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Kompetenzinitiative lädt zur Pressekonferenz
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/00000097f313f5d03/033ea299201246b11.html

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Deutsche Wissenschaftler schließen sich zum Mobilfunkprotest zusammen

Im März 2007 haben sich bundesweit zahlreiche, derzeit 68 namhafte Wissenschaftler, Ärzte, Techniker, Professoren und umweltengagierte Vereinigungen in einer interdisziplinären Kompetenzinitiative zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie zusammengeschlossen. Anlass war der nicht mehr zu verantwortende Umgang von Politik und Wissenschaft mit dem Thema Mobilfunk. Ihre Homepage http://www.kompetenzinitiative.de . Der Presse war dies keine Zeile Wert. Widerstand ist überall – er wird totgeschweigen. Dass es tausende Bürgerinitiativen gegen Mobilfunkmasten in Deutschland gibt, hunderte Protestveranstaltungen stattfinden, das sollen die Menschen nicht erfahren. Es gibt eine Pressesperre, wie der Journalist Uwe Krüger [ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Uwe+Krüger ] aufdeckte. Hier ein zufällig beim Surfen gefundenes Beispiel aus einem kleinen Ort am Main: 500 Menschen kommen in Mechenhard http://www.der-mast-muss-weg.de/pdf/Widerstand/Mechenhard.pdf auf eine Protestversammlung.

http://www.der-mast-muss-weg.de/


Aus BI Mobilfunk West/Stuttgart/ Kurzmitteilung Nr.7

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Kompetenzinitiative zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie gegründet
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/kompetenzinitiative_zum_schutz_von_mensch_umwelt.htm



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http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,480010,00.html



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Auf der Nato-Konferenz in Oslo wird der Ton zwischen Russland und der USA rauer.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25162/1.html

Mit der Überführung von Abd el-Hadi aus CIA-Haft nach Guantanamo soll das heimliche Entführungsprogramm noch einmal legitimiert werden, CIA-Direktor Michael Hayden geht, sichtlich nervös, mit harten Vorwürfen gegen Kritiker vor.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25165/1.html



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A congressional committee on Friday requested documents from the White House and Pentagon describing how and when the Bush administration learned the circumstances of Pat Tillman's death.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807E.shtml



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This week, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri and Rep. David Price of North Carolina, both Democrats, asked the Government Accountability Office to provide details on the use of private security contractors in Iraq. Skelton and Price want to know how many such contractors are working there, for what purpose and under what legal authority.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807D.shtml



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The Interior Department will announce a proposal Monday to allow oil and gas drilling in federal waters near Virginia that are currently off-limits and permit new exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, according to people who have seen or been told about drafts of the plan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807C.shtml

A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the department's expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to federal law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807B.shtml



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As a new report charged that the US Department of Homeland Security is illegally delaying the citizenship applications of thousands of immigrants by profiling Muslims and subjecting them to indefinite security checks, a major American-Arab advocacy group launched a campaign to end a controversial post-9/11 program it says discriminates against Muslim visitors to the US.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807A.shtml

The White House told a Republican member of Congress last summer about its plans to fire a US attorney in Arkansas and replace him with a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove, but it did not tell Democratic lawmakers, according to a new Justice Department e-mail released yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807Y.shtml



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Stop Trading of Dogs and Cats Skins
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From Adriana R.

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From Adriana R.

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[This petition is for Americans; if I sent this to a non-American, please pass on to your American friends! BMT]

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Randall Tobias, head of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl ring, said two people in a position to know the circumstances of his departure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042807Z.shtml

Pharmacia and Upjohn Company Inc., a unit of Pfizer Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of offering a kickback to a pharmacy benefit manager and was sentenced to pay a criminal fine of $19.68 million. Pharmacy benefit managers often recommend drugs to health plans.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042707HA.shtml



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A Bush administration plan to change rules of the Endangered Species Act protecting American wildlife drew pointed questions Wednesday from five US senators, who called the proposed changes "troubling."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042707EB.shtml

Divisions over climate change threaten to derail a set piece EU-US summit and overshadow moves to strengthen transatlantic economic ties.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042707EA.shtml

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calififornia) has asked former CIA Director George Tenet to testify before his committee next month about claims that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042707S.shtml



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Congressional sources who have seen unedited internal documents say the Bush administration considered firing at least a dozen US attorneys before paring down its list to eight late last year. The latest revelation could provide new evidence to critics who contend that politics, not performance, played the determining role in the firings.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042707R.shtml



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The Pentagon takes an interest in a rapidly changing area of scientific knowledge, and the world is forever changed. And not for the better.

http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/hugh-gusterson/20070410.html


From Information Clearing House

The dollar dropped to an all-time low against the euro after the U.S. government reported the economy grew at its slowest pace in four years.

http://snipurl.com/1ihe2



GDP growth weakest in four years

Economic growth during the first quarter was the weakest in four years, hurt by a slumping housing market and deteriorating international trade, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.

http://snipurl.com/1ihe3



Three U.S. home builders report losses

Deteriorating U.S. housing market forced them to write down the value of property and abandon land purchases.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/26/news/bxhomes.php


From Information Clearing House



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Amnesty International is appalled by the killing of Du'a Khalil Aswad, aged about 17, who was stoned to death - for a so-called honour crime. She was killed by a group of eight or nine men and in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika, near the city of Mosul. Some of her relatives are said to have participated in the killing.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140272007


From Information Clearing House



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The former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials pushed the country to invade Iraq without "serious debate" about whether Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat.

http://snipurl.com/1ihdb


From Information Clearing House

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Tenet Book Blames White House for "16 Words"

George Tenet and his top aides warned senior White House officials in late 2002 that allegations about Iraq's attempt to acquire yellowcake uranium from Niger were unreliable and should not be cited in public presentations by any member of the executive branch, the ex-CIA chief claims in a new book.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042907A.shtml



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Richard Clarke

The puppy dog theory is the corollary to earlier sloganeering that proved the President had never studied logic: "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we will not have to face them and fight them in the streets of our own cities."

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From Information Clearing House

It's difficult to decide which is more frightening- car bombs and militias, or having to leave everything you know and love, to some unspecified place for a future where nothing is certain.

http://snipurl.com/1ihd5


From Information Clearing House



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"Basra is lost, they are in control now. It's a full-scale riot and the Government are just trying to save face," said Private Paul Barton.

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From Information Clearing House



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The Iraqi government has refused to provide the United Nations with civilian casualty figures for its latest report on the hardships facing Iraqis, the U.N. said.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=186594


From Information Clearing House

By Ramzy Baroud

The plundering of Iraq's wealth, first by the UN and now by Iraq's new Green Zone czars, is the biggest, most shameful financial-political scandal of our times.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17610.htm



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By Lt. Col. Paul Yingling

In 2007, Iraq's grave and deteriorating condition offers diminishing hope for an American victory and portends risk of an even wider and more destructive regional war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17613.htm

Video - BBC Newsnight For 26/04/07
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17609.htm



Background On The U.S. Sponsored War In Somalia

Audio and transcript

"The Most Lawless War of Our Generation" - Fmr. UN Spokesperson on Somalia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17612.htm



Looting abounds as Somalis clear dead from Mogadishu streets

The Coca-Cola factory in the city's north was among those properties being ransacked, Somali news agency Shabelle reported, as guns fell silent and Somalis began clearing away the corpses left behind after the recent flare-up of fighting.

http://snipurl.com/1ihdp



Impending humanitarian disaster in Somalia

Rosemary Heenan of Trocaire Somalia has expressed her anger and dismay at the flagrant disregard for civilian safety and well-being, and the inadequate response to date from the international community.

http://snipurl.com/1ihdq


From Information Clearing House



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April 28th Nationwide Impeachment Actions

George Bush and Dick Cheney have lied the nation into a war of aggression, are spying in open violation of the law, and have sanctioned the use of torture. These are high crimes and misdemeanors that demand accountability. Since Congress doesn't seem to get it, on April 28 Americans from Miami, Florida to North Pole, Alaska are going to spell it out for them: IMPEACH!

http://www.a28.org/


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Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11

In his book, former CIA director says aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld inserted 'crap' into public justifications for war.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4756983.html


From Information Clearing House



Senator Durbin kept silent on prewar knowledge

The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17615.htm



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by Niki Raapana

Widespread ignorance of communitarianism and denial of the existence of an emerging global legal system has allowed every program necessary to achieve full implementation, unhindered by press or public scrutiny. The vast majority of citizens of the United States do not know what it means when their legislatures say they are "balancing" their laws. They never question why there must be a balance between individual rights and community rights.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Raapana/niki14.htm



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PLANS to put a mobile phone mast on a busy Eastbourne roundabout have been shelved — because of a possible threat to bees.

Fears that the controversial masts are wiping out millions of bees have hit the headlines in recent weeks.

Eastbourne planners refused rermission for one to be sited on Langney Roundabout in St Anthony's Avenue at a meeting on Tuesday night because of the scare.

T-Mobile wanted to install the 14.7 metre high mast on the roundabout at
the junction of Pevensey Bay Road and Langney Rise.

Planning officers urged councillors to approve the application saying the phone company had submitted relevant safety certificates and the nearest residential properties were 40 metres away.

But members of the planning committee said they would not grant approval for the application until conclusive evidence is found that the
masts do not harm bees.

Scientists claim phone signals from masts and phones have wiped out millions of bees.

The phone signals are thought to upset their navigation and they die of exposure after losing their sense of direction.

Up to 90 per cent of bees have been killed in some areas and a number of
hives in the South East have been reported as being deserted.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.eastbournetoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2737575

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Town rejects mast to save bees after IoS report
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Schadenfreude Is My Middle Name
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Gitmo Lawyers Push Back

A Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers' access to the nearly 400 detainees at Guantanamo Bay is drawing sharp criticism from much of the legal community in the US. Mary Shaw of Amnesty International USA told Truthout: "The right to a fair trial is one of the universally applicable principles recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the US is a signatory. The US took a huge step away from this standard with the Military Commissions Act of 2006. And now the proposal to limit attorneys' access to their clients at Guantanamo Bay will further hinder detainees' rights to full equality under the law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407J.shtml



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By Rob Devey

FEARS that radiation from phone masts is killing bees could affect decisions over the location of masts in Bolton.

Radiation from masts has been blamed for dwindling honey bee populations, with scientists claiming it interferes with the insects' navigation systems and stops them finding their way back to their hives.

Research by Landau University in Germany found that 70 per cent of bees exposed to radiation failed to find their way back to their hive after searching for pollen and nectar.

Bolton Council planners will now investigate the claims following a request at a full council meeting by Conservative planning committee member Cllr Norman Critchley.

The evidence could be used in future decisions on applications for mobile phone masts in the borough.

Cllr Critchley raised concerns about the possible loss of honey and said he had also heard that radiowaves from the masts could also affect migratory birds.

He said bees had aided the medical profession over thousands of years and honey-based dressings could help in the fight against superbug MRSA.

Cllr Ebrahim Adia, executive member for development, agreed to ask the council's planning improvement working party, made up of two councillors from each of the three parties on the council, to look into the matter.

The party meets quarterly to look at improvements to the planning system.

Cllr Adia said: "Our powers in relation to phone masts are somewhat limited but in spite of that, we are proud as a council to promote bio-diversity and ecology as part of the planning process."

Some beekeepers in Britain have reported losses exceeding the usual 10 per cent of colonies that die during winter.

But beekeeper, Keith Hibbert, who keeps bees in New Springs, Wigan, said he was sceptical of the phone mast claims.

Mr Hibbert, of Fallbirch Road, Horwich, said: "I have lost more bees over the winter than I would in a normal winter and I'm not quite sure why.

"But I'm not aware of any phone masts nearby and it may have been because I was away for a while and wasn't there to tend to them."

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http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1360364.0.a_honey_trap_set_by_phone_masts.php

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Town rejects mast to save bees after IoS report
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