World-News: 07 Februar 2008

Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan, writing for The Politico, report, "Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the contentious 2006 election cycle and that they should brace for the possibility that an unfolding investigation could uncover financial improprieties stretching back several years, according to GOP sources briefed on the members-only discussions."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708H.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 23:19

Moussaoui Prosecutor Knew of CIA Tapes

The Associated Press reports, "The lead prosecutor in the terror case against Zacarias Moussaoui likely knew the CIA destroyed tapes of its interrogations of al-Qaida suspects more than a year before the government acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed documents show."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708F.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 23:16

Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches

Ellen Nakashima, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse." And, Kevin Poulsen, writing for Wired, reports, "The FBI sought approval to use its CIPAV spyware program from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in terrorism or foreign spying cases, THREAT LEVEL has learned."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708E.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 23:12

Gates: US Won't Commit to Protecting Iraq

Karen DeYoung, writing for The Washington Post, reports: "A long-term 'relationship' being negotiated between the United States and Iraq will include U.S. 'security assurances and commitments ... to deter foreign aggression against Iraq that violates its sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, or airspace,' according to an agreement signed by President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki last November. Or maybe it won't."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708B.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 23:09

Top Army Official Says Military Force "Worn Thin"

Anne Flaherty, writing for The Associated Press, reports, "The top uniformed military officer on Wednesday described a tired U.S. military force, worn thin by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and unlikely to come home in large numbers anytime soon." And, Patrick Cockburn, writing for The Independent UK, reports from Baghdad: "The Shia family got the worst of the fighting and, after suffering seven dead, sent a desperate message asking for help to the Mehdi Army, the powerful Shia militia of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that once would have rushed to defend them. On this occasion, however, the local Mehdi Army commander turned them down, saying: 'We can do nothing because we are under orders not to break the ceasefire.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708A.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 23:06

Working hard on the political front

https://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/87e78c42cf094b03

rudkla - 7. Feb, 22:59

Tell your representative to oppose telecom immunity and warrantless wiretapping

https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/375e85b47e7f5df1?hl=en

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 22:21

Tell Senate to Vote Against Torture

https://tinyurl.com/yvbwae

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 22:13

Schreiben an Horst Seehofer

https://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/9d02fe06e47b5d45

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 19:03

Getting Duped: How the Media Messes with Your Mind

https://www.sciam.com/article/id/getting-duped/SID/mail

Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos

rudkla - 7. Feb, 18:56

Ron Paul National Delegate Count Now 42 or More

https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/b3b53457704b9c4d?hl=en

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:28

UN Blasts White House on Waterboarding

The Associated Press reports: "the United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the US to give up its defense of 'unjustifiable' interrogation methods. The comments from Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, came a day after the Bush administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that waterboarding was used by US government questioners on three terror suspects."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020708P.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:24

Grünes Versteckspiel: Links blinken, rechts abbiegen

https://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31087

rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:20

Super Tuesday, Talk Radio & Dr. No.

So, what happens now? Remember, your ordinary candidate with Dr. Paul’s numbers now would drop out. But Dr. No will not drop out. Why? As he has said many times, we, the precinct workers, not Dr. No, run the campaign. He runs at our pleasure. And we are directing him to stay in through the Convention. Dr. No is of course a true gentleman, a healer, meek, a gentle man. We, the campaign, are not. We are as mean as a mongoose with an attitude.......

https://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan31.htm

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:17

US Election: not another Bush

https://www.avaaz.org/en/us_change_course/8.php/?cl=55118502

rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:08

CPL Mise en garde EDF et Opérateurs Télécommunications

https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/CPL.php#1

rudkla - 7. Feb, 17:04

Cell Tower Controversy

https://clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/487742?wpid=2541

Informant: gotemf

rudkla - 7. Feb, 16:18

Mast campaigner takes on the world

The country's most renowned mobile phone mast campaigner is organising a unique conference to debate the pros and cons of masts.

Elieen O'Connor, who recently moved to Formby, hopes to bring together delegates from across the globe to a two-day event - the first of its kind - in London in the summer.

Read More...
https://www.champnews.com/html/newsstory.asp?id=6452

rudkla - 7. Feb, 16:13

Proposed cell phone tower on Sandy middle school raises questions

https://tinyurl.com/25jmo3

Informant: gotemf

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 16:06

Residents angry with phone mast plan

By Carolyn Robertson

Residents opposed to a mobile phone mast in the middle of their neighbourhood are calling for support to launch a campaign against it.

They were enraged when members of Mid Sussex District Council's central area planning committee gave approval for a mast to be put next to the railway embankment and bridge in Balcombe Road, Haywards Heath.

The 10-metre telegraph-style mast with an equipment cabinet at its base will be operated by Orange PCS Ltd. The equipment will replace an existing site at Central Sussex College, on a building that is due to be demolished.

Councillors received 20 letters and two petitions signed by 22 people objecting to the mast because of health fears as well as visual impact and affect on property prices.

Read More...
https://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/mid-sussex-news/Residents-angry-with-phone-mast.3753391.jp

rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:48

Rejecting national ID

The American Spectator
by Jim Harper

02/07/08

With so many states on record opposing REAL ID, the feds have been shifting through numerous stories trying to justify their national ID. First, they said it was a national security tool. But by now everyone realizes how easy it would be for criminal organizations and terrorists to avoid or defeat a national ID system. Then REAL ID became a way to control illegal immigration. But it has the same defects here too. Illegal immigrants will use a mix of forgery, fraud, and corruption at any motor vehicles bureau in the country to get around REAL ID. Driving illegal immigrants further into criminality deepens the problem rather than fixing it. And should law-abiding American citizens really have to carry a national ID to get at illegal immigrants? Just who is the criminal here? Next, we were told that having a national ID was about identity fraud. But putting our personal information, Social Security Numbers, and basic identity documents like birth certificates into a nationwide string of government databases is a recipe for more identity theft, not less...

https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12706

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:42

Government mortgage bailout could make problem worse

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein

02/06/08

[I]f the mortgage meltdown continues, we could see many bank and business failures … hundreds of thousands of families out on the streets … and a major recession in 2008. In the wake of all of this calamitous news, it isn’t surprising that the government has taken action. Specifically, President Bush has called for a ‘voluntary’ 5-year freeze on low introductory mortgage rates for families now making payments but unable to afford higher rates. Only primary home owners would qualify, and they must have a perfect record of home payments. Once such a measure is introduced, it would likely expand. Indeed, others are already proposing a permanent, mandatory freeze in rates. While the desire to ‘do something,’ about the mortgage crisis is natural, a mortgage rate freeze is unlikely to do more than prolong the grief and could well turn what would have been a short recession into a protracted depression...

https://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/08-mortgage-bailout.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:36

US Admiral Confirms Secret Camp at Gitmo

Lafayette Daily Advertiser

02/07/08

Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret. For the first time, the top commander of detention operations at Guantanamo has confirmed the existence of the mysterious Camp 7...

https://tinyurl.com/2zpnv8

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:31

Senate Republicans block “stimulus” bill

Quincy Patriot Ledger

02/07/08

The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package. GOP senators banded together Wednesday to thwart the $205 billion plan, leaving Democrats with a difficult choice either to quickly accept a House bill they have said is inadequate or risk being blamed for delaying a measure designed as a swift shot in the arm for the lagging economy...

https://tinyurl.com/28phk3

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:26

Bush: US “may” torture again

BBC News [UK]

02/06/08

US President George Bush might consider authorising the controversial interrogation method of waterboarding in future, the White House has said. Belief that an attack was imminent and legal advice would be major factors in the decision, his spokesman said. On Tuesday the CIA admitted for the first time that it had used the method, which simulates drowning and has been condemned as torture by rights groups. … White House spokesman Tony Fratto maintained that the practice — which the CIA said it had carried out on three high-profile al-Qaeda detainees — was legal...

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7231146.stm

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:17

Weltbank fördert Regenwaldzerstörung

Peru gewinnt im Amazonasbecken Erdgas und will den lukrativen Energieträger künftig nach Mexiko und in die USA exportieren.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/103078

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:13

Droht die "Mutter aller Finanzkrisen"?

Fred Bergsten vom renommierten Peterson Institute for International Economics weist auf mögliche Folgen der ökonomischen Ungleichgewichte hin.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27208/1.html

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:10

To Save a Forest: Grand Plan to Preserve Trees, Protect Climate

Michael Casey, of The Associated Press, writes: "For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EC.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:51

The World's Rubbish Dump

Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden, of The Independent UK, report, "A 'plastic soup' of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EB.shtml

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Howden

rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:47

Parliamentary Snarl Delays Senate Rewrite of Surveillance Law

According to Tim Starks, Congressional Quarterly, "The Senate may be forced to postpone until much later this week any roll-call votes on amendments to a bill to overhaul electronic surveillance rules, thwarting efforts by Democratic leaders to complete action on the measure quickly."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608T.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:44

Senator Hillary Clinton winning more delegates on Super Tuesday?

Super Tuesday Delegate Count Even

Truthout's Scott Galindez reports: "Despite estimates by many media organizations that show Senator Hillary Clinton winning more delegates on Super Tuesday, the reality is that it was essentially a tie."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608R.shtml

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Hillary's Pre-Tuesday Coverage Was Far From Super

In Women's eNews, Caryl Rivers writes, "If you think a cloud of testosterone hung heavy over the Super Bowl, just cast your mind back over the state of opinion journalism - especially on TV - that we've been treated to in the political primary season that ended its biggest run yesterday with Super Tuesday."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608WA.shtml

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:41

Mukasey's 'repugnant equivocation' is 'legally and morally wrong'

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7148/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:33

Was macht uns krank?

https://kommentare.zeit.de/user/coenemans/beitrag/2008/02/06/was-macht-uns-krank

rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:20

In reality Aspartame, is a drug, not an additive

Scott has sent you a message:
Some information on aspartame (brain tumors), Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, the Aspartame Poisoner
https://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/628646

Donald Rumsfeld, Pepsi, Nixon, connection
https://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/628653

Donald Rumsfeld, In reality, aspartame, is a drug,..not an additive
(he got the job as president of searle, after he lobbied for its approval)
(fda,... proven to give brain tumors)
https://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/628660

World Military Spending, 2005, USA-421 billion, China 63 billion, Russia 62 billion.
https://www.care2.com/news/member/725316885/607227

Bickford.truthtv.- nwo, they're poisoning us for money
https://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/628665

Connie Fogal Speaks Against The NWO..VERY INFORMATIVE
https://www.care2.com/news/member/725316885/609321

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 12:00

Next-up news n°471

https://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/6a46e062e6000f48

https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4670579/

rudkla - 7. Feb, 11:49

Tide Turns To Positive as E-mails Flood Town Offices in Support of Resolution to Indict Bush, Cheney

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6881/

Informant: John Calvert

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rudkla - 7. Feb, 11:43

impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2008

https://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2008/04.htm

rudkla - 7. Feb, 11:41

The Mystery of the Undersea Cables

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7149/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Unexplainable Cutting Of Internet Cables Points To Sabotage
https://www.infowars.net/articles/february2008/060208Cables.htm

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Cable Cutting Mayhem: 5th Undersea Internet Cable Cut

It began with two undersea telecommunications cables that served as data links between Europe and the Middle East being cut, but it's now escalated with a further three undersea internet cables being cut, with major disruptions to internet services.

https://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=9297

From Information Clearing House

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The cable-cutter mystery

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/08/08

I was skeptical, at first, of speculation over the cutting of two cables linking the Middle East with the Internet, which had it as part of some Vast Neocon Conspiracy to isolate the region prior to a US military assault. However, when two more cables — this time, in the Persian Gulf — were mysteriously cut, I began to wonder …. In a piece headlined ‘Cable cutter nutters chase conspiracy theories,’ The Register goes out of its way to laugh off the prospect that what we are witnessing is a military operation, or the prelude to one, sniffing ‘there’s little more than suspicions to work with’ since we’ve yet to reach the damaged cables. Yet, given the sort of government we are dealing with — a regime that lied us into one war, and is not-so-subtly trying to finagle us into yet another one — why shouldn’t we be suspicious? We’d have to be crazy not to be...

https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12329

Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage

MSNBC

02/25/08

Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries. The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems from the Middle East to India...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23339712/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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5th cable cut fuels allegations of isolating Iran
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4694118/

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UN agency: Internet Cables Possibly Sabotaged
https://www.infowars.net/articles/february2008/200208Sabotaged.htm

Informant: shane_digital

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cable+cut
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rudkla - 7. Feb, 08:56