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9:00am Sunday 26th April 2009

STOURBRIDGE euro MP Liz Lynne is demanding more action to examine potential harm from mobile phone masts.

Lib Dem MEP Liz is also calling on countries in the euro zone to dramatically reduce exposure limits for mobile phone masts near schools or residential areas until scientists discover if wireless communication devices cause long-tem harm.

The initiative, including a written declaration in the European Parliament, follows her visit to the High Acres site in Kingswinford in February where residents fear a massive base station may causing a cancer hotspot.

Liz, who is co-chair of MEPs Against Cancer in the European Parliament said: “With the explosion in demand for mobile phones we have seen a huge increase in the number of mobile phone masts springing up around both the UK and the rest of Europe, but many experts are now raising serious questions about the long term health effects of these masts.

“There is more and more evidence that ten, 15 years down the line there may be serious side-effects from the use of wireless technology due to the electromagnetic radiation these devices emit.”

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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "If not the Justice Department lawyers, who gave the earlier go-ahead? The Senate report puts the onus directly on the decider-in-chief, President George W. Bush. He issued a written determination on February 7, 2002, 'that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which would have afforded minimum standards for humane treatment, did not apply to al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees.'"

https://www.truthout.org/042509A



CIA Official: No Proof Harsh Techniques Stopped Terror Attacks

Mark Seibel and Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers: "The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any 'specific imminent attacks,' according to recently declassified Justice Department memos."

https://www.truthout.org/042509B



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Nach dem Antrag beim Sozialgericht auf Vorlage ihrer Musterklage gegen den zu geringen Hartz IV-Regelsatz beim Bundesverfassungsgericht – unter Berufung auf die entsprechende Entscheidung des Hessischen Landessozialgerichts vom 29. Oktober 2008 (Az: L 6 AS 336/07) - hat Hartz4-Plattformsprecherin und Musterklägerin Brigitte Vallenthin zusätzlich „Überprüfungsantrag gemäß § 44 SGB X“ gegenüber dem „Amt für Soziale Arbeit“ Wiesbaden gestellt.

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Wenn die Arge sagt, dass die Wohnung angeblich zu teuer ist

Haben Sie schon einen Brief von der Arge bekommen, in dem steht, dass Sie zu teuer wohnen und demnächst nur noch einen Teil der Miete erstattet bekommen? Erst ist der Arbeitsplatz weg und jetzt auch noch die Wohnung in Gefahr. Werden die Miet- und Heizkosten nur noch teilweise von der Arge bezahlt, verschärft sich die Lebenssituation der Arbeitslosengeld II – Empfänger. Es steht weniger Geld für das tägliche Leben zur Verfügung, wenn aus der ohnehin zu niedrigen Regeleistung noch zusätzlich mehr für das Wohnen ausgegeben werden muss. Vielfach werden Betroffene so gezwungen, ihre bisherige Wohnung aufzugeben.

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Der Fehler im System
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Gutachten: Atomaufsicht stärken und Beweislast umkehren. Das Risiko für Kinder unter fünf Jahren, an Krebs bzw. Leukämie zu erkranken, nimmt zu, je näher ihr Wohnort an einem Kernkraftwerk liegt.

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FORSA-Umfrage: Mehrheit lehnt Atomkraft ab

Zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung wollen den beschlossenen Ausstieg beibehalten oder sogar beschleunigen.

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NABU fordert sofortiges Abschalten der unsichersten Atomkraftwerke

Aus Tschernobyl lernen heißt Brunsbüttel, Biblis & Co stilllegen.
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Rapide Meeresspiegelschwankungen in Warmzeiten - Instabile Eisschilde als Verursacher?

Kollabierende Eisschilde ließen Meeresspiegel in die Höhe schnellen. https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741685853ms151,Rapide+Meeresspiegelschwankungen+in+Warmzeiten+-+Instabile+Eisschilde+als+Verursacher+,6,a12644.html


Westafrika steht vor weiterer Mega-Dürre

Klimaerwärmung sorgt für zunehmende Bedrohung.
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CO2 offiziell gesundheitsschädlich

US-Umweltbehörde EPA kann CO2 offiziell als gesundheitsschädlich deklarieren.
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Naturschutz ohne Natur

Wie Umweltschützer die Natur abschaffen.
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Regulators shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Idaho, California; 29 so far tops 2008 total.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-more-banks-fail-lifting-apf-15031592.html?.v=10


From Information Clearing House



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The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.

https://snipurl.com/gq95w



US lawmakers vow public probe into torture

Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois on Friday announced a decision to lobby for an open inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee.

https://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92501&sectionid=3510203



Attorney General Holder Says He Will "Follow The Law" And Investigate Torture

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department will "follow the law wherever it takes us" in investigating the U.S. officials behind the CIA torture policies under the Bush administration.

https://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39439prs20090422.html?s_src=RSS



Court Of Appeals Rules Detainees Are Not "Persons"

Court Agrees with Obama Administration that Detainees Still Have No Constitutional Right Not to Be Tortured.

https://rawstory.com/news/2008/Appeals_court_rules_Gitmo_detainees_are_0424.html



Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report

"The assignment to carry out this operation came from the defence ministry to the defence forces," according to an Expressen source who confirmed that the Swedish government harboured suspicions that the CIA was using so-called rendition flights to force people out of the USA against their will.

https://www.thelocal.se/19050/20090424/


From Information Clearing House



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The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday to reassure Iraqi leaders that the Obama White House would refrain from withdrawing its troops from urban areas if renewed violence continued to worsen.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/clinton-iraq-us-army-withdrawal


From Information Clearing House



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by David Michael Green

What we're seeing, is a political movement that is utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is desperately searching for any sort of remotely plausible line of attack, but only managing to make itself look absurd in the process, at least outside of Appalachia.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22492.htm



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Straight to the Top

By Scott Horton

The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm



Torture: It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11

By Patrick Cockburn

A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm



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By Ralph Nader

The corporate chieftains have easy access to the White House and the new President, whether these bosses come on missions demanding power or missions of beggary for bailouts. When will he meet with the leading heads of consumer protection groups with millions of dues-paying members who could give him the base to hold accountable and regulate the democracy-denying, economy-wrecking corporate supremacists?

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22496.htm



The Financial Barbarians at the Gate

Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.

The history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; - similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22490.htm



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No Light In The Tunnel

By Mike Whitney

Why is the press misleading the public about housing? The housing market is crashing. There are no "green shoots" or "glimmers of hope"; the market is worn to a stump, it's kaput.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22493.htm



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- 24 04 2009 Ste-Foy-lès-Lyon Associations locales: "Action sensibilisation école"
https://www.next-up.org/France/Rhone.php#1

-Sciences et Avenir Mai 2009 "Spécial ONDES : Ce qu'il faut vraiment savoir"
https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Medias.php#1

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The Emperor's New Tools
https://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north708.html

Nullification Revisited
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/hawes1.html

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Secession: The ultimate states’ right

Hawaii Reporter
by Ron Paul

04/27/09

Last week the governor of Texas ignited a media firestorm for his remarks involving the idea of secession. He did not call for Texas to secede from the United States. He merely pointed out that the federal government was treading heavily on the sovereignty of the states and that this can not continue indefinitely without a breaking point. The reaction to Governor Perry’s statements has been nothing short of hysterical. He has been called treasonous for making this obvious point and opening up a discussion. I am not calling for secession either, however there is nothing wrong with a healthy and open discussion of this issue...

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"Kein Boden in Sicht"

Der freie Fall der Weltwirtschaft gewinnt an Dynamik - wie lange wird er andauern? Helfen Konjunkturprogramme bei der Überwindung der Krise?

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30119/1.html



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The document released Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee provides the most detailed timeline yet for how the CIA's harsh interrogation program was conceived and approved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042202666.html



Document: Cheney, Rice signed off on interrogation techniques

A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration's advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66727.html



US senators urge no prosecutions for 'torture' memo writers

"In the interest of national security, it is the future, rather than the past, on which we believe America?s gaze must be fixed," said Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, as well as Joseph Lieberman.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090422/pl_afp/usattacksmilitaryjusticecongressletter



Netherlands Wants US 'Hague Invasion Act' Scrapped

The Netherlands wants the US to abolish the act that legitimises the use of force to free Americans if they should fall into the hands of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

https://www.nisnews.nl/public/230409_3.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Waterboarding Case

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "George W. Bush's Justice Department said subjecting a person to the near drowning of waterboarding was not a crime and didn't even cause pain, but Ronald Reagan's Justice Department thought otherwise, prosecuting a Texas sheriff and three deputies for using the practice to get confessions."

https://www.truthout.org/042709J



CIA Reportedly Declined to Closely Evaluate Harsh Interrogations

Greg Miller, The Los Angeles Times: "The CIA used an arsenal of severe interrogation techniques on imprisoned Al Qaeda suspects for nearly seven years without seeking a rigorous assessment of whether the methods were effective or necessary, according to current and former US officials familiar with the matter. The failure to conduct a comprehensive examination occurred despite calls to do so as early as 2003."

https://www.truthout.org/042709M



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Force must be an option - Blair

Tony Blair has said the case for using military force to topple oppressive regimes is as strong as it ever was - despite events in Iraq and Afghanistan

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8013827.stm



Tony Blair Calls on World to Wage War on Militant Islam

Mr Blair was speaking almost ten years to the day since he gave an address in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis when he set out what he described as a "doctrine of international community" that sought to justify intervention, including military intervention, not only when a nation's interests are directly engaged but also where there exists a humanitarian crisis or gross oppression of a civilian population.

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The International Monetary Fund has slashed growth forecasts for every major country and urged governments to take forceful action to ensure the world economy's recovery from a severe recession.

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The tortured Iraq-al-Qaida connection

The Bush administration used torture, not to defuse ticking time bombs, but to generate a false justification for the Iraq war.

https://snipurl.com/gn7kv



The Consequences of Torture

With this week's myriad revelations on torture, the prospective targets of prosecution and impeachment have suddenly grown from the so-called Bush 6 to potentially dozens of officials, lawyers, and interrogators who brought us waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions, and "walling," Here's a look at the odds each group involved, from President Bush himself to mid-level lawyers, face of court proceedings.

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Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights

Supreme Court case is stark example of the White House seeking to limit rights.
https://snipurl.com/gn7p5



Canada 'must press US over Khadr'

A Canadian federal court has ordered the government to press the US for the return of a young Canadian being held at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/200942319176319436.html


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The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday said that the US was also partly responsible for the present conditions in Pakistan as it virtually abandoned country after the Soviets left Afghanistan.

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By Jacob G. Hornberger

Given that most people agree that the drug war has failed to achieve its supposed purpose after decades of warfare, an important question arises: Why is the drug war still being waged, especially when we consider all the collateral damage that this federal program has produced? Hasn't the time arrived for Americans to demand an immediate end to the war on drugs?

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By Ray McGovern

Until now, Bush has managed to escape blame for his outrageous inactivity before 9/11 because his subordinates - first and foremost, Tenet - have covered up for him. Faustian bargain? Call it mutual blackmail, if you prefer the vernacular.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22479.htm



The Cancerous Rot at the Center of the Empire

By Jacob G. Hornberger

My question is: Why limit torture to suspected terrorists? Why not expand it to suspected murderers, drug dealers, robbers, and kidnappers? After all, can't those types of people commit just as heinous an act as terrorists?

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22480.htm



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Dan Eggen, The Washington Post: "Top recipients of federal bailout money spent more than $10 million on political lobbying in the first three months of this year, including aggressive efforts aimed at blocking executive pay limits and tougher financial regulations, according to newly filed disclosure records."

https://www.truthout.org/042409T



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