World-News

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

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

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

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



Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

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

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

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


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Obama’s latest monstrosity

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

07/21/10

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

http://tinyurl.com/25jc5bs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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



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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the current tension between Israel and Turkey has increased the possibility of war in the region.

Prospects for war have grown: Assad
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133569&sectionid=351020206



Turkey summons US diplomat

Turkey has summoned a top US diplomat to protest against Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137452&sectionid=351020204



Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry

On Tuesday Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that Israel should admit sole responsibility for the deaths aboard the Mavi Marmara. "No one else can take the blame for killing civilians in international waters," Davutoglu told journalists.

http://bit.ly/aAapRZ



Gaza flotilla raid violated law, UN probe finds in scathing report

A UN probe said Wednesday there was clear evidence to back prosecutions against Israel for killing and torture when its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May.

http://bit.ly/96Dvbm



?Why Is the U.S. Government Deaf to What Has Been Done to My Son?? Asks Father of an American Murdered on the Gaza Flotilla

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/12-10



Families of Gaza flotilla victims accuse Israel of war crimes in The Hague

Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

http://bit.ly/cBb5H0



Turks accuse Israel of war crimes at int'l court

Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

http://bit.ly/c0Pehx



US supports terrorism: Turkish PM

Erdogan touched on Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish human rights activists on May 31 and condemned the US "double standards," noting that Washington openly "supported the Israeli state terrorism"...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146903.html



Turkish PM describes Israel flotilla raid "state terrorism," demands apology

Turkey's prime minister has again accused Israel of "state terrorism" and called on the Jewish state to apologize and compensate victims of a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

http://bit.ly/aST0XQ



Turkey PM: Israel to blame for deadlock in Mideast peace talks

Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday blamed Israeli "intransigence" for the deadlock in Mideast peace talks and called on the international community to work toward breaking the impasse.

http://bit.ly/i6zMog



Turkey Gaza flotilla probe: Five shot dead at close range

Report says Israel blatantly violated international laws.
http://bit.ly/fgzgak



Turkey threatens diplomatic action pending Israel apology for Gaza flotilla attack

Prime Minister Erdogan says 'plan B' includes reducing diplomatic representation in Tel Aviv and visiting the Gaza Strip, Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.

http://bit.ly/odtt3k


From Information Clearing House

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Will Turkey Sever Ties With Israel?

Nichole Sobecki, GlobalPost: "After the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, 'nothing would ever be the same again.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/will-turkey-sever-ties-with-israel61454



Clinton Refuses to Answer My Questions About Gaza Flotilla

Ann Wright, Truthout: "Dear Secretary of State Clinton, I am a retired US Army reserve colonel with 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserves, and a former US diplomat who resigned after 16 years in the US State Department in opposition to the war on Iraq. I was one of fourteen American citizens on the Gaza flotilla."

http://www.truth-out.org/clinton-refuses-answer-my-questions-about-gaza-flotilla62064



A Break in Israeli-Turkish Relations

Avni Dogru, Foreign Policy in Focus: "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently announced that, after two months of negotiations, Israel has agreed to an international inquiry on the May 31 deadly flotilla assault. International pressure and Ban Ki-moon's personal efforts played an important role in the Netanyahu government's unprecedented decision. Israel's concession meets one of the demands made by Turkey, which lost nine citizens in the assault and which has threatened to break off relations with what had once been a key military ally."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-break-israeliturkish-relations62126



Israel Raid on Gaza Flotilla: US Failure to Condemn Despite UN Findings

Marjorie Cohn, JURIST: "On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of ships in International waters. The vessels were carrying humanitarian supplies to the people in the Gaza Strip, who suffer under a punishing blockade by Israel. The stated aims of the flotilla were to draw international attention to the situation in Gaza and the effect of the blockade; to break the blockade; and to deliver humanitarian assistance and supplies to Gaza. During the attack, Israeli soldiers killed 9 people, seriously wounded more than 50, and detained 750. They also confiscated or destroyed equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

http://www.truth-out.org/israel-raid-gaza-flotilla-us-failure-condemn-despite-un-findings64186



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The Nation
by Robert Reich

06/30/10

Consider: in 1928 the richest 1 percent of Americans received 23.9 percent of the nation’s total income. After that, the share going to the richest 1 percent steadily declined. New Deal reforms, followed by World War II, the GI Bill and the Great Society expanded the circle of prosperity. By the late 1970s the top 1 percent raked in only 8 to 9 percent of America’s total annual income. But after that, inequality began to widen again, and income reconcentrated at the top. By 2007 the richest 1 percent were back to where they were in 1928 — with 23.5 percent of the total. Each of America’s two biggest economic crashes occurred in the year immediately following these twin peaks — in 1929 and 2008. This is no mere coincidence. When most of the gains from economic growth go to a small sliver of Americans at the top, the rest don’t have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing...

http://www.thenation.com/article/36893/unjust-spoils



The war for financial independence: Calls to surrender

Our Future Blog
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

07/05/10

There’s a new conventional wisdom forming in Washington, DC this July 4th, one that transcends party lines and the usual classifications of “left” and “right” as they’re understood in that city. It’s only being recognized now, because it deals with a number of different economic issues, but the underlying theme is the same: The American dream of financial independence and security is gone. The sooner you accept that and raise the white flag the easier it will be, so stop struggling. They’re saying the ideal of ‘”life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ is dead. Deal with it. Why, there hasn’t been this much unanimity among Washington elites since — well, since they ‘knew’ there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/2a7ceuh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Labor Losing to DC Elites Over Job Creation, Unemployment?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/08-4



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What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama

Part I

Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News: "Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told his senior advisers in the Oval Office of the White House, 'God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn't know the military as well as I do.' Several months later, he issued his famous warning about the military-industrial complex."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-eisenhower-could-teach-obama-part-i61130



The Military-Industrial Complex's Win

Part II

Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News: "Barack Obama's crippling inheritance as President of the United States is the near-five-decade failure of the nation's political leadership to heed President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that 'in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-military-industrial-complexs-win-part-ii61187

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The rout of Obamanomics

The American Spectator
by Peter Ferrara

07/07/10

In February 2009, I published a commentary in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Reaganomics v. Obamanomics,’ which pointed out that President Obama’s economic policies were exactly the opposite of President Reagan’s. I predicted that as a result they would produce exactly the opposite results. Art Laffer has produced a far more sophisticated argument advancing a similar analysis. But the June unemployment report released last Friday shows an economy doing much worse at this point than even I expected...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/07/the-rout-of-obamanomics


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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America is in a Societal Meltdown

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

In other words, a united constitutional republic can only exist within the framework of certain rather narrow and finite conditions. Remove those conditions and the framework for liberty and limited government falls apart. And the above statements by Adams and Jay succinctly summarize the conditions necessary for freedom's framework.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin600.htm



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Iraq War Legal Advice Published

BBC News

In a letter to the prime minister on 30 January, 2003, Lord Goldsmith said he "remained of the view that the correct legal interpretation of resolution 1441 is that it does not authorise the use of military force without a further determination by the Security Council".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25850.htm



Blair 'needed UN support' over Iraq

Jonathan Powell assured a meeting at 10 Downing Street three months before the war began that it was unlikely that America would proceed with the invasion alone.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gkHalP9jr4TpJzh1h7WC392P0XfQ



Revealed: Tony Blair's battle with law chief after warning Iraq war would be illegal

Tony Blair's fury at being told the Iraq War was illegal was laid bare yesterday after secret memos from his Attorney General were finally published.

http://tinyurl.com/2dsysgk



US And Britain 'Did Not Believe Iraq's Weapons Programme Was A Real Threat'

By The Telegraph

Former UK diplomat Carne Ross claimed that the Government ''intentionally and substantially'' exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in public documents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25920.htm



Tony Blair 'intentionally talked up WMD', Iraq inquiry told

Tony Blair "intentionally" exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry heard yesterday.

http://bit.ly/9yFfPl


From Information Clearing House



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Greenwashing in der Industrie

Geo-Engineering: Keine Ausflüchte mehr

Das Geo-Engineering im Meer ist gescheitert und die Verpressung von CO2 in den Untergrund vergiftet das Trinkwasser. Das Greenwashing des "Weiter so wie bisher" steht vor dem Aus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32873/1.html

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Greenwashing in der Industrie

Die deutsche Automobilindustrie rühmt sich gerne, besonders innovativ und energieeffizient zu sein. Dabei ist ihre Klimabilanz kläglich. Die Bundesregierung hilft den Autobauern dabei, dies zu kaschieren. Ein Artikel von Holger Böthling und Marion Blitz.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689410ms219



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Skepsis gegenüber PPP hat an vielen Orten zugenommen
Frankfurt/Main will sich wieder einmal internationalen Finanzhaien ausliefern. Breiter Widerstand.

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


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

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


Public Private Partnership ? das trojanische Pferd der Privatisierung

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


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

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


Zwänge und Abwege kommunaler Strukturpolitik am Beispiel der Hanauer Innenstadtsanierung

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


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

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


Die private Stadtpolizei ? rechtswidriges ppp zu Lasten des Steuerzahlers?

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


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Juni 2010

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Öffentliche Private versus Bürgerrechte

?Die Privatisierung der kommunalen Sicherheit und Ordnung wird mittels "public private partnership" (ppp) stetig vorangetrieben. Die Konsequenzen bekommen vor allem Jugendliche zu spüren, welche häufig auch als Einsatz- und Beauftragungsgrundlage für private Sicherheitsdienste herhalten müssen. Kritiker meinen, der Einsatz der Privaten im öffentlichen Raum sei nicht durch das Gesetz gedeckt; die Aufsichtsbehörden schweigen meistens zum "Wildwuchs" in diesem Bereich?? Artikel von Ralf Hering in der Trend onlinezeitung 01/11 http://www.trend.infopartisan.net/trd0111/t090111.html


Kommunen in Finanznöten "Das ist das Ende lokaler Demokratie"

?Die deutschen Kommunen befinden sich nach Einschätzung des Städte- und Gemeindebundes in der schwersten Finanzkrise seit Gründung der Bundesrepublik. Deshalb schlägt die Vereinigung Alarm - und warnt vor gravierenden Folgen für das Gemeinwohl?? Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 28.12.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kommunen-in-finanznoeten-das-ist-das-ende-lokaler-demokratie-1.1040678

Siehe dazu: Kommunen steuern auf Rekorddefizit zu ?Vertrauen der Bürger in die lokale Demokratie stärken

Pressemitteilung des Städte- und Gemeindebundes vom 28.12.2010 zur Bilanz 2010 http://tinyurl.com/2ad4wv3


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Januar 2011



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/21-8

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Adapt and Survive: A Final Warning
http://sharenews.twoday.net/stories/6404383/

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The economic normalcy bias

In These Times
by David Sirota

01/27/12

After Black Friday s now-annual melee of hyper-aggressive shoppers, the Washington Post reported that Christmas saw credit card purchases jump 7 percent over last year. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve bank reported that consumer borrowing surged to pre-recession levels; Forbes reported that online holiday spending hit a record. ...' In the face of such self-destructive behavior, it s worth asking: Why is overconsumption still the preferred 'normal' in America?

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12629/the_economic_normalcy_bias


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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