Die Ulmer Ärzteinitiative weist schon seit Jahren darauf hin, dass in der Umgebung von Atomkraftwerken Kleinkinder vermehrt an Krebs und Missbildungen erkranken. Dies wird jetzt durch eine neue US-studie bestätigt...
„Sage niemand, die Provinz sei harmlos. Einer der einflussreichsten Fürsprecher einer Militarisierung der deutschen und europäischen Außenpolitik ist im westfälischen Gütersloh zuhause. Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung unterstützt im Kampf um den globalen Einfluss den Aufbau der "Supermacht Europa" und deren militärischer Aufrüstung, womöglich auch mit Atomwaffen…“ Artikel von Jörn Hagenloch in telepolis vom 26.07.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25765/1.html
"Exxon could again post the biggest profit in corporate history as lower oil prices, higher gasoline prices fuel refining bonanza .... Exxon (Charts, Fortune 500), which actually refines more barrels of oil than it pumps, could see over $11 billion in earnings, which would be the biggest quarterly profit in corporate history," reports Steve Hargreaves for CNNMoney.com.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage joins us to talk about his new book, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Savage charts the ways the Bush administration has circumvented laws and expanded presidential authority.
"Congress must not capitulate in the White House's attempt to rob it of its constitutional powers," writes The New York Times. "It is not too late for President Bush to spare the country the trauma, and himself the disgrace, of this particular constitutional showdown. There is a simple way out. He should direct Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten to provide Congress with the information to which it is entitled."
Jason Leopold reports for Truthout on a DOJ memo which emerged on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, revealing comprehensive White House access to multiple areas of the Justice Department's operations and information.
"Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales," writes Lara Jakes Jordan for The Associated Press.
TOGETHER in protest: West Didsbury residents are furious after Orange erected a phone mast in the village
NEIGHBOURS who created their own picturesque retreat in the heart of West Didsbury were horrified to discover it has been ripped up to make way for a phone mast.
Furious residents have hit out at mobile phone giant Orange after it dug up a Lime Tree and removed a bench next to the grounds of Withington Community Hospital.
Sponsoring-Bericht: Politik bekam 80 Millionen Euro Spenden von Unternehmen
Die 14 Bundesministerien und übrigen obersten Bundesbehörden haben in den vergangenen zwei Jahren über 80 Millionen Euro an Geld- und Sachspenden von Unternehmen angenommen, rund 25 Millionen mehr als in den zwei Jahren zuvor. Das berichtet die "Bild"-Zeitung unter Berufung auf den noch unveröffentlichten, über 80 Seiten starken Sponsoring-Bericht des Bundesinnenministeriums. Am großzügigsten wurde danach das Gesundheitsministerium mit 49,7 Millionen Euro bedacht.
Offenbar haben wir mit der Vorstellung unserer Datenbank “Lobbyisten in den Ministerien” und der Aktion “Lobbyisten in die Sommerpause” einen Nerv getroffen - die Medien berichteten an prominenter Stelle. Bei Spiegel-online gehörte der Beitrag über unsere Datenbank gestern zu den drei von Lesern am häufigsten empfohlenen Artikeln. Die FR wählte das Thema für die Seite Drei als “Thema des Tages”; Süddeutsche (nur Printausgabe), taz und Neues Deutschland berichteten ausführlich. Weitere Berichte gibt es auf heise.de und telepolis.
Auch in Deutschland ist die Debatte um die Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in den Ministerien noch nicht beendet. Zur Zeit wird ein Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie in der Regierung beraten, allerdings soll die Praxis der Leihbeamten nicht ganz beendet werden. Wir machen weiter Druck, dieser demokratieschädlichen Praxis ganz den Riegel vorzuschieben. Mehr dazu in den nächsten Wochen. Wir halten Sie auf dem Laufenden.
Maternal amalgam dental fillings as the source of mercury exposure in developing fetus and newborn
Palkovicova L, Ursinyova M, Masanova V, Yu Z, Hertz-Picciotto I. Department of Environmental Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2007 Sep 12
Dental amalgam is a mercury-based filling containing approximately
50% of metallic mercury (Hg(0)). Human placenta does not represent a real barrier to the transport of Hg(0); hence, fetal exposure occurs as a result of maternal exposure to Hg, with possible subsequent neurodevelopmental disabilities in infants. This study represents a substudy of the international NIH-funded project "Early Childhood Development and polychlorinated biphenyls Exposure in Slovakia". The main aim of this analysis was to assess the relationship between maternal dental amalgam fillings and exposure of the developing fetus to Hg. The study subjects were mother-child pairs (N=99). Questionnaires were administered after delivery, and chemical analyses of Hg were performed in the samples of maternal and cord blood using atomic absorption spectrometry with amalgamation technique. The median values of Hg concentrations were 0.63 mug/l (range 0.14-2.9 mug/l) and 0.80 mug/l (range 0.15-2.54 mug/l) for maternal and cord blood, respectively. None of the cord blood Hg concentrations reached the level considered to be hazardous for neurodevelopmental effects in children exposed to Hg in utero (EPA reference dose for Hg of 5.8 mug/l in cord blood). A strong positive correlation between maternal and cord blood Hg levels was found (rho=0.79; P<0.001). Levels of Hg in the cord blood were significantly associated with the number of maternal amalgam fillings (rho=0.46, P<0.001) and with the number of years since the last filling (rho=-0.37, P<0.001); these associations remained significant after adjustment for maternal age and education.
Dental amalgam fillings in girls and women of reproductive age should be used with caution, to avoid increased prenatal Hg exposure.
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, 12 September 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.jes.7500606.
Nuclear power proponents like to picture a bunch of clean plants humming away like beehives across the landscape. Yet when it comes to the mining of uranium, which mostly takes place on indigenous lands from northern Canada to central Australia, you need to picture fossil-fuel-intensive carbon-emitting vehicles, and lots of them — big disgusting diesel-belching ones. But that’s the least of it. The Navajo are fighting right now to prevent uranium mining from resuming on their land, which was severely contaminated by the postwar uranium boom of the 1940s and 1950s. The miners got lung cancer. The children in the area got birth defects and a 1,500 percent increase in ovarian and testicular cancer. And the slag heaps and contaminated pools that were left behind will be radioactive for millennia...
My brother joined the Army in 1970 along with many of the older brothers and boyfriends in our neighborhood. Many of us too young to go protested the war at the University of Houston campus and Milby Park because we felt that the government lied us into war. We saw firsthand how many of them died and were wounded; we saw our mothers worry if they were the next family to get a visit from the Army guys whose job it was to deliver the worst news a mom can get. We protested even though the same moms and dads supported the war as did everyone’s teachers, coaches and other adults. We were called dirty hippies, told to leave our country of birth, called treasonous and commie pinko trash. Pretty much what I still get called today when we protest yet another senseless war...
So, I was thinking about the fact that the Dems insist there’s nothing they can do without a two-thirds majority. There are two problems with that sort of talk: 1) Even if they can’t over-ride a veto, they could still just refuse to pass a spending bill for Iraq, NSA spying, and other obscenities. And if a few Democrats refused to go along and tried to vote with the Republicans to get a majority on a spending bill, I’m sure that between filibusters and the procedural powers of the House and Senate majority leaders and committee chairs, Reid and Pelosi could find a way to fix this. If they really wanted to, and if they were prepared to take some risks for the sake of the Republic...
What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the “noble cause” for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was “worth it.”Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours...
Even enormously egotistical Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson expressed regrets for their follies. But “regret” and “remorse” do not seem to be words in the Bush family vocabulary. Their nation and its people are poorer for it...
Rep. Don Young is facing criminal investigation, a federal law enforcement official confirmed today, making Young the second member of Alaska’s three-person congressional delegation under scrutiny. Separately, Sen. Ted Stevens has acknowledged he has been told by authorities to preserve records of a house remodeling project involving VECO Corp., the Anchorage-based oil field service company...
The House Judiciary committee on Wednesday voted to recommend that two White House aides be charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with an investigation of the firing of nine U.S. prosecutors. White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former legal counselor Harriet Miers were named for declining to appear before the House Judiciary Committee or hand over documents, citing the White House claim to executive privilege...
On Friday, July 27, NOW will ask, "Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004? Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?"
Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press writes: "A leading Democratic House Iraq war critic said Wednesday he'll soon push legislation that would order US troop withdrawals to begin in two months and predicted that Republicans will swing behind it this time."
John R. Wilke, The Wall Street Journal, reports: "A senior House Republican has come under criminal investigation in the Justice Department's widening inquiry into alleged influence-peddling and self-dealing in Congress."
The trial of Australian national David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay was a charade that served to corrode the rule of law, Australia's top legal body has said.
In a videotape that CNN characterized as having been "intercepted," excerpts of which appeared on an anti-terrorist Web site last week, a grayer bin Laden appears in fatigues against a mountainous backdrop.
Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.
"The future security environment is very uncertain, and some trends are not favorable," it said, pointing to North Korea and Iran as countries whose nuclear programs "underscore the importance of US security guarantees."
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. Naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its "suspects" to be interrogated, abused, and tortured.
Why we as a nation, have been titrated, which is the gradual increasing of dosage, pressure, and propaganda, till the desired effect - an inured and compliant society - have willingly bequeathed away our autonomy of self-government, embraced the genesis of tyranny, and begin our seemingly inexorable march towards dictatorship.
Bush's "National Continuity Policy, issued May 9, states, in effect, that in the event of a "catastrophic emergency," which might mean a terrorist attack or natural disaster, within "the homeland" or abroad, the President could, as a "unitary executive," seize near dictatorial powers. This means that another hurricane of Katrina size, or a Richter-7 earthquake, or even a massive civil disobedient protest, could trigger the onset of a Bush dictatorship.
The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan. One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia.
Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them "low-hanging fruit"--- as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran.
Trump and His Allies...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/21/trump-and-his-allies-are-clear-and-present-danger-american-democracy?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_op
rudkla - 22. Jun, 05:09
The Republican Party...
https://truthout.org/articles/the-republican-party-is-still-doing-donald-trumps-bidding/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=804d4873-50dd-4c1b-82a5-f465ac3742ce
rudkla - 26. Apr, 05:36
January 6 Committee Says...
https://truthout.org/articles/jan-6-committee-says-trump-engaged-in-criminal-conspiracy-to-undo-election/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=552e5725-9297-4a7c-a214-53c8c51615a3