World-News

- Sublime et salvatrice LA LETTRE Sylvie Simon journaliste et auteur: La désobéissance civile.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Medias.php#1

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Starmail - 30. Jan, 22:29

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The Right to a Future

Raffi Cavoukian, Truthout: "Are we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of seven billion in a way that connects with the public and with decision makers? The science on global warming is clear and compelling. Earth is in serious climate crisis. That's why many writers have recently upgraded climate change to climate collapse, climate catastrophe, the long emergency. To convey the climate threat fully, we need a new Story.... I propose a new lens and lexicon for conveying climate change as the greatest threat on Earth, a tragedy of epic proportions, especially for the world's young."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-right-a-future-urgent-need-a-new-lens-and-lexicon-conveying-climate-collapse67262

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+warming
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Raffi+Cavoukian
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Starmail - 30. Jan, 22:09

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Armutsstatistik: Jeder sechste ist in Deutschland armutsgefährdet

Beinahe jeder sechste Mensch ist in Deutschland akut von Armut bedroht. Das ergeht aus einer heute veröffentlichten Auswertung des statistischen Bundesamtes in Wiesbaden. Das Prekäre: In allen europäischen Nachbarländern ist die Armutsgefahr bis auf Polen deutlich niedriger, als in der Bundesrepublik. Die heute veröffentlichte Studie des Statistischen Bundesamtes spiegelt den Stand von 2008 wieder. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/jeder-sechste-ist-in-deutschland-armutsgefaehrdet-389332.php

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armut
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Starmail - 30. Jan, 18:26

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Bundesregierung befindet Sanktionen gegen Schwangere als normal

Die Bundesregierung befindet die komplette Hartz IV Leistungskürzung von schwangeren Frauen für rechtens. Eine Schwangerschaft sei kein Grund, eine Tätigkeit nicht aufzunehmen, wie es in einem Antwortschreiben einer Anfrage im Bundestag hieß. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-regierung-fuer-sanktionen-bei-schwangeren-29211.php

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leistungskürzung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sanktion
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

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Starmail - 30. Jan, 18:23

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Sicherheitsrisiko Neckarwestheim I

Vom Reaktorbetreiber EnBW selbst im Jahr 2007 beantragte umfangreiche Sicherheitsnachrüstungen wurden bislang nicht umgesetzt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811184ms245

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

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Starmail - 30. Jan, 06:10

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Wachstumsbremse für Solarstrom ein Fehler

In Deutschland gibt es zur Fortführung der Solarstromvergütung im Wesentlichen drei Positionen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811183ms245

Solarenergie nutzen statt deckeln

Der Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU) setzt in seinem Sondergutachten "Wege zur 100 % erneuerbaren Stromversorgung" auf eine Wind-Offshore-Monokultur, die eine Reihe von Nachteilen hat.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811188ms245

Ausbau der Stromspeicher dringend notwendig

"Der suggerierte Konsens über Erneuerbare Energien lenkt davon ab, dass die eigentlichen Konflikte erst begonnen haben." Hermann Scheer.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811189ms245

Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE) kritisiert abrupte Begrenzung der Grünstromvermarktung

Der BEE kritisiert die von Bundesumweltminister Röttgen vorgeschlagenen Änderungen bei der Grünstromvermarktung, die bereits zum 1. Juli 2011 in Kraft treten sollen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811201ms245

60 Prozent der Deutschen frieren lieber, um Heizkosten zu sparen

Der erneute Anstieg bei Öl, Gas und Strom lässt immer mehr Deutsche freiwillig frieren.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811182ms245

Solarpolitik ist Sozialpolitik

Schon in wenigen Jahren wird Solarstrom der preiswerteste Strom sein, wenn er dort verbraucht wird, wo er erzeugt wurde. Die Sonne scheint auf jedes Dach und schickt nie eine Rechnung. Diese Fakten werden schon bald das unschlagbare ökonomische Argument der künftigen ökologischen Energieversorgung sein. Außerdem produziert Solarstrom keinen Müll wie Atomkraft und beschädigt nicht das Klima, was künftigen Generationen viele Milliarden Euro erspart.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811214ms246

Die deutsche Solarrevolution ist da und keiner feiert

Die Agentur für Erneuerbare hatte vor kurzem gute Nachrichten: Die Umlage, die Verbraucher für Strom aus Erneuerbaren Energien zahlen müssen, wirke wie ein regionales Konjunkturprogramm. Städte und Gemeinden, die sich mit Erneuerbaren Energien versorgen, sparten nicht nur Kosten für teure Rohstoffimporte. Sie sorgten auch dafür, dass neue Arbeitsplätze geschaffen werden und Steuer- und Pachteinnahmen in die kommunalen Kassen fließen. Bezeichnenderweise spielt diese regionalwirtschaftliche Perspektive bei der derzeitigen PV-Debatte keine Rolle. Kommentar von Martin Unfried

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811215ms246

Stundenweise schon mehr Windstrom als Atomstrom

Windkraftrekordtag in Deutschland - 2010 Windkraftschandjahre in Baden-Württemberg und Bayern.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811235ms246

Erstmals produzieren Windkraftwerke so billig wie Kohlekraftwerke

Siemens Renewable Energy Division Chef rechnet für Deutschland in 4-5 Jahren mit gleichem Preis.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811255ms246

Erneuerbare Wärme ? klimafreundlich, wirtschaftlich, technisch ausgereift

Mit fast 80 Euro pro 100 Liter war Heizöl im Januar 2011 so teuer wie noch nie an einem Jahresanfang ? sogar teurer als zu Beginn des traurigen Preisrekordjahres 2008.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811257ms246

Unternehmen für 100 Prozent Erneuerbare Energien

Es ist Forderung und Statement zugleich: 200 Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Politik haben europaweit eine Erklärung unterzeichnet, die von Greenpeace International mit initiiert wurde.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811260ms246

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Solarenergie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Solarstrom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Atomkraft
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greenpeace
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hermann+Scheer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Röttgen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

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Starmail - 30. Jan, 06:07

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Renditemaximierung im Schatten der Erneuerbaren: Wie Stromkonzerne die Verbraucher hinters Licht führen

Seit Jahren begründen die Stromversorger Preissteigerungen mit dem Ausbau der Erneuerbaren. In Wahrheit wurden im Windschatten des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG) und auf Kosten der Verbraucher nur die Profite maximiert. Kommentar von Thomas Seltmann.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811165ms245

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stromkonzern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie

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Starmail - 30. Jan, 05:57

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Samstag, 29. Januar 2011

US financial crisis was 'avoidable'

Congressionally appointed panel investigating financial meltdown in 2008 says crisis could have been avoided.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2011/01/201112718357500351.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=meltdown
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 22:26

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Fear Extreme Islamists in Egypt and the Arab World? Blame Washington

Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in the Islamic world has been aimed at suppressing secular reformist and leftist movements. Beginning with the CIA-engineered coup against a secular democratic reform government in Iran in 1953 (it was about oil), Washington has propped up dictators, coaching these regimes in the black arts of torture and mayhem against secular liberals and the left.... One of the mantras on US television news all day Friday was: Be fearful of the democratic uprisings against US allies in Egypt (and Tunisia and elsewhere). After all, we were told by Fox News and CNN and Chris Matthews on MSNBC, it could end up as bad as when 'our ally' in Iran was overthrown and the extremists came to power in 1979."

http://www.truth-out.org/jeff-cohen-fear-extreme-islamists-arab-world-blame-washington67267

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Egypt Protests Show American Foreign-Policy Folly

By Stephen Kinzer
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27375.htm

Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

By Washington's Blog

So why are Egyptians rioting, while the Americans are complacent?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27373.htm

Egypt protests live updates

After the fourth and most deadly day of protest against Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, the Egyptian president is set to appoint a new government today. Follow all the latest developments and reaction here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/29/egypt-protests-government-live-blog

Al Jazeera: Live blog 29/1 - Egypt protests

Minute to minute reports from Egypt.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-291-egypt-protests

BBC Live updates: Egypt unrest day five

Live coverage of the fifth day of anti-government protests in Egypt, as hundreds of demonstrators return to the streets of central Cairo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/9380534.stm

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arab+world
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=islamist
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Matthews
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Cohen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Kinzer
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 22:05

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Secretive Oil Billionaires? Strategy Meeting

Starmail - 29. Jan, 10:05

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Next-up News Nr 1578

- Antennes relais Arrêt du Conseil d'État Mairie Neuilly-sur-Marne contre SFR: "Les impératifs de couverture nationale et l'intérêt public qui s'y attache justifie l'urgence"
- Dernière minute Clicanoo Jugement Mairie-St-Pierre :
"Affaire des antennes relais: Orange donne le coup de grâce à la mairie"

http://www.next-up.org/pages/Justice.php#1
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 09:35

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Corporate Crime and No Punishment

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/28-6

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+crime
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russell+Mokhiber
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 06:18

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The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/28-8

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Label Monsanto's Frankenfoods
http://www.capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=21526516&type=CU

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Total War: Agri-business style
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1022.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Monsanto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GMOs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=factory+farm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ronnie+Cummins
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 06:11

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The Bush Legacy Strikes Out American Justice

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/28-13

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+Justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Winship
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 06:09

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Revolution in the Air, But US Sticks to Same Old Script

Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:57

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With 36,000 Troops Set to Deploy in 2011, Is Permanent War on the Horizon?

Matt Southworth, Of Peace And Politics: "As the US war in Afghanistan spreads toward Pakistan and the strategy drifts to Counter Terrorism (CT), there is no deescalation in sight. In fact, it is increasingly clear that the White House has little intention to significantly draw down troops in July of this year, as promised in President Obama's West Point speech."

http://www.truth-out.org/36000-troops-set-deploy-2011-permanent-war-horizon67235

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=permanent+war
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matt+Southworth
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:52

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Peak Oil and Our Financial Decline

Video

The Nation and On The Earth Productions: "In this fifth video in the series 'Peak Oil and a Changing Climate' from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, author, blogger and social critic James Howard Kunstler opens up on two circumstances he sees running neck and neck 'that are going to put us out of business as an advanced industrial civilization' - the 'fiasco' in banking, money and finance and the unfolding 'energy predicament.' He explains that the crises are really all about 'capital' and that we need to look at how wealth has been accumulated and deployed for productive purposes. Kunstler suggests that 'cheap abundant energy' has facilitated ever-increasing industrialization for centuries. But now that society is in a period of self-destructive capital accumulation, he expects debt to increase as abundance in energy drops."

http://www.truth-out.org/james-howard-kunstler-peak-oil-and-our-financial-decline-video67231

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+decline
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=peak+oil
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Howard+Kunstler
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:45

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Bush, Obama, Wiki and the CIA

Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:39

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Stop a plan to kill wolves in Alaska wildlife refuge and wilderness

http://tws.convio.net/site/R?i=ESaFAckpyLe9qKl1_XFTMw..
http://tws.convio.net/site/R?i=LXEbshFAVtSp7-JFZ6bTLg..

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wolves
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Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:31

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Wikileaks veröffentlich massenhaft Dokumente zu Ägypten

Netzsperren reizen Whistleblower-Organisation
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149160

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Netzsperre
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ägypten
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=whistleblow

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Starmail - 29. Jan, 05:18

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Freitag, 28. Januar 2011

UK consumer confidence suffers 'astonishing collapse'

Britons' confidence in the economy and their finances has suffered its biggest drop in close to 20 years, raising fears that the Government's austerity onslaught will set off a self-feeding downward spiral.

http://bit.ly/eo0oY1

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 22:40

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Did Congress approve America's longest war?

Congress did empower the president in 2001 to pursue al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But a decade later, where's the oversight?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/27/afghanistan-congress

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Ackerman
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 22:36

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US must support dictators to keep cheap oil flowing

CNBC anchor implies

CNBC anchor implies US must support dictators to keep cheap oil flowingCNBC contributor Erin Burnett said Friday that oil prices would skyrocket if countries in the ´ broke out from under the rule of brutal dictators.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/cnbc-anchor-implies-support-dictators-cheap-oil/

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 22:32

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As Long As The Public is Under Control, Everything is Fine

By Kristian Smith

"The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27369.htm

The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread

By Paul Craig Roberts

While people in Tunisia and Egypt have taken to the streets in attempts to gain their liberty, Americans are losing their liberty with minimal protest.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27368.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kristian+Smith
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 22:21

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impf-report Newsletter Nr. 01/2011

http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2011/01.htm
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 17:38

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AG says state has until May to release Palin emails

MSNBC

01/27/11

The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday. As we reported last month, by May the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails...

http://tinyurl.com/62yhzqa

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Palin
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 09:49

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Bills Denying Birthright Citizenship to be Introduced in Arizona

Fox News

01/26/11

Arizona is expected to set off another seismic immigration wave on Thursday, when both chambers of its legislature expect to hear the introduction of bills denying citizenship to U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants. Republican State Sen. Ron Gould said he and Republican State Rep. John Kavanagh agreed on a day for each to introduce the legislation, but Gould said that timetables for consideration of the bills by the separate chambers will diverge at that point.

http://tinyurl.com/4gfoncz

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 09:43

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Guantanamo inmates protest their imprisonment

USA Today

01/27/11

Dozens of Guantanamo inmates are protesting their imprisonment with a sit-in and signs to mark the ninth anniversary of the prison camp's opening. The Center for Constitutional Rights says the prisoners are refusing to return to their cells for the required nightly lockdown and that they are sleeping in the recreational yard and other areas.

http://tinyurl.com/67bj8n6

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Constitutional+Rights

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 09:38

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Obama Inc.: The state of the union is still a state of war

Jim Hightower: "Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they're recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they've come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get America moving again. Ready? 'Win the future.' Takes your breath away, doesn't it? If you're old enough to remember Gerald Ford's hapless presidency, Obama's fabulous new slogan might have a familiar ring to it."

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-obama-inc67200

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The revolutionary wave

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/28/11

The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the myth of 'American exceptionalism.' We cannot and will not be excepted from the iron laws of economics, which mandate that you can?t consume more than you produce -- no matter how many Federal Reserve notes (otherwise known as 'money') you print. The implications for US foreign policy are radical, and unsettling...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/27/the-revolutionary-wave/

The state of the union is still a state of war

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

01/27/11

What was glaringly absent from President Obama?s state of the union address Tuesday night, as well as from the response from both the Republicans and the Tea Party movement, is an admission that the real state of the union is a state of war...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5487

For the budget crisis, a fake solution

Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/27/11

The latest Obama plan would cut projected outlays by an estimated $400 billion in the next decade, and the Republican alternative would cut spending by $2.5 trillion. It's a measure of our predicament that these enormous sums wouldn't make a lot of difference, even if they were achieved. They're the equivalent of trying to empty a swimming pool with a tablespoon...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/27/for-the-budget-crisis-a-fake-s

The Human Rights Act: A crime against liberty

Spiked
by Jon Holbrook

01/27/11

The current debate about control orders shows how human-rights legislation actually aids the state in its attacks on our freedom...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10137/

Time now to step up the rhetoric

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

01/26/11

Pretty words do not make up for up for ugly actions. A man who beats his spouse can tell her he loves her as he blackens her eyes and breaks her will. We all know who Mr. Obama really works for...

http://fr33agents.net/2011/01/26/time-now-to-step-up-the-rhetoric/

Freedom is not compatible with government?s initiation of force against innocent people

Liberty & Power
by Robert Higgs

01/26/11

[A] presumption in favor of freedom rules out virtually everything that modern governments do, certainly nearly everything they do in interfering in economic affairs. Redistribution of income, for example, requires that the government rob Peter in order to benefit Paul (and its own functionaries, who serve as middlemen in this transfer). This action is not freedom; it is a crime against Peter, a raw violation of his right to his own legitimate property...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/135881.html

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=what+change
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=control+orders
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Chapman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Higgs

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U.S. budget deficit to hit $1.5 trillion

A continuing weak economy and last month's bipartisan tax cut legislation will drive the government's deficit to a record $1.5 trillion this year, a new government estimates predicts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41272983/ns/politics-more_politics/

Watchdog Says Bank Bailouts Made 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Even Bigger

Neil Barofsky, head of the group charged with overseeing the government's handling of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) says the "too-big-to-fail" problem has not been solved; in fact, it's gotten worse.

http://bit.ly/hF2A2N

Mortgage applications tumble 12.9% as refinancing activity falls 15.3%

The number of refinancing applications fell 15.3% last week to the lowest point in 12 months, according to the MBA. And purchase applications didn't fare any better dropping 8.7% to the lowest point since October.

http://bit.ly/gotH9x

U.S. Home Prices Keep Weakening as Eight Cities Reach New Lows in November

Prices are now falling - and falling just about everywhere. As S&P noted "eight markets - Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Portland (OR), Seattle and Tampa - hit their lowest levels since home prices peaked in 2006 and 2007".

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/01/case-shiller-us-home-prices-keep.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
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Modern-day slaves' story repeats daily in plain sight

They worked at posh country clubs across South Florida, then returned to deceptively quiet houses in Boca Raton where they were captives -- and in the most dreadful cases, fed rotten chicken and vegetables, forced to drink muriatic acid and repeatedly denied medical help.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/23/2030710/modern-day-slaves-story-repeats.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=slaves
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:58

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Afghanistan needs 30-year commitment, EU envoy says

The international community - including increasingly hostile public opinion in the European Union - needs to face the fact that Afghanistan will need support 'for the next 30 years rather than 30 months,' the bloc's envoy to Kabul has said.

http://bit.ly/ePK8Pv

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:45

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US Killed Over 2,000, Mostly Civilians in Pakistan Since 2006

A new report from the Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC) has reported that 2,043 Pakistanis have been slain in CIA drone strikes in the past 5 years, with the vast majority of them innocent civilians.

http://warisacrime.org/content/report-cia-drones-killed-over-2000-mostly-civilians-pakistan-2006

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=civilians+deaths

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:41

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Justice Department Seeks to Have all Web Surfing Tracked

By Agence France-Presse

The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27362.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=web+surfing
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:31

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Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

By Andrew J. Bacevich

These four factors -- institutional self-interest, strategic inertia, cultural dissonance, and misremembered history -- insulate the military budget from serious scrutiny.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27360.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:27

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There is no Proof Iran is Building Nuclear Weapons: Medvedev

By The Associated Press

Medvedev said, "the international community so far has no information that Iran is building nuclear weapons."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27355.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Medvedev
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 08:24

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Next-up News Nr 1577

- Le Ministère de l'Energie Britannique confirme des discussions avec le Ministère de la Santé sur les risques des nouveaux compteurs d'électricité, du gaz et de l'eau.

http://www.next-up.org/France/ERDF_Compteur_mouchard_Linky.php#1
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 06:25

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The Antisocial Network on Its Imperial Cruise

http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker40.1.html

Replace Austerity With Freedom, Independence, and Prosperity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz20.1.html

Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead25.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 06:13

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Was der US-Präsident unter sauberer Energie versteht

Schmutziges Erdgas
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149149

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

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 05:35

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Der Umweltrat spricht sich gegen Kohle und Atom als Brückentechnologie aus

Experten der Bundesregierung stellen Energiekonzept in Frage
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34092/1.html

Hundert Prozent bis 2050

Das Sondergutachten des Umweltrats beschreibt einen kostengünstigen Weg in den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energieträger.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149150

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brückentechnologie
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz+Gelb
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Starmail - 28. Jan, 05:29

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Die Schwierigkeiten der Weltmacht mit den Dominosteinen

Unruhen in Ägypten: Die USA tun sich schwer damit, sich richtig zu positionieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149152

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Starmail - 28. Jan, 05:28

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Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011

State of American Exceptionalism

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/27-0

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maya+Wiley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Wolff
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 22:27

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Chemical Dispersants Used by BP Linger in Deep Sea Plume

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/27

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 22:18

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Führungsschwächen gibt es nicht nur auf der 'Gorch Fock'

Beim Bund geht's weiter bunt zu. Wehrbeauftragter legte Bericht vor: Führungsschwächen gibt es nicht nur auf der "Gorch Fock"

Artikel von René Heilig aus Neues Deutschland vom 26. Januar 2011, dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Bundeswehr/wehrbericht10.html

Darin auch der Jahresbericht im Überblick sowie der Link zum ganzen Bericht: Unterrichtung durch den Wehrbeauftragten Jahresbericht 2010 (52. Bericht)

Siehe dazu auch:

Nebenkriegschauplätze en masse ? aber keiner hinterfragt die Privilegierung der Bundeswehr

?Überall wird gespart. Soziale Leistungen werden zusammengestrichen. Hartz IV-Empfänger werden mit 5 Euro abgespeist. Viele Gemeinden wissen nicht, wie sie Notwendiges bezahlen sollen. Aber die Bundeswehr leistet sich z.B. das Spielzeug Gorch Fock und Todesfälle, für die die betroffenen Opfer, ihre Familien und auch die Steuerzahler bezahlen müssen. Wegen dieses lächerlichen Schulschiffes reist jetzt eine Vierköpfige Kommission nach Südarmerika. Alles absurd. Wo bleibt die Hinterfragung dieser absurden Privilegien und Verschwendung?...? Kommentar von Albrecht Müller vom 24. Januar 2011 bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=8107

Frisches Blut: Bundeswehr im Klassenzimmer

Jugendoffiziere: Werber für die Bundeswehr

Warum Jugendoffiziere die Minimalbedingungen für die politische Bildung in Deutschland nicht einhalten und für die Armee werben. IMI-Standpunkt 2011/002 von Michael Schulze von Glaßer vom 24.1.2011 http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2232

Die NEIN-Stimmen im Bundestag werden zunehmen. Briefe und Erklärungen aus der Friedensbewegung gegen Fortsetzung des Afghanistankrieges

Zur bevorstehenden Abstimmung über die Verlängerung des Bundeswehreinsatzes in Afghanistan dokumentieren im Folgenden zwei Pressemitteilung: eine vom Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag, die zweite vom Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie und dem Netzwerk Friedenskooperative. Doku beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung/afgh/baf12.html

NATO-?Sicherheitskonferenzen?: Siko 2011

Propagandaförderung

Steuerzahler müssen erneut Münchner Kriegsratschlag kofinanzieren. Proteste gegen sogenannte Sicherheitskonferenz beginnen Samstag mit einer Jubeldemo. Artikel von Frank Brendle in junge Welt vom 25.01.2011 http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/01-25/040.php

ver.di: Offener Brief ruft zur Teilnahme auf!

?? auch 2011 findet in München vom 04. bis 06. Februar die sogenannte Sicherheitskonferenz (SiKo) statt. Sie gilt als das weltweit bedeutendste Treffen von Außenministern, Militärs und Vertretern der Rüstungsindustrie. [...] ver.di-München wird sich daher mit einem eigenen Gewerkschaftsblock an der Demonstration in München beteiligen. Wir rufen alle auf: Schließt Euch an ? die Sache des Friedens ist zu wichtig, um sie denen zu überlassen, die am Krieg verdienen!...? Offener Brief an alle Mitglieder von ver.di-München & Region, dokumentiert auf der Aktionsseite http://sicherheitskonferenz.de/de/ver.di-muenchen-ruft-auf-gegen-SiKo-2011

Aus: LabourNet, 27. Januar 2011

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Industrie trifft Krieg

?5000 Teilnehmer zu Protest gegen Sicherheitskonferenz in München erwartet / Vielfältige Gegenveranstaltungen. Am kommenden Freitag beginnt in München die 47. Sicherheitskonferenz. Im Mittelpunkt der Proteste gegen das Treffen von Staatschefs, Militärs und Rüstungsindustrie wird die Forderung nach dem Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan stehen?? Artikel von Rudolf Stumberger im ND vom 1.02.2011 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/189785.industrie-trifft-krieg.html

Presseerklärung vom Aktionsbündnis gegen die NATO-Sicherheitskonferenz vom 31.1.2011 mit Details zu den Protesten

?Inzwischen haben mehr als 90 Organisationen unseren Aufruf zu den Protesten gegen die NATO-Kriegstagung unterzeichnet und mobilisieren zu den Gegenaktionen. (?) Zu unserer Großdemonstration gegen die Verantwortlichen der NATO-Kriegspolitik am Samstag, den 5. Februar erwarten wir rund 5000 Teilnehmer?? Presseerklärung auf der Aktionsseite, dort auch aktuelle Infos http://sicherheitskonferenz.de/de/SiKO-PErkl.-Nr.3-2011

Aus: LabourNet, 3. Februar 2011

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Neuer Minister, alte Pläne: Die Rekrutierungsoffensive 2011 der Bundeswehr

IMI-Analyse 2011/07 von Christian Stache vom 14.3.2011
http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2259

Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2011

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 15:50

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Stoppen Sie den Hungertod, Frau Bundeskanzlerin! Stoppen Sie E10-Sprit

http://www.regenwald.org/mailalert/666/stoppen-sie-den-hungertod-frau-bundeskanzlerin-stoppen-sie-e10-sprit

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E-10-Sprit: Ölkonzerne zocken Autofahrer ab

Laut ADAC wird Superbenzin zu Preisen von Super Plus verkauft.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811229ms246

In den nächsten 60 Stunden verlieren wir Wald von der Größe Berlins

Deutscher Papierkonsum trägt Mitschuld am rasanten Waldschwund.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811248ms246

800.000 Tonnen Büropapier belasten Umwelt

Wettbewerb sucht Unternehmen mit ressourcenschonenden Ideen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811249ms246

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Obamas collapse: The return of the military commissions

Future of Freedom Founation
by Andy Worthington

01/25/11

For T.S. Eliot, April was the cruelest month, but for the prisoners at Guantanamo it is January ? from the dashed hopes of January 2009, when President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order in which he promised to close the prison within a year, to January 2010, when, having failed to do so, he added insult to injury by issuing a moratorium preventing the release of 29 Yemenis cleared for release by his own Guantanamo Review Task Force .... This year the president?s bitter surprise for the prisoners was two-fold...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101m.asp

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=military+commissions
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+order
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 09:25

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Deficits on pace to hit $2.58 trillion

US pols overspending on pace to hit $2.58 trillion for 2011-12

Politico

01/26/11

New budget estimates Wednesday paint a grim picture of the nation?s [sic] fiscal state, with the government on pace to rack up combined deficits of $2.58 trillion for 2011 and 2012 even with an improved economy. With the Treasury already warning it will have exhausted the government?s borrowing authority this spring, the Congressional Budget Office report is the most up-to-date analysis of just how big an increase in the debt ceiling will be needed [sic] prior to the 2012 elections...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48226.html

The road to national suicide

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

01/27/11

It is not often that one sees an entire nation marching in lockstep to go over a cliff into an abyss, but that is essentially what the United States is doing at the moment. Not only have there been strong hints from the Obama Administration that the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will go on into the dim future, but there is also no sign of any necessary course correction in other areas...

http://tinyurl.com/4t57rua

Bush?s third term continues

OpenMarket.org
by Ryan Young

01/26/11

President Obama?s policies are remarkably similar to President Bush?s. Most of their differences are in matters of degree, not principle. Both presidents believe in expanding federal involvement in health care, education, energy, you name it. Both grew regulation, spending and deficits at tremendous rates. Even their foreign policy is almost identical...

http://tinyurl.com/4s2hkva

When numbers get unserious

Reason Reason
by Jacob Sullum

01/26/11

Obama depicts budget cutters as panicky passengers 'trying to reduce the weight of an overloaded aircraft by removing its engine,' a metaphor that transforms frugality into a vice and makes continuing to spend money we don't have seem like the only responsible course. This inversion of values is facilitated by the self-fulfilling conventional wisdom that serious spending cuts are unserious because no one will take them seriously. According to this view, epitomized by the Times, only rubes imagine that the budget can be balanced by reducing expenditures, while fiscal sophisticates understand the need to carry on as usual, despite a $1.4 trillion deficit and a $14 trillion debt...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/26/when-numbers-get-unserious

And the debt bomb ticks on

Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan

01/25/11

The federal deficit for the fiscal year 2011, which ends Sept. 30, is projected at between $1,200 billion and $1,500 billion. Thus, the $100 billion in cuts the firebrands are pushing, and few think they will get, add up at best to 8 percent of the deficit and 2.5 percent of the $3.87 trillion budget Obama proposed. Thus, at best, this Congress will only slightly reduce the rate of speed at which we are heading toward a debt default...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41375

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=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Treasury
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Congressional+Budget+Office
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=market+correction
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Young
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+Sullum
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 09:05

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Financial Crisis Panel Urges Prosecutions of Industry Figures

Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "The congressional panel examining the root causes of the nation's financial crisis voted to refer to state and federal prosecutors a wide range of potential criminal wrongdoing by financial industry figures and corporations, people involved in the deliberations said Tuesday."

http://www.truth-out.org/financial-crisis-panel-urges-prosecutions-industry-figures67168

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Financial Crisis Inquiry Panel Blames Greenspan, Wall Street, Says Crisis Was 'Avoidable'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/27-2

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greenspan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+industry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greg+Gordon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Clarke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Drawbaugh

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:46

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Keith Olbermanns MSNBC Departure a Wake-up Call to Fix Broken US Corporate Media System

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/26-3

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Olbermann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Harris
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:34

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The Obama/GOP Consensus

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/26-10

Common Cause: For Now, It Appears Senate Returning to Dysfunction-as-Usual
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/26-19

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Economic Policy: Change or More of the Same?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/26-7

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Winning the Future for Whom?

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "In the context of the State of the Union, and of Washingtonspeak on the whole, what does 'democracy' mean? This brand of 'democracy' certainly does not include the voices of the poor - the people who are disenfranchised due to their lack of access to basic necessities, the people who, more than anyone, need their government to care. This spectacle of contention and frustration and mess is ultimately a battle between a narrow sliver of very similar perspectives.... Does 'working together,' then, connote simply uniting the voices and interests of 'moderate' Republicans and 'centrist' Democrats, in Congress and in corporate America? A real democracy represents Gary, Indiana as boldly as it represents Washington, DC."

http://www.truth-out.org/winning-future-whom67166

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The revolving-door polity of corporatism

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

By now ... Barack Obama?s fondness for turning high-powered corporate executives into federal government footmen is no secret. From Tim Geithner, to William Daley, to Roger Altman, the President has been very cozy with big business indeed, and not just big business, but the biggest. It is, to be sure, a very confused, twisted political lexicon that would adjudge the President as hostile to business, but that judgment is no more absurd than the myth that to be pro-business is to be pro-free market...

http://c4ss.org/content/5900

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=Geithner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Daley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+America
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:31

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Detained for Supporting Bradley Manning

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/26-2

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The persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

01/26/11

Pvt. Manning, whatever his fate at the hands of his military overlords, will someday be hailed as one of America's heroes. Confronted by the overwhelming might of the most powerful war machine the world has ever known, and by a government that long ago tossed out any semblance of conscience or morality, he has stood his ground, refusing to lie on the promise of leniency...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff01262011.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://tinyurl.com/6cw7xz5
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:26

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Shell, Slammed Over Human Rights and Environmental Abuses, Faces Hearing Over Nigeria

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/26-5

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Shell Oil considers the oil spills it caused in Nigeria a 'tragedy.' Then why does the oil giant refuse to clean up its act?
http://bit.ly/suye0O

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nigeria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oil+spill
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=abuse

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:21

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Growing Concerns Over Genetically Modified Foods

http://triplehelixblog.com/2011/01/food-frenzy-growing-concerns-over-genetically-modified-foods/

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=genetically+modified
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 08:00

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UN Human Rights Official Claims 9-11 Was US Plot

http://911blogger.com/news/2011-01-25/un-human-rights-official-claims-9-11-was-us-plot

Informant: Bob Banner

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 07:41

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Another Childhood-Vaccine Link to Autism

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/mmr-link-to-autism.html

Vilified by Big Pharma
http://lewrockwell.com/mercola/mercola173.html

Vaccines and Autism
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/vaccines-and-autism.html

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Vaccines and Autism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/vaccines-1/vaccines-and-autism.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=vaccin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=autism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Pharma
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrew+Wakefield
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/mercola
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 06:01

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A Scary Signal to the US

http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber94.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Marc+Faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/faber
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:58

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What we are not being told about the US war on Afghanistan

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed196.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/reed
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:55

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Jesse Ventura Sues TSA and DHS Over Airport Screening Violations

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/jesse-ventura-sues-tsa.html

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=ventura
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:52

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Tunisia, Egypt, Arab world need bold US support for democracy, not mixed messages

Ägypten und Co im Minutentakt
http://quintessenz.at/d/000100008985

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Tunisia, Egypt, Arab world need bold US support for democracy, not mixed messages

Christian Science Monitor
by Shadi Hamid

01/26/11

The Tunisia uprising exposed the faulty assumption of US policy in the Middle East -- that stability can be bought at the cost of freedom. Even as the domestic political climate pulls Obama away from foreign involvement, US support for democracy in the Arab world is more important than ever...

http://tinyurl.com/4g9vh3w

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Al Jazeera English Live From Egypt

Video Live Stream

Video Reports From Egypt.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27365.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shadi+Hamid
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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:37

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Internet-Ausschaltknopf für US-Präsident erwünscht

Auch in diesem Jahr sollen erneut ein seltsamer Gesetzentwurf zum Schutz der kritischen Infrastruktur bei einem Cybernotstand in den US-Kongress eingebracht werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/149141

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Internet+freedom

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:35

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Fannie Mae und Freddie Mac halten 24 Milliarden Dollar an zwangsübereigneten Immobilien

Der Immobilienbestand der beiden 2008 verstaatlichten US-Hypothekenbanken hat sich in den letzten drei Jahren verfünffacht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149142

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fannie+Mae
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Freddie+Mac
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:31

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Bild-Zeitung schreibt die Leiharbeit schön

Die Fachberatung zum Artikel stammt von einem Lobbyverband.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34080/1.html

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Leiharbeit: Die Kluft wächst

?Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit ermittelt für Leiharbeiter ein mittleres Monatseinkommen von 1393 Euro. Das sind satte 900 Euro weniger als das, was Beschäftigte ohne Berufsabschluss bekommen?? Artikel von Eva Roth in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 17.1.2011 http://www.fr-online.de/wirtschaft/die-kluft-waechst/-/1472780/5820906/-/view/asFirstTeaser/-/index.html

Siehe dazu auch: Leiharbeit = Lohndumping

?Leiharbeit boomt, und damit das Lohndumping. Nur knapp 1.400 Euro brutto im Monat war hier 2009 der mittlere Verdienst. Wir brauchen eine gesetzliche Regelung: Gleicher Lohn ab dem ersten Tag, und ein Mindestlohn für die entleihfreien Zeiten?? Wirtschaftspolitik aktuell Nr. 2/2011 vom 21.01.2011 von und bei ver.di (pdf) https://wipo.verdi.de/wirtschaftspolitik_aktuell/data/02-11-Leiharbeit-Lohndumping.pdf

24. Februar 2011: gewerkschaftlicher Aktionstag gegen Lohndumping durch Leiharbeit

Aktionstag am 24. Februar. DGB: Arbeit ? sicher und fair!

?Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund ruft unter dem Motto ?Arbeit ? sicher und fair? zur Teilnahme an den bundesweiten gewerkschaftlichen Aktionen in den Betrieben und Verwaltungen am 24. Februar 2011 auf?? Aufruf des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) vom 25.01.2011 https://www.dgb.de/presse/++co++f63af6ce-2890-11e0-614d-00188b4dc422

Aktionstag 24. Februar 2011: Arbeit muss sicher und fair sein

?Die IG Metall sagt der Leiharbeit den Kampf. Am 24. Februar wird sie mit einem betrieblichen Aktionstag bundesweit für sichere und faire Arbeitsplätze protestieren. "Arbeit darf nicht zur Ramschware verkommen", sagt Berthold Huber, denn sie ist der wertvollste Rohstoff, den Deutschland besitzt?? Meldung der IG Metall vom 21.01.2011 http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A456501-E58E23B4/internet/style.xsl/aktionstag-leiharbeit-6838.htm

Aktionstag am 24. Februar: Arbeit - sicher und fair

?Die wirtschaftliche Erholung nach der Finanzkrise schafft kaum sichere Arbeitsplätze ? Leiharbeit, befristete Beschäftigung und unsichere Arbeit nehmen zu. Die Arbeitgeber missbrauchen die Leiharbeit. Lohndumping ist die Folge. Deshalb rufen der DGB und seine Gewerkschaften zu einem bundesweiten Aktionstag in Betrieben und Verwaltungen am 24. Februar 2011 auf - gegen Lohndumping und für sichere und faire Arbeit?? ver.di-Meldung vom 26.01.2011 http://www.verdi.de/nachrichten/newsArchive?channel=nachrichten&id=aktionstag-am-24-februar-gegen-lohndumping-und-fur-sichere-faire-arbeit

Aus: LabourNet, 27. Januar 2011

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Finanzkrise
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lohndumping
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mindestlohn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prekär
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bundesagentur+für+Arbeit

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Starmail - 27. Jan, 05:28

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Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011

Bank Failures Rise to 7 in 2011

Last Friday, U.S. regulators shuttered four more banks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Colorado, pushing up the failed U.S. banks figure to 7 so far in 2011. These were preceded by 157 bank failures in 2010, 140 in 2009 and 25 in 2008.

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/46392/Bank+Failures+Rise+to+7

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bank+failure
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 22:33

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Excusing Torture at 'Justice'

By Ray McGovern

Catholics are more likely than the general U.S. population to favor the use of torture against suspected terrorists. More than half the Catholics surveyed said that torture could be often or sometimes justified, while another 27 percent said the practice could rarely be justified. Only 20 percent said it could never be justified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27353.htm

Onward Christian Soldiers ... To Hypocrisy

By William Rivers Pitt

Make no mistake: this movement to turn the Armed Forces into a bastion of hard-core fundamentalist Christianity is as dangerous as any threat posed to the country by any outside force or enemy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27350.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fundamentalist
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=suspect+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christian+Soldiers
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 22:23

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SOTU address: The real story of Obama and corporate America

The New Republic
by Noam Scheiber

01/25/11

The president isn t caving to business. He s co-opting it...
http://tinyurl.com/4z9ruvp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Post-SOTU Analysis
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson-brian/wilson-brian32.1.html

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What the 1% Heard During Obama s State of the Union Speech

Shamus Cooke, Countercurrents: Obama s state of the union address was such a speech, a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses; easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14741-what-the-1-heard-during-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=SOTU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+America
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=1+percent
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Scheiber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/wilson-brian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shamus+Cooke
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 10:10

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New Republicans, same old militarism

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Benjamin H. Friedman

01/24/11

As the 112th Congress gets under way, a key question remains about where tea-party influence will push the Republican caucus on foreign policy ? toward a more restrained stance on overseas commitments and Pentagon spending, or in the familiar trajectory of fiscally calamitous military adventures. Since the tea party took off last year, pundits have predicted that its anti-spending zealots would eventually target the Pentagon. Neoconservatives are clearly nervous about that prospect...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12727

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militarism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Benjamin+H.+Friedman

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 10:03

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War is not moral

Liberty For All
by Wrights 2012 Staff

01/25/11

R. Lee Wrights: "You do not teach people it is wrong to kill people by killing people. You only perpetuate war and sentence our children to death on battlefields far from home. There is nothing moral about sending someone else?s loved one to fight for something in which you believe. I want to bring those loved ones home...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5482

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=perpetuate+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:58

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US November home prices down for fifth straight month

Reuters

01/25/11

U.S. single-family home prices fell for a fifth straight month in November and could plumb new lows soon, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.5 percent in November from October on a seasonally adjusted basis, though it was not as sharp as the 0.8 percent fall expected by economists...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN258222420110125

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+price
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:54

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Glenn Beck Incites Violence; Keith Olbermann Departs

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-2

Violence on the Right: More Evidence
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-4

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Beck
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=violence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Olbermann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ruth+Conniff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Schaller
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:42

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The Rhetoric of Fear Feeds Terror

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-3

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amanda+Marcotte
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:39

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Obama to Push Bogus 'Competitiveness' Theme in State of the Union Address

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/25-6

White House Opposes GOP Attack On Public Financing, But Obama Makes Flawed Advocate
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/25-5

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Roger+Bybee

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:30

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The Next Robo-Signing Crisis?

It's the next big shoe to drop in the robo-signing foreclosure scandal. Call it part two.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41250862

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:22

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Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner and Victim of US Rendition and Torture Speaks

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"What they did to me, me and my family won't forget for 100 years," Madni says. "There are a lot of people like me that never did anything and were in Guantánamo Bay."

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:18

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Tony Blair went to war without cabinet consent

Tony Blair has been accused by two former heads of the civil service of taking the country to war in Iraq without the approval of his cabinet.

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:13

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Time to follow Fields' example and quit Afghanistan

Billions lost as fraud mars US plan to build

Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction: Fields said, thanks to widespread corruption and delays in projects, US troops will have to be in the war-hit country until the year 2025.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161846.html

U.S. watchdog warns billions invested in Afghan security at risk

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, retired Marine Gen. Arnold Fields, in what may be his final public event before he retires next month, painted a starkly pessimistic picture of what lies ahead in Afghanistan.

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Time to follow Fields' example and quit Afghanistan

The White House should draw a larger conclusion from the resignation of its corruption inspector for Afghanistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/11/us-military-usforeignpolicy

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:08

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