World-News

The Pakistan government has a clear policy that the US drone attacks are ''illegal, a violation of international law and unacceptable'', Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan told a weekly news briefing.

http://bit.ly/Mv4gjp

John Brennan is the U.S. ''Assassination Czar''?

President Obama s counterterrorism chief John Brennan is heading up a new team to determine who should be targeted by armed U.S. drones overseas.

http://bit.ly/KdoRti

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Brennan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone

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Starmail - 24. Mai, 22:19

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Enge Verbindungen zwischen der Gentechnik-Lobby und deutschen Behörden

Enge Verbindungen zwischen der Gentechnik-Lobby und deutschen Behörden gefährden eine unabhängige Risikokontrolle bei Gen-Pflanzen. Dazu haben wir heute gemeinsam mit der Organisation Testbiotech eine Pressemitteilung rausgegeben.

Wie ein neuer Bericht zeigt, sind Experten, die das Bundesinstitut für Risikoforschung (BfR) zu Risiken gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen beraten, zugleich für die Gentechnik-Industrie tätig. Einige haben sogar selbst Patente auf Gen-Pflanzen angemeldet.

Aus unserer Sicht handelt es sich dabei um handfeste Interessenkonflikte. Hinzu kommt, dass einige Experten ihre Tätigkeiten für die Industrie nicht transparent gemacht haben. Hier muss das Verbraucherschutzministerium deutlich nachbessern und dafür sorgen, dass wir eine lobbyfreie Lebensmittelaufsicht bekommen! Wir fordern eine offizielle Untersuchung der Interessenkonflikte und wirksame Maßnahmen dagegen.

Informieren Sie sich über die Einflussnahme der Lebensmittellobby: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/2012/05/gen-lobby-eng-mit-deutschen-behorden-verbunden/

Mehr Informationen zu den Lobby-Verflechtungen im BfR auch in der Lobbypedia: http://www.lobbypedia.de/index.php/Bundesinstitut_f%C3%BCr_Risikobewertung

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

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Starmail - 24. Mai, 14:32

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Ausgespäht und abgehört: Elektronischer Personalausweis

Bayerischer Rundfunk

Der elektronische Personalausweis enthält einen funkenden RFID-Chip. Auf diesem sind klassische Ausweisdaten wie Name, Adresse und Größe gespeichert, dazu ein digitales Passfoto. Selbst entscheiden kann man, ob auch der Fingerabdruck gespeichert wird.

http://www.br.de/themen/ratgeber/inhalt/familie/datenschutz-verbraucherschutz-elektronischer-personalausweis100.html

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

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Starmail - 24. Mai, 14:24

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How Climate Change Is Killing Us

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-7

The Environment Is Dead: Long Live Mother Nature
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/23-1

'Faster Than We Thought': An Epitaph for Planet Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/23-5

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Raffi+Cavoukian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Atcheson
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Starmail - 24. Mai, 05:28

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Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012

Kucinich: US 'Sanction Warfare' Makes Real Iran War Inevitable

Video and Transcript

If Mr. Netanyahu wants to pay for war, that s up to him. The Unites States should not, cannot and must not be dragged into a war by any other country which calls itself our friend.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31406.htm

War With Iran Has Already Begun

By Nathan L Fuller

If you actually don t want war with Iran, you have to help end duopoly. You can t support either of the two establishment parties who feed the military-industrial complex and fear-monger voters into submission.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31412.htm

Deal or no deal, Iran may be bombed: Israeli minister

A military strike against Iranian facilities is not out of the question, even though Tehran has reached agreement on a probe with the UN s nuclear watchdog, says Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

http://www.rt.com/news/iran-attack-israel-barak-962/

UK defence chiefs prepare for conflict with Iran over nuclear programme

Ministers on Britain s National Security Council have been advised there is still a ''25%-50% chance'' that the nuclear stand-off with Iran could result in a military conflict, the Guardian has been told.

http://bit.ly/JHWWTA

U.S. Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel

By Gareth Porter

The U.S. rejection of the ''step by step'' approach in favour of a stance that leans heavily toward Israeli preferences leads to apparent contradictions in U.S. policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31425.htm

US negotiator at P5+1-Iran talks visits Israel for 'consultations'

The senior American negotiator present at the recent talks between the major world powers and Iran in Baghdad has arrived in Tel Aviv for 'consultations.'

http://bit.ly/MNbORd

Pentagon has military plans ready to prevent nuclear Iran, says Panetta

The Pentagon has a plan ready for military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but the United States and its allies remain focused on reaching a diplomatic solution, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

http://bit.ly/MRioWG

US troops imitate invasion of Iran with Arab allies

Around 12,000 troops from more than 19 nations are wrapping up a massive military training drill in the Middle East. But for some of those servicemen, these exercises might be just the beginning of something much bigger to come.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-troops-iran-exercise-490/

Obama Ordered Secret Attacks On Iran s Nuclear Program

By Haaretz

Stuxnet worm was part of joint U.S.-Israel effort to sabotage computers that control Iran s nuclear enrichment facilities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31472.htm

Dagan: 5 minutes after Iran strike we are at war

Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan has once again warned against the destructive consequences of a possible strike against Iranian nuclear site.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4238287,00.html

Sorting Out the Facts about Iran

By Ray McGovern

It s important to try to separate fact from opinion, taking our cue from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who famously said: ''Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31518.htm

U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No Nuclear Weapons

By Gareth Porter

Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the United States. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31517.htm

We have All But Declared War on Iran?

By Scott Shackford

More ammo to those who believe the White House is actually causing the leaks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31527.htm

''Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November''

By Michael Carmichael

Netanyahu s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to create a new comfort zone for religious fundamentalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31695.htm

US and Israel to Hold Largest Ever Joint Military Exercise

By Aaron Kalman

Focusing on stopping ballistic missiles and featuring thousands of soldiers, the October drill will simulate simultaneous rocket fire from Syria and Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31700.htm

Eyeballing Iran? US Commissions 361 Cruise Missiles

By Yitzhak Benhorin

US Navy to get 361 new Tomahawk cruise missiles, most of which are meant for Fifth Fleet destroyers based in Bahrain. Meanwhile, pressure to mount military strike against Tehran is permeating presidential campaign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31702.htm

A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to Start

By Gilad Atzmon

As much as Netanyahu and Barak are keen to launch a world war, it is far from being clear whether the Israeli masses are quite as keen to sacrifice themselves on the Jewish national altar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31961.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Congress 'Un-Declares' War with Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/23

Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran: NYT
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/01

Economic Warfare Against Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/07

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'Planning for attack on Iran s nuclear facilities intensifying in US and Israel'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10999/

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The Washington Post gets tough with Iran

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

05/31/12

One can argue about whether Iran actually supports terrorism or not; the groups that The Washington Post is no doubt referring to would prefer to think of themselves as resistance movements against Israel, while Iran has itself been on the receiving end of terrorist attacks from Israel and the United States. None of Iran s regional allies that Washington and Tel Aviv describe as terrorists plausibly threaten the United States. But even conceding that point, there is much else that is questionable in the op-ed...

http://bit.ly/KZEUq4

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama s cyberwar could lead to a military war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/obama-watch-1/obamas-cyberwar-could-lead-to-a-military-war.html

US ignites cyber warfare through Stuxnet
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/us-ignites-cyber-warfare-through-stuxnet-.html

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Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan246.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+facilities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Israel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Meir+Dagan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kucinich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Netanyahu
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ehud+Barak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Panetta
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sanctions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kate+Gould
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nathan+L+Fuller
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Shackford
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/buchanan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Carmichael
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Aaron+Kalman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yitzhak+Benhorin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gilad+Atzmon

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Starmail - 23. Mai, 22:28

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Hunger weltweit: Getreide-Gezocke stoppen!

http://www.campact.de/spekulation/sn1/signer

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''Jede Ernsthaftigkeit verloren gegangen''

Die Commerzbank und andere deutsche Finanzinstitute steigen aus dem Markt für Lebensmittelspekulation aus die Deutsche Bank nicht, wie die NGO foodwatch kritisiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152551

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hunger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spekulation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=zocke
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Deutsche+Bank
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Starmail - 23. Mai, 13:35

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United States Sends Combat Commanders to Colombia

Starmail - 23. Mai, 06:04

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Are the drones working in Yemen?

Yemen suicide attack may have also blown a hole in US counter-terrorism strategy.

http://bit.ly/JQmM6K

On the brink of hunger catastrophe aid agencies warn

Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food crisis, seven aid agencies said today (23 May 2012) with 10 million people - 44 percent of the population - without enough food to eat. The aid agencies warned that malnutrition rates recorded by the UN in some parts of the country were alarming, with one in three children severely malnourished.

http://reliefweb.int/node/498606

U.S. kills 5 people in Yemen

A U.S. drone strike Monday aiming for an al Qaeda leader has killed five militants in the country s south as part of a Yemeni offensive against the Islamist group, Yemeni officials said.

http://bit.ly/JQ5emS

US wades deeper into counterterrorism fight in Yemen and East Africa

A congressionally approved $75 million cash influx for American-led counterterrorism operations in Yemen and East Africa is the latest sign of a quietly escalating war against ''terrorist factions'' in the region.

http://bit.ly/KWhL9L

U.S. kills 11 in south Yemen

Residents said the men, who were thought to have included some foreigners, were inside a house in the town of al-Mahfad in Abyan province in south Yemen.

http://is.gd/h2mo5G

As violence rises, US and allies ''pulled'' into Yemen

U.S. policymakers might talk down ''boots on the ground'' in Yemen but with an estimated several hundred military advisers already deployed, Washington and its allies are already being drawn ever deeper into the country.

http://is.gd/6rwW48

Starving and broke: Yemen

Wracked by internal strife, Yemen is on the edge of collapse while US meddling isn t helping,

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1100/op2.htm

U.S. drone ''targets'' in Yemen raise questions

A growing number of attacks have been aimed at lower-level figures who are suspected of having links to terrorism operatives but are seen mainly as leaders of factions focused on gaining territory in Yemen s internal struggle.

http://is.gd/fp02HT

US attack kills 9 in Yemen

A US assassination drone attack on a house and a car in Yemen s southeastern Shabwa Province has claimed the lives of at least nine people, tribal sources say.

http://is.gd/fhMian

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militants
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamist
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=suicide+attack
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Starmail - 23. Mai, 06:00

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Syrias' War Comes to Beirut

Sunday s spasm of violence bodes ill for Lebanese stability. But the real problem is that there s nobody in charge.

http://bit.ly/MckopD

Senior IDF officer: Israel is preparing for the next Lebanon war

Officer says instability in Syria could ignite violent confrontation with the Lebanese army, says 'Goldstone report will pale in comparison to what will be here next time.'

http://is.gd/IUJsbs

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebanon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Israel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IDF
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Starmail - 23. Mai, 05:53

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On Indefinite Detention: The Tyranny Continues

Starmail - 23. Mai, 05:39

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The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget

Starmail - 23. Mai, 05:31

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Kucinich: "War in Afghanistan is Not Ending''

''NATO Talks a Sham''

By Dennis Kucinich

''The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it's not about our collective defense.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31402.htm

The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable

By Dave Lindorff

The American forces in Afghanistan know they have already lost the war there. They know too that as soon as the last of them has boarded the last plane out, or perhaps even earlier, the current corrupt Afghan leadership will be hopping a commercial flight out too, to join their money in Switzerland or Abu Dhabi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31408.htm

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Drone Attacks Can t Save the G8 s Bacon

Nick Mottern, Truthout: ''Many of the G8 countries, comprised of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia, are former colonial powers that have thrived by capturing at gunpoint basic mineral, petroleum and agriculture resources around the world, paying relatively little and thus subsidizing their corporations and their national economies. Right now, the G8 interest in Afghanistan is undoubtedly related to investment potential in minerals, as well as overland routes for oil, gas and electric lines.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9236-drone-attacks-cant-save-the-g8s-bacon

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The end in Afghanistan

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/22/12

How much worse must those soldiers feel than the US soldiers in Vietnam, who at least didn t have an end-point held out in front of them to taunt them. Today s American soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan fight staring at a surrender date at which point all their fighting and killing and dying and being will be acknowledged as having been in vain. The American soldiers in Vietnam in 1971 or 1972 could at least pretend that after they left, the South Vietnamese government might at least try to fight on and establish itself...

http://bit.ly/K98UnQ

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Military Defeated in Vietnam
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff385.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Mottern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rozeff
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Starmail - 23. Mai, 05:27

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Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012

Tödliches Cyber-Mobbing: Täter erhält nur 30 Tage Haft

SF Tagesschau

Es war ein Fall, der die USA aufwühlte: Ein Student filmte heimlich seinen homosexuellen Mitwohner und stellte das Video anschliessend ins Internet. Tyler Clementi nahm sich daraufhin das Leben. Dem Täter drohten bis zu 10 Jahre Haft, stattdessen...

http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/05/22/Vermischtes/Toedliches-Cyber-Mobbing-Taeter-erhaelt-nur-30-Tage-Haft

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Experten fordern Anti-Cybermobbing-Gesetz

Christliches Medienmagazin pro

Ein Gesetz gegen Mobbing im Netz hat das ''Bündnis gegen Cybermobbing'' am Dienstag in Berlin gefordert. Das Internet sei zum Tatort geworden, erklärte der Vorstandsvorsitzende des Vereins, Uwe Leest. Jüngst war in den USA ein Cybermobber zu 30 Tagen...

http://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/internet.html?&news%5Baction%5D=detail&news%5Bid%5D=5436>

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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Starmail - 22. Mai, 17:33

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How Rural America Got Fracked

Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch: ''If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out. As Wisconsinites are learning, there s money (and misery) in sand and if you have got the right kind, an oil company may soon be at your doorstep. March in Wisconsin used to mean snow on the ground ... But as I traveled around rural townships and villages in early March ... daytime temperatures soared to nearly 80 degrees, bizarre weather that seemed to be sending a meteorological message.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9266-how-rural-america-got-fracked

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=frack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Cantarow
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Starmail - 22. Mai, 06:15

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The insolvent United States banking system: Lessons from J.P. Morgan Chase

Why the banks must be nationalized

By Horace Campbell

As central bankers from China to Venezuela and from Argentina to Japan are seeking ways to exit from the contagion of the speculative trading of US bankers, progressive forces must renew the call for the nationalization of the big banks, which are supposed to be too big to fail.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31387.htm

At Least 38 U.S. Lawmakers Personally Invested in JPMorgan Chase

By Russ Choma

15 Democrats and 23 Republicans owned shares in JPMorgan Chase worth a total of between $2.1 million and $3.8 million.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31388.htm

The Waltz of the Zombie Banks

By Mike Whitney

It s the same everywhere. The banks are keeping houses off the market to trick people into believing that prices have hit bottom. But prices haven t hit bottom, in fact, they still have a long way to go.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31386.htm

How the Ultra-Rich Betray America

By Paul Buchheit

The betrayals come in many forms. Here are a few of the more outrageous, and destructive, examples.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31393.htm

Rising US recession risk poses the real threat to Europe

The US economy has slowed to stall speed. A few lonely forecasters fear that America has already fallen back into recession, replicating the terrible double-dip of 1937.

http://tgr.ph/JuEHeo

JPMorgan Chase Losses Eclipse $30 Billion

By Mark Gongloff

Dimon, in his comments on Monday, said the bank wasn t going to keep updating everybody on its losses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31401.htm

Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System

By Ellen Brown

Rather than expanding the money supply, quantitative easing (QE) has actually caused it to shrink by sucking up the collateral needed by the shadow banking system to create credit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35633.htm

From Information Clearing House

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JPMorgan Chase and casino banking

Foundation for Economic Education
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.

05/21/12

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked up trading losses reportedly amounting to $2.3 billion over a 15-day period. The losses averaged over $150 million per day, sometimes hitting $200 million daily. The bank originally stated the trades were done to hedge possible losses on assets that might suffer due to Europe s economic woes. There is now doubt whether it was a hedge or just a risky financial bet...

http://tinyurl.com/d6fftau

Break up the big banks; here s how

Our Future
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

05/21/12

The JPMorgan Chase scandal, and yes, it is a scandal, shows us why we need to break up the big banks as quickly as possible. But that won t happen unless we can get our hands around the real scope of the problem, which is probably far greater than we are being told...

http://tinyurl.com/cny9q69

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny in JPMorgan Loss

Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess, The New York Times News Service: ''Scores of federal regulators are stationed inside JPMorgan Chase s Manhattan headquarters, but none of them were assigned to the powerful unit that recently disclosed a multibillion trading loss. The lapses have raised questions about who, if anyone, was policing the chief investment office and whether regulators were sufficiently independent. Instead of putting the JPMorgan unit under regular watch, the comptroller s office and the Fed chose to examine it periodically.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9398-bank-regulators-under-scrutiny-in-jpmorgan-loss

Is JPMorgan Paying for John Boehner s Personal Polling Operation? Questions Surround Shadowy Front ''New Models USA''

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''We d like to call your attention to a secretive nonprofit, 'New Models U.S.A.' The media has linked the group to a number of shady electioneering efforts in the past. In this day and age, not only can corporations spend unlimited amounts on elections, they can fully hide their identities using nonprofit groups that can operate as Super PACs or quasi-lobbying firms. New Models appears to exist for the express purpose of hiding political money.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9473-is-jpmorgan-paying-for-john-boehners-personal-polling-operation?-questions-surround-shadowy-front-new-models-usa

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Shadow Banking
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/central-banks/kamikazee-trading.html

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It Shadow Banking the next financial landmine?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/macleod2.1.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Boehner
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ben+Protess
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lee+Fang
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/macleod
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Starmail - 22. Mai, 05:44

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The Framework For Suppressing Information

Public Opinion in America s 21st Century Police State

By Prof. James F. Tracy

It is not beyond reason to point out that America is one serious terrorist attack or mass civil disturbance away from the implementation of policies to seriously limit or curtail the traffic of ideas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31390.htm

Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse

By Paul Craig Roberts

When the dollar goes, interest rates will escalate, and bond prices will collapse. Everyone who sought safety in US Treasuries will be wiped out.

We should all be aware that such outcomes are not part of the public debate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31385.htm

Police State USA

By Prof. James F. Tracy

The following pieces of legislation, programs, and actions, illustrate the unfortunate yet steady advance in the paranoid style of American governance that especially since 2001 has placed both the subject and all who come in to contact with it at risk of serious injury or death.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31499.htm

Recovery? What Recovery?

By Ted Rall

Adjusted for inflation, the 1968 minimum wage today would be a little above $10 per hour.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31530.htm

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What happened to the land of the free?

The Libertarian Enterprise
by James Glaser

05/21/12

Our government keeps telling us that they hate us for our freedom, but soon that excuse will no longer be at all valid, because our government is taking more of our freedom from us every day...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle671-20120520-03.html

The police state is here

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

05/21/12

The country s degeneration into a police state has been observable for decades, but it accelerated after 9/11 when the George W. Bush administration exploited the crisis atmosphere to ram through a series of unconstitutional and tyrannical measures. Fear became the coin of the realm as the American people traded away their liberties for the empty promise of security...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1205p.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What If We Have Only Memories of Freedom?
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano55.1.html

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+F.+Tracy
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Starmail - 22. Mai, 05:35

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NATO Core Function: To Advance US Global Interests

By Kate Hudson

A cursory glance at NATO s recent history shows that whatever its changing rationale, or the nature of its supposed enemies in the post-Cold War period, its core function has remained to advance US global interests and foreign policy goals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31391.htm

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kate+Hudson
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Starmail - 22. Mai, 05:22

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Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012

The Big Fix: Documentary Exposes BP, US Government on Gulf Disaster

Jan Lundberg, Culture Change: ''One of the world s biggest environmental crimes has been more or less forgotten. This is part of our collective guilt as the world s ecosystem continues its accelerated collapse. But the new documentary film 'The Big Fix' takes a detailed, daring look at what happened in the Gulf of Mexico with BP s Macondo offshore oil drilling rig. The story and facts that emerge are more than disturbing.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9261-the-big-fix-documentary-exposes-bp-us-government-on-gulf-disaster

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Covering up the cover-up: The BP oil spill
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/gulf-of-mexico-oil-catastrophe-1/covering-up-the-cover-up-the-bp-oil-spill.html

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BP is an Enemy of Academic Freedom: Scientists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/05-4

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oil+spill
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Starmail - 20. Mai, 22:53

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Angriff aus dem Netz

Welt Online

Cybermobbing bedeutet, dass ein Schüler über längere Zeit hinweg im Internet oder per Handy von Gleichaltrigen gehänselt, beleidigt oder bedroht wird. In einer Studie der Techniker Krankenkasse gaben zehn Prozent der Befragten an, dass sie schon...

http://www.welt.de/print/wams/wissen/article106344048/Angriff-aus-dem-Netz.html

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Starmail - 20. Mai, 07:59

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How the government is funding the UK war machine by cutting disability benefits

The government spends £25 billion a year on its war machine and is committed to spending hundreds of billions more on buying new military hardware. At what cost to the disabled?

http://bit.ly/J81WQQ

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=disabilit
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Starmail - 20. Mai, 06:03

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Why Americans Are Less Hawkish than Their Leaders

By Benjamin H. Friedman

The study shows that when presented with arguments for and against cutting the defense budget, Americans want to cut it-a lot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31379.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=defense+budget
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Benjamin+H.+Friedman

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Starmail - 20. Mai, 05:48

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60 heißeste Jahre des Jahrtausends

Die letzten sechs Dekaden seien in der Region Australiens die wärmsten des vergangenen Jahrtausends gewesen, bilanzieren Wissenschaftler der Universität Melbourne.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815077ms319

WWF: Die Welt verbraucht einen halben Planeten zu viel

Living Planet Report 2012 erstmals aus dem Weltraum präsentiert. EU-Lebensstil verschlingt 2,66 Mal zu viel Ressourcen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815099ms319

Bäume als Regenmacher in der Steppe

Soweit das Auge reichte, lag menschenleere Ödnis. Noch vor 25 Jahren herrschte trostlose Steppe im kolumbianischen Las Gaviotas. Heute wachsen wieder Waldgärten auf über 8000 ha, und mit dem Wald kehrte auch der Regen zurück. So ernährt der Wald bereits über 200 Familien, die neben veredelten Produkten aus den Waldgärten inzwischen sogar Trinkwasser in die Hauptstadt verkaufen. In der Nachbarschaft harren noch 6,3 Millionen Hektar Steppe ihrer Rückverwandlung in Regenwald. Von Haiko Pieplow und Ute Scheub

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815068ms319

''Wild Wonders of Europe'' kommt nach Berlin

''Wild Wonders of Europe'' belegt eindrucksvoll die Rückkehr von Europas Wildtieren dank 40 Jahren erfolgreicher Naturschutzarbeit. Sie zeigt, dass Natur- und Artenschutz funktioniert, und dass wir mehr davon brauchen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815073ms319

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Artenschutz
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Starmail - 20. Mai, 05:20

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Eurorettung nur mit Green New Deal

Was ist dran, wenn Medien berichten, dass Spanien, Portugal und Italien über ihre Verhältnisse leben und nicht wettbewerbsfähig sind? Wir haben uns die Daten der Krisenländer etwas genauer angesehen: Die Krisenländer leben vor allem über ihre ökologischen Verhältnisse. Die Abhängigkeit vom Import fossiler Energieträger (Öl, Gas und Kohle) und anderer endlicher Rohstoffe ist eine zentrale Ursache für die Verschuldungsdynamik in Europa. Von Sven Giegold

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815067ms319

Hohe Öl- und Benzinpreise werden zur Gefahr für die Weltkonjunktur

IEA-Chefökonomen Fatih Birol fordert Europas Politiker auf, die Abhängigkeit vom Öl reduzieren.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815098ms319

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Das spricht Bände

In Spanien sind Staatsverschuldung und Krise für die konservative Regierung von Premier Rajoy nur ein Vorwand, um den neoliberalen Durchmarsch zelebrieren zu können. Artikel von Mark Weisbrot in Der Freitag vom 04.06.2012 http://www.freitag.de/politik/1222-das-spricht-baende

Eurozone: Spanien am Ende, Merkels Therapie auch

Die Nerven liegen blank. Europa steuert unaufhaltsam auf eine politische, ökonomische und soziale Tragödie zu. Nach zwei Jahren Krisentherapie à la Merkozy steht die Eurozone vor dem Kollaps. Stürzt Spanien in den Abgrund, droht sich eine Lawine zu lösen, die über Italien die ganze Eurozone begraben könnte. Noch kann die Politik einlenken. Doch von Einsicht keine Spur?'' DGB klartext Nr. 21 vom 08.06.2012 bei den Nachdenkseiten (pdf)

http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/21_2012_klartext_Spanien_am_Ende.pdf

Aus: LabourNet, 11. Juni 2012

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Starmail - 20. Mai, 05:12

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Stirbt die deutsche Solarindustrie?

Q-Cells, Solon, Sovello: Eine große Solarfirma nach der anderen muss in Deutschland Insolvenz anmelden. Weitere Insolvenzfälle sind absehbar. Wie viele Firmen wird es noch treffen? Die FAZ veröffentlichte jetzt eine Studie von Goetzpartners, die zum Schluss kommt, dass bis 2017 von heute 232 deutschen Solarunternehmen nur noch 86 übrig bleiben werden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815066ms319

Die Sonnenstrahlen einfangen

Thermische Solaranlagen zur Warmwassererwärmung können bis zu 70% des Warmwasserbedarfes bereitstellen. Teilsolare Raumheizung kann ca. 30% des Heizungsbedarfs abdecken. Beide Anlageformen sparen dadurch Energiekosten und senken den CO2-Ausstoß. Neues Infoblatt von ''die umweltberatung'' über thermische Solaranlagen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815072ms319

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Starmail - 20. Mai, 05:10

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