World-News: 15 Januar 2010

Telegraph.co.uk

By Ian Douglas

Last updated: January 15th, 2010

The erection of a new mobile phone mast is often met with local opposition, with complaints of ...

https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/100004561/mobile-phone-masts-and-health-in-the-news-again/

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I thought this report was interesting but without independent evidence from those actually living near this real mast - having used a microwave monitor confirming this mast was turned off day and night for 6 weeks - there is no proof that this mast was turned off as the company stated.

Laboratory tests using mocked up masts are not the same as living near a mast twenty four hours a day, as there will be many emission fluctuations from an actual mast in real time.

Some neighbours of mine were told a mast was turned off a few years back - before microwave monitors were easily available - and then when I managed to borrow such a monitor - I found the opposite to be the case. So, I personally could never accept a mobile phone company's statement that a mast was turned off unless I had checked for myself. Its a shame these poor people have not had that benefit.

Jane

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 23:04

Next-up News Nr 1207

- EMF CEM JAPAN 2010
https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Japan.php#1

rudkla - 15. Jan, 22:27

Ecuadors Präsident droht mit Ölförderung im Regenwald- Nationalpark

https://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/f0a53911d4109e06?hl=de

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 22:10

Secret police

Reason
by Brian Doherty

Civil libertarians hoped that the Obama era would see a renewed commitment to privacy protections. But their dreams are being dashed. Congress seems likely to recess without adjusting aspects of the Patriot Act set to expire at the end of the year, which means that the existing law will be temporarily extended. Elements up for reconsideration include roving wiretaps in foreign intelligence investigations that are not targeted to a specific communication mode or person and ’section 215’ ability to seize business or other records in a presumptive terror investigation...

https://reason.com/archives/2010/01/14/secret-police

If you liked the Patriot Act …

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Doug Newman

01/18/10

Just how far down this road are you willing to go? How much of your life, privacy, dignity and self-respect are you willing to lay bare, if you will, in the name of security? Just remember that, in the last century, 180 million people perished at the hands of their own governments. This is infinitely more than died at the hands of terrorists...

https://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle553-20100117-03.html

The right to see you naked

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Christopher Westley

01/18/10

Providence, Rhode Island, journalist Froma Harrop is as establishmentarian as they come, and her post-Christmas-Day-terrorist-bombing-attempt column does nothing to alleviate this impression. The title? ‘To Be Safe Flying, We’d Happily Perform This Strip Tease.’ That failed attempt, you see, did not simply exhilarate those on the left and right, who see it as reason to justify further expansions of state power. In Harrop’s case, it also brings out her inner exhibitionist...

https://mises.org/daily/4006

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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No Genitalia Measurement, No Fly

Naked body scanners compulsory, refuse and you'll be treated like a terrorist

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, February 1, 2010

Naked body scanning will now be compulsory at two of Britain’s biggest airports after the government announced people who refuse to let security thugs ogle their genitalia will be treated like terrorists and barred from flying.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/no-genitalia-measurement-no-fly.html

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 13:44

Swine Fu Taskforce Links To Vaccine Manufacturers Exposed

rudkla - 15. Jan, 13:22

The next meltdown

National Review
by Stephen Spruiell

01/14/10

Bob Wiedemer is explaining to a roomful of hedge-fund investors that the end of America as we know it won’t be as bad as they think. Wiedemer is co-author of the new book Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown. Sound overblown? That’s what they said about his first book, America’s Bubble Economy, in which Wiedemer and his co-authors, his Ph.D. brother David and writer Cindy Spitzer, predicted that the U.S. residential real-estate market was overvalued and due for a crash. That was in 2006, months before the crash actually occurred. Now Wiedemer is warning people that another bubble is about to collapse: America itself...

https://tinyurl.com/yfqbslg

Saving capitalism …

The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer

We have met the enemy and he is us. So Pogo might have described the situation that the business community has created for itself. There is no question that the Obama administration, and even more the Democratic leadership in Congress, harbor something between skepticism and hostility towards free markets. They believe they can do a better job of allocating the nation’s resources than can millions of consumers signaling their preferences to millions of producers by setting the cash registers ringing. That’s one reason — indebtedness to trade unions is another — Obama and the Democrats bailed out a manufacturer of cars no one wanted to buy. But the wave of regulations that characterized the latter part of the Bush administration and the first year of the Obama administration has as much to do with the behavior of the business community, or at least some of its most prominent members, as with the ideological bent of our political masters... (for publication 01/18/10)

https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/saving-capitalism

President Obama, the “war on terror,” and liberty

Intellectual Conservative
by Jack Kerwick

War is the emblem of a state emergency. There is no greater crisis that a state can suffer, no set of circumstances further removed from the ordinary, than those of war. It is true that in our violent, broken world, war, regrettably, is more often than not an indispensable means to sustaining freedom, but it is no less true that during times of war freedom is never more greatly imperiled, for it is then that the government, in the name of victory, faces none of the resistance to the measures it appropriates that it otherwise would. It is during war that government is expected to exercise its vast powers, not just toward the Enemy, but toward citizens. To put it more simply, when a state is at war, its government can coerce the citizenry far easily and to a far greater extent than it could at any other time...

https://tinyurl.com/ygv3k5a

Ron Paul shows “the system” is broken

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner

02/23/10

Dr. Ron Paul is the only decent person in congress, or in any of the three branches of the fe(de)ral government for that matter. That isn’t to say he is right on every issue; he’s not. He is also irrefutable proof that ‘the system’ does not work...

https://tinyurl.com/yhum5ax

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Turns Up the Heat
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/15-6

Obama's Latest Ruse: The Bank Tax
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/15-7

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 11:31

Return to government by the people, for the people

Boston Globe
by Joe Kennedy

I did not get into this race for fame or money. It cuts my pay and intrudes into my private life, but I expected that. I entered because every day I see more friends out of work, struggling to support their families, and I know how to fix it. Our taxes increase, while those on entitlements live better than those working multiple jobs to support their families. This must be stopped. Like many in Massachusetts, I am fed up with government taking money and freedoms, giving us nothing in return. Everyday when you go to work to feed your family, Congress goes to work to take more from you. I will not let that continue. We, as a nation, invade and occupy foreign lands to protect ‘our interests.’ In truth, it is because of oil. Our interests should be the men and women who have completed their mission and want to come home...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 11:13

Environmentalists Outraged Over Obama's Offshore Plan

Arctic permafrost “leaking methane at record levels”

The Guardian [UK]

01/14/10

Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five years, and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame. The discovery follows a string of reports from the region in recent years that previously frozen boggy soils are melting and releasing methane in greater quantities. Such Arctic soils currently lock away billions of tonnes of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, leading some scientists to describe melting permafrost as a ticking time bomb that could overwhelm efforts to tackle climate change...

https://tinyurl.com/yjoqb6v

Scientists: Methane frozen beneath Arctic sea bed destabilizing

Times Online [UK]

03/05/10

Huge quantities of methane below the Arctic seabed are showing signs of destabilising, according to research conducted in the East Siberian Sea. Scientists aboard Russian icebreakers have discovered that methane is leaking from the sub-sea permafrost far faster than had been previously estimated, raising concerns that climatic tipping points may have been reached. As a greenhouse gas, methane is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide but emissions from subsea permafrost are not included in climate change prediction models...

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7050312.ece

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sceptical about Climate Change Sceptics
https://www.i-sis.org.uk/scepticAboutClimateChangeSceptics.php

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Putting a stop to the Arctic Meltdown

Should the oil companies be allowed to take advantage of melting ice to drill for more oil in the warming Arctic? Should industrial fishing fleets be allowed to chase the last remnants of fished-out stocks into the areas where ice has previously stopped their ships? We say no: as should anyone who believes you don't put out a fire with gasoline.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688077ms193

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Fresh Evidence Global Warming Is Man-Made
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/05-5

Murphy’s Law and the Stupidity of Obama’s Drill-Drill-Drill Offshore Oil Policy
https://act.commondreams.org/go/402?akid=44.124981.Ed59L2&t=32

Kill the Drill: Environmentalists Outraged Over Obama's Offshore Plan
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/01-1

NOAA Concerns Brushed Aside in Obama Offshore Drilling Plan
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/04/01-6

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Drill, Barack, drill

Obama to open up US East Coast for oil exploration.
https://snipurl.com/v7a18

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 10:52

Racing to End to Horse Slaughter

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2010/01/fighting_horse_slaughter_011210.html

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 10:45

Dollar Crisis Looms if US Doesn't Curb Debt

The United States must soon raise taxes or cut government spending to curb its debt, and failure to act will risk a crippling dollar crisis as investor confidence ebbs, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/34848783

US Foreclosures Up 21% in 2009

The number of U.S. residential properties receiving at least one foreclosure filing jumped 21% in 2009 to a record 2.82 million, reports RealtyTrac.

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/december-us-foreclosures-jump.html

US : New unemployed rise for second week

New claims for jobless insurance benefits in the United States rose for the second consecutive week amid persistent labor market concerns even as the economy recovers from recession.

https://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_new_jobless_rise_for_second_week_01142010.html

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 10:07

Fighting for Human Rights

UK: Government to release secret files that 'prove MI5 colluded in torture of terror suspect'

Government lawyers have spent the past four months fighting a desperate legal battle to avoid disclosing the potentially deeply-shameful information.

https://snipurl.com/u32wz

Fighting for Human Rights
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rudkla - 15. Jan, 10:02

Is Obama a Republican?

Obama Wants Record $708B for Wars Next Year

By ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY

President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year. - The extra $33 billion in 2010 would mostly go toward the expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24396.htm

Millions More US Children in Poverty

By Tom Eley

In 2008, one in five US children under age 18 lived in families below the official poverty level, according to Census Bureau data released in September 2009. The figure now is significantly higher, according to Brookings researcher Julia B. Isaacs.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24397.htm

U.S. Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza

A wave of American companies have been arriving in Iraq in recent months to pursue what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar bonanza of projects to revive the country's stagnant petroleum industry.

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Iraq, Afghan wars' cost tops $1trillion

Obama is expected to request another $33 billion to fund more troops this year. This year is the first in which more funds are being spent in Afghanistan than Iraq.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=219048

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Is Obama a Republican?

Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/14/10

When it comes to defense, history suggests that the two major parties offer a choice on the order of McDonald’s and Burger King. Anyone looking back 50 years from now at objective indicators would have trouble identifying a meaningful difference between the current president and the last one. For that matter, it’s easy to assume that when President Obama began addressing national security policy, he accidentally picked up John McCain’s platform instead of his own. Critics suspect Obama is a closet Muslim. But maybe his real secret is that he’s a closet Republican...

https://reason.com/archives/2010/01/14/is-obama-a-republican

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 09:23

Bilderbergs of the World Unite

By William Bowles

The turning point when oil took centre stage came significantly as the 20th century began with the world's most powerful imperial navies, the German and British switching from burning coal to burning oil. From that point on the destinies of Persia and the Arab world irrevocably became central to Western imperial ambitions.

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 09:07

Help Haiti: The Unforgiven Country Cries Out

Red Cross: Up to 50,000 Killed in Haiti Quake

January 14, 2010

The Haitian Red Cross has said that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed by Tuesday's earthquake, with a further 3 million hurt or homeless.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24395.htm

Help Haiti

The Unforgiven Country Cries Out

By Chris Floyd

Hope must not be blind; you have to acknowledge the grim realities in order to know just what you're up against. So let's take a long, hard look.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24393.htm

Our Role in Haiti's Plight

By Peter Hallward

If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24392.htm

Haitian Earthquake

Why the Blood Is on Our Hands

By Ted Rall

As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S.-controlled state media all carried the same descriptive sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere..." Gee, I wonder how that happened?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24391.htm

Pat Robertson: Haiti 'Cursed' By 'Pact To The Devil'

Video

"They got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

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Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again

Readers of the The Shock Doctrine know that the Heritage Foundation has been one of the leading advocates of exploiting disasters to push through their unpopular pro-corporate policies.

https://www.naomiklein.org/main

Haiti: Limbaugh was Bad, but ..

From a website promoting Anti-Obama and Anti-Democratic Party rants, Republicans in general, the Tea Party Movement and Conservative politicians comes one of the worst examples of political opportunism over the disaster in Haiti I've seen to date.

https://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/1/14/83843/9451

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti

Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?

By Michel Chossudovsky

The overall humanitarian operation is not being led by civilian governmental agencies such as FEMA or USAID, but by the Pentagon.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24421.htm

Haiti: The Price of Freedom

By Carolyn Cooper

The US refused to recognise the new Haitian republic and imposed an embargo that lasted until 1862. In 1915, the US invaded Haiti to protect its economic interests and remained in occupation until 1934. Local Haitian leaders were no less predatory than foreign forces, as demonstrated in the truly terrifying reign of Papa and Baby Doc.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24432.htm

Witness to a nightmare

ON SATURDAY, Hillary Clinton flew into Haiti to oversee the relief effort--supposedly. But I think her trip to Haiti tells you all you need to know: They had to shut down the airport for three hours so she could land, which meant that no actual aid flights could come in.

https://socialistworker.org/2010/01/18/witness-to-a-nightmare

US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti

Brazil and France lodged an official protest with Washington after US military aircraft were given priority at Port-au-Prince's congested airport, forcing many non-US flights to divert to the Dominican Republic.

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Haiti's elite spared from much of the devastation

Search-and-rescue operations have been intensely focused on buildings with international aid workers, such as the crushed U.N. headquarters, and on large hotels with international clientele. Some international rescue workers said they are being sent to find foreign nationals first.

https://snipurl.com/u4dto

From Information Clearing House

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HAITI EARTHQUAKE LIVE BLOG
https://www.truthout.org/haiti-earthquake-live-blog-hatian-prime-minister-says-hundreds-thousands-dead56040

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Haiti's History of Hardship
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/14

Haitians Struggle After Earthquake
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/14-0

Ted Rall: Haitian Earthquake: Made in the USA
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-13

What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be)
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-2

Our Role in Haiti's Plight
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-4

Ten Things the US Can and Should Do for Haiti
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-11

Rights Groups Urge Respect for Human Rights in Delivering Aid to Haiti
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/14-18

Media Matters for America: For Fox's Top-Rated Shows, Haiti Tragedy Is Hardly News
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/14-15

Profiting from Haiti's Crisis: Disaster Capitalism in Washington's Backyard
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/19-0

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Schon wieder helfen alle Haiti. Wer solche Freunde hat...

Noch ist die Zahl der Opfer des Erdbebens längst nicht klar - in jedem Fall war es ein einziger Schrecken. Und während die Mainstream-Medien neben der Suche nach möglichst ergreifenden Bildern sich vor allem der Selbstdarstellung der Güte großer Mächte widmen geht es in unserer aktuellen kleinen Materialsammlung "Ein politisches Erdbeben" vom 15. Januar 2010 vor allem um die nichtnatürlichen Hintergründe dieser Katastrophe: https://www.labournet.de/internationales/rh/politerdbeben.html

Aus: LabourNet, 15. Januar 2010

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 08:54

https://www.tacomapjh.org/EverMoreReliantOn.htm

US ramps up Afpak drone war despite legal, strategic concerns
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9352/

Informant: jensenmk

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US Attack in Pakistan Kills at Least 18 People

Two missiles were fired at a compound on Thursday, where Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief, was believed to have been.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/201011453930817749.html

CIA drone strike missed Mehsud, say Pakistani Taliban

Leader left Waziristan compound before attack, say insurgents, while intelligence source concedes it is highly unlikely he died.

https://snipurl.com/u32v0

ACLU Requests Information On Predator Drone Program

In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union asked the government to disclose the legal basis for its use of predator drones to conduct "targeted killings" overseas.

https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-requests-information-predator-drone-program

Israeli drones take over Afghan skies

While Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can. Starting next week, five NATO member countries will be operating unmanned aerial vehicles produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central Asian country.

https://snipurl.com/u5utc

Wars Without Heroes

By Iftekhar A. Khan

Can a CIA operative who pushes the joystick button to launch hellfire missiles by a Predator or a Reaper drone to kill mostly innocent people in mud hamlets in FATA be called a war hero?

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rudkla - 15. Jan, 08:29