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Downsize DC Downsize DC
by James Leroy Wilson

04/11/11

The U.S. is fighting three wars -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya - even though we are going broke. Each is a 'War of Choice,' not necessity. None of these countries threatens us. Afghanistan did host Al Qaeda, but that crime was punished years ago. So how does the U.S. end up fighting 'wars of choice?' Other countries dont do this...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/wars-of-choice



How government has become suicidal

The Orange County Register
by Robert Samuelson

04/11/11

We in America have created suicidal government; the threatened federal shutdown and stubborn budget deficits are but symptoms. By suicidal, I mean that government has promised more than it can realistically deliver and, as a result, repeatedly disappoints by providing less than people expect or jeopardizing what they already have. But government cant easily correct its excesses, because Americans depend on it for so much that any effort to change the status arouses a firestorm of opposition that virtually ensures defeat...

http://tinyurl.com/3dpy9q5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/11-4

How Nuclear Apologists Mislead the World Over Radiation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/11-10

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster at One Month: The Explosion of Nukespeak
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/11-2

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Japan lifts atomic alert level, matching Chernobyl

Bloomberg

04/11/11

Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest, matching the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as increasing radiation prompts the government to widen the evacuation zone and aftershocks rocked the country...

http://tinyurl.com/6fpv69m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Dr Helen Caldicott: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=player_embedded

http://www.helencaldicott.com/about.htm


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/11-11



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul733.html

How Fed Buying of Long Term Assets Could Lead Perhaps to Fed Bankruptcy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel99.1.html



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Jetzt Haftpflicht-Appell unterschreiben

Unsere Erklärung 'Atomkonzerne in die Haftpflicht nehmen' könnt Ihr hier online unterzeichnen: http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/haftpflicht

In unserer 5-Minuten-Information zur Haftpflicht von AKW sind noch einmal alle Argumente und Fakten zusammengestellt: http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/haftpflicht/hintergrund


Argumente gegen die Atomlobby

'Wir müssen Atomstrom importieren!', 'Ohne AKW geht das Licht aus!', 'Deutsche Reaktoren sind sicher!' Solche und ähnliche falsche Behauptungen hört man gerade ständig. Widerlege die Schein-Argumente von Atom-BefürworterInnen! Die wichtigsten Fakten zur Energiewende und zur Unsicherheit von AKW haben wir in einem kleinen Flugblatt zusammengestellt. Ausdrucken, kopieren und immer dabei haben: http://bit.ly/fJJPbt


Blick nach Japan und über den .ausgestrahlt-Tellerrand

In der Region um das AKW Fukushima gab es gestern erneut ein Beben. Live-Ticker und Hintergrund-Berichte zur Lage in Japan: http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/hintergrundinfos/akw-fukushima

Derweil wird der Protest gegen Atomkraft in Japan immer größer. Berichte über die Demos und die Anti-Atom-Sonne in Tokyo: http://bit.ly/dQYtsn

Die Initiative 'RWE abschalten' blockiert am Mittwoch, 20. April die Hauptversammlung der RWE-AktionärInnen, die ab 8 Uhr in Essen stattfindet: http://rweabschalten.blogsport.de/

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Erst das Erdbeben, dann der Tsunami und letztlich auch noch die Atommafia

Kan administration declares 'Reconstruction' on the heaps of corpses of victims. We shall never forgive Kan!

Doro-Chiba Earthquake Report No.10 vom 10.4.2011 (pdf) http://dorochibanewsletter.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/doro-chibanl_0101.pdf


Protest against arrest and prolonged detention of 4 anti-nuke activists!

Doro-Chiba Earthquake Report No.10 b vom 10.4.2011 (pdf) http://dorochibanewsletter.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/doro-chibanl_010b.pdf


Dringender Aufruf an die Elektrizitätsarbeiter: Verweigert alle gefährlichen Arbeiten bei denen ihr radioaktiver Verstrahlung ausgesetzt seid! Lasst uns gemeinsam für die Abschaltung aller Atomkraftwerke kämpfen!

Doro-Chiba Earthquake-Newsletter Nr. 8 vom 3. April 2011, übersetzt vom deutschen Doro-Chiba-Unterstützerkreis (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/internationales/jp/doro-chibanl_08.pdf


Bericht von Bauern in Fukushima

Der Bericht übersetzt vom deutschen Doro-Chiba-Unterstützerkreis, er war dem Bericht Nr. 7 von Doro Chiba als Anlage beigefügt (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/internationales/jp/doro-bauer.pdf


Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp Job

'The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers? standby room outside the plant?s No. 3 reactor, near where he and a group of workers had been doing repair work. He saw a chimney and crane swaying like weeds. Everybody was shouting in a panic, he recalled?' Artikel zu den Bedingungen der Leiharbeiter in Japan/AKWs von Hiroko Tabuchi in der New York Times vom 9. April 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/world/asia/10workers.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. April 2011

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14. April 2011

Energiewende darf nicht zu sozialer Spaltung führen

Die Bundesgeschäftsführerin der LINKEN, Caren Lay, wirft der Bundesregierung Tatenlosigkeit bei der sozialen Ausgestaltung der Energiewende vor und fordert einen 'Schutzschirm für Stromverbraucher'. Caren Lay erklärt:

Die Bundesregierung spekuliert und redet über die sozialen Folgen der Energiewende. Währenddessen drohen die Stromriesen unverhohlen mit einer Strompreisexplosion, um die Kosten der Energiewende auf die Privathaushalte abzuwälzen. Die Tatenlosigkeit der Bundesregierung geht auf Kosten der Bevölkerung. Wir brauchen einen Schutzschirm für Stromverbraucherinnen und Stromverbraucher. Energie muss bezahlbar bleiben. Elektrizität und warme Wohnungen dürfen kein Privileg der Besserverdienenden sein. Die Beschwichtigungen von Röttgen reichen nicht aus. Wer sicher gehen will, dass Energie bezahlbar bleibt, muss die staatliche Preisaufsicht wieder einführen. Wir brauchen einen Preisstopp für die ohnehin seit Jahren steigenden Strompreise und Sozialtarife für einkommensschwache Haushalte. Die Regierung soll nicht reden sondern im Interesse der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher handeln.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/energiewende-darf-nicht-zu-sozialer-spaltung-fuehren/



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Vincent Warren, Truthout: 'The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review in United States v. Al Bahlul, before its scheduled date of March 17, 2011. Al Bahlul is the first appeal of a Guantanamo military commission conviction to proceed before the Court of Military Commission Review. The case is notable because, in essence, it is a conviction in desperate search of supporting war crimes. But it's also notable for the ahistorical and racist rhetoric in the government briefs that suggest equivalency between Native Americans resisting US takeover of their homelands and al-Qaeda.'

http://truthout.org/government-calls-native-american-resistance-1800s-much-modern-day-al-qaeda/1302505200



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Dean Baker, Truthout: 'House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan put out a budget proposal last week that will leave the vast majority of future retirees without decent health care by ending Medicare as we know it. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis, most middle-income retirees would have to pay almost half of their income to purchase a Medicare equivalent insurance package by 2030. They would be paying much more than half of their income in later years.'

http://www.truth-out.org/paul-ryan-your-pockets-government-people-who-hate-you



The Vote This Week to End Medicare and Social Security

Bill Scher, Campaign for Americas Future: 'Last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor literally said Social Security 'cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be.' Then last week, House Budget Committee literally approved the end of Medicare as guaranteed affordable comprehensive health insurance for every retired American. The full House is expected to follow suit this week.'

http://truthout.org/vote-week-end-medicare-and-social-security/1302418800



Lines Drawn for Next Big Budget Battle, the Debt Ceiling

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: 'House Republicans, fresh from their showdown with Democrats over cuts in the current federal budget, promised Sunday to take an even tougher stand on spending next month when Congress will be asked to increase the amount of money the government is allowed to borrow.'

http://www.truth-out.org/lines-drawn-next-big-budget-battle-debt-ceiling/1302418800

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Global Access Project: AIDS Activists Arrested Taking Over Republican Leader Eric Cantor?s Office Protest 'Compromise' Global Budget Cuts and Syringe Exchange Ban for DC

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/04/11-0

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Government should be banned from borrowing

Adam Smith Institute
by Eamonn Butler

04/11/11

For a very long time, it has seemed perfectly natural that governments could and should borrow -- to finance expensive wars or infrastructure projects, for example. Keynesian economists saw the occasional deficit as an important way of managing the economy. But once you give politicians the power to borrow, a huge moral hazard arises. It becomes just too tempting, and too easy, to borrow for the purposes of current consumption, rather than future benefit...

http://tinyurl.com/5t6fo9q


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
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Allmählich wird die Kritik an den unmenschlichen, an Folter grenzenden Haftbedingungen von Manning, der WikiLeaks mit Dokumenten verorgt haben soll, auch in den USA lauter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149636



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Zweiter Versuch

CCC und AK Vorrat warnen vor dem 'GlüStV'.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149637



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Die Bertelsmann Stiftung warnt die Kommunen vor 'großen' sozialen und finanziellen Herausforderungen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34526/1.html

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12. April 2011

Soziale Energiewende darf keine Sprechblase bleiben

Die Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch, unterstützt die Forderung der Bundesarbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen nach einer sozialen Energiewende. Sie erklärt:

Die Forderung der Bundesarbeitsministerin nach einem sozialen Atomausstieg klingt gut, darf aber nicht nur eine Sprechblase bleiben. Wenn die Bundesregierung lernfähig wäre, dann würde sie jetzt aus den Fehlern der Finanzkrise lernen. Die Kosten der Finanzkrise hat die Bundesregierung auf die Bürgerinnen und Bürger abgewälzt. Die Finanzindustrie zockt wieder nach den alten Spielregeln und kassiert wieder unglaubliche Boni. Wenn die Bundesregierung lernfähig wäre, dann würde sie das Atomkartell auflösen, die kommunalen Energieversorger stärken, den Atomausstieg im Grundgesetz verankern und Sozialtarife für Strom einführen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/soziale-energiewende-darf-keine-sprechblase-bleiben/



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Vincent Warren, Truthout: 'The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review in United States v. Al Bahlul, before its scheduled date of March 17, 2011. Al Bahlul is the first appeal of a Guantanamo military commission conviction to proceed before the Court of Military Commission Review. The case is notable because, in essence, it is a conviction in desperate search of supporting war crimes. But it's also notable for the ahistorical and racist rhetoric in the government briefs that suggest equivalency between Native Americans resisting US takeover of their homelands and al-Qaeda.'

http://truthout.org/government-calls-native-american-resistance-1800s-much-modern-day-al-qaeda/1302505200
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