World-News: 08 Mai 2011

Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers: 'In Shiite villages across this island kingdom of 1.2 million, the Sunni Muslim government has bulldozed dozens of mosques as part of a crackdown on Shiite dissidents, an assault on human rights that is breathtaking in its expansiveness. Authorities have held secret trials where protesters have been sentenced to death, arrested prominent mainstream opposition politicians, jailed nurses and doctors who treated injured protesters.'

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 22:11

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Weapons of Mass Exploitation

Ravi Batra, Truthout: 'The Iraq invasion turned out to be a colossal mistake in terms of lost lives and heavy expenditures that sharply raised the federal budget deficit. However, few realize that the Bush administration made a far bigger mistake in using what may be called Weapons of Mass Exploitation or WMEs, which have all but decimated the US economy and continue to do so. A WME is a short-term financial palliative that makes the rich richer but postpones economic troubles, while seeming to cure the problems of unemployment and dwindling family incomes.'

http://www.truthout.org/weapons-mass-exploitation/1304696645

Is Growth Incomplete Without Social Progress?

Ejaz Ghani, Project Syndicate: 'The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades. More than 70% of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries. This pattern, likely to continue into the next decade, raises important questions. Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender-inclusiveness?... Deeper social disparities should never be viewed as the inevitable price of rapid growth, and more egalitarian outcomes in education, health, and gender should not be considered 'second-stage' reforms.'

http://www.truthout.org/growth-incomplete-without-social-progress/1304830306

Streets of Latin America Offer US a Roadmap for Social Change

Michael Fox, Truthout: 'As the signs read in Wisconsin, the 'sleeping giant has awoken.' We realized that Obama can t do it for us. We awoke to the fact that even with a 'leftist' in power, we must stay in the streets and continue to organize. We awoke to the essential thing that movements across Latin America learned years ago when faced with progressive governments who were supposed to represent their interests and didn t always follow through... 'Dancing with Dynamite' is a roadmap, a call to action to break the simplistic dualities imposed by society and place our destinies into our own hands.'

http://www.truthout.org/streets-latin-america-offer-us-roadmap-social-change/1304535744

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 21:59

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China pushes U.S. on debt ahead of high-level talks

China, wielding its huge dollar holdings, on Friday pressed Washington to tackle its huge fiscal deficit and said it would raise the issue of discrimination against Chinese investors at high-level talks next week.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/china-usa-trade-idUSL3E7G60IW20110506

Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump

Applications for jobless benefits jumped by 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the most since August, Labor Department figures showed today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-05/jobless-claims-in-u-s-unexpectedly-jump-due-to-special-factors.html

Fannie Mae seeks $8.5 billion from taxpayers

Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) on Friday said it would ask for an additional $8.5 billion from taxpayers as it continues to suffer losses on loans made prior to 2009.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-usa-treasury-fannie-mae-idUSTRE7456IJ20110506

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 08:48

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Exxon Makes $30.5 Billion, So GOP Votes Unanimously To Give Them Tax Breaks

By Think Progress

Today, the Republicans in the House of Representatives celebrated this massive redistribution of wealth from American families to oil executives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28047.htm

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 08:30

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The Assassination Of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse

Starmail - 8. Mai, 08:11

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Das Oxfam-Papier 'Die EU exportiert - die Welt hungert' belegt, dass die EU-Agrarpolitik noch immer auf Kosten armer Länder geht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812044ms260

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Hungerkrise und IWF

Teller statt Tank

'G-20-Agrarministertreffen in Paris: NGOs fordern Ende der Subventionen für »Bio«-Kraftstoffe und Begrenzung der Spekulation auf Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelmärkten..' Artikel von Jana Frielinghaus in junge Welt vom 18.06.2011 http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/06-18/050.php

Eine todsichere Geldanlage

'An den Börsen wird immer unverfrorener auf Nahrungsmittel spekuliert. Die Folgen: steigende Lebensmittelpreise und Hunger. Geredet wird viel darüber, unternommen wenig?' Artikel von Aditya Chakrabortty in Der Freitag vom 08.06.2011 http://www.freitag.de/politik/1123-eine-todsichere-geldanlage

Aus dem Text: '?Eine der wichtigsten Antworten auf diese Frage findet man nicht auf den Plantagen von Queensland oder den Vorstädten Kairos, sondern an der New Yorker Wall Street und in Washington. Hier das Wesentliche in Kürze: 1991 haben die Investment-Banker von Goldman Sachs in New York ein neues Instrument auf den Markt gebracht: den Goldman Sachs Commodity Index. Indem sie 18 Grundnahrungsmittel und andere Rohstoffe ? angefangen von Kaffee, Kakao und Schweinefleisch, über Getreide, bis hin zu Öl und Kupfer ? in einem gemeinsamen Index bündelten, boten die Finanzdienstleister des Unternehmens Investoren die Möglichkeit, auf Dinge zu spekulieren, die bis dahin einen Special-Interest-Markt gebildet hatten. Einer der Verkaufsschlager war die sogenannte China-Wette, die auf der äußerst schlauen Annahme fußte, dass die Chinesen und Inder der neuen Mittelschicht mit steigendem Einkommen immer mehr und immer besser essen würden??

Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juni 2011

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 06:23

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Vorsicht 'Giftmischer': Gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen in Futter- und Lebensmitteln

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812046ms260

Input to the EU Commission s Consultation on Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered Plants

Testbiotech has thus far published two reports on the risk assessment of genetically engineered crops in the EU and prepared several background papers.

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 06:19

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Naturschutzbund Deutschland: Unkrautkiller 'Roundup' gefährdet Gesundheit der Menschen

Glyphosat sei das weltweit am meisten eingesetzte Herbizid, berichtet der NABU in einer Aussendung anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der Studie 'Glyphosat und Agro-Technik'.

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 05:58

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Die neue Macht des Volkes

Sie stürzt Diktatoren, stoppt Atomkraft, bändigt Konzerne. Sie ist zur stärksten Bewegung aller Zeiten geworden, und keiner hat s gemerkt. Woher kommt ihre unbändige Macht? Über ein globales Phänomen namens 'Zivilgesellschaft'.

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Starmail - 8. Mai, 05:52

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