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

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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/16/10

Last week?s TGIF asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at it this way: War hawks make poor deficit hawks. Facing a $13 trillion national debt and trillion-dollar-plus annual budget deficits, we can?t afford to be complacent about foreign interventions costing $12 billion a month. It?s not just that the budget numbers are daunting: The very institutions of small-government republicanism are suffocated by the quest for global hegemony...

http://tinyurl.com/2vnz9on



Deficits of mass destruction

The Nation
by Christopher Hayes

07/15/10

If you?ve been paying attention this past decade, it won?t surprise you to learn that the country?s policy elites are in the midst of a destructive, well-nigh unhinged discussion about the future of the nation. But even by the degraded standards of the Washington establishment, the growing panic over government debt is shocking. First, the facts. Nearly the entire deficit for this year and those projected into the near and medium terms are the result of three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession. The solution to our fiscal situation is: end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth. Our long-term structural deficits will require us to control healthcare inflation the way countries with single-payer systems do...

http://www.thenation.com/article/37534/deficits-mass-destruction


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Deficit Doves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-7

Democrats May Stop Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy From Expiring
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/22-1

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We're in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "We're not in a double-dip recession yet. We're in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. Permits for single-family starts are down. The average work week is down. The only things not down are inventories - unsold stuff is piling up in warehouses and inventories of unsold homes are rising - and defaults on loans."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-we%E2%80%99re-in-a-one-and-a-half-dip-recession61614



Professors as Welfare Queens?

Jesse Lemisch, Truthout: "From Obama on down, the political atmosphere is deeply polluted by the use of 'centrism' as a self-description of what are essentially retrograde right-wing views. Under Obama, the US wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq continue, as do the lies put out about them. Guantanamo goes on. Obama's 'Deficit Commission' warms us up for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. 'The perfect is the enemy of the good,' and, thus, we have health care 'reform' by and for the insurers, with higher premiums and profits, and more evasions of coverage by merchants of death like UnitedHealthCare."

http://www.truth-out.org/professors-welfare-queens61981



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Ozeane werden aufgrund steigender CO2-Emissionen immer saurer. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689289ms216


China trocknet aus

Grundwasserkrise bedroht Bevölkerung.
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Sommerliche Hitze Belastung für Millionen Menschen

Mehr Grün für ein gesundes Klima zwischen Beton und Asphalt. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689309ms216



Großkraftwerke verantwortlich: Fische in Rhein und Neckar unter bedrohlichem Hitzestress

Das durch die anhaltende Hitzewelle bereits erwärmte Wasser wird durch die Abwärme aus den Großkraftwerken zusätzlich belastet.

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Wirtschaftliche Unternehmen als Naturschützer in der Pflicht

NABU: Wer die Natur schädigt, zerstört die Märkte der Zukunft. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689304ms216



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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/
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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.

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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.

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Turkey Gaza flotilla probe: Five shot dead at close range

Report says Israel blatantly violated international laws.
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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.

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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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