World-News

The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in the Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042206Z.shtml

OfficeMax, the third largest retail office supply store in the US, threatens forests of the south by doing business with the most irresponsible logging company in the region.

Tell Office Max CEO Sam Duncan to make a commitment to the environment and Southern Forests. Demand that OfficeMax stop sourcing paper from endangered forests! Our Southern forests are being rapidly wiped out to meet surging demands for office copy paper and paper packaging. Unless consumers insist that such throwaway products be produced from recycled fibers instead of trees, the great forest that once cloaked the southeastern U.S. is in danger of being into turned into vast, biologically sterile pine plantations. Take Action.

OfficeMax, the third largest retail office supply store in the US, threatens forests of the south by doing business with the most irresponsible logging company in the region. Tell them to stop sourcing paper from endangered forests!

The Southern forest region of the U.S. contains some of the most biologically rich ecosystems in North America. It is home to hundreds of forest and aquatic species -- especially amphibians, reptiles, snails and trees -- that are found nowhere else on earth.

OfficeMax’s two largest competitors, Staples and Office Depot, have already committed publicly to increase recycled content in the paper they sell and avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests.

Urge Office Max to follow suit. Demand that OfficeMax stop sourcing paper from endangered forests! Tell Office Max CEO Sam Duncan to make a commitment to the environment and Southern Forests.

Thank you for making a difference today,

Agata Gussmann
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

Care2.com, Inc.
275 Shoreline Drive, Suite 150 Redwood City, CA 94065 http://www.care2.com


Informant: Blue Ridge Mama

"The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights," says Richard Cohen of the Washington Post in his praise for a new film titled, "An Inconvenient Truth," a cinematic version of the lecture that former Vice President Al Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042106EB.shtml



While Washington Slept

The Queen of England is afraid. International CEO's are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear. If global warming isn't halted, rising sea levels could submerge coastal cities by 2100. So how did this virtual certainty get labeled a "liberal hoax"?

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042106EA.shtml



Rain Forest Gas Fight

Backers of a multibillion-dollar proposal to ship vast stores of liquid natural gas from Peru's Amazonian rain forest to the United States are seeking Bush administration support for international financing, but environmental questions are complicating the bid.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042106EC.shtml

"As the average American worker watches corporate America slash pensions and healthcare, as the average American has seen real wages decline in the last quarter century, and as the average American family has to work harder to maintain the standard of living it inherited, Treasury Secretary John Snow talked about this as if it were not much of a problem," writes Derrick Z. Jackson.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042106LA.shtml

A chorus of complaints against the Bush administration erupted yesterday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106R.shtml

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case and introduced additional evidence against Rove, attorneys and other US officials close to the investigation said.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12799.htm

New Gasoline Study Shows Profits, Are Driving Pump Price Spike

A new study of rising gasoline prices in California found that corporate markups and profiteering are responsible for spring price spikes, not rising crude costs or the national switchover to higher-cost ethanol, as the oil industry claims.

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=6133



Energy drives higher Halliburton profit

Halliburton Co. reported first-quarter net earnings rose nearly 34% to $488 million, or 91 cents a share, from $365 million or 72 cents a share a year earlier.

http://tinyurl.com/me89d


From Information Clearing House



Peak Oil And The Political Economy Of Terrorism

A Straits of Hormuz blocked by sunken tankers either way will immediately reduce global oil supplies by 20-25 per cent per day. Perhaps more, depending on which estimates you have been reading.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12807.htm

"The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not an isolated episode. It was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12805.htm

Hardening its opposition to sanctions against Iran, Russia said on Friday the U.N. Security Council should only consider such measures if it had proof the Islamic Republic was trying to build nuclear weapons.

http://tinyurl.com/kxufy



Russia backs Iran's nuclear programme

Russia today offered its most outspoken support yet of the controversial nuclear programme in Iran, its neighbour and trading partner.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2145200,00.html



Russia Will Not Agree to Iran Sanctions Without Proof

Russia says again it will not agree to sanctions against Iran until Moscow sees hard evidence that Tehran's nuclear program is not for peaceful purposes.

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/apr/1177.html


From Information Clearing House

US intelligence chief John Negroponte has said Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment is "troublesome" but the country is still years away from having enough fissile material to make a nuclear weapon.

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=66431



Taking matters in hand

Ali Larijani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and head of the Supreme National Security Council, tells Amira Howeidy that Iran does not need nuclear weapons to promote its influence in the region and that punishing Iran for pursuing a nuclear programme will damage everyone.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/791/re6.htm


From Information Clearing House

Speaking on condition of anonymity, three intelligence sources identified the Iran-Contra middleman as having been put back on the payroll, acting as a human intelligence asset and monitoring any movement in discussions about Iran’s alleged burgeoning nuclear weapons program.

http://tinyurl.com/flevh


From Information Clearing House

“I am driven to action now by the missteps and misjudgments of the White House and the Pentagon, and by my many painful visits to our military hospitals,” Newbold wrote “The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood."

http://tinyurl.com/jlk7v



Revolt of the generals

The denunciation of the administration's handling of Iraq by former US army chiefs is unprecedented.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1758033,00.html



Poor planning, equipment to push Iraq war costs to 1 trillion dollars

"When the administration submitted its original budget for the Iraq war, it didn't provide money for continuing the war this year or any other. We could end up spending up to one trillion (dollars) in supplemental budgets for this war," he said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/21/content_4459003.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Paul Krugman

"I have a vision — maybe just a hope — of a great revulsion: a moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12806.htm

By AAP

"The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 US-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said, according to CBS.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12809.htm

By Scott Ritter

The problems that plague Washington DC on the issue of Iran are the same problems that haunt America overall regarding Iraq -- no clear understanding of why we as a nation are doing what we are doing where we are doing it, and absolutely no system of accountability for those who are implicated, directly through their actions or indirectly through abrogation of duties and responsibilities, in embroiling America in such senseless conflict.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12803.htm

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1 Million Dead Iranians

By Chris Floyd

When this attack comes -- either as a stand-alone "knock-out blow" or as the precursor to a full-scale, regime-changing invasion, like the earlier aggression in Iraq -- there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no congressional hearings, no public debate. The already-issued orders governing the operation put the decision solely in the hands of the president. He picks up the phone, he says, "Go," and in 12 hours' time, up to 1 million Iranians will be dead.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12801.htm

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Don't Impeach Bush?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12800.htm



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

We call upon the UK Government to listen to the many renowned scientific voices warning them of the Human disaster that will occur very soon if the erection of these masts in residential areas is not curtailed.

Read further under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1859263/

Two items of interest.

The first is to publicize an open meeting organised by B.E.S.T. on the mast issue and its related health effects which will take place next Tuesday at 8.00 PM, in the South Court Hotel, Limerick. Maximum support is called for.

The second is a report of another antimast residential group, this time in a Cork suburb.

Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland.


IRISH EXAMINER, FRIDAY, 21.04.2006, PAGE 13

"LOCALS VOW TO CONTINUE MAST PROTEST
by Eoin English

Residents vowed last night to continue their campaign for the removal of a mobile phone antenna from the roof of a Cork shop despite assurances from mobile phone company O2 that there is no health risk. A small group of residents has been protesting outside Murray's Centra store on the Old Youghal Road for over a month calling for the removal of an O2 antenna from its roof. Store owner Ken Murray declined to comment on the row yesterday. O2 moved to reassure residents last night and organised a public meeting in Mayfield GAA club. The company also blitzed homes in the area with a two-page document outlining current research, which the company says proves there is no health risk from the equipment. Residents picketed the public meeting and said their compaign would continue. Last year, the group campaigned successfully for the removal of another O2 mast, on the roof of the nearby Cotton Ball pub. Residents again complained when a temporary mast was erected soon afterwards in the pub's car park for 12 weeks. That mast was also removed but residents' spokesman Ted Tynan said locals were furious when planning permission was granted for the erection of the mast on the roof of the Centra store -- just a few hundreds yards away. "It is next to Mayfield Community School and several large housing estates," Mr Tynan said. Mary Anders, who lives nearby, said she doesn't trust the technology. "And since the scientists can't agree whether it is safe, we have every reason to be afriad for our children's health and our own health," she said. However, an O2 spokesman said residents' health fears were groundless. The antenna was erected following numerous requests from customers to improve the quality of service in the Mayfield region, he said. "At all times, O2 Ireland complies with all Irish and EU health and safety legislation and all relevant industry health and safety standards. "O2's nationwide network of base stations adhere to the strictest of standards set by the International Commission for Non-ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and supported by the World Health Organisation. "The communications regulator, ComReg, audits O2 base stations to ensure full complaince with international standards and guidelines. Independent analysis from ComReg has shown that O2 sites operate thousands of times below safety standards set by the ICNIRP."

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

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NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE MOBILE PHONE MAST MOVEMENT

B.E.S.T. (Better Environment and Safer Telecommunications) the lobby group campaigning for a safer telecommunications system in Ireland has arranged a meeting which will take place at the South Court Hotel, Limerick on Tuesday 25th April at 8:00p.m. sharp.

The meeting will address the serious issues and concerns which surround the increasing number of planning applications for the erection of phone masts in the heart of communities nationwide. The purpose of this meeting is to formulate a further plan of action to highlight the Governments failure to implement the recommendations in the Joint Oireachtas Report in June 2005 and particularly the recommendation which advises that phone masts are not located near schools, health centres, hospitals and crèches. Among topics to be discussed is how emissions allowed from mobile phone masts in Ireland are much higher than those in other European countries like Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary. We will also be discussing the arranging of a protest at Dail Eireann over this serious matter which is causing huge distress among rural communities.

The B.E.S.T. Group has attended community group meetings which were in opposition to phone masts in their communities in counties Limerick Tipperary Clare Cork Kerry Waterford Galway Carlow Louth Laois Meath Offaly. The Group has also met with the Department of Communications, the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Health and Children and made presentations to Limerick and Kerry County Councils.

We are now calling on all Groups and individuals who have concerns with regard to the adverse health effects associated with radiation emissions from phone masts to attend this very important and informative meeting.

Guest Speakers at the meeting will be representatives of the Irish Doctors Environmental Association who will discuss the medical and scientific findings in relation to ill-health associated with exposure to emissions and members of the Irish Radiation Victims Network will talk about the ill-health they are suffering due to exposure to emissions from phone masts.

We would urge all individuals and communities nationwide to make the effort to attend this open public meeting as the issues to be discussed at this meeting may have arisen in the past in your area or may effect you or your community in the near future. “You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results”

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0421-02.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0421-07.htm

Raging Grannies and Raging Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0421-29.htm

Mobilfunk beschäftigt die Gerichte

Schlafstörungen, Migräneanfälle, Krebs wie gefährlich ist die Strahlung von Mobilfunkantennen? Die Wissenschaft streitet darüber. Unterdessen häufen sich vor den Amts-, Land- und Oberlandesgerichten in Baden-Württemberg Schadensersatzklagen in Millionenhöhe. Anwohner kämpfen gegen Mobilfunkmasten in ihrer Nachbarschaft. Selbst Versicherungen gehen mittlerweile auf Distanz zu Mobilfunkanbietern. Das Risiko Elektrosmog erscheint ihnen nicht mehr tragbar. Sie steigen aus Schadensersatz-Verträgen aus oder streichen Haftungssummen radikal zusammen.

Ländersache Baden-Württemberg
Sendung am 20.04.2006 20.15 UHR unter:
http://tinyurl.com/e74sd


Nachricht von Christine Kind

UFPJ's "Peace in Iraq Call-In Day" Is Monday, April 24

On Tuesday, April 25, the Senate will take up the supplemental spending bill for 2006. The current proposal includes $67 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. How many innocent Iraqis must die, how many young Americans? How much more destruction, pain and hatred before the Congress finds the will to end this war? Tell your Senators: Not one penny more for the War! There is growing support in the Senate for an amendment to the supplemental that will prohibit permanent U.S. bases in Iraq. Tell your Senators: No permanent U.S. bases in Iraq! Our "not one penny more for war" call-in day to the House of Representatives last month was a great success. The number of Representatives voting against the war funding rose to 71, AND the House approved an amendment against permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. We want to repeat that success in the Senate. If we are unable to stop the funding request from passing, we can at least make sure that an amendment against permanent bases is attached. Call 1-800-620-4394

The toll-free number we are using is graciously provided by the Friends Committee on National Legislation - a member group of UFPJ.


Congressional Hearing on Iraq Is April 27

Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee will host a hearing on the Iraq War on Thursday, April 27, 8:30-11 a.m., in 2325 Rayburn House Office Building (with an overflow room planned for anyone wanting to attend who can't fit in). Woolsey and Lee are expected to give introductory remarks, as is former CIA officer and current Georgetown University Professor Paul Pillar. There will then be two panels, the first consisting of two Iraqi women and two U.S. veterans of the Iraq War, the second consisting of Members of Congress who have introduced bills aimed at ending the war. Then there will a Question and Answers session involving the audience. So, bring your tough questions! Or watch the live blogging at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org


UFPJ and PDA Training and Lobby Days Are May 20,21,22 Here's a chance to organize, train, and lobby against war and for impeachment. United for Peace and Justice, and Progressive Democrats of America have teamed up and organized a series of activities in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 21, and 22. That's a weekend full of training both to lobby Congress and to organize back home, and a Monday of lobbying Congress face-to-face.

To take part in everything, you need to register with both UFPJ and PDA.

Register to Join United for Peace and Justice Training Sessions and Congressional Education Days May 21-22 in Washington, DC Optional strategy session Saturday, May 20 Register now with UFPJ: http://unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=121

Register to Join PDA Grassroots Organizing and Lobbying Day May 20-22, in Washington, D.C. Firebird Inn, University of District of Columbia Campus 4200 Conn. Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. (Van Ness/UDC stop of the Red Line Metro) Register now with PDA: https://www.pdamerica.org/2006-5-21-tickets.php

Saturday, May 20
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDA Grassroots Leadership Meeting

1:00 - 4:00 PM: Optional UFPJ Legislative Strategy Session -- open to members of the UFPJ Legislative Action Network and members of UFPJ member organizations. This session will provide an opportunity for local activists to share experiences, discuss long-term legislative strategy, develop ideas for building a stronger national UFPJ Legislative Action Network.

Sunday, May 21
8:00 - 8:30 AM: (PDA) Register/Continental Breakfast!

8:30 - 9:00 AM: (PDA) Welcome by Tim Carpenter, PDA Executive Director; Opening Prayer and Remarks by Rev Lennox Yearwood, PDA National Board Member

9:00 AM: (UFPJ) Register

9:30 - 10:00 AM: (PDA) "Be a Part of the Growing Pro-Impeachment Grassroots Movement" by David Swanson, PDA National Board Member/Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org

10:30 - 11:30 AM: (PDA) "Organizing Mobilize and Deliver the Progressive Vote in 2006/Working to Elect a Progressive Majority in Congress" Moderator: Steve Cobble, PDA National Board Member Panelists: Tony Trupiano, PDA endorsed candidate from Michigan's 11th District Terry Lierman, Maryland Democratic Party State Chair Bill Goold, Director Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Kevin Spidel, PDA Deputy Director

9:30 -10:45 (UFPJ) Peace Voter 2006 training – a non-partisan campaign to make peace the top issue in the 2006 elections. Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action

11:00 - 12:15 (UFPJ) Peace voter organizing session – Hany Khalil, Organizing Coordinator, UFPJ

9:30 - 10:45 (UFPJ) Coalition Building -- Michael Heaney, University of Florida

11:00 - 12:15 (UFPJ) X-treme Lobbying -- Techniques to bring greater sophistication to your lobbying efforts including how to research campaign contributions, who has influence over your congressperson, how to use that information.

11:30 - 12:30 AM: (PDA) "Building PDA at the Local, State and National Level " Moderator: Mimi Kennedy, PDA National Board Chair Panelists (from PDA): Dan O'Neal, State Coordinator Dr. Bill Honigman, Chapter Leadership Stephen Spitz, Congressional District Point Person Laura Bonham, Issue Working Group Coordinator Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Building Diversity into our Grassroots Organizing (PDA National Board Member) Sherry Bohlen, PDA National Field Director Register now with PDA: https://www.pdamerica.org/2006-5-21-tickets.php

Afternoon UFPJ Organizing Session

1:00 - 2:00 PM: Iraq and Iran update and legislative briefing

2:15 - 3:00 PM: How to make your visits to Congress a success –- tips from the experts

UFPJ Break-out sessions:

3:15 - 3:45 PM: Planning your House visit - Meet with PDA and UFPJ activists from your congressional district to determine spokespeople for your delegation, refine your message. Trainers will be congressional staff as well as experienced peace lobbyists.

4:00 - 4:30 PM: Planning your Senate visits Meet with others from your state to plan your visits. Trainers will be congressional staff as well as experienced peace lobbyists.

4:30 - 5:15 PM: Building/strengthening a statewide legislative network An opportunity to discuss building a statewide legislative network in your state, or to strengthen your statewide legislative network.

5:30 - 6:00 PM: Wrap-up and logistics for Monday

6:15 - 7:30 PM: (PDA) Briefing for congressional and senate candidates

Monday, May 22
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM: (UFPJ and PDA) Congressional Education Visits


FORWARD THIS INFORMATION



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4389/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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



Chemnitz Vorbild für Halle

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren Stadträte,

in der Freien Presse Chemnitz vom 21.04.06 stand der interessante Artikel "Immer mehr Chemnitzer Wohnungsgesellschaften wollen Handynetzbetreibern keine weiteren Standorte auf ihren Wohnhäusern mehr genehmigen" (siehe Anlage). http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobilfunk.jpg

Wäre es nicht schön, wenn Halle auf diesem Gebiet Chemnitz nacheifern würde ? Wie sehen es die Stadträte von Halle ?


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Helmut Gobsch


Nachricht von Christine Kind

Complain to the BBC about the presenting of a programme with Alasdair Philips and Mike Clark (HPA/RPD)

Mocking on BBC, urgent, complain please

I have pasted and copied this to this email link because I know and know of too many people who are sensitive to this technology and I am also electrosensitive myself.

Please help by sending your comments.

Complaint links for BBC News 24 Click Online 6.30am Saturday 22nd April 2006

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

08700 100 222

BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922
Glasgow
G2 3WT


Sandi


Please rally round all those able,

phone or email, or both, and complain to the BBC about the presenting of a programme with Alasdair Philips and Mike Clark (HPA/RPD) talking about EMF dangers and the electrosmog detector on 'click' BBC news this Saturday morning 6.30. hear or see typescript below, unfortunately it does not include the trailer-link from the start of the show which was the worst.

He referred to 'scaremongering' and took a joky approach to our serious ES reaction, Clark claimed scientific established view was no harm, please let them know how you feel. We have, at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4930210.stm

We have badgered and threatened Mike Clark constantly over a year and he now uses the stock phrase"'no 'hard' evidence of harm" since we forced a retraction after a previous BBC interview. Such is 'progress' we do not want to lose it.

Rod

ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) assisted by The Foyle Foundation.

Rod Read M.Phil.,(Cantab), Dip Psych Couns., Cert.Ed. director

A new organisation supporting sufferers and educating the public in recognition of this sensitive reaction affecting a vulnerable minority exposed to RF, microwave and general electromagnetic radiation from powerlines, mobile phones, VDUs and all manner of EMF sources.

Please support us and receive our newsletter by a donation (£10 min.) to ES-UK as below.

We particularly welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, especially to MCS, CFS and Thyroid problems and in diagnosis and treatments generally.

From ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk Also by e-mail at electrosensitivity@hotmail.com

Trustees: Professor of Human Radiation Effects Dr Denis Henshaw, Dr David Dowson MD., ChB, Jean Philips BA. Scientific advice from: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk, Keith Jamieson Dip.AAS. Bsc(Hons) RIBA. Inst.Ph., Environmental Consultant and others. Visit http://www.tetrawatch.net

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----- Original Message -----
From: Iris Atzmon
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:28 PM
Subject: BBC TV show

The message of this TV show seems to be: Don't worry, be happy: stay ignorant.


----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Weatherall
To: Iris Atzmon
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: BBC TV show

Hi all

The comments made by Mike Clark may have been laughable if it were not for all the people who are already being harmed by this so called safe technology. I can just imagine Mr. Clark and wireless industry cronies on a beach in Thailand watching a Tsunami in the distance.

They would probably be saying "its quite safe, it just a wave, all waves are safe"

Yet others around him would be saying "tsunamis are dangerous, lets find safety quickly".

There is plenty of evidence that various high frequencies are harming many people. If Mr. Clark is not willing to look at the other side of the equation and seek all knowledge and listen to the evidence of victims and their cries for help, he should not be in the position that he holds.

Martin Weatherall
Ontario
Canada.


Martin and all,

Mike Clark is in his position exactly because he lies to the public so well. This is the reason he was hired to this job in the first place. Repacholi is in his position, because of his talent to lie at any situation. The INTERPHONE researchers were chosen to the INTERPHONE because of their ability to produce industry biased results and lie to the public (for example what I sent about Feychting as she told to the Swedish newspaper. She didn't have an answer when she was confroned with data). So all these people should not be in their positions as we see it, but they are good in their job according to the job's purpose, to protect profits. They should not be invited to talk on stages and given any honour, but they are invited, they are interviewed. They are given the stage to play with people, so why wouldn't they play? The job of these people is to lie and the science is not relevant. As long as the public is in the position of defense, there is no reason it will change. Only if it moves to the attack. There is an intention in Israel to move the issue of israeli liars in public positions into the attack mode- to the court. The only thing that stops it is not science, it's money. There is no choice- there is a need for a third side to interfere here, otherwise this situation can continue 30 years more. There is no reason not to attack- their game is transparent, it stands in opposition to science, all it needs is a healthy explosion.

Best, Iris Atzmon.

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I don't know if anyone watched the "Click" report on BBC News 24 yesterday, but I was absolutely livid at the bias. The following is my e-mail, complaining about their attitude to this serious matter:

Sylvia


After watching your Click report on wireless technology, in which three people were featured, I feel I must make a comment. It was clear from the outset by the introductory comments of the presenter that a cynical and flippant scene was being set. The first person interviewed - from the mobile phone industry - quite naturally rubbished any possibility that any health risks were associated with their products or services. This is rather like the wolf asking the three little pigs if they should open the door! There followed a brief discussion involving Alasdair Phillips (Powerwatch) and Mike Clarke (HPA). Comments made during this part of the report should be challenged - for a Government spokesperson to claim that an expert study group found no evidence of risk is completely mislieading. Sir William Stewart has gone on record many times, calling for a precautionary approach, especially where children under 16 are concerned - in fact, a DOH leaflet, advising parents that children under 16 should not use mobile phones for anything other than emergency situations, were not mentioned. The Draper Report (largest ever funded study by the DOH) which found children born under power lines were at greater risk of developing leukaemia, also has great relevance. These facts were totally ignored and Alasdair Phillips was treated abominably - far from the balanced view being aired, there was a three to one bias.

The DECT phone demonstrated during this report was one of the latest "safer" models which have just become available and are not the type which are widely used in this country. Had they been, the emissions would have been picked up even when the phone was not in use.

Other colleagues of mine are of the same opinion after watching this report. One has commented that the international studies on phone masts and phones should have been mentioned, if this report was to make any serious attempt at the facts. The German Government have issued a warning on the DECT phones and the Minister for Health in Salzburg has produced an open letter to inform and advise schools on DECT and WLAN.

I'm sorry to say that, once again, we have been treated to a comic strip send up of any serious scientists or campaigners who are calling for the prcautionary approach which this Government were advised to take. One would have expected more from the BBC...however, with the latest frenzy of mobile services becoming available (watching TV through mobile phones) perhaps it is naive to expect anything else.

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the bbc are currently seeking to put up their license. I wonder if there is any pressure not to put out negative views on mobile phone technology from government.

sue g

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I think we have seen evidence of their bias before - my community were devastated to be treated like fools when we took part in their supposed "science and factual" programme on ill health clusters around masts. Despite my going on camera to state that the health problem was identified before we became aware of the possible risks of the masts - they still claimed that we were being frightened to death!

Sylvia

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Already mentioned to them Sue. My response below. Good letter, Sylvia.

Sandi


Dear Sirs,

Michael Clark says we must have hard evidence that pulsed microwave radiation, to include phone masts, DECT phones etc is harmful. Equally there should be hard evidence that it is safe……….and although we don’t have the hard evidence that it is safe, we are constantly told it almost nearly is.

The actual facts are:

1) That there are people living around phone masts, especially 3G and clusters of 2G and 3G masts, and people near TETRA masts or along the lines of emissions from TETRA masts, who are suffering ill-health or unpleasant symptoms.

I have spoken to many of them while answering the advice line for http://www.mastsanity.org as a volunteer. Only a small percentage of the population find the website and a smaller percentage phone or email us (phone calls in 2005 averaged 200 per month, emails higher but these were not logged as there are several email coords)

2) No one in authority acknowledges that these pockets of ill-health do actually exist, nor has any in situ research been done..... the feeble argument given is that other things could interfere outside of a controlled research area. The Naila Study was conducted by German doctors on patients living in their own area. I can send the translation of this study to you.

3) Doctors in this country are advised by the BMA to ignore the issue of ill-health around this pulsed technology because "the jury is out." Therefore all those who are suffering or are unwell can unwittingly be misdiagnosed at high cost to the NHS; or ignored; or sent for psychiatric or psychological appraisal; or be asked to leave the doctor's surgery, which has happened in a few cases.

Michael Clark tells us that it will take 10 to 20 years to know for sure and informs us that we have only had about 10 years with mobile phones.

Since the electro sensitive get more sensitive and the sick get sicker with no protection from these pulsed frequencies of microwave radiation, are we looking at the corporate murder scenario, I wonder? Once we get to the stage where it is proved to be harmful for at least a percentage of the population, and with children, the elderly, and the sick being more vulnerable, isn’t it a bit too late?

Isn't it about time that the media, and especially the BBC, worked for the people and not against them?

Time and time again we see this "mockery" of something that is actually happening and the supposed "unbiased view" which supports the "wealth and power bodies” far better than the less wealthy and suffering.

If I survive until the truth is finally acknowledge then I will remind those of you who allowed this to go on unheeded and unchecked. This will include the BBC with its penchant for mocking comments. I would rather give up my TV and deprive you of the licence fee than watch this cruel and tasteless practice that the BBC management seems to find amusing.

Click Online does not cover health issues but in my view it does not have the right to demean via mockery a subject that concerns many people who suffer from this pulsed technology.

Nor should the BBC allow the promotion of deceptive and inaccurate statements such as "the weight of evidence suggests that this technology is safe etc" There is nothing definite about a suggestion. Nor is there hard evidence that this technology is safe.

I wish to make a complaint about the presentation of this subject matter and I expect the BBC to apologise for the distress caused to those who are affected by this so called “safe” technology.


Sandi Lawrence

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sarah,

You can view the video, but not the pre-interview stuff on the website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4930210.stm

The propaganda here is to trivialise the idea that some people might be unwell around this technology and to endorse the fact that they say it is "safe" This is all about public image and we need to counteract that somehow.

Sandi

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Hello Roger,

I know the balance is tilted in favour of the mobile operators, so I have got used to that, but I will not let them forget those who are affected and unwell! Nor will I allow them to try to sweep the idea of ill-health around this technology under the carpet! Yes Alistair and his gadget did a good job of raising the health issues, so that was all very positive. Let's hope he can make a few bob on his gadget, too, as he works so hard for the cause and provides useful information etc.

I have just written to Mike Clark and will copy it to Dolan and Sir W, just so that they know that we sensitive and/or unwell folk are still around and won't be forgotten.

I did ask the BBC in my verbal phone assault to provide programs on the health effects of this technology, as well as an apology, by way of compensating for their lack of taste. I think I am on a war dance here!

Why don't you suggest a program on Asphalia? Then we get double exposure! We value the contribution you make, too.

Sandi

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The BBC have a jumped into bed with the phone operators with the trend towards watching clips of football matches, favourite progs, etc. - and most TV stations now encourage texting as a means of contact. They should be exposed as for this biased misinformation.

Sylvia

PS - Great response, Sandi

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Dear Michael Clark,

I have watched your TV appearances to include the latest on the BBC News Click Online program last Saturday.

Your statements, on the issue of the safety of microwave radiation, draw ever closer to it being declared totally safe, without you actually using a direct and clear statement of fact.

Yet, during your talk at a Dorset TETRA and phone mast forum in April 2005, you verbally acknowledged that some people can be sensitive to pulsed microwave radiation. This was recorded and included as part of the content of the video “Making Waves.” Anyone who views the video can hear this quite clearly.

We, the electro sensitive, and those who are unwell or suffering because of this technology, are well aware that the Government, the mobile phone operators, and the HPA are aware of us, but that you all just dismiss and ignore us. We are not going to go away to please you.

You state that clear hard evidence of ill health is needed, knowing full well that the research carried out in this country is practically worthless.

Doctors in Naila, Germany, carried out research on cancer and noted an increase once a phone mast was present in the area. This was carried out over a 10 year period and is still ongoing.

Why doesn’t the UK Health Authority instruct UK GPs to carry out such research?

Why isn’t the Government considering the Public Health issues here?

You must know that people who develop ‘classic mast’ symptoms (which are well documented) may be misdiagnosed because UK GPs are not made aware of the side effects that pulsed microwave radiation can cause in some people. You must also know that these people can be dismissed as time wasters or that their symptoms may be thought to be psychosomatically induced.

Apart from the needless extra costs to the NHS, there is a moral issue here; the issue of the total disregard for the Human Rights of these people; and a very cruel and unethical disregard for human suffering.

That animals and wildlife also suffer only adds weight to the human suffering endured.

The HPA statement on electro hypersensitivity last year was a complete white-wash.

Why weren’t we surprised?

I find it hard to believe you can all sleep at night and that you can totally disregard the well-being of fellow human beings. None of you can take your power and money with you, and the best things in life are indeed free, you know.

I respectfully request that the Health and Protection Agency will publicly recognise that some people can be sensitive to pulsed microwave radiation, and that all medical staff in the UK are provided with information on the biological effects of this technology, so that those people who are unwell or suffering are given back their basic rights as human beings.

I would also ask that this information should please be made available to animal and wildlife societies.

It is left to a few organisations and individuals to provide support, advice, and information on protection for those who are suffering around this pulsed technology, while the Government does nothing. It is about time it did, unless it wishes to totally lose all credibility with the people who are affected in various ways from this technology.

I write to you as one of these individuals who provides support, advice, and information, giving up my time freely and willingly to help others who are overwhelmed by the effects of this technology and the ill-health it causes.

I do so because I am disgusted by this Government for allowing this to happen to these people, to serve its own private agenda.

By ‘Government’ I mean those who are responsible for making these decisions.

My final comment has to be that this deadly TETRA is most surely making the situation far worse than it need be and my opinion is that it may be inducing more sensitivity that there otherwise might be.

I am not alone in thinking that TETRA may indeed prove to be the source of a reason for charges of corporate manslaughter in the future, when the truth is finally revealed.


Yours sincerely

Mrs S L Lawrence

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Great war-dance Sandi,

I was up and attem too, first thing Saturday and again today.

I gave them such an angry earfull I am pleased they then phoned me back and said they had no record of my email complaint and I had made two!

So I have made another, somewhat cooler.

Try phoning Bruce, Manderley, I think, who has replaced Rebecca Asher in complaints dept. She was embroiled in doing her best to ignore belittle and lose the communications from Ingrid Dickenson who was lied to and made a figure of fun over ES in June last year. Still no satisfaction over her complaint so necessary to be emphatic and even raise that fact. Shall we still be complaining in eleven months time without a result? Bruce is on 0207 208 9380, actually he does not seem so bad... or he is clever.

Do circulate this.

Its good so many are rallying round.

Rod

ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) assisted by The Foyle Foundation. Rod Read M.Phil.,(Cantab), Dip Psych Couns., Cert.Ed. director A new organisation supporting sufferers and educating the public in recognition of this sensitive reaction affecting a vulnerable minority exposed to RF, microwave and general electromagnetic radiation from powerlines, mobile phones, VDUs and all manner of EMF sources. Please support us and receive our newsletter by a donation (£10 min.) to ES-UK as below. We particularly welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, especially to MCS, CFS and Thyroid problems and in diagnosis and treatments generally. From ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk . Also by e-mail at electrosensitivity@hotmail.com Trustees: Professor of Human Radiation Effects Dr Denis Henshaw, Dr David Dowson MD., ChB, Jean Philips BA. Scientific advice from: www.powerwatch.org.uk, Keith Jamieson Dip.AAS. Bsc(Hons) RIBA. Inst.Ph., Environmental Consultant and others. Visit http://www.tetrawatch.net

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After reading Rod's email I decided to sent an official written complaint to the BBC, as below.

Sandi


BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922
Glasgow
G2 3WT


25th April 2006


Dear Sirs,

I wish to make an official complaint about the BBC’s biased viewpoint on mobile phones/ masts/ microwave radiation, especially when mockery is used to promote the impression that there are no ill-health effects around this technology, as in the Click Online program on the smog detector last Saturday 22nd April 2006.

This is not the first time many of us have noted this…. and it is broadcast on emails that go across the UK and abroad. It has also been noted that the BBC mislays emails, fails to apologise after complaints are made, and never seems to redress its biased viewpoint in favour of the lucrative market for mobile phones and other technology.

I am asking for a public apology from BBC ‘Click Online’ for deriding the plight of the many people who are unwell around this technology. I also want the BBC’s assurance that it will take this issue seriously in the future and present balanced and fair interviews or programs, with some programs highlighting the devastating effect this technology has on some people’s lives.

I am not going to go away as this issue is too important to ignore.


Yours sincerely

Mrs S L Lawrence


I have enclosed copies of correspondence to include;
Copy of the email to Click to complain about the program
Copy of a letter to Michael Clark (copied to Sir William Stewart and Michael Dolan)
Copy of a news article and two letters from the ‘Letters’ column of a local paper

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From Karen Barratt

While it's perfectly reasonable to complain to the BBC about specific programmes, it can be very time-consuming and achieve very little. I haven't seen the Click prog but as last year's Late Edition programme has been mentioned, I am forwarding the initial response I had from the producer Bill Dare. I was quite surprised that he promised that the item featuring Ingrid would not be repeated. At the time I thought this was quite a concession given that Ingrid had not been 'slandered.' (off the record legal opinion.) and many progs get reshown. I obviously was totally in sympathy with Ingrid's outrage as we all were but as far as media coverage of our issue is concerned we're in a 'win some, lose some' situation.

The BBC is not always negative anymore than individual newspapers are. The BBC 3 programme revealed the T-mobile 'dirty tricks' and conducted a survey of masts near schools which generated a great deal of press attention.at the time. More recently BBC South has done survey in its region of the 56 -day council 'cock-ups'. Coverage of phone mast campaigns are often reasonably sympathetic. Different journalists have different agendas - the 'techies' don't want to talk about health. Obviously industry lobbyists work very hard at getting a sympathetic message across. We don't have their time and money unfortunately. In spite of that my general impression is that the BBC and media generally reflect society's mixed feelings about the technology. Most people use mobile phones, DECT etc and don't actually want to believe that there is a problem. Every now and again 'our' message gets reported and the public start worrying but then people push it to the back of their minds because they don't want to give up the pleasure and convenience of the technology. Nobody likes bad news and that is the main problem we have in getting the message across.

Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:15 AM
Subject: The Late Edition


Dear Karen Barratt,

Thank you for your letter regarding your colleague, Ingrid Dickenson's, contribution to The Late Edition. I am very sorry you found cause for complaint, and that you feel the subject was not treated with sufficient seriousness. The series offers satirical comment on topical issues and the week's events; it is not in its nature to treat most subjects with the reverence that one might expect from a serious news programme. There are a range of topics from the funeral of the pope, to the banning of blood sports, that we have addressed in a light-hearted way. Phone masts, and the opinion that they may be damaging, was therefore not singled out as a subject for humour more than any other subject.

I am very sorry if Ingrid Dickenson was insufficiently informed about the general tone of the programme when we invited her to appear on it. I think in this case we should have made her fully aware of the possible humorous turn the whole piece might take. We will try hard to make this clearer to contributors in the future and I would like to thank you for drawing it to our attention.

Once again I am sorry you felt your organisation was compromised, we will revue our procedures in the future, and I can assure you the item will not be repeated.

Yours sincerely

Bill Dare Producer
The Late Edition

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I agree Karen BUT complaints do help as if the BBC are constantly getting complaints from different people .. well they add up and its noted and just maybe it adds to the reasons WHY they then make more balanced mobile stories.. I feel :>)

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I've signed the petition and pointed out that Mr. Lo who spoke on their programme was working for a company involved in electronics, so of course it is necessary for him to promulgate this lie (emissions not a danger to health.) I also pointed out that the so called 'safe' rate of emissions relied upon by the NRPB is set by the ICNIRP whose most influential leader is in the pay of a large Auistralian power company and that the rate of emissions in our country is far higher than in Russia and Switzerland, where they have experienced plenty of proof of damage to health from emissions.


Best regards,

Gill

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I'd just like to echo Karen's sentiments, certainly with regard to the BBC Late Edition complaint I have been engaged with so much futile correspondence with them that has wasted so much time that I could have been spending on other things that I am now inclined to think that it is a completely fruitless exercise. The BBC's Douglas Evans from the ECU told me one thing, and then Fraser Steel of the Board of Governors did another!. I am sure that someone will respond to this email and say 'Well, you shouldn't leave it at that' etc, so I will just put in this final point. There are hardly any volunteers to manage the day-to-day running of MS as it is, only three on the helpline, some of us doing several email coords, or a combination of other tasks, and, hey, guess what, - we are all human with other responsibilities (to our families, for instance) too! I wonder if people realise just how many things most of the volunteers and trustees have actually been doing for MS in the past, quite often to no avail because the system is stacked against us and this Gov in particular so corrupt.

Amanda

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Dear Amanda,

While I understand your view point, being a Mast Sanity volunteer myself, the complaint I made to the BBC was a personal one and does not involve Mast Sanity in doing anything at all. Rod Read also complained on behalf of http://www.electrosensitiviy.org.uk so this organisation has taken it up.

My complaint may turn out to be a useless exercise, but my feeling is that every complaint is another little notch against this unfair system and like water dripping on stone it can perhaps eventually erode it - even if only a tiny little bit! Hopefully there will be other somebodies like me having a little pop at the BBC, or whoever, along the line.

I will use the free time I have to take this complaint as far as I want to, so there is no pressure for Mast Sanity in this at all.

I listened to that radio broadcast by Olle Johansson, which was fascinating and scary in so many ways, but it puts priorities in some sort of perspective - although achievement of goals can very difficult as things stand without adequate funding for independant researchers etc etc

http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/radioshow.html
[ http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_science_of_rfr_health_risks.mp3 ]
Olle spoke of a comparison to tobacco etc and said that basically the consumers (i.e. general public) would probably be the ones most able to turn this situation around. I have always thought that, so I will continue to chip away in my free time.

On a serious note, my own opinion is that we do need an organisation to head and broadcast the views of those people who campaign against this technology.

Perhaps some of the active people on this masts email link would consider volunteering to help Mast Sanity with all the things that need doing? Please think about it everyone.

If all groups, organisations etc do their own thing, the big thrust is necessarily fragmented. We need a national stand on this issue.

I am not speaking for Mast Sanity here because I just answer the advice line one day a week and I am not a trustee, therefore I have no idea of Mast Sanity strategy and aims at this time. I am basically just expressing my own viewpoint.

Sandi

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Hi Sandi,

The last comment I responded to had no name on so I didn't know it was yours.

The point that I was making was that official complaints to the BBC seem to achieve nothing at all, as far as I can see, and it is much more of a headache to the establishment to have to deal with hundreds of complaints rather than one from an organisation that will be treated no differently, or at least that has been my experience. I'm not disputing that individuals should complain, in fact, as license fee payers, I think this is who the BBC can be reminded pay the wages, and fair play to all of you who have done so.

As for the fragmentation and lack of volunteers, as you know, we have been trying to get more people on board to do these tasks forever, with very little success, and I can't see that changing, unfortunately. Rather than take on roles within MS people have tended to go off and start a new group, often ending up in us all duplicating effort in some areas while huge gaps exist in others.

In the meantime, the mast movement reminds me of that poster with all those otters or whatever they are pulling in different directions and getting nowhere, so it could well be left down to mass letter-writing etc.

Amanda

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Hi Amanda,

The unnamed comment was not mine. I do try to remember to add my name. I was just generally replying to your email to make it clear that I understood your viewpoint, and to explain my own actions more clearly. I have respect for you, Amanda, and the work you have done.

I am well aware of how much more effective Mast Sanity could be if people would only volunteer and give a little time, and how much is lost if groups go off and do their own thing. I joined MS because I realised that this issue was far bigger than my own backyard and too important for accolade seeking.

It is the future of our children we are fighting for here and our environment and the world we live in. We should all join together and fight this together.

Having said that I do feel Mast Sanity has been too overworked and busy to send out clear messages at times, so perhaps people didn't realise how much it did, and how badly it needed volunteers if it was to do what was required of it!

Anyone who wants Mast Sanity to do more could offer a little time!

In Olle Johansson's radio broadcast he spoke of this technology slowing down our capacity to think and react. Having been badly affected last year with periods of increased power from TETRA, I do know the feeling of being unable to concentrate, having memory loss, and feeling low, dispirited and worn down - and the sleepless nights! I am now very much recovered and realise what an awful state that is to be in! Do we all want to end up permanently in that state eventually?

Olle says in the radio broadcast that the electrosensitive ones could be the lucky ones because they try to keep themselves away from sources of pulsed microwave radiation. It is his opinion that the electrosensitive are not the only ones who will be affected long term.

http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/radioshow.html

I am not only electrosensitive but I also talk regularly to others who are, and many of them are quite unwell. We are the forerunners and forewarners according to Olle Johansson. Please listen to us. We bear the message that our children and our world are in grave danger.

As part Lakota Sioux I know that there is much more than this technology which is damaging us, animal life and our world, but I chose to work in this area because the mobile and DECT phones/mast, WiFi etc are far too close to our children. I have to leave flouride, chemicals, drugs, polution etc etc to others.

If we are fragmented in our efforts and seek to achieve just local victories, then the Government and the operators will surely win. We have a tough battle against so much power and money, but joined up people power can achieve wonders in a peaceful and legitimate way.

These opinions are my own and what I truly believe, what I have always thought and said. I will carry on for as long as I am able in some way or another.

Sandi



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The erosion caused by rainfall directly affects the movement of continental plates beneath mountain ranges, says a University of Toronto geophysicist — the first time science has raised the possibility that human-induced climate change could affect the deep workings of the planet.

“In geology, we have this idea that erosion’s going to affect merely the surface,” says Russell Pysklywec, a professor of geology who creates computer models where he can control how a range of natural processes can create and modify mountains over millions of years. Pysklywec conducts field research in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, where the mountains are high and geologically “young.” He found that when mountains are exposed to New Zealand-type rainfall (which causes one centimetre of erosion per year) compared to southern California-type rainfall (which erodes one-tenth of a centimetre or less), it profoundly changes the behaviour of the tectonic plates beneath the mountains. “These are tiny, tiny changes on the surface, but integrating them over geologic time scales affects the roots of the mountains, as opposed to just the top of them,” says Pysklywec. “It goes right down to the mantle thermal engine — the thing that’s actually driving plate tectonics. It’s fairly surprising — it hasn’t been shown before.”

It takes a supercomputer several days to run one of Pysklywec’s models, which reveal the inner workings of the Earth to hundreds of kilometres below the surface, where the temperature can reach 1,500 degrees Celsius. In extreme conditions, he says, the erosion effect can even cause the underlying plate to reverse direction. “As a concept, imagine blanketing the European Alps with a huge network of ordinary garden sprinklers. The results suggest that the subtle surface weathering caused by the light watering have the potential to shift the tectonic plates, although you would have to keep the water on for several million years.” In the long run, says Pysklywec, it raises the question of whether human activity, which is affecting climate, could ultimately influence deep Earth processes. “That’s what these findings suggest,” he says. “We’re talking millions of years, but it’s one more example of how all these natural systems are interrelated.”

The study appears on the cover of the April issue of Geology and was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Lithoprobe.

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OUR ALLIES ARE STUPEFIED, THERE ARE 1000 DAYS LEFT, HONESTY, INTEGRITY AND TRUST REALLY DO MATTER

As Americans, we are very proud of our heritage, but I wonder what future generations will think if we sit idly by and do nothing when we actually do know the truth. The United States of America is plagued with continuous mission creep and increasing cost with no retribution in sight. Iraq is presently sitting on top of two trillion gallons of unrefined crude, and could have paid for their own liberation. Three years ago, the Administration had that specific proposal before it and failed to pursue it because it was a Democratic idea. This Administration has never vetoed a spending bill and we are over eight trillion dollars in debt, mismanagement, you bet.

But most of all we have been LIED to about the most weighty decision a government can make --- to go to war. Remember the Downing Street Memo? It was just swept under the table, What about the weapons of mass destruction? The normal response by this White House is change the theme and fire anybody who disagrees with their official version. Enough is enough. I will stand up for the truth, please join me in cleaning up Washington. Tell Congress the time for impeachment of both the president and the vice president is already long overdue.

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The Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in May 2003 because neo-conservatives who advocated destabilization and regime change were able to block any serious diploma.

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"If the darling Grannies, who should be able to be home baking brownies if they want to, or running marathons, or reading books, or painting portraits, or shopping, or doing whatever else makes them happy put their bodies on the line for peace - so your child won't have to go off to a war based on lies to die and kill innocent people - why can't you?" asks Cindy Sheehan.

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30 Jahren Betrieb: Claußen fordert die Abschaltung von fünf deutschen "Schrottreaktoren" (21.04.06)

Anlässlich des 20. Jahrestages der Tschernobyl-Katastrophe fordert die atomkritische Ärzteorganisation IPPNW Konsequenzen auch in Deutschland. "Die fünf 'Schrottreaktoren' in der Bundesrepublik müssen sofort abgeschaltet werden", sagte die IPPNW-Vorsitzende Angelika Claußen in Bielefeld. Das seien die in den siebziger Jahren erbauten Reaktoren Biblis A und Biblis B, Brunsbüttel, Isar 1 sowie Neckarwestheim. Da nach 30 Jahren Betrieb die Mängel deutlich zunähmen, müssten diese Kernkraftwerke jetzt abgeschaltet werden, auch wenn sie laut Atomkonsens noch einige Jahre weiter betrieben werden könnten, sagte Claußen.

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"Angemessene Frist": Berlin und Madrid wollen EU-Verfassung durchsetzen (21.04.06)
Trotz der ablehnenden Entscheidungen der Bevölkerung in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden wollen Deutschland und Spanien den Prozess für eine EU-Verfassung wieder in Gang bringen. Der spanische Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero sprach sich am Donnerstagabend in Berlin bei einem Treffen mit Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel für "neue Anreize in einer angemessenen Frist" aus. Merkel unterstrich, die EU-Verfassung sei ein "weiterer qualitativer Schritt" für die europäische Integration. Spanien und Deutschland wollten sich daher dafür einsetzen, den Verfassungsprozess "voranzubringen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13423

Für Alternativmethoden: "In Deutschland leiden 2,1 Millionen Tiere in den Laboratorien" (21.04.06)

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages des Versuchstiers am kommenden Montag kritisiert der Deutsche Tierschutzbund das Leiden von Tieren in Industrie und Universitäten. Jährlich würden laut aktueller Statistik europaweit 10,7 Millionen Versuchstiere "genutzt". Allein in Deutschland litten 2,1 Millionen Tiere in den Laboratorien. Der Tierschutzbund mahnt zum bevorstehenden Gedenktag Politik, Forschung und Industrie, die Förderung wissenschaftlich anerkannter Alternativmethoden, für die kein Tier qualvoll sterben müsse, zu verstärken.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13415

"Rückfall ins Mittelalter": EU-Parlament will Steinmeier zu Foltervorwürfen befragen (21.04.06)

Das Europäische Parlament verlangt Aufklärung darüber, ob deutsche Geheimdienste Aussagen aus Folterverhören in anderen Staaten genutzt haben. Der deutsche Geheimdienst soll nach einer Aussage des ehemaligen britischen Botschafters in Usbekistan, Craig Murray, von Informationen profitiert haben, die durch Folter in Usbekistan erzwungen wurden. Das habe Murray vor dem nichtständigen CIA-Ausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments am Donnerstag in Brüssel angegeben, teilte die Vizepräsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (Linkspartei) mit. Die Verbindung sei über den Bundeswehrstützpunkt im usbekischen Termes gelaufen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13418

Urgent Action >> Call on Congress to Save Cape Wind 1-866-200-7070

Visit our Action Center and take action today:
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start/97/

The number of secret CIA flights that went through France could be revised upward from two to seven. "This information makes it still more unlikely that French political and administrative authorities (including those for the security of civil aviation) could have been unaware of the flights in question," a human rights group attorney argues.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106H.shtml

Thirteen of the nation's most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling US proposed plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106B.shtml

There are many uncertainties about the progress made by coalition forces and the future prospects for stability and democracy in Iraq, but there is at least one indisputable fact: The Bush administration vastly underestimated the costs of the Iraq war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106A.shtml

We need your immediate help to protect one of the last wild landscapes of the Great Plains -- the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in north- central Montana.

The Bureau of Land Management has just released a draft management plan that threatens the spectacular wildlife and geological, historical and cultural treasures that make this national monument a unique place.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp and urge the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, rather than subject it to an onslaught of jet skis, motor boats, airstrips and hundreds of miles of roads.

The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a place of untamed beauty and flourishing wildlife, rich in cultural history and geological wonders, with the wild and majestic Missouri River at its heart. These wildlands have changed little from what Lewis and Clark saw on their westward journey 200 years ago, or from what Native American tribes experienced for thousands of years before that.

The lands and waters of the monument are home to renowned elk and bighorn sheep herds, bald and golden eagles, and numerous kinds of fish, including rare and endangered species. The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to allow an extensive network of roads -- totaling almost 400 miles in length -- that would imperil this wildlife and destroy the monument's unspoiled character. In addition, the six unauthorized airstrips and excessive motorboat use that are part of the proposal would further damage the region's wild qualities.

The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments until April 26th. Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp right away and tell the agency to revise its proposed management plan to protect and preserve the special values of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument for present and future generations to enjoy.

Thank you for your help in defending these magnificent wildlands.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council

A message from Ruth:

DEADLINE APR 21, 2006,

SIGN UNTIL CLOSE

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Tell Animal Planet to Create a series on animal rights issues Target: Animal Planet Television, Animal Planet Television Sponsor: Bonnie Monaghan Dear Animal Planet, Congratulations on the sucess of Animal Precient, Animal Cops, Animal Heros, etc. These shows bring to light the harsh reality of the sufferring of animals in our society. We are asking you to please create a series dealing with other serious animal rights issues. For example, one show could focus on the way in which animals on Factory Farms are killed for food consumption. It could showcase vegitarianism or veganism. Another show could show the cruel slaughter of animals for clothing such as leather, fur, wool, etc, and ask people not to wear these products. Other topics could include animal abuse in circuses as well as animal testing laboratories and Vivesection. The public has a right to know and take action to help the animals that are sufferring. Please consult with leading animal rights activists and advise viewers on how they can help end the sufferring to animals tortured or killed for food, clothing, entertainment, testing, and the like. The world is ready to know the truth. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538453676#body

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: BAN VIVISECTION IN THE U.S. Target: animal testing laboratories. Sponsor: Maggie Rizzo, none If you sign this petition, you are demanding that the United States government ban animal testing. There are so many alternatives to vivisection! Testing on animals is just plain wrong, and I need your help to make that fact known.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/778227351#top

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Victims of Vivisection - End the carnage ! Target: Mike Johanns, Agriculture Secretary, USDA/APHIS/AC Sponsor: Anita Solomon ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES UNSEEN THEY SUFFER UNHEARD THEY CRY IN AGONY THEY LINGER IN LONELINESS THEY DIE Unknown

As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Much of the experimentation-including pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers-is paid for by you, the American taxpayer and consumer. What have we learned from all of this suffering? That animal research is inherently unethical, inevitably wasteful, and wholly unreliable. The U.S. squanders approximately $18 billion per year on animal experiments, even though alternatives are less expensive and can be used repeatedly. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/311292993

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Stand Up Against Vivisection Target: Companies and Universities which test on animals Sponsor: Lesleigh Harnwell This is an appeal on behalf of the animals,

Animal experimentation (vivisection) is still a cruel and shocking industry, despite proof that an animal is not the same as a man.

In some cases, pharmaceutical drugs tested on animals and proven safe have had disastrous outcomes for the Human consumers.

The horrific conditions, which these animals are kept. Their daily lives in agony until the end. Surely, this is an abomination of science.

Why then is animal vivisection still around? There are alternatives for man to access disease or the effects of drugs, which do not involve animal testing.

Animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, mice and many Species of monkey need your help.

April 23rd – 30th is World Week for Animals in Laboratories, Promoting humane research without harming animals. http://www.wwail.org

Be a voice for the animals, which suffer daily. Please sign this petition to abolish animal experimentation.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/390891939

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Tell Clorox To Stop Testing On Animals Target: Clorox Sponsor: Meghan Wallace Clorox, along with other companies, test on animals. But the worst truth is that the need for animal testing is eliminated. Science has found other alternatives to animal testing. Please see the full petition for more information

Animal testing is a very cruel, inhumane process to find out the toxic levels of household or other products. Animal testing labs have animals like mice, rabbits, hampsters, and other animals put in cages and stocks while people put make-up on them or force them to ingest things. But not only small animals are tested on. Lost dogs and cats are also tested on. Some people known as bunchers steal pets or lost animals and give them to kennels who abuse them before they give them to animal testing labs like Clorox. Some animal die in the kennels. Others die in the labs. Also animal testing isn't accurate. Animal don't have the same toxin levels as we do. So please say no to Clorox for animal testing.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/146424495#body

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Ask the Canadian Government to stop testing pesticides on animals Target: Ujjal Dosanjh, Minister of Health Canada, Government of Canada Sponsor: Nancy Trezza, none What Canada needs is to ban chemicals that are already known to be dangerous. Instead Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) keeps demanding more animal testing, even though more than 10,000 animals have already been killed for every pesticide on the market. PMRA is demanding a new test called a "developmental neurotoxicity" test, which supposedly gauges a pesticide's effects on the developing nervous systems of animals who are exposed to a chemical while in the womb. This test consumes upwards of 2,000 animals at a time. What's more, government scientists have admitted that they are not even sure how to interpret the results of this test! Canadians, and the world, believe that stopping these tests makes good sense and good science. These animal tests are outdated. We urge PMRA/Health Canada to regulate pesticides and other chemicals that are already known to be dangerous-not to torture innocent animals. Mr. Dosanjh, your Department should be doing much more to reduce its reliance on animal testing, including funding the development of NON-ANIMAL test methods. We do not want our taxpayers' dollars to be used to inflict suffering on animals. Stop testing chemicals and pesticides on animals now!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/205973167#body

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A message from Eleanor:


Dear Friends

Please vote in this poll if you haven't already and please forward to friends you think may want to vote. We are losing it suddenly which is really sad! Animal testing is an obscenity! Love and thanks and goodnight!!

Eleanor

Original Message:

ELEANOR,

PLEASE TRY IF YOU CAN VOTE AGAIN. WE WERE WINNING FIRST BUT LOOSING NOW BECAUSE THE YES VOTES ARE COMING IN LIKE CRAZY. LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN VOTE AGAIN THAN I WILL FORWARD IT TO EVERYBODY.

RIA.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/polls/displayresults/1,,91153-1003444,00.html

Der deutsche Innenminister und die deutsche Familienministerin haben angesichts rassistischer Gewalt demonstriert, dass sie auf den Kampf der Kulturen und auf den Ausschluss setzen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22507/1.html

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Profilerstellung inklusive

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22499/1.html

Over the past several weeks, the NAACP has worked tirelessly to protect the voting rights of all New Orleans citizens. Through the NAACP's 16 Voting Assistance Centers located in nine states, the Association provided absentee ballot registration and election information.

On Saturday, April 15th, the NAACP transported busloads of Orleans Parish citizens from four cities in Texas — Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Austin; Atlanta, GA; and Jackson, MS back home to Louisiana to cast their vote.

While our efforts have had a strong and consistent impact, the overall voter turnout for the New Orleans election remains low. Tomorrow is the last opportunity for New Orleanians to vote in the Primary Election. This election will certainly narrow the field of mayoral candidates as well as elect individuals to key offices that will make critical decisions concerning housing, education, health, and employment issues in the city of New Orleans.

The NAACP and our partners, The People for the American Way (PFAW) and the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights (LCCR), are committed and dedicated to ensuring that Orleans Parish residents are able to cast a meaningful vote and have their vote counted.

Value your right to vote and make it count on Saturday, April 22nd.

For more information on the New Orleans election Click here to visit the Value Our vote website http://katrina.naacp.org/r/110/91290 or call our Election Protection hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)


Sincerely,

Bruce S. Gordon
President & CEO

http://counterpunch.org/velvel04212006.html


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hadar.php?articleid=8882

More Muscle, With Eye On China
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060420-121646-9379r


Informant: Kev Hall

Right now Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the First Amendment of the Internet -- a principle called "network neutrality" that preserves the free and open Internet. Congress needs to hear from you today or they will hand over control of what you do online to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Politicians are trading favors for campaign donations from these companies. They're being wooed by people like AT&T's CEO, who says "the Internet can't be free." Sign this petition to tell your elected representatives to protect Internet freedom now.

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet?rk=k7M%5fYrS1mBzvE


Informant: Mark Phillips

by Chris Mooney, Seed

The U.S. is on the cusp of a major political shift the debate over global warming.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/21/deepfried_america.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042002123.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

In less than a month, we may finally get to hear from the army general who ordered commanders at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to "get dogs." Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who ran the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and then was sent to Iraq to "Gitmo-ize" Abu Ghraib, has been ordered to testify in the trial of a military dog handler.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106Z.shtml

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

04/20/06

Last June, the Supreme Court's decision in the now-infamous Kelo case struck a judicial blow to Americans' constitutional right to own property without fear of government seizure. Recall that the decision validated the notion that a local government could seize private property and hand it over to a private developer with no more justification than the claim that the new development would provide greater tax revenue than the homes, businesses, churches or farms that it might be replacing. Somehow, the High Court managed to finagle their way around the Constitution's clear command that the government could not seize private property under any circumstances except if the land was being taken for a public use -- a road, a bridge, a canal or some other form of infrastructure...

http://tinyurl.com/nn3xh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Sierra Times
by Jeff Adams

04/20/06

Part of the genius of how the framers of the U.S. Constitution set things up was that the Constitution divided and dispersed authority and power. By creating a limited, bottom-up form of government that left the majority of power in the hands of the member states of the union, elected officials were more accountable to those whom they represented. The late Tip O’Neill, former Speaker of the House, was famous for saying, 'All politics is local.' While in a sense this was true, it doesn't seem so today. Over time, our form of government has been literally turned on its head. We have an ever-centralizing, top-down government that claims unlimited authority and power. Elected representatives appear to view themselves as unaccountable to those they are supposed to represent (the citizens of their district, state, county, city, etc., that vote), and seem to represent special interests that finance their campaigns and lifestyles. So what to do about this?

http://www.sierratimes.com/06/04/19/Adams.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Christina Larson

04/21/06

Environmental policies have become increasingly popular over the past few years. Seventy-five percent of Americans in a 2005 Harris poll agreed with the statement, 'Protecting the environment is so important that requirements and standards cannot be too high, and continuing environmental improvements must be made regardless of cost.' Yet a shrinking minority of voters are willing to associate themselves with the loaded term 'environmentalist.' In the same poll, only 12 percent claimed that label. Americans like green, but they are less fond of greens. And that has been doubly true for outdoorsmen. Over the past five years, though, Bush administration policies in the west -- accelerating drilling on public lands and waiving protections on water quality and wildlife -- have given this odd couple a common enemy...

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/35080/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by the editors

04/20/06

Republicans on Capitol Hill seem more interested in complaining about the Bush administration than in winning, or at least limiting their losses in, the midterm elections. The White House is arrogant; it is out of touch; it does not face the same electoral pressures we do: We have heard it all before, and there is truth in each complaint. But perhaps the recriminations can wait until after the elections? Congress is not going to be in session for many more days this year. There is not much time for congressional Republicans to promote popular legislation as a way of improving their standing -- even if one assumed, contrary to fact, that they could agree on what legislation that would be. Their fate is therefore tied to the president's. If the election is held with Bush holding a 35 percent approval rating, they will lose the House. If Bush rises to 45 percent by the fall, they will do fine...

http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200604200610.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

04/21/06

How can the American public put an end to the disastrous policies of the two old parties that I likened to Tweeledum and Tweedledee ... which are so similar that they are often collectively called 'Demopublicans' or 'Republicrats?' First, we each have several options that simply WON'T work: 1. Not voting. 2. Switching your vote from one to the other...

http://tinyurl.com/orx2d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Stefan Molyneux

04/20/06

The economics of war are, at bottom, very simple, and contain three major players: those who decide on war, those who profit from war, and those who pay for war. Those who decide on war are the politicians, those who profit from it are those who supply military materials or are paid for military skills, and those who pay for war are the taxpayers. (The first and second group, of course, overlap.) In other words, a corporation which profits from supplying arms to the military is paid through State taxation -- and under no other circumstances could the transaction exist, since the risks associated with destruction (as outlined in the table above) are equal to or greater than any profit that could be made. Now if those who decided on war also paid for it, there would be no such thing as war ...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/159/4579/2006-04-20.asp?nid=4579&wid=159


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"Diplomatic" terrorism

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

04/21/06

Is anyone surprised that our Supreme Leader has refused to rule out nuking Iran? Asked if there was anything to Seymour Hersh's scoop revealing U.S. plans for a nuclear strike against Tehran, Bush replied: 'All options are on the table. We want to solve this issue diplomatically and we're working hard to do so.' All options? Including genocide? Well, uh, yes -- but don't worry. We'll issue a good number of threats before we actually commit mass murder: we'll bellow and beat our chests, like King Kong atop the Empire State Building. Then we'll nuke 'em! That's 'diplomacy' in the Age of Bush II...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8881



Attacking Iran: Are they nuts?

Salon
by Joe Conason

04/21/06

As George W. Bush contemplates the prospect of attacking Iran and the regional conflagration that would result, he may be awaiting a heavenly signal that would confirm the doomsday predictions of his allies on the religious right. Here on earth, however, many of the same themes that promoted war on Iraq are beginning to appear again... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/04/21/iran/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Michael Young

04/20/06

The image of Bush as a nutty, Strangeloveian figure could be just a put-on in the ongoing game of chicken between Washington and Tehran. Arkin chides the administration for failing to talk about military planning, arguing that diplomatic efforts directed at Iran would be 'mightily enhanced' if the Iranians thought the U.S. was serious about going to war. But at what stage does the machinery of war overtake the mind games? On Sunday, Richard Clarke, the famous former national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and Steven Simon, a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, warned that such ambiguity might lead to a clash that would be devastating for the U.S. Clarke and Simon recall that the Clinton administration also contemplated bombing Iran, but backed off because 'the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favorably for the United States'...

http://www.reason.com/links/links042006.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC/Newsweek

04/20/06

The outlook for Iraq's economy is grim. Oil production has fallen to prewar levels. With foreign investors scared off by political instability and a climate of violence that produces about 70 attacks a day, private investment has stagnated. Local businesses keep shorter hours, while wealthy businessmen are regularly targeted for kidnapping. Electricity levels have dropped to the same as they were three years ago, frustrating ordinary Iraqis and hampering new development projects. The main reason for these troubles: insurgents and unchecked militias have done a good job of driving Iraq's economy to a near halt. Well, almost. One sector of the economy has been quietly expanding since the March 2003 invasion -- the so-called death industry...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12392859/site/newsweek/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VENEZUELA_US?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-04-19-22-09-00


Informant: NHNE

I wanted to share with you a link to a website in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. This link will take you to a live 24 hour webcam featuring two beautiful eagles sharing the duties of taking care of two eggs. The eggs are due to hatch soon, probably within the next week. It is definately worth checking out. There is sound as well, so turn your speakers on.

Check it out
http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/default.asp


Informant: DitziSis

The United States emitted more greenhouse gases in 2004 than at any time in history, confirming its status as the world's biggest polluter. Latest figures on the US contribution to global warming show that its carbon emissions have risen sharply despite international concerns over climate change.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article358583.ece


From Information Clearing House

Welcome to the world of US$70-per-barrel oil. That's if there is no crisis in the Gulf over Iran's nuclear ambitions. If there is, then get ready for US$140 a barrel.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=152112157



Biden Urges Bush to Back Bill to Eliminate Gas Price Gouging

Biden and 15 fellow Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, have sent a letter to the President calling on him to support the bill. It would give states new powers to prosecute anyone who takes advantage of short supplies of gas to overcharge for it.

http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4795803&nav=QEMt


From Information Clearing House

The nation's spy chief disclosed for the first time Thursday that the number of U.S. intelligence personnel worldwide totals nearly 100,000.

http://tinyurl.com/nvvev


From Information Clearing House

experts say

The names released on Thursday by the US Defence Department did not include a single senior figure from Al-Qaeda or other Islamic extremist groups, nor from Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, experts stressed.

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/8376



Canadian claims mistreatment by U.S agents

Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by U.S. agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/14375964.htm


From Information Clearing House

Containing China

Slowly but surely, the grand strategy of the Bush administration is being revealed. It is not aimed primarily at the defeat of global terrorism, the incapacitation of rogue states, or the spread of democracy in the Middle East.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12794.htm

Bush raises UN action against Iran

US President George W. Bush said he has discussed with Chinese President Hu Jintao the possibility of the United Nations passing a motion against Iran that could order sanctions or action going up to military action.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18879879-38198,00.html



US prepared to go it alone over Iran

US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has invoked self-defence as a potential justification for military intervention in Iran.

http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=354913&lng=1



Sen. Joseph Lieberman: I'd Support Iran Attack

Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday that he would back a U.S. airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomatic options fail, becoming the first Democrat to announce his support for such a move.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/19/164250.shtml?s=lh



Russians withhold judgment on Iran

Russia will decide its stance on the Iranian nuclear crisis based on a report next week by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the deputy foreign minister said today.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060420News015.asp


From Information Clearing House



A Plan To End The War: Dump The Democrats
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/510922.html

By Mike Ferner

If we want to do more than postpone the next war or end the suffering of the current war a few weeks sooner; if we want to actually build peace. We need the discipline to understand that reacting against injustice is fighting fires; that fire prevention requires relearning our histories to find out how and where power is vested; how peoples’ movements dealt with these same problems generations ago; why we have to strip corporations of rights they’ve usurped so we can exercise democracy’s power to make fundamental change; how to change our organizing to focus on fundamental goals.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12795.htm

Patrick Osio Jr. discusses what he sees as the "immigration insanity" of lawmakers and voters regarding increasingly expensive security on the border of Mexico.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042006LA.shtml

Singer Peter Gabriel's efforts to expose human rights abuses here and abroad by capturing them on camera. This time on NOW.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006U.shtml

By Chris Wickham

Residents are up in arms over plans to erect a phone mast at Strawberry Hill Golf Club within 500 metres of two primary schools.

An application has been lodged with Richmond upon Thames Council by telecommunications firm T-Mobile for an 18.65 metre high tower with six antennae.

The proposal has attracted around 50 objections from Strawberry Hill residents.

T-Mobile want to site the mast in the south east corner of Strawberry Hill Golf Club next to the railway line between Fulwell and Strawberry Hill stations.

Derek Newson, of Strawberry Hill Road, said this would put it about 450 metres from St James's RC Primary School, on Stanley Road, and 320 metres from Stanley Infant School, on Strathmore Road, as well as Stanley Junior School which is close by.

In Mr Newson's letter of objection, he said: "Strawberry Hill is designated a conservation area. Part of the reason we chose to live in the area was the view of metropolitan open land.

"The impact that an 18.65 metre tower would have on the environment is completely inappropriate."

Veronica Heffernan, headteacher of St James's also lodged an objection with the council expressing concerns. She said: "I am very anxious to read about the installation of a telephone mast at Strawberry Hill Golf Club.

"I am aware of concerns regarding these masts and the health of children. I do not think it is at all appropriate to have these within the vicinity of any primary school."

Hilary Bower, headteacher of Stanley Infant and Nursery School, also lodged a formal objection on behalf of the school and governors.

In its supporting statement T-Mobile said other options were considered before an application was lodged for the golf course site and no other was suitable.

It said the site was in need of another mast as at present there is a shortfall in T-Mobile coverage. The statement also cited evidence from a report published by the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, known as the Stewart Report.

It said: "The balance of evidence indicates there is no general risk to the health of people living near base stations on the basis that exposures are expected to be small fractions of the guidelines."

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

A Richmond Council spokesperson said the application was ongoing and no date had been set for a decision.

He said anyone with concerns should write to Connor Corrigan in the development control department at the Civic Centre.

12:48pm today

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http://www.petitiononline.com/sfsu10/

Ten peaceful student protesters at SFSU were grabbed and pushed out of a career fair by police, where the students were protesting military recruitment. They were kicked off campus without a hearing and given notice that if they returned within two weeks, they were subject to "immediate arrest." Some students were instantly made homeless or jobless, and none could go to class on campus. The university let them return to campus after 3 days, in the face of NBC planning to televise coverage.

Students are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Let's not let it drop on them. Tell the university how you feel about its treatment of these students and their rights to protest. Tell the university that you oppose any discipline of these students.

Sixty-Seven international antiwar activists, including 2 former Assistant Secretary Generals of the UN - Denis Halliday and Hans-Christof von Sponeck - have taken a stand for student rights and against the occupation of Iraq.

Join Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, Camilo Mejia, Dahr Jamailand 60 others in standing up for these students.

As the letter puts it: "Let's not forget what these students - "the SFSU 10?" - were protesting. They were protesting the military's recruiting students into 'careers' that would foster death, destruction and injustice. They were trying to protect their fellow students from serious risks of their being among the tens of thousands of US troops killed, maimed or traumatized in Iraq. They were trying to protect students from participating in war crimes - a war in which 100,000 or more Iraqis have been killed, according to the peer reviewed Lancet study; a war in which the US uses uranium, a radioactive neurotoxin, in munitions; a war in which 1 in 4 combat marines admitted to having killed a civilian, with 8 in 10 having reported seeing injured women or children whom they were unable to help (Boston Globe, July 1, 2004)."

...

"We stand in defense of the SFSU protesters and call on you to take no disciplinary action against them and to apologize to them for violating of their civil liberties and human rights. We believe the university should also compensate any of the group who may have become homeless or otherwise suffered economic hardship because of the SFSU actions. And we invite you to join us as we renew our efforts to build the movement to end this war, bring all the troops home now, and institute reparations for the people of Iraq. "

Please sign this letter at http://www.petitiononline.com/sfsu10/


Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board and Web Manager Traprock Peace Center
103A Keets Road Deerfield, MA 01342
413-773-7427
http://www.traprockpeace.org


From ufpj-news

Dear Olle: I am in touch with a professional man who lives on the East Coast. He has the "identical rare immune deficiency" as my two grandsons. He is being treated by a Pediatric Immunologist at Yale. Here in Minnesota, the boys' Immunologist also treats adults.

Quite an "irony" that a rare deficiency that is defined by the fact that it indicates "ageing," requires adults to receive treatment from a Pediatric Immunologist!!!! The affected person lives about 75 feet from a 200 kv high voltage powerline. He has not specifically requested confidentiality but right now, it is best his identity remain anonymous.

I have mailed several items to him including information regarding filters. He located me via an Omega post -- further evidence that Klaus's continuing efforts are paying off!!! Take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com [4-20-06]


Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it. -Mark Twain

"If circumstances hold you back, ALWAYS find another way to achieve your goals...." DaVinci Code


Betreff: Immune....primary vs. secondary.....
Von: JCMPelican@aol.com
Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:23:14 EDT


Dear Anonymous:

I will type below an excerpt from the first paragraph titled "Immunodeficiency" of Chapter 18 (page 18.1) from the book "IMMUNOLOGY - Third Edition (1993)," by Ivan Roitt, Jonathan Brostoff and David Male:

"Immunodeficiency disease results from the absence, or failure of normal function, of one or more elements of the immune system. Specific immunodeficiency diseases involve abnormalities of T or B cellsd, the cells of the adaptive immune system. Non-specific immunodeficiency disease involve abnormalities of elements such as complement or phagocytes, which act non-specifically in immunity. Primary immune deficiencies are due to intrinsic defects in cells of the immune system and are for the most part genetically determined. Secondary immunodeficiency diseases result from extrinsic factors, such as drugs, irradiation, malnutrition or infection. Thus AIDS is a secondary immunodeficiency resulting from a virus infection.

Immunodeficiency diseases cause increased susceptibility to infection in patients. The infections encountered in immunodeficient patients fall, broadly speaking into two categories. Patients with defects in immunoglobulins or complement proteins or phagocytes are very susceptible to recurrent infections..........

* * *

IT IS VERY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THE IMMUNOLOGIST OUTRIGHTLY LIED BY THE FACT HE FAILED TO INFORM US THAT GRANDSONS' IMMUNE DEFICIENCIES WERE NOT "PRIMARY" AND ADDITIONALLY BY THE FACT THAT THE BOYS' BLOOD WAS SENT TO A KNOWN EMF RESEARCHER, DR. FATIH UCKUN (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. "ENVIRONMENTAL POSSIBILITIES" WERE NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN AFTER I BROUGHT UP SUBJECT OF CONCERNS RE HIGH VOLTAGE POWERLINES!!!

I NEED TO CHECK FOR ANY BOOKS BY THESE AUTHORS AFTER 1993. WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF UPDATE RE EMF RAPID FINDINGS IS NOT AVAILABLE AND/OR "IN WORKS........" TAKE CARE - JOANNE

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com [4-17-06]

Human Rights Advocates Rally at Park, Flood Capitol Hill in Support of Suspension of Training at School of the Americas.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0420-10.htm

Seit dem 1. April 2006 hat die Walfangsaison in Norwegen wieder begonnen und die Fangquoten wurden stark erhöht. Bitte protestieren Sie bei der Norwegischen Botschaft und fordern Sie sie auf, die Jagd auf Zwergwale umgehend einzustellen!

http://www.peta.de/aufrufe/alertsample.php?id=1027

PETA erhielt Undercover- Videoaufnahmen, die entsetzliche Tierquälerei an wundervollen Pferden an dem von der türkischen Regierung unterhaltenen Refik Saydam Hygiene Center (RSHC) zeigen.

http://www.peta.de/kampagnen/tierversuche/f-turkblood.php

Sir Paul McCartney: Tierversuche sind unzuverlässig und grausam

In einem Exklusiv-Interview mit PETA spricht sich Sir Paul McCartney gegen die Vivisektion aus. Bitte unterstützen Sie Sir Paul und PETA bei der Arbeit, Tierversuchslabors durch hochmoderne Forschungseinrichtungen zu ersetzen, bei denen das Retten von Leben, nicht deren Vernichtung, im Mittelpunkt steht.

http://www.covancegrausam.de/paul_interview.php

First, a short intro to what's going on -- a transcript from the news headlines from Thursday's broadcast of the Free Speech Radio News (audio archives at http://www.fsrn.org/news_archives.html ) Following that, a forwarded email which is mostly a series of updates on the developing situation as reported by "Mohawk Nation News". (Read from the bottom up to get the correct chronology.) I believe the term OPP is a reference to the Ontario Provincial Police (one of our Canadian friends can correct me if that's wrong).

They are desparate for media attention to show the world what is happening. Please send this to anybody who can help with that.

Craig Gingold
(near Midpines CA)


Thursday, April 20, 2006

STANDOFF NEAR TORONTO

Tensions are high today in southwestern Ontario as police and Native people face off at a construction site. From Toronto, Kristin Schwartz has more.

Early this morning, police stormed a construction site occupied by native people from the nearby Six Nations reserve community, making a number of arrests. The occupation began seven weeks ago to prevent the expansion of a housing development. The Six Nations people say that the site is part of the large tract of land that was promised to them by the British Crown in 1784.

The traditional Six Nations Confederacy government backs the blockade and does not recognize the authority of the elected "Band Council", established by Canada early this century, to represent them in the negotiations. Janie Jamieson is a spokesperson for the blockade participants. (sound) "Since 1924, Canada has violated international law and they continue to ignore the existence of the Haudenosaunee confederacy. And that's what this is all about. It's got to end at some point."

Six Nations people rallied and regained control of the site after the arrests this morning. Hundreds of police have now been deployed in the area. From CKLN in Toronto, this is Kristin Schwartz for Free Speech Radio News.


------- Forwarded message follows -------
TO ALL INTERESTED PEOPLE - PLEASE ACT ON THIS QUICKLY! THIS SIEGE IS UNDERWAY AT THIS MOMENT AND THE COMMUNITY (MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN) ARE STANDING FIRM - THEY NEED CONCRETE SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY NOW! PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN AND FORWARD THIS WIDELY.

IN STRUGGLE,
sally o'brien

From: "Orakwa International Indigenous Ent." To: "ActionCanadaNetwork" Subject: 10:05 AM SIX NATIONS PEOPLE TAKE BACK LAND - 1000 OPP and ARMY COMING IN Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:21:59 -0400

FIRST ATTACK AT 4:20 AM LIGHT UP! HELP US. LAND TAKEN BACK BY SIX NATIONS PEOPLE. 1000 OPP and army on their way.

Call Dick Hill at 519-865-7722.

WE SMASHED THEIR CARS UP. THEY WERE POINT THEIR GUNS AT US. So that's what we did. About 1000 people there. Red Alert to come. We forced OPP and one road is open to get there. Do whatever you have to do. This is not right. We'll die here if we have to. Douglas Creek Estates. It is our. They stole it from us. We took it back. canada thinks its the ultimate power. Are there Indian mercenaries helping the OPP? Negotiations - "Yes, I punched one of them right in the head. WHERE IS MICHAEL COYLE WHEN YOU NEED HIM? DIDN'T HE GET SENT INTO SETTLE ALL THAT BUSINESS AT KANEHSATAKE WHICH IS STILL A BIG MESS. Send him in again!

9:45 UPDATE - ALERT! ALERT! OPP INVADES SIX NATIONS - CHASED OUT - GO AND WITNESS - Thursday, April 20th 2006.

WATCH FOR FURTHER UPDATES

9:45 AM

OPP saying that it is over [FOR THEM]. Go home then! Simple as that. Hundreds are there. More and more are coming. We moved police out of here. We have blocked off highways. Police are supposed to be moving in. 1000 cops and the army. Transport truck is blocking off road. They are going to try to come in again. Negligent media -- no coverage. There had been an actual meeting in Cornwall not to give coverage. Alternative media is there. Local only. One woman was roughed up.

Very tense difficult situation. We need all kinds of people here as witnesses with cameras and eyes and memories. It is about violation of our law, Canadian law and international law. They have no right to be here. Their guns are fully loaded. We are unarmed. Our spirits are high. We are asking people to make calls, emails, think about us. We are carrying out our responsibilities. We need international support. There were children on the site when the OPP came. We are standing strong, adhering to the law and we have no intention of leaving.

The constitutional jurisdiction is that of the Indians. Ontario and Canada are invading our jurisdiction. This is an international assault on another nation. The people are standing on the law. Canada is standing on "might makes right".

9:15 Tires burning at underpass. At the church near Douglas Estates near Tim Horton's the people have blocked off the highway.

4:20 am the OPP attacked to arrest them. Hauled first 9 off. Some protesters took the Caledonia bridge. Reserve people arrived and repelled the cops. At least 150 heavily armed cops. Vans, trucks, paddy wagons, ambulances (for the cops). They repelled them. The cops came back. They were repelled again. Now at 9:00 am the people have taken the land in question back. How to get there: From Niagara Falls and Toronto, take Highway 6 straight south from Hamilton to Caledonia. From buffalo take Highway 3 west to Higway 6 and north on Highway 6 to Caledonia. From Windsor take Higway 3 East to Higway 6 and go north. These are backways and cops are not likely to be looking at it too much.

8:30 OPP DISRUPTS PEACE IN QUIET CALEDONIA

The OPP has created an ongoing battle. They sit in their cars, give out false news reports, and wait for reinforcements to come in to squash the Six Nations people but they can't. Everyone is reporting to everyone.

All police have been chased off the perimeter of Douglas Estates for now. Cop were sneaking behind the unfinished houses. One woman went over. A women cop told her she was under arrest. "What do you mean I'm under arrest. You're violating the laws, both ours and international law". Other cops came out and wrestled her down on the ground. She fought all of them. They kneed her to handcuff her. She started booting the cops. Then other Indians arrived on the scene and chased the cops off. As they were leaving they shot her son in back with tasers. The big woman cop was carrying a big gun, something like an Ouzi. "It was a big one". Those cops were fully packed, she said. They failed to arrest her because she resisted. There are 9 arrested. They're supposed to only keep them for 2 hours. 'We haven't seen them back yet". The People are shutting Caledonia down. "We are not armed. We got our land back. Were in! We're at the fire!"

At the 6th Line where the Douglas Estates comes out on the road at the entrance, out to Highway 6 that goes onto the rez. The bypass that goes around Caledonia. At the 6th line overpass, the people there had been blocking that road, they were attacked by the cops, paddy wagons were there. They fought back. It was a brawl. People started coming from the rez and supported them. Immediately there were hydro poles around which they threw on the road and set on fire. They are cutting off Highway 6 the main supply line that goes to Nanticoke Hydro Electric plant down on Lake Erie. It is the main transport truck road to Hamilton. This is being blocked.

Some protesters are still holding Caledonia Bridge, the main artery of the city. It's total confusion.

If you have satellite TV, look for Hamilton CH which has a live feed. They have helicopters filming everything.

8:00 AM

It is an ongoing situation. 9 people arrested.

There is fighting going on at the No. 6 Line Bridge. It is blocked off. The traditional Longhouse people put a fire there and the OPP pepper sprayed them. But the people started fighting back. The people have moved onto the main bridge in Caledonia. The people moved the police off the land and are going back to the main door and are still there holding on. The cops are still on the road shutting down the bypass. The OPP were chased off by the people and told to get out. OPP got off the land and are in their cars watching and waiting for "orders".

Get the news on the radio stations, newspapers, television.

7:05 am.

Two snipers were chased off by the people. They have 50 cops trapped in, who can't get out. A media black out could work against them. More cops are going to come in. Indians don't have weapons but they do have tons of cameras.

In Ipperwash there was a media blackout. The only way the information got out was because some of the people told what they saw. That's why we need people in there. The police showed in that public inquiry there was a deliberate attempt to stop the press from finding out. There were attacks upon people with cameras, those who tried to get the story out. What the police learned is how to do this the right way next time. This is it.

They learned all the weaknesses We learned the invaders are psychologically twisted people who pretend to be supporting the law. These are megalomaniacs who think they can say what the law is because they have access to guns. This time they will do it "right". The CTV have made two major movies showing what happens when these twisted personalities are allowed free reign on Indians. We get killed.

There are back room deals in police headquarters to hide the information and protect the police officers that give orders. In the case of Ipperwash, three OPP police officers died suddenly just before they were going to give evidence at the enquiry. What a strange coincidence. It is unfortunate that the poor jerks that are just "following orders" do not realize that they are putting their lives on the line. They are not at risk from Indians, so why all these coincidences?

The Six Nations people have been burning tobacco during this entire occupation for their protection. This is the only weapon that we have. We know the truth is on our side. We are calling upon the natural forces to give us wisdom and guidance through this whole siege. There are repercussions to those involved when you go against people who are innocent and justified in what they are doing. The megalomaniacs who do these kinds of things are only looking out for themselves. They are a danger to all of society.

We Indigenous people are within our rights. We want Canada to obey their own laws, and to respect international norms. We want an open and fair hearing. If the colonizers think they own our land, they need to prove it. With this attack they have trashed any pretension to right and decency, democracy and the rule of law. Canada is beginning to slide quickly down the slippery slope of despotism. How can Canada decolonize. The test lies in how they feel toward people who challenge their assumptions. Are they going to use batons, guns and pepper spray? Or are they going to get out their documents and take a serious look at the evidence.

The answer is obvious. Just look at what is happening today. This is a colonial government's hard core. Canada does not believe in reasoned researched and documented solutions. We are seeing how colonial government is going to deal with any kind of questioning of their "might makes right" authority. These are the signs of how a tyrannical government is going to suppress the people from expressing legitimate dissent against a takeover by the powerful elitist interests that are involved. It appears that individual rights are being eliminated systematically all over Turtle Island.

This destruction of dissent at Six Nations is done under the cover of media darkness. This is the way it will be done in the future against all people across Turtle Island. This is an experiment in police state tactics against unarmed people who are exercising our rights.

These are the lessons they learned at Gustafsen Lake in 1995 where 77,000 rounds of ammunition were shot at the Indians. In Saskatoon, where Six Indian boys were found frozen to death outside the city put there by police officers. In Winnipeg where J.J. Harper was murdered by the Winnipeg police. At Ipperwash where Dudley George was murdered in cold blood by the OPP. There are over 500 Indigenous women who have "disappeared" and the police have done nothing about it. In the 1960's there was a complaint made in British Columbia because men were looking for Indian children to have sex with them in the streets. The police did nothing about it. Child prostitution is an on-going problem in Vancouver. We don't want the blood lust of Canada's police force to be whetted by spilling the blood of Indians. This vampire regime is moving in on Indians like sharks who smell blood in the water.

6:45 am

Go to Six nations. Take part in the Canadian "democratic" process. Get pepper sprayed. Get beat up. Get arrested. Get killed. No one will know what is going on. Seriously, the media black out is giving the lawless their power. They can do anything they want and who knows where it will stop. Take photos and tell your friends. We don't want another Chile. The state has been involved in murders before like Anna May Aquash. These attackers find a place where they can live out their bizarre fantasies and manias. These people have a twisted view of society and a gun is put in their hands. No psychological testing is done on these guys in police, armies, and bureaucracies. The only test for surviving is a willingness to "follow orders", not the law. These people have no concept of what the law or true democratic rule is.

6:20 AM

Cops all over the place. People are there. More people coming. Pepper sprayed. So far they let everybody go. Some might have been seized. Don't know. Canada using Gestapo tactics instead of making things right. Canada following big brother george bush mentality - invasion, containment, imprisonment and torture of Indigenous people and their families. Next Canada will start hunting down those who continue to protect and try to maintain the sov and jurisdiction of our people. lets not be surprised if Canada puts a deck of 52 for its most wanted Indigenous people and their friends and allies. Free land is our land that is free of Indians.

At 5:55 am this morning, Thursday, April 20th, over 150 heavily armed Ontario Provincial Police with Native mercenaries as body shields, invaded Six Nations land. Some carrying M-16's, in riot gear. 6th line is still open. The Rotinoshon'no are not fighting because they are unarmed. Tear gas has been thrown at them. Some were pepper sprayed. The traitors are the same kind of people who stabbed Crazy Horse, Geronimo, and those who fought for our sovereignty and our lives.

One bridge to the property has been closed.

Witnesses required. This will not be on the national news. Go there and see what is going on. This is a scary precedent. Take pictures. Make reports. Let the world know. report. REPORT. REPORT. Help the people so no one gets hurt. we never wanted violence. Canada has opened to the door to covert state violence on a scale that is unprecedented in Canada. This si the end of any pretense of negotiation with Indigenous people. they're just going to take the land. Canada came in with armaments, guns, paddy wagons (we dont know what's in there).

Don't let Canada become another Chile. Tell the world. The Rotino'sho: we are on our own land.

MNN Mohawk Nation News
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060508/parenti


Informant: Lew Rockwell