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The former head of MI6 has hit out at 'striking and disturbing' invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190060/Former-MI6-chief-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-warns-disturbing-surveillance-society.html

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Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor who now hosts a news magazine on cable channel HDNet, has done a documentary on a former Guantanamo prisoner who says he was tortured for years before being released two weeks ago.

https://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/rather-former-detainee-tortured/


From Information Clearing House



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A congressional aide says the Obama administration's pick for a top intelligence post at the Homeland Security Department has ties to the CIA's harsh interrogation program.

https://snipurl.com/jiuxu


From Information Clearing House



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Time to Break Up the Banks

By Peter Rothberg

This new video, which neatly breaks down the causes and effects of the economic crisis.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22778.htm



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By Mike Whitney

Is it possible to make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits on securities that are backed by nothing more than cyber-entries into a loan book? It's not only possible; it's been done.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22775.htm



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Jacques Attali, in L'Express, advocates a truly radical restructuring of the economy to prevent the deepening recession from lingering another ten years.

https://www.truthout.org/060509E



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FDP, Grüne und Linke erheben in ihrer Bilanz des BND-Untersuchungsausschusses Vorwürfe gegen die frühere rot-grüne Bundesregierung und den heutigen Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD). Die "Frankfurter Rundschau" berichtete vorab unter Berufung auf den Abschlussbericht der FDP und die beiden Sondervoten von Grünen und Linken, nach Ansicht der Opposition sei es nach dem 11. September 2001 zu einem "verhängnisvollen Paradigmenwechsel" in der Innen- und Sicherheitspolitik von Sozialdemokraten und Grünen gekommen. Deutschland habe entgegen der Darstellung der damaligen rot-grünen Bundesregierung den Krieg der USA gegen den Irak 2003 unterstützt. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) habe militärisch kriegsrelevante Informationen aus Bagdad an das US-Hauptquartier in Katar übermittelt.

https://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19804



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Julie Haviv, Reuters: "US mortgage rates surged to their highest in almost six months in the latest week, despite government efforts to keep rates at low levels that will help the hard-hit housing market begin to recover. Interest rates on US 30-year fixed-rate mortgages soared to 5.29 percent for the week ending June 4, up from 4.91 percent in the previous week, according to a survey released on Thursday by home funding company Freddie Mac."

https://www.truthout.org/060509L



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David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org: "Sen. Max Baucus met on Wednesday with advocates for single-payer health care, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings. According to one report, Baucus suggested that he'd been mistaken to exclude single payer, but asserted that the process of creating health care reform legislation was too far along now to correct that omission."

https://www.truthout.org/060509K



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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "'Violence is a dead end,' he told them. 'It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.' One need not be a nonviolent activist to hear the wisdom of Barack Hussein Obama's words, especially as American drones continue to kill innocent Afghans or Pakistanis."

https://www.truthout.org/060509J

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America's Violent Extremism

By Paul Craig Roberts

Against al-Qaeda, whose "actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings," Obama invokes the Koran's prohibition against killing an innocent. Does Obama not realize that the stricture applies to the US and its "coalition of forty-six countries" in spades?

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22771.htm



Obama in Cairo: A New Face for Imperialism

By Patrick Martin

The vague and flowery rhetoric, the verbal tributes to Islamic culture and the equal rights of nations, constitute an adjustment of the language being used to cloak the policy of US imperialism, not a change in substance.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22774.htm

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What President Obama Promised in Cairo

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "US policy in the broader Middle East over the next four years will be judged in the region according to whether the pledges that President Obama made in Cairo Thursday are kept."

https://www.truthout.org/060509R



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Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Clyde Wayne Crews and Ryan Young

06/04/09

The economy is contracting at a rate of more than 6 percent this year to date. This is hurting the country and especially Michigan, whose 12.9 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s highest. America’s troubled economy needs a boost, but politicians are taking the wrong approach. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act works — or rather, doesn’t work — by taking money out of the economy, wasting some of it on bureaucracy and then putting it back in. The $787 billion in new debt it is creating will have to be paid back with higher future taxes, which will hurt growth down the road...

https://tinyurl.com/pn99mk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

President Obama is in Cairo to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, which no doubt will explain that the U.S. government loves the people of the Middle East and is doing all sorts of good things to them. Alas, President Obama, like his predecessor, just doesn’t get it. The reason that people in the Middle East are angry at the United States is because the U.S. government is over there. If the U.S. government wasn’t involved in the Middle East, that would bring an end to the U.S. foreign-policy woes in that part of the world...

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-06-04.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Information Clearinghouse
by Paul Craig Roberts

06/04/09

The hubris is extraordinary. A bankrupt government that has to send its Treasury Secretary begging to China thinks it can spend limitless amounts in a futile effort to control the culture, mores, and political system of distant Afghanistan...

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22768.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III

06/03/09

We must understand first of all that political borders are nothing but arbitrary lines drawn out on a map, within which political figures — often groups of them — arrogate jurisdiction over the lives and property of the people residing within those artificial boundaries. Currently in America, millions of people who were born outside those borders the government tells us they possess jurisdiction within, come here every year in search of greater economic opportunities and government-granted welfare (public schooling, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps, etc.). Many of these people do not follow the government’s myriad of bureaucratic guidelines for coming to America — they simply cross the arbitrary borders of their own volition unannounced. If they are caught by armed government agents, they are often arrested, handcuffed, jailed, and deported back to the foreign government jurisdiction from whence they came. Many Americans applaud this as a defense of hegemony and a presently floundering economy wherein unemployment is steadily rising...

https://c4ss.org/content/612


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Constitution Project Committee Members Testify Before House Subcommittee in Support of Reform to the State Secrets Privilege.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/04-17



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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/04-16

Obama in Cairo: A Bush in Sheep's Clothing?
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/04-13

The Times They Aren't A-Changin' ... Yet
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/04-3

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Responses to Obama's Cairo Speech
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/04-2

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Obama in Cairo: Words, words, words

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/05/09

The Obama fan club — and by this I mean the media, of course — is already hailing our President’s Cairo speech as the latter-day equivalent of the Sermon on the Mount, and there is no doubt that it was a splendid performance. All the usual superlatives are being unleashed by our love-struck commentariat — soaring, inspiring, intelligent, a triumph — and yet the reality, as the cheers die down, is that his Cairo peroration was just what we have come to expect from this President: pretty words, and even prettier promises. But where’s the action?

https://tinyurl.com/od2k4t


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/06/04



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The Associated Press: "The US Marine Corps is wooing public school districts across the country, expanding a network of military academies that has grown steadily despite criticism that it's a recruiting ploy."

https://www.truthout.org/060409EDA

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Stop Recruiting Kids: Update on DOJ Efforts to Invalidate the Arcate and Eureka Youth Protection Acts

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/04-23



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Sean Flynn, GQ: "Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town - along with the myth of clean coal."

https://www.truthout.org/060409EA



Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster Raises Concerns About Similar Sites Nationwide
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/5494727/

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "After David B. Kellermann, the chief financial officer of beleaguered mortgage giant Freddie Mac, tied a noose and hanged himself in the basement of his Vienna, Virginia, home, The New York Times made it a front-page story. The stresses of the job in economic tough times, its reporters implied, had driven him to this extreme act. 'Binghamton Shooter' Jiverly Wong also garnered front-page headlines nationwide and set off a cable news frenzy when, 'bitter over job loss,' he massacred 13 people at an immigration center in upstate New York. Similarly, coverage was brisk after Pittsburgh resident Richard Poplawski, 'upset about recently losing a job,' shot four local police officers, killing three of them. But where was the front-page treatment when, in January, Betty Lipply, a 72-year-old resident of East Palestine, Ohio, 'who feared she'd lose her home to foreclosure, hanged herself to death' shortly after 'receiving her second summons and foreclosure complaint from her mortgage lender'?"

https://www.truthout.org/060409R



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- Association des Maires de Grandes Villes de France : Communiqué de Presse
Michel Destot, Président AMGVF, Député-Maire de Grenoble.

"Les maires de grandes villes demandent une expérimentation de diminution de l'exposition aux champs électromagnétiques"

https://www.next-up.org/France/AMGVF.php#1

https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13835


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The Obama administration opened the White House doors to NBC correspondent Brian Williams and a large herd of television cameras last week, the fruits of which became a two-day television special titled 'Inside the Obama White House,' which NBC aired Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Most of it is fluff - among other things, we learn that Rahm Emanuel walks fast, M&M's taste good, Bo the dog is growing fast and Five Guys makes a mean cheeseburger - but the lasting impression left by the show is how busy a place this White House is. During a Blue Room interview between Williams and President Obama, the question of whether the Obama administration is taking on too many massive tasks came up. Mr. Obama laughed, shook his head and made a good point: 'What, exactly, would you have me give up?'"

https://www.truthout.org/060409J



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„Im Mai waren 3,46 Millionen Deutsche arbeitslos. Damit fiel der saisonübliche Rückgang der Erwerbslosigkeit deutlich geringer aus. Schlimmeres verhinderte die Kurzarbeit und eine Veränderung der statistischen Erfassung. Eine zum Jahresbeginn in Kraft getretene Statistik-Änderung hat im Mai die offizielle Arbeitslosenzahl gedrückt. Das räumte die Bundesagentur für Arbeit am Donnerstag in Nürnberg ein. Tatsächlich seien im Mai 3,47 Millionen Menschen statt der offiziell genannten 3,458 Millionen arbeitslos gewesen, sagte eine Sprecherin. Der Rückgang im Vergleich zum Vormonat würde sich unter der alten Zählweise lediglich auf rund 100.000 belaufen. Die Bundesregierung hatte sich darauf verständigt, Jobsucher, die von privaten Vermittlern betreut werden, in Zukunft nicht mehr als arbeitslos einzustufen. Dies war von Sozialverbänden heftig als Verzerrung der Statistik kritisiert worden…“ Artikel im Tagelsspiegel vom 28.5.2009 https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/Konjunktur-Arbeitslosenzahlen-Kurzarbeit-Arbeitsmarkt;art271,2809042

Siehe dazu auch:

Geschönte Statistik: Wie die Regierung die Arbeitslosenzahl herunterrechnet

„In Zeiten von Wirtschaftskrise und Wahlkampf gibt es kaum Wichtigeres als die neuen Arbeitsmarktzahlen. Und bei der Verkündung der neuen Arbeitslosenstatistik konnte die Regierung einen Erfolg feiern. Weniger Arbeitslose - trotz Krise…“ Text zur Panorama-Sendung am Do., 04. Juni 2009, 22.00 Uhr https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2009/panoramaarbeitslosenstatistik100.html


Arbeitsmarkt: Elf Millionen Jobs droht Auslagerung

„In Deutschland sind 11,3 Millionen Arbeitsplätze akut von der Verlagerung ins Ausland bedroht. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer neuen Studie des Kieler Instituts für Weltwirtschaft. Gefährdet sind nicht nur Industriearbeitsplätze. „Eine potenzielle Verlagerbarkeit ist auf allen Qualifikationsstufen der Beschäftigung gegeben“, so die Kieler Volkswirte Klaus Schrader und Claus-Friedrich Laaser. Galten bislang vor allem einfachere Industriearbeitsplätze als von der Globalisierung bedroht, müssen in Zukunft wohl auch immer mehr Beschäftigte im Dienstleistungssektor um ihren Job bangen. Gerade in der gegenwärtigen globalen Wirtschaftskrise nutzten die Unternehmen jede Gelegenheit, ihre Stückkosten zu senken und dabei die inländischen Produktionsstandorte auf den Prüfstand zu stellen. (..) Nur noch bei 38 Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Jobs sei die physische Nähe erforderlich; sie seien „gegenwärtig globalisierungsfern“ und vor Verlagerung sicher. Zum Vergleich: In den USA und der Schweiz gelten mehr als drei Viertel der Jobs als ortsgebunden…“ Artikel von Axel Schrinner im Handelsblatt vom 04.06.2009 https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur-nachrichten/elf-millionen-jobs-droht-auslagerung;2325430

Siehe dazu „Globalisierung in der Wirtschaftskrise: Wie sicher sind die Jobs in Deutschland? Pressemitteilung des IfW vom 3. Juni 2009 https://www.ifw-kiel.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2009/pm03-06-09


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Juni 2009



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wirtschaftskrise
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Das System ist systemrelevant.

Artikel von Hermannus Pfeiffer in Lunapark21, dem gerade erscheinenden Heft 6 (pdf) – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany! https://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/finanz/pfeiffer_lp6.pdf

Zum Inhaltsverzeichnis der neuen Lunapark21 mit dem Schwerpunkt „Die Krise in Europa“ siehe die Homepage: https://www.lunapark21.net/


Krisenbank - wie erfolgreich ist die “Enteignung” der Hypo Real Estate?

Auf der Hauptversammlung der krisengeschüttelten Hypo Real Estate soll die Übernahme der Bank durch den Bund beschlossen werden. Manche sprechen von einer Enteignung, tatsächlich ist es ein sogenannter “squeeze out”. Video der Plusminus-Sendung vom 02.06.2009 über Hintergründe und Folgen https://mediathek.daserste.de/daserste/servlet/content/2500436?pageId=487872&moduleId=432744&categoryId=&goto=1&show=

Siehe dazu:

attac: Gläubiger der Hypo Real Estate zur Verantwortung ziehen. Bund soll nur Forderungen in öffentlichen Interesse erfüllen

Pressemitteilung vom 3.06.09 https://www.attac.de/aktuell/presse/detailsicht/datum/2009/06/03/glaeubiger-der-hypo-real-estate-zur-verantwortung-ziehen/?cHash=cb9e1ee3fb


Wirtschaftsprüfer sehen Mängel. Bad-Bank-Modell droht ein Fehlstart

„Die geplanten Bad Banks des Bundes zur Bereinigung der Bankbilanzen drohen zum peinlichen Flop zu werden. Das derzeitige Modell ist nach Ansicht der Wirtschaftsprüfer völlig ungeeignet, um die Bilanzen der privaten Kreditinstitute zu entlasten. Diese schließen nach Handelsblatt-Informationen eine Teilnahme unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen praktisch aus…“ Artikel von Hans G. Nagl, Ruth Berschens und Sven Afhüppe im Handelsblatt vom 02.06.2009 https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken-versicherungen/bad-bank-modell-droht-ein-fehlstart;2317080


Die sozialen Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise: Massenarbeitslosigkeit, Steuererhöhungen, Kürzung der öffentlichen Leistungen

Vortrag von Conrad Schuhler (isw) in einer aktualisierten Fassung vom
23.5.09 (pdf) https://www.isw-muenchen.de/download/soziale-folgen-cs-20090523.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Juni 2009



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„Arbeitslosigkeit, Armut, Zerfall - Detroit kämpft gegen den Niedergang. Der Absturz von Chrysler und General Motors hat in Amerikas Autometropole sichtbare Spuren hinterlassen. Ein Besuch am Ground Zero der US-Autokrise...“ Artikel von Marc Pitzke auf Spiegel-Online vom 30.05.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,627794,00.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Fault Lines: Despair & Revival in Detroit - Part 1

“This week Fault Lines travels to look at the collapsing auto industry in Detroit and explores the effect on this once thriving American city.We find out how deals struck in Washington to try and rescue the industry are are affecting the people who live with the consequences.” Das Video bei YouTube vom 14.05.2009 Teil 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7VL907Qb0&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=A7F406FC815CF518

sowie Teil 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCo63ntCxNA&eurl=https://www.facebook.com/home.php&feature=player_embedded


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Juni 2009



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4. Juni 2009

Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst, kritisiert scharf die bekannt gewordenen Pläne zur Observierung von Erwerbslosen beim Verdacht des Leistungsmissbrauchs. Ernst erklärt:

Die Überwachung von Erwerbslosen ist inakzeptabel und muss vom Sozialministerium gestoppt werden. Ich fordere umgehend Aufklärung darüber, ob auch die Familien der Betroffenen überwacht wurden. Der Sozialstaat darf nicht zum Polizeistaat verkommen. Man bekommt den Eindruck, dass in Deutschland Hartz-IV-Anträge schärfer geprüft werden als die Konzept von Unternehmen, die um Staatshilfe in Milliardenhilfe betteln. Das gefährdet den sozialen Frieden. Das Problem bei Hartz IV ist nicht der Leistungsmissbrauch sondern, dass es ein inhumanes Gesetz ist, das die Menschen arm macht und entwürdigt. Es bleibt dabei: Hartz IV muss weg.

https://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/ueberwachung-von-erwerbslosen-ist-inakzeptabel/

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Hartz IV: Neue BA Anweisung erlaubt Observation

“Neue fachliche Hinweise der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) für den Außendienst der Leistungsträger des SGB II - gegen Arbeitslosengeld II Empfänger. BA erlaubt u.a. das Ausspähen von Hartz IV Betroffenen. Mit Wirkung vom 20. Mai 2009 hat die BA eine neue Weisung für den Außendienst der Leistungsträger des SGB II herausgegeben. Auch diese strotzt wieder vor Anweisungen zu rechtswidrigen Datenerhebungen und Leistungsverweigerungen, die umfassend erweitert wurden - von bisher 2 auf
6 Seiten…“ Gemeinsame Presseerklärung vom 02.06.2009 von „gegen-hartz.de“ (Hannover) und dem Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland (Bonn) – darin eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Änderungen https://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-neue-ba-anweisung-erlaubt-observation87750.php

Siehe dazu:

Weisung der Bundesagentur: Verschärfte Observationen für mutmaßliche Hartz-IV-Betrüger (pdf)

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/zentraler-Content/A01-Allgemein-Info/A015-Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Publikation/pdf/Gesetzestext-06-SGB-II-Traeger-Grundsicherung.pdf


Nach einer Pressemeldung vom 04.06.2009 will das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland gerichtliche Schritte gegen BA einleiten


"Hinweise des ULD zur datenschutzgerechten Ausgestaltung von Hausbesuchen durch die Sozialleistungsträger im Bereich der Leistungsgewährung nach den Vorschriften des SGB II und SGB XII"

Sonderseite beim Unabhängigen Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/sozialdatenschutz/hausbesuche.htm


Warum Hartz IV nach der Wahl abgeschafft wird

„Die Agenda 2010 war die größte und umstrittenste Sozialreform in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Von ihrem Kern, Hartz IV, verabschiedet sich die Politik Schritt für Schritt…“ Artikel von Christoph Seils in Zeit Online vom 18.5.2009 https://www.zeit.de/online/2009/21/hartz-iv-wird-abgeschafft?page=1

Siehe dazu:

Nach der Bundestagswahl Hartz IV Kürzungen?

„Vor der Wahl ist nicht nach der Wahl: Finanzexperten fordern Renten- und Hartz IV Kürzungen. Wird nach der Bundestagswahl der Hartz Regelsatz gekürzt? Drastische Zunahme der Arbeitslosengeld II Empfänger im kommenden Jahr..“ Artikel in Hartz IV-News vom 21.05.2009 https://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/nach-bundestagswahl-hartz-iv-kuerzungen19283.php


Nach der Bundestagswahl: Bürgerarbeit statt Hartz IV?

„Wie "Zeit online" am 22.05.2009 berichtete, werde sogar in den bürgerlichen Parteien über die Abschaffung von Hartz IV nachgedacht, weil aufgrund der Krise und des zu erwartenden Anstiegs der (Langzeit-)Erwerbslosigkeit Finanzierungsprobleme zu erwarten seien. Doch was kommt danach? Da Krisen gerne genutzt werden, um die Umverteilung von unten nach oben "zum Wohle der Wirtschaft" weiter zu verschärfen, sind sicherlich keine Wohltaten zu erwarten. Da Hartz IV im Sinne der herrschenden Klasse nicht die gewünschten Ergebnisse gebracht hat und der Begriff Hartz IV in der Bevölkerung diskreditiert ist, ist es durchaus denkbar, dass nach der Bundestagswahl tatsächlich eine Abschaffung vorgetäuscht wird, um vermutlich noch restriktivere Maßnahmen einzuführen. Welches Konzept liegt also im Giftschrank der Regierenden und wartet auf seine Umsetzung? Workfare oder Bürgerarbeit als massives Lohnsenkungsprogramm…“ Artikel von Dirk Hoeber vom 27.05.09 bei scharf links https://scharf-links.de/41.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=5258&tx_ttnews[backPid]=56&cHash=5945db7ddf


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Juni 2009

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Wohl eher Bundesagentur für Arbeit kontrollieren - Statt Sozialleistungsbezieher

„Nur Rücknahme der „Observation“ nicht ausreichend - Bundesagentur für Arbeit setzt Akzente, die Hartz IV komplett für rechtswidrig erklären könnten. Das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland hat Heinrich Alt, Vorstandsmitglied der Bundesagentur für Arbeit energisch widersprochen, der laut „dpa“ die Kontrolle von Leistungsbeziehern von Hartz IV für unverzichtbar (07.Juni) erklärte. Vielmehr stehe die Frage offen, wer die Bürger vor den unkontrollierten Versuchen, der Ausspähung der Privatsphäre durch BA schütze. „Die erfolgreiche Rücknahme der Observation von Hartz IV-Beziehern durch Außendienstmitarbeiter der BA oder privater Dritter, nach den heftigen Interventionen durch die Erwerbsloseninitiativen „Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland“ und „gegen-hartz.de“ genügt keinesfalls. Es ist für uns nicht hinnehmbar, dass nach wie vor, Nachbarn, Kinder und andere ohne Wissens des Betroffenen vernommen werden können“..“ Pressemeldung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland vom 08.06.2009 https://www.elo-forum.net/hartz-iv/hartz-iv/-200906082336.html


Schaar: „Regelungen zur „Observierung“von Hartz IV-Empfängern nicht akzeptabel“

Pressemitteilung des Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit vom 4. Juni 2009 https://www.bfdi.bund.de/cln_007/nn_531002/sid_FEE099414937D3520B10ECBFFEBBBD1F/DE/Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Pressemitteilungen/2009/PM__17__ObservierungHartzIV.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Juni 2009



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Profile by Siew Peng Lee

THE Scottish Reporter has visited Rosyth as part of a probe into Vodafone’s appeal to erect a phone mast on Queensferry Road.

Vodafone applied for planning permission last October to put up a 14.2m-high tower, with three antennae, a transmission dish and associated ground base equipment cabinets – but was turned down by Fife Council “in the interests of visual and residential amenity”.

The council said the proposed installation would be “out of character with the immediate urban form and detailing of the streetscape and would detract from the visual integrity of the Rosyth Methodist Church”.

However, the mobile phone giant appealed and Rosyth Community Council chair Mike Shirkie said residents would be “very disappointed” if it went through.

He said, “People don’t want it. Local residents will be very disappointed if they win the appeal. That’s why we raised the objection, because there was a feeling locally that they didn’t want the mast.

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Intellectual Conservative
by Anthony Tsontakis

06/03/09

Today, in the United States, a massive expansion of federal power is taking place; the economic crisis has been used as a pretext to spectacularly amplify the scope of the administrative state. For example, the $789 Stimulus Package — which exceeds the entire cost of the Iraq War that began in 2003 — was rushed through Congress so fast that most legislators did not even have the chance to read it. Yet it passed. Since our representatives apparently no longer consider understanding a bill necessary to cast votes in its favor, it is safe to infer that the activities of federal administration have expanded to a point that legislative power can no longer meaningfully restrain them...

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CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

06/03/09

Economic news remains focused on banks and housing, while the threat mounts to the US dollar from massive federal budget deficits in fiscal years 2009 and 2010. Earlier this year the dollar’s exchange value rose against currencies, such as the euro. UK pound, and Swiss franc, against which the dollar had been steadily falling. The dollar’s rise made US policymakers complacent, even though the rise was due to flight from over-leveraged financial instruments and falling stock markets into ’safe’ Treasuries. Since April, however, the dollar has steadily declined as investors and foreign central banks realize that the massive federal budget deficits are likely to be monetized. What happens to the dollar will be the key driver of what lies ahead. The likely scenario could be nasty...

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Asia Times
by Pepe Escobar

06/03/09

With or without using Jundallah for its own Iran-destabilizing agenda, Washington’s ‘other’ war is about to hit Balochistan in Pakistan full speed ahead. By mid-summer, the US’s Afghan surge in troops will be in position. A new American mega-base in Helmand province’s ‘desert of death’ will be operational. Assassination teams, drone attacks and Hellfire missiles will boil this tense tri-border area. Shadowplay rules...

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KF04Df04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Foreign Policy in Focus
by Ira Chernus

05/29/09

I hate to admit it, but I’ve been suckered by the Obama administration. A few weeks ago the secretary of State announced, in effect, that the ‘war on terror’ was over. From now on, the mass media informed us, the United States would be fighting only ‘overseas contingency operations.’ There was so much buzz about the end of the war that I was moved to write a column, do radio interviews, the whole bit. Very exciting! Except that now we know it wasn’t exactly true. In his recent speech at the National Archives, the president himself said clearly that we’re still at war. We can still suspend the Constitution and imprison people indefinitely (the new euphemism is ‘prolonged detention’) because they are ‘prisoners of war’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Houston Chronicle

06/03/09

The nation needs to begin planning now to reduce the budget deficit, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday, arguing that even as the government acts to bolster the economy in the short run it must ensure that spending and revenue will come into line in the longer term. ‘Congress and the administration face formidable near-term challenges that must be addressed,’ Bernanke told the House Budget Committee, according to prepared testimony. But he warned that the economy will suffer ‘unless we demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal sustainability in the longer term’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The cop claims he was forced to defend himself because Kathryn Winkfein "got violent" in her refusal to sign the ticket. The cop said she also used profanity, making him fear for his life.

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Unedited Dash Cam Footage of Grandmother Being Tased

Video

Dash cam video has been released to FOX 7 showing exactly what happened between a Constable's deputy and a 72-yaer-old woman, before she was tasered last month.



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From Information Clearing House

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The police beat

Rad Geek People's Daily
by Rad Geek

06/02/09

According to Officer Marysol Domenici, ordinary civilians like you and me are always under the command of the police, so that when a cop gives an ‘order’ you’d damn well better ‘follow,’ and if you don’t, well then, you’re ‘resisting,’ and you have nobody to blame but yourself when they slam you into the wall, throw you to the ground and shoot you in the back while you’re prone and physically restrained...

https://radgeek.com/gt/2009/06/02/the-police-beat/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings soared 37 percent in May compared with the same period last year, according to figures released Tuesday by the American Bankruptcy Institute.

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California will run out of cash in 14 days

The state wallet is empty. The bank closed. Credit has dried up, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told lawmakers in a special Tuesday morning address at the Capitol.

https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/06/01/daily23.html



State's unemployment fund short by billions

California is paying out so much for jobless benefits and collecting so little in payroll taxes that its unemployment insurance fund could be $17.8 billion in debt by the end of 2010.

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The Central Intelligence Agency is revealed to have paid USD 1,000 a day to former military trainers to integrate torture into the body's interrogation methods.

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The blast, she says, lifted her house off the ground and woke up the village. The curious went to see what happened. That's when the second drone struck, killing roughly 15 civilians, she says.

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A Memo to the President
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Buying Brand Obama
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Wie das US-Heimatschutzministerium will man auch im Pentagon aus der Ferne durch physiologische Daten "verdächtige oder gefährliche Absichten" von Menschen automatisch erfassen.

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Die Obama-Regierung hat zunehmend Probleme, den am ersten Tag der Präsidentschaft verkündeten Beschluss umzusetzen, das Gefangenenlager Guantanamo zu schließen, die Sache könnte zur Farce geraten.

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Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
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David Adam, The Guardian UK: "Four-year old Daniel Santos da Silva and his older brother Diego Mota dos Santos, 10, heard their first gunshots in April. Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state of Para. The boys heard he was taken to a hospital, but they have not seen him since."

https://www.truthout.org/060309EA

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Every Step Counts to Save the Amazon
https://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2009/06/03/every_step_counts_to_save_the_amazon

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The Amazon Is Dying
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/08-7

Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/12-9



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Bill Moyers Journal: "From $1 billion sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May's highest casualties for US forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on our nation. Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of America's wars."

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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Last month, 60 members of the House of Representatives, including 51 Democrats, voted against the war supplemental for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. But this week, when the House is expected to consider the agreement of a House-Senate conference on the war funding, the supplemental could well be defeated on the floor of the House - if most of the 51 antiwar Democrats stick to their no vote - which they might, if they hear from their constituents."

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- "Face aux Opérateurs le Liechtenstein réaffirme sa volonté d'adopter le standard BioInitiative de 0,6 V/m"

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