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Kerry on Climate Bill: 'We're Prepared to Compromise Further
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-11

Friends of The Earth: Senator Kerry Pledges to Follow Capitulation with Compromise
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/29-15

Senate Dems Give Up On Climate Bill, What Does the Future Hold For U.S. Energy Policy?
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By Fred Branfman

Is the suffering our leaders inflict on innocent civilians relevant to deciding whether to support our present war-making in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Would it matter if the N.Y. Times had run daily profiles and photos of Iraqi civilian victims since 2003, as it did of U.S. victims after 9/11?

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EU states 'use outsourced torture'

Britain, France and Germany must stop using intelligence obtained through torture in third-party countries, a report from Human Rights Watch has said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/2010629134355923668.html


From Information Clearing House

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Witnessing against torture

CounterPunch
by Kathy Kelly

06/23/10

Many people come to the capitol every day of the year. They are free to ask questions and to make comments. But, if you raise questions and comments of a political nature, police officials believe they must enforce a law to restrict your enactment of this right, even though the Constitution insists that Congress shall make no law to abridge the right of people to assemble peaceably for redress of grievance. We believed that expression of grief and remorse for the lost lives of these three men should properly happen in a place where U.S. people mourn the loss of a president’s life. While a U.S. president possesses near-unimaginable power, the men whom we mourned suffered from unimaginable powerlessness. Earnest mourning of these lost lives was crucial for truthful recognition that the U.S. government has used torture as a means of punishment, possibly even lethal punishment, in violation of international law and basic human rights...

http://counterpunch.org/kelly06232010.html



A legal cover for torture?

CounterPunch
by Sheldon Richman

06/23/10

It’s not enough that the last gang to occupy the Executive Branch got us into two illegal wars, accumulated autocratic powers, violated our civil liberties, and tortured suspects. Now it appears that it kicked things up a notch. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) says it has unearthed ‘evidence that indicates the Bush administration apparently conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody’...

http://counterpunch.org/richman06232010.html



Under pressure, UK promises torture guidelines

Macon Telegraph

06/28/10

The British government promised Monday to quickly issue its spies a fresh set of guidelines on how to avoid being complicit in torture. The announcement addresses a legal challenge to the existing guidelines, which human rights group Reprieve said allowed British intelligence agents to gather information extracted through torture — even if they weren’t directly involved in the mistreatment...

http://tinyurl.com/2g7q4yk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Calling for Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1997, to mark the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on June 26, 1987. As UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan explained on June 26, 1998 (when the day was first marked), 'This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable....' At the time, Annan lamented that, although over 100 States had ratified the Convention, the use of torture was 'still reported' in many of those countries."

http://www.truth-out.org/calling-accountability-international-day-support-victims-torture60786

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Britain, France, Germany Use Torture Intel: HRW
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-2



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Frankfurt/Main will sich wieder einmal internationalen Finanzhaien ausliefern. Breiter Widerstand.

Interview von Gitta Düperthal mit Werner Rügemer, Publizist und Autor des Buches »Heuschrecken im ­öffentlichen Raum – Public-Private-­Partnership« sowie Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Köln, in junge Welt vom 15.06.2010 http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/06-15/026.php


Landesrechnungshof Sachsen-Anhalt zu PPP-Projekten in Halle: teurer und zu Lasten künftiger Generationen

„Im halleforum.de gibt es heute einen interessanten Artikel zu einem kritischen Bericht vom Landesrechnungshof über PPP-Projekte in Halle, also über Öffentlich-private Projekte zum Bau, zur Sanierung und zur Unterhaltung von öffentlichen Einrichtungen wie Schulen und Kindertagesstätten. Das Ergebnis ist ähnlich wie bei früheren Untersuchungen. Der Bundesrechnungshof hatte schon Anfang der Neunzigerjahre zum Beispiel vor der Privatfinanzierung öffentlicher Straßenbauprojekte gewarnt…“ Artikel von Albrecht Müller in den Nachdenkseiten vom 31. Mai 2010 http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=5715


Public Private Partnership – das trojanische Pferd der Privatisierung

„Privatisierung ist out. Die Überführung öffentlicher Dienste und öffentlichen Eigentums in private Hände wird von der Bevölkerungsmehrheit abgelehnt. Public Private Partnership (PPP) gilt nach offizieller Lesart allerdings nicht als Privatisierung. Sie wird von Befürwortern als »goldener Mittelweg zwischen Staatswirtschaft und Privatwirtschaft« beworben, der angeblich besonders effiziente und nachhaltige Investitionen erlaubt. Doch was ist PPP eigentlich genau?...“ Artikel von Carl Waßmuth im Rundbrief der Bewegungsstiftung Nr. 2/2010 (pdf) http://www.ppp-irrweg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/AGs/AG_Privatisierung/BS_Aktuell_S.2.pdf


Aktionstage gegen die Geheimhaltung bei PPP Verträgen vom 11. bis 28. Juni 2010

Die Attac-Kampagne "PPP-Irrweg" startete am 11.6. bundesweite Aktionstage zur Offenlegung von PPP-Verträgen. Siehe dazu die Homepage zu den Aktionstagen mit vielen Hintergründen und aktuallen Meldungen http://www.ppp-irrweg.de/


Zwänge und Abwege kommunaler Strukturpolitik am Beispiel der Hanauer Innenstadtsanierung

Artikel von Friedhelm Winkel vom 11.6.2010 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gats/hanau.pdf


Umsonst durch die Stadt. Sozialer Ausgleich und Umweltschutz dank Freifahrt im Nahverkehr

„Viele Großstädte ersticken buchstäblich im Verkehr. Eine stärkere Nutzung von Bus, Tram, U- und S-Bahn könnte da Wunder wirken. Doch die sind so manchem zu teuer. In Paris, Berlin und anderswo wollen linke und Umweltgruppen deshalb die kostenlose Nutzung öffentlicher Verkehrsmittel durchsetzen…“ Artikel von Peter Nowak im ND vom 21.06.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/173494.umsonst-durch-die-stadt.html


Die private Stadtpolizei – rechtswidriges ppp zu Lasten des Steuerzahlers?

„Die Privatisierung der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung treibt seltsame Blüten. In Südhessen ist der Geschäftsführer einer Sicherheitsfirma zum Stadtpolizisten ernannt worden. Parallel dazu sollen Kooperationen zwischen der Polizei und privaten Sicherheitsdiensten weiter ausgebaut werden. Durch den Verschmelzungsprozess der Sicherheitsbehörden mit der Sicherheitsindustrie werden die Grundrechte und das Gewaltmonopol beeinträchtigt…“ Artikel von SAFERCITY.DE vom 22.05.2010 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2010/05/281971.shtml


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Boston Globe

06/21/10

It wasn’t until seven weeks after the BP oil well began gushing that the company acknowledged oil remained hidden under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and it continues to dispute the extent of miles-long submerged plumes. But an unusual experiment conducted in 2000 off the coast of Norway, a trial run of a deep-water oil and gas spill that BP helped pay for, showed that oil could remain underwater for some time. The North Atlantic exercise was designed to understand how a spill would behave as the drilling industry plumbed new depths to extract oil and gas. The federal Minerals Management Service and 22 companies took part in the test, at about half the depth of the gulf disaster...

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BP and the unmitigated disaster

Intellectual Conservative
by Alan Caruba

06/21/10

The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic gases emerging from the damaged well beneath the Deepwater Horizon. Industry insiders who understand the engineering of wells are beginning to speak openly among themselves of an unmitigated disaster. … The event and previous explosions at its refineries were the result of years of an internal BP philosophy that focused on profits before safety. Whether it was accident-prone refineries or corrosion in the Alaska pipeline, BP cut corners...

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Defending aggressors is not a market virtue

Center for a Stateless Society
by Ross Kenyon

06/23/10

The left-wing blogosphere is alight with anti-corporate sentiment, and rightfully so, at Congressman Joe Barton’ s (R-TX) apology to British Petroleum. He recently called the $20 billion restitution fund a ’shakedown.’ Although the congressman has rescinded his comments, I also share his strong dislike of this scheme, but not because this is any more of a shakedown than anything else the state does. The American government has a magnificently horrible record of managing any quantity of money both practically and morally, and I don’t see how they would be any better at distributing funds to innocent victims of environmental disasters. The state has also made it standard operating procedure to protect aggressive firms from being brought to complete justice through limited liability laws in an anti-market and fascistic way...

http://c4ss.org/content/2932



Barack Obama, dictator

Campaign For Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger

06/23/10

What better example of dictatorship than President Obama’s dictate to BP to deliver $20 billion to a special fund that will be distributed by some political appointee to victims of the BP oil disaster? Either a nation is ruled by a dictator or it’s governed by the rule of law...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=959



Sympathy for the devil?

Libertarian Minds
by James Padilioni, Jr.

06/23/10

So let me get this straight. We have a court system designed to allow citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, instead of using the Constitutionally-established judicial system, the president decides that he will tell-not ask, but tell BP that they must put money aside to compensate those who have been harmed as a result of BP’s actions, as well as suspend the payments of dividends to their investors. This fund will also be managed by an unelected, unaccountable third party. And also, don’t forget that for the last 3 weeks the Justice Department has been in the Gulf region looking into what criminal charges they can bring against BP. Here we have the POTUS using his authority, and presumably the threat of his DOJ, to strong arm a private business to do his bidding, without any due process. If this were done to a private citizen, we’d all cry tyranny. But when it happens to a large corporation, the cries are few and far between. There are many reasons why establishing a fund may be a good thing, but there are no legal ones...

http://www.libertarianminds.com/sympathy-for-the-devil



Oil gushes and power rushes

Reason
by Jacob Sullum

06/23/10

Last week, after President Obama pressured BP to create a compensation fund for victims of its oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Joe Barton denounced the arrangement as ‘a $20 billion shakedown.’ The Texas Republican said the fund has ‘no legal standing’ and circumvents the ‘due process system’ for assigning blame and ordering compensation. Although Barton was widely mocked for appearing to defend a huge corporation that is responsible for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, he had a point. Obama’s grandstanding money grab exemplifies the lawless unilateralism that he condemned as a candidate yet embraced as a president...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/23/oil-gushes-and-power-rushes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BP's Other Gifts to America-and to the World

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Given the sordid record of BP and other giant oil companies, we might wonder why we tolerate them at all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25793.htm



The Real Shakedown to Apologize For

By Marty Kaplan

If Barack Obama's extraction of $20 billion from BP was-as Texas Republican Joe Barton called it - a "shakedown," then what would Barton call the $14.4 million he has extracted during his career from oil and gas interests, electric utilities, the health sector, chemical manufacturers, finance and all the other industries forking over cash to him?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25791.htm

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Judge Who Ruled Against Offshore Drilling Moratorium Invests in Oil Industry
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/22-16

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Obama gives BP a get out of jail free card
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/873.html

It's raining oil in Metro New Orleans
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/874.html

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BP Mistake Allows Oil to Flow Unhindered Into Gulf

McClatchy Newspapers: "Workers pulled the 'top hat' device collecting crude oil from BP's gushing Deepwater Horizon well Wednesday morning in a major setback to efforts to contain the leak."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-oil-leak-setback-top-hat-removed-oil-flow-continues60705



BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com: "On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America's leading oil companies argued that BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration - something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight and will not happen again once proper safeguards are put in place. This is fallacious, if not an outright lie."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-style-extreme-energy-nightmares-come60684

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Why Is Obama Aggravating the Oil Spill Tragedy?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams39.html

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A French environmental reporter's take on the Gulf Disaster
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9757/

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Offshore Drilling Opponents to Stage Global Beach Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/24-8

Center for Biological Diversity: Petition Filed to Increase Protection of Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Devastated by Rushed Oil-Drilling Permits
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/24-4



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Washington Post

06/21/10

Wikileaks.org plans to release as soon as this week documents related to a U.S. airstrike that killed Afghan civilians last year and plans to release combat footage of the incident this summer, the founder of the whistleblower site said in an interview Monday. Julian Assange said the documents pertain to an attack near the Afghan village of Garani, which killed scores of civilians in May 2009. In April, Wikileaks released video footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Iraq that killed several civilians, including two employees of the Reuters news service...

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Wanted by the CIA: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Belfast Telegraph [Ireland]

07/19/10

“There are not many journalists who, when you ask them if they are being followed by the CIA, say ‘We have surveillance events from time to time.’ Actually it’s not a question I’ve ever asked before, and Julian Assange does not call himself a journalist. But the answer is typical of this 41-year-old former computer-hacker: cryptic, dispassionate, and faintly self-important. As the founder of Wikileaks, Assange has become the pin-up of web-age investigative journalists. The US has wanted him for questioning since March, after he posed a video showing an American helicopter attack that left several Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists dead. Understandably, he now avoids the US, and keeps his movements secret, though it’s thought he operates out of Sweden and is spending time in Iceland, where a change in the law is creating a libel-free haven for journalists. But if the CIA spooks wanted him that badly, couldn’t they have turned up, as a hundred adoring student journalists did, to hear him talk at the Centre for Investigative Journalism 10 days ago?

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WikiLeaks Founder Drops 'Mass Spying' Hint

By Andrew Fowler

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25806.htm



Hail To The Whistleblowers

By James Denselow

Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25798.htm



Wikileaks: A Publisher Of Last Resort "privatized censorship"

Video

Wikileaks editor interview on censorship.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25799.htm



Police official says: NATO Force Kill 8 Civilians

An Afghan police official said on Monday that eight civilians were killed in a NATO raid in the southern province of Kandahar, but the alliance claimed the victims were Taliban fighters.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article490284.ece



US attack kills three Afghan civilians

The civilians were killed in a US attack in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=132629&sectionid=351020403



NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops

NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while they were attacking insurgents in the country's east, officials said.

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Den einzigen Stecker ziehen
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Interview mit Jürgen Roth über kriminelle Strukturen des Finanzkapitals.
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Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
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What’s Wrong with Being the World’s Most Peaceful Country?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-1

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Obama is no Superman

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

06/22/10

As the ecology in the Gulf circles the sticky tar drain of evolution, and countless livelihoods spanning at least four states going down with it, Americans are wondering where their Superman is. The disappointment that President Barack Obama seems stuck in the phone booth, still deciding whether to get his suit on, is nothing new. Those of us hoping for similar action in Afghanistan have been waiting for more than a year. Turns out that Obama doesn’t really do bold and heroic — it’s not his style — and he certainly doesn’t come off as decisive, unless he’s pushed. Where George Bush was ‘the decider,’ Obama seems to lead by committee, and not the kind of committee that gets things done...

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/06/21/obama-is-no-superman/



The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/21/10

It really is hard to imagine many things worse, more criminal, than imprisoning people for years whom you know are innocent, while fighting in court to keep them imprisoned. But that’s exactly what the Obama administration is doing. … Of course, none of this is new for the Obama administration; it’s consistent with their course of conduct from the start. I highlight this today only because there is an obvious, concerted effort by a slew of Democratic Beltway pundits over the last month or so to attack the so-called ‘Left’ for daring to express displeasure with the Obama administration, and to demonize those objections as unserious, shrill, irrational, purist and all the other cliches long used by this same cadre of party apparatchiks for the same purpose...

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How the state causes collapse

New Kind of Mind
by Chris George

06/30/10

The State finances itself initially through the rent (taxes) it demands on its expansive land claim. But the State attracts those who would want to be part of it — who want to live off the production of others — and, despite its barriers to entry, it grows. If it were to not expand its scope while its size grew, people would likely become angry and revolt as a result of its increased tax burden. Therefore, to accommodate its growing size, it must expand its scope of control into other realms of the economy, perhaps by ‘nationalizing’ education or welfare services. In other words, the State removes control of the public goods from the public...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Americans Are Barely Hanging on
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Millions Face Starvation as Niger Prays in Vain for Rain
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Adapt and Survive: A Final Warning
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BP 'Downplayed' Oil Concerns
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/21-0

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Just a Few Things BP Does NOT Want You to Know…

Video

Every freedom-loving American should be incensed. US citizens cannot even get to the coastline in Louisiana, complements of BP's "martial law" – on U.S. soil. It begs the question, "How much worse is this disaster than they'll say?"...

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The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil

By Jim Hightower

If scientists were to compare the DNA of Republican congress-critters and of oil corporations, I'll bet they'd find that they match perfectly. After all, the two species have identical political instincts and seem to have a natural affinity for each other - so I'm pretty sure they sprang from the same genetic pool.

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http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=edJFKPNpEbKPK3L&s=dwIXIeMTIfLVLiP0KsH&m=ajIPI9MOLlK2IkK

Release Saeed Hatim from Guantánamo
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=feKOJXNzHhLOI6I&s=5eJHKQNnE7IFKUNuHkG&m=dmKXKgNYJqK3IoL

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U.S. Deports Guantanamo Prisoner to Possible Torture or Death

Even though 35 year-old Abdul Aziz Naji said he'd rather stay at Guantanamo than be deported to his home country of Algeria, the Obama administration forcibly deported him anyway.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/60799


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Amnesty+International
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Mohammed+al-Odaini
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Abdul+Aziz+Naji
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=deport

Babies, they say, are a nice way to start people. They are also, it would appear, a nice way to start profit. If the babies are Indian, there’s added allure to the profit because there are so many of them every year. In the days to come, as the denouement of a series of extraordinary events, the Indian government is expected to make a fresh decision on the number of vaccines Indian infants are to be given soon after birth. Much rests on the decision for Indian families and, oddly, the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has made a bizarre push for new vaccines it wants Indian newborns to be given in the country’s public health programme. A decision one way could risk the lives of the country’s babies because there are doubts on the quality of vaccines the WHO is pitching for. This vaccine soup has been stirred by the WHO, which is in the midst of several controversies of late for creating medical scares and then backing drugs to fight them. In the first week of June, the WHO admitted it had failed to disclose conflict of interest for scientists who advised it on the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The response came after a British media report said the WHO had announced a fake pandemic to boost sales for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antiviral drugs and the H1N1 vaccine. Now, there appear to be the makings of a similar controversy over what may be taking the shape of an Indian vaccine scam. One Click Note: This article is a MUST READ.

Vijay Simha, Tehelka



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H1N1
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Pharma
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organisation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?=pandemic

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theGlobalFoodSecurityAct.php

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The Importance of Non-Hybrid Seeds
http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMOs
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Genetic+Engineering+-+Genmanipulation/

„Die Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) wird mit einer umfangreichen und dauerhaft angelegten Aktionsplattform Druck gegen die „Politik der sozialen Schieflage“ aufbauen. „Schwarz-Gelb hat längst damit begonnen, die Ankündigungen aus dem Koalitionsvertrag umzusetzen“, erklärte der ver.di-Vorsitzende Frank Bsirske am Mittwoch in Frankfurt am Main. „Viele Menschen erleben die unsoziale und konjunkturschädliche Rotstiftpolitik, die Entsolidarisierung der Sozialsysteme und die einseitige Lobbypolitik als Bedrohung. Und wir sind überzeugt: Gerecht geht anders!“…“ Pressemitteilung vom 16.06.2010 http://presse.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id=1d15d90c-7938-11df-7930-0019b9e321cd

Siehe dazu die Aktions-Webseite http://gerecht-geht-anders.de/

Kein Bock auf »Zukunftsverweigerung«

„IG Metall rüstete sich bei Bezirkskonferenz zum Heißen Herbst gegen Regierungs-Sparpaket Bei der Bezirkskonferenz der IG Metall Frankfurt im saarländischen Homburg rüstete sich die Gewerkschaft in der vergangenen Woche bereits für den kommenden Herbst. Dann nämlich will sie zum großen Widerstand gegen das Sparpaket der Bundesregierung blasen…“ Ein Konferenzbericht von Oliver Hilt im ND vom 18.06.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/173337.kein-bock-auf-zukunftsverweigerung.html

Aus dem Text: „… »Zwei Wochen der Unruhe, des Protestes und des Widerstands« kündigte Hans-Jürgen Urban, Mitglied im Bundesvorstand der Gewerkschaft, auf der Bezirkskonferenz der IG Metall Frankfurt im saarländischen Homburg an. Bei den für Anfang November geplanten Protesten sucht die Gewerkschaft einen breiten gesellschaftlichen Schulterschluss. Ein zentrales Thema der Proteste soll die »Zukunftsverweigerung« für die junge Generation sein….“


Europäischer Gewerkschaftsbund (EGB): »No cuts, more growth!«

Im radikalen Protest gegen die Krisenfolgen hat der Europäische Gewerkschaftsbund (EGB) für den 29. September zu einer Demonstration unter dem Motto »No cuts, more growth!« ("Keine Kürzungen, mehr Wachstum") in Brüssel und zu dezentralen Aktionen aufgerufen… http://www.etuc.org/a/7323


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juni 2010

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"Zug der Tagelöhner"

„Die Soziale Bewegung Land Brandenburg (SBB) veranstaltet unter der Trägerschaft des Förderverein SBB e.V., eine Aktion zum Thema "Zunahme von unsicheren Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnissen", mit dem Titel Zug der Tagelöhner vom 19.07.2010 bis 28.07.2010. Wir sind vom Sozialabbau betroffene Menschen, deren Stigmatisierung seit Jahren betrieben wird und die es satt haben ständig gegeneinander ausgespielt zu werden…“ Siehe die Aktionsseite http://www.soziale-bewegung-land-brandenburg.de/

Start des "Zug der Tagelöhner" ist am Montag den 19.07.2010 in Luckenwalde (11:00 Uhr vor der ARGE) und in Jüterbog (13:30 Uhr auf dem Marktplatz). Für weitere Termine siehe den Flyer (pdf) http://www.soziale-bewegung-land-brandenburg.de/docs/ZdT-Flyer_Ron.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juli 2010

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Das letzte Hemd gegen Sozialabbau. Individueller T-Shirt-Protest startet / Weitere Aktionen im Herbst

„Globalisierungskritiker und Erwerbslosenverbände rufen zur Aktion »Das letzte Hemd gegen Sozialabbau« auf. T-Shirts mit individueller Gestaltung sollen dabei die Ablehnung der Sozialsparpläne deutlich machen. Wenn in den nächsten Wochen auf zentralen Plätzen in verschiedenen Städten Hemden bemalt werden, dann handelt es sich um eine besondere Protestaktion. Unter dem Motto »Das letzte Hemd gegen Sozialabbau« rufen die ver.di-Jugend, die globalisierungskritische Organisation Attac, das Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste und die Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen zur Textilbeschriftung auf…“ Artikel von Peter Nowak im 21.07.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/175626.das-letzte-hemd-gegen-sozialabbau.html

Aus dem Text: „…. So plant die Arbeitslosenselbsthilfe Oldenburg (ALSO) für den 10. Oktober eine Erwerbslosendemonstration, für die auch bundesweit mobilisiert werden soll. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt auf der Protestagenda ist der 29. September. An diesem Tag ruft der Europäische Gewerkschaftsbund zu Protestdemonstration gegen die Abwälzung der Krisenlasten auf die Bevölkerung auf. In Brüssel und weiteren europäischen Hauptstädten sind Demonstrationen geplant. In Griechenland und Spanien wird von den Gewerkschaften am 29. September ein eintägiger Generalstreik vorbereitet. Auch in Deutschland wollen linke Gewerkschaftsgruppen mit kurzen Arbeitsniederlegungen in einigen Branchen den Protesttag politisieren…“

Siehe dazu: Protest gegen unsoziale Kürzungen: Schicken Sie uns Ihr letztes Hemd!

„Nachdem das Bundeskabinett den Haushalt für 2011 abgenickt hat – und damit die unsozialen Streichungen bei Empfänger/innen von Hartz IV des Sparpakets – wird es Zeit für kreativen Protest. Wenn der Haushalt Anfang September in den Bundestag eingebracht wird, sind wir mit einer Aktion vor Ort: An einer Wäscheleine vor dem Bundestag lassen wir hunderte “letzte Hemden” im Wind flattern – bemalt mit Slogans und Forderungen gegen den unsozialen Sparkurs…“ Aufruf bei Campact - Demokratie in Aktion http://blog.campact.de/2010/07/protest-gegen-unsoziale-kurzungen-schicken-sie-uns-ihr-letztes-hemd/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juli 2010

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Britische Regierung will Reiche am stärksten belasten

Neben den erwarteten drastischen Sparmaßnahmen wird eine Bankenabgabe und eine deutlich höhere Besteuerung von Kapitalerträgen angekündigt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32836/1.html



Hart, aber fair

Britische Regierung will angeblich vor allem die Reichen be- und die Ärmeren entlasten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147870

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24. Juni 2010

Merkel muss Kürzungspaket zurück ziehen

Der Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst fordert von Kanzlerin Merkel eine Rücknahme des Kürzungspakets der Bundesregierung. Andernfalls sei dies ein Beweis dafür, dass die Kanzlerin nicht mehr die Richtlinienkompetenz in ihrer Regierung habe. Ernst erklärt:

Merkel muss das Kürzungspaket zurückziehen. Es ist sozial ungerecht und ein Betrug an den Wählern. Im Wahlkampf hat Schwarz-Gelb weder Sozialabbau noch Steuererhöhungen angekündigt. Merkel hat sogar noch am 9. November 2009 in einer Regierungserklärung gesagt, dass Streichen und Kürzungen in der Krise "offensichtlich keine Lösung" seien. Inzwischen hat sich die Krise an den Finanzmärkten sogar noch verschärft. Aber heute plant Merkel genau jene "größte Kürzungs- und Streichungsaktion in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik", vor der sie im November 2009 noch gewarnt hat. Entweder macht Merkel heute Politik gegen ihre eigenen Überzeugungen, oder sie hat damals bewusst versucht, die Menschen zu täuschen. Sie hat keine Strategie für die Überwindung der Krise. Merkel lässt sich von den Sozialstaatsfeinden aus der FDP auf der Nase herumtanzen, die in Wirklichkeit die Politik bestimmen. Wenn Merkel nicht die Kraft hat, dieses Kürzungspaket zurück zu ziehen, dann ist das nur ein weiterer Beweis dafür, dass sie längst nicht mehr die Richtlinienkompetenz in ihrer Regierung hat.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/merkel-muss-kuerzungspaket-zurueck-ziehen/

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Mit dem Sparpaket versucht die Bundesregierung die Weichenstellung für verschärften Sozialabbau vorzunehmen

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/3880236c4a5c6a83?hl=de

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4. Juli 2010

Staatsfinanzen nicht durch Sozialabbau sanieren

Die Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch verlangt unmittelbar vor der Vorlage des Entwurfs für den Bundeshaushalt 2011 "mehr Transparenz im Bundeshaushalt" und schlägt einen "Stufenplan zur Verbesserung der Staatsfinanzen" mit Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Einnahmen der öffentlichen Haushalte vor. Lötzsch erklärt:

Zur Klarheit über den Haushalt gehört, dass die Menschen im Land erfahren, was sich real hinter den Zahlen des Etatentwurfs verbirgt. Die Bundesregierung muss mit dem Etatentwurf alle damit zusammenhängenden konkreten Gesetzesvorhaben offenlegen. Wenn ein Posten im Etatentwurf gekürzt wird, dann müssen wir auch wissen, wer konkret dafür bluten soll. DIE LINKE lehnt Sozialabbau zur Sanierung der Staatsfinanzen ab. Die Bundesregierung sollte stattdessen einen Stufenplan zur Verbesserung der Staatsfinanzen vorlegen. Einen Bundeshaushalt kann man nicht gesundsparen. Zur Verbesserung der Einnahmen schlagen wir drei konkrete Punkte vor. Auf Vermögen über eine Million Euro sollte eine Sondersteuer von fünf Prozent erhoben werden. Zusätzlich zu dieser Millionärssteuer müssen Börsengeschäfte künftig mit einer Umsatzsteuer belegt werden. Der Spitzensteuersatz sollte auf 53 Prozent steigen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/staatsfinanzen-nicht-durch-sozialabbau-sanieren/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juli 2010

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Vorbereitung auf soziale Unruhe

In Manchester endete am gestrigen Donnerstag der viertägige Kongress des britischen Gewerkschaftsbundes TUC. Er stand im Zeichen des Sparprogrammes der konservativ-liberalen Regierungskoalition. Zeitgleich tagten hohe Polizeioffiziere und warnten angesichts der Sparmaßnahmen vor sozialen Unruhen. Artikel von Christian Bunke im Neues Deutschland vom 17.09.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/179791.vorbereitung-auf-soziale-unruhe.html


Aus: LabourNet, 20. September 2010



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Entsolidarisierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialsystem
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialabbau
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=social+unrest
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Erwerbslos
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Merkel
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=FDP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

Ben Gilbert, GlobalPost: "These are some of the first casualties of an 'offensive' in southern Afghanistan that the military has suddenly grown reluctant to call an 'offensive.' It has begun quietly, with the U.S.-led NATO force here seemingly confused about whether the operation is about bringing 'governance' to Kandahar or clearing areas of insurgents. What is clear is that the slow trickle of wounded and the dead back to America has started. Fifty-three NATO troops have died so far this month if the pace continues, it will be the deadliest month since the Afghan war began."

http://www.truth-out.org/first-signs-strain-kandahar-offensive60588



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kandahar
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=casualties

Bundesgerichtshof erklärt BKA-Überwachung von drei Libertad-Aktivisten für illegal.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147856

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Bundesgerichtshof: BKA-Überwachung linker Aktivisten war illegal. Staatsschutzrecht §129a dient der Ausforschung der Linken

„Der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) hat sämtliche Überwachungsmaßnahmen gegen drei Berliner, gegen die das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) seit 2001 wegen des Verdachts der Gründung der militanten gruppe (mg) ermittelt hatte, für rechtswidrig erklärt…“ Presseinfo von Initiative Libertad! vom 19. Juni 2010 http://www.info.libertad.de/story/2010/06/bundesgerichtshof-bka-%C3%BCberwachung-von-libertad-aktivisten-war-illegal

Siehe dazu:

Beschluss des 3. Strafsenats vom 11.3.2010 - StB 16/09 - Der Beschluss des Bundesgerichtshofs http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&sid=52c1c2b856536c08dab95908724bccfd&nr=52160&pos=0&anz=1


Überwachung rechtswidrig: Generalbundesanwalt berücksichtigte entlastendes Material nicht

„Die Generalbundesanwaltschaft ermittelte vom 16. Juli 2001 bis zum 22. September 2008 gegen drei Berliner wegen des Vorwurfs, die damals als terroristische Vereinigung eingestufte „militante gruppe“ gegründet zu haben (§ 129a StGB). Im jetzt veröffentlichten Beschluss vom 11. März 2010 erklärt der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) die in dem Verfahren durchgeführten Telefonüberwachungen und Observationen für rechtwidrig. (StB 16/09). (…) Zu diesen Vorgängen erklärt der Republikanische Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (RAV): Es ist nicht hinnehmbar, dass allein aufgrund von Vermutungen und politischer Orientierung Personen über einen Zeitraum von mehr als sieben Jahren rechtswidrig überwacht werden können. Mit dem Beschluss erweist sich die richterliche Vorabkontrolle von Telefonüberwachungen und Observationen, die rechtswidrige Überwachungsmaßnahmen eigentlich verhindern sollte, wieder einmal als weitgehend wirkungslos.“ Pressemitteilung des RAV vom 19.06.10 http://www.rav.de/publikationen/mitteilungen/mitteilung/ueberwachung-rechtswidrig-generalbundesanwalt-beruecksichtigte-entlastendes-material-nicht-140/


Zehn Jahre Ausforschung! Libertad!-Aktivisten im Visier des Staatsschutzes

Chronik des Falles vom Juni 2010 von und bei Libertad! http://www.info.libertad.de/story/2010/06/zehn-jahre-ausforschung


Verfolgerwahn

„Was ist ein Unverdächtiger? Ein Unverdächtiger ist ein Verdächtiger, der sich dem Verdacht mit List und Tücke erfolgreich entzieht. Was sind staatliche Überwachungsmaßnahmen? Von den Sicherheitsbehörden veranlasste und von einem Richter genehmigte Ermittlungsmethoden, die sich umso intensiver gegen Unverdächtige richten, je weniger sich ihnen gegenüber - infolge ihrer List und Tücke - ein Verdacht begründen lässt. Und was ist der grundrechtlich verbürgte Schutz der Privatsphäre? Er ist das Papier nicht wert, auf dem er steht, wenn das die Perspektive ist, mit der die Sicherheitsbehörden in Deutschland ihre Arbeit verrichten…“ Leitartikel von Christian Bommarius in der FR vom 20.06.2010 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/?em_cnt=2769385&em_loc=2091


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juni 2010



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=BKA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung

Der Flüchtlingsschutz Europas ist beschämend

Politik der Angst vor drohenden Flüchtlingsströmen: Auch Deutschland blockiert wichtige Vorhaben und trägt zur zunehmenden Abschottung Europas bei.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32822/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Flüchtling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abschottung

Despite President Barack Obama's promises of better safeguards for offshore drilling, federal regulators continue to approve plans for oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico with minimal or no environmental analysis.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/18/96185/federal-approval-still-flowing.html


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=drilling

Around the world and across the US, the firing squad execution in Utah has been met with a wave of criticism from those entirely opposed to the death penalty and those who say that shooting is not the most humane method of killing a prisoner.

http://tinyurl.com/2d45p6t


From Information Clearing House

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Utah Execution Is a Barbaric and Cowardly Act
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/utah-execution-barbaric.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=death+penalty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+penalty
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Huebl

The Pentagon's spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had been collecting information on American anti-war activists.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0619/pentagon-revives-domestic-spying-unit/


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying

A UN report released yesterday painted a grim picture of the security situation in Afghanistan, saying roadside bombings and assassinations have soared in the first four months of the year amid ramped up military operations in the Taliban-dominated south.

http://tinyurl.com/2f68deq



Blackwater Firm Gets $120M U.S. Gov't Contract

The State Department has awarded a part of what was formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide a contract worth more than $120 million for providing security services in Afghanistan.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20008238-10391695.html



U.S. Tax Dollars Fueling Afghan Insurgency

By Lara Logan

Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are fuelling corruption in Afghanistan and funding the insurgency, according to a six-month investigation by the House subcommittee on National Security and Foreign affairs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25787.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=insurgency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lara+Logan

A missile, suspected to have been fired by an unmanned US drone, is reported to have killed 13 people and wounded seven others after it struck a house in the Mir Ali area of Pakistan's North Waziristan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/201061973218311918.html



US Kills 10 Afghan Civilians

Ten civilians, including at least five women and children, were killed in NATO airstrikes in Khost Province, the provincial police chief said Saturday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/world/asia/20airstrike.html?partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Pakistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waziristan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khost+Province
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NATO+airstrike
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths

By Michelle Chen

"The bosses carried weapons. They scared me. I never knew where I was. We were transported every fifteen days to different cities. I knew if I tried to escape I would not get far because everything was unfamiliar. The bosses said that if we escaped they would get their money from our families." --Congressional testimony of Maria, trafficking survivor from Mexico.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25775.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=globalization
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slave+trade
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michelle+Chen

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9747/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AFRICOM

http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=madagascar_landgrab

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British Meat and Dairy Is Destroying Rainforests
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/21-3



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Louise+Gray

Nach Köhler, Bundespräsident, Koch, Ministerpräsident und dem am letzten Sonntag leise angekündigten Rücktritt von Verteidigungsminister Guttenberg haben wir weitere vor uns, über die schon gesprochen wird.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689119ms212

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Wulff: Ein Missionar auf dem Weg nach Bellevue?

Christian Wulff pflegt Kontakte zu religiösen Eiferern vom rechten Rand - und befindet sich damit in bester Gesellschaft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32871/1.html



Lange wird die Regierung nicht mehr halten

Mit Wulff als neuem Bundespräsidenten haben sich die Menschen nach dem Deutschlandtrend abgefunden, die Regierung und vor allem die FDP hat durch die Wahl weiter an Zustimmung verloren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147935

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Wahl von Wulff für die Katz?
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=15352



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Köhler
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roland+Koch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guttenberg
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=FDP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

Politische Entscheidungen gehören zu den Haupttriebkräften, die das Überleben der Artenvielfalt beeinflussen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689101ms212



UNO gründet Organisation zum Biosphären-Schutz

Gremium gegen Verlust von Wäldern, Riffen und anderen Ökosystemen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689109ms212



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biosphäre
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biodiversität
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Artenvielfalt

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
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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.

http://tinyurl.com/2armcxb


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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The Nation
by Laura Flanders

06/17/10

President Obama’s announcement that BP would set aside $20 billion in a fund for victims of the Gulf spill is a welcome relief to communities where businesses and homes have been destroyed. The total amount needed to compensate, however, is being estimated at closer to $60 billion. Obama swears the 20 is not a cap — I guess we’ll see. More to the point: since the president had no legal basis to demand the set aside, on what basis did he extract those billions? It’s called the power of the president. It just goes to show what you can do when you’ve got the top job...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/36383/power-presidency



BP doesn’t deserve a liability cap

Cato Institute
by Richard Epstein

06/16/10

Our national frustration continues to rise with each new drop of BP oil that leaks into the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone knows we can’t legislate away environmental risks without consigning ourselves to the Stone Age. What’s needed going forward is a comprehensive legal strategy that addresses the risks though a combination of regulation before the fact and tort liability (and criminal sanctions where appropriate) afterwards. Tort remedies are essential to protect people (and their property) who do not have contractual relations with defendants from harms such as air and water pollution. The legal system should never allow self-interested parties to keep for themselves all the gains from dangerous activities that unilaterally impose losses on others — which is why the most devout defender of laissez-faire must insist, not just concede, that tough medicine is needed in these cases. The fundamental question here is one of technique: What mix of before and after sanctions will do the job at the lowest cost?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11905



Liberal despair and the cult of the presidency

The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait

06/17/10

Few people follow the arcana of Congressional debate. They attribute all political outcomes to the president, and thus when the outcome is unsatisfactory, the reason must be a failure of presidential willpower. … Rachel Maddow offered a perfect example of the phenomenon the other night. She delivered her fantasy version of the speech President Obama should have given...

http://tinyurl.com/29eszgt



Barack Obama’s square box

The American Spectator
by Daniel Oliver

06/18/10

When John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed into Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in July 1999 some observers said he had gotten himself into a “square box,” meaning that he had run into the limits of his experience and his imagination. Barack Obama is in a square box, and observers are now beginning to talk about his inevitable crash...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/18/barack-obamas-square-box



Executive privilege

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

Even if the long war finally ends some day, there will be no revival of the liberties enshrined in the United States constitution and the protections afforded by the rule of law. This will be the most enduring legacy of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It hasn’t mattered which party has been in power, the objective of both has been to establish an all powerful executive that can operate without any constitutional restraints. Since 2001, the creation of just such a central authority, fueled by an exaggerated fear of terrorism, has led to the dismantling of many of the freedoms that Americans enjoyed for over two hundred years...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/30/executive-privilege/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Let's Not Write Our Future in Oil
http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-june/lets-not-write-our-future-oil



Obama, BP and the Gulf Oil Disaster

Max Ajl, Truthout: "The most pathetic images I have seen in the aftermath of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons deep-oil drilling rig were of pelicans drenched in oil, with brown glistening gunk matting down their plumage. When pelicans become covered in oil, they can't properly regulate their body temperature. In Louisiana summer, they overheat and die."

http://www.truth-out.org/obama-bp-and-gulf-oil-disaster60523



Waxman: Tony Hayward Acting Like He Has Nothing to Do With BP

Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "Unflappable before lawmakers choking back their anger, BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward responded to questions from the members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce with the equivalent of rank, name and serial number."

http://www.truth-out.org/waxman-tony-hayward-acting-like-he-has-nothing-do-with-bp60536



Corruption and Collapse

Francis Shor, Truthout: "Since the explosion of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, we have been treated to a case study in both the endemic corporate corruption of US politics and the inherent environmental catastrophes of the fossil fuel economy. The spread of toxicity, whether from oil, chemical dispersants, or corporate lobbyists and their willing handmaidens in Washington, DC, is so evident that even President Obama has been forced to ramp up his rhetoric about 'cozy relationships' and conflicts of interest."

http://www.truth-out.org/corruption-and-collapse60356



How Halliburton Is Profiting From the Gulf Oil Spill

Matt Rocheleau, The Christian Science Monitor: "Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton bought an oil spill prevention firm. The oil-services industry is consolidating, which is not necessarily good news for quality, experts say. Eleven days prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton Co., the contractor in charge of cementing the rig's well, agreed to purchase a little-known company."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-halliburton-profiting-gulf-oil-spill60551



Weeping and Anger Over a Lost Shrimping Season, Perhaps a Way of Life

Elizabeth Grossman, SolveClimate: "'This is the one thing that could destroy our culture and I don't want to see it happen,' says Grand Isle, Louisiana resident Karen Hopkins wiping at tears she's clearly fighting. She's talking about this year's lost shrimp season, and the fear that it won't be the last."

http://www.truth-out.org/weeping-and-anger-over-a-lost-shrimping-season-perhaps-a-way-life60570

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The Crash Is Underway
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente38.1.html



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These tax breaks totaling $9.7 billion to $57.3 billion (depending on the type and number of reactors) would come on top of the Kerry-Lieberman measure's lucrative $35.5 billion addition to the more than $22.5 billion in loan guarantees already slated for nuclear power.

http://www.foe.org/billions-new-nuke-giveaways-kerry-lieberman-bill-exposed



Washington: Theater of the Absurd

By Ralph Nader

This week, a united Republican cabal, joined by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Ben Nelson (D-NE), blocked a $120 billion package (the threat of filibuster again) to extend unemployment benefits, preserve Medicare payments, extend tax credits for corporate research, raise taxes on oil companies, other big companies and investment partnerships.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25776.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Unemployment: Outlook Grim For Jobs Bill Ahead Of Vote
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/24-2



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In assuring Americans on Tuesday that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37720386/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/



WH requests $15 million for oil spill commission

The White House is asking Congress for $15 million to pay for the presidential commission that will investigate the BP oil spill. President Barack Obama made the request in a letter Wednesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/16/1684638/wh-requests-15-million-for-oil.html



BP Finds a Champion

At least one member of Congress, Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican and former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, is sympathetic to BP. Actually, he's rather mad at President Obama and Congress on BP's behalf.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/17/bp-finds-a-champion/?xid=rss-blogs



BP Admits That - If It Tries to Cap the Leak - the Whole Well May Blow

Video

Oil industry expert Rob Cavner said that BP must "keep the well flowing to minimize oil and gas going out into the formation on the side",

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/06/bp-admits-that-if-it-tries-to-cap-leak.html



BP starts burning oil from leaking ruptured well

Once that gas reaches the rig, it will be mixed with compressed air, shot down a specialized boom made by Schlumberger Ltd. and ignited at sea. It's the first time this particular burner has been deployed in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100616/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_containment



Protester interrupts BP hearing

A woman with a black oil-like substance on her hands and face stood up and started shouting down Hayward before he could get a word in. "You should be in prison!" she yelled at the BP chief.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/103833-protester-interrupts-hayward-hearing


From Information Clearing House

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Gas stations boycott: Is there a better protest?

Christian Science Monitor

06/17/10

Boycott local BP stations? The oil giant makes only a small portion of its profits from retail gas sales, and can sell excess fuel to other retailers.The 10,000 BP gas stations in the United States are run by small business owners with supply contracts to various oil companies, not just BP, which are difficult and costly to break. ‘Anytime you boycott a local gas station you’re doing far more harm to that station owner than who they’re buying their gas from,’ said Brandon Wright, a spokesman from the Petroleum Marketers Association of America. BP’s local gas distributors, called jobbers, are starting to see serious losses, said John Klein, a spokesman for the BP Amoco Marketers Association...

http://tinyurl.com/256rm6g



As the spill expands, so does presidential power

Reason
by Steve Chapman

06/17/10

The other day, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked what will happen if the people running BP decline to go along with everything the administration demands of it. ‘The president,’ he replied with chilly menace, ‘has the legal authority to compel them to do so, and if they don’t, he will.’ As a matter of strict truth, Barack Obama may not have all the legal authority he would need. But punctilious adherence to the law is rarely the hallmark of American presidents. When the head of the executive branch makes his desires known to a private corporation, the company defies him at its peril...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/17/as-the-spill-expands-so-does-p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, the 79-year-old peace activist accuses President Obama of betraying his election promises -- in Iraq, in Afghanistan and on civil liberties.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,699677,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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"I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of progress on the supplemental, and strongly urge Congress to complete its work on the request as quickly as possible," Gates said during a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/7027827.html


From Information Clearing House

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NO more money, NO more surges, NO more lives for war
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4189



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By Les Leopold

At the moment when Wall Street was on its knees, we decided to bypass serious reform. Instead, we rebuilt Wall Street, using taxpayer money and guarantees - more than $10 trillion worth. We let bankers use our bailout money to pay themselves $150 billion in bonuses -- at a moment when over 29 million Americans were jobless or forced into part-time jobs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25752.htm

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Rick Rule on Bail-Outs, Business-Cycles and 10 More Years of a Golden Bull
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/smith-scott12.1.html



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Government Expanded 'Like a Cancer'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber69.1.html

Learn How the Economy Really Works
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff95.1.html

Economic Hitmen Target Main Street
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w152.html

On the Scent of a Fishy Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff99.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17-7

Ancient Oceans: The Planet's Plunder Will Continue in the Name of Progress
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17-3



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US Taxpayers: Pay for Nuclear Plants, Stuck with Nuclear Waste
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/17-7

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How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon

Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com: "Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - and Barack Obama says they ought to be. But there's one aspect of the BP story that most of those angry residents of the Gulf states aren't aware of. And the president hasn't had a thing to say about it."

http://www.truth-out.org/kick-ass-or-buy-gas60527



A Green New Deal Now

Joe Conason, Truthout: "If the right-wing chorus insists that the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is 'Obama's Katrina,' then let us hope the president will make the most of that slogan. The comparison between the utter failure of the Bush administration and the missteps and errors of the Obama White House is fundamentally false. Yet there is nevertheless a crucial parallel to be drawn as the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-green-new-deal-now60508



Big Oil's Devastation Worldwide

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "'Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal,' says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past."

http://www.truth-out.org/big-oils-devastation-worldwide-video60531

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Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable?

"What is likely to happen now?

By Julia Whitty

The damage done by the leaked oil now is virtually immeasurable already and it will not get better, it can only get worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25755.htm

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Cleaning up our politics as we clean up the Gulf

Huffington Post
by Erich Pica

06/17/10

[T]there’s more than one irresponsible company and its apparently callous CEO behind the disaster in the Gulf. There’s the Mineral Management Service’s repeated rubber stamping of dangerous drilling projects without ensuring proper environmental safeguards were in place. And behind that the agency’s infestation with oil industry cash and cronies, which continued to fester under the leadership of President Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. … There are the billions in taxpayer handouts that Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry receive each year. And behind that there are the swarms of industry lobbyists choking the halls of Congress and the stacks of polluter cash filling too many politicians’ campaign accounts. Behind all of this, there’s one deep-rooted problem: increasing corporate infiltration and control of our government...

http://tinyurl.com/365xld4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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„Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2010, soll der Bundestag über ein "Gesetz zur Änderung krankenversicherungsrechtlicher und anderer Vorschriften" abstimmen. Klammheimlich soll über einen Änderungsantrag, über den der "Ausschuss für Gesundheit" beim Deutschen Bundestag erst am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2010, beraten hat, eine neue Regelung zur Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte beschlossen werden. Bisher ist in dem Gesetz nicht vorgesehen, dass die "Stammdaten" der Patienten beim Arztbesuch online mit den bei den Krankenkassen gespeicherten Daten abgeglichen werden. Über diese bisher nicht geregelte Funktion soll nun aber die Einführung der eGK, gegen die es vielfältige Proteste und gute Argumente gibt, protegiert werden. Schnell und möglichst ohne öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit soll also das Sozialgesetzbuch geändert werden…“ Pressemitteilung des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie vom 17.6.2010 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/node/353


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Juni 2010

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Elektronische Gesundheitskarte durch die Hintertür?

Gegner der Gesundheitskarte fürchten, dass die Karte über das "Gesetz zur Änderung krankenversicherungsrechtlicher und anderer Vorschriften" eingeführt werden könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147850



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„Die Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) kündigt Widerstand gegen die von der Staatsanwaltschaft Bonn verfügte Einstellung der Ermittlungen gegen Ex-Telekom-Vorstandschef Kai-Uwe Ricke und den ehemaligen Telekom-Aufsichtsratschef Klaus Zumwinkel an. Die von der Bespitzelungsaktion massiv in ihren Grundrechten geschädigten Arbeitnehmervertreter seien entsetzt darüber, dass Ermittlungen gegen die Spitzenmanager eingestellt worden seien…“ Pressemitteilung vom 14.06.2010 http://presse.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id=14a47766-77af-11df-5b83-0019b9e321cd

Siehe dazu: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Staatsanwaltschaft: Warum wurde gegen Telekom-Zumwinkel und Ricke keine Anklage erhoben?

„Im Zusammenhang mit der vor zwei Jahren bekannt gewordenen Telekom-Bespitzelungsaffäre erhoben Rechtsanwalt Gerhart R. Baum
(Bundesinnenminister a. D.) und Prof. Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin
(Bundesjustizministerin a.D.) am Dienstag in einer Pressemitteilung schwere Vorwürfe gegen die Bonner Staatsanwaltschaft…“ Stellungnahme von Prof. Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin und Gerhart Baum in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online-Flyer Nr. 253 vom 14.06.2010 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=15275


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Juni 2010



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American Chernobyl

Hervé Kempf, Reporterre.net: "An uncontrollable industrial catastrophe, a worm-eaten system controlled by a rigid nomenklatura, a dynamic leader who wants to change things: doesn't that remind you of something? Yes, of course: Chernobyl, the Soviet Communist Party, Gorbachev."

http://www.truth-out.org/american-chernobyl60558

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The Truth About Chernobyl

Reading the long, detailed and carefully referenced account of the harm caused by the Chernobyl explosion is a very sobering experience. It is in stark contrast to the summary of the report of the Chernobyl Forum. The complacent IAEA reports are in stark contrast to what is being observed by people on the ground. Doctors and other medical health workers in the former Soviet Union and other countries are reporting far more deaths and radiation-related illnesses than the official figures show. Yablokov and his colleagues have made vast quantities of evidence available to those us who cannot read Slavic languages; there is now even less excuse for ignoring it. For the IAEA to persist in claiming that no more than a few thousand people were killed or injured as a result of Chernobyl and that those who fear the after effects are mostly suffering from psychological problems is an insult to all those who live in the shadow of the explosion. It is grossly i rresponsible for governments and the nuclear industry to cite those figures as justification for building new nuclear plants all over the world. Were a major incident to occur – and sooner or later one is bound to – the consequences could be catastrophic. We simply cannot afford to go nuclear.

Professor Peter Saunders, Institute of Science in Society



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hervé+Kempf
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AlterNet
by David DeGraw

06/16/10

Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: ‘Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn’...

http://tinyurl.com/27c79sj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

06/16/10

Invading on the ground would be the only way to make sure that Iran never obtained a nuclear device. After the fiasco of invading Iraq (and the continuing bog in Afghanistan), invading the larger, more mountainous, more populous, and more zealous Iran likely would be an even bigger nightmare. Even though U.S. policymakers seem to be oblivious, or at least ambivalent, to these stark realities, Iran’s neighbor Turkey is not. The Turks are of the opinion that a more cooperative approach from Iran’s neighbors might make Tehran stop short of making a bomb. In other words, Iran might feel secure enough to halt at developing technology that would enable it to construct a weapon on short notice — much as Japan has already done...

http://tinyurl.com/2fc2xab



The next power triangle

The American Prospect
by Stephen Kinzer

06/14/10

Two Muslim nations in the Middle East have a long history of struggle for democracy. One, of course, is Turkey. Now the world’s most democratic Muslim country, it offers vivid proof that Islam and freedom can thrive side by side. It has for decades been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and closely tied to the United States. Today, even while loosening its traditional enforcement of militant secularism, it is embarking on the most ambitious diplomatic project in its history, seeking to project power by resolving regional conflicts through dialogue and compromise. President Barack Obama chose Turkey to be the first Muslim country he visited while in office, telling the Grand National Assembly, “Turkey’s greatness lies in your ability to be at the center of things. This is not where East and West divide. This is where they come together...

http://tinyurl.com/38hhvss



Turkish Gaullism and Turkey’s “balancing role”

The American Conservative
by Daniel Larison

06/16/10

Thomas Friedman manages to write an entire column on the deterioration of U.S.-Turkish relations and never once mentions the Iraq war, the PKK (which has revived since the start of the Iraq war), the weak U.S. response to the flotilla raid, or the Tehran nuclear deal that he and the administration both dismissed with contempt. If we’re apportioning blame for what has encouraged Turkey on its more independent course, we can assign quite a bit to both the Bush and Obama administrations, but that is not the only thing that interests me here. Friedman passes over U.S. mistakes in silence, because this makes it easier to portray Erdogan as the sole culprit responsible for wrecking U.S.-Turkish relations and it helps the misleading ‘the Islamists are coming!’ narrative take hold...

http://tinyurl.com/2fjubu9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Turkey set to freeze ties with Israel: report

A Turkish newspaper reported on Wednesday that Turkey would halt military cooperation with Israel and not send back the ambassador it withdrew after a deadly Israeli commando operation to stop a Gaza aid convoy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65F4ZP20100616



Israel refuses to withdraw Ambassador to Turkey

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that Israel will not respond to Turkey's demand that it recall its ambassador to Ankara. Interviewed by Kol Yisrael government radio, the former ambassador to the United States said "the intentions of someone making such demands are not good."

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/world/news/50183/



Knesset to hold session on Armenian genocide

On Wednesday, several U.S. congressmen from both parties announced that they were reconsidering their own positions on whether Turkey's treatment of the Armenians during World War I should be labeled genocide. At a press conference, the congressmen expressed concern over Ankara's deepening ties with Iran at the expense of those with its traditional ally Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/knesset-to-hold-session-on-armenian-genocide-1.296894



US: Turkey must show commitment

The United States is warning Turkey that it is alienating US supporters and needs to demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West.

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=179570



We will not apologize to Turkey over Gaza flotilla killings

Top official in Foreign Ministry says Turkish demand for an official apology was mainly an excuse to allow Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's to cut diplomatic ties with Israel.

http://tinyurl.com/34a9lba



Turkey closes skies to Israeli military

Amid tense relations prompted by Israel's deadly attack on a Turkish-flagged aid convoy, the government in Ankara takes a step to impose certain restrictive measures against the Israeli military.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=132364&sectionid=351020204



Gaza aid victims shot more than once - report

The examinations carried out in Turkey found five of the nine died from bullet wounds to the head and that the nine volunteers were shot a total of 31 times. One of the lawyers for the families of the victims, Yasin Divrak, says the findings make it clear the Israeli forces shot to kill the activists.

http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201006/2940536.htm?=


From Information Clearing House

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P5+1 consensus on Iran breaks down as EU approves harsher sanctions
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9741/

Congress votes new Iran sanctions and new reporting req'ts for US president
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9759/

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We Have Lost Our Way

Julia Chaitin Ph.D., Truthout: "I have been trying to get my head around what happened on the Gaza flotilla, with no success. When I turned on the Israeli news at 6:40 AM on Monday morning, knowing that the flotilla must be nearing our shores, the broadcaster's first words were a knife to the heart: 'Something very bad has happened. The commanders knew ahead of time that this was a lose-lose situation ...' I could not help but wonder why the naval commanders (and obviously the higher-ups in the government) would knowingly go into a situation that was 'lose-lose.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/we-have-lost-our-way60363

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Turkey, America, and Empire's Twilight
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/25-8

Turkey Bans Israeli Military Fight from Its Airspace as Freeze Deepens
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-3

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Former Marine talks about attack on Gaza relief ships
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/881.html



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Growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production will send prices soaring, according to the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/15/food-prices-rise-un-report



Food Prices Are About To Explode

A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts soaring gloal food prices over the next decade.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-world-food-prices-2010-6


From Information Clearing House



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Israel is stationing three of its five Dolphin class submarines in the Red Sea, and will keep one of them operating off the Iranian coast at all times. These subs will be armed with cruise missiles (equipped with nuclear warheads).

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Israeli-Nuclear-Missile-Boats-Off-Iranian-Coast-6-14-2010.asp



Russia 'disappointed' by US, EU move on Iran

Russian deputy FM warns US, EU sanctions moves could affect cooperation in nuclear crisis. - "Such actions can be called none other than attempts to put yourself above the United Nations Security Council," he said.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=39617



U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea

Egypt opposition angered at government for allowing the fleet of more than 12 ships to cross Egyptian manned waterway, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports.

http://tinyurl.com/3y7yeqw



U.S. Military Surrounds Iran

Chances of Israeli Bombing Increase.
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/us-millitary-surrounds-iran/1192


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iran/
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Poland's Defense Minister Bodan Klich has called for the withdrawal of polish troops from Afghanistan before 2013, demanding that Afghan forces shoulder the responsibility.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130654&sectionid=351020403


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan

US Citizen Not Allowed To Return Home

By SCOTT SHANE

For six weeks, Mr. Wehelie has been in limbo in the Egyptian capital. He and his parents say he has no radical views, despises Al Qaeda and merely wants to get home to complete his education and get a job.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25735.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=No-Fly+List
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Shane

By James Petras

Outside of the central districts of a few cities and the military fortresses, the Afghan national resistance forces, in all of their complex local, regional and national alliances, are in control, of territory, people and administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25742.htm



From Kabul to Kingston

By Richard Drayton

Army tactics in Jamaica resemble those used in Afghanistan - and it's no mere coincidence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25732.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Petras
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16

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Take Action on Trafficking in the UK
http://www.antislavery.org/english/campaigns/take_action_trafficking_in_the_uk.aspx

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Slavery in our time

In These Times
by Michelle Chen

07/21/10

One-hundred-and-fifty years after the abolition of slavery, the State Department has acknowledged that people in the United States continue to be bought and sold as property. The department’s 2010 ‘Trafficking in Persons’ (TIP) report, a global review of human trafficking and civic and legal responses to it, lists the United States for the first time among the nations that harbor modern-day slavery. The report was a long time in coming...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6192/slavery_in_our_time


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=human+trafficking
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/16-8

The Gulf and Our Oily Campaign-Finance System
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/16-3

A 'Nightmare Well' Now Everyone's Nightmare
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/16-6

Day 59
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-10

The Lesson of BP: Too Much Greed? Too Little Guts?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-3

Obama's Conservative Call to War Against Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-1

BP: "Corporate Criminal" Beneath the Surface
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/16-7

"You Should Be in Prison!": Protester Interrupts BP Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/17-5

In Deep Water
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/17-0

Five Questions for BP's Tony Hayward
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17

Live Video Feed of Endless Gush of Oil: A Damning Fountain of Truth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17-2

CODEPINK: Distraught Shrimper Disrupts BP CEO Tony Hayward Testimony Demanding Hayward’s Arrest and Permanent Moratorium on Offshore Drilling

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/17-1

Friends of the Earth: Campaign Launched to Force 'BP Ten' and Others in Congress to Give Up Dirty Oil Cash

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/17-11

Project On Government Oversight: MMS Reforms Must Dig Deeper
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/17-9

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Oil spill flowing at up to 2.52 million gallons a day, scientists say

Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.

http://tinyurl.com/23vcpoj



Oil spill raises concerns about air quality along coastal Louisiana

Video

There are effects from the oil spill that you can see, like oil washing ashore, and those that you can't, like when oil compounds breakdown and go airborne.

http://www.wwltv.com/home/Oil-Spill-Raises-Concerns-About-Air-Quality-Along-Coastal-Louisiana-94202149.html


From Information Clearing House

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Oh, the humanity

The New Republic
by Bradford Plumer

06/16/10

Take your pick on what’s most infuriating about the oil crisis in the Gulf. There’s the growing evidence that the platform blowout that caused all that crude to erupt out of the ocean floor was entirely preventable and should never have happened in the first place. BP cut corners on safety to save money, and regulators barely seemed to care. And now no one has any real clue how to contain the spill — we just have to watch helplessly as the ever-expanding oil slick poisons fisheries and kills off marshlands and coral reefs. What’s especially unnerving, though, is that the recklessness that helped bring about the spill, and the political reaction that followed, seem to indicate a larger inability to prevent and cope with other large-scale ecological catastrophes — particularly climate change...

http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/75591/oh-the-humanity



And the gods laughed

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

06/16/10

Obama and the ruling class now can barely stir themselves even to offer a convincing appearance of genuine concern for the huddled, oil-slicked masses. And honestly, why should they? Whatcha gonna do, baby? Most Americans sleepwalk through their days. To the extent they’re awake, more and more they struggle merely for survival. That doesn’t leave time for other activities. One notable exception to this somnolence can and will be made operational from time to time: many Americans will enthusiastically support another campaign of destruction against largely defenseless, usually much poorer (and usually darker-skinned) ‘Others,’ especially when they’re five or eight thousand miles away (unless they’re threatening the inviolable sanctity of our ‘borders’ here at home)...

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/06/and-gods-laughed.html



More dirty details from my BP mole

Mother Jones
by Mac McClelland

06/16/10

The men on Elmer’s Island don’t wear respirators since BP and OSHA have thrown precaution to the wind and deemed them unnecessary. But the only type of air-monitoring equipment Elmer’s ever seen on the island are little multigas meters that are not up to the job: They’re designed for indoor use, clog easily, and only measure limited types of pollutants. And despite the known dangers of dispersants and the toxic chemicals in crude (I can attest that contact with the stuff washing up on the beach can burn), workers aren’t even wearing protective Tyvek suits anymore. Of course, there are medics on hand to treat anyone who gets hurt or sick. Unfortunately, any worker who asks for a medic’s help is automatically drug tested, which, for some, can be a powerful incentive to not report injuries. (Not that keeping a cleanup job necessarily equals getting paid: Elmer says the contractors continue to lose workers’ paychecks, a problem he told me about the last time we talked and that has since been confirmed by the local papers.)...

http://tinyurl.com/28ymdeo



A hole in the world

The Nation
by Naomi Klein

06/24/10

Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many coastal communities where brown poison was slithering through the marshes, part of what has come to be described as the largest environmental disaster in US history. ‘Speak to others the way you would want to be spoken to,’ the chair of the meeting pleaded one last time before opening the floor for questions. And for a while the crowd, mostly made up of fishing families, showed remarkable restraint...

http://www.thenation.com/article/36608/hole-world


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Freedom destroyed
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/864.html

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BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion

Former BP Chairman and current BP CEO both dumped stocks in weeks before disaster

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 17, 2010

BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional investigators.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bp-aware-of-cracks-in-oil-well-two-months-before-explosion.html

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Goldman Admits It Had Bigger Role in AIG Deals

Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "Reversing its oft-repeated position that it was acting only on behalf of its clients in its exotic dealings with the American International Group, Goldman Sachs now says that it also used its own money to make secret wagers against the U.S. housing market."

http://www.truth-out.org/goldman-admits-it-had-bigger-role-aig-deals60913



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/16-10

Human Rights First: Group Urges Commission to Advance Accountablity for Private Military Contractors, Protect Civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/18-11



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Miserable Umfrageergebnisse für die Regierung. Ist Schwarz-Gelb noch zu retten?
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147837



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https://secure.avaaz.org/en/whales_last_push/?cl=615589555&v=6631

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Protect Whales Before It's Too Late
http://takeaction.oceana.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=52&utm_source=email&utm_medium=oceana&utm_term=jun-17-10&utm_campaign=whales

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Watch: IFAW President Fred O'Regan's rousing speech



http://www.kintera.org/cms.asp?id=1042637&campaign_id=64800&tr=y&enString=eoRATuRnJqLTLVPtHfIPIWNrHXJqKDX5O7OPJKOoGaKJISOuHpE&auid=6497544

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A Victory for the Whalers, a Defeat for Humanity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/25-1



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi171.html

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff94.1.html

The Coming Financial Meltdown
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/coming-financial-meltdown.html



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Newspoint.CC

Ein britischer Forscher hat kürzlich herausgefunden, dass die Radio Frequency Identification-Chips (RFID), welche in den Medien oft so hoch gelobt werden, ...

http://www.newspoint.cc/artikel/Digital/Ein_Mensch_von_Computervirus_befallen_61024.html



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

http://www.wspa.de/latestnews/2010/fuer_walea_stark_machen.aspx



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The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

06/15/10

Various estimates have suggested that the war in Afghanistan might cost the United States a trillion dollars. Now we find out that it’s worth it: Afghanistan has a trillion dollars worth of mineral wealth under its soil. The cartoon in the Washington Post, by Tom Toles, says it all. In front of a cavernous mine opening labeled ‘Afghan Minerals,’ a turban-wearing Afghan is shouting ‘Eureka!’ What he’s excited about is not so much that Afghanistan is alleged to have more than $1 trillion is mineral wealth under its war-torn land, but that there’s now a reason for the war itself. As Toles’ caption says: ‘Reason for U.S. Involvement Discovered.’ That’s funny. Toles is joking, sort of...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/trillion-dollar-war


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Afghan minerals may reach 3 trillion dollars: minister

Afghanistan's mining minister said Thursday that mineral deposits in his country could be worth up to three trillion dollars, tripling a US estimate from earlier this week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100617/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanuseconomyminerals



The small clip included here of the reporting gravitas of the top two FOX NEWS anchors says more about the FOX NEWS audience than anything I have see thus far.

http://tinyurl.com/25gs3yt



Suiting Up for a Post-Dollar World

By John Browne

There is fresh evidence that time is running out for the dollar-centric global monetary order. In fact, central banks outside the US are already making swift and discrete preparation for a post-dollar era.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25837.htm


From Information Clearing House

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50 Statistics About the U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy to Believe
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/cant-defy-economic-law.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/15

Teachers' Anti-War Message Draws Fire
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/15-3

Jon Stewart Skewers Obama's Hypocrisy
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/16-0

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Jon Stewart on Obama’s executive power record

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/16/10

When ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero last week addressed the progressive conference America’s Future Now, he began by saying: ‘I’m going to start provocatively … I’m disgusted with this president.’ Last night, after Obama’s Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart began his show with an 8-minute monologue on Obama’s executive power and civil liberties record which, in essence, provided just some of the reasons why Romero’s strong condemnation is so justified. None of this will be remotely new to any readers here, but it’s still nice to see its being distilled so clearly by a voice which even the most hardened Obama loyalists have decided is a credible and trustworthy one (at least when he’s mocking Sarah Palin and exposing Fox News; we’ll see what reaction this provokes from them, if any)...

http://tinyurl.com/36wndzl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Heritage Lake Homeowners Association, as Clauer would come to learn, had exercised its rights under Texas law to sell the home after the Clauers fell behind on their association dues by about $800.

http://tinyurl.com/2ddkg9b


From Information Clearing House



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The State Department is quietly forming a small army to protect diplomatic personnel in Iraq after US military forces leave the country at the end of 2011 and take their firepower with them.

http://tinyurl.com/2aehewr


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw

Some conflicts have a happy ending, writes Mary Riddell. Afghanistan is not one of them.

http://tinyurl.com/335l6ew


From Information Clearing House



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By Jenna Greene

Members of the International Criminal Court agreed to add aggression to the court's short list of prosecutable crimes. The United States opposed the resolution, but as a non-member of the eight-year old court, had no ability to block the adoption.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25726.htm



US Opposes ICC Bid to Make 'Aggression' a Crime Under International Law

By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer

The Obama administration has resisted efforts by the International Criminal Court to include 'aggression' as a crime, mainly because it could impact US military operations abroad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25747.htm

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Amnesty International: Opt Out System Risks Undermining ICC
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/15-17



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In der Asse soll zehn Mal mehr mittelradioaktiver Atommüll lagern

Es gibt Hinweise darauf, dass 14.000 der im Salzstock gelagerten Fässer falsch als schwachradioaktiver Müll deklariert wurden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147830



Energieversorger klammern sich an die Kernkraft

RWE sieht den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien durch Atomausstieg gefährdet.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32922/1.html



Laufzeitverlängerung der AKWs: Doch keine Versteigerung

Schwarz-Gelb eiert herum, wie sie den Energiekonzernen entgegen kommen und dies vertreten kann.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148018

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Schwarz-Gelb macht nur Müll - neue Kampagne

Nachdem Anti-Atom-Bewegte aus über 50 Städten Anfang des Monats bereits ihr CDU-Büro mit Müll besucht haben, wollen wir die Diskussion über das ungelöste Müllproblem verstärken, denn die Regierenden tun bei der aktuellen Diskussion um Laufzeiten so, als spielte das keine Rolle. Daher haben wir eine neue Kampagne gestartet und machen unmissverständlich klar: "Schwarz-Gelb macht nur Müll!" Hilf mit und spende ein Großflächenplakat gegen die Atommüll-Mafia, damit das Thema im August, also kurz vor der Entscheidung des Bundeskabinetts über die Zukunft der Atomenergie nicht unter den Teppich gekehrt wird. Buche ein Plakat bis zum 8. August, ob im Berliner Regierungsviertel, in einem Feriengebiet oder an einem markanten Platz in Deiner Stadt.

Neben den Großplakaten soll das Thema auch vor Ort eine Rolle spielen: Ab nächster Woche könnt Ihr Flyer und Plakate mit dem Motiv "Schwarz-Gelb macht nur Müll" bestellen. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt starten noch mehr dezentrale Aktionen, zum Beispiel unsere Atommüll-Aktion, bei der "strahlender" Müll an Jedermann und -frau verteilt werden kann. Mehr Infos dazu gibt es in Kürze.

Um unsere Aussage an den "richtigen" Adressaten zu bringen, besuchen wir am Montag, 14. Juli, in einer öffentlichkeitswirksamen Aktion den Atomfreund Stefan Mappus in Stuttgart. Zu diesen Aktionsschritten mehr im nächsten Newsletter.

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/schwarz-gelb



Großdemonstrationen im Herbst

Um den Druck auf die Regierenden trotz der sommerträgen Ferienzeit zu erhöhen, kündigen wir neben der Müll-Kampagne schon jetzt frühzeitig zwei Großdemonstrationen im Herbst an. Gerne die Termine schon einmal vormerken und weitersagen!

Bundesweite Großdemo am 18. September in Berlin Ein Pflichttermin für alle AtomkraftgegnerInnen: Für Samstag, den 18. September, planen wir mit vielen Bündnispartnern die nächsten Massenproteste gegen Atomkraft. Denn wenn Bundestag und Bundesregierung über ein sogenanntes "Energiekonzept" diskutieren, wollen auch wir ein Wörtchen mitreden. Unsere Nachricht: Die Zukunft der Atomenergie heißt Abschalten. In Berlin werden deshalb Zehntausende mit einer bundesweiten Großdemo das ganze Regierungsviertel umzingeln, um deutlich zu machen, dass die Bevölkerung endlich raus will aus der Atomkraft.

Protest gegen den Castor-Transport nach Gorleben Bereits im Sommer beginnen wir, für den Castor-Protest im Herbst zu mobilisieren. Denn dann soll wieder Atommüll in Richtung Gorleben rollen, obwohl es dort kein sicheres Lager für die strahlenden Abfälle gibt. Geplant ist eine Groß-Demo in Dannenberg im November und vielfältige Aktionen entlang der gesamten Transportstrecke.

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/castor-2010.html



Schlagen Sie Alarm bei Ihrem Abgeordneten!
http://www.campact.de/atom2/sommer/karlsruhe

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"Keine Angst vor großen Zahlen!"

Atomkraft als "Brückentechnologie" hin zu einer Stromversorgung ganz mit erneuerbaren Energien? Damit wirbt die Bundesregierung derzeit - und empfiehlt längere Laufzeiten von Atomreaktoren. Doch wann können Erneuerbare Energien in Deutschland welchen Anteil des Stroms liefern? Viel schneller und viel mehr als selbst Verfechter der Regenerativ-Energien selbst dies erwarten. Solche Fakten fallen immer wieder vor Ort auf.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689190ms214



IPPNW kritisiert "Foulspiel" der Bundesregierung

Hat Fußball etwas mit Atomenergie zu tun? Eigentlich nicht. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689197ms214



Stromüberschuss auf Rekordhöhe

Der Stromexportüberschuss Deutschlands im 1. Quartal 2010 war größer als die Gesamtproduktion von sieben alten und besonders gefährlichen deutschen AKWs.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689222ms214



Energiesparen kann sechs Atomkraftwerke überflüssig machen

BUND präsentiert Maßnahmenpaket für mehr Stromeffizienz. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689224ms214



Hände weg vom Atomkompromiss

Nach der Bundespräsidentenwahl kommt ein Thema wieder in den Fokus der politischen Diskussion, das seit der letzten Bundestagswahl ein Dauerbrenner ist: die Laufzeit der Atomkraftwerke. Der rot-grünen Koalition war es zu Anfang des Jahrhunderts mit einem eindrucksvollen Einsatz von Kanzler Gerhard Schröder (SPD) als Mittler zwischen der Atomlobby, der großen Stromversorger und der grünen Anti-Kernkraft-Bewegung gelungen, eine Lösung für eine in der Bevölkerung kontrovers diskutierte Frage zu finden: die Laufzeit der AKW. Eicke R. Weber plädiert dafür, dass die Bundesregierung die Laufzeiten der AKW nicht verlängert.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689234ms215



Die „Laufzeitverlängerung“ oder der Feldzug der Zukunftsräuber

Ginge es nicht um die Zukunft von Generationen, so könnte man sich erheitern, wenn man gerade die sich schier überschlagenden und mit allerhand “Studien” garnierten Forderungen nach „Laufzeitverlängerung“ in den Medien liest. Denn selten ist so dünn belegtes so dick aufgetragen worden. Kommentar von Wilfried Michalski

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689409ms219



Atommüllmenge würde sich verdreifachen!

Selbst mit moderater Laufzeitverlängerung blieben Atommeiler fast 70 Jahre am Netz.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689670ms223



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Der US-Präsident findet mal wieder große Worte, aber mag sich immer noch nicht recht mit Big Oil anlegen. Unterdessen könnte das Desaster die kommende Ölpreiskrise verschärfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32802/1.html



Und noch mehr Öl

Zahlen über den Ausfluss im Golf von Mexiko erneut nach oben korrigiert.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147841



Die Ölpest und die organisierte Verantwortungslosigkeit
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32817/1.html



Geheimnisumwitterte Ölpest

Welche Schäden das austretende Öl im Golf von Mexiko und anderswo auslösen kann, bleibt umstritten; es fehle an Koordination unter den Wissenschaftlern, auch sei die Unabhängigkeit von BP nicht garantiert, beklagen Forscher.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147953

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Im Rausch der Tiefe – wie viel BP kommt noch?

Immer höhere Risiken geht die internationale Öl- und Gasbranche ein, um die letzten fossilen Rohstoffreserven der Erde zu fördern – auf Kosten von Mensch und Umwelt. Dies ist das Fazit der aktuellen Branchenstudie der oekom research AG. Die Rating-Agentur hat 27 der weltweit größten, börsennotierten Öl- und Gaskonzerne danach untersucht, wie sie sich ihrer sozialen und ökologischen Verantwortung und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen stellen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689145ms213



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SPD NRW hat Schwierigkeiten, über den landespolitischen Tellerrand hinwegzuschauen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147831



Die Oppositionsregierung

Enthaltung im Bund, Machtverzicht in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Die eigenwillige Strategie der SPD.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32805/1.html



Die Niedriglohnpolitik frisst die Mitte

Die DIW-Studie zur Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland: Die Reichen werden auch in der Wirtschaftskrise reicher, die Armen noch ärmer.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147824



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Es wird Zeit, dass die Allgemeinheit erkennt, dass die amerikanischen Ratingagenturen Katalysatoren für die Enteignung der Bürger sind.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32797/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=rating
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rating

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/white-house-orders-forgery.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Tenet
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/municipal-debt-racket.html

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Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit

"Perceptions of a large U.S. borrowing capacity are misleading," and current long-term bond yields are masking America's debt challenge.

http://tinyurl.com/2bpg65j



California on 'verge of system failure'

Golden State, like many others, is nearly bankrupt and desperately needs a bailout.

http://tinyurl.com/23xeknm



Inside the Dire Financial State of the States

Falling prices for stocks and real estate have made mincemeat of often underfunded public pension plans. Unemployed workers have swelled the demand for welfare and Medicaid services.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1997284,00.html#ixzz0rLmInpFH


From Information Clearing House



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Cultural Extinction

Jordan Flaherty, Truthout: "As BP's deepwater well continues to discharge oil into the Gulf, the economic and public health effects are already being felt across coastal communities. But it's likely this is only the beginning. From the bayous of southern Louisiana to the city of New Orleans, many fear this disaster represents not only environmental devastation, but also cultural extinction for peoples who have made their lives here for generations."

http://www.truth-out.org/cultural-extinction60450



BP Is a Corporate Criminal

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you're a strutting peacock - the next day, you're just another gasping, oil-covered bird. In early April, BP was strutting about in full corporate splendor, showing off the $9 billion in profits that it had soaked up in just the first three months of this year."

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-bp-is-a-corporate-criminal60476



This Modern World

Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow features the character "Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market-Man," who explains to taxpayers why they are going to be taking care of BP's mess.

http://www.truth-out.org/files/images/Tom%20Tomorrow%206-16.png



Investigation Shows BP Cut Costs Before Blowout

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "House Democrats are asking BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward about risky cost-cutting and time-saving measures identified by a Congressional investigation that appear to have increased the risk of a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-blame60485

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No we can't -- chaotic failure of efforts to protect Gulf coast
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9735/

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Documents reveal BP's missteps before blowout

BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes of the disaster.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37695879/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf



BP Lines Up War Chest

Sky News has exclusively learnt that BP is lining up a £5bn war chest from banks to help meet the costs of the oil spill.

http://tinyurl.com/28juxcd


From Information Clearing House

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On the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/15-0

Closing BP's Escape Routes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/15-7

Center for Biological Diversity: Legal Petition Filed to Reform Policy That Allows Oil Drilling to Evade Environmental Review

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/15-14

Rainforest Action Network: Oil Lobbyists and Lawyers Crowd out Public in Today’s Oil Hearing

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/15-6

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The Gulf spill, the financial crisis and government failure

Cato Institute
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.

06/12/10

The Gulf oil spill and the global financial crisis both demonstrate the failings of big government. Partisan politics obscures the linkage, with the consequence that each political party repeats the mistakes of the other as its turn to govern arrives...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11892



Who’s liable for the Gulf oil spill? You are

Reason
by Ronald Bailey

06/15/10

BP has repeatedly promised to pay all ‘legitimate claims’ for loss and damage as a result of the Gulf oil spill, now vying for the title fourth biggest oil spill in history at 2.3 million barrels of crude over the past two months. And that’s exactly as it should be. But how can the company pay off all the claims it faces?

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/15/whos-liable-for-the-gulf-oil-s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gulf of Mexico Deja Vu
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/867.html



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Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-0

Maher Arar: In Refusing to Hear My Case, the Supreme Court Has Put the World's Peace and Order in Danger
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/29-8

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The US wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/14/10

The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though — as everyone acknowledges — he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar’s attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.

http://tinyurl.com/28eqtnu



Nowhere to hide

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

06/16/10

This week the Supreme Court denied, without comment, the appeal of Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Canada and Syria who was arrested in transit through JFK airport in 2002, then shipped off to Syria and tortured for 10 months. Arar’s abuse allegedly included repeated beatings with electrical cables and confinement in a cell the size of a grave. When they realized they had the wrong guy — the really, totally, and utterly innocent guy — Arar was released without charges. He was then completely exonerated of any link to terror by the Canadian government, which impaneled a commission to investigate the incident, issued a 1,000-plus-page report on the matter, held its own intelligence forces responsible for their role in the screw-up, then apologized and paid Arar $9.8 million. Whereas the U.S. government — as Glenn Greenwald observes — has never apologized, never acknowledged any wrongdoing, never held anyone responsible, and, on President Barack Obama’s watch, has only redoubled its efforts to prevent Arar from having even a single day in court...

http://www.slate.com/id/2257211/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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High court dismissal of Maher Arar's suit confirms US executive officials are above the law

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9740/

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The Arar Case: Wrong and Unapologetic

William Fisher, Truthout: "So, where was Barack Obama when contrition was being handed out? What does he/we have to be contrite about? Well, just this: Back in 2002, a young computer engineer was passing through New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on his way back to his home in Canada. But he never made it. Instead, he was 'rendered' by US authorities to a Syrian prison, where, for the next ten plus months, he was held without charge and without family notification."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-arar-case-wrong-and-unapologetic60534

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The Tyranny of Judges
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard233.html



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Die EU will Biokraftstoffe fördern, die nachhaltig sind und hat nun Kriterien dafür aufgestellt. Ein einheitliches EU-Siegel wird es allerdings nicht geben und verboten wird klimaschädlicher Biosprit auch nicht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147817



Malaria durch Biosprit

Studie: 48% mehr Malaria-Infektionen nach 4% Regenwaldabholzung.
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Die Bürgerarbeit - neuester Lösungsvorschlag zur Bekämpfung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit, folgt den üblichen Vorschlägen: Wie bei den 1-Euro-Jobs wird erneut die dadurch entstehende Chance auf eine Beschäftigung im ersten Arbeitsmarkt angepriesen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32778/1.html



Clegg will Steuersenkungen für Geringverdiener

Der britische Liberaldemokrat fordert zudem auch eine Sondersteuer für Banker.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147821



Mit Fördern, Fordern und Zwang in den Niedriglohnjob

Mit dem Projekt "Bürgerarbeit" will Ursula von der Leyen Arbeitslose wieder in die Berufstätigkeit bringen - zu fragwürdigen Konditionen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32960/1.html

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Das interessiert hier keinen Menschen!

Warum es richtig war, bei der Eröffnung der „Nordbahntrasse“ auf die
Tatsache der Ein-Euro-Jobs hinzuweisen und die Arbeitsbedingungen der
eingesetzten ArbeiterInnen zu kritisieren. Eine Anmerkung zur kleinen
Aktion der Aktion Zahltag und von basta! vom 9. Juni 2010
http://basta-wuppertal.de/2010/06/trassenfest-ein-euro-jobs/


Am Montag, den 5. Juli, ist Zahltag in Wuppertal

„ARGE-Leitung bestreitet katastrophale Zustände und will zur Tagesordnung übergehen. Doch wir wollen das nicht! Zugleich wehren wir uns gegen das unsoziale Berliner Sparpaket! Zum nächsten Wuppertaler Zahltag ruft der Erwerbslosenverein Tacheles gemeinsam mit anderen Gruppen und aktiven Erwerbslosen nach Vohwinkel auf. Am 5. Juli treffen wir uns ab 8:00 Uhr vor der Geschäftsstelle der ARGE in der Corneliusstraße 2…“ Aufruf bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1923


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juni 2010

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Wuppertal: ARGE finanziert Bürgerwehr?

„Die ARGE Wuppertal finanziert seit einiger Zeit Wachleute, die eine Baustelle sowie einen neu gebauten Fußweg auf einer stillgelegten Bahnstrecke bewachen. Es handelt sich um ein kurzes Teilstück der sogenannten Nordbahntrasse, um die es aus verschiedenen Richtungen schon seit Monaten negative Schlagzeilen gibt. Etwa 20 Personen führen dort Wach.- und Sicherungstätigkeiten aus. Die Wachleute werden von der Wichernhaus Wuppertal gGmbH gestellt. Die Wichernhaus Wuppertal gGmbH ist Mitglied im Diakonischen Werk der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland und betreut eine größere Zahl an 1-Euro Jobbern, außerdem werden zahlreiche Projekte im zweiten Arbeitsmarkt durchgeführt…“ Bericht von Emil Blume vom 17.08.2010 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2010/08/287955.shtml


Arbeitslose kritisieren Arbeitsförderung: „Arge verhöhnt uns“

„Die Schlägerei in einem Büro der Arbeitsförderung Schwalm-Eder (Arge) sei nur die Spitze eines länger schwelenden Konflikts gewesen, sagt Lutz Baumann, Vorsitzender des Vereins Organisierter Arbeitsloser Schwalm-Eder (Oase). Der arbeitslose Diplom-Ingenieur und Chemiker kritisiert die Praktiken der Behörde massiv: Immer wieder komme es vor, dass Mitarbeiter der Arge ungerechtfertigt Leistungen kürzten oder Geld nicht auszahlen, dass den Menschen zustehe. In den Räumen der Arge war es vor einigen Wochen wegen eines Schecks zu einer tätlichen Auseinandersetzung gekommen. Beide Streithähne, ein Angestellter der Arge und ein Kunde, trugen Verletzungen davon…“ Artikel von Damai D. Dewert vom 17.08.10 im Portal der Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine Zeitung http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/schwalm-eder-kreis/fritzlar/arge-verhoehnt-arbeitslose-881964.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. August 2010

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Rundmail des Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste (ABSP) am 16. Juni 2010
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/829d7eeebf20f57e?hl=de

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30. Juni 2010 Caren Lay

Kein Sommermärchen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt

Zur Situation auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt im Monat Juni erklärt die Bundesgeschäftsführerin der Partei DIE LINKE, Caren Lay:

3,153 Millionen Menschen waren im Monat Juni ohne Arbeit – offiziell. Jenseits geschönter Zahlen liegt die Arbeitslosigkeit bedeutend höher. DIE LINKE hat auch in diesem Monat nachgerechnet: 4,332 Millionen sind es wirklich, wenn man diejenigen mit einrechnet, die in Minijobs oder arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen geparkt sind. So positiv der Rückgang der Arbeitslosigkeit für jede und jeden Einzelnen ist, von einem Sommermärchen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kann man nicht sprechen. Eine übergroße Zahl der neuen Arbeitsplätze sind Mini- und Midijobs, fallen unter die Kurzarbeiterregelung oder sind prekäre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Von einem wirklichen Aufschwung am Arbeitsmarkt, vom Entstehen notwendiger sozialversicherungspflichtiger, existenzsichernder Arbeit ist Deutschland weit entfernt – und wird es bleiben, wenn die angekündigten Sparmaßnahmen aus dem Hause von der Leyen und Schäuble greifen. Das Statistische Bundesamt hat Zahlen veröffentlicht, wonach sich im vergangenen Jahr 8,6 Millionen Menschen Arbeit oder mehr Arbeitsstunden wünschten. Hier versagt die Arbeitsmarktpolitik der Bundesregierung. Ein Gegensteuern ist dringend geboten. Aus Sicht der LINKEN braucht es einen flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohn, der Nachfrage und somit Arbeit schafft. Es braucht ein Investitionsprogramm und vor allem arbeitsmarktpolitische Programme, die diesen Namen auch verdienen und Menschen in Arbeit bringen statt sie zu verwalten. Die Einführung eines öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektors wäre dazu ein erster Schritt.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/kein-sommermaerchen-auf-dem-arbeitsmarkt/



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Europol wird internationaler Daten-Marktplatz


Mitten im Gezerre um das strittige SWIFT-Abkommen fordern US-Behörden Zugriff auf umfangreiche Datensammlungen der EU-Polizeiagentur Europol.

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Regierung vor dem Bruch?
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Another look at Enron

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

06/16/10

The response from journalists and politicians across the country was unanimous: Enron was a fraudulent entity and a number of executives and employees got what they deserved by going to prison. However, I have been among the critics not only of the verdicts, but also of the government’s conduct throughout this sorry affair. Thus I am part of a larger public effort to tell people there is another side to the story. Before going further, however, let me say that Enron’s demise should not have been a surprise, as it was a product of the Federal Reserve’s late 1990s boom. Alan Greenspan’s easy-credit regime permitted Enron and other firms to boost their stock prices to levels well above where the fundamentals said they should have been...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/not-so-fast/enron/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Creating Artificial Stupidity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sowell6.1.1.html

Forcing Politicians to Listen
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead13.1.html

Creating Money Out of Thin Air
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy169.html

Bailing Out Politicians Now?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan141.html

Toxic Citizens?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/toxic-citizens.html

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Obama's Treasury Dept. Works Against Volcker-Lincoln Reform
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/14-7

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In jail for being in debt

"They have no right to do this to me," said the 57-year-old patient care advocate, her voice as soft as a whisper. "Not for a stupid credit card."

http://www.startribune.com/investigators/95692619.html


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The probe spans five provinces and reveals a grim landscape of hazardous trash and sickened Iraqis.

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Bulging Inventory Signals Next Leg Down in Housing

By Mike Whitney

"U.S. home foreclosures reached a record for the second consecutive month in May, with increases in every state, as lenders stepped up property seizures, according to RealtyTrac.Inc.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25717.htm



"Dr. Death Says The U.S. Is Really, Really Sick"

By Eric Margolis

Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the American crash of 2008. Knick-named "Dr. Death by the media," he warns of grim economic times ahead: deflation; rising unemployment; increased taxes; overcapacity; and negative growth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25710.htm



Man Loses Home During Cancer Fight: Despite Pleading, Bank Forecloses On Home

To the bank, he said, he was just another name and number, not a person trying to provide for his family and fight the cancers that had invaded his body.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/health/23932701/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

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Could the Right to Rent Stop the Foreclosure Hurricane?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/24-0

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Report: Nearly one in three Q1 US home sales a foreclosure

Reuters

06/30/10

Nearly one out of every three U.S. home sales in the first quarter was a foreclosure property as steep price discounts boosted demand for distressed real estate, RealtyTrac said in a new report on Wednesday. Foreclosure homes accounted for 31 percent of all residential sales in the first quarter of 2010, with the average sales price of properties that sold while in some stage of foreclosure nearly 27 percent below homes that were not in the process, Irvine, California-based RealtyTrac said...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65T0TY20100630


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Race and Recession: Foreclosure Losses Still Mounting

Seth Freed Wessler, Colorlines: "It has been more than two years since Sandra Hines got shoved out of her family's home of 38 years, but her loss still feels fresh and raw. She remains proud of her northwest Detroit neighborhood. Its streets are lined with stately trees and dozens of modest brick and concrete houses like the one her family called home for a generation. Today, the two story house sits empty, but through the window a ladder and can of paint can be spotted in the living room - signs that the new owner has been here working."

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By Gareth Porter

On Thursday, McChrystal's message that his strategy will weaken the Taliban in its heartland took its worst beating thus far, when he admitted that the planned offensive in Kandahar City and surrounding districts is being delayed until September at the earliest, because it does not have the support of the Kandahar population and leadership.

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Afghanistan Mineral Riches: Beware the Hype

By James Joyner

The discovery in question dates to 2007, has been widely documented on US government websites for years, and the $1 trillion figure seems to have been conjured from thin air. - The Soviets had documented this trove way back in 1985!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25712.htm



Is Petraeus McChrystal's Replacement or Obama's

By Paul Craig Roberts

The most telling aspect of the McChrystal-Obama contretemps is that it has caused no one in the US government, or media, to ask why the US is still killing women and children in Afghanistan after 9 years. The US government is prepared for everyone except itself to be tried at the War Crimes Tribunal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25808.htm

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Anxiety Reigns in Washington Over Afghanistan (Petraeus Passes Out During Senate Hearing)

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/15-2

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Senators Rap War Effort

Wall Street Journal

06/15/10

The Obama administration’s Afghan war effort came under blistering bipartisan attack in the Senate Tuesday …. The top Democrat and the top Republican on the Senate committee responsible for military oversight — both of whom were strong supporters of the White House’s decision to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan last year — sharply questioned administration claims of progress in southern Afghanistan, where the bulk of new troops has been deployed. … The debate over the July 2011 date dominated Tuesday’s hearing, which was cut short after Gen. David Petraeus, overall commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, briefly fainted during intense questioning by Messrs. Levin and McCain...

http://tinyurl.com/2bzk4n6



Afghan bling

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/16/10

Just as John McCain was telling Gen. David Petraeus how worried he is that the US is going to leave Afghanistan before ‘the job’ is done, the General’s head dropped onto the desk in front of him: had he passed out from ennui? McCain had the same effect on the American electorate in 2008. Petraeus blamed it on not having had breakfast, but, in any case, the US government seems intent on having Afghanistan for lunch — and what a rich meal that is going to be! According to a piece by James Risen in the New York Times, there’s gold in them thar hills!

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/15/afghan-bling/



A question of life and death

The New Republic
by William Galston

06/15/10

Our military commanders in Afghanistan talk incessantly about the need to ’shape’ the political context in a given area before beginning activities with a significant military component — but if their own research is correct, our chances of ’shaping’ Kandahar any time soon range from slim to none. Based on General McChrystal’s own logic, then, we cannot proceed there because a key requirement for success is not fulfilled. And if we can’t prevail in Kandahar, then we’re stuck with the Taliban as a long-term military presence and political force in Afghanistan...

http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/75546/question-life-and-death


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Making It McChrystal Clear
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer218.html

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McCHRYSTAL'S CHALLENGE
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9755/



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