World-News: 11 April 2013

Starmail - 11. Apr, 10:17

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Clean Energy Could Save Millions of Lives

Starmail - 11. Apr, 09:12

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In Congress, nearly half the members are millionaires

The Senate s median net worth is $2.63 million. The House s is $756,00.
http://is.gd/0Ds2mg

Millionaire Freshmen Make Congress Even Wealthier

According to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, the median estimated net worth of the incoming freshmen is almost exactly $1 million more than that of the typical American household.

http://is.gd/u4o7h4

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 08:41

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''Guantanamo is America s moral failure''

The hunger strike that has spread since early February among the 166 detainees still at Guantanamo Bay is again exposing the lawlessness of the system that marooned them there.

http://privacysos.org/node/1018

International Committee of the Red Cross failed to be involved, report on what is happening in Gitmo

Part of the reason why the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is being neglected is because the International Committee of the Red Cross is favoring one side, which is not the side of the prisoners, Barry Wingard, military attorney for Gitmo inmates said.

http://is.gd/0gSoZe

'Gitmo prisoners treated like guinea pigs'

Video

RT speaks to Feroz Abbasi who spent several years at Guantanamo, two of them in solitary confinement, before being released without charge. He took part in the previous mass hunger strike there, and shared his experience.

http://is.gd/ReCtXF

Gitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails

By Cora Currier

''Defense emails have ended up being provided to the prosecution, material has disappeared off the defense server, and sometimes reappeared, in different formats, or with different names:''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34584.htm

Red Cross chief blasts US for force-feeding Gitmo inmates

''We urge you to begin working to transfer the remaining detained men to their home countries or other countries for resettlement, or to charge them in a court that comports with fair trial standards.''

http://is.gd/J4UP9J

How Guantanamo Bay s Existence Helps Al-Qaeda

Op-Ed

As the ongoing hunger strike intensifies at Guantanamo Bay, this issue and the facility itself continues to undermine our national security.

http://is.gd/8JNGlx

'The Nightmare Has Started Again,' According to Hunger Striking Guantanamo Prisoner

A prisoner, who has been held in detention for eleven years without charge or trial, has told an attorney that the prison authorities are trying to ''break Muslims.''

http://is.gd/dF34hy

Hunger Strike at Gitmo: 'We Are Dying a Slow Death Here'

By Pardiss Kebriaei

''The government will keep us alive by force-feeding us but they will let us die by detaining us forever.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34599.htm

President Obama s shame: The forgotten prisoners of America s own Gulag

Op-Ed

No charge, but no release. Yesterday the anger of hunger-striking detainees boiled over in clashes with their jailers.

http://is.gd/b626Ye

Detainee Report Task Force Condemns Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers At Gitmo

A new bipartisan report released on Tuesday by the Constitution Project condemned force-feeding terror detainees that are engaged in hunger strikes.

http://is.gd/WLQ0sB

From Information Clearing House

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Imprisoned, Untried, and Languishing: Detainee says 'Gitmo is Killing Me'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/15

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 08:32

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Free Speech, Culture Wars, and Enlightenment

By Lorenzo Ospri

Darwinists are nihilistic time-bombs, since true morality only stems from the literal word of the Bible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34566.htm

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 05:34

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How the West Fueled the Ever-Growing Carnage in Syria

By Nicolas J.S. Davies

The actions of the United States and its allies in Syria have only led to escalating violence and chaos.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34559.htm

Syrian ''rebels'' pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda

The leader of the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, has pledged allegiance to the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

http://is.gd/rOIZZI

Syrian ''rebels'' disown Syrian ''rebels''

The mainstream Syrian rebel command distanced itself from the jihadist Nusra Front Tuesday after Al-Qaeda in neighboring Iraq confirmed that it spawned and supervised the group.

http://is.gd/AiNk7A

Syrian ''rebel'' Colonel Defends Jabhat al-Nusra

Video

Marginalizing them will only increase their fame and power.
http://is.gd/2L7pSd

In Syria, some brace for the next war

''Fighting is unavoidable,'' said Abu Mansour, a commander with the rebel Free Syrian Army s Farouq Brigades, whose men clashed last month with those of the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra movement in the border town of Tal Abiyad, one of several instances in which the tensions have erupted into violence. ''If it doesn t happen today, it will happen tomorrow.''

http://is.gd/3yESLt

Syria s Jihadists face test of government in eastern city

Hardline Islamist brigades patrol streets abandoned by police. A religious court has replaced a collapsed judicial system, and minorities have fled, according to civic activists in Raqqa, the largest city to fall to the opposition.

http://is.gd/507pED

Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts

The experts said transfers of arms to Syria, where a two-year-old civil war has killed more than 70,000 people, had been organized from various locations in Libya, including Misrata and Benghazi, via Turkey or northern Lebanon.

http://is.gd/Rdqw7e

Al-Qa'ida in Iraq declares takeover of leading Syrian rebel group

Al-Qa'ida in Iraq has said it has united with Syrian rebel group, the al-Nusra Front, in a move likely to embarrass Western countries supporting Syrian insurgents seeking to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

http://is.gd/KHkdwb

US, Al Qaeda Join Forces in Syria

Op-Ed

The selfsame group that the United States is helping Iraq s government fight in Anbar province and throughout Iraq is also the recipient of U.S. aid in Syria!

http://is.gd/hznsoq

Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria: Russian Official

The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia's Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov.

http://is.gd/ddLkMs

Sectarian war will persist in Syria after Assad s fall

Islamist extremist groups within the opposition remain powerful far beyond their actual numbers and ''have a presence in 13 of the 14 provinces in Syria.'' James R. Clapper Jr. told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

http://is.gd/reXzjE

Bishop speaks of starvation in Aleppo

The Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, described the devastation wrought by war as rebels advance on the city.

http://is.gd/11AwkF

The Islamic Emirate of Syriastan

By Pepe Escobar

Baghdad has seen the writing on the wall, a direct consequence of the divide and rule, Sunni-against-Shi'ite games the Americans have been encouraging for 10 years now; the next stage is set for a civil war, Syria-style, in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34619.htm

France s Media Admits that the Syrian ''Opposition'' is Al Qaida
Justifies French Government Support to the Terrorists

By Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Le Monde wants us to believe that Japhat Al Nosra is a good, more civilized version of Al Qaida, one perhaps worthy of Western military support!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34623.htm

Syria s Nusra Front Supplies Iraqi Al-Qaeda with Chemical Weapons

al-Nusra Front has sent chemical weapons to al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq through the country s al-Anbar province in recent days, the Arabic-language daily al-Bayana al-Jadida quoted informed sources as saying on Monday.

http://is.gd/yE2pRn

US sending weapons to Syria: Rand Paul

US Senator Rand Paul said the statements by persons claiming that the US is not involved in smuggling weapons to Syria, are false.

http://is.gd/k6bIw9

Syria s Civilian Suffering

Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity

By Finian Cunningham

How could such a rapid descent into barbarism be possible?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34630.htm

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 05:26

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Pannen häufen sich im AKW Fukushima 1

Auch zwei Jahre nach dem Unfall ist das AKW, in dem sich in drei Reaktoren eine Kernschmelze ereignet hat, noch keineswegs sicher.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38907/1.html

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 05:19

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Zyprer zählen zu den reichsten Europäern

Das Nettovermögen der zyprischen Haushalte liegt demmach weit über dem europäischen Durchschnitt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154074

Zypriotische Bankbilanzen schüren Verdacht gegen Aufsichtsbehörden

Anscheinend wurden die Zahlenwerke der Großbanken von Notenbanken und Aufsichtsbehörden so lange milde beurteilt, bis die finanzierenden europäischen Banken ihre Gelder aus Zypern abgezogen hatten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38967/1.html

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Zypern als Blaupause anstatt Island als Beispiel

Zypern, Irland und Island, drei Inseln und drei Krisen im
aufschlussreichen Vergleich. Artikel von Winfried Wolf (pdf), der
Beitrag ist in einer stark gekürzten Fassung in der gedruckten WOZ vom

11.4.2013 erschienen
http://www.labournet.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wolf_zypern.pdf

Aus: LabourNet, 12. April 2013

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Starmail - 11. Apr, 05:16

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