World-News: 16 July 2010

George Lakoff, Truthout: "Saving nature is the central issue. Carbon fuels destroy nature. The Gulf Death Gusher is the most visible sign. But signs are everywhere. Overall global warming increases hurricanes and floods; destroys habitats for plants, fish, birds and ground animals; spreads deserts; causes deadly waves; and destroys glaciers and our polar ice caps. The use of carbon fuels has been destroying nature. Our job now is to save it."

http://www.truth-out.org/double-dividend-make-money-saving-nature61379

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Conservatism’s Death Gusher
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/16-5

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): BP and Dispersants: The "Regulated" Regulating the "Regulators"?

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/16-8

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Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap:

Cavnar believes that BP's true goal is to make it harder to measure the flow of oil from the damaged well, because under the Clean Water Act, it will be liable for civil penalties of up to $4300 for every barrel spilled.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0715/leak-tests-halted-cover-flow-rates/

We're Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Any More

Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming

By Bill McKibben

Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we've got. It's not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we're going to have to raise our voices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26076.htm

From Information Clearing House

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 22:27

GOP: No More Help for Jobless, but Rich Must Keep Tax Cuts

David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers: "Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5 million people who've lost them, because they say it would increase federal budget deficits. At the same time, they're pushing a permanent extension of Bush administration tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, which could increase federal budget deficits by trillions of dollars over the next 10 years."

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-no-more-help-jobless-rich-must-keep-tax-cuts61394

Bring It On

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "It is tempting to begin a sentence about today's Republican Party with the words, 'Just when you thought they couldn't get any dumber,' but then you realize you're talking about a group that actively thwarts benefits for the unemployed while pimping tax cuts for rich people, a group that champions a political base which by and large doesn't believe dinosaurs existed because they're not in the Bible but can't stand the thought of stem cell research making people whole again, who attack the ideas and policies of the majority with vehemence but absolutely refuse to offer any of their own, and you come to the realization that you can't begin a sentence with those words, because there really is no bottom to this particular barrel."

http://www.truth-out.org/bring-it-on61535

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Washington elites face reality gap on economy

FreedomWorks
by Julie Borowski

07/19/10

While private sector workers across the country are struggling with abnormally high unemployment rates, federal government employees in Washington are likely to be bewildered by the current economic downturn. In fact, a Politico article released today confirmed that about half of ‘Washington elites’ who live in the D.C. metro area and work in politics or policy fields claim that the country and the economy are headed in the right direction — compared to less than 25 percent of the general population...

http://tinyurl.com/2enl47r

Tactical radicalism and the end of the GOP establishment

The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait

07/19/10

Obviously the conservative movement is intoxicated with hubris right now. Part of this hubris is their belief that the American people are truly and deeply on their side and that the last two elections were either a fluke or the product of a GOP that was too centrist. It’s a tactical radicalism, a belief that ideological purity carries no electoral cost whatsoever. Right-wing tactical radicalism has an old pedigree, and of course there is an equivalent (though less influential) tactical radicalism on the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Tactical radicalism is not the same thing as ideological radicalism. Tactical radicals are a subset of ideological radicals; some ideological radicals have clear-eyed of the pragmatic steps needed to advance their goals incrementally...

http://tinyurl.com/29utsbl

Unemployed and unfunded

San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders

07/22/10

President Obama hailed the 60 U.S. senators who voted to extend federal unemployment benefits Tuesday — without paying for the $34 billion tab — for standing on the side of ‘working families.’ The measure, which had been blocked by Republicans, would distribute unemployment benefits to some 2.5 million recipients who have been out of work for 26 to 99 weeks. GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine voted in favor of the measure. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., joined the GOP filibuster. The House is expected to pass the measure so that Obama can sign it. No doubt Americans who have seen their benefits run out are relieved that their unemployment checks will resume — and be paid retroactively...

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/saunders/#ixzz0uReniCbI

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Time runs out for 1.2 million on unemployment
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/29/unemployment.irpt/index.html

Informant: Margaret McCarron

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The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?

By Pallavi Gogoi

Ginsburg says the biggest source of undercounting comes from people who can't find a full-time job that they're qualified to do, for instance recent college graduates who take part-time jobs at fast-food joints or retail stores. Today, the Labor Department estimates that 8.6 million people are in this category.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25978.htm

Jobless Claims in U.S. Increase

The figures underscore projections that a lack of jobs will restrain consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, and lead to slower growth in the second half of the year.

http://bit.ly/bcStEw

From Information Clearing House

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Obstinate GOP Removes 'Jobs' from 'Job Bill'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/21-0

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 22:22

BP, Obama and the Economics of Disaster

Max Ajl, Truthout: "The unceasing dribble of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has been running before our eyes for weeks now: dead plankton; hypoxic zones looming and worsening, the product of massive methane releases into the Gulf waters; withered marsh grass; dolphin carcasses. This ruin is plenty bad on its own terms. No one wants to live in a filthy post-industrial wasteland. But a healthy ecology does a lot more than make the world aesthetically enchanting."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-obama-and-economics-disaster61406

The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well. The new capping stack was deployed on July 11 from onboard the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration. With a new containment cap atop the damaged well, many are hopeful. But all is not well, after all."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-source-our-despair-gulf61459

What Happens Next?

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches: "The Gulf Islands are considered a Gulf Coast treasure. These sparkling blue waters, white sand beaches, and fertile coastal marshes were designated a National Seashore in 1971 to protect the wildlife, barrier islands, and archeological sites along the Gulf of Mexico. They are home to fiddler crab, shrimp, flounder, oysters, blue crab, brown pelicans, osprey, great blue heron, raccoon, loggerhead sea turtle, Florida Pompano, shark, and hundreds of species of birds and fish. And now they are being oiled. All this life, along with the humans like Captain Louis who love this area and are deeply rooted to it, are in jeopardy."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-happens-next61633

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Censored Gulf report: Surf hissing, sizzling, still they stay

Video

Examiner.com

Is mind control part of this massive non-consensual human experimentation to ascertain how much death and destruction people can tolerate? ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d16-Censored-Gulf-report-Surf-hissing-sizzling-Still-they-stay-video

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Safe, effective solutions ignored
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/896.html

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 22:12

Next-up News Nr 1371

Première mondiale scientifique avec les EHS de la forêt de Saoû en France:
La preuve des encéphaloscans comparatifs.

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

rudkla - 16. Jul, 17:27

Mappus will mehr Atomenergie

rudkla - 16. Jul, 10:35

Just what is America doing all over the world?

Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

07/15/10

In one of the most celebrated debate exchanges of the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP contender Rep. Ron Paul pointed out that Americans were hated because they were ‘over there’ in Islamic lands. In fact, there is virtually no country on earth where American forces are not located. Luckily, most people in most of those nations are not trying to kill Americans. In fact, many foreigners enjoy being protected at U. S. expense...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1016

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Washington Is Paid Off, Only Ron Paul Has Credibility
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente41.1.html

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 09:39

The return of Agent Orange

CounterPunch
by Firmin DeBrabander

07/15/10

For years critics ominously warned that, as is the nature of ‘nature,’ weeds would eventually evolve to withstand Roundup. Monsanto brushed aside such concerns, saying it would be ages before anyone had to worry about something like that. The glory days lasted about a decade. The superweeds evolved faster than anyone imagined — and with a vengeance. Farmers accustomed to drenching their fields with Roundup are now battling a monster breed of pigweed that, the New York Times reports, ‘can grow three inches a day and reach seven feet or more … so sturdy that it can damage harvesting equipment. Nature has issued quite a challenge to our ‘weed solution.’ The chemical industry has decided to respond in turn with Agent Orange. To be precise, Dow Chemical is working on seeds that are resistant to 24-D, a component of Agent Orange … presumably because it intends on spraying farmland with wartime defoliant. This is alarming on a number of fronts. But let’s be clear on one thing at the outset: we don’t necessarily need Agent Orange to deal with weeds. The Amish don’t. Never have. Superweeds — like superbugs (or superbacteria) emerging in concentrated chicken farms — are the product of industrial agriculture, which aims to squeeze as much as possible from the land, and has selected monoculture as the optimal means of doing so...

http://counterpunch.org/debrabander07132010.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 09:26

June was worst month for US Army suicides

CNN

07/15/10

More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active duty, while 11 were in the National Guard or Army Reserve in an inactive status...

http://tinyurl.com/2adl3gy

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Record numbers of soldiers committing suicide
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9834/

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 09:16

Parents Protest As Children Struggle To Survive After Swine Flu Vaccine

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 06:18

$1 Trillion a Year on the Empire

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul684.html

Historian Warns of Sudden Collapse of American 'Empire'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/ferguson-warns-of-empire-collapse.html

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A little less hubris and a little more humility

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

07/15/10

The US Chamber of Commerce recently issued an open letter to President Obama and Pals taking them to task because, ‘Through their legislative and regulatory proposals the congressional majority and the administration have injected tremendous uncertainty into economic decision making and business planning.’ It’s a crying shame eighty years after the carnage of the Great Depression that we learned absolutely nothing from it — we still hold fast to the idea that political intervention into economic matters is proper, rational, and just...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/129150.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tell Obama to Keep His Promise to Cut World Poverty in Half! - The Petition Site: http://bit.ly/cPnMcb

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 06:10

Die US-Regierung will das Atomwaffenarsenal einerseits reduzieren, aber andererseits auch mit vielen zusätzlichen Milliarden modernisieren und erneuern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32964/1.html

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 05:57

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/15-5

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The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform

Robert Reich: "Thursday, the President pronounced that 'because of this [financial reform] bill the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.' As if to prove him wrong, Goldman Sachs simultaneously announced it had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to pay $550 million to settle federal claims it misled investors, a sum representing a mere 15 days profit for the firm based on its 2009 earnings."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-the-new-finance-bill-a-mountain-legislative-paper-a-molehill-reform61431

Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

Stacy Mitchell, Yes! Magazine: "With the passage of the financial reform bill, giant banks see a golden opportunity to finally put the financial crisis, along with their culpability for wrecking our economy, in the rearview mirror."

http://www.truth-out.org/taking-financial-reform-our-own-hands61448

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The Workable Solution to the Financial Crisis
http://www.call4reform.org/
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44200

From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Obama’s latest monstrosity

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

07/21/10

The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called ‘financial reform.’ Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. And while the bill claims to crack down on excesses on Wall Street, its harshest impact will likely be on Main Street businesses that had nothing to do with the meltdown...

http://tinyurl.com/25jc5bs

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why Financial Reform Will Fail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff103.html

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 05:40

Big Pharma nanotechnology encodes pills with tracking data that you swallow

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 05:26

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Friday, 16. July 2010

Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature

GOP: No More Help for Jobless, but Rich Must Keep Tax Cuts

BP, Obama and the Economics of Disaster

Next-up News Nr 1371

Mappus will mehr Atomenergie

Just what is America doing all over the world?

The return of Agent Orange

June was worst month for US Army suicides

Parents Protest As Children Struggle To Survive After Swine Flu Vaccine

$1 Trillion a Year on the Empire

The Class That Exploits Us

Kein Wandel in US-Kriegsstrategie

Spanische Verhältnisse in Deutschland

Abrüstung durch Aufrüstung?

For the Economy, Help Is Not on the Way

Hudson Bay Polar Bears 'Could Soon Be Extinct'

Financial Reform Bill Brings Little Change to Wall Street

Big Pharma nanotechnology encodes pills with tracking data that you swallow

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