World-News

Part III

Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News: "President Barack Obama inherited a difficult national security situation - wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; an exaggerated and counterproductive war on terror; debilitating deficits and rising debt; an obstructionist Congress; and a corporate media that has abandoned its watchdog ethos. Unfortunately, President Obama did not have the experience to manage this daunting challenge. He had scant background in foreign policy, military policy or defense expenditures. Nor did he have much knowledge about the major players in these fields."

http://www.truth-out.org/obamas-bungled-military-strategies-part-iii61188



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/10-0

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The Iranian threat

Z Magazine
by Noam Chomsky

07/10

No sane person wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons; or anyone. One obvious way to mitigate or eliminate this threat is to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. The issue arose (again) at the NPT conference at United Nations headquarters in early May 2010. Egypt, as chair of the 118 nations of the Non-Aligned Movement, proposed that the conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations in 2011 on a Middle East NWFZ, as had been agreed by the West, including the U.S., at the 1995 review conference on the NPT. Washington still formally agrees, but insists that Israel be exempted — and has given no hint of allowing such provisions to apply to itself...

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-iranian-threat-by-noam-chomsky-1


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iran/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky

By Camillo Mac Bica

They wage preemptive war, occupy and bomb sovereign nations, utilize video-game technology and robotics to murder and then dehumanize hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children as collateral damage. We who advocate peace and justice say that such acts of war and occupation are illegal, immoral and a barbaric and paranoid response to contrived evil.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25918.htm



Civilian deaths rise in Afghanistan

Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif Saturday to protest against mounting civilian deaths. Protesters chanted slogans against foreign forces and Afghan President Hamid Karzai after U.S. troops killed two civilians in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday in the northern city's outskirts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6690DB20100710


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
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By Eric Margolis

Sinking in debt and no closer to victory, heads may roll as the U.S. and NATO wrap up their pointless Afghan adventure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25917.htm



US 'realises it cannot win' Afghan war

Some Pakistani officials are convinced that the United States' ongoing military surge against the Taliban in Afghanistan is doomed, and that the diminishing western appetite for the war will position it as the key to a future political settlement, Pakistani analysts said.

http://bit.ly/chfNbx



2010 deadliest year in Afghanistan

ARM's mid-year report "Civilian Casualties of Conflict" said Obama's policy of intensifying operations against the Taliban has not disrupted, dismantled or defeated the insurgents. On the contrary, it says, "the insurgency has become more resilient, multi-structured and deadly".

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=134425&sectionid=351020403



'Stressed troops' burning out in Afghanistan

The Australia Defence Association says the Federal Government may have to consider sending more soldiers to Afghanistan to relieve the stress on those serving there now.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/12/2950566.htm?section=justin



Top anti-war Democrat: Afghanistan war could 'destroy' Obama's presidency

"I think that this war, if it goes on and if it escalates, has the potential to destroy this presidency and to destroy the Democratic majorities in Congress," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) told Raw Story in an interview.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0712/nadler-afghan-war-destroy-obama-presidency-democratic-congress/


From Information Clearing House



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by NWV News

Senate Bill 773, as written by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, would create new “emergency” powers for the President to have power over any “non-governmental” computer networks, whether public or private, that are declared by the President to be “critical.” Before the Summer recess, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved Protecting Cyberspace As a National Asset Act of 2010........

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news208.htm

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Lieberman's Model For America: Purging The Internet of Dissent

The Chinese system has nothing to do with "war" and everything to do with political oppression

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 15, 2010

When Senator Joe Lieberman attempted to justify draconian legislation that would provide President Obama with a figurative kill switch to shut down parts of the Internet, he cited the Chinese system of Internet policing as model which America should move towards.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/liebermans-model-for-america-purging-the-internet-of-dissent.html

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Internet privacy: Will you be assimilated?

Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

07/15/10

A huge part of the business of politics involves conferring subsidies and special protections on favored companies and industries, making many of them near (or actual) monopolies that also happen to be ‘too big to fail.’ Now here comes the latest example of monopoly creation by The State … The Feds want to monopolize the user names and passwords that you employ on the Internet! The so-called Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with major corporations like Microsoft, has drafted what they call a ‘National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.’ That sounds ominous, and it is. Will you be a ‘trusted entity,’ or a distrusted one?

http://tinyurl.com/2aa5yoe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Congress may sneak through Internet 'kill switch' in defense bill

A federal cybersecurity bill that critics say creates a presidential "kill switch" for the Internet could be added on to a defense spending bill and passed without much debate, technology news sources report.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0828/congress-internet-kill-switch-defense-bill/


From Information Clearing House



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by Erica Carle

Internal Standards Must Go. The ideal type for life in the sociocratic new world order is a human automaton with no internal standards. A robot can't say no. It is controlled by whatever signals are used to activate a response. The New World Order needs robotic human responders, not self-controlled individuals who have internal standards. Auguste Comte, the originator of sociocracy put it this way:........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Erica/Carle173.htm



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- A photo of shame: the suffering of the EHS
- La foto de la vergüenza: el calvario del EHS
- Das Foto der Schande: Der Leidensweg der EHS
- Foto della vergogna: il calvario degli elettrosensibili (EHS)
- Collectif "Une terre pour les EHS" Action à J18: La lettre
- Een foto van de grote schande: de lijdensweg van een EHS er

http://www.next-up.org/France/Une_terre_pour_les_EHS.php#1

Die Entscheidung für Gorleben fiel wider besseren Wissens.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32934/1.html



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Langfristige Schäden für Ökosystem - Anreicherung in Nahrungskette. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689253ms215



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Medien müssen informieren und aufklären. Forschungsinstitut Synovate und Deutsche Welle präsentieren Ergebnisse einer globalen Studie.

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Medieninteresse am Klimaschutz sinkt, Verbraucherinteresse bleibt konstant

Umfrage: Jeder Zehnte wählt Modernisierung statt Klimagerät als Hitzeschutz. Index: Öffentliches Klimaschutzinteresse rückläufig, Ölkatastrophe wird nicht mit Energiekonsum in Verbindung gebracht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689255ms215



Die Verantwortung der Medien

Medienhäuser tragen sowohl über das Agendasetting, als auch als Unternehmen selbst eine hohe Verantwortung für Mensch und Umwelt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689240ms215



„Hitzewelle“ am Nordpol

Arktisches Meereis schmilzt im Rekord-Tempo. WWF: Es ist kein guter Sommer für Eisbären.

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Dieselrusspartikel heizen Erde richtig auf

Dieselmotoren werden als Klimakiller kaum diskutiert. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689247ms215



Innovationsanalyse: Erneuerbare Energien werden immer besser und billiger

Die Förderinstrumente EEG im Strombereich und MAP im Wärmesektor leisteten entscheidende Impulse.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689252ms215



Rekordkürzungen bei Erneuerbaren Energien

Zu der Mittelentsperrung und den Haushaltskürzungen bei erneuerbaren Energie erklärt Hans-Josef Fell, Sprecher für Energiepolitik folgendes.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689259ms215



Payback oder Multitasking

Warum sind wir im Informationszeitalter gezwungen zu tun, was wir nicht tun wollen, und wie gewinnen wir die Kontrolle über unser Denken zurück?

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