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The economic evidence is clear, according to John Irons and Lee Price: the president's tax changes have not worked to improve the health of the economy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021806I.shtml

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee wants the panel to look into whether the National Security Agency was eavesdropping without proper authority in the weeks after the September 11 attacks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021806D.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4097/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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http://www.nzz.ch/2006/02/18/al/newzzEJTRDEED-12.html

(NZZ) Wie das amerikanische Fachjournal "Science" berichtet, werden Klimaforscher von der US-Regierung massiv unter Druck gesetzt, keine von der Regierungspolitik abweichenden Informationen zu veröffentlichen. Hinweise auf den durch Treibhausgase verursachten Klimawandel werden danach weitgehend der Zensur unterworfen.

Der Chefredakteur des renommierten Wissenschaftsjournals Kennedy wies darauf hin, dass die Regierung jeden Hinweis auf die durch CO2-Emissionen verursachten Gefahren ignoriere und unterdrücke. Klimaforscher der staatlichen Behörde NOAA wurden Kontakte mit den Medien verboten. Vorträge von Wissenschaftlern müssten vorab mit der Washingtoner Regierung abgestimmt werden und einzelnen kritischen Forschern wurde bereits mit persönlichen Konsequenzen gedroht.


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Wirral News 15.02.06

PHONE giant T-Mobile has bowed to public pressure and agreed to remove a contro-versial mast from a site in Greasby.

The mast, on land at Greenhouse Farm in Arrowe Road, will be removed later this week following six years of campaigning by Wirral West MP Stephen Hesford, residents' group Greasby Against Mobile Masts Association (GAMMA) and pressure group MastAvengers.

It brings to a close a battle which began in 1999, when householders living in nearby Rigby Drive saw bulldozing equipment rip through protected greenbelt land on a field to the south of the farm. The residents formed the action group GAMMA and have fought for the mast's removal ever since.

Mr Hesford has lobbied on behalf of the public who were against the erection of the mast from the beginning. Wirral councillors finally voted to serve a 'Discontinuance Notice' to get the mast taken down.

Mr Hesford said: "I am delighted that the phone company has finally decided to listen to the public and remove it. I would like to thank the public who have played a massive part in this success by doing all they can to help the cause.

"This is a win for the people of Greasby who have worked so very tirelessly with myself to remove this mast from Green House Farm. This mast should have never been set up in a greenbelt area and I will be very happy to see the area restored to the way it should be."

T-Mobile was given planning permission to build the phone mast in 1999 due to a technicality, when the company was not notified in time that it had been refused planning consent to build under develop-ment regulations.

GAMMA presented the council with a 1,740-signature petition and more than 200 letters urging them to remove the mast.

Feb 14 2006

Stafford Post

A Stafford man diagnosed with a brain tumour after phone masts went up near his home is demanding to know if they were responsible for his illness.

And this week the Post has had reports of one other resident in the area who has also developed brain cancer.

Seventy-year-old Jim Eaglen (pictured) is calling for phone companies and local councils to carry out urgent investigations into the effects of the towers after he was taken ill last August.

The grandfather-of-three underwent hours of emergency surgery to remove a tumour and doctors told Jim he would only have survived for two months if they hadn't carried out the procedure to remove the growth.

This week he was celebrating after one of three masts which had stood on land near his home at Home Farm, Creswell, for more than three years was removed by telecoms giant Hutchinson 3G. The firm has also withdrawn an appeal to have the mast re-erected on the site after pressure from householders and councillors.

But despite the good news, Jim, who has lived in Creswell with his wife Rosemary for 40 years, told us he feared he may have fallen victim to the effects of the masts on the community's skyline.

He said: "I had always been concerned about them since it was first publicised about the possible health effects down in Sutton Coldfield.

"The transmissions are like microwaves. We do not see anything and we do not feel anything, but they are putting them on schools, on churches, they are down our streets, and you cannot see them."

He slammed the lack of information on the masts: "There needs to be more literature about these things. More than 'we are putting a mast up'.

"We always object when the firms put the planning applications in, but they do not say how safe the mast is.

"If I wanted to put a tip here in a field I would have to do all sorts of things about what was going to be put on it, so why shouldn't they?"

The retired construction worker, who helped build the M6 which runs near his home, described the terrifying moments last year when he realised he was seriously ill.

"I was having breakfast and I got up and this pain came into my head, terrible it was."

Paramedics rushed Jim to hospital, but despite medics giving him the all-clear, Rosemary wasn't satisfied with the diagnosis. After a trip to his GP and then to a specialist, the tumour was discovered.

He said: "The specialist did a scan and he said if we don't operate now you've got two months, if we do you'll have two years. It was aggressive and apparently they can grow in just a few days."

Since his operation at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke, Jim has undergone months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

His life has been severely restricted by the illness. He can no longer drive and even says he has to be supervised when doing the simplest of household chores in case he has a seizure.

Whilst undergoing treatment specialists would not comment on the possible connection between the masts and Jim's illness, increasing his suspicions about a link.

He said: "They would not rule it in or out and it was the same with the nurses.

But what the nurses were saying was they were seeing an enormous number of people, especially young people, with brain tumours."

Other Creswell residents confirmed a spate of cancer cases within the community, including another person recently diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Richard Thomas, Creswell Parish Councillor, said: "We do keep pushing for more information and research. We do seem to be getting these clusters of masts, and the health implications must be worse if there are more of them together."

Paul Freeman, spokesperson for Stafford Borough Council, told the Post the safety of the masts was regulated at a national level.

He said: "Any company putting in an application to install a phone mast needs to comply with national legislation on emissions. And when they do apply to us they have to submit a certificate-that they are complying-with that legislation."-Expert opinion on the health effects of masts and mobile phones is split.

Alasdair Philips is director of Powerwatch, an independent body providing information on the effects of radiation on the public.

He said some evidence suggested susceptibility was genetic and up to 10 per cent of the population could be at risk from masts.

"There is definitely cause for concern. There are no practical restrictions on where they are sited. Ideally, they should be away from residential areas and should be at least twice the height of residential buildings."

But Dr Michael Clarke, from the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) which provides the government with information about the health risks from radiation, said masts are completely safe.

"There is no evidence of cancer. More research is needed to make sure, but most scientists believe that genuine uncertainty lies in the handsets themselves and not the masts."

What's your view? Contact the Post on 01785 212370 or write to us at 35 Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ. Alternatively, e-mail lynn_grainger@mrn.co.uk


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

A Holocaust survivor warns against a second holocaust and calls for the Pope to interfere
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1584040/

A row has broken out after a legal loophole allowed a mobile phone mast to be erected despite local protest.

BBC News website

It has been revealed that a Bournemouth Borough Council letter to Vodafone did not state clearly enough that permission for the mast was refused. That allowed the firm to claim it had not been told of any refusal in the given 56-day period laid down by law. The council is furious with the company for "exploiting" the loophole. Vodafone says it has "deemed consent". Proposals for the mast on the corner of Wentworth Avenue and Fishermans Avenue saw heated protest from local residents, who were delighted when the council backed them. But because the council's letter of refusal - which detailed all the objections - did not actually state permission had been refused, the company was technically allowed to put up the mast. Its officers are now calling for the company to make a fresh application, moving the mast to a less prominent site. Mike Holmes, head of planning and transport, said: "Whilst technically we omitted to tell Vodafone that their application had been rejected, in our view it is clear that from the numerous points made in the letter that the actual outcome was obvious. "We were concerned to learn of this loophole and would like to ensure residents that internal changes have been carried out to see that this does not happen again." Deemed consent Jane Frapwell, a spokeswoman for Vodafone, told the BBC News website the company was happy to talk to the council. But she added: "Planning legislation states that if you do not get a refusal within 56 days you have deemed consent. "We do understand the council's point of view but if, for the sake of argument, we reapplied and they refused it we would go to a planning inspector to appeal the decision. "The inspector would say we already have deemed consent. That's the position we are in."

Feb 17 2006

icSolihull

HUNDREDS of protesters are expected to turn out when a Government inspector visits Solihull to view the site of a planned mobile phone mast.

T-Mobile's application for a mast nearly 15 metres high, on the corner of Streetsbrook Road and Woodlea Drive, was turned down on environmental grounds by Solihull Council last October, but the company appealed against the decision.

Residents have been fighting the plan since it was announced last July and more than 1,000 of them have either sent letters of objection or signed a petition opposing the 3G mast.

Greg Shakeshaft, of Streetsbrook Road, who is leading the residents' campaign, said: "We don't need the mast and we don't want it. The mast would be totally out of character with the area.

"The nearest house is less than 30 yards away and we think Oak Cottage Primary School in Greswolde Road would be within the radiation field of the mast.

"If the mast is erected it will be a blight on our neighbourhood."

Mr Shakeshaft, two of whose three children attend Oak Cottage School, added that the Streetsbrook Road proposal was only one of more than 200 new mobile phone masts planned for Solihull by 2007.

Feb 16 2006

By Lyndsay Young,
Formby Times

PLANS have been mooted to site a mobile phone mast on a historical Formby church.

The proposal is for a Vodafone base station at Holy Trinity Church in Rosemary Lane.

Residents received letters from QS4 Limited, which installs of masts on Church of England churches for phone companies.

Holy Trinity Parochial Church Council voted in favour of the proposal and wants residents' views before deciding whether to seek permission from the Diocese.

Sheila Grey, secretary of Holy Trinity PCC, said: "It was passed by a majority. As far as I know it would be hidden and would be in the little bell tower."

The church, built in 1889, is situated in the heart of Formby Village and next to residents' homes..

Formby Civic Society has confirmed its opposition to the proposed mast which could be installed by April 2007.

Ray Derricott, amenities secretary of Formby Civic Society, said: "We shall write a letter objecting to the proposal.

"It is in a residential area and we do not want them near children or where people congregate."

The process is at the consultation stage and planning permission would first be sought from the Diocese.

John Swain, head of sales at QS4, said: "The church actually called us. Generally churches are chosen because they are the right height, they are in the centre of the general population and it's a prime location to give maximum coverage.

"If they don't get the right height, they may have to put several lower level small masts in its place."

In its letter, QS4 stated the equipment will not affect the appearance of the building and the church will benefit from the rent.

It gave assurances it would issue a license forcing mobile phone companies to measure emissions routinely.

Bolton Evening News Saturday

18 February 2006

MOBILE-PHONE masts are being banned from land owned by Bolton Council amid fears they pose a health risk. Councillors backed a resolution preventing companies from using council-owned property to erect masts - except in extreme cases where the site is on open land and is the most suitable location available. The move will also see existing masts taken down when their current contracts expire. Cllr Barbara Ronson, the council leader, will personally consider all bids to erect masts on council property on a case-by-case basis. Tory councillor Andy Morgan, who was behind the resolution, said not enough was known about the health risks posed by masts. He told a meeting of the council: "This is a genuine attempt to address the safety fears around phone masts. "We have a chance to say "stop" and to demand more information." But in some cases, where council land was further away from homes and buildings than other available sites, companies could be permitted to erect masts. Under planning law, councillors on the planning committee are unable to refuse applications for mobile phone masts on health and safety grounds on land it does not own. But Cllr Morgan says the councilís new rule will give it more control over the erection of masts. Fears over the safety of mobile phone masts have existed since they were first introduced 15 years ago. The microwaves they generate have been linked to a number of health problems, from headaches to nosebleeds. Five of the current 129 phone masts in the borough are on council-owned land, earning the local authority around £30,000 per year. They are at Stapleton Avenue, Heaton; Duddon Avenue, Breightmet; Rainford House, Haydock Street on the School Estate; Brandwood Street School, Daubhill; and Horwich Leisure Centre. Cllr David Wilkinson, the Liberal Democrat executive member for regeneration and development at Bolton Council, supported the resolution. But he said: "You can’t just say mobile phones are terrible, because the public are voting with their feet and buying these things from shops. "Unfortunately, no government will ever allow a report that says mobile phones are harmful." Labour councillor Laurie Williamson said: "There are some good examples of council land that is ideal for phone masts, such as the golf course in Regent Road. "Masts could be moved on to council land to get them off the public highway."

Published: 17th February 2006

GIVE us a push... Hare and Hounds landlord Stephen Shepherd gives Alistair Fitton a helping hand from the pub car park.

IT’S a mystery that has got motorists in Wardle scratching their heads.

They are trying to find out what it is that is preventing them from starting their cars in the vicinity of the Hare and Hounds pub.

Vehicles have been affected in the pub’s car park on Ramsden Street and nearby in East Street.

Drivers switch on the ignition and the immobilisers immediately become jammed.

They claim this strange phenomena began 18 months ago, about the same time as a mobile phone mast was erected in the grounds of Birch Hill.

Frustrated Ramsden Street resident Alistair Fitton said: "One night mine, the landlady’s and another man’s car just wouldn’t start. The immobiliser on all three cars had mysteriously frozen.

"Ever since then pub regulars and six of my neighbours have been having the same problem."

They have now come up with a back-breaking solution – a free push into the corner of the car park, where a bottle bank just happens to be in line with the mast.

Mr Fitton is unable to park near his home and now leaves his car at the bottom of East Street.

He said "I was driving my father’s MG and I completely forgot about the problem.

"I then had to push the heavy car down the street to get it to start – I nearly put my back out. As I’ve been doing it for the last 18 months, I am getting used to it."

A spokesman for Orange said: "The Orange mobile phone network operates at a frequency of between 1800 and 2100 Mhz and no other technology is permitted to operate at that frequency.

"My advice to the drivers is for them to take the cars to the garage and get the immobiliser checked out.

"The answer to the mystery may lie elsewhere."

Technical whizz, Howard Stapleton, thinks the solution may lay with an amateur radio enthusiast or the new Tetra police communications system.

Telecommunications regulator Ofcom said that every so often this type of problem emerges with immobilisers and electronic key fobs.

Spokesman Simon Bates said: "The new mast may or may not be the cause, but it’s likely the immobilsers are of an inferior quality and can’t cope with the interference.

"We advise anyone affected to call Ofcom on 020 7981 3000 and we will be happy to investigate the matter.

"We may find that we can explain the problem and take action." Shaun Almond

First published by the Rochdale Observer

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In West Virginia, citizens battle against the mining companies carving off their mountaintops

Sunday, February 26, 2006
*By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette*

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06057/661362.stm


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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We Won: Saving West Virginia mountains
http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/

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Mountain Justice Summer III the mountains strike back!

**PLEASE FORWARD AND POST FAR AND WIDE**

Do you love Appalachia?

MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER MAY 20-28 2007

THE MOUNTAINS STRIKE BACK!

It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth.

The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space…

You are cordially invited to the Mountain Justice Summer 2007
(mountainjusticesummer.org) at the Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
( http://www.narrowridge.org/ ) in Tennessee. Greedy soul-less corporations are blowing up highland watersheds in order to rip coal from the earth. We are the people fighting to stop them, and we need your help!

Mountains and highland watersheds are still being blown apart for short term profit. As the general assemblies of Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia play a game of "its better than it used to be" countless acres of Appalachian forest are being clear-cut, blown apart and dragged off. The mining is WORSE than it has ever been and we need your help to wake everyone up as to this fact.

Coal companies want people to believe that Appalachian rivers are "better than they have ever been" without standing by chocolate streams as they pour sediment into navigable rivers. There is a silent environmental menace which is the often uncounted cost of fossil fuel energy production, strip mining. Strip mining and coal not only strips the land, it often sucks the aquifer beneath it dry and clear cuts any forest.

Global climate change has caught the worlds notice—and energy companies are frantically trying to adjust using doublespeak like "clean coal". Everyone in the energy industry is working to provide solutions like carbon sequestration to global warming—put hope people don't look behind the curtain and see strip mining. Coal can never be "clean"—coal has never been clean—its very acquisition is destructive. Where ever men have ever ripped coal from the earth human misery and suffering has followed. Blowing up watersheds to burn "clean coal" is clearly unacceptable and not "clean."

All four states in the MJS network need you to fight strip mining this summer. We need people to do water testing, lobbying, demonstrating, painting, drawing, writing and in general helping us to resist strip mining.

Have ever enjoyed being alone in the forest? Pay your rent! The magnificent planet humans are abusing so terribly is our source of life on this planet. This is a call to folks who have sat on moss covered boulders watching it rain under a forest canopy. This is a call out to those who love streams, forest and mountains. If you hunt, fish, camp, hike, and love mountains and forest this is a call to you. This is for you if you have ever jumped in a mountain stream or like clean drinking water.

WHAT IS THE MJS TRAINING CAMP?

The MJS camp is the time that folks from the states fighting get together to train. This year's camps emphasis will be field training. Volunteers will get both field and class room training in water testing, oral history recording, strip mine documentation, map reading, guerilla theatre, Appalachian cultural sensitivity, demonstrations, and other skills that MJS volunteers will using this summer.

This is our third camp, and our third summer of resistance against strip mining—we won't quit till they quit.

We use the camp to train everyone we can who is going to help fight strip mining that summer. Its like a basic training in strip mining—and the end of the camp participants should basically have the broad skills needed and a good idea of what going on in the broader campaign against strip mining.

We are also looking for volunteers to travel the world as emissaries to other movements in the world fighting strip mining. Currently peoples fighting strip mining world wide! If you can travel this summer come to our camp before you go! We need you to talk with people in other countries fighting strip mining to tell them they are not alone! In Columbia there is a mining conference for community groups in August we need to send representatives to.

If you can draw, take pictures, drive, take water samples, live in a town near or in the coalfields, write, have an off road vehicle, can post video to youtube, edit videos, cook, can give a talk, are self sufficient, we can use your help this summer.

PLEASE REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMP!

This part MJS III is really serious about. We have to know how much food, space, transport, water we have to provide for in advance of the camp. Goto our website and follow the links to register. Let us know if you're thinking about coming. It's disturbing to find you someone goes into show when they get stung in the field.

We really really need to know about allergies, if you're diabetic, etc. The camp is a field camp and though we can accommodate folks on field work we really would prefer to know that yellow jacket stings put you into anaphylactic shock BEFORE you go out on one of the field trips. Please call or email mountainjusticesummer.org prepared to provide two people who will vouch for you we can call.

PLEASE COME PREPARED TO CARE FOR YOURSELF

The Appalachian counties which have been impoverished by the "benefits" of king coal (and clear cut logging) are as a direct consequence poor. As a result many of the organizations fighting strip mining in the Appalachians are poor. Come prepared to be self sufficient and to camp for a week. The land has fields and is by a lake so you can swim. But in general if you come to help us for a summer please do your own dishes and come prepared. In short, autonomy.

WHAT TO BRING

Something to swim in, towels, toothbrush, soap, snacks, bug juice—oh yes, about the bugs...

Come prepared to stay clean in the field. Ticks, chiggers, (snakes to!)—the southern Appalachians in the spring are not for the entomologically challenged. There will be classes in how to survive in the field—but come prepared. Long pants tucked into your socks may make you look weird—but it keeps ticks and mosquitoes off your skin. The best mosquito and tick repellant known is patchouli. Garlic is a lie mosquitoes love the stuff—ddt is ok if you don't mind cancer.

Raingear—you will be camping in a rainforest for a week. Think about rain allot as you prepare to come to Tennessee. Those plastic bags they give you at grocery stores are great for chambering off your clothes. It could go for days without rain...or it could rain for days. With some basic preparation whether it is raining or not won't affect your fun. Actually it's recommended you sit under a tarp alone in our forest while it is raining at least a few times.

Tent and tarps—bring them, they are your friend. Also bring a knife, boots, plate, bug spray, water bottle, hat, umbrella, and personal meds.

Bring a book or two was well—and documentation tools. Bring cameras, pens, paper—come prepared to document what you see in the field.

Instruments—any music you can make please please bring. If you're a musician you are vitally important to our campaign. Come and play music.

Cars—oh hell yes if you have your own transport that helps allot!!! We really really really need off road 4 wheel vehicles and trucks. If you can show up with gas and a licensed and insured off road truck we can use you 24/7 in the field. If you're a science field geek and you want to put your boots in the dirt bring a Subaru outback. Water testing, photography, scouting—its all about how we get people to the field. The dream vehicle would be a diesel off road which we could run veggie oil in. You can cover up hippy stickers with clear masking tape, then a layer of duct tape after that—peels right off when you're out of the field.

Soccer balls and Frisbees are encouraged.

WHAT WE NEED:

You.

Cameras (both still and video), GPS units, CB radios, Tarps, food for an army, Compasses, cars and trucks (see above), gas, gas cards, houses where people can stay, people who live in these states to get involved. If you live near any of the areas where strip mines are active

Houses. trailers and barns where people can stay.

WHAT NOT TO BRING:

Dawgs, no dogs please! Please if there is anyway you can avoid it do not bring your dogs.

Drugs. Do not bring or transport drugs to any of our MJS events. Police occasionally set up checkpoints in some coal communities as a harassment tactic. Additionally no one under the influence of anything should be driving where there are coal trucks. The coal drivers have enough speed and drugs in their own systems to more than make up for what you might lack.

Drama. Too few people are doing too much work in the campaign to stop the geologic annihilation of one of most ancient mountains and watersheds on Earth. For many organizations fighting strip mining a day of drama can lose a mountaintop. Mutual aid presupposes mutual respect.

That's it. Come prepared to have fun and train hard. The camp is a tool we have developed to fight back against the strip mine companies and the damage they are doing to our earth.

Give a summer for watersheds!

MOUNTAINJUSTICESUMMER.ORG mountainjusticesummer@yahoo.com

Organizations fighting strip mining in Appalachia:

Links about Mountain Top Removal
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4902852916257526734&pr=goog-sl

http://www.ILoveMountains.org is a resource and action center in the fight against surface mining in Appalachia. This website has lots of great Google Earth maps and videos.

West Virginia
http://www.crmw.net/ http://www.ohvec.org/

Tennessee
unitedmountaindefense.org

South Western Virginia
http://www.samsva.org/

Kentucky
http://mountainjusticesummer.org/kentucky/

ELSEWHERE

Arizona

MJS stands in solidarity with Black Mesa Indigenous Support - Dine residents living near Black Mesa in Arizona are actively opposing the destructive mining practices of Peabody coal company at the Black Mesa Mine.

http://www.blackmesais.org/

Utah
http://altoncoalmine.com/

New Zealand
http://www.savehappyvalley.org.nz/

http://www.ILoveMountains.org is a resource and action center in the fight against surface mining in Appalachia. This website has lots of great Google Earth maps and videos.

Yall come!

Moving Mountains

Questioning whether the Bush administration is manipulating science for political ends, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., called for an inspector general's investigation into why federal funding was suspended for a study that goes against White House-supported legislation to speed up logging after wildfires on national forests.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021706EC.shtml

Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021706EB.shtml

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brushed aside requests on Thursday that he remove himself from the investigation of Jack Abramoff and the lobbyist's ties to Bush administration officials and members of Congress. Thirty-one Senate Democrats said in a letter to Gonzales that he was too close to the president and top administration officials who have had dealings with Abramoff and immediately should step aside from the investigation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706S.shtml

Barbara Lee: "Before I voted against the resolution that the president and his attorney general now use to claim that he is above the law, I remembered what one of the clergy members said at the National Cathedral memorial service for the victims of the September 11 attacks: 'As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706R.shtml

Could he have been excluded to ensure the presence of President George W. Bush at the "first lady'' of civil rights' funeral?

http://tinyurl.com/c3v5c


From Information Clearing House

The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power

Have you ever heard of Executive Order 13292?
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200602160841.asp



Ted Rall: The Shootist

What is Dick Cheney Covering Up?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11959.htm



Shoot First, Avoid Questions Later:

The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,401260,00.html



Guns and Roses: Why It's Still Cheney's Chappaquiddick
http://tinyurl.com/axdrd


From Information Clearing House

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Referencing Dick Cheney's latest horrific folly, shooting people and pen-raised, domesticated animals...

"All hunting would be a sport...If the animals could shoot back."

-Michael Benner, KPFK radio 90.7FM Los Angeles on his weekly radio program, Inner Vision, 2006-Feb-17, 2:57pm


Informant: sasha

Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345928.ece


From Information Clearing House

Through the justifications it has put forth for warrentless wiretapping, the Bush administration is almost literally crossing the Rubicon, beginning the process of transforming the United States from a republic into to a presidential dictatorship.

http://tinyurl.com/b3ccp



Despotism & Democracy

Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4971.htm



The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism

Flash Presentation
http://www.bushflash.com/14.html



Charles Sullivan: The Making of a Zombie Culture

The systematic torture of captives is a non-event for the consumers of the corporate news, whose minds have been deftly manipulated to reach this conclusion without their knowledge.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11972.htm



Putting a Wrench Into the Gears of This War Machine"

On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, a group of war resisters began a 34 day liquids only fast in Washington, DC. The fast is sponsored by the Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

http://tinyurl.com/d35ll


From Information Clearing House

The next Iran war

A new report examines the likely course and proliferating dangers of an United States attack on Iran.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=2&articleId=3274


From Information Clearing House

Now that the cakewalk that was to be our invasion of Iraq is nearing its third anniversary and the roses that were to be thrown at us have turned into improvised explosive devices, it has become official — we are engaged in a long war. Make that “The Long War.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11971.htm

ABC News has learned today that President Bush will ask Congress for an additional $65.3 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It brings the total funds requested this year to more than $110 billion for those operations.

http://tinyurl.com/akwna


From Information Clearing House

By N K. A

We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11963.htm

Aus: Sondernews zum Thema Vogelgrippe - bitte verbreiten
http://www.bunkahle.com/Forum/YaBB.cgi?board=neues;action=display;num=1140213098

Vogelgrippe-Virus ist nach Auskunft eines Mikrobiologen überhaupt nicht nachgewiesen - die erzeugte Medienpanik ist unnötig bzw. sogar schädlich

Dieses Interview führte die Zeitschrift faktuell mit dem Mikrobiologen Dr. Stefan Lanka zu Vogelgrippe und H5N1:

Frage: Herr Dr. Lanka, sind wir in Deutschland durch die Vogelgrippe bedroht?

Lanka: Nur indirekt. Im nächsten Jahr wird es in Deutschland viel weniger Babys geben. Folgt man den Medien, werden alle Störche durch die Vogelgrippe dahingerafft werden. Darauf sollten wir uns jetzt einstellen.

Frage: Meinen Sie das ernst?

Lanka: Genauso ernst, wie irgendeine Gefahr für uns durch das behauptete Vogelgrippevirus H5N1 besteht. Die Gefahr oder die Katastrophe liegt ganz woanders.

Frage: Wo liegt nach Ihrer Auffassung die Gefahr oder die Katastrophe?

Lanka: Wir haben uns abgewöhnen lassen, unseren Verstand zu benutzen.

Das ganze Interview kann man hier lesen: http://www.faktuell.de/Hintergrund/Background367.shtml

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Angebliches Vogelgrippe-Virus wird resistent gegen Tamiflu

Es gibt die ungeheure Behauptung und Beobachtung, daß das Medikament Tamiflu in höchstem Maße giftig ist und bei einem völlig gesunden Menschen, extreme Krankheitssymptome erzeugt, ja sogar in entsprechenden Dosen bis zum Tode führen kann. Mit anderen Worten: Man will den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben. Wie anders könnte es zu erklären sein, daß - obwohl ein Vogelgrippe-Virus nun ja gar nicht nachgewiesen ist, folgende Nachricht im Umlauf ist: Zitat: "Die Vogelgrippe-Viren werden Medizinern zufolge zunehmend resistent gegen Tamiflu. In Vietnam seien zwei mit dem Virus H5N1 infizierte Patienten gestorben,obwohl sie mit dem Grippemittel behandelt wurden", schreibt ein internationales Team im US-Fachmagazin "New England Journal of Medicine" vom Donnerstag. Es muß richtigerweise heißen: Nicht obwohl sie behandelt wurden, sondern weil sie damit behandelt wurden. Die komplette Nachricht:

http://www.vogelgrippe-aufklaerung.de/t174f5-Vogelgrippe-Virus-wird-resistent-gegen-Tamiflu.html

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Wer verdient wirklich an der Panik um die Vogelgrippe?

Vogelgrippe lässt Rumsfelds Kasse sprudeln:
http://www.saar-echo.de/de/art.php?a=28455


Nachricht von Gerd Zesar

*Bad Chemistry*

by Gay Daly

*Hundreds of man-made chemicals -- in our air, our water, and our food -- could be damaging the most basic building blocks of human development*.

http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06win/chem1.asp

http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06win/chem.pdf

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Postscript: For decades, an industry song and dance has had the lyrics, But there's no proof that these chemicals are affecting humans. However, this past year, major findings have demonstrated that humans too are affected by endocrine disrupting chemicals.

*EPA's current 'reference doses' for exposure to several phthalates may be far too high, perhaps by as much as a factor of 100-fold or more.* The reference dose is the level thought low enough to cause no adverse effects. This conclusion is based upon calculations, using pharmokinetic models, of the maternal exposures that would have been required to cause urinary phthalate metabolite levels associated with altered genital tract development in boys.

http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/phthalates/2006/2006-0205marseeetal.htm

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PSS: Some of us have read one or more of Theo Colborn's scientific papers. the pdf above includes a picture of the lovely, caring, 78yo Theo Colborn.

Teresa

By Amanda Griscom
Little Grist Magazine
February 17, 2006

http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/printthis.pl

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has earned a rep as a global leader in the fight against climate change, and, at least in part, he has Sir David King to thank for it.

King, the U.K. government's chief scientific adviser and an outspoken advocate of aggressive action to forestall global warming, has pushed the climate crisis up the PM's priority list. He was instrumental in making the U.K. the first nation to commit to greenhouse-gas reductions that go beyond Kyoto, and in positioning climate as one of two top issues at last year's G8 summit, hosted by Blair.

King's headline-grabbing rhetoric has put climate change in the spotlight, and King himself in the hot seat. He's become a target of the American right and been publicly heckled by U.S. climate skeptics during lectures. He has also raised the ire of some in the environmental community for arguing that nuclear power, gasified coal, and carbon sequestration are necessary weapons in the battle against global warming.


QUESTION: Your comment that climate change poses a bigger threat to humanity than terrorism turned a lot of heads internationally. How did you come to this conclusion?

ANSWER: That sentence originated from an article I wrote in Science. I pointed out that, for example, the 30,000 deaths in Europe from the hot summer of 2003 -- which have been closely correlated to global warming -- indicate the kind of security problems we are faced with.

Let me be clear: I in no way diminish the threat of terrorism to our society and way of life, quite the reverse. It is a very serious threat. But I don't think it is even comparable to the threat to our civilization that global warming represents.

QUESTION: How did you help bring climate change to the prime minister's attention?

ANSWER: I engineered an invitation to give a lecture on the current state of climate-change science in 2002, the Zuckerman Lecture http://www.foundation.org.uk/801/311002_2.pdf [PDF], that went around to all the cabinet and many influential people in British government. The most important turning point was the decision the prime minister made very quickly after that -- he is, by the way, a very decisive sort of person -- to look at the U.K.'s energy policy in light of global-warming science. That led to further research and eventually a white paper in 2003 that committed the government to reducing carbon dioxide 60 percent by 2050. It was the first time a government had come forward and said, "We are going to go beyond Kyoto."

QUESTION: Was it intended as a challenge to other heads of state to follow suit?

ANSWER: In part. We put ourselves on that path so as to provide Britain with a strong position in negotiating with other countries. The prime minister has followed this up with clear advice to his cabinet ministers to raise the profile of climate change worldwide. I became his unofficial ambassador on the matter, and in the past 18 months, I've delivered over 140 lectures on climate science around the world at his behest.

QUESTION: What was the 60 percent CO2 reduction figure based on?

ANSWER: It was consistent with figures from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Without reductions of 60 percent by mid-century, I believe the melting of the Greenland ice sheet would be irreversible, and sea levels would rise by seven meters from that alone. Knowing that the world's great cities are on coastlines and would therefore be underwater, we felt that was something to be avoided.

QUESTION: What would the global-warming impacts be on the U.K.?

ANSWER: We did the most detailed analysis yet conducted of the impact of climate change on any one country, examining the flood and coastal defense risks for the U.K. over the next 80 years. It demonstrates that if we globally continue burning fossil fuels at the current rate, by 2080 it will be extremely difficult to protect British homes and cities from coastal flooding, fluvial flooding, and flooding from rainfall in our cities.

QUESTION: Are you already seeing impacts?

ANSWER: Rainfall patterns are already changing across cities. Just in the last decade, we've been seeing flash floods from tropical storms that bring a lot more water to our cities than we've previously experienced. Our drainage and sewage systems are not able to cope, so we get massive flooding.

QUESTION: Many of the politicians and oil-industry executives of the U.K., such as Lord John Browne of BP, are seen as global leaders on the climate issue. Why, would you say, are your leaders ahead of the game on this matter?

ANSWER: It's a nontrivial fact that the U.K. has always been very interested in the weather. Remember that Britain developed its leadership position through trade and war. In order to be one ahead of the opposition, you need to predict weather better than they do. So our meteorological office is placed within the military, which means it has always been exceptionally well funded. That's why the Hadley Center, which is in the Ministry of Defense, is a world leader on modeling climate change. It is widely respected in the U.K., both by our leaders and our citizens. A recent opinion poll revealed that about 90 percent of the British public believes that global warming is a real threat.

QUESTION: You've been heckled at your lectures by U.S. climate skeptics who argue that climate science is "in its infancy" -- an opinion that has also been voiced by members of the Bush administration.

ANSWER: I've been chased around by several people funded by the Competitive Enterprise Institute who make these kind of statements that simply fly in the face of all the evidence. To say that climate science is in its infancy is quite simply puerile. The greenhouse effect was established by [Joseph] Fourier back in 1827. By 1896, [Svante] Arrhenius had calculated that we would see global warming by five degrees centigrade if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere doubled. That's pretty close to what current scientists are saying. So the state of knowledge is 100 years old plus.

QUESTION: What's your opinion of the Bush administration's approach to climate change, in particular its argument that both Kyoto and domestic regulations could pose a threat to the U.S. economy?

ANSWER: What I'm not going to be able to do is criticize any other government. I can say that in Britain our economy since 1990 has grown by about 40 percent, and our emissions have decreased by 14 percent. So to argue that you destroy your economy by reducing emissions is blatantly incorrect.

Furthermore, we feel we have a competitive advantage in getting into the Kyoto CO2-trading program early; we believe it is an incredibly important new commodity exercise that will spur crucial technology development and soon begin to pay dividends for our country.

QUESTION: You were quoted in a recent BBC article as saying that the U.K.'s targets of reducing carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2010 are "a bit optimistic." Why?

ANSWER: Meeting the 2010 target will be challenging, despite the significant program of action under our 2003 white paper. The key problem is the rapid decline in the contribution of nuclear power to the U.K.'s energy mix that will be seen over the next decade as existing plants reach the end of their lives. Ministers are currently considering what further steps can be taken to get back on track, but it will be a tough call.

QUESTION: So do you worry that your mid-century targets are not achievable?

ANSWER: I will not deny that significant further policy and technology innovation will be needed over time for this to happen. I do think that we have the framework right and will see emissions continue to decline significantly to 2020 and beyond. The targets do not need to be adjusted; they are achievable.

QUESTION: To what extent will nuclear play a role in achieving these targets?

ANSWER: Deploying a range of technologies to radically decarbonize our energy systems over just a few decades is a challenge that should not be underestimated. We need every tool in the bag to address it. Even taking the most optimistic projections, dramatic investments in energy efficiency and renewables will not be enough. I believe the government is right to revisit now the question of new nuclear. The question of nuclear waste is of course an important one. It is worth noting that the next generation of nuclear plants would add only around 10 percent to the U.K.'s nuclear waste pile over a 40-year period, given the greater efficiency of more modern reactors.

QUESTION: What about coal generation and carbon sequestration?

ANSWER: It also seems certain that fossil fuels -- coal and gas -- will continue to contribute significantly to meeting U.K. and global energy needs for at least the majority of this century. This is a political and practical reality that it is important to acknowledge. Carbon capture and storage technologies offer the possibility to address this.

QUESTION: What have you personally and the British government in general done to improve your energy efficiency?

ANSWER: I drive around in a Toyota Prius. The government car service in London is shifting over to hybrid-engine vehicles as fast as we can get them. We are also deploying energy-efficiency measures on government buildings and bolstering public transport systems.

The bigger point, however, is that there's a tremendous effort within our government to get more people into science and technology. We are doubling our funding in this area and now producing more science, engineering, and technology graduates as a proportion of 22-year-olds than almost any other country in the world.

QUESTION: How much progress do you think was made at the recent Montreal climate negotiations in the effort to forge a foundation for a post-Kyoto international agreement?

ANSWER: Excellent progress was made in Montreal on a number of important fronts, including strengthening of the practical mechanisms for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and the agreement to launch a process for targets beyond 2012. Perhaps the most encouraging aspect for me was the very constructive approach to the discussions adopted by developing nations such as China and India.

But it is of obvious importance that any future framework be inclusive, bringing in the U.S. and involving fully key developing nations. There is no question that the international community has a long way to go if it is to minimize the risk of the most dangerous climate-change impacts occurring.


Amanda Griscom Little writes Grist's Muckraker column on environmental politics and policy and interviews green luminaries for the magazine. Her articles on energy and the environment have also appeared in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to The New York Times Magazine.


Informant: NHNE

1,325 photographs and 93 video clips of suspected abuse of detainees, 546 photographs of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, as well as 660 images of adult pornography, and 29 pictures of US troops engaged in simulated sex acts. Based on date stamps, all were recorded between October 18 and December 30, 2003, the same timeframe as the original scandal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706K.shtml

Die Bundesregierung hat innerhalb dieser Woche viele Hartz IV-Verschlechterungen durchge"zockt". Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, darauf zu reagieren?

Es ist sowieso eine Demonstration "von unten" gegen Zwangsumzüge in Köln durch die _Kölner_ Montagsdemo-Initiative am 18.2. , morgen, geplant. Außerdem ist in _Berlin_ eine Demonstration für den kommenden Samstag, 25.2. , geplant. Die Veranstalter beider Demos wollen ihre Demonstrationen jeweils im regionalen Rahmen in diesen Kontext stellen (weitere Informationen auf unserer Homepage). Längerfristig werden wir sehr massiven, koordinierten Widerstand auf die Beine bringen müssen.

Am 25. Februar wird in Berlin unser nächstes Arbeitstreffen stattfinden. Wir werden es als Workshop im Rahmen des SFiD (Sozialforum in Deutschland)-Treffens abhalten. Dieses wird von 11:00 bis ca. 16:30 Uhr dauern. Das Arbeitstreffen wiederum wird als Arbeitsgruppe "Soziales und Arbeit neu gestalten" gleichzeitig mit anderen AGs ungefähr von 13:30/14:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr stattfinden.

Die Proteste gegen die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie waren sehr stark, sowohl in Berlin (erwartet 30.000 Menschen, tatsächlich 40.000) als auch in Strasbourg (erwartet 3-5.000 Menschen, tatsächlich ca. 15.000 Menschen) am 11., am 14.2. noch einmal 45.000 in Strasbourg. Neben vielen Tausend Gewerkschafter/Innen, Globalisierungsgegner/Innen und anderen Demonstrant/Innen waren ein großer Anteil der Protestierenden auch in Berlin Menschen aus den Sozialprotesten, wenn auch viele Menschen von den Sozialprotesten zur Unterstützung des gemeinsamen Protestes Gewerkschaftsfahnen schwenkten. Wir bewerten es als positiv, dass die Sozialproteste eine gesellschaftliche Allianz von Erwerbstätigen und Erwerbslosen suchen. Diese Allianz zwischen Gewerkschaft und sozialer Bewegung ist weiterhin ein wichtiges Anliegen des ABSP. Sie muss von Gewerkschaften, Sozialprotesten und parlamentarischer Linken geschmiedet werden, um gemeinsam der Talfahrt von Löhnen, sozialer Sicherheit, Umwelt- und Arbeitsschutz Einhalt zu gebieten. Im Anhang findet Ihr die Stellungnahme des KoKreises zum Strasbourger Abstimmungsergebnis.

Viele Kräfte in Deutschland und auch der Koordinierungskreis des ABSP halten eine Großdemonstration noch vor der Sommerpause und vor der Fußball-WM für notwendig. Nachdem verschiedene Termine für die Demonstration in Frage kamen, wird nun für eine Großdemonstration am 3.6.2006 gegen die Große Koalition und gegen Hartz IV, "Gemeinsam gegen Massenentlassungen, Sozialabbau, innere Aufrüstung und Krieg", mobilisiert. Die Aufrufenden wollen mit der Demonstration die Gelegenheit wahrnehmen, viele verschiedene Kämpfe, die jeweils an ihren Orten, in Betrieben, auf den Ämtern und auf der Straße stattfinden, zusammen zu führen, um den gewaltigen Unwillen gegen die Politik der Großen Koalition sichtbar und Mut für weitere Kämpfe zu machen. Die bisherigen Unterstützer/Innen der Demonstration sind auf der Seite http://www.protest2006.de zu finden. Dort sollen sich bitte viele weitere Initiativen, Organisationen, Gliederungen und Einzelpersonen zur Unterstützung des Aufrufes eintragen. Ein Vorlauf wird die Demonstration am 18. März anlässlich 3 Jahre Irakkrieg und gegen den drohenden Krieg gegen den Iran sein. Zu dieser sind die Sozialproteste durch Friedensinitiativen eingeladen worden, sich mit einem eigenständigen sozialpolitischen Profil zu beteiligen. Wir hoffen, dass auch größere Verbände und Gewerkschaften die Gelegenheit bald wahrnehmen werden, die Interessen ihrer Mitglieder, ob es abhängig Beschäftigte, Selbständige, Rentner/Innen, Erwerbslose, Studierende, Ausländer oder Jugendliche seien, über die Grenzen von Bevölkerungsgruppen hinweg zu verteidigen, gemeinsam für eine soziale, geschlechtergerechte, friedliche und ökologische, zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft - gegen die unsoziale, zerstörerische und an den Interessen einer Minderheit orientierte Politik der Großen Koalition. Und wir laden sie alle herzlichst zu unser aller gemeinsamem Protest ein.

Aus: Bundesweites Rundmail des Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste am 17. Februar 2006

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23560 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23560


Infopool / metainfo hamburg http://www.hh-online.com

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23562 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23562


Infopool / metainfo hamburg http://www.hh-online.com

Neu auf der Sonderseite 'Kein Krieg!' in der Rubrik 'Drohender Kriegsschauplatz Iran':

* Die 'Welt', ein 'genialer Netzwerker' und der Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran

Anmerkungen zu einem Artikel in der 'Welt' "Gibt es eine Lösung ohne den Willen, bis zum äußersten zu gehen, bevor Kernwaffen von der iranischen Führung bestenfalls als Erpressungsmittel, aber sehr wahrscheinlich auch für einen militärischen Einsatz genutzt werden? Das Risiko einer militärischen Intervention könnte zwar Opfer in Größenordnungen des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs mit sich bringen, doch der Triumph des islamistischen Terrors würde an Gräßlichkeit alles überbieten, was uns die Weltgeschichte vermittelte..." Das lesen wir in der 'Welt'... http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/iran

* "Den Terroristen in den Regierungen unserer so genannten zivilisierten Welt das Handwerk legen"

Rede von Bernd Klagge am 8.2.2006 im Rahmen einer Mahnwache des Bonner Friedensbündnisses gegen Propaganda und Krieg und für Völkerfreundschaft

Schaurige Bilder gehen um die Welt. Bilder von fanatisierten Muslimen, die, so wird es mehr oder weniger offen ausgesprochen, zum Sturm auf die Errungenschaften der westlichen Zivilisation angetreten sind. Im Abendland schrillen alle Alarmglocken: Die Fundamente der westlichen Gesellschaft - Freiheit, Demokratie, Pluralismus, Aufklärung und Toleranz - seien einer zerstörerischen Bedrohung durch eine totalitäre Weltanschauung ausgesetzt, heißt die Schreckensbotschaft. Der finale Zusammenprall der Kulturen scheint unabwendbar... http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-iran-0002.html

* Was die Kriegspropagandisten von sich geben

Auszüge aus Reden von Angela Merkel, George W. Bush, John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, Donald Rumsfeld (Stand: 12.2.2006)

Dr. Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin, CDU-Vorsitzende, ehemals FDJ-Sekretärin für Agitation und Propaganda, am 4.2.2006 auf der Nato-Kriegstagung in München: "Wir haben aus unserer Geschichte gelernt..." Was heißt das? http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-iran-0003.html

und es gibt neue Reportagen:

* Europäische Gewerkschaften gegen die Bolkestein-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie

* Straßburg, 14.2.2006 (in 2 Teilen) Demonstrationen gegen die Bolkestein-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie

* Berlin und Straßburg, 11.2.2006 (in 4 Teilen) Streik gegen die AEG-Werksschließung - Aktionstag 'Weisse Ware'

* Nürnberg, 7.2.2006 Protestbesuch bei der Niederlassung des Gate-Gourmet-Konzerns in Frankfurt

* Frankfurt, 4.2.2006 Protest gegen die Nato-Kriegstagung

* München, 31.1. bis 4.2.2006 (in 6 Teilen) Streiktag 119 bei Gate-Gourmet mit Protesten anläßlich der Verhandlungen im Hotel Lindner

* Düsseldorf/Ratingen, 2.2.2006 Nach AEG-Electrolux Nürnberg - unbefristeter Streik bei Electrolux Dormagen

* Dormagen, 30.1.2006 Protest gegen Massenentlassungen bei Hoesch Spundwand und Profil (HSP)

* Dortmund, 30.1.2006 Gedenkaktion zur Deportation jüdischer Kinder durch die Reichsbahn - am Kölner Hauptbahnhof anläßlich des Tags der Befreiung von Auschwitz

* Köln, 28.1.2006 Nazi-Aufmarsch und der Protest dagegen

* Dortmund, 28.1.2006 Tag 7 des unbefristeten Streiks gegen die geplante Stilllegung des AEG-Werks und Streikfest

Nürnberg, 27.1.2006

Diese und weitere Reportagen sind zu finden unter: http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/reportage

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Die Bilder können für nicht kommerzielle Zwecke (je nach Etat) auch kostenlos verwendet werden, für Flugblätter, Zeitungen, Internet,... (bei Autorenangabe 'arbeiterfotografie.com' und Mitteilung über die Verwendung bzw. Zusendung eines Belegexemplars).


Mit besten Grüßen

Anneliese Fikentscher und Andreas Neumann


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Tagebuch Iran

Neue Notizen aus dem Kontext des drohenden Krieges gegen den Iran

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-iran-0000.html
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-iran-0025.html

Strike the Root
by Mark Davis

02/16/06

If we sit idly by as the war planners 'manage information' with the goal of influencing a docile population to forego more treasure and sacrifice more children to their schemes of world domination then we will soon meet our fate. Speak the truth, for it is the only thing that will set us free from the war planners...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/davis/davis3.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Pointing the finger

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

02/16/06

A former Capitol Hill lawyer and White House official says Congress, bureaucrats and activist judges are destroying American's constitutional liberties. In his new book, Warriors for the West: Fighting Bureaucrats, Radical Groups, and Liberal Judges on America's Frontier, author William Perry Pendley reveals the inside truth about government bureaucracy and its stranglehold on Americans' constitutional liberties and the rule of law...

http://tinyurl.com/9d8t4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

FreedomWorks
by Richard W. Rahn

02/16/06

As you read this commentary, a highly predictable scandal is developing that may embarrass leaders, including President Bush, British Prime Minister Blair, and other heads of government, severely damage the reputations, or worse, of many bureaucrats, and cost taxpayers billions. A summit meeting of the leaders of the 'G8' nations (U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, and Canada) was held last July in Gleneagles, Scotland. The major decision of the summit, widely applauded by the world's press, was to write off the debts of many highly indebted poor countries, most of which are in Africa...

http://tinyurl.com/73jdl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Frontiers of Freedom
by Mike Burleson

02/17/06

We should have seen the end of our own democratic form of government coming, by observing the downfall of the ancient republics. Like our own Congress in modern times, the elected legislatures of Greece and Rome were racked by scandal and corruptions in their latter days, making them increasingly unable to perform their duties to the public. The people then turned to powerful and charismatic individuals to bring about change, and so it was in our day...

http://tinyurl.com/ahhqp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

UMTS reizt kaum
http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel/20130

UMTS kaum genutzt
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69740

UMTS-INTERESSE bleibt eher gering
http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200104,204348,1036810/SH/0/depot/0/

http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15496.html
http://openpr.com/news/5105

For immediate press release

The attached letter has been just sent to his majesty the Pope in the Vatican, Italy. We ask the international press agencies to publish this information and be in contact with us, with regard to an unprecedanted crime against humanity. We are asking the help of the Pope to interfer in the issue after 3 petitions were already sent to the World Health Organization, and to the UN secretary Mr. Kofi Anan.

We call the World Health Organization head of Radiation department, Dr. Michael Repacholi, to be tested with a lie detector for bribe. Dr. Repacholi will be on the 23.2.06 in Benevenetto, Italy and we call the Italian Authorities to arrest him according to the details in the letter, and start an international investigation. We are going to act at any way possible until we get what we want.

Please read the following letter and be warned that you, your loved ones and whole nations are going through an unprecendanted assault with high price.

A copy of this letter is going to be sent to the German Prime Minister, who is a strong supporter of recognizing the Holocaust. We hope that she will be sensitive to the current Holocaust too, which strongly attacks in Germany as well.

http://tinyurl.com/c594y

In addition to the attached letter, we offer the international agencies the following documents by request:

1) The 3 petitions sent to the WHO and to Kofi Anan (part of them are availble in French as well).

2) A recent radio show in Italy (in Italian) in which the manager of a public organization revealed the bribe at the world health organization, after it was first reported by a news service on radiation.

3) A health warning from the Health department in Salzburg.

4) German physicians in quantities warings (Freiburg Appeal).

5) All the relevant details on how to reach Dr. Repacholi on the 23.2.06 in Benevenetto.


Sincerely yours in health,
Chasing after Justice Association on behalf of Michael Raz, an official investigator.

Raz Investigations
Raz_m1 @ bezeqint.net



Per immediato comunicato stampa: un olocausto sopravvissuto ammonisce in previsione di un secondo olocausto, e manda a chiamare il Papa a partecipare


Cari Tutti,

La lettera allegata è stata appena spedita alla Sua Maestà il Papa nel Vaticano, Italia.

Noi chiediamo alle agenzie di stampa internazionali di pubblicare queste informazioni ed essere in contatto con noi, con riguardo ad un crimine che non ha precedenti nei confronti dell'umanità. Noi stiamo chiedendo l'aiuto del Papa a partecipare nel problema dopo 3 petizioni che furono già spedite all' O M S, ed al segretario dell' ONU Kofi Annan.

Noi invochiamo che il responsabile dell' Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità del reparto di Radiazione, Dott. Michael Repacholi, sia esaminato con una macchina della verità per causa del danaro. Dott. Repacholi sarà il 23.2.06 a Benevento, Italia, e noi chiamiamo le Autorità italiane per farlo arrestare secondo i dettagli nella lettera, ed avviamo un'inchiesta internazionale. Noi agiremo in qualsiasi modo possibile finché non abbiamo scoperto ciò che noi cerchiamo.

Per favore legga la lettera seguente e sia avvertito che Lei, i Suoi amati e le nazioni intere sono dirette completamente verso una rovina ad un prezzo alto senza precedenti.

Una copia di questa lettera andrà spedita al Primo Ministro tedesco, il quale è un sostenitore forte nel riconoscervi l'Olocausto. Noi confidiamo che anche lei sarà sensibile all'Olocausto corrente, che fortemente attacca così bene in Germania.

Oltre alla lettera allegata, noi offriamo alle agenzie internazionali a richiesta i documenti seguenti:

1) le 3 petizioni spedite all'OMS e a Kofi Annan. (parte di esse sono disponibili in francese)

2) Una recente radiotrasmissione in Italia (in italiano) nella quale il direttore di un'organizzazione pubblica( Antonio Gagliardi a Radio Popolare Network di Venezia) rivelò il danaro all'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, dopo che furono riportate notizie da un servizio su radiazione prima.

3) Un avvertimento su salute dal reparto di Salute in Salszburg.

4) Tanti medici tedeschi allarmati (Appello di Freiburg).

5) Tutti i dettagli attinenti su come raggiungere il Dott. Repacholi il 23.2.06 a Benevento.

Distinti saluti in salute, seguendo dopo l'Associazione di Giustizia in favore di Michael Raz, un investigatore ufficiale.

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Antonio Gagliardi, who fights against the Electropollution in Italy sent me several emails explaining what had happened, but since he doesn't speak English and uses a translation programme to convert Italian into English, and since the conversion to English created texts which were not clear I asked for more clarifications. Slowy I gathered more details and summerized it here. In addition I attach the first email that arrived to me on the subject from Antonio, which illustrates what happened there.

Iris.

Antonio Gagliardi, an activist against EMF-R pollution, was not allowed to enter inside the conference in Italy, which was free for the public. Gagliardi was interviewed on the Italian radio about a week before the conference and among the rest of things mentioned the sum of $150,000 a year that Repacholi receives from the cellular companies (according to the Industry itself, as reported by MicrowaveNews.COM) This is the link to the interview (in italian). http://www.radiobase.net/index.php?id=21,215,0,0,1,0

Antonio Gagliardi translated Michael Raz's letter to the pope into Italian and distributed it to the Italian press. It turned out that someone thought he should be punished and not be allowed to enter to the conference, because he translated and distributed this letter. When he came to the workshop, on the 23.2.06 in order to listen to Repacholi, he noticed Repacholi was not in the room. Then he was taken outside and was told to present "a pass" - a confirmation that he was on the guests list, and allowed to enter to the workshop, but as far as Antonio knew, the conference was free for the public and he didn't remember anyone mentioned any need for a pass to enter. An police inspector asked what had happened, and Antonio replied that he was not allowed to enter and then he heard one of the employees tell the inspector- "we were told that it is a dangerous subject". Antonio took the advantage of the conference break and told about it to Dr. Marinelli, who was surprised from what he heard and went to speak to Dr. L. Giuliani, the person who was responsible for the organization of the workshop. The inspector told Antonio that for that day (23.2) he couldn't receive a pass but for the next they would prepare one for him. Then F. De Lorenzo saw Antonio, he was surprised that A' was not inside, and went to speak to Dr. Giuliani, and then Lorenzo came to speak in private with Antonio. He told him: "You have done a big mistake, you launched [on line] a threat letter of someone you don't know, and you translated it. Repacholi then learnt about this letter and he didn't come because he was afraid, and we wanted the opportunity to meet him and it made Giuliani very angry. If you want to talk to him [Giuliani] then wait one moment". Antonio waited until he met Giuliani who refused to talk to him, telling him "you made a big mistake and do not come back even in the next days because this conference doesn't interest you" and went away with the policeman.

----- Original Message -----

From: elettrosmogvolturino
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: Fw: Repacholi not at conference?

Yesterday I/you/they have gone to Benevento and in fact Repacholi was not in the room. In fact the letter of Michael Raz, translated also in Italian, I have launched her in my mailing-list over that to organs of press also to authoritative characters. And because of this you/he/she has been prevented me from entering. Despite I insisted because it dealt with a public conference and with scientists in room that you/they knew me. The curious fact is that an inspector of police arrives with a colleague that in to ask explanations to a girl of the organization this you/he/she has said": We have not made him enter because you/they have told us". Therefore who beats for the rights of the humanity it is subject dangerous and who beats for damaging the humanity? At the end I have attended the person responsible of the organization dott. L. Giuliani, with which I/you/they have always been in good relationships and I discover that you/he/she had been really him to prevent my entry telling me: You have done " Her big and not to even come in the next days", getting further himself/herself/itself with the inspector of police.

Regards Antonio Gagliardi- Elettrosmog Volturino

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Prof Goldsmith about Dr. Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1599006/

»Tote können nicht wählen«

„Während sich eine internationale Geberkonferenz in Brüssel bemühte, insgesamt 561 Millionen Euro für Kongo aufzubringen, beriet die Europäische Union gestern über die umstrittene Entsendung von EU-Soldaten…“ Artikel von Olaf Standke in Neues Deutschland vom 15.02.2006 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=85724&IDC=16


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Februar 2006

Artikel von Michael Buestrich, erschienen in Sozial extra vom April 2005
(pdf) – wir danken der Redaktion für die Freigabe! http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/buestrich.pdf

Aus dem Text: „ … Die geschilderten Veränderungen lassen den Schluss zu, dass ihr Selbstverständnis als „Agenturen des Gemeinwohls“ gerade einen neuen, dem Zeitgeist der ökonomischen Standortpflege entsprechenden Inhalt bekommt, wenn sie sich nun aktiv dazu bekennen, aus dem forcierten Einsatz von Niedriglohnkräften im Sozialbereich wirtschaftliche Vorteile erzielen zu wollen beziehungsweise unter dem herrschenden Kostendiktat erzielen zu müssen. Aber selbst wenn die Wohlfahrtsverbände sich diesen Beitrag als die den wirtschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Umständen angemessene „moderne Form sozialen Engagements“ einleuchten lassen: Faktisch tragen sie damit zur Etablierung gerade der Verhältnisse bei, die sie bisher zumindest auf Verbandsebene stets als „unsozial“ gebrandmarkt und zugleich als legitimatorischen Ausgangspunkt ihre Arbeit verstanden haben. Der eingangs formulierte Vorwurf an die Wohlfahrtsverbände, sie seien passive „Nutznießer der Grausamkeiten“, ist insofern zu erweitern, als ihre aktive Rolle bei der Umsetzung von „Hartz IV“ über ein bloßes Profitieren hinausgeht.“


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Februar 2006

Ein-Euro-Jobs auf Rügen

Die Vogelgrippe hat die Insel Rügen unvorbereitet getroffen. Die Behörden sind überlastet, es fehlt an Helfern zum Einsammeln der Kadaver. Der Landkreis fand eine unkomplizierte Lösung - und bat Arbeitslose um Mithilfe. Artikel von Hasnain Kazim beim Spiegel online vom 16. Februar 2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,401372,00.html

Aus dem Text: „"… Die Leute wurden von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit abgezogen und für die dringend benötigte Hilfe eingesetzt." Brunke betonte, dass die Erwerbslosen - die meisten von ihnen Langzeitarbeitslose - freiwillig zugesagt hätten. "Es wurde niemand gezwungen." Der Landkreis Rügen sorgte für die benötigte Schutzbekleidung…“

Siehe dazu auch:

Vogelgrippe und die Ein-Euro-Jobs

„Nachdem die Vogelgrippe auf Rügen angekommen ist, werden dort Ein-Euro-Jobber zur Kadaverbeseitigung eingesetzt --- in völlig unzureichender Schutzkleidung…“ Bericht von „aufmerksame Leserin“ vom 17.02.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/02/139224.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Februar 2006

ver.di beklagt «rechtswidrige Einsätze» in Baden-Württemberg - Todesfall in Heidenheim

„Den Streik im öffentlichen Dienst sehen die Arbeitgeber in Baden-Württemberg inzwischen offenbar als eine Art Foul an: «Wenn uns jemand gegen das Schienbein tritt, dürfen wir Schienbeinschützer anziehen«, sagt Andreas Stein, stellvertretender Hauptgeschäftsführer des Kommunalen Arbeitgeberverbands Baden-Württemberg (KAV) in Stuttgart. Er rechtfertigt damit die Tatsache, dass in den bisherigen zwei Streikwochen mehrere Städte auf Ein-Euro-Jobber, Leiharbeiter und ABM-Kräfte zurückgegriffen haben, um vor allem die Ausfälle bei der Straßenreinigung zu kompensieren…“ ddp-Meldung vom 17. Februar 2006 http://de.biz.yahoo.com/17022006/336/euro-jobber-laquo-streikbrecher-raquo-ver-di-laquo-rechtswidrige-einsaetze.html

Aus dem Text: „… In Karlsruhe zum Beispiel seien seit Streikbeginn drei Ein-Euro-Jobber und zehn ABM-Kräfte für »mehr Tätigkeiten« bei der Straßenreinigung eingesetzt worden als sie normalerweise machen, sagt der örtliche ver.di-Geschäftsführer Jürgen Ziegler. (…) Einen dramatischen Zwischenfall gab es in Heidenheim bei Ulm. Dort fiel am Montag ein Ein-Euro-Jobber während der Straßenreinigung tot um, offenbar wegen Herzversagens. Nach Angaben der Stadt sollte der seit Oktober bei der Kommune eingesetzte 57-jährige Arbeitslose den Müll an einem Busbahnhof einsammeln, unter anderem mit einem Greifer. Die Geschäftsführerin des ver.di-Bezirks Ostwürttemberg-Ulm, Maria Winkler, sagt allerdings, er habe zusätzlich Schneeräumen und dabei »schwer arbeiten« müssen. Von der Arbeitsagentur sei der 57-Jährige aber »nicht zum Schneeräumen, sondern nur für die zusätzliche Leerung von Papierkörben« eingeteilt worden, betont Winkler…“


1-Euro-Jobber als Streikbrecher gegen VERDI

„Osnabrück: Hartz-IV-Empfänger als 1-Euro-Streikbrecher. Unter massivem Polizeieinsatz gegen Verdi-Streikposten eingesetzt. Stadt Osnabrück droht: "Wenn ihr nicht als Streikbrecher ordentlich arbeitet, melden wir das dem Arbeitsamt." Osnabrücker Geschäfte belohnen Streikbrecher mit Warengutscheinen…“ Artikel von Richard Grove vom 16.02.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/02/139155.shtml

Aus dem Text: „… Die Polizei machte den gepressten Streikbrechern den Weg zur Osnabrücker Abfallsammelstelle frei, in dem sie brutal gegen die Verdi-Streikposten vorging, die das Werkstor mit Müllwagen und einer Menschenkette blockierten. Dabei verdrehte die Polizei Gewerkschaftern Gelenke und Köpfe, Megafone wurden beschlagnahmt. Gegen eine Streikposten erstatteten die Beamten Anzeige wegen Widerstandes gegen die Staatsgewalt. Dem Osnabrücker Verdi-Bezirksgeschäftsführer Jürgen Humer drohte die Polizei mit "Schutzhaft". Auf einer Protestkundgebung erinnerten Gewerkschafter in Redebeiträgen daran, dass ein derartiger Polizeieinsatz gegen organisierte Arbeiter in Osnabrück zuletzt anläßlich der Machtergreifung der Nazis stattfand…“

Siehe dazu auch ein Tondokument bei ver.di Osnabrück (Quelle: NDR 1 Niedersachsen, 13.02.2006) http://stream.ndr.de/bb/redirect.lsc?stream=ndr/video/ndr/nds/20060213_streik_osna.rm&content=content&media=rm


Streik in Zeiten von 1-Euro-Jobs

Kommentar zu aktuellen Streiks im Öffentlichen Dienst von Mag Wompel auf Grundlage von Leserzuschriften
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/erfahrung/streikbruch.html


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Februar 2006

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Streik läuft unvermindert weiter. Verschärfung droht bei Streikbrechereinsatz

Aus der Presseinformation von ver.di Baden-Württemberg vom 21.02.2006: „…In Städten wie Freiburg, wo die Arbeitgeber Leiharbeiter oder Privatfirmen bei der Müllentsorgung eingesetzt haben, hat ver.di unverzüglich mit einer Streikausweitung reagiert und bisher nicht betroffene Bereiche in den Arbeitskampf einbezogen. "Wer Notdienstvereinbarungen auszuhebeln sucht, wird auf massiven Widerstand treffen", so ein ver.di-Sprecher…“


Der Fall Müllentsorgung in Hamburg

Ausstand XXL. Gewerkschaften des öffentlichen Dienstes weiten Arbeitskampf aus: Polizei und Lehrer nun auch dabei. Streit um Aussperrung und Ein-Euro-Jobber

Artikel von Kai von Appen in der taz Hamburg vom 22.2.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/02/22/a0043.1/text

Aus dem Text: „…Ein Nachspiel könnte dagegen der Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Jobbern zur Müllbeseitigung in der City haben. Da die städtische Arge für den Einsatz dieser Gruppe verantwortlich ist, hat die Stadt laut DGB-Chef Erhard Pumm nicht nur gegen das Sozialgesetzbuch verstoßen, sondern begeht Verfassungsbruch: indem sie die staatliche Neutralitätspflicht in Tarifkonflikten verletzt…“

Siehe dazu:

B&B setzt „Ein-Euro-JobberInnen“ als Streikbrecher ein. AktivistInnen besuchen spontan den „City-Service“ im Nagelsweg

„Aufgeschreckt durch die Presseberichterstattung zum Einsatz von „Ein-Euro-JobberInnen“ zur Müll-Beseitigung während des ver.di Streiks, besuchten heute 8-10 AktivistInnen des Ein-Euro-Bündnisses Hamburg die Geschäftstelle des „City-Services“ von „Beschäftigung & Bildung e.V.“
(B&B). Dort brachten sie dem verantwortlichen Leiter Maik Schwartau und den anwesenden Ein-Euro-JobberInnen ihre Empörung über die Streikbrechertätigkeit in der City zum Ausdruck und forderten die sofortige Einstellung aller Aktivitäten in der Innenstadt…“ Pressemitteilung der Sozialpolitischen Opposition Hamburg vom 21.2.06 zum Einsatz von 1-Euro-PflichtarbeiterInnen als StreikberecherInnen (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/tarif06/streikbruch_hh.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Februar 2006

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Der Fall Müllentsorgung in Hamburg

Erwerbslose zum Streikbruch verpflichtet. In Hamburg werden Ein-Euro-Jobber zum Müllsammeln eingesetzt. Scharfe Kritik von ver.di

„Auch in Hamburg werden seit Anfang dieser Woche Ein-Euro-Jobber als Streikbrecher eingesetzt. Sie müssen in der Innenstadt die Abfalleimer leeren oder den Müll aufsammeln, der dort aufgrund des Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst auf den Straßen liegenbleibt. Während die Geschäftsleute dies begrüßen, forderte die Gewerkschaft ver.di den sofortigen Stopp dieses »staatlich subventionierten Streikbruchs«. Die Streikbrecher kommen vom City-Service, einem Kooperationsprojekt des Trägers »Beschäftigung und Bildung« (B & B), das dieser vor einigen Jahren gemeinsam mit Kaufhausmanagern aus der Taufe hob…“ Artikel von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 23.02.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/02-23/043.php

Aus dem Text: „…Inzwischen ist der Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Jobbern auf weitere Hamburger Stadtteile wie Wilhelmsburg ausgeweitet worden. Dort haben am Mittwoch morgen rund 50 Menschen Müll eingesammelt und abtransportiert. Als Träger der Beschäftigungsmaßnahme fungierte nach Aussage der Arbeitenden das zur evangelischen Kirche gehörende Deichhaus….“


Ein Euro Job Spaziergang und Streikbrecher in Bahrenfeld [Hamburg]. Ein Euro Jobber/innen und deren Einsatz als Streikbrecher.

Bericht mit Bildern von Tom, Alice und Pia. vom 22.02.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/02/139738.shtml


Zitat des Tages

“Nachdem Gott die Klapperschlange, die Kröte und den Vampir geschaffen hatte, blieb ihm noch etwas abscheuliche Substanz übrig, und daraus machte er einen Streikbrecher. Ein Streikbrecher ist ein aufrechtgehender Zweibeiner mit einer Korkenzieherseele, einem Sumpfhirn und einer Rückgratkombination aus Kleister und Gallert. Wo andere das Herz haben, trägt er eine Geschwulst räudiger Prinzipien…“ Jack London: Der Streikbrecher


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Februar 2006

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Ein-Euro-Reservearmee: Jenseits des geltenden Rechts versuchen die öffentlichen Arbeitgeber, »Billigjobber« zum Streikbruch einzusetzen

Artikel von Sebastian Gerhardt in junge Welt vom 25.02.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/02-25/010.php

Aus dem Text: „Seit Mitte Februar häufen sich die Nachrichten aus verschiedenen Städten, daß Beschäftigte in den sogenannten Ein-Euro-»Jobs«, den Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung für ALG-II-Empfänger, zum organisierten Streikbruch eingesetzt werden: Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Ulm, Hamburg und andere mehr. In Heidenheim bei Ulm starb ein 57jähriger ALG-II-Empfänger bei einem solchen Einsatz an Herzversagen. Die Arbeitsaufgaben sind vielfältig, sie reichen vom Schneeschippen, Müllsammeln und Leeren der städtischen Papierkörbe bis zum Einsatz in Fahrzeugen der Stadtreinigung in Osnabrück, der mit Polizeischutz durchgesetzt wurde….“


»Richtig, daß Ihr Euch wehrt!« Streik in Osnabrück. Ein Gespräch mit Martina Kranke (ver.di)

Interview von Wolfgang Pomrehn in junge Welt vom 25.02.2006 mit Martina Kranke, Sekretärin für den Fachbereich Gemeinden bei der Vereinigten Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di im Bezirk Osnabrück-Emsland http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/02-25/012.php

Aus dem Text: „ Frage: Es heißt, im Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb seien auch Ein-Euro-Jobber eingesetzt worden. Antwort: Der Personalratsvorsitzende, der ja die Festangestellten kennt, meint, er habe Ein-Euro-Jobber gesehen, als die Fahrzeuge durchs Tor fuhren. Das Problem ist, daß wir beim Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb schlecht nachvollziehen können, wie viele Ein-Euro-Jobber eingesetzt werden. Die Fahrzeuge sind nicht mehr auf dem Betriebsgelände, sondern werden von den Arbeitenden teilweise mit nach Hause genommen. Auch die Einteilung der Ein-Euro-Jobber erfolgt nicht im Betrieb. Wir versuchen daher, Kontakte zu den Betroffenen aufzubauen…“


Aus: LabourNet, 27. Februar 2006

„Mit »Feizügigkeit der Dienstleistungen« wird das Herkunftslandprinzip in der gestern verabschiedeten Dienstleistungsrichtlinie nun umschrieben. Die darin verankerte EU-Entsenderichtlinie werde vor Lohn- und Sozialdumping bewahren, versuchen die Befürworter die Kritiker zu beschwichtigen. Doch die Entsenderichtlinie definiert minimale Standards nur bei gesetzlich festgeschriebene Mindestlöhnen und Höchstarbeitszeiten. Also wird die Dienstleistungsrichtlinie den Druck auf Tariflöhne überall in Europa erhöhen. Noch schlimmer sieht es in den Ländern aus, die nicht einmal über einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn verfügen – wie zum Beispiel Schweden…“ Kommentar von Gerhard Klas in junge Welt vom 17.2.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/02-17/025.php


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Februar 2006

PETER WALSH

17 February 2006 09:54

Families have been urged to sign a petition against a mobile phone mast which could be built just metres way from a site planned for a 420-pupil primary school.

Phone company O2 has submitted plans for a 12.5 metre mast with ground-based equipment on Dussindale Drive, Thorpe St Andrew.

But the site is close to a plot of land at Vane Close, off Dussindale Drive, earmarked as the site for a new £4 million primary school.

Roy Francis, 52, from Vane Close, said: “There's a meeting with regards to the school next Wednesday and there will be a petition to sign at that meeting,” said Mr Francis, who works as an aircraft engineer.

“It's the public's opportunity to stop something in its tracks. It's better to protest before the event than after,” he said.

“The catchment of pupils for the new school will be Thorpe St Andrew, not just Dussindale.”

Mr Francis said he would be taking the petition house to house in the next few days in order to get support from those who could not attend the meeting.

But he said he hoped the application would be thrown out without the need for a petition.

“I was expecting it to get quashed,” he said. “They said Thorpe St Andrew High School is the nearest school. If that was the logic that they've applied they must be oblivious to the fact they are going to build a school on that site.”

Experts have warned of a radiation risk to the brains of young children caused by radiowaves from mobile phone technology, with the signal strongest between 50 and 200 metres from the masts.

The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts until it is proved they are safe through our Put Masts on Hold campaign.

Dr Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, and supporter of our campaign, called on people to sign the petition: “It should be compulsory to sign it - the young people as well and the children who will be going to the school.”

Neil Mclennan of Cavalier Close, just metres from the proposed mast site, said: “The jury is still out, but why go to that risk when it seems that primary children are the most susceptible to it.”

Brian Hurrell, 51, who has lived in Cavalier Close since 2001, said: “I'm not saying I'm against mobile phone masts - there's still a lot of work to be done to prove it has any effects - but it just seems strange, in light of the situation at the moment, that you would get a mast in that particular place.”

Steven Reilly, spokesman for Norfolk County Council, which is behind the plans for the new school, said: “While current advice suggests that there is no evidence of health effects from mobile phone masts, we recognise that this remains an area of concern for some people.

“At this stage there is a shadow governing body for the new school and they may wish to consider this application. As with any planning application, local people and organisations can make their views known to Broadland Council.”

A spokesman for O2 said it did not agree with the view that mobile phone masts held any risk to the public at all and would not be withdrawing the application.

“We've put in the planning application and if local people are opposed to it they've got a perfect right to do that. They have a right to go along to the planning committee and voice that.”

Ü What do you think of the plans? Write to Evening News Letters, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich, NR1 1RE, email eveningnewsletters @archant.co.uk or visit www.eveningnews24.co.uk/forums


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http://tinyurl.com/cnbop

Americans are giving up their civil liberties because they fear terrorist attacks. All of the terrorists in the world cannot do America the damage it has already suffered from offshore outsourcing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11950.htm

The Air Force has put out a “Prompt Global Strike Request for Information,” beginning the process of examining alternatives for new weapons capable of hitting targets anywhere on earth.

http://tinyurl.com/d4gge


From Information Clearing House

In a neat bit of circular reasoning, the Bush administration is proposing to sell parts of America's national forests in order to save them.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021606EB.shtml

A group of scientific advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a recommendation that a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and other nonstick and stain-resistant products should be considered a likely carcinogen.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021606EA.shtml

ASL en a été informée par le canal de la Gendarmerie Nationale. ASL doit certainement déranger Orange dans un de ses documents !. ASL commence à avoir quelques renseignements, mais nous ne pouvons pas en dire plus actuellement. Ce 22 Février 2006, le Conseil d'Administration d'ASL va se réunir pour prendre une délibération destinée à mandater officiellement une personne du Conseil d'Administration afin que celle-ci prenne connaissance du dossier et soit auditionnée par les enquêteurs de la Gendarmerie Nationale qui instruisent la plainte sur commission rogatoire. Mais ASL se doute de quel article il s'agit, mais actuellement elle n'en a pas la certitude. ASL saura la semaine prochaine si ses doutes sont confirmés. ASL pense qu'Orange aurait mieux fait de bien réfléchir, et de faire quelques investigations élémentaires de bases sur la finalité cet article. En effet cet article a été écrit par des jeunes et publié sur le site d'ASL il y a de cela plusieurs mois, suite à une demande d'information venant d'une Universitaire de haut niveau dans la communication, ceci pour une destination précise, ceci sera abondamment développée la semaine prochaine. De plus l' article en question qui est très pertinent sur Orange risque maintenant d'être encore plus médiatisé. Les jeunes se sont exprimés directement à leurs manières en disant leurs quatre vérités à Orange sans arrière pensée !. Nous supposons que c'est ce langage direct qui n'a pas plus à Orange. Depuis hier, ASL a analysé cet article : Pour ASL toutes les affirmations sont exactes. Dés qu'il y aura confirmation sur l'article en question, ASL communiquera plus et il y aura certainement des surprises . . .

Le jour où le dialogue d'ASL avec Orange ne sera plus un dialogue de sourds, un grand pas sera franchi. ASL demande une nouvelle fois à Orange de mettre sa communication en adéquation avec ses actes. Le bureau de CA d'ASL.

D'autre part, Orange serait bien inspirée d'écouter humblement et d'analyser au deuxième degré ce qu'a déclaré lors de sa conférence de presse du 14 Février 2006 au journal télévisé de France 2 Monsieur Didier Lombard, le Président Directeur Général du groupe France Télécom : " . . . France Télécom va supprimer 17 000 postes d'ici 2008 . . . mais va embaucher 6000 jeunes « nouveaux talents »".

Reportage JT sur la Conférence de Presse du 14 Février 2006 de Didier Lombard, PDG de France Télécom: L’opérateur historique admet être dépassé par la concurrence, un changement de stratégie s’impose … France Télécom va supprimer 17 000 postes, d'ici 2008 ... mais va embaucher 6000 « nouveaux talents ». Les commentaires.

Comment obtenir un PASS : http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=filmsreports

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_eu/russia_iran


Informant: Kev Hall

Move On Org is organizing a day of protests of the NSA Wiretapping program, February 22, WEDNESDAY....

http://political.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=34&id=6834-1800471-11sFYg82r170jGqMdzbcAA&t=1

Go to the above webpage to either find an existing protest or to organize your own in your area.

The below webpage will give you a petition/letter to your Senators opposing the wiretap program:

http://political.moveon.org/ruleoflaw/?id=...gesHdtu8h5Q&t=1


http://www.thesoapboxroadshow.com

http://www.bandofbrothers2006.org

(Website about Veterans who are running for Congress in 2006 as Democrats)

http://www.actblue.com/directory/federal


Informant: R Hubble

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345926.ece



GREENLAND ICE LOSS DOUBLES IN PAST DECADE, RAISING SEA LEVEL FASTER
NASA News Release
February 16, 2006

http://www.nasa.gov/home

The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study.

The study will be published tomorrow in the journal Science. It concludes the changes to Greenland's glaciers in the past decade are widespread, large and sustained over time. They are progressively affecting the entire ice sheet and increasing its contribution to global sea level rise.

Researchers Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Pannir Kanagaratnam of the University of Kansas Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Lawrence, used data from Canadian and European satellites. They conducted a nearly comprehensive survey of Greenland glacial ice discharge rates at different times during the past 10 years.

"The Greenland ice sheet's contribution to sea level is an issue of considerable societal and scientific importance," Rignot said. "These findings call into question predictions of the future of Greenland in a warmer climate from computer models that do not include variations in glacier flow as a component of change. Actual changes will likely be much larger than predicted by these models."

The evolution of Greenland's ice sheet is being driven by several factors. These include accumulation of snow in its interior, which adds mass and lowers sea level; melting of ice along its edges, which decreases mass and raises sea level; and the flow of ice into the sea from outlet glaciers along its edges, which also decreases mass and raises sea level. This study focuses on the least well known component of change, which is glacial ice flow. Its results are combined with estimates of changes in snow accumulation and ice melt from an independent study to determine the total change in mass of the Greenland ice sheet.

Rignot said this study offers a comprehensive assessment of the role of enhanced glacier flow, whereas prior studies of this nature had significant coverage gaps. Estimates of mass loss from areas without coverage relied upon models that assumed no change in ice flow rates over time. The researchers theorized if glacier acceleration is an important factor in the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet, its contribution to sea level rise was being underestimated.

To test this theory, the scientists measured ice velocity with interferometric synthetic-aperture radar data collected by the European Space Agency's Earth Remote Sensing Satellites 1 and 2 in 1996; the Canadian Space Agency's Radarsat-1 in 2000 and 2005; and the European Space Agency's Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar in 2005. They combined the ice velocity data with ice sheet thickness data from airborne measurements made between 1997 and 2005, covering almost Greenland's entire coast, to calculate the volumes of ice transported to the ocean by glaciers and how these volumes changed over time. The glaciers surveyed by those satellite and airborne instrument data drain a sector encompassing nearly 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles), or 75 percent of the Greenland ice sheet total area.

From 1996 to 2000, widespread glacial acceleration was found at latitudes below 66 degrees north. This acceleration extended to 70 degrees north by 2005. The researchers estimated the ice mass loss resulting from enhanced glacier flow increased from 63 cubic kilometers in 1996 to 162 cubic kilometers in 2005. Combined with the increase in ice melt and in snow accumulation over that same time period, they determined the total ice loss from the ice sheet increased from 96 cubic kilometers in 1996 to 220 cubic kilometers in 2005. To put this into perspective, a cubic kilometer is one trillion liters (approximately 264 billion gallons of water), about a quarter more than Los Angeles uses in one year.

Glacier acceleration has been the dominant mode of mass loss of the ice sheet in the last decade. From 1996 to 2000, the largest acceleration and mass loss came from southeast Greenland. From 2000 to 2005, the trend extended to include central east and west Greenland.

"In the future, as warming around Greenland progresses further north, we expect additional losses from northwest Greenland glaciers, which will then increase Greenland's contribution to sea level rise," Rignot said.

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home

For University of Kansas Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets information, visit:

http://www.cresis.ku.edu/flashindex.htm


Informant: NHNE

"Das Risiko der Übertragung des Vogelgrippevirus durch Zugvögel ist nach Expertenmeinung bisher noch völlig unklar. 'Wir brauchen dringend Erkenntnisse darüber, was Wildvögel tun, wenn sie erkranken', sagte der Leiter der Vogelwarte Radolfzell des Max-Planck-Instituts für Ornithologie, Wolfgang Fiedler, am Mittwoch. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D47267 DPA, 25.01.2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

(ir) In einem Schul-Distrikt des US-Bundesstaates Wisconsin (an der Grenze zu Kanada) wurden seit Mitte November 2005 bei 44 Kindern die Windpocken festgestellt. Von diesen 44 waren 42 geimpft und nur zwei Kinder ungeimpft gewesen. Offiziellen Stellen zufolge ist dies der bisher größte Ausbruch unter geimpften Kindern in Wisconsin. Da die Kinder Impfstoffe verschiedener Hersteller erhalten hatten, komme eine schadhafte Impfcharge als Ursache für diesen Impfdurchbruch kaum in Frage.

Quelle (englisch): http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/13671743.htm
Duluth News Tribune, 20. Jan. 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

Seltenheitswert: ausgewogene Sendung im Bayerischen Fernsehen

Am Montag, den 23. Jan. 2006, kam brachte die Sendung "Elternsprechstunde" auch einen Beitrag über Impfungen. Neben ausgesprochenen Impfbefürwortern kamen auch Dr. Rabe, ein Kinderarzt aus München, der sich für individuelle Impfentscheidungen ausspricht und Angelika Kögel-Schauz, Mutter eines impfgeschädigten Kindes und Vorsitzende von "Eltern für Impfaufklärung" zu Wort. Das gibt es selten, dass beide Seiten ihre Stellungnahmen abgeben und dem Zuschauer das Denken von der Redaktion nicht vollständig abgenommen wird. Weiter so!

Die Webseite zur Sendung: http://www.br-online.de/alpha/elternsprechstunde/impfen.shtml

Die Webseite von Dr. Rabe zum Thema Grippe: http://www.impf-info.de/Seiten/Varia/Grippe/Grippe.html


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

"(...) "Wir haben keine Beweise gefunden, dass Tamiflu gegen Vogelgrippe hilft", schreiben Wissenschaftler um Tom Jefferson vom Cochrane-Zentrum in Alessandria in der Medizinzeitschrift Lancet. Die Forscher haben 51 Studien mit insgesamt mehr als 25 000 Teilnehmern ausgewertet, in denen Medikamente gegen Grippeviren untersucht wurden. Zwar lindere der in Tamiflu enthaltene Wirkstoff Oseltamivir Symptome der Vogelgrippe, schreiben Jefferson und seine Kollegen. Es gebe aber keine Hinweise, dass das Mittel die Zahl der Grippetoten senken könne. Auch verhindere es weder eine Ansteckung noch eine Weitergabe der Viren. Die Forscher gehen sogar noch einen Schritt weiter. Sie raten auch davon ab, das Mittel einzunehmen, um der herkömmlichen Grippe vorzubeugen. Damit widersprechen sie den Empfehlungen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation, die sich für eine prophylaktische Einnahme bei Risikogruppen während der Grippesaison ausspricht. (...)"

ganzen Artikel lesen: http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/politik/518878.html
Berliner Zeitung online, 20. Jan. 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

(ir) Nicht jeder wissenschaftlicher Beweis für den Nutzen eines Medikamentes ist echt: "Eine im Oktober 2005 im Lancet publizierte Fall-Kontroll-Studie über die protektive Wirkung von nichtsteroidalen Antiphlogistika (NSAID) gegen Kopf-Hals-Tumoren ist offenbar eine Erfindung des Erstautors gewesen. Dies teilt die Strahlenklinik in Oslo nach einer internen Untersuchung mit. Der Autor und "Erfinder" der Daten habe sich krankgemeldet. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=22806 Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

(ir) Die Makrophagische Myofasciitis, eine Muskelschwächeerkrankung, wurde vor wenigen Jahren erstmals in Frankreich beobachtet. Der Zusammenhang mit vorausgegangenen Impfungen und insbesondere dem Zusatzstoff Aluminiumhydroxid scheint eindeutig. Bisher wird die Erkrankung selten diagnostiziert, was vor allem damit zusammehängt, dass Ärzte sie nicht kennen. Von der Krankheit sind, wie eine neue Studie aus Spanien zeigt, auch Kinder betroffen.

Link zur Studie (engl.) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16243223&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 04/2006

Dramatic figures have been released revealing that at least 1,333 servicemen and women - almost 1.5 per cent of those who served in the Iraq war - have returned from the Middle East with serious psychiatric problems.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021606P.shtml

Officials refused to say how many names on the list were linked to the NSA's controversial domestic eavesdropping effort. Under the program, the NSA has conducted wiretaps on an unknown number of US citizens without warrants.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021606L.shtml