World-News

- Sarkozy et Linky: ULTIMATUM à ERDF (Communiqué en Urgence)

http://www.next-up.org/France/Linky.php#1
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10. Februar 2011

Die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Katja Kipping, wirft Union und FDP nach den gescheiterten Hartz-IV-Gesprächen einen ?Putsch gegen die Verfassung? vor. Kipping äußert die Hoffnung auf ein baldiges Eingreifen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, um eine deutliche Regelsatzanhebung zu erreichen. Sie erklärt:

Union und FDP haben jede Bewegung beim Regelsatz blockiert. Das war ein Putsch gegen die Verfassung. SPD und Grüne waren nicht in der Lage, echten Druck aufzubauen. Herausgekommen ist eine Nullnummer. Bei Hartz IV werden praktisch längst durch die Hintertür die Leistungen gekürzt, obwohl die Schmerzgrenze längst überschritten ist. Das provoziert Unmut und auf Dauer soziale Unruhen. So kann man weder mit den Millionen Betroffenen noch mit dem höchsten deutschen Gericht umgehen. Spätestens dann wenn das Verfassungsgericht angerufen wird, wird es per Anordnung nachholen müssen, was die Politik verweigert hat. Das Gericht urteilt nicht nach Kassenlage sondern nach Rechtslage. Maßgeblich ist die Verfassung, und die sagt, dass die Würde des Menschen unantastbar ist.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/putsch-gegen-die-verfassung/



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Downsize DC Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

02/09/11

There's been a lot of hysteria about Wikileaks. Negative propaganda has made many people hostile to the organization and its leader, Julian Assange. Sadly, national security is like a religion for many Americans. When the Political Priests of the National Security State rattle their sabers it becomes heretical to take the contrary view...

http://tinyurl.com/483dg6m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Babka
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Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Andrew Napolitano

02/09/11

The compromise version of the Patriot Act to which House and Senate conferees agreed last week and for which the House voted yesterday is an unforgivable assault on basic American values and core constitutional liberties. Unless amended in response to the courageous efforts of a few dozen senators from both parties, the new Patriot Act will continue to give federal agents the power to write their own search warrants -- the statute?s newspeak terminology calls them 'national security letters' -- and serve them on a host of persons and entities that regularly gather and store sensitive, private information on virtually every American...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1324


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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PATRIOT ACT or Bill of Rights?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1031.html



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http://ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011020609/fannie-freddie-and-privatization-next-crisis-starting-right-now


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

02/09/11

An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians the group registered as killed in conflict-related security incidents in 2010, some 739 were under the age of 18...

http://tinyurl.com/4sspsk3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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USA Today

02/09/11

Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans, according to the government's first in-depth study of homelessness among former servicemembers. About 16% of homeless adults in a one-night survey in January 2009 were veterans, though vets make up only 10% of the adult population...

http://tinyurl.com/4bd6ray


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-7



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We just had a "rich-get-richer" recession. U.K. data suggest the gap between the wealthy and the poor has widened. We can give up any idea that it is going to close by itself.

http://bloom.bg/dPi7Lg



Negative Home Equity Surges, Weighing on Housing "Recovery"

A full 27 percent of borrowers are now "underwater" on their mortgages, up from 23 percent in the previous quarter, according to a new report from Zillow. Foreclosure moratoriums and falling home prices are to blame.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41483676


From Information Clearing House



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The US has broken off high-level contacts with Pakistan as it increases pressure on Islamabad to free an American official who shot dead two Pakistanis, according to sources from both countries.

http://bit.ly/hKvWQi



Pakistan defence photos found in US official's camera

"It is strongly recommended that a case of espionage be registered against Davis,' the prosecution branch of the Punjab police has written in an official letter to the investigation branch.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/742073/cs/1/



American's fake IDs, spy gadgets stoke Pakistani anger

The mystery about what Davis was doing with these gadgets has touched directly on Pakistani resentment of the large U.S. security presence. Such U.S. employees roam the country freely and are not answerable to the Pakistani authorities.

http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_17333655?nclick_check=1



US threatens to cut Pakistani aid if US gunman not released

US lawmakers threatened to cut aid to Pakistan unless it freed an American detained over a shadowy shooting, as Washington intensified pressure on its uneasy war partner.

http://bit.ly/fdEbdC


From Information Clearing House



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By Ray McGovern

As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of arrest on a torture complaint, my first thought was - how humiliating, not only for Bush but, by extension, for all Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27439.htm



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By DPA

The bases would enable US troops to remain in the area beyond the planned transfer of security responsibility from US and NATO troops to Afghan forces by end of 2014, a process due to begin in the spring.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27438.htm



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By Richard Falk

When the Soviet empire collapsed, the way was opened for the triumphalist pursuit of the American imperial project, seizing the opportunity for geopolitical expansion provided by its self-anointed global leadership - as 'the sole surviving superpower'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27437.htm



Senior US Marine Says "Multiple Platoons" Are Headed To Egypt

A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.

http://read.bi/gbJcXk



France rocked by news of aid to Tunisia and Egypt

France trained Egyptian police officers in crowd control and sent tear gas to Tunis. And its foreign minister vacationed in Tunisia after the uprising, using the jet of a man linked to the ousted president.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/05/world/la-fg-france-scandal-20110205


From Information Clearing House

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Egypt-Inspired Protests Across Middle East Meet Violent Clampdown
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-0

Suleiman: America's New Man in Egypt
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/09

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Let?s go to Plan B

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

02/10/11

Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is a definition of insanity. He might have been describing the foreign policy of the United States of America. In the past week we long suffering citizens have seen our government stand by the dictator in Egypt, then call on him to go, and most recently support his staying on while at the same time publicly demanding that some transition start immediately. All of which is not doing the same thing over and over except when one considers that the US Department of State and White House have followed precisely the same dysfunctional pattern when dealing with other client states throughout the Middle East and in Central Asia...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/02/09/lets-go-to-plan-b/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Laufzeitverlängerung: Neckarwestheim 1 profitiert als erster Meiler - sicherheitsrelevante Nachrüstung ist auf einmal nicht mehr erforderlich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149225



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In Afghanistan findet nicht nur der erste Drohnenkrieg statt, es sind auch 2000 Bodenroboter im Einsatz.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34167/1.html



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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I know I should be immune to this by now, but I still find myself awestruck by the incredibly detailed, insulated fantasy world that the American conservative 'movement' has created for themselves. No lie is too big to be told, no fact is too firm to be bent around ideology, no myth is too absurd to defend to the knife. The ability to spew deliberate nonsense into the credulous ears of Fox-watching right-bent voters - and to be utterly without shame while doing it - is the core of this 'movement's' political muscle, and has been for a number of decades now."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-rich-fantasy-life67572



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- NCBI Pub-Med: Un panel de scientifiques lance une alerte santé concernant les risques des champs électromagnétiques artificiels: le consensus, les justifications et les recommandations.
- Les 10 points clés de l'ALERTE mondiale.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Database_CEM_EMF.php#1
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Wikileaks Yuma Sun

02/08/11

The man famous for leaking thousands of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents just spent two days in court fighting extradition to Sweden and criticizing prosecutors there for allegedly leaking his name to the media in a sex crimes inquiry. No one in court acknowledged any irony in Julian Assange's efforts to seek the protection of confidentiality...

http://tinyurl.com/48egrap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Air Force Warns Everyone Is a Criminal for Reading WikiLeaks
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/07/air-force-warns-everyone-is-a-criminal-for-reading-wikileaks/

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Data Intelligence Firms Proposed a Systematic Attack Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-6



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Henry A. Giroux, Paradigm Press: "Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity, and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of politics and culture that simply became an extension of war, both at home and abroad. At home, the punishing state increasingly replaced the welfare state, however ill conceived, as more and more individuals and groups were now treated as disposable populations, undeserving of those safety nets and basic protections that provide the conditions for living with a sense of security and dignity. Under such conditions, basic social supports were replaced by an accelerated production of prisons, the expansion of the criminal justice system into everyday life, and the further erosion of crucial civil liberties."

http://www.truth-out.org/torturing-democracy67570

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Moral negligence

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

02/08/11

Good citizens' don?t like to hear this, but its truth should be obvious: The biggest threat to humanity, to peace, and to justice is not personal malice. It is the belief in 'authority'...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5519


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-3



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08

Obama Invokes FDR at Chamber of Commerce, But Misses Mark
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/08-0

Obama, Inc.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-2

Obama's Scary Budget: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-8

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Obama Walks in the Wrong Direction

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America's avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and show deference to the business establishment. Apparently, his ongoing obsequiousness is an effort to woo corporate donors and show conservative voters how moderate he can be. But does he really think that that either of those groups is going to give any love back?"

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-obama-walks-wrong-direction67594



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Abroad, at Least
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-2

George Bush: No Escaping Torture Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-0

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George Bush Cuts and Runs From Torture Case in Switzerland

Vincent Warren, Truthout: "Apparently, former president George W. Bush does 'cut and run.' On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against Bush in Geneva. Bush was due to speak there at a charity gala on February 12. On the eve of the case filing, Bush abruptly canceled his trip, choosing instead to attend the Super Bowl in Dallas. Why would he rather be in Dallas than in Geneva? For one thing, Swiss authorities are under a legal obligation to start a preliminary criminal investigation if a torturer is on Swiss soil. But, thanks to Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to apply US law to investigate torture, Bush isn't even breaking a sweat in Dallas - or anywhere in the US, for that matter."

http://www.truth-out.org/george-bush-cuts-and-runs-torture-case-switzerland67559



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Das Verteidigungsministerium soll abgespeckt werden, aber die überzähligen Beschäftigten werden eigentlich nur in eine neue Behörde verschoben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149220



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By Greg Hunter

If unemployment was computed the way BLS did it prior to 1994, the true unemployment rate would be 22.2%.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27435.htm



When Irish Eyes Are Crying

By Michael Lewis

By the start of the new millennium, the Irish poverty rate was under 6 percent and by 2006 Ireland was one of the richest countries in the world.. How did that happen?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27436.htm



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By Gareth Porter

The entire senior Taliban leadership, meeting in Karachi, "agreed in principle to find a way for them to return to Afghanistan and abandon the fight", Gopal wrote, but the initiative was frustrated by the unwillingness of the United States and the Afghan government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27434.htm



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By Robert Fisk in Cairo


"Even in past examples where presidents have sent someone 'respected' or 'close' to a foreign leader in order to lubricate an exit," Mr Noe adds, "the envoys in question were not actually paid by the leader they were supposed to squeeze out!"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27428.htm



The Egyptian Mirror

By Glenn Greenwald

It's remarkable how self-righteously our political and media class can proclaim sympathy with the heroic populace, and such scorn for their dictator, without really reconciling our national responsibility for Mubarak's reign of terror.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27429.htm



Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

By Chris Hedges

Those who administer empire-elected officials, corporate managers, generals and the celebrity courtiers who disseminate the propaganda-become very wealthy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27433.htm



Kleptocrats at Work

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27432.htm

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Strangling Egypt: Eric Margolis on the Empire
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/2182939/12759198/134537/0/

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'Sheik al-Torture': Washington's New Man in Cairo
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-4

U.S. Middle-East Policy: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil -- Just Practice It, Then Act Surprised"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08

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For America, stability trumps freedom

Spiked
by Sean Collins

02/08/11

In echoing Mubarak?s call for an 'orderly transition,' the US is undermining the fight for democratic rights...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10168/



Illusions of change

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

02/08/11

While the drama of revolution plays out across Egypt, the capitols of former and current western imperial powers are abuzz with activity. Much of this activity is focused on preventing the success of the Egyptian uprising by replacing the man Hosni Mubarak with another agent of those powers. The top name in the hat at this time appears to be Egypt's torture chief and recently appointed vice president Omar Suleiman. As most observers of the region know (and as has been reported in media around the world) Suleiman's history includes assisting in renditions, torture and operating the Egyptian internal security apparatus...

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs02082011.html



Five reasons why Arab regimes are falling

The Christian Science Monitor
by Moataz A. Fattah

02/08/11

Public protests in Egypt are not about minor changes or grievances. President Hosni Mubarak?s regime faces a deep process of legitimacy erosion ?- the same pattern of legitimacy erosion that exists across much of the Arab region. This erosion won?t simply go away with more protests or new governments, and it will be with us in the years to come. Understanding the larger societal and demographic factors eroding these regimes is vital to understanding the unrest in the Middle East and how the Arab world can move forward...

http://tinyurl.com/45eebox



Ideology vs. the national interest

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/07/11

Hosni Mubarak has been a loyal ally. He kept the peace with Israel and helped keep weapons out of Gaza. He fought beside us in Desert Storm and stands with us in the War on Terror. But he is also an autocrat who rules a regime where state and army are virtually one and where the opposition is squelched, when it is not imprisoned. If a democratic Egypt is America?s goal, we will push for the removal of Mubarak, for the army to go back to the barracks, and for parliamentary and presidential elections where all parties participate. But before we do this, we should be on notice what a democratic Egypt, where the government reflects the will of the people, may look like...

http://tinyurl.com/494uul6



Egypt, human rights and America

Our Future Blog
by Alan Jenkins

02/08/11

After two weeks behind the curve on the uprising in Egypt, the Obama administration seems to have found its voice, recognizing that our national interests and our national values point in the same direction ? toward democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. There are reasons to worry about the kind of regime that will emerge in Cairo. But promoting those three principles will serve our nation well in supporting the Egyptian people and engaging whatever government they ultimately choose. The same is true here at home...

http://tinyurl.com/6c2fck5



Is the US really the freest country in the world?

Fr33 Agents
by Xaq Fixx

02/07/11

Whether you take a holistic approach to freedom or analyze any number of specific categories the United States of America consistently is proven not to be the freest country. Countries in Scandinavia, Western Europe [and] the English Speaking Far East do much better comparatively when examined either way but often still prove far from ideal. Americans can and should see the assaults on their freedoms as an opportunity to improve and live up to the legend we all grew up believing...

http://tinyurl.com/4gppqkk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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"Orderly Transition" or "Nothing Burger" Reforms? Benchmarks for US Policy in Egypt

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "To the disappointment of many, the Obama administration's policy of 'orderly transition to democracy' in Egypt, which just a few days ago seemed to be embracing pro-democracy protesters' demand that Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak leave office, now seems to be backtracking to the idea that Mubarak and Vice President Omar Suleiman can lead a credible process of transition to democracy, despite the unwillingness of the US-backed Egyptian government so far to accept any concrete demands for reform."

http://www.truth-out.org/orderly-transition-or-nothing-burger-reforms-benchmarks-us-policy-egypt67593



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- TIME/CNN: Compteurs Mouchards "Rage Against the Machine"
- Les factures d'électricité "explosent !"

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by JB Williams

The Montana State Legislature is first to introduce a broad-based state nullification bill designed to reassert the states right to rein in the federal government by nullifying all unconstitutional acts committed by the three branches of the federal government. Montana HOUSE BILL NO. 382 sponsored by Rep. D. Skees is titled.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams130.htm



State Nullification: Requisite To Freedom

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

I was thrilled to see J.B. Williams report in NewsWithViews.com that the State of Montana has a broad-based State nullification bill currently proposed in its legislature. Derek Skees (R-Whitefish) is the State legislator who has introduced this much-needed legislation. The fact is, Skees' State Nullification bill is only one of several outstanding freedom-first bills that is........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin636.htm



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Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com: "In Donald Rumsfeld's new book, Known and Unknown, out February 8, Rumsfeld offers an account of George W. Bush's early interest in Iraq. This was just days after the 9/11 attacks. There were no apparent reasons for Bush to focus on Iraq, instead of on the actual perpetrators of the attacks."

http://www.truth-out.org/bush-rumsfeld-and-iraq-is-real-reason-invasion-finally-emerging67527



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Joseph Natoli, Truthout: "If we accept the assumption that we think inside a personally determined box which is itself inside a 'Let Markets Rule' larger box, we need to acknowledge that such a state of affairs has much affected conditions 'here on the ground.' I mean that what we think comprises a 'good education' has already been affected by market values. An example: we think of 'problem solving' and not 'critical thinking.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/our-market-regime-and-public-education67474



Corporate Media Push Wrong Story on Obama's Relationship With Business

Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "President Barack Obama is hoping to 'mend ties' with big business by speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce (COC), Washington DC's top lobbyist. That's the frame we're hearing in the corporate media even though the President has extended the Bush tax cuts, recently named JP Morgan Chase executive and former COC board member William Daley as his chief of staff, and chose General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head the new 'White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/corporate-media-push-wrong-story-obamas-relationship-with-business67543

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Banksters Back in the Black: JPMorgan Chase
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/07-3

Public Citizen: Enough of the Olive Branches to Big Business
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/07-7

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US Education: Show Us the Money!

By Bill Walker

The US government spends more per pupil than any nation in the world except Switzerland. The US spent an average of $149,000 for the K-12 education of every 2009 public high school graduate. That works out to $11,461 per year or so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27520.htm



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Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "After nearly five years of legal and regulatory battles, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa that is genetically modified (GM) to be resistant to Roundup herbicide. The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors."

http://www.truth-out.org/big-win-biotech-usda-deregulates-monsanto-alfalfa67373

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Earthjustice: Farmers and Conservationists Challenge Latest Federal Approval of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4376?akid=387.124981.eygWOi&t=46



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Regulators shut two banks in Georgia and another in Illinois as U.S. lenders buckle under souring real estate loans, pushing this year's failure count to 14.

http://bloom.bg/f9lpIH



Bankrupt Banks: Regulators close 2 Georgia banks; 2011 total is 70

Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Georgia, boosting to 70 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-close-2-Georgia-apf-531233682.html



First International Bank Fails, Brings Count Up to 74

First International Bank, of Plano, TX, failed this week, bringing this year s total number of FDIC-insured bank failures to 74.

http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/2011/10/03/fdic-bank-failures-climb-74/



3 bankrupt banks bring US 2012 total to 46

Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.

http://is.gd/pYeZpx


From Information Clearing House



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Learning To Walk: Fear, Shame And Your Underwater Mortgage

By Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney and Lucia Graves

Nearly 1 in every 4 U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more on their home than it's worth. Once a month, those 10.8 million are faced with a question that cuts to the core of the American Dream. - Should I pay my mortgage?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27421.htm



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By Ellen Brown

In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27422.htm



Egypt's military-industrial complex

The cozy relationship between the lobbyists, members of the US Congress, Pentagon officials and the Egyptian government is easily explained: much is at stake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/egypt-arms-trade


From Information Clearing House

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Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/05

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Hosni Mubarak and American foreign policy

Breaking All The Rules Breaking All the Rules
by SARTRE

02/07/11

The sands of time sweep once again over the Egyptian kingdom. Hosni Mubarak is just one more in a long line of autocrats. A Pharaoh he is not. A tin horn dictator, beholding to the regal Yankee, is a more apt description. It is difficult to embrace or have sympathy for a regime that traded rendition torture for a steady flow of military and foreign aid. Mubarak, like all favored despots, has no qualms of conscience when it comes to following orders, from a higher imposing force. Now he is paying the price of being a collaborator of the American Empire...

http://batr.org/gulag/020611.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Muss Ex-US-Präsident Bush in Europa Strafverfahren fürchten?

Bush hat seinen Besuch in der Schweiz lieber einmal abgesagt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149212

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Bush cancels Switzerland visit under threat of protests, efforts to arrest him
http://bit.ly/ihqHuQ


From Information Clearing House

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GWB Ducks Geneva Criminal Torture Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/07-6

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Announces Bush Indictment for Convention Against Torture Signatory States
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/07-0



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Erneuerbarer Strom soll aus dem Netz gedrängt werden.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149214



Wärmespeicher

Kostengünstige und flexibel einsetzbare Stromspeicher für das Stromnetz.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34156/1.html

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Kleine Kügelchen ganz groß

Damit Wärme aus Kraftwerken nicht ungenutzt bleibt, werden zunehmend Wärmespeicher eingesetzt.

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Nach einer DGB-Studie verdienen Leiharbeiter fast die Hälfte weniger als normal Beschäftigte, 13 Prozent sind zusätzlich auf Hartz IV angewiesen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149218

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Niedriglohn und Lohndumping im Verleihgewerbe

LeiharbeiterInnen mit einem Vollzeitstelle verdienen nur etwa die Hälfte von Vollzeitbeschäftigen in der Wirtschaft insgesamt. Gleichzeitig werden die Einkommensabstände zwischen LeiharbeiterInnen und Beschäftigten in Normalarbeit immer größer. Eine Untersuchung des DGB-Bundesvorstands. Download von Arbeitsmarkt aktuell 02/2011 vom 07.02.2011 (pdf) http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++9a41fdf0-3299-11e0-6480-00188b4dc422


Zeitarbeit und Leiharbeit: Armut trotz Arbeit ist hier an der Tagesordnung. DGB-Studie: LeiharbeiterInnen bekommen nur 50 % vom Lohn. Kommentar von Reinhold Schramm vom 07.02.11 bei scharf links http://scharf-links.de/43.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=14522&tx_ttnews[backPid]=56&cHash=b7d2bd35d9


Zeitarbeit boomt: Die traurige Wahrheit hinter dem ?Jobwunder?

Das sogenannte 'Jobwunder' klingt positiver, als es ist. Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der schönen Arbeitsmarkt-Zahlen belegt: Unterm Strich verlagern nicht zuletzt die Dax-Konzerne mehr Stellen ins Ausland, als sie im Inland schaffen. Großer Profiteur ist die Zeitarbeitsbranche. Doch die Gewerkschaften gehen wegen der "Lohndrückerei" immer mehr auf die Barrikaden?? Artikel von Markus Fasse, Ulf Sommer und Dietrich Creutzburg im Handelsblatt online vom 08.02.2011 http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/zeitarbeit-boomt-die-traurige-wahrheit-hinter-dem-jobwunder;2748999

Aus dem Text: ??Die Zeitarbeit hat einen regelrechten Siegeszug angetreten. Seitdem die rot-grüne Bundesregierung im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen 2003 den Arbeitsmarkt deregulierte, boomt die Branche. Gab es damals erst 300 000 Zeitarbeiter, so sind es heute knapp 900 000. Gerade die Elite der deutschen Wirtschaft, die 30 Dax-Konzerne, greift zunehmend auf die flexible Arbeitsreserve zurück - zulasten der Stammbelegschaft. In den vergangenen vier Jahren verschwanden 80 000 Jobs bei den Großkonzernen. Allein 2010 gingen unter dem Strich 11 600 Stellen verloren. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Handelsblatt-Analyse?.?


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Februar 2011

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Lohndumping: Gewerkschaft wirft Netto Ausbeutung vor

Ver.di knöpft sich den Discounter Netto vor: Die Gewerkschafter werfen der Supermarktkette vor, sittenwidrige Löhne zu zahlen - in Höhe von 5,50 Euro. Mehr als 40 Prozent der Mitarbeiter seien geringfügig beschäftigt. Das Unternehmen weist die Kritik zurück. Artikel auf Spiegel-Online vom 16.03.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,751302,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2011



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis226.html

Our 30-Year Mistake
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul720.html

Pox Americana
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt418.html

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It's Not Radical Islam That Worries The US - It's Independence

By Noam Chomsky

The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27419.htm

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Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Chris Hedges, Truthout: "Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the use of indiscriminate violence. When families are gunned down at a checkpoint in Iraq they are referred to as having been 'lit up.' So it goes. The other language of empire is softer. It employs the vocabulary of ideals and lofty goals and insists that the power of empire is noble and benevolent."

http://www.truth-out.org/recognizing-language-tyranny67536



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7. Februar 2011

Zu den Verhandlungen der CDU/CSU, FDP, SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen zur Hartz-IV-Reform erklärt Katja Kipping, Vorsitzende des Sozialausschusses im Deutschen Bundestag und stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE:

Schwarz-Gelb versucht mit allen möglichen Angeboten die SPD und Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen zur Zustimmung zur sogenannten Hartz-IV-Reform zu bewegen. Nur eins bleibt unberücksichtigt: ein verfassungskonform bestimmter Regelsatz. Das ist einer der vom Bundesverfassungsgericht verlangte Gründe der Änderungen bei Hartz IV. Nun würde sich die SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen bereits auf eine Korrektur des schwarz-gelben Regelsatzes um sechs Euro einlassen. Das wäre das beschämende Ergebnis einer Vermittlung zum Verfassungsbruch. Die LINKE fordert dagegen eine Erhöhung des Regelsatzes auf 500 Euro.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/vermitteln-zum-verfassungsbruch/

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Hartz IV-Bezieher sollten jetzt klagen ? Bundeskanzlerin will allenfalls einen Kuhhandel

?Nach den in der Nacht ohne Einigung vertagten Hartz IV-Verhandlungen sind nach Auffassung Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland Klagen gegen Hartz IV-Bescheide jetzt notwendig. ?Aus unserer Sicht zeigen Regierungskoalition, SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, dass verfassungskonforme und transparente Neuberechnung der Hartz IV-Sätze überhaupt nicht Gegenstand der Verhandlungen im Vermittlungsausschuss sind. Dort geht es um einen Kuhhandel nach Kassenlage?? Pressemitteilung vom 7.2.2011 http://www.elo-forum.net/topstory/2011020711014.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Februar 2011



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

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- Le Dauphiné: "Je suis addict au téléphone"
- ARCEP: 2010 les chiffres et l'addiction des Français au mobile

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Ados.php#1
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?Liga: "Mit diesem sensationellen Urteil bescheinigt das Gericht dem Verfassungsschutz einen beispiellosen Dauerrechtsbruch, der nur noch als rechtsstaatswidrig und skandalös zu bezeichnen ist. Dieser Verfassungsschutz schützt nicht die Verfassung, sondern ist offenbar selbst eine Gefahr für den freiheitlich demokratischen Rechtsstaat." Heute hat das Verwaltungsgericht Köln sein Urteil in dem Verfahren Dr. Gössner ../. Bundesrepublik Deutschland verkündet, in dem es um die fast 40jährige geheimdienstliche Beobachtung des Bürgerrechtlers Rolf Gössner geht. Das Urteil lautet: "Es wird festgestellt, dass die Beobachtung des Klägers bis zum 13.11.2008 einschließlich der während dieses Zeitraumes erfolgten Erhebung und --Speicherung von Daten zu seiner Person rechtswidrig gewesen ist. Die Beklagte trägt die Kosten des Verfahrens."?? Pressemitteilung der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte vom 3.02.2011 zum Urteil des Verwaltungsgerichts Köln im Beobachtungsfall Gössner (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/goessner.pdf

Siehe dazu auch:

Sensationelles Urteil im Fall Gössner: Demokratie siegt gegen "Verfassungsschutz" - aber erst nach 40 Jahren

Geheimdienstliche Beobachtung des Bürgerrechtlers Rolf Gössner war rechtswidrig/Neue Richtervereinigung begrüßt das Urteil. Dokumentation bei der AG Friedensforschung http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Verfassungsschutz/goessner5.html

Darin auch Hintergrund-Informationen zur Überwachungsgeschichte und zum Verfahrensverlauf


Menschenrechtler Gössner über seinen Prozessausgang: "Ich vermisse nichts"

Fast 40 Jahre lang hat der Inlandsgeheimdienst den Bremer Menschenrechtler Rolf Gössner bespitzelt. Rechtswidrig war das von Anfang bis Ende, hat das Verwaltungsgericht Köln gestern geurteilt. Interview von Benno Schirrmeister in der taz vom 03.02.2011 http://www.taz.de/1/nord/artikel/1/ich-vermisse-nichts/


Spitzel: Jagdszenen mit Danielle

?Verdeckte Ermittler werden eingesetzt, um Terror und Kriminalität zu bekämpfen. Das ist die offizielle Version. Tatsächlich spionieren sie oft linke und alternative Szenen aus. Das zeigen etliche Enttarnungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit?? Artikel von Felix Helbig in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 3.2.2011 http://www.fr-online.de/politik/jagdszenen-mit-danielle/-/1472596/7152938/-/index.html

Siehe dazu auch: Polizeiskandal um verdeckte ErmittlerInnen weitet sich aus: Zwei weitere Polizeispitzel in Heidelberg aktiv

?Intensive Recherchen der AIHD in den letzten Wochen nach der Enttarnung des Polizeispitzels Simon Bromma haben ergeben, dass auch nach seiner Enttarnung noch zwei weitere verdeckte ErmittlerInnen des LKA gegen die linke Szene in Heidelberg aktiv sind?? Pressemitteilung der Antifaschistischen Initiative Heidelberg (AIHD) vom 04.02.2011 http://www.autonomes-zentrum.org/ai/texte/2011_02_04_pe_hd_aihd.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Februar 2011



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bundesamt+für+Verfassungsschutz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Überwachung

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/amiri1.1.1.html

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This revolution will do until the real thing comes along

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Sheldon Richman

02/05/11

[R]evolution is a radically uncertain process. Nevertheless, one should not casually assume that Egypt is like Iran of 1979 or Afghanistan post-Soviet invasion. That sounds more like neoconservative fear-mongering than hard-headed speculation...

http://c4ss.org/content/6068



Wrong lesson from Egypt

Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

02/04/11

One wrong conclusion being drawn from the popular uprising against the dictatorship in Egypt is that the American government could ignore such things if we were 'energy independent.' (It?s unclear if this means independent of Middle Eastern oil or completely independent.) A moment?s reflection should be enough to jettison that thought, but even if oil were all that?s at stake, energy independence would be a terrible idea. It?s perplexing that self-described free-market advocates would favor such a policy...

http://tinyurl.com/4aln5mj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/amiri
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/wile10.1.html

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Who?s afraid of a free society?

LewRockwell.Com
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

02/07/11

[T]he critical first step for reversing this mess and checking the seemingly unstoppable federal advance is to stick a dagger through the heart of the myths by which government has secured the confidence and consent of the people...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods163.html



We need a foreign policy revolution here at home

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

02/04/11

If only the American people were as angry and outraged over the U.S. government?s partnerships with foreign dictatorships as the Egyptian people are with the U.S-supported dictatorship under which they have been suffering for 30 years. If that were the case, we would stand a good chance of restoring a limited-government republic to our land. So far it seems, however, Americans are still deferring to authority in the quaint belief that the conservative-liberal vision of an interventionist foreign policy is the way to go...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-02-04.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north941.html

Kleptocrats at Work
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts291.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/you-are-invited169.html

You Handed Out Trillions. Where Are the Jobs?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/fed-trillions-unemployment-still-high.html



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Eric Alterman, The Nation: "Can it be mere coincidence that the right-wing media promoted this phony-baloney story at a moment when, as Charles Loveless, legislative director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, points out, conservatives are 'readying a massive assault' on the pensions and benefits of these same employees? Led by Newt Gingrich, conservatives are floating the notion that states should be allowed to declare bankruptcy to escape their pension obligations to firefighters, cops, teachers and, yes, sanitation workers. The assault on public employee unions is the next phase of a forty-year class war in America by the rich against the rest of us. It is of a piece with the steady dismantling of our progressive taxation system and the explosion of economic inequality."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-conservative-class-war-continued67498



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- EHS Cave/Grotte: DERINKUYU (Diaporama PPS - Fr) A méditer . . .
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Cave_Grotte.php#1
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Arctic oil drilling plans of BP and Rosneft overlap with some key protected areas, a joint WWF and and Transparent World analysis shows.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811264ms246



Living with the oceans

In this first 'World Ocean Review', we present a report on the state of the oceans which will be followed by periodic updates in the future.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811265ms246



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