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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi

http://www.gigaherz.ch/1025

Krankenkasse Helsana an Ursachen der Kostenexplosion nicht interessiert
http://www.gigaherz.ch/1023

http://www.gigaherz.ch/1028

Doris Leuthard braucht ein zweites Handy
http://www.gigaherz.ch/1027

A message from Eleanor

Irrepressible

Some 45 years after an Observer article launched Amnesty, The Observer and Amnesty International have teamed up again to campaign against a new threat to our freedom - internet repression.

Join the campaign Go to Amnesty's website, irrepressible.info, to sign the pledge for freedom of expression on the internet.
http://irrepressible.info/

Background

How it started Read the 1961 article by Peter Benenson which was published in The Observer to launch Amnesty.
http://www.amnesty.ie/user/content/view/full/3844

A message from Lynx

Original Message:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_feature.asp?id=0

Watch th SHORT VIDEO from "BLUE MAN GROUP": EARTH TO AMERICA!! Excellent.

Thank you. Peace.

Penny Lynn

(and be sure and sign the petition!)

brought to you by: http://www.stopglobalwarming.org

A message from Eleanor:

Original Message:

Hi all,

We have another ETAEP petition. I cannot tell you how much this petition means to me - and I think to every woman who knows anything about it! Please read, sign and crosspost as widely as possible! Thank you all. Love and hugs,

Jessie

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/761466440

Stop Violence Against Women Target: Michael Retzer, Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzaniz, United States Ambassador Sponsor: Musi Faisal, ETAEP/Sustainable Development Group

On March 5, 2004, Amnesty International launched a global campaign to eradicate violence against women, yet it continues today in 2006. With the support of ordinary people, both men and women, we must put an end to this human rights scandal.

It’s in our hands.

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Violence is arguably the most egregious form of inequality visited upon women and girls across the globe.

This year Amnesty International launched a two-year Stop Violence Against Women Campaign. Amnesty will work in local communities to help women at the grassroots level, pressure governments to pass legal protections, and work with the media to raise awareness about the issue.

But Amnesty needs your help to make this campaign succeed: http://www.care2.com/go/z/noviolence

One out of every three women has been beaten, raped, or abused in her lifetime. As women and men with the ability to take action, we have a special opportunity - and perhaps a responsibility - to be leaders in enacting a new era in women's human rights. Please consider donating today : http://www.care2.com/go/z/noviolence

Then, click to end violence against women today: http://stopviolence.care2.com

Every click helps Amnesty International generates 3 letters to put pressure on decision makers, urging them to take actions to prevent rape, domestic abuse, war and other violent crimes committed against women and girls worldwide.

http://tinyurl.com/letqs (English/Englisch)
http://de.indymedia.org/2006/01/136183.shtml (Deutsch/German)

Helfen Sie bitte mit, den scheinbar unabwendbar bevorstehenden Krieg der USA gegen den Iran zu verhindern.

Informieren Sie sich unter http://www.reopen911.org und
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change

Bitte handeln Sie schnell und werden Sie aktiv!"

Fernando Suarez del Solar wonders what has happened to Memorial Day: "In spite of all of the wars that have taken thousands of our soldiers and millions of innocents, especially children, the world is still at war, and people everywhere suffer under unjust political systems where there is no freedom."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052806Y.shtml

The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss two lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052806Z.shtml

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

28. Mai 2006

Die Linkspartei.PDS steht nach Äußerungen des Verfassungsschutzpräsidenten Fromm weiterhin im Visier des Verfassungsschutzes. Dazu erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Das ist absurd. Dieses Geld kann gespart werden. Offenbar haben die Herren vom Bundesverfassungsschutz noch nicht realisiert, dass die Linkspartei im Bundestag vertreten ist und in zwei Bundesländern mitregiert, zahlreiche Bürgermeister und Oberbürgermeister stellt. Ich fordere den Präsidenten des Verfassungsschutzes auf, die Beobachtung unverzüglich zu beenden. Es ist gefährlich, wenn Menschen - vor allem in den Alten Bundesländern - eingeschüchtert werden, die sich politisch engagieren wollen. Es sollte sich auch bis in den Bayerischen Wald nach Pullach herumgesprochen haben, dass diverse Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz die Beobachtung der Linkspartei.PDS eingestellt haben.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=32840

28.05.2006

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

nachfolgend und als Pdf-Anlage http://tinyurl.com/o53uo diese Stellungnahme, die heute auf dem Abschlussplenum des Bundestreffens der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen (BAG-SHI) einstimmig verabschiedet wurde.

Die Vertreter/-innen der Betroffeneninitiativen wenden sich darin gegen weitere Kürzungen bei Hartz IV und Falschdarstellungen im Zusammenhang mit der so genannten "Kostenexplosion" bei Sozialleistungen.

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Frank Jäger


Pressemitteilung der BA-SHI vom 28.05.2006

Armutszeugnis statt Kostenexplosion

Vom 25. bis 28. Mai 2006 fand in Naumburg an der Saale das diesjährige Bundestreffen der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) statt. Breiten Raum nahmen in den Beratungen der Entwurf des Arbeitslosengeld II-Fortentwicklungsgesetzes und die begleitenden Forderungen der kommunalen Spitzenverbände, aus Teilen der Wohlfahrtsverbände und der Parteien ein, die Leistungen für Erwerbslose weiter zu senken. „Hier soll Menschen, die keine Arbeit haben, vollends der Boden unter den Füßen weggezogen werden“, so Andreas Geiger, Vorsitzender der BAG-SHI.

Auf besondere Empörung stießen die Äußerungen führender Koalitionspolitiker, Leistungskürzungen würden wegen der „explodierenden“ Kosten für Hartz IV notwendig. „Eine Kostenexplosion findet nicht statt.“, stellten die 80 Vertreter/-innen von Initiativen und Beratungsstellen fest. Das bis Dezember 2004 in Kraft gewesene Sicherungssystem aus Sozialhilfe und Arbeitslosenhilfe hätte in den Jahren 2005 und 2006 35,5 beziehungsweise 37,3 Milliarden Euro gekostet. Dass die von der Bundesregierung veranschlagten Kosten weit darunter lagen, beruhe auf einer empirisch nicht haltbaren und damit unsoliden Haushaltplanung. Es sei leicht vorauszusehen gewesen, dass die Zahl der Menschen, die auf Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, ständig steigt. Denn der Rückgang von Arbeits- und Ausbildungsplätzen hält an. Die Bezugsdauer für Arbeitslosengeld I ist seit Februar 2006 verkürzt. Immer mehr Menschen arbeiten zu Löhnen, von denen sie und ihre Familien nicht leben können. Ehemalige Bezieher von Arbeitslosenhilfe haben ihre Ersparnisse, von denen sie zunächst leben mussten, inzwischen aufgebraucht. Die so genannte Zunahme von Bedarfsgemeinschaften ist für die BAG-SHI eine Leerformel. Dazu Geiger: „Vor Hartz IV hat niemand ‚Bedarfsgemeinschaften’ gezählt. Jetzt reden plötzlich alle davon und versuchen so, von einer verfehlten Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik abzulenken.“

Frank Jäger

(Für Rückfragen: 0160-4 25 89 19)
BAG-SHI Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. Geschäftsstelle Moselstraße 25 --- 60329 Frankfurt am Main Fon: 069-27 22 08 98 - Fax: 069-27 22 08 97 email: info@bag-shi.de - Internet: www.bag-shi.de

President Bush is leaning toward having his old friend Donald Evans take over the Treasury Department after an effort to woo a Wall Street star failed, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052706F.shtml

William Fisher reports: "Anticipating that the US federal government would invoke the so-called 'state secrets' privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government's biggest spy agency, a major civil rights group has embarked on an alternate course."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052706D.shtml

Borrowing a defense used by tax evaders and school kids who don't do their homework, Vice President Cheney's indicted former top adviser told a grand jury he forgot that seven people told him about CIA spy Valerie Plame.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052706B.shtml

Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham last week breezily invoked the American-invented War on Terror to justify his proposal to install police video cameras around the city’s public spaces.

http://www.republic-news.org/archive/139-repub/139_kevin_potvin_police.htm


From Information Clearing House

Matthew Behrens, co-ordinator of Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada, a group advocating for better treatment of the detainees, said the conditions at the holding centre make it a "Guantanamo North.'
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http://tinyurl.com/nuskh


From Information Clearing House

America knew Baghdad was using chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1988. So why, asks Dilip Hiro, has it taken 14 years to muster its outrage?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,784313,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Perhaps the advisors of Bush and Blair thought they were going to put a human face on two leaders who had been so vilified over the Iraq debacle. If so they failed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13404.htm



Galloway stands by Blair comments
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13406.htm

22.05.2006

Beim Honig wird deutlich: Raps und die sogenannte „Koexistenz“ passen nicht zusammen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5305

22.05.2006

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Biodiversität* (22. Mai) der Vereinten Nationen (UN) ziehen Artenschützer eine verheerende Bilanz.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5313

23.05.2006

Germanwatch stellt neuen Klima-Risiko-Index vor. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5327

25.05.2006

Atomkritische Ärzteorganisation besorgt über Vorstoß der Atomkonzerne. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5331

28.05.2006

Die Zahl der Hungertoten steigt weltweit dramatisch an. Das erklärte der UN-Sonderberichterstatter für das Recht auf Nahrung, Jean Ziegler.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5348

The 2000 presidential election caused a crisis of confidence in our voting system. The 2004 election saw eligible voters unable to vote and hours-long lines in the rain, which deepened people's skepticism about fair elections.

Properly run elections are the foundation of our democracy, and there is no reason why states like Ohio and Florida should continue to have problems. But too many of us take for granted that these problems will take care of themselves.

They won't. That's why it's so important to have a clear set of principles for conducting elections and for supporting secretary of state candidates who will uphold these principles.

It's up to those of us who care about our democracy to take up this fight. That is why I am asking you to join me by supporting this simple declaration of principles and advocating them to the secretary of state or election official in your state. Read the principles and sign on here:

http://www.heartlandpac.org/VOTES

The core principles every election official should adopt can be summed up with a simple acronym: VOTES. The VOTES declaration outlines the steps needed to protect our right to vote and to restore confidence that all eligible citizens can vote and be assured their vote will be counted. Here's the text of the declaration:

To restore public confidence that voting is a right not a privilege I believe:

VERIFIABLE: Every vote cast must be counted by a system that is auditable with a verifiable paper trail.

OBJECTIVE: Every election official must conduct their responsibilities openly and objectively to restore public confidence.

TOUGH: Every law to prevent voter intimidation and fraud must be vigorously enforced.

EQUAL: Every citizen must have equal access to locations, adequate machines and well-trained election judges.

SECURE: Every voting machine must be secured during all aspects of voting to protect the integrity of the count.

Will you sign this declaration? By signing you will join a nationwide campaign to demand that these core principles be implemented and upheld in your state and across the country.

Sign the declaration now and add your feedback:

http://www.heartlandpac.org/VOTES

In 2006, twenty-one states will elect a secretary of state who has responsibility for the voting process. It's time we elect candidates who will restore confidence and integrity to the electoral process. The declaration demands a system that is verifiable, objective, tough on intimidation and fraud, equal and secure.

This election season will decide the future of our elections for years to come. There are crucial elections for secretary of state in places like Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, Colorado and 17 other states.

We need to make our voice heard in every state -- to the incumbents who will run this year's election and to the candidates vying to be entrusted with future elections.

Take the first step by signing on to the Declaration:

http://www.heartlandpac.org/VOTES

Over the coming weeks you will be hearing more about the best and the worst of practices in various states, and learning about how you personally can improve and protect our democracy by advocating on these issues and educating others.

All the values we hold dear mean very little if ordinary Americans can't express their will clearly and accurately at the polls. I hope you'll join me as we take on the fight to address this fundamental aspect of our democracy.

Best,

Tom Vilsack
http://www.pbs.org/whatson/index.html


Informant: Alan Dicey