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Oder, noch viel schlimmer, wenn Cyber-Mobbing, anonyme Verleumdungen im Internet, Jugendliche bis in den Selbstmord treiben. Das ist Gott sei Dank in Deutschland noch nicht passiert, aber es gab bereits Fälle in den USA und Großbritannien. ...

http://www.superillu.de/ratgeber/Cyber-Mobbing_2017353.html

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Schülermarsch für Fairness im Internet

Nordwest-Zeitung

Mai, in einem Sternmarsch für Respekt im Netz und gegen so genanntes Cyber-Mobbing. 'Wir wollen als Schüler ein Zeichen setzen', sagte der Vorsitzende des Stadtschülerrats und Schülersprecher der Liebfrauenschule Jakob Korenke (17) am Mittwoch. ...

http://www.nwzonline.de/Region/Stadt/Oldenburg/Artikel/2597074/Schuelermarsch-fuer-Fairness-im-Internet.html

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Cyber-Mobbing: Psychischer und realer Gewalt entgegentreten

news aktuell (Pressemitteilung)

Berlin (ots) - Cyber-Mobbing und Cyber-Bullying unter Schülern sind weiter auf dem Vormarsch. Die Demütigung im Internet hat nicht nur massive psychische Auswirkungen für die Opfer, sondern zieht oft auch reale Gewalthandlungen nach sich. ...

http://www.presseportal.de/pm/100972/2038462/dguv_kompakt



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Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

05/05/11

If the United States of America survives another fifty years and historians begin to chart the decline of the Great Republic, they will undoubtedly reach the conclusion that post-9/11 Washington found it very easy to use continuous conflict as a substitute for any real foreign policy while also finding it extremely difficult to exit from what it had begun. Empires frequently exhibit such a failure of imagination, thinking themselves invincible...

http://tinyurl.com/4445zmy



The real loss of May 1, 2011

Liberty For All
by Mike Seebeck

05/04/11

Let s put aside for a moment the obvious problems with the announcement, its source, the execution, and all of the details attached to it which make the whole thing look like an orchestrated piece of false flag fakery. Let s assume for a moment that it s entirely legitimate, that it was bin Laden they actually killed. People in America have reacted exactly in the wrong manner to it. Completely backwards.

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5880



The killing of OBL: Therapy for the West

Spiked
by Brendan O'Neill

05/04/11

Why the shooting of a sickly has-been jihadist was turned into a momentous and historic occasion on a par with VJ Day...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10479/



An end to 'bad guys?'

The Nation
by Christopher Hayes

05/04/11

In the wake of 9/11, the phrase 'bad guys' infiltrated our national conversation, and its continued prevalence serves as a testament to the ways the trauma has warped our national character. In the days after the attack, Dick Cheney warned the world that 'people have to choose between the US and the bad guys.' Tom Friedman?s columns from that fall repeatedly invoke the term. 'From here forward,' he wrote on September 28, 2001, 'it?s the bad guys who need to be afraid every waking moment. The more frightened our enemies are today, the fewer we will have to fight tomorrow.' But the term outlived the immediate aftermath...

http://www.thenation.com/article/160405/end-bad-guys



Why are we still in Afghanistan?

CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk

05/04/11

So why are we in Afghanistan? Didn t the Americans and the British go there in 2001 to fight Osama bin Laden? Wasn t he killed on Monday? There was painful symbolism in the Nato airstrike yesterday -- scarcely 24 hours after Bin Laden s death -- that killed yet more Afghan security guards. For the truth is that we long ago lost the plot in the graveyard of empires, turning a hunt for a now largely irrelevant inventor of global jihad into a war against tens of thousands of Taliban insurgents who have little interest in al-Qa'ida, but much enthusiasm to drive Western armies out of their country...

http://counterpunch.org/fisk05042011.html



Have we forgotten 9/11?

The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

05/03/11

Prominent hawks like Sen. John McCain are calling for more intervention in Libya and relatively new hawks like Sen. Marco Rubio want to see stronger U.S. action in Syria. Both senators also believe we should stay in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely. None of this has anything to do with fighting Al-Qaeda. Have McCain, Rubio and their Republican ilk forgotten 9/11?

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/03/have-we-forgotten-911/



Let s call it 'VO' Day and get out

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/04/11

The main trunk of al Qaeda has been severely weakened, and regional affiliates of the group would likely focus on local issues ? not anti-U.S. attacks ? if the United States quit stirring the hornets in their regions. Of course, he is unlikely to take this action, because the securocrats ? to whom Obama has been so deferential and who need a continuing threat to justify continually building empires of added manpower and funding ? are already cautioning that anti-U.S. terror attacks will likely continue and may actually increase, at least in the short term, in retaliation for bin Laden s martyrdom...

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3044



An open letter to Representative Chris Van Hollen

Liberty & Power
by Keith Halderman

Osama Bin Laden is dead but he can still prevail in his struggle against the American people. His goal all along has been to bankrupt the United States and he came closer to his objective then any American, especially a congressman, should be comfortable with and he could still succeed. Members of the House of Representatives who vote to raise the debt ceiling will be serving Osama Bin Laden s purpose...

http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/138954.html



Scared yet?

Truth To Power Truth To Power
by James Mann

05/04/11

On Sunday evening this man had this man murdered. Or not. In the same way 9/11, The Media Event was presented to the world, the assassination of Osama bin Laden was rolled out, full of conflicting details from our military and intelligence agencies, just like 9/11. The entire world is reacting to an event that may never have occurred, is unverifiable, regardless of the final decision to release a photo of the corpse...

http://blogs.ink19.com/truthtopower/archives/9187



You cheering in the streets is no different than when they do it

The Liberty Papers
by Jeff Molby

05/03/11

[T]his is an old, nasty conflict and there?s a ton of blood on everybody s hands. It s been many decades since we have had any sort of moral high ground when it comes to our involvement in the Middle East. 9/11 could have changed that if we had responded magnanimously, but instead we resorted with the same base reactions that we condemn our enemies for...

http://tinyurl.com/454zo2y


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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GOP House Chooses Big Oil Over Granny

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'Now, let's check today s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner, of course, is the league s powerhouse, ExxonMobil. Four, as you might have guessed, is the $4 that Exxon is siphoning out of your wallet these days for 1 gallon of its petrol.'

http://www.truthout.org/gop-house-chooses-big-oil-over-granny/1304518949

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Gasoline and onions

Freedom Politics
by John Stossel

05/04/11

The speculators are ripping us off! 'The skyrocketing price of gas and oil has nothing to do with the fundamentals of supply and demand, and has everything to do with Wall Street firms that are artificially jacking up the price of oil in the energy futures markets. ... (T)he same Wall Street speculators that caused the worst financial crisis since the 1930s through their greed, recklessness and illegal behavior are ripping off the American people again by gambling that the price of oil and gas will continue to go up'...

http://tinyurl.com/3pzzuee


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Friends of the Earth: House GOP Votes to Protect Big Oil Giveaway
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/05-5



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Noam Chomsky, Truthout: 'In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers for an eight-hour day. The May Day just past leads to somber reflection. A decade ago, a useful word was coined in honor of May Day by radical Italian labor activists: 'precarity.' It referred at first to the increasingly precarious existence of working people 'at the margins' - women, youth, migrants. Then it expanded to apply to the growing 'precariat' of the core labor force, the 'precarious proletariat' suffering from the programs of deunionization, flexibilization and deregulation that are part of the assault on labor throughout the world.'

http://www.truthout.org/internationl-assault-labor/1304431702



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Kuvi

In Frankreich will die Regierung jetzt dagegen vorgehen, dass sich Schüler gegenseitig im Internet schikanieren. Das Pariser Erziehungsministerium will die Lehrer stärker in die Pflicht nehmen. Sie bekommen Schulungen, welche Internetportale bei ...

http://www.kuvi.de/kinder_jugend/22732_frankreich-gegen-cyber-mobbing-schuelern.html



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A weak currency should be good news for a country s exporters, but that hasn t stopped America from running a persistent trade deficit.

http://econ.st/iF63h1



U.S. Treasury: China Has Decreased Its Holdings of U.S. Debt

Mainland China has decreased its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities since last October, according to a report updated today by the U.S. Treasury Department.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-treasury-china-has-decreased-its-hold



US 'Currency Crash'

'The biggest story in the market is the currency crash right now occuring in the US'.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1906892049



10 States Where Pensions Are Running Out of Money

24/7 Wall St. reviewed the pension funds of all 50 states collected by Pew as of 2009, the latest period when data is available for all of them.

http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/article/112640/states-pensions-public-sector-247



About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps

Growth in the food stamp program appeared to reach a plateau in February - with 14.3% of the population relying on the safety net program.

http://on.wsj.com/ilknYf



From Information Clearing House

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Bernanke Meets the Press

Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate: 'At the United States Federal Reserve s recent and first-ever public press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a spirited defense of the Fed s much-criticized policy of mass purchases of US government bonds, also known as 'quantitative easing.' But was his justification persuasive? Most economists viewed his performance as masterful. But the fact that the dollar has continued to slide while gold prices have continued to rise suggests considerable skepticism from markets. One of the hardest things in central banking is that investors often hear a very different message from that which the central bank intends to send.'

http://www.truthout.org/bernanke-meets-press/1304529411



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Texas has carried out its first execution using a sedative often used to euthanise animals.

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From Information Clearing House



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There is little indication that anyone with the ability to influence power will be moved to address the hypocrisy of the US hosting a World Press Freedom Day when those running the US are largely incapable and unwilling of upholding the universal principle of freedom of the press.

http://wlcentral.org/node/1734


From Information Clearing House



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UN Security Council powers publicly crossed swords over the Libya conflict on Wednesday with Russia and China leading criticism of international coalition air raids.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Spencer Ackerman

Ashcroft will head Xe's new 'subcommittee on governance,' designed to 'promote the highest degrees of ethics and professionalism within the private security industry.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28025.htm



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The Great Escape, Taliban Style
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis240.html

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Pressure Builds to End Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/04-1

US Considers Exploiting Bin Laden s Death to Bilk Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/04

Listening to the People in the Arab World
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/04-0

US Silences on the Arab Spring are Deafening
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-6

It s Time for Change, Not Celebration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-8

The NYT s Tortured Line on Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-11

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Release bin Laden Photo? 'Instead Release Afghanistan and Iraq'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/04-17

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Bogeyman Down

Henry Rollins, Truthout: 'You would think that Osama bin Laden catching a bullet in the head, shot by a Navy Seal, would bring Americans of all stripes together in a non-partisan showing of orgiastic euphoria and across-the-board worship of the righteous kill. That America no longer exists. Some are overjoyed, but many are suspicious as to the veracity of the big news out of Abbottabad, Pakistan. They want pictures of the dead body.'

http://www.truthout.org/bogeyman-down/1304524429



Lessons Learned From Osama bin Laden?

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'President Obama announced this past Sunday evening that 'al-Qaida s leader and symbol' Osama bin Laden had been killed, 'Tonight I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden ...' This is a good thing. President Obama can now fly onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and stand under the 'Mission Accomplished' banner that his predecessor prematurely unfurled on October 29, 2003.'

http://www.truthout.org/lessons-learned-osama-bin-laden/1304452980

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The illogic of the torture debate

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

05/04/11

The killing of Osama bin Laden has, as The New York Times notes, reignited the debate over 'brutal interrogations' -- by which it's meant that Republicans are now attempting to exploit the emotions generated by the killing to retroactively justify the torture regime they implemented. The factual assertions on which this attempt is based -- that waterboarding and other 'harsh interrogation methods' produced evidence crucial to locating bin Laden -- are dubious in the extreme .... So fictitious are these claims that even Donald Rumsfeld has repudiated them...

http://salon.com/a/sBDQfAA



After bin Laden, a greater enemy remains

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

05/03/11

The 'trustworthy' opinions of the mainstream conversation in politics and international affairs universally recognized bin Laden as an absolute moral evil. As it would be in the case of any serial murderer, voices in support of bin Laden and his inhuman crusade were few and far between, confined to what most consider the fringe, outside 'respectable discourse.' The state, on the other hand, enjoys a sempiternal assumption of legitimacy, one that endures regardless of its crimes or their magnitude, that flies in the face of the moral judgment we apply to 'the terrorists'...

http://c4ss.org/content/6989


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Israel Shamir

Now we ll give you the story behind the story: who crossed and double crossed whom, which information was redacted and how did it lead to OBL?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28030.htm



Bin Laden s Daughter Confirms: Father Captured Alive Then Killed By US Special Forces

By Al Arabiya s correspondent in Islamabad

Osama was neither armed nor did inmates at the compound fire at the US choppers or commandos.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28024.htm



Some Ruminations on Children of Empire

By William Bowles

Obama, cultured, educated, informed blah-blah, sat and watched in air-conditioned luxury whilst his capos blew up men, women and children with the press of a button.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28021.htm



This Was Revenge: Obama Snatches Defeat from Jaws of Victory

By Yvonne Ridley

Real justice would not have involved shooting an unarmed man in front of his wife and children - there were no bodyguards in the house in Abbottabad in Pakistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28022.htm



Osama Bin Laden Is Dead -Again!

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Why would the U.S. put an expiration stamp on the Osama card when it had served the empire so well?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28027.htm



The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event

By Paul Craig Roberts

In Washington-think, a 24% rise in approval rating justifies a staged event.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28029.htm



What If Bush Did It?

A Nation Celebrates What It is Told

By Chris Floyd

In a dramatic late-night appearance in the White House press room, President George W. Bush announced that Iraq s weapons of mass destruction had been found in a secret stronghold near the Syrian border.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28028.htm



Keith Olbermann: The Death of Osama bin Laden

By Keith Olbermann

'Torture was necessary, laws were not...'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28026.htm



Was Bin Laden s Killing Legal?

Americans are celebrating, but there are serious doubts about whether the targeted killing was legal under international law and the laws of war.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,760358,00.html



Pakistan 'Told US About Osama Home In 2009'

Pakistan government and intelligence services have insisted they shared key information about Osama bin Laden s compound up to two years ago with their American counterparts.

http://bit.ly/imsH6y



US troops were yards from Osama bin Laden house in 2008: Wikileaks: US Embassy Cables

US forces were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden s Abbottabad compound in October 2008, according to reports within the WikiLeaks embassy cables.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/03/us-bin-laden-hideout



Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag

Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a 'conspiracy theorist'. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense.

http://bit.ly/mugLV7



Kill Teams

A short history of the most memorable state-ordered hits in foreign lands.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/03/kill_teams?page=full


From Information Clearing House

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On Obama Killing Osama
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey83.1.html

The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts304.html

The US Shot bin Laden s Wife
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/wife-tried-to-save-bin-laden.html

Bin Laden, Gaddafi and Modern Warfare: On the Highway of Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead28.1.html

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Waterboarding 'Worked'? Media Push Pro-Torture Message
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/04-7



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Ein neuer unstressiger Stresstest
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34685/1.html

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WHO-Schlingerkurs bei radioaktiver Strahlung

Deutsche Welle

Er kritisierte sowohl die Anhebung für Arbeiter in Fukushima, als auch den Grenzwert von 20 Millisievert pro Jahr für die Strahlenbelastung von Schülern in der Nähe von Fukushima. Dies sei inakzeptabel - 'Ich kann das als Wissenschaftler nicht ...

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15054725,00.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organi

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Berichte über die Tötung Bin Ladens werden zurückgenommen und lassen Zweifel entstehen, vieles wird sowieso verschleiert, Beweise für die Identität der im Meer entsorgten Leiche werden zurückgehalten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34677/1.html



Merkels gemeine Freude

Die Bundeskanzlerin gerät mit ihrer Äußerung, die Freude über den Tod Bin Ladens bekundete, auch bei Parteikollegen in die Kritik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149785



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Troy Davis Facing the Death Gurney

Robert Wilbur, Truthout: 'By the time this article sees print, Georgia will almost certainly have set an execution date - his fourth - for Troy Anthony Davis, a black man who was condemned to death for killing a white Savannah police officer in 1989. Having exhausted his court appeals, Davis may well end his life strapped down to Georgia s death gurney. But if the criminal justice system allows this execution to go forward, it will commit one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in American history - an abomination facilitated without a word of explanation by the United States Supreme Court.'

http://www.truthout.org/troy-davis-facing-death-gurney/1304532723



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=justice+system
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Wilbur
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Yaez

In den neun Jahren seit dem 'Star Wars Kid'-Video ist Cybermobbing zum ernsten Problem geworden. Fiese Kommentare über andere werden nicht mehr nur per Zettelchen durch die Klasse gereicht, sondern für alle sichtbar in SchülerVZ-Gruppen gepostet oder ...

http://www.yaez.de/20110504/Internet/706/128/Gegruschelt-und-gedisst-Cybermobbing-ist-kein-Einzelfall.html



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

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http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/28mai

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4. Mai 2011

Europaweites Ausstiegsszenario muss her

Sabine Wils, Mitglied im Parteivorstand der LINKEN und Abgeordnete des Europäischen Parlaments erklärt zu den geplanten Stresstests für Atomkraftwerke in der EU:

Die Kriterien für die AKW-Stresstests sollen deutlich schwächer ausfallen als angekündigt. Die Atomkraftwerke in der EU sollen nur Natur- und Klimakatastrophen standhalten können. Das Risiko von Flugzeugabstürzen und Terrorangriffen wird jedoch nicht überprüft. Wieder einmal zeigt sich, dass die Profite der Atomkonzerne Priorität vor der nuklearen Sicherheit haben. Die Richtlinie des Rates über die nukleare Sicherheit kerntechnischer Anlagen in der EU von 2009 ist schnellstmöglich unter Mitentscheidung des EU-Parlaments zu novellieren. Ich fordere ein europaweites Ausstiegsszenario und die Auflösung des EURATOM-Vertrages. Beim Schutz vor radioaktiver Verstrahlung müssen Parlamente und die Menschen in Europa mitentscheiden dürfen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/europaweites-ausstiegsszenario-muss-her/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Atomkraft
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=AKW
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mark Brandly

05/03/11

In his first press conference as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke discussed rising gasoline prices, blaming higher demand from emerging economies and Mideast oil-supply disruptions as the cause of the zooming prices. Bernanke did not mention the US government s role in the higher energy prices, and he explicitly absolved the Federal Reserve of any blame...

http://mises.org/daily/5255/Another-Reason-to-End-the-Fed



Fed up with the Fed?

Freedom Politics
by Thomas Sowell

05/03/11

When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don t want us to understand. It was an act of war when we started bombing Libya. But the administration chose to call it 'kinetic military action.' When the Federal Reserve System started creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, they called it 'quantitative easing' of the money supply...

http://tinyurl.com/3lckr34


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+Sowell
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Ryan Harvey, Truthout: 'While the country watched the protests in Wisconsin spill into the State Capitol Building, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was passing a controversial bill that many consider a direct attack on the constitutional rights of the citizens of Michigan. Public Acts 4-9, also called The Emergency Financial Management bill, gives already existing 'Emergency Financial Managers' (EFMs) sweeping new powers, allowing them to literally suspend the entire elected bodies of municipalities they deem to be failing, and suspend collective bargaining agreements with unions for up to five years. Immediately after the bill passed, an EFM took complete control over the city of Benton Harbor as well as Detroit s public school system. EFMs are also in power in Pontiac and Ecorse.'

http://www.truthout.org/democracy-hold-benton-harbor/1304445865



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by Serge Sargentini (Cartoradiations/Next-up organisation)
http://www.cartoradiations.fr/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-8

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The People s Masters

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'More than two thousand corporations had been chartered between 1790 and 1860. They helped protect themselves from economic disasters by keeping tight control over the economy and the markets within which they operated. In this they echoed the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Many companies deal with competition by working hard to earn our business, just as Adam Smith - whose 1776 book The Wealth of Nations summarized many economic principles for the founders of this nation - envisioned. But others don t; they feel that the best way to deal with competition is to eliminate it. And, as the East India Company had shown, two ways to do so were by getting the government to grant a monopoly or special tax favors or by crushing or buying out one s competition.'

http://truthout.org/unequal-protection-peoples-masters/1304366817



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/03-3

From Storms to Droughts, Devastating Extreme Weather Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/26-0

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Climate Change Blamed for Record Mississippi Floods
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/6084/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arctic
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'Maybe mistaking them with insurgents NATO helicopters targeted the guards. Between eight to 10 guards have been killed,' he added. An investigation was underway, the police chief said.

http://bit.ly/mBfazF


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=friendly+fire
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By William Blum

Are the Libyans the worst abusers of their people in the region? In actuality, Libya offers its citizens a higher standard of living.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28017.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6705



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wolves
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WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/north-american-integration-plot.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Alex+Newman
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams80.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/05/04/199-dead-men-tell-no-tales/

Osama bin Laden Causes Yet Another War? After He Is Dead?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett33.1.html

Unarmed, Shot in Face, 12-Yr-Old Daughter Watches?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/bin-laden-daughter-saw-father-shot.html

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Shot In Cold Blood

Bin Laden 'Was Not Armed and Did Not Use Wife as Human Shield'

By Peter Foster

Osama bin Laden did not use one of his four wives as a human shield in his dying moments, contrary to earlier reports, as White House officials began to 'clarify' early accounts of Monday s commando raids by US special forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28012.htm



Osama bin Laden s Useful Death

Paul Craig Roberts

In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the gunfire erupted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28016.htm



US Responds to Questions about Killing s Legality

By Owen Bowcott

The attack had the appearance of an 'extrajudicial killing without due process of the law'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28020.htm



America Has Turned into a Moral Swamp

By Mike Whitney

The United States has sunk deeper into savagery and abandoned any commitment to conventional norms of behavior.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28014.htm



Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House

President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.

http://bit.ly/kpPQCE



White House: bin Laden photo 'gruesome'

The White House says the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden is 'gruesome' and that 'it could be inflammatory' if released.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/03/2198937/white-house-bin-laden-photo-gruesome.html



Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden s sea burial

Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden s burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110502/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bin_laden_sea_burial



White House publishes Photos on Fickr taken during Osama Bin Laden Mission

Photos show Obama, Biden, Clinton in the White House Situation Room getting updates on the Mission in Pakistan.

http://bit.ly/iJOXLy



Pakistan slams 'unauthorized' U.S. raid on bin Laden

Pakistan criticized the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden as an 'unauthorized unilateral action,' laying bare the strains the raid has put on an already rocky alliance.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-03-pakistan-osama-bin-laden_n.htm



Rumsfeld confirms: Waterboarding did not net intelligence that led to bin Laden

The torture crowd has been hard at work the past 24 hours, doing its best to push the idea that it was the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that led to the courier who eventually led U.S. intelligence to Osama bin Laden.

http://bit.ly/k9Nlzu


From Information Clearing House

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Beyond Retaliation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-6

Reflecting on Bin Laden, Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/03

Vengeance Led Us into War, It Won t Lead Us Out
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-10

Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-3

Bin Laden s Crimes, and Ours
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-0

Dead Empire Walking: On Playing into Al Qaida s Hand
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-11

United for Peace and Justice: The People WILL Take Back the Economy and End US Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/03-13

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Behind the Forces Who Took Down bin Laden

Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: 'The team of US Special Operations Forces who killed Osama bin Laden in a pre-dawn raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, were led by elite Navy SEALS from the Joint Special Operations Command. Operators from SEAL Team Six, also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or just DevGru, are widely considered to be the most elite warriors in the US national security apparatus. Col. W. Patrick Lang, a retired Special Forces officer with extensive operational experience throughout the Muslim world, described JSOC s forces as 'sort of like Murder, Incorporated.' He told The Nation: 'Their business is killing Al Qaeda personnel. That's their business. They are not in the business of converting anybody to our goals or anything like that.'

http://www.truthout.org/sort-murder-inc-behind-forces-who-took-down-bin-laden/1304430967



Bin Laden Provoked a US 'War on Terror' That Strengthened His Movement

Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic Policy and Research: 'Bin Laden s goal was not, as some think, simply to bring down the US Empire. That is a goal shared by most of the world, who (fortunately for us) would not use terrorist violence to further this outcome. His specific goal was to transform the struggle between the United States and popular aspirations in the Muslim world into a war against Islam, or at least create the impression for many millions of people that this was the case. As we look around the world ten years after the attack, we can see that he had considerable success in this goal. The United States is occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing Pakistan and Libya, and threatening Iran - all Muslim countries. To a huge part of the Muslim world, it looks like the United States is carrying out a modern-day Crusade against them, despite President Obama's assertions to contrary last night.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bin-laden-provoked-us-war-terror-strengthened-his-movement/1304437043



On the Death of Osama bin Laden

Keith Olbermann of the FOK News Channel discusses the death of Osama bin Laden.

http://www.truthout.org/special-comment-death-osama-bin-laden/1304450641



Rep. Barbara Lee Renews Calls for End to Afghan War After Killing of Osama bin Laden

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: 'In September 2001, Rep. Barbara Lee was the only lawmaker in either chamber of Congress to vote against the 2001 resolution authorizing the use of force in Afghanistan. Today she is a leading advocate for the immediate withdrawal of troops and for repealing the authorization that grants a president the authority to use force without a formal declaration of war issued by Congress. 'While the head of al-Qaeda is no longer around, we have to really address the root causes of terrorism and understand that we have to refocus our resources and our strategy in a way that begins to get us out of Afghanistan,' Lee says. We also speak to filmmaker Robert Greenwald about his Rethink Afghanistan campaign and journalist Anand Gopal, reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan.'

http://www.truthout.org/rep-barbara-lee-renews-calls-end-afghan-war-after-killing-osama-bin-laden-video/1304444978

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The killing of Osama bin Laden

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

05/03/11

I must admit, this is one of the most troubling things I have experienced in my lifetime. The patriot in me wants to breathe a sigh of relief that the war is over and we can go back to life before bin Laden. But reality ruins the moment as I realize what has happened, and know life will never be the same again. This military action ordered by the President of the United States not only violated every fundamental belief our nation s founders cherished, it may have destroyed any hope that we will ever learn the truth about 9/11.'

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5876



The most successful terrorist organization in history

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

05/03/11

Al Qaeda is the most successful terrorist organization in history. By destroying the World Trade Centre in New York on 9/11 it provoked the US into launching wars damaging to itself in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Qaeda aimed to destroy the status quo in the Middle East and it succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. Its success has not been all its own doing. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda s number two and chief strategist, wrote at the time of 9/11 that the aim of the group was to lure the US into an over-reaction in which it would 'wage battle against the Muslims'...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick05032011.html



Maine congresswoman asks, 'where s the exit strategy?'

The Nation Blog
by John Nichols

05/03/11

Wasn t the point of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ... to get Osama bin Laden? And if that was the point then, isn t it time (with the news that Osama has been tracked down, not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan) to bring the troops and the war dollars home? These are the questions that Congress should be asking this week. ... Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, gets it...

http://tinyurl.com/3mhxc4w



What will happen now that bin Laden is dead?

Independent Institute
by Art Carden

05/02/11

'The most visible face of terrorism was killed yesterday. If you?re wondering what difference this is going to make for global markets in oil and other assets, the answer is 'not much'...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3040



Bin Laden dead, War on Terror lives on

Liberale et Libertaire
by dL

05/02/11

When the news began to trickle out, the Georgetown bar set looks to have emptied out of the taverns and marched impromptu to the White House with cheers and theatrics one would associate with the Redskins winning the Superbowl. Ah, but this game has no end. Important commentators reminded us that Bin laden had long ago ceased having any operational capacity with al-Qaeda and now was only a symbolic figure...

http://tinyurl.com/3wsp3m9



Osama bin Laden, degeneration and savagery

Libertarian Alliance
by Sean Gabb

05/02/11

I might suggest that the American Government has a less than perfect record in telling the truth. When not killing the wrong people entirely, it frequently lies about what they are supposed to have done. I will say instead, though, that this whole operation stinks. Even if there was no doubt regarding identity and guilt, this is not how civilised governments behave. If millions of Americans really are pleased with their government, that merely shows that they deserve the media and political classes they have...

http://tinyurl.com/3hqcry4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jetzt, da Osama Bin Laden für getötet erklärt wurde, benötigen wir dringend die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Noch dazu, wo selbst Österreich sie umgesetzt hat. Moment mal...

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/149780



SPD setzt FDP unter Druck

Die Sozialdemokraten sprechen sich für eine Wiedereinführung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung aus und bieten sich der Union als handzahmerer Erfüllungsgehilfe an.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34684/1.html



Was passiert mit den Anti-Terrorgesetzen nach Bin Ladens Tod?

Der Umgang mit den Anti-Terrorgesetzen sorgt für neuen Zoff in der Bundesregierung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34687/1.html

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Stoppen Sie die Vorratsdatenspeicherung!
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/9610a3f9a986a837?hl=de



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Erosion der Menschenrechte und des Rechtsstaats.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149778



Die Intensivierung der Kampfzone Pakistan

Nach der Tötung Osama Bin Ladens in Abbottabad hat das Land nur mehr wenig Argumente gegen eine Ausweitung des Krieges gegen den Terror auf seinem Boden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34658/1.html



Ob es den schon lange für tot gehaltenen Osama Bin Laden nunmehr tatsächlich erwischt hat, ist noch unklar.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34656/1.html



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US-Präsident Barack Obama hat sein Militär- und Sicherheitsteam umgebildet. Mit der Ernennung von David Petreaus zum neuen Chef der C.I.A. wächst die Militarisierung des zivilen Auslandsgeheimdienstes.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34660/1.html



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- Lyon Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer (OMS): Cancers et Scandale
- Irradiation de la population: Le Dr Christopher Wild, directeur du CIRC au centre du scandale.

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'In der letzten Aprilwoche wurde eine von uns unterstützte Eilklage gegen den fehlerhaft ermittelten und zu geringen Regelsatz von 364 Euro beim Sozialgericht eingereicht,' teilt Hartz4-Plattform Sprecherin Brigitte Vallenthin mit. 'Unsere Bürgerinitiative dankt Dr. Ulrich Sartorius, Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Freiburg und langjähriger Dozent bei der Deutschen Anwalt Akademie, für seine Unterstützung bei diesem Verfahren.

Damit wollen wir im Interesse aller Betroffenen den schnellst möglichen Rechtsweg beschreiten, damit das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) die Politik an ihre Hausaufgaben aus dem Hartz IV-Urteil vom 9. Februar 2010 erinnert und nach dessen Buchstaben ein tatsächliches Grundrecht auf 'menschenwürdiges Existenzminimum' sicher stellt.?

Der für einen von der Hartz4-Plattform unterstützten Kläger eingereichte Antrag auf einstweilige Anordnung fußt auf erheblichen Bedenken, die bereits im Gesetzgebungsverfahren geltend gemacht wurden und verweist auf die Ausschussdrucksache des Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales vom 16.11.2010, 17 (11) 309 sowie verfassungsrechtliche Einwendungen von Münder, Prof. Dr. jur. Johannes Münder, Technische Universität Berlin.

Der Schriftsatz beruht auf einem von Anwältinnen und Anwälten der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein (DAV) erstellten Musterschriftsatz, der mit weiteren Musterschriftsätzen zum SGB II demnächst veröffentlicht wird. Deren Inhalte stehen dann den mehr als 1.000 Anwältinnen und Anwälten zur Verfügung, die Mitglieder der DAV-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialrecht sind.

Tenor der Klage ist:

'Die Ermittlung und Festlegung des Regelbedarfs entspricht nicht den Anforderungen, die das BVerfG dem Gesetzgeber aufgegeben hat.' Ihnen 'genügen die Neuregelungen in mehrfacher Hinsicht nicht.'

Im Einzelnen begründet die Klage unter anderem ... siehe weiterführenden Link:

http://www.sozialticker.com/hartz4-plattform-eilklage-gegen-den-neuen-364-euro-regelsatz_20110503.html


Der Sozialticker e.V.
Alte Dorfstr. 4
15926 Luckau, Deutschland
info (at) sozialticker.com
http://www.sozialticker.com

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Eilklage gegen neuen Hartz IV Regelsatz eingereicht

Wie die Hartz IV-Plattform aus Wiesbaden mitteilt, wurde aktuell eine Eilklage gegen den 'fehlerhaft ermittelten und zu geringen Regelsatz von 364 Euro beim Sozialgericht eingereicht.' Mit der Klage soll eine baldige Klarstellung bei Bundesverfassungsgericht erreicht werden. Unterstützt wurde die Klagebegründung durch den Lehrbeauftragten an der Universität Freiburg und langjährigen Dozenten der Deutschen Anwalts- Akademie, Dr. Ulrich Sartorius... Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/eilklage-gegen-hartz-iv-regelsatz-hoehe-323002.php



Hartz IV: Besondere Freude über Sanktionen?

Mittlerweile dürfte es sich herum gesprochen haben, dass Mitarbeiter der Jobcenter Vorgaben erhalten, die unter anderem eine 'Sanktionsqoute' vorgeben. Viele Mitarbeiter in den Hartz IV Behörden betonen, sie würden solche Anweisungen im Arbeitsalltag beachten, andere wiederum macht es anscheinend regelrecht Spaß, für ihren vorgesetzten Dienstherrn Gelder einzusparen. Genanntes Beispiel des Runden Tisches gegen Erwerbslosigkeit und soziale Ausgrenzung in Berlin ist zwar rein fiktiv, könnte sich aber nach Erzählungen einiger ehemaligen Behördenmitarbeiter genauso täglich abspielen. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-sanktionsfreude-bei-sachbearbeitern-93412.php



Aus der Hartz IV Praxis

Ich lebe in einer Kleinstadt im südlichen NRW, hier kennt man sich, im Ortskern leben ca. 8000 Menschen. Für mich sind Hartz IV und Sozialhilfe jeden Tag zum 'Greifen' nahe, bei uns leben ca. 12 Prozent der Bevölkerung von dem ihnen als 'Existenzminimum' zugestandenen Leistungen, von denen selbst der Vizepräsident der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit in einem Interview mit der Zeitung "Der Tagesspiegel" am 29. April 2011 sagte: 'Nur Lebenskünstler können von Hartz IV leben' ( http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/ba-vize-hartz-iv-regelsatz-menschenunwuerdig-7093.php ) . Das reale Elend dieser Menschen kann ich am Besten beschreiben, wenn ich aus meiner ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeit als Sozialarbeiter für diese Menschen, von meinen Erlebnissen mit ihnen berichte. Nur so wird meiner Meinung nach Hartz IV und seine Bedeutung für die Betroffenen auch für andere Menschen sichtbar und nachvollziehbar. Statistiken und Zahlen sind anonym, konkrete Schicksale nicht. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/aus-der-hartz-iv-praxis-30303.php



Hartz IV: Über zwanzig gute Gründe, wegen der Wohnung zum Gericht zu gehen

In Berlin gibt es 400.000 mietspiegelrelevante Haushalte, die zur Sicherung ihrer Wohnung Transferleistungen, wie Arbeitslosengeld II, Grundsicherung für Erwerbsgeminderte und Alte oder Wohngeld beziehen müssen. Von den ersten beiden Gruppen müssen 20 % der Leistungsberechtigten - real 72.000 Bedarfsgemeinschaften ( http://www.gegen-hartz.de/bedarfsgemeinschaft.php ) - Teile ihrer Miete aus der Hartz IV Regelleistung zahlen, weil ihre Miete höher ist als die in den Ausführungsvorschriften zum Wohnen angegebenen Mietobergrenzen. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-wohnung-rechte-einklagen-9092.php



Brutto-Kaltmiete muss bei Hartz IV angemessen sein

In dem Urteil vom 6 April 11 (S 41 AS 3047/10) hat das Sozialgericht Duisburg für die Stadt Essen einen anderen Berechnungsmodus für die Bedarfe der Unterkunft angewendet, als dieses vom Jobcenter selbst seit 2005 geschieht. Während das Jobcenter nur die Netto-Kaltmiete oder auch Grundmiete genannt auf ihre Angemessenheit kontrolliert, ist nach dem SG-Urteil die Summe von Grundmiete und Nebenkosten entscheidend. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/urteile/hartz-iv-brutto-kaltmiete-muss-angemessen-sein-9156.html



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'Die Freiheit nehm ich mir?!'

Der 3. Mai ist seit 17 Jahren der Internationale Tag der Pressefreiheit.

Er ist heute notwendiger denn je, die Bilanzen, die verschiedene Journalistenorganisationen weltweit aus diesem Anlass vorlegen, sprechen eine beredte Sprache. (?) Die dju in ver.di steht fest und solidarisch an der Seite ihrer Kolleginnen und Kollegen in allen Ländern, in denen die Pressefreiheit unter Druck geraten oder ausgehebelt ist. In direkter Aktion oder gemeinsam mit unseren internationalen Organisationen wie die Internationale Journalisten-Föderation (IJF), das International News Safety Institute (INSI) oder Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) machen wir Verstöße gegen die Pressefreiheit öffentlich, benennen die Akteure, unterstützen wir bedrohte und verfolgte Kolleginnen und Kollegen. Das ist unsere innere Überzeugung und unsere Pflicht, denn wir leben und arbeiten in einer Situation, in der wir das tun können. Und wir haben große Hochachtung vor allen Kollegen, die unter solchen Bedingungen ihre berufliche und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung erfüllen?' Bericht auf der Seite der dju in ver.di vom 3. Mai 2011 http://dju.verdi.de/schwerpunkte/berufspolitik/0511-tag-der-pressefreiheit


Pressefreiheit ernst gemeint

'Am heutigen Welttag der Pressefreiheit steht die Lage von Journalistinnen und Journalisten in aller Welt im Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit. Wo Journalisten verfolgt und eingesperrt werden, wo kritische Berichterstattung unmöglich gemacht wird, wo gar die Jagd auf Reporter eröffnet ist - all das wird in vielen Ländern der Erde heute thematisiert und diskutiert. Die Verfolgung von Journalisten, die Behinderung der Medien sind schlimm genug. Doch der Pressefreiheit drohen auch andere Gefahren. In Deutschland beispielsweise, indem die wirtschaftlichen Zwänge, unter denen Redaktionen stehen, immer größer werden oder indem die wirtschaftlichen Verantwortungsträger von Medien die Grundlage des freien Journalismus schleichend aushöhlen. Dagegen setzen sich heute Journalisten in mehreren Bundesländern zur Wehr: in Hamburg, wo Journalisten aus ganz Norddeutschland zusammenkommen, in Hessen, in Baden-Württemberg, in Thüringen. Der DJV wird über die Aktionen zeitnah berichten?' Pressemitteilung des DJV vom 03. Mai. 2011 http://www.djv.de/Diskussion.2995+M59baf1c07bf.0.html


ROG zum Internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit: 38 größte 'Feinde der Pressefreiheit' weltweit ? Tunesische Regierung nicht mehr auf Liste

'Zum Internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai stellt Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) die neue Liste der größten 'Feinde der Pressefreiheit' vor. Den Titel verdienen in diesem Jahr 38 Staats- und Regierungschefs, Könige, paramilitärische Gruppen, kriminelle Netzwerke und extremistische Organisationen. Sie missbrauchen ihre Macht, um kritische Medien zu zensieren, Journalisten zu entführen, zu foltern und zu ermorden. 30 dieser Akteure sind Vertreter oder Organe der Staatsmacht?' Pressemitteilung der Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) vom 03.05.2011 http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/news-nachrichten-single/article//rog-zum-internationalen-tag-der-pressefreiheit-38-groesste-feinde-der-pressefreiheit-weltweit-tun.html


Internationale Journalisten-Föderation (IJF)
http://www.ifj.org/

International News Safety Institute (INSI)
http://www.newssafety.com/


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Mai 2011



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Schlecker scheint nicht dazuzulernen - dafür spricht nach SPIEGEL-Informationen eine Liste, auf der sich Dutzende Namen missliebiger Mitarbeiter befinden. (?) Das Papier unter dem Titel 'Maßnahmenpaket Personal-Qualität' ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen 20 Seiten lang und sammelt die Namen von Dutzenden ebenso langjährigen wie missliebigen Angestellten im gesamten Bundesgebiet. Manche waren im Betriebsrat, fast alle hatten hohe Gehaltsstufen erreicht und waren entsprechend teuer geworden. Diese Beschäftigten würden 'in der Optik stehen', heißt es in der Mail einer Managerin. Gemeint ist wohl: Die Namen auf Strisciullis Liste stehen unter verschärfter Beobachtung. Neben vielen Namen finden sich auf der Liste zwei Zahlen: Das eine Datum markiert nach Meinung von Betriebsräten den Zeitpunkt, als die Mitarbeiter auf der Liste ins Fadenkreuz der Schlecker-Führung gerieten. Das andere verrate den erhofften Austrittstermin?' Artikel auf Spiegel-Online vom 01.05.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,759917,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Mai 2011



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Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/02/11

The latest leaks of classified documents, which show that the U.S. government imprisoned hundreds of men at Guantanamo Bay on the most dubious 'evidence,' brings to mind the question, Why hasn?t President Obama kept his promise to close the infamous prison that will forever stain America s honor?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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



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Martin Fackler and Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times News Service: 'For seven generations, Yoshitoshi Sewa and his ancestors have tilled this farm in a gently curving valley filled with green rice paddies. But now he will not let his young grandchildren play outside their tile-roofed home for fear of an invisible and potentially long-lasting threat, radiation. 'Even if the government says it's O.K., no one here wants to take the risk of radiation,' said Mr. Sewa, 63, whose farm sits about 40 miles west of Japan s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - well beyond the zone where residents have been told to leave or remain indoors.'

http://www.truth-out.org/life-limbo-japanese-near-nuclear-plant/1304356937

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Chernobyl s guide to tyranny
http://www.ftd.de/karriere-management/business-english/:business-english-chernobyl-s-guide-to-tyranny/60044768.html


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Lessons of Fukushima and Chernobyl
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Lessons_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl.php



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Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: 'It took years for the US military to track Osama bin Laden down, finding him not in a cave in the inaccessible tribal regions of Pakistan, but in a sumptuous luxury compound built just six years ago in the same city that is home to Pakistan s most prestigious military academy. The raid that killed him lasted just 40 minutes. US officials briefing reporters here said the raid involved a helicopter assault on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by a small US team.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bin-laden-raid-years-making-minutes-execution/1304344463



Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden s Death

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'I spent a year of my life covering al-Qaida for The New York Times. It was the work in which I, and other investigative reporters, won the Pulitzer Prize. And I spent seven years of my life in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I am an Arabic speaker. And when someone came over and told Jean and me the news, my stomach sank. I am not in any way naive about what al-Qaida is. It s an organization that terrifies me. I know it intimately. But I'´am also intimately familiar with the collective humiliation that we have imposed on the Muslim world.'

http://www.truth-out.org/chris-hedges-speaks-osama-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-death/1304343151

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Osama bin Laden s Useful Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts303.html

Obama s Birth and Osama s Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory212.html

Thoughts on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance241.html

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JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/02-5

Obama Has 'Doubled Down on Bush Administration Policy of Targeted Assassination'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/02

The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-11

Obama Bags Osama: So Now What?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-0

Osama Bin Laden is Dead; Let the Peace Begin
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-10

Let Us Rejoice Over Peace, Not Death
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-4

Bin Laden: Celebrating Death, or End of War?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/02-5

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US says bin Laden s death does not end Afghan war

Fremont Tribune

05/02/11

The U.S. and key allies fighting Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan insisted Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden, who once found shelter there, would not mean a speedy end to the war or a rapid withdrawal of international troops. Still, there were fresh arguments that the real war against al-Qaida had shifted to beyond Afghan borders...

http://tinyurl.com/3bqlnbr



Emmanuel Goldstein s dark victory

Pro Libertate
by Will Grigg

05/02/11

Whether Osama bin Laden departed the mortal realm for an unpleasant eternity years ago - as sober and serious people have reported - or last week in a firefight suitable for a sweeps week episode of NCIS, this much is certain: The government ruling us managed to turn that despicable creature into a prophet. ... Osama s fondest wish was to see a civilizational conflict between the West and the Islamic world. A subsidiary desire was to see the United States spend itself into oblivion by carrying out that demented crusade...

http://tinyurl.com/429vt5a



Get rid of the blinders

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

05/02/11

Osama bin Laden plotted and ordered the killing of innocent people to further his authoritarian political agenda. And finally he was killed. Thus always to tyrants. But those of us who harbor no sympathy for bin Laden shouldn t be blinded by patriotic or victory euphoria. The death of bin Laden does not solve the problems that enabled his rise to fame...

http://c4ss.org/content/6980



Bin Laden is dead: Can we go home now?

Living Freedom
by Claire Wolfe

05/02/11

Does that mean American soldiers can come home from all the politicians? wars now?

http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-is-dead-can-we-go-home-now.html



Killing Osama, resolving nothing

CounterPunch
by David Swanson

05/02/11

Set aside for a moment the morality of cheering for the killing of a human being -- which despite the pilot s prompting nobody on the plane did. In purely Realpolitik terms, killing foreign leaders whom we have previously supported has been an ongoing disaster...

http://counterpunch.org/swanson05022011.html



Is this the wrong time to question foreign policy?

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

05/02/11

My hunch is that once the jubilation over the killing of Osama bin Laden dissipates, everything will return to normal. The war on terrorism will continue indefinitely into the future. New official enemies will appear to take bin Laden s place. The periodic terror alerts will remain. The president s emergency powers that came into existence after 9/11 will stay. The infringements on civil liberties will continue growing...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-05-02.asp



The price of retribution

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

05/02/11

The attacks of September 11 left thousands dead, families broken, and turned the center of the proudest city in the world into rubble. But they also left a festering wound in the American psyche that has yet to heal. In the years following September 11, America lost its mind. Fearful, Americans gave over more power to their government than ever before in the form of the PATRIOT Act. Reflecting on hideous legal memos justifying government-sanctioned torture, Justice Department Official David Margolis exonerated the authors suggesting that they were victims of a lapse in judgment brought on by the aftermath of 9/11...

http://tinyurl.com/3r6d4zj



Sacrificing freedom for security

Boston Globe
by John E. Sununu

05/02/11

Few quotes are as well worn as Ben Franklin s admonition that, Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. And perhaps no quote is better suited to this month s debate to extend several provisions of the Patriot Act. ... Five years have passed since I led a small group of Republicans in a bipartisan filibuster to stop the first Patriot Act reauthorization. What ensued was six weeks of grinding negotiations yielding a handful of changes to strengthen protections for civil liberties...

http://tinyurl.com/3qho9xb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Nine Lives of Osama bin Laden
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1092.html



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Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'We got our man. Wave the flag, kiss a nurse (or a sailor) and start packing the equipment. It s time to plan to bring all our boys and girls home from Afghanistan. When the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks rolls around, let the world see that we are on a clear path to bringing home our troops from Afghanistan and handing back sovereignty to the Afghan people.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-over-start-packing/1304352151

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Bring the Troops Home by the Fourth of July
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north976.html

Osama bin Laden Is Dead Again?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wile/wile16.1.html



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By Chris Hedges

These groups learned to speak the language we taught them. And our response was to speak in kind. The language of violence, the language of occupation-the occupation of the Middle East, the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28010.htm



Justice or Vengeance?

By Phyllis Bennis

President Obama reasserted the American exceptionalism that has been a hallmark of his recent speeches, claiming that 'America can do whatever we set our mind to.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28011.htm



U.S. Team s Mission Was To Kill, Not Capture

'This was a kill operation,' the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-kill_n_856211.html



Wikileaks says US knew of Abbottabad lair from 2008

The United States probably knew by 2008 about Osama bin Laden s lair in Abbottabad, according to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks on Monday, quoting from a leaked US cable, dpa reported.

http://en.trend.az/regions/world/usa/1870094.html



US Kills 3 Afghan Children

Sores of tribal leaders staged a protest rally to condemn the attack and to call for an end to deadly attacks on civilians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28002.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Osama bin Laden s Second Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts302.html

Why bin Laden s Ghost Is Smiling
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis239.html



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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/02/11

Flying unopposed over Libyan airspace, NATO s fighter planes bombed the residence of the Gadhafi family, killing his youngest son and three grandchildren. What a glorious victory for the defenders of innocent civilians! The NATO-crats, of course, deny targeting either Gadhafi or his family members: those much-touted high-tech weapons, with their 'precision' targeting capabilities, seem to have had a very convenient breakdown. But at least one Republican Senator wasn t fooled...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/05/01/libya-the-bizarro-war/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/30-1

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'Le désastre environnemental nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi commence juste'

par Serge Sargentini
http://www.cartoradiations.fr/



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



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Corruption Threatening Global Steps to Combat Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/01-2

Banks Should Pay for Foreclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/01-0

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Our chronic cronyism ? and corruption

Our Future Blog
by Sam Pizzigati

05/01/11

America s top bankers and CEOs don t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a reporter last week, 'no longer have a democracy.' Instead, Stockman charged, we have 'crony capitalism,' a system that s rigging the economy to benefit the powerful few - at everyone else?s expense...

http://tinyurl.com/3e9bvqs



Who s right, Americans or economists?

Automatic Earth
by staff

04/29/11

There appears to be a huge gap between how Americans see the US economy, and how economists do. Indeed, there is such a widening chasm between the two that one could be inclined to think they can t both be taken seriously at the same time...

http://tinyurl.com/6258mgv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Reagan Budget Director: 'Absolutely' Raise Taxes, Just Like Reagan Did

Alex Seitz-Wald, Think Progress: 'As Washington considers ways to rein in the deficit, Republicans have obstinately demanded that any tax revenue increases be taken off the table, claiming that raising taxes during a down economy would doom the recovery. As evidence, they often point to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, claiming his massive 1981 tax cuts caused that decade s economic boom. But this anti-tax position makes it almost impossible to do anything serious about the deficit, since - despite GOP talking points - the country has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. On ABC s This Week today, Reagan s own budget director, David Stockman, exposed the GOP tax cut 'theology' for the ahistorical sham it is.'

http://www.truth-out.org/reagan-budget-director-absolutely-raise-taxes-just-reagan-did/1304355215



US Uncut New York City Teach-In at Bank of America

Video

US Uncut: 'US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the inherently corrupt bank bailouts, the 'tax-avoidance' of huge US corporations by which two-thirds of US corporations pay zero taxes and what kind of action we the people can take to stop the massive tax-payer funded transfer of wealth from the poor and to the rich.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-uncut-new-york-city-teach-bank-america/1304349450



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Von Taiwan über Indien und die Türkei bis nach Finnland gingen letzte Woche die Menschen gegen Atomkraftwerke auf die Straße.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149765



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By Kenneth Rapoza

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Russian press on Saturday that they were aware of a ground campaign being prepared within NATO and some European nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27996.htm



Russia blasts NATO for airstrikes in Tripoli

The Foreign Ministry said the attacks are a disproportionate use of force that exceed the U.N. mandate and raise serious doubts about claims that NATO is not trying to kill Qaddafi and members of his family.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/01/501364/main20058750.shtml



McCain: U.S. Needs to 'Get Back in the Fight' in Libya

American leadership is vital in the world. There s no country like America. We should be leading. We should not be following.... Only the United States is capable of helping these people.

http://nationaljournal.com/mccain-u-s-should-get-back-in-the-fight-in-libya-20110501



Libya disabled children school hit in NATO strike

Shattered glass litters the carpet at the Libyan Down s Syndrome Society, and dust covers pictures of grinning children that adorn the hallway, thrown into darkness by a NATO strike early on Saturday.

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE73T0AG20110430?sp=true


From Information Clearing House

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Was Qaddafi the Real Target of the Strike That Killed His Son?

Nancy A. Youssef and Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers: 'A NATO airstrike reportedly narrowly missed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Saturday night, killing his youngest son and three grandchildren instead, according to a government spokesman, marking the coalition s most aggressive effort to end the regime. That NATO forces may have killed four members of Gadhafi s family who had no ties to the government or military will likely renew questions about the legality and legitimacy of the international effort here, sanctioned by a United Nations resolution to protect civilians from a Gadhafi attack.'

http://www.truthout.org/was-qaddafi-real-target-strike-killed-his-son/1304258933



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Die Küstenlinie in arktischen Dauerfrostgebieten reagiert auf den Klimawandel mit verstärkter Erosion und zieht sich im Durchschnitt um einen halben Meter pro Jahr zurück.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811981ms259



Dramatischer Waldverlust bis 2050

Der Erde droht bis 2050 ein Waldverlust von 230 Millionen Hektar.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811960ms259



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Große Ernteausfälle bei Gensoja und Genmais, traditionelle Pflanzen fast infektionsfrei.

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Benzinpreis von fünf Mark? Längst keine grüne Vision mehr.
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Touristen als Zielgruppe für neuen Absatz von Walfleisch.
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Die Entdeckung der Schnelligkeit

Das ist mal ein Signal: Der Bundesverband der deutschen Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW) spricht sich für den 'schnellen und vollständigen Ausstieg aus der Kernenergienutzung' aus. Das ist das Ergebnis einer außerordentlichen Vorstandssitzung des BDEW. Das neue Ziel des BDEW lautet: Atomausstieg möglichst bis 2020, spätestens bis 2023. Ein Kommentar von Jörg Weber

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Aber sicher Akw - RWE-Konzern hält am Atomkonzept fest

'Dies ist ein modernes, sehr sicheres und technisch anspruchsvolles Kernkraftwerk', lobte Bundeskanzlerin Merkel das AKW Emsland bei Ihrem Besuch im August des letzten Jahres. Gemeinsam mit Jürgen Großmann, dem Chef der RWE AG, marschierte sie lächelnd über das Gelände. Nur wenig später sollte die Atom-Kanzlerin die Verlängerung der AKW-Laufzeiten beschließen lassen. Das alles scheint, nach dem schweren Unfall in Fukujima, nicht mehr zu gelten: Die schwarz-gelben Laufzeit-Verlängerer ducken sich weg. Kommentar von Uli Gellermann

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Greenpeace: Vier deutsche AKW gefährlicher als Fukushima

Gravierende Defizite der vier ältesten Siedewasserreaktoren nicht nachrüstbar.
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25 Jahre Tschernobyl: Hintergrundinformationen des Öko-Instituts

Am 26. April 1986 kam es im Block 4 des Atomkraftwerks in Tschernobyl zu einer Explosion mit schwerwiegenden Folgen für ganz Europa.

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TV - TIPP: Die 4. Revolution - Energy Autonomy | arte | 03. Mai 2011 | 20.15 Uhr

Der Kino-Dokumentarfilm 'Die vierte Revolution - EnergyAutonomy' beschreibt anhand seiner Protagonisten, prominenter Umweltaktivisten, Nobelpreisträger, innovativer Unternehmer und Politiker, dass der Umstieg auf 100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien innerhalb der nächsten 30 Jahre möglich ist.

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ÖKO-TEST-Kritik zeigt Wirkung: Öko-Fonds werfen Kernkraftwerksbetreiber aus dem Depot

Nachhaltige Fonds werden umweltbewussten Anlegern gern als saubere Investments offeriert, durch die sich Geld und Moral verbinden lassen.

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Kritik an zentralistischer Energiepolitik nimmt zu

Eine zügige Energiewende sei mit den Konzernen alleine nicht zu machen, darin sind sich mittelständische Unternehmer sicher und einig - für den schnellen Umstieg braucht es dezentrale Projekte.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811962ms259

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Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, auf ARTE um 10.00 Uhr der Film:

'Tschernobyl forever

20 Jahre nach dem atomaren Super-GAU im sowjetischen Kernkraftwerk Tschernobyl untersucht die Dokumentation die aktuelle Lage in den am stärksten radioaktiv kontaminierten europäischen Staaten (Weißrussland, Norwegen und Griechenland). Die filmische Reise macht deutlich, dass die Folgen der Reaktorkatastrophe bis heute zu spüren sind und dass der Einsatz von Atomkraft sowohl unter Experten als auch unter den Bürgern der betroffenen Länder bis heute umstritten ist.'

http://www.arte.tv/de/woche/244,broadcastingNum=1266660,day=6,week=18,year=2011.html


Informant: Frank Ermisch



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