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Michael Luo and Mike McIntire, The New York Times News Service: ''Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the president s biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House, while others performed essentially the same function on their visits. More broadly, the review showed that those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8532-white-house-opens-door-to-big-donors-and-lobbyists-come-in

Growth of Income Inequality Is Worse Under Obama than Bush

Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: ''Recently, the President gave a speech in which he demanded that Congress raise taxes on millionaires, as a way to somewhat recalibrate the nation's wealth distribution. His advisors, like Gene Sperling, are giving speeches talking about the need for manufacturing. A common question in DC is whether this populist pose will help him win the election. Perhaps it will. Perhaps not. Romney is a weak candidate, cartoonishly wealthy and from what I've seen, pretty inept. But on policy, there's a more interesting question. A better puzzle to wrestle with is why President Obama is able to continue to speak as if his administration has not presided over a significant expansion of income redistribution upward.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8533-growth-of-income-inequality-is-worse-under-obama-than-bush

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Luo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+McIntire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matt+Stoller
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Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America

The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color.

http://bit.ly/Iu6rkc

Are We Sliding Toward a Police State?

By Steven Greenhut

We are creating a brutal and inhumane society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31154.htm

US Border Patrol Beat and Taser Man to Death

Video

A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31152.htm

From Information Clearing House

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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political Injustice

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''The consequences of America s racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights activist whose life has been turned upside down by the racial and political injustice perpetuated first by the United States and now by Canada. Freeman has spent the last four years separated from his Canadian wife and four grown children due to false allegations that he is a former member of the Black Panthers Party. This accusation stems from an incident that took place in 1969, when Freeman, just 19 at the time, shot a white police officer in the arm, which he claims was in self-defense.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8196-40-years-on-1960s-black-radical-still-suffers-racial-and-political-injustice

Activists Occupy the Justice Department to Demand an End to Racist Mass Incarceration

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''On Tuesday, April 24, several hundred activists from around the country gathered outside the Justice Department (DOJ) in Washington, DC, to call for an end to mass incarceration.... It s no secret that America holds 25 percent of the world s prisoners, more than any other nation on earth, yet makes up only five percent of the world s population, with the costs falling predominately on communities of color. While African-Americans make up just 13 percent of the overall population, they account for 40 percent of US prisoners.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8871-activists-occupy-the-justice-department-to-demand-an-end-to-racist-mass-incarceration

How the Amendment to End Slavery Was Damaged by Racism

Gary Freeman, Truthout: ''The Constitution of the United States of America was created to enable the founding ideals and principles of the Declaration of Independence. Yet something went terribly wrong. It failed to recognize, defend and enable those ideals. The tragedy of such a gargantuan failure is still with us today in the form of institutionalized and systemic racism and a deeply embedded exploitation of labor. Both are still given constitutional sanction.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8709-how-the-amendment-to-end-slavery-was-crippled-by-racism

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A Censored Race War?
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell88.1.html

14 Signposts to Slavery
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/sullivan-c10.1.html

Supreme Court OKs Police Tasering Pregnant Women
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead46.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
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Russian Warships to Patrol Syrian Coast

Russian warships will be continuously deployed for patrol duty off the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean, a high-ranking source in the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20120413/172799962.html

McCain: U.S. should arm Free Syrian Army

''For the United States to sit by and watch this wanton massacre is a betrayal of everything we stand for and we believe in,'' McCain said on CBS s ''Face the Nation,'' as he called on the U.S. to ''lead for a change.''

http://politi.co/IdxmSA

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
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Starmail - 15. Apr, 08:15

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Pakistan Parliament Demands an End to C.I.A. Drone Strikes

In a rare show of unity, the government and opposition joined on Thursday to present the United States with a list of stringent demands, including an immediate end to C.I.A. drone strikes, that were cast in uncompromising word.

http://nyti.ms/Jf1H0H

US won t stop CIA strikes in Pakistan

Officials noted that they would work in the near future to try and mend ties with Pakistan, but if suspected terrorist targets are detected by the CIA drone s hellfire missiles lasers, they will shoot

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-us-nato-demands-022/

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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Starmail - 15. Apr, 08:09

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Australian plan to spend millions on Afghanistan uncovered

AUSTRALIA is five weeks away from signing a crucial strategic agreement with Afghanistan that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars and outline Australia s postwar role there, but the government has yet to inform the public of its existence.

http://bit.ly/ITX8cu

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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Starmail - 15. Apr, 08:04

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Global Peace and Wars: America at War with itself

Starmail - 15. Apr, 05:58

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Turkey Threatens Syria

By Strategy Page

Turkey has threatened to use its participation in the NATO alliance to launch a war against Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31071.htm

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

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Starmail - 15. Apr, 05:55

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Neue Atomkraftwerke sind nicht wirtschaftlich zu betreiben

Starmail - 15. Apr, 05:33

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Kohlendioxid, das Ende der Eiszeit

Der Anstieg der Kohlendioxid-Konzentration in der Erdatmosphäre war der wichtigste Faktor für das Ende der letzten Eiszeit.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814820ms314

Schwächerer Golfstrom verschiebt Sturmtiefs in Richtung Europa

Die Intensität von Tiefdruckgebieten (Zyklonen) über dem östlichen Nordatlantik und Europa wird in diesem Jahrhundert zunehmen. Gleichzeitig schwächt sich der Golfstrom im Nordatlantik ab. Meteorologen der Universität zu Köln und der Universität Reading ist es gelungen, einen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Phänomenen nachzuweisen. Sie verglichen 22 Klimamodelle des International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814799ms314

Studie: Verseuchung der europäischen Böden durch Antibiotika

Eine neue Studie analysiert die Verseuchung der europäischen Böden durch Antibiotika.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814830ms314

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IPCC
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Starmail - 15. Apr, 05:31

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Nobelpreisträger Stiglitz zur Schuldenkrise, Wachstum statt Sparen und Kapitalismuskritik

Der renommierte US-Ökonom und Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Joseph Stiglitz, der unter anderem für seinen Einsatz für Entwicklungsländer und gegen die über Jahrzehnte verfehlte Strukturanpassungspolitik der Weltbank und des IWF berühmt geworden ist, hat ein exklusives Interview mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung geführt. Joseph Stiglitz kritisiert in dem Interview die eiserne Sparpolitik der Euroländer. Der Kapitalismus hilft derzeit nur Wenigen: ''Der Wohlstand wird ungleich verteilt, das Meiste geht an die Spitze, an der Basis bleibt wenig.''

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814797ms314

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

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Starmail - 15. Apr, 05:27

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Samstag, 14. April 2012

Hartz IV und der Zwang prekär zu arbeiten

Immer mehr Menschen arbeiten immer mehr für real immer weniger Lohn und Gehalt. Das ist der Tenor verschiedener Studien welche die Gewerkschaften von Zeit zu Zeit veröffentlichen. Insbesondere jüngere Menschen, bzw. Menschen die gerade ins Arbeitsleben einsteigen sind davon, wie eine Studie der DGB-Jugend belegt, betroffen. Weiterlesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-und-der-zwang-prekaer-zu-arbeiten-900672.php

Die verdrehte Wahrheit: Wie das BA-Vorstandsmitglied Heinrich Alt die Presse-Hetze gegen Hartz IV Betroffene befeuerte

''So viele Strafen gegen Hartz-IV-Empfänger verhängt wie noch nie'' berichtete die gesamte Medienlandschaft vor einigen Tagen. Allen voran die Springer-Presse startete daraufhin eine regelrechte Hetzkampagne gegenüber Beziehern des Arbeitslosengeldes II. Grundtenor: Die ''Bestraften sind alles Drückeberger und Sozialschmarotzer''. Des Volkes Seele kochte dadurch wieder einmal hoch, die Steuergelder werden ''verschwendet für Menschen, die nicht arbeiten wollen'', hieß es an vielen Stammtischen. Weiterlesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/die-verdrehte-hartz-iv-wahrheit-des-heinrich-alt-900797.php

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Starmail - 14. Apr, 16:34

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Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/13

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+price
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=speculation
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Starmail - 14. Apr, 06:00

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The Campaign to Privatize the World

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/13-1

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Divide and Conquer: A Government Agenda
http://lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett49.1.html

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Starmail - 14. Apr, 05:51

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Freitag, 13. April 2012

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Starmail - 13. Apr, 23:37

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Vermont Senate Resolves to Abolish ''Corporate Personhood''

Starmail - 13. Apr, 23:25

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UK: Poorer families to lose up to one-quarter of income due to government austerity

According to the most recent surveys, more than 22 percent of the population is officially below the poverty line. Nationally, one in every three children lives in poverty. In some areas, child poverty is between 40 and 50 percent.

http://bit.ly/IwJ7lK

From Information Clearing House

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Democracy Brings Poverty and Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/karsten2.1.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
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Starmail - 13. Apr, 09:01

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Lenders Again Dealing Credit to Risky Clients

Starmail - 13. Apr, 08:55

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Shocking Facts About Who Is Arming Human Rights Abusers

Just six countries export a whopping 74 percent of the world s weapons, with the US making up 35 percent of the global total.

http://bit.ly/HzJJqa

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights+abuse
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Starmail - 13. Apr, 08:49

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Oligarchy in the U.S.A.

The Wealth Defense Industry Protects the Richest of the Rich.

By Jeffrey A. Winters

Mitt Romney, who in 2010 paid 13.9 percent of his $21.6 million income in taxes that year, the same tax rate as an individual who earned a mere $8,500 to $34,500.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31064.htm

How did Mitt Make so Much Money and Pay so Little in Taxes?

By Robert Reich

The magic of private equity reveals a lot about how and why our economic system has become so distorted and lopsided, why all the gains are going to the very top while the rest of us aren t going anywhere.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31063.htm

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Watch Us Move Our Millions
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/12-5

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The Rich Are Different From You and Me: They Pay Fewer Taxes

Michael Winship and Bill Moyers, Truthout: ''So, what do these big moneyed nabobs have to complain about? Why are they whining about reform? And why are they funneling cash to super PACs aimed at bringing down Barack Obama, who many of them supported four years ago? Because, writes Alec MacGillis in The New Republic the president wants to raise their taxes. That s right, while ordinary Americans are taxed at a top rate of 35 percent on their income, Congress allows hedge fund and private equity tycoons to pay only 15 percent of their compensation.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8502-the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me-they-pay-fewer-taxes

The Oligarchy s Rule of Law: From Russia to Oklahoma

Mark Ames, The Daily Banter: ''At the end of the 1990s, the unprecedented collapse of Russia s economy and its capital markets, the wholesale looting, the quiet extermination of millions of Russians from the shock and destitution, the terrible consequences of imposing radical libertarian free-market ideas on an alien culture, turned out worse than any worst-case-scenario imagined by the free-market true-believers.... Publicly-traded companies have been and can be transformed into elaborate schemes to loot and steal from the public and enrich a tiny handful of oligarchs.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9409-the-oligarchys-rule-of-law-from-russian-to-oklahoma

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Worst of All Possible Worlds
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/14/270-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/lewrockwell-show
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Starmail - 13. Apr, 06:16

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The War On Terror is Corrupting all it Touches

By Simon Jenkins

Every student agitator is a terrorist, every internet hacker, cafeteria dissident, freedom fighter and insurgent leader.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31067.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Simon+Jenkins
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Starmail - 13. Apr, 06:10

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Russia Expecting Attack on Iran by Summer

Russia Planning Troops Deployment On Iran s Northern Border

By F. Michael Maloof

The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31069.htm

The Irrationality of the Case against Iran s Nuclear Program

By Gary Leupp

What is the logic of offering Iran a ''last chance'' to stop doing what it is legally entitled to do?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31065.htm

How Neocons Sank Iran Nuke Deal

Two years ago, Washington s influential neoconservatives, both inside and outside government, shot down a possible resolution to the Iranian nuclear dispute because they wanted a confrontation with Tehran that some hoped would lead to their long-held dream of ''regime change.''

http://bit.ly/IYCCah

Uranium Double-Standard: The U.S., Kazakhstan and Iran

Kazakhstan s booming uranium mining and expanding nuclear industry, a massive effort involving U.S. multinational corporations and an authoritarian regime increasingly tied to Washington.

http://bit.ly/IatnmB

A Rare Admission From Israel

By Teymoor Nabili

Israel s Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that Iran didn t say they will wipe Israel off the map.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31072.htm

The Babylonian Captivity of Washington

By Philip Giraldi

Instead of presidential wannabes declaring their subservience to Tel Aviv, they should perhaps begin emphasizing that they will only act in the future in the interests of the American people. To do so would exclude an unnecessary war against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31085.htm

Leave Us Out of Another Middle East War

By James Abourezk

The media and the politicians are so inured to laying off criticism of Israel that no one can bring themselves to identify what is hurting us and our economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31086.htm

Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near

The report, screened on the main evening news of Channel 10, was remarkable both in terms of the access granted to the reporter, who said he had spent weeks with the pilots and other personnel he interviewed, and in the fact that his assessments on a strike were cleared by the military censor.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iaf-plans-for-iran-attack/

How We are Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns in the Middle East

By Anna Lekas Miller

Instead of financing affordable healthcare, housing and education, our government is using our money to finesse an international reputation as the power that violently crushes resistance to repression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31122.htm

Ready to hit Iran if ordered: Israel military chief

Israeli forces are carrying out more special operations beyond the country s borders and will be ready to attack Iran s nuclear sites if ordered, the chief-of-staff said in an interview on Sunday.

http://bit.ly/I5viu8

From Information Clearing House

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War on Iran: America s Next Catastrophe in the Middle East?

Emanuel Stoakes, Truthout: ''Little has been said about how a war with Iran, at present seemingly urged into near outbreak by Binyamin Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), could be averted, with the Islamic Republic s nuclear program completely halted in 2003. We can thank the architects of the Iraq war for rejecting this wasted opportunity ... Also underreported have been statements made by former senior figures at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) alleging 'pro-western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence' at the organization.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8475-war-on-iran-americas-next-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east

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Iran Nuclear Crisis Needs Disruptive Diplomacy, Not Shock and Awe
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/13-2

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Netanyahu s Dilemma and Obama s
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan231.html

A Chance for Peace With Iran
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo169.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Abourezk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/buchanan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anna+Lekas+Miller
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Donnerstag, 12. April 2012

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex

http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead42.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison+industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Starmail - 12. Apr, 09:10

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The Great Collapse of the US Empire

Starmail - 12. Apr, 09:06

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Not Another War! Why Attacking Iran Would Be Untold Disaster

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/11-4

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Why Washington s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster

Juan Cole, TomDispatch: ''It s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, it will fail on its own. Economic war led by Washington will not take down the Iranian government or bring it to the bargaining table on its knees ready to surrender its nuclear program. It might, however, lead to actual armed conflict with incalculable consequences.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8494-why-washingtons-iran-policy-could-lead-to-global-disaster-what-history-should-teach-us-about-blockading-iran

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+program
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Starmail - 12. Apr, 06:10

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Immigration Detention?

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/11

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The Immigration Ploy
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell95.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/sowell
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Starmail - 12. Apr, 06:08

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Ron Paul: The Man Who Should Be President

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Today, I am going to do something that I have never done: I am going to devote virtually my entire column to posting another man s words. That man is the man who should be President of the United States: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. The following is a written transcript of a speech Dr. Paul gave on the floor of the US House of Representatives back in 2007. Had Congressman Paul been elected President in 2008, the country would be four years into the greatest economic, political, and, yes, spiritual recovery in the history of America.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin696.htm

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Voting Is Not the Problem, Americans Are the Problem
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e175.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/peters-e
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Mittwoch, 11. April 2012

Weiterhin Lobbyisten in Ministerien tätig

Die Bundesregierung lässt weiterhin Lobbyisten direkt in den Ministerien mitarbeiten. Das zeigt der aktuelle Bericht über sogenannte ''externe Mitarbeiter'' in den Bundesbehörden für das zweite Halbjahr 2011. Besonders brisant sind zwei Mitarbeiter des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), die im Auswärtigen Amt und im Entwicklungsministerium eingesetzt werden.

Der BDI-Mitarbeiter im Auswärtigen Amt soll sich dort laut Bericht mit folgenden Themen beschäftigen: ''Investitionsgarantien, Organisation von Projekten der Außenwirtschaftsförderung und der strukturellen Verbesserung der Zusammenarbeit mit Wirtschaftsverbänden''. Damit berührt seine Tätigkeit dort klar die kommerziellen Interessen der BDI-Mitglieder. Die Verwaltungsvorschrift für externe Mitarbeiter sagt dagegen ganz klar, dass der Einsatz externer Mitarbeiter in ''Funktionen, deren Ausübung die konkreten Geschäftsinteressen der entsendenden Stelle unmittelbar berührt'' grundsätzlich nicht zulässig ist. Das Auswärtige Amt unter der Leitung von Guido Westerwelle verletzt damit unserer Einschätzung nach die Vorschriften.

Weitere Informationen und eine komplette Übersicht über alle ''externen Mitarbeiter'' in den Ministerien:

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=10291

The Brussels Business: Wer hat das Sagen in der EU?

Ein Dokumentarfilm über Lobbyismus in Brüssel im Kino, kann das funktionieren? Offensichtlich schon. Mit ''The Brus$?ls Business, Who Runs the European Union?'' ist eine informative und fesselnde Doku über die engen Verflechtungen zwischen Wirtschaftslobby und den Brüsseler EU-Institutionen gelungen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=10143

ÖPP Deutschland AG, staatlich finanzierter Lobbyismus

Die ÖPP Deutschland AG spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei der Förderung von öffentlich-privaten Partnerschaften. Insbesondere die Finanzlobby hat deren Gründung vorangetrieben, zu Lasten der Steuerzahler.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=9664

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

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 13:40

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Why the American Indian needs to leave the United States, forever

Zero Gov
by Bill Buppert

04/09/12

Russell Means told the Federal government the Lakota Sioux were going to secede and we are still waiting. The American Indians are ideally positioned to break away from the US in the most expeditious means possible if they would simply do it. Since first contact in the early sixteenth century, the original inhabitants of the North American continent have been getting a raw deal. Treaty after treaty has been broken and the concomitant trail of tears has been a veritable river...

http://zerogov.com/?p=2631

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Lakota
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Starmail - 11. Apr, 08:29

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Wars Leave Crumbling Infrastructure at Home for US

Starmail - 11. Apr, 06:16

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Großbritannien: Reiche zahlen durchschnittlich nur 10 Prozent Einkommenssteuer

Der konservative britische Finanzminister gibt sich schockiert und will nun eine Mindeststeuer von einem Drittel des Einkommens einführen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151765

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 06:04

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One Complicated Mess of Trouble

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/10/269-one-complicated-mess-of-trouble/

America s Voting System Is a Complete Farce
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo103.html

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