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Matt Southworth, Friends Committee on National Legislation: ''As a bright-eyed nineteen-year-old soldier in Iraq in 2004, I was faced with a crisis of conscience. I thought I was going to Iraq to help free Iraqis, but instead I was a part of a mission to put them in a different kind of prison.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10690-human-dignity-a-casualty-of-war



Handmaidens to Barbarity

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''It was science, industry and technology that made possible the 20th century s industrial killing. These forces magnified innate human barbarity. They served the immoral. And there are numerous scientists who continue to work in labs across the country on weapons systems that have the capacity to exterminate millions of human beings.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10722-handmaidens-to-barbarity

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Gore Vidal and the upside of American military prisons

CounterPunch
by Chip Gibbons

08/12/12

Only the late Gore Vidal, who the American media was almost universal in describing as iconoclastic in his obituaries, could find an upside to the torture of prisoners by American soldiers. And only Vidal could find an upside that would be at the same time deeply witty, cynical, sensationalistic, and completely factual. I say completely factual because the torture and brutality that shocked the world in American military prisons from Guantanamo bay to Bagram to Abu Ghraib closely parallels and mirrors the United States s own domestic treatment of prisoners...

http://bit.ly/MRbF15


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Preying on the Prayerful

By Charles Davis

Killings in the US are condemned, while American violence abroad is ignored or glorified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32172.htm



Love of Country

By Fred Reed

Mostly my country seems to be a bunch of brigands in Washington who send you tax forms to get money so they can kill people in some place that never did anything to you and you probably don t know where is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32228.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/03-0

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Super Rich Holding $21 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxation

Alex Oberley, PRWatch: ''At least $21 trillion in unreported private financial wealth was recently discovered sitting in secret tax havens.... The study is one of the first attempting to measure the hidden wealth. It could be as high as $32 trillion, a staggering sum.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10710-super-rich-holding-21-trillion-overseas-to-avoid-taxation

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America s 10 Largest Corporations Paid 9 Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year

By Travis Waldron

American corporations pay one of the lowest effective corporate tax rates in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32118.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/03

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US Cover-Up of Murdered Civilians

The majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been civilian noncombatants not ''militants,'' as the Obama administration has claimed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32211.htm



US attack kills six people in Pakistan

The attack came as people in the deeply religious region were celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.

http://is.gd/Hv5tPj


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: 13 killed in US drone strikes

Firstpost [India]

08/19/12

A flurry of drone attacks pounded northern Pakistan at the weekend, killing 13 people in three separate attacks, officials and witnesses said on Sunday. The attacks came as Pakistanis celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan with the festival of Eid al-Fitr...

http://bit.ly/PIFkt6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Video

Texas Congressman Ron Paul says the US is ''obsessed with'' keeping Iran under illegal sanctions, while pushing for furthering the embargoes in, what he calls, an "act of war" against the Islamic Republic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32086.htm



Central Bankers Agenda: Obama Sanctions Against Iran Over Gold

By Susanne Posel

Obama has made his position clear. He is using the might of the US military to stop Iran from further devaluation of the US dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32081.htm



Ordinary Citizens, The Silent Victims Of Anti-Iranian Sanctions

By Kourosh Ziabari

''When you put on sanctions on a country, it's an act of war and that's what this is all about.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32077.htm



Saudi Arabia 'to Shoot Down' Iran-Bound Israeli Planes

By RIA Novosti

Saudi Arabia has threatened to shoot down any Israeli aircraft over its airspace en route to or from Iran, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32129.htm

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New York Declares War on Iran
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo177.html



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Es müsse weiter ein Abstand zwischen dem Hartz IV-Satz und den Asylbewerberleistungen geben, ''weil wir sonst noch mal mehr Wirtschaftsflüchtlinge anziehen'', so Friedrich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37385/1.html



Herrmann will Staatstrojaner bald wieder einsetzen

Der bayerische Innenminister interpretiert das Gutachten des Datenschutzbeauftragten als Bestätigung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152519

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Rechtsbruch wird Tradition: Der Staatstrojaner lebt

''Der bayerische Datenschutzbeauftragte legt seinen Bericht zum Staatstrojaner vor. Die Reaktionen vermitteln eine deutliche Botschaft: Weiterhin soll bestehendes Recht gebrochen werden. Die endlose peinliche Geschichte um den Staatstrojaner ist in der ersten Augustwoche um eine Facette reicher geworden. Der bayerische Datenschutzbeauftragte Thomas Petri legte nach monatelangen Prüfungen einen Bericht vor. Er sollte eigentlich mehr Klarheit in die technischen und rechtlichen Details des staatlichen Infiltrierens von Computern nach bayerischem Brauch bringen. Trotz eines schweren strukturellen Mangels, auch Petri bekam keine Einsicht in den Quelltext, überführt der Bericht die Strafverfolgungsbehörden eines höchst laxen, geradezu trickreichen Umgangs mit den Grundsätzen, die ihnen das Bundesverfassungsgericht vorschrieb: programmierter Verfassungsbruch?'' Artikel von Frank Rieger in der FAZ online vom 06.08.2012 http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/rechtsbruch-wird-tradition-der-staatstrojaner-lebt-11844056.html


BVerfG-AsylbLG-Urteil: dringend Widerspruch einlegen/Aktualisierte Sammlung Ländererlasse

''Die Länder Brandenburg, Bayern, Ba-Wü, Rheinland Pfalz, Thüringen und Berlin haben mittlerweile Erlasse zur Umsetzung des BVerfG-AsylbLG-Urteils rausgegeben. Der Bayerische Erlass fordert explizit dazu auf, das BVerfG-Urteil teilweise nicht zu beachten, indem er die Regelsätze zusätzlich um die Position Gesundheitsvorsorge kürzt. Bayern, Ba-Wü und Berlin wollen die höheren Leistungen erst für Zeiträume ab 1.8.2012 gewähren. Hamburg will erst zum 1.9. mit der Auszahlung beginnen. Die Flüchtlingsberatungsstellen raten nicht nur deshalb dringend dazu, in jedem Fall Widerspruch einzulegen! Wer keinen Widerspruch einlegt, verliert ggf. mindestens den Anspruch auf Nachzahlung der Differenzbeträge von ca 100 ?/Person/Monat für den Monat Juli. Aus den o.g. Gründen und bei Ablehnung des Widerspruchs sind Klagen und evtl. Eilantrag beim Sozialgericht zu prüfen.'' Aus dem Newsletter von Harald Thomé vom 3.8.2012

Siehe dazu

''Tipps zum BVerfG-AsylbLG-Urteil: Sofort Widerspruch einlegen um Ansprüche zu sichern! Ländererlasse, Kommentare, Tabellen, Musterantrag und Widerspruch zum BVerfG-AsylbLG-Urteil'' Zusammenstellung von Georg Classen beim Flüchtlingsrat Berlin (Stand 6. August 2012) http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/asylblg/BVerfG-AsylbLG-Urteil.html

Zitat zum Thema

''Steigerung Die Situation von Asylbewerbern hat sich durch ein Verfassungsgericht grundlegend geändert. Sie erhalten nun an Stelle einer staatlichen Unterstützung ohne Menschenwürde eine staatliche Unterstützung in der Höhe von Hartz IV, ebenfalls ohne Menschenwürde.'' Aus: Wer braucht gefälligst Satire? Deutscher Einhei(z)textdienst 8-12 von Werner Lutz


Aus: LabourNet, 7. August 2012



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