World-News

US-led coalition forces and Iraq's authorities may be violating international law by arbitrarily detaining thousands of people, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report published Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806O.shtml

Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company's acquisition of operations at six major US ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806M.shtml

The New York Times editorial states, "It has been our nightmare since the Bush administration began stashing prisoners it did not want to account for in Guantanamo Bay: An ordinary man with a name something like a Taliban bigwig's is swept up in the dragnet and imprisoned without any hope of proving his innocence."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806L.shtml

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806J.shtml

On Thursday, March 9, please join the nationwide call-in day to support a strong Endangered Species Act! On Thursday, please call your Senators and urge them to (1) support a strong Endangered Species Act and (2) oppose any efforts to change the Act this year.

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee may take action on an Endangered Species Act bill as soon as this month. We need your help to make sure the Senate supports the Endangered Species Act and to ensure that no bill dismantling the Act passes the Senate!

For over 30 years, the Endangered Species Act has been a safety net for wildlife, fish and plants on the brink of extinction. It has been successful in preventing the extinction of the American bald eagle, gray wolf and Pacific salmon, as well as many other species.

However, the Endangered Species Act is under threat from special interests and the politicians they give money to. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would significantly weaken protections for endangered species and habitat. It is now up to the U.S. Senate to save the Endangered Species Act!

It is critically important that Senators from across the country hear from their constituents that the American public supports the Endangered Species Act and the fish, plants and wildlife it protects in their states. Please join with Americans across the country by calling your Senators on Thursday, March 9. Please ask your friends, relatives and colleagues to join you in calling. It only takes about three minutes of your time, but the results could last a lifetime.

Center for Biological Diversity

If the ancient political wisdom is correct that a charge unanswered is a charge agreed to, the Bush White House pleaded guilty yesterday at the Cato Institute to some extraordinary allegations. True, the small-government libertarians represented by Cato have always been the odd men out of the Bush coalition. But the standing-room-only forum yesterday, where just a single questioner offered even a tepid defense of the president, underscored some deep disillusionment among conservatives over Bush's big-spending answer to Medicare, Hurricane Katrina, his vast claims of executive power and his handling of postwar Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806I.shtml

President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security yesterday to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives within 45 days to eliminate regulatory, contracting and programmatic barriers to providing federal funds to religious groups to deliver social services, the White House announced last night.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806E.shtml

The CIA signaled Tuesday it likely will fight the release of highly classified presidential intelligence briefings that Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide wants to use in his defense against perjury charges.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806D.shtml

In an in-depth interview disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff sheds new light on his close relationships with top conservatives, including some not typically associated with the Abramoff scandals, like Ken Mehlman and Newt Gingrich.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806A.shtml

08.03.06

Der von der Opposition angestrebte Untersuchungsausschuss zur Rolle der Geheimdienste im so genannten Anti-Terror-Krieg stößt bei den Regierungsparteien weiter auf Kritik. SPD-Fraktionsvize Fritz Rudolf Körper sagte am Mittwoch im Deutschlandradio Kultur, ein solches Gremium sei nicht im Sicherheitsinteresse Deutschlands. Die internationale Zusammenarbeit der Geheimdienste dürfe nicht weiter offen gelegt werden. Empört hat FDP-Chef Guido Westerwelle die Vorwürfe seitens der großen Koalition zurückgewiesen, der von den Liberalen unterstützte Untersuchungsausschuss gefährde die nationale Sicherheit. "Die argumentieren wie Franz Josef Strauß bei der Spiegel-Affäre: Wer den Rechtsstaat verteidige, der schade Deutschland." Das sei eine Haltung "wie im Absolutismus", so Westerwelle.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13108

08.03.06

In der deutschen Friedensbewegung geht die Furcht vor einem neuen Angriffskrieg um. "Die USA scheinen entschlossen, gegen den Iran einen Luftkrieg zu führen", schreiben die Zusammenschlüsse Kooperation für den Frieden, Netzwerk Friedenskooperative und der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag. Diesmal könne es Washington gelingen, die EU vor ihren Kriegskarren zu spannen, wenn sich nicht die Bürgerinnen und Bürger dagegen zur Wehr setzen. "Wir lehnen mit aller Entschiedenheit einen neuen Krieg ab. Selbst wenn Teheran Atomwaffen anstrebte, die wir ebenso ablehnen, könnte der Iran auf absehbare Zeit niemanden mit Atomwaffen bedrohen, ungeachtet aller verbaler Attacken des iranischen Präsidenten Ahmadinedschad, die wir scharf verurteilen", heißt es in einem Aufruf der Friedensbewegung, der auch von den Ärzten für die Verhütung eines Atomkrieges (IPPNW) unterstützt wird. Eine friedliche politische Lösung sei "also durchaus möglich". Die Vereinigten Staaten nutzten die iranischen Atomanlagen nur als Anlass für viel weiter reichende Ziele: Der Iran solle zu einer unbedeutenden Macht zurückgebombt werden, "um Amerikas Vormachtstellung im Mittleren Osten weiter auszubauen". Deshalb sei zu befürchten, "dass außer Atomanlagen auch die Infrastruktur des Landes, wie 1991 im Irak, wichtige Versorgungseinrichtungen wie Ölraffinerien und militärische Ziele bombardiert werden sollen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13113

Find out how much money your members of Congress receive from the oil industry.

http://www.truemajority.org/oilchange.php

Today we learned that some U.S. Senators are pushing a plan aimed at slipping oil rigs into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge through a back door. The deal would change the federal budget so that it counts on the income generated from drilling in the refuge – despite the fact that Congress has repeatedly voted against sinking oil wells there.

Most Americans don’t want oil rigs in the arctic,1 and the payback wouldn’t even amount to 1/20th of our oil demand.2 So why are some lawmakers so obsessed with letting oil companies into the wildlife refuge?

Here’s one potential answer: Senators on the budget committee have taken a total of $4 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry. One of the senators pushing hardest for the drilling plan, Pete Domenici (R-NM),3 has collected more than anyone else on the committee.

Our friends at the Separation of Oil & State campaign have made it easy to find out how much oil money your Congressional representatives have taken. Even more importantly, they’ve launched a campaign to put an end to it, by insisting that the people who represent us stop taking this money.

http://www.truemajority.org/oilchange.php

We can fight these bad ideas each time they come up, and we will - but we also need to get at the core of the problem by working to get this oil money out of our government.

Clean energy advocates and activists have noted for decades that the barriers to a clean energy transition are political, not technical. The profits of the oil companies have increased just as the price of gas for all of us has gone up. But what’s good for Exxon, Chevron, and others is not necessarily good for the rest of us. It’s time to ensure that our representatives represent us, not the oil companies.

Find out how much oil money YOUR Representatives take, then sign on to Separation of Oil & State’s campaign to put a stop to it.

http://www.truemajority.org/oilchange.php

Separation of Oil & State is a campaign to get oil money out of politics. It’s important that we demand that our representatives stand up for the future of energy, not for the dinosaurs of the oil industry. Hybrid cars, biodiesel, energy efficiency, and wind power are economically viable technologies today - and yet our politicians continue to use our tax money to subsidize and support Big Oil to the tune of billions of dollars every year. The first step in ending our collective addiction to oil is reducing oil's influence over our politicians and demanding political independence from Big Oil.

In the meantime, we'll track the Arctic drilling plan and be back in touch with opportunities to put a stop to it.


Thanks,

Matt Holland
TrueMajority


1 Poll Finds Strong Majority Opposes Drilling in Arctic Wildlife Refuge; Bipartisan Survey Also Reveals Overwhelming Opposition to Backdoor Budget Maneuvers.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=42877

2 " Some facts about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." Associated Press.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051221-0009-arcticdrilling-glance.html

3 " Senate Panel Drops Spending Cuts." Washington Post, March 7, 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701225.html

Forward this widely or use the link below to spread the word.

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Informant: Martin Greenhut

Your emails had enough impact last week to at least postpone final vote on the so-called "National Uniformity for Food Act". Not a single democrat voted to advance the bill and there were Republican defections. But we must keep the heat on with as many phone calls as we can muster as early today, Wed. March 8, as possible, as the final vote could happen then. Here are the toll-free numbers in the Capitol, just ask for your house member by name.

TOLL FREE NUMBERS: 888-355-3588, 888-818-6641, 800-426-8073

The most outrageous thing about this attempt to cut the legs off state food labeling protections is the fact they have tried to sneak it through without ANY hearings whatsoever. It's just a bought and paid for bill written by industry for industry, and it would turn the corruption of our food into classified information. If you have not done so already, the action page below will send your personal message in real time.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.nocrony.com/food_safety.php

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

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Der Bericht einer von der britischen Regierung eingesetzten Kommission sieht für ein neues Atomprogramm zur Energieerzeugung derzeit keine Rechtfertigung.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22202/1.html

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Uran für Atomkraftwerke reicht noch maximal 65 Jahre

Greenpeace legt Uran-Report vor

Ansichten dieses Artikels:
http://www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/user_upload/themen/atomkraft/2006_01_Uranreport_Langfassung.pdf


MfG

Helmut Breunig

by Laurie Beacham and Amy Widman, TomPaine.com

Federal agencies are overturning state laws in order to protect industries from facing injured consumers in court.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/08/regulating_consumers_aiding_industry.php

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

The Bush administration has replaced the rule of law with the rule by one.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/08/unitary_executive_or_autocracy.php

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna35.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Unknown News
by Kevin Good

03/07/06

The Bush administration blew the $236,400,000,000 (billion with a 'B') they received at the beginning of the game in their first year, but continued playing, using our US Treasury credit card. (see 'World War $$$ score card graph' at the end). Also in the first nine months on September 10, 2001, twenty four hours before the 9/11 attacks, the Administration announces it can not account for $2,300,000,000,000 (that's trillion with a 'T') or about $8,000 per citizen watching them play this game on their behalf...

http://www.unknownnews.org/060307infobabble.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The First Amendment vs. ... "The Simpsons?"

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

03/02/06

If we were ranking Americans' civil liberties, we'd have to say that the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances) would rate at the top in terms of their importance. Not to diminish the significance of all other liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments to the Constitution, but those five freedoms are at the core of our free republic. Yet those five freedoms seem to be the targets of constant attack...

http://tinyurl.com/zggg6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

03/07/06

House Republican leaders on Tuesday embraced legislation that would block a Dubai-owned company from taking over operations at several U.S. ports, brushing aside a veto threat from President Bush. 'We want to make sure that the security of our ports are in America's hands,' said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., whose House Appropriations Committee planned to approve the measure Wednesday...

http://tinyurl.com/mzv7z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

03/07/06

The Senate plans to take up a measure again to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M. said today. Less than three months after failing to attach similar language to a Defense Department spending bill, drilling supporters hope to use a budget bill to permit exploration in the nation's largest, untapped oil deposit...

http://tinyurl.com/hzez5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Forty-one years ago today, 600 peaceful demonstrators were brutally attacked by local and state police as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery to protest discrimination at the ballot box. This horrific event, which is now remembered as "Bloody Sunday," ignited public sympathy and led to passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.

As Congress prepares to consider reauthorization of this historic law, the ACLU is leading the effort to end ongoing discrimination against minority voters and ensure full participation for all Americans in our democratic process.

Beginning today, our "Every Voice. Every Vote." campaign reaches out to lawmakers and the public with an urgent call to renew the VRA.

In two new and comprehensive reports, we've documented the ACLU's legal challenges to VRA violations since 1982 and demonstrated the continuing need for the law.

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=4FzX9UxHYkEca3B5nspW2w..

And this week we premiere the "Voting Rights" episode of The ACLU Freedom Files on CourtTV and LinkTV.

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=oUSOTGTLs1HOSDfgwsinnQ..

The episode takes you into communities where people's voting power is diluted through the manipulation of political districts, intimidation at polls and undemocratic laws.

The right to vote is a keystone of our democracy. Although we have come a long way over the past 41 years, without the VRA, more citizens could find themselves deprived of equal access to the ballot box.

Legislation to reauthorize the VRA will be introduced in Congress during the next few weeks and some members of Congress are pushing to water down or eliminate key provisions. If you care about the right to vote, please learn more and get involved today:

1. Read the Reports. To learn about the ongoing struggle to preserve and defend the right to vote, read our reports at: http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/24393res20060306.html

2. Take Action! Visit http://www.votingrights.org to learn more, or send a letter to your members of Congress urging them to renew the VRA. Read more and take action at: http://www.votingrights.org

3. Watch the Show: Find out more about the impact of disfranchisement on people's lives in the new Freedom Files episode on CourtTV and LinkTV this week! Watch the trailer and learn how to host your own House Party, join our Producers Club and get a free DVD: http://www.aclu.tv/vote

4. Watch Catherine Crier Live on Court TV. This Thursday, March 9, ACLU Legislative Counsel LaShawn Warren will discuss the Voting Rights Act this from 5:00-6:00 p.m. EST. Check your local listings for times in your area.

5. Please Tell Your Friends! Share the "Voting Rights" show with friends, family or co-workers and we'll send you a free DVD of the episode: http://action.aclu.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id=2061&s_src=vremail&s_subsrc=taf

I hope you'll get involved and help us renew and restore the VRA. It is an essential tool in our democratic system.


Sincerely,

Signature

Caroline Fredrickson
Director,
Washington Legislative Office American Civil Liberties Union

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1965 Civil Rights Death Gets New Look

The case of the fatal shooting by a state trooper that helped inspire the march from Selma in 1965 as well as the "Bloody Sunday" protest that preceded it, will be reopened next week by a special grand jury. "There is no question about who did the shooting," said District Attorney Michael Jackson. "The question is whether this was a murder or it was something else." Jackson reopened the case at the request of constituents who felt the full story had never been told.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407O.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0307-11.htm


Informant: dmetke



Five Vermont Towns Endorse Move to Impeach

In Newfane, Vermont, in a white-clapboard town hall circa 1832, voters gathered Tuesday to conduct their community's annual business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush. "In the US presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation," said select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article that was placed on the warning - or official agenda - for this year's town meeting.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806C.shtml



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Subject: Congress Can Stop the U.S.-India Nuclear Proliferation Agreement - FCNL
From: "Kathy Guthrie"
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:28:38 -0500 (EST)

When President Bush arrived in New Delhi last week, India had the capacity to produce 6 to 10 nuclear weapons per year. When he departed after reaching a tentative nuclear deal with India, that South East Asian nation will potentially be able to produce nearly 50 nuclear weapons per year.

Before the new U.S.-India nuclear agreement is implemented, however, Congress will have to approve changes to existing legislation that would weaken several nonproliferation laws. This deal would undermine years of work by the U.S. to strengthen the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the international agreement endorsed by 188 nations that bans the export of nuclear technology to countries that don't agree to international inspections of their nuclear programs.

India has refused to sign the NPT and has conducted tests of a nuclear weapon as recently as 1998. Nonetheless, the Bush administration wants to provide India with nuclear technology and fuel. In exchange, India has agreed to international inspections for 14 of its 22 nuclear reactors. This proposal undermines the NPT by tacitly encouraging other countries to make bilateral nuclear agreements with non-NPT members in violation of a basic principle of that agreement.

The proposed U.S.-India agreement could also deteriorate relatively stable relations between India and Pakistan if the latter perceives this agreement to be an aggressive move. What would stop Pakistan from reaching a similar agreement with China? Furthermore, even while the U.S. is criticizing Iran (an NPT member) for developing its nuclear technology, the U.S. is simultaneously creating a double standard by offering India (a non-NPT member) similar nuclear technology. The U.S. loses a lot from this nuclear agreement with India and gains very little.

*Congress Can Block This Deal* The verbal nuclear cooperation agreement that President Bush negotiated with Indian Prime Minister Singh last week is far from a done deal. Congress will soon begin debating legislation to implement the U.S.-India nuclear agreement.

Please let your representative know that you care about reducing the nuclear danger and that you oppose the U.S.-India nuclear deal. To see reasons and talking points visit http://www.fcnl.org/redir/1506india/

Rep. Ed Markey (MA), a leading critic of the deal, recently quipped, "You can't preach temperance from a barstool." If you have not done so, please encourage your representative to cosponsor

H.Con.Res. 318
( http://www.fcnl.org/redir/1606hconres318/ ), a bipartisan resolution expressing concern about the proposed nuclear plan. See an updated list of cosponsors: http://www.fcnl.org/redir/1706cosponsors/

Some congressional offices have not heard from their constituents on this issue, so many may think that the public does not care about or understand this issue. Your emails and calls to your representative are key, especially if he or she is on the House International Relations Committee. Find out if your representative is on this committee at http://www.fcnl.org/redir/1806houseir/

Read FCNL's Legislative Action Message on the U.S.-India nuclear deal from two weeks ago: http://www.fcnl.org//redir/1906indialam/. For updated information about the U.S.-India nuclear deal, please visit: http://www.fcnl.org/redir/2006nuclear/


The Next Step for Iraq: Join FCNL's Iraq Campaign, http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/

Contact Congress and the Administration: http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/officials/


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Informant: Martin Greenhut

In a message dated 3/7/06 5:57:35 PM, poetcrab writes:

<< San Francisco City Council Joins Impeachment Movement

Help Place Impeachment Ad in the San Francisco Chronicle

While we were working in the last week to raise sufficient funds to place the full page newspaper ad in the San Francisco Chronicle before March 18, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (the city council) voted by a 7-3 margin to support the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The resolution calls on the Democratic delegation from the city to move for impeachment. The timing of the ad couldn't be better. Similar resolutions are being offered in city councils around the country. The people must use all avenues to pursue this growing nationwide grassroots movement.

We need to urgently raise $15,000 to finish paying for the next full page newspaper ad. Click here to make a donation today. Each time the ad appears, the impeachment message reaches hundreds of thousands of new people. Many become active volunteers and supporters, and in turn help reach other people in their community, neighborhood and work place. Click here to help to help pay for the upcoming ad in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The impeachment campaign is in full swing

Just last week tens of thousands of people participated in the People’s Impeachment Lobby by sending letters to their Congressional Representatives.

Last Thursday, New York City’s historic Town Hall Theatre in Times Square filled up with people supporting impeachment. The event was sponsored by Harper’s magazine. Many of those in attendance took the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org petitions home with them promising to collect signatures in the coming weeks.

Radio personality Garrison Keillor has just released an article entitled "Impeach Bush." and actor Richard Dreyfuss called for impeachment, while speaking before the National Press Club in Washington.

28 members of US Congress have now signed on to H Res 635, including US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the original co-sponsor. The current 28 total co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Rep. John Olver (D-MA), Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

Everyone who has been active with ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org as a volunteer, activist or donor should be proud. When this movement started, we were confronted by the naysayers who said it couldn’t be done. Bush was tall in the saddle back then. The people who have made this movement come alive didn’t persevere because the issue was “popular.” People have sacrificed to make this movement happen because it is critically important. There was too much at stake to remain passive.

We receive letters from people all over the country and they breathe of confidence and conviction. Elderly people and those on fixed income send messages and moving stories, sometimes with a donation of a single dollar bill. A one dollar or five dollar donation from someone on a fixed income can be as great a sacrifice as a larger donation from someone who makes a decent salary or has savings. This a true people’s movement and it can only succeed by everyone showing their support. Click here to help the movement grow.

-All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org

Please see below for the SF Chronicle story on the Impeachment resolution.

Published on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Supervisors Ask Lawmakers to Impeach Bush

by Edward Epstein, Charlie Goodyear

San Francisco's supervisors jumped into national politics Tuesday, passing a resolution asking the city's Democratic congressional delegation to seek the impeachment of President Bush for failing to perform his duties by leading the country into war in Iraq, eroding civil liberties and engaging in other activities the board sees as transgressions.

The supervisors, in voting 7-3 for the resolution, made it likely that San Francisco again will become grist for radio and TV talk shows. The city has appeared in the national media spotlight recently for voters' passage in November of a nonbinding measure banning military recruiters from public high schools and for Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's recent comment on a Fox News show that the United States doesn't need a military.

Supervisor Chris Daly, one of the most progressive members of the board, sponsored the resolution, which also calls for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Daly said the measure is justified in light of the administration's case for and handling of the war in Iraq, the federal government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina and recent revelations about a domestic wiretapping program."I think the case is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in," Daly said. >>


Informant: Hopedance



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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030206_world_stories.shtml#0

Excerpts from a presentation at the annual meetings of the American Public Health Association.

By Dan Bednarz, PhD Philadelphia,
December 14, 2005
http://www.energybulletin.net/12158.html


Informant: Friends

FOR US CITIZENS ONLY BUT PLEASE THOSE NON-US WIDELY CROSSPOST. DEADLINE IS 16 MARCH 2006 - URGENT - PLEASE READ BELOW !! THANKS FOR YOUR COMPREHENSION. HUGS,

AGNES C.

Date: Sunday, March 5, 2006
Subject: fwd: Action Deadline March 16, 2006

Hi Everyone,

this is from my friend Mari and really needs some attention. Please note that the petition on the WWF site can be signed only by US citizens (I know because I tried) but forward as much as possible. Thanks. Love and hugs,

Jessie

(Please Forward) Over 14 Million animals we be left dead or homeless in the USA

Help Save 625 Acres of California Redwood Forest Over 14 Million Trees!

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=591&pst=429050&archival=


Lompico Headwaters Matching Fund http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=591&pst=436452


Roadless Areas - Oregon

ACTION DEADLINE: March 16, 2006

President Bush has proposed huge cuts in key programs that protect animals and habitat across the globe, including tropical forests. Now is the time to tell your members of Congress how important these initiatives are to you, before the March 16 deadline for members of Congress to push for these programs.

The president wants Congress to slash funding for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a little known but extremely important international institution that supports conservation projects around the world. The GEF has helped prevent conflicts over scarce water resources in the Nile basin, expand the use of renewable energy in Mexico, and eliminate dangerous pesticides in Africa. The United States has repeatedly underpaid what it has pledged to the GEF. Now, the president wants to make even deeper cuts.

In addition, the president wants to reduce by more than half the funding for implementation of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act. On the positive side, the president has requested level funding for international biodiversity conservation programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

»» TAKE ACTION: Learn more and urge your members of Congress to support strong funding to protect nature around the globe.

Please speak out now. Thank you for your help.

http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=29388


Informant: Abid

By RICHARD DOWN

OUTRAGED residents have been left seething amid claims they were not told about plans to build a 100ft mobile phone mast near their homes.

A giant mobile phone mast for Orange is being built on the boundary of Guilden Sutton and Littleton but Tarvin Road residents say Chester City Council failed to consult them about it.

Edward Courage, 50, of Tarvin Road, said: “Planning permission for a mast has been applied for a number of times in the past but the applications have been unsuccessful and have been rejected but this time it has been allowed to go through.”

He is furious because he believes the city council sneaked the consultation through last September without properly consulting the people along Tarvin Road.

He said: “The Guilden Sutton ward had a site meeting but omitted to ask us to it. The first we’ve heard about it is the idea we have to go to the High Court to make our views known.

“The city council has told us it’s our only recourse, that and the ombudsman.

“Unfortunately none of us know how to go about doing either of these things.

“I think all 50 people living along here have signed a letter to the council asking for the mast to be shrouded or moved.

“The only shrouding the mast has had is that it has been painted green.

“The reason we’re so annoyed is the only joy we have is the view to the north. We feel completely let down.”

Like many other residents along the road he feels the height of the mast is excessive.

Mr Courage said: “There must be at least 100 masts in Chester, there’s no need to build the mast so high.”

Disputes

Another Tarvin Road resident said: “Everyone along the road is affected by it and you can see it from the road.

“We want to get as many facts together about this as possible to make sure what we’re saying is right. Then we will be in a better position to act.”

Brian Hughes, development co-ordination manager, said: “I’m going out to a meeting with the residents on Thursday.

“But the planning board generally only notify people within a certain radius and the Tarvin road properties are not in the 200 metre radius of the transmitter.”

He also disputes the fact the council has acted unfairly in the way they have gone about accepting the mast.

He said: “No-one has a right to look over someone else’s land for a view. They’re not in a position to protect their view and people’s views are not something we can take into account in considering a planning application. I understand their point but you can’t do anything about it.”

The city council is already reviewing the process by which the permission was granted, which is standard practice when complaints are made after a planning board approval but Mr Hughes was confident the review would not find any fault in council procedures.

He said: “We realise this needs to be done as soon as possible so the residents know where they stand.

“They want a firm position from us so they know whether we feel we have made a mistake or not then they’re able to take the next step.

“I’m not sure I want to go into speculating about the possible outcomes.

“The ombudsman can’t change the decision but he can require the council to pay compensation if he feels their homes have been unduly affected by a planning decision. The other course of action is to take things to judicial review.”

news@chestereveningleader.co.uk

http://www.chestereveningleader.co.uk/ihome3/detail.asp?storyid=770&catid=News&officeid=15

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,404901,00.html

(SPON) "Ausnahmezustand " hieß die gestrige Folge der ARD-Krankenhausserie "In aller Freundschaft ". Ein kleiner Junge erkrankt darin am Vogelgrippe-Virus. Das Drehbuch des Quotenrenners war kaum mehr als eine Ansammlung von Fehlinformationen, die bei vielen Zuschauern für Irritation sorgte.

Auch die ARD ist anscheinend bemüht, den Pentagonchef Rumsfeld bei seiner Alterssicherung zu unterstützen: dieser hält ein nicht unerhebliches Aktienpaket bei der kalifornischen Firma "Gilead Services", die als Lizenzgeberin u.a. an den Pharmakonzern Roche für Tami Flu ein naheliegendes Interesse an der Entwicklung der Umsätze hat. Wir können gespannt sein, welche Qualität die Desinformationen durch den öffentlichen Rundfunk in dieser Sache noch annehmen werden und welche weiteren Manöver uns noch erwarten.


Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23703 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23703


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

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H5N1 in Afrika: Die Vogelgrippe-Panikmache kann weitergehen

(ht) Was kritische Beobachter schon vorausgesehen haben, ist nun eingetroffen: Angebliche Vogelgrippe-Ausbrüche in Afrika. Da von dort im Frühjahr die Zugvögel zurückkommen, dürfen wir mit einer Fortsetzung der Angstmacherei bei uns rechnen.

Hier nachlesen: http://www.nzz.ch/2006/02/10/vm/articleDKGNO.html
Neue Züricher Zeitung, 10. Febr. 2006 http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/02/10/025a0407.asp?cat=/medizin/infektionskrankheiten Ärzte Zeitung, 10. Febr. 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 07/2006

"You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die." The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8163.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hollywood

By Charles Sullivan

Why do we tolerate the kind of government we now have? Why do we allow it to rape and plunder the earth that provides the sweet gift of life, and divvy up the profits among the rich? Why do we sit by quietly and allow the invasion and occupation of sovereign nations by the armed forces? Why do we allow our government to fleece the poor by providing eternal welfare to the rich? Why do we allow this government to represent the interest of the wealthy by neglecting the needs of the many?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12239.htm

By Zbigniew Brezezinski

America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world’s population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12243.htm

Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday. Cheney, speaking to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, also reaffirmed that the United States was keeping all options on the table - including military force - in its determination to prevent Iran from developing nuclear arms.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706B.shtml



Veep Doo-Doo

The vice-presidency isn't what it used to be. No one bothered to rate the favorability of Garret Hobart, Charles Dawes, or Alben Barkley. But the clout of that once legendarily insignificant office has been growing for half a century. Cheney is Bush without the charm, the Michael Gerson speech texts, and the presidential sheen. What he personifies, above all, is the raw reality of Bush's signature policies, all of which he has had a strong hand in creating, writes Hendrik Hertzberg.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706F.shtml

Republicans in Congress are trying to limit the scope of any investigation into how President Bush's secret domestic surveillance program has operated. Some key lawmakers are also working to legalize such spying on US citizens in the future.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706A.shtml

After months of refusing to answer questions from MPs or the media, the British government disclosed that two aircraft known to have been chartered by the CIA landed 14 times at RAF Northholt, west London, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire between October 2003 and May 2004.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706L.shtml

The top US envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a "Pandora's box" of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf the region in all-out war and disrupt the global economy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706K.shtml

It's now been almost 2 weeks since the February 22nd bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, a holy place for Shia Muslims. And the violence between Shia and Sunni factions continues unabated, despite Bush Administration claims to the contrary, with more than 500 Iraqis killed in just the past 13 days.

Still, our brave men and women in uniform remain in harm's way, caught in the middle of an increasingly violent religious conflict -- and the situation is in real danger of spiraling into a full-scale civil war.

Our troops deserve better. More than 31,000 Americans have already signed my online petition to Secretary Rumsfeld, demanding a plan for protecting our troops in the increasingly likely event of an all-out civil war. Won't you join us?

Tell Secretary Rumsfeld to develop a plan for getting our troops out of the middle of an Iraqi civil war -- sign my petition now!

http://ga4.org/campaign/iraqicivilwar

You and I and millions of Americans have demanded an exit strategy, which the Bush Administration has still refused to produce. At a minimum, we've demanded a real timetable with concrete, measurable milestones so we can measure our progress towards withdrawing American troops.

Now, with full-scale civil war a real possibility, the Bush Administration must do more -- and quickly. President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld can't continue to bury their heads in the sand about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Iraq. It's time for them to wake up to the facts and plan for the worst: how to get our troops out from the middle of a potential civil war.

That's why I wrote to Secretary Rumsfeld nearly 2 weeks ago, urging him to produce a plan for the worst-case scenario of full-scale civil war in Iraq -- and to share that plan with Congress. His response? Silence.

I guess the Secretary of Defense thinks he can ignore a legitimate inquiry from a Senator representing the largest state in the Union. So tell him he can't ignore tens of thousands of Americans.

More than 31,000 Americans have already signed my petition, and I want your name on it as well before I take it to the Pentagon. Please sign my petition to Secretary Rumsfeld now!

http://ga4.org/campaign/iraqicivilwar

Given this Administration's past failure to plan for the Iraqi insurgency after the American invasion, we can't take anything for granted. It seems that the Bush Administration can only see things through rose-colored glasses. And that's clearly not acceptable with American lives on the line.

The only way we'll know that they're prepared is if they develop a plan for dealing with an Iraqi civil war -- and share that plan with the relevant committees in Congress, so the American people can be reassured that the Bush Administration is ahead of the curve, for a change.

Our brave servicemen and women deserve no less than the very best from their civilian leaders. With your help and vigilance, we'll make sure that's what they get.

Please sign my petition to Secretary Rumsfeld now -- before I deliver it to the Pentagon this week!

http://ga4.org/campaign/iraqicivilwar

Thanks for your continued help and support!

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

P.S. After you sign the petition, please invite everyone you know to join us. I want to add thousands more signatures -- but we need to do it quickly, so I can deliver our petition to the Pentagon this week.

http://ga4.org/campaign/iraqicivilwar/forward/

07.03.06

Die EU-Kommission hat am 3. März die Markteinführung der genetisch modifizierten Maislinie 1507 für den Gebrauch als Nahrungsmittel und Nahrungsbestandteil genehmigt. Die Genehmigung bedeutet, dass dieser Maistyp nunmehr in der EU als Nahrungsmittel, Nahrungsbestandteil oder daraus gewonnenes Produkt, wie Öl und Stärke, vermarktet werden kann. Es handelt sich hierbei um die erste Genehmigung nach der EU-Verordnung 1829/2003 über genetisch modifizierte Nahrungs- und Futtermittel. Im Einklang mit den EU Kennzeichnungs- und Rückverfolgbarkeitsregeln soll auf den betreffenden Produkten auf den genetisch veränderten Mais hingewiesen werden. Wie bei Verfahren über genetisch veränderte Organismen üblich hatte sich der Ministerrat zuvor vor einer Entscheidung gedrückt. Auf diese Weise wird die EU-Kommission verantwortlich für die Entscheidung, die gewöhnlich Genehmigungen für den Einsatz genetisch veränderter Organismen erteilt.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13079

Obgleich sich RFID-Chips nicht als besonders sicher erwiesen haben, will man im US-Heimatschutzministerium die Reichweite des Ablesens auch bei großen Geschwindigkeiten von Fahrzeugen erheblich vergrößern.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22171/1.html

Gemeinsame Aktensammelstelle des FoeBuD e.V. und des CCC zum Informationsfreiheitsgesetz geht online

Der Bielefelder FoeBuD e.V. hat gemeinsam mit dem Chaos Computer Club ein Internetportal eingerichtet. Bürgerinnen und Bürger können hier Akten einstellen und anderen zugänglich machen können, die sie zuvor über das neue Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) angefordert haben. Damit können andere die hohe Gebühr (bis zu 500 Euro) für die Akteneinsicht sparen und die Behörden werden von doppelter Arbeit entlastet. Die gemeinsame Aktensammelstelle ist ab sofort unter http://www.befreite-dokumente.de zu erreichen.

"Wir möchten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz schmackhaft machen und zeigen, dass es tatsächlich genutzt wird", erläutert Mitinitiator Frank Rosengart vom Chaos Computer Club, "zudem kritisieren wir die hohen Gebühren und möchten die Behörden ermuntern, die Akten von sich aus zu veröffentlichen".

Auf der Internetplattform http://www.befreite-dokumente.de können Bürgerinnen, Journalisten oder Anwälte sehr einfach die Akten der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen, die per IFG von den Behörden "freigekauft" wurden. So können die Kosten für eine Recherche minimiert werden und der Staat wird transparenter. Akten, die bereits digital vorliegen, können direkt eingespielt werden. Ansonsten gibt es auch eine Faxnummer (040-40180156), an die man Akten schicken kann. Auch der Postweg steht offen (FoeBuD e.V., Befreite Dokumente, Marktstraße 18, 33602 Bielefeld). Die Aktensammelstellte fungiert als "Marktplatz", wo sich Interessierte finden können, um die Kosten für eine Anfrage zu teilen.

"Es ist eigentlich die Aufgabe der Behörden, eine solche Plattform bereit zu stellen, aber das wird noch einige Jahre dauern", bedauert Axel Rüweler vom FoeBuD e.V. "Die hohen Gebühren kann sich kaum jemand leisten und stehen im krassen Gegensatz zu dem, was das Gesetz eigentlich bezwecken sollte. Mit dem Portal versuchen wir, den Gebühren ein wenig entgegenzuwirken. Der Gesetzgeber ist aufgefordert, hier für Abhilfe zu sorgen."

Hintergrund: Das "Gesetz zur Regelung des Zugangs zu Informationen des Bundes" oder kurz Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) ist seit dem 1. Januar 2006 in Kraft. Das IFG regelt den Zugang zu Akten und Dokumenten und gibt jedem interessierten Bürger die Möglichkeit, beliebige Akten ohne Begründung anzufordern oder einzusehen, sofern nicht wichtige Gründe dagegen sprechen. In den Bundesländern Berlin, Brandenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Schleswig-Holstein gibt es seit Jahren vergleichbare Gesetze. Das Auswärtige Amt war zuletzt in die Kritik geraten, weil es für vier Seiten Fotokopien 106 Euro an Gebühren verlangte.

Der FoeBuD e.V. möchte Bürgerrechte und Demokratie stärken und diese auch bei der Einführung neuer Technologien bewahren. Der Verein ist in der Vergangenheit vor allem durch die Organisation der BigBrotherAwards in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt geworden. Auch im Bereich RFID hat der FoeBuD e.V. richtungsweisende Impulse gesetzt und als erster in Deutschland mit seiner „StopRFID-Kampagne“ auf die Risiken der Technologie hingewiesen. http://www.foebud.org

Der Chaos Computer Club e.V. setzt sich seit Anfang der 80er Jahre kritisch-kreativ mit neuen Technologien auseinander und beleuchtet die politischen und sozialen Nebenwirkungen der Vernetzung. Der Club als "Kommunikationsplattform für Hacker" ist durch Aufdeckung von Sicherheitsproblemen bekannt geworden und setzt sich für freie Kommunikation in den Datennetzen ein. Vereinssitz ist Hamburg; der CCC ist bundesweit mit etwa 2000 Mitgliedern aktiv. http://www.ccc.de

Rückfragen bitte an:

Frank Rosengart, CCC, 0177-3786912 oder Axel Rüweler, FoeBuD e.V., mail@foebud.org, 0521-175254

Making Democracy Transparent

by David Dill, TomPaine.com

The question isn't whether ballot fraud happens. The question is, why should we trust any election results?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/07/making_democracy_transparent.php

by Michael T. Klare, TomPaine.com

It's official. America's closest ally has announced that climate change has ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and arable land.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/07/the_coming_resource_wars.php

Philadelphia Inquirer
by staff

03/06/06

When a human-rights group reported in February that 98 detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan had died in U.S. custody in the war on terror -- nearly half of them under still-secret conditions -- the Bush administration all but shrugged. A Pentagon spokesman said he couldn't provide (or couldn't be bothered to dig up?) a blow-by-blow account of the deaths. Such a bother. The paperwork was scattered around various Army command posts. ... the White House defends its violations of American values and universal human rights by claiming that people who aren't terrorists are -- and that tactics that do amount to torture don't. The current policies are not only wrong; they're counterproductive. First, when you torture people who know little, you goad them to concoct wild stories to stop the pain. Second, when these abuses are revealed -- as they inevitably will be -- they spread hate among America's enemies while shaming the nation to its friends...

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/14026636.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Ali Massoud

03/06/06

Francis Fukuyama now thinks so apparently. One of the intellectual founding fathers of the neo-conservative movement, Johns Hopkins University professor and ex-Reagan administration apparatchik Francis Fukuyama now admits that neo-conservatism's core beliefs don't work in practice as well as they did in theory...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle357-20060305-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/06/06

Underlying the Bush administration's strategic embrace of India is the 'democratic peace theory' -- the premise that democracies don't go to war with each other. This theory is widely held in the popular imagination and among the U.S. foreign policy elite, including that of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, but is of questionable validity. A corollary to the theory is that nuclear-armed democracies are acceptable, but autocratic atomic powers are a threat. When discussing the U.S.-Indian nuclear pact, Nicholas Burns, the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, made this corollary explicit: 'The comparison between India and Iran is just ludicrous. India is a highly democratic, peaceful, stable state that has not proliferated nuclear weapons. Iran is an autocratic state mistrusted by nearly all countries and that has violated its international commitments.' Iran aside, India is democratic, but not 'highly democratic,' and is neither peaceful nor stable, and doesn't always fulfill its international commitments...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1685


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by David R. Henderson

03/06/06

"Imagine an economy whose government spends 2 percent of its GDP on its military. (On average, the world's governments spend just under 2 percent of their countries' GDP on the military, and the U.S. government spends about 4 percent.) Then, imagine that the government suddenly gets into a war and raises military spending to 7 percent of national income. How does that affect people in that country? Whether the government finances the war effort with taxes or debt or by printing money is not very important. What matters much more is that the government now takes an additional 5 percent of the real output of that economy to wage its war...

http://antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8662


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle

03/07/06

An 11-year epoch of increasingly severe solar storms that could fry power grids, disrupt cell-phone calls, knock satellites back to Earth, endanger astronauts in space, and force commercial airliners to change their routes to protect their radio communications and to avoid deadly solar radiation could begin as soon as this fall, scientists announced Monday. When the solar cycle reaches its peak in 2012, it will hurl at Earth mammoth solar storms with intense radiation and clouds of high-speed subatomic particles millions of miles across, the scientists said. A storm of that magnitude could short-circuit a world increasingly dependent on giant utilities and satellite communications networks. Such a storm in 1989 caused power grids to collapse, causing a five-hour blackout in Quebec...

http://tinyurl.com/hovlb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/764



UK: Surveillance on drivers may be increased

Guardian [UK]

03/07/06

Drivers talking on mobile phones or failing to wear seatbelts could find themselves tracked down through a widened use of road surveillance cameras, under proposals due to be floated in parliament tomorrow. The plans would form part of a major expansion of camera surveillance which critics say is already transforming Britain into the most watched country in the world. The case for cameras to be focused on people using mobiles as they drive is made by the independent adviser to the transport select committee, Robert Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (Pacts)...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1725229,00.html



Hong Kong considers surveillence law

United Press International

03/03/06

Hong Kong's government has published a proposed wiretapping and covert surveillance bill. Analysts predict that discussion over the proposed legislation will be stormy and contentious as it opens the possibility that Beijing could help determine who might be targeted under the law. The 88-page bill was approved by the Executive Council on Feb. 28 and distributed to legislators the next day. The legislation is largely a continuation of previous Legislative Council proposals and incorporates several earlier, controversial measures that pro-democratic legislators have criticized for weeks. If the bill is enacted it will establish a judicial panel along with a commissioner on interception of communications and surveillance, which will have the power to decide on wiretap and surveillance applications in 'highly intrusive' cases...

http://tinyurl.com/j64kn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

„Wieder mal Erfolg gegen die Obrigkeit“
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/eingliedanlt.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. März 2006

California and eleven other states asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to review the Bush administration's refusal to regulate motor vehicle emissions of gases that scientists blame for global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030606EB.shtml

Defense Department statistics show that the number of black active-duty enlisted personnel has declined 14 percent since 2000.

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=114811


From Information Clearing House

The same defense contractors who were playing Cunningham with cash and favors were working other members of Congress and top administration officials. Once all the facts are on the table, the Abramoff scandal may pale in comparison.

http://tinyurl.com/mhngq


From Information Clearing House

America's Bleak Jobs Future
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12209.htm



A Revolution Of Spirit

It is time to reclaim our power and our forefathers’ vision. It is essential that we become lights in a world blackened by our excesses, by our abrogation of spirit to the base desires of the corporation.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12223.htm

'Specific' info on NSA eavesdropping?

Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency's program to eavesdrop on certain Americans' electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the clandestine counterterrorism effort.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/2006/0306/p03s03-uspo.html


From Information Clearing House



Watchdog: What Ever Happened to the Civil Liberties Board?

For more than a year, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been the most invisible office in the White House. Created by Congress in December 2004 as a result of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the board has never hired a staff or even held a meeting.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12218.htm

The torture dodge: Congress must put an end to abuses at Gitmo:

The president believes he can ignore the law whenever he chooses. He made that clear in a "signing statement" in which he reserved the right to interpret the torture ban in the context of his broader constitutional powers as commander in chief.

http://tinyurl.com/lulhf



No Habeas at Guantanamo?

Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act preventing federal judges from seeing problematic evidence on why detainees are being held...

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/03/no-habeas-at-guantanamo-executive-and.php


From Information Clearing House

Campaigners for a nuclear-free South Asia are aghast at the potential nightmare that lies ahead following the nuclear technology and fuel deal announced here this week by visiting United States President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12217.htm

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12215.htm



Bolton warns Iran of ‘painful consequences’

Speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is “beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11684031/



The USS Ronald Reagan deployed in the Persian Gulf

The U.S. Fifth Fleet said the USS Ronald Reagan has been deployed for maritime security operations in the Gulf region. The nuclear-powered surface vessel headed a carrier group that contains a guided missile cruiser, two destroyers and support ships. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453788.107638889.html



Jon Snow interviews Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, live in Tehran http://www.channel4.com/player/playerwindow.html?id=3575&vert=news



Can a deal be done?

A deal over Iran's nuclear programme is possible, according to the UN's chief nuclear watchdog. http://www.channel4.com/player/playerwindow.html?id=3554&vert=news



Washington splits over best policy to halt Iran's nuclear plan

Visiting MPs were astonished by a lack of consensus on the eve of the crucial nuclear meeting.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2071918,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Tell the Senate to Investigate Bush's Illegal Wiretapping

On Tuesday March 7, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a vote on whether to investigate the domestic wiretaps that the president has already admitted were performed in defiance of the FISA court. Bill Frist has now threatened to restructure the Senate Intelligence Committee itself to strip it of oversight responsibility if it even dares to investigate Bush's dictatorial violations of the law. It is critically important that we speak out now to make sure justice prevails in this very winnable fight. With the votes against him three weeks ago, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) has already once unilaterally blocked a vote on this matter. We must raise every voice to make sure they know the people will not let them get away with it again. http://www.millionemailmarch.com/wiretap_hearing.php

The key swing votes are Republican "moderates" Olympia Snowe (R-ME, 202-224-5344) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE, 202-224-4224). Let's start calling their offices at 9:00 a.m. and keep calling until they vote for a thorough investigation. http://vichydems.blogspot.com/


Hey Pollsters: Quit Censoring Impeachment!

Seven months have passed since we began politely asking Corporate Media pollsters to include impeachment questions in their polls. Despite our efforts, every media pollster has refused to include an impeachment question (unless we paid for it). The few that have bothered to reply to our letters (like Richard Morin of the Pentagon Post) have basically told us to go "Cheney" ourselves. In the past two weeks, most of these pollsters have released new data. And every single poll shows a steep drop in Bush's approval rating. It's time to tell the media pollsters to stop censoring the truth and to include an impeachment question in every poll from now until Bush is impeached - and imprisoned. http://democrats.com/quit-censoring-impeachment

We have all of their email addresses here. We've been patient for too long - let's give 'em hell! http://democrats.com/bush-impeachment-polls


Exclusive Release of New Song By Anti-Flag The political band Anti-Flag has given Afterdowningstreet.org the exclusive release of the unreleased song "Depleted Uranium Is A War Crime" from Anti-Flag's upcoming release "For Blood and Empire."

Listen here: http://tinyurl.com/g8xqm

Congressman Jim McDermott has introduced a bill in Congress, H.R. 2410, The Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act, which calls for in-depth studies to be conducted on DU and its effects on the health of those exposed to it. Ask Your Congress Member to Cosponsor. http://www.millionemailmarch.com/du.php

Learn more about DU. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/8597


Wall Street Journal Uses I Word: Graphic Tells the Story Impeachment Proves Risky Political Issue Some Democratic Activists Push Removing Bush From Office, But Mainstream Steers Clear By JEANNE CUMMINGS, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2006; Page A4

If Democratic candidate Tony Trupiano wins a Michigan House seat this fall, he pledges that one of his first acts will be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush.

That has earned Mr. Trupiano the endorsement of ImpeachPAC, a group of Democratic activists seeking to remove Mr. Bush from office. ImpeachPAC's Web site lists 14 candidates offering similar commitments, which are reminiscent of the Republican drive to oust former President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. READ MORE http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/8583

Read Bob Fertik's Reply to this article. http://www.democrats.com/wsj-impeachpac


Co-Sponsors of H Res 635 Now at 28

There are now 28 Congress Members who believe an investigation should be conducted into possible grounds for impeachment. Learn more and ask your member to co-sponsor: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5768


UPCOMING EVENTS FOR IMPEACHMENT AND PEACE in CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA

Town Hall Forum on the War in Iraq Monday, March 13, 7 p.m. McLEOD AUDITORIUM - UVA School of Nursing.

Eman Ahmad Khamas, Iraqi journalist, activist living in Baghdad, defends women’s rights, documents crimes committed by U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Lt.Col.Karen Kwiatkowski, retired from Office of the Sec. of Defense on Near East South Asia Policy, outspoken critic of the Pentagon's pre-war propaganda development.

Ray McGovern, veteran Army officer and retired 27-year CIA analyst, Co-Founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, witness at Congressional hearings on Downing Street Minutes.

Gael Murphy, cofounder of CODE PINK-Women for Peace, Board of Dir. International Occupation Watch Center, Steering Committee United for Peace and Justice,

David Swanson, cofounder of After Downing Street, Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, Washington Director of Democrats.com and Impeach PAC.

Tia Steele, member of Gold Star Families Speak Out, mother of U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

Al Weed, Congressional candidate in Virginia’s 5th district, Veteran, opposes the Iraq war.

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away

Film: "Occupation Dreamland" Wednesday, March 15, 7 p.m. WILSON HALL 301-University of Virginia About a group of U.S. soldiers in Falluja. Iraq

March for Peace and Impeachment Monday, March 20, 4 p.m. ROTUNDA to DOWNTOWN March beginning at the Rotunda - University of Virginia - at 4 p.m. and proceeding to the Freedom of Expression Wall on the Downtown Mall near City Hall for a rally. Come prepared to buy a yard sign and carry it in the march, or bring your own posters, flags, noise makers, musical instruments.

3 YEARS TOO MANY

WAGE PEACE

Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice charlottesvillepeace.org
434 961-6278, 540 456-6028


Stop the Katrina Evictions March 14 Demand a stop to evictions, demand trailers for survivors, and demand passage of H.R. 4197. Press Conference: 1:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Rayburn House Office Building – Room #2237 Mardi Gras Style March for Justice: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. from Capitol South Metro Stop at 12:00 p.m. to the White House Rally & Protest at the White House: 3:00 p.m. – 11:59 p.m. Lafayette Park http://www.katrinamarch.org


Sign up for these events, find others, and create your own at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event

See Also UFPJ: http://unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?caltype=39&lcountry=&state=&search=Search

And PDA: http://pdamerica.org/events/main-list.php


FORWARD THIS INFOMATION



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

http://www.articles-hub.com/Article/23076.html


Informant: Wu Chi

UN Expert
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0306-01.htm

U.S. Stuck with Few Options in Iraq; Gary Hart on All-out Civil War: "We Could Lose Our Army".

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0306-02.htm

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030606R.shtml
http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=814


Informant: Friends



Peace Activist Sheehan Arrested in NY Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0306-09.htm



Cindy Sheehan and Three Others Arrested While Attempting to Deliver Petition Signed by 60,000 Demanding an End to Bloodshed in Iraq; Arrests Take Place After US Mission to the UN Refused to Meet with Delegation of Women Visiting from Iraq and Gold Star Families for Peace.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0306-07.htm



Cindy Sheehan Joins Iraqi Women to Urge the UN to Help Prevent a Civil War in Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0306-02.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4195/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news