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Pläne für Mobilfunk -Sendeanlage in Eppstein/Flomersheim „Zeche zahlen die Anwohner"

Zum Artikel „23-Meter-Mobilfunkmast in Eppstein geplant" (7. März) und der Stellungnahme des Betreibers O 2 (11. März):

Hurra, nun halten die neuesten Errungenschaften der drahtlosen Kommunikationstechnik auch auf dem flachen Land Einzug. Endlich wird daran gedacht, auch Eppstein und Flomersheim mit UMTS-Funktechnik zu versorgen.

Da haben wir seit Monaten mit Hilfe von Staatsverträgen der Länder Rheinland-Pfalz, Hessen und Baden-Württemberg geschafft, eine Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar aus der Taufe zu heben, und schon trägt dieser neu gewonnene Status die ersten Früchte. Gilt es doch die Standortvorteile dieses Wirtschaftsraumes zu optimieren. Auch die UMTS-Versorgung von Eppstein und Flomersheim erscheint aus der Sicht von Profiteuren, wie den Funknetzbetreibern, hier ein geeigneter Weg - koste es was es wolle; die Zeche zahlen ohnehin andere. Im vorliegenden Fall nämlich die im unmittelbaren Umfeld der konzipierten Sendeanlage wohnenden Menschen. So haben wir Bürger uns die Chancen, die eine Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar bringen sollte, nicht gedacht.

Rupert Haller, Frankenthal



„Natürlich Strahlung nach unten"

Es ist schon unglaublich, wie unverfroren Mobilfunkbetreiber die berechtigten Befürchtungen der Bürger von Flomersheim und Eppstein um ihre Gesundheit mit unhaltbaren Behauptungen abkanzeln. Natürlich strahlen Mobilfunkmasten auch nach unten ab, wie sonst könnte man am Fuß der Antenne sonst mobil telefonieren. Auch, dass Grenzwerte von Mobilfunksendern nach der 26. Bundesimmisionsschutzverordnung eingehalten werden, ist aufgrund der Tatsache, dass nur die thermische Wirkung (...) aufgezeichnet wird und nicht die eigentlich gefährlichen athermischen Felder, Verhöhnung der Bürger.

Natürlich ist es machbar, dass Masten außerhalb bebauter Ortschaften aufgestellt werden können, dies bedeutet aber erhebliche Mehrkosten für die Betreiber und in ihrer Raffgier (...). Nur die noch größere Geldgier von Privatpersonen, darunter auch kirchliche Institutionen, ermöglichen es den Mobilfunkbetreibern, ihre Masten auf Privatgebäude oder in Kirchtürme zu setzen.

Hätten hier allerdings die Kommunalpolitiker beizeiten eine Ortsgestaltungsrichtlinie mit einer Veränderungssperre in der jeweiligen Ortssatzung aufgenommen, hätten es die Mobilfunkbetreiber nicht so einfach, die gesundheitlichen Bedenken der Bürger kaltschnäuzig außer Acht zu lassen (...)

Ist die „Naila Studie" der gleichnamigen oberfränkischen Stadt nicht bekannt, in der verantwortungsvolle Ärzte (...) erkannt haben, dass in unmittelbarer Nähe der Sendemasten häufiger schwere Krankheiten ausgebrochen sind als bei der übrigen Bevölkerung. (...)

Den Bürgern von Eppstein und Flomersheim ist zu raten, sich nicht einschüchtern zu lassen und auch Rat von existierenden Bürgerinitiativen gegen Mobilfunk , zum Beispiel der BI Bad Dürkheim, einzuholen, denn von den meisten Lokalpolitikern und Verantwortlichen haben sie nichts zu erwarten, außer leeren Versprechungen.

Egon Mäurer, Gerolsheim



„Protest ist mehr als verständlich"

Der Bürgerprotest zu der im Planungsausschuss des Frankenthaler Stadtrates bereits getroffenen Standortentscheidung für eine UMTS-Sendeanlage in Eppstein ist mehr als verständlich; wird doch auf diese Weise der eindeutige Bürgerwille erkennbar, den wohl die Verwaltung bisher nicht oder unzureichend nachgefragt hatte.

Den von den Bürgern gewählten Räten im Kommunalparlament sollte das Wohl eben dieser Bürger zuallererst am Herzen liegen und nicht die Interessen privater Funknetzbetreiber, deren Unternehmensziel allein die Gewinnmaximierung ist.

Erich Schemenau,
Frankenthal-Eppstein



„Belastungen sind nachgewiesen"

(...) Von mir angestellte Recherchen (...) förderten nämlich zutage, dass der Turm der katholischen Kirche in Eppstein schon seit einigen Jahren uns mit hoch frequenten elektromagnetischen Wellen versorgt.

Nun aber zu meiner Meinung als Leserin, die Ihre Veröffentlichungen zu der UMTS-Technik, wie sie jetzt in Eppstein vorgesehen ist, mit großem Interesse verfolgt. Strahlen unsere Kirchtürme im Namen Gottes? Wieder einmal ist, wie so oft zuvor, Geld im Spiel! Wie soll anders erklärbar sein, dass die katholische Kirche in Eppstein ihre Schäfchen der medizin-wissenschaftlich längst nachgewiesenen schädlichen Belastungen aussetzt, die von Sendeanlagen in Wohngebieten ausgehen. Hinter nicht einsehbaren Kirchenmauern bleiben solche Anlagen der Öffentlichkeit leider verborgen. Die Vertreter des Pfarrgemeinderates haben einst bei ihrem Beschluss für die Einrichtung einer solchen Anlage wohl auch weniger das Wohl der Menschen, die der Kirche anvertraut sind, im Auge gehabt als vielmehr den Mammon, der mit einem solchen Gestattungsvertrag zu erzielen ist und der mithilft die maroden Kirchenfinanzen nicht aus dem Ruder laufen zu lassen (...). Auf diese Weise wird die Kirche zum Steigbügelhalter der Mobilfunkbetreiber, die alle unser Bestes wollen - nämlich unser Geld. Die Gesundheit der Menschen und des werdenden Lebens werden hier mit Füßen getreten. Gerade damit wird die Kirche unglaubwürdig (...).

Marion Steuer,
Frankenthal-Flomersheim



„Sind wir in Schilda?"

Ist die kommunalpolitische Welt in Frankenthal noch in Ordnung oder müssen wir unsere Stadt in „Schilda" umtaufen? Da verteidigt der OB doch tatsächlich das in Eppstein geplante UMTS-Vorhaben damit, dass sowohl der Flomersheimer Ortsbeirat als auch der Planungsausschuss diesem Standort zugestimmt habe. Lediglich der Eppsteiner Ortsbeirat habe dieses Vorhaben abgelehnt. Es bleibt mir unverständlich, dass der Flomersheimer Ortsbeirat überhaupt mit Angelegenheiten, die den Vorort Eppstein betreffen, befasst wird. Anderes könnte nur gelten, wenn man eingestände, dass von der Sendeanlage in Eppstein auch eine schädliche Belastung für Flomersheimer Bürger ausginge. Genau das aber wird ja seitens der Stadt bestritten, jedenfalls zum Zeitpunkt der Beschlussfassung über den Standort. Verständlich noch wäre, wenn der Flomersheimer Ortsbeirat beschlossen hätte, innerhalb seiner Vorortgrenzen keinen Sendestandort einzurichten.

Nein - von diesem für Eppstein nicht zuständigen Gremium war abzustimmen, ob es in Eppstein zur Errichtung einer Sendeanlage kommen soll und das wurde bekanntlich bejaht. Mit der gleichen Berechtigung hätte der Frankenthaler Oberbürgermeister auch die Ortsbeiräte in Studernheim und Mörsch zur Abstimmung über Eppsteiner Angelegenheiten aufrufen können.

Dieter Graber,
Frankenthal-Eppstein


Quelle: Publikation: DIE RHEINPFALZ Regionalausgabe: Frankenthaler Zeitung Nr.64 Datum: Donnerstag, den 16. März 2006, Seite: Nr.16
Publikation: DIE RHEINPFALZ Regionalausgabe: Frankenthaler Zeitung Nr.64, Datum: Donnerstag, den 16. März 2006, Seite: Nr.16


Nachrichten von den Mobilfunkkritikern Rhein-Haardt

- Orange France / SFR / Etienne Cendrier + comments:

- Justice - Procès: Antennes relais téléphonie mobile.

- The Law - Trial: Relay antennas mobile telephones.

http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2006-03-16

By Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
March 14, 2006

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WASHINGTON - Ozone pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, churned out by factories and vehicles that burn fossil fuels, is a major factor in the dramatic warming of the Arctic zone, NASA climate scientists reported on Tuesday.

This finding is surprising, since ozone has been considered a minor player in the study of global climate change, according to Drew Shindell, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

Carbon dioxide has long been considered a key cause of overall global warming, because it remains in the atmosphere for a long time, Shindell said in a telephone interview.

But ozone -- the damaging, heat-trapping tropospheric ozone encountered at lower levels of the atmosphere, as opposed to the protective ozone observed at higher altitude -- was seen as fairly perishable and therefore less of a factor, he said.

Globally, ozone accounts for perhaps one-seventh of the global warming and climate change that carbon dioxide does, Shindell said. However, a new study of climate change over the past 100 years indicates that ozone may be responsible for as much as 50 percent of the warming in the Arctic zone.

This is because many of the world's most highly industrialized nations are in the Northern Hemisphere, and at relatively high latitudes. For most of the year, that means the ozone produced in these countries is blown by prevailing winds north and east, toward the Arctic Circle.

"Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now," Shindell said. "It's very dramatic."

In computer models using climate data going back to 1880, environmental scientists found Arctic temperatures remained normal until about 1950. After that, the model shows higher temperatures, widely spread around the Arctic region.

This rise in temperatures is linked to the rise in tropospheric ozone at northern latitudes, Shindell said.

"Global warming has really taken off since the 1970s," he said. "The warming in the past several decades has been more than it was the whole previous record, which is about 100 years before that."

Arctic warming has been more extreme than global warming overall, he said, because as snow and ice melt they uncover darker-colored ground or water that absorb heat, accelerating warming.

More information and video is available online at: http://tinyurl.com/gc5f8


Informant: NHNE

By Lucy Collier

We, residents of Chimayó and members of the Chimayó Council on Wireless Technology, are gravely concerned about the construction of a T-Mobile wireless tower in Chimayó that will have significant negative impacts on our community.

The tower has been placed at a sensitive location both in relation to the health effects caused by the emission of non-ionizing radiation and to the integrity of the historical and scenic ambience of our traditional community. The tower is scheduled to go on line at the end of March.

Ordinance 1996-05 of Rio Arriba County regulates wireless towers above 70 feet in height. The T-Mobile tower is just 70 feet tall and therefore does not have to comply with county regulations.

Numerous studies by government, industry and independent researchers document that emissions from wireless towers of any height have been associated with adverse health effects, including blood-brain barrier changes, cancers and immune disorders.

There could hardly be a worse site for the wireless tower in question. The T-Mobile tower looms over the Benny Chavez Community Center, which houses the Chimayó Senior Center, provides space for many community gatherings and has a playground attached.

The Chimayó Conservation Youth Corps is housed not far down the road at the Manzano complex. Nearby are the Presbyterian Church, el Buen Pastor and the Interfaith LEAP Center that provides interdenominational health and social services to Chimayó and neighboring communities. Chimayó Elementary School is farther away but still within the one-mile emission range clamed by T-Mobile company.

Our primary concern is health and safety. But in addition, Chimayó's citizens are proud of their history and of Chimayó's unique natural setting and its special historical and cultural features.

The tower degrades the beauty of the cerros, or hills, that cradle the Chimayó Valley to the east. The tower diminishes the historical integrity of the nearby Plaza del Cerro, the only complete fortified colonial Spanish plaza still remaining in Norther New Mexico. The Chimayó History Museum is housed on the plaza.

The Ortega Weaving Shop, where local weavers have sold their craft for generations, is even closer to the tower. And one views the offensive structure as one approaches the sacred Santuario church, both from the western and southern pilgrimage routes.

Chimayó residents and their representative organizations were never adequately consulted by the T-Moblie company when plans were afoot to construct this tower. Our understanding is the T-Mobile company plans to install additional towers in our community.

The current tower and the planned expansion of this wireless technology alarms us. We request the Rio Arriba County commissioners review this matter at their next meeting. We urge that a moratorium be placed on all wireless tower construction and expansion of current wireless towers in place until modification of the county's wireless-tower ordinance is accomplished to better regulate all wireless towers regardless of height.

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This letter was signed by members of the Chimayó Council on Wireless Technology including Raymond Bal, Raymond Chavez, Lucy Collier, Chellis Glendenning, Peter Malmgren, Hilario Romero, Lorraine Sandoval, Matthew Trijillo and Daniel Schreck.

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Santa Fe Public Library soon to go wireless -- Unless...

Wireless internet is no step forward for public libraries

By Rebekah Azen, MLIS

Would you allow an intruder into your home, office, place of business, the shops & restaurants you frequent, hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, government offices and public buildings? Would you allow this intruder to silently undermine your health to cause serious illness, destroy the social fabric and pollute the environment? Are you aware that electromagnetic pollution is that intruder?

Just 10 years ago we were relatively free of electromagnetic pollution compared to today. On average, we are being exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) pollution 3,000 times what we were in 1996 due to the rapid spread of wireless technology. Cell phones -- along with their antenna towers, called "base-stations" -- and wireless internet are the primary culprits of this invasion. Our bodies and our environment are not designed to deal with this electromagnetic assault that is proliferating out of control. The corporations that produce and market this technology - from the transmitter devices, cell towers, cell phones and laptops - are literally making a “killing” off of us.

The latest invasion is on libraries and the Santa Fe Public Library is no exception. The administration is now considering a plan to go wireless in order to allow laptop users access to the internet and possible network services. Everyone ought to be particularly alarmed about this latest threat because:

1) it presents a phenomenal health hazard,

2) would bar access to those who are electromagnetically sensitive,

3) would undermine the services and functions of the public library by redirecting resources for wireless service, and 4) would threaten the historical and priceless role of the public library and transform it into an internet café.

A wireless system is dangerous in itself as it is always emitting microwave radiation 24/7 whether you have a laptop running or not. If you put 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 or more laptops into a wireless capable area, the microwave radiation that everyone in that vicinity is exposed to is exponentially increased. In libraries that have already made this change, they are finding that people with laptops are flooding in. This is creating a very high level of microwave radiation exposure and to say that libraries will become “cesspools of microwave radiation” is not an exaggeration.

I, for one, along with the growing population of electromagnetically sensitive people will not be using the library under these circumstances. It is simply unacceptable that a library, which is an invaluable public resource for information and knowledge, would be polluted in this way, effectively barring access to many, many people who either don’t want their health endangered or simply can’t risk exposure for fear of serious health consequences. Research indicates that electromagnetic waves and radio frequencies trigger stress responses in cells. These stress responses may create minor biological disturbances such as headache, insomnia, nausea or tinnitus, or lead to serious health consequences such as increased blood sugar, nervous system dysfunction, DNA damage, cell damage, cancerous tumors, chronic fatigue, respiratory arrest, seizure, heart attack, stroke, etc.

Children are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic radiation and should not be exposed to cell phones and wireless internet. Have library administrators forgotten that library services to children are a significant part of public library service? And what about public library staff being exposed continuously? Don’t they have the right to be protected from harmful radiation and shouldn’t the City of Santa Fe have a policy protecting public employees from excessive EMR exposure?

People who are electromagnetically sensitive are disabled in a way that can hardly be conceived of by most people. The public library is one of the few places that are still accessible for these people as workplaces, businesses, government buildings, café’s, schools, cities, counties and states are all gearing up to go wireless. In Sweden, electromagnetic sensitivity, better known as electro-hypersensitivity, is recognized as a full-on disability and though it is not recognized as such in the U.S. yet, there are state, federal and local laws designed to protect disabled citizens and they have rights as anyone else in this society. The public library is a “public” resource, paid for by the public and everyone has the right to access the library and its resources without health endangerment.

In libraries that are undergoing this wireless transition, they are finding that it is requiring an extraordinary amount of time, energy and money to deal with technical problems, answer patron questions about using the technology, create circulation services for laptops and purchase laptops. All of these activities redirect what little resources libraries have towards services that are largely unnecessary and which slowly undermine the traditional role of libraries, effectively turning them into “internet cafes.”

Do we really “need” wireless internet? Don’t we already have computer and internet access in libraries and isn’t the intent to provide more access to users simply self-defeating? Providing wireless doesn’t resolve the demand for computer and internet service in libraries. It only propels it further along. This is the experience of libraries that have gone wireless.

And what about those who don’t have laptops? Is the library going to expend a fortune on laptops (when it could have gone to book purchases and other library services) so that the “disadvantaged” have equal access? Or are we going to relegate “those” people to the public terminals where they must wait in line while their wealthier brethren can saunter in, demurely pull out their laptop and connect without a fuss? Isn’t this simply catering to those who already have? The effort to provide computers in libraries was originally meant to diminish the digital divide and create equity between the “haves” and “have nots.” Librarians need to remember their original intentions in this regard, and they need to remember the role and function of a public library… information, equity and access.

Wireless internet does not mesh with or enhance the mission of the public library. It only creates serious health hazards, erodes the quality of library service, and threatens the foundation upon which public libraries have stood for over 100 years in this country. Fifty years of research and thousands of articles from medical journals and other reputable scientific sources from around the world on the health hazards of electromagnetic pollution should be enough, alone, to dissuade library administration that this is an issue not to be ignored. The public library should be the bastion of education, public knowledge and information that IS its mission. Mindless obsequience and capitulation to wireless technology (or for that matter any technology that is passively and uncritically accepted) is NOT within the purview of the public library mission. Efforts to improve library services are sought after and appreciated but it needs to be understood that wireless internet is not a step forward.

The time to stop this invasion is now. Please contact the Santa Fe Public Library Board (the Santa Fe Library Board sets policy for the library) President, Michele Huff at 982-6484 or email her at: hmhuff9@earthlink.net You can also contact the new mayor and city councilors. Let them know that you’re opposed to a wireless invasion of the Santa Fe Public Library system and to keep our libraries intact, safe and accessible for all. For more information on the hazards of EMR proliferation, visit Wireless Action Network - NM. See: http://wireless-action.blogspot.com .

Rebekah Azen, MLIS
(Master of Library and Information Science)

~ Rebekah Azen lives in Santa Fe. ~


Informant: James River Martin

Die geplante Föderalismusreform wird in der Öffentlichkeit kaum diskutiert, obgleich sie einiges an Sprengstoff enthält.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22261/1.html

PETER WALSH
16 March 2006 11:27

Families are furious after it emerged there are plans to install a mobile phone mast just metres from an existing pole which they opposed three years ago.

Communications giant O2 UK has sent letters out as part of a pre-application consultation to inform them of plans to build a 12.5metre mast on a highway verge on the corner of Gowing Road and Reepham Road.

News of the mast, which is described as a Flexicell Column with the antenna installed within a shroud at the top, has angered people living in the area, especially as planning guidance is for phone firms to share masts where possible.

Families thought they had won their battle to stop a 10-metre mast being installed on the corner of Reepham Road and Gowing Road when it had been rejected by members of the district council's planning committee.

But Hutchinson 3G, now 3, appealed against the decision and installed it in the summer of 2003.

If O2 are granted permission for this latest proposal it would be just a stone's throw from the existing mast on the other side of the road.

“We don't want it at all,” said Sheila Chapman, 66, who lives in Reepham Road, opposite the proposed site, with her husband George, 63.

“It ends up devaluing the property if you wanted to sell it,” said Mr Chapman, who was worried these masts could end up lining the length of the road.

“We don't know the long-term effect it will have on people - how do they guarantee the effect in 30 years time.”

Robert Binley, 70, moved back to the area five years ago and is unhappy they might be installing another mast opposite his house.

“I will be strongly objecting to it,” he said. “It's a densely residential area and until they can tell me there's absolutely no danger to health at all they shouldn't be here.”

Adrian Leavey, 50, only moved into his house on Reepham Road last August, felt masts should be built away from residential areas and said he would be objecting to the proposal.

The letter sent to families indicated that three other sites in Hellesdon, Holt Road, Plantation Road/Woodview Road, and Northgate Road, had been identified but discounted.

Patricia Fahy, 68, who lives with her husband John on the corner of Gowing Road where the mast is to be placed, said: “I think it's a liberty. They said in the letter that they had not used Woodview Road as it is a residential area but so is this.”

The couple also had concerns about the visibility of people trying to turn onto Reepham Road from Gowing Road with a mast already one side and another in the offing.

Shelagh Gurney, a Broadland District councillor for Hellesdon, said: “I'm going to launch a campaign to say no to it. We said no last time and Broadland said no and they won it on an appeal.

“We've got one there and that's enough for the area - I think residents in that corner have their fair share of radio coverage.”

Darren Percival, acquisition agent for CR Barnes Ltd, on behalf of O2 UK, said a need had been identified for a base station to provide coverage in Hellesdon.

He said where possible O2 would look to mast share, but “if no existing structures are suitable, a green field site offering a good degree of natural screening is sought”.

“The aim is to identify a site that will offer the best possible coverage while minimising the environmental impact,” he said.

Are you battling mobile phone mast plans where you live? Call Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Gewerkschaftlicher Antimilitarismus allgemein > Zeitung gegen den Krieg

Zeitung gegen den Krieg Nr. 23 zum Ostermarsch ist in Vorbereitung. Ihr kommt auch angesichts des drohenden Kriegs gegen den Iran eine große Bedeutung zu. Diese Ausgabe wird am Freitag, dem 7. April, in den Vertrieb gehen. Alle, die für den Ostermarsch rechtzeitig bestellt haben, werden bis spätestens Gründonnerstag (13. April) die neue ZgK vorliegen haben. Bitte übermittelt die Bestellungen bis Anfang April an Zeitung-gegen-den-Krieg@gmx.de

Schwerpunkte: Bundesregierung und Vorbereitung auf einen Krieg gegen den Iran („Dieses Mal ist Berlin auch offen dabei“); Ein aktuelles Interview mit Moussen Massarat; The Big Game – Öl und Gasinteressen in Zentralasien und im Iran; Inside Iran (u.a. Niederschlagung des Busfahrer-Streiks in Teheran); Vorbereitungen für einen Bundeswehreinsatz im Inneren; Die EU unter österreichischen Präsidentschaft und neue Kriegsvorbereitungen; Remilitarisierung Japans; Irak: Drei Jahre Krieg und Besatzung / Plünderung der mesopotamischen Kulturgüter; Drohungen gegen Venezuela und Bolivien durch die US-Regierung; Nach den Wahlen im Autonomie-Gebiet und in Israel; Berliner Untersuchungsausschuss zu CIA-Gefangenen-Flügen und BND in Bagdad

Autorinnen und Autoren: Uri Avneri, Joachim Guilliard, Ulla Jelpke, Moussen Massarat, Gerald Oberansmayr, Wolfgang Pomrehn, Bahman Safigh, Ulrich Sander, Winfried Wolf.


Aus: LabourNet, 16. März 2006

16. März 2006: Tribunale gegen Armut und Elend in den Städten, Regionen und auf der Bundesebene

Aufruf von Runder Tisch der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeorganisationen (pdf) http://www.pariser-kommune.de/llx/tribunale_gegen_armut_und_elend.pdf


Die Armut sichtbar machen

In 6 deutschen Städten organisieren Erwerbsloseninitiativen Tribunale gegen Armut und Elend. Das nächste findet am kommenden Donnerstag ab 17.30 Uhr im Rathaus Neukölln in Berlin statt. Artikel von Peter Nowak vom 15.03.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/03/141308.shtml


Aufruf der Erwerbslosen-Initiative Neukölln, Berlin (pdf) http://www.pariser-kommune.de/llx/pressemitteilung_erwin.pdf


Kosten rebellieren II und Euromayday 2006

Einladung und Aufruf zur 2. internationalen Versammlung zu Migration und Prekarisierung plus Grundeinkommen „ Die Kosten rebellieren“ am 29./30. April in Hamburg http://labournet.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=337

Programm http://labournet.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=338

Kontakt: preclab , susannenstr. 14D, 20357 Hamburg telfax: +49/40 – 41548465/ -7 mobil +49/179/6619710 frank@offlimits.de mailingliste: https://lists.nadir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kosten-rebellieren im web: http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2006/kosten2.html

Wir erinnern an das Forum zur inhaltlichen Vorbereitung http://labournet.de/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=0fbb8f0abfb80420a8cd43351240da73


Aus: LabourNet, 16. März 2006

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Tribunale gegen Armut

Erwerbslose bilden sich ein Urteil „Von den Straßen sind die Hartz-IV-Demonstrationen schon lange verschwunden. Um den Protest inhaltlich zu vertiefen, luden Arbeitsloseninitiativen zum "Tribunal gegen Armut und Elend". Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Angeklagte erschien nicht..“ Artikel von Peter Nowak in der taz Berlin vom 18.3.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/03/18/a0271.1/text


Aus: LabourNet, 20. März 2006

Einbürgerungstest: Sind Sie Deutschland?

Wer die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft erlangen möchte, muss jetzt auch in Hessen einen Fragenkatalog richtig beantworten. Bei Erfolg soll der Test dann sogar Deutschlandweit eingeführt werden. Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 15.3.2006 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt4m3/deutschland/artikel/78/72006/


Deutscher werden? 100 Fragen, 100 Antworten

Der hessische Fragenkatalog samt Lösungen dokumentiert beim Hamburger Abendblatt http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/03/16/543685.html


»Erratum«

„Mehrere Zeitungen haben den Fragebogen des hessischen Innenministeriums publiziert, den einbürgerungswillige Ausländer künftig ausfüllen sollen. Durch einen bedauerlichen Irrtum haben sich dabei einige Druckfehler eingeschlichen. Im Folgenden drucken wir die korrigierten Passagen…“ Erratum von Christian Baulig in FDT vom 16.03.2006 http://www.ftd.de/meinung/dasletzte/56985.html


Baden-Württemberg

Fragebogen völkerrechtswidrig. Max-Planck-Institut hält baden-württembergischen Gesprächsleitfaden zur Einwanderung für diskriminierend

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Völkerrecht hat den Gesprächsleitfaden der Landesregierung Baden-Württembergs als "völkerrechtswidrig" eingestuft. Die CDU/FDP-Regierung will dennoch an dem Fragenkatalog festhalten. Artikel in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 16.03.2006 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/nachrichten/?cnt=826867


Integration auf Niederländisch: Der Holland-Test der eisernen Rita

"Wie lange dauert eine Zugfahrt von Amsterdam nach Enschede?" - "Bereitet man Tee mit heißem oder kaltem Wasser zu?" Ab morgen müssen sich Einwanderungswillige in den Niederlanden einem Test stellen, den die umstrittene Ministerin Rita Verdonk angeordnet hat. Ihr deutscher Kollege Wolfgang Schäuble ist begeistert…“ Artikel von Alwin Schröder in Spiegel online vom 14. März 2006 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,405859,00.html


Unser Zitat zum Thema

Ausweisung des letzten Deutschen

„München: Nach abschließender bundesweiter Bearbeitung der Einbürgerungstests wurde heute der letzte deutschstämmige Bürger aus Deutschland ausgewiesen. Es handelt sich dabei um den 24jährigen Josef (Sepp) Hinterlechner aus Moosbühl. Nach gründlicher Recherche der Ausländerbehörde wurde festgestellt, dass Herr Hinterlechner die beantragte deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft nicht mehr zusteht, weil er in der sechsundsiebzigsten Generation Nachkomme einer slowenischen Nomadenfamilie ist. Wie die Bundesbehörde für Abschiebungen weiter mitteilt, ist Herr Hinterlechner nachweislich damit der letzte Deutsche, bei dem die Staatsangehörigkeitsprüfung nach neuem Recht geprüft und negativ beschieden wurde. Einen anderen berechtigten Anwärter auf Deutschtum gibt es zur Zeit nicht. Wie bereits gemeldet, wurde vor kurzem auch der Antrag von Herrn Hasso von Fallersleben auf die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft abgelehnt. Er erfüllte zwar alle rassischen Voraussetzungen, ist aber leider vierbeinig. Somit stellt der Bundesausweisungsminister auch in diesem Monat amtlich fest, daß Deutschland weiterhin deutschfrei ist.“

Quelle: Deutscher Einhei(z)textdienst von Werner Lutz 3/06


Rassistische Stimmungsmache. Massenmedien als Motoren der Ethnisierung

„Die aktuelle Diskussion über Migration und über das Verhältnis des Westens zum Islam wird infolge des Karikaturenstreits verschärft geführt. Die Massenmedien spielen darin eine Schlüsselrolle. Sie filtern für die Meinungsbildung wichtige Informationen und beeinflussen so das Bewußtsein der Menschen. Einen Beitrag zur Analyse dieser Zusammenhänge leistet der dieser Tage erscheinende, von Christoph Butterwegge und Gudrun Hentges herausgegebene, Sammelband »Massenmedien, Migration und Integration«. Im folgenden drucken wir eine gekürzte und aktualisierte Version eines von Butterwegge verfaßten Artikels. Der Autor leitet die Abteilung für Politikwissenschaft und ist Mitglied der Forschungsstelle für interkulturelle Studien (FiSt) an der Universität Köln…“ Artikel von Christoph Butterwegge in junge Welt vom 16.3.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/03-16/001.php

Siehe auch die Informationen zum Buch „Massenmedien, Migration und Integration“ von Christoph Butterwegge und Gudrun Hentges (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/asyl/butterwegge.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 16. März 2006

by Chris Brammer

ANGRY Denaby residents are willing to do whatever it takes to prevent a mobile phone mast being erected at Denaby and Cadeby Miners Welfare. Doncaster Council's Planning Committee passed proposals by Hutchinson 3G UK Ltd for the 15ft high telecommunication tower last week. This was despite dozens of people signing a petition against the plans because of their fears for the health of local schoolchildren being subjected to prolonged exposure from the mast. Now Kirsty Meggitt of Tickhill Square and June Gregory of Woodlands Way are to spearhead a campaign to stop the mast going up. "When it comes to the health of my children potentially being affected I will do whatever it takes. I will barricade myself in the Miners Welfare Club or tie myself to a lamppost," said Kirsty, a housewife who lives with her husband Brian and children Shannon and Brian Jr. "We only found out that this had even been passed after reading about it in the Times. We shouldn't have to rely on the press to know what is going on on our own doorstep." Last week, Denaby resident Keith Drewitt claimed residents had not been given enough time to react to the planning proposal. He said only one school was notified and that was on the day it finished for the Christmas holidays and it was required to respond within 14 days. "Had I known about it, I would have got one of the kids off the street and given them a fiver to distribute 100s of letters to people's doors," said Kirsty "We will move house. We have tried to better ourselves by buying this house. Why couldn't they put the mast up at the Earth Centre or on Denaby Craggs?" Husband Brian added: "This is not just going to affect us, but also the people who work in the area on a daily basis." The residents are now set to arrange a meeting with local councillors and planning officials before making their next move, which could be a second petition. The original petition set up by Bernard Pygott and Keith Drewitt was only set up four days before the council made its decision and therefore did not cover as many residents as they would have wished for. "They have done as much as they can, and it is now up to us to continue the fight," said Kirsty. Mr Pygott also revealed that he had sent a letter to the Prime Minister and to Parliament. A Hutchinson 3G spokesman said the company had looked at other sites but they were either too low or would not have had permission to use them. The mast was more than 100m from the nearest residential property and would be five metres lower than the existing floodlight. The company had demonstrated ban installation was required to provide 3G coverage to Denaby Main in line with its licence to provide 80 per cent coverage by 2007.

16 March 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.dearnetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=768&ArticleID=1387247

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/70928

"Kill-Funktion" für RFID-Chips
http://www.infoweek.ch/news/NW_single.cfm?news_ID=13029&sid=0

CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AT 888-355-3588 or 800-828-0498, and while you're at it, tell them to censure Bush too

Like an undisciplined five year old child who is always trying to get away with something the instant you aren't paying attention, AGAIN they are trying to sneak ANWR drilling into ANOTHER Senate bill.

On Thursday, March 16, the Senate will be confronted with an amendment to the Senate budget bill to allow invasion of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Again we must tell them, NO MEANS NO!

ACTION PAGE: http://www.nocrony.com/anwr3.php

While they muzzle their own scientists who warn that we may already be past the tipping point of a planetary climate catastrophe, the latest news is that the Arctic sea ice pack has failed to re-form for the second year in a row. The latest report is that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have hit another new record. And at the same time just this week was the most massive pipeline oil spill ever, covering two acres of fragile tundra, which is not what we would call a "small" footprint.

IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT ACTIVISM YOU MUST HAVE THE DESKTOP ACTION PROGRAM

They is absolutely NO way we can respond to these kind of sneak tactics in the most effective possible way without better lines of communication. We get constant complaints from you, our participants, that you did not receive a particular alert or that you think your internet service provider might be blocking your access to our pages for political reasons. And in many cases already, they ARE!!

We created the Desktop Action program so that we can alert our entire participant base in a matter of hours on the most urgent matters. It puts a resident icon in the system tray of your computer desktop that you can use to send your personal messages to Congress without even having to visit a web site at all. If have not gotten your copy, or if you had one of the earlier versions and let it lapse, get the latest update (v. 1.08) at

DESKTOP ACTION DOWNLOAD SITE: http://www.usalone.com

We have made MANY improvements in the program since its initial release. You don't start and stop it, you just LEAVE it. When there is a short notice action, the icon will gently flash with a color change. It's like an electronic Paul Revere. The American revolution could not have happened without his midnight ride. And the Desktop Action is critically essential to bringing about REAL political policy change today

WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO STOP FUNDING FOR PERMANENT MILITARY BASES IN IRAQ

Here is a perfect real life example of why you MUST HAVE the Desktop Action Program. There is an amendment in the House to try to cut off funding for the construction of permanent military bases in Iraq. The vote will take place either tonight or tomorrow, so by the time you open up this email (assuming you even get it), the vote may have already have taken place.

The Bush regime never cared about WMDs, mass graves, the Iraqi people, or freedom. The only thing on the march is Halliburton's construction of 14 enduring thorns in the heart of the Middle East which can ONLY lead to an endless and growing insurgency.

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

You have heard the president say, "When the Iraqis step up, we will step down." You don't believe that and neither do the Iraqi people. And when they DO step up, as the are doing even now with roadside IED bombs, it will be to do one thing and one thing only, to tell us to finally get OUT of their country.

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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The atmosphere's level of greenhouse gases associated with climate change is hitting record highs. A bulletin on greenhouse gas levels by the World Meteorological Organization said there were 377 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2004, up from around 280ppm before the industrial revolution.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031506EC.shtml

In this pair of stories, Eugene Linden says that Bush is starting to stand alone on climate change as his allies in both the Christian and business communities desert him; meanwhile Al Gore aims his documentary movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," at those same communities.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031506EB.shtml

A vote to open the Arctic Refuge takes place in the Senate today as a burst pipeline in Alaska's North Slope has caused the Arctic region's worst oil spill, prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration's drive for more oil exploration there.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031506EA.shtml

Alice-in-Wonderland Policies and the Mother of All Financial Crises.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12345.htm

Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12341.htm

By Kaleem Hussain

In the year 2000, Iraq had decided that it was no longer going to accept dollars for oil being sold under the UN’s Oil For-Food Program and decided to switch to the Euro as Iraq’s oil export currency. The result was a military strike by the U.S. and it’s allies and subsequently in ample time the dollar was restored as Iraq’s oil export currency.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12346.htm

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire".

http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml


From Information Clearing House

15.03.2006

Pornos und Gewaltvideos auf Handys – viele Eltern wissen gar nicht, was ihre Kinder über das Handy alles austauschen. Zu diesem Thema sprechen Experten heute Mittag im Aktuellen Thema von Radio Vorarlberg.

Handys sind richtige Multifunktionsgeräte. Sie können Musik spielen, fotografieren und filmen und bieten einen Internetzugang. Leider lässt sich damit auch allerhand Schund verbreiten: Pornographie, Gewalt, Nazipropaganda.

Problematisch dabei ist, dass über das Handy auch viele Kinder Zugang zu all diesen Grauslichkeiten haben.

200 Handys beschlagnahmt Im benachbarten Immenstadt hat die Polizei an einer Hauptschule nach einem Hinweis 200 Handys beschlagnahmt, auf 15 wurden Porno- und Gewaltvideos gefunden. Und viele Eltern wissen gar nicht, was ihre Kinder über das Handy alles austauschen.

Wie damit umgehen? Darüber informieren Arno Dalpra von der IfS-Jugendberatung Mühletor und Harald Longhi, Internet-Experte beim Landeskriminalamt.

Moderation: Günther Platter

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/95800/

Vodafone-Pläne sorgen für Unmut in Laubenheim

Vom 16.03.2006

stw. LAUBENHEIM Im Streit um die geplante Mobilfunkantenne von Vodafone-D2 an der Naheblickhalle in Laubenheim werfen die Bürgerinitiative (BI) und die Grünen der VG dem Netzbetreiber fadenscheinige und unwahre Argumentation vor.

"Während Vodafone nur die eigenen finanziellen Interessen gelten lässt, vertreten die Mitglieder der BI die berechtigten Gesundheitsinteressen der Laubenheimer Bevölkerung, vor allem die der Kindergartenkinder", schreiben die Gesprächspartner in einer Pressemitteilung. Denn obwohl der zusätzliche Mast von dieser Stelle aus die Bestrahlung der Wohnhäuser nicht verbessern könne, wolle das Unternehmen nur den bestehenden und den jetzt geplanten Standort akzeptieren. Grund sei, denn beide Standorte nah an einer Stromquelle lägen und die Anschlusskosten gering seien.

"Im Antwortschreiben von Vodafone wird behauptet, dass der zweite Standort mit Mitgliedern des Gemeinderates und dem Bürgermeister abgestimmt worden sei", schreiben Grüne und BI. Laut der BI hat der Gemeinderat das Bauvorhaben aber bereits im August 2005 abgelehnt. Grünen-VG-Ratsmitglied Otmar Grüning forderte von Vodafone deshalb Kompromissbereitschaft.

Copyright: Allgemeine Zeitung, Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main

http://www.az-badkreuznach.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2306591

BI informiert über Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks/Bothe: Verbandsgemeinde im Zwiespalt

Vom 16.03.2006

MONSHEIM/KRIEGSHEIM Um die Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks ging es in einer Informationsveranstaltung, zu der die Bürgerinitiatve gegen die Errichtung einer Mobilfunkanlage für den UMTS-Sendebetrieb des Mobilfunkanbieters O2 eingeladen hatte.

Von Vera Konersmann

"Die Bevölkerung hat diesen Mast einfach vor die Nase gesetzt bekommen, obwohl dieser Sender ja vor allem die Bürger der Verbandsgemeinde betrifft", betonte Ludger Dierkes, Sprecher der Initiative. Es könne nicht sein, dass es sogar für die Farbe der Dachziegeln in einem Baugebiet eine Regelung gebe, aber bei der Erichtung eines Sendemastes weder Bürger noch Kommunalpolitiker Mitspracherecht hätten. Die Initiative hatte nun eingeladen zu einem Vortrag, bei dem Diplomphysiker Dr. Volker Schorpp über Mobilfunk und die Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Umwelt referierte.

Die Bürgerinitiative habe inzwischen über 500 Unterschriften gegen die Anlage gesammelt, erklärte der BI-Sprecher. Die Initiative verstehe sich aber nicht als Vereinigung von Handygegnern. Die Mitglieder forderten vielmehr einen vertretbaren Umgang mit dieser Technologie.

So wie Dierkes dachten am Dienstagabend viele Monsheimer und waren zu der Informationsveranstaltung in der Güterhalle am Bahnhof gekommen. Unter den Interessierten waren auch Ortsbürgermeister Michael Röhrenbeck und Verbandsbürgermeister Ralph Bothe, für deren Unterstützung sich die Initiative bedankte. Bothe stellte dar, in welchem Zwiespalt sich die Verbandsgemeinde befinde: Einwohnern solle die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, Mobiltelefone zu nutzen, andererseits sei der Standort der Sendeanlage nicht nur aus ortsbildprägenden Gründen schlecht gewählt.

Dr. Volker Schorpp vom "Puls-Schlag Mobilfunk-Bürgerforum aus Karlsruhe" klärte über die Risiken der von Handymasten verursachten elektromagnetischen Strahlung auf. Er erläuterte die Technik der Sendeanlagen und wählte zur Verdeutlichung auch einprägsame Beispiele: "Würde man elektromagnetische Strahlung in hörbare Strahlung umwandeln, wäre jeder Sendemast lauter als ein startender Düsenjet." Auch auf mögliche Gesundheitsgefährdungen ging er ein. Er selbst sei betroffen, stellte er dar, nachdem in seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft drei Masten auf einem Dach errichtet worden seien, wäre er erkrankt. Schorpp verwies auf die Gefahr, an Krebs zu erkranken, und führte eine Studie an, bei der fünf Hausärzte im Zeitraum von zehn Jahren eine Statistik über die Zahl von Krebserkrankten erstellt hatten. Hier sei deutlich gworden, dass sich seit der Errichtung eines Sendemastes für dort lebende Menschen das Krebsrisiko verdoppelt habe.

Nach dem Vortrag konnten sich die Zuhörer am Informationsstand des Karlsruher Bürgerforums weiter informieren.

Copyright: Wormser Zeitung, Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main

http://www.wormser-zeitung.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2305710

From: Tom Hughes, Democracy for America info@democracyforamerica.com

Horse Sense

Watch the movie, then sign the petition

Time and time again, studies have shown paper ballots to be the most reliable of voting systems, especially in comparison to electronic voting machines. Why? Because they leave a paper trail -- a tangible, hand-held record of your vote. It's not rocket science -- it's horse sense.

Voter systems that are easier to use shouldn't be harder to trust. That's why we've put together a new flash movie about the importance of paper ballots. Watch the movie and sign the petition to help protect your vote today:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/paperballotflash

In an age where technology has become a staple of our day-to-day activities, we all know the power and convenience it holds. Yet, we've also all experienced that dreaded "blue screen" at least once - when our computer crashes, everything is lost and data corrupted.

Without paper ballots this loss is exactly what can happen to our vote - our fundamental right, our voice. Think of paper ballots as the "back-up" for our elections.

Join the fight to protect every vote today, watch the movie and sign the petition:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/paperballotflash

Once you've watched the movie, help spread the word. Forward it on to your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers and explain why paper ballots are an essential part of a healthy democracy.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/fowardtoafriend

All Americans deserve to have their voices heard and paper ballots are the best voting system to ensure a secure, honest and accurate election process. The more people we can reach with this movie, the more people we can educate on this issue -- and the closer we come to making sure that every vote that is cast is counted accurately.

It's pure, simple common sense. Horse sense.

Sincerely,

Tom Hughes
Executive Director


Informant: Martin Greenhut

BI Hörlkofen informierte - Zwei Antennen auf einer Anlage das kleinere Übel

Hörlkofen (vev) - Emotionsgeladen und teils polemisch verlief die Diskussion zum Thema Mobilfunk in Hörlkofen am Dienstag Abend in der Sportgaststätte. Die örtliche Bürgerinitiative hatte dazu eingeladen und den Mediziner Dr. Claus Scheingraber als Referenten gewonnen.

Ein Zuhörer plädierte in der hitzigen Debatte für mehr Sachlichkeit und eine Bürgerin forderte, sich gegenseitig zuzuhören. Diese Beiträge taten dem Gesprächsverlauf gut, drohten doch für die Betroffenen (428 Unterschriften!) wichtige Informationen seitens Bürgerinitiative und anwesender Gemeinderäte durch die Stimmungsmache einiger weniger unterzugehen.

Umweltreferent Thomas Altmann und Gemeinderätin Ulla Dieckmann erläuterten die Sachlage. Der Mobilfunkmast soll auf einem Privatgrundstück am Ortsrand beim Wildgehege installiert werden. Der Grundstückseigentümer habe den Vertrag mit dem Mobilfunkbetreiber D 1 bereits unterschrieben. Juristisch habe die Gemeinde keine Handhabe dagegen. Man habe jedoch den Mast durch Verhandlungen weiter vom Ort weggebracht. Er sei jetzt etwa 600 Meter von der Bebauung entfernt, so Altmann. Nachdem auch E-Plus eine Antenne aufstellen will, habe sich die Gemeinde Wörth dafür eingesetzt, beide Masten auf einer Anlage zu installieren. Falls sich die Mobilfunkbetreiber einigen, bleibe es bei einem Masten mit einer Höhe von 31,20 Metern. Dies sei das kleinere Übel. Sonst könne passieren, dass die Firmen auf Privathäusern mehrere kleinere genehmigungsfreie Masten in Ortsnähe errichten. Dieser Einschätzung stimmte Dr. Scheingraber zu.

BI-Sprecher Rudi Altmann ging auf eine weitere Entwicklung ein. Es gebe einen zweiten Grundstückseigentümer, der den Masten unbedingt auf seinem Terrain haben wolle, das noch weitere 200 Meter von der Bebauung entfernt sei. Falls es gelinge, den bestehenden Vertrag aufzuheben, sei dies die bessere Lösung. Ursprünglich sollte der Masten auf Walpertskirchener Gemeindegebiet entstehen. Wörth ist erst später ins Spiel gekommen. Die BI-Sprecher Rudi Altmann und Martin Weber jun. sind zugleich betroffene Anlieger. Letzterer kritisierte die Informationspolitik der Gemeinde, die offensiver sein sollte.

Scheingraber erklärte, es gebe für die Kommunen mit einer stringenten Bauleitplanung zumindest die Möglichkeit, den Mastbau zu verzögern. Doch das erfordere Zeit, viel Arbeit und Geld. Sein Vortrag über Gesundheitsrisiken machte nachdenklich, zeigte er doch die Schattenseiten schrankenloser Telekommunikation auf. Sie basiere auf einer Grenzwertregelung, die keine Sicherheiten biete, so Scheingraber. Die Geschäftemacherei sei hier wichtiger als die Gesundheitsvorsorge.

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Datum: 16.03.2006 00:00 Uhr

http://www.merkur-online.de/regionen/erding/art2795,644200.html

By Nassim Khadem, Canberra
The Age
March 16, 2006

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/earth-faces-mass-extinction/2006/03/15/1142098529668.html

A leading British environmental scientist has urged the Australian Government to switch its focus from nuclear power and clean-coal technologies to renewable energies.

Norman Myers said he had raised the issue with federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell just two days ago.

Professor Myers was speaking yesterday at the National Press Club about the mass extinction of animal and plant species being a greater threat to the world than global warming.

Professor Myers, a visiting fellow of Oxford University, said despite Australia having vast amounts of coal and uranium available to export to countries such as China, it still needed to consider how it would produce energy beyond the fossil-fuel era. "I would suggest to Australia, as I did to the minister, that in anticipation of the end of the fossil fuel era Š Australia might want to develop an alternative energy strategy. That is, a clean and renewable source of technology."

Asked whether he agreed with the Australian Government that nuclear power was a possible way to reduce global warming, he said it was not safe and it would take at least 10 years before a nuclear power plant would be operational.

His comments came as Australia confirmed it was close to signing an agreement with China on the sale of uranium. Officials from both nations met in Beijing a fortnight ago for the latest round of negotiations.

Professor Myers, who has been a senior adviser on biodiversity to the United Nations, the World Bank and the White House, said Earth was experiencing the largest mass extinction of species in 65 million years. He said there were about 10 million species and half could be lost if governments did not act quickly.

Professor Myers is renowned for identifying "hot spots" -- homes to our most valuable animal and plant species -- in grave need of protection. There are
34 hot spots and only five countries have more than one. Australia has two: one in southern Western Australia and the other taking in forests on the east coast.

A UN meeting in Brazil next week will discuss reducing the loss of species by 2010.


Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/htu57

Handyabhängigkeit: Mobiltelefonieren – ein Problem?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1654421/

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-Catcher
http://tinyurl.com/2tc3wx


Informant: atlant

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Kripo fordert Hightech zur Handy-Ortung
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4218587/

The groundswell for President Bush's impeachment is growing, and last week the establishment media finally took notice.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506N.shtml



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

"Mit US-Kräften ausgetauscht": Soldaten sollen als Journalisten getarnt Guantanamo-Häftlinge verhört haben (15.03.06)

Bundeswehrsoldaten sollen sich nach ARD-Angaben mehr als ein Mal vorschriftswidrig als Journalisten getarnt und Angehörige von Guantanamo-Häftlingen befragt haben. Über ein zweites Vorkommnis diesmal in Afghanistan berichtete der Onlinedienst der Tagesschau am Dienstag. Das Verteidigungsministerium hat den Angaben zufolge bislang einen Fall bestätigt, wonach Soldaten der Bundeswehr in Bosnien als vermeintliche Journalisten Informationen besorgt hätten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13174

The US current account deficit suffered its fastest quarterly deterioration in the final months of last year, ballooning to a record 7 percent of national income. The worse-than-expected deficit rekindled fears among economists that global imbalances would undermine the dollar.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506G.shtml

American forces have dramatically increased air strikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of US ground troops serving there.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506A.shtml

On Friday, March 3, the Alberta government announced it will suspend the spring grizzly bear hunt while DNA census data is collected throughout the province, which is expected to continue over the next few years. In addition to suspending the hunt, the government has committed to completing the population studies, reducing the number of human-bear conflicts through public education and regulations, and has requested the assistance of several widely-known grizzly experts to provide scientific peer review on the current draft grizzly bear recovery plan.

While the announcement is an excellent and commendable step towards sustainable grizzly bear management, there are several more important actions that need to be taken to ensure that grizzly bears, and a wide range of other species, are conserved on the Alberta landscape.

It is important that the government acknowledge the precarious position of the grizzly bear in Alberta and designate it as a 'threatened' species, begin immediately to deal with access management and ensure that key remaining habitat is not degraded.

Learn more at CPAWS.org
http://cpaws.org/action/ab-grizzlies.php
and send a letter to Honourable David Coutts, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development
http://www.actionworks.ca/clientfiles/cpaws/actioncentres/ab-grizzlies/takeaction.jsp
to congratulate him on the government's decision and to encourage the ministry to continue to take progressive, proactive actions for the conservation of Alberta's grizzlies.

The Bush administration is moving ahead with a huge timber sale that would devastate some of the last remaining wild forests of Alaska's Kuiu Island, in our Tongass National Forest BioGem.

We need your help to stop this attack on the rainforest habitat of abundant populations of black bears and salmon, which is of vital importance to Native Alaskans.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp and tell the Forest Service you oppose the Kuiu timber sale, which would use taxpayer dollars to build roads and clearcut this island refuge.

Last year, in response to an NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that a management plan calling for large-scale clearcut logging in the Tongass National Forest was illegal. Nonetheless, the Forest Service is now pushing forward with newly proposed timber sales on Kuiu Island and in other sensitive habitat areas.

Decades of clearcutting have already devastated much of Kuiu Island. Continued logging there would destroy key habitat for one of the highest densities of black bears in North America, as well as Sitka black-tailed deer, marten, wolves, several species of salmon and the rare Queen Charlotte goshawk.

This remote area of southeastern Alaska provided hunting, fishing and gathering grounds to Native Alaskans for hundreds of years.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp right away and urge the Forest Service to cancel the Kuiu timber sale.

Thank you for taking action to save our last wild national forests.


Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council

SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): Tells Congress Bush Dangerously Incompetent

(Click here scroll down to photo of Sen. Stabenow with "Dangerously Incompetent" Sign in front of Congress)

Unfortunately this News Website Doesn't think she is correct, We Know Better!
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/03/14/senator-debbie-stabenow-d-mi-michigans-shameful-senator/

MoveOn.org Political Action: President Bush Must be Censured for Breaking the Law http://political.moveon.org/censure/?id=7043-6741112-W.CIt.7_DgeUXzUk1dykjw&t=1


Informant: ranger116

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panama_rainforest

Four proposed hydroelectric dam projects threaten free-flowing rivers, rare tropical species, indigenous cultures and a biologically diverse World Heritage Park in the remote rainforest of western Panama. Promoted by the Panamanian government and major Columbian and U.S. corporations, the dam projects would forever alter the free-flowing rivers of the Changuinola basin.

Rio Teribe begins in the heart of La Amistad Biosphere Reserve in western Panama and flows into Rio Changuinola, where three dams are proposed. Construction of the lowest Changuinola dam alone would biologically deplete over 500 miles of streams. A fourth proposed dam on Rio Bonyic, a major tributary of the Teribe, would permanently impact more than 100 miles of stream habitat. The dams, roads, bridges and power lines slated for construction as part of these projects would devastate unique native fish, impact the entire ecosystem of the Changuinola basin and open this remote jungle for development.

La Amistad Reserve contains Central America's largest intact tropical rainforest, is designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations, and harbors incredible biodiversity including 115 species of fish. Most of the fish in the Teribe and Changuinola Rivers depend on access to the ocean to complete their life cycles. The dams would hinder migration and prevent successful reproduction for fish that migrate downstream to the estuary to spawn or rely on currents to carry eggs or larvae back to the sea. The dams would also flood portions of the territories of the indigenous Naso and Ngobe Tribes, destroying the centerpiece of their cultural and natural heritage.

The Panama National Environmental Authority (ANAM) recently approved flawed Environmental Impact Assessments for the four proposed dams. Please join the growing international movement to protect this ecological jewel of Central America and voice your opposition to the proposed Changuinola and Bonyic Hydroelectric Projects to ANAM.

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http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panama_rainforest/explanation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1730279,00.html

(Guardian) Ungewohnte Erkenntnisse von Medienmogul Murdoch: nach seiner Einschätzung ist die Zeit, in der die etablierten Medien die Meinungshoheit im öffentlichen Raum bestimmten, abgelaufen. An ihre Stelle träten nun Blogger und Internet-Portale.

In einer Ansprache, die Murdoch nach seinem 75. Geburtstag zum Thema der Zukunft der Medien hielt, erklärte er, dass das Ende der großen Medienkonzerne und Meinungsmonopole unaufhaltsam sei. Nun sei die Zeit der neuen Medienpioniere gekommen, der Blogger und anderer dezentraler Publizisten, die flexibel und spontan ihre Leserschaft mit dem belieferten, woran sie Bedarf habe.

Offensichtlich ließ Murdoch sich keine Bitterkeit anmerken hinsichtlich dieser Entwicklung, die auch sein eigenes Lebenswerk: den Aufbau seines globalen Medienimperiums, in Frage stellt. Die etablierten Medienkonzerne hätten nach seiner Einschätzung nur die Wahl, sich der von ihm beschriebenen Entwicklung anzupassen oder unterzugehen. Die neue sich entwickelnde Medienlandschaft sei ein zuverlässiger Schutz gegen die Ausbreitung von Fundamentalismus und religiösem Fanatismus. Ein neues "goldenes Zeitalter" der Informationsgesellschaft würde damit anbrechen.

Der Guardian beschreibt eine Metamorphose des Medienmoguls vom Saulus zum Paulus. Murdoch hat in der Konsequenz inzwischen nahezu eine Milliarde $ in Internetmedien und Portale investiert, darunter 400 Millionen in die Community-Plattform MySpace.Com.


Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23745 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23745


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

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

03/09/06

It's no secret that many conservative leaders in Congress seem to have forgotten the very reasons they came to Washington in the first place -- to fight for lower taxes, smaller government and more individual freedom. As Heritage Foundation President Edwin J. Feulner recently put it, 'We [have] strayed from both the principles of Ronald Reagan of just 25 years ago and from the vision of our Founding Fathers.' That is especially true when talking about out-of-control government spending...

http://tinyurl.com/ezvk5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031406T.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

part one

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

03/13/06

A strategy exists by means of which we can neutralize the threat that a potentially nuclear Iran might represent to us. It does not involve military conflict in any manner at all and, in principle, it is remarkably simple and even obvious. But none of our major leaders of any political persuasion will even consider it, because it falls entirely outside the modes of thinking and analysis that we as a nation have utilized for well over a century...

http://tinyurl.com/zhyrp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Susan Callaway

03/06

Last week I challenged everyone to think about who actually owns their life now. When you understand that ownership means control, you can quickly be overwhelmed with the realization that we actually control very little about our lives today, even some of our most personal actions. We've gradually -- over many years -- allowed government to dictate what is 'safe,' and even what is moral -- wrapped up in the lie that it is all for 'the common good.' We've allowed ourselves to believe whatever they tell us, especially through the popular press and other media. Far too few people ever consider that information critically or make any attempt to verify it from a non-government and truly independent source...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/03/13/editor.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Jim Babka

03/14/06

We were promised the government would never use Social Security numbers as ID numbers. The government broke that promise. We were promised the income tax would always be small, but now it is large. We were promised the FBI and IRS would never be used by politicians to punish political enemies. Another broken promise. We were promised campaign finance laws would end political corruption. Instead, they have strangled political competition, and the corruption in Congress is worse than ever. Whatever the politicians promise you, the results are likely to be the opposite. We were promised that the groundwork laid for a national identification system by the REAL ID Act would protect us from terrorism. Believe that promise at your own risk. National identification systems -- internal passports -- are one of the hallmarks of police states...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/4110/2006-03-14.asp?nid=4110&wid=64


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

03/14/06

Another depressing week in the war that won't end got off to a typical start as I read in Saturday's Washington Post that 'President Bush plans to begin a series of speeches next week again explaining the administration's strategy for winning the war in Iraq.' The repetitiveness of this White House tactic has gotten so absurd that the reporter dropped the press corps typical posture of feigned obtuseness and noted, repeatedly, that we've heard this song before. ... In truth, things have slipped so far downhill in Iraq that it's hard to say what our goals are, much less whether or not we're in a position to meet them. What can be said is that the administration's plans for Iraq seem to owe more to Samuel Beckett than to serious national security policy...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11282


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Post

03/14/06

Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, said today he has no evidence the Iranian government has been sending military equipment and personnel into neighboring Iraq. On Monday, President Bush suggested Iran was involved in making roadside bombs, known as improvised explosive devices, that are being used in Iraq. And Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld last week accused Iran of sending members of its Revolutionary Guard to conduct operations in Iraq. Today, Pace, the top U.S. military official, was asked at a Pentagon news conference if he has proof that Iran's government is sponsoring these activities. 'I do not, sir,' Pace said"

http://tinyurl.com/fqykq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Insight

03/13/06

President Bush has decided to stay out of the lion's share of decisions made by his administration. Sources close to the administration said that over the last year, Mr. Bush has chosen to focus on two issues, leaving the rest to be decided by Cabinet members and senior aides. They said the issues are Iraq and the Republican congressional campaign in the 2006 elections. 'Lots of important issues that deal with national security are never brought to the president because he doesn't want to deal with them,' a source familiar with the White House said. 'In some cases, this has resulted in chaos'...

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/delegates.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reuters

03/14/06

The United States is headed for a financial crisis unless it alters its course of racking up big budget deficits year after year, Comptroller General David Walker told a British audience on Tuesday. 'If we continue on our present course, a fiscal crisis is only a matter of time,' Walker said in the course of an address to the London School of Economics in which he stressed the need for the United States to get its fiscal house in order. The comptroller general acts as the nation's chief accountability officer and is the head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO...

http://tinyurl.com/j77z5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

ENS March 13, 2006

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/2006-03-13-09.asp

CORVALLIS, Oregon - Global warming in coming decades may cause the disappearance of large areas of the low-elevation snowpack in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, a new study concludes. Area ski resorts will face warm winters far more often than they do now, predict the authors, geographers from Oregon State University (OSU).

The new OSU study, based on computer models, details the "at risk" snowpacks in the Pacific Northwest. Most lie in Oregon's Cascade Range, parts of the southern Cascade Range of Washington, and Olympic National Park.

Similar impacts are also possible for portions of the southern Cascade Range in Washington, and also in Washington's Olympic Range, most of which is in Olympic National Park. There, global warming is projected to melt 61 percent of the snow cover.

"Previous studies show that snowpack has fluctuated widely in the past, but appears to be trending downward in the Pacific Northwest since the 1920s," said Anne Nolin, an assistant professor in the OSU Department of Geosciences.

"This region has already experienced the largest declines in snowpack in the western United States. What we're able to do now is identify much more precisely where the snow may disappear, based on the warming we expect," Nolin said. "We've never before had projections that are this specific in their spatial scale."

For their study, Nolin and Chris Daly, an associate professor of geosciences, used widely accepted global climate models which, on average, suggest this region may warm about 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 40 years.

While than two percent of the current snow-covered area is modeled to be at risk in the future in a four state Pacific Northwest region that includes Idaho and parts of western Montana, more than half of all the "at risk" snow is in the Oregon Cascades.

Nolin team projects that about 22 percent of the area in the Oregon Cascades could soon experience precipitation that falls as rain in the winter, rather than as snow.

Some of the most profound impacts may be on ski resorts in the region, the scientists said, especially those at the lower elevations.

For instance, based on the increase in temperature that is expected 40 years from now, the study showed that Mt. Hood Meadows, a popular ski area near Portland, Oregon, may experience warm winters about seven times more frequently than it does now - going from a warm winter seven percent of the time to 47 percent of the time.

A warm winter means that, based on the elevation of the ski area, climate conditions, and other local geographical conditions, precipitation that now falls predominately as snow during December, January and February will instead fall predominately as rain.

The potential for changes in snow and rain precipitation patterns, the researchers say, could affect not just ski resorts but also stream flows, fisheries, flood control, hydroelectric power generation, irrigated agriculture and other water-related activities.

Reductions in summer stream flow as a result of diminished snowpack would be a special problem for fisheries management, the researchers said.

Similar concerns would almost certainly affect the Sierra Nevada range of California, the researchers said, but an analysis of that region was not a part of this study.

The report has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the "Journal of Hydrometeorology," a publication of the American Meteorological Society. The work was funded in part by the U.S. Geological Survey and by NASA.


Informant: NHNE

By Alister Doyle
Reuters
March 13, 2006

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/3/14/worldupdates/2006-03-14T093801Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-240499-1&sec=Worldupdates

OSLO - Exotic frogs and toads are dying out in the jungles of Latin America, apparent victims of global warming in what might be a harbinger of one of the worst waves of extinction since the dinosaurs.

Accelerating extinctions would derail a United Nations goal of "a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss" by 2010. That target will be reviewed at a U.N. meeting of environment ministers in Curitiba, Brazil, on March 20-31.

"We are facing an extinction crisis," said Anne Larigauderie, head of Paris-based Diversitas which promotes research into life on the planet.

She estimated the rate of loss of all species was now 10-100 times faster than little-understood rates from fossil records. The task of gauging the exact rate is complicated by the fact that no one knows exactly how many species exist.

Many scientists say global warming -- widely blamed on burning fossil fuels in factories, power plants and vehicles -- is adding to other human threats including destruction of habitats from expanding cities, deforestation and pollution.

For now, amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts are on the front-line -- they live both in water and on land and have a porous skin sensitive to changes in temperature and moisture. A skin fungus is also decimating amphibians.

In coming decades, threats could widen to creatures ranging from polar bears to tropical butterflies. A few species might benefit, such as forests expanding north to the Arctic.

"We're probably looking at one of the worst spasms of extinction in millions of years, even without climate change," said Lee Hannah, an expert at Conservation International. "But we have it in our ability to do something about it."

"Many species are already moving right to the brink," said Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the "Red List" publication of endangered species at the World Conservation Union.

GOLDEN TOAD

The latest 2004 Red List gives "climate change" alongside "disease" as main factors for the extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica, Ecuador's Jambato Toad and an Ecuadorean toad known as Atelopus Longirostis.

"We have never used 'climate change' in previous publications as a cause of extinction," Hilton-Taylor said. "I'm sure it will be used more in future."

A study in the journal Nature in January said two-thirds of 110 species of Harlequin frog in central and South America had died out in the past 20 years. It implicated a warming climate in helping spread fungus.

In the worst case, some studies say the world could be facing one of the biggest waves of species loss since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.

Larigauderie said the U.N. goal of slowing biodiversity loss was impossible. "It's totally unrealistic. We don't know what there is out there and we don't know how it's changing," she said.

Overall, the Red List says 844 species have disappeared since 1500, ranging from the dodo to the Tasmanian tiger.

In one of the bleakest projections, a 2004 international study said a quarter of all species -- perhaps a million -- could be condemned to extinction by 2050, partly because of a warming climate.

"You could argue that climate change is already starting to be on a par with other causes of species loss," said Chris Taylor, the study's lead author who is a professor of conservation biology at the University of York in England.

Species limited to a single mountain-top -- like the Golden Toad -- were unable to escape if it got too hot. In other cases, cities, roads or farmland may block the path of animals and plants moving towards the poles, the study said.

CLIMATE REFUGEES

Others say the outlook is less grim.

"In a lot of cases, species will be able to move towards the poles or find pockets of environments where they can survive," said Paul Leadley, a professor of ecology at the University of Paris.

He said an abrupt temperature rise at the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago did not trigger a mass extinction.

The head of the U.N.'s climate panel said preserving nature was more than just a question of helping exotic animals and plants to survive.

"Human progress has been supported by the healthy continuation of biodiversity," said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific body of about 2,000 scientists that advises the United Nations.

"All our food crops, medicines and so many other things that we take for granted in day-to-day living are the result of what we have exploited in the form of nature's bounty," he said. He urged governments to do more to slow climate change.

The Kyoto Protocol, the main U.N. plan to curb global warming, obliges about 40 industrial nations to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

President George W. Bush pulled the United States, the world's top source of emissions, out in 2001. He denounced Kyoto as an economic straitjacket that would cost U.S. jobs and said it wrongly excluded developing nations.

Public concern about nature can sometimes produce huge efforts to protect species.

In the United States, discovery of the tiny snail darter fish delayed construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River after it was listed as endangered in the 1970s.

In other cases, species that held promise have vanished.

The tiny Australian Northern Gastric-Brooding Frog had the trick of incubating its young in its stomach by turning off its digestive juices. That could have helped pharmaceutical companies to work out stomach anti-ulcer drugs.

Extinct according to the Red List, it has not been seen in the wild since
1985, a victim of habitat loss and disease.


Informant: NHNE

http://focus.msn.de/digital/rfid_nid_26146.html

RFID-Chips: Wissenschaftler warnen vor Sicherheitslücken
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/03/15/860678.html

Verbraucherschutzminister Seehofer verlangt Datenschutz bei RFID
http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2041934&section=Marketing-News

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-glacier17feb17,0,1635034.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Ice Dumped by Greenland's Glaciers Triples in 10 Years Scientists say 'wake-up call' study indicates that sea level could climb even more quickly than current projections. By Alan Zarembo Times Staff Writer

February 17, 2006

Greenland's vast glaciers are dumping ice into the ocean three times faster than they did 10 years ago because of increasing temperatures, suggesting that sea level could rise even more quickly than current projections.

The study, published today in the journal Science, found that the glaciers contributed 53 cubic miles of water to the Atlantic Ocean in
2005, resulting in about a 0.02-inch rise in sea level.

"The models we had were not terribly alarming about Greenland," said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State University who was not involved in the research. "This paper is a real wake-up call."

Previous estimates of Greenland's contribution to sea level rise were based on tracking the thickness of the glaciers to calculate the amount of ice that had melted and flowed into the ocean.

Researchers estimated that in 1996 total ice lost through melting was about 8.3 cubic miles. Just one-quarter cubic mile of ice would supply the water Los Angeles consumes in a year.

Researchers led by Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, used satellite imagery to measure another source of water: ice cracking off the ends of glaciers to form icebergs.

The imagery showed that Greenland's southern glaciers are rapidly accelerating their downhill, seaward creep.

Take the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier in the southeast. After creeping along at just more than 3 miles per year, it now moves about 8.7 miles per year.

The increased speed of glacier flow meant that far more water was reaching the ocean.

Greenland's ice cap is larger than Texas and nearly 2 miles thick in places. The researchers calculated that its glaciers deposited 40 cubic miles of ice into the Atlantic Ocean in 2005, about triple the 13 cubic miles dumped in 1996.

More than 13 cubic miles of ice were shed through melting in 2005, they estimated.

Both forms of ice loss are related to rising temperatures, which in southeast Greenland have climbed 5.4 degrees over the last two decades.

As surface ice melts, the water seeps to the underside of the glacier, where it lubricates the ground and exerts an upward force on the ice, accelerating movement of the ice toward the ocean, Rignot said.

Sea level is rising at 0.12 of an inch a year. That would raise the oceans about a foot by the end of the century.

The Greenland ice cap is the third-leading contributor to the rise. It ranks behind the melting of mountain glaciers and the expansion of ocean water because of higher temperatures.

That 100-year estimate may have to be revised upward to reflect a greater increase from Greenland's glaciers.

"We don't know how much more," said Jason Box, a climatologist at Ohio State University who has modeled melting of Greenland's ice cap.


Informant: Scott Munson

By David Shukman
BBC science correspondent

US climate scientists have recorded a significant rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, pushing it to a new record level. BBC News has learned the latest data shows CO2 levels now stand at 381 parts per million (ppm) - 100ppm above the pre-industrial average. The research indicates that 2005 saw one of the largest increases on record - a rise of 2.6ppm. The figures are seen as a benchmark for climate scientists around the globe. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has been analysing samples of air taken from all over the world, including America's Rocky Mountains. The chief carbon dioxide analyst for Noaa says the latest data confirms a worrying trend that recent years have, on average, recorded double the rate of increase from just 30 years ago. "We don't see any sign of a decrease; in fact, we're seeing the opposite, the rate of increase is accelerating," Dr Pieter Tans told the BBC. The precise level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is of global concern because climate scientists fear certain thresholds may be "tipping points" that trigger sudden changes. The UK government's chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King, said the new data highlighted the importance of taking urgent action to limit carbon emissions. "Today we're over 380 ppm," he said. "That's higher than we've been for over a million years, possibly 30 million years. Mankind is changing the climate."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4803460.stm

Published: 2006/03/14 00:12:43 GMT


Informant: Scott Munson

Global Exchange, the international advocacy group for human rights, released a report naming the top fourteen "Worst Corporate Evildoers" in the world for the year 2005. Pfizer, one of the most profitable drug companies on earth with sales over $52 billion in 2004, made the list.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031406HA.shtml

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai says people worried about the environment should rely less on government and more on themselves to protect the planet's limited resources. "The planet does not belong to those in power ... It's the little things that we can do that are important," she said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031406EA.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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Wangari Maathai: Mutter der Bäume

ARTE | 06.07.08 | 18:15 Uhr | Wiederholung: 12.07.08 | 06:45 Uhr

"Wangari Maathai - Mutter der Bäume" ist das spannende Portrait einer Frau, die beweist, dass mann mit dem eigenen Verstand und gemeinsamer Tatkraft nicht nur Bäume versetzen, sndern die Welt verändern kann.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683895ms108



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Mike Ferner, who is fasting for an end to the war in Iraq, reports on his arrest last week during a congressional hearing where another $67,000,000,000 was approved for war and occupation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031406T.shtml

AROUND 70 residents from Rathmines protested outside the Office of Public Works headquarters last week demanding that the State body break its contract with two telecom companies regarding their equipment on a mobile phone mast.Tom Parlon, the minister in charge of the Office of Public Works, announced in October last that he had asked telecom companies, 3 Ireland and Vodafone, to switch off their transmitters at Ardee House in Rathmines pending the findings of an interdepartmental report into the health effects of electromagnetic radiation. This move followed pressure from local residents. Ardee House is owned by the Government and is home to the Central Statistics Office. It is also within yards of the St Mary’s and St Louis national and secondary schools in Rathmines. In spite of assurances from Justice Minister Michael McDowell to locals, both companies turned down the request saying they were operating within Government guidelines. In a recent reply to a Dáil question from Dublin South East TD, John Gormley (GP), Minister Parlon said he now had “no contractual basis for insisting the equipment is deactivated”.

Mary McInerney, who lives close to Ardee House and who attended the protest last week, said it was “unbelievable” that the Minister had signed a contract with the telecom companies that he could not get out of. “We want the mast to be deactivated,” she said. “The Minister told us in October last year that he had asked the mobile operators to turn off the mast and that he would not issue any more licences to them,” she told Southside People. “A lot of concerned parents who have children in the local schools contacted me and I told them that the mast would be deactivated as the Minister had given us that impression. “Then he said that he could not break the contract so who is in charge here and how could he have signed a contract that has no ‘out’ clause?” Chris Andrews, who has been selected to contest a Dáil seat in the Dublin South East constituency for Fianna Fail at the next general election, said Minister McDowell is either “unwilling or unable” to stop the telecom companies from operating the mast. “He has obviously failed his constituents and people all around the country who have genuine concerns around the issue,” said Mr Andrews. “He has acknowledged that they have concerns but has failed to do anything about it.” On Thursday last the OPW issued a statement saying that contrary to some recent reports Minister of State Tom Parlon had never refused to meet concerned residents over the issue of mobile phone masts in Rathmines. However, in response to a Dáil question from Deputy John Gormley last month, Minister Parlon is on the record as saying: “In the circumstances, I feel a meeting with local parents would not serve any useful purpose at this stage.” The statement from the OPW last week continued: “Minister Parlon is quite prepared to meet with delegations about this issue at a mutually convenient time for both parties. “The Office of Public Works continues to ensure that all relevant Planning Regulations and international Health and Safety standards in the erection of telecommunications equipment on State buildings are adhered to.”

http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=897&Itemid=49

A GROUP of Southside residents have succeeded in getting an undertaking from the Office of Public Works to temporarily suspend work on the erection of a mobile phone mast.Last week residents of Dorney Court in Shankill met Tom Parlon, Minister of State at the OPW and their telecoms consultants, Vilicom, in an effort to indefinitely halt the erection of the mast adjoining the Garda station in Shankill. The Garda station building is located in the Dorney Court estate where hundreds of residents live within metres of it. St Anne’s School, Scoil Mhuire Rathsallagh Primary School and Rathmichael School are also located within 500 metres of the structure. Residents fear the possible health implications the mast could have for them and their children. Representatives of Dorney Court Residents’ Association met with the Minister last week and asked him to instruct Vilicom and John F Supple – the contractors operating on their behalf - to cease work on the Shankill mast immediately. Community representatives said that the people of Shankill had a right to see the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on non-ionising radiation and a report by Professor Elaine Fox at the Electro Magnetic and health laboratory at Essex University before any attempt was made to erect the mast. They also demanded that the OPW and Vilicom investigate alternative sites for the mast, which would fully satisfy the safety concerns of the local community. Finally they wanted a “firm undertaking” that when the new mast has been sited, in “a safe location”, that all the existing antennae will be removed from the current mast at Shankill Garda station.

Eamonn Keogh of the Dorney Court Residents’ Association, who attended the meeting, told Southside People that the people of Shankill welcomed the opportunity to voice the community’s concerns with the Minister. “What we said to the Minister is that you have to respect the community and take the prudent, cautious approach regarding the health of the people of Shankill,” he said. “We feel we have a right to see those reports before there is any further attempt to erect another mast in Shankill. “We would also be willing to engage with the OPW in identifying sites that would be located away from schools and houses. “We are not anti mobile phone but all we want to do is develop this in a safe way for the local community.” It has now been decided to arrange a meeting between locals and officials from the OPW and Vilicom for this week. A spokesperson for the OPW confirmed that the Minister had promised to review the situation on his return next week from a number of St Patrick’s Day parades in the United States. He had given an undertaking to temporarily suspend work on the mast until he had reviewed the outcome of this week’s meeting, the spokesperson confirmed. Welcoming the decision, Dun Laoghaire TD Eamonn Gilmore (Lab) said he was pleased that the Minister accepted the suggestion and work is now suspended. However, he added: “I believe that this of itself will not end the issue. There are clearly two totally opposing views about the mast and a way will still have to be found to resolve matters.”

http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=900&Itemid=49

The government's plans for an 'immigration emergency' include relocation and detention centers -- courtesy of Kellogg, Brown and Root.

http://www.alternet.org/story/33295/


From Information Clearing House



Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77


Informant: Kev Hall

Undersea Global Strike: The Pentagon has expressed a need for global strike ability

Global means exactly that: the capacity to “reach out and touch someone” -- or some thing -- anywhere on Planet Earth.

http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,90791,00.html


From Information Clearing House

“The days of inexpensive, convenient, abundant energy sources are quickly drawing to a close,” according to a recently released US Army strategic report. The report posits that a peak in global oil production looks likely to be imminent, with wide reaching implications for the US Army and society in general.

http://www.energybulletin.net/13737.html


From Information Clearing House

This administration must be held accountable for its misdeeds. We have considerable work to do and I am going to need your help to make this effort successful. Join me in sending the message to the President, the media, and the American people that we are not going to stand for an imperial presidency any longer.

http://tinyurl.com/8h7sy


From Information Clearing House



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

hahaha

„Um Arbeitgeber zu motivieren, über 50jährige Arbeitslose einzustellen,
die sie nicht brauchen, sind Müntefering und die Initiative "50 plus"
aktiv geworden. Damit Münte gelingt, was keiner zuvor geschafft hat,
kramte der Arbeitsminister - trotz zahlreicher gegenteiliger Expertisen,
die alten unwirksamen Vorschläge zur Förderung der Beschäftigung älterer
Arbeitsloser aus der Schublade hervor. Er verkauft sie nun als
jung-dynamisches Non-Plus-Ultra der GROSSkoalitionären
Arbeitsmarktpolitik…“ Kommentar von Hanne Schweitzer, Büro gegen
Altersdiskriminierung e.V., vom 07.03.2006
http://www.altersdiskriminierung.de/themen/artikel.php?id=1244


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2006

ALG II und Wohnen

Hartz IV im Detail: Nebenkostenabrechnung

Auszüge von der Internetseite der MDR-Sendung „Ein Fall für Escher“ vom
09. März 2006 http://www.mdr.de/escher/2597458.html#absatz6

Gesetz könnte Arme obdachlos machen. Kommunen dürfen Mietschuld künftig kaum noch übernehmen / Niedriglöhner fallen durch das Netz

„Viele von Wohnungsverlust bedrohte Menschen haben künftig keine Möglichkeit mehr, die Übernahme von Mietschulden zu beantragen. Die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe (BAGW) warnt vor einem Anstieg der Obdachlosigkeit…“ Artikel in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 9.3.06 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/nachrichten/?cnt=822759


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2006

Hausarrest bis 25 und weitere Grausamkeiten

Hartz IV-Verschärfung schafft bürgerliche Rechte zweiter Klasse

Die drei Betroffenorganisationen, die Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen (KOS), die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) und der Erwerbslosenverein Tacheles e.V. warnen vor den Verschärfungen insbesondere für den Personenkreis der unter 25-jährigen die heute im Bundesrat beschlossen wurden / werden und "empfehlen" unter 25-jährigen Erwerbslosen noch diesen Monat aus- oder umzuziehen, wenn sie dies sowieso planen. Siehe die gemeinsame Pressemitteilung vom 10.3.06 (pdf) http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/pm-u25.pdf/download


Familienbande als Rettungsring!?

Am 17. Februar wurde vom Bundestag ein Änderungsgesetz zum SGB II verabschiedet. Die Änderung schränkt u.a. die Selbstständigkeit und die Freizügigkeit der unter 25-jährigen Alg-II-Beziehenden ein und verweist sie bei reduzierten Leistungsansprüchen auf den elterlichen Haushalt. Der Artikel von Anne Ames informiert über die politischen Hintergründe, die Details der neuen gesetzlichen Bestimmungen, ihre Auswirkungen für die Betroffenen und über Möglichkeiten, sich dagegen zu wehren. http://www.alg-2.info/artikel/familienbande


Eigene vier Wände – Dein gutes Recht…, aber nur noch bis zum 31. März!(?)

Info der Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen für junge ALG-II-Berechtigte, die den Umzug in eine eigene Wohnung schon so gut wie in der Tasche haben, sich jetzt aber sputen sollten. (pdf) http://www.alg-2.info/info_argumente/info_betroffene_u25j.pdf/view


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2006

Zukünftig soll es nur noch 225 EUR statt 345 EUR ALG-II für Hartz-IV geben.

„Dem Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland liegen Informationen aus nicht näher bezeichneten Quellen vor, wonach das Bundesarbeits- und Sozialministerium und das Bundesstatistikamt eine Absenkung des ALG II auf 225 EUR favorisieren. Damit würde der Regelsatz der ALG II-Bezieher um 120 EUR/Monat sinken, sofern diese keiner allgemeinen oder anderen Tätigkeit nachgehen würden. Demnach wären auch die Nachrichten unterstützt, wonach der DGB die Bundesregierung in seiner Forderung nach einem Mindestlohn von 6 EUR/Stunde unterstützt. Für Menschen, die in Arbeitsgelegenheiten wären, gäbe es nur noch einen rechnerischen Stundenlohn von ca. 5,- EUR/Stunde. Für Menschen ohne Arbeit oder Arbeitsgelegenheit würde das ALG II auf den Stand der Asylbewerber abgesenkt, die nicht arbeiten dürfen und ohnehin schon völlig benachteiligt sind…“ Presseerklärung vom 14.3.06 http://www.elo-forum.org/forum/ftopic6927.html

Zu den Hintergründen siehe bei Tacheles: BDA: Absenkung der Regelleistgung um mehr Anreiz zur Annahme von Beschäftigung im Niederiglohnbereich zu schaffen http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1576


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2006

Artikel von Thorsten Kalina und Claudia Weinkopf als IAT-Report 3/2006 http://iat-info.iatge.de/iat-report/2006/report2006-03.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2006

In "Puls" gibt sich Stephen King sozialkritisch

Vom 15.03.2006

Von Roland Mischke

FRANKFURT Der Geschäftsmann Clay hatte in Boston einiges durchzupauken. Seine Abschlüsse sind gut, er ist zufrieden. Am Tag vor der Heimreise ist er deshalb großzügig beim Kauf von Geschenken für die Familie. Sich selbst belohnt er mit einem Eis, das er bei einem Straßenhändler abkauft. In diesem Augenblick geschieht Ungeheuerliches.

Die Stadt dreht von einer Minute auf die andere durch. Seriöse Krawattenträger, leger gekleidetes Jungvolk mit iPod-Kopfhörern, höfliche Busfahrer, nette Hausfrauen, Kinder und Alte fallen plötzlich übereinander her. Täter sind die, die gerade noch ein Mobiltelefon am Ohr hatten, Opfer jene ohne Handy. Sie werden regelrecht abgemetzelt. Eine "Power Suit Woman" auf hohen Absätzen gerät ins Taumeln, ihr schöner Mund verzieht sich zu einem "krampfartigen Zähnefletschen." Dann springt sie einen Eismann an. Das Mädchen Pixie Light wird vom mörderischen Furor erfasst. Sie fletscht ihre "kräftigen jungen Zähne" und rammt sie "Power Suit Woman" in den Hals. Dann schaut die Kleine Clay an. "Wer bist du?" fragt sie. Und dann, fassungslos: "Wer bin ich?"

Gemeinsam mit dem verwirrten Mädchen schafft er es in ein Hotel, während das Morden auf der Straße weitergeht. Wer in einem bestimmten Moment telefonierte, den erwischte ein Virus, das wie ein geschmeidiger Wurm aus dem Gerät in den Menschen schlüpft und dessen biologische Festplatte löscht. Jeder Handy-Benutzer wird zum Zombie. Die Welt teilt sich auf einmal in metzelnde, marodierende "Phoner" und solche, die ihre Vernunft behielten. Eiskalt läuft es Clay über den Rücken: Erst vor kurzem hat er seinem Sohn Johnny ein Handy geschenkt. Der muss gerade in der Schule sein. Clay will ihn davor zu bewahren, dass er in der nächsten Pause an sein Handy geht, wenn es orgelt. Der Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt. Stephen King kennt unsere Ängste. Viel besser als andere Autoren, weshalb er weltweit mehr als 300 Millionen Bücher in 33 Sprachen verkauft hat. In früheren Büchern ließ er den Bernhardiner "Cujo", der eigentlich Menschen aus schwieriger Lage rettet, ebenso zum Monster werden wie das Auto "Christine", den Clown oder die Krankenschwester. Auch in "Puls" verändert sich alles von einem Tag auf den anderen. Das Mobiltelefon, das viele als Fortschritt empfinden, erweist sich als Killerfalle. Irgendein Verrückter irgendwo auf der Welt hat ein tödliches Virus auf die Reise gesandt - es kann nicht mehr gestoppt werden. Das Handy kippt die soziale Ordnung um, führt zum Weltuntergang.

King ächtet das Mobiltelefon. Seine Beschreibung geht weit über den Horror hinaus, sie ist äußerst sozialkritisch. Mobiltelefone seien die "Sklavenketten des 21. Jahrhunderts", heißt es. Sie bewirken einen Rückgang zu primitiven, "vormodernen" Mustern sozialen Lebens. Das mobilfunkgesteuerte Leben verhindert wahre menschliche Begegnungen und zwangsprivatisiert dafür jeden Durchgangsraum, ob Wartehalle, Laden oder öffentlichen Platz. Aber wer will schon alles wissen von seinem Nachbarn im Zugabteil? Seine Fiktion einer Mobilfunkkatastrophe ist spannend und macht nachdenklich. Solche Wirkung hatte ein Horrorroman noch nie. Stephen King, übrigens, der sich als Multimillionär nahezu alles leisten könnte, besitzt kein Handy.

Stephen King: "Puls." Aus dem Amerikanischen von Wulf Bergner. Heyne. München. 528 Seiten. 19.95 Euro

Copyright: Wiesbadener Kurier, Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main

http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/feuilleton/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2305159

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Das Grauen kommt aus dem Handy
http://www.inside-handy.de/news/5556.html

Anti-War Movement Targets Media Coverage of the War with Protests at Media Companies and News Outlets.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0314-17.htm

By Joan Walsh
Salon
March 15, 2006

http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/

The human rights scandal now known as "Abu Ghraib" began its journey toward exposure on Jan. 13, 2004, when Spc. Joseph Darby handed over horrific images of detainee abuse to the Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID). The next day, the Army launched a criminal investigation. Three and a half months later, CBS News and the New Yorker published photos and stories that introduced the world to devastating scenes of torture and suffering inside the decrepit prison in Iraq.

Today Salon presents an archive of 279 photos and 19 videos of Abu Ghraib abuse first gathered by the CID, along with information drawn from the CID's own timeline of the events depicted. As we reported Feb. 16, Salon's Mark Benjamin recently acquired extensive documentation of the CID investigation -- including this photo archive and timeline -- from a military source who spent time at Abu Ghraib and who is familiar with the Army probe.

Although the world is now sadly familiar with images of naked, hooded prisoners in scenes of horrifying humiliation and abuse, this is the first time that the full dossier of the Army's own photographic evidence of the scandal has been made public. Most of the photos have already been seen, but the Army's own analysis of the story behind the photos has never been fully told. It is a shocking, night-by-night record of three months inside Abu Ghraib's notorious cellblock 1A, and it tells the story, in more graphic detail than ever before, of the rampant abuse of prisoners there. The annotated archive also includes new details about the role of the CIA, military intelligence and the CID itself in abuse captured by cameras in the fall of 2003.

The Bush administration, which recently announced plans to shut the notorious prison and transfer detainees to other sites in Iraq, would like the world to believe that it has dealt with the abuse, and that it's time to move on. But questions about what took place there, and who was responsible, won't end with Abu Ghraib's closure.

In fact, after two years of relative silence, there's suddenly new interest in asking questions. A CID spokesman recently told Salon that the agency has reopened its investigation into Abu Ghraib "to pursue some additional information" after having called the case closed in October 2005. Just this week, one of two prison dog handlers accused of torturing detainees by threatening them with dogs went on trial in Fort Meade, Md. Lawyers for Army Sgt. Michael J. Smith argue that he was only implementing dog-use policies approved by his superiors, and Col. Thomas M. Pappas, the former commander of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib, was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony at Smith's trial.

Meanwhile, as Salon reported last week, the Army blocked the retirement of Major Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantánamo interrogation commander who allegedly brought tougher intelligence tactics to Abu Ghraib, after two senators requested that he be kept on active duty so that he could face further questioning for his role in the detainee abuse scandal. Miller refused to testify at the dog-handler trials, invoking the military equivalent of the Fifth Amendment to shield himself from self-incrimination, but Pappas has charged that Miller introduced the use of dogs and other harsh tactics at the prison. Also last week, Salon revealed that U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Christopher R. Brinson is fighting the reprimand he received for his role in the abuse. Brinson, currently an aide to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., supervised military police Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr. and some of the other guards who have been convicted in the scandal. Now Brinson joins a growing chorus of Abu Ghraib figures who blame the higher command structure for what happened at the prison.

Against this backdrop of renewed scrutiny, we think the CID photo archive and related materials we present today merit close examination. In "The Abu Ghraib Files," Salon presents an annotated, chronological version of these crucial CID investigative documents -- the most comprehensive public record to date of the military's attempt to analyze the photos from the prison. All 279 photos and 19 videos are reproduced here, along with the original captions created by Army investigators. They have been grouped into chapters that follow the CID's timeline, and each chapter has been narrated with the facts and findings of the Taguba, Schlesinger, Fay-Jones and other Pentagon investigations.

But the documentation in "The Abu Ghraib Files" also draws from materials that have not been released to the public. Among these is the official logbook kept by those military soldiers who committed the bulk of the photographed abuse. Salon has also acquired an April 2005 CID interview with military police Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr., one of the ringleaders of the abuse. (One hundred seventy-three of the 279 photos in the archive were taken with Graner's Sony FD Mavica camera.) The interview was conducted several months after Graner was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He received a grant of immunity against further prosecution for anything he revealed. The documentation also draws from the unpublished testimony of Brinson to the CIA's Office of Inspector General about the death of a prisoner at the hands of the CIA.

Thanks in part to that additional sourcing, "The Abu Ghraib Files" sheds new light on the 3-year-old prison abuse scandal. While many of the 279 photos have been previously released, until this point no one has been able to authenticate this number of images from the prison, or to provide the Army's own documentation of what they reveal. This is the Army's forensic report of what happened at the prison: dates, times, places, cameras and, in some though not all cases, identities of the detainees and soldiers involved in the abuse. (Salon has chosen to withhold detainee identities not previously known to the public, and to obscure their faces in photographs, to protect the victims' privacy.)

Some of the noteworthy revelations include:

- The prisoner in perhaps the most iconic photo from Abu Ghraib, the hooded man standing on a box with electrical wires attached to his hands, was being interrogated by the CID itself for his alleged role in the kidnapping and murder of two American soldiers in Iraq. As noted in Chapter 4, "Electrical Wires," a CID spokesman confirmed to Salon that a CID agent was suspended in fall 2004 pending an investigation and later found "derelict in his duties" for his role in prisoner abuse. Salon could not confirm whether the agent was punished for his role in the abuse of the hooded man connected to electrical wires, known to military personnel as "Gilligan."

- The CID documentation, as well as other reporting, confirmed that a March 11 New York Times article identifying the prisoner in the iconic photo as Ali Shalal Qaissi, a local Baath Party member under Saddam Hussein and now a prisoners' rights advocate in Jordan, was incorrect. The CID photo archive confirms that a prisoner matching Qaissi's description -- he has a deformed left hand -- and known by the nickname "The Claw" was held at the prison and photographed by military police on the same night as the mock electrocution, but he was not the one standing on the box and attached to wires. The CID materials say all five photos of the hooded man were the prisoner known as "Gilligan." It remains possible that Qaissi received similar treatment, but there is no record of that abuse.

- Chapter 5, "Other Government Agencies," tells the story behind photos of the mangled corpse of Manadel al-Jamadi, known as the "Ice Man," who died during interrogation by a CIA officer. No one at the CIA has been prosecuted, even though al-Jamadi's death was ruled a homicide. The chapter adds new detail about the CIA's role in the prison drawn from Christopher Brinson's testimony to CIA investigators.

- As explained in Chapter 1, "Standard Operating Procedure," some of the 279 photos and 19 videos in the archive depict controversial interrogation tactics employed in cellblock 1A. Among the examples of abuse on display in the photos were techniques sanctioned by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for use on "unlawful enemy combatants" in the "war on terror." These include forced nudity, the use of dogs to terrorize prisoners, keeping prisoners in stress positions -- physically uncomfortable poses of various types -- for many hours, and varieties of sleep deprivation. Some of these techniques migrated from Guantánamo and Afghanistan to Iraq in 2003. (The abuse depicted in the Abu Ghraib photos did not occur during interrogation sessions, but in some cases military guards allege they were encouraged to "soften up" detainees for interrogation by higher-ranking military intelligence officers.)

- Military intelligence personnel and civilian contractors employed by the military appear in some of the photographs with the military guards, and entries from a prison logbook captured in the archive show that in some cases military police believed their tough tactics were being approved by -- and in some cases ordered by -- military intelligence officers and civilian contractors. The logbook also documents prisoner rioting and the regular presence of multiple OGA (other government agency) detainees held in the military intelligence wing.

Three years and at least six Pentagon investigations later, we now know that many share the blame for the outrages that took place at Abu Ghraib in the fall of 2003. The abuse took place against the backdrop of rising chaos in Iraq. In those months the U.S. military faced a raging insurgency for which it hadn't planned. As mortar attacks rained down on the overcrowded prison -- at one point there were only 450 guards for 7,000 prisoners -- its command structure broke down. At the same time, the pressure from the Pentagon and the White House for "actionable intelligence" was intense, and harsh interrogation techniques were approved to obtain it. Bush administration lawyers, including Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo, had already created a radical post-9/11 legal framework that disregarded the Geneva Conventions and other international laws governing the humane treatment of prisoners in the "war on terror." Intelligence agencies such as the CIA were apparently given the green light to operate by their own set of secret rules.

But while the Pentagon's own probes have acknowledged that military commanders, civilian contractors, the CIA and government policymakers all bear some responsibility for the abuses, to date only nine enlisted soldiers have been prosecuted for their crimes at Abu Ghraib. An additional four soldiers and eight officers, including Brinson, Pappas and Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was in charge of military police at Abu Ghraib, have been reprimanded. (Pappas and Karpinski were also relieved of their posts.) To date no high-level U.S. officials have been brought to justice in a court of law for what went on at Abu Ghraib.

Our purpose for presenting this large catalog of images remains much the same as it was four weeks ago when we first published a much smaller number of Abu Ghraib photos that had not previously appeared in the media. As Walter Shapiro wrote, Abu Ghraib symbolizes "the failure of a democratic society to investigate well-documented abuses by its soldiers." The documentary record of the abuse has come out in the media in a piecemeal fashion, often lacking context or description. Meanwhile, our representatives in Washington have allowed the facts about what occurred to fester in Pentagon reports without acting on their disturbing conclusions. We believe this extensive, if deeply disturbing, CID archive of photographic evidence belongs in the public record as documentation toward further investigation and accountability.

While we want readers to understand what it is we're presenting, we also want to make clear its limitations. The 279-photo CID timeline and other material obtained by Salon do not include the agency's conclusions about the evidence it gathered. The captions, which Salon has chosen to reproduce almost verbatim (see methodology), contain a significant number of missing names of soldiers and detainees, misspellings and other minor discrepancies; we don't know if the CID addressed these issues in other drafts or documents. Also, the CID materials contain two different forensic reports. The first, completed June 6, 2004, in Tikrit, Iraq, analyzed a seized laptop computer and eight CDs and found 1,325 images and 93 videos of "suspected detainee abuse." The second report, completed a month later in Fort Belvoir, Va., analyzed 12 CDs and found "approximately 280 individual digital photos and 19 digital movies depicting possible detainee abuse." It remains unclear why and how the CID narrowed its set of forensic evidence to the 279 images and 19 videos that we reproduce here.

Although the photos are a disturbing visual account of particular incidents inside Abu Ghraib prison, they should not be viewed as representing the sum total of what occurred. As the Schlesinger report states in its convoluted prose: "We do know that some of the egregious abuses at Abu Ghraib which were not photographed did occur during interrogation sessions and that abuses during interrogation sessions occurred elsewhere." Also, the documentation doesn't include many details about the detainees who were abused and tortured at Abu Ghraib. While the International Committee of the Red Cross report from February 2004 cited military intelligence officers as estimating that "between 70 to 90 percent of persons deprived of their liberty in Iraq had been arrested by mistake," much remains unknown about the detainees abused in the "hard site" where the Army housed violent and dangerous detainees and where much of the abuse took place.

Finally, it's critical to recognize that this set of images from Abu Ghraib is only one snapshot of systematic tactics the United States has used in four-plus years of the global war on terror. There have been many allegations of abuse, torture and other practices that violate international law, from holding prisoners without charging them at Guantánamo Bay and other secretive U.S. military bases and prison facilities around the world to the practice of "rendition," or the transporting of detainees to foreign countries whose regimes use torture, to ongoing human rights violations inside detention facilities in Iraq. Abu Ghraib in fall 2003 may have been its own particular hell, but the variations of individual abuse perpetrated appear to be exceptional in only one way: They were photographed and filmed.


Informant: NHNE

By Robert Evans
Reuters
March 14, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/ts_nm/environment_greenhouse_dc

GENEVA - Greenhouse gases blamed for global warming and climate change have reached their highest ever levels in the atmosphere, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.

A bulletin from the United Nations agency said the gases -- the main warming culprit carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide -- "all reached new highs in 2004."

WMO officials also indicated that a near record year-on-year rise in CO2 levels for 2005 recorded by U.S. monitors -- well above the average for the past 10 years -- would not come as a major surprise.

"Global observations coordinated by WMO show that levels of carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, continue to increase steadily and show no signs of leveling off," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.

Carbon dioxide, which the WMO says accounts for 90 percent of warming over the past decade, is largely generated by human activity involving the burning of fossil fuels -- including in industry, transport and domestic heating.

Scientists warn emissions must be slowed and reduced if the earth is to avoid climatic havoc with devastating heat waves, droughts, floods and rising sea-levels sinking low-lying island states and hitting seaboard cities like New York and London.

The U.N.'s 1992 Kyoto Protocol, which came into force last year after a decade of wrangling, obliges major industrial nations to cut emissions while granting exemptions to developing countries like India and China.

But it was weakened by the withdrawal in 2001 of the United States, whose President George W. Bush said that working to meet its targets would seriously damage the U.S. economy. He has also argued that warming is a natural, not man-made, process.

In its first Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, to be an annual publication, the WMO said that in 2004 carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere stood at 377.1 parts per million (ppm), 35 percent higher than in the pre-industrial age before 1750.

Methane, generated by intensive farming and landfills as well as the burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal and which accounts for around 20 percent of the greenhouse effect, has risen 155 percent in the modern age.

But its growth is slowing down, the WMO said, while nitrous oxide, which accounts for only 6 percent of the warming effect, is rising consistently.

The average annual increase in absolute amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past decade has been 1.9 ppm, slightly higher than the 1.8 ppm of 2004, WMO environment division chief Leonard Barrie told a news conference.

Barrie said a finding by the U.N. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cited by the British Broadcasting Corporation, that carbon dioxide had grown last year by 2.6 ppm had to be viewed in perspective.

"It is important to take the long view. There can be fluctuations," he said. "The 2.6 ppm figure is within past experience. If it were to persist over several years, then we would have to start talking about what it means."


Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/zgwg6



Remarks of Senator Russ Feingold

Introducing a Resolution to Censure President George W. Bush

Video and transcript
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12321.htm

Cowardly Dems run from Feingold proposal
Information Clearinghouse

03/13/06

Democrats distanced themselves Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold's effort to censure President Bush over domestic spying. Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting Feingold's state, called the resolution an 'outrageous proposition. Don't hold back,' he said. Asked at a press conference whether he would vote for the censure resolution, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada declined to endorse it and said he hadn't read it. Sen. Joe Lieberman , D-Conn., said he had not read it either and wasn't inclined simply to scold the president...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12320.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


Feingold Blasts Dems Who 'Run and Hide'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506Z.shtml

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Censure President Bush - Impeach Cheney First

It wouldn't surprise me if this move was orchestrated by Rove and Co. With impeachment feaver in the air, censure might just make the masses calm down. :)

No, I guess this is a good step. But I'd prefer to support Rep. Conyers' call for a full investigation as to the merits of Impeachment. http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept122005/iraqreptweb.htm

The case has been made for Impeachment, and Michael Ratner and the Center for Constituional Rights has just written a book outlining it: http://www.mhpbooks.com/aoi.html

Zack



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

Hier mardi 14 mars à 9h30, coïncidence étrange avec le procès d'Etienne Cendrier, l'Association ASL a été convoqué dans le bureau de la Brigade de recherche Judiciaire de la Gendarmerie Nationale de Valence sur commission rogatoire du Procureur du TGI de Nanterre suite à une plainte de l'opérateur Orange France SA pour propos diffamatoires avec constitution de parties civiles suivant des articles de la loi du 29 Juillet 1881 dite LOI sur la LIBERTÉ de la PRESSE. Cette plainte fait suite à une délibération du Conseil d'Administration de l'Association ASL de Crest dans la Drôme dont le Député-Maire est Hervé MARITON. Force est de constater qu'ASL a Lancé une alerte aux autorités sanitaires (INVS et DDASS) concernant les antennes relais de téléphonie mobile, celles-ci n'ont pas réagi à ce jour, par contre, cette alerte n'a pas été du goût de l'opérateur Orange. Après avoir mandater son vice-président pour l'audition comme interlocuteur pour les autorités judiciaires le CA d'ASL va se réunir afin de prendre une délibération destinée à publier tous les éléments concernant cette nouvelle action judiciaire d'un opérateur contre les Lanceurs d'Alertes.