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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/war.protest.ap/index.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Federal prosecutors signaled this week that they have decided to pursue a wide range of allegations about dealings between Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, rather than bringing a narrowly focused bribery case against the congressman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906F.shtml

The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 US citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906D.shtml

Die Mayday-Paraden setzten da an, wo traditionelle gewerkschaftliche Konzepte versagen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22498/1.html

Nach der Analyse eines amerikanischen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlers sind die Aufstiegschancen in den USA weitaus geringer als in den meisten europäischen Ländern.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22552/1.html

The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has soared and may now reach $811 billion, says a report by the Congressional Research Service.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906X.shtml

Three state legislatures, Illinois, California, and Vermont, have now introduced resolutions to send petitions to the U.S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush (and, in the case of California, Cheney too). Minnesota, Missouri, and Oklahoma all have legislatures still active in May. Delaware, Louisana, R.I., South Carolina, and Puerto Rico are all up and running through June. New Hampshire is in session through July.

Every state has legislators brave enough to take the lead if we urge them to do so and provide them with the information they need.

Here's a kit to get you started: http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions

Here's a place to get organized with others in your area: http://www.pdamerica.org/impeach-wg.php


Call Your Senators This Week!

The Senate is expected to vote on $67 billion more for war this week, and to vote on amendments to that supplemental spending bill. Senator Bill Frist may seek to block some amendments from coming to a vote.

Call both of your senators and tell them you do not want one more dime spent on this war, that you do not want debate closed off by blocking amendments, and that you support the following amendments:

Senator Joseph Biden's amendment to prevent this money being spent on the construction of permanent bases.

Senator Robert Byrd's amendment stating that any request for funds for an ongoing military operation overseas, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the annual budget of the President rather than using emergency supplemental appropriations bills that receive less scrutiny.

Senator Russ Feingold's amendment requiring the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq by December 31, 2006.

Call the Capitol switchboard tollfree at 888-818-6641 or at 202-224-3121.


On Thursday Iraqi and American women protested in Senator Frist's office. See photos. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/images/frist/index.htm


AUDIO: Howard Zinn on Impeachment

Listen to PSA by Howard Zinn http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/zinn.mp3

Send this to every radio station in the country!


Petition to Be Delivered to White House on May 18 at 2 p.m.

http://www.dontattackiran.org

Thank you for what you've done! We've collected almost 35,000 signatures. We need a lot more and we've now set a deadline: May 18.

At 2 p.m. on May 18, we will deliver the petition, all the signatures, and all the comments to the White House. Join us there!

We will do this in cooperation with this Spiritual Activism Conference: http://www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference/


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Listen to Neil Young's "Let's Impeach the President"

Listen here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/9726

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God


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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12535460/site/newsweek/


Informant: NHNE

Some 57 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could. But when workers try to gain a union voice on the job, employers respond with intimidation, harassment and retaliation. And our labor laws are too weak to stop them.

The Employee Free Choice Act would ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they can do so without the debilitating obstacles employers now use to block their free choice.

Specifically, the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1696 and S. 842) would strengthen protections for workers' freedom to form unions by requiring employers to recognize a union once a majority of workers signed cards authorizing union representation. It also would provide for mediation and arbitration of first-contract disputes and authorize stronger penalties for employers that violate the legal rights of workers seeking to form unions or negotiate first contracts. Please send a message to your U.S. senators and representative urging them to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.clearwaterforcongress.com/petitions/pnum212.php

JOIN GRETCHEN CLEARWATER IN STANDING UP FOR YOU ON THIS AND ALL OTHER ISSUES

This alert is brought to you through the activism of Gretchen Clearwater, Democratic candidate for the U.S House from the 9th district of Indiana. Gretchen needs your help in the next couple days to win her primary election. How many times have you felt helpless and wished you could influence the votes of representatives in other districts to prevail on a critical vote in Congress, but knew you could not do so effectively because you were not one of their own constituents? How much more would you support Gretchen if you do live in her district?

Here we have a courageous candidate who will fight for all the issues you care about, if only she is given the chance to make the run. Please donate whatever you can to help Gretchen get on the radio to recruit and mobilize even more people to speak out so we can have a real impact on these policy decisions now and for the future. What would you give to have a whole legislature of people like Gretchen Clearwater? Won't you give her your support now to make that a reality?

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We have been valiantly speaking out with action alerts based on one fundamental premise --- either our representatives in Congress would listen to and heed the voices of their people --- or else we would work to replace them in the next election.

The time for the replacement action is NOW.

If each of us will just contribute what we can, to the most worthy candidates we can find, it will make a real difference in the kind of Congress we will all have to deal with in 2007. Most importantly, strong showings NOW by candidates who DO have a backbone, and WILL stand up and fight, can send a powerful message to the rest that they better start shaping up or we will ship them out too. Make your donation today and it will have cascading positive effects in many other races for months to come.

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Ohio Republican and longtime conservative Michael A. Fox has come to the realization that America's energy problems are not, as President Bush recently declared, because Americans have an "addiction to oil." Our energy problems stem from the failed leadership of two political parties - Democrats and Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906Y.shtml

Willie Nelson: "As one of the founders of Farm Aid, I have watched with admiration and a good amount of satisfaction the growth of what many now call the 'Good Food Movement' - the growing interest in and demand for organic, humanely-raised and family farm-identified food that is transforming the way America grows its food and how our food gets to our tables."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806HA.shtml

A chorus of environmental and health advocacy groups is urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's most recent nominee to an environmental post. "Virtually anything bad that the Bush administration has done with air pollution has Bill Wehrum's fingerprints on it," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806EC.shtml

Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants. The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as a contributor to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806EB.shtml

Evangelical Christians have been preaching politics in Ohio ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primaries and face accusations of using the church as a vehicle for political advocacy.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/217/index.html


From Information Clearing House

Reports of falling sales and investors stuck with properties they can't sell are just the beginning. Property owners should worry; so should their lenders.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P149596.asp?Printer


From Information Clearing House

Medicare's new prescription-drug program has increased out-of-pocket costs for about one in five participants, causing some to risk their health by reducing or eliminating medications.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/1in5paymoreinmedicarerxplan


From Information Clearing House

President Bush said Friday that taxing enormous oil industry profits is not the way to calm Americans' anxieties about pain at the gas pump, and that his "inclination and instincts" are that major oil companies are not intentionally overcharging drivers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. Defense Department has stepped up efforts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to gather intelligence within U.S. borders, aimed at both protecting military facilities and keeping an eye out for any threat on American soil, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/28/content_4484569.htm


From Information Clearing House

China has accumulated the biggest pile of currency reserves ever known in less time than it takes to train a doctor. To cajole China into resolving this syndrome by allowing the yuan to rise meaningfully, the IMF talked of the dollar needing to fall against Asian surplus currencies rather than just the people’s yuan.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2150322,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify the Iraq war, told clergy members Wednesday that the United States' use of torture on prisoners in its custody amounts to war crimes.

http://tinyurl.com/o9jo6


From Information Clearing House

General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, yesterday warned that covert US air strikes against al-Qaida inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1763104,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Iran is "the most active state sponsor of terrorism", according to the US state department's annual report on world terrorism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4955430.stm


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. war on terrorism has made the world safer, the State Department's counterterrorism chief said on Friday, despite more than 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed 14,600 people.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12871.htm

An Iraqi vice president warned the United States on Friday against attacking Iran. Adel Abdul Mahdi, the Shia member of the three-man Presidency Council, was asked about speculation US forces might strike to prevent Iran developing nuclear technology: http://tinyurl.com/lmt9y


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military's lack of understanding about Iraqi culture helped create the conditions for the insurgency that U.S. forces face there, according to a military adviser who has written a new book about the insurgency.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5366677


From Information Clearing House

By Sabrina Eaton

Eighteen of America's wealthiest families, are bankrolling efforts to permanently repeal estate taxes that would save their families a total of $71.6 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by public interest groups.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12868.htm

Reviewed by David Abbott

The Bush administration has come under attack for dismantling Clinton-era restrictions on road building and logging in nearly 58.5 million acres of the country's remaining backcountry and undeveloped forests. California, Oregon, and New Mexico have filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration, and a bi-partisan bill sponsored by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-WA) & Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) seeks to restore the rule. During its public comment period, the "Roadless Rule" generated the largest public response in US Forest Service history, with over 90 percent of comments supportive of the ban, while the repeal generated an even greater volume of comment, most of it critical. "Threats to Our Forests," National Environmental Trust, 9/05 http://www.net.org/forests/roadless.vtml


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Bailey Malone

In March 2005 the EPA took power plants off the list of sources of toxic pollutants, and instead has created a pollution trading scheme. A resolution challenging the EPA's cutback of Clean Air Act requirements to reduce mercury emissions failed in the Senate in September. Despite the Senate vote against the resolution, many states continue to lead the way with plans to crack down on mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants.
"Six Senate Democrats Vote to Retain Bush Mercury Rule" BushGreenWatch 9/16/05 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000294.php

"Senate Vote Leaves Women and Children at Risk of Mercury Poisoning," Sierra Club Press Release, 9/13/05
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0913-17.htm


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Sarah Randle

Due to diminishing approval ratings, the Bush administration has decided to reduce the number of soldiers serving in Iraq. A key element in these drawdown plans, not mentioned in the President's public statements, is that the departing American troops will be replaced by US airpower. Quick, deadly strikes by US warplanes are seen as a way to improve dramatically the combat capabilities of even the weakest Iraqi combat units. While the number of American casualties would decrease as ground troops are withdrawn, the overall level of violence and the number of Iraqi fatalities would increase dramatically.

"Tomgram: Dahr Jamail on the Missing Air War in Iraq," TomDispath.com, 1/06 http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=42286

"Up in the Air," Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, 11/28/05
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/051205fa_fact


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Sarah Randle

A watchlist of possible terror suspects distributed by the US government to airlines for pre-flight checks now consists of 80,000 names according to European air industry sources. The classified list carried just 16 names before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Airlines must check each passenger flying to a US destination against the list, and contact the US Department of Homeland Security for further investigation if there is a matching name. "US terror watchlist 80,000 names long," Sweden.se, 12/08/05 http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/NewsML____12744.aspx?newsid=1312


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Lauren Powell

Authorities are keeping Katrina relief workers ill-informed and unprotected from the health risks of what has been described as a cesspool of toxic chemicals. No government regulations for Katrina responders exist. KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, holds the main contract for Katrina relief work, and while the company maintains it operates legally, hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been hired. Many have been denied promised wages, food and shelter. A period of relaxed labor standards following Katrina created lasting conditions for abuse of workers.
"Gulf Coast Slaves," Roberto Lovato, Salon.com, 11/05
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505A.shtml
"Relief Workers May Be Next Wave of Katrina Victim,s" Michelle Chen, The New Standard, 09/23/05
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2395


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Charlene Jones

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds investments valued between $5 million and $25 million in Gilead Sciences, a biotech company he chaired from 1997 until 2001 and the company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the most sought-after influenza remedy in the world. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, which holds the sole license to manufacture Tamiflu, last year refused to lift its exclusive rights and allow other drug manufacturers to produce the drug. Fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47, making the Pentagon chief-already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet-at least $1 million richer. "Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu," Nelson D. Schwartz, CNN, 10/31/05 http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/?cnn=yes "Is Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?" F. William Engdahl, GlobalResearch.ca, 10/30/05 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051030&articleId=1169


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Zoe Hoffman

On June 27, 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled that giant cable companies like Comcast and Verizon are not required to share their cables with other Internet service providers. Federal government--from the FCC to the White House--and the media have worked cooperatively to quietly block open access to cyberspace. Mainstream media have censored and covered up Federal moves to commandeer, monopolize, and turn the Internet into an extension of itself. From Fox News to CNN, there has been dead silence as the greatest bastion of democracy in history is being dismantled - and resurrected in the image of AOL. "Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, And Why Corporate News Censored the Story," Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D, Buzzflash, 6/18/05 http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/07/con05238.html


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Charlene Jones

After drying wells, poisoning drinking water, and distributing toxic sludge as fertilizer, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in a remote village of India was shut down. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board order was the latest episode in a battle between Coca-Cola and impoverished residents since the company began its $25 million operation in 2001. Pollution control authorities, political parties, the High Court system, and environmental groups became involved as the dispute grew into a global symbol of peoples' resistance to powerful trans-national corporations trying to snatch water rights. "Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola," D. Rajeev, IPS, 7/21/05 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29973


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

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Coca-Cola: STOP Destroying Lives, Livelihoods and Communities in India
http://tinyurl.com/f6pah

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4420/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

This may have been passed around once before, but it still scares the hell out of me.

What if we cannot get a honest election in November?

What if we cannot get an honest election in 2008? What if they do not even bother to put up a fraudulent election in 2008? What if they just do not hold one?

I once very much dislike the NRA, but now, I see what they had in mind all this time.

A Pyridine Shift, wouldn't you say?

Perhaps we should prepare for this contingency. Of course, I am considering this a absolute last resort, but what was that b. s. they brainwashed us with during High School? "Better Dead than Red"

Well, I also learned this in High School: "I know not what course others might take, but as for me, give me Liberty, or give me death!!!

Best Regards,

Alan Dicey
Miami, Florida


20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States

By Bob Rowe

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush’s vice- presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.

9. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold’s Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a “high degree of sophistication” to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold’s claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov )

17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

18. Bush’s Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.

19. All—not some—but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to
1!)—again always favoring Bush—have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.

Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? or was it Diebold…?

By Alison Motluk
New Scientist April 18, 2006

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19025494.400

It was a stunt that launched a thousand conspiracy theories. Market researcher James Vicary claimed in 1957 that he could get movie-goers to "drink Coca-Cola" and "eat popcorn" by flashing those messages on the screen for such a short time that viewers were unaware of it. People were outraged, and the practice was banned in the UK, Australia and the US.

Vicary later admitted that his study was fabricated, and scientists through the years who have tried to replicate it have largely failed. But now researchers have shown that if the conditions are right, subliminal advertising to promote a brand can be made to work.

Johan Karremans at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and his colleagues wanted to see if they could subliminally induce volunteers to favour a particular brand of drink, Lipton Ice. For comparison, they chose a brand of mineral water called Spa Rood, as it was deemed to be as well known as Lipton Ice and equally thirst-quenching.

The researchers asked 61 volunteers to perform a nonsense task -- counting how many times a string of capital Bs was infiltrated by a lower-case b as they flashed up on a screen. The B strings appeared for 300 milliseconds each, and before them, a string of Xs always appeared, flanking a 23-millisecond subliminal message. For the experimental group, the message was "Lipton Ice". Controls saw "Nipeic Tol".

When the volunteers had completed this task, they were asked to choose between Lipton Ice and Spa Rood by clicking one of two keys -- though they were told this was part of a separate study. They were also asked how likely they would be to order either of these drinks if they were sitting on a terrace, and to rate how thirsty they were. Volunteers who rated themselves as thirsty were more likely to choose Lipton Ice, but only if they had received the subliminal message.

In a second study the researchers made half of their 105 volunteers thirsty by giving them a very salty candy before the task. As predicted, among the thirsty, subliminal messaging had an impact. Eighty per cent of thirsty volunteers who had been exposed to the Lipton Ice message chose that product, compared to only 20 per cent of the controls.

The thirstier volunteers rated themselves to be, the more likely they were to choose Lipton Ice. Those who were not thirsty were only slightly more likely to pick the iced tea (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, DOI:
10.1016/j.jesp.2005.12.2005). "Priming only works when the prime is goal-relevant," says Karremans. The researchers are now planning to study just how long-lasting these effects are.

Meanwhile, advertisers have found alternative means of pushing their products. Earlier this month, the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine published a report showing that for each additional hour per day that a child watched television an average of one additional request was made for an advertised product. The effect of the commercials on children lasted up to 20 weeks.


Informant: NHNE

I am sending you along a published interview with John Cummins, chairperson of B.E.S.T. (Better Environment and Safer Telecommunications)which appeared in the IRISH EXAMINER on the same day as the public meeting on the same issue.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobile_phone_mast_recommendation_being_ignored.jpg

I attended the well organised three hour meeting. The room was filled to capacity and attendees during the Q & A session voiced their concern over health issues related to the placement and proliferation of masts.

John Cummings, chairperson, urged all present to try and get maximum supporters to attend a protest meeting on this issue at 11.00 am, on Saturday May 13. Location of protest: Toomevara, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. (It's on the main Limerick-Dublin road.) He said that it would send a very strong message if thousands turned up for this protest.

B.E.S.T. will have its website up and running in c. three weeks.

While talking with John Ryan (the Tipperary farmer whose health was badly affected by the mast he and his wife, Rosie, had on their farm) before the meeting, John made it clear to me that the mast on his farm was never damaged--as stated to be so in a newspaper report--and there was no criminal investigation into it being damaged. All that, he said, was just spin to make them look shady/evil characters. You have posted this article on your 25.03.2006 report.

"John Ryan and his wife are prepared to go to jail rather than allow Vodafone on to their property to repair a broken mast"

http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1740776/


Best, Imelda, Cork

Fast ein Nobelpreis: Vogelgrippe-Nachweis soll dem Fotografen mit 1 Million Schweizer Franken honoriert werden!

Eine ungewöhnlich hohe Prämie winkt dem Forscher, dem es erstmalig gelingt, das "hochgefährliche" Vogelgrippe-Virus H5N1 elektronenmikroskopisch nachzuweisen.

In der Presse und in den Wissenschaftsredaktionen der Fernsehsender ist diese Agenturmeldung aus der Schweiz wie eine Bombe eingeschlagen, war man doch bisher davon ausgegangen, dass dieser Nachweis längst erbracht sei. Doch nun stellt sich heraus, dass nicht nur die in Angst gehaltene Bevölkerung und die in ihrer Existenz bedrohten Geflügelhalter, sondern gerade auch die Medien selbst auf einen Wissenschaftsbetrug nie gekannten Ausmaßes hereingefallen sind.

Einige der weltweit federführenden Forschungsinstitute, u. a. das Robert-Koch-Institut in Deutschland, mussten unter dem Druck der Aufdeckung dieses Schwindels inzwischen kleinlaut zugeben, mit einem Fotobeweis nicht dienen zu können. Die Virologen Karl Krafeld und Dr. Stefan Lanka, die diesen geradezu unfassbaren Wissenschaftsbetrug aufgedeckt haben ("Die Vogelgrippe", klein-klein-verlag, ISBN 3-937342-15-X) warnen vor der bevorstehenden Gefahr einer Impfpflicht in Deutschland, die auf Drängen der Pharmaindustrie und unter Mithilfe von allen guten Geistern verlassener "Gesundheitspolitiker" parlamentarisch durchgepaukt werden soll. Vorgesehen ist also, mit einem Impfstoff, den es noch gar nicht gibt, 80 Millionen Deutsche zweimal "durchzuimpfen" gegen eine Krankheit, die nicht einmal bei Hühnern nachgewiesen werden konnte geschweige denn eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit darstellt.

Die Virologen und Wissenschaftsautoren Krafeld und Lanka weisen insbesondere darauf hin, dass H5N1 auf Wunsch in jedem Huhn, in jeder Ente und in jedem menschlichen Körper "wissenschaftlich" nachgewiesen werden kann. Sie schreiben zum Vogelgrippe-Virus u.a. "Ich bin nicht isolierbar, weil ich nicht existiere!" Und sie schreiben weiter: "Isoliert die Lügner, dann ist die Angst (vor der Vogelgrippe) schnell vorbei!" Um dieser Zitterpartie ein Ende zu bereiten und verantwortungslosen Politikern wenigstens zu ermöglichen, das Gesicht zu wahren, wird der wissenschaftliche Nachweis eines hoffentlich doch vorhandenen H5N1-Virus immer dringender. In der Schweiz wurde daher beschlossen, die Belohnung für ein überzeugendes Foto eines H5N1-Virus noch einmal heraufzusetzen und zwar von 500 000 auf 1 Million Schweizer Franken.

Leicht wird ein derartiges Foto nicht zu beschaffen sein, denn auch mit den modernsten Elektronenmikroskopen ist es immer noch recht problematisch, Wunschträume gewissenloser "Virologen" der Pharmaindustrie und der "Experten" deutscher Forschungsinstitute in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen. Aber - das letzte Wort ist darüber noch nicht gefallen; und so hat der deutsche Gesundheitsminister Seehofer auf Anraten der Pharmaindustrie und der Massentierhalter "vorsorglich" beschlossen, die Stallpflicht für Federvieh auf unbestimmte Zeit zu verlängern!

http://www.muslix.de/HB/media/vogelgrippe.html


Informant: Gerd Zesar

Please visit the website below to read and endorse this important unity statement. In addition, if you agree with it, help get it circulated widely.

to sign, GO TO: http://www.petitiononline.com/bbunity/petition.html


In struggle,

Saladin Muhammad (North Carolina)
Sam Anderson (New York)


Informant: Leslie Radford

Summarized Information About Bio Identical Hormones You Can Use in Your Letter:

The huge National Institutes of Health Womens' Health Initiative was halted more than a year early in 2002 because women who took synthetic hormones (Premarin, made from pregnant mares' urine, a conjugated estrogen and Prempro, a combination of Premarin and a synthetic progesterone also called progestin) were at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, breast and uterine cancer, mental decline and life threatening blood clots. There was no benefit to taking these drugs which are made by Wyeth.

Millions of women switched to Bio Identical Hormones (BIH) because they are natural, inexpensive and safe compounds which are easy on the body and work beautifully. Made for each woman's need by compounding pharmacies, they are also a threat to Wyeth's bottom line.

Using a Citizens Petition to the FDA, Wyeth is seeking to ban all natural hormones and end compounding. Natural health options to dangerous drugs are under significant attack.

Very Important Instructions to Make Your Letter as Effective as Possible:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3356

Despite vehement denials by his attorney who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Y.shtml

This alert is brought to you by the activism of Charles W. Sanders, candidate for U.S House from the 3rd district of Ohio.

WE MUST PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS ON VOTE SUPPRESSION

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum267.php

Passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the National voting Rights Act of 1993 collectively have strengthened the voting rights of African Americans, and other minority voters over the last century.

The process of pre-clearance found in section '5' of the Voting Rights Act beckons for continued attention and ultimate re-validation before 2007. Apparently, some elements in both Houses of Congress don't see the need to promote inclusion but would prefer voter supression. Reference Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004.

The skewed results of these recent elections were accomplished in large part by purging the participation of people anticipated to vote the "wrong" way. Even if we were to cure all other problems in counting AFTER the vote, this cannot fix the purging of our base before they even get to the polls. It is therefore critically important that we all speak out now to not only renew the Voting Rights Act, but to also strengthen it in light of recent and more sophisticated abuses.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum267.php

But more than that, Charles Sanders is running as many radio spots in his home district as he can, calling on all his constituents to raise their own voices, and to submit his action page to do so. And he needs your help in this, the last week of his primary campaign, to reach out to as many people as possible in this way, to help build the consensus that impeachment is long overdue.

When we talk about taking back Congress, that is what we will have to do, TAKE IT. Nobody is going give us anything we won't give to ourselves. And when we donate to a candidate like Charles W. Sanders who is showing just the kind of leadership we need, we can make an example of him, and show other candidates that if they show real backbone they will get the support of the people too.

PAYPAL DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/pp.html

OTHER DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/cc.html

Nobody can predict how the primary election in the Ohio 3rd district will turn out this coming Tuesday. But every dollar we put into getting direct call to action radio spots on the air will increase the momentum for positive change. It's time to stop complaining about the representatives we have, and show how SERIOUS we are about replacing them with those who are standing up for us. When you donate to Charles, you're not just promoting a particular candidate, you are investing in real change, because he is using that money to encourage OTHER people to speak out as well.

We NEED candidates like Charles Sanders to champion the issues that are important to us. Charles needs your help to get his message out, to get YOUR message out, and has now just one more week before his primary to do so. Please make a contribution today to send Charles to Congress and fight for you on the issues you care about.

How many times have you felt helpless and wished you could influence the votes of representatives in other districts to prevail on a critical vote in Congress, but thought you could not do so effectively because you were not one of their own constituents? How much more would you support Charles if you do live in his district?

Here we have a courageous candidate who will fight for all the issues you care about, if only he is given the chance to make the run. Please donate whatever you can to help Charles get on the radio to recruit and mobilize even more people to speak out so we can have a real impact on these policy decisions now and for the future. What would you give to have a whole legislature of people like Charles Sanders? Won't you give him your support now to make that a reality?

We have been valiantly speaking out with action alerts based on one fundamental premise --- either our representatives in Congress would listen to and heed the voices of their people --- or else we would work to replace them in the next election.

The time for the replacement action is NOW.

PAYPAL DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/pp.html

OTHER DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/cc.html

If each of us will just contribute what we can, to the most worthy candidates we can find, it will make a real difference in the kind of Congress we will all have to deal with in 2007. Most importantly, strong showings NOW by candidates who DO have a backbone, and WILL stand up and fight, can send a powerful message to the rest that they better start shaping up or we will ship them out too. Make your donation today and it will have cascading positive effects in many other races for months to come.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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A MOUTHFUL OF MONEY

* Kraft Foods bought small natural cereals producer Back to Nature in
2004. The company is a subsidiary of Altria Group, which also owns Phillip Morris Companies Inc., one of the largest cigarette makers in the world. Kraft also owns Boca Burger Inc.

* Odwalla Inc., which produces natural and organic fruit juices, was purchased by Coca-Cola in 2001.

* Dean Foods Co., the largest dairy company in the U.S., bought out Horizon Organic in 2003, in addition to Silk soymilk and White Wave tofu.

* Kellogg's has acquired several natural and organic brands: Kashi Cereal and Morningstar Farms.

* General Mills purchased Cascadian Farm, in 2000. The brand consists of items such as frozen fruit, vegetables, granola bars and fruit spreads. General Mills also bought out Muir Glen, which produces ketchup, tomato sauce, and salsa.

* Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry's for $326 million.

* Colgate-Palmolive Co. is purchasing Tom's of Maine, which specializes in natural oral and personal care products.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

A massive march and rally, organized by a network of peace, environmental, and public interest organizations, including the OCA, will take place Saturday, April 29 in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will call for an end to the war in Iraq, a massive reduction in greenhouse gases, and a transformation of the American economy to sustainable and organic production. If you can travel to New York, please attend the march, but you can also take part online by joining organic consumers across the country in calling for an end to the war in Iraq and a massive reduction in greenhouse gases.

Sign on as a "Virtual Marcher" here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/itstime060428.cfm

A nationwide network of nonprofit organizations, including the Organic Consumers Association, are mobilizing to stop Congress from passing a law that would enable telecommunications giants to control the flow of traffic on the internet. Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are pressuring Congress to pass the "Telecom Reform Bill" that would allow them to restrict or slow down your access to certain websites on the internet. As an example, last year, Canada's version of AT&T -- Telus -- blocked their internet customers from visiting a web site sympathetic to workers with whom Telus was negotiating. This controversial bill would create a similar situation in the U.S. whereby telephone and cable companies would have increased power to control how well (or poorly) specific websites, including those operated by nonprofit organizations, would function on your computer. The current construction of the internet allows everyone to compete on a level playing field. This is the reason that the internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will hand over control of the internet to these telecommunications monopolies.

Please take action: http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/telecom.cfm

Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for May 1st will flood America's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it debates reform.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806O.shtml

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites, pursuing evidence that could broaden their long-running inquiry.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806K.shtml

Energiepolitik ist ein brennendes Thema, in der EU ebenso wie in Deutschland. Während Bundeskanzlerin Merkel hier im April zum Energiegipfel einlud, richtete die Europäische Kommission Ende Februar gleich eine neue Kommission ein, die High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment. Die Kommission wird von der Industrie dominiert und stösst im Europaparlament auf heftige Kritik.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=241

Am kommenden Mittwoch, den 3. Mai, stellt die EU-Kommission das Grünbuch zur “European Transparency Initiative” (ETI) vor. Im Rahmen der ETI findet seit einem Jahr eine intensive Debatte über mehr Transparenz- und Ethikregeln für Lobbyisten in Brüssel statt. Das Grünbuch wird sich voraussichtlich eine freiwillige Registrierung der Lobbyisten vorschlagen. Wie detailliert diese ihre Finanzquellen offenlegen sollen, wird offen bleiben. Damit bliebe die EU-Kommission hinter den Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten zurück.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=243

28.04.06

Nach Auffassung der Umweltschutzorganisation WWF will der Ölkonzern Shell das größte Öl- und Gasförderprojekt der Welt vor der Insel Sachalin im russischen Fernen Osten ohne ausreichende Sicherheitsmaßnahmen betreiben. Eine neue Studie des Verbandes zeige, "dass es keine Mittel gibt, einen Ölunfall während der langen Wintermonate wirksam zu bekämpfen". Das Öl- und Gasförderprojekt "Sachalin II" verlaufe unmittelbar durch die Nahrungsgründe der vom Aussterben bedrohten Westpazifischen Grauwale. "Shell riskiert das Ende der Grauwale und der einmaligen Küstennatur im Ochotskischen Meer", meint Volker Homes vom WWF. Die Naturschützer fordern deshalb die in London ansässige die Europäische Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung (EBWE) auf, einen von Shell angeforderten Kredit für den Weiterbau von "Sachalin II" abzulehnen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13474

In der Albert-Schweitzer-Realschule wurden jetzt die Infotafeln des VerbraucherService Bayern im Katholischen Deutschen Frauenbund erstmals ausgestellt. Mit Hilfe von Comics sollen Jugendliche für Gesundheitsrisiken sensibilisiert und zum vernünftigen Umgang mit Risiken angeregt werden. Ergänzend zu den Infotafeln werden Faltblätter angeboten, die einfach umzusetzende Tipps enthalten, wie gesundheitliche Belastungen durch Lärm, UV-Licht und elektromagnetische Strahlung reduziert werden können. Helgit Kadlez, Leiterin der Beratungsstelle Regensburg, stellte dabei fest, dass gerade Lärm, UV-Strahlen und Elektrosmog für junge Menschen Gesundheitsrisiken darstellen. Stefanie Ertl, Umweltberaterin beim Verbraucherservice, erinnerte daran, dass viele Erkrankungen langsam und unbemerkt entstehen, weshalb frühe Aufklärung von besonderer Bedeutung sei. Bereits jeder vierte Jugendliche leidet an einer beginnenden Schwerhörigkeit. Freizeitlärm ist eine der Hauptursachen für Hörschädigungen. Da Ohren immer auf Empfang sind, brauchen sie besonderen Schutz vor Lärm.

http://www.donau.de/SID_2152e8c4493fe5bd201dee2c8c91c6a5/nachrichten/region/regensburg/meldung.shtml?rubrik=mz&id=64926