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The California condor is one of the world's most endangered species, with just over 125 condors currently in the wild. Lead poisoning from ingesting lead ammunition in carcasses is a severe threat to California condors and also kills bald and golden eagles. Lead poisoning has caused nine confirmed condor deaths since 1997 and is implicated in the death or disappearance of at least 15 other condors in southern California alone. Scores more condors have required life-saving emergency blood treatment involving intrusive chemical therapy after ingesting lead.

Lead bullets are prevalent throughout condor territory, and there is overwhelming evidence that lead exposure comes from ammunition fragments in carcasses the condors feed upon. Condors and other scavenging birds such as eagles are extremely vulnerable to lead and will continue to die of lead poisoning until and unless state and federal agencies take action. Condor experts, toxicologists, and fish and game managers agree that without controlling the presence of lead bullets in condor habitat, the condor faces an extremely difficult road to recovery.

In December 2004, a coalition of conservation groups, Native Americans and hunters petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to change hunting regulations to protect condors from lead poisoning, but the Commission refused to act. Non-toxic lead-free bullets are already available that perform as well as or better than lead bullets for hunting big game. At least a dozen non-lead shot types are approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service for waterfowl hunting and could be used for hunting upland birds and other game.

Please send a letter to California and federal regulators, urging them to immediately end the use of lead ammunition in condor habitat in California and to phase out toxic lead ammunition statewide, which will protect bald and golden eagles as well. Use the sample text below or write your own letter.

Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Dale Hall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Ryan Broddrick, CA Dept. of Fish and Game Exec. Director John Carlson, Jr., CA Fish and Game Comm. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Regional Administrator Wayne Nastri, USEPA Region 9 Rick Farris, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Stop Exposing Endangered Condors to Toxic Lead

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I urge you to take immediate action to protect California condors and eagles from lead poisoning by mandating the use of non-lead ammunition in condor habitat and eventually phasing out all use of toxic lead ammunition throughout California. At least nine condors have died in California and Arizona from lead poisoning since 1997, and scores of other condors have required intrusive chemical treatment for severe lead poisoning. There is compelling evidence that the primary lead exposure for condors and eagles is from ingesting lead bullet or shot fragments in hunter-shot carcasses. The California Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California Condor Recovery Team concluded that lead poisoning is a severe threat that remains an obstacle to the recovery of the California condor.

California recently put the condor on the state quarter as a symbol of its natural heritage, yet continues to allow hunters to use lead ammunition and leave lead-tainted carcasses in the condor's range. It is unacceptable to continue to expose our most imperiled wildlife to toxic lead. Alternatives to lead ammunition, which perform as well as or better than lead bullets for hunting activities, are already widely available. More than three-quarters of California hunters who responded to a recent Fish and Wildlife Service survey stated their willingness to use lead-free ammunition.

Please act now to protect the California condor by immediately ending the use of lead bullets for hunting in condor habitat in California and eventually phasing out lead ammunition statewide.

Sincerely,


Take Action on this Issue
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/Protect_condors_from_lead

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1815107.php

from the SuwanneeRiverTimes_eNews (The Oregonian)

Fossil fuels threatening sea life, researchers say Pollution - Acid levels from carbon dioxide are rising in the Pacific, impeding shell formation

by Michael Milstein

The Oregonian

Scientists just back from a research cruise across the northern Pacific say the ocean has soaked up so much carbon dioxide from human burning of fossil fuels that it's turning more acidic, disrupting growth of coral and the tiny sea creatures salmon and other fish rely on for food.

The chemical signature of the carbon dioxide makes clear it is from human and not natural sources, said Richard Feely, an oceanographer with the federal Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle and chief scientist for the cruise.

Carbon dioxide is known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Oceans help offset that effect by absorbing about a third of the carbon dioxide produced by humans, the researchers said.

But the new findings reveal that all the carbon dioxide is changing the delicate chemical balance of ocean water that lets coral, shellfish and forms of tiny plankton construct their vital shells.

The tiny life forms play vital parts in marine ecosystems by serving as food for larger creatures. Their disruption, coupled with other effects of greenhouse gases such as rising temperatures, could wreak profound changes on the diversity and productivity of oceans, the researchers said.

Escalating ocean acidity can begin to dissolve the shells faster than the creatures can build them.

Researchers estimate the oceans have become about 30 percent more acidic since humans began burning fossil fuels in large quantities, exhausting carbon dioxide into the environment.

While carbon dioxide levels have been higher in the Earth's past, and oceans more acidic, "the rate at which they're changing has never been this fast," said Chris Sabine, another oceanographer on the trip. Ocean life is not used to such sharp shifts.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than they have been at any time in at least 600,000 years. Scientists had expected the rising levels would turn oceans more corrosive.

Northern Pacific waters where researchers detected the shift circulate in currents along the Oregon coast.

"As predicted, the ocean is steadily becoming more acidic," said Mark Hixon, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University and an authority on coral reefs. "As that continues a threshold will be crossed, and across that threshold these organisms will be unable to make their shells, and they will die."

He said the findings are unsettling, especially coming only weeks after findings that polar ice sheets are beginning to melt faster than expected in a shift that could raise sea levels worldwide.

"All of this is really scary right now," said Hixon, who did not take part in the Pacific research cruise. "It's becoming clear that the biological effects of global warming are accelerating faster than previously anticipated."

The research cruise, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation, traversed the Pacific from Tahiti to Alaska, taking measurements every 60 nautical miles. Scientists examined the water acidity and chemistry, but also looked closely at pteropods, a shelled form of plankton distantly related to land snails.

Pteropods are an important food source for salmon, herring, cod and other fish, and their sensitivity to water chemistry makes them an important barometer of ocean acidity.

Pteropods and other shellfish build shells from calcium carbonate, with pteropods using an especially delicate form called aragonite. They find enough aragonite only in water near the ocean's surface, because deeper water becomes too acidic.

They are confined to a thin layer of surface water in the cool northern Pacific, because cold water there holds more carbon dioxide and is more acidic to start out.

As escalating carbon dioxide turns oceans more acidic still, that layer of water gets thinner and thinner until pteropods get squeezed out altogether, said Robert Byrne, a professor at the University of South Florida who was on the research cruise.

"We're on the threshold of what is going to become a very large effect," he said.

"People can argue back and forth whether climate is going to change, but they can't argue that (acidity) is going to change, because we can predict that with certainty and we can see it's happening," Byrne said. "The effects in the end are going to be global."

An international team of researchers reported last fall that if fossil fuel burning continues at its current rates, oceans, particularly in polar regions, will become too corrosive for pteropods and other shelled ocean creatures such as sea urchins and corals in the next century.

For more information, go to: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2606.htm


Informant: Scott Munson

Last week, the US signed a free trade agreement with Peru, where more than half of the population lives in poverty. Trade could be an engine to pull millions out of poverty, but this agreement, like the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) before it, will institutionalize an uneven playing field between the two countries.

The fight's not over yet, since Congress must approve the agreement before it can take effect. This is where we need your help!

Tell Congress to oppose the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement!
http://ga0.org/campaign/peru_fta

If signed into law, the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will do more harm than good for millions of Peruvians who live in poverty.

If passed, this FTA will put access to important life-saving drugs at affordable prices out of the reach for the majority of Peruvians. It will make it harder for small-scale farmers in Peru to compete with subsidized agricultural products from the US. This FTA will also weaken the government’s ability to pass laws to ensure that foreign investment helps promote sustainable development.

This is a bad deal for poor people in Peru, and we need your help to make sure it does not become law. http://ga0.org/campaign/peru_fta

Tell your friends! Please send this email to five friends to help strengthen our voice! http://ga0.org/ct/JpAwXnF1nmPU/

We appreciate your support to tell Congress to Make Trade Fair.


Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America Advocacy Fund

Matthew Rothschild says: It's not Donald Rumsfeld's colossal arrogance or his glaring misjudgments we should be focusing on. It's his potential crimes.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806L.shtml

George Ryan, the former Republican governor of Illinois who drew international notice by emptying his state's death row, was convicted today of all charges brought against him in a sweeping federal corruption case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806K.shtml

Dahr Jamail on the failure of mainstream news to report the US-backed Shia militia invasion of a Sunni neighborhood and ongoing violence in Fallujah.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806J.shtml

"It's terrible," said Michael Oshinaya, a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in New York City who was among a group of black students whose scores weren't broken out as a racial category. "We're part of America. We make up America, too. We should be counted as part of America."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806D.shtml

HLV INFO 49/AT

18-04-2006

PRESSEMITTEILUNG

„Mobilfunk – die unsichtbare Gefahr“

Vortrag von Dr. Hans Christoph Scheiner (Arzt und Autor mehrerer Bücher sowie zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften), München

Fr. 26.5. um 19.30 Uhr
Im Haus des Sports
Eduard Grunow Str. 30
Bremen

Zusatztermin:
Mo. 29.5. um 19.30 Uhr in der
VHS
Lloydstr. 15
Bremerhaven

(2, - Euro Aufwandsentschädigung)
mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde

Dr. Hans Christoph Scheiner, Jhg. 1946, ist seit 1975 als Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin mit Ausrichtung auf Naturheilverfahren und Psychotherapie tätig. Er ist Ganzheitsmediziner und führt Zusatztitel des Arztes für Homöopathie, Chirotherapie und Psychotherapie. Als zusätzlich langjähriger Umweltmediziner und Akupunkturarzt (Ohr-, Körper-, u. Elektroakupunktur nach Voll) begründete er mit seiner Frau Ana Scheiner neben seiner Praxis in München das Institut für Holistische Medizin, das nicht nur Ärzten und Heilpraktikern Hinweise für Fachausbildungen im Bereich der „holistischen Medizin“ (Ganzheitsmedizin) anbietet, sondern auch interessierte Laien in den Bereich naturheilkundlicher und psychomentaler Selbsthilfe einführt.

Dr. Scheiner ist Autor von Sachbüchern, umweltmedizinischer Gerichtsgutachter, Sachverständiger bei parlamentarischen Anhörungen und Mitwirkender bei vielen Fernseh- und Rundfunkbeiträgen. Er gilt als Experte auf dem Gebiet der Umweltmedizin, Naturheilkunde und Psychotherapie. Zu seinen Aktivitäten zählen umfangreiche medizinische, ökologische und bürgerrechtliche Vortragstätigkeiten. Aktuelles Buch: »Mobilfunk - die verkaufte Gesundheit« (Michaelis-Verlag)

Kontakt für weitere Informationen, Interviewwünsche sowie Fotomaterial:

Beate Wiemers, Agentur fingerprint, Wätjenstr. 82, 28213 Bremen, Tel. 0421 / 217878

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Mobilfunk Die verkaufte Gesundheit

ist lieferbar.

Dr. med. Hans-Christoph Scheiner und Ana Scheiner haben ein Grundlagenwerk zum Thema Mobilfunk geschaffen.

Dr. Scheiner ist bestellter Gerichtsgutachter, er ist Mediziner, engagiert in der Bürgerwelle, dem Zusammenschluß der handykritischen Bürgerinitiativen, er ist Referent und Podiumsteilnehmer bei Expertenhearings. Sein Wissen über die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen der Mobilfunktechnologie hat er in diesem Standardwerk zusammengetragen. In diesem Buch haben die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen Eingang gefunden, sei es die große Melatonie-Studie, seien es die aktuellsten Doppelblindstudien, seien es die neuen Erkenntnisse bezüglich der Blut-Hirn-Schranke, seien es die aufhorchen lassende tragische Situation bei unseren Kindern. All das finden sie in diesem Buch, die wirtschaftlichen und die politischen Hintergründe werden beleuchtet und nicht zu letzt hat die große europaweite REFLEX-Studie die die EU in Auftrag gegeben und finanziert hat Eingang gefunden in dieses aktuelle Werk.

Wer jetzt noch sagt die Gefährlichkeit und die Schädlichkeit von digital gepulsten elektromagnetischen Wellen, wie sie bei der Handytechnologie eingesetzt werden, sei nicht bewiesen, ist entweder absolut nicht auf den neusten Stand der Wissenschaft oder er lügt.

Sein unverwechselbarer Stil und seine Erfahrungen als langjähriger Referent auf Infoveranstaltungen und Hearings und an Infotischen auf der Straße, als Gutachter und als Mediziner ist es zu verdanken, das dieses sachkundige und kompetente Werk so geschrieben ist, daß es für jeden leicht zu lesen und zu verstehen ist. Das Buch liest sich spannend wie ein Krimi, nur das sie fortlaufend mit Fakten, Fakten, Fakten konfrontiert werden und zwar so, das sie diese anschließend selber auch glaubhaft vermitteln können.

Das Buch ist Hardcover, hat 280 Seiten und kostet 24,90. Sie haben die Möglichkeit es zu bestellen wie folgt: Per Antwortmail: Mobilfunk (Anschrift nicht vergessen) Im Warenkorb des Michaels Verlags: http://www.michaelsverlag.de Per Fax: 08861-67091 Oder per Tel 08861-59018 Oder per Postkarte beim Michaels Verlag, Ammergauer Str. 80, 86971 Peiting Oder über jede Buchhandlung die das Buch besorgen kann ISBN 3-89539-170-0

Petra Otto

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4377/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/opinion/18levi.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin


Informant: Kev Hall

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060418/wl_nm/nuclear_iran_dc


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Production/files/luttwak0506.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Weigh in on the battle to protect the Internet from corporate control.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/18/wifi_and_democracy.php

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Health risks of Wi-Fi and WLAN on our health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122031/

by Tom Devine and Tarek Maassarani, TomPaine.com

The government is still denying climate scientists freedom to talk about global warming.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/18/hot_air_and_free_speech.php

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/15/060415084241.xdv0o3w3.html


Informant: Friends

Watergate veteran and Vanity Fair contributor Carl Bernstein calls for bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency. Should Republicans on the Hill take the high road and save themselves come November?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806Z.shtml



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

http://www.omega-news.info/lengefeld.pdf


Informant: Dipl.-Phys. Helmut Gobsch

http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/apr06/EU.php


Informant: Friends

EuroMayday006: Mayday Parade - für soziale Rechte weltweit!

Sozialpolitische Aktionen und Proteste 2006 > Euromayday 2006

Berlin

Mayday Parade - für soziale Rechte weltweit! Und was brauchst Du für ein schönes Leben?

Kommt zur Mayday Parade am 1. Mai 2006, 16 Uhr Spreewaldplatz! Aufruf zum Mayday in Berlin http://berlin.euromayday.org/aufruf.html

Die Internetadresse für den Berliner Mayday lautet: http://berlin.euromayday.org/

Kapitalismus ist immer scheisse: Den Widerstand organisieren!

Aufruf der Internationalen KommunistInnen zum Euro-Mayday Berlin http://interkomm.so36.net/archiv/2006-05-01/2006-05-01.php

Hamburg

Die Internetadresse für den Hamburger Mayday lautet: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/

Die Hamburger Mailingliste https://lists.nadir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/euromayday-hh

Kapitalismus abschaffen! Du bist die soziale Revolution

Aufruf zum revolutionären 1. Mai in Hamburg http://www.revo1mai.de.tt/

Europaweit

EuroMayday006 - Aktion in Brüssel

„Am Freitag fand in Brüssel die Pressekonferenz zum EuroMayday 006 statt. Zur selben Zeit zog eine pre-parade durch die Stadt, mit TeilnehmerInnen aus Helsinki, Turin, Mailand, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Lüttich, Brüssel und Gent. Nach der zwischenzeitlichen Besetzung des european roundtable ging es unter anderem noch am UNICE vorbei, dem Verbund der europäischen Arbeitgeber. Mit dem gelungenen Auftritt von transnational-pink-silver hat der Countdown für den EuroMayday 006 begonnen…“ Bericht von serpica naro vom 16.04.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/04/144241.shtml

Die europäische MayDay-Webseite mit Links zu allen Städten hat die Adresse: http://www.euromayday.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 18. April 2006

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Euromayday 2006 in Hamburg

Dieses Jahr wieder ab der Wiese am Hamburger Michel wird es am 1. Mai ab 13 Uhr eine große Parade geben - wie auch in vielen anderen europäischen Städten wird der Euromayday zelebriert werden. Für weitere Infos siehe die Aktionsseite http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/

Dort u.a.:

Die Parade-Route 006 ab Michel-Wiese http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/de/2006/03/338.shtml

Aufruf zur Parade im 'Psycho-Test'-Format (deutsch, castellano, türkçe) Der euromayday ist eine Parade der Prekarisierten. Bist du dabei? Mach den Psycho-Test und finde heraus, welcher euromayday-typ du bist! http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/de/2006/04/416.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 27. April 2006

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Euromayday 2006

Mehr als ein Supermarkt

Ein Interview von Steffen Vogel mit Alex Foti, Sprecher des "Euromayday-Netzwerkes" in Mailand, über Verfassungstechniken und Kopfgeburten, die Skepsis von EU-Bürgern und EU-Eliten, in Freitag Nr. 17 vom 28.04.2006 http://www.freitag.de/2006/17/06170802.php


Die Solidarität der Unterbezahlten

Ob Ich-AG, Dauerpraktikant oder McJobber: Immer mehr Menschen bangen um ihre Existenz. Die Betroffenen dieser sogenannten Prekarisierung fügen sich nicht in ihr Schicksal, sondern machen mobil. Am Wochenende gehen sie weltweit auf die Straße. Artikel von Uh-Young Kim in Spiegel online vom 28. April 2006 http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,413336,00.html


Prekarisierte aller Länder. Die Mayday-Paraden setzten da an, wo traditionelle gewerkschaftliche Konzepte versagen

Artikel von Peter Nowak in telepolis vom 29.04.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22498/1.html


Hamburg

2. Euromayday Parade in Hamburg. Bericht von alien8 vom 02.05.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/05/145306.shtml

EuromaydayHH: Superhelden im FrischeParadies

„Am Vormittag des 28.4. haben 30 als Superhelden verkleidete AktivistInnen Champagner, Hirschkeulen und andere Delikatessen aus dem Gourmet-Supermarkt „Frische Paradies“ an der Großen Elbstraße in Hamburg entwendet. Anschließend verteilten sie die Delikatessen an ErzieherInnen, PraktikantInnen, Putzfrauen und Ein-Euro-JobberInnen. Mit dieser Aktion machten sie darauf aufmerksam, dass trotz des immensen Reichtums in Hamburg das Überleben für prekär Beschäftigte immer schwieriger wird…“ Bericht von SpiderMum vom 28.04.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/04/145010.shtml

Vermummte randalieren vor Arbeitsagentur

„Etwa 15 Vermummte haben in der Nacht zum Sonntag 24 Scheiben der Eimsbütteler Agentur für Arbeit eingeschlagen und die Front des Gebäudes mit Farbbeuteln verschmutzt…“ Meldung im Hamburger Abendblatt vom 2. Mai 2006 http://www.abendblatt.de./daten/2006/05/02/558315.html


Berlin

Ein paar erste Eindrücke von der Mayday-Parade in Berlin. Bericht von Mr.X vom 01.05.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/05/145224.shtml

Aktionstag in Neukölln: "Zieht doch selber um!"

„Im Vorfeld des Berliner Mayday fand am Freitag ein Aktionstag gegen Zwangsumzüge, Lohndumping und Hartz IV in Berlin-Neukölln statt. An einer abendlichen Videokundgebung nahmen über 100 Personen Teil. Neben einem Auftritt des Hamburger Rappers Holger Burner wurden Videoclips zum Widerstand gegen Sozialraub gezeigt. Die überwiegend aus dem Umfeld der Erwerbsloseninitiativen stammenden Teilnehmer informierten in Redebeiträgen über Verschärfungen und Auswirkungen der Hartz IV-Gesetze sowie den Widerstand dagegen und über den Mayday in Berlin…“ Bericht von „Aktionstag in Neukölln“ vom 29.04.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/04/145066.shtml


Berichte aus aller Welt auf der globalen Indymedia-Seite http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/115083.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 1. Mai 2006



http://tinyurl.com/zkxjd

Sie sollen zu Wort kommen… „Immer mehr Menschen sind heutzutage ohne Arbeit, wofür sie in aller Regel nichts können. Es gibt auch unbegründete Vorurteile gegenüber Menschen, die ihre Arbeit verloren haben. Viele, vor allem Politiker, meinen zu wissen, was Menschen, die ohne Arbeit sind, wollen und denken. Doch nur selten kommen die Betroffenen selbst zu Wort. Wir möchten, dass Sie selbst zu Wort kommen können. Wir sind ein Team von der Universität Augsburg. Wir arbeiten weder für die Agentur für Arbeit, noch für eine Partei oder ein Unternehmen.“ Online-Umfrage der Universität Augsburg, PhilSo-Fakultät http://www.philso.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/Psychologie3/fragebogen/


(Lohn)Arbeit > jenseits der "Arbeitsgesellschaft" - Diagnose und Perspektiven > Existenzgelddebatte

ELO Initiative und Erwerbslosenausschuss ver.di Südbaden zum „Einkommen zum Auskommen“

Nur tote fische schwimmen mit dem Strom

Artikel von Ingrid Wagner vom 15.06.05 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/elo2.html

"Grundeinkommen oder Grundsicherung und Arbeitszeitverkürzung / Mindestlohn?"

Folien-Präsentation von Ronald Blaschke liegt nun in einer aktualisierten Fassung vor (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/ge-folien.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. April 2006

Leiharbeit: PSA und andere Sklavenhändler > Tarifverhandlungen zur Leiharbeit (PSA u.a.): Vorläufiges Verhandlungsergebnis DGB/BZA

Das Verhandlungsergebnis der DGB-TG mit dem IGZ liegt nun als Dokument vor (pdf) http://www.info-zeitarbeit.de/pdf_Dateien/iGZ-DGB_Tarifvertrag_13_04_2006.pdf

Wir erinnern in diesem Zusammenhang an unsere Bitte um Proteste an die IGM. Sie berät am kommenden Mittwoch, den 19.04.2006, in Frankfurt über die Verhandlungsergebnisse. Für Protestadressen siehe unsere Sonderseite http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/psa/verhandel.html


»Christen-Verträgen immer ähnlicher«. DGB: Zeitarbeit-Tarifpolitik in der Kritik

Der Tarifabschluss der DGB-Tarifgemeinschaft mit der Zeitarbeitsbranche bleibt umstritten. Der Vertrag sieht Löhne vor, die teils unter dem von Gewerkschaften geforderten Mindestlohn von 7,50 Euro liegen. Artikel von Haidy Damm in ND vom 15.04.06


Hamburger finden den Mindestlohn!

„In ganz Deutschland suchen alle Politiker, Gewerkschaften, Sozialverbände und Initiativen nach dem Mindestlohn. Wirklich alle? Nein, nicht alle. Die Hamburger Initiative PeNG! hat ihn bereits gefunden!...“ Pressemitteilung vom 13.04.2006 http://www.peng-ev.de/presse.php

Zitate zum Thema

„Aufruf zur Vernunft: Deutsche seid vernünftig! Denkt an Eure Arbeitsplätze! Wer einen Mindestlohn will, riskiert seinen Arbeitsplatz, für den er jetzt wenigstens noch ein kleines Taschengeld erhält! Die deutschen Unternehmerverbände“ Aus Deutscher Einheit(z)-Textdienst von Werner Lutz 4/2006

Mindestlohn und Gewerkschaften

Mindestlohnforderung des DGB und die Realität

Text aus dem 1. Mai-Aufruf der FAU-IAA Hamburg, gepostet am 14.4.06 bei der FAU http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_060414-163236

Aus dem Text: „…Anfang April ließ der SPD-Arbeitminister Müntefering auch die Katze aus dem Sack: Natürlich könne es keinen „einheitlichen Mindestlohn“ geben, es soll nun unterschiedliche Lohnsätze für die verschiedenen Branchen geben. Und auch der DGB hat mal wieder seine eigenen Forderungen mit Füßen getreten: in der boomenden Zeitarbeitsbranche liegt der unterste Lohn im Westen ab dem 1. Juni bei
7,20 €/Std. und die Qualifizierungszuschläge wurden gekürzt, Dank neuem DGB-Tarifabschluß, trotz Mindestlohnforderung von 7,50 €…“


Aus: LabourNet, 18. April 2006

Video Trailer for Al Gore's new film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiP6dqPynE


From Information Clearing House

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses the dangers of unbridled capitalism, the greed of corporate CEOs and a fundamental problem with the United States economy.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12764.htm

Lord Steyn's attack on the Prime Minister is a wake-up call to those who think their own freedoms are unaffected.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1754813,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Jussi Sinnemaa

As the IAEA has repeatedly acknowledged, Iran is not in violation of any of her legal obligations as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In fact, Iran has allowed far more intrusive international inspections of her nuclear facilities than required by the NPT. Iran remains the only country to have done so.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12762.htm

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16955598&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=deadliest-shirt-in-the-world--name_page.html

Shirt laden with asbestos from the WTC.


Informant: Dave

Sirota says that what the recent ports scandal really showed is that Americans are sick and tired of "free" trade policies that prioritize corporate profits over all other economic and national security concerns. As workers' wages stagnate, that concern is only going to become more prevalent in electoral politics.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041706LA.shtml

A Bush administration proposal to roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods would let California industries handle almost 1.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals a year without telling the public, according to an investigation of federal data by Environmental Working Group.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041706HA.shtml

A tiny desert owl is set to be taken off the federal government's endangered species list, drawing praise from developers but protests from environmentalists. Fewer than 30 of the birds remain. Dropping the owl from the endangered list will open 1.2 million acres for development.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041706EC.shtml

The income tax rate is now nearly "flat" - those at the top pay the same rate as those at the bottom. Boosters of the "flat tax" claimed it would unleash "the fantastic growth waiting to burst forth in our economy." But so far most people haven't seen significant economic improvement.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706S.shtml

In writing "West Nile, Smallpox, Anthrax, SARS, and now Bird Flu are not "natural occurrences" ", I did not mean to imply that the microorganisms linked to these diseases do not exist in nature, but that the panic, the response, and perhaps the micro-organisms themselves are being manipulated for political reasons, not natural ones. Sorry if that was confusing in my original ....

Mitchel Cohen


The U.S. government is now planning for full martial law NOT due to "terrorism" but the projected Avian (bird) flu epidemic. An article in Easter Sunday's Washington Post (of course that's when the info would be released, at a time when relatively few people would become aware or be able to focus on examining it) raises the spectre.

As I and others have been warning, by orchestrating a multi-year series of alleged "health crises" the US government has now completed putting into place -- under the radar -- a whole byzantine world of police-state apparatus under the guise of "bio-terror response" and "health care", and is likely preparing to use it this year.

Why?

Well, one reason is to enable Karl Rove to mastermind keeping the Bush-Cheney regime in power against all the numbers and the revolt of the retired generals now occurring, as well as to extend the full implementation of the Program for the New American Century (PNAC) -- i.e., continuation of empire-building, control of the world's oil supply, and extraction of incredibly huge profits for a narrow sector of global capital (while bankrupting others). Some, including me, speculate that the orchestrated Avian Flu "epidemic" will be 9-11 all over again, but on a much grander scale. (There are other possible rationales as well, commensurate with securing the interests of the sector of the ruling class in power.)

One good website that has been compiling information on the Bird Flu is http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html . We are allocating much space on the NoSpray Coalition website http://www.nospray.org to address these issues as well.

I am urging us all to shift a significant portion of our time to dealing with issues related to the "Pandemic" of the Avian Bird Flu, the government's lies and deceptions, and to the safety measures we're going to need to prepare. West Nile, Smallpox, Anthrax, SARS, and now Bird Flu are "political" diseases in that the panic, the response, and perhaps the micro-organisms themselves are being manipulated for political reasons, not natural ones. We need to begin NOW building the base to reject the government's coming blitzkrieg of lies on the subject, the legislation that will follow in its wake or even come beforehand on establishment of concentration (er, "quarantine" or "internment") camps, forced vaccinations, ethnic weapons, and the like.

- Mitchel Cohen
coordinator, No Spray Coalition


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


From ufpj-news

Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/en_nm/leisure_young_dc


Informant: ranger116

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The Touchable and the Untouchable

A Tale of Two Members of Congress and the Capitol Hill Police

Neil Young sets his sights on Bush: he is country rock's biggest icon, and he is angry. Recorded in secret, his forthcoming album savages the war in Iraq. One track says it all: 'Impeach the President'.

http://www.counterpunch.org/blankfort04172006.html


From Information Clearing House

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Young's 'War' Marching Online First
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002384399


Informant: Andy Caffrey



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

Meet The Carlyle Group

Mon Apr 17, 2006 15:57

Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the War on Terrorism Meet The Carlyle Group

#1 http://www.apfn.net/audio/carlyle_groupA.MP3 (7.19MB)

#2 http://www.apfn.net/audio/carlyle_groupB.MP3 (6.43MB)

#3 http://www.apfn.net/audio/carlyle_groupC.MP3 (8.45MB)

#4 uploading (9.60MB)

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Carlyle_group.htm

RFID CHIPS and the Carlyle Group http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/01/14/story3.html

R.I.S.E.- Radio Internet Story Exchange http://www.rise4news.net/Programs.html


http://www.lewrockwell.com/

March '03: Bush's Grotesque Lies: Why America Supports Islamic Terrorism featuring Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, author of War and Globalisation: The Truth About September 11th (high bandwidth) http://www.rise4news.net/Programs.html

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=284740&rel_no=1

Countdown to U.S.-Iran War Has Begun: Reports Presence of U.S. bombers in England seen as advance signals Email Article Print Article Bhuwan Thapaliya (Bhuwan) Most observers are expecting the developing U.S.-Iran crisis to end with a diplomatic settlement, especially because the post-war American occupation of Iraq is seen as a failure and that the war will be averted. But unfortunately, the concerned authorities aren't considering this view.

The views of experienced analysts formed before the start of the Iraq war in March 2003 pointing out the difficulties of an insurgency fighting occupying troops in Iraq was neglected and sidelined by the Bush administration. As a result of that negligence, American troops are facing hazardous consequences.

But ironically, it seems the Bush administration is on the verge of making the same mistake yet again. This time the mistake could be made in Iran, as it has been reported by The New Yorker magazine in its April 17 issue that the Bush administration is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs used to destroy key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facilities.

The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler. A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser was quoted as saying, "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war," Hersh writes.

One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that, "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker reported.

In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said. One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.

Sources said the attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the New Yorker report.

Meanwhile, several studies suggest Iran has enough military capability to create problems for the United States if war breaks out.

"Iran's ability to react, especially in terms of asymmetric warfare undertaken at a distance, is likely to be far more potent than that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, with recent reports from the United States supporting the view that paramilitary attacks would extend beyond the Middle East," writes Dana Priest, in a recent Washington Post article titled "Attacking Iraq May Trigger Terrorism." .

But according to observers, this fails to recognize the concern of Iran as a threat to the United States' security stretches beyond the neo-conservatives.

It has also been reported a much wider swathe of foreign-policy opinion, often termed the "assertive nationalists," sees Iran as a consistent threat to U.S. interests in the immensely important, oil-bearing Persian Gulf region.

"This outlook includes significant figures within the Democratic Party such as Hillary Clinton, and it links up with the pro-Israel lobby whose interest-base encompasses millions of evangelical Christians," according to the media reports.

This means the current defensiveness of the neo-conservative position should not be confused with a decline in the willingness of the Bush administration to take on Iran.

Moreover, the importance of separating them is underlined in a perceptive commentary in the journal Foreign Policy by Joseph Cirincione.

He says the uncanny similarities between the pre-Iraq war period and the increasing tension over Iran have forced him to change his mind about the likelihood of war, after months of telling interviewers, "that no senior or military official was seriously considering a military attack on Iran."

He notes the way in which the U.S. administration is increasingly presenting Iran as the key threat to the region can no longer be dismissed as posturing, but may rather "be a coordinated campaign to prepare the way for a military strike on Iran."

However, the Sunday Telegraph reported that British military chiefs were meeting to consider the consequences of a U.S. strike on Iran. The paper presenting a detailed assessment, including striking graphics, of what an attack would entail. (Sean Rayment, "Government in secret talks about strike against Iran," Sunday Telegraph, April 2).

In Iran, local TV stations reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards carried out a series of military exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea under the operating name "Great Prophet."

Also, Iranian sources claim two new weapons have been tested during the week-long project: the Fajr-3 multiple warhead missiles and an underwater anti-ship weapon said to be capable of traveling at more than 300 kilometers per hour underwater - more than three times as fast as a conventional torpedo.

None of this means that war with Iran is imminent. But if it happens, some forms of resistance is certain as it is hard to nullify Iranian anger.

America's dilemma is how to exploit strong Iranian feelings into something that will strengthen rather than sink the diplomatic peace process, because a diplomatic solution is the only way out from this impasse.

Moreover, the steady escalation of tension may in the long run even mislead Iran and the opponents of war as any U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be far more likely to be sudden and unexpected.

"This is because the assault would be conducted almost entirely by aircraft and stand-off missiles rather than ground troops, and any extra U.S. units needed to supplement the extensive forces already in the region could be unobtrusively moved there. The huge advantage of surprise is needed in order to cripple Iranian air defenses as any advance warning to Iran would enable the Iranians to disperse these people and indeed key equipment in advance," writes Paul Rodgers in his article, "The countdown to war."

To avoid aircrew casualties or prisoners would mean a key component of U.S. action would be a strong dependence on the B-2 long-range stealth-bomber, according to Rodgers.

"This plane can carry sixteen individually-targeted, highly accurate bombs; thus, a single aircraft can attack sixteen separate targets in just one operation," he wrote.

The basing of the B-2 far from the region would be useful in preserving secrecy. But the plane's dependence on specialized servicing equipment to maintain its "stealth" radar-avoidance ability puts the only four bases worldwide where these are available at an absolute premium, he added.

These four bases are in the United States, Guam, Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean) and RAF Fairford (Gloucestershire, England). The stealth support facilities already available in the first three locations were joined by Fairford, a major United States Air Force standby base, in December 2004. This serves as a forward operating facility, especially for heavy bombers such as the B-1B, the B-2 and the B-52. In the approach to the Iraq war, the Air Force's 457th air expeditionary wing was based at Fairford; 14 B-52s flew in from Minot, North Dakota and deployed there for seven weeks while conducting more than 100 bombing sorties over Iraq, according to Rodgers.

Fairford underwent a major two-year development and reconstruction program, completed in May 2002. Another building project was started a year later to equip the base with a specialized hangar to accommodate the B-2; the 15 months since it came into operation have seen occasional visits by individual planes. The B-2s' immense costs and specialized facilities means that only 21 are finished and about 15 can be deployed at any one time, according to Rodgers.

"The need for an element of surprise in any attack on Iran makes it difficult to gage exactly when it might be imminent," he wrote.

Fairford offers two possible advance signals. The first is a more coordinated presence of B-2s at the base. Training for an attack may involve deployments of B-2 aircraft there for a few days to familiarize air and ground crew with the details of combat operations from a new base, according to Rodgers.

"It is likely that the first such exercise took place last week when three B-2s flew into Fairford within a few days in what appears to be the first orchestrated deployment of this kind. This may well be an indicator of training now underway," Rodgers wrote.

The second signal is a sudden increase in base security at Fairford, including the policing of an extended cordon and closure of local roads to minimize any external observation of activities there. If and when that happens, the countdown to war with Iran will almost certainly be well underway. The moment may arrive at any time in the next year or more, quite possibly when it is least expected, according to Rodgers.

There are elements of inconsistency, even hypocrisy, in the United States' attempts to foster the cause of the Iran war around the world as it did so prior the Iraq war. So what?

That is an inevitable consequence of the fact that war is also one of many Americans' foreign-policy concerns. Keeping the peace and encouraging trade are also important concerns.

America should accept and proclaim that war may prove to be not just a bad policy, but bad politics in the long run, if it is too enjoy the position in the world it has now.

How that objective should be pursued will depend on circumstances. Some government are more brutal than others; some are more susceptible to pressure than others. Depending on the egregiousness of the offense and the other interests at stake, America must take a step further -- a step that would build trust and confidence.

America's efforts might not succeed as Iran's government is stubborn, but it is unlikely to be wholly ignored. Beyond that, a more dramatic step may be necessary. One would be to abandon the elusive dream of war. So far, there has been little progress.

America doesn't want to prescribe new procedures, and Iran has not been willing to take the lead in reaching a voluntary agreement.

No matter which party wins, if war begins, the victory will be hollow because ultimately peace will lose.

2006-04-10 17:21 (KST) ©2006 OhmyNews

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=284740&rel_no=1

Source: http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=100551;show_parent=1

http://www.rettet-das-internet.de/newsletter/jahresende_2007.htm


Informant: Gerd Zesar



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Online-Durchsuchungen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rettet-das-internet

A message from Thomas

Original Message:

Please sign my new petition and share with others in your networks. This one hits close to home as I am the mother of a child with autism who funded her own early interventions... something that is not possible for the bulk of parents of children with autism.

Petition to fund treatment for Children with Autism http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/333224812

This petition asks the Ontario Legislature to invest in special education resources for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Many of these children are not able to access the special education programs and services that they desperately need to help them develop their full potential.

This was my comment on the Petition (a bit of a backgrounder):

Mr. Premier, Stop discriminating against individuals with autism spectrum disorder! As you're aware, a full year ago, Madam Justice Frances Kitely identified the Ontario Provincial Government as the body responsible for the provision of treatment for autistic children, not school boards. Move on it NOW! I am a mother of a 9 year old with autism who had to fund her own early interventions because my son sat on a waiting list for services for 3 years and when he turned six, he was no longer eligible for the services because of discriminating legislation in Ontario. My son benefitted tremendously from the services but this is not in the reach of many other parents of children with autism.

FORMER NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PRESIDENT ADMITS BEING PAID $585,000 BY TOBACCO COMPANIES

http://www.net.org/warming/skeptic.vtml

The National Environmental Trust hosted a press conference on April 13th to discuss new revelations in the May issue of Vanity Fair linking one of the most prominent scientific skeptics on global warming and his tactics to the three-decade tobacco industry conspiracy to hide the connection between smoking and lung ailments -- an effort that has led to billions of dollars in court judgments and legislation against the industry.

Listen to the briefing (mp3, 6 megs): http://tinyurl.com/l88m7

Read an industry media plan to oppose global warming [PDF] http://www.net.org/warming/docs/3860_GlobalClimateSciencePlanMemo.pdf -- an April 3, 1998 American Petroleum Institute strategy memo on its public relations campaign to plant doubts about global warming science.

Participants:

* Mark Hertsgaard, investigative journalist and author of Vanity Fair's May cover story, "While Washington Slept," will describe in detail how Dr. Frederick Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences and one of the most often-quoted skeptics on global warming, was paid over half a million dollars by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the connection between smoking and cancer. Seitz went on to spearhead a campaign to cast scientific doubt about global warming.

* Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science, will address the state of climate science and the disruptive role industry-backed skeptics have played in clouding the near-unanimous findings of global warming scientists.

* Phil Schiliro, Minority Chief of Staff, House Government Reform Committee, who staffed Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) during the House investigation and subsequent House hearings where tobacco industry executives denied knowing about the addictive nature of cigarettes, will review the role of "tobacco science" in obscuring the truth and discuss its relevance to the global warming debate on Capitol Hill.

* Philip Clapp, President of the National Environmental Trust, will moderate this call.


Informant: NHNE

Richard Clarke and Steven Simon: Bombs That Would Backfire

Richard Clark and Steven Simon write: No matter how Iran responded to a US attack, the question that would face American planners would be, "What's our next move?" How do we achieve so-called escalation dominance, the condition in which the other side fears responding because they know that the next round of American attacks would be too lethal for the regime to survive?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706Z.shtml

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/143241


Informant: Kev Hall

Arrogance

American Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's "paw prints are all over everything that's gone wrong with the war in Iraq: in the congenital lying that characterized the triggering of hostilities, in the major strategic errors like the dissolution of the Iraqi Army after the seizure of Baghdad, in the absence of a credible post-war plan, in the humiliations and tortures at Abu Ghraib ..." argues Libération's Pierre Haski.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706H.shtml

An intensifying shouting match between the US and Russia has stirred fears that the two former adversaries could be drifting back to a familiar ideologically-charged rivalry.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706D.shtml

Indian Gambling

"In order to discourage the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, we're destroying the international framework that we ourselves designed to discourage the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," says Joshua Holland.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706A.shtml

In just two days we will deliver a message of protest to Coke’s board, top executives and shareholders at the corporation’s annual meeting in Wilmington, DE. This meeting is our opportunity to challenge Coke’s top corporate decision makers face-to-face. You can join us by sending a strong message to Coke’s CEO, Neville Isdell. Tell him “Our water is not for sale!”

Click here to take action now!
http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/cokeshm2006

Last month, Corporate Accountability International endorsed a major action—including a vigil outside the Coke bottling plant—by our allies in Mehdiganj, India. We stand with them in challenging Coke’s threat to groundwater resources and to demand that the soft drink giant stop exploiting local communities. Nearly one month into this action, the protest is growing.

Corporations, like Coke, cannot turn water into a profit-driven commodity and determine who gets it and who doesn’t. So please take action today! Tell Coke’s CEO Neville Isdell that you are joining people around the world in challenging corporate control of our water.

Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): CEO Neville Isdell

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Our water is not for sale!

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

The basic human right to water is at risk and people's lives are at stake. Over one billion people don't have access to safe water to drink and corporations are contributing to this problem by turning water into a profit-driven commodity.

As Coke's top executives meet this week in Wilmington, I am joining people from around the world in a common refrain: "Our water is not for sale."

We are calling on Coke to:

Stop interfering in policies that protect our water; Never reopen its plant in Plachimada; Close its plant in Mehdiganj; Pay for the damage done to affected communities.

I await your prompt reply.

Sincerely,

ACTION ALERT

FORWARD WIDELY!

Save Russia's Lake Baikal: Oil Pipeline Threatens World's Largest Freshwater Body

By Water Conserve, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. http://www.waterconserve.org/
April 17, 2006

TAKE ACTION Let Russian government know oil and water do not mix http://www.waterconserve.org/alerts/send.asp?id=baikal

A controversial Russian crude oil pipeline from eastern Siberia to the Pacific coast threatens the world's largest freshwater lake. The pipeline may pass within less than one kilometer of Lake Baikal -- a UNESCO protected World Heritage site and home to 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Lake Baikal, called the "Jewel of Siberia", is the world's deepest and oldest lake renowned for its water purity and home to tremendous amounts of endemic species including a rare fresh water seal. It is feared that an earthquake, forest fire or flood around Lake Baikal could rupture the pipeline, sending 4,000 tons of crude oil into the world's largest freshwater body in just 20 minutes. Experts, including specialists from the Russian Academy of Sciences, have said the oil pipeline should run as far as possible from the coast of Baikal. Scientists who conducted the state assessment of the plan found that in the event of an earthquake there is a high likelihood that water quality would be severely diminished and permanent damage to the unique wildlife would occur, and thus recommended its construction near Baikal be stopped. There has been strong local opposition to the project for years, including recent protests by Russian environmentalists. Project plans are continually changing, with important questions including whether the pipeline route will fall within the Baikal water catchment still unresolved. Please send an email supporting local campaigns to ensure the final pipeline route steers well clear of Lake Baikal and its watershed, and to promote sustainable development in the Baikal region.

http://www.waterconserve.org/alerts/send.asp?id=baikal

Bitte rechtlich freundlich

Studierende aus Münster wollen erstmals die Frage der Kameraüberwachung an den Universitäten gerichtlich klären lassen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22460/1.html

By David McNeill
In Tokyo
Published: 17 April 2006

Ask a Japanese person under 40 how much whale they consume and you're likely to get a blank look. Most would no more go out of their way to eat whale than a Londoner would to eat jellied eel.

Consumption was falling even before the 1986 moratorium on commercial hunting. Today, the Japanese eat 40 times more beef-burger than whale, says Greenpeace; only 1 per cent of Japanese eat whale meat regularly.

For most Japanese, the debate provokes more yawns than table-thumping, although some middle-aged Japanese wax nostalgic about eating whale after the war, when other protein was scarce.

Why, then, has Tokyo spent two decades pushing for an end to the ban in the face of resistance from conservationists and at huge cost to its international standing? The answer has more to do with politics than culture or economics. Many Japanese are bewildered by what they consider Western sentimentality, and hypocrisy, about whale-eating.

Kiyoshi Okawa, the boss of a company that makes pet snacks from whale meat, recently said: "I can't understand how people can consider whales cute. Lambs are much cuter than whales." Argue that lambs are not going extinct and you will be told that neither are all species of whale. Japan claims it can hunt Antarctic minke, which number close to a million, at a "scientifically sustainable" level.

"It is possible to use these resources in a sustainable way," says Hideki Moronuki of Japan's Fisheries Agency. "We don't have much land, we have the sea. Japan has lost so much of its own culture already. The consumption of rice has decreased because we were forced to consume bread in school since the Second World War in order to import huge amounts of flour from the US."

But conservationists dispute those figures and say the same arguments about sustainability were heard when other species were being hunted to extinction.

Mr Moronuki's tone of wounded national pride hints at the real engine behind the whale campaign. After decades in the diplomatic and military shadow of the US, Japan's nationalists feel this is one area where they can make some noise. Besides, if they back down on whales, restrictions on other marine resources may follow, including that beloved staple, tuna.

Japan's whaling "research fleet" is supported by nationalist politicians, mainly within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. This lobby champions the tradition of whale hunting in a handful of fishing communities, and has spent billions of yen in an effort to reverse the 1986 ban.

But with whale cuisine confined to a handful of specialist outlets, the pro-whalers have struggled to dispose of Japan's growing stocks - almost 5,000 tons, says one recent report. Schoolchildren in rural Wakayama prefecture found deep-fried whale in their lunchboxes last year, and similar schemes are afoot.

Without the nationalists' support, there is little prospect that whale hunting would be economically viable: the sale of whale meat barely covers the cost of sending Japan's eight whaling ships out of harbour.

© 2006 Independent News and Media Limited

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article358172.ece

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The great betrayal: Pro-hunting Japanese seize control of whaling commission
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article358190.ece

Beat Japan on its own terms
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article358175.ece

Die Chancen stehen gut, dass Japan dank einer Koalition der Willigen im Juni den Vorsitz der Internationalen Walkommission erhalten wird.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22482/1.html

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/germany_cancer_cluster.htm

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY - Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/cancer_cluster_in_spain2000_2004.htm

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

School Study about cancer and phone masts at Gijon
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1836526/

Attached is an interesting school study about cancer cluster near masts in Spain. See also the links at the bottom with a map of the area.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/gijon_emilio.doc


Iris Atzmon

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY - Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/cancer_cluster_in_spain2000_2004.htm

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Germany Cancer Clusters
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1836551/

Exclusive:

John Negroponte says accused Al-Qaeda members will remain in secret prisons as long as 'war on terror continues'.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,1183242,00.html


From Information Clearing House

There is something unreal about the bellicose statements coming from some sources in the Bush administration towards Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12750.htm

A top Iranian military commander said on Friday that the Islamic Republic’s Army and Revolutionary Guards “are today in a situation to make the Oppressor World [the United States and its allies] feel the great powers that are at Iran’s disposal”, the state-run news agency Mehr reported.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6780


From Information Clearing House

TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12751.htm
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4363/

In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with Iraq, the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war with Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12754.htm

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Pentagon has been prepping for war on Iran since 2003
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4364/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

I disagree with the need for military recruitment altogether. If society deems that military action is the right decision, the society must commit to that vision and force conscription and draft people from all walks of life, not just target those who are poor and want to go to college.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002930931_satrdr15.html


From Information Clearing House

For North American residents living underneath the Alberta Clipper Trail.

There is indication of high levels of hydrogen fluoride and nitrogen in our environment.

This is and EXTREMELY dangerous EMF condition.

Hydrogen fluoride is present in ALL unrefined gas products. High levels of hydrogen fluoride displace the levels of nitrogen in the air. The ambient temperature in Municipal District Rockyview west of the City of Calgary in the Province of Alberta Canada is 25.5. The reported temperature is 11.5. The air temperature is -2.

These temperature readings are indicative of an air inversion with hydrogen fluoride on the bottom closest to the earth, and high levels of nitrogen in the air. We have a Chinook wind without the Chinook Arch. This is not a normal weather condition.

The presence of this atomospheric condition, accompanied by the high wind, can cause symptoms such as, pain in the ears, confusion, cardiac arythmia, difficulty breathing, nervousness, agitation. Physical symptoms present as tingling in the extremities, sciatic nerve pain, pain in the groin or testicles (prostate area), difficulty urinating. You might feel hot.

This wind is coming East, blowing along the Alberta Clipper. All areas within North America that are under the Alberta Clipper will be affected. You need to get out of this wind. This wind, with the population exposure to ingestion and inhalation of fluoridation with sodium fluoride and fluorosilic acid and PFOA will cause an ACUTE rise in blood pressure. Should this happen to you, drink milk.

Serious. You need to cool down the process. The process occuring in each of us in the presence of hydrogen fluoride is a chemical event called: Oxidation Recudtion in Organic material. ALL published technical information currently published is Oxication and Reduction in Organic Mass. THIS IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT process.

I don't want to sound alarming but if mitgation does not occur to control the core body temperature the body is going to overheat by freezing to death.

I can explain if anyone is interest.

Karen



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[Below is a translation from a new 194-page Atlas recently published by *Le Monde diplomatique*, these two pages are devoted to describing what has been learned recently about the effects of global warming on the northern and southern ice caps.[1] -- The new Atlas du Monde diplomatique (a previous edition was published in 2003, but the the 2006 edition is entirely new), which aims to reveal "the relations and interactions among phenomena that are situated in different spheres," sells for 12 euros (ISSN 0026-9395) and is divided into five sections: -- (1) The Planet in Danger (28 maps with accompanying charts and text); -- (2) A New Geopolitics (35 maps with accompanying charts and text); -- (3) Globalization, Winners and Losers (25 maps with accompanying charts and text); -- (4) Those Persistent Conflicts
(48 maps with accompanying charts and text); -- (5) Asia's Irresistible Ascent (38 maps with accompanying charts and text). -- *L'Atlas du Monde diplomatique* is edited by Alain Gresh, Jean Radvanyi, Philippe Rekacewicz, Catherine Samary, and Dominique Vidal, with the collaboration of some 70 specialists. -- Copies can be ordered by calling 011 33 344 318 048. --Mark]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4370/

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The Planet in Danger

THE MELTING OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES IS ACCELERATING

By Frédéric Durand

** Climate warming does not affect the planet uniformly. Most models expect it to be greater in the northern hemisphere. For a rise of 2 degrees Centigrade, the Arctic zone could warm up twice or three times as much. The southern hemisphere, less affected, is nevertheless also expected to be disturbed. **

L'Atlas du Monde diplomatique (2006) Pages 10-11

The North Pole is already showing marked signs of change. Apart from seasonal and yearly variation that is considerable, the area covered by the ice field is estimated to have diminished by 10% in 30 years, and the thickness of the ice field is thought to be down 40%. By the end of the 21st century, it may be cut in half.

Some would like to see postive aspects in these developments, particularly the opening of the northern passages for marine transport or an easier access to the hydrocarbons of the Great American North and Siberia, which constitute 40% of world reserves. But these advantages are meager compared to the negative impacts. In the short term, the most serious of these will doubtless be the disturbance of the Gulf Stream. Preliminary investigations show its flow to have declined by 20% between 1950 and 2000. This may bring about a temporary period of sharply colder temperatures in Europe.

More structurally, the melting is expected to cause an acceleration of warming by reducing the level of refraction of solar radiation, which is 80% for ice, as opposed to 30% for bare soil and 7% for the oceans. This is inducing, in some places, a melting of the permafrost (permanently frozen soil), on which are constructed buildings and infrastructures and which contains enormous quanitites of methane. Confronted by such threats, the Council of the Arctic, which brings together the United States, Canada, and Russia, has shown itself to be incapable of the most minimal action. By itself, the melting of the polar ice field does not bring about a rise in ocean levels, to the extent that the ice is already floating on the water. On the other hand, the progressive melting of the Greenland ice sheet as well as glaciers on land could contribute significantly to this. Measurements by the Topex-Poseidon satellite indicate at present a rise of sea level by 2.4mm per year. This is expected to produce a rise of at least 25cm by the beginning of the 22nd century, but more and more forecasts are envisioning a rise of one meter, or even several meters should the melting of certain Antarctic regions be verified. Beyond the uncertainties, it is thought that a third of this phenomenon is due to the simple expansion of the oceans as a result of warming, with another third coming from the melting of glaciers. For the rest, recent studies indicate that the South Pole may today be contributing 15%.

RISING SEAS

Until recently, in fact, researchers thought that only the Antarctic peninsula was affected. It warmed by 3 degrees Centigrade between 1974 and 2000, and it is from this region that the vast Larsen platform broke off in 2002. If all the peninsula's ice melted, the level of water would rise by an additional 45 cm. However, it is not directly linked to the continental ice cap, which until recently was considered to be stable and immune from the influence of warming for at least a century. But in October 2004 NASA revealed that certain parts of the continent may warm by more than 3.5 degrees Centigrade between now and 2050, while in December 2004 a British Antarctic Survey team observed that the western part of Antarctica was losing 250 cubic kilometers of ice per year. This is still a limited quantity, but should it accelerate the water from this region could induce a sea-level rise of 8 meters! For the moment, only eastern Antarctica, by far the most massive part (the equivalent of a sea-level rise of 64 meters), appears to be spared.

Alongside this disturbing problem, the reduction of the Antarctic ice sheet may also lead to another major upheaval concerning aquatic fauna. Indeed, stocks of krill, a small shrimp that feeds on algae living beneath the ice, and which is at the heart of the sea's food chain, since squid, fish, and whales feed on it, are thought to have declined by 80% in the past 30 years. This phenomenon, combined with overfishing and the weakening of the coral reefs, undeniably constitutes an additional reason for concern.

--Frédéric Durand is maître de conférences at the University of Toulouse-II-Le Mirail and author of *La Jungle, la nation et le marché: Chronique indonésienne* (L'Atalante, 2001) ('The Jungle, the Nation, and the Market: Indonesian Chronicle').

[MAP 1] CLIMATIC WARMING OF THE ARCTIC REGION (Sources: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), 1998, 2002, 2004; World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC); United States Energy Information Administration (EIA); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOIA); International Permafrost Association (IPA); *Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) Overview/Report* (Cambridge University Press, 2004); *Vital Arctic Graphics, People and Global Heritage on Our Last Wild Shores*
(UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2005).

[MAP 2] WARMING OF ANTARCTICA EXPECTED BY 2050 (Source: National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), 2004.)

[CHARTS] (1) EXTENT OF THE ICE CAP, 1900-2000 (Millions of square km); (2) VARIATIONS IN THE SURFACE OF THE ICE CAP: DEPARTURES FROM THE MEAN, 1973-2004 (Sources: *Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) Overview/Report* (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Hadley Center, 2005; Office météorologique mondial (OMM), 2005; Met Office, 2005).

ON THE WEB

--Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA): http://www.acia.uaf.edu

--International Arctic Science Committee (IASC): http://www.iasc.no

--Arctic Council: http://www.arctic-council.org

--Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (Cicero): http://www.cicero.uio.no

--Laboratoire d'océanographie dynamique et de climatologie (Lodyc): http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr

--Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM): http://www.wmo.ch

--International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (Icarp): http://www.icarp.dk


Translated by Mark K. Jensen Associate Professor of French Department of Languages and Literatures Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 Phone: 253-535-7219 Home page: http://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/ E-mail: jensenmk@plu.edu


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