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Wenn Terror nicht reicht, sollen nun Tauschbörsen herhalten.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22161/1.html

http://ftd.de/forschung/53222.html

(ftd) Nach einem Artikel der Financial Times Deutschland ist als Ursache der Verbreitung der Vogelgrippe nicht das Wandern von Zugvögeln anzunehmen sondern der industrielle Handel mit Abfällen und verseuchten Geflügelprodukten.

Nicht Zugvögel sind es - nach den angeführte Untersuchungen - die uns gefährden, sondern Hühnerkot aus Geflügelfabriken, der in Fischfarmen unter das Futter gemischt wird. Wer dem Weg der Seuche und ihrer Verbreitung folgt, wird nicht auf den Zugbahnen der Wildvögel fündig wohl aber auf den Spuren des globalen Handels mit Abfällen der Geflügelindustrie.

Die UNO-Organisation FAO hatte die Praxis der Verwendung von Geflügelabfällen bereits als hochriskante Produktionsweise bezeichnet. Das H5N1-Virus kann in Abfällen bis zu 35 Tage überdauern.

Nach Untersuchungen von Birdlife International sind die meisten Ausbrüche der Seuche zurückzuführen auf Geflügelzuchtbetriebe - so z.B. in Nigeria, Ägypten, in der Türkei und in Südostasien insbesondere auf den Handel. Auch der z.T. illegale Import von Geflügel aus China nach Westeuropa sorgte für die Verbreitung des Virus.


Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23656 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23656


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

Stacy Bannerman testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs: Brings the troops home now. Take care of them when they get here. And never again send our soldiers to fight in a war based on lies. Congress has tried to cut funding for veterans, and has grossly underestimated the needs of the soldiers returning from Iraq. You want to take care of our veterans? Quit making new ones.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206G.shtml

NOW goes inside the world of lobbyists and the Washington spin machine with novelist Christopher Buckley.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206I.shtml

Documents cited in federal court by a defunct Islamic charity may provide the first detailed evidence of US residents being spied upon by President Bush's secret eavesdropping program, according to the organization's lawsuit and a source familiar with the case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206F.shtml

Over a year ago an international team of epidemiologists completed a "cluster sample survey" of civilian casualties in Iraq. Its findings contradicted central elements of what politicians and journalists had presented to the US public and the world. Soon after the study was published, US and British officials launched a concerted campaign to discredit its authors and marginalize their findings without seriously addressing the validity of their methods or presenting any evidence to challenge their conclusions. Today the continuing aerial bombardment of Iraq is still a dark secret to most Americans and the media present the same general picture of the war, focusing on secondary sources of violence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206D.shtml



TV Ads Push Iraq War Support

In an early sign of the imagery that may flood the nation's television screens as congressional elections approach this fall, a conservative political group closely aligned with the Bush administration has launched a blitz of television ads to shore up sagging public support for the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206E.shtml

Ray McGovern writes a letter to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: As a matter of conscience, I am returning the Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me for "especially commendable service" during my 27-year career in CIA. The issue is torture, which inhabits the same category as rape and slavery - intrinsically evil. I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206A.shtml

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_448.shtml


Informant: Friends

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Muster einer Strafanzeige gegen zwangsbehandelnde Ärzte

Muster der Strafanzeige als rtf-Dokument zum Herunterlanden
http://www.die-bpe.de/muster_strafanzeige.rtf

Nach dem Urteil des BGH vom 17. März 2003 (XII ZB 2/03)
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak5/igm/g47/bauertav.pdf
bindet eine Patientenverfügung als Ausdruck des fortwirkenden Selbstbestimmungsrechts des Patienten Betreuer, Ärzte, Pflegepersonal und Bevollmächtigte. Die Menschenwürde (Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG) gebiete es, die in einer Patientenverfügung getroffene eigenverantwortliche Entscheidung auch dann zu respektieren, wenn der/die PatientIn die Fähigkeit zu eigenverantwortlicher Entscheidung verloren hat. Umfang und Reichweite der Rechtsverbindlichkeit einer Patientenverfügung sind von der Rechtsprechung allerdings noch nicht abschließend geklärt.

In seinem Beschluss vom 10.08.2005 (17 W 37/05)
http://www.die-bpe.de/urteil_zwangsspritze.htm
hat das OLG Celle (vgl. Recht & Psychiatrie 2005, S. 196f.) festgestellt, dass ein Unterbringungsbeschluss des Vormundschaftsgerichts nach § 1906 Abs. 1 BGB keine ausreichende Rechtsgrundlage für eine stationäre Zwangsbehandlung darstellt (ebenso OLG Thüringen, Beschluss vom 05.02.2002, 6 W 44/02).

Um Betroffenen oder deren Anwälten für einen solchen Fall eine Formulierungshilfe an die Hand zu geben, haben wir das folgende Muster einer Strafanzeige ausarbeiten lassen, das auch als rtf Datei geladen werden kann (siehe oben) und mit Leichtigkeit entsprechend den individuellen Verhältnissen verändert, ergänzt oder durch Löschungen angepasst und korrigiert werden kann. (Eine Strafanzeige kann auch bei jeder Polizeidienststelle abgegeben werden)

die-BPE http://www.die-bpe.de


http://www.die-bpe.de/muster_strafanzeige.htm



Name und Adresse des Anzeigeerstatters


An die Staatsanwaltschaft Y-Stadt


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

hiermit erstatte ich, Name, Geburtsdatum, Adresse

Strafanzeige

gegen den Chefarzt, den verantwortlichen Oberarzt sowie den behandelnden Arzt (falls namentlich bekannt, Ärzte benennen)

des Y-Krankenhauses, Straße, Ort

wegen des Verdachts der Körperverletzung sowie aus allen sonstigen Rechtsgründen und stelle Strafantrag.


1. Am XY wurde ich gegen meinen Willen auf die Station X des Y-Krankenhauses gebracht und dort festgehalten. Weiterhin wurden mir dort Medikamente, u.a. Psychopharmaka, gegen meinen Willen verabreicht. Die Behandlung erfolgte sowohl gegen meinen erklärten als auch gegen meinen in einer Patientenverfügung vom XY niedergelegten Willen. Die Patientenverfügung lag dem Krankenhaus seit dem XY vor (ausführen, wann und wie das Krankenhaus Kenntnis von der Patientenverfügung erlangt hat).

In der Patientenverfügung vom XY habe ich ausdrücklich festgelegt, dass .... (ausführen, was in der Patientenverfügung festgelegt wurde, also welche Behandlungen und medizinischen Maßnahmen dort ausdrücklich untersagt bzw. abgelehnt werden, z.B. Behandlung mit Psychopharmaka).

Gegenüber den Ärzten und dem Pflegepersonal habe ich unmissverständlich deutlich gemacht, dass ich an den in meiner Patientenverfügung getroffenen Festlegungen festhalte und diese weiter meinem Willen entsprechen. Trotz dieser eindeutigen und rechtlich verbindlichen Verfügung wurde ich auf der Station X des Y-Krankenhauses festgehalten und entgegen den in meiner Patientenverfügung getroffenen Festlegungen zwangsbehandelt. (Gegebenenfalls Zeugen benennen, die bestätigen können, dass Anzeigeerstatter gegenüber Ärzten und Pflegepersonal bestimmte Behandlungsmaßnahmen abgelehnt hat)

(Falls die Zwangsbehandlung im Rahmen einer betreuungsrechtlichen Unterbringung erfolgte:) Am XYZ ordnete das AG Y meine vorläufige Unterbringung in einer geschlossen psychiatrischen Einrichtung nach § 1906 Abs. 1 BGB an (Aktenzeichen des AG).

2. Die Zwangsbehandlung mit Psychopharmaka auf der Station X des Y-Krankenhauses stellt eine Körperverletzung dar.

Die ärztliche Behandlung mit Psychopharmaka greift in meine körperliche Unversehrtheit ein und stellt tatbestandlich eine Körperverletzung dar. Die medikamentöse Behandlung ist rechtswidrig, da sie ohne meine Einwilligung erfolgt. Die Verabreichung von Psychopharmaka ist auch nicht durch eine mutmaßliche Einwilligung gerechtfertigt.

Zwar kann in Einzelfällen eine ärztliche Heilbehandlung durch eine mutmaßliche Einwilligung des Patienten gerechtfertigt sein. Für das Abstellen auf einen mutmaßlichen Willen ist aber dann kein Raum, wenn - wie hier - eine Patientenverfügung vorliegt, welche Festlegungen enthält, die auch die konkrete Behandlungssituation mit umfassen. Die Patientenverfügung ist eine Willenserklärung, mit welcher der Patient für den Fall, dass er einwilligungsunfähig wird, nach seinen persönlichen Verhältnissen den Arzt, Betreuer oder Bevollmächtigten anweist, bestimmte medizinische Maßnahmen oder Behandlungsmethoden vorzunehmen oder auch zu unterlassen. Die Patientenverfügung ist eine rechtlich verbindliche Anweisung. Steht der wirkliche Wille des Patienten aufgrund einer solchen Verfügung fest, ist dieser alleiniger Maßstab für die Entscheidung, ob eine bestimmte Behandlung vorzunehmen ist oder zu unterbleiben hat. Für einen Rückgriff auf einen mutmaßlichen Willen ist daher kein Raum.

In seiner Grundsatzentscheidung vom 17. März 2003 (XII ZB 2/03) hat der Bundesgerichtshof die Bedeutung des Patientenwillens unterstrichen und festgestellt:

"Liegt eine solche Willensäußerung, etwa wie hier in Form einer sogenannten "Patientenverfügung", vor, bindet sie als Ausdruck des fortwirkenden Selbstbestimmungsrechts, aber auch der Selbstverantwortung des Betroffenen den Betreuer; denn schon die Würde des Betroffenen (Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG) verlangt, dass eine von ihm eigenverantwortlich getroffene Entscheidung auch dann noch respektiert wird, wenn er die Fähigkeit zu eigenverantwortlichem Entscheiden inzwischen verloren hat. Die Willensbekundung des Betroffenen für oder gegen bestimmte medizinische Maßnahmen darf deshalb vom Betreuer nicht durch einen "Rückgriff auf den mutmaßlichen Willen" des Betroffenen "korrigiert" werden, es sei denn, dass der Betroffene sich von seiner früheren Verfügung mit erkennbarem Widerrufswillen distanziert oder die Sachlage sich nachträglich so erheblich geändert hat, dass die frühere selbstverantwortlich getroffene Entscheidung die aktuelle Sachlage nicht umfasst."

(Falls Zwangsbehandlung im Rahmen einer Betreuungsrechtlichen Unterbringung erfolgte:) Die zwangsweise Behandlung mit Psychopharmaka ist auch nicht durch den Unterbringungsbeschluss des Amtsgerichts Y vom XYZ gerechtfertigt. So hat das OLG Celle in seinem Beschluss vom 10.08.2005 - 17 W 37/05 (vgl. Recht & Psychiatrie 2005, S. 196f.) festgestellt, dass § 1906 Abs. 1 BGB gerade keine ausreichende gesetzliche Grundlage für eine stationäre Zwangsbehandlung darstellt:

"Entgegen der den Beschlüssen stillschweigend zugrunde liegenden Auffassungen des Amtsgerichts und Landgerichts H. ist eine Zwangsbehandlung auf betreuungsrechtlicher Grundlage rechtlich nicht zulässig und daher nicht genehmigungsfähig.

Der Senat folgt insoweit der Auffassung, nach der in Anlehnung an die Entscheidung des Bundesgerichtshofs zur ambulanten Zwangsbehandlung (FamRZ 2001,149) auch die stationäre Zwangsbehandlung auf der Grundlage des Betreuungsrechts infolge des Fehlens einer ausreichenden Rechtsgrundlage als rechtlich nicht zulässig angesehen wird (OLG Thüringen, R&P 2003, 29; Marschner, Zwangsbehandlung in der ambulanten und stationären Psychiatrie, R&P 2005, S.47ff. mit weit. Hinweisen). Die Gegenposition (OLG Schleswig, FamRZ 2002, 984; OLG Düsseldorf, Az. l -25 WX 73/03; OLG München, OLGR 2005, 394; Roth in Erman, 11.Aufl. Rdnr. 29; Damrau/Zimmermann, Betreuungsrecht S.Aufl., § 1904, Rdnr.16;) geht von einer grundsätzlichen Zulässigkeit der betreuungsrechtlichen Zwangsmedikation aus und sieht dabei die Regelungen des § 1906 Abs.1 Nr.2 bzw. des § 1906 Abs.4 BGB als ausreichende Rechtsgrundlage an. Kriterium für die Zulässigkeit der Zwangsbehandlung sei deren Verhältnismäßigkeit angesichts der ansonsten drohenden gewichtigen Gesundheitsschäden. Dabei wird teilweise die Verhältnismäßigkeit auf die Fälle lebensnotwendiger Behandlungen beschränkt (Hoffmann/Klie, Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen, S.44). In seiner Entscheidung vom 11. Oktober 2000 verlangt der Bundesgerichtshof (a.a.O, S. 152) unter Hinweis auf die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts für jede Zwangshandlung gegen den Widerstand des Betreuten eine ausdrückliche Rechtsgrundlage durch ein formelles Gesetz. Soweit dieses formelle Gesetz teilweise in der Regelung des § 1906 Abs.1 Nr.2 bzw. 1906 Abs.4 BGB gesehen wird, überzeugt diese Auffassung nicht. Der sprachlich eindeutige Gesetzestext enthält nur die Befugnis zur Unterbringung bzw. unterbringungsähnlichen Maßnahmen nicht jedoch auch die Befugnis zur - gemessen an der Eingriffintensität - deutlich schwerwiegenderen Zwangsbehandlung. Zwar hätte es durchaus eine innere Logik, dass derjenige der zu Behandlungszwecken gemäß § 1906 Abs.1 Nr.2 BGB geschlossen untergebracht wird, dort - auch gegen seinen Willen behandelt werden darf. Dieser Logik ist der Gesetzgeber des Betreuungsgesetzes jedoch ausdrücklich nicht gefolgt und hat von der gesetzlichen Regelung der Zwangsbehandlung ausdrücklich abgesehen (BT-Drs.11/4528, S.72). Dementsprechend hat der Gesetzgeber auch die Zwangsbefugnisse für den Betreuer geregelt und in § 70g Abs.5 FGG die Befugnis zur Gewaltanwendung nur für die Zuführung zur Unterbringung nicht jedoch auch zur Durchsetzung einer Behandlung vorgesehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist dem OLG Thüringen darin zuzustimmen, dass die Regelung des § 1906 BGB nicht als hinreichende formelle Rechtsgrundlage für eine Zwangsbehandlung angesehen werden kann (R&P 2003,29)."

Die zwangsweise Verabreichung von Psychopharmaka ist daher als rechtswidrige Körperverletzung zu werten.

Ich bitte um Mitteilung des Aktenzeichens, unter welchem dieser Vorgang bearbeitet wird.


Unterschrift, Datum


Nachricht vom Werner Fuss Zentrum

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=20432&tr=y&auid=1451556


Informant: Mofmars3

As you read this, Congress is poised to reject commonsense reforms to the Patriot Act, choosing a White House-backed reauthorization deal over basic privacy protections for your personal records.

You have stood with the ACLU as we've fought for real Patriot Act reform and I want you to be the first to know that this fight is not over.

The bipartisan push for reform continues on Capitol Hill. As I write this, a group of courageous senators are speaking out against the reauthorization plan. Several other lawmakers have reiterated the need for real reform. And Congress is already planning hearings to investigate the massive increase in National Security Letter (NSL) record requests, an issue the ACLU continues to fight, and win on, in the federal courts.

But the fact is, until the Bush Administration chooses the rule of law over its pattern of abuses of power, any new reforms may simply go ignored under this President's extreme views of unlimited executive authority.

Lawmakers and regular Americans across the political spectrum have never been more alert to the reckless policies of this administration. A new poll of over 1000 Americans shows that a majority reject the President's illegal program of warrantless domestic surveillance, and doubt that he acted within the bounds of the law.

The American people reject the White House's assertion that the President has the authority to act outside of the law whenever and however he deems necessary. We've posted results and selected questions from the survey online so you can give your own opinions and see how they compare to our nationwide poll of voters across the political spectrum.

You might be surprised and even encouraged by what you learn -- because it turns out that when presented with the facts, the American voter has serious concerns about the government's actions.

We believe that now is the time to mobilize Americans to speak out against abuses like unauthorized domestic wiretapping...illegal detentions and flagrant violations of human rights at Guantanamo Bay...secret CIA kidnappings that transport victims to countries that engage in torture...FBI and Pentagon surveillance of peaceful political protestors...the refusal to hold high-level officials accountable for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

People are hearing the ACLU's message that in America we can be both safe and free. We are heartened by these results and we are determined not to give up until together we have put an end to the abuses of power that have become a hallmark of the Bush Administration.

Thanks to your efforts, the Patriot Act reauthorization process has been a debate over fundamental freedoms, not the quick rubber-stamp the White House hoped for last spring and real momentum for reform is still alive in Congress.

Your active involvement will help us continue to make a difference in the fight. So, take a minute to compare your answers to those in our survey. And then help us keep the pressure on Congress by taking just one action today. Sign our Demand for the Truth,

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=0OBsqWQ20lDRAAYwNe1dtA..
tell a friend about the ACLU survey
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=wj3IAQfQzi7tjBDF5y4CZg..
or make a donation.


Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director

P.S. The poll was a national telephone survey of 1,012 registered voters conducted on behalf of the ACLU from February 8-12. The margin of sampling error for the entire survey is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at the 95 percent level of tolerance.

by Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com

Who owns what doesn't matter if the government won't fund basic protective measures.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/02/paying_the_price_of_security.php

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com

The White House views the entire globe as a battlefield -- and we are all treated as potential enemies.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/02/at_the_nsa_the_enemy_is_us.php

by Bill Richardson, TomPaine.com

Today, New Mexico boosts the cause of election reform by moving to a voting system of all paper ballots.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/02/making_every_vote_count.php

02.03.2006

Manche malen die Zukunft des 3G-Standards in Deutschland dunkler aus als andere. Auch im Vorfeld der CeBIT werden kritische Stimmen laut.

Wenn UMTS in diesem Jahr nicht der Marktdurchbruch gelinge, werde es eng für die dritte Mobilfunkgeneration 3G, warnen die Berater von Eurospace. Denn obwohl mit mehr als 60.000 installierten Basisstationen weit über die Hälfte der deutschen Bevölkerung in einer UMTS-Versorgungszone leben, nutzen nicht einmal ein Prozent der rund 74 Millionen Mobilfunkkunden in Deutschland UMTS, sagen die Berater.

Die Verbraucher verlangten nicht nach schnelleren UMTS-Versionen, sondern nach einem triftigen Grund, warum sie überhaupt UMTS nutzen sollten, lautet die Ansicht Vincent Ohanas von Eurospace. Und um es etwas zuzuspitzen, fügt Onaha hinzu, dass der Traum vom UMTS-Massenmarkt abgefahren sei, wenn UMTS nicht spätestens im nächsten Weihnachtsgeschäft der Durchbruch gelinge. Turbo-UMTS dagegen könne als Alternative zum DSL-Anschluss für das kabellose Surfen im Internet eine entsprechende ‚Killer-Applikation’ werden, wenn die Netzbetreiber unter anderem zu UMTS-Preismodellen fänden, die sich gegenüber DSL behaupten könnten. Längerfristig könne UMTS auf Übertragungsraten von bis zu 100 Mbit/s ‚hochgeschraubt’ werden und damit weit über die heute üblichen DSL-Bandbreiten hinausgehen, prognostiziert Eurospace.

Vor allem aus Asien rolle schon die nächste Mobilfunkwelle der 4G-Systeme an. Als viel versprechende 4G-Technologieansätze nennen die Berater das japanische New-Generation-Mobile Network-Project, das südkoreanische Wireless-Broadband, das Digital-Multimedia-Broadcasting (DMB), eine Weiterentwicklung des europäischen Digital-Audio-Broadcasting (DAB), und das chinesische Projekt Future-Technologies-for-Universal-Radio-Environment (FuTURE). Aus den USA kämen vor allem wLAN und WiMAX als ernsthafte Konkurrenz für UMTS.

© FTK Dortmund 2006

http://www.ecin.de/news/2006/03/02/09247/?rcol

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0302/p02s02-uspo.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/02/148233


Informant: Kev Hall

Daily Reckoning
by Richard Daughty

02/27/06

There are certain unorthodox economic indicators -- like when servers at restaurants start coming home with less money in their pockets at the end of a shift, or when a movie theater is surprisingly empty on a rainy Friday night. ... Resistance, denial,debt. We Americans are a people in revolt against fate. Wealth and power are migrating from West to East … our empire is peaking out … our dollar is doomed -- if only we could take it more gracefully. Instead, politicians, central bankers and ordinary consumers want to dispute it, as if they could stop the tides of history, like Xerxes's troops doing battle with the waves...

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/DRUS022706.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle
by Mark Morford

03/01/06

For this time of year in San Francisco, blasts of weird summerlike weather are probably completely normal. February invariably means sporadic rain, long spurts of frigid cold beaming down from ever-melting Alaska, alongside nice puffy tufts of warm sun of sufficient perfection to make you think about car washes and sex in the park and how you need to get some new T-shirts for summer. But then again, not quite. Something is amiss. Something about this blazing loveliness feels just a little bit off, a little bit wrong, something nagging and squirming just under the skin of this sunny daydream bliss, and if you're paying any sort of attention to the world these days you can't help but hear, as you bask in the warm sun-kissed goodness, an uneasy and nervous voice stabbing into your sun-dappled brain: Isn't it just a little too warm? Too sunny? Can this be right? And finally: Is this winter heat just another little sign of impending doom, a hint of far, far worse things to come, of heat waves and storms and direness and death? Is it all, in short, just a deceptively lovely result of the looming wrath of global warming?

http://tinyurl.com/kh93v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/q977v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

03/01/06

Iraq is approaching civil war, if it hasn't already reached it, and President Bush could face the most embarrassing congressional setback of his tenure in the White House. It's remarkable what troubles imperial ventures can bring. Talk about unintended consequences. The president's plan was to bring stability to the Middle East. Whoops. Apparently, he and his people failed to take into account that Iraq was pasted together by the British after World War I to make a country...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23646 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23646


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

nlnews@archant.co.uk

01 March 2006

PLANNING bosses have admitted they have no record of a second mobile phone mast being built yards from a rival phone company's controversial antenna.

Phone giant Orange confirmed it has already started work to attach an 11.4 metre mast to a wall bordering the railway line behind the former Mitre Pub in Grafton Road, Gospel Oak - now converted into flats.

The announcement comes just three weeks after an administration blunder that left Vodafone claiming it never received Camden Council's objections to a mast it subsequently erected on the pavement in front of the same property.

A spokeswoman for Orange said: "Because of the location of our mast, we do not need full planning approval.

"We wrote to Camden Council on July 13, 2004, about the mast and they had a month to raise any objections to its design or appearance. They did not do that and we are going ahead with the mast."

She said Orange also worked with the freeholder of the flats and Network Rail, the company which owns the land on the other side of the wall, to get permission for the mast. A spokeswoman for Camden Council said: "We have looked through our database and we do not have an application from Orange for that site. Our enforcement team are going to investigate it."

Lecturer and actor Anna Sullivan, of Dale Road, off Grafton Road, said: "It just seems extraordinary that we can have two within a few feet of each other. I can't imagine it would be more than 10 or 15 feet.

"They are unsightly and there are potential health hazards and there has been complete disregard for the people living in the area. How come it's all happening in Gospel Oak?"

The Orange spokeswoman added: "All our sites are built to international safety guidelines for public exposure.

Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

"There is no risk of having two antennae next to each other. Out mast is extremely low powered."

Camden Council planning officers claim they did send Vodafone their objection to its mast in time to stop it going ahead and that as a result it should not have been erected.

The council spokeswoman said: "We are still investigating the Vodafone mast.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/oleyk

I even had a local rep try to persuade me.

I still find it to be like selling face masks to overcome traffic pollution. The traffic pollution is doing more than make you cough. Similarly microwave radiation should not be covered up for the whole range of its environmental damage, by persuading people they are personally protected. OK, it might, just vaguely might, help some individuals. But then does one person smoking with filter tips help the passive smoker? It certainly does not. These devices almost encourage phone users to use them more, convinced they are safe. If they modify the outputs of phones the phones will not work. If the phones are not modified, then it might alter the field in the head/ear slightly, but it perpetuates the proliferation of microwaves in the environment: and that is the problem.

So I do not endorse these devices.

Andy

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12083.htm


Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23647 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23647


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

The AFL-CIO plans to spend a record $40 million in an attempt to unseat Republicans in this year's congressional elections. The money will fund a campaign to educate and mobilize 11.4 million members of union households in 21 states.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106LA.shtml

Nowhere is Republican corruption more glaring than in the Medicare Part D disaster passed in the dark of night in November of 2003 after a 3-hour vote - the longest recorded vote in the history of the United States. But seniors and others are organizing to reform the drug plan.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106HA.shtml

The oceans as we have known them are ceasing to exist, says the author of this lengthy investigative piece. Oceanic problems once encountered on a local scale have gone pandemic, and these pandemics now merge to birth new monsters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106EB.shtml

Monbiot warns: There is no way to halt global warming and continue traveling long distances at high speeds. The only solution is to stop flying in airplanes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106EA.shtml

http://taz.de/pt/2006/03/02/a0038.1/text

(taz-Kommentar Ch. Semmler) In den meisten der 46 Mitgliedsländer des Europarates, so klagte dessen Menschenrechtsbeauftragter Terry Davis gestern, gebe es keine "wirksamen juristischen und parlamentarischen Kontrollmechanismen ", um geheimdienstliche Operationen zu überwachen.

Diese anlässlich der CIA-Aktivitäten in Europa getroffene Feststellung enthält nichts bestürzend Neues. Schließlich bezieht sich das Geheime an Geheimdiensten nicht nur auf die Tätigkeit der Schlapphüte, sondern auch auf das, was sie ihren Auftraggebern mitzuteilen haben. Kontrolle heißt laut Terry Davis, fremden Diensten "das wunderbare Jagdgelände Europa " zu entziehen. Aber infrage steht die Kontrolle der Geheimdienste generell. Kontrolle setzt Öffentlichkeit voraus, auch der Kontrollierende bedarf der Kontrolle - weshalb das geheim tagende, zu Verschwiegenheit verpflichtete Kontrollgremium des Bundestages eine Fehlkonstruktion darstellt. Aber widerspricht demokratische Kontrollbefugnis nicht dem Prinzip, dass Teile der Staatstätigkeit der öffentlichen Wachsamkeit entzogen werden sollen? Dann stellt die Forderung nach wirksamen Kontrollen einen nicht auflösbaren Widerspruch dar. Tatsache ist, dass Geheimdienste, die der Spionage oder deren Abwehr dienen, in einem Raum operieren, der Rechtsnormen weitgehend entzogen ist. Dort wird zu Straftaten angestiftet, oder sie werden selbst begangen, alles im Interesse der jeweiligen Staatsräson. Im Kalten Krieg stellte diese Praxis kein größeres Problem dar, denn die Ost-West-Konfrontation verlieh den Geheimdiensten eine Legitimation, die den Mangel an Legalität wettmachte. Aber diese höhere Rechtfertigung ist jetzt entschwunden - und der Imperativ des Kampfs gegen den Terrorismus ist kein gleichwertiger Ersatz. Deshalb steht nicht nur der Schutz Europas vor der CIA, sondern generell die Zukunft der "Dienste " als vordemokratischer Institutionen zur Debatte. Abstrakt um Abschaffung geht es nicht, sondern um neue rechtsstaatliche Grundlagen für die der Sicherheit dienende Informationsbeschaffung. Naive Weltfremdheit? Eher ein überfälliges Unternehmen konstruktiver Abräum- und Aufbauarbeit.

taz vom 2.3.2006, S. 1, 62 Z.
(Kommentar), CHRISTIAN SEMLER


Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23648 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23648


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

Thursday, March 02, 2006

By Jennifer Long

DESPITE an outcry from local residents, Ballygunner hurling club say they’re unable to pull out of a deal with telecommunications company Meteor over a mobile phone mast that’s been erected on the club’s ground - beside the local national school.

‘Signed and sealed’ is how chairman Pat O’Sullivan has described the club’s deal with Meteor which was continuing to cause ripples in the locality (yesterday) as worried parents brought their planning objections to the City Council.

The mobile phone mast has been operating on the GAA grounds for several months but a planning application - for retention was only submitted by the club at the end of January.

However, while parents of children attending Ballygunner NS were fuming yesterday, the hurling club chairman insisted there could be no going back.

“We had no idea that people would be so upset because so many of these masts are going up all over the country,” Pat O’Sullivan told the Waterford News & Star.

“In any case, we can’t go back now because the contracts are signed with Meteor.”

“This all came about after we originally got permission to erect lights on our grounds but not in the final position we had to put them in. We didn’t think we needed to do anything else and were then approached by Meteor who wanted to put in their antenna.”

“We agreed and they applied to the County Council, not realising Ballygunner was in the city area. That’s why now we had retention permission in for both the lights and the antenna.”

Pat O’Sullivan said he realised people had health concerns for their children but the mast was about 170 yards from the actual school building.

He said he was not “qualified” to give a view on whether mobile phone masts posed health dangers for children but the club had been given “assurances” by Meteor.

City councillor Mary Roche confirmed yesterday she had received many representations from concerned parents in recent days and was going to be asking questions of the city’s planning office.

“ I need to have a proper look at planning regulations and see what’s permissible,” she said. “For one thing the application is for retention which is far from ideal but also in the wording of application, the reference to the mast is almost hidden.”

Meanwhile, the parent of a nine-year-old attending Ballygunner NS has told the Water-ford News & Star that she is one of many parents now very worried.

“People only really became aware of this in recent days because it didn’t follow the normal planning process,” said Ann Marie Jackman, who lives in Knockboy.

“There is clear research to show that children are at risk of radiation from these masts. In fact because radiation is emitted laterally there would actually be less of a risk if this antenna was put on top of the school roof than where it is now,” she said, adding she was one of several parents who had submitted official objections by yesterday’s deadline.

Last November the Office of Public Works effectively ordered a freeze on the erection of mobile phone masts near schools until a special committee examined the health risks.

Ballygunner Hurling Club say the mast on their lands has been in place going back to last year. A decision is due from Waterford City Council on March 21.

© Waterford News & Star, 2006.

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=21034

http://www.folketsvilja.se/donald/english.html

Please, note that a new Swedish political party has been registered for the next election to Parliament. The name is "Folkets Vilja"
http://www.folketsvilja.se , and it shall act for freedom of speech for those that are concerned about health risks with 3G, TETRA, etc., and who does not want to allow further spread of wireless communication before it has been proven that the radiation is truly harmless.


Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

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Soon in other countries? Also in Israel there is such a party in the process, the only problem is funding. Michael Raz (Pope letter) gathers people for "the justice party". It is suggested to the swedish party to add several other subjects in addition to the Wireless subject, to get more public support. For example: more justice in medical help, more balance between poor and rich, to put regulations on irresponsible corporations, (in the book "the corporation"), it can draw more people. Just an idea, think about it.

Iris Atzmon.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

By Jennifer Long

RESIDENTS of Ferrybank, who battled last year against the location of two mobile phone masts in their locality, say they’re hopeful that a Government review on the placing of masts near schools will spell an end to their problems.

Householders there say they’re still “very concerned” that permission currently exists for two masts in their locality very close to local schools and hundreds of homes.

However, the chairman of a local residents’ group said the community remains “hopeful” the review will recommend an all-out ban near schools....which would mean one of the mobile phone masts they’re fearful of would never materialise.

In November, the Office of Public Works ordered a countrywide freeze on the erection of mobile phone masts near schools until an inter-departmental committee examining the health effects of electro-magnetic radiation had finished its work.

On the site of Walsh’s Car Sales on Ferrybank’s Belmont Road, an O2 mobile phone mast is in place for the past three years but to the consternation of locals, permission was granted to retain it last April.

It was a double blow for the residents as just weeks earlier permission was also granted for the erection of a brand new mast on the same site after the Hutchinson 3G Ireland appealed a Kilkenny Co. Council refusal of permission.

“There is still huge concern in the locality regarding these masts but we did breathe a sigh of relief when the freeze was ordered on erecting masts near schools as it appeared someone was seriously looking at the situation,” said Paul Malone, Chairman of Ard Daire Residents’ Association.

“Thankfully at least the new mast hasn’t been able to proceed because of the order. People are still very worried about the possible health effects of these masts and we would hope that this committee will recommend they shouldn’t receive permission near schools at all in future.”

Several public meetings have been held in Ferrybank to discuss the issues and a specially-formed committee have vowed they will fight the placing of a new mast...even with a picket on the Walsh’s property if necessary. At a meeting with the site’s owner in June, the committee appealed for the project to be dropped due to health concerns in the community.

The owner, however, said he wanted an independent body to monitor emissions from the existing mast and provide proof of a health risk before making a decision.

Paul Malone said this week that such monitoring is ongoing but it needed to take place over a period of 18 months for definitive results.

Just weeks ago, one of the world’s leading experts in mobile phone technology warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts was at least 100 times too high for safety.

Dr. David Aldridge, a scientist who worked with the US Government developing microwave technology, said the international ‘safety’ limits that Ireland adheres to were out of date and totally flawed.

His warning came as new research revealed the long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.

© Waterford News & Star, 2006.

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=21025

Senate Advances Patriot Act Renewal

"The White House played hardball and the decision was made by some to capitulate.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5655911,00.html



Make a Freedom Of Information Act Request

Many Americans -- especially those with family and friends abroad -- are wondering whether government agents have been listening to their phone conversations or reading their email. If you're worried this has happened to you, you can use this site to help you find out.

http://www.foiarequest.org/



Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'

Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/



FDA Shields Drug Companies From Lawsuits

Last month, the FDA revealed its latest protective policy for drug companies in a statement that said people who believe they have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/fda.html


From Information Clearing House



"Imagine a world of no more privacy"

How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with Radio Frequency Identification.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12128.htm



Amy Worthington: Police state USA

In a fascist police state, the dictator secures his power with support from private corporations which are given special privileges and, thus, benefit from doing business with dictators. Continuously bribed by 28,000 corporate lobbyists in D.C.,4 Congress is doing its part to build a fascist state in America.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12121.htm



Racism Thrives

A December 2004 Cornell University opinion poll showed 44 percent of Americans approved curtailing some civil liberties for all Muslim Americans-including registering with the federal government, close monitoring of mosques by law enforcement agencies and racially profiling citizens of Muslim or Middle Eastern heritage. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12127.htm



Let Freedom Ring!

This is a call to action. It is addressed to every American who can read, most especially Veterans of any sort. We can and must now consider the option of relieving the regime of George Walker Bush of his command. This includes ALL of his associates. We cannot, and MUST not let this situation degenerate any further.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12118.htm

Iraq study warned of civil war

White House, Military Dismissed '03 Analysis

By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who helped craft the reports.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12120.htm



Iraq In Pictures:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,12762,00.html



Is this war worth the price?

Look closely at the face of collateral damage in Iraq before you answer.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06057/660935.stm



Meet some of the victims of America's invasion of Iraq

“In the liberation of Iraq, we've applied powerful weapons, like the tank you build here, to strike our enemy with speed and precision”: Bush, April 24, 2003, thanking the workers at the Lima Army Tank Plant.

http://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php



Pentagon dismisses US troop poll

The poll by Le Moyne College and Zogby International found that only 23 per cent believed US troops should stay in Iraq "as long as it takes", as US President George W. Bush has insisted. Nearly one in three troops said US forces should withdraw immediately.

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18321988-5001028,00.html



Thirty-five percent of Iraq veterans received mental health care

In addition, 12 percent of the more than 222,000 returning Army soldiers and Marines in the study were diagnosed with a mental problem.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/01/iraq/main1357296.shtml



Former US troops rail against war

“I joined up the day after September 11, 2001. I saw action in Falluja and Baghdad. My mortar platoon dropped numerous rounds on the town of Samawa during the start of the invasion. I don’t know how many innocents I killed with my mortar rounds.

http://tinyurl.com/j7kfj


From Information Clearing House



How Bush has stayed away from soldiers' funerals

More than 2,290 US troops have been killed in Iraq. President George Bush has attended none of the funerals - for which he is often criticised by the families of those who have died.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12125.htm



Is This War Worth the Price?

Pittsburghers were captivated this week by the seven-year-old Iraqi boy who arrived here for reconstructive facial surgery at Children's Hospital, having been badly disfigured in an American bombing raid in 2004. Sally Kalson argues that his presence has done more to inform the citizenry than a thousand presidential speeches.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031206A.shtml

Newly released video footage shows how, in dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his Homeland Security Chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers. Bush did not ask a single question during this final briefing before Katrina struck. Four days later Bush declared "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly floodwaters into New Orleans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030106Y.shtml

Two weeks ago, the No Dirty Gold Campaign published an ad in the New York Times. The ad listed the leaders of the jewelry industry who have committed to selling gold that has been produced with greater respect for human rights and the environment. The campaign has called on jewelry retailers - and mining companies that produce gold - to ensure that gold is produced in more socially and environmentally responsible ways (to see the ad, click here) : http://ga0.org/ct/L1AwXnF1tXRw/
The ad also listed the “laggards” within the industry - those companies that have not made this commitment. This is where we need your help today.

Click here to urge the laggards to commit to selling responsibly-produced gold.

http://ga0.org/campaign/laggards

The production of a single gold ring generates, on average, 20 tons of waste. Gold mining has caused massive environmental destruction, contaminated fisheries and fresh water used for drinking and irrigation, and displaced tens of thousands of rural farming, fishing, and ranching communities. Zale Corp., the Signet Group (the parent firm of Sterling and Kay Jewelers), Tiffany & Co., Helzberg Diamonds, Fortunoff, Cartier, Piaget, and Van Cleef & Arpels are to be applauded for taking the lead on this issue, but we need your help to convince other companies that they need to join the industry leaders list.

Over the last two years more than 30,000 of you have signed the No Dirty Gold Pledge and your work is really paying off.
http://ga0.org/ct/SpAwXnF1tXR2/

The jewelry industry is starting to see how destructive mining can be to communities, but we need to keep working until all gold is produced responsibly.

http://ga0.org/campaign/laggards

Thank you for supporting Oxfam America and the No Dirty Gold Campaign!


Sincerely,

Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America

HLV INFO 30/AT

2-03-2006

Störpotenzial von Handys im Flugzeug offenbar größer als bislang angenommen

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/70246

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Handy-Strahlung kann Flugverkehr beeinträchtigen
http://www.golem.de/0603/43772.html

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BBC News Online
02.03.06

A council has vowed to make information about potential mobile phone masts more accessible to local residents.

Bournemouth Borough Council says it will publish details of both permitted and potential masts on its website.

It follows concerns raised by residents who say they were not properly informed about masts going up in the borough.

The council also is urging local MPs to back the Private Members Bill, which could give it greater powers over the erection of mobile phone masts.

If the bill is adopted, it means each phone mast proposal will need to have an extensive safety check.

The council will also be able to refuse a mast over precautionary health concerns if it is planned for a residential area.

But the council said it is also looking at using non-residential areas, including parks, to keep future masts away from homes, schools and health facilities.

The planning department must also, from now on, inform councillors of all known permitted phone masts, as well as potential mast developments in the area.

Councillor Richard Renaut said: "Mobile phone masts are necessary in this world, as the majority of people now have mobile phones, but we need to make sure they are located in suitable places."

I am a member of MoveOn.org....please read this and pass it on.. Thanks!

Date: 03/02/06 00:33:03

Subject: AP Footage ....

Bush lied ... thousands died ...

~~ Suz ~~


Dear MoveOn member,

This evening, the Associated Press released secret transcripts and video footage showing President Bush being personally briefed the day before Hurricane Katrina hit land. The predictions he heard were shockingly precise and accurate - - including the failure of the levees. He knew exactly what was coming.

The article is a smoking gun on Bush's unpardonable failure to keep us safe. In just a few hours, the White House will be filling the airwaves with spin, so it's important to reach out right now to pass on the straight story to family and friends. If each of us acts, we can directly reach millions of people before morning.

The full AP article is attached below. Can you help get the word out to at least 5 friends? You can forward on this note or follow the link below:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1508_video

At the August 28th briefing, the president was told exactly what to expect:

* The chief scientist of the National Hurricane Center warned that a major levee breach was "obviously a very, very grave concern." Bush lied to the entire nation about this point just 5 days later.

* Michael Brown told the president that if New Orleans flooded the Superdome emergency shelter would likely be under water and short on supplies, creating a "catastrophe within a catastrophe."

* Experts and officials implored the President to prepare for, as the AP described it, "devastation of historic proportions."

President Bush didn't ask a single question during the briefing. In the next two days he campaigned, attended birthday parties and played guitar while the worst natural disaster in American history killed over
1,300 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.

There can now be no mistake: President Bush had a chance to lead, and he failed to keep us safe.

In the next few days, we'll be tracking this story carefully and coordinating our response with partners in New Orleans and around the nation.

The survivors of Katrina deserve to know why the president left them to suffer the storm. And the people of the United States deserve leadership we can trust to keep our families safe. We'll work hard together until we have both.

Tonight, let's start by spreading the word: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1508_video

Thanks for all that you do,

Ben, Nita, Tom, Jen, Adam R, Justin, Adam G, Eli and the whole MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Here's the full article from the Associated Press. You can also read it here: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1506

March 1, 2006

Video Shows Bush Was Warned Before Katrina By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

The footage - - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press - - show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Linked by secure video, Bush's confidence on Aug. 28 starkly contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.

A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and then-Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown told the president and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren't enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome.

"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.

Some of the footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 conflicts with the defenses that federal, state and local officials have made in trying to deflect blame and minimize the political fallout from the failed Katrina response:

*** Homeland Security officials have said the "fog of war" blinded them early on to the magnitude of the disaster. But the video and transcripts show federal and local officials discussed threats clearly, reviewed long-made plans and understood Katrina would wreak devastation of historic proportions. "I'm sure it will be the top 10 or 15 when all is said and done," National Hurricane Center's Max Mayfield warned the day Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast.

"I don't buy the `fog of war' defense," Brown told the AP in an interview Wednesday. "It was a fog of bureaucracy."

*** Bush declared four days after the storm, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans. But the transcripts and video show there was plenty of talk about that possibility - - and Bush was worried too.

White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Brown discussed fears of a levee breach the day the storm hit.

"I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One," Brown said. "He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches."

*** Louisiana officials angrily blamed the federal government for not being prepared but the transcripts shows they were still praising FEMA as the storm roared toward the Gulf Coast and even two days afterward. "I think a lot of the planning FEMA has done with us the past year has really paid off," Col. Jeff Smith, Louisiana's emergency preparedness deputy director, said during the Aug. 28 briefing.

It wasn't long before Smith and other state officials sounded overwhelmed.

"We appreciate everything that you all are doing for us, and all I would ask is that you realize that what's going on and the sense of urgency needs to be ratcheted up," Smith said Aug. 30.

Mississippi begged for more attention in that same briefing.

"We know that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana that need to be rescued, but we would just ask you, we desperately need to get our share of assets because we'll have people dying - - not because of water coming up, but because we can't get them medical treatment in our affected counties," said a Mississippi state official whose name was not mentioned on the tape.

Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event," Brown warned. He called the storm "a bad one, a big one" and implored federal agencies to cut through red tape to help people, bending rules if necessary.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him. Neither asked questions in the Aug. 28 briefing.

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

A relaxed Chertoff, sporting a polo shirt, weighed in from Washington at Homeland Security's operations center. He would later fly to Atlanta, outside of Katrina's reach, for a bird flu event.

One snippet captures a missed opportunity on Aug. 28 for the government to have dispatched active-duty military troops to the region to augment the National Guard.

Chertoff: "Are there any DOD assets that might be available? Have we reached out to them?"

Brown: "We have DOD assets over here at EOC (emergency operations center). They are fully engaged. And we are having those discussions with them now."

Chertoff: "Good job."

In fact, active duty troops weren't dispatched until days after the storm. And many states' National Guards had yet to be deployed to the region despite offers of assistance, and it took days before the Pentagon deployed active-duty personnel to help overwhelmed Guardsmen.

The National Hurricane Center's Mayfield told the final briefing before Katrina struck that storm models predicted minimal flooding inside New Orleans during the hurricane but he expressed concerns that counterclockwise winds and storm surges afterward could cause the levees at Lake Pontchartrain to be overrun.

"I don't think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern," Mayfield told the briefing.

Other officials expressed concerns about the large number of New Orleans residents who had not evacuated.

"They're not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they're leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I'm very concerned about that," Brown said.

Despite the concerns, it ultimately took days for search and rescue teams to reach some hospitals and nursing homes.

Brown also told colleagues one of his top concerns was whether evacuees who went to the New Orleans Superdome - - which became a symbol of the failed Katrina response - - would be safe and have adequate medical care.

"The Superdome is about 12 feet below sea level ... I don't know whether the roof is designed to stand, withstand a Category Five hurricane," he said.

Brown also wanted to know whether there were enough federal medical teams in place to treat evacuees and the dead in the Superdome.

"Not to be (missing) kind of gross here," Brown interjected, "but I'm concerned" about the medical and mortuary resources "and their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe."

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* "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." George W.Bush, 43rd US President

More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, according to a comprehensive snapshot by Army experts of the psyches of men and women returning from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. The accounts of more than 300,000 soldiers and Marines returning from several theaters paint an unusually detailed picture of the psychological impact of the various conflicts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030106F.shtml

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030106E.shtml



Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying

Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12130.htm



Domestic spying more widespread than thought

The NSA has built a database, part of the intelligence community’s “Denial and Deception” operations that now holds transcripts of phone calls and e-mails among journalists and their sources and associates. The database formerly was known as “Firstfruit” until Madsen exposed it last May.

http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=12560


From Information Clearing House

Kimberly-Clark: Take Action
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/kimberly-clark-take-action

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http://www.care2.com/news/member/870323169/50487

The Olympics are over, but one last Olympic-sized medal was handed out today in Knoxville, Tennessee. 75 student activists showed up at Kimberly-Clark’s U.S. Administrative Headquarters to deliver a giant trophy filled with 10,000 petitions, branding Kleenex as the world's #1 Forest Destroyer. Congratulations Kleenex: you have excelled in your sport, wiping out four million tons of virgin forests EVERY YEAR!

The activists dressed up as athletes and conducted a mock awards ceremony, with Kleenex grabbing the gold and Scott and Cottonelle close behind. K-C employees drifted by while students called corporate executives to congratulate them on their company’s victory. Speeches peppered the ceremony, detailing K-C's role in the destruction of forests, habitat, and locals' lives in Canada's Boreal.

*** Take Action! Send Kleenex your own gold medal. ***
http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=86


Sincerely,

Beka, Christy, Nick, Pam
and the rest of the Kleercut Olympic Team

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INTRODUCING THE FOREST FRIENDLY 500

You’ve heard of the Forbes 500. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Forest Friendly 500. Here’s the challenge: get 500 businesses to pledge not to buy Kimberly-Clark products by May 31st.

From the coffee shop on the corner to the hardware store down the road, any type or size of business that uses toilet paper, facial tissue, napkins, or other tissue products can make the pledge. We need to let Kimberly-Clark know that as long as they refuse to stop destroying forests, businesses and consumers alike will refuse to buy their products.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Business owners & managers: Take the pledge! Every business that takes the pledge and joins the FF500 will have its name published on http://www.forestfriendly500.org . Plus, the first 500 businesses to sign up will have their names listed in a paid ad in a major newspaper, as well as various Greenpeace newsletters and publications. Help us protect forests and be recognized as a forest friendly company – take the pledge now!

http://www.forestfriendly500.org/

Activists: Recruit forest friendly businesses!

You can help pressure Kimberly-Clark and promote progressive local businesses at the same time by signing up businesses in your area. We’ve assembled everything you need in a handy Action Kit – visit www.forestfriendly500.org to download yours now. And if you’re in Canada, why not join your local Kleercut Group to find other people in your area to recruit with? Click here to find out how. http://kleercut.net/en/getlocal

MAKE IT HAPPEN

Thousands of you have written letters and emails to Kimberly-Clark, and thousands more have phoned the company directly demanding that the company stop destroying ancient forests. So far all K-C’s done is shoot you back automated responses about how great they are. It’s time to make them respond for real.

Help us save ancient forests. Help us reach our goal of signing up 500 businesses by May 31st. Visit www.forestfriendly500.org now and start recruiting!

Christy

Christy Ferguson Greenpeace Forest Campaigner

p.s. Know someone who owns, manages, or works at a business that might sign the pledge? Forward this message on to them using this link
http://kleercut.net/lists/?p=forward&uid=71a5c8314cddb177ca552ec174157166&mid=11

K L E E R C U T . N E T

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Kleercut activists: Make a big stink on April 5th!

Every time you use Kimberly-Clark toilet paper, you’re flushing old growth trees down the toilet. That stinks. So we're holding a student day of action in the U.S. on April 5th to kick Kimberly-Clark out of the bathroom!

Student activists across the U.S. will be hosting Kleercuts Stink! bathroom events, setting up outside of campus bathrooms or making a prop toilet outside. They'll invite passersby to take the Toilet Paper Challenge: can they tell the difference between forest-friendly toilet paper and paper that’s made from ancient forests. When they’re done they'll make a call to Kimberly-Clark executives telling them to clean up their act or get out of the bathroom!

If you're a student on a US campus and you want to take part: Take Action! Sign up to make a big stink on your campus. << http://www.kleercut.net/april5

If you aren't a student, or you live outside of the US, please join in on the Kleercuts Stink! call-in action. Across the globe, we'll make hundreds of phone calls to Kimberly-Clark executives. We'll send out the phone numbers closer to the date, so mark your calendars and tell your friends.

More than 80,000 people have sent emails to Kimberly-Clark. More than 180 Kleercut day of action events were held last November. But we guess K-C executives can’t take a hint. Join activists around the world in sending them a kleer message on April 5th.

Sincerely,

Lindsey and Beka and the rest of the Greenpeace Kleercut Team

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Kimberly-Clark now tree friendly, no longer wipes away ancient forests

Boreal forest saved

CEO of Kimberly-Clark is a closet tree hugger

Wait, what?

Those are just a few of the headlines on the issue of ‘USA Tomorrow’ Greenpeace distributed to delegates at Tissue World Americas, a major industry conference held in Miami, Florida earlier this month. Wonder how Kimberly-Clark execs felt telling their colleagues that it was just a spoof and that they did, in fact, intend to keep destroying the ancient Boreal forest to make Kleenex.

Read the full story and check out the spoof paper in all its glory here.
http://www.kleercut.net/en/node/706

Inspired? Then why not…

TAKE ACTION!

Student Day of Action, April 5

On April 5th, students will be holding ‘Kleercut Stinks’ events at campus bathrooms across the United States. There will be crazy toilet props, toilet paper challenges, and lots of course lots of toilet humour splashed all over colorful banners. Over 80 events are already being planned.

Click here to find out what’s happening on your campus, or plan an event of your own!

http://www.partylaunch.com/greenpeace/

Forest Friendly 500

In the two weeks since we launched the Forest Friendly 500, 138 businesses have joined the ranks. That’s 27% of our goal! With two months left to go, we’re set to meet and exceed our goal of getting 500 businesses to pledge not to use Kimberly-Clark products by May 31st, but we need your help to get there.

http://www.forestfriendly500.org/

Own, manage, or work at a business? Sign up for the Forest Friendly 500, or talk to your manager and ask her to consider it. Besides helping to protect ancient forests, you’ll get great, positive publicity. Find out more here.

http://forestfriendly500.org/sign-up

Live in a place where there are businesses? Come on, you probably do. Help the tree-mometer grow by taking pledge forms to businesses in your area and asking them to join. Some people are even working to make entire streets or towns K-C free. Find everything you need here, and get out there!

http://forestfriendly500.org/recruit


Christy Ferguson
Greenpeace Forest Campaigner

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Money Money Money

That’s the theme of this week’s e-alert because next week is Kimberly-Clark’s annual shareholder meeting in Dallas, Texas. On April 27th, Kimberly-Clark’s CEO, board members, executives and shareholders descend on sunny Texas to talk about profits and expansion and pat themselves on their collective backs. But all is not well in moneyland – shareholders are becoming concerned with the company’s impact on ancient forests and the glaring issue of a huge salary for the CEO during massive job cuts at Kimberly-Clark continues to be outstanding.

Shareholders take action: Shareholders lead by Domini Social Investment and owning nearly $22 million of stock, submitted a resolution to the company and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator of corporations, asking the company to study the feasibility of switching to FSC-certified only fiber within ten years. The resolution is being voted on next week. Read more about this progressive shareholder activism. http://www.kleercut.net/en/shareholders

CEO Thomas Falk makes millions while cutting jobs and ancient forests: Kimberly-Clark’s CEO made 9.6 million dollars in 2005 while announcing mill closures and cutting 6000 jobs. He did this at a time when the company increased its use of virgin fiber by 23% to 3 million tonnes. Can you say scandal? Read more about Falk’s paycheck in a blog update at: http://www.kleercut.net/en/paycheck

Enjoy the reading and keep up the good work,


Richard Greenpeace Forest Campaigner.

PS. If you haven’t already, check out the action on the http://www.forestfriendly500.org website. More than 200 businesses have signed up to take the pledge to not use Kimberly-Clark products. Sign up your own business today or hit the streets and get recruiting!

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Greenpeace blockades Kleenex manufacturer’s factory in Ontario

Right now, the morning of Kimberly-Clark’s annual shareholder meeting in Irving, Texas, Greenpeace activists are blockading one of K-C’s key factories in Ontario, demanding that the company stop making Kleenex and other disposable tissue products from clearcut ancient forests, including the Boreal.

See photos from the site: http://kleercut.net/en/image/tid/68

Over 20 activists have physically stopped all shipments from going into or coming out of the plant by blocking both truck and train access to the site. Others have occupied the rooftop and hung a large banner reading: “Kimberly-Clark & Kleenex: Stop destroying the Boreal Forest.”

Meanwhile, other Greenpeace campaigners are in Texas speaking directly to the company’s shareholders, board directors, and CEO about the Greenpeace action and urging them to act on a shareholder resolution on sustainable forestry. They need to hear from you too.

Join us in this important action by phoning CEO Thomas Falk now http://kleercut.net/en/blockade#action

Thomas Falk’s office number is 972-281-1308 (through his assistant Donna). Call him and tell him that you support Greenpeace’s action today, and that it’s time for him to make some serious changes. For talking points and tips: http://kleercut.net/en/call

Greenpeace will continue to disrupt Kimberly-Clark’s operations and mobilize its customers until CEO Thomas Falk and his company end their participation in Boreal forest destruction.

Help us win this campaign by calling and emailing Thomas Falk right now to tell him you support Greenpeace’s action in Huntsville, Ontario. http://kleercut.net/en/blockade#action

Right now, Greenpeace activists are risking arrest and putting themselves on the line to save forests. Show them your support. Email Kimberly-Clark now, then visit http://www.kleercut.net throughout the day for photo, video, and audio updates from the heart of the action.

Christy

Christy Ferguson
Greenpeace Forests Campaigner


K L E E R C U T . N E T

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KC Blockade http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/kc-blockade of Kimberly-Clark's factory in Canada. We're stopping all shipments of ancient forest products in or out of the factory, and we've hung a large banner that reads, "Kimberly-Clark & Kleenex: Stop destroying the Boreal Forest."

We're sending Kimberly-Clark a strong message: now it's YOUR turn.

Act Now >> We've obtained the direct phone number to Kimberly-Clark CEO Thomas Falk's office, and we want you to call him and deliver this message: "Stop destroying ancient forests and start using recycled content in your tissue products." Call 972-281-1308 Now! (*Note: This may be a long-distance call. If you'd rather call Kimberly-Clark's Customer Service, just dial 1-800-544-1847)

Meanwhile, I'm in Texas today for Kimberly-Clark's annual shareholders meeting, and I'll be personally delivering the same message to them.

We've been campaigning against Kimberly Clark for more than a year now, and thanks to you, we're making a real difference. More than 26,000 of you have written to Kimberly-Clark already. We've taken the campaign to a new level today, and I hope you'll take your efforts to a new level too. Please, take just a moment to make the call to CEO Thomas Falk, and demand that Kimberly-Clark stop destroying ancient forests now.

Sincerely,

Pamela Wellner
Forest Campaigner

p.s. Read more about our activist blockade online, and follow their story as it unfolds.

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Greenpeace activists blockade Kimberly-Clark factory in Ontario, Canada
http://www.kleercut.net/en/blockade

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UPDATE

In the last week and a half over 150 businesses have taken the Forest Friendly 500 pledge and committed to stop using Kimberly-Clark’s tissue products. This dramatic progress is thanks to the hard work of volunteers all across Canada and the U.S and around the world. who have been pounding the pavement recruiting businesses and approaching business owners they know. Over 425 businesses are now sending the message that destroying ancient forests like the Boreal doesn’t pay.

This is a huge success for ancient forests and for the Kleercut campaign… but we’re not done yet!!

TAKE ACTION TODAY! Join the Kimberly-Clark Bust-athon!! Through the month of May and June, activists all over Canada and the U.S are taking action to bust-up Kimberly-Clark’s market. Please help reach our goal by taking some extra time this week and next to recruit local businesses to the sign the pledge. Any business, big or small, can join the Forest Friendly 500. Once we’ve reached the 500 mark, our next step will be to promote these Forest Friendly businesses through advertising and public outreach.

Take action today by downloading the Bust-athon action kit from http://www.forestfriendly500.org/files/FF500BustathonKit.pdf

Keep an eye on our progress at http://www.forestfriendly500.org

For the forests,

Jeca
K L E E R C U T . N E T

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NY Times: Forest Friendly Businesses Shame Kimberly-Clark

Pick up a copy of the New York Times today (page B9) and you will find over 650 businesses sending a clear message to the Kimberly-Clark Corporation: your paper sourcing is a Real Shame. Businesses from across North America and around the world have taken a stand for ancient forests by signing the Forest Friendly 500 pledge and kicking Kimberly-Clark (K-C) out of their businesses. View the advertisement at http://www.kleercut.net and encourage more businesses to take the pledge!

The Forest-Friendly 500 businesses are sending a clear message to Kimberly-Clark that forest destruction does not pay. They are saying that K-C has a responsibility to use recycled content in its products and that when it must source from forests, it should be from Forest Stewardship Council certified forests.

The Forest Friendly 500 initiative has been so successful that we are extending the goal to reach a thousand businesses, and at just over 650, we need your help. You can get involved by recruiting businesses to sign up and then urging them to send a letter directly to Jan Spencer, President Kimberly-Clark Professional expressing concern about their pulp sourcing.

A model letter template is available online at http://www.forestfriendly500.org/files/KCletter_final.doc. We would prefer businesses to also send a copy of their letter to Greenpeace so that we can track the direct impact of the campaign. Copies can be sent to info@keercut.net or by fax (416) 597-8422 or by mail to:

Forest Friendly 500
Greenpeace
Suite 605 – 250 Dundas St. W.
Toronto Ontario, M5T 2Z5

or

Greenpeace
75 Arkansas St
San Francisco, CA 94107

Thank you for making a difference and protecting ancient forests!

-- The Boreal Forest Team

K L E E R C U T . N E T

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Fall is upon us and there is much more to do to save the North American Boreal forest and stop the Kimberly-Clark Corporation from wiping away ancient forests.

This fall, we asking volunteers, like you, from across the continent and around the world to come together to hit Kimberly-Clark where it hurts – in their corporate wallets. This fall we want you to turn up the heat by identifying and educating Kimberly-Clark customers and getting them to break their contracts with the company!

IN YOUR COMMUNITY: Kimberly-Clark Private Investigators

Help us to track which chains, businesses and institutions are buying Kimberly-Clark products and supporting forest destruction. This is an international effort to identify and record businesses and institutions that are using Kimberly-Clark products.

Information can be recorded at http://www.kleercut.net/en/kc-pi and we will be contacting these businesses to educate them about Kimberly-Clark’s role in the destruction of ancient forests. We’ll ask these business to stop purchasing Kimberly-Clark products until the company cleans up its act.

Take Action Now!

Step 1 Find the forest crime: Keep an eye out for Kimberly-Clark tissue products used in local businesses, including KC’s Professional and Kleenex line of products. These will most likely found in washrooms.

Step 2 Record the forest crime: Record the name and address of the business and what products are being used.

Step 3 Expose the forest crime: Visit http://www.kleercut.net/en/kc-pi and enter the information you’ve collected into our online database or email us the info at ickc@kleercut.net. We’ll contact these businesses right away to educate them and ask them to support forest protection by ending their purchase of Kimberly-Clark products.

ON CAMPUS: Forest Friendly Colleges & Universities

#1 Adopt a green purchasing policy at your campus.
This sets minimum standards of ecological responsibility for all products and materials purchased by the University.

#2 Push your campus to break its contract with Kimberly-Clark.
The first step is pushing your campus administration and/or Facilities Department to write a letter to the corporation expressing concern about KC’s forestry practices.

Learn more at http://www.kleercut.net/en/campus

Questions? Let us know at info@kleercut.net

K L E E R C U T . N E T

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Blockade at KC office in Italy: first ever action in Europe to save the Boreal!

Early this morning, Greenpeace activists blockaded Kimberly-Clark’s regional headquarters in Turin, Italy, demanding that the company stop flushing Canada’s Boreal forest down Europe’s toilets.

Support the activists! Send a message to Dave Challis, European Environment Director for KC.
http://kleercut.net/en/sendtokc

While two activists suspended a massive banner from the rooftop, 20 others chained themselves to toilet bowls with trees being flushed down them, symbolic of the Canadian trees being flushed down toilets and thrown in waste baskets all across Europe as a result of Kimberly-Clark’s irresponsible policies.

In addition to the world famous Kleenex brand, Kimberly-Clark produces some of Europe’s best known brands of tissue and toilet paper including Andrex, Scottex, Page, and Hackle. Almost one-third of the virgin pulp used to make KC’s European products and one-fifth of its global pulp supply is from destructive logging operations in Canadian forests, including the Boreal forest.

See photos and read the full story on http://kleercut.net/

Today’s blockade is the first ever action in Europe to save Canada’s Boreal forest, and signals a new front in the campaign to stop Kimberly-Clark from destroying ancient forests. Thanks to people like you, awareness about this issue is growing and outrage at Boreal destruction is spreading far and wide.

Help us bring the message home to Kimberly-Clark’s European executives by emailing Dave Challis, KC’s European Environment Director, and telling him you think it’s unacceptable for Canadian forests to be clearcut to make toilet paper and facial tissue for European markets.

Take action now! Send a message to Dave Challis.
http://kleercut.net/en/sendtokc

Christy Ferguson
Greenpeace Forests Campaigner
K L E E R C U T . N E T



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kimberly-Clark

Femme Actuelle : Risqué le Portable?
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2006-03-01

Le journal de l'Habitation :
Radio Vatican condamné pour ondes nocives
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2006-03-01

Le trackback du débat de DIRECT8 (TNT)
http://www.next-up.org/trackback.php

Aschermittwoch der großen Koalition

Das Merkel-Hoch ist vor allem eine Erfindung der Medien, die vor den Wahlen den sicheren Wahlsieg von schwarz-gelb herbei schreiben wollten.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22165/1.html

by John Zogby, TomPaine.com

In a groundbreaking public opinion survey, Americans are finally able to hear what the troops in Iraq think about the war they are fighting.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/01/a_letter_from_the_troops.php

I wanted to let you know about this news and action opportunity. It's an opportunity not only for polar bears, but for some action on global warming as well.

Best,

Nick


This year's winter Olympics had it all - except for much snow. Even primetime news was making a connection to global warming. But Torino isn't the only place lacking snow. The sea ice in the Arctic has been disappearing, and the polar bear may disappear right along with it if we don't stop global warming.

We've joined forces with other environmental groups to list the polar bear on the endangered species list. Now it's your turn to lend polar bears a hand. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is officially considering listing the polar bear, and they want to hear from YOU.

TAKE ACTION: Help polar bears stay afloat. http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=84&ref_source=listspolarbear


Sincerely,

Melanie Duchin
Clean Energy Campaigner

By Garrison Keillor

Salon March 1, 2006

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/03/01/keillor/

These are troubling times for all of us who love this country, as surely we all do, even the satirists. You may poke fun at your mother, but if she is belittled by others it burns your bacon. A blowhard French journalist writes a book about America that is full of arrogant stupidity, and you want to let the air out of him and mail him home flat. You hear young people talk about America as if it's all over, and you trust that this is only them talking tough. And then you read the paper and realize the country is led by a man who isn't paying attention, and you hope that somebody will poke him. Or put a sign on his desk that says, "Try Much Harder."

Do we need to impeach him to bring some focus to this man's life? The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever, plus being blind.

The Feb. 27 issue of the New Yorker carries an article by Jane Mayer about a loyal conservative Republican and U.S. Navy lawyer, Albert Mora, and his resistance to the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. From within the Pentagon bureaucracy, he did battle against Donald Rumsfeld and John Yoo at the Justice Department and shadowy figures taking orders from Dick (Gunner) Cheney, arguing America had ratified the Geneva Convention that forbids cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners, and so it has the force of law. They seemed to be arguing that the president has the right to order prisoners to be tortured.

One such prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was held naked in isolation under bright lights for months, threatened by dogs, subjected to unbearable noise volumes, and otherwise abused, so that he begged to be allowed to kill himself. When the Senate approved the Torture Convention in 1994, it defined torture as an act "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." Is the law a law or is it a piece of toast?

Wiretap surveillance of Americans without a warrant? Great. Go for it. How about turning over American ports to a country more closely tied to 9/11 than Saddam Hussein was? Fine by me. No problem. And what about the war in Iraq? Hey, you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie. No need to tweak a thing. And your blue button-down shirt -- it's you.

But torture is something else. When Americans start pulling people's fingernails out with pliers and poking lighted cigarettes into their palms, then we need to come back to basic values. Most people agree with this, and in a democracy that puts the torturers in a delicate position. They must make sure to destroy their e-mails and have subordinates who will take the fall. Because it is impossible to keep torture secret. It goes against the American grain and it eats at the conscience of even the most disciplined, and in the end the truth will come out. It is coming out now.

According to the leaders of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, our country is practically as vulnerable today as it was on 9/10. Our seaports are wide open, our airspace is not secure except for the nation's capital, and little has been done about securing the nuclear bomb materials lying around in the world. They give the administration D's and F's in most categories of defending against terrorist attack.

Our adventure in Iraq, at a cost of trillions, has brought that country to the verge of civil war while earning us more enemies than ever before. And tax money earmarked for security is being dumped into pork barrel projects anywhere somebody wants their own SWAT team. Detonation of a nuclear bomb within our borders -- pick any big city -- is a real possibility, as much so now as five years ago. Meanwhile, many Democrats have conceded the very subject of security and positioned themselves as Guardians of Our Forests and Benefactors of Waifs and Owls, neglecting the most basic job of government, which is to defend this country. We might rather be comedians or daddies or tattoo artists or flamenco dancers, but we must attend to first things.

The peaceful lagoon that is the White House is designed for the comfort of a vulnerable man. Perfectly understandable, but not what is needed now. The U.S. Constitution provides a simple ultimate way to hold him to account for war crimes and the failure to attend to the country's defense. Impeach him and let the Senate hear the evidence.


Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" can be heard Saturday nights on public radio stations across the country.)


Informant: NHNE


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeachment

Controversial plans to put a mobile phone mast on the top of council offices in Oswestry have been thrown out by councillors after a massive show of opposition.

Proposals by O2 Airwave to put the Tetra mast at the borough’s Castle View offices were opposed by neighbours, councillors and staff working at the nearby library.

Councillors at last night’s development control committee meeting voted to refuse the application.

In a report put before councillors, planning officers recommended the application be refused, stating the proposed aerial and equipment would be “unduly dominant”.

The full version of this article appears in the Oswestry edition of tonight’s Shropshire Star.

© 2003-06 Shropshire Newspapers Ltd

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=42930

Annya is one of hundreds of thousands of victims living the devastating aftermath of Chernobyl. For Annya and for the thousands of children like her, you need to speak out and say NO more nuclear, NO more Chernobyls. If you don’t, who will?

Call on United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and IAEA Director-General ElBharadei to stop its promotion of a dirty, dangerous industry and focus its resources exclusively on its critical mission of disarmament and world peace.

http://ctk.greenpeace.org/gp-en/ctk-collectors/respond?item%5fid=2047368&obj_skin_id=51

Strike the Root
by David MacGregor

02/28/06

The 'currency' of free speech has also been devalued over recent years, with the gradual erosion of rights in this regard. Now we find that free speech is fine -- as long as you don't use it to offend anyone, like uttering stereotypical opinions about gays, lesbians, Hispanics, feminists, right or left-wingers, the unemployed, solo mothers, fat people, macho males, Asians, and other assorted targets. Then, of course, there's the Orwellian-sounding war on 'hate speech' -- whatever that is. So we're left with a sort of emasculated free speech -- free speech in name only. Free speech for wimps. Which brings me to the point of this essay: Do you have the right to utter, draw, write, record or otherwise make public your own personal opinions? And do you have the right to have access to such opinions of others? And my answer is yes. For if this right is curtailed, then it is just the beginning of a slippery slope to full censorship. Once you accept the principle of 'limited' free speech, then it's only a matter of time before the limits become more and more onerous, until one day you wake up and the limits are total...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/macgregor/macgregor3.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

PETER WALSH

01 March 2006 10:26

A woman fears plans to install a mobile phone mast on a prestigious city road will scupper her plans to sell her home.

As the Evening News reported earlier this month, O2 has applied for permission to put up a 12.5m, slimline mast, antennae and two ground-based equipment cabinets on Newmarket Road.

But the proposed mast site, 221 to 223 Newmarket Road, will be directly outside Jane Malynn's home.

She said: “My house is in the process of being sold, but the people buying it cancelled having the survey done because they wanted to know what was going on with the mast. They might not go through with it now.”

Mrs Malynn, who has lived on the road for the past 11 years but is moving following the break-up of her marriage, said she would be objecting to the mast.

“There's still a lot of uncertainty about whether these masts can damage people's health.”

Mrs Malynn said other people living in the area had also objected.

Last month, we reported how James Lord, 75, of Glenalmond, off Newmarket Road, said he would be against such a proposal in a “prime residential area”.

It is the second proposal for a mobile phone mast on Newmarket Road in the space of a few months.

In December, campaigners celebrated after the city council's planning committee rejected an application by Vodafone to put up a 10m mast near the Newmarket Road doctors' surgery.

The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved that they are safe.

People living in the area have until Wednesday, March 8, to register their comments or objections to the scheme with Norwich City Council.

A spokeswoman for O2 said: “There's no evidence of any risk to health and the site is needed for coverage and capacity in the area.”

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Planners are tomorrow expected to give the go-ahead to a phone mast on top of the BT building in Whiting Street, despite angry protests from nearby residents. Vodafone has applied to put up three aerials on the building and St Edmundsbury Borough Council's development control committee is being recommended by officers to give approval at tomorrow's meeting.

More than 30 letters of objection have been sent to the council, while ward councillor Paul Farmer has received a petition signed by 70 residents.

"This issue has come back like a bad penny, but it never fails to unite local people," said Cllr Farmer.

"I am surprised and disappointed by this recommendation, as I am sure local residents will be."

He said previous applications, in 2000 and 2003, had been refused by the council and dismissed by an inspector on appeal.

Concerns by residents include fears that granting permission will discourage redevelopment of the building. The proposal would also create a precedent for further telecommunication equipment to be installed and it would also spoil the skyline.

Other sites examined for the antennae were the cathedral tower, Bury Town Football Club, Greene King brewery, the St Edmundsbury Borough Council offices and properties in the town centre, including the former JobCentre.

Vodafone wants to install the masts as part of its UK network to improve mobile phone coverage for the town centre and points out the installation conforms to safety guidelines.

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Bury MP David Ruffley said: "This recommendation shows absolutely no regard for the wishes of local residents and the serious concerns local councillors and I have expressed."

01 March 2006

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Pressefreiheit: Gesetzliche Grauzonen gefährden den Schutz von Informanten und Journalisten

„Heute - am 27.2.06 - wurde bekannt, dass die Polizei im Jahr 2004 monatelang die Telefone zweier Journalisten in Wolfsburg sowie die der "Wolfsburger Allgemeinen Zeitung" (WAZ) kontrollieren und die Verbindungsdaten ermitteln ließ. Wie die Zeitung mitteilt, suchte die Polizei nach "Indizien für ihren diffusen Verdacht, Mitarbeiter der WAZ hätten Polizeibeamte bestochen, um an Informationen zu kommen. Der Verdacht hat sich als haltlos erwiesen, die entsprechenden Verfahren wurden eingestellt."…“ Pressemitteilung der Deutschen Journalistinnen- und Journalisten-Union (dju) in ver.di vom 27.02.2006 http://dju.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id=1f0680c6-a797-11da-40f8-000e0c672418


An den inneren Grenzen der Pressefreiheit. Angst vor Ärger und Ausgaben: Der investigative Journalismus wird auch von Geldsorgen in die Schranken gewiesen / Eine Tagung in Bad Boll

"Es gibt zwei Grenzen der Pressefreiheit: Mangelnder Mut und Mangel an Geld." Mit dieser These überraschte der Münchner Medienanwalt Holger Weimann am Samstag das Tagungs-Publikum in der Evangelischen Akademie in Bad Boll, das bei dem Thema "Grenzen der Pressefreiheit" eher an Paragrafendschungel und Redaktionsdurchsuchungen gedacht hatte…“Artikel von Ursula Knapp in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 27.02.2006 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/fr_home/startseite/?sid=6c0fccbd9c48659c604d0984de5991c3&cnt=815837


Die getarnten Fallmanager der Repression

„Verborgen von der Augen der Öffentlichkeit haben Politik und Sicherheitsorgane ein flächendeckendes Netz der Bespitzelung, Überwachung und Repression über die Bevölkerung der BRD gelegt. Vorreiter sind die von der CDU/CSU regierten Länder Bayern und Baden-Württemberg. Örtliche Fallmanager aus Staatsschutz, Verfassungsschutz und Staatsanwaltschaften organisieren die - teils offene, teils verdeckte - Repression gegen die betroffenen Dissidenten…“ Artikel von 1984 vom 21.02.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/02/139649.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2006

„Hartz IV verteilt Einkommen unter den ärmsten Haushalten um. Rund 60
Prozent verlieren, etwa 40 Prozent gewinnen. So schätzt eine aktuelle
Simulationsstudie* die unmittelbaren Auswirkungen für Betroffene ein…“
Böckler impuls 4/2006 (pdf)

http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/impuls_2006_04_1.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2006