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Anne McClintock, Truthout: "On July 20, I decided to try to get behind the media blockade of oil clean-up operations at Grand Isle, Louisiana. Grand Isle is the only inhabited island in the Gulf Barrier Islands, and has been under especially tight media blackout for months. I had heard unconfirmed stories that BP clean-up workers were 'burying the oil under the sand,' and I wanted to get behind the scenes myself."

http://www.truth-out.org/behind-media-blockade-gulf62004



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Louisiana
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Anne+McClintock

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2010/08/alert_please_encourage_rainfor.asp



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„Unter unseren Verhältnissen …“ so lautete der Titel des ersten Armutsatlasses für Regionen in Deutschland. Vor über einem Jahr hat ihn der PARITÄTISCHE veröffentlicht. Unter unseren Verhältnissen heißt: Die Mehrzahl der deutschen Bevölkerung lebt unter dem Lebensstandard, den das Wirtschaftswachstum in der Vergangenheit ermöglicht hätte. Die Bundesregierungen haben es einfach hingenommen: stagnierende Realeinkommen der Beschäftigten wie auch bei Rentnern und Beziehern von Transfereinkommen. In dieser Situation und nach einer Krise, die hoffentlich bald ganz ausgestanden ist, soll der Sozialbereich den größten Anteil des „Sparpakets“ schultern. Armutsgefährdete, Hartz IV-Bezieher und Niedrigverdiener, die Verlierer der vergangenen Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der aktuellen Krise, werden durch das „Sparpaket“ noch ärmer gemacht. Dies ist doppelt fatal. Zum einem für die Familien, die von Transferzahlungen in Teilen oder auch gänzlich leben müssen. Zum anderen verliert auch die regionale Wirtschaft. Familien am unteren Ende der Einkommensskala sparen nicht, sie benötigen ihre gesamten Einnahmen für ihren Lebensunterhalt. Mit anderen Worten, das, was sie einnehmen, geben sie auch aus. Deshalb der Titel „Unter unseren Verhältnissen II … „ Atlas der Sozialkürzungen der Bundesregierung 2011-2014 von Rudolf Martens
(Paritätische Forschungsstelle) vom 31. Juli 2010 beim Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverband (pdf) http://www.forschung.paritaet.org/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/dokumente/downloads/atlas_sozialkuerzungen.pdf&t=1280965541&hash=f42345791b8861e760fb662cb2279fad


Arbeit macht das Leben süß? – Über den Druck auf Angestellte und Freischaffende

„Die Urgroßmütter haben es noch gewusst: Arbeit macht das Leben süß. Dahinter verbarg sich die romantische Umschreibung, dass der Mensch gefälligst hart arbeiten müsse - weil er es eben muss - basta. Eine Pflicht, die man nicht zu hinterfragen hat. Später wurde daraus die Arbeit als Selbstverwirklichung. Die Philosophen haben dafür die schöne Umschreibung: bewusstes schöpferisches Handeln. Doch damit wird ignoriert, wie der Arbeitsalltag für viele inzwischen (wieder) aussieht: keine Spur vom bewussten schöpferischen Handeln oder gar von einem süßen Alltag. Der Druck auf diejenigen, die noch eine Festanstellung haben, wächst…“ Sendung von Thomas Klug im Deutschlandradio Kultur am 02.08.2010

Manuskript zur Sendung (pdf) http://www.dradio.de/download/123345/

Audio-Podcast der Sendung (mp3, ca. 28 Minuten, ca. 13 MB) http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2010/08/02/drk_20100802_1930_d405682a.mp3


Aus: LabourNet, 4. August 2010

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Aufruf zu einem Herbst von Protest und Widerstand: Weg mit dem Sparpaket!

„Die Bundesregierung plant massive Kürzungen: Sozialleistungen, Elterngeld, Renten, Gesundheitsversorgung, Finanzierung der Kommunen: was in der Krise den Banken und Unternehmen an Geld bereitgestellt wurde, wird nun bei der Mehrheit der Bevölkerung eingesammelt. Wir rufen auf, den Plänen der Regierung einen Strich durch die Rechnung zu machen!...“ Aufruf für einen heißen Herbst vom Bundesweiten Bündnis „Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise“ (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2010/heisserherbst.pdf

Der Aufruf soll möglichst breit unterzeichnet werden. Rückmeldungen bitte bis zm 24.8. an mailto:info@kapitalismuskrise.org


Bündnis oder eigene Stärke? Herbstaktionen gegen Sparpaket / Diskussionen über Protestbündnisse

Artikel von Jörg Meyer und Peter Nowak im ND vom 13.08.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/177305.buendnis-oder-eigene-staerke.html


Massenzeitung „Extrablatt - Einkommen zum Auskommen“

Die Massenzeitung erscheint am 23.08. Sie ist gedacht zur kostenlosen Verteilung vor allem an Erwerbslose, Geringverdiener und einkommensschwache Haushalte. Bitte macht mit und verteilt die Zeitung vor Ort. Hier bestellen Die Zeitung erscheint im Berliner Format (wie „taz“ und ver.di-Publik) in einer Auflage von 200.000, hat 8 Seiten und ist durchgehend vierfarbig. Die Zeitung ist kostenlos, das Projekt übernimmt auch die Versandkosten. Die Zeitung ist ein Kooperationsprodukt der Erwerbslosen-Netzwerke. Sie wird getragen von der Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen (KOS), den verdi-Erwerbslosen, der Arbeitslosenselbsthilfe Oldenburg (ALSO), dem Erwerbslosenforum Deutschland, der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Prekäre Lebenslagen (BAG PLESA), dem Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste (ABSP) und Tacheles e.V., gefördert durch ver.di und die Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt. Die Zeitungen sind zu Bündeln mit 250 Stück verpackt. 250 sind somit die Mindestbestellmenge und größere Bestellungen müssen durch 250 teilbar sein.

Ansichtsexemplar (pdf) http://www.erwerbslos.de/images/stories/dokumente/aktivitaeten/extrablatt_update_13082010.pdf

Bestellzettel (pdf) http://www.erwerbslos.de/images/stories/dokumente/aktivitaeten/bestellzettelmai10.pdf

Bestellung per E-Mail info@erwerbslos.de oder Fax: 030/86 87 67 021

Bündnistreffen am 18.8.2010: „Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise“-NRW

Einladung zum Bündnis „Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise“-NRW am 18. August, 18:30 Uhr; ZaKK Düsseldorf, Fichtenstraße 40 http://www.sparpaket-annahme-verweigert.de/2010/08/12/buendnistreffen-am-18-8-2010-wir-zahlen-nicht-fuer-eure-krise-nrw/


Kurswechsel für ein gutes Leben - Gerecht geht anders!

„Die Sparbeschlüsse der Bundesregierung sind unausgewogen und ungerecht. Sie belasten gerade die Bevölkerungsteile, die nicht Verursacher der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen und politischen Probleme sind. Die Regierungen lassen sich zunehmend von neoliberalen Strategien zur Krisenbewältigung leiten. Fehlende Bildungschancen, Einsparungen im Öffentlichen Dienst, Abbau von Arbeitnehmerrechten, soziale Ungerechtigkeiten oder Rentenkürzungen sind nur einige Beispiele dafür. Die Gewerkschaften rufen deshalb zusammen mit anderen Gruppen zur Demonstration am 8. September um "5 nach 12" auf…“ Aufruf bei der IG Metall Braunschweig http://www.igm-bs.de/igm-bsnews/news/news-detail/artikel/kurswechsel-fuer-ein-gutes-leben-gerecht-geht-anders/


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2010

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4. August 2010

Die Kanzlerin muss Ost-Kürzungen zurücknehmen

Zur Veröffentlichung des "Atlas der Sozialkürzungen 2011 bis 2014" des Paritätischen Gesamtverbandes erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch:

Der Atlas der Sozialkürzungen 2011 bis 2014 des Paritätischen Gesamtverbandes zeigt deutlich, dass das Kürzungspaket der Bundesregierung die Menschen in Ostdeutschland besonders harten treffen wird. Der Atlas weist z.B. Kürzungen für den bayerischen Kreis Eichstädt von 8,36 Euro pro Einwohner im Jahresdurchschnitt aus. Der Kreis Randow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern muss dagegen mit Kürzungen von etwa 107 Euro je Einwohner im Jahresdurchschnitt rechnen. DIE LINKE fordert die Kanzlerin auf, als einziges Kabinettsmitglied aus Ostdeutschland, das Kürzungspaket zu ändern und die Sozialkürzungen zurückzunehmen. Das wäre nicht nur gut für den Osten, sondern für ganz Deutschland.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-kanzlerin-muss-ost-kuerzungen-zuruecknehmen/

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Unsoziales Sparpaket: Ihr Abgeordneter kann es stoppen
http://www.campact.de/spar/wk1/wkmail

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Mit dem Sparpaket wälzt die Bundesregierung die Kosten der Krise auf die Ärmsten ab

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/browse_thread/thread/04c8f6d9acc24fe2?hl=de#


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2010



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Erwerbslos
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialleistung
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sparpaket
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Langzeitarbeitslose: Politik ringt um Lösung für rechtswidrige Hartz-IV-Sätze

„Pläne der Bundesregierung, die Hartz-IV-Sätze entsprechend einem Auftrag des Bundesverfassungsgerichts neu zu berechnen, haben die Debatte um das Lohnabstandsgebot wieder belebt. Die Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände warnte gestern davor, durch zu hohe Hartz-IV-Sätze "neue Hürden für einen angemessenen Lohnabstand aufzubauen." Hartz IV dürfe nicht attraktiver werden als Arbeit, forderte auch Unionsfraktionsvize Michael Fuchs (CDU)…“ Artikel von Peter Thelen im Handelsblatt vom 03.08.2010 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/langzeitarbeitslose-politik-ringt-um-loesung-fuer-rechtswidrige-hartz-iv-saetze;2629177;0


Hartz IV-Regelsätze endlich armutsfest gestalten

„Zur Diskussion um die Neufestsetzung der Hartz IV-Regelsätze erklärte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach in Berlin: Die Neufestsetzung der Regelsätze muss die Kardinalfehler der bisherigen Regelsatzbe­messung beseitigen. Dazu gehört, dass die jährliche Anpassung verfassungswidrig an die Entwicklung der gesetzlichen Renten gekoppelt war. Der DGB fordert, dass sich die Anpassung nach der Preisentwicklung der regelsatzrelevanten Güter richten muss. Erwägungen zum Lohnabstand dürfen nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 9. Februar 2010 keine maßgebende Rolle mehr spielen. Das Problem der Armutslöhne lässt sich nicht über die Regelsätze lösen, sondern nur über flächendeckende Mindestlöhne…“ DGB-Pressemitteilung vom 02.08.2010 http://www.dgb.de/presse/++co++162400f0-9e3c-11df-6658-00188b4dc422/@@index.html


ver.di: Hartz IV ist die wesentliche Ursache für Armut

„Die Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) hat die aktuelle Diskussion in der schwarz-gelben Koalition um die Hartz-IV-Regelsätze scharf kritisiert. „Wir brauchen eine Generaldebatte über Hartz IV, da die Hartz-IV-Reformen wesentliche Ursache für Armut sind“, sagte ver.di-Bundesvorstandsmitglied Elke Hannack am Montag in Berlin. Die reflexhafte Ablehnung höherer Regelsätze durch Koalitionsabgeordnete sei völlig unangebracht. „Wir brauchen eine echte Reform und eine soziale Grundsicherung, die bedarfsorientiert, armutsfest und repressionsfrei ist“, betonte Hannack…“ ver.di-Pressemitteilung vom 02.08.2010 http://presse.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id=bd9c77d4-9e34-11df-7c6f-0019b9e321e1


Deutliche Erhöhung der Hartz IV-Sätze – Gutscheine sind der Gipfel der Geschmacklosigkeit

„Das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland fordert von der Bundesregierung eine deutliche Erhöhung der Hartz IV-Eckregelsätze. Schon jetzt zeigt sich, dass bei alleinstehenden Erwachsenen für ausreichende und gesunde Ernährung monatlich 80 Euro fehlen. Hinzu kommen noch andere Ausgabepositionen, die aus dem Regelsatz kaum gedeckt werden können. Gleichzeitig weist die Initiative Vorschläge nach einem Gutscheinsystem für Kinder als Gipfel der Geschmacklosigkeit zurück. Es könne nicht sein, dass Kinder und deren Eltern ohne Not stigmatisiert werden…“ Pressemitteilung vom 02.08.2010 http://www.elo-forum.net/Aktionen/Aktionen/-2010080220483.html


Ringen um das Existenzminimum

„Die konträren politischen Reaktionen auf das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 9. Februar 2010, wonach die bisherige Ermittlung der Kinder- und Erwachsenenregelsätze mit dem Grundrecht auf ein menschenwürdiges Existenzminimum nicht vereinbar ist, haben es deutlich gemacht: Die Politik und letztlich die Bevölkerung ist tief gespalten in der Frage, wie viel Geld man in Deutschland zu einem menschenwürdigen Leben und einem Mindestmaß an soziokultureller Teilhabe benötigt. Allein die Vorstellungen über die Höhe eines Regelsatzes für Alleinstehende variieren im Moment zwischen 132 e und 500 e pro Monat. Ebenfalls umstritten ist, wie viel Geld Familien – insbesondere Kinder – benötigen, außerdem die Höhe der notwendigen Unterkunftskosten, und ob es überhaupt nur bei gleichzeitiger Ableistung eines öffentlichen Arbeitsdienstes gezahlt werden soll. Warum diese Uneinigkeit fast 50 Jahre nach Einführung des Sozialhilfeanspruchs, mit dem parallel die systematische und mehr oder weniger transparente Ermittlung der verschiedenen Regel- und Sonderbedarfe vorangetrieben wurde?...“ Kommentar von Helga Spindler in WSI Mitteilungen 6/2010 (pdf) http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/wsimit_2010_06_kommentar.pdf


Wahlrecht beim Kinderzuschlag und »Dunkelziffer der Armut«

„Mit der Forderung nach einem Wahlrecht - Kinderzuschlag statt ALG II - verbundene Erwartungen scheinen nicht haltbar. Zwar ließe sich die Armutslücke für einen Teil der Dunkelziffer verringern. Dem stünden jedoch große Gefahren gegenüber, die in der Debatte völlig unter gehen. Die Dunkelziffer der Armut insgesamt würde im Ergebnis nicht verringert, sondern erhöht. Familienarmut würden nicht bekämpft, sondern forciert…“ Hintergrund Sozialpolitik von Johannes Steffen vom 03. August 2010 bei der Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen (pdf) http://www.ak-sozialpolitik.de/dukumente/2010/2010-08-03%20Wahloption%20Kinderzuschlag.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 4. August 2010

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19. August 2010

Existenzminimum darf nicht vom Gutdünken der Wirtschaft abhängen

Zu den Überlegungen des Deutschen Städte- und Gemeindebundes, in das geplante Chipkarten-System zur Förderung von "Hartz-IV-Kindern" die lokale Wirtschaft und Sponsoren einzubinden, erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende der LINKEN, Katja Kipping:

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat die Bundesregierung beauftragt, bei der Neuberechnung der Regelsätze, sicherzustellen, dass jedes Kind und jeder Erwachsen ein menschenwürdiges Existenzminimum bekommt. In der Debatte der letzten Wochen ist zu beobachten, wie dieser verfassungsrechtliche Auftrag Schritt für Schritt in der Öffentlichkeit heruntergehandelt wird. Zuerst wurde die Neuberechnung der Regelsätze für Erwachsene ausgeblendet, dann die Leistung für Kinder allein auf Sachleistung reduziert. Nun soll die Ausgestaltung der Chipkarte mittels privater Sponsoren aufgewertet werden. Doch die Garantie des Existenzminimums darf nicht vom Gutdünken der Wirtschaft abhängen. Eine solche Regelung hätte zudem zur Folge, dass Kinder in ärmeren Regionen, in denen finanzkräftige Sponsoren kaum vorhanden sind, Chipkarten mit deutlich geringerem Angebot bekämen als Kinder in reichen Gegenden. Wenn es um das verfassungsrechtlich gebotene Existenzminimum geht, darf ein Kind in Zittau nicht schlechter gestellt sein, als ein Kind in München. DIE LINKE setzt sich deswegen für eine Kindergrundsicherung in Höhe von 420 Euro ein.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/existenzminimum-darf-nicht-vom-gutduenken-der-wirtschaft-abhaengen/



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
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In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

08/03/10

The War Logs — a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks — documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective. And for the Afghans, a mounting horror. The War Logs, however valuable, may contribute to the unfortunate and prevailing doctrine that wars are wrong only if they aren’t successful — rather like the Nazis felt after Stalingrad...

http://tinyurl.com/2cxo8cg



Has Congress become useless?

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

08/03/10

Has Congress become ‘a useless appendix on the governmental structure?’ That was what then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., feared in 1968, according to newly released transcripts from the committee’s closed-session debates over Vietnam. Unless Congress was willing to assert itself on the war, he said, ‘I do not see how we have any real function.’ Last week found Congress once again doing a good imitation of a vestigial organ, as the House forked over $37 billion more for our endless Afghan adventure...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12023



Alpha dogs

San Francisco Chronicle
by Jon Carroll

08/03/10

The interesting thing about those 90,000 leaked documents from WikiLeaks about the Afghanistan war was how unsurprising they were…. They told us we were doing badly in Afghanistan, which, duh. … Secrecy for the sake of secrecy is what got us here, from way back in the halcyon days of the invasion of Iraq. Remember when you weren’t supposed to call it an ‘invasion’ …? Obama ain’t Bush, but he apparently is equally fanatical about stopping leaks in his White House. … Well, good luck on that one. He should be grateful for something like WikiLeaks, which at least took the time to redact certain documents that might put American soldiers in harm’s way...

http://tinyurl.com/266xx6m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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Food & Water Watch
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/03-10



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Ein britischer Bauer behauptet, Milch einer geklonten Kuh zu verkaufen, das könnte auch anderswo der Fall sein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33068/1.html



Möglicherweise sind Produkte geklonter Tiere schon in der EU weit verbreitet

In Großbritannien ist bekannt geworden, dass bereits Milch und Fleisch von Nachkommen geklonter Tiere als Lebensmittel verkauft wurden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/148127



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/03-3

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'For one million years, the Americans won't leave Iraq' says Iraqi
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9858/

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New Dawn, Old Story

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "In March of 2003, a pretend president launched a war of choice to pretend he was protecting America. The war, called Operation Iraqi Freedom, began under the premise that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons - which is 1,000,000 pounds - of sarin, VX and mustard gas, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, uranium from Niger for use in a 'robust' nuclear weapons program, and connections to al Qaeda that led directly to the attacks of September 11. George W. Bush said these things, and the media decided it must be so, and we were off to the races."

http://www.truth-out.org/new-dawn-old-story61966



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/ibd.second-american-revolution.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul687.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland23.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan143.html

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The War Party

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/04/10

I don’t know about you, but I find this frightening: that some men can be so unreflective, so immersed in their own ideological and economic bubble, that rational arguments simply bounce off of them. They are immune to argument, unable and unwilling to understand how militarism and imperialism are killing us and dragging us down into financial and moral bankruptcy. Sprung from the nexus of economics and foreign interventionism, they personify a growing sector of American society, one that derives both its income and its very identity from our ever-expanding Empire. These men and women are the enemies of our republic: they pose a deadly danger to the survival of the republican tradition...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/08/03/the-war-party/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'

By Paul B. Farrell

We've arrived at a historic turning point as a nation that no longer needs outside enemies to destroy us, we are committing suicide. Democracy. Capitalism. The American dream. All dying. Why? Because of the economic decisions of the GOP the past 40 years, says this leading Reagan Republican.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26133.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/goyette/goyette14.1.html



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As U.S. troops pull out of Iraq, the State Department will need to rely extensively on security contractors.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128946086&ft=1&f=3



Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors?

President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who says this instead marks the beginning of a downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely heavily on private military forces.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/3/end_of_iraq_combat_operations_or


From Information Clearing House

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FOX celebrates two US victories in Iraq, looks toward Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9857/



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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By Paul Craig Roberts

While Chelsea's wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and admire $250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, whose financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job offshoring, and unaffordable wars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26063.htm



Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?

By Nicholas C. Arguimbau

Once again we 6.9 billion people are on our own, without leaders or guidance. But we know what we must do, as individuals and nations: we must avoid gasohol and beef, because we cannot take food from the mouths of the hungry; we must manage and conserve our diminishing water supplies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26064.htm



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By Chris Hedges

Americans "are as capable of perpetuating evil as those who oppose us, and this existential crisis is one that turns those who have the courage to stand up and speak ... into outcasts, pariahs, prophets."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26067.htm



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On Friday, the Polish Border Guard Office released a number of documents to the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which, for the first time, provide details of the number of prisoners transferred by the CIA to a secret prison in Poland between December 5, 2002, and September 22, 2003, and, in one case, the number of prisoners who were subsequently transferred to a secret CIA prison in Romania."

http://www.truth-out.org/new-evidence-about-prisoners-held-secret-cia-prisons-poland-and-romania61965



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Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "As promised and on schedule, 'President Obama said US troops will end their combat mission in Iraq at the end of this month.... However, although troops will no longer officially be in combat mode, US forces will remain on the ground until December 2011, according to the terms of a 2008 Strategic Agreement between the US and Iraq."

http://www.truth-out.org/iraq-part-two-operation-new-dawn61955



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http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/1264/



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

„US-Elitesoldaten haben nach einem Medienbericht mindestens einen Taliban-Kommandeur in Afghanistan mit Hilfe deutscher Informationen gezielt getötet. Die Bundeswehr habe Qari Bashir 2009 zur Gefangennahme auf die Nato-Fahndungsliste gesetzt, berichtet der Spiegel. Der Mann sei dann im November 2009 bei einer mehrtägigen Operation nordwestlich von Kundus von US-Spezialkräften getötet worden. Bashir habe rund 50 Kämpfer unter seinem Befehl gehabt…“ Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 31.07.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/jagd-auf-taliban-bundeswehr-in-gezielte-toetung-verstrickt-1.982340


EADS macht (in) Schule

„Ein Kooperationsvertrag der EADS aus Friedrichshafen mit vier Gymnasien im Bodenseeraum sorgt für Unruhe. Welche Art der Zusammenarbeit wird da angestrebt zwischen Europas größtem Luft-, Raumfahrt- und Rüstungskonzern und den Schulen? „Verkaufen sich die Gymnasien an die Rüstungsindustrie“, wie die Friedensbewegung argwöhnt, oder handelt es sich um eine „Bildungspartnerschaft, wie es sie tausendfach im Land gibt“?...“ Artikel von H.-P. Koch vom 29. Juli 2010 bei SeeMoZ


Aus: LabourNet, 3. August 2010



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Reason
by Radley Balko

08/02/10

At the federal level alone there are now more than 4,500 separate crimes …. As citizens, we’re expected to know and obey all of these laws, in addition to state and local statutes and the relevant court opinions that interpret the breadth and depth of all of those laws. But what happens when law enforcement officials don’t know the law? What happens when they illegally detain, arrest, and charge you even though you’ve done nothing wrong? Unlike you, their ignorance doesn’t result in arrest or jail. And unless the violation is pretty egregious, they’re unlikely to be punished for it...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/02/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-exc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

08/02/10

Each time U.S. or NATO forces accidentally kill Afghan civilians, insurgents and their sympathizers typically retaliate with six additional assaults on foreign forces over the next six weeks, researchers using newly declassified NATO data conclude. A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research supports the prevailing view of counterinsurgency strategists who believe civilian casualties help Taliban recruiting drives...

http://tinyurl.com/28cy9bv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Wer die gefühlte zehntausendste Debatte über eine mögliche Erhöhung der Hartz IV-Sätze verfolgt, der hat manchmal das Gefühl, eine Gruppierung wie HGIchT sei in ihren Titeln wie "Tutenchamun" das Vorbild für manche Politiker.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/148112



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Die Frage ist nicht so wichtig, glaubt die Bundeswehr. Ganz schön naiv.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33010/1.html



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Der Kontakt zum Arbeitskreis Christlicher Publizisten (ACP) gehört zur Familientradition, mit dem auch andere CDU-Größen in Kontakt stehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32996/1.html



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Die Truppenerhöhung hat nichts bewirkt, also sollen nun gezielte Tötungen die Macht der Aufständischen brechen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33065/1.html



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Shadowy Spy Group Building Dossiers On Internet Users For Feds

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 2, 2010

An organization that tracks 250 million IP addresses a day has been developing portfolios on Internet users and handing the information to U.S. federal agencies as the latest incarnation of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness spy program is revealed.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/shadowy-spy-group-building-dossiers-on-internet-users-for-feds.html

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Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It

By Josh Silver

Since its beginnings, the Net was a level playing field that allowed all content to move at the same speed, whether it's ABC News or your uncle's video blog. That's all about to change, and the result couldn't be more bleak for the future of the Internet, for television, radio and independent voices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26104.htm



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the fuel for the bubble, the economists played an essential role as enablers. This was most directly true for economists in policymaking positions, like Alan Greenspan at the Fed."

http://www.truth-out.org/economists-tell-masses-it-could-have-been-worse61935



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Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service: "Contrary to recent media reports of a quick recovery in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists and biologists are 'deeply concerned' about impacts that will likely span 'several decades.' 'My prediction is that we will be dealing with the impacts of this spill for several decades to come and it will outlive me,' Dr. Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer, as well as a marine and oyster biologist, told IPS, 'I won't be here to see the recovery.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/scientists-deeply-concerned-about-bp-disasters-long-term-impact61946

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Gulf Oil Flow was 12 Times More Than Feds' Original Estimate
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/03-2

BP's Plan to 'Disperse' Lawsuits
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/08/03-0

Oilgate! BP and All the President's Men (Except One) Seek to Contain Truth of Leak in the Gulf
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/03-7



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Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "Last week, The Washington Post concluded a two-year investigation of our government's domestic spying activities, revealing a lack of accountability pervading its far-flung and vast operations. Last week, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming that the FBI is violating the constitutional rights of Americans en masse - as it has done before."

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Alyeska Pipeline, the BP-led consortium that operates the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), has implemented deep budget cuts, deferred work on a number of important maintenance and upgrade projects, failed to study how relocating engineers would impact the safe operations and long-term integrity of the pipeline and is led by a chief executive who was described by the company's five vice presidents as 'intimidating,' 'demeaning,' 'aggressive,' 'confrontational,' 'unpredictable,' 'polarizing,' 'withering,' 'edgy,' 'vulgar' and 'inappropriate.' Those are just some of the critical findings contained in a closely held report obtained exclusively by Truthout."

http://www.truth-out.org/BP-Executive-Turned-Alyeska-Pipeline-Into-Deeply+Distressed-Company61927



Alyeska, Federal Regulators Probing Employee's "Cover-Up" Claims Related to May Oil Spill

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "An Alyeska Pipeline Service Company engineer sent a letter to federal regulators and BP's Office of the Ombudsman claiming internal company documents were altered following a 4,500-barrel oil spill May 25 to cover up the fact that Alyeska allegedly failed to perform maintenance on a key piece of equipment."

http://www.truth-out.org/alyeska-federal-regulators-probing-employees-cover-up-claims-related-may-oil-spill62677



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War Is Coming
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey53.1.html

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Intel Experts Warn Obama Israel May Bomb Iran This Month

VIPS memo says Netanyahu planning surprise attack that will make it politically untenable for U.S. to do anything other than offer full support for military campaign

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of former intelligence and military officials, warns President Obama in a memo that Israel is preparing to attack Iran this month, and that Obama needs to publicly denounce such an attack in order to prevent a wider war and the ultimate destruction of Israel.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/intel-experts-warn-obama-israel-may-bomb-iran-this-month.html

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Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran

By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26077.htm



Nothing Short of Nukes Will Work

By Gwynne Dyer

The problem is that there's nothing the US can do to Iran, short of nuking the place, that would really force Tehran to kneel and beg for mercy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26099.htm



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Anti-Defamers Defame Muslims
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo92.html

New York Mosque: Bigotry Rears Its Head
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis201.html

Beware of Mosque-Building Muslims
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/combs2.1.1.html

Cordoba House: The Acid Test
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo95.html

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Cossacks in tricorns

Unqualified Offerings
by Jim Henley

08/02/10

[T]the Right’s anti-Muslim crusade has already moved past ’sentiment’ even if you don’t count waging war on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and pushing war against Iran as ‘anti-Muslim.’ (Since, after all, when we wage war on someone it’s for their own good.) But the national campaign against building an Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan and the separate attempts to stop the construction of Mosques and other Muslim buildings elsewhere in the country already constitute an active program of religious oppression...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2010/08/02/11514



My shameful take on the mosque

Liberty For All
by John Jay Myers

08/09/10

I called this ‘My shameful take on the Mosque’, because I believe our country has much more important things to worry about than destroying property rights and freedom of religion. I have noticed that every time election time comes around the media pulls out all the truly divisive issues in our culture. This is a shame. It is a shame that I have to defend the basic principles of our country in this day and age. Possibly more shameful that I have to do it to combat rhetoric from my peers...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4673



The War Party’s new torchlight parade

Pro Libertate
by Will Grigg

08/12/10

The most powerful patron of radical Islam is not Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia. It is the government headquartered in Washington, D.C., which for more than a half-century has diligently cultivated Islamic terrorism. Yet millions of Americans are suffering what amounts to a collective loss of bladder control over the purported threat embodied in the proposed Cordoba House — the Islamic equivalent of a YMCA — in New York City...

http://tinyurl.com/26u56nz



A manufactured controversy

CounterPunch
by Anthony DiMaggio

08/12/10

The reactionary right has long been opposed to anything related to Arab culture and the Muslim religion in New York and around the country. … This brings us to the most recent ‘controversy’ related to Islam: the Muslim community center planned for Manhattan. Right wingers in radio and at Fox News have gone into overdrive attacking it as a fundamental threat to the American way of life and to American security...

http://counterpunch.org/dimaggio08122010.html



What political courage looks like

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

08/17/10

Aside from Michael Bloomberg’s impassioned, principled speech in defense of Park 51 — and, if one wants to be generous about it, Barack Obama’s initial, voluntary defense of the religious freedom values at stake — there have been very few commendable acts in this dispute. Until now. The developer of the project, Sharif El-Gamal, gave his first interview this afternoon, with NY 1, and categorically refused even to consider backing down. He made clear that Park 51 has the absolute constitutional right to build a community center in Lower Manhattan, and refused even to acknowledge the toxic notion that Muslims generally somehow bear responsibility for the 9/11 attack...

http://tinyurl.com/24cdkep



Why opponents of the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque are tools for al-Qaeda

Austro-Athenian Empire
by Roderick T. Long

08/19/10

Al-Qaeda seeks to combat the idea that people of different religions can live harmoniously together in the same society. The anti-mosqueteers are certainly doing their best to combat this idea as well. Al-Qaeda seeks to subordinate private property rights to religious law. This is exactly what the anti-mosqueteers do when they declare other people’s property ’sacred ground’ and propose on this basis to interfere with their peaceful use of it...

http://tinyurl.com/25xk69s



Chronology of a bizarre controversy

CounterPunch
by Gary Leupp

08/22/10

Thus by mid-August a modest project by a mainstream U.S. Muslim group backed by the New York City mayor and unanimously approved by the New York City community committee has been transformed into a general attack on Muslim rights in this country. The scary thing is that disapproval is so widespread, bipartisan, and driven by irrational fear if not hatred. What does this tell us about this country? It tells us that nine years after 9-11 (and nice centuries after the First Crusade), Islamophobia is rampant and politically useful...

http://counterpunch.org/leupp08192010.html



Mosque criticism sheds bad light on America

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

08/22/10

Let them build the ‘mosque.’ Whining over the building of a $100 million Islamic cultural center — known officially as Park51 and informally as Cordoba House — just blocks away from where the World Trade Center towers once stood before being destroyed by Islamic terrorists nine years ago is the perfect example of why I gladly became a libertarian...

http://tinyurl.com/24eje7a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Defending the Mosque

Joe Conason, Truthout: "No recent controversy has so plainly revealed the hollow values of the American right than the effort to prevent the construction of a community center in Lower Manhattan because it will include a mosque. Arguments in opposition range from a professed concern for the sensitivities of the Sept. 11 victims' families to a primitive battle cry against Islam - but what they all share is an arrant disregard for our country's founding principles."

http://www.truth-out.org/joe-conason-defending-mosque62040



Mosque Mania: Anti-Muslim Fears and the Far Right

Stephan Salisbury, TomDispatch: "There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The angry 'debate' over whether the building should exist has a kind of glitch-in-the-Matrix feel to it, leaving in its wake an aura of something-very-bad-about-to-happen."

http://www.truth-out.org/mosque-mania-anti-muslim-fears-and-far-right62175



Pandering Over a Mosque

Eugene Robinson: "Lies, distortions, jingoism, xenophobia - another day, another campaign issue that Republicans can use to bash President Obama and the Democrats. First it was illegal immigration. Now it's the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque,' which is not at all what its opponents claim."

http://www.truth-out.org/eugene-robinson-pandering-over-a-mosque62365



Ground Zero for Tolerance

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Are the Republicans terminally stupid, or are they just playing the dangerous fool? In either case, the irrational attack on Muslims everywhere by the GOP's leadership is not only deeply subversive with regard to the American ideal of religious tolerance but also poses a profound threat to our national security. Nor does it help that some top Democrats, like Harry Reid, are willing to demean Muslims even as we fight two wars in which victory depends on our ability to convey a respect for their religion."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-ground-zero-tolerance62426



Mosques, Muslims and America in Darkness

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Things have come to a pretty pass when I'm the guy saying it would be really helpful if George W. Bush were still around. I'm saying it, and I mean it, because this country could really use his brand of wisdom right now."

http://www.truth-out.org/mosques-muslims-and-america-darkness62409

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Opponents fight new mosques in U.S. heartland

Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation's heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near the World Trade Center site, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-08-08-mosque-opposition_N.htm



Mosque Debate: Keith Ellison 'Gets It,' While Harry Reid Gets In the Way

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison did a terrific job of explaining Monday why Democrats ought not fear the sad little debate about whether to allow a moderate Muslim group to build an Islamic Center near the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/154054/mosque-debate-keith-ellisongets-itwhile-harry-reid-gets-way



Muslim Community Center

Keith Olbermann - Special Comment

Video

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment about the Muslim Community Center in New York, erroneously called the "Ground Zero Mosque".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26189.htm



America Has Disgraced Itself

By Peter Beinart

Conservative fury over the "ground zero" mosque shows that when it comes to the battle for freedom and religious liberty, the U.S. has thrown in the towel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26202.htm



It's Not About The "Mosque"! It's America's War On "the Other."

By Will Bunch

This country has long had its Know-Nothings and its Birchers and its McCarthyites, but it never had gizmos like Fox News or Sarah Palin's Twitter feed to fuel toxic ideas so far so fast. It's time we admit these seemingly disconnected battles over "anchor babies, mosques, and a black man in the Oval Office are all part of the same war against "the Other," and that we are in the fight of a lifetime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26201.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Manhattan Mosque Debate Fuels Islamophobia Nationwide
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/13-3

Pro-Mosque Mom Who Lost Pregnant Daughter In Trade Center: 9/11 Families 'Not Monolithic'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/16-8



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Congressman says PFC Bradley Manning Should Face Death Penalty for Wikileaks Case

"If they don't charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder."
http://bit.ly/a0tLvh


From Information Clearing House

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Remarks in Support of Whistleblower Private Manning

Ray McGovern, Truthout: "We are living in a liminal time, that is to say, we live on the threshold. So much that we have taken for granted is passing. In times like this, we must be careful to keep our bearings, lest we come to love the chaos that passes for reality. This is why we need to honor our brother Bradley Manning. He was not afraid to face the unknown; not afraid to resist the seduction of conformity; not afraid to follow his conscience; AND not afraid to give us the wherewithal to distinguish truth from lies so that we, too, can follow our conscience."

http://www.truth-out.org/rally-support-private-manning62147



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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis198.html

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How the Wikileaks are changing Afghan hearts and minds

The New Republic
by Anand Gopal

08/02/10

For many Afghans, the release of thousands of secret military documents — which detail civilian casualties, corrupt officials, and meddlesome neighbors — amounts to a vindication of their view of the war. Many in the West argue the documents contain little new, and that may be true in general. But the devil resides in the details, and the details here paint a vivid and devastating picture of how Afghans view the American war...

http://tinyurl.com/32rqpup


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Anger at Wikileaks in U.S. political circles continues to grow'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9856/

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Pakistan No Obedient Ally

By Eric Margolis

WikiLeaks data shows how volatile nation is forced to act against own self interests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26070.htm

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WikiLeaks vs. the Pentagon: The Internet Wars
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/254c57c8d4504d42?hl=en

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Evidence of a Failed Mission
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/03-2

Thanks to WikiLeaker, Afghan War Will End Soon
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/03-6

Veterans & Military Families Say Pentagon Statements on Wikileaks Aim to Cloud Real Issues
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/03-0



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=margolis
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Anand+Gopal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis

CBC of Canada's revealing video documentary on HAARP.

For part one

http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/haarp_video_documentary

http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/haarp_video_documentary_2


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

08/01/10

The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret U.S. documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political pressure on Obama to seek with all speed a diplomatic conclusion to this war. … Wikileaks’ founder, Julian Assange, skillfully arranged simultaneous publication of the secret material in the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel. The story broke on the eve of a war-funding vote in the U.S. Congress. Thirty-six hours after the stories hit the news stands, the U.S. House of Representatives last Tuesday evening voted Aye to a bill already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. To be sure, more US Reps voted against escalation than a year ago when the Noes totted up to only 35. That’s a crumb of comfort, but the cruel truth is that in 24 hours the White House and Pentagon, with the help of licensed members of the Commentariat and papers like the Washington Post, had finessed the salvoes from Wikileaks...

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn07302010.html



A brief refresher on the Taliban’s worst-kept secret

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

07/30/10

The ‘most damning collection of data’ in Wikileaks’ massive trove of secret documents from Afghanistan are 180 files that show the Pakistani intelligence service helping Taliban insurgents in their fight against US forces. The documents are dark reading indeed: They describe Pakistani agents meeting directly with the Taliban, supporting commanders of the insurgency, and even training suicide bombers. But for anyone versed in the contemporary history of Afghanistan, they are hardly news. The Wikileaks data dump is just the tip of the iceberg; ISI black ops and double-crosses date back at least three decades. Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, is merely feeding a monster it helped create back in the 1990s — with the full knowledge of the United States. Indeed, in concert with the CIA, the Pakistani spy agency also helped create Al Qaeda, and continued to support it long after it had gone astray of US interests...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/wikileaks-taliban-afghanistan



Bonfire of the neocons

The American Spectator
by Jed Babbin

Part 1
08/02/10

By the end of August, over 100,000 U.S. troops will be engaged in the counterinsurgency campaign and in less than a year the final curtain will begin to fall on the greatest wartime mistake America has made since Lyndon Johnson put Robert McNamara in charge of the Vietnam War: the strategy of nation-building...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/02/bonfire-of-the-neocons



Bonfire of the neocons

The American Spectator
by Jed Babbin

Part 2
08/03/10

Call it nation-building, call it counterinsurgency, the neocon way of war is based on the antihistorical idea that the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are capable of resolution within those nations’ borders. It willfully ignores the conclusive influence that the intervention of foreign terror-sponsoring nations has. Many of us who supported military action in Afghanistan and Iraq weren’t neocons then, and by condemning nation-building now aren’t turning coat...

http://tinyurl.com/39bnevf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Wikileaks posts 'insurance' against reprisal from 'authoritarian power'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9854/

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Afghanistan: It's Even Worse Than You Thought

By Haroon Siddiqui

The buckets-full of leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan have elicited three responses, all misguided.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26061.htm



270 civilians killed in July in Afghanistan

Two hundred and seventy civilians were killed in different security incidents in July across the country which shows a 29 percent increase in comparison with the previous month,' Xinhua quoted a spokesman for the interior ministry as saying.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/667055/cs/1/



Afghanistan shows signs of cracking

In fighting to "win" in Helmand or Kandahar provinces, we are fighting against the Pashtun people. This, in Galbraith's view, is hopeless, and he is probably right. The same goes for regions bordering Pakistan, such as Paktia and Nangahar.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100731/OPINION01/707319979



Kiss This War Goodbye

We may look back at the war logs as a herald of the end of America's engagement in Afghanistan just as the Pentagon Papers are now a milestone in our slo-mo exit from Vietnam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=1&hp



Witness says WikiLeaks investigators sought to limit disclosure

The computer expert also said the Army offered him cash to, in his word, "infiltrate" WikiLeaks. "I turned them down," he said. "I don't want anything to do with this cloak-and-dagger stuff."

http://bit.ly/arBKca



Daniel Ellsberg's WikiLeaks wish list

Outlook asked Ellsberg for his wish list of documents to be leaked, declassified or otherwise made public, documents that could fundamentally alter public understanding of key national security issues and foreign policy debates. He outlines his selections and calls for congressional investigations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/30/AR2010073002673_pf.html


From Information Clearing House



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

08/01/10

While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian casualties hitting their highest level in more than two years — figures the U.S. rushed on Sunday to dispute...

http://tinyurl.com/23oxwkp



The twenty years war

Boston Globe
by John Tirman

08/01/10

Twenty years ago tomorrow, Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, seized the capital, occupied the country, and sent the Kuwaiti ruling family into Saudi Arabia. The United States, Britain, and other major powers responded quickly, imposed sanctions on Iraq and told Saddam to quit Kuwait. Thus began the first of three phases of what has become, in effect, our Twenty Years War, an extraordinary American venture. How and why has this happened? Two strains of conventional wisdom purport to explain. … But these explanations are incomplete. The Twenty Years War is only the latest manifestation of a recurrent American tendency: the ‘rrand to the wilderness,’ to use the Puritans’ phrase, in which we (European-origin Americans) would tame and subdue the savages of the wilderness, extract its bounty, and remake it in our own image...

http://tinyurl.com/2ewfs87


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Speech and Iraq Realities
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/02-6



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo59.1.html

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Runaway federal spending good for special interests, bad for the rest of us

Liberty For All
by Brian Irving

07/31/10

‘Over the past few years, U.S. government debt held by the public has grown rapidly — to the point that, compared with the total output of the economy, it is now higher than it has ever been except during the period around World War II.’ That’s the chilling opening line of a brief recently released by the Congressional Budget Office. The non-partisan CBO warns that without significant policy reforms ‘growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels’...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4616


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=budget
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Simon Moyle, Waging Nonviolence: "The last month has seen six Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, bringing our country's total to seventeen. Yet even with a federal election looming and 61 percent of Australians wanting troops brought home, our involvement in the war has bipartisan support. In fact, far from raising questions over our mission there, these deaths seem to only strengthen the government's resolve to remain. The same seems to be true of the U.S. and many other NATO countries."

http://www.truth-out.org/afghanistan-and-sacrifice-trap61907



The War on Terror: Beyond the Military

Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Truthout: "We certainly cannot expect to defeat terrorism when the War on Terror itself creates indifference and fosters misunderstanding among our own citizens. In America, we now accept secrecy in this War on Terror as common, acceptable and subject only to the amount of scrutiny that shadowy operatives in the government deem appropriate for disclosure. In America, the War on Terror has become a subjective 'us' versus 'them' battle that serves to advance stereotypes based upon who we believe we are as Americans and who, or what, we perceive them to be."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-war-terror-beyond-military62078

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Americans should be asked to sacrifice for the war on terrorism. But sacrifice what?

The New Republic
by Andrew J. Bacevich

08/04/10

Typically, this sort of question serves as a prelude to an appeal to restore the draft. Yet when it comes to sacrifice, there’s a more immediately available option. Hit Americans where it hurts: in their pocketbooks. If Iraq (Bush’s War) and Afghanistan (Obama’s War) are so all-fired important, then we ought to be funding those conflicts on a pay-as-you-go basis. After September 11, the Bush administration employed tax cuts to purchase popular acquiescence in its plan for open-ended war. Using borrowed money to underwrite the global war on terrorism has freed the present generation from any obligation to cover the financial costs incurred. It’s not our problem...

http://tinyurl.com/26wgqox


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
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Rick Wolff, Monthly Review: "Where is this elusive recovery? The banks, some say, have 'recovered.' Yet they remain dependent on Washington, they do not make the loans needed for a general recovery, and many medium and small banks keep collapsing.... Everywhere else - unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, depressed housing market, and so on - no recovery in sight. Yet, my search finally found genuine recovery for one group, and its recovery offers a better policy to treat this crisis."

http://www.truth-out.org/economic-recovery-few61906

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The Avoidable Depression; "No one believes the U.S. is the land of opportunity anymore"

By Mike Whitney

8 million jobs have been lost since the beginning of the recession, but policymakers on Capital Hill and at the Fed refuse to initiate government programs or provide funding that will put the country back to work. Long-term "structural" unemployment is here to stay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26081.htm



The Unemployment Horror Show

"When you combine the long-term unemployed with those who are dropping out and those who are working part-time because they can't find anything else, it is just far beyond anything we've seen in the job market since the 1930s."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/opinion/10herbert.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print


From Information Clearing House

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As the Obama Economic Team Bails, the System Fails to Generate Jobs. Are the Causes 'Structural'?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09-5

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This recession is not like the others

The American Spectator
by Ron Ross

08/12/10

At 33 months [the current recession] is already more than three times longer than the average length of the other ten recessions we’ve had since WWII. There are no clear signs it will be ending anytime soon. Glimmers of a recovery appear from time to time, but most indicators remain depressed and many are worsening. On balance, the outlook is more negative than positive. Not since the Great Depression have we had two consecutive years of unemployment in excess of nine percent. What we’re seeing is economic stagnation...

http://tinyurl.com/2c33pa3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=recession
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Steuergeschenke für besonders klimaschädliche Industrien und Subventionen für den Flugverkehr müssten zur Sanierung des Haushaltes und aus ökologischen Gründen gestrichen werden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689392ms218



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=klimaschädlich
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Zach Carter, AlterNet: "The SEC just hit two Citigroup executives with fines for concealing $40 billion in subprime mortgage debt from investors back in 2007. The biggest fine is going to Citi CFO Gary Crittenden, who will pay $100,000 to settle allegations that he screwed over his own investors. The year of the alleged wrongdoing, Crittenden took home $19.4 million. That's right. Crittenden will lose one-half of one percent of his income from the year he hid a quagmire of bailout-inducing insanity from his own investors. That's it. No indictment. No prison time. Crittenden doesn't even have to formally acknowledge any wrongdoing."

http://www.truth-out.org/sec-lets-citi-execs-go-free-after-40-billion-subprime-lie61895



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Auch die Gewerkschaften schlagen Alarm: Sollen Hartz IV Bezieher demnächst quasi in "Hundehütten" wohnen? Die Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft Verdi kritisiert die Planungen der schwarz-gelben Koalition, die Wohnungsgrößen für ALG II Bezieher massiv zu beschränken. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/verdi-hartz-iv-bezieher-in-hundehuetten-gedraengt-10182.php



Wohngeld - Kürzungen

Bundesbauminister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) wollte noch weitreichendere Wohngeld-Kürzungen, diese sind nun vom Tisch. Dennoch wird wie geplant der Heizkostenzuschuss beim Wohngeld gestrichen. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/wohngeld-wird-dennoch-gekuerzt-1667.php



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south+asia-10647108



http://jgladvin.blogspot.com/

US economy shows signs of slowdown as consumer spending falters

"Normally at this stage of the recovery we see confidence returning, but that just isn't happening at the moment. Instead we see anxiety about the future and the outlook for sub-trend growth," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/30/us-economy-falters-consumer-spending-slows



IMF Says U.S. Financial System May Need $76 Billion in Capital

The U.S. financial system remains fragile and banks subjected to additional economic stress might need as much as $76 billion in capital, according to the results of International Monetary Fund stress tests.

http://bit.ly/b7X8CI



Homes keep falling into foreclosure as programs fail to help

In the first half of 2010, more than 1.6 million U.S. properties were hit with foreclosure filings, which include bank repossessions, default notices and auction sale notices.

http://bit.ly/9CfWk0


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=consumer+spending

Thirty-two soldiers, including 11 in the Guard and Reserve, killed themselves last month, a rate of suicide not seen since the Vietnam War. Seven of the suicides took place in Iraq or Afghanistan.

http://bit.ly/cAw0Lk


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Army+suicide

By Jeremy Binckes

Former Speaker of the House twice called on the United States to attack North Korea and Iran because the United States has only attacked "one out of three" of so-called Axis of Evil" members by invading Iraq. He also claimed that Muslims are trying to install Sharia law on America and said that the "War on Terror" should have been a war on "radical Islamists" instead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26048.htm



Exporting Death And Destruction

Obama Seeks to Expand Arms Exports

By Maggie Bridgeman

The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier - holding 30 per cent of the market - but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26049.htm



Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism

By James Petras

Western societies and states are moving inexorably toward conditions resembling barbarism; structural changes are reversing decades of social welfare and subjecting labor, natural resources and the wealth of nations to raw exploitation, pillage and plunder, driving living standards downward and provoking unprecedented levels of discontent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26052.htm

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Newt Gingrich: A menace to society?

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

08/03/10

While it sounds farcical, Gingrich’s usual demagoguery and naked opportunism has taken on an even more cynical and pernicious tone this time around. While it’s obvious it’s All About Newt and his lusting after the kind of pied piper eminence he enjoyed and squandered 20 years ago, his latest machinations — predicting an Islamist invasion and tyranny on par with 18th-century colonial oppression under King George III — plays on the darkest impulses coursing through the country today: fear, prejudice, xenophobia, and rage. As selfish as it is reckless, he had better be careful what he wishes for...

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/08/02/newt-gingrich/



I guess it’s the singer, not the song

The Libertarian Standard
by William N. Grigg

08/19/10

[Newt] Gingrich may be history’s purest specimen of cynical political opportunism. As a recent Esquire profile makes clear, he doesn’t really believe in anything, other than his qualifications to tutor the rest of us. Like Lenin, Gingrich is adept at identifying and exploiting grievances — or creating them ex nihilo. He is many loathsome things, but ’stupid’ isn’t in that inventory. Gingrich knows that he’s spewing unfiltered nonsense about the ‘mosque at Ground Zero,’ and that he’s engendering hatred toward a moderate, establishment-centered Muslim cleric whose ‘radical’ views aren’t that different from his own...

http://tinyurl.com/38jsomu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Here's what Gingrich is looking at: he wants to see if the GOP makes significant gains in both houses of Congress in the November elections. If the GOP wins one house (especially if enough real conservatives win), I predict Gingrich will enter the race. So he can ride a conservative wave into the White House in 2012? No! So he can derail any potential conservative momentum that the Tea Parties might be able to create in this year's November elections. You see, Newt Gingrich is the Grinch Who Stole Conservatism from the GOP.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin606.htm



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Die Studie der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft schiebt erwartungsgemäß die Schuld dem Staat als schlechten Banker zu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148103

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Banken im Test: Die Blamage geht weiter – Gesetzesverstöße sorgen für schlechte Noten

Die Qualität der Anlageberatung von Banken ist in den vergangenen Monaten noch schlechter geworden. Hauptgrund: Die meisten Kreditinstitute halten sich nicht immer an die gesetzlichen Vorgaben.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689423ms219

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Einladung zur Aktionskonferenz 21. August 2010, Frankfurt/M.

DIE VERURSACHER UND PROFITEURE DER KRISE BLOCKIEREN

Jahrelang strichen Banken und Konzerne Gewinne von 15-20 Prozent ein, ohne dass dieser Reichtum der Gesellschaft zu Gute kam. Dann führte der Banken-und Finanzsektor die Weltwirtschaft an den Rand eines Kreislaufkollapses. Die Krise ist weltweit. Für den größten Teil der Menschheit bedeutet sie schon lange Hunger, Unterdrückung und Krieg. Jetzt ist sie in den Metropolen angekommen.

Link zum Artikel:
http://www.aku-wiesbaden.de/artikel_342.htm



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Der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) fordert unter anderem einen "Resetknopf" für das Internet. So sollen im Ernstfall "landesweite Netze vom Internet abgeklemmt werden" - aber wozu?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33035/1.html

Die Gefahr eines "Double-Dip" wächst
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33052/1.html



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

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9850/

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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I've been trying to wrap my mind around the dispiriting sense of failure that seems to have enveloped the Obama administration on the eve of the November midterms. The right hates him because he won, because he's Black, and because he won.... The left is up in arms because he hasn't met the lofty goals set after his election, and because he's allowed himself to get rolled by the right and their corporate paymasters."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-missing-piece-meets-big-o61887

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If President Obama carries on like this, he will be a lame duck

FreedomWorks
by Ted Abram

08/02/10

The president hasn’t grown into the job — all that’s needed to beat him is a serious Republican, says Simon Heffer in New York. Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph of England finds President Obama and his administration interested in their philosophical agenda at the expense of good governance. He writes: ‘This immediate proof of mismanagement adds to the cumulative feeling on so many other fronts that Mr. Obama and his team simply don’t understand governance’...

http://tinyurl.com/2ey7o9h


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=war+supplemental
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts280.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Treasury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/roberts

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north871.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/north

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/30-9



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+Flanders

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/30-10

What's Sadly Missing in Time's Afghan Cover
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/30-3

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WikiLeaks: Who's Hiding What and Why
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed183.html

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WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary Repercussions
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/93c894e78c63fef1?hl=en

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Wikileaks: Our Weapon Shop of Isher

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

07/30/10

It’s too bad the Nobel Peace Prize went to a bloody-handed guy who’s waging two wars, instead of to people like Julian Assange and Bradley Manning who’ve weakened his ability to fight them. It’s impossible to overstate just how big this is. This is a giant leap forward for the kind of networked resistance I constantly advocate in this column: not lobbying or begging the state for permission, but bypassing it and treating it as irrelevant. This is a monumental contribution to the ability of free people to organize the kind of society they want here and now, below the state’s radar and beyond the reach of its enforcement apparatus...

http://c4ss.org/content/3332


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Julian+Assange
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Froomkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Mitchell
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/reed
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Carson

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-2



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-7

Oil Industry Safety Record Blown Open
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-3

New Protest Song About BP Oil Spill in Gulf Coast
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/30-2

'Why Can't We Say No?' City Councilman Pushes Back Against Marcellus Drilling
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/17-6

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Devastation: You Can Smell the Oil From a Helicopter and Birds are Frying!

Video

The environmental devastation is now becoming more apparent, as is the human health hazard, courtesy of BP’s reckless use of toxic dispersants. Don’t go near the Gulf of Mexico without reading this first!

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Despite Anger Over BP Spill, Washington Might Not Act on It

Shashank Bengali and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers: "Congress is considering stricter regulation of oil exploration, and the Obama administration has pledged to overhaul the disgraced federal agency that oversees oil drilling. Already, however, some of the toughest proposals are facing stiff opposition from Republicans and some Gulf Coast Democrats whose constituents rely on the oil industry for jobs."

http://www.truth-out.org/despite-anger-over-bp-spill-washington-might-not-act-it61893

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Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There's No Oil

It's BP's job to whitewash this story and make it easier to indulge the desire to forget about the scope of the devastation, guys. Not the media's.

http://bit.ly/9ARVCJ


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+industry
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=mainstream+media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pete+Seeger
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Lesley+Clark
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Tasker
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Shashank+Bengali
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=William+Douglas
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Smydo

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/3720dd963ff07f2?hl=de



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazonas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Belo+Monte
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Regenwald

Computerworld

An der Hackerkonferenz Black Hat in Las Vegas hat ein Security-Experte gezeigt, dass sich die ´-Chips in US-Pässen auch aus gut 70 Meter Entfernung ...

http://www.computerworld.ch/aktuell/news/51932/



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

The American Conservative
by Kelley B. Vlahos

07/29/10

Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can access without warrant for so-called counter-terror investigations …

http://tinyurl.com/2cmbr62



National insecurity

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/30/10

There’s a country that earlier generations might not recognize in which the national government’s criminal investigative agency can execute its own warrants without court approval; present them to private companies and demand information about people who are not necessarily suspected of criminal wrongdoing; and — if that were not enough — forbid those companies from telling anyone — not even the target of the investigation. The country I have in mind is not a Latin American banana republic or a Middle Eastern dictatorship. It’s the United States of America...

http://tinyurl.com/237z59u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=law+enforcement
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=counterterror
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

The American Prospect
by Julian Sanchez

07/29/10

They’re calling it a tweak — a ‘technical clarification’ — but make no mistake: The Obama administration and the FBI’s demand that Congress approve a huge expansion of their authority to obtain the sensitive Internet records of American citizens without a judge’s approval is a brazen attack on civil liberties. At issue is the scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to obtain information from ‘electronic communications service providers’ using National Security Letters (NLS), which compel private companies to allow government access to communication records without a court order. The administration wants to add four words — ‘electronic communication transactional records’ — to Section 2709 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which spells out the types of communications data that can be obtained with an NSL...

http://tinyurl.com/3yrhf9a



Google, CIA invest in “Future” of web monitoring

Wired
by Noah Shachtman

07/29/10

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by ‘looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events’...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/



Your innocence is no protection

Liberty For All
by Harry Browne

When the politicians violate the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act or some other guaranteed-to-bring-peace-and-security-to-the-world scheme, they always reassure us by saying: ‘If you aren’t guilty, you have nothing to fear.’ If only that were so. The truth is that innocence is no protection at all against government agencies with the power to do what they think best — or against a government agent hoping for promotion and willing to do whatever he can get away with... (written 12/03; posted 07/29/10)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4610


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=power+grab
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Electronic+Communications+Privacy+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Letters
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=internet+records
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julian+Sanchez
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noah+Shachtman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Browne

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/29-0

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The fraud of “Big-Picture” thinking

Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

07/29/10

Politicians, pundits, and others perennially invoke the ‘Big Picture.’ Recognizing the role of the Big Picture is vital to understanding how contemporary democracies are going off the rail. The Big Picture provides preemptive exoneration for almost anyone who wants to kowtow and cheerlead for political power. Fifteen years ago, there was a hullabaloo to denounce ‘politically correct’ mandates and imperatives. But the biggest beneficiary of ‘politically correct’ thinking may be political power itself...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1037


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=political+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=politically+correct
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Bovard

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/29-3



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=internet+record
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Muriel+Kane

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/29-4

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Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World

By Stephen Leahy

On Monday, Moscow reached 37 C when the normal temperature for August is 21 C. It was the 28th day in a row that temperatures exceeded 30 C.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26130.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ocean
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phytoplankton
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Leahy

Nach der US-Behörde NOAA belegen alle wichtigen Indikatoren die Klimaerwärmung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148099



Tünche für den Treibhauseffekt

Eine Klimakonferenz ohne Ziel. Weiße Farbe gegen die Klimaerwärmung. Und das Erdölzeitalter tritt nun endgültig in seine schmutzige Schlussphase ein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33074/1.html



Schnelle Reduzierung der CO2-Emissionen notwendig

Nach Berechnungen von Wissenschaftlern des Max-Planck-Instituts müssten die Emissionen bis 2050 um 56 Prozent gesenkt werden, um das 2-Grad-Ziel einzuhalten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148120



Klimaerwärmung ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten

Der Klimaexperte der Munich Re geht davon aus, dass extreme Wetterereignisse wie Hitzewellen oder Starkniederschläge auch in Deutschland weiter zunehmen und größere Schäden verursachen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148132

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Wie die globale Erwärmung unter zwei Grad bleibt

CO2-Emissionen müssen bis 2050 um 50 Prozent reduziert werden.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689387ms218



WWF Statement zur Verschiebung des US-Klimagesetzes

Für den Klimaschutz ist das ein dramatischer Rückschlag. Die USA sind einer der Hauptverursacher des Klimawandels.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689401ms218



Bedrohte Paradiese: Thailand - Naturzerstörung im Tropenparadies

WDR Fernsehen | Mo 02.08.2010 | 22.00 - 22.45 Uhr
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689365ms218



Cruise Days 2010 - Tummelplatz für umweltschädliche Luxusliner

Schiffsdiesel statt Schweröl - Weiße Traumschiffe gefährden Gesundheit und Klima.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689373ms218



Riesige Blaualgenschicht braubt der Ostsee Sauerstoff

In der Ostsee hat sich ein riesiger Algenfilm gebildet, der sich über 1600 km in der Länge und 190 km in der Breite erstreckt. Rund 377.000 Quadratkilometer der Wasseroberfläche in der Ostsee sind derzeit von einer Schicht aus Blaualgen bedeckt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689400ms218



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaerwärmung
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Klimawandel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Treibhaus
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=CO2-Emission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NOAA

Die Kluft zwischen den reichsten Amerikanern und der Mittelschicht ist zwischen 1979 und 2007 enorm angestiegen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148097



Ärmliche Hoffnung auf die Superreichen

Gute Spenden, schlechte Spenden."The Giving Pledge" und die Politik.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/148140



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Reichtum
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class

On the well-connected elites that will make billions from it
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/carbon-cronyism.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cap+and+trade
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Sussman

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ritenour6.1.1.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/masse1.1.1.html



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

Video & Transcript

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26047.htm



American Soldiers Brainwashed with "Positive Thinking"

By Bruce E. Levine

"As far as I can tell this is the largest, deliberate, psychological intervention in human history. . . . We don't know when the global war on terrorism is going to end so we're preparing to have to be engaged for a long period of time."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26044.htm



From Freedom Fighter to Terrorist

By Jacob G. Hornberger

The same Gul who was viewed by U.S. officials as a "pro-Western and moderate" freedom fighter is now viewed by the U.S. government as a "murderous terrorist agent."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26056.htm

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Banks, drugs and US-sponsored terrorism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/906.html

What war on drugs?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/910.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Banks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+E.+Levine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Dale+Scott
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/28/10

They don’t call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires for nothing. Just ask Great Britain and Russia. It seems that the U.S. Empire, however, is bound and determined to prove that it’s the exception to that adage. No matter how bad things get for the Empire, U.S. officials become more and more determined to stay the course and let the chips fall where they may, including the possibility of economic and financial bankruptcy for the United States...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-07-28.asp



The anti-American American empire

Strike the Root
by Tony Pivetta

07/29/10

It may well be that nothing’s more powerful than an idea whose time has come, but a carefully cultivated Big Lie will invariably give that timely idea a run for the money. People know what they know. They know war brings prosperity. They know because ‘World War II got the U.S. out of the Depression.’ They know because the government schools told them ‘World War II got the U.S. out of the Depression.’ Beyond that, they know because of what they see. They see the manufacturing might of the military-industrial complex (MIC). They see it employing land, labor and capital. They see its technological sophistication. They see the high-paying jobs. They don’t know what they don’t see...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/anti-american-american-empire



The myths that made an empire

The American Conservative
by Bruce Fein

08/01/10

Two unassailable orthodoxies drove [Cold War US] hyper-interventionism. First was the belief that the national security of the United States was dependent upon the vitality of democracy in foreign lands. Second was the notion that a global military presence, with its ability to ensure international stability and access to resources, was indispensable to economic growth. Both orthodoxies are patent nonsense, yet both continue to dominate American thinking...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-myths-that-made-an-empire/



How to dismantle the American empire before this country goes under

AlterNet
by Andrew J. Bacevich

07/29/10

No doubt the case can, and probably will, be made that the obligations of global leadership demand that the United States take on the problems besetting Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, much as it has addressed those besetting Afghanistan and Iraq. Little evidence exists to suggest that such efforts are likely to have a positive effect, however. No evidence exists — none — to suggest that U.S. efforts will advance the cause of global peace...

http://tinyurl.com/342sbga


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The U.S.-Made Mess in Somalia

By Gwynne Dyer

The U.S. decision in 2006 to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia was one of the stupidest moves in a very stupid decade. This week, some of the chickens spawned by that decision came home to roost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26247.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interventionism
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Yemen
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+bankruptcy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Pivetta
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Fein
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Gwynne+Dyer

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/28-1

The Suffering of Fallujah
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29

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Rewriting history: Biden: US troops halted 'chaos' and 'destruction' in Iraq

US Vice President Joe Biden declared Wednesday that anti-US forces who wanted to consign Iraq to "chaos and destruction" had failed, as he welcomed home a much decorated military unit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/pl_afp/usiraqmilitarypoliticsbiden


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=César+Chelala
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+C.+Koehler

U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Barofsky
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=TARP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=financial+companies
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer

The cache of classified U.S. military reports on the Iraq War as yet unreleased by WikiLeaks may be more than three times as large as the set of roughly 76,000 similar reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistle-blower Web site earlier this week, Declassified has learned.

http://bit.ly/9oqhco



Leaks reveal 'friendly fire' deaths

Wikileaks documents suggest that four Canadian soldiers who died in 2006 were actually killed when a US jet dropped a bomb on a building they were occupying.

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2010/07/201072943015175382.html


From Information Clearing House

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National insecurity complex

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

07/29/10

The White House’s initial response to the release of 92,000 pages of raw reports from the field by US forces in Afghanistan for a period from 2004-2009 — that it was a threat to national security and to the lives of American troops — was as predictable as it was farcical. These documents didn’t reveal anything new to America’s enemies in Afghanistan or Pakistan. … No, what the release of these documents threaten is the huge almost decade-long lie that both the last administration of President George W. Bush, and the current administration of Barack Obama have been putting out, that the US is engaged in a ‘good war,’ trying to defeat ‘terrorists’ and establish a democratic government in Afghanistan...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07292010.html



This week in Change

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/29/10

[A]s was painfully predictable and predicted, the bulk of political discussion in the wake of the WikiLeaks disclosures focuses not on our failing, sagging, pointless, civilian-massacring, soon-to-be-decade-old war, but rather on the Treasonous Evil of WikiLeaks for informing the American people about what their war entails. While it’s true that WikiLeaks should have been much more careful in redacting the names of Afghan sources, watching Endless War Supporters prance around with righteous concern for Afghan lives being endangered by the leak is really too absurd to bear. You know what endangers innocent Afghan lives? Ten years of bombings, checkpoint shootings, due-process-free hit squads, air attacks, drones, night raids on homes, etc. etc. ...

http://tinyurl.com/33tqmdz



Why we need WikiLeaks

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/31/10

The reaction to the Wikileaks exposure of US war crimes — and Afghan corruption — has been quite interesting: the President responded by averring that there’s nothing new here, that ‘the fact is these documents do not reveal any issues that have not already informed our public debate on Afghanistan,’ but the facts are quite different, as anyone who peruses even a small sampling of the documents – such as is offered by the Guardian via a convenient interactive map — can readily ascertain. After all, the public debate was certainly not informed of the existence of ‘Task Force 373,’ an American assassination squad that roams the Afghan countryside wreaking murder and mayhem at Washington’s direction — and that killed seven children, as revealed by the Wikileaks document dump, in a strike at a supposed terrorist compound. And the public was definitely not informed that US intelligence had picked up evidence of Osama bin Laden’s personal participation in a series of meetings on the Afghan-Pakistan border as late as 2006, as revealed in the documents. Certainly the public debate could have been better informed if Leon Panetta’s interlocutor could have asked him about that when the CIA director, in a recent televised interview, denied having received any new information as to bin Laden’s whereabouts ‘in years’...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/07/30/why-we-need-wikileaks/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Top Democrats Pressure White House Over WikiLeaks Revelations

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The Afghan war is coming under renewed scrutiny as web surfers across the world browse through the bloody battle scenes and military follies described in the thousands of classified military reports released by WikiLeaks, and now top Democrats are finally expressing concerns over the longevity of a war that has dragged on for nearly a decade."

http://www.truth-out.org/top-democrats-pressure-white-house-afghan-war-wikileaks-reveals-bloody-realities61867



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By Mike Whitney

The bottom line? When Wall Street is hurting, money's never a problem. But when the states are on the brink of default and 14 million workers are scrimping to feed their families, there's not a dime to spare. Explain that to your kids.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26040.htm



U.S. Congress Passes $59 Bn Afghan War Funding Bill

The new funding is on top of the $130 billion Congress already approved for Afghanistan and Iraq this year.

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Policy.aspx?Id=1372920&SM=1



Funding the Afghan Occupation

How They Voted
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll474.xml



Democrats abandon Obama on Afghanistan war

The House's vote yesterday on emergency funding for the Afghanistan war shows a significant eroding of support for President Obama's war policy -- from members of his own Democratic Party.

http://bit.ly/ay8btb


From Information Clearing House



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By John Cook

Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26036.htm



A Civilian Casualty, Up Close

By Kevin Sites

I try to imagine the incongruity of it all. You are riding in your car with your family and in one instant, by being in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time, your wife is now dead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26062.htm

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US Hunts Afghan War Files Leaker
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/28-1

'Leaked Afghan Files Hid a Losing War, Not Military Secrets'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/28-0

WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/28-4

How US Ignorance Helped Doom the Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-12

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The main effect of the Wikileaks documents is political

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

07/28/10

[T]he only thing the WikiLeaks documents reveal is how persistent the post-9/11 war and nation-building fever continues to be among the foreign policy elite — even in the face of the dismal results on the ground for almost a decade and a majority opinion in America that the war is not worth fighting...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2834



Afghanistan’s census of the dead

Slate
by Chris Wilson and Jeremy Singer-Vine

Nearly 77,000 of the 92,000 military documents unveiled by WikiLeaks this week are individual incident reports from the war in Afghanistan. Each report tallies the number of soldiers, civilians, and enemy targets both wounded and killed. While no one was hurt in the majority of the incidents, these reports, read in aggregate, offer a sterile but hyper-detailed picture of the dead and wounded on all sides of the nearly decadelong war. The following visualization focuses on enemy and civilian casualties over the past five years...

http://www.slate.com/id/2261911/



Are we in Afghanistan because we’re in Afghanistan?

AntiWar.Com
by Charles V. Pena

07/30/10

[I]sn’t this war? Yes. And it’s not like we’re intentionally targeting or trying to kill innocent civilians, right? Right (it’s not the moral equivalent of terrorists attacking a civilian target like the World Trade Center or insurgents using villagers as human shields). Plus aren’t civilian casualties an inevitable tragic consequence of war? Yes. If the survival of the United States was at stake, we might not like but nonetheless have to accept those answers. But the conflict in Afghanistan is not a war of U.S. national survival...

http://tinyurl.com/392eugw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rights Groups File Lawsuit To Allow Challenge To Targeted Killing Without Due Process

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/rights-groups-file-lawsuit-allow-challenge-targeted-killing-without-due-process



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By Philip Giraldi

House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26034.htm



House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran

Nearly one third of the Republican congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would support Israel's right to use "all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran", including military force.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138835



Iran cmdr. guarantees US shame in ME

"Americans can be certain that in the event of a ground, naval or aerial attack against our country, they will be faced with a crushing and decisive response which will be much more fatal and crushing than their initial act [of aggression]," Mehr News Agency quoted the commander as saying.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136548&sectionid=351020101



U.S. Has Plan in Case Attack On Iran Needed, Says Army Chief

By The Associated Press

Both Israel and U.S. keeping military option on table; Iran envoy to UN: We'll set Tel Aviv ablaze if Israel strikes us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26055.htm



Two Resolutions, One World War

By Ruqayyah Shamseddine

We are now witnessing the legalization and industrialization of another war, one which will set the entire region ablaze.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26057.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The unpresidential president

The Weekly Standard
by James W. Ceaser

Barack Obama has managed a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature... (for publication 08/02/10)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/unpresidential-president



Obama’s double-down gamble

The American Spectator
by James Srodes

07/28/10

In Las Vegas casinos, gamblers at the blackjack tables are allowed to ‘double down.’ After drawing their two cards they are allowed to double the size of their bet if they will take only one more card in their quest to get closer to 21 than the dealer. It is a high-risk bet that should be made only if the player holds a very strong hand. Faced with an easily panicked Wall Street, a catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, persistent unemployment, and increasing political backlash looming in the autumn congressional elections, President Barack Obama has made a double-down bet on the U.S. economy...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/28/obamas-double-down-gamble



Mullen rattles saber at Iran

Daily Mail [UK]

08/01/10

America’s top military chief has warned that the country has a plan to attack Iran. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a military strike is an option if Tehran presses ahead with plans to build a nuclear weapon. While admitting that going to war could destabilise the Middle East, Admiral Mullen said the risk of allowing the Iranian regime’s atomic ambitions to continue unchecked was unacceptable...

http://tinyurl.com/22rf9ul



A cakewalk against Iran

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

08/05/10

A resolution (HR 1553) is making its way through Congress that that would endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates. The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of ‘all means necessary … including the use of military force.’ The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region...

http://tinyurl.com/2b4nvy2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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That Reckless Protection Racket of Military Socialism and Fascism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz10.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/10-9

The Future of Iraq Belongs to No One
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/10-3



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Arbeitsmarkt 2020: Alles wird gut!

„Während der Sozialstaat unter den Folgen verantwortungsloser politischer Fehlentscheidungen zusammenbricht und den Menschen jede auch nur halbwegs glaubwürdige Zukunftsperspektive verloren geht, lassen die Krisen-Verursacher ihre Berater zur allgemeinen Erbauung auch gerne mal aus dem Kaffeesatz oder aus der Kristallkugel lesen. Die pietistisch durchseuchte Bertelsmann-Stiftung aus Gütersloh, der das Land soziale Wunderwerke wie die Hartz-Reform oder die „Einführung“ von Schutzgeld Studiengebühren dankt, bedient sich dazu offenbar einer Schneekugel aus der Kitsch-Sammlung von Liz Mohn, in der beim Schütteln kleine Hartz-IV Männchen, alleinerziehende Mütter, kranke Kinder und zugewanderte Billig-Akademiker/innen aus der dritten Welt lustig durcheinander wirbeln. Dann lachen sie, die menschenfreundlichen Reformer, und erzählen spaßige Geschichten, die von propagandasüchtigen Sozial-Paparazzis sogleich verbreitet werden…“ Kommentar von Joachim Weiss vom 28. Juli 2010 http://www.gegen-stimmen.de/?p=6264


Boom der Ungleichheit. Leiharbeit statt fester Stellen

Die Zeitarbeit wächst rasant. Für jede dritte Stelle suchen Firmen Zeitarbeiter. Die IG-Metall sieht ihre Befürchtungen bestätigt und kündigt Widerstand an. Artikel von Markus Sievers in der FR online vom 27. 7. 2010 http://www.fr-online.de/wirtschaft/leiharbeit-statt-fester-stellen/-/1472780/4510990/-/index.html

Siehe dazu: Leiharbeiter arbeiten oft für Niedriglöhne

„Leiharbeiter arbeiten oft zu extrem niedrigen Löhnen. Das bestätigt nun auch das Institut für Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) in Duisburg. Wie Schlecker auch, haben viele Unternehmen Leiharbeitsfirmen gegründet, um Arbeitsplätze auszulagern…“ Meldung der IG Metall vom 28.07.2010 http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/internet/style.xsl/view_3037.htm


Niedriglohnbeschäftigung 2008: Stagnation auf hohem Niveau – Lohnspektrum franst nach unten aus

„Auf den Punkt ... Der Niedriglohnanteil stagniert seit 2006 auf hohem Niveau. Auch 2008 arbeitete gut jede/r Fünfte für einen Stundenlohn unterhalb der Niedriglohnschwelle.; Die Zahl der Niedriglohnbeschäftigten ist demgegenüber seit 1998 kontinuierlich gestiegen: Im Jahr 2008 arbeiteten 6,55 Millionen Beschäftigte für Löhne unterhalb der Niedriglohnschwelle und damit rund 162.000 mehr als 2007. Gegenüber 1998 ist die Zahl der gering Verdienenden sogar um fast 2,3 Millionen gestiegen.; Das Lohnspektrum in Deutschland franst zunehmend nach unten aus: Ein steigender Anteil der Niedriglohnbeschäftigten verdient weniger als 50% des Medianlohnes, während so niedrige Löhne in vielen anderen Ländern durch gesetzliche Mindestlöhne unterbunden werden. Weder die Sittenwidrigkeitsgrenze noch branchenbezogene Mindestlöhne können die Ausdifferenzierung des Lohnspektrums wirksam zu begrenzen. Daher ist ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn auch in Deutschland unverzichtbar.; Wenn man sich am relativen Niveau der gesetzlichen Mindestlöhne in anderen europäischen Ländern orientieren würde, müsste in Deutschland ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn zwischen 5,93 € und 9,18 € pro Stunde eingeführt werden…“ IAQ-Report 6/2010 von Thorsen Kalina und Claudia Weinkopf (pdf) http://www.iaq.uni-due.de/iaq-report/2010/report2010-06.pdf


Lohnentwicklung: Wirtschaftsmacht dank Mäßigung

„Im Ranking der OECD-Staaten findet sich Deutschland nicht in der Top Ten der Einkommensliga wieder, die Deutschen verdienen heute im Durchschnitt real weniger als vor zehn Jahren. Doch das ist kein Grund zum Klagen: Vor allem der früher nicht existente Niedriglohnsektor boomt…“ Artikel von Axel Schrinner im Handelsblatt vom 27.07.2010 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/lohnentwicklung-wirtschaftsmacht-dank-maessigung;2624980;0

Aus dem Text: „… Die Lohnzurückhaltung in Deutschland ist im Kreise der Industrienationen geradezu einmalig. So lagen die deutschen Arbeitnehmer im Ranking der OECD-Staaten mit einem Durchschnittseinkommen von 37 900 Euro im Jahr 2000 noch auf Platz sechs. Ein Jahrzehnt später ist das Durchschnittseinkommen der Deutschen zwar um 14 Prozent auf gut 43 000 Euro gestiegen - aber mit diesem Gehaltsniveau finden sich die Deutschen nicht einmal mehr in den Top Ten der OECD-Einkommensliga wieder. Österreich, Frankreich, Irland, Belgien, Niederlande und Dänemark sind an Deutschland vorbeigezogen, das nun Rang elf belegt. Norwegen löste die USA als Spitzenreiter ab. Im Schnitt verdiente 2009 jeder Norweger 42 Prozent mehr als jeder Bundesbürger. (…) Einen weiteren Beleg für die deutsche Lohnzurückhaltung bietet die Analyse des Volkseinkommens: Von 2000 bis 2009 legten die Arbeitnehmerentgelte in der volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung um insgesamt elf Prozent zu. Dagegen stiegen die Unternehmens- und Vermögenseinkommen im selben Zeitraum um 37 Prozent. Klammert man den Einbruch des Jahres 2009 aus, beträgt das Plus nicht weniger als 56 Prozent…“


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Juli 2010

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«Die Sklaven leben mitten unter uns»

„Der Menschenhandel in Europa ist für das organisierte Verbrechen ein blühendes Geschäft. Der Grossteil der Opfer stammt aus Osteuropa. Mit modernem Sklavenhandel verdienen Menschenhändler in Europa pro Jahr bis zu 2.5 Milliarden Euro. Das geht aus einem am Dienstag veröffentlichten Bericht des UN-Büros für Drogen- und Verbrechensbekämpfung (UNODC) hervor. Demnach befinden sich in Europa mehr als 140'000 Menschen in der Gewalt des organisierten Verbrechens. Weltweit seien es sogar mehrere Millionen. Die Zahl der Opfer steige jährlich um etwa 50 Prozent, hiess es weiter…“ Artikel im Tagesanzeiger vom 29.06.2010 http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/Die-Sklaven-leben-mitten-unter-uns/story/21377038

Siehe dazu: People for Sale in Europe. Spain joins Blue Heart Campaign against human trafficking

“A report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that trafficking in persons is one of the most lucrative illicit businesses in Europe. Criminal groups in Europe are making around €2.5 billion per year through sexual exploitation and forced labour…” Pressemitteilung vom 29.06.2010 http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/June/people-for-sale-in-europe.html?fp=pr1

und die Homepage der Blue Heart Campaign http://www.unodc.org/blueheart/


Aus: LabourNet, 5. August 2010

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29. Juli 2010

Vermeintlicher Aufschwung beruht auf unsicherer und schlecht bezahlter Arbeit

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

Die aktuelle Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt lässt sich mit drei Worten zusammenfassen: Kurzarbeit, Leiharbeit, Zeitarbeit. DIE LINKE hat auch in diesem Monat nachgerechnet: die tatsächliche Arbeitslosigkeit liegt bei 4,328 Millionen Menschen ohne Arbeit. Nur durch statistische Tricks kommt die Bundesagentur auf die offizielle Zahl von 3,191 Millionen. Ein tatsächlicher Aufschwung ist nicht in Sicht. Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer werden immer stärker in befristete, unsichere und schlecht bezahlte Jobs gedrängt. Mehr als ein Drittel der offen gemeldeten Stellen sind Leiharbeitsplätze. Leih- und Zeitarbeitsverträge halten Menschen in unsicheren Arbeitsverhältnissen und befördern die Lohnspirale nach unten. Damit bezahlen Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer die Zeche für die Krise. Kurzarbeit ist die einzige arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme der Bundesregierung. Was als Instrument zur Jobsicherung in der Krise gedacht war, hat sich immer deutlicher als Sparbüchse für viele Unternehmen entpuppt. DIE LINKE fordert einen flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohn, der Nachfrage und somit Arbeit schafft. Statt ihren Haushalt zu kürzen, muss Ministerin von der Leyen arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen schaffen, die Menschen in existenzsichernde, sozialversicherungspflichtige Vollzeitarbeit bringen. Leih- und Zeitarbeit darf nicht weiter zum Niedriglohnbereich verkommen – dort Beschäftigte müssen der Stammbelegschaft an Bezahlung gleichgestellt sein.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/vermeintlicher-aufschwung-beruht-auf-unsicherer-und-schlecht-bezahlter-arbeit/



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Doctors State WHO Responsible For Child Vaccine Deaths Cover-Up
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Queensland Hospital Staff Shunned Swine Flu Vaccine

Health professionals shunned the swine flu injection at the height of the pandemic because of fears of its side-effects, a study at a Queensland hospital shows. The main reasons for rejecting the vaccination offer were fears about the vaccine's adverse effects, as well as doubts about its efficacy and its clinical trials, the research published in the Australian Journal of Rural Health said.

Carly Hennessy, Courier Mail

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THE COMING RISK: H1N1 BEING ADDED TO 2010 -2011 SEASONAL FLU VAX
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4376

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Vaccines Beneath the Surface

Part 1

by Jon Rappoport

For years, critics on the fringes of medicine have pointed to problems with vaccines. It is generally acknowledged that, given to people whose immune systems are compromised, they can be immunosuppressive. And from time to time, stories have surfaced about vaccines which have been dangerously contaminated by extraneous viruses or bacteria, as a result of the manufacturing process. We are taught to believe that.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon105.htm

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Avaricious Swine Flu Vaccine Doctors Paid Fortune By British Taxpayer
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/33ae25b3a6b9a17b?hl=de



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Christian Science Monitor
by Tom De Luca

07/27/10

Two years ago, Barack Obama electrified the nation with a promise of ‘change we can believe in.’ That was the wrong pledge. Americans need far more than change we can believe in. We need change we can count on. And the only kind of change we can really count on is change that empowers us to count on ourselves. Yet a program for that kind of change is nowhere to be found on the American political agenda. The best hope average citizens have to fight for their interests and beliefs is to take back the institutions of representative government. Our most important problem isn’t the size of government — it is how to achieve governance that’s far more democratic...

http://tinyurl.com/2aa4ofh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/27-8

Pipeline Leaks, Over 800,000 Gallons of Oil Spew in Michigan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/28

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New oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

The spill in Barataria Bay, which is surrounded by wildlife-rich wetlands, is at least the third leak since in the area since the BP oil catastrophe began on April 10.

http://bit.ly/bGsJQ2


From Information Clearing House



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Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/27-4

Daniel Ellsberg Describes Afghan War Logs as On a Par with 'Pentagon Papers'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/27

State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/27-9

Peace Action: Largest Peace Group-House Vote First Step to Remove Troops from Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/10-22

A Brutal, Chaotic and Bloody Look at US Combat in Afghanistan (Warning: Contains Graphic Images)
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/29-1

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Afghan "War" reality check
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/903.html

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"Warning shots" to van, kill one, injure one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan/warlogs/8742D506-5CDE-4EDE-995F-0550175BC906


Informant: Bob Banner

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Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's Taken a Year to Move 20km'

Video

As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood.

-WARNING -

Video depicts the reality and horror of War and should only be watched by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26045.htm



A Plea for Common Sense: Why NATO Should Withdraw from Afghanistan

By Christoph Schwennicke

It is difficult for politicians to admit they were wrong. But when it comes to Afghanistan, the consequences of not doing so could be high. It is time for the West to cut its losses and withdraw.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26042.htm



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That includes 241 people - or about three-quarters of the total - involved in spill cleanup or offshore work, and 83 people in the general public.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/26/1747690/la-health-department-324-blame.html


From Information Clearing House

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Growing health crisis in the Gulf

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

07/27/10

Besides other toxins, crude oil contains benzene, in even small amounts associated with leukemia, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, other serious blood and immune system diseases, ventricular fibrillation, congestive gastritis, toxic gastritis, pyloric stenosis, myalgia, kidney damage, skin irritation and burns, swelling and edema, vascular congestion in the brain, and lethal central nervous system depression among others, depending on length and degree of exposure. The EPA’s safe level is 4 parts per billion (ppb), yet Gulf levels reach or top 3,000, smelled hundreds of miles away, meaning residents inhaling fumes are ingesting dangerous toxins, raising their risk for serious future health problems, some potentially lethal...

http://tinyurl.com/27uftzd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The audit found that shoddy record keeping by the Defense Department left the Pentagon unable to fully account for $8.7 billion it withdrew between 2004 and 2007 from a special fund set up by the U.N. Security Council.

http://bit.ly/d6yZ8m



Audit: U.S. Can't Account for 95% of Iraqi Funds

Defense Department Unable to Trace $8.7B in Iraqi Oil Money Tapped by U.S. for Rebuilding Nation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/world/main6717303.shtml



Blix: U.S. 'High On Military Action' Before Iraq War

Hans Blix, the 82-year-old former chief U.N. weapons inspector, said Washington was "high on military" action in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and refused to heed concerns over the paltry threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128803433


From Information Clearing House



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By Bill Quigley

The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26028.htm



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By John Nichols

It's not generally known that we have at least 124 Special Forces troops on the ground inside Pakistan. It is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in Pakistan. To nip in the bud the U.S. ground presence."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26030.htm



War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from Pakistan

How They Voted:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll473.xml


From Information Clearing House

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Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul Force Debate Over Af-Pak War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/paul-kucinich-force-war-debate.html

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Pakistanis have negative view of US

MSNBC

07/29/10

Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States, according to results of a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. The survey also found that Pakistanis have grown less fearful of extremists seizing control of their country, perhaps reflecting gains that government troops have made against militants since early 2009...

http://tinyurl.com/36nrxvo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Pakistan's President: War with Taliban Being Lost
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/03-0



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By Ryan Grim

"Once again, war is being paid for with a credit card while investments in our children's future are tossed aside".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26033.htm



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Report

By David Leigh

Locals told Reuters that up to 300 civilians - as well as a number of Taliban - were killed in the air strike after they had been rounded up to watch a Taliban-organised public hanging of two suspected spies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26026.htm



Down To The Last Trillion in Red Ink

US Treasury Running on Fumes

By Paul Craig Roberts

The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks' release of the Afghan War Documents "puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26032.htm



WikiLeaks report cites previously unknown "friendly fire" incident involving Canadians

The dramatic WikiLeaks report contains details of what appears to be a previously unknown "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan in which it says four Canadians were killed and seven were injured.

http://bit.ly/alqeM8


From Information Clearing House



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Am Mittwoch wird das katalanische Regionalparlament über das Verbot der Tierquälerei entscheiden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33036/1.html



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Tankstellen dicht gemacht
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148091



BP und US-Regierung: Mission accomplished?

Golf von Mexiko: Wie aus dem Ölteppich ein dünner schimmernder Film und "Zucker im Tee" wurde. Erste kritische Reaktionen auf die guten Nachrichten von der Ölpest unterstellen mehr PR als Wissenschaft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148131



Ein attraktiver Untoter mit Aussichten

BP schwimmt oben: Die Macondo-Quelle ist plötzlich wieder von vitalem Interesse und Corexit angeblich gar nicht so schlimm.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33095/1.html

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Bedrohte Paradiese: Golf von Mexiko – Die Folgen der Ölkatastrophe WDR Fernsehen
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689415ms219



Die Ölpest-Entwarnung kommt zu früh

Ölpest im Golf von Mexiko: Auswirkungen auf Meereslebewesen ungewiss. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689416ms219



Ölkatastrophe: Horror für Familien vor Ort

Küstenbewohner im Golf: Viele überlegen Umzug.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689429ms219



Hände weg vom Mittelmeer!

Kaum hat der Konzern den Golf von Mexiko verseucht und das Bohrloch notdürftig abgedichtet, strebt BP zu neuen Ufern und knöpft sich das Mittelmeer vor.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689441ms219

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Greenpeace Activists Close Down BP Stations in London
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/27-1

Greenpeace Closes BP Stations Across London
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/27-1

PR, Not Safety First for BP?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/27-0

Greenpeace Activists Tell BP: End the Oil Age Early
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/27-10

Sea Turtle Restoration Project: BP Oil Spill Operations Violating Endangered Species Act
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/27-5



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Während noch offen ist, ob die US-Regulierungsanstrengungen den nächsten Finanzkollaps werden verhindern können, ist klar, dass die globalen makroökonomischen Probleme damit jedenfalls nicht verringert werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33026/1.html



Die fünf führenden Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute vs. Oktopus Paul

Zweimal jährlich berichten alle Medien über die aktuellen Konjunkturprognosen - eine Analyse zeigt, dass diese nicht besser als der Zufall sind.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33030/1.html



Basel III: Soft, spät und unzureichend

Die unzureichende Finanzmarktregulierung hinkt den Erfordernissen hinterher.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33318/1.html



Wird Brüssel gegen Spekulation vorgehen?

"Kein Finanzmarkt darf Wild-West-Territorium bleiben", erklärte EU-Binnenmarkt-Kommissar Michel Barnier, aber es wird sich nicht viel ändern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33328/1.html



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