World-News

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: America s fiscal problems are a direct result of the Billionaire Class working behind the scenes of our democracy and syphoning off massive amounts of wealth for themselves while paying lower taxes than they have paid in a half-century.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14011-exposed-how-the-billionaires-class-is-destroying-democracy



The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People

Ellen Brown, Yes! Magazine: We may rail against the banks and demand change, but change will not come until we realize that those who create the nation s money control the nation, and nearly the entire money supply today is created by banks in concert with the Federal Reserve.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14015-the-trillion-dollar-coin-a-debt-solution-for-the-people

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''We are Going to Kill the Dollar''

The Fed's Plan B

By Mike Whitney

This is the Fed s plan: Bail out the banks, transfer the banks bad bets onto its own balance sheet, hammer the greenback, slash wages (via inflation), boost exports, and pump as much money as possible into the unproductive, overbuilt black hole we call the US housing market.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33685.htm



The Politics of Debt in America

From Debtor s Prison to Debtor Nation

By Steve Fraser

Once again debt has emerged as both the central mode of capital accumulation and a principal mechanism of servitude. Warren Buffett (of all people) has predicted that, in the coming decades, the United States is more likely to turn into a ''sharecropper society'' than an ''ownership society.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33761.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/18-4

Don t Ignore the Drought: The One We are Seeing Is Bad, and It Is Not Going Away
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/18-12

Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change: Get the Coal Energy Facts
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/31-0

How Vermont Can Lead on Localizing the Climate Fight
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/31-8

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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five

Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now published in Climatic Change. In parts of Europe, Africa and southern Asia the number of monthly records has increased even by a factor of ten. 80 percent of observed monthly records would not have occurred without human influence on climate, concludes the authors-team of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Complutense University of Madrid.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817343ms354

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Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change, it is far, far worse'

Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to economies as planet absorbs less carbon and is 'on track' for 4C rise.

http://is.gd/04uSNo



Bianca Jagger: Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon

Op-Ed

The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days?

http://is.gd/hqKJvg


From Information Clearing House

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The final call

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/27/13

Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein s Time Enough For Love, the 'Great Diaspora of the Human Race' began 'more than two millennia ago' and has spread to more than 'two thousand colonized planets.' The once 'lovely green planet' Earth is a slum planet barely able to support life where only the poorest live, Earth s natural capital having been consumed over two thousand years ago. Humans have found the ability to rejuvenate themselves and to live almost endless lives, but they are unable to rejuvenate the planets whose natural capital they devour...

http://tinyurl.com/babr5ml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1252.html



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By Kim Carlyle

Foreign nationals are less valuable than Americans. Our losses are tragedies; theirs are collateral damage. The American public remains callously indifferent to the suffering of human ''others.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33652.htm



Clean Hands, Dirty Hands, No Hands

By Philip A Farruggio

This is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand more about the true history of this great nation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33653.htm



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Die Politik kapituliert vor den Banken, die Vorschriften zur Krisenvorsorge für Banken nach Basel III werden aufgeweicht. Die Risiken im globalen Finanzsystem nehmen so weiter zu. Kommentar von Frank Doll in der Wirtschaftswoche online vom 10.01.2013 http://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/boerse/basel-iii-kniefall-vor-der-bankenlobby/7612992.html

Aus dem Text: ''? Fünf Jahre nach Ausbruch der von den internationalen Großbanken mit verursachten Finanzkrise sitzen die Herren des Geldes fester im Sattel denn je. Die Politik hatte zwar etwas anderes versprochen. Schluss sollte sein mit den Privilegien und volkswirtschaftlich schädlichen Zockereien, deren Gewinne in die Taschen einer Bankenaristokratie fließen, deren Verluste aber die Steuerzahler zu schultern haben. Doch im Kern geändert hat sich nichts?''


EU-Sozialbericht: Krise und Politik vertiefen Spaltung Europas

Artikel von Fred Schmid vom 10. Januar 2013 beim isw (pdf) http://www.isw-muenchen.de/download/eu-sozialbericht-fs-20130110.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2013



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M. Vance

01/16/13

The new Congress, the nation s 113th, was officially sworn in at 2:09 p.m. on January 4. The Republicans lost two seats in the Senate, giving the Democrats an even larger majority of 53 to 45 (plus the two Independents, who will caucus with the Democrats), and 7 in the House, where they hold a smaller majority than before of 233 to 200 (there are two vacancies)...

http://tinyurl.com/aqo6r4z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Freedoms are disappearing, government powers growing
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud-1/why-intelligent-people-are-concerned.html



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Obama: Money Power s Point Man

By Stephen Lendman

Throughout his tenure, Obama s done what supporters thought impossible. He s governed to the right of George Bush.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33651.htm



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Danny Weil, Truthout: How is it that the non-profit Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment and Research, specializing in sliding-scale fees and methadone treatment for opiate addiction, was the fourth-largest campaign contributor to rightwing PACs, political parties and outside spending groups in the US in 2012?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13911-adelsons-wife-used-drug-clinic-to-fund-gop-war-chests



If Right-Wing Violence is Up 400%, Why is the FBI Targeting Environmentalists?

Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: The FBI has been either grossly miscalculating, or intentionally downplaying, murders and violent attacks by right-wing extremists while exaggerating the threat posed by animal rights activists and environmentalists, who have only destroyed property.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14038-if-right-wing-violence-is-up-400-why-is-the-fbi-targeting-environmentalists



Obama Inauguration Sponsors Spent Millions Influencing Government

Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity: Obama s inaugural festivities Monday are bankrolled by several of the nation s most powerful corporate lobbying forces, which have collectively spent at least $158.6 million on lobbying since the president first took office, a Center for Public Integrity review of congressional disclosures indicates.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14037-obama-inauguration-sponsors-spent-millions-influencing-government

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The Old Right Is New Again
http://lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken150.html

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Ron Paul Stirs Up Right Wing With Tweet About 'American Sniper'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/04-3



Sheldon Adelson: Crony capitalist

The American Spectator
by Joshua Shnayer

11/18/13

Sheldon Adelson, the wealthy casino mogul and political donor, doesn t have a leg to stand on if he plans to fight against online gambling. The Washington Post reports that Adelson intends to roll out a state-by-state campaign to ban Internet betting services, ostensibly because such websites are 'a danger to children, the poor and others who could be exploited by easy access to Internet betting.' What s not clear is how Adelson?s own casino empire doesn t pose such a danger. The Justice Department and numerous states, including Chris Christie s New Jersey, are moving ahead on easing restrictions or altogether legalizing Internet gambling. That s not to say that gaming and betting will be a libertarian dream come true, the services will be subject to voluminous regulations. But if Sheldon Adelson had his way, they wouldn t exist at all...

http://spectator.org/blog/56539/sheldon-adelson-crony-capitalist


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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An Interview With Henry A. Giroux

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: In the aftermath of a public and tragic mass shooting, statistics alone do not explain the spectacle of mass violence in America.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13982-violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux



Hate Crimes in America (and Elsewhere)

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: ''We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this earth, though it s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.''

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14110-a-rape-a-minute-a-thousand-corpses-a-year-hate-crimes-in-america-and-elsewhere



Are the Armed Forces a Rape Culture?

John LaForge, Counterpunch: The problem of unreported and unprosecuted sexual assaults in the military is notorious. Tens of thousands of victims keep quiet out of fear of retribution by superior officers and a distrust of the military court system.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17159-are-the-armed-forces-a-rape-culture

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Violence Is All Around Us
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e291.html

Government Pushes Propaganda Through Video Games
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/video-games-govt-propaganda.html

Prozacked Nation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2013/01/26/343-prozacked-nation/

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The Invisible War

Video

A female U.S. soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. In fact, The Department of Defense estimates that in 2010 alone, there were more than 19,000 violent sex crimes in the U.S. military.

http://is.gd/Zu9Ssd



Military sex assault reports jump by 50 percent

The number of reported sexual assaults across the military shot up by more than 50 percent this year, an increase that defense officials say may suggest that victims are becoming more willing to come forward after a tumultuous year of scandals that shined a spotlight on the crimes and put pressure on the military to take aggressive action.

http://news.yahoo.com/military-sex-assault-reports-jump-50-percent-165235599--politics.html


From Information Clearing House

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The US Military s Sexual Assault Epidemic
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/08/12



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Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but they will also reduce the demand for people, including smart people.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13993-a-new-industrial-revolution-the-rise-of-the-robots



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In Köln wiesen zwei katholische Kliniken ein Vergewaltigungsopfer ab.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/153558

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Verzichtet die Bundesregierung auf 7 Milliarden Euro?

Über die Nachsichten der Bundesregierung bei Toll Collect und die Verstrickungen von Peer Steinbrück.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38349/1.html



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By Pat Garofalo

U.S. corporations' after-tax profits have grown by 171 percent under Obama, more than under any president since World War II, and are now at their highest level relative to the size of the economy since the government began keeping records in 1947.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33642.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/16-1



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By Dave Lindorff

We Americans have completely lost any sense of why a country, a society, and a government exist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33631.htm



America s War for Reality

By Robert Parry

The real struggle confronting the United States is not between the Right and the Left in any traditional sense, but between those who believe in reality and those who are entranced by unreality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33632.htm



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Früher reichten Einheiten der Fallschirmjäger um in ''Französisch-Afrika'' die Ordnung des Kapitals wieder herzustellen. Heutezutage braucht es mehr und auch jede Menge Hilfe der ''europäischen Partner''. Und der Kampf gegen ''islamischen Terrorismus'' erscheint, noch lange bevor die bescheidene Frage gestellt wird, ob Krieg das passende Mittel sei, sehr selektiv: Islamischer Terrorismus regiert in einigen sehr befreundeten Staaten...Aber Nordmali hat Uran, die Grenzen in Westafrika sollen, anders als im Sudan, bleiben wie sie waren und ausser den Milizen gibt es dort ja auch noch die Tuaregs, die letztes Jahr zum vierten Mal seit der Staatsgründung 1960 rebellierten, und Investoren aus China sollen auch gesichtet worden sein. Dass in wüstengeprägten Norden Malis die Bewegung der Tuaregs von den religiösen Milizen an die Seite gedrängt wurden sei ein Anlaß der aktuellen Auseinandersetzung schreibt in ''The West chooses war in Mali'' Autor David Whitehouse am 15. Januar 2013 im socialist worker http://socialistworker.org/2013/01/15/the-west-chooses-war-in-mali

Siehe dazu auch:

''Der Rohstoffkrieg in Mali'' von Frank Doll am 14. Januar 2013 in der Wirtschaftswoche, der so beginnt: ''Den Militäreinsatz in Mali mit Sicherheitsinteressen zu begründen ist zynisch. Tief im Herzen Afrikas will Frankreichs Staatspräsident Hollande die Versorgung seines Landes mit dem Atomkraftbrennstoff Uran sichern. Geht die Operation schief, ist seine Regierung am Ende'' und auch wenn der letzte zitierte Satz eher konservatives Wunschdenken sein mag, ist schon auffällig dass offensichtlich Neid auf französische Zugriffsmöglichkeiten besteht.. http://www.wiwo.de/politik/europa/frankreich-der-rohstoffkrieg-in-mali/7629346.html


''Kolonialpolitik in Mali'' von Sevim Dagdelen am 16. Januar 2013 in der jungen welt, worin es heisst: ''An einen spontanen Rettungseinsatz durch das französische Militär kann man nicht glauben, mittlerweile wurde bekannt, dass die USA mit Luftbetankung und Großbritannien mit Transportmaschinen beteiligt sind. Der gewöhnlich gut unterrichtete private US-Nachrichtendienst Stratfor berichtet gar von deutschen Elitesoldaten vor Ort. Tatsächlich muss ein Einsatz wie der in Mali langfristig geplant sein, allein, was die Aufklärung von Zielen im Norden des Landes angeht, wo die »Islamisten« sich inmitten der Zivilbevölkerung bewegen. Die Darstellungen von einer Rettung in letzter Sekunde ist nichts als Kriegspropaganda, an der sich die Partner Frankreichs bereitwillig beteiligen'' http://www.jungewelt.de/2013/01-16/027.php


''Kommentar zur Militärintervention in Mali'' am 14. Januar 2013 bei ffm-online, wo hervorgehoben wird: ''Als Gründe der Intervention werden als erstes die Angst vor einem ''Sahelistan'' genannt, sodann der Schmuggel von Waffen, Drogen und Menschen. Was ''Sahelistan'' angeht, so beschreibt Human Rights Watch die Brutalität der islamistischen Kampfgruppen. Indes ist das Leid der Bevölkerung noch niemals ein Kriegsgrund gewesen. Der Import von Kämpfern und Waffen hat mit der von Europa und den USA verursachten Militarisierung der Revolution in Libyen zu tun, die Kenntnisse über den Drogenhandel beruhen auf unsicheren Quellen. Die Unterbrechung der Migrationsrouten, die Vorverlagerung der Barriere Mittelmeer in die Wüste hinein, ist für Europa neben der Sicherung der Bodenschätze wahrscheinlich das wichtigste Kriegsziel'' http://ffm-online.org/2013/01/14/kommentar-zur-militarintervention-in-mali/


''Dossier Mali'' ein ausführliches Dossier der Entwicklung in Mali bei afrique-europe-interact, mit einer ganzen Reihe ausgesprochen lesenswerter Artikel http://afrique-europe-interact.net/?article_id=682&clang=0

Darin besonders aktuell: ''Die Krise in Mali'' (pdf-Datei) Studie von Charlotte Wiedemann vom Dezember 2012, worin sehr konkret die politischen Verhältnisse in allen Teilen Malis berichtet werden http://afrique-europe-interact.net/files/201212_krise_in_mali_wiedemann-1.pdf


Gemeinsame Stellungnahme aus Friedensforschung und Friedensbewegung http://ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Mali/agf-baf-stellung.html


Hintergründe der Mali-Intervention

Die Sonderseite der Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. vom 16.01.2013 http://www.imi-online.de/2013/01/16/sonderseite-hintergrunde-der-mali-intervention/


Aus: LabourNet, 16. + 18. Januar 2013



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-4

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The US Is an Assassination State
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/douglass2.1.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-9

Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) on Victory to Save Open Internet, Fight Online Censors
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/15-0

Demand Justice for Aaron Swartz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/17

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Aaron Swartz and the Feds: How Progressivism Becomes Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson356.html

Internet Freedom and Copyright Reform: Aaron Swartz s Suspicious Death
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/lendman14.1.html

Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: Accountability for Prosecutorial Abuse
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/aaron-swartz-killed-by-govt.html

The US Legal System Is Evil
http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson357.html

Aaron Swartz Files Reveal How FBI Tracked Internet Activist
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/aaron-swartz-files.html

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Accountability for Prosecutorial Abuse

By Glenn Greenwald

Imposing real consequences on these federal prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case is vital for both justice and reform.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33626.htm

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Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department

Dean Baker, Truthout: The Justice Department apparently wanted to send a message with its decision to prosecute Swartz while ignoring the financial fraud that fueled the housing bubble. It certainly did.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14033-aaron-swartz-financial-fraud-and-the-justice-department

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Aaron Swartz: Internet civil libertarian suicided
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-surveillance-state/aaron-swartz-internet-civil-libertarian-suicided.html

Computer privacy activist ''suicided''
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/22044.html

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The martyrdom of Aaron Swartz

The Libertarian Standard
by Brian Martinez

01/16/14

A little over a year ago, a 26-year-old programmer and activist was murdered. His name was Aaron Swartz, and although he was found hanged in his Brooklyn apartment, and his death ruled a suicide, there is little question whose hands are stained with his blood. He was pursued mercilessly by a bullying prosecutor with a long track record of ruining the lives of brilliant (and perhaps naive) young men who didn t play by the state s rules. And he was betrayed by an educational institution that once prided itself on not playing by the rules, either...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-2

Poverty in America
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/17

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We must focus on the working poor

Reuters
by Brandon Roberts

01/15/13

In many respects the economy is healing, as both the unemployment rate and hiring statistics slowly improve. But there are growing numbers of Americans being left out. These are not just the unemployed. Rather they are families that, despite having a working adult in the home, earn less than twice the federal poverty income threshold, a widely recognized measure of family self-sufficiency. They are working, but making too little to build economically secure lives. And their number has grown steadily over the past five years...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Gedanken zum syrischen ''Aufstand der Würde''.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38350/1.html



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By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

Obama has not challenged U.S. perpetuation of the most powerful and far-reaching empire in human history with an estimated 700 to 1,000 foreign bases.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33618.htm



World War in Asia?

By Linh Dinh

With the Asia Pivot, the US wants to encircle China, and supplies old and new allies with missiles aimed at its main rival. An amped up arms race means cash flow for the world s biggest death dealer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33620.htm

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The Endless Arms Race
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-1



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Cyril Mychalejko, Truthout: The tendency to invoke a national security framework in discussions of climate change can lead to misguided and opportunistic policies centered on greenwashed imperialism.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13917-turtles-and-tomahawk-missiles-together-at-last-war-is-not-the-answer-to-climate-change

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Climate Scientists to Obama: Heed the Planet s Warnings, Reject the Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-5

Outrage as ''Public'' Locked Out of ''Public Hearings'' on Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-3

Keystone XL: A Clear Test for Obama s Lofty Climate Promises
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/22

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Keystone s Tar Sands Waste Said to Warm Climate More Than Coal

Refining Canada s oil sands into gasoline may speed global warming more than previously estimated after accounting for use of a waste product, which can be burned like coal.

http://is.gd/nqs6yI


From Information Clearing House



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Der Stern enthüllte letzte Woche, dass der CDU-Politiker Michael Fuchs seit 2008 für den umstrittenen Londoner Privat-Nachrichtendienst Hakluyt & Company (H&C) tätig war. Für 13 Vorträge erhielt er mindestens 57.000 Euro. Die Geschichte hat zwei brisante Facetten: erstens was macht ein Volksvertreter bei einer Spionagefirma? Zweitens waren die Vorträge auf Seiten des Bundestages jahrelang falsch angegeben.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=13133



Hakluyt Hakluyt & Company wurde von ehemaligen britischen Geheimdienstlern gegründet und ist spezialisiert auf die Beschaffung von Wirtschaftsinformationen für große Unternehmen. Ende der 90er Jahre spionierte die Firma für die Ölkonzerne bp und Shell durch einen Spitzel Greenpeace und andere Umweltorganisationen aus. Mehr über die Firma in der Lobbypedia (wird weiter ergänzt):

http://www.lobbypedia.de/index.php/Hakluyt_%26_Company



Wie aus einer Spionagefirma ein Geschichts-Verein wurde

Jahrelang blieb die Tätigkeit des Unions-Fraktionsvize Michael Fuchs für einen umstrittenen privaten Nachrichtendienst der Öffentlichkeit verborgen. Denn auf der Bundestagswebseite wurde stattdessen ein ähnlich klingender Verein aufgeführt. Nach unseren Recherchen ist der Politiker dafür mitverantwortlich. Denn: Michael Fuchs selbst hat den Namen seines Auftraggebers bei der ersten Meldung an den Bundestag verkürzt. Am Ende wurde, auf ungeklärtem Wege, auf der Bundestagswebseite aus der Spionagefirma Hakluyt & Company der Geschichts-Verein Hakluyt Society. Und damit wurden für die Öffentlichkeit aus einer brisanten Tätigkeit harmlose Vorträge.

Mehr über die von ehemaligen Mitgliedern des britischen Geheimdienstes gegründete Firma gibt es in unserem Lobbylexikon Lobbypedia: http://lobbypedia.de/index.php/Hakluyt_&_Company

Es bleiben noch viele Fragen offen - leider verweigert Herr Fuchs uns darauf die Antwort. Mehr dazu lesen Sie hier: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/index.php?p=13515

Inzwischen musste Michael Fuchs noch eine weitere Angabe berichtigen: statt einer Beteiligung an der ''Grundstücksverwaltung GmbH, Koblenz'' steht nun ''Grundstücksverwaltungs- und Beratungs-GmbH & Co KG, Koblenz'' auf der Webseite. Der kleine, aber feine Unterschied: Die bisherige Angabe verriet nicht, dass die Firma auch als Unternehmensberatung arbeitet. Das ist hinsichtlich möglicher Interessenkonflikte für einen Abgeordneten natürlich viel heikler als eine reine Grundstücksverwaltung. Wir bleiben an dem Fall dran.



Ein Abgeordneter mit Lobbyagentur: Jens Spahn antwortet nicht http://www.lobbycontrol.de/index.php?p=13640

24. Januar 2013

Focus enthüllte Ende November, dass der Gesundheitsexperte der CDU im Bundestag, Jens Spahn, jahrelang indirekt Anteile an der Lobby-Agentur Politas hielt. Spahn schickte uns damals eine Stellungnahme zu dem Focus-Artikel zu. Aber die Stellungnahme ließ wichtige Fragen offen. Wir haben Spahn eine Reihe von Nachfragen geschickt, aber bis heute keine Antwort erhalten.



Konsequenzen ziehen, Verhaltensregeln verbessern

Im Fall Fuchs spielt auch die Bundestagsverwaltung eine wichtige Rolle. Denn sie ist nicht in der Lage, aufzuklären, wie es zu der falschen Angabe bei den Nebentätigkeiten beim Unions-Fraktionsvize kam. Die Geschichte macht die Probleme und Lücken der aktuellen Transparenzregeln für Bundestagsabgeordnete deutlich. Auch das Meldeverfahren bei der Bundestagsverwaltung muss verbessert werden.

Mehr dazu lesen Sie hier: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/index.php?p=13571

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Informationsgespräche über den Euro

Spar-Fuchs enttarnt Mario Monti als möglichen Hakluyt-&-Company-Redner.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/153622



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Gemeinsam mit europäischen Partnern haben wir gestern einen Protestbrief an EU-Kommisionspräsident Barroso geschickt: Er soll die Wiederberufung von Michel Petite als Ethikberater der EU-Kommission zurücknehmen. Petite war früher Chef des juristischen Dienstes der EU-Kommission. Inzwischen hat er die Seiten gewechselt und ist selbst als Lobbyist tätig. So nutzte er seine alten Verbindungen zum Juristischen Dienst beispielsweise für den Tabakkonzern Philip Morris.

Ein Seitenwechsler, der mit seinen alten Kontakten Kunden einen bevorzugten Zugang zur EU-Kommission verschafft, ist als Ethikberater schlicht untragbar. Barroso muss das Komitee mit externen und unabhängigen Experten neu besetzen.

Weitere Informationen und der Brief als pdf: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=13197

Demnächst endet die Unterschriftenaktion für die Offenlegung aller Fakten über den Rücktritt von John Dalli und für schärfere Ethikregeln. Unterschreiben Sie jetzt ? der Fall Petite zeigt einmal mehr, dass die Kommission unbedingt klarere Regeln benötigt!

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blauerdunst



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Palm Beach Post

01/14/13

Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic...

http://tinyurl.com/bk2thfl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sex Crimes Continue to Plague US Military

Sarah L. Blum, Truthout: A culture of fear, intimidation and entitlement allows sexual predators at all levels and branches of the armed services free access to military women (and men), who often have little recourse.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13923-a-target-rich-environment-sex-crimes-continue-to-plague-the-us-military

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Army psychologist critical of military rights abuses commits suicide

He went to Iraq to help U.S. troops manage post-traumatic stress disorder, and returned with the disorder, according to news reports.

http://is.gd/rD3amv


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