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Please circulate widely - February 13, 2006

Spanish is below/ Mensaje en español, abajo French below/français à suivre

From the International Ban Terminator Campaign: Call to Endorse the Campaign and Pressure Your Government Before the UN meeting in March. http://www.banterminator.org

The International Ban Terminator Campaign asks you to take action before the major meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8 – 8th Conference of the Parties) in Brazil March 20-31. This meeting will decide the future of Terminator technology.

UPDATE:

A few weeks ago at a UN meeting in Spain, the industry-government goal to approve Terminator technology was made even clearer - the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now helping Monsanto, Syngenta and other companies to end the UN “de facto” moratorium on Terminator. For more information see http:// www.banterminator.org

TAKE ACTION:

Groups and individuals are asked to take action in this last critical month before the major meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity March 20-31 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil.

1) ENDORSE THE CAMPAIGN – BEFORE FEBRUARY 17 or BEFORE MARCH 1st: - Groups across the world are adding their names to the call for a ban – the list is now posted at http://www.banterminator.org On February 20 we will announce this first list to the media - we will produce a final list on March 1st. Please sign up your group via www.banterminator.org or by email to contact@banterminator.org

- Please contact other groups in your country and ask them to sign on to the campaign.

Sign On: "We oppose all forms of Terminator technology (Genetic Use Restriction Technologies or GURTs). We ask all national governments and international bodies to ban Terminator in order to ensure that the technology is never field tested or commercialized."

2) PRESSURE YOUR GOVERNMENT: Please pressure your government in this last month before the Brazil meeting. Write to your Minister of Environment and ask them to support the moratorium on Terminator at the COP8 meeting. Request a meeting with your government officials. FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.banterminator.org contact@banterminator.org


Español http://www.terminarterminator.org

LAS ACCIONES - PROHIBIR LAS SEMILLAS TERMINATOR

Favor de circular ampliamente, febrero 13, 2006

Campaña Internacional Terminar Terminator Llamado a respaldar la campaña y presionar a su gobierno ante la reunión de la ONU en marzo.

La Campaña Internacional Terminar Terminator le pide realizar acciones de cara a la más importante reunión del Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica de Naciones Unidas (COP8 - 8ª Conferencia de las Partes) en Brasil, del 20 al 31 de marzo. En esta reunión se decidirá el futuro de la tecnología Terminator.

LO ÚLTIMO:

Hace pocas semanas, en una reunión de Naciones Unidas en España, se hizo más evidente que nunca el objetivo de algunos gobiernos y la industria de aprobar la tecnología Terminator -hablamos de Canadá, Australia y Nueva Zelanda, que ahora ayudan a Monsanto, Syngenta y otras compañías a terminar con la moratoria "de facto" que tiene Naciones Unidas sobre Terminator. Para más información vea: http://www.terminarterminator.org

ACTÚE:

Se pide a grupos e individuos que tomen acción este último mes, que es crucial, antes de la reunión más importante del Convenio de Diversidad Biológica de la ONU, del 20 al 31 de marzo de 2006 en Curitiba, Brasil.

1) RESPALDEN LA CAMPAÑA - ANTES DEL 17 DE FEBRERO O ANTES DEL 1º DE MARZO: - Grupos de todo el mundo están sumando sus nombres al llamado para lograr la prohibición de Terminator - la lista se encuentra http:// www.terminarterminator.org El 17 de febrero publicaremos esta lista en los medios - Y contaremos con una lista final para el 1o de marzo. Por favor inscriba a su grupo en http://www.terminarterminator.org o enviando un correo a contact@banterminator.org - Por favor contacte a otros grupos y pídales que se sumen a la campaña. Firme lo siguiente: "Nos oponemos a todas las formas de la tecnología Terminator" (Tecnologías de Restricción del Uso Genético o TRUGs). Demandamos a los gobiernos nacionales y organismos internacionales que prohíban Terminator con el fin de asegurar que esta tecnología nunca sea probada en el campo o comercializada."

2) PRESIONEN A SUS GOBIERNOS: Presione a su gobierno este último mes antes de la reunión en Brasil. Escriba a su Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y demándele que apoye la moratoria sobre Terminator en la reunión de la COP8. Solicite reunirse con los funcionarios de su gobierno.

PARA MAYOR INFORMACIÓN: http://www.terminarterminator.org contact@banterminator.org


en français http://www.interdireterminator.org

PASSEZ À L’ACTION - POUR INTERDIRE LES SEMENCES TERMINATOR

Prière de diffuser largement, février 13, 2006

Campagne internationale Interdire Terminator Joignez-vous à la campagne et faites pression sur votre gouvernement avant la rencontre onusienne en mars

La campagne internationale Interdire Terminator vous demande de passer à l’action d’ici la rencontre capitale de la Convention des Nations unies sur la diversité biologique (CdP 8 – 8e Conférence des Parties) du 20 au 31 mars, au Brésil. C’est là qu’on déterminera le sort de la technologie Terminator.

FLASH

Il y a quelques semaines, une rencontre onusienne en Espagne a scellé l’alliance entre l’industrie et certains gouvernements en faveur de la technologie Terminator : le Canada, l’Australie et la Nouvelle- Zélande aident maintenant Monsanto, Syngenta et d’autres grandes sociétés à renverser le moratoire de fait des Nations unies sur Terminator. Pour plus d’information : http://www.interdireterminator.org

PASSEZ À L’ACTION

Nous demandons aux groupes et aux particuliers de passer à l’action pendant le mois crucial qui précède la grande rencontre de la Convention des Nations unies sur la diversité biologique, du 20 au 31 mars à Curitiba, au Brésil.

1) JOIGNEZ-VOUS À LA CAMPAGNE – AVANT LE 17 FÉVRIER OU LE 1ER MARS - Des groupes du monde entier exigent l’interdiction de Terminator – voir http://www.interdireterminator.org La liste en sera transmise aux médias le 20 février. (nous dresserons une liste finale le 1er mars). Inscrivez votre groupe à http:// www.interdireterminator.org ou par courriel : contact@banterminator.org - Contactez d’autres groupes et incitez-les à se joindre à la campagne. « Nous réprouvons Terminator sous toutes ses formes (technologies de restriction génétique ou GURT). Nous demandons aux États et appareils internationaux d’interdire Terminator pour stopper tout essai en champ ou toute commercialisation de cette technologie. »

2) FAITES PRESSION SUR VOTRE GOUVERNEMENT Au cours du mois qui précède la rencontre au Brésil, faites pression sur votre gouvernement. Écrivez au ministre de l’Environnement pour lui demander d’appuyer le moratoire sur Terminator lors de la CdP 8. Tentez d’obtenir une rencontre avec des représentants officiels du gouvernement.

POUR PLUS D’INFORMATION : http://www.interdireterminator.org contact@banterminator.org

The Bush administration wants to turn the expansive ranges and prime wildlife habitats on the eastern edge of Wyoming's Red Desert into a dense industrial web of oil and gas wells.

We need your help right now to block this attack on one of the premier wildlife areas in our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.

Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 and tell the Bush administration to protect the extraordinary natural, recreational and cultural values of the Red Desert's Atlantic Rim region from massive oil and gas development.

The Atlantic Rim provides crucial winter range for elk and mule deer, as well as irreplaceable nesting grounds for sage grouse, hawks and eagles. Steeped in history, this region is the ancestral homeland of the Shoshone and Ute peoples and the site of the Overland and Cherokee trails traveled by the pioneers.

Yet the administration's preferred development plan -- which calls for constructing 2,000 wells at double the usual density and 1,000 miles of new roads -- would despoil the critical wildlife habitats and pollute the clear streams of this storied landscape. Little of the native wildlife in this quarter-million-acre stretch of the Red Desert would be able to survive over the long term.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 right now and tell the administration to withdraw its proposal and replace it with a responsible management plan that protects the Atlantic Rim's most sensitive areas.

Thank you for helping save this natural treasure of our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council

Während die iranische Führung auf Irans Recht auf Atomenergie beharrt, werden die Folgen eines Angriffs auf die iranischen Atomanlagen erwogen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22029/1.html

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#1- A News Blog for Boycott Bush

We are very glad to announce you the creation of a news blog at http://www.boycottbush.org/news_en.php. Thanks to our new volunteer Paul Borgers in the team of the International Secretariat of the campaign, in Ghent, Belgium, you will be able to inform yourself about the last features concerning the USA foreign policy and our demands everyday. For the moment it is only available in English and in Dutch. We also plan to restart our Boycott Bush E-News with a selection of the news of the blog twice each month. Your reactions and news are welcome: you can send them directly to paul@motherearth.org.

#2- Boycott of the US dollar

We also would like to announce that a text of reflection about the boycott of the US dollar has been published on the site. It has been written by Rohini Hensman and Marinella Correggia, contact person for the campaign in Italy: http://www.boycottbush.org/dollar_en.php

#3- Update of text about US and nuclear weapons

The U.S. is the biggest obstacle for nuclear disarmament. Check how the U.S. voted in the UN General Assembly last December 2005. On 12 disarmament resolutions they voted 11 times "no" and abstained once. All resolutions were adopted by a majority of states. Check the table with the votes of the 65 members of UN Conference on Disarmament http://www.boycottbush.org/demands-nukes_en.php This page about US and nuclear weapons has been recently updated by David Heller, For Mother Earth anti-nuclear campaigner http://www.boycottbush.org/demands-nukes_en.php and the one about the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty has been also updated and will be very soon posted on the site.

#4- Agenda 2006: coming events and actions

An agenda for 2006 has been created to display a list of events and actions where boycott campaigners and/or boycott activists have a chance to meet, discuss and act together in flesh and bones. Any suggestions of event or action (rather international or big and national but local initiatives give us also hope and energy to continue this campaign) to add to this list is welcome. Next action is the 3d anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq , March 18-20. Let us know what are your plans! http://www.boycottbush.org/agenda-060319_en.php

#5- Translations of the site in 5 languages

Then, we would like to give a very big thank to all the persons making this campaign possible, particularly all the volunteers who are translating the site in 5 different languages (Arabic, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Spanish). New translators are always welcome and can find the contacts of the translation coordinators here: http://www.boycottbush.org/volunteer_en.php


Sincerely,

As consumers we do not want our money to be used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human-rights violations. http://www.boycottbush.org


Boycott Bush International Network Secretariat p.a. For Mother Earth - member of Friends of the Earth International K. Maria Hendrikaplein 5
9000 Gent - Belgium Phone +32-9-242 87 04 Skype "poltanner" Mobile +32-495-28 02 59 Fax +32-9-242 87 51 pol@motherearth.org

Forschungsauftrag zu Mobilfunk-Auswirkungen nach Pilot-Phase erteilt

Die von dem Berliner Universitätsklinikum Charité ersonnene Studie zur Ermittlung etwaiger Schlafstörungen durch Einfluss von Mobilfunkstrahlung soll in Kürze starten. Bereits 2005 gab es eine Pilotphase, in naher Zukunft soll es im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz (BfS) an sechs noch auszusuchenden Standorten mit der Untersuchung möglicher schädlicher Mobilfunk-Auswirkungen losgehen.

Die Forscher der Charité sollen im Rahmen des Deutschen Mobilfunk Forschungsprogramms herausfinden, ob psychologische und physiologische Effekte des Mobilfunks unter häuslichen Bedingungen feststellbar sind. Dazu soll an den eingangs erwähnten sechs Standorten in Deutschland eine mobile Basisstation aufgestellt werden. Untersucht werden insgesamt 300 Teilnehmer, die im Umkreis von 500 Metern um die mobilen Basisstationen wohnen.

BfS und Charité hoffen herauszufinden, ob unter Einwirkung von Mobilfunk im Schlaf beispielsweise die Gehirnströme (EEG) beeinflusst werden. Am Kopfende der Betten der Studienteilnehmer werden zur Messung tragbare Geräte eingesetzt. Diese Datenerhebung soll eine Objektivierung des Schlafverlaufs sicherstellen, während zusätzlich morgens und abends mit Fragebögen subjektive Daten zum Schlafverlauf und zum allgemeinen Wohlbefinden erhoben werden.

Voraussetzung für die Vergabe der Studie an die Charité war der erfolgreiche Abschluss der Machbarkeitsstudie in Flachsmeer sowie die darauf folgende Pilotstudie. http://www.golem.de/0505/38276.html Dabei wurden laut BfS die Einzelheiten für eine Zusammenarbeit mit den Netzbetreibern und der Bundesnetzagentur sowie die Bestimmung geeigneter Standorte geklärt.

In Kürze startet das BfS auch in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Arbeits- und Umweltmedizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München eine "MobilEe" getaufte Untersuchung, bei der etwaige Folgen der bei Kindern und Jugendlichen sehr häufigen Handy-Nutzung aufgespürt werden sollen. http://www.golem.de/0602/43091.html (ck)

Copyright © 1997 - 2006 Golem.de. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

http://www.golem.de/0602/43323.html

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Gut geschlafen?

Grazer Forscher untersuchen den möglichen Zusammen­hang zwischen elektro­magnetischen Feldern und Schlafstörungen Ob durch Schmerzzustände oder Lärm: Für jeden dritten Erwachsenen sind Schlafstörungen nicht fremd. Was aber, wenn man keine ausreichende nächtliche Portion an Schlaf abbekommt, ohne durch diese zwei Faktoren beeinträchtigt zu sein? Somatische Wirkung wird in diesem Zusammenhang dem Elektrosmog zugeschrieben. Aber inwieweit ist diese Annahme verifizierbar? Dieser Frage geht ein Team von Wissenschaftlern der TU Graz unter der Leitung des Biomediziners Norbert Leitgeb, der unter anderem Vorsitzender der COST Aktion 281 und Mitglied der deutschen Strahlenschutzkommission ist, auf den Grund.

Mehr als ein Jahr Laufzeit, fünfhundert Probanden alleine in Österreich: Die experimentelle EPROS- (Electrosensitives Protected Sleep) Schlafstudie ist seit Dezember 2004 in Österreich und seit Mitte letzten Jahres auch in Deutschland am Laufen. Groß angelegt, vom Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie, dem Lebensministerium sowie der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk (FGF) und österreichischen Mobilfunkbetreibern finanziert - aber dennoch frei von Mobilfunk-Scheuklappen, wie Studienleiter Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Norbert Leitgeb betont - und neuartig, was das Forschungsdesign anbelangt.

Für einen "schonenden" Ansatz hat sich das Wissenschaftlerteam der TU Graz, genauer des dort ansässigen Instituts für Krankenhaustechnik, entschieden. Nicht wie üblich wurden die mit Elektroden verkabelten Testpersonen im Doppelblindversuch* zusätzlichen elektromagnetischen Feldern im Labor ausgesetzt, sondern in gewohnter Umgebung, zu Hause, ausgetestet. Zwölf Nächte lang stellte jeder einzelne Proband sich selbst und sein Schlafzimmer zur Verfügung. Die Versuchsleiter schirmten die Schläfer mal mittels eines an ein Moskitonetz erinnerndes Vorhangkonstrukt samt Aluminiumrahmen wirksam von vorhandenen elektromagnetischen Feldern ab, mal wurde eine Attrappe verwendet. Die bei sogenannten Elektrosensitiven messbaren unterschiedlichen Reaktionen darauf wurden mittles Elektrokardio-, -enzephalo- und -okulographen erfasst. Zusätzlich mussten die Probanden morgens und abends einen validierten Fragebogen ausfüllen, um auch subjektiv bewertete Angaben zu lukrieren.

Die Rekrutierung der Probanden stellte sich trotz dieses recht umständlichen Settings als wenig mühsam heraus: Das öffentliche Bewusstsein möglicher gesundheitlicher Gefahren durch die zunehmende Elektrifizierung und Elektronisierung aller Lebensbereiche sowie die flächendeckende hochfrequente Strahlenbelastung, die Mobilfunk, WirelessLan und anderes mit sich bringen, ist vorhanden. Eine Konsequenz dieses Interesses: manche Probanden sahen im Feldversuch die Möglichkeit einer Messung der Hochfrequenzfelder in ihrer Wohnung; derartige Fälle wurden nicht die die Auswertung mit einbezogen, ebenso wenig Fälle, wo Schlafstörungen eindeutig nicht elektrosensitiv bedingt waren. Für die bereits abgeschlossene Auswertung der Studie für Österreich - für Deutschland ist dies noch ausständig - wurden letztlich Daten von 29 Probanden herangezogen. Noch sind die Ergebnisse unter Verschluss. Nächste Woche werden sie im Institut für Krankenhaustechnik in Graz der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Man darf gespannt sein. Der Nachweis eines Zusammenhangs zwischen elektromagnetischen Feldern und Schlafstörungen wäre eine Sensation. (red)

*Technik, bei der Erwartungseffekte eliminiert werden sollen, indem weder der Forscher noch der Beforschte darüber informiert sind, unter welchen Bedingungen bestimmte Aufgaben eines Experiments zu bearbeiten sind.

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2343543

http://omega-news.livejournal.com/
http://www.livelogcity.com/tools/memories.bml?user=omega

Die Januar-Sendung des Dissidentenfunks vom Donnerstag, den 12.1.: WARUM PSYCHIATRISCHE ZWANGSBEHANDLUNG FOLTER IST ist inzwischen vollständig autorisiert transkripiert im Internet veröffentlicht: https://dfunk.soziolyse.de/archiv/s0601

Insbesondere das Interview mit dem Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte, Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt und die Vertiefung der Frage in einem Gespräch mit Prof. Wolf-Dieter Narr sind wichtige Dokumente zur Meinungsbildung in dieser Frage.

Werner-Fuß-Zentrum Scharnweberstr. 29
10247 Berlin http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de http://www.antipsychiatrie.de und http://www.dissidentenfunk.de

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChimesOfFreedom?m=15


Informant: Rory Winter

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_501.shtml


Informant: Friends

To people who are either stupid or malevolent, hatred of those they would label as "liberals" trumps love of country every time and blinds them to the harm being done to our security, our heritage and our well-being.

http://www.paradisepost.com/columns/ci_3498492


From Information Clearing House

THE United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11883.htm

Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units, and terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and military specialists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11881.htm

The Americans, deep in distress in their occupation of Iraq, have hatched a deal with the Syrians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11889.htm

If one watches corporate media or listens to Cheney Administration propaganda, one is either not getting information about Iraq at all, or hearing that things are looking up as the U.S. approaches another “phase” in the occupation. Just taking a brief look at the “security incidents” reported by Reuters for today, 12 February, gives a little clue as to how the occupation of Iraq, aside from being immoral and unjust, is a dismal failure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11887.htm

Once upon a time, a former agent of Italian military intelligence named
Rocco Martino, who had had some experience in the African country of Niger, came into possession of some forged, fraudulent documents.

http://www.juancole.com/2006/02/cheney-authorized-libby-to-disclose.html


From Information Clearing House

Says Iraq data distorted to sway public
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11885.htm

Frog-marching the Media to the Gallows

By Mike Whitney

The Times has proved once again that the elite-media is a steadfast partner in mobilizing the masses for unpopular wars. Despite the countless thousands of innocent people who have already been killed by the fear-mongering coverage of "imaginary" Iraqi WMD, the editors continue to use the corporate-bullhorn to call the nation to arms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11888.htm



NBC Puts On 2-Week Commercial for US Power
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0212-20.htm

Dem.Chairman Howard Dean says Cheney "Leaked" Must "IMPEACH"

Howard Dean: Dick Cheney 'Cannot Remain in Office'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/12/144751.shtml

THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT
AxisofLogic/ United States
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_20811.shtml
Changed: 10:50 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2006

U.S. Newswire : Releases : "DNC Chairman Howard Dean on CBS Face the
Nation"
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=60873

Salem News Online
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/snstory.pl?-sec-News+1k589g0+fn-dean11-20060211-

San Francisco Bay Guardian | News
http://www.sfbg.com/40/17/cover_impeach.html
Changed: 10:56 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2006


Informant: ranger116



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

Top white house officials are currently giving weak legal arguments for the presidential power to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance. Dick Cheney attempts to justify unprecedented presidential power by saying that terrorism has created a new climate that necessitates it. However, John W. Dean says that Cheney has always pushed this cause.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021206A.shtml

Human Rights Watch says the military must lift its curfew of the area, which has been in place for a full week, and airdrop essential food, water and medicine to the 200,000 residents trapped there.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200952682026492224.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Human+Rights+Watch

David Kilcullen, who was the chief counter-terrorism adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State, has said that the programme should be scrapped. "Since 2006 we've killed 14 senior al-Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period we've killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area. The drone strikes are highly unpopular." he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6345944.ece



CIA's war in Pakistan

Along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the US has deployed some of the most sophisticated killing machines ever created.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\23\story_23-5-2009_pg7_14


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Predator
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Kilcullen

Abdul Malik Mujahid, Truthout: "During the last thirty years of wars in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians have had one safe place to escape to: Pakistan. They fled the Soviet invasion. They fled civil wars. They fled US bombing. Pakistan took care of millions of these Afghan refugees. Now that safe haven with its lush green valleys is burning with bombs."


http://www.truthout.org/052409Y?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=aerial+bombing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abdul+Malik+Mujahid

Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War

By Clive Hamilton

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22698.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Coalition+of+the+Willing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clive+Hamilton

CNN: "Nearly a half-billion dollars in 'urgent contributions' is needed, the United Nations said Friday, to aid displaced Pakistanis whose numbers are nearing 2 million."

http://www.truthout.org/052209S?n

http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=nouvellesdumonde9

[February 12, 2006]

(Sunday Mercury Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)IS nothing sacred?

A parish church in Warwickshire is being offered pounds 3,750 a year to install a mobile phone mast in its tower.

Mobile phone masts have been linked with cancer and other diseases.

The parochial church council at St Mark's in Milverton, Leamington Spa, is considering the offer from phone giant Vodafone which would help the church to carry out missionary work in Africa.

Most of the congregation is said to be against the idea.

Let's pray that the right decision is made.

Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-2006

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-sunday-meicury-says-sacred-mast-/2006/02/12/1363743.htm

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SMI20060209&articleId=1928


Informant: Kev Hall

[February 12, 2006]

(The Irish Times Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)A controversial mobile phone mast being built on a Garda station in south Dublin is within planning regulations, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council said yesterday.

Vilicom, appointed to oversee the erection of telecommunication masts on State buildings, had begun building a replacement mast on Shankill Garda station to facilitate three mobile phone companies. A licence was given for the development from the Office of Public Works as part of its Transforming State Assets Programme. Residents opposed it.


Vilicom did not apply for planning permission, believing the work was exempt development under planning regulations. The council asked the OPW to stop all work on the mast until it ascertained whether it required planning permission.

The mast can hold up to 12 mobile phone antennae. Yesterday the council examined the mast and informed Vilicom it was satisfied that "planning legislation is being adhered to".

Three schools and two residential developments are within 500m of the mast, and residents had protested against its construction. Locals held a protest at the station yesterday to try to prevent the development from going ahead.

Eammon Keogh, spokesman for the Dorney Court Residents' Action Group, said there had been no consultation with the local community.

"Residents are furious that this is being done at a time when major question marks exist about these towers and their link to increased incidents of cancer and motor neurone disease," he said.

An OPW spokesman said the works were similar to those already undertaken at several other Garda stations throughout the State.

Green Party deputy Ciaran Cuffe called on the Minister for the Environment to close the loophole in the planning regulations which allowed such masts to be built without public consultation.

"The planning regulations are riddled with loopholes in this area. The regulations allow for a mast to be replaced, and for up to 12 additional antennae to be placed on it without public consultation," he said.

"This is not acceptable and I have tabled a question in the Dail to the Minister for the Environment asking him whether he intends to revise Class 31 of the 2001 Planning and Development Regulations to allow for public consultation through a formal planning process if additional telecommunications antennae are proposed to be placed on a mast."

Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-2006

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-council-approves-disputed-phone-mast-south-dubl-/2006/02/12/1363895.htm

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_496.shtml


Informant: Friends

Federal agents are pursuing a rapidly expanding criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding a New York Times article published in December that disclosed the existence of a highly classified domestic eavesdropping program. The inquiry is progressing as a debate about the eavesdropping rages in Congress and elsewhere.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021206Z.shtml

When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106F.shtml

The Shoe (Bomb) on the Other Foot

According to Jonathan Alter, the White House made perfect political use of the twilight zone of intelligence, citing President Bush's revelation about a foiled bomb plot which shows the dangers of declassification for purely partisan purposes.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106H.shtml

Disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff engaged in many charitable endeavors over the course of his decade-long career as a Washington insider, and used the nonprofits to evade taxes, pad his pockets and bribe officials.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106A.shtml

Green Party leaders called on Congress to reject a House bill that combines public funding of congressional campaigns with a scheme to ban third party and independents from such races.

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2006_02_09.shtml


From Information Clearing House

What is it going to take for the American people to wake up to the presidential coup d’état that is now under way, a takeover that is occurring in broad daylight by a president who has declared that as commander in chief he has unfettered power to fight an undeclared and never-ending war on terrorism, even if that means ignoring the courts, disregarding laws passed by Congress and circumventing the Bill of Rights in the process?

http://tinyurl.com/c6j3f


From Information Clearing House



We the Sheep
http://www.sobran.com/columns/2006/060307.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Thousands of applicants for federal emergency relief money after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita used duplicate or invalid Social Security numbers or bogus addresses, suggesting that the $2.3 billion program was a victim of extensive fraud, a Congressional auditor will report Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11876.htm



Bush lied over Katrina, sacked head of disaster agency says

Michael Brown, head of the federal disaster agency at the time of Hurricane Katrina, has reopened a painful wound for President George Bush, charging that the White House knew New Orleans' protective levees had broken far earlier than it had acknowledged.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article344722.ece


From Information Clearing House



The Land of 10,770 Empty FEMA Trailers

Far from the victims of Katrina for whom they are meant, legions of wide-bodied mobile homes sit empty at Hope's Municipal Airport, a sprawling former military base. After all these months, storm victims can't seem to get the trailers, which are proving a mixed blessing to Hope and Arkansas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106B.shtml

Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1703702,00.html



Suicide complicates Greek mobile phone spying conundrum

The suicide of a Greek telecommunications expert added to the murkiness surrounding the explosive revelations that eavesdroppers listened in on Greece's entire political and military elite, including the prime minister, for almost a year.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/02/06/2003291808


From Information Clearing House



Attention in NSA Debate Turns to Telecom Industry

Though much of official Washington has been caught up in the debate over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, one set of major players has kept a discreet silence: the telecommunications corporations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106E.shtml

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US Suspected of Tapping Greek Leaders' Phones
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1544661/

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This is what it takes:

One of “THEM” gets tapped,

All hell gets raised.

They never thought, or cared, we might suffer by having one of the masts practically in our bedroom.

So, Why didn’t WE buy these guys “TO DO THIS” years ago?

If we had, we would not have a health problem today.

So true.

Best.

Agnes.

http://www.mast-victims.org



Greece phone tap leads to new law

Mr Karamanlis announced tough new measures for the telecoms industry

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has announced tough new rules for mobile phone operators in his country.

It follows revelations that the mobile phones of the prime minister and other high-ranking officials were tapped for more than a year.

The prime minister said the new rules would provide greater privacy in communications and harsh punishments for those caught eavesdropping.

It is not yet known who was behind the phone tapping scandal.

Tough measures

The prime minister warned that mobile phone operators could face fines of up to 2m euros ($2.4m; £1.4m) and a temporary suspension of their licence.

"(We are) preparing more effective safeguards... and harsher penalties for those who are involved in such crimes, and for those who make use of the products of these crimes," the prime minister said in a televised address.

The tapping is said to have begun before the Athens Olympics in 2004 and lasted until March last year.

It was detected by a telephone company manager dealing with customers who had reported technical problems.

About 100 mobiles belonging to politicians from both parties are thought to have been monitored.

The new rules could pose problems for Vodafone Greece, the network provider targeted in the tapping.

The British company is Greece's second-largest mobile phone provider, and has 4.4m subscribers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4709756.stm

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A burst of energy after recovering from a tummy bug becuase the e-mail from Sue was so far out! I just had to follow it up and do a Google. The Guardian Unlimite Article below gives more detail but there are some amazing conspiracy theories on the Internet to do with this.... Anyway how are the British Government paying for this? Would it be by letting the mobile phone companies do what they want in Britain with no controls at all?

Sue's original

Note: Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It waas about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.

sue g


Vodafone Greece

To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Business site, go to http://business.guardian.co.uk

Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal Helena Smith in Athens Tuesday February 07 2006 The Guardian

Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.

Last week, an inquiry was ordered by Costas Karamanlis, the prime minister, who was among the targets. It will focus on how spy software was installed within Vodafone's Greek mobile network before the 2004 Olympics. The spyware, understood to have been lurking within software bought from Ericsson, was spotted by the mobile phone operator last spring. When found, Vodafone disabled it and passed all the information on to the authorities.

The illegal device enabled the eavesdroppers, who are still to be traced, to monitor phones owned by Mr Karamanlis, as well as his foreign, defence and public order ministers from June 2004 to last March. Mobiles belonging to the heads of the armed forces, secret services and judiciary were also "tapped". Most of the bugging is believed to have taken place around the time of the Olympics in August, when Greece faced heavy pressure to step up security.

George Koronias, Vodafone Greece's chief executive, who is expected to be among the chief witnesses, said that he removed the device because it was his duty "towards my country and my company".

Critics, however, contend that by deactivating the device, which diverted calls to 14 "shadow" phones connected to a recording machine, Mr Koronias made it impossible for authorities to trace the interceptors.

The Greek authorities are also expected to look into the suicide of Kostas Tsalikides, Vodafone Greece's network planning manager, who took his own life on March 9 last year, shortly after the eavesdropping came to light. Vodafone however has made it plain that his death had nothing to do with the eavesdropping software.

Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited

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Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It was about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.

sue g



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone-tap

Seven political parties, including CPI, CPI(M) And Samajwadi Party, on Friday decided to oppose the forthcoming visit of US President George W Bush to the country.

http://tinyurl.com/ce8wl


From Information Clearing House

In a private meeting with European diplomats this week, a former senior U.S. official raised the idea of launching a dozen B2 bombers in an air raid aimed at crippling key Iranian nuclear facilities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11870.htm

PRESIDENT BUSH was right to say that the United States is "addicted to oil" in his State of the Union address. : Other countries, including China and India, are just as addicted to oil, and unless we strive to suppress their appetites along with our own, the problems we face will continue to multiply.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11875.htm

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.

http://tinyurl.com/b4ryc


From Information Clearing House

http://rwor.org/a/034/verdict-bush-guilty.htm

http://revcom.us/


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Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO is asking for our help in stopping Bush from hurting Working Families. See the Take Action page at their web site: http://tinyurl.com/8y9mf


© Virginia Metze

By Matthew Rothschild
February 8, 2006
The Progressive

Laura Berg is a clinical nurse specialist at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, where she has worked for 15 years.

Shortly after Katrina, she wrote a letter to the editor of the weekly paper the Alibi criticizing the Bush Administration.

After the paper published the letter in its September 15-21 issue, VA administrators seized her computer, alleged that she had written the letter on that computer, and accused her of “sedition.”

Here’s what her letter said.

“I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal negligence of this government,” it began. “The Katrina tragedy in the U.S. shows that the emperor has no clothes!” She mentioned that she was “a VA nurse” working with returning vets. “The public has no sense of the additional devastating human and financial costs of post-traumatic stress disorder,” she wrote, and she worried about the hundreds of thousands of additional cases that might result from Katrina and the Iraq War." [...] Read the rest about her letter and those who are supporting her at http://progressive.org/mag_mc020806 See also MotherJones' blog: http://tinyurl.com/77g2n



ACLU of New Mexico Defends VA Employee Accused of ‘Sedition’ Over Criticism of Bush Administration

(1/31/2006)
CONTACT: media@aclu.org

ALBUQUERQUE —The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today demanded an explanation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for investigating a federal employee who published an editorial critical of the Bush administration in a local newspaper.

In her letter to the weekly Alibi, Laura Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, criticized the Bush administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, noting that, “as a VA nurse working with returning…vets, I know the public has no sense of the additional devastating human and financial costs of post-traumatic stress disorder.” She urged readers to “act forcefully to remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit.”

In September 2005, VA Information Security employees seized Berg’s office computer because they claimed “government equipment was used inappropriately…during government time for drafting an editorial letter.” No evidence was recovered to support that belief. [...] Read on at
http://tinyurl.com/d4dh8


© Virginia Metze

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/12/wiran12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/12/ixnewstop.html


Informant: NHNE

08.02.2006

Auf Spitzbergen verzeichnen Forscher des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts für Polar- und Meeresforschung die höchsten Januar-Temperaturen seit Beginn der Messungen vor 15 Jahren.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n4521

Uran-Abbau führt zur großflächiger Umweltzerstörung. Jeder einzelne Schritt der nuklearen Brennstoffkette ist mit hohen Unfallrisiken behaftet, erzeugt Unmengen Atommüll und radioaktive Kontamination. Die Mär von der sauberen Atomkraft bekommt bei genauerem Hinsehen schnell schmutzige Flecken. Die Gesundheitsfolgen eines atomaren GAUs sind allgemein bekannt, verschwiegen werden jedoch die massiven Umweltzerstörungen durch den Uranabbau.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=18&article:oid=a4569



Jeder zweite atomare Störfall durch Irrtum

12.02.2006

Jeder zweite Störfall in einem deutschen AKW hat mit menschlichem Versagen oder Irrtümern zu tun. Dies sagte der Vorsitzende der Deutschen Reaktorsicherheitskommission, Michael Sailer, in einem Interview mit der "Rheinpfalz".

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n4597