World-News: 17 Februar 2011

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/17-6

Obamaland, Where Right Meets Center-Right
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/17-5

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gerald+Epstein

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 23:02

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Baghdad Demands $1 Billion from US in War Damages

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/17-9

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rebecca+Santana
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 22:58

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Protest Norways Ongoing Slaughter of Wolves and Affects upon Boreal Ecosystems

http://forests.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=norway_wolves

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wolves
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 17:18

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Next-up News Nr 1605

- ARTE Radio Caroline Fontana reportage "Zone Blanche - Habiter loin des ondes"

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Cave_Grotte.php#1
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 14:00

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Across-the-board cuts needed to avoid fiscal Armageddon

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Ivan Eland

02/16/11

"[D]idn?t Secretary of Defense Bob Gates just announce that he was cutting $78 billion over five years from the Department of Defense?s (DoD) budget? Yes, but only in Orwellian Washington, D.C., is a budget cut actually a budget increase. In reality, to forestall deeper reduction, the cagey Gates offered only to cut planned increases in DoD?s future budgets (excluding funds for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars). Thus, the non-war defense budget will still be increasing from year to year, but at a lower rate than the fictional plan...

http://tinyurl.com/4atdlvc

Obama?s sea of red

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

02/15/11

In the days and weeks leading up to the release of his budget, President Obama and his spokesmen warned us that it would contain 'tough choices' and 'painful cuts.' Having increased government spending by 21.4 percent during his first two years in office, Obama would now be intent on imposing 'fiscal discipline.' Hah! By the administration's own estimates, Obama's $3.7 trillion budget would raise this year's budget deficit to $1.65 trillion, the largest pool of red ink since the end of World War II...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12786

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armageddon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoD
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Gates
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+D.+Tanner
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 11:04

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Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

02/16/11

War is never good, no matter how moral, lofty or beneficial the justification sounds; and, no matter what the objectives. Even a necessary war of defense has negative consequences that are devastating. War is the ultimate in destruction. War destroys peace, it destroys prosperity, it destroys property and most cruelly -- war destroys people...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5556

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 11:01

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Middle East protests: Country by country

Could a domino effect sweep more leaders from power?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12482309

World Bank: Food prices at 'dangerous levels'

Global food prices have hit 'dangerous levels' that could contribute to political instability, push millions of people into poverty and raise the cost of groceries, according to a new report from the World Bank.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110215/ap_on_bi_ge/us_food_prices

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 10:39

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US-led attack kills 4 Afghan civilians

The US-led forces fired a missile which missed its target and hit the residential building. Parts of the structure were damaged in the incident, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wedneday.

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/02/16/helmand-operation-leaves-4-dead

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 10:35

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The Forgotten Man: Bradley Manning

Video Report - ABC Australia

WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange has been cast as a heroic champion of free speech. It was Manning who allegedly stole the classified documents published by WikiLeaks. It is Manning who now languishes in a US military prison.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27488.htm

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 10:32

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Serious Doubt Cast on FBI's Anthrax Case Against Bruce Ivins

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/anthrax-case-against-ivins.html

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Department of Justice to destroy Anthrax attack evidence
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/department-of-justice-to-destroy-anthrax-attack-evidence.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Ivins
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthrax
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 09:25

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Deception at the Fed

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul721.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/paul

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 09:21

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Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead26.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 09:17

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Tea Party Betrayal

Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/lindauer1.1.1.html

It took 20 days for them to abandon the principles they were elected on.

How to Win an Election
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/brandly1.1.1.html

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Susan+Lindauer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/brandly
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 09:09

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Ray McGovern battered by police as Hillary Clinton talks about 'freedom'

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10195/

More details of Ray McGovern's brutalization, with number to call
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10197/

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'Kill Switch' Internet bill alarms privacy experts

Just as the Egyptian government recently forced the Internet to go dark, U.S. officials could flip the switch if the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation becomes law, say its critics.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2011-02-15-kill-switch_N.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Veteran bloodied, bruised and arrested for standing silently

Partnership for Civil Justice

02/16/11

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt...

http://tinyurl.com/5roqoug

Clinton demands Net freedom abroad as domestic restrictions loom

Threat Level

02/15/11

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged governments abroad Tuesday to embrace internet freedom even as the United States moves to tighten online restrictions at home. ... Clinton?s speech came a day after the House voted to extend to December 8 three controversial domestic spy provisions of the Patriot Act. And Customs officials seized 18 more internet domains without giving the pirate website owners a chance to challenge the forfeiture. What?s more, the Obama administration on Thursday is expected to testify before a House subcommittee about the need to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which already requires telcos and internet access providers to have wiretapping capabilities...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/clinton-demands-net-freedom/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Police Brutalize Ray McGovern as Hillary Clinton Talks Free Speech
http://www.truth-out.org/police-brutalize-ray-mcgovern-hillary-clinton-talks-free-speech67888

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Former CIA analyst beaten up in public meeting presided over by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1041.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 08:48

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich: 'Freedom Isn't Free and We Shouldn't Freely Give Our Freedoms Away'

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/16-14

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 06:27

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Newsweek Defends Drones: Plays Down Civilian Deaths, Legal Questions

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/16-12

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The drone war on civilians
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1025.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 06:25

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Goldman Should Give Back $2.9 Billion to Taxpayers

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/16-2

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greg+Gordon

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 06:05

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Link Confirmed Between Warming and Heavy Storms

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/16-8

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Leahy
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 06:02

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Conspiracy Tactics From the Chamber

Starmail - 17. Feb, 05:52

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The World According to Monsanto

One Company's Toxic Agenda or Our Poisonous Way of Life? Marie-Monique Robin's "The World According to Monsanto"

Leslie Thatcher, Truthout: "When I reviewed 'The World According to Monsanto' over two years ago, I was hopeful a new administration would craft a new approach to genetically engineered food and the regulation of industry overall, but as we have documented at Truthout, the US government continues to act like a fully owned subsidiary of Monsanto, threatening retaliation against an ally that moved to ban GMO corn in accordance with the desires of a vast majority of its population, approving the deregulation of GMO alfalfa virtually ensuring the end of organic beef as an available option for Americans, and, most recently approving sugar beet planting this spring 'despite an earlier court ruling that government approval for planting the beets violated environmental law.' Monsanto's war against independent science also continues. 'The World According to Monsanto' remains an essential read for all citizens, especially any who eat."

http://www.truth-out.org/one-companys-toxic-agenda-or-our-poisonous-way-life67767

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GMOs
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Monique+Robin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leslie+Thatcher
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 05:46

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Push to Cut Deficit by Trimming Empire

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "President Obama and House Republicans are out with their budget plans for the next fiscal year. Economist Jeffrey Sachs described it thus: President Obama wants to bleed the patient. House Republicans want to cut the patient's arm off. As Sachs pointed out, it's only possible in our 'Mubarak Egypt' political terrain - both party leaderships catering to the super rich, largely ignoring the interests of the vast majority of Americans who must work or scrounge to earn their daily bread - that we can have a debate premised on the absurd notion that the budget deficit is an urgent crisis while we have ten percent measured unemployment and many Americans - disproportionately veterans - don't have a decent place to sleep. But if that weren't outrageous enough, amid all the blather about 'shared sacrifice,' there is another group of powerful people that are largely escaping budget pain, in the plans of leaders of both parties, besides the super rich: the partisans of the Empire."

http://www.truth-out.org/nadler-polis-push-today-cut-deficit-trimming-empire67821

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Empire of US Bases
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/16-0

Obama?s Budget: Freezing the Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/16-0

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The Shame of Being an American
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts293.html

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When 'Good' Dictators Go Bad

By Norman Solomon

It wasn't long ago that Hosni Mubarak's regime -- with all its repression and torture -- enjoyed high esteem and lavish praise in Washington. For Egyptians, the repression and torture went on; for the bipartisan savants running U.S. foreign policy, the suppression was good geopolitics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27490.htm

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Where?s the American outrage against US support of dictatorships?

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

02/16/11

Once it became clear that Egypt?s dictator Hosni Mubarak was on the way out, U.S. officials quickly shifted gears and took the side of the demonstrators, the people who had suffered for 30 years under the brutal Mubarak dictatorship. U.S. officials even offered their guidance for moving Egypt toward a democratic political system...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-02-16.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
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Starmail - 17. Feb, 05:38

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My Tortured Journey With Former Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks

Truthout investigative reporter Jason Leopold had never spoken to a former Guantanamo detainee before he phoned David Hicks shortly before the New Year. As Hicks recounted for Leopold - in his first public comments since the Australian was released from the "least worst place" in 2007 - the brutal torture he endured during his five-and-half-year imprisonment, the reporter was so moved that it nearly affected his ability to write this story. Leopold said when he finally decided to sit down at his computer to type, he discovered that torture not only leaves a permanent scar on the torture victim, but everyone who comes in contact with that person.

http://www.truth-out.org/my-tortured-journey-with-former-guantanamo-detainee-david-hicks67815

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Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: How Guantanamo Fuels Injustice
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/16-5

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 05:33

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Guttenberg und das 'geistige Eigentum'

Rechts- und Medienwissenschaftler werfen dem Verteidigungsminister vor, dass er Teile seiner Doktorarbeit abgeschrieben hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/149280

Guttenberg gerät ins Schwimmen

Der Verteidigungsminister verliert seine Souveränität im Umgang mit der Presse, Bundespressekonferenz musste abgebrochen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149290

Zum Elend politischer Selbstinszenierung

Plädoyer zur Verteidigung des Verteidigungsministers Guttenberg.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34222/1.html

Das Spektakel um Guttenberg verweist auf eine skandalöse Gleichgültigkeit der Medien

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34226/1.html

Kein Problem mit dem Copy-and-Paste-Minister Guttenberg?

Angeblich stehen nach Umfragen die Deutschen hinter Guttenberg, den Schaden haben allerdings das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem und die Uni, wenn diese nicht handelt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/10/149301

Die Deutschen halten zu ihrem Dr. Guttenberg

Komisch: Bei einer ARD-Umfrage stehen 74 Prozent hinter Guttenberg, aber bei Online-Umfragen bei ARD, Spiegel, taz oder Telepolis sieht dies ganz anders aus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149303

Der Fall Guttenberg als Beleg für die Notwendigkeit von Open Access

Der Konstanzer Informationswissenschaftler Rainer Kuhlen sieht Regierungsforderungen nach weiteren Immaterialgüterrechtsverschärfungen als unglaubwürdig an, wenn der unter fragwürdigen Umständen promovierte Minister in der Politik verbleibt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/10/149297

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Endlich Sprachregelung gefunden!

?Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg hat gar keine Doktorarbeit geschrieben, sondern nur einen doktorarbeitsähnlichen Text.? Titanic am 19.02.2011 http://www.titanic-magazin.de/newsticker.html

?Aristokratische Brauchtumspflege?

Eine Gastglosse von Holdger Platta auf Spiegelfechter vom 17.02.2011 http://www.spiegelfechter.com/wordpress/5086/aristokratische-brauchtumspflege

Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2011

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Starmail - 17. Feb, 05:30

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