World-News

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?nkhouri6


From Adriana R.

Deutsche und dänische Naturschützer rufen zum Verzicht auf die geplante Beltquerung zwischen Fehmarn und dem dänischen Lolland auf. Vor einem für Dienstag in Berlin geplanten Treffen der Verkehrsminister beider Länder, Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) und Flemming Hansen, äußerten Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) und Danmarks Naturfredningsforening (DN) in einem gemeinsamen Brief an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) schwere ökologische wie ökonomische Bedenken gegen die Ostsee-Brücke.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15380

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5791/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The Bush administration has no clear strategy to protect the privacy of patients as it promotes the use of electronic medical records throughout the nation's health care system, federal investigators say in a new report.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907F.shtml

David tangled with Walter Reed's image machine when he wanted to attend a ceremony for a fellow amputee, a Mexican national who was being granted US citizenship by President Bush. A case worker quizzed him about what he would wear. It was summer, so David said shorts. The case manager said the media would be there and shorts were not advisable because the amputees would be seated in the front row. "Are you telling me that I can't go to the ceremony 'cause I'm an amputee?'" David recalled asking. "She said, 'No, I'm saying you need to wear pants.'" David told the case worker, "I'm not ashamed of what I did, and y'all shouldn't be neither." When the guest list came out for the ceremony, his name was not on it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907E.shtml

After Republicans blocked a Senate debate for a second time, Democrats said Saturday they'll drop efforts to pass a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq and instead will offer a flurry of anti-war legislation "just like in the days of Vietnam."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907C.shtml

Al Neuharth, the former Gannett chief, USA Today founder and currently weekly columnist for that newspaper, has had a change of heart. A year ago, in honor of President's Day, he stated that while he was often critical of George W. Bush, he did not, and probably would not ever, crack his list of the five worst presidents we've ever had. A year later he admits he was wrong. In his USA Today column, he announces that Bush has not only cracked the bottom five, he's now at the very bottom.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907B.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5792/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei

One of the most endangered mammals in North America, the mountain caribou has been reduced to under 1,900 animals by a combination of logging of old-growth forest habitats, road building, and motorized recreation. Primarily found in the mountains of British Columbia, a small number of animals still cross the border into parts of Idaho, eastern Washington and Montana, where they are protected as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. In Canada, the British Columbia government is currently deciding how much old-growth forest habitat it will protect for caribou. Your comments are needed to ensure this globally unique animal receives the protection it deserves.

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/mtn_caribou
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/451737544?z00m=9413843&ltl=1171385292

HLV INFO 17/AT

19-02-2007

Einladung zur Infoveranstaltung in Lauterbach


Guten Tag,

heute erhalten Sie nachfolgende Einladung von Ihrer BÜRGERWELLE. Sie sind herzlich eingeladen an der Veranstaltung teilzunehmen. Die Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei.

Leiten Sie diese eMail bitte an so viele Freunde und Bekannte wie möglich weiter, für die das Thema ebenfalls interessant ist. Sie helfen uns damit!

Herzliche Grüße!


Gesundheitsgefahren durch Mobilfunkanlagen in Lauterbach - BÜRGERWELLE veranstaltet öffentliche Informationsveranstaltung mit anschließender Diskussion

Lauterbach, 17. Februar 2007:

Die BÜRGERWELLE veranstaltet am Donnerstag, den 22. Februar 2007 um 19.30 Uhr im Saal Posthotel Johannesberg, Bahnhofstr. 39 in 36341 Lauterbach

eine Informationsveranstaltung zu dem Thema "Gesundheitsgefahren durch Mobilfunkanlagen in Lauterbach".

Referent ist der 1. Vorsitzende der Bürgerwelle Deutschland e.V., Siegfried Zwerenz.

Alle interessierten Bürger von Lauterbach sind herzlich eingeladen. Der Mobilfunkbetreiber E-Plus ist als Gast ebenfalls eingeladen. Weiterhin wurden die Fraktionen von CDU, SPD, Grünen, FDP und freien Wählern, die Stadtverordneten sowie der Bürgermeister eingeladen.

Die BÜRGERWELLE will mit dieser Veranstaltung zu einer weiteren Versachlichung und Lösungsorientierung der Diskussion zwischen Politik, Bürgermeister und Bürgern beitragen.

Die BÜRGEWELLE wird in diesem Zusammenhang auch in Zukunft jede Diskussion und jede Lösung uneingeschränkt unterstützen, die uns dem Ziel einer vorsorgenden Standortpolitik bei Mobilfunkanlagen näher bringt.


BÜRGERWELLE LAUTERBACH
Sonnenweg 43
36341 Lauterbach
Telefon: (06641) 5816 und 61333
Fax: (06641) 918884
http://www.buergerwelle-lauterbach.de
eMail: klaus.euler @vr-web.de

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2006/12/tns.troopspol06l1229/


Informant: hydratwo

Local and international aid flooded into Iraq in 2004, the year following the invasion, but much of the supply was blocked off after the kidnapping of many aid activists in the country. The food the Iraqis did get was often not what they needed, or wanted. "Iraqis do not feel at ease receiving food aid when they exported food in the past," economist Dr. Jassim al-Rikabi told IPS. "Iraq has been a field of aid NGOs since the U.S. occupation began, and many of those NGOs brought foodstuff that is not what Iraqis were used to, but they had to take it due to the need they were facing." Barley, wheat, pulses and the famous Iraqi dates are staple diet, and are also exported. Common meals in Iraq include rice, lamb, chicken and locally grown vegetables like cucumbers, onions and tomatoes. Under the occupation, Iraqis are getting much of their food from companies in Australia and other countries who assisted the United States during the invasion and occupation. This food has often been of low quality. During July 2006 the Iraqi Ministry of Trade rejected or destroyed thousands of tonnes of contaminated food or food past its expiry date. The food had caused widespread poisoning. Dr. Rikabi holds both the U.S.-backed Iraqi government and U.S. occupation authorities responsible for the failing food supply.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2911.shtml

What's absent from Farah Nosh's series of images taken in Iraq in early 2006 is just as important as what she shows us. Included in the exhibition Inside Out currently showing at the Gage Gallery at Chicago's Roosevelt University, Nosh's series is comprised of stark black-and-white portraits of Iraqi amputees, all of them injured as a result of the war. In her deceptively simple images, viewers are first confronted with what is obviously absent and then made to associate more abstract notions of "missing." Nosh's subjects stand or sit in sparely decorated rooms, most of them looking at the camera as they would in a studio portrait.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2909.shtml

Finally acknowledging the momentous crisis of Iraqi refugees in the Middle East, the US government has announced it will accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees in the coming year. There are an estimated 750,000 Iraqis living in Jordan alone, with more than one million believed to be living in Syria. Electronic Iraq Amman correspondent Noah Merrill critiques the US pledge and offers a sobering glimpse at a rapidly growing crisis. "In the absence of a real commitment to an internationally supported, truly inclusive political process," Merrill writes, "the situation in Iraq will continue to get worse and Iraqis will continue to hemorrhage out of their homeland. We know where this path leads: a recent statement by the International Organization for Migration predicts that one million more Iraqis will be displaced in the coming year if the trend continues."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2910.shtml

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7237710810612138241247465



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cluster+bombs

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0217-01.htm


Informant: Henry Duke



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Hayden

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Moratorium_on_all_GM_Trees.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GM+trees

Die große Nachfrage veranlasst uns, wieder eine eintägige Informationsveranstaltung, dieses Mal für Bürgerinitiativen durchzuführen mit dem Titel

Mobilfunk – praktische Umsetzung des Vorsorgeprinzips
(rechtliche, bauplanerische und technische Möglichkeiten)

Datum: Samstag, 28. April 2007
Ort: 36466 Wiesenthal/Rhön

Ausführliche Informationen ab 1. März 2007 über
Frau Günther; e-mail: su.guenther @gmx.de


Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing,
Umweltphysikalische Messungen GbR
Lohstr. 170 A
D-23617 Stockelsdorf
Tel. 0451-49 62 92
Fax. 0451-8 80 57 61
http://www.umweltphysik.com

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Welchen Wert haben Grenzwerte beim Mobilfunk?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1005975/

Mobilfunksender strahlen permanent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/616226/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klitzing

Making Martial Law Easier
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/opinion/19mon3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin


Informant: Bob Banner

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Making Martial Law Easier

The editors of the New York Times write: "A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill, at the Bush administration's behest, that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107C.shtml

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What Would You Do If Bush Declared Martial Law?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/what-would-you-do-if-bush_b_41674.html?view=print


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wifi19feb19,0,104508.story?coll=la-home-business


From Anne, in Los Angeles



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

Could there possibly be a link between these and the CFS outbreak of Incline Village?
http://www.thecentraloffice.com/Microwave/NMW/NCMW1.htm

I've plotted the map of some of the microwave repeater stations making microwaves the cause of the CFS outbreak in Incline Village a very real possibility: http://tinyurl.com/27jrmr


Paul Raymond Doyon
MAT (TESOL), MA Advanced Japanese Studies, BA Psychology

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"



http://tinyurl.com/38ejdf
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=CFS

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

02/16/07

Never mind that the American people showed their dissatisfaction with the war in the fall elections. Congress lacks the political will to stand up to the administration and assert its power over the purse strings, and too many vested interests in the defense sector benefit from the supplemental bills. A cynic might even suggest that many Democrats want the war to drag on, despite their supposed opposition, to damage the president politically and benefit them in 2008. But whatever the reason, the money for war keeps flowing. Defense Department officials will ask Congress for the next supplemental bill in coming weeks. The amount requested is likely to be at least $140 billion. If we stay in Iraq beyond 2007 — and the administration has made it clear that we will — the bill to American taxpayers easily could top one trillion dollars in another year or two...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002613.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

02/16/07

The current spectacle in Congress has made it clear that the Democrats don’t believe that the war in Iraq is America’s war. They think it’s Bush’s vanity project turned albatross, but they won’t take responsibility for their convictions. They fawned on Gen. David Petraeus like schoolgirls, confirming him as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq almost instantly, but they denounce the escalation he helped design and is tasked with implementing. And on the floor of the House this week, they bared their teeth to Bush while bragging about how their resolution is toothless. It was always a bit of a myth that partisanship ended at the water’s edge. But Democrats have debunked, exposed and parodied that myth. Of course, they claim that the president started it by running foreign policy as a partisan enterprise. Fine, there’s obviously some truth there. But when the likes of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Jay Rockefeller whine that they were misled into war, they’re declaring that they never took their responsibilities seriously in the first place...

http://tinyurl.com/ywv4dn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonah+Goldberg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo122.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frank+Gaffney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/dilorenzo

Salt Lake Tribune

02/16/07

Get-tough policies that lock up offenders for longer sentences are propelling a projected increase of nearly 200,000 in the nation’s prison population in the next five years, according a private study released Wednesday. Utah’s prison population is expected to grow by 25 percent, from 6,552 to 8,171, by 2011. The nationwide increase — projected by the Pew Charitable Trusts study to be three times faster than overall population growth in the U.S. — is expected to cost states more than $27 billion... [editor’s note: Well, it doesn’t sound like the US is going to lose its global first place spot in imprisoning its own people — yay, competitive spirit! - TLK]

http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_5224865


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Yahoo! News

02/16/07

‘The Sacrifice,’ by award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq receiving frantic medical treatment in a helicopter and medics working to repair the carnage of war at a field hospital. That chaos is shown beside more tranquil views, such as a returned serviceman with a prosthetic leg holding his surfboard after riding a curl and a one-legged young man chatting with his fiancee during a break from his rehabilitation regimen.v ‘This is one of the costs of this war. The money is the easy part. This, the injuries and the people that are lost, is the real cost,’ Nachtwey said while hanging the exhibit, which opens on Friday at 401 Projects...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070216/us_nm/iraq_usa_exhibit_dc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Napa Valley Register

02/18/07

Senate Democrats pledged renewed efforts Sunday to curtail the Iraq war, suggesting they will seek to limit a 2002 measure authorizing President Bush’s use of force against Saddam Hussein. The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the proposal had little chance of succeeding. ‘I think the president would veto it and the veto would be upheld,’ said Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana...

http://tinyurl.com/yv6hmr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

From Adriana R.

HERE ARE SOME PETITIONS THAT NEED MORE SIGNATURES. ADD MORE IF YOU WANT.

PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD.


SAVE SPANISH BEARS
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/418999897

PROTECT NORTH AMERICA'S BOREAL FOREST
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/773182067

Why is the FDA Acting Fishy? Tell Them Consumers Need to Know About Mercury
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/985082866

BAN FOIE GRAS FORCE FEEDING
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/355236609

BARBARO RULES/PETITION FOR RULES & REGULATIONS TO PROTECT HORSES DOOMED TO RACE TRACKS
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/280490978

REUNITE CHIMP BROTHERS HUNTER & LYON
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/877116649

http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/021707.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

Big Easy to Big Empty
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/79.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans

* Unterschriftensammlung in den Praxen und im Internet
* Offener Brief an den Bundespräsidenten


"Herr Bundespräsident, stoppen Sie diese Reform"


Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Bundespräsident Köhler muss in diesen Tagen eine schwere Entscheidung treffen: Er soll mit der Gesundheitsreform ein Gesetz unterzeichnen, dass die Versorgung der Bevölkerung verschlechtert und gleichzeitig die Beiträge nach oben treibt. Mindestens ebenso schlimm: Es ist mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit in mehreren Teilen verfassungswidrig.

Bundespräsident Horst Köhler hat bereits zweimal gezeigt, dass er schludrige Gesetze nicht unterschreibt. Zeigen Sie dem Bundespräsidenten deshalb, was die Bürger von diesem Gesetz halten: Nichts, haben viele Umfragen bereits ergeben. Machen Sie deshalb mit bei dieser Schneeballaktion, für die nur noch wenige Tage bleiben:

* unterzeichnen auch Sie den offenen Brief an den Bundespräsidenten unter http://www.durchblick-gesundheit.de/unterschreiben

* Den Text des offenen Briefes und die Unterlagen für die Unterschriftenaktion in den Praxen finden Sie unter: http://www.freie-aerzteschaft.de

Leiten Sie diese Mail an möglichst viele Empfänger weiter und empfehlen Sie diesen, an der Aktion teilzunehmen.

Angeschoben wird die Aktion von der Organisation "Freie Ärzteschaft", die dabei u.a. von Patientenselbsthilfe-Organisationen und vielen Einzelpersonen unterstützt wird.


Martin Grauduszus
Präsident

Hans-Peter Meuser
Vizepräsident

http://www.freie-aerzteschaft.de
http://www.zulassungsverzicht.de
http://www.protestwoche.de
http://www.facharzt.de

Freie Ärzteschaft, Bergstr. 14, 40699 Erkrath
Telefon: 02104 138 59 75, Fax: 02104 44 97 32 mail@freie-aerzteschaft.de


Nachricht von Dr. Angelika Schrodt



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gesundheitsreform

Pace falls to slowest in almost 10 years as builders pull back
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0702170089feb17,0,389473.story?coll=chi-business-hed


From Information Clearing House

Ron Paul of Texas

Video

The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or Euros. The sooner the better.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17110.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

Police across the EU are to be given free access to Britain's DNA, fingerprint and car registration databases in a move denounced last night as the creation of "Big Brother Europe".

http://tinyurl.com/3d69ho


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DNA+database

Tens of thousands of people have marched in the north-eastern Italian city of Vicenza against a planned extension of the US army base there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6370671.stm


From Information Clearing House

It is a well-attested principle of international relations that a balance of power keeps the peace, while an imbalance causes war, because the strong will always be tempted to impose their will by force on the weak.

http://tinyurl.com/37n2od


From Information Clearing House

The motivations for an Iran strike were laid out as far back as 1992. In classified defense planning guidance -- written for then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney by then-Pentagon staffers I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz, and ambassador-nominee to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad.

http://www.alternet.org/story/47921


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khalilzad

The US military is completely addicted to oil. Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the Pentagon the single largest oil consumer in the world. By the way, according to the 2006 CIA World Factbook rankings there are only 35 countries (out of 210) in the world that consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.

http://www.energybulletin.net/26194.html


From Information Clearing House

Lawyers claim the Pentagon will now pay £1.2m compensation after trying to deny Iraq collision.

Watch the video here
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2015757,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Peter Beaumont on the reality of everyday life for US soldiers in Baqoubah, in the Iraqi province of Diyala.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2015024,00.html


From Information Clearing House

"Once again we are proceeding to lay people's lives on a line drawn with faulty information. Once again the fantasies of the 'policy-makers' drive decisions without much link to the realities on the ground".

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16346787.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Uri Avnery

Must a Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17112.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Avnery

The Case of Somalia

By James Petras

The imperial system is much more complex than what is commonly referred to as the “US Empire”. The US Empire, with its vast network of financial investments, military bases, multi-national corporations and client states, is the single most important component of the global imperial system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17114.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17373.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Petras

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17106.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

Audio Interview With Prof. Francis A. Boyle

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17109.htm



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

By Patrick Cockburn

There is something ludicrous about the attempt by the US military in Iraq to persuade the world that the simple but devastating roadside bomb or IED (improvised explosive device) is a highly developed weapon requiring Iranian expertise.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17115.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

By Sen. Russell Feingold

Congress must use its power of the purse to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq. Let's not be intimidated by the misleading rhetoric of the White House and its allies when they try to prevent any discussion of Congress' ending the war. This isn't about "cutting off funds for troops." It's about cutting off funds for the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17113.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100003810



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+retention

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5788/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2007/phone-mast-19-02-07.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Burnham-On-Sea

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5784/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Giuliani_fee_100k_private_jet_for_0216.html


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705_pf.html


Informant: ranger116