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Informant: Kev Hall

by Bruce MacDougall

ISLANDERS are intensifying their campaign against plans to build 50 new telecoms masts.

Environment minister David De Lisle accepts a petition against plans for more than 50 Airtel Guernsey masts from campaign organiser Stephanie Nickolls. (Picture by Sophie Bourge, 0462156)


A petition signed by around 1,200 people was delivered to Environment minister David De Lisle outside Frossard House yesterday.

Stephanie Nickolls, who is leading the fight, was supported by dozens of campaigners as she handed it over.

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http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=002445

A CAMPAIGNER is using the internet to wage war on communications giants hoping to install new mobile phone masts in the town.

Colin Buchanan has set up a blog crammed with newspaper articles and the latest scientific research into health risks associated with living near the masts.

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http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/?module=displaystory&story_id=1042&format=html

Im Streit um eine schnellere Abschaltung alter Atomkraftwerke legt Umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) den Verbrauchern nahe, auf Atomstrom zu verzichten. Sollten die Energieversorger gefährliche Altmeiler nicht dauerhaft vom Netz nehmen, könnten die Stromkunden "ihre Macht nutzen", sagte Gabriel im Berliner "Tagesspiegel". "Jeder hat natürlich die Möglichkeit, durch den Wechsel zu einem Ökostromanbieter den Atomausstieg selbst zu vollziehen. Je mehr Kunden zu Anbietern wechseln, die auf Atomkraft verzichten und den Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien beziehen, desto besser." Als besonders risikoträchtige Meiler nannte der Minister Biblis A, Brunsbüttel und Neckarwestheim 1.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16353

Im Südwest-Atlantik verenden nach Darstellung der Umweltstiftung WWF jährlich rund sieben Millionen Haie und Rochen als ungewollter Beifang der kommerziellen Langleinen-Fischerei auf Tunfisch, Schwertfisch und Seehecht. Laut WWF sollen schätzungsweise 5,5 Millionen Blauhaie und 1,1 Millionen der auf der Roten Liste als gefährdet eingestuften Kurzflossen-Makos qualvoll ums Leben kommen. Die von großen Fangschiffen ausgebrachten und bis zu 100 Kilometer langen Kunststoffseile mit tausenden Haken würden auch für 34.000 Seevögel wie den Albatross und über 4000 Meeresschildkröten zur Todesfalle, heißt es in einem Bericht der Umweltstiftung.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16359

Just in case anyone is interested:

http://tinyurl.com/32deag

Sometimes we have to fight at the distinctly unsexy level of common or garden planning policy and legislation rather than pontificate on the 'higher' ideology which, from much that I read, appears to dictate that health concerns have primacy. Sooner or later, our time will come, but in the meantime we must accept reality.

David

"The Bush administration, after publicly demanding that Musharraf rein in militants linked to al Qaida, on Wednesday threatened to launch attacks into Pakistani territory if it sees fit," reports Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907B.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0718-13.htm

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2622/



Concerns Rise Over Vulnerability of U.S. Atomic Facilities to Earthquakes

After World's Largest Nuclear Plant Damaged by Japanese Quake
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0718-14.htm

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Accidents Dim Hopes for Green Nuclear Option

Brad Knickerbocker for The Christian Science Monitor on how the recent earthquake in Japan has raised concerns on the safety of nuclear energy as a cleaner alternative.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071907EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2624/

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2628/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2630



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2625/



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Achtung: Hartz IV-Konto-Spionage durch Ämter

Konto- Spionage durch die Ämter bei Hartz IV- Empfängern ist die Realität! Eine Konto-Abfrage von Menschen die auf Sozialleistungen wie das Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, wird nun auch den Sozialbehörden eingeräumt. Bisher wurde eine Konto-Überprüfung durch den Zoll und die Polizei bei Schwerst kriminellen Delikten wie der Geldwäsche und der Steuerhinterziehung vollzogen. Doch das Unternehmenssteuergesetz macht dies nun auch bei Empfänger des Arbeitslosengeld II machbar.

Ein Verdacht auf einen sog. Leistungsmissbrauch soll zukünftig schon ausreichen, um Konten von Erwerbslosen zu durchleuchten. Nach einigen Zeitungsberichten werden die Konten sogar ohne Wissen der Betroffenen überprüft. Eine Auskunftspflicht besteht für die Arge nicht.

Die Bundesregierung, so die "Stuttgarter Zeitung" erwartet, dass die zuständigen Ämter die Überwachung von Bankkonten "rege nutzen werde". Ein Sprecher des Bundesministeriums für "Arbeit und Soziales" sagte gegenüber dem Blatt: "Das wird wahrscheinlich in Zukunft zu einem Anstieg der Gesamtzahl der Abfragen führen".

Erwerbslosen-initiativen kritisieren den Generalverdacht, unter denen Hartz IV Empfänger gestellt werden. Damit werden Sozialleistungsempfänger gleich gestellt mit Unternehmen, die im großen Umfang Steuerbetrug und Geldwäsche betreiben. "Allein die Tatsache auf Hartz IV angewiesen zu sein mache verdächtig", so Gritli Bertram von der Redaktion "gegen-hartz.de". Es wird erwartet, dass die Ämter im großen Umfang von der Überprüfung von Konten Gebrauch machen werde. Für die Ämter ist es nicht erforderlich nachzuweisen, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen keinen Erfolg hatten. Zuständige Jobcenter können formulieren, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen "keinen Erfolg versprechen".

Artikel:
http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e199720890a01.php


Ihre Gegen-hartz.de Redaktion
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Die Arbeitsagentur und ihre "Kundendaten"

Konto-Spionage

Konten von Hartz-IV-Empfängern sollen durchleuchtet werden

„Gemäß der Unternehmenssteuerreform sollen künftig auch Jobcenter und Arbeitsämter bei Verdacht auf Leistungsmissbrauch die Kontendaten von Hartz-IV-Empfängern abfragen dürfen. Die Bundesregierung geht davon aus, dass die neue Befugnis rege genutzt wird…“ Artikel von Stefan Krempl vom 19.07.2007 bei heise news http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93001


Hartz IV: Kontoabfrage möglich. Konto- Spionage durch die Ämter bei Hartz IV- Empfängern

„Eine Konto-Abfrage von Menschen die auf Sozialleistungen wie das Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, wird nun auch den Sozialbehörden eingeräumt. Bisher wurde eine Konto-Überprüfung durch den Zoll und die Polizei bei Schwerst kriminellen Delikten wie der Geldwäsche und der Steuerhinterziehung vollzogen. Doch das Unternehmenssteuergesetz macht dies nun auch bei Empfänger des Arbeitslosengeld II machbar. (…) Erwerbslosen-initiativen kritisieren den Generalverdacht, unter denen Hartz IV Empfänger gestellt werden. Damit werden Sozialleistungsempfänger gleich gestellt mit Unternehmen, die im großen Umfang Steuerbetrug und Geldwäsche betreiben. "Allein die Tatsache auf Hartz IV angewiesen zu sein mache verdächtig", so Gritli Bertram von der Redaktion "gegen-hartz.de". Es wird erwartet, dass die Ämter im großen Umfang von der Überprüfung von Konten Gebrauch machen werde. Für die Ämter ist es nicht erforderlich nachzuweisen, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen keinen Erfolg hatten. Zuständige Jobcenter können formulieren, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen "keinen Erfolg versprechen".“ Bericht bei "gegen-hartz.de" vom 19.07.07 http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e199720890a01.php


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Juli 2007

Seumas Milne reports for The Guardian UK, "Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organizations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal

"Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters," reports the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Common Dreams
by Caroline Arnold

07/18/07

This week our Senate is debating the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, designed to restore habeas corpus rights denied by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to some 12 million legal residents of the U.S. …. Too many Americans today are deeply insecure in their understanding of fundamental systems that affect their lives …. they’re not quite sure how we should fight terrorism, and they’re hazy about habeas corpus. But they experience real fear when they read about people being detained without knowing the charges against them. They wonder ‘What if I got arrested, but didn’t know what for?’ ‘What if my son was detained and I couldn’t find out what he had done or where he was?’ Then they wonder further: ‘How do I know that I won’t be next?’ ‘What should I do or not do to make sure someone doesn’t accuse me and have me arrested?’ We begin to see that the cancellation of habeas corpus was an artful move to make citizens more insecure, more distrustful of one another, and more fearful...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/18/2597/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Caroline+Arnold

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/18/07

If, as President Bush claims, Iraq is a sovereign country and its government represents the people, then why are American officials ordering the parliament to cancel its August vacation and insisting that the al-Maliki government meet certain ‘benchmarks?’ Is it sovereign or not? By what authority does the U.S. government dictate to it? Something just doesn’t add up here...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0707e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

Liberty For All
by Jonathan David Morris

07/18/07

It’s great to see so many Republicans jumping off the George W. Bush bandwagon. Now that it’s considered political suicide for the GOP to support its own president, maybe we’ll finally have a party in Washington with the guts to impeach him. I don’t care how crazy or drastic you think this sounds. I don’t care if it makes you cringe. There’s nothing extremist about it...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=761


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+David+Morris

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

07/18/07

A year and a half ago, passionate arguments broke out over reports about the National Security Agency’s ‘data-mining’ technologies. A couple of years earlier, the Pentagon attempted to fund a still-more intrusive program called the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network. (The latter effort failed, but the concept was almost certainly re-routed to the NSA or elsewhere.) Concerns were raised about privacy rights, the abuse of power, and the worth of such networks to begin with. Judging from the NIE (not just from these key passages but from its general assessment of a ‘persistent and evolving terrorist threat’), the debate over these vast surveillance systems will soon be renewed...

http://www.slate.com/id/2170643/fr/flyout


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=total+information+awareness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NSA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

07/19/07

One of the more memorable and revealing statements explaining the nature of the Bush administration buildup to the invasion of Iraq was offered in September 2002 by then White House chief of staff Andrew Card. ‘From a marketing point of view,’ he said, ‘you don’t introduce new products in August.’ Five years later, a period longer than the Civil War and World War II, the administration is preparing to present its case for continuing the surge in Iraq. But rather than waiting for September, when Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his report, the administration has moved up the marketing to July. The familiar props are rolled out, like the well-worn and peeling painted backdrop for a production of a traveling Victorian theatrical troupe, and members of the audience are expected to watch with rapt fascination, as though they had never seen this show before. The negative response to the preview does not alter the same old script...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

Tim Shipman of the Telegraph UK reports: "Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested that the war has made al Qaeda attacks on American soil more likely. Senator George Voinovich, a close ally of Mr. Bush, revealed that he warned Karl Rove - the president's chief political adviser - last week that Mr. Bush must devise a new plan for Iraq or he would vote with Democrats on Capitol Hill to withdraw troops."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907K.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Voinovich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawl

Jason Leopold's in-depth investigation for Truthout reveals how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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This Is London [UK]

07/18/07

Labour has drawn up secret ‘Big Brother’ plans to hand the details of routine journeys taken by millions of innocent motorists to the police, it has emerged. Officers will be able to trawl private information recorded by traffic cameras when investigating even the most minor crimes, according to papers made public by an astonishing Government blunder. Once the controversial national road-pricing scheme is under way, short journeys to the shops, work or to visit friends will all be logged. … The internal documents, released in error, reveal the planned laws have already caused a deep Cabinet rift and critics said they were further evidence of a ‘creeping surveillance state’...

http://tinyurl.com/2kenla


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Chattanooga Times Free Press

07/18/07

Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush’s adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before September. The 52-47 vote fell far short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation and marked the final act in an all-night session that Democrats engineered to dramatize their opposition to the war...

http://tinyurl.com/2syqmb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

USA Today

07/18/07

Over the past year, Iraqis heard several audio recordings by a mysterious terrorist leader named Omar al-Baghdadi singing the praises of the organization al-Qaeda in Iraq and urging his followers to attack U.S. troops. The whole thing was a sham, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Al-Baghdadi was actually a fictional character dreamed up by al-Qaeda in Iraq to bolster its local credibility because the group is largely run by non-Iraqis. The voice heard in the recordings belonged to an Iraqi actor, the military said...

http://tinyurl.com/3a7tho


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Heather Boushey and Joshua Holland report for AlterNet on the contradictory stories of the American economy, where the stock market continues to boom, but at the same time Americans are told their government is unable to pay for a "robust social net."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071807LB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland

Reuters reports that Mexico, the likely cradle of corn cultivation, is planning to begin planting GMO corn as a response to their staple crop rising in price due to demand from the US for corn-based ethanol fuel.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071807EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMO+corn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
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"After a rare all-night debate whose outcome was never in doubt, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a vote on a Democratic measure to require US troops to withdraw from Iraq by next spring. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) responded by setting aside the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill 'temporarily,'" report Adam Graham-Silverman and Josh Rogin of Congressional Quarterly.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071807R.shtml



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Video

He's been dubbed 'the MP for Baghdad' and is a hero to the anti-war movement. But have George Galloway's actions provoked a smear campaign to destroy him?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WjtZxAVYPtQ


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Galloway

A U.S. intelligence report that al-Qaida is regrouping in northwest Pakistan is unsubstantiated, Pakistan said Wednesday, and it asked Washington to provide it with "actionable intelligence."

http://www.thestate.com/372/story/121840.html


From Information Clearing House

The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate under Senate rules.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19797695/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal

Video

The cost and consequence of U.S. foreign policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18033.htm

Are you angry? So what are you going to do about it?



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18035.htm

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How To Create An Angry American Part II

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How to create an angry American Part 2 gives a deeper and unheard insight that 911 and the Iraq war are not new ideas. Here we make the connection to the sinking of the Titanic and Federal Reserve. And last but not least The Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.truthzonetv.com/view_video.php?video_id=320


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
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Ship Of Fools

By Johann Hari

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth - and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's practically a holiday camp... The annual cruise organised by the 'National Review', mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18030.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

By William Bowles

'Terror' is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. When 'we' slaughter hundreds, thousands of people, it is described as 'collateral damage', or a 'regrettable incident' or, 'we didn't intend to kill innocent civilians', no, they just became victims of an act of terror, but one executed by the state and thus it can never be regarded as an act of terror in the corporate media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18034.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Bowles

Rorschach and Awe

By Katherine Eban

America's coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical "black site" operation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18031.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation+methods
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katherine+Eban

By Eric Margolis

As the White House now ponders an attack on Iran, we would do well to recall the famed words of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, `one more such victory and we are ruined.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18032.htm



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

Sign IDA's petition urging Congress to end cruel experiments on humankind's closest genetic relatives.

http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/feature_070718.html



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