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Destroying Higher Education, Savaging Children and Extinguishing Democracy

From Penn State to JPMorgan Chase and Barclays

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''Rather than representing a society s dreams and hope for the future, young people, especially poor white and minority children, have become a commodity to be mined for profit and/or pleasure and disposable after they have served those purposes in the age of casino capitalism and big money.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10301-from-penn-state-to-jpmorgan-chase-and-barclay-destroying-higher-education-savaging-children-and-extinguishing-democracy

Beyond Barclays: Laying Out the LIBOR Investigations

Cora Currier, ProPublica: ''Last week, the British bank Barclays was slapped with $450 million in fines and penalties for manipulating information used to set a critical interest rate.... Barclays' traders attempted to steer rates up or down in order to benefit trades they had made to profit off of those rates. Separately, the filings show that during the financial crisis, Barclays tried to counter reports that it had financial troubles by changing the interest rate it reported.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10299-beyond-barclays-laying-out-the-libor-investigations

The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''Free trade, such as NAFTA, is a way of exploiting labor without national boundaries and ravaging the environment in pursuit of higher corporate profits. Borders only exist for poor migrants seeking money to keep themselves and their families alive. The victims of this trade policy, and its synergistic companion, crony capitalism, eke out an existence on both sides of the Mexican-United States border.... There is no border wall for economic injustice.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10309-the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states-crony-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-labor-through-nafta

Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the Ship?

Ellen Brown, Truthout: ''At one time, calling the large multinational banks a 'cartel' branded you as a conspiracy theorist. Today, the banking giants are being called that and worse, not just in the major media but in court documents intended to prove the allegations as facts.... Damning charges have already been proven and major damages and penalties assessed. Conspiracy theory has become conspiracy fact."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31994

From Truthout

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World s Faith in Capitalism Erodes as Financial Crisis Continues: Survey
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/13

The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/13-7

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Was The Oil Price Rigged Too?

By Rowena Mason, Emma Rowley

Motorists may have been paying too much for their petrol because banks and other traders are likely to have tried to manipulate oil prices in the same way they rigged interest rates, an official report has warned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31877.htm

The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens

By James Petras

Never in the history of the United States have we witnessed crimes committed on the scale and scope of the present day by both private and state elites.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32101.htm

Welcome to Police State USA

Harassed for Filming

Video

Before confronting Henry Paulson, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gets harassed and intimidated by NYPD Officers for filming, then has an exchange with a secret service member during and after the confrontation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32171.htm

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The American Dream Has Changed. Have You?
http://lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi226.html

The Overcriminalization of America: Are We All Criminals Now?
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead51.1.html

The NJ Police State Train
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig13/wilson-bill1.1.1.html

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How did Americans become poor?

Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

08/01/12

How did the linked disasters of mass poverty, staggering and rapidly growing debt, and imposition of a police state befall the wealthy, can-do population of the strongest, wealthiest, and most visibly free nation the world has ever known?

http://www.strike-the-root.com/how-did-americans-become-poor

Police state America

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

08/01/12

How far away are we from the day that local authorities in suburbia will be flying drones around the neighborhood tallying up the number of dandelions in people s yards, and issuing warnings that they need to apply toxic herbicides to kill them or face a fine? You are laughing? There are already laws in many communities that can compel people to mow their lawns or to clear out their dandelions or face a stiff fine. What they don t have yet is a cheap way of monitoring people s lawn-care proclivities. But it?s coming...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/01/police-state-america-2/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mexico
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=capitalis
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+Democracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+Dream
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Petras
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Romney: Fundraiser With Cheney Highlights His Embrace Of A Bush-Era Foreign Policy

Romney and Cheney already share controversial positions on matters like ending the Iraq war and whether the U.S. should torture terror suspects. Here s a quick rundown of their positions on some top issues.

http://is.gd/jXowNM

The Battle for Healthcare Has Just Begun

President Romney would strip healthcare access from up to 28 million Americans currently insured.

http://www.thenation.com/article/168844/battle-healthcare-has-just-begun#

Ten Top Romney Donors Hold Billions Offshore

Romney won t disclose what money he may be hiding overseas, but we do know where his donors put their billions.

http://is.gd/NrFDlO

Exposing How Donald Trump Really Made His Fortune

Inheritance from Dad and the Government s Protection Mostly Did the Trick.
http://is.gd/2gYpbH

Did Romney Make a False Statement on His Financial Disclosure?

The candidate certified that after February 1999 he was not involved with Bain Capital operations ''in any way.'' But he signed documents for the firm s big deals.

http://is.gd/xaGSmT

Did Mitt Romney Pay ZERO Taxes?

By ThinkProgress

It s possible that Mitt Romney paid no federal taxes at all in 2009, which would explain why once again today he said he wouldn t release any tax returns from before 2010.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31908.htm

Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty

By Brian Moench

I think a serious fundamental defect in Mitt Romney has been on display for a long time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31940.htm

Romney s Obnoxious Statement on Syria

Romney s statement today encapsulates the complete bankruptcy of his foreign policy criticisms.

http://is.gd/jLszZL

From Information Clearing House

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Romney s 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/13-9

Republicans Join Mounting Calls for Romney to Release Tax Returns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/18-3

Healthcare: Head-in-the-Sand 'Solution' is Killing GOP
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/18-3

Top Romney Adviser Backs Bachmann Witch Hunt
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/07/25-2

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Romney Bundler a Registered Foreign Agent for Hong Kong

Josh Israel, ThinkProgress: ''Newly released lobbyist bundler disclosure records filed by the Mitt Romney campaign show that Tom Loeffler raised at least $17,500 in bundled contributions for the campaign over the first six months of 2012. Loeffler, a former Republican U.S. Representative from Texas and a lobbyist at Akin Gump represents a wide array of domestic clients ... but a review of Foreign Agent Registration Act reveals that Loeffler registered in February as a registered agent for a foreign government: the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC).''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10530-romney-bundler-a-registered-foreign-agent-for-hong-kong

Romney s Long History of Hiding His Exorbitant, but Questionable, Business Practices

Dina Rasor and Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''How is it possible that, for two decades now, Mitt Romney has successfully avoided revealing any details about his vast wealth, has been able to manipulate and stash wealth overseas with no public accountability, has not been held to account for his complete lack of transparency, has painted himself as a creator of thousands of jobs even though the public record shows business decisions he presided over resulted in the loss of jobs because of mass wealth being scooped out of the assets of these same companies?''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10542-hide-the-ball-romneys-long-history-of-hiding-his-exorbitant-but-legal-business-practices

To Protect Democracy, the House Should Act Against Michele Bachmann s Anti-Muslim McCarthyism

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''Rep. Michele Bachmann is using her position on the House Intelligence Committee to promote a conspiracy theory that government officials, including State Department official Huma Abedin, are part of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the US government. Bachmann also claimed that Rep. Keith Ellison is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Bachmann has refused to apologize or back down, even after prominent Republicans like Sen. John McCain demanded that she stop.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10544-to-protect-democracy-the-house-should-act-against-michele-bachmanns-anti-muslim-mccarthyism

Former US Officials Call for Bachmann to Be Replaced on Intelligence Committee

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''Many Americans are outraged that a group of members of Congress led by Rep. Michele Bachmann are promoting conspiracy theories that US officials who are Muslim-American ... are part of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the US government. What has gotten less attention is the impact of Bachmann s actions on US foreign policy in the Middle East.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10653-former-us-officials-call-for-bachmann-to-be-replaced-on-intelligence-committee

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More evidence GOP doesn t really care about deficit

Our Future Blog
by Stan Collender

07/25/12

Two reports over the past two days by the most credible organizations that do budget analysis prove that, no matter what they say publicly, congressional Republicans don t actually give a d... about reducing the federal deficit or lower government spending. Each report shows that, for the GOP, the deficit not only comes in no better than second every time, it s not really a serious consideration...

http://tinyurl.com/cv6j8g5

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Donald+Trump
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Loeffler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stan+Collender
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman
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Starmail - 13. Jul, 22:15

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Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting

Starmail - 13. Jul, 22:11

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Drones overseas lead to drones at home

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

07/12/12

If there is one universal truth, it is that once a new technology is developed, it will be used and a legal framework will quickly be devised to enable that to happen. Drones even have a trade association and lobby, the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International, or AUVSI. And what goes around overseas in a 'war zone' comes around to the United States, perhaps a tribute to a global economy and marketing efforts but more likely because all governments like to have toys available to keep the people in line...

http://bit.ly/Nk1Zd2

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama s Execution of the Drone War Should Terrify Even Drone Defenders

By Conor Friedersdorf

It s one thing to support killing militants, and quite another to empower one man to do it in secret without checks or meaningful oversight.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31851.htm

What Happens When Assassination Replaces Torture?

By Tom Junod

What if the the kind of militant who was captured and tortured under Bush is the kind of militant who is simply being killed under President Obama?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31854.htm

The Magna Carta Shredded Before Our Eyes

By Noam Chomsky

In the calculus of the president s ''kill list'' of terrorists, ''all military-age males in a strike zone'' are in effect counted as combatants ''unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31929.htm

Assassination Nation: Fifty Years of US Targeted 'Kill Lists': From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones

By Doug Noble

Those who are mortified by the latest revelations of Obama s kill list have much to learn from a more comprehensive, historical perspective on US killing around the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31925.htm

Attack of the Drones: A look behind the scenes of the Obama assassination program

Video

As governments are increasingly relying on drones, what are the consequences for civil liberties and the future of war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31927.htm

Faux Reality, Obomba, Superheroes, Bain Capital and Drones

By Sean Fenley

Arguably we could all be living through one the most critical points in world history, but one wonders how many Americans are really aware of just of how critical it is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31924.htm

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Arming smaller drones with tiny bombs only 'months away'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/11408.html

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America s Drones Are Homeward Bound
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/17

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=Tom+Junod
http://www.commondreams.org/ann-wright
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Starmail - 13. Jul, 08:35

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Wurden Gefangenen in Guantanamo bei Verhören psychoaktive Drogen gegeben?

Der durch mittels des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes veröffentlichte Bericht eines Generalinspekteurs lässt dies vermuten, auch wenn es keine Beweise dafür geben soll.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37262/1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
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Starmail - 13. Jul, 05:47

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Romney: Offer of Government of Billionaires, for Billionaires, by Billionaires

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/12-7

Bernie Sanders Versus the Billionaires
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/24-10

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Offshore Havens Behind Romney s Fortune

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: ''Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is on the hot seat over where he stashes his vast personal fortune, estimated at up to $250 million. We speak with reporter Nick Shaxson, whose new Vanity Fair article, 'Where the Money Lives,' delves into the murky world of offshore finance and reveals loopholes that allowed Romney to skirt tax laws and store millions in foreign tax havens. The article has sparked the latest round of questions about Romney s taxes and offshore accounts, amplified by Romney s refusal so far to release more than one year s worth of tax returns.''

http://truth-out.org/video/item/10295-where-the-money-lives-vanity-fair-report-reveals-loopholes-offshore-havens-behind-romneys-fortune

Eighteen Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney to Release More Tax Returns Right Now

Annie-Rose Strasser, ThinkProgress: ''Mitt Romney continues to resist pressure to turn over more tax returns. In an interview today he said he is 'simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.' The call for more information about Romney s financial past, however, is bipartisan. A poll released today found fifty-six percent of all voters, including sixty one percent of independents, think that Romney should release twelve years of returns.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10415-eighteen-prominent-republicans-who-want-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns-right-now

''No, Governor Romney, Corporations Are Not People''

Annie-Rose Strasser, ThinkProgress: ''Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senate candidate in Massachusetts, drew roaring cheers, applause and even tears tonight at the Democratic convention when she laid out the differences between corporations and people.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11368-elizabeth-warren-explains-no-governor-romney-corporations-are-not-people

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Starmail - 13. Jul, 05:24

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America: Shadow Wars in Africa

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/12-3

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Obama s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases and the Pentagon s ''New Spice Route'' in Africa

Nick Turse, TomDispatch: ''They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, even if today's 'spice road' has nothing to do with cinnamon, cloves, or silks. Instead, it s a superpower s superhighway, on which trucks and ships shuttle fuel, food, and military equipment through a growing maritime and ground transportation infrastructure to a network of supply depots, tiny camps, and airfields meant to service a fast-growing US military presence in Africa.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10296-obamas-scramble-for-africa-secret-wars-secret-bases-and-the-pentagons-new-spice-route-in-africa

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Obama s Scramble for Africa

Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon s ''New Spice Route'' in Africa.
http://is.gd/ysdGis

Far from a Humanitarian Savior, the U.S. Causes Vast Misery In Africa

The United States has finally made a token effort towards reining in its central African client state, Rwanda, whose destabilization of neighboring Congo has contributed to the deaths of six million people over the past 16 years.

http://is.gd/Tj4xLa

From Information Clearing House

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Obama s Rhetoric
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell104.html

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US Religious Right Propelling Homophobia in African Countries
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/24-7

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Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012

Peru: Gold gräbt Menschen das Wasser ab

https://www.regenwald.org/aktion/880?ref=nl&mt=1403
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USA: Cities and Workers Driven to Brink by Austerity

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/11-3

US Austerity Continues to Empty Student Pockets as Public Universities Crumble
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/19-1

Austerity s Winners = The Corporate Class
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/24-1

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Starmail - 12. Jul, 08:53

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Are We at the Turning Point Towards Dictatorship?

Starmail - 12. Jul, 08:32

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Drone Wars

Starmail - 12. Jul, 07:27

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The Final Step in the Corporate Takeover of America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/11-9

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Tapferkeitsmedaille für US-Drohnenpiloten?

Das Pentagon denkt angeblich über eine Auszeichnung nach.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/152369

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Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012

Are Banksters Redeemable?

Interview With Former JPMorgan Director John Fullerton

Laura Flanders, The Nation: ''John Fullerton is a former managing director at JPMorgan. Finance drives economics, he says, and economics largely determines the fate of the planet, yet the resources of the planet are finite. 'The notion that exponential growth can go on indefinitely in a finite planet is in violation with arithmetic and basic physics.' As long as growth is the sine qua non of market economic ideology: 'We are lost.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10271-finance-is-lost-are-banksters-redeemable-interview-with-former-jpmorgan-director-john-fullerton

After $9 Billion in Losses, JPMorgan Still Wins With Co-Opted Congress, Hobbled Volcker Rule

Jeffrey McCord, Truthout: ''The Securities and Exchange Commission s (SEC) current budget of $1.32 billion is dwarfed by the $4 billion to $9 billion JPMorgan Chase may ultimately lose through disastrous gambling on derivatives and related instruments for its own accounts. Ironically, the Dodd-Frank reform law s 'Volcker Rule' restricting such noncustomer-related trading, opposed by JPMorgan s CEO and most Republicans, might have eliminated or limited the billions lost by this federally insured bank had it been in place (and enforced.)''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10226-after-9-billion-in-losses-jpmorgan-still-wins-with-co-opted-congress-hobbled-volcker-rule

Banksters Take Us to the Brink

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: "Every day brings more reminders of the terrible unfairness that besets our country, the tragic reversal of fortune experienced by millions who once had good lives and steady jobs, now gone.... And you wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10313-banksters-take-us-to-the-brink

Anger and Political Culture: A Time for Outrage!

Michael A Peters, Truthout: ''At a time when anti-austerity measures across the world punish taxpayers after national banking systems have been bailed out with hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars, when both educated and working-class youth suffer historically high levels of unemployment, when the people of Tahrir Square continue to demonstrate peacefully for basic democratic values against corrupt officials and their military.... it is remarkable that a 94-year-old veteran resistance fighter should become an icon of resistance and an advocate of peaceful protest.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10281-anger-and-political-culture-a-time-for-outrage

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This Global Financial Fraud and its Gatekeepers

By Naomi Wolf

The media s 'bad apple' thesis no longer works. We are seeing systemic corruption in banking and systemic collusion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31875.htm

JPMorgan Scandal: The Tip Of The Iceberg

By Andre Damon and Barry Grey

JPMorgan deliberately falsified its first quarter report to the SEC in order to conceal its massive gambling losses. This is a crime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31901.htm

Bankster Fraud Has Driven 100 Million Into Poverty, Killing Many

By WashingtonsBlog

The Obama administration has made it official policy not to prosecute fraud.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32146.htm

Winner Takes All: Why Derivatives Threaten Your Bank Account

By Ellen Brown

All Depositors, Secured and Unsecured, May Be at Risk.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34567.htm

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So Many Criminals, So Many Crimes
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/08/10/300-so-many-criminals-so-many-crimes/

Should the Banksters Be Regulated?
http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods196.html

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Past time to move from rhetoric to reality on lawless bankers

Our Future
by Isaiah J. Poole

09/04/12

The mortgage fraud task force led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is charged with building a legal case against the people responsible for crashing the economy and destroying the finances of millions of people. But a new report released today by the Institute for America s Future raises critical questions about whether that task force is being allowed by the Obama administration to do its job, and whether as a result Wall Street bankers guilty of criminal acts will go scot-free...

http://tinyurl.com/c6ed5gn

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Russia sends warships to Syria

Russia despatched a flotilla of warships to its naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus on Tuesday in an apparent show of support for President Bashar al-Assad.

http://is.gd/azZXTC

Putin sends warships to boost Syria

Two destroyers and three amphibious landing vessels carrying marines set sail from Russian bases in the Arctic and the Black Sea, according to Russian military sources.

http://is.gd/mGNOne

Russian Navy Ready to Break Syria Blockade Says Arms Agency

Russian Navy warships will be sent to defend Russian merchant shipping in the event of a blockade due to the situation in Syria, the deputy head of Russia s military technical cooperation agency said at the Farnborough air show in Britain on Wednesday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20120711/174551931.html

Russia to deliver air defense systems to Syria

Since the contract to deliver Syria the air defense systems were signed before the outbreak of unrest in the country, Moscow is obliged to fulfill its commitments. ''We are delivering weapons and military technology of an exclusively defensive nature,'' Dzirkaln said.

http://is.gd/3JECVx

The Syrian Opposition: Who s Doing The Talking?

By Charlie Skelton

How US bankrolls propaganda for military intervention and regime change in Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31845.htm

Turkish Threat of Invading Syria: Sheikh Imran Hosein

Video

The Sheikh Imran Hosein answers questions from YouTube Subscribers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31844.htm

US Geo-political Wars May Lead to WWIII

By Press TV

The Arab League has announced plans to open talks with the Syrian opposition and cut all diplomatic ties with the Syrian government, aligning itself with the US-led effort to wage war against Damascus.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31846.htm

Syrian ''Civilian Massacre'' Story Falls Apart

By Alex Newman

Yet another alleged ''massacre'' of ''civilians'' by the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad s forces. As has become typical, Western governments and mainstream media outlets, the New York Times, the BBC, and others included, parroted anonymous ''opposition activists'' for the claims.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31862.htm

Latest Syria ''Massacre'' Propaganda?

By Tony Cartalucci

What the Western corporate-media is actually reporting is terrorist forces being defeated by the Syrian military in violence growing SOLELY because the West continues to funnel cash, increasingly advanced arms, and even foreign fighters into the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31863.htm

New Massacre Blame Game in Syria

By RT

Both government and rebel forces are blaming each other for the slaughter while the world body remains paralyzed on whether to extend its observer mission, or impose sanctions. Maria Finoshina reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31852.htm

Covering Syria: The Information War

By Aisling Byrne

What we are seeing is a new stage of information war intentionally constructed and cast as a simplistic narrative of a struggle for human rights and democracy so as deliberately to exclude other interpretations and any geo-strategic motivation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31859.htm

Where Syrian Fighters Get Their Weapons From

By Reuters

Syrian rebels are smuggling small arms into Syria through a network of land and sea routes involving cargo ships and trucks moving through Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31855.htm

Israel Invents Syrian WMD Threat, IDF Commanders Threaten Intervention

By Richard Silverstein

The latest series of stories derives from U.S. and Israeli intelligence circles and suggests that Syria has a ''vast stockpile'' (Wall Street Journal) or ''hundreds of tons'' (Rupert Murdoch s Sky News) of chemical weapons that could fall into the hands of Al Qaeda.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31853.htm

New Details of a Battle Challenge Reports of a Syrian ''Massacre''

''The majority of people killed in Tremseh were either rebel fighters from the village or from surrounding villages.''

http://is.gd/jdcKMN

Syria massacre dead mostly rebels, activists say

Most of the people killed in the Treimsa violence in central Syria were rebel fighters, an activist said on Friday, adding the bloodbath followed a Free Syrian Army attack on an army convoy.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=418733

Syria: Tremseh killings targeted rebels, UN says

The government attack on the Syrian village of Tremseh mainly targeted the homes of rebels and activists, the UN mission in the country has said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18840535

Tall Tales in Tremseh

Another day, another fake Syrian atrocity

By Justin Raimondo

The real meaning of this propaganda campaign is clear enough: nations targeted for regime change that dare mount a military defense are engaging in ''war crimes.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31878.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Auch in der Krise muss das Grundgesetz Bestand haben

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht ermahnt die Befürworter des Fiskalpakts.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37251/1.html

Politik in der Krisenfalle

In der Telepolis-eBook-Reihe ist der dritte Band erschienen, in dem Tomasz Konicz die Widersprüche des kapitalistischen Systems hinter dem aktuellen Drama der Wirtschafts- und Schuldenkrise analyisiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/152762

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Brechstange Fiskalpakt. Hilfsinstrumente in Euro-Krise sollen »Staatsfinanzen sanieren«. Tatsächlich schaffen sie Platz für Abbau von Beschäftigtenrechten

''Weitgehend unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit werden in den EU-Staaten die Arbeitsbeziehungen und Sozialsysteme weiter dereguliert, vulgo: »reformiert«. Den Deckmantel bieten Konstrukte wie »Rettungsschirme«, »Schuldenbremse« und »Fiskalpakt«. Tarifverträge werden ausgehebelt, Löhne und Renten gesenkt, Arbeitszeiten verlängert, befristete Verträge gefördert, der Kündigungsschutz weiter gelockert. Gleichzeitig wird der öffentliche Dienst weiter geschrumpft und privatisiert?'' Artikel von

Werner Rügemer in junge Welt vom 25.07.2012 http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/07-25/023.php

Schwung holen mit ESM: Das »vereinte Europa« wandelt sich vom bürgerlichen Parlamentarismus zur Kapitaldiktatur

EU-Europa steht vor dem Aus, der Euro macht den Anfang. Die Krise, deren platzende Blasen seit 2008 eine giftige Schleimspur durch Bankbilanzen und Staatshaushalte zieht, finalisiert sich ihrem Wesen gemäß brutal und schonungslos. Die neue Losung lautet: direkter Zugriff des Kapitals. Kommentar von Hannes Hofbauer in der jungen Welt vom 17.07.2012 http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/07-17/020.php

Aus: LabourNet, 26. Juli 2012

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Haushaltspolitik: Wie Deutschland an der Euro-Krise verdient

Während der Süden sparen muss, saniert sich der deutsche Haushalt quasi von selbst. Allein die Zinskosten sinken durch die Krise um mehr als 60 Milliarden Euro. Artikel von Hans Christian Müller in Die Zeit online vom 14.08.2012 http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2012-08/deutschland-zinsniveau-euro-krise

Europa im Endkampf/Fünf Jahre Finanzkrise

Hoffnungslose Krisenpolitik: Nationale Gegensätze verschärfen Desintegrationstendenzen in der EU. Beiträge von Tomasz Konicz und Lukas Zeise vom 13. August 2012 beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Europa/endkampf.html

''Es besteht die Gefahr von Wirtschaftskriegen''

Im Gespräch mit Stephan Schulmeister

Interview von und bei Thorsten Hild vom 17. August 2012
http://www.wirtschaftundgesellschaft.de/?p=4942

Aus: LabourNet, 21. August 2012

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EU und die Finanzkrise: Heiner Flassbeck hat die Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftspolitische Vernunft der deutschen Seite verloren und empfiehlt die Scheidung der Euro-Partner

Hat Heiner Flassbeck kapituliert? Oder eine letzte Warnung??

''Stets warnte Heiner Flassbeck, Ökonom und Publizist (Chef-Volkswirt bei der UNO-Organisation für Welthandel und Entwicklung (UNCTAD) in Genf.'') vor dem Auseinanderbrechen der Eurozone. Er thematisierte immer wieder die wirtschaftlichen Ungleichgewichte im Euroraum und machte konkrete Lösungsvorschläge. Jetzt empfiehlt er in einem Beitrag für Wirtschaft und Markt, den die NachDenkSeiten cross veröffentlichten: ''Trennt euch''. Er meint damit, dass die Währungsunion wieder in mehrere Einzelwährungen aufgespalten werden sollte, weil er glaubt, dass die jetzige Politik alte Ressentiments weckt und neue Feindschaften erzeugt. Aber Politisch verbirgt sich dahinter die Frage: Zurück zum Nationalstaat oder Europa neu begründen? Und wo verbergen sich die größten Gefahren, dass Rechtspopulistische Bewegungen weiter Zulauf bekommen?'' Ein Kommentar von Marty Ludischbo vom 27. Aug 2012 im Online-Magazin Ruhr rein, Rhein raus http://dnzs-politik.blog.de/2012/08/27/heiner-flassbeck-kapituliert-vorbereiten-14584928/

Aus: LabourNet, 29. August 2012

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Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012

Iran will 'block' Strait of Hormuz if pressed

''We do have a plan to close the Strait of Hormuz,'' state media quoted General Hasan Firouzabadi as saying on Saturday. "But Iran, acting rationally, will not close the corridor through which 40 per cent of the world's energy passes, unless its interests are in serious trouble," he said,

http://is.gd/9xHJGC

War in August? US sends fourth aircraft carrier and dozens of underwater drones towards Iran

The United States has already sent three massive aircraft carriers to the waterways outside of Iran, including the USS Enterprise, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Abraham Lincoln, and will now add the USS John C Stennis to that fleet in August.

http://rt.com/usa/news/war-sub-drone-iran-066/

MI6 admits to covert operations against Iran

In his second public speech since he was appointed to the head of MI6, Sawers told senior civil servants in London that MI6 agents had been actively engaged in conducting covert operations against Iran.

http://is.gd/xoG1WE

Why Iran Should Sue US at International Court of Justice

By Franklin Lamb

The US-led sanctions violate international humanitarian law due to the negative health effects of the sanctions on the civilian populations. This renders the sanctions illegal under international customary law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31847.htm

UK spy chief s Iran warning may go too far

Britain s foreign spy chief has reportedly warned that Iran is two years away from acquiring nuclear weapons, but analysts said he was assuming Tehran is actually developing the bomb.

http://is.gd/CN26fu

How Britain s Top Spy is Beating the Drums for War on Iran

By Michael Higgs

Sawers is building the case for an attack against a supposed unstoppable menace. The parallels with Iraq are truly staggering, but don t be fooled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31882.htm

Military Doesn t Think Iran s Missiles Will Reach U.S. After All

This means Americans can sleep safely: The Pentagon doesn t believe an Iranian ICBM will obliterate the East Coast any time soon.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/iran-missiles/

US won t allow Iran to shut down Strait of Hormuz, Panetta vows

The U.S. military will not allow Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Wednesday, adding that if Iran tries to disrupt the vital waterway, they will be defeated.

http://is.gd/P2qJSf

Persian Gulf Primed to Explode?

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

The Persian Gulf is hostage to the geostrategic calculations of, on the one hand, a Western superpower and its local client states and, on the other, a traditional regional power with growing military prowess.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31943.htm

Journalism v. Propaganda

By Glenn Greenwald

The US and Israel blame Iran for the suicide attack in Bulgaria, but offer no evidence for the accusation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31948.htm

Iran in ''open war'' with Israel

President Shimon Peres said Monday, as he pointed the finger at Iran and Hezbollah for last week s bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis.

http://is.gd/rWzHoV

From Information Clearing House

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Massive military buildup in the Persian Gulf
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/iranus-sabre-rattling-1/massive-military-buildup-in-the-persian-gulf.html

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At the precipice of war

CounterPunch
by Ben Schreiner

07/16/12

The familiar menace of U.S. war drums have resumed at a fevered pitch, as Iran finds itself once again firmly within the Pentagon s cross hairs. According to multiple reports, the U.S. is currently in the midst of a massive military build-up in the Persian Gulf on a scale not seen in the region since prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. The military surge reportedly includes an influx of air and naval forces, ground troops, and even sea drones...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/16/at-the-precipice-of-war/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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10 Years Since Downing St. Memo: Is It Happening Again?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/24

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Drone strikes slammed: UN

The practice of drone attacks has become a vaguely defined and unaccountable ''licence to kill'', according to a 2010 report of a UN human rights special rapporteur.

http://is.gd/0zAplx

Drone Pilots to Get Medals?

By Al Kamen

The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the battlefield.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31827.htm

Bravery And Drone Pilots?

By Glenn Greenwald

Justifying drone warfare requires pretending that the act entails some sort of bravery, so the U.S. military is increasingly taking steps to create the facade of warrior courage for drone pilots.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31828.htm

From Information Clearing House

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The Collapsing US Economy and the End of the World

Starmail - 10. Jul, 08:31

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'Romney has a Koch Problem': Protesters Stake Out Romneys Fundraising Sweep

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/09-3

Romney s Exit from Bain: Lying Then or Lying Now?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/12-2

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The Koch Brothers Go After Actor Zach Galifianakis and the Film ''The Campaign''

Alyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress: ''While the Koch brothers have become a staple of political coverage, it s taken longer for them to become fixtures in popular culture, and [Koch Industries' president for government affairs'] response suggests they are not enjoying the attention.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10769-the-koch-brothers-go-after-zach-galifianakis-and-the-campaign

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Libor: Scandal of All Scandals

The Wall Street Scandal of All Scandals

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''We trust that the banking system is setting today s rate based on its best guess about the future worth of the money. And we assume that guess is based, in turn, on the cumulative market predictions of countless lenders and borrowers all over the world about the future supply and demand for the dough. But suppose our assumption is wrong. Suppose the bankers are manipulating the interest rate so they can place bets with the money you lend or repay them ...''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10222-the-wall-street-scandal-of-all-scandals

Bank Scandal Turns Spotlight to Regulators

Ben Protess and Mark Scott, The New York Times: ''As big banks face the fallout from a global investigation into interest rate manipulation, American and British lawmakers are scrutinizing regulators who failed to take action that might have prevented years of illegal activity. Politicians in both London and Washington are questioning whether regulators allowed banks to report false rates in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and afterward.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10259-bank-scandal-turns-spotlight-to-regulators

Will the Obama Administration Prosecute the Big Banks for LIBOR Manipulation?

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: ''[I]s this a criminal conspiracy? Well, let s take the word criminal first. There s no dispute this is a criminal problem. How do we know that? Because the United States Department of Justice entered into an agreement with Barclays and agreed that Barclays would not be prosecuted for criminal conduct if Barclays would pay $160 million to the United States and agree to a set of facts which clearly lays out criminal conduct.''

http://truth-out.org/video/item/10359-will-obama-admininistration-prosecute-the-big-banks-for-libor-manipulation

Big Business Has Become Disconnected From the Well-Being of Most Americans

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''The American economy has moved way beyond outsourcing abroad or even 'in-sourcing.' Most big companies headquartered in America don t send jobs overseas and don t bring jobs here from abroad. That s because most are no longer really 'American' companies. They have become global networks that design, make, buy, and sell things wherever around the world it s most profitable for them to do so.''

http://robertreich.org/post/27527895909

From Truthout

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LIBOR Scandal Latest Sign of Financial System s Rotten Core

By Aaron Task

Imagine finding out the Dow is rigged or the S&P 500 doesn t really measure the stocks of the 500 largest U.S. firms and you have a hint at how big a deal this really is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31806.htm

Former Barlcays boss forgoes $30m bonus

Former Barclays chief Bob Diamond will still collect $3m after the bank was fined $450m for rate fixing.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/07/201271014614247730.html

Wall Street Executives Believe Employees Need To Engage In Illegal Behavior To ''Succeed''

In a survey of 500 senior executives in the United States and the UK, 26 percent of respondents said they had observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the workplace, while 24 percent said they believed financial services professionals may need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct to be successful.

http://is.gd/EM61Oi

UK Minister: ''14 Banks Involved In Libor Scandal, Anyone Who Falsifies Market Indices Must Go To Prison''

British minister for financial market regulation Mark Hoban also called for investigators to have access to bankers' telephone, email, Facebook and Twitter accounts, in order to investigate criminal action.

http://is.gd/89or35

The Libor Scandal Explained

Graphic
http://is.gd/u5QBXF

Bankers robbing Central Banks and governments: Max Keiser

Video

Max talks to Ellen Brown about the European Stability Mechanism as a permanent bailout fund for the rich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1L_KUnPlQU&feature=youtu.be

The Real Libor Scandal

By Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins

We have learned that the Fed has been aware of Libor manipulation (and thus apparently supportive of it) since 2008. Thus, the circle of complicity is closed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31866.htm

How Wall Street Scams Counties Into Bankruptcy

By William D. Cohan

For some reason, Wall Street never seems to get the message that bribing government officials, and paying each other off, to get access to lucrative municipal-bond underwriting business is illegal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31898.htm

The Libor Scandal In Full Perspective

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England should be indicted for their participation in the fraud.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31935.htm

From Information Clearing House

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LIBOR Scandal Jumps Pond: US Banks, Regulators Face Grilling over Manipulation of Baseline Interest Rate
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/10-4

A Challenge To American Regulators Over LIBOR Scandal
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/10-1

Time for Banksters To Be Prosecuted
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/10-9

Wall Street Crimes of 2008 Go Unpunished
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/12-3

The Challenge of Keeping Banks Honest
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/16-0

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Fractional Reserve Banking, Government, and Moral Hazard
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul813.html

How the Feds Feed the Rich
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner560.html

The Untouchables
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1172.html

Ron Paul Has the Final Say
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/ron-paul-has-final-say.html

What central bankers actually believe
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff389.html

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Kucinich Explains ''LIBOR''
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcyX6Hlqldk&feature=youtu.be

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Fehlende Vorratsdatenspeicherung hat weder Internetkriminalität noch Aufklärung beeinflusst

Gegner der anlasslosen Vorratsdatenspeicherung werten die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik für das Jahr 2011 in ihrem Sinne aus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37235/1.html

Ertappte Opposition

Ein entlarvendes Video zeigt, wie im Bundestag in 57 Sekunden die Möglichkeit zum Verkauf der Meldedaten an Adresshändler und Werbetreibende beschlossen wurde.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37231/1.html

''Macht nichts''

Der in der Vergangenheit durch zahlreiche Skandale auffällig gewordene CSU-Abgeordnete Hans-Peter Uhl zeigt sich von Kritik an seinen handstreichartig eingefügten Änderungen im Meldegesetz unbeeindruckt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152361

Vorratsdatenspeicherung zur Terrorismusbekämpfung? Sinnlos!

Die Technische Universität Darmstadt gibt denjenigen Recht, die die Vorratsdatenspeicherung (VDS) als präventives Mittel gegen Terrorismus für unsinnig und erfolglos halten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/152764

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Stoppt das Meldegesetz
http://www.avaaz.org/de/stoppt_das_meldegesetz/?bMKidab&v=15939

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Datenschutz: Meldeämter und Datenhandel

In 24 Stunden über 110.000 gegen neues Meldegesetz

''Ein Appell von Campact und VZBV macht Druck auf den Bundesrat, das neue Meldegesetz abzulehnen. Die Initiatoren empören sich zugleich über Äußerungen von Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), der das Gesetz ernsthaft mit Anfragen für Klassentreffen begründete. Innerhalb rund eines Tages haben über 110.000 Menschen einen Appell gegen das neue Meldegesetz unterzeichnet. Gegenwärtig zählt der Online-Appell 110.042 Unterstützer. Die Initiatoren sind das Kampagnennetzwerk Campact, die Bürgerrechtsorganisation Foebud und der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (VZBV)?'' Meldung auf Golem.de vom 10.07.2012 [Anmerkung: Mittlerweile haben 140.860 Menschen unterzeichnet; 12.07.12] http://www.golem.de/news/online-appell-in-24-stunden-ueber-110-000-gegen-neues-meldegesetz-1207-93108.html

Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juli 2012

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Zeig der Vorratsdatenspeicherung die Rote Karte!

''Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung droht uns noch immer, deshalb müssen wir aktiv werden. Der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestages behandelt Mitte Oktober die Petition gegen die anlasslose Speicherung aller unserer Telekommunikationsdaten. Vor der Anhörung wollen wir vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung mit einem bundesweiten Aktionstag am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012 Druck auf die Politik ausüben. Ob Demo, Infostand, Flashmob oder Straßentheater, lasst uns gemeinsam der Vorratsdatenspeicherung die Rote Karte zeigen und den Stimmen von 64.704 Mitzeichnern der Bundestagspetition Nachdruck verleihen?'' Aufruf zum Aktionstag von und bei AK Vorrat http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Aktionstag_2012

Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2012

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