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August 3, 2007

OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY
by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet

It is reported that plans to build a massive South American natural gas pipeline through the Amazon rainforest from the Caribbean to Brazil have "cooled off". This was the most atrocious of many inappropriate industrial developments planned for the Amazon which Ecological Internet has publicized and protested against for several years. No rainforest is ever protected indefinitely, as badly conceived projects tend to linger on for a long time. Yet given a one and a half year delay and signs that momentum for the project has been stymied, Ecological Internet is ready to declare this campaign a victory!

Congratulations to all those that participated, the Amazon rainforest is safer given your efforts. Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network first brought concerns over the pipeline to a global stage in February of 2006, issuing several alerts, to which 8,792 participants sent 75,765 protest emails over nearly a year. As the international profile of the twisted project grew, so did local protests on environmental and economic grounds. As is our intent, our efforts inspired grassroots global Earth activism.

It is vital for the Earth's and humanity's future to protect as global ecological reserves all remaining large contiguous and mostly intact natural ecosystems from industrial development of any type. To ensure continued sustainability of global biosphere functions, rich societies must pay for avoided deforestation and diminishment of ancient rainforests/forests, and encourage small-scale eco-forestry sustainable development activities by local peoples as the only acceptable ancient ecosystem use. Otherwise the Earth and her humanity will die a horrific death. g.b.

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Die baden-württembergische Umweltministerin Tanja Gönner (CDU) fordert ein bundesweites Verbot der Düngung von Feldern mit Klärschlamm. Gönner appellierte am 3. August in Stuttgart an den Bund, im Zuge der Novellierung der Klärschlammverordnung schnellstmöglich den Ausstieg aus der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung von Klärschlamm einzuleiten. Sie begründete ihren Vorstoß mit aktuellen Untersuchungsergebnissen zur Belastung von Klärschlamm mit der als krebserregend geltenden Industriechemikalie PFT.

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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Lori Montgomery, writing for The Washington Post, report that Congressional lawmakers have plans to tackle a controversial tax break known as the Carry, which allows fund managers' profits to be taxed as capital gains. Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times, "If being a Democrat means anything, it means opposing this kind of exorbitant privilege."

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PRNewswire reports, "Democrats to conduct nationwide survey of administration of elections as part of an ongoing commitment to protecting the rights of every American."

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Carl Hulse of The New York Times reports, "The House voted on Thursday to limit how quickly American troops can be sent back to Iraq after serving a rotation there, in the Democrats' latest challenge to Bush administration war policy."

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Robert Parry writes for Consortium News, "The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people."

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Truthout's Jason Leopold reports, "A report released publicly on Thursday by the Defense Department's (DOD) inspector general has found high-ranking Army and Air Force personnel violated long-standing military regulations when they participated in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization while in uniform and on active duty."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080307A.shtml



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Interview mit Thomas Dreesen vom Deutschen Fachjournalisten-Verband zu den Ermittlungen gegen Journalisten in der BND-Affäre.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25873/1.html

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Diskussionen über Ermittlungen gegen Journalisten

Der Vorsitzende des BND-Untersuchungsausschusses, Siegfried Kauder (CDU), hat die Ermittlungen gegen Journalisten wegen des Verdachts der Beihilfe zum Geheimnisverrat aus Unterlagen des Gremiums erneut begründet. Er habe zwischenzeitlich aus den Medien mehr über die nicht-öffentlichen Unterlagen des Ausschusses erfahren als in den Sitzungen des Gremiums selbst, sagte Kauder am 3. August im Deutschlandfunk. Er habe deswegen Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert (CDU) gebeten, entsprechend Strafanzeige zu erstatten. Von anderen Politikern wurden die Ermittlungen teilweise scharf kritisiert. Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband sprach von einem "umfassenden Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit".

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Noch sollen sie nur zur Aufklärung verwendet worden sein.
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John Edwards criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. (NWS) officials, arguing that the company's Fox News Channel has a right-wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company.

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Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima report for The Washington Post: "A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration's wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by Congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president's spying powers."

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The Associated Press writes, "Congress struggled Thursday over giving the government more power to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists, bogged down by concerns about the man who would oversee the plan - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales."

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Truthout's Executive Director Marc Ash writes: "Mounting a serious legal challenge to the executive branch is a daunting task for Congress under any circumstances. However, as the breadth and scope of this White House's transgressions are totally unprecedented, so too is the challenge Congress faces. Never in its history has America been confronted with an executive branch so determined to break every law designed to regulate its conduct."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080307J.shtml

10:00 - 03 August 2007

Another phone mast could be built in a local village.

T Mobile has applied to erect a 12m mobile phone mast in New Waltham, outside the Harvest Moon pub on Station Road.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

by Elizabeth Sullivan

08/02/07

Rand Beers’ final White House assignment after working for four presidents was to fig ure out whether attacking Iraq would leave the back door open to another al-Qaida strike on the homeland.“But as we worked through that problem,” said Beers, then a counterterrorism adviser to President Bush, “it became clear to me that by the form of our entry into Iraq we were also diminishing our ability to operate more broadly in the world.”By early 2003, the coalition of the willing already had become much less willing. Any “huge diminution of support from that outpouring we had after 9/11? tied to an Iraq attack would severely compromise the fight against al-Qaida, Beers said in an interview Friday before a speech to the City Club of Cleveland. So Beers quit...

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Liberty For All
by Phillies campaign staff

08/02/07

In an executive order dated July 17, President Bush provided for the seizure and blockage of property belonging to any person or entity whom the Secretary of the Treasury determines to have committed or ‘pose a significant risk of committing’ an act of violence with the goal of ‘undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people’ or to have aided or funded such persons directly or indirectly. Critics of this executive order have pointed out the lack of due process...

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CNN

08/02/07

The top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove refused to answer at least a dozen questions from a Senate committee Thursday about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, asserting — as expected — a claim of executive privilege by President Bush. Scott Jennings, who also is a special assistant to Bush, arrived at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with his attorney, Mark Paoletta, to avoid a contempt citation...

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by Matt Lewis and Adam Hughes, TomPaine.com

The president has chosen confrontation and obfuscation during budget talks with Congress.

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by Robert Borosage

A strategy for exposing those in Congress who would rather tear down the temple than allow the majority to change it for the better.

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Dr. Samuel S. Epstein and Ronnie Cummins write for the Environmental News Network about the contradiction of the US in overlooking its own dangerous consumer product exports. Epstein and Cummins write, "US personal care and cosmetic products contain a wide range of avoidable toxic ingredients, notably multiple carcinogens, hormones and allergens, which remain unregulated by the FDA."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080207HA.shtml

Ben Lando for United Press International reports that "the main US union representing oil workers has called on Congress to stop pressing Iraq to pass its oil law and support the rights of oil workers."

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Ben Blanchard reports for Reuters that China has called global warming the cause of recent flooding that has killed more than 700 people. China has been told that extreme weather patterns will only increase.

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Dara Colwell reports for AlterNet.org that China is combatting deforestation by planting genetically engineered poplar trees, in what have been called "frankenforests." Colwell writes, "Pushed forward by biotech and the multibillion-dollar timber industry, genetically engineered trees are the latest invention."

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As Wall Street continues to fuel wealth in America, Bill Moyers Journal examines what growing economic inequality means for the middle class and working families.

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Greg Gordon for McClatchy Newspapers reports on Bush's decision to order White House adviser Karl Rove not to testify in the seven-month-old Congressional investigation into the firings of nine US attorneys. Gordon reports this huge roadblock to the investigation moves the confrontation between Congress and the White House closer to a constitutional showdown in the courts.

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Judiciary Presses Bush Aide on Firings

Laurie Kellman for The Associated Press reports on the Senate Judiciary Committee's interview with a currently serving aide to President Bush about the firings of federal prosecutors. The session with White House political aide J. Scott Jennings, reports Kellman, yielded little.

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Video of Bridge Collapse



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More info about that bridge "collapse".
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A message from Ramsey Clark~ Thu Aug 2, 2007 18:57

Help support the September 15th march in Washington

I am writing to you with the hope that you will help us organize and promote the September 15th March in Washington DC. Thousands of Americans from around the country will join together to demand the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and insist on the immediate end to the war in Iraq. September 15th is the date General David Petraeus is mandated to make a report to Congress on the progress of the so-called surge. The eyes of the national and international media will be focused on Washington DC at that time.

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“As you know, my position is clear — I’m the commander guy.” George W. Bush , Washington, D.C., May 2,2007

" None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe

"Information is the currency of Democracy." - Thomas Jefferson


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Then Questions Whether We Should Fund Anti-Poverty Efforts
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Borrowers can't tell where to turn for change in terms
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THE Bush Administration is pressing the US Congress for the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international phone call or email between a surveillance target outside the United States and any person inside the US.

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At an April 24, 2003 meeting with then-assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, a board member of banana giant Chiquita International gave a startling confession: his company was paying hundreds of thousands to a Colombian paramilitary group on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations.

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Iran has intensified pressure on the falling U.S. dollar by demanding that Japan begin paying for Iranian oil in yen, instead of dollars. - In April, WND reported Iran successfully pressured China to begin paying for Iranian oil in euros, not dollars.

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European governments are warning Congress that US legislation aimed at Iran could hit European energy groups, undermine transatlantic unity on Tehran's nuclear programme and provoke a dispute at the World Trade Organisation.

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Washington has dispatched its frontroom team, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to the Middle East, ostensibly to give the peace process a big push. In reality, they are acting as shrewd arms merchants, while at the same time talking of the struggle for people for freedom against oppression.

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Yes, poverty is a reality in America, just as it is for millions of other human beings on the planet. According to the US Census Bureau, 35.9 million people live below the poverty line in America.

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Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.

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At least 1,652 civilians were killed in Iraq in July, one third more than in the previous month, according to figures compiled from three Iraqi ministries and seen by AFP.

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By JAMES RISEN

Under pressure from President Bush, Democratic leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to expand the government's electronic wiretapping powers.

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By Monica Benderman

Freedom does not rely on young men and women signing their lives away for an enlistment bonus serving as nothing more than a glittery facade to keep innocents from knowing they're about to become slaves.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

As the Bush Regime outfits B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000 pound monster "bunker buster" bombs for its coming attack on Iran, the US economy continues its 21st century decline. While profits soar for the armaments industry, the American people continue to take it on the chin.

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By Leiselle Maraj

Thursday, July 12 2007

Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson Regis said more than 50 enforcement notices have been issued for the removal of illegal cell towers nationwide but these notices have been appealed by the telecommunication companies responsible for the sites.

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This country (Trinidad) seems to have found a good use of its army - removal of illegal cell phone towers. My question is this - If cell phone towers are causing illness and death to the population, are they not all illegal? How can the financial interests of cell phone companies, come above the health and safety of a population?

Martin Weatherall

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The White House has ordered the Justice Department not to prosecute contempt charges against any of its operatives who it had also ordered not to testify in the first place.

Gonzales who HAS testified has told so many different stories that were he not himself the attorney general he would be facing perjury charges right now.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

But of course even if he were convicted he would instantly be commuted or pardoned as was Scooter Libby. There is one and only one constitutional recourse left and that is impeachment. The appeal courts have already been stacked with right wing judges and they will not intervene. The solicitor general will not appoint a special counsel. Only through impeachment can Congress demand a return to integrity.

On Tuesday, July 31st, Jay Inslee proposed that the Judiciary Committee pursue the possible impeachment of Alberto Gonzales, who tried to browbeat a semi-conscious John Ashcroft into signing off on a patently illegal spying program, who was the point man in doing a legal end run around the laws against torture, who let the White House dictate which U.S. attorneys were not sufficiently partisan in their prosecutions, and who then lied repeatedly under oath about it all.

In today's Time magazine online article they examined the reasons Bush still has not dumped such an outright embarrassment of an attorney general, and the number one reason they cited was that "Bush needs someone at Justice who's going to watch the White House's back." Of course this is precisely the reason he must be impeached immediately. If his only purpose is to shield the Cheney White House from investigation and exposure of their own crimes he's the first one who has to go.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

For those focused on impeaching Cheney and Bush we suggest this is not a distraction. Instead it could be an important strategic icebreaker. To just get the word "impeachment" past the lips of some members of Congress has been a major struggle. But our numbers are building fast, and once the dam breaks, it'll be Katy bar the door to the oval office.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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