it, disgraceful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25760.htm



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By Pat Buchanan

It is simply not credible that the United States and its NATO allies, some of whom - like the Dutch - are pulling out, can prevail in this war in 12 months so America can begin coming home, as Obama has promised, unless Obama is willing to write Afghanistan off.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25761.htm



U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan

By David Sirota

Many probably wondered how this information was being presented as "news" in 2010. As Mother Jones magazine's James Ridgeway said after recalling past public accounts of the ore deposits, "This 'discovery' in fact is ancient history tracing back to the times of Marco Polo."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25768.htm

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War for Resources: From Slander to Clarion Call

David Sirota, Truthout: "Reading this week's New York Times headline - 'U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan' - many probably wondered how this information was being presented as 'news' in 2010. After all, humanity has long been aware of the country's vast natural resources. As Mother Jones magazine's James Ridgeway said after recalling past public accounts of the ore deposits, 'This "discovery" in fact is ancient history tracing back to the times of Marco Polo.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/david-sirota-war-resources-from-slander-clarion-call60549

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Afghanistan a mineral treasure trove
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/870.html

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Are Claims of Afghan Mineral Wealth a PR Trick?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/afghan-mineral-wealth-pr-trick.html



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Robotic warfare
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=war-of-the-machines

This article is an eye-opener - says they have hummingbird sized drones, and quadruped robots deployed in Afghanistan.

Cole



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Why Wall Street's Generous to New Democrats in House

David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers: "Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle - and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called 'derivatives' that helped fuel the near-collapse of the economy in 2008."

http://www.truth-out.org/why-wall-streets-generous-new-democrats-house60572

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Why Wall Street's generous to New Democrats in House

Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle - and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called "derivatives" that helped fuel the near-collapse of the economy in 2008.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/18/1688815/why-wall-streets-generous-to-new.html#ixzz0rLEGxKTF


From Information Clearing House

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The bank lobby: Desperate on derivatives

Our Future Blog
by Zach Carter

06/23/10

Astonishingly, as Wall Street reform enters its final hours a tired, generic corporate refrain against regulation is gaining traction. As bigwig bankers and their lobbyist brethren fight to defeat tough new rules on derivatives — the crazy casino that brought down AIG — all their sloganeers can come up with is the trite wail that serious rules will send this risky business overseas. It’d be funny if members of Congress weren’t taking it seriously. ‘Oh no; the business will go overseas!’ is the last-ditch, we’re-about-to-lose-this-one cry of despair for corporate executives in every industry. Crack down on a profitable abuse in the United States, and the entire business will move to London or Mumbai, sending jobs and tax revenue abroad — or so the argument goes. You only hear this line when CEOs know they have no case, and have to divert attention away from the real substance of the policy debate...

http://tinyurl.com/334hvj7



Battling the banksters

The Nation
by William Greider

06/30/10

Hold the applause. The president would like us to celebrate his ‘Wall Street reform,’ but the legislation is misnamed. Barack Obama did not set out as president to reform Wall Street in fundamental ways but to restore it. Judging by the largest banks’ booming stock prices and executive bonuses, he appears to have succeeded. The leading bankers expressed relief when they saw the reform package Congress cobbled together on June 25. Wall Street, loathed by citizens everywhere, dodged the bullet in Washington. Congress followed Obama’s path and rejected the sterner measures that promised to actually change things. As with healthcare reform, the White House, joined by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, spent much of its energy opposing more aggressive ideas or bargaining small-bore compromises. The president kept a low profile, saving himself for the victory celebration...

http://www.thenation.com/article/36905/battling-banksters


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fighting Back Against the Banksters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/04-2



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The Urgent Case for Nullification
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