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Oberberg Aktuell

Gummersbach - Eine Informationsveranstaltung am 5. Juli soll Fachkräfte aus dem pädagogischen Bereich beraten, wie sie das Problem vorbeugen können. Immer häufiger werden über das Internet Gewalttaten unter Jugendlichen verübt...

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versicherungsbote.de

Beleidigt eine Schülerin ihre Klassenkameradin aufs Gröbste im Internet, darf ein derartiges Fehlverhalten vom Lehrkörper auch schuldisziplinarisch sanktioniert werden. Selbst wenn die schwerwiegenden Diffamierungen nicht im Unterrichtsbetrieb erfolgt...

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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/24/11

Our president, a prisoner of history, bravely confronts circumstances shaped by others. He praises himself for making 'one of the most difficult decisions I have made as President,' the launching of the 'surge' in which 30,000 more troops were sent to the supposedly neglected Afghan front. 'We set clear objectives,' he avers, and yet our ultimate goal was - and still is - obscured in murk: does anyone, including the President, know what victory looks like?

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/06/23/obama-soldiers-on/



The vice of interventionism

Freedom Politics
by George Will

06/23/11

Elevating the fallacy of the false alternative to a foreign policy, John McCain and a few others believe Republicans who oppose U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war - and who think a decade of warfare in Afghanistan is enough - are isolationists. This is less a thought than a flight from thinking, which involves making sensible distinctions...

http://tinyurl.com/5wwae6u



Mr. President, bring our soldiers home

Our Future Blog
by Isaiah J. Poole

06/22/11

In his speech, the president set the right direction and tone, but not the right level of urgency. The schedule he laid out means there will still be 68,000 troops fighting the longest war this nation has ever fought in the fall of 2012...

http://tinyurl.com/63rayqo



Obama fails to outline sensible Afghan drawdown

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

06/23/11

President Obama said a lot of the right things last night, but the numbers don t add up. More important, in his too-brief, almost throwaway address to the nation, he failed to articulate any rationale for his current policy. By keeping up to 90,000 troops in Afghanistan this year, and nearly 70,000 through next fall, what does Obama hope to accomplish? Sad to say, it looks like he hopes to accomplish his re-election...

http://tinyurl.com/68plnrj



How about a real 'drawdown?'

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

06/22/11

Despite all of the White House?s solemn talk of drawdowns and 'sustainability here at home,' the changes we are supposed to regard as big news take place on the narrowest margins of United States foreign policy. Way out on the periphery of the neocolonialist agenda, a negligible tweak here or there is quite acceptable to the state capitalist elite, for whom there is never a real danger. Policy shifts - even personnel changes - occur within a framework where the underlying assumptions of empire are taken for granted, and where an entire economy has been built upon what Dwight Eisenhower famously dubbed the 'military-industrial complex'...

http://c4ss.org/content/7573


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Real Pullout or a Shell Game?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/26-1



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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan172.html

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Obama Leaves Door Open to Long-Term U.S. Afghan Combat
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/23-9

FAIR: Defining 'Withdrawal' From Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/23-10



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland32.1.html

The Missing Money
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell49.1.html

Things Bernanke Avoided During His Press Conference
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/jim-grant-on-bernanke.html

Another Step Towards World Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/oliva6.1.1.html

America s Unique Fascism
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory239.html

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America needs an urgent triage, but none is forthcoming
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/23-3



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- Les 4 Vérités du Pr Alain Privat 'Dangers du portable: la recherche est bâillonnée'

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Die ratlosen Liberalen
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150037



Ausgerechnet die Plagiatorin Koch-Mehrin wird zum Vollmitglied des Forschungsausschusses des EU-Parlaments

Dafür tritt der vermutliche Plagiator Chatzimarkakis ins zweite Glied zurück - eine politische Farce.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150036



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Modell Bahrain und der 'nationale Dialog'.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34986/1.html



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Derwesten.de

Cybermobbing heißt es im Fachjargon, wenn sich Jugendliche im Internet mit Beleidigungen gegenseitig 'fertig machen'. Es müssen keine Seiten sein, die extra für so ein Mobbing erstellt wurden (wie zB die erst kürzlich erschienene und schon wieder ...

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'If it made sense to protect the Libyan people against Gadhafi, and it did because they were going to get slaughtered if we hadn t sent NATO in when he was on the outskirts of Benghazi, the question for the world [is], have we gotten to that point in Syria,' Graham said.

http://bit.ly/mNXTgD


From Information Clearing House

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Syria and the 'popular will'

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

06/20/11

Far from personifying the collective will of the people, the state is merely the unwieldy implement of a power elite, a group of plotters who conspire not behind a curtain, but right out in the open. The political class, the parasitic few who contrive the system of state capitalism, feel no need whatsoever to hide; they cheat and extort the public behind the language of the 'popular will'...

http://c4ss.org/content/7565


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In the next decade, our reliance on drones and the spies who support them may increase for a different reason: We are losing friends.

http://www.slate.com/id/2297383/


From Information Clearing House



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By Rania Khalek

One of the most significant scourges paralyzing our democracy is the merger of corporate power with elected and appointed government officials at the highest levels of office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28401.htm



The Gradual Demise Of Capitalism

By Gaither Stewart

One can no longer defend capitalism in good faith. Marx was right, over a century and a half ago: capitalism has hung itself in its excess, in its greed for more and more and more.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28400.htm



More Treachery at the Fed?

By Mike Whitney

Soaring unemployment and slow growth will be the norm for years to come.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28399.htm



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Report

By ANI

A team of 130 British and French agents are reportedly on a one-million-pound-a-week, do-or-die deep undercover mission in Libya to get Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28394.htm



Kerry, McCain Come to Obama s Rescue Over Libya

By Jim Lobe

Two key senators Tuesday unveiled a resolution that would give President Barack Obama the authority to continue operations there for up to one year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28395.htm



'The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies'

By Noam Chomsky

As long as the US controls the hemisphere, or Europe before it, there is no democracy, because it gets crushed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28398.htm



Senate opens door for US troops to fight in Libya

Although the resolution makes no mention of a land operation, this is not ruled out if the US has to defend American Government officials or save NATO servicemen.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/22/52223757.html


From Information Clearing House

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War counsel

Reason Reason
by Jacob Sullum

06/22/11

During the Bush administration, when the Justice Department s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) got into the habit of rationalizing whatever the president wanted to do, Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen dreamed of an OLC that was willing to 'say no to the President.' It turns out we have such an OLC now. Unfortunately, as Barack Obama s defense of his unauthorized war in Libya shows, we do not have a president who is willing to take no for an answer...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/22/war-counsel



The myth of precision-guided coercion

Counterpunch
by Franklin C. Spinney

06/22/11

At the end of May the British press was filled with stories headlined 'Gaddafi to be told to stand down or face Apache attack.' As of this writing, the Apaches have attacked, but Gaddafi has not stood down. The Apache threat is a case study in the sterile but financially lucrative marriage of coercive diplomacy to surgical strikes by precision guided weapons. What passes for a war strategy in Libya is now a comic opera starring NATO as an understrength, self-referencing techno bully, who acts as if he is now so fearsome that he does not even need a carrot to go with his stick...

http://counterpunch.org/spinney06222011.html



When is a war not a war?

Red State
by Jeff Emanuel

06/22/11

The decision by a know-it-all president with no real world experience to overrule his top advisers isn t surprising (though the fact he made a decision at all is noteworthy). However, given the excerpts provided above, it should be clear that this administration s view of its own position and goals in Libya is schizophrenic to say the least...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and get your ticket to see 'Rick the Wonder Worker!' Texas Gov. Rick Perry is less than revered back home, where he is widely ridiculed as Gov. Good Hair. So he's now on the road with a traveling medicine show, billing himself as the 'Texas Miracle Man.' From New York to New Orleans, he s been wowing the Republican hard core by telling astounding tales of his job-creating prowess in our state, suggesting he can do for America what he s done for Texas. Such GOP sparklies as Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich are hailing the economic wunderkind, and his roadshow spiel has prompted some party stalwarts to tout him for the presidency, hoping he can do for America what he has done for Texas.... Perry-jobs are really 'jobettes,' offering low pay, no benefits and no upward mobility.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perry-peddling-texas-snake-oil/1308761729



Perry s Prayer-Palooza

Jim Hightower, OtherWords: 'When Texas became a republic in 1836, its constitution banned 'ministers of the gospel' from holding any political office. Our problem these days, however, isn t ministers in office, but politicians posing as ministers, seizing the pulpit to preach and proselytize. To see such Elmer Gantryism in action, look no further than the showboating Texas governor, Rick 'The Pious' Perry.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perrys-prayer-palooza/1309183578



'Governor Supercuts' for President?

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'GOP-land is all a twitter, now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced that he is ready to ascend to the White House. Perry is an exuberant corporate Republican, unabashedly hugging any big business lobbyist bearing a campaign check and a wish list. Although he dresses alluringly for the right-wing extremists, the corporate powers are his true love - and vice versa.'

http://www.truth-out.org/governor-supercuts-president/1313601078



Perry Reveals Plan for Total US Anarchy

Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: 'Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) issued the first policy position of his presidential campaign by asking the White House to issue a 'moratorium on regulations across this country'. Perry s 'moratorium on regulations' would mean a literal end to the rules of law in the United States. At least it would also mean that all of President George W. Bush s midnight regulations favoring polluters and industry abuses would also be lifted.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perry-reveals-plan-total-us-anarchy/1313590579



The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Robert Scheer, Truthout: 'It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a model for the nation defies the lessons of logic and experience, and yet here we are with Rick Perry, a George W. Bush look-alike, as a prime contender to once again run our nation into the ground.'

http://www.truth-out.org/biggest-little-hypocrite-texas/1313604529

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Rick Perry, 'hawk internationalist'

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/11/11

Another clueless Texas Governor surrounded by the same Praetorian Guard of conniving neocons who led us down the road to imperial overstretch and fiscal ruin last time around - isn?t that just what the GOP needs right now?

http://bit.ly/plWCQP



Rick Perry s neocon friends

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/15/11

No one seriously believes that Republicans will nominate the wild-eyed, certifiable Michele Bachmann for president, and Romney the Robot isn t setting Tea Party hearts aflutter. So it looks like Rick Perry, the Bible-thumping, secessionist hawk - who?s already assembling a team of neoconservative advisers - will get the nod to challenge President Obama in 2012. Were Perry to win, his victory - especially if the GOP, as seems likely, conquers the Senate - will speed the United States down the merry path to oblivion at least a couple of decades before the rise of China and India do anyway...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162782/rick-perrys-neocon-friends


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What America Needs Most: Rick Perry Promises Universal Hair Care

By Andy Borowitz

Would Establish Cabinet-level 'Hair Club for America'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28856.htm



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Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'The military is the nation s largest and most firmly entrenched entitlement program, one that takes half of every tax dollar. Even if 'national security' is considered our No. 1 priority (a dubious choice when the real unemployment rate is over 16 percent), estimates are that the military budget could be cut in half or more and we would still have the most powerful military machine in the world. Our enemies (if any) are now 'terrorists,' not countries; and what is needed to contain them (if anything) is local policing, not global warfare..... The military is not subject to ordinary market principles, but works on a 'cost-plus' basis, with producers reimbursed for whatever they have spent plus a guaranteed profit.'

http://www.truth-out.org/military-jobs-program-there-are-more-efficient-ways-stimulate-economy/1308752213



Thirty-Two Corporations Spent More on Compensation for Top Executives in 2010 Than They Paid in Income Taxes

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: 'According to a new report called 'S.& P. 500 Executive Pay: Bigger Than ...Whatever You Think It Is,' put together by the independent research firm R. G. Associates, there are currently 32 companies that actually spent more on compensation for their top executives in 2010 than they paid in corporate income taxes: 'Total executive pay increased by 13.9 percent in 2010 among the 483 companies where data was available for the analysis. The total pay for those companies' 2,591 named executives, before taxes, was $14.3 billion ...Warming to his subject, Mr. Ciesielski also determined that 158 companies paid more in cash compensation to their top guys and gals last year than they paid in audit fees to their accounting firms. Thirty-two companies paid their top executives more in 2010 than they paid in cash income taxes.'

http://www.truth-out.org/32-corporations-spent-more-compensation-top-executives-2010-they-paid-income-taxes/1308748490



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/06/22-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/22-9

Decade of Waste, Cost and Failure: The Ledger Sheet of War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/22-7

On US Governments Violence and Revenge: An Open Letter to President Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22-9

'Regime Change,' 'Shock and Awe, 'Imperial Presidency:' Missing Words from the Bush Era
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22

United for Peace and Justice Afghanistan Statement to the Obama Administration
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/22-0

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Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels

Helene Cooper, New York Times News Service: 'President Obama will talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan when he makes a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night. But behind his words will be an acute awareness of what $1.3 trillion in spending on two wars in the past decade has meant at home: a ballooning budget deficit and a soaring national debt at a time when the economy is still struggling to get back on its feet. As Mr. Obama begins trying to untangle the country from its military and civilian promises in Afghanistan, his critics and allies alike are drawing a direct line between what is not being spent to bolster the sagging economy in America to what is being spent in Afghanistan - $120 billion this year alone.'

http://www.truth-out.org/cost-wars-rising-issue-obama-weighs-troop-levels/1308765802

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Imperialism 101

By Michael Parenti

Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28397.htm



US cannot afford war in Afghanistan

I think that the decision on drawing down the troops from Afghanistan is truly not unexpected.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/22/52242650.html


From Information Clearing House

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The (Re)birth of A(nother) Nation

Strike The Root
by Harry Goslin

06/22/11

Since October 26, 2001, the United States has undergone several transformations. That s the date the original version of the PATRIOT Act became law and marked the beginning of Police State America...

http://strike-the-root.com/rebirth-of-another-nation


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/22-2

Al Gore: Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22-3



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Center for Constitutional Rights: MI Citizens Take Emergency Manager Law to Court, Citing Unconstitutional Power Grab
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/22-2



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US Defense Secretary Goes Home
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/black-s63.1.html

Another Lost Decade
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner480.html

Dizzying New Heights of Global Criminal Enterprise
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/west-j2.1.1.html



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silicon.de

Kinder in Sozialen Netzen nicht ausreichend vor Gefahren wie Cyber-Mobbing und sexuellem Missbrauch geschützt, kritisiert die Europäische Kommission. Sie hat die Datenschutzeinstellungen von 14 Websites untersucht - lediglich zwei bestanden den Test. ...

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Jugendgewalt nimmt neue Formen an

ORF.at

Dabei hat die Gewalt unter Jungen neue Formen angenommen - vom Schulhof ins Internet, wo Cybermobbing auf der Tagesordnung steht. Eine Gruppe Jugendlicher tut sich zusammen, einigt sich auf ein Opfer und schlägt aus Spaß auf den Burschen oder das ...

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Der noch amtierende Chef der Arabischen Liga, Amr Moussa, kritisiert den Luftkrieg und fordert einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand.

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- France 5 Yves Calvi 'C'est dans l'air': EHS Zone Refuge France
- Électro Hyper Sensibilité (extrait) 'Témoignages'

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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/22/11

For the first time since the 1970s, the American ruling class is frightened to death that its global empire is in danger of being subverted on the home front by an 'isolationist' movement, and elite pundits are up in arms. ... Our elites have neither the will, nor the intention, of shrinking the US presence in the world: they are far too invested, politically and psychologically, in the idea that Washington is and must remain the center of the known universe...

http://tinyurl.com/3cxydbp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

06/20/11

The military is almost a parody of American corporate culture. It s riddled with hierarchy, with Taylorist/Weberian bureaucratic work rules and standard operating procedures, and all the irrationality that goes with them. The only difference is, the pointy-haired bosses wear a different kind of uniform. If you have ever seen the movie 'Brazil,' or read Dilbert on a regular basis, you get the idea...

http://c4ss.org/content/7558


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In jedem anderen Jahr, zu jeder anderen Zeit wäre es als eine Sensation betrachtet worden: Ende Mai kamen über 10.000 Menschen zu einer Demonstration gegen Wisconsins konservativen Gouverneuer Walker unter der Parole 'Es ist nicht vorbei!'. Jetzt wurde es beinahe schon als Selbstverständlichkeit bewertet, trotz geringer Größe des Bundestaates, fehlender Tradition und einer ersten Niederlage in der Auseinandersetzung - wichtig aber war für alle Kommentatoren die Hauptparole, die sehr deutlich eine weitere Auseinandersetzung signalisiert. Inwieweit diese die Chance hat, eine landesweite zu werden untersucht in dem Beitrag 'Sowing the seeds: Can Wisconsin uprising grow nationwide movement?' Pat Schneider am 15. Juni 2011 in der Capital Times: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/grassroots/article_d16ad7c6-96cf-11e0-936c-001cc4c03286.html


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Juni 2011



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If the Dollar Goes, What Happens to Your Portfolio?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/clark-j27.1.html



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Kerry, McCain push ex post facto legalization of Libya war

Loveland Reporter-Herald

06/21/11

Two top senators on Tuesday unveiled a resolution giving President Barack Obama limited authority in the 3-month-old war against Libya, warning that the drastic step of cutting off funds for the military operation would be a lifeline to a weakened Moammar Gadhafi. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and John McCain of Arizona, the leading Republican on the Armed Services Committee, introduced the bipartisan resolution that would allow the mission to continue but would impose a one-year limit on the NATO-led operation, a period McCain said is 'more than enough time to finish the job...'

http://tinyurl.com/3e6rbu6



Obama thumbs nose at rule of law

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

06/19/11

We all know President Barack Obama has no regard for the U.S. Constitution. His latest hypocritical thumbing of the nose at our charter document brings that point home succinctly. Obama is making the ludicrous claim that he does not have to comply with the War Powers Act in Libya because American forces are not engaged in hostilities...

http://tinyurl.com/6aoyqo6



If Americans not hurt, is war no longer war?

The Nation
by Jonathan Schell

06/21/11

American planes are taking off, they are entering Libyan air space, they are locating targets, they are dropping bombs, and the bombs are killing and injuring people and destroying things. It is war. Some say it is a good war and some say it is a bad war, but surely it is a war. Nonetheless, the Obama administration insists it is not a war...

http://tinyurl.com/4xam2xr



Strange definitions of war and peace

Freedom s Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

06/20/11

Now that more than 90 days have passed since the president began bombing Libya, no one can seriously claim that the administration has complied with the clear requirements of the 1973 War Powers Resolution. In a remarkable act of chutzpah, the administration sent to Congress its response to the growing concern over its abuse of war powers. Its argument, in a nutshell, is that the War Powers Resolution is not relevant because US armed forces are not actually engaged in hostilities because Libya is so militarily weak it cannot fight back!

http://tinyurl.com/3fjro36


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US military action in Libya requires congressional approval, 3/5 of Americans say
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10405/



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"Schon bei Kleinkindern werden Arbeitnehmer-Kompetenzen abgefragt"
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34820/1.html
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Mittlerweile werden drei Viertel aller Gefängnisstrafen in den USA wegen gewaltfreier Delikte verhängt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34971/1.html



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By Jonathan Schell

The Obama administration claims that if the adversary cannot fight back, there is no war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28392.htm



NATO, The Ultimate Transformer

By Pepe Escobar

NATO has just admitted it was 'probably' responsible for the humanitarian liberation of nine Libyan civilians, plus 18 injured, via an early morning strike against an apartment building in a densely populated Tripoli neighborhood.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28381.htm



Lapdogging For The US

Libya, Canada s Other Ugly War

By Murray Dobbin

No one refers to this war against Libya as a criminal conspiracy but the term would be perfectly appropriate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28383.htm



Want Congress to Stop the War in Libya?

Don t Hold Your Breath

By Mark Benjamin

Despite the buzz in the news, Congress is not likely to cut off money for the war in Libya anytime soon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28382.htm



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'Uns erreichen täglich Berichte über die Folgen der Privatisierung öffentlicher Unternehmen und Einrichtungen. Konsequenzen hat das für die herrschende Ideologie und Praxis bisher nicht. Es wird weiter privatisiert. Im (vielleicht naiven) Glauben an die Wirkung von Information und Aufklärung sind im Folgenden einige Berichte aus der letzten Zeit zusammengestellt. Wenn Sie diese Zusammenstellung überzeugt, dann sprechen Sie doch bitte in Ihrem Umfeld über diesen fortschreitenden Wahnsinn. Die Beispiele betreffen 1. die Privatisierung der Bahn, 2. die Privatisierung der Energiewirtschaft, 3. die Privatisierung von Wohnungen und 4. die Privatisierung von Kliniken?' Dossier von Albrecht Müller in den Nachdenkseiten vom 20. Juni 2011 http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=9841


Unser Hamburg - Unser Netz - Volksbegehren für Hamburgs Energienetze in Öffentlicher Hand

Endspurt bis Mittwoch, 22. Juni, 24 Uhr

Siehe aktuelle Informationen und Hintergründe auf der Aktionspage http://unser-netz-hamburg.de/


Betriebsräte gegen Volksbegehren. Hamburg: Boykottaufrufe gegen Rekommunalisierung der Energienetze

'Es kracht zwischen Betriebsräten und Privatisierungsgegnern. Wie das Volksbegehren »Unser Hamburg ? unser Netz« am Mittwoch nachmittag mitteilte, habe das »Umfeld der Betriebsräte« von Vattenfall und E.on Hanse »massenhaft« Plakate überklebt oder zerstört. Das Volksbegehren will erreichen, daß die Stadt Hamburg ab 2015 die Strom-, Gas- und Fernwärmenetze übernimmt. Dagegen wenden sich die Belegschaftsvertreter?' Artikel von Mirko Knoche in junge Welt vom 17.06.2011 http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/06-17/037.php


Leipzig stellt Weichen auf Ausstieg

'Einer von mehreren heiklen Leasing-Verträgen wurde gekündigt ? doch Restrisiken bestehen fort. Die Stadt Leipzig hat einen der Verträge zum Cross-Border-Leasing gekündigt, mit dem das Schienennetz an USA-Investoren ging. Bundesweit steigen immer mehr Kommunen aus solch heiklen Geschäften aus. In der Regel bleiben aber Risiken bestehen?? Artikel von Hendrik Lasch im ND vom 10.06.2011 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/199519.leipzig-stellt-weichen-auf-ausstieg.html


Privatisierung im Hochschulbereich

Die Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik gibt jedes Jahr ein kritisches Gutachten zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik heraus. Themen sind dabei auch die Bildungspolitik und die aktuellen Tendenzen zur Privatisierung im Bildungsbereich. Studis Online veröffentlicht die Analysen und alternativen Konzepte zur Entwicklung des Hochschulbereichs. Siehe die Auszüge aus dem Memorandum 2011 bei Studis online http://www.studis-online.de/HoPo/Hintergrund/privatisierung_memorandum_2011.php


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juni 2011



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

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Human rights group says suspected protesters - and doctors and nurses who treated them - have been systematically abused.

http://ind.pn/iyMH4c


From Information Clearing House

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Free Unjustly Imprisoned Bahraini Activists
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/940/709/231/



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Moscow will use its veto rights in the UN Security Council to prevent the adoption of a resolution on Syria similar to the one passed against Libya, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110620/164716194.html



Turkish Actions Designed To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria?

By Rick Rozoff

The West wants to put the region under Turkish control like in the Ottoman days. Turkey is a NATO member and embodies a safe kind of Islam for the West, so they have done a deal to give everything to Ankara.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28390.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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By Ralph Nader

Barack Obama has reached Orwellian dimensions in the war against Libya.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28371.htm



Conspiracy Theory

By Paul Craig Roberts

A 'conspiracy theory' no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government s explanation and that of its media pimps.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28377.htm



Libya: Monday: NATO killed another 13 civilians

A NATO attack killed 13 civilians including relatives of an official closely linked to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi on Monday, the Libyan government said, just one day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a air raid on Tripoli.

http://bit.ly/meUN0t



Sunday: Nato bomb 'kills nine Libyan civilians' as stray air strike is blamed on 'system failure'

Nato admitted on Sunday that its weapons destroyed a house in Tripoli in an incident likely to sow new doubts inside the alliance about its mission in Libya.

http://bit.ly/kROw9t



NATO admits Libyan civilians killed in botched air strike

Libyan officials said the blast flattened a two-storey house, killing two children and seven adults.

http://bit.ly/mFpZfE



Nato air strike on civilians in Tripoli

Video

'Nato is planting the seed of hatred in the hearts of Libyan people for years to come. They won t allow foreign armies to decide their future.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28380.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Redefining war downwards

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

06/17/11

Obama has now violated statutory as well as constitutional limits on his war power, all to bring about regime change in a country when he denied three months ago that this was the end goal of his intervention. But he would have us believe that this is not a war...

http://blog.independent.org/2011/06/17/redefining-war-downwards/



If we aren t at war in Libya ?

Downsize DC
by James Wilson

06/20/11

President Obama has claimed this war is not a war. He even claims it doesn t rise to the level of 'hostilities' as envisioned by the War Powers Act. This is laughable. Does the President think that Pearl Harbor wasn t an act of war because no Japanese boots ever stepped on U.S. soil during that attack? By the President s reasoning Pearl Harbor didn t even rise to the level of 'hostility'...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/urgent-if-we-arent-at-war-in-libya-



Lies, damn lies, and liberating wars

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

06/21/11

Obama is just the latest hired hand, furthering Washington s rogue agenda -- pressuring, intimidating and/or terror bombing countries to comply, slaughtering civilians to protect them, destroying their countries for their own good, while lying about America's good intentions that, in fact, seek only to make the world safe for capital, not people...

http://tinyurl.com/3gs7zz4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-12



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-9

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Middle-class worker loyalty to employers on decline

The harsh economic climate has frayed relationships between middle-class workers and their employers. An already-strained sense of loyalty has been further damaged by stagnant wages, rapid-fire mass layoffs and persistent fears of job loss.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/06/19/20110619middle-class-employer-loyalty-decline.html



Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation

Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
http://bit.ly/mORZU9


From Information Clearing House

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Mourning in America

The Weekly Standard
by Matthew Continetti

Trying to stay upbeat? Avoid the business section. Unemployment stands at 9.1 percent. Growth is narcoleptic. The housing market has not hit bottom. Fears of a Greek default are roiling markets. The deficit is running more than a trillion dollars for the third year in a row and won t be shrinking anytime soon. A U.S. fiscal crisis may be only a few years (or months) away. President Obama, meanwhile, seems to think our problems would be solved if only we banned ATMs and built solar-powered bullet trains... (for publication 06/27/11)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mourning-america_574845.html



Whirling economics

Boston Globe
by John E. Sununu

06/20/11

Panic is not a pretty thing. The Obama administration may not be there just yet, but a steady drumbeat of bad economic news pushes it closer every week. In Ohio the president talked about giving money to automakers, in North Carolina he talked about giving money to 'green' companies, and recently he proposed yet another payroll tax holiday. Call it the 'whirling dervish' approach to economic policy ? frantically spinning from one constituency to another, dispensing subsidies, and hoping something works...

http://tinyurl.com/3srkq2k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Learning From 'Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks'

Adam Kader, Working In These Times: 'The decline of unions does not mean the end of the labor movement. Indeed, the last few years have seen a proliferation of new kinds of worker organizations and workers' rights campaigns. Some of the most exciting of late have been conducted by community-based groups (rather than workplace-based unions), such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and those part of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks, a recent pamphlet published by PM Press, Daniel Gross and Staughton Lynd highlight an increasingly important feature of todays labor movement - nonunion workers using direct action strategies protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - while examining the Industrial Workers of the Worlds (IWW)s ongoing efforts to organize Starbucks.'

http://www.truth-out.org/organizing-wobbly-ground-learning-solidarity-unionism-starbucks/1308684065



Source of Missing Jobs in America Found: Forced Laborers

Maryam Al-Zoubi, Campaign for Americas Future: 'With unemployment at a near historic high in the United States, could you imagine any American company bringing in foreign workers to work for them below the minimum wage and with no benefits? Most people would say no. But can you imagine those same Americans forcing foreign workers to stay here, with no pay, and constant abuse? That is actually happening in this country today. Forced labor is a real phenomenon in the United States agriculture business. Without awareness and investigation into where our supplies come from and who businesses are hiring, the American people become unwitting complicit supporters of labor trafficking. Monday June 13th, in anticipation of the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) held a Senate committee hearing and panel discussion to review the success and needed improvements of the law.'

http://www.truth-out.org/source-missing-jobs-america-found-forced-laborers/1308681133

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Modern Day Enslavement
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/modern-day-enslavement.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/06/20

US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant New Fukushima?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/06/21-1

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- USA Flood Alert Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Stations (report)
- USA Alerte inondation Centrales Nucléaires Fort Calhoun et Cooper (reportage)

- Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant: Fuel Storage and Flood Alert
- Centrale nucléaire de Fort Calhoun : Stockage Combustible et Alerte Inondation

http://www.cartoradiations.fr/Fort_Calhoun.php

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Fukushima USA? Dangerous radioactive leaks and cracked foundations go unpunished at American nuclear power plants

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005977/Standards-nuclear-power-plants-question-radioactive-leaks-cracked-foundations-unpunished.html#ixzz1PvCcUPRy


Lawsuit filed against NFS

'No one wants to face the truth here and the truth is, I have highly enriched uranium on my property and I am 21 river miles downstream...'

http://www2.tricities.com/news/2011/jun/13/lawsuit-filed-against-nfs-ar-1106075/

Susan


Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites

Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_aging_nukes_part2


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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This is from MSNBC

Federal (FAA) no-fly zones in place since June 6, Fort Calhoun nuclear
power plant near Omaha sitting in two feet of water, Cooper nuclear
power plant downstream still operating ('don't worry, it sits at 903 ft.
altitude; flood water is at 901 ft.') No end to flood in sight, and some
predict an eventual additional rise of FIVE FEET.

Check out this video from MSN:

Flood waters threaten Nebraska nuke plant

http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/flood-waters-threaten-nebraska-nuke-plant/17ythby8q?src=v5:share:email:&from=email


Also
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article28836.html


Informant: Bob Banner



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20-8

'Long Road Ahead' on This Overcrowded, Warming Planet
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/23

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Oceans on brink of catastrophe

Marine life facing mass extinction 'within one human generation' / State of seas 'much worse than we thought', says global panel of scientists.

http://ind.pn/jG91Wz


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner479.html



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12 Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/12-things-that-the-mainstream-media-is-being-strangely-quiet-about-right-now


From EMR-Updates

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US Mayors Tell Congress: Bring War Dollars Home
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20-7

Time for Mayors to Take the Lead
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-8

President Earns Peace Prize: Redefines 'Hostilities'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20

Constitution Project: Obama Unilateral Action and Disregard for Legal Counsel Opinion on Libya Draws Condemnation
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/20-11

It Just Couldn t Be Uglier: Annals of the War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-5

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Moral Degeneracy and Violence in the 'Kill Team' Photos

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'War, violence and death have become the organizing principle of governance and culture in the United States as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. Lacking a language for the social good, the very concept of the social as a space in which justice, equality, social protections and a responsibility to the other mediate everyday life is being refigured through a spectacle of violence and cruelty. Under such circumstances, ethical considerations and social costs are removed from market-driven policies and values just as images of human suffering are increasingly abstracted from not only their social and political contexts, but also the conditions that make such suffering possible. Moreover, as public issues collapse into privatized considerations, matters of agency, responsibility and ethics are now framed within the discourse of extreme individualism.'

http://www.truth-out.org/reveling-pain-others-moral-degeneracy-and-violence-kill-team-photos/1308333080



This Hero Didn t Stand a Chance

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah s national parks, which were being sold off by the Bush administration to the oil and natural gas industry. As Bidder No. 70, he drove up the prices of some of the bids and won more than a dozen other parcels for $1.8 million. The government is asking Judge Benson to send DeChristopher to prison for four and a half years. His prosecution is evidence that our moral order has been turned upside down.'

http://www.truth-out.org/hero-didnt-stand-chance/1308576124



Business as Usual on Steroids

Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch: 'In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death represents a marker of genuine significance in the story of America s encounter with terrorism. Peter Bergen, a bin Laden expert, ... wrote, 'Killing bin Laden is the end of the war on terror.'... We can just sort of announce that right now.' Yet you wouldnt know it in Washington where, if anything, the Obama administration and Congress have interpreted the killing of al-Qaeda s leader as a virtual license to double down on every 'front' in the war on terror.'

http://www.truth-out.org/business-usual-steroids/1308576546

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The Truth About the Economy

Video

Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy, in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28375.htm



Everything We are Doing Now Was Planned BEFORE 9/11

By Washingtons Blog

We have been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let s look at the facts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28385.htm



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Der von Merkel aus politisch-taktischen Gründen eilig durchgedrückte Atomausstieg könnte der Regierung nachträglich schaden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34968/1.html

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Kein grünes Ja zu Merkels Atomkurs!

Wir machen jetzt Druck auf die Grünen, Merkels Mogelpackung nicht zuzustimmen:

* Aktionen vor dem Parteitag Gemeinsam mit einem Bündnis anderer Umwelt- und Anti-Atom-Verbände machen wir am Samstag, 25. Juni, eine Aktion vor den Türen des Grünen-Parteitags in Berlin und fordern ein öffentliches Bekenntnis der Delegierten. Mit Transparenten, Flugblättern und Aufklebern weisen wir sie auf die Folgen von Merkels Atomkurs hin. Unterstütze uns bei der Aktion und sei in Berlin dabei!

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/gruene


* Protest-Paket auch an die Grünen Unsere Päckchen-Aktion an Bundestags-Abgeordnete läuft schon seit einigen Wochen, wird aber jetzt aktueller denn je. Schicke auch den Abgeordneten der Grünen deine Meinung zum Weiterbetrieb von neun AKW per Post:

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/protestpost


* Offener Brief an Grüne Delegierte In unserem offenen Brief, den .ausgestrahlt zusammen mit vielen anderen atomkritischen Initiativen verfasst hat, fordern wir die Delegierten für den Grünen-Parteitag auf, den Antrag auf Zustimmung der Parteispitze abzulehnen und Merkels Atomkurs keinen ?grünen Segen? zu erteilen. Wenn Du unsere Forderungen teilst, dann schreibe an den grünen Kreisverband in Deiner Nähe, dass Du den offenen Brief unterstützt.

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Gruene/brief.pdf



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Ian Katz, The Guardian

Smoke rises after a Nato air strike on the Libyan capital, Tripoli
This weekend provided sobering reminders of the human and financial cost of the three-month bombing campaign against Muammar Gaddafis regime: in Tripoli several civilians appeared to have been killed by a Nato strike; while in London the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, admitted that the bill for Britain s contribution could run to 'hundreds of millions of pounds'. Until now the UK government has shrouded the issue of how much taxpayers are spending on bombing Libya in the sort of secrecy and obfuscation you d expect if you asked the current location of all its Trident submarines. Anyone who has the temerity to ask how much Britain s Libya campaign is costing is reassured that it is all being paid for from Treasury reserves, so we needn t worry our pretty little heads. But anyone who has lost their EMA or disability living allowance could quite justifiably wonder why cash can be found for bombs but not for them.

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6358#newspost



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Radiation 6.39 µSv/h (52 mSv/an): 'Tokyo must be evacuated' (video)
- Adversiting Fukushima TEPCO and GE: 'We bring good things to life!' (video)

- Radiations 6.39 µSv/h (52 mSv/an): 'Tokyo doit être évacuée' (vidéo)
- Fukushima Pub. TEPCO et GE: 'Nous vous apportons une vie meilleure !' (vidéo)

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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/martenson8.1.1.html

Think 2008 Was Bad?
http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j145.html

The Misery Index Is at a 28-Year High
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/misery-index-28-year-high.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/foley-rk1.1.1.html

Extremism Is the New Race Card
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mullen-t4.1.1.html

Operation Fast and Furious a Deadly Govt Failure
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/clabough3.1.1.html

Debtucation
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/debtucation.html

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The American Spring

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/20/11

While the neocons are hoping 'American leadership' exercised in Libya (and possibly Syria) will co-opt the Arab Spring, what they really fear is an American Spring. And just as they never foresaw the Arab awakening and the overthrow of US-supported dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, so they are blind to the coming American awakening -- a massive grassroots rebellion against the political status quo right here in this country...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/06/19/the-american-spring/



At the mercy of the state

Campaign For Liberty
by Tom Parker

06/17/11

The extraordinary rendition program run under both the Clinton and Bush administrations is a perfect example of unchecked government power run amuck. There has been no meaningful oversight and no accountability. No government employee has been punished; no government agency has been forced to make restitution to those wrongly impacted. In the absence of accountability, there is absolutely nothing to stop the government doing this again and again, every time it feels threatened...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1465



The battle over immigration is about to affect us all in a big way

Liberty For All
by Chris Calabrese

06/19/11

Despite a significant error rate, pleas from multiple sectors of American business, and the heightened risk of identity theft, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is dead-set on pushing legislation that would make the flawed E-Verify system mandatory for every U.S. worker and today [June 14] he introduced H.R. 2164, the Lawful Workforce Act, which would do just that. This initiative is one of the top Republican priorities for this Congress...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6061



When the state breaks a man

LewRockwell.com
by William Norman Grigg

06/20/11

'How much does the State weigh?' Josef Stalin asked an underling who had been ordered to extract a confession from an enemy of his regime. Stalin understood that, given enough time, agents of State-sanctioned cruelty can break any man. Thomas J. Ball, who committed suicide by self-immolation on the steps of New Hampshire s Cheshire County Courthouse on June 15, was a man who had been broken by the State...

http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w219.html



Congressional duplicity and lawlessness

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

06/19/11

In Washington, hypocrisy and duplicity substitute for resolute action to obey international and constitutional law. In fact, they are mere artifacts long ago discarded to advance Americas imperium. All Washington s wars are illegal. International law permits them only in self-defense. Constitutional law only lets Congress, not the president, declare or wage them overtly, covertly or any other way for any reason unless America was attacked...

http://tinyurl.com/3jghel4



Obama s war is peace

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/17/11

Apparently bombing military forces and government facilities while taking sides in a foreign country s civil war no longer constitutes participation in hostilities. Obama apparently read Orwell s 1984 ... and learned the wrong lesson. Thus the president thumbs his nose at a lawsuit filed by several members of Congress aimed at forcing him to comply with the law...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1106r.asp



Promoting militarism, hiding bloodshed

In These Times
by David Sirota

06/18/11

In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is - shocker! - using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nation s children. Though the Times presents this as a brand-new development, it is nothing of the sort. The armed forces have spent the last three decades carefully constructing a child-focused Military-Entertainment Complex, which has long had the Pentagon subsidizing everything from video games to movies - most of which glorify militarism to kids...

http://tinyurl.com/6hbvz38


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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When the Respectable Become Extremists The Extremists Become Respectable

By James Petras

Extremism in all of its forms permeates Western regimes and finds its justification and rationalization in the respectable media whose job is to indoctrinate civil society and turn citizens into voluntary accomplices to extremism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31392.htm



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