World-News

Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Efforts by the United Nations (UN), the US military and the Indian government to curb opium production in Afghanistan since 2007 have been largely ineffective, due in large part to the ties between the drug trade and the Taliban. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw material harvested from poppies to make heroin, as well as alkaloids like codeine and morphine. According to two cables released this month by WikiLeaks, Afghanistan's supply of opium exceeds the world's demand for heroin, with its unsold stock currently totaling 12,400 tons. Taliban-linked drug cartels emerging along the southern border of the country, where 99 percent of production takes place, influence the majority of poppy cultivation by coercing farmers into growing the crops for a strong and well-supplied insurgency."

http://www.truth-out.org/opium-production-afghanistan-strong-and-corrupt-ever66611

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U.S. Marines Guard Afghanistan Poppy Fields For Heroin Production

U.S. Marines, sponsored by the U.S. taxpayer, stand vigilant watch over poppy fields in Afghanistan ensuring that the world is supplied with plenty of smack.

http://is.gd/CJKvtE


From Information Clearing House



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- The News York Times: Un comté de Californie criminalise l'installation des nouveaux compteurs électriques dits Mouchards (Smart-Meter: l'Ordonnance)

http://www.next-up.org/France/ERDF_Compteur_mouchard_Linky.php#1
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http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/5a3554178f6df257?hl=de



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C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

01/03/11

Among the critical, if perhaps counterintuitive, insights of the free market Left is that, to attain economic justice for the worker as contemplated by the socialists, we must move in the direction of true economic freedom, not against it. Free markets made up of the profusion of exchanges that self-governing people might engage in would subvert today?s system of state-capitalism, an extortion scheme allowing middlemen to get between labor and the consumer (who, in any market, are largely the same group)...

http://c4ss.org/content/5688



Unlocking Uncle Sam?s House of Horrors

CounterPunch
by Richard Neville

01/05/11

The secrecy-busting by Wiki-leakers may take years to play out in the corridors of power, but there are signs on the ground that citizens are finally rubbing the sleep from their eyes. It?s an Aha moment: 'They've been lying to us all this time.' And so they have; law-breaking with impunity, instigating wars, abetting torture, renditions, secret jails; destroying documents, conspiring to steal DNA from diplomats, slaughtering civilians on several continents, plus much else besides and ? weirdly ? getting away with it. For how much longer?

http://counterpunch.org/neville01052011.html



Law and disorder

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi
01/06/11

The sorry state of American jurisprudence and vanishing liberties under Bush-Obama would rather suggest that the pot not be calling the kettle black, but, alas, the pumped-up-by-hubris elected and appointed leaders in Washington do not know the meaning of the expression 'shut up.' One would think they might be less tone deaf at a time when they are seeking a phony legal formula to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but that would suppose that someone in the federal bureaucracy actually knows what he is doing...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/01/05/law-and-disorder/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/05-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/05-0

When Will Americans Get Indignant?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/05-8

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New Congress begins with charades and death threats

The Nation
by Ari Melber

01/05/11

Repealing health care, a pure symbolic activity, is one of the first votes scheduled for next week. House Republicans know their bill will not pass the Senate or clear a presidential veto. Maybe they want to get their irrelevant votes out of the way early. But it gets worse. The bigger story is the truly bizarre threat to freeze the debt ceiling, which could theoretically place the United States in default and spark a larger recession or economic crisis...

http://tinyurl.com/2bj58oq



Is there room for political compromise in an era of permanent campaigning?

Christian Science Monitor
by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson

01/04/11

As the 112th Congress convenes, it must work to preserve one of America's greatest and most threatened national resources -- compromise. To do this, it must rein in the mindset of constant campaigning that isn't fit for the reality of governing...

http://tinyurl.com/2c8zhu8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/05-6

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Census Bureau says 15.7 percent in poverty

Wednesday's report said 18 percent of children and 16.1 percent of the elderly live in poverty.

http://bit.ly/gb6HYd



Study: After Bankruptcy, Americans Need 10-20 Years To Recover

Compared to those who have similar social and economic backgrounds, people who declare bankruptcy catch up to non-filers in terms of savings in about 12 years, total income in 14 years, home ownership in 14 years, and net worth in 26 years.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/bankruptcy.htm


From Information Clearing House



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UN food price index rises for sixth month in a row to highest since records began in 1990

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/05/world-food-prices-danger-record-high-un



Dramatic spike in gas prices forecast: Demand for oil keeps increasing

The former head of Shell Oil has warned that gas prices could hit $5 a gallon by 2012 because of fast-growing demand in emerging countries such as China and India, where more and more people are buying cars, combined with restraints on drilling in the U.S. in the wake of last year's disastrous Gulf oil spill.

http://bit.ly/eBthrS


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq's Supreme Audit Court says the US Ministry of Defense has failed to account for the USD 9.1 billion misspent discretionary funds during Iraq's occupation. According to Iraqi newspaper al-Bayanat al-Jadidah, this recent release follows the 2010 finding of USD 8.7 billion in Iraq funds not accounted for.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158612.html


From Information Clearing House



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By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Elected officials from Maine to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, are pushing new legislation to limit the power of labor unions, particularly those representing government workers, in collective bargaining and politics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27201.htm



Nader to the Times: 'There Is Too a Left!'

By Ruth Conniff

How can it be that in such dark economic times, most of the political energy in the country is focused on dismantling unions, undoing President Obama's modest effort at health care reform, and giving even more power and even larger tax breaks to the rich and big business?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27202.htm



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By Lawrence Davidson

These four stalwart defenders of the homeland from terrorism were lending material support to a designated terrorist organization through speech that was coordinated to enhance the cause of that group. As Giuliani put it, "The United States should not just be on your [the MEK's] side. It should be enthusiastically on your side. You want the same things we want."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27200.htm



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By Layla Anwar

Every time I attempt to write an overall picture of the Iraq of before and after, I need to take a break, a choking feeling grips me in my throat and the rage rises again, like some lava from a volcano unwilling to die down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27203.htm



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Truth also demands courage and honesty, because sometimes it can be very painful to look at! It takes an honest man to desire truth, as truth will often reveal the character flaws in his own soul. It also takes courage to appreciate truth, as truth will often demand that one change his own opinion or conduct. Unfortunately, it does appear that the desire for truth has been replaced with a desire for deceit.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin631.htm



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In the face of four years of Senate filibusters at a record setting pace, preventing any possible real legislative progress for the American people, is it surprising that there would be strong calls for reforming this now most abused congressional tactic? Even the appointments of non-controversial federal judges have been systematically blocked in acts of obstructionism for their own sake.

Please speak out now. The votes are there to change this if only we bolster them up.

Stop The Filibuster Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1064.php

In particular, the purpose of a filibuster was supposed to be to make sure that real debate on the issues would not be shut down. But instead we find Republicans simply threatening to filibuster as a way of derailing the whole process of government, and the result is no actual public debate at all. So the most important reform must be that if opponents of a bill want to call for more debate, they must be forced to actually put one up. And then let the American people decide on their C-SPAN who is wasting the country's time and who is not.

This and other critically needed reforms are contained in a bill put forward by Senator Mark Udall from Colorado. The American people have deserved a fair up or down vote for the longest time, and it's high time they got one on this bill, which can be passed by just such a margin.

So please submit the action page above right now, which will send your instant message through our own dedicated fax server to your own senators. And after you do, also consider picking up one of the new "Stop The Filibuster" caps, to display your support for real legislative action.

Stop The Filibuster caps: http://www.peaceteam.net/stop_filibuster_cap.php

We can also tell you that production of our new full length feature film, about indicting Cheney for torture, is in high gear even as we speak. "The Last War Crime" is the story of what would have happened, and what should still happen, if any member of the Justice Department had the integrity to prosecute the war criminals who told knowing lies to get us entrapped into endless and counterproductive occupations of both Iraq and Afghanistan, using false confessions obtained by torture to sell them.

There was an interesting news item we just read about how Cheney is healthy enough with his new artificial assist heart pump to go out and see movies. So he certainly will have no excuse not to see "The Last War Crime", coming to a theatre near him, and you, very soon. At least then he will know how he really will be remembered by history.

Any donation you can make allows us to employ good progressive activists as cast and crew to make this new creative media project a reality. With your kind support we will have this destined to be controversial new film playing in theaters all over the country in the new year as a policy advocacy action. So here is a link directly to the page where you can get your own "Last War Crime" cap.

Last War Crime page: http://www.peaceteam.net/last_war_crime.php

And here is the Facebook link for the Stop The Filibuster action page further above.

[Facebook] Action Page: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1064

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1064

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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Minority Again Uses Filibuster to Hijack Senate Will
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/06-0



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Jim Hightower, Truthout: "By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, the good ol' U.S.A. is No. 1 in the world in exports! Our corporate leaders, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike in Washington, are now routinely exporting America's most precious goods - our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities. With unemployment and underemployment devastating millions of families in our country, perhaps you've assumed that U.S. corporations simply aren't hiring these days. Nonsense. They added 1.4 million jobs last year alone - overseas."

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-playing-with-economic-dyanamite66551



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- Reportage antennes relais: Camoufler la folie humaine
- Constatation: Les opérateurs au-dessus de la Loi.

- España: Librarse de la ley en un Estado de Derecho
- Reportaje antenas enlace (EBTM): Camuflar la locura humana

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Antennes_Relais_Camouflees.php#1
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Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Nat Hentoff

12/22/10

The targeted killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi ? and any other U.S. citizen eventually added to the U.S. secret murder list, or who may be already there for all we know ? could lead dictators to cite their own already active target-kill lists as also being justified by the United States. They could do it with private smirks, not having anything but loathing for this country...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12658


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/05/11

[A]s we?ve lost our freedoms, down through the years, ceding them to government at every critical turn, our 'free' media, instead of 'working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth,' has acted like a fog machine, generating and legitimizing deception rather than exposing it. This is why WikiLeaks was inevitable: the death of investigative journalism has created a void, which Julian Assange and his collaborators have filled -- much to the chagrin and outrage of our alleged 'journalists,' who, as semi-official Court Intellectuals, are concerned not with exposing but with protecting the regime...

http://tinyurl.com/2a5248x



Damning corporate capitalism with faint praise

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

01/03/11

We?ve seen a stagnation in nominal, dollar-denominated, inflation-adjusted purchasing power, and the shift of virtually every penny increased GDP from productivity increases upward to the plutocracy and corporate management, as the result of all kinds of subsidies, protections, and monopolies. ... all these monopolies were still unable to prevent the average worker?s standard of living because ? despite all the larceny in the plutocrats? and bosses? piggy little hearts ? the technologies of abundance have developed so fast that they?ve increasingly broken the link between nominal purchasing power and resource distribution on the one hand, and quality of life on the other. In other words, it?s becoming more and more feasible to live comfortably on what you?ve got left after you?ve been robbed by the plutocracy, despite their best efforts...

http://c4ss.org/content/5687


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bill Black, new deal 2.0: "The role of the criminal justice system with regard to financial fraud by elite bankers in 2011 is likely to reprise its role last decade - de facto decriminalization The Galleon investigation of insider trading at hedge funds will take much of the FBI's and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) focus. The state attorneys general investigations of foreclosure fraud do focus on the major players such as the Bank of America (BoA), but they are unlikely to lead to criminal liability for any senior bank officials. It is most likely that they will lead to financial settlements that include new funding for loan modifications."

http://www.truth-out.org/2011-will-bring-more-de-facto-decriminalization-elite-financial-fraud66529



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MSNBC

01/04/11

Trying to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, the Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent leaks of classified documents, including instituting 'insider threat' programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned. As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to figure out ways to 'detect behavioral changes' among employees who might have access to classified documents...

http://tinyurl.com/2unaz66


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond. Just as 2010 ended, the American military's urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way. It seems that 'leaders' in the Obama administration and 'senior American military commanders' in Afghanistan were acting as a veritable WikiLeaks machine."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-urge-surge66540



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The number of uninsured rose to 50.0 million in 2009, an increase of 4.3 million.

http://bit.ly/hu7rn6


From Information Clearing House

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In the Twilight of the Social State

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Responding in 1940 to the unfolding catastrophes perpetrated by the rise of fascism in Germany, Walter Benjamin, a German Jewish philosopher and literary critic, wrote his now famous 'Thesis on the Philosophy of History.' In the ninth thesis, Benjamin comments on Paul Klee's painting 'Angelus Novus.'? The meaning and significance of Benjamin's angel of history has been the subject of varied interpretations by philosophers, literary critics, and others. Yet, it still offers us a powerful lesson about a set of historical conditions marked by a 'catastrophe that keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage.'? We need to return to Benjamin's angel of history in order to reimagine what it means to reconstruct a social state that invests in people rather than in the rich, mega corporations, the prison-industrial complex and a permanent war economy. We need to imagine how the state can be refigured along with the very nature of politics and economics in order to eliminate structural inequality, racism and militarism."

http://www.truth-out.org/in-twilight-social-state-rethinking-walter-benjamins-angel-history66544



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Shame, vanity, laziness and the desire to fit in are all to be used as tools of Government policy by ministers acting on the advice of a new psychology unit in Whitehall.

http://ind.pn/hZuSZF


From Information Clearing House
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"I ask our foreign friends not to interfere in our internal affairs, not to interfere in our constitution,'' Karzai said on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158632.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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By RT

Economist Michael Hudson joins Thom to talk about countries looking for alternatives to US dollar and rescued banks teetering towards collapse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27189.htm



America in Decline

Why Germans Think We're Insane

By Democrats Ramshield

A look at our empire in decline through the eyes of the European media..
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27187.htm



The New Stealth Bailout Of Bank Of America

By Joe Weisenthal

Bank of America just settled for about $.01 on the dollar.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27185.htm



Bank of America Scrambling to Mount Defense Amid Threat of Devastating WikiLeaks Reveal

A team of Bank of America officials is scrambling to investigate its own documents and executives' hard drives in an effort to be prepared, should WikiLeaks release devastating materials about the bank.

http://bit.ly/i9gKWn


From Information Clearing House



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By Chrystia Freeland

F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today's super-rich are also different from yesterday's: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity-and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27194.htm



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By Daniel Tencer

"History suggests that solitary confinement, rather than being a rational response to a risk, is more often used as a punishment for someone who is considered to be a member of a despised or 'dangerous' group," the letter stated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27192.htm



Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

By Deborah Davies

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm



US Justice On Trial

By Yvonne Ridley

America's international standing as a fair and just country does not match its superpower status as the world's greatest democracy. When it comes to basic human rights it is there in the gutter alongside some of the world's most toxic, tinpot dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27186.htm



Mobile Prison Guard Towers Coming to a Walmart near You! Unbelievable.

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQRMrlQ95U


From Information Clearing House

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Solitary Confinement Is Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/05-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/04-8



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/04-0

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WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation

Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

By Fred Branfman

Wikileaks has shown that our government and military form a 'vast lying machine' that perpetrates mass murder in our name.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27191.htm



Wikileaks Reveals That The US Won't Comply With Treaty Obligations Concerning Investigations Into CIA Rendition

The US Justice Department is failing to comply with its treaty obligations with other countries in their investigations into US (mainly CIA) "rendition" operations, where they take people captured elsewhere and find some place to torture them.

http://bit.ly/g9sJpu


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel62.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/askari1.1.1.html

Recipe for a Successful 2011
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul715.html



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Die Mehrheit der Amerikaner spricht sich für Steuererhöhungen bei den Reichen aus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149023



Teures Überwachen und Strafen

Von der Hoffnung, der Gefängnisstaat würde zu teuer.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33906/1.html



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Der Gesetzgeber hat's gegeben, der Gesetzgeber hat's genommen: Menschenwürde nach Haushaltslage.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33964/1.html

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Kein neuer Regelsatz: Was tun mit der verfassungswidrigen Regierung?

?Nachdem nun nicht, wie vom Bundesverfassungsgericht vom Gesetzgeber gefordert, eine gesetzliche Neuregelung des Regelsatzes existiert, scheint selbst bei erklärten Gegnern, verständliche Ratlosigkeit zu herrschen. Allerdings werden an die Betroffenen Vorschläge gemacht, die auch von der rechtlichen Seite fragwürdig sind und auf die ich hier deshalb kurz eingehen möchte?? Kommentar von Armin Kammrad, Augsburg, vom 4.1.2011 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/nachbvg_ak.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2011



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- 2011 Graph Augmentation valeur CEM / EMF Average increase HF 900 MHz - 2.5 GHz

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Soziale Gerechtigkeit in der OECD: Wo steht Deutschland?

Nachholbedarf in Sachen soziale Gerechtigkeit. Neuer Index analysiert Armutsvermeidung und Bildungszugang als Problemfelder

?Im Vergleich mit 31 OECD-Staaten liegt Deutschland mit Platz 15 lediglich im Mittelfeld. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung. Unter die Lupe genommen wurden die Politikfelder Armutsvermeidung, Bildungszugang, Arbeitsmarkt, sozialer Zusammenhalt und Gleichheit sowie Generationengerechtigkeit. Angeführt wird der Gerechtigkeitsindex von den nordeuropäischen Staaten Island, Schweden, Dänemark, Norwegen und Finnland. Schlusslicht ist die Türkei?? Pressemeldung der Bertelsmann-Stiftung vom 03.01.2011 http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-2E770070-A2F898C1/bst/hs.xsl/nachrichten_104942.htm


Studie Soziale Gerechtigkeit in der OECD - Wo steht Deutschland? (pdf, 3.1 MB) http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/bst/de/media/xcms_bst_dms_33013_33014_2.pdf


Bertelsmann als Weichspüler einer OECD-Studie über wachsende Ungleichheit

?Unter der Überschrift ?Deutschland ist ungerechter als viele andere Länder? berichtete gestern (3.1.2011) tagesschau.de über eine Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung, wonach es in Deutschland deutlich ungerechter zugeht als in vielen anderen Industrieländern. Bei einem Vergleich von 31 Mitgliedstaaten der OECD landete unser Land nur auf Platz 15. So weit, so schlecht. Statt aber über das Original der OECD-Studie ?Growing Unequal?: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries [PDF - 251 KB] zu berichten, erspart sich die ARD die Kosten von 70 Euro und vor allem die Mühe der Auswertung und übernimmt eine weichgespülte Interpretation der Bertelsmann Stiftung. Dabei hätte man den Kernsatz der OECD-Studie im Original sogar auf deutsch nachlesen können: ?Seit dem Jahr 2000 haben in Deutschland Einkommensungleichheit und Armut stärker zugenommen als in jedem anderen OECD Land. Der Anstieg zwischen 2000 und 2005 übertraf jenen in den gesamten vorherigen 15 Jahren (1985 ? 2000)?? Artikel von Wolfgang Lieb vom 4. Januar 2011 bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=7884

Siehe dazu auch:

.... mehr als drei Jahrzehnte Sozialpolitische Chronik

?Die Sozialpolitische Chronik bietet einen Überblick über die gesetzlichen Änderungen in der Arbeitslosen-, Renten-, Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung sowie bei der Sozialhilfe (HLU) und der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende über die vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt die bis Ende 2010 verabschiedeten Neuregelungen?? Sozialpolitische Chronik von Johannes Steffen vom 03. Januar 2011 (pdf) http://www.ak-sozialpolitik.de/doku/02_politik/chronik/chronik_gesamt.pdf


Vom Provisorium zum Prinzip

?Lebensmittelausgabestellen für Bedürftige haben sich zum festen Bestandteil der Armenpolitik entwickelt?? Artikel von Christian Linde im Berliner Mieterecho (Zeitschrift der Berliner Mietergemeinschaft) vom Dezember 2010 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/tafeln_linde.html

Wir danken dem Autor und der Zeitschrift! Die Dezember-Ausgabe ist dem Thema ?Sozialwirtschaft statt Sozialstaat. Wie der Staat seine Aufgaben der Privatwirtschaft überlässt? gewidmet und komplett im Netz verfügbar (pdf) http://www.bmgev.de/mieterecho/mepdf/me344heft.pdf


Rechtsgrundlage für Hartz-Bescheide ab 1. Januar 2011 verfassungwidrig. Empfänger sollten Widerspruch einlegen

?Der Bundesrat hat am 17. Dezember die neuen Hartz-IV-Sätze abgelehnt. Das heißt im Klartext: Ab 1. Januar 2011 müssen die Leistungen des SGB II auf Basis der bisherigen Rechtslage berechnet werden. Betroffene sollten den Bescheiden widersprechen?? DGB-Meldung vom 21.12.2010 http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++2ef45166-0d1d-11e0-5e71-00188b4dc422

Siehe dazu auch: Hartz ab 1. Januar ohne Rechtsgrundlage?

?Sind die bisherigen Hartz IV-Sätze ab Jahresbeginn verfassungswidrig? Über diese Frage gibt es unter aktiven Erwerbslosen kontroverse Diskussionen?? Artikel von Peter Nowak in telepolis vom 01.01.2011 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149012


Limit für Ein-Euro-Jobs

?Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) hat angekündigt, die Zahl der Ein-Euro-Jobs zurückzufahren. Das ist sinnvoll, wenn das gesparte Geld in

Weiterbildung und Vermittlung fließt. Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) hat angekündigt, die Zahl der Ein-Euro-Jobs zurückzufahren. Das muss sie tun. Denn das Sparpaket der Bundesregierung sieht vor, die Unterstützung von Langzeitarbeitslosen zusammenzustreichen. Für sogenannte Eingliederungshilfen stehen im nächsten Jahr nur noch 4,7 Milliarden Euro zur Verfügung, 1,3 Milliarden weniger als bisher. Deshalb können künftig ein Drittel weniger Ein-Euro-Jobs gefördert werden, so die BA?? Kommentar zur Bundesagentur für Arbeit von Eva Roth in der FR online vom 29.12.2010

http://www.fr-online.de/wirtschaft/limit-fuer-ein-euro-jobs/-/1472780/5048134/-/index.html


Die Diskriminierung wird weitergehen. Rechtsanwalt Daniel Weidmann über die Auswirkungen des BAG-Beschlusses zur Leiharbeit

?Durch einen Beschluss des Bundesarbeitsgerichtes könnten auf die Leiharbeitgeber Milliardennachzahlungen an Löhnen und Sozialversicherungsbeiträgen zukommen. Jörg Meyer sprach mit dem Arbeitsrechtler Daniel Weidmann über die Folgen des Beschlusses und die Kritik am DGB in der Leiharbeitsbranche?? Interview im ND vom 29.12.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/187442.die-diskriminierung-wird-weitergehen.html

Aus dem Text: ?? Die DGB-Gewerkschaften sind kein monolithischer Block. Einige waren von Anfang an gegen jeden Tarifvertrag, weil das AÜG die Gleichbehandlung ja eigentlich festschreibt. Aber es gibt auch ein paar Betriebsratsfürsten, die finden auch heute noch gut, dass es Leiharbeiter ohne Equal Pay gibt. Das sagt jetzt selbstverständlich keiner mehr laut ? auch weil sich die beiden Größten, IG Metall und ver.di, offen gegen Leiharbeit wenden und ihre Tarifpolitik entsprechend gestalten. Aber mancher Betriebsratsfürst hat sich klammheimlich gefreut, in der Krise nicht an die Stammbelegschaften gehen zu müssen. Hier gab es überraschend wenig Massenentlassungen. Die meisten krisengebeutelten Betriebe haben die Stammbelegschaft nur in Kurzarbeit geschickt, während die Leiharbeit sofort auf null Prozent gesetzt wurde. Diese menschenverachtende ?Pufferfunktion?, die Leiharbeiter haben, wurde ja voll ausgespielt. Das ?Jobwunder Deutschland? ist selbstverständlich ein Stück weit auch diesem zynischen Modell geschuldet. In der Krise wurden über 100 000 Leiharbeiter entlassen, das taucht in kaum einer Statistik auf. Jetzt werden die neuen Jobs überwiegend mit Leiharbeitern besetzt, und das wird das erfasst und macht das ?Jobwunder Deutschland? aus??


Ver.di schaltet Leiharbeiter-Hotline

Die Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) hat eine Hotline geschaltet, um die bis zu 280.000 Leiharbeitskräfte dabei zu unterstützen, Nachforderungen bezüglich ihrer Vergütungen der vergangenen Jahre geltend zu machen. Unter der Telefonnummer 0180-2220066 (aud dem deutschen Festnetz 6 Cent pro Anruf; aus dem Mobilfunknetz maximal 42 Cent pro Minute) können Betroffene sich von ver.di-Experten unverbindlich über die dafür erforderlichen Schritte beraten lassen. Für Mitglieder übernimmt ver.di Rechtschutz.


Kampagne Leiharbeit "UNGLEICH KORRIGIEREN" - Newsletter Leiharbeit

Den Auswirkungen des BAG-Beschlusses zur Leiharbeit ist auch die Ausgabe 01/2011 des ver.di-Newsletters zur Leiharbeit gewidmet (pdf) http://www.hundertprozentich.de/images/stories/Newsletter/newsletter_leiharbeit_01-11.pdf

Siehe dazu auch:

Ein weiterer Schritt gegen die Leiharbeit! Lohnnachforderungen sichern, JETZT!

?Die lockere Selbstorganisation von Leiharbeitern um die Kollegenzeitung "DIE LEIKEULE" hat aus aktuellem Anlaß eine Sonderausgabe herausgebracht: Die Sonderausgabe "Lohnnachforderungen sichern, JETZT!" ist ein aktuelles Infoblatt zur Aberkennung der Tariffähigkeit der Scheingewerkschaft CGZP.

Es gilt jetzt seine Rechte zu kennen und sofort aktiv zu werden! Was zu tun ist findet sich auf dem Infoblatt. Die Zeit drängt, fordert, was euch zusteht! Verbreitet die Leihkeule und drängt auch zögernde Kollegen die notwendigen Schritte einzuleiten. Dies ist ein weiterer Schritt den Dealern für Arbeitskräfte das Leben zu erschweren und ein weiterer Schritt für unsere Rechte. Wir geben keine Ruhe, bis wir den Sklavenhändlern das Handwerk gelegt haben!!! LEIHARBEIT ABSCHAFFEN!!!...? LEIHKEULE Sonderausgabe zum Thema Scheingewerkschaft-CGZP ist nicht tariffähig (pdf) http://www.chefduzen.com/Flugkeule.pdf

Siehe auch das Thema Leiharbeit im "Forum der Ausbeuteten" CHEFDUZEN.DE

http://www.chefduzen.de/index.php/board,75.0.html


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Januarr 2011

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Weg mit den Ein-Euro-Jobs!

?Zum wiederholten Mal fordert der Handwerksverband, die sogenannten Ein-Euro-Jobs abzuschaffen - und er hat recht. Das Angebot hat zwei andere gravierende Nachteile?? Kommentar von Maike Rademaker in der FTD vom 03.01.2011 http://www.ftd.de/politik/konjunktur/:arbeitslosigkeit-weg-mit-den-ein-euro-jobs/50210902.html


US-Studie: Die Wahrheit über Mindestlöhne

?Deutsche Wirtschaftswissenschaftler verkaufen es gern als ein ökonomisches Naturgesetz: Wenn der Staat Mindestlöhne vorschreibt, vernichtet er damit Arbeitsplätze. Unweigerlich und in jedem Fall. Doch die Wahrheit ist deutlich komplizierter. Laut einer Studie der US-Eliteuniversität Berkeley kosten staatliche Lohnuntergrenzen nicht zwangsläufig Jobs?? Artikel von Olaf Storbeck im Handelsblatt vom 02.01.2011 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/nachrichten/us-studie-die-wahrheit-ueber-mindestloehne;2713774;0


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Januar 2011

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Zur sozialen Veräppelung und Vertafelung der Bevölkerung

?Fast 900 Tafeln versorgen die Armen und vormals Lohnabhängigen mit Lebensmitteln. Das Lob für die Tafeln ist überschwänglich, menschenwürdige Versorgung und bürgerliches Engagement haben scheinbar eine gute Verbindung gefunden. Aber: Die Blüte der Tafeln ist gleichzeitig der Niedergang des bröckelnden Sozialstaats?? Artikel von Reinhold Schramm vom 06.01.2011 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/tafeln_schramm.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Januar 2011



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-10



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fossil+fuel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Janet+Redman
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-11



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Frida+Berrigan
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-5



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/03-1



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/bagus2.1.1.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/bagus
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs174.html

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'Greatest Nation' Rhetoric Roars Back
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-4

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Reexamining democracy

Tibor R. Machan A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan

01/03/11

Over the last several decades of American political life the idea of liberty has taken a back seat to that of democracy. Liberty involves human beings governing themselves, being sovereign citizens, while democracy is a method by which decisions are reached within groups. In a just society it is liberty that is primary -- the entire point of law is to secure liberty for everyone, to make sure that the rights of individuals to their lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness is protected from any human agent bent on violating them. Democracy is but a byproduct of liberty...

http://tinyurl.com/384rma5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=liberty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/higgs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Jensen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson307.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance221.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/vance

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/roots5.1.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis221.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=secession
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/margolis
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell32.1.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/sowell
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Six by Twelve

For over six months Bradley Manning has spent twenty three hours a day in solitary confinement in a six by 12 foot cell, under unrelenting lights, with neither pillow nor sheet, waiting to be tried. Is the US government attempting to compel Manning to make possible false confessions that would implicate Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?

http://www.truth-out.org/six-by-twelve66491

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WikiLeaks: US Targets EU Over GM Crops
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/03-5

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Puncturing the baloon of ?state secrets?

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

01/03/11

One of the more satisfactory aspects of being a journalist is the discovery that the powerful are hyper-sensitive to any revelation about their activities. The degree of venom and hysteria expressed by the US government in attacking Julian Assange and WikiLeaks reflects this acute sense of vulnerability...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick01032010.html



Why WikiLeaks leaks matter

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/03/11

Why should anyone care about the secret diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has disclosed? So what if State Department bureaucrats say unflattering things about other world 'leaders?' Some people may be asking those questions in response to WikiLeaks?s latest disclosures. Okay, they say, leaks about atrocities on the battlefield (such as the first WikiLeaks disclosure, the 'Collateral Murder' video) tell us something we should know about ? the gross misconduct by U.S. military forces, condoned by the command all the way up to the president of the United States. But diplomatic cables? Who cares?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secrets
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GM+Crops
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Pitt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Vidal
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
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Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there. In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afghanistan because of the influence of U.S. officials concerned with the alliance, according to a US military officer who was in a position to observe the decision-making process."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-afghanistan-became-a-war-nato66498

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A Real December Review for Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/03-12



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=insurgent
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greg+Kaufmann

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They Will Steal It!

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "Here's the irony: We came to believe in the concepts of freedom, egalitarianism, justice, tolerance, and democracy without being forced to do so, and yet we repeatedly try to force that on others. Our military budget today is larger than that of every other country in the world - combined. Since World War II, we've been stuck in a rut that two of our presidents - Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy - explicitly warned us about, of relying on our military to help make the world safe for its democracies. The saner and smarter alternative, the higher road we need to be taking, is best demonstrated by the work of a man named Greg Mortenson."

http://www.truth-out.org/they-will-steal-it66496



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=egalitarianism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
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Im australischen Queensland stehen größere Landstriche unter Wasser. Hierzulande wird das vermutlich demnächst zu höheren Stahl- und Lebensmittelpreisen führen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149016

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Lebt es noch oder isst du es schon?

Schonungslos und mit der ihr eigenen knochentrockenen Komik setzt sich Karen Duve jenseits aller Ideologien mit der Frage auseinander: Wie viel gönne ich mir auf Kosten anderer?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810949ms242



Vorsorgen für die Welt von morgen

Was können wir tun, damit die Welt von morgen unseren Kindern ausreichende Lebensgrundlagen bietet? Mit welchen technischen Lösungen kann die Wissenschaft dazu beitragen? Und wie bringt man Menschen dazu, ihr Konsumverhalten und ihre Mobilitätsgewohnheiten zu ändern? Wie können wir uns an die Folgen des Klimawandels anpassen? Aktuelle Ausgabe von ?Forschung Frankfurt? zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810947ms242



Munich Re: Schäden in Milliardenhöhe durch Naturkatastrophen 2010

Mehrere Großkatastrophen haben 2010 zu erheblichen Schäden und außergewöhnlich vielen Todesopfern geführt. Geprägt wird die Naturkatastrophen-Bilanz des vergangenen Jahres von einer Häufung von schweren Erdbeben, wie sie in den letzten Jahrzehnten nur selten zu beobachten war. Die hohe Anzahl von Wetterkatastrophen sowie Temperaturrekorde global und in den verschiedensten Regionen der Erde sind weitere Indizien dafür, dass der Klimawandel voranschreitet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810948ms242



Konsum und Nachhaltigkeit - Ein Widerspruch?

Umweltbewusstsein deckt sich nur selten mit dem Verhalten. Energiesparend heizen, aber Fernreisen buchen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810977ms242



Welche Mobilität wollen wir?

Wie lässt sich die Mobilität der Zukunft nachhaltig und dennoch bequem gestalten?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810981ms242



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klimawandel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nachhaltigkeit

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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33953/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Überwachung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Drohne

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If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and the very poor, we have big trouble.

http://bit.ly/hQzN0Y



Millions of Americans Are Heading to Foodbanks for the First Time in Their Lives

More and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal.

http://bit.ly/ejRhy8


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foodbank
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Human rights groups across the world attack one of the 'most serious violations' of natural justice in developed democracies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/02/control-orders-human-rights-coalition-review



UK: Police hoarding data on the millions who call to report a crime

Millions of innocent people have had their details recorded and stored on police databases after reporting a crime, it has emerged.

http://bit.ly/fuyt6R


From Information Clearing House
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The Secret of Oz

Video By Bill Still

Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is skyrocketing - and this is only the beginning. America's economy is on a long, slippery slope from here on. The bubble ride of debt has come to an end.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27178.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+economy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bubble
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
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By Immanuel Wallerstein

"The United States wants to believe in an economic upturn." Exactly, they "want to believe" it, and not only people in the United States. But is it so?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27183.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+economy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Immanuel+Wallerstein
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By Becky Akers

Unless we abolish this vile agency, the TSA will carry its war on Americans from airports, bus stations, and political events to highways, shopping malls, even sidewalks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27179.htm

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TSA gate-rape and Real ID tracking are slave training
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e19.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Transportation+Security+Administration
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/peters-e

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By James Petras

The US Empire still retains major clients and nearly a thousand military bases around the world. As client and puppet regimes decline, Washington increases the role and scope of extra-territorial death squad operations from 50 to 80 countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27176.htm



Feminist Human Rights vs. the Conning of Patriotism

By Kathleen Barry

The military, treat anyone who is not their military buddy in a combat zone as an enemy whose life has no value, who the soldiers are trained to think of as not even having a life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27177.htm



"Greatest Nation" Rhetoric Roars Back

By Robert Jensen

The United States has brought prosperity to the world, protecting all that is decent against evil. Yes, we've had to muscle others out of the way on occasion, but that was necessary to bring order and liberty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27182.htm



Choosing Suppression Over Justice

By Robert Grenier

The US has historically supported suppressive secular regimes in the Middle East, a policy with obvious shortcomings.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27173.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Petras
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathleen+Barry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Jensen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Grenier

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By The Irish Sun

A senior Republican senator has said a plan should be devised for American troops to remain permanently in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27175.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
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Report

By ANI

Regarding civilian causalities and attacks on women and children, the report said: "People in the tribal belt usually carry guns and ammunition as a tradition. US drone will identify anyone carrying a gun as a militant and subsequently he will be killed."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27174.htm



US Kills 8 People in Pakistan

US missile strikes targeting the same building killed eight people in a region near Afghanistan today, including at least two people who were retrieving bodies from the first attack, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

http://bit.ly/fUWqf1



US Kills 6 People In Pakistan

A US drone is suspected of firing four missiles at a vehicle in north-western Pakistan, killing six alleged militants, intelligence officials said today.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/six-militants-killed-in-pakistan-missile-strike-488349.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/997.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+crimes
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2009 H1N1 outbreak was proven to be contrived hoax

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, January 3, 2011

Big Pharma is licking its lips at the prospect of cashing in on a second round of the swine flu epidemic, despite the fact that the first outbreak of the virus in 2009 was proven to be a contrived hoax perpetrated by pharmaceutical companies in concert with the ´zation.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/big-pharma-prepares-to-exploit-new-swine-flu-scare.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=swine+flu
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=H1N1
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Pharma
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=World+Health+Organi

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US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Daily Libertarian
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/02/11

The year 2011 brings in a host of opportunities and challenges to America. Will we accelerate toward economic insolvency by continuing the policies that have created this crisis, or will a new Congress elected on the energy of the Tea Party movement find the courage to change course? With the new Republican majority in the House I will have the opportunity as a subcommittee chairman to take a careful look at our domestic monetary policy...

http://tinyurl.com/25dl9ys


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Police State Occupation of America
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/dhs-takeover.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=monetary+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
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C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

12/30/10

When I hear someone say that soldiers 'defend our freedom,' my immediate response is to gag. I think the last time American soldiers actually fought for the freedom of Americans was probably the Revolutionary War ? or maybe the War of 1812, if you want to be generous. Every war since then has been for nothing but to uphold a system of power, and to make the rich folks even richer. But I can think of one exception. If there?s a soldier anywhere in the world who?s fought and suffered for my freedom, it?s Pfc. Bradley Manning...

http://c4ss.org/content/5587


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Carson
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/mason-a2.1.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=liberty
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=veterans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/mason-a
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w188.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=law+enforcement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/grigg
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Joe Brewer, Truthout: "So now you've seen the power of conservative propaganda for setting America's agenda. During the November 2010 elections, we saw the annihilation of progressive ideas by the most sophisticated, deeply funded and precisely orchestrated public relations system ever concocted. And they are preparing to take things up a notch now that they've won. The gears are well-greased and the engine is humming. Prospects are slim for President Obama and the remaining progressives in Congress. If we don't act now, 2012 will mark the end of the progressive rise to power in American politics."

http://www.truth-out.org/responding-conservative-propaganda-machine66356

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Leading conservatives openly support a terrorist group

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/03/11

Imagine if a group of leading American liberals met on foreign soil with -- and expressed vocal support for -- supporters of a terrorist group .... on December 23, a group of leading conservatives -- including Rudy Giuliani and former Bush officials Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, and Fran Townsend -- did exactly that...

http://salon.com/a/sHCIfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rudy+Giuliani
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Mukasey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Ridge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fran+Townsend
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Brewer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

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Francis Shor, Truthout: "Given the battered economic and military standing of the United States over the past several years, the hysterical reaction of the American political class over the recent release of State Department cables by WikiLeaks is not surprising.... The abuses heaped on Julian Assange and the threats against him, especially, but not exclusively, from politicians in the United States, reflects this hollowing out of democracy and a fear of the new virtual world of free speech."

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-ideological-legitimacy-and-crisis-empire66418



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=free+speech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Francis+Shor
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Across the globe today, you'll find almost three dozen raging conflicts, from the valleys of Afghanistan to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the streets of Kashmir. But what are the next crises that might erupt in 2011? Here are a few worrisome spots that make our list.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/28/next_years_wars?page=full


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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"US soldiers have warned us that wherever they come under attack from militants they would retaliate against civilian population and such incidents had happened many times," Haji Khudai Noor, a resident of Kajaki district, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

http://bit.ly/fnHNIZ


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Helmand
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
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On average, the US drone attacks, killed 98 people every month, 23 people every week and three people every day in 2010. - As always, most of those killed by the US drones were innocent civilians.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=3056&Cat=13&dt=1/1/2011



US Kills 15 People In Pakistan

A day earlier, five suspected militants were killed by drones in the same region.
http://reut.rs/fWPOn9


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=suspect+militant
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths

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An Orwellian Assault on American Freedom

By Jennifer Abel

Flying includes the legal obligation I submit to having my genitalia groped by some TSA thug wearing the same latex gloves already shoved down nine dozen other strangers' underwear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27169.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Transportation+Security+Administration
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=body+scanner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jennifer+Abel
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By Simon

The information included biographical and financial information but also biometric data including fingerprints, facial images, iris scans, and DNA, on these individuals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27163.htm



Tortured Until Proven Guilty: Bradley Manning and the Case Against Solitary Confinement

By Lynn Parramore

"It's an awful thing, solitary," wrote former Vietnam prisoner John McCain in Faith of My Fathers. "It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27164.htm



The Anti-Empire Report

Wikileaks, The United States, Sweden, And Devil's Island

By William Blum

The Wikileaks documents may not produce any world-changing revelations, but every day they are adding to the steady, gradual erosion of people's belief in the US government's good intentions, which is necessary to overcome a lifetime of indoctrination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27166.htm



How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010

The following is a list of the more impactful WikiLeaks revelations from 2010, grouped by region.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20026591-503543.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=indoctrination
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=solitary+confinement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lynn+Parramore
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Blum
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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10111/



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Studie belegt, dass Biotech-Industrie teures Gentech-Saatgut unter Vortäuschung falscher Tatsachen vertreibt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810937ms241



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gentechnik
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Biotech

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Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) beherbergt so genannte Mirror-Sites mit Inhalten der von WikiLeaks veröffentlichten Botschaftsdepeschen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810916ms241



Reporter ohne Grenzen: 57 Journalisten in 25 Ländern getötet

Die Zahl der Länder, in denen Medienmitarbeiter ermordet wurden, ist im Vergleich zu 2009 von 20 auf 25 gestiegen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810922ms241



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Reporter+ohne+Grenzen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks

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Weltweit werden 2011 die Lebensmittelpreise steigen. Diese Entwicklung hängt wesentlich mit dem sich verschärfenden Klimawandel zusammen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810914ms241



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klimawandel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebensmittelpreis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hunger

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Umfangreiche Studie dokumentiert CO2-Bilanz der heimischen Pelletproduktion.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810913ms241



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=CO2

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Menschliches Versagen deckt fehlende Nachhaltigkeit auf. Schon im ersten Jahresdrittel deutete sich an, dass 2010 als Katastrophenjahr in die Geschichte eingehen wird.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810906ms241



Globalisierung belastet kommende Generationen mit biologischen Invasionen

Wie beim Klimawandel zeigen sich auch bei biologischen Invasionen die Folgen mitunter erst ein Jahrhundert später. Die Langzeitwirkungen von gebietsfremden Tier- und Pflanzenarten auf die biologische Vielfalt und die Wirtschaft könnten größer sein als bisher angenommen. Das schließt ein internationales Wissenschaftlerteam aus dem Vergleich der Verbreitung invasiver Arten mit der sozialen und ökonomischen Entwicklung in Europa.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416810907ms241



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klimawandel

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Und die Armen versinken immer mehr in Schulden.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148991



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Sind die bisherigen Hartz IV-Sätze ab Jahresbeginn verfassungswidrig? Über diese Frage gibt es unter aktiven Erwerbslosen kontroverse Diskussionen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149012



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