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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/war.protest.ap/index.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Federal prosecutors signaled this week that they have decided to pursue a wide range of allegations about dealings between Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, rather than bringing a narrowly focused bribery case against the congressman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906F.shtml

The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 US citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906D.shtml

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

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22498/1.html

Nach der Analyse eines amerikanischen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlers sind die Aufstiegschancen in den USA weitaus geringer als in den meisten europäischen Ländern.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22552/1.html

The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has soared and may now reach $811 billion, says a report by the Congressional Research Service.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906X.shtml

Three state legislatures, Illinois, California, and Vermont, have now introduced resolutions to send petitions to the U.S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush (and, in the case of California, Cheney too). Minnesota, Missouri, and Oklahoma all have legislatures still active in May. Delaware, Louisana, R.I., South Carolina, and Puerto Rico are all up and running through June. New Hampshire is in session through July.

Every state has legislators brave enough to take the lead if we urge them to do so and provide them with the information they need.

Here's a kit to get you started: http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions

Here's a place to get organized with others in your area: http://www.pdamerica.org/impeach-wg.php


Call Your Senators This Week!

The Senate is expected to vote on $67 billion more for war this week, and to vote on amendments to that supplemental spending bill. Senator Bill Frist may seek to block some amendments from coming to a vote.

Call both of your senators and tell them you do not want one more dime spent on this war, that you do not want debate closed off by blocking amendments, and that you support the following amendments:

Senator Joseph Biden's amendment to prevent this money being spent on the construction of permanent bases.

Senator Robert Byrd's amendment stating that any request for funds for an ongoing military operation overseas, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the annual budget of the President rather than using emergency supplemental appropriations bills that receive less scrutiny.

Senator Russ Feingold's amendment requiring the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq by December 31, 2006.

Call the Capitol switchboard tollfree at 888-818-6641 or at 202-224-3121.


On Thursday Iraqi and American women protested in Senator Frist's office. See photos. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/images/frist/index.htm


AUDIO: Howard Zinn on Impeachment

Listen to PSA by Howard Zinn http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/zinn.mp3

Send this to every radio station in the country!


Petition to Be Delivered to White House on May 18 at 2 p.m.

http://www.dontattackiran.org

Thank you for what you've done! We've collected almost 35,000 signatures. We need a lot more and we've now set a deadline: May 18.

At 2 p.m. on May 18, we will deliver the petition, all the signatures, and all the comments to the White House. Join us there!

We will do this in cooperation with this Spiritual Activism Conference: http://www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference/


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Listen to Neil Young's "Let's Impeach the President"

Listen here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/9726

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God


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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12535460/site/newsweek/


Informant: NHNE

Some 57 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could. But when workers try to gain a union voice on the job, employers respond with intimidation, harassment and retaliation. And our labor laws are too weak to stop them.

The Employee Free Choice Act would ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they can do so without the debilitating obstacles employers now use to block their free choice.

Specifically, the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1696 and S. 842) would strengthen protections for workers' freedom to form unions by requiring employers to recognize a union once a majority of workers signed cards authorizing union representation. It also would provide for mediation and arbitration of first-contract disputes and authorize stronger penalties for employers that violate the legal rights of workers seeking to form unions or negotiate first contracts. Please send a message to your U.S. senators and representative urging them to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.clearwaterforcongress.com/petitions/pnum212.php

JOIN GRETCHEN CLEARWATER IN STANDING UP FOR YOU ON THIS AND ALL OTHER ISSUES

This alert is brought to you through the activism of Gretchen Clearwater, Democratic candidate for the U.S House from the 9th district of Indiana. Gretchen needs your help in the next couple days to win her primary election. How many times have you felt helpless and wished you could influence the votes of representatives in other districts to prevail on a critical vote in Congress, but knew you could not do so effectively because you were not one of their own constituents? How much more would you support Gretchen if you do live in her district?

Here we have a courageous candidate who will fight for all the issues you care about, if only she is given the chance to make the run. Please donate whatever you can to help Gretchen get on the radio to recruit and mobilize even more people to speak out so we can have a real impact on these policy decisions now and for the future. What would you give to have a whole legislature of people like Gretchen Clearwater? Won't you give her your support now to make that a reality?

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We have been valiantly speaking out with action alerts based on one fundamental premise --- either our representatives in Congress would listen to and heed the voices of their people --- or else we would work to replace them in the next election.

The time for the replacement action is NOW.

If each of us will just contribute what we can, to the most worthy candidates we can find, it will make a real difference in the kind of Congress we will all have to deal with in 2007. Most importantly, strong showings NOW by candidates who DO have a backbone, and WILL stand up and fight, can send a powerful message to the rest that they better start shaping up or we will ship them out too. Make your donation today and it will have cascading positive effects in many other races for months to come.

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Ohio Republican and longtime conservative Michael A. Fox has come to the realization that America's energy problems are not, as President Bush recently declared, because Americans have an "addiction to oil." Our energy problems stem from the failed leadership of two political parties - Democrats and Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906Y.shtml

Willie Nelson: "As one of the founders of Farm Aid, I have watched with admiration and a good amount of satisfaction the growth of what many now call the 'Good Food Movement' - the growing interest in and demand for organic, humanely-raised and family farm-identified food that is transforming the way America grows its food and how our food gets to our tables."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806HA.shtml

A chorus of environmental and health advocacy groups is urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's most recent nominee to an environmental post. "Virtually anything bad that the Bush administration has done with air pollution has Bill Wehrum's fingerprints on it," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806EC.shtml

Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants. The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as a contributor to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806EB.shtml

Evangelical Christians have been preaching politics in Ohio ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primaries and face accusations of using the church as a vehicle for political advocacy.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/217/index.html


From Information Clearing House

Reports of falling sales and investors stuck with properties they can't sell are just the beginning. Property owners should worry; so should their lenders.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P149596.asp?Printer


From Information Clearing House

Medicare's new prescription-drug program has increased out-of-pocket costs for about one in five participants, causing some to risk their health by reducing or eliminating medications.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/1in5paymoreinmedicarerxplan


From Information Clearing House

President Bush said Friday that taxing enormous oil industry profits is not the way to calm Americans' anxieties about pain at the gas pump, and that his "inclination and instincts" are that major oil companies are not intentionally overcharging drivers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. Defense Department has stepped up efforts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to gather intelligence within U.S. borders, aimed at both protecting military facilities and keeping an eye out for any threat on American soil, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/28/content_4484569.htm


From Information Clearing House

China has accumulated the biggest pile of currency reserves ever known in less time than it takes to train a doctor. To cajole China into resolving this syndrome by allowing the yuan to rise meaningfully, the IMF talked of the dollar needing to fall against Asian surplus currencies rather than just the people’s yuan.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2150322,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify the Iraq war, told clergy members Wednesday that the United States' use of torture on prisoners in its custody amounts to war crimes.

http://tinyurl.com/o9jo6


From Information Clearing House

General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, yesterday warned that covert US air strikes against al-Qaida inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1763104,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Iran is "the most active state sponsor of terrorism", according to the US state department's annual report on world terrorism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4955430.stm


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. war on terrorism has made the world safer, the State Department's counterterrorism chief said on Friday, despite more than 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed 14,600 people.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12871.htm

An Iraqi vice president warned the United States on Friday against attacking Iran. Adel Abdul Mahdi, the Shia member of the three-man Presidency Council, was asked about speculation US forces might strike to prevent Iran developing nuclear technology: http://tinyurl.com/lmt9y


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military's lack of understanding about Iraqi culture helped create the conditions for the insurgency that U.S. forces face there, according to a military adviser who has written a new book about the insurgency.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5366677


From Information Clearing House

By Sabrina Eaton

Eighteen of America's wealthiest families, are bankrolling efforts to permanently repeal estate taxes that would save their families a total of $71.6 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by public interest groups.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12868.htm

Reviewed by David Abbott

The Bush administration has come under attack for dismantling Clinton-era restrictions on road building and logging in nearly 58.5 million acres of the country's remaining backcountry and undeveloped forests. California, Oregon, and New Mexico have filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration, and a bi-partisan bill sponsored by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-WA) & Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) seeks to restore the rule. During its public comment period, the "Roadless Rule" generated the largest public response in US Forest Service history, with over 90 percent of comments supportive of the ban, while the repeal generated an even greater volume of comment, most of it critical. "Threats to Our Forests," National Environmental Trust, 9/05 http://www.net.org/forests/roadless.vtml


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Bailey Malone

In March 2005 the EPA took power plants off the list of sources of toxic pollutants, and instead has created a pollution trading scheme. A resolution challenging the EPA's cutback of Clean Air Act requirements to reduce mercury emissions failed in the Senate in September. Despite the Senate vote against the resolution, many states continue to lead the way with plans to crack down on mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants.
"Six Senate Democrats Vote to Retain Bush Mercury Rule" BushGreenWatch 9/16/05 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000294.php

"Senate Vote Leaves Women and Children at Risk of Mercury Poisoning," Sierra Club Press Release, 9/13/05
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0913-17.htm


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Sarah Randle

Due to diminishing approval ratings, the Bush administration has decided to reduce the number of soldiers serving in Iraq. A key element in these drawdown plans, not mentioned in the President's public statements, is that the departing American troops will be replaced by US airpower. Quick, deadly strikes by US warplanes are seen as a way to improve dramatically the combat capabilities of even the weakest Iraqi combat units. While the number of American casualties would decrease as ground troops are withdrawn, the overall level of violence and the number of Iraqi fatalities would increase dramatically.

"Tomgram: Dahr Jamail on the Missing Air War in Iraq," TomDispath.com, 1/06 http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=42286

"Up in the Air," Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, 11/28/05
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/051205fa_fact


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Sarah Randle

A watchlist of possible terror suspects distributed by the US government to airlines for pre-flight checks now consists of 80,000 names according to European air industry sources. The classified list carried just 16 names before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Airlines must check each passenger flying to a US destination against the list, and contact the US Department of Homeland Security for further investigation if there is a matching name. "US terror watchlist 80,000 names long," Sweden.se, 12/08/05 http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/NewsML____12744.aspx?newsid=1312


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Lauren Powell

Authorities are keeping Katrina relief workers ill-informed and unprotected from the health risks of what has been described as a cesspool of toxic chemicals. No government regulations for Katrina responders exist. KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, holds the main contract for Katrina relief work, and while the company maintains it operates legally, hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been hired. Many have been denied promised wages, food and shelter. A period of relaxed labor standards following Katrina created lasting conditions for abuse of workers.
"Gulf Coast Slaves," Roberto Lovato, Salon.com, 11/05
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505A.shtml
"Relief Workers May Be Next Wave of Katrina Victim,s" Michelle Chen, The New Standard, 09/23/05
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2395


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Charlene Jones

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds investments valued between $5 million and $25 million in Gilead Sciences, a biotech company he chaired from 1997 until 2001 and the company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the most sought-after influenza remedy in the world. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, which holds the sole license to manufacture Tamiflu, last year refused to lift its exclusive rights and allow other drug manufacturers to produce the drug. Fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47, making the Pentagon chief-already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet-at least $1 million richer. "Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu," Nelson D. Schwartz, CNN, 10/31/05 http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/?cnn=yes "Is Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?" F. William Engdahl, GlobalResearch.ca, 10/30/05 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051030&articleId=1169


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Zoe Hoffman

On June 27, 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled that giant cable companies like Comcast and Verizon are not required to share their cables with other Internet service providers. Federal government--from the FCC to the White House--and the media have worked cooperatively to quietly block open access to cyberspace. Mainstream media have censored and covered up Federal moves to commandeer, monopolize, and turn the Internet into an extension of itself. From Fox News to CNN, there has been dead silence as the greatest bastion of democracy in history is being dismantled - and resurrected in the image of AOL. "Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, And Why Corporate News Censored the Story," Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D, Buzzflash, 6/18/05 http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/07/con05238.html


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

Reviewed by Charlene Jones

After drying wells, poisoning drinking water, and distributing toxic sludge as fertilizer, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in a remote village of India was shut down. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board order was the latest episode in a battle between Coca-Cola and impoverished residents since the company began its $25 million operation in 2001. Pollution control authorities, political parties, the High Court system, and environmental groups became involved as the dispute grew into a global symbol of peoples' resistance to powerful trans-national corporations trying to snatch water rights. "Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola," D. Rajeev, IPS, 7/21/05 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29973


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org

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Coca-Cola: STOP Destroying Lives, Livelihoods and Communities in India
http://tinyurl.com/f6pah

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4420/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

This may have been passed around once before, but it still scares the hell out of me.

What if we cannot get a honest election in November?

What if we cannot get an honest election in 2008? What if they do not even bother to put up a fraudulent election in 2008? What if they just do not hold one?

I once very much dislike the NRA, but now, I see what they had in mind all this time.

A Pyridine Shift, wouldn't you say?

Perhaps we should prepare for this contingency. Of course, I am considering this a absolute last resort, but what was that b. s. they brainwashed us with during High School? "Better Dead than Red"

Well, I also learned this in High School: "I know not what course others might take, but as for me, give me Liberty, or give me death!!!

Best Regards,

Alan Dicey
Miami, Florida


20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States

By Bob Rowe

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush’s vice- presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.

9. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold’s Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a “high degree of sophistication” to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold’s claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov )

17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

18. Bush’s Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.

19. All—not some—but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to
1!)—again always favoring Bush—have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.

Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? or was it Diebold…?

By Alison Motluk
New Scientist April 18, 2006

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19025494.400

It was a stunt that launched a thousand conspiracy theories. Market researcher James Vicary claimed in 1957 that he could get movie-goers to "drink Coca-Cola" and "eat popcorn" by flashing those messages on the screen for such a short time that viewers were unaware of it. People were outraged, and the practice was banned in the UK, Australia and the US.

Vicary later admitted that his study was fabricated, and scientists through the years who have tried to replicate it have largely failed. But now researchers have shown that if the conditions are right, subliminal advertising to promote a brand can be made to work.

Johan Karremans at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and his colleagues wanted to see if they could subliminally induce volunteers to favour a particular brand of drink, Lipton Ice. For comparison, they chose a brand of mineral water called Spa Rood, as it was deemed to be as well known as Lipton Ice and equally thirst-quenching.

The researchers asked 61 volunteers to perform a nonsense task -- counting how many times a string of capital Bs was infiltrated by a lower-case b as they flashed up on a screen. The B strings appeared for 300 milliseconds each, and before them, a string of Xs always appeared, flanking a 23-millisecond subliminal message. For the experimental group, the message was "Lipton Ice". Controls saw "Nipeic Tol".

When the volunteers had completed this task, they were asked to choose between Lipton Ice and Spa Rood by clicking one of two keys -- though they were told this was part of a separate study. They were also asked how likely they would be to order either of these drinks if they were sitting on a terrace, and to rate how thirsty they were. Volunteers who rated themselves as thirsty were more likely to choose Lipton Ice, but only if they had received the subliminal message.

In a second study the researchers made half of their 105 volunteers thirsty by giving them a very salty candy before the task. As predicted, among the thirsty, subliminal messaging had an impact. Eighty per cent of thirsty volunteers who had been exposed to the Lipton Ice message chose that product, compared to only 20 per cent of the controls.

The thirstier volunteers rated themselves to be, the more likely they were to choose Lipton Ice. Those who were not thirsty were only slightly more likely to pick the iced tea (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, DOI:
10.1016/j.jesp.2005.12.2005). "Priming only works when the prime is goal-relevant," says Karremans. The researchers are now planning to study just how long-lasting these effects are.

Meanwhile, advertisers have found alternative means of pushing their products. Earlier this month, the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine published a report showing that for each additional hour per day that a child watched television an average of one additional request was made for an advertised product. The effect of the commercials on children lasted up to 20 weeks.


Informant: NHNE

I am sending you along a published interview with John Cummins, chairperson of B.E.S.T. (Better Environment and Safer Telecommunications)which appeared in the IRISH EXAMINER on the same day as the public meeting on the same issue.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobile_phone_mast_recommendation_being_ignored.jpg

I attended the well organised three hour meeting. The room was filled to capacity and attendees during the Q & A session voiced their concern over health issues related to the placement and proliferation of masts.

John Cummings, chairperson, urged all present to try and get maximum supporters to attend a protest meeting on this issue at 11.00 am, on Saturday May 13. Location of protest: Toomevara, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. (It's on the main Limerick-Dublin road.) He said that it would send a very strong message if thousands turned up for this protest.

B.E.S.T. will have its website up and running in c. three weeks.

While talking with John Ryan (the Tipperary farmer whose health was badly affected by the mast he and his wife, Rosie, had on their farm) before the meeting, John made it clear to me that the mast on his farm was never damaged--as stated to be so in a newspaper report--and there was no criminal investigation into it being damaged. All that, he said, was just spin to make them look shady/evil characters. You have posted this article on your 25.03.2006 report.

"John Ryan and his wife are prepared to go to jail rather than allow Vodafone on to their property to repair a broken mast"

http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1740776/


Best, Imelda, Cork

Fast ein Nobelpreis: Vogelgrippe-Nachweis soll dem Fotografen mit 1 Million Schweizer Franken honoriert werden!

Eine ungewöhnlich hohe Prämie winkt dem Forscher, dem es erstmalig gelingt, das "hochgefährliche" Vogelgrippe-Virus H5N1 elektronenmikroskopisch nachzuweisen.

In der Presse und in den Wissenschaftsredaktionen der Fernsehsender ist diese Agenturmeldung aus der Schweiz wie eine Bombe eingeschlagen, war man doch bisher davon ausgegangen, dass dieser Nachweis längst erbracht sei. Doch nun stellt sich heraus, dass nicht nur die in Angst gehaltene Bevölkerung und die in ihrer Existenz bedrohten Geflügelhalter, sondern gerade auch die Medien selbst auf einen Wissenschaftsbetrug nie gekannten Ausmaßes hereingefallen sind.

Einige der weltweit federführenden Forschungsinstitute, u. a. das Robert-Koch-Institut in Deutschland, mussten unter dem Druck der Aufdeckung dieses Schwindels inzwischen kleinlaut zugeben, mit einem Fotobeweis nicht dienen zu können. Die Virologen Karl Krafeld und Dr. Stefan Lanka, die diesen geradezu unfassbaren Wissenschaftsbetrug aufgedeckt haben ("Die Vogelgrippe", klein-klein-verlag, ISBN 3-937342-15-X) warnen vor der bevorstehenden Gefahr einer Impfpflicht in Deutschland, die auf Drängen der Pharmaindustrie und unter Mithilfe von allen guten Geistern verlassener "Gesundheitspolitiker" parlamentarisch durchgepaukt werden soll. Vorgesehen ist also, mit einem Impfstoff, den es noch gar nicht gibt, 80 Millionen Deutsche zweimal "durchzuimpfen" gegen eine Krankheit, die nicht einmal bei Hühnern nachgewiesen werden konnte geschweige denn eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit darstellt.

Die Virologen und Wissenschaftsautoren Krafeld und Lanka weisen insbesondere darauf hin, dass H5N1 auf Wunsch in jedem Huhn, in jeder Ente und in jedem menschlichen Körper "wissenschaftlich" nachgewiesen werden kann. Sie schreiben zum Vogelgrippe-Virus u.a. "Ich bin nicht isolierbar, weil ich nicht existiere!" Und sie schreiben weiter: "Isoliert die Lügner, dann ist die Angst (vor der Vogelgrippe) schnell vorbei!" Um dieser Zitterpartie ein Ende zu bereiten und verantwortungslosen Politikern wenigstens zu ermöglichen, das Gesicht zu wahren, wird der wissenschaftliche Nachweis eines hoffentlich doch vorhandenen H5N1-Virus immer dringender. In der Schweiz wurde daher beschlossen, die Belohnung für ein überzeugendes Foto eines H5N1-Virus noch einmal heraufzusetzen und zwar von 500 000 auf 1 Million Schweizer Franken.

Leicht wird ein derartiges Foto nicht zu beschaffen sein, denn auch mit den modernsten Elektronenmikroskopen ist es immer noch recht problematisch, Wunschträume gewissenloser "Virologen" der Pharmaindustrie und der "Experten" deutscher Forschungsinstitute in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen. Aber - das letzte Wort ist darüber noch nicht gefallen; und so hat der deutsche Gesundheitsminister Seehofer auf Anraten der Pharmaindustrie und der Massentierhalter "vorsorglich" beschlossen, die Stallpflicht für Federvieh auf unbestimmte Zeit zu verlängern!

http://www.muslix.de/HB/media/vogelgrippe.html


Informant: Gerd Zesar

Please visit the website below to read and endorse this important unity statement. In addition, if you agree with it, help get it circulated widely.

to sign, GO TO: http://www.petitiononline.com/bbunity/petition.html


In struggle,

Saladin Muhammad (North Carolina)
Sam Anderson (New York)


Informant: Leslie Radford

Summarized Information About Bio Identical Hormones You Can Use in Your Letter:

The huge National Institutes of Health Womens' Health Initiative was halted more than a year early in 2002 because women who took synthetic hormones (Premarin, made from pregnant mares' urine, a conjugated estrogen and Prempro, a combination of Premarin and a synthetic progesterone also called progestin) were at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, breast and uterine cancer, mental decline and life threatening blood clots. There was no benefit to taking these drugs which are made by Wyeth.

Millions of women switched to Bio Identical Hormones (BIH) because they are natural, inexpensive and safe compounds which are easy on the body and work beautifully. Made for each woman's need by compounding pharmacies, they are also a threat to Wyeth's bottom line.

Using a Citizens Petition to the FDA, Wyeth is seeking to ban all natural hormones and end compounding. Natural health options to dangerous drugs are under significant attack.

Very Important Instructions to Make Your Letter as Effective as Possible:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3356

Despite vehement denials by his attorney who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Y.shtml

This alert is brought to you by the activism of Charles W. Sanders, candidate for U.S House from the 3rd district of Ohio.

WE MUST PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS ON VOTE SUPPRESSION

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum267.php

Passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the National voting Rights Act of 1993 collectively have strengthened the voting rights of African Americans, and other minority voters over the last century.

The process of pre-clearance found in section '5' of the Voting Rights Act beckons for continued attention and ultimate re-validation before 2007. Apparently, some elements in both Houses of Congress don't see the need to promote inclusion but would prefer voter supression. Reference Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004.

The skewed results of these recent elections were accomplished in large part by purging the participation of people anticipated to vote the "wrong" way. Even if we were to cure all other problems in counting AFTER the vote, this cannot fix the purging of our base before they even get to the polls. It is therefore critically important that we all speak out now to not only renew the Voting Rights Act, but to also strengthen it in light of recent and more sophisticated abuses.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum267.php

But more than that, Charles Sanders is running as many radio spots in his home district as he can, calling on all his constituents to raise their own voices, and to submit his action page to do so. And he needs your help in this, the last week of his primary campaign, to reach out to as many people as possible in this way, to help build the consensus that impeachment is long overdue.

When we talk about taking back Congress, that is what we will have to do, TAKE IT. Nobody is going give us anything we won't give to ourselves. And when we donate to a candidate like Charles W. Sanders who is showing just the kind of leadership we need, we can make an example of him, and show other candidates that if they show real backbone they will get the support of the people too.

PAYPAL DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/pp.html

OTHER DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/cc.html

Nobody can predict how the primary election in the Ohio 3rd district will turn out this coming Tuesday. But every dollar we put into getting direct call to action radio spots on the air will increase the momentum for positive change. It's time to stop complaining about the representatives we have, and show how SERIOUS we are about replacing them with those who are standing up for us. When you donate to Charles, you're not just promoting a particular candidate, you are investing in real change, because he is using that money to encourage OTHER people to speak out as well.

We NEED candidates like Charles Sanders to champion the issues that are important to us. Charles needs your help to get his message out, to get YOUR message out, and has now just one more week before his primary to do so. Please make a contribution today to send Charles to Congress and fight for you on the issues you care about.

How many times have you felt helpless and wished you could influence the votes of representatives in other districts to prevail on a critical vote in Congress, but thought you could not do so effectively because you were not one of their own constituents? How much more would you support Charles if you do live in his district?

Here we have a courageous candidate who will fight for all the issues you care about, if only he is given the chance to make the run. Please donate whatever you can to help Charles get on the radio to recruit and mobilize even more people to speak out so we can have a real impact on these policy decisions now and for the future. What would you give to have a whole legislature of people like Charles Sanders? Won't you give him your support now to make that a reality?

We have been valiantly speaking out with action alerts based on one fundamental premise --- either our representatives in Congress would listen to and heed the voices of their people --- or else we would work to replace them in the next election.

The time for the replacement action is NOW.

PAYPAL DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/pp.html

OTHER DONATIONS: http://www.charleswsanders.org/cc.html

If each of us will just contribute what we can, to the most worthy candidates we can find, it will make a real difference in the kind of Congress we will all have to deal with in 2007. Most importantly, strong showings NOW by candidates who DO have a backbone, and WILL stand up and fight, can send a powerful message to the rest that they better start shaping up or we will ship them out too. Make your donation today and it will have cascading positive effects in many other races for months to come.

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

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A MOUTHFUL OF MONEY

* Kraft Foods bought small natural cereals producer Back to Nature in
2004. The company is a subsidiary of Altria Group, which also owns Phillip Morris Companies Inc., one of the largest cigarette makers in the world. Kraft also owns Boca Burger Inc.

* Odwalla Inc., which produces natural and organic fruit juices, was purchased by Coca-Cola in 2001.

* Dean Foods Co., the largest dairy company in the U.S., bought out Horizon Organic in 2003, in addition to Silk soymilk and White Wave tofu.

* Kellogg's has acquired several natural and organic brands: Kashi Cereal and Morningstar Farms.

* General Mills purchased Cascadian Farm, in 2000. The brand consists of items such as frozen fruit, vegetables, granola bars and fruit spreads. General Mills also bought out Muir Glen, which produces ketchup, tomato sauce, and salsa.

* Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry's for $326 million.

* Colgate-Palmolive Co. is purchasing Tom's of Maine, which specializes in natural oral and personal care products.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

A massive march and rally, organized by a network of peace, environmental, and public interest organizations, including the OCA, will take place Saturday, April 29 in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will call for an end to the war in Iraq, a massive reduction in greenhouse gases, and a transformation of the American economy to sustainable and organic production. If you can travel to New York, please attend the march, but you can also take part online by joining organic consumers across the country in calling for an end to the war in Iraq and a massive reduction in greenhouse gases.

Sign on as a "Virtual Marcher" here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/itstime060428.cfm

A nationwide network of nonprofit organizations, including the Organic Consumers Association, are mobilizing to stop Congress from passing a law that would enable telecommunications giants to control the flow of traffic on the internet. Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are pressuring Congress to pass the "Telecom Reform Bill" that would allow them to restrict or slow down your access to certain websites on the internet. As an example, last year, Canada's version of AT&T -- Telus -- blocked their internet customers from visiting a web site sympathetic to workers with whom Telus was negotiating. This controversial bill would create a similar situation in the U.S. whereby telephone and cable companies would have increased power to control how well (or poorly) specific websites, including those operated by nonprofit organizations, would function on your computer. The current construction of the internet allows everyone to compete on a level playing field. This is the reason that the internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will hand over control of the internet to these telecommunications monopolies.

Please take action: http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/telecom.cfm

Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for May 1st will flood America's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it debates reform.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806O.shtml

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites, pursuing evidence that could broaden their long-running inquiry.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806K.shtml

Energiepolitik ist ein brennendes Thema, in der EU ebenso wie in Deutschland. Während Bundeskanzlerin Merkel hier im April zum Energiegipfel einlud, richtete die Europäische Kommission Ende Februar gleich eine neue Kommission ein, die High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment. Die Kommission wird von der Industrie dominiert und stösst im Europaparlament auf heftige Kritik.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=241

Am kommenden Mittwoch, den 3. Mai, stellt die EU-Kommission das Grünbuch zur “European Transparency Initiative” (ETI) vor. Im Rahmen der ETI findet seit einem Jahr eine intensive Debatte über mehr Transparenz- und Ethikregeln für Lobbyisten in Brüssel statt. Das Grünbuch wird sich voraussichtlich eine freiwillige Registrierung der Lobbyisten vorschlagen. Wie detailliert diese ihre Finanzquellen offenlegen sollen, wird offen bleiben. Damit bliebe die EU-Kommission hinter den Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten zurück.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=243

28.04.06

Nach Auffassung der Umweltschutzorganisation WWF will der Ölkonzern Shell das größte Öl- und Gasförderprojekt der Welt vor der Insel Sachalin im russischen Fernen Osten ohne ausreichende Sicherheitsmaßnahmen betreiben. Eine neue Studie des Verbandes zeige, "dass es keine Mittel gibt, einen Ölunfall während der langen Wintermonate wirksam zu bekämpfen". Das Öl- und Gasförderprojekt "Sachalin II" verlaufe unmittelbar durch die Nahrungsgründe der vom Aussterben bedrohten Westpazifischen Grauwale. "Shell riskiert das Ende der Grauwale und der einmaligen Küstennatur im Ochotskischen Meer", meint Volker Homes vom WWF. Die Naturschützer fordern deshalb die in London ansässige die Europäische Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung (EBWE) auf, einen von Shell angeforderten Kredit für den Weiterbau von "Sachalin II" abzulehnen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13474

In der Albert-Schweitzer-Realschule wurden jetzt die Infotafeln des VerbraucherService Bayern im Katholischen Deutschen Frauenbund erstmals ausgestellt. Mit Hilfe von Comics sollen Jugendliche für Gesundheitsrisiken sensibilisiert und zum vernünftigen Umgang mit Risiken angeregt werden. Ergänzend zu den Infotafeln werden Faltblätter angeboten, die einfach umzusetzende Tipps enthalten, wie gesundheitliche Belastungen durch Lärm, UV-Licht und elektromagnetische Strahlung reduziert werden können. Helgit Kadlez, Leiterin der Beratungsstelle Regensburg, stellte dabei fest, dass gerade Lärm, UV-Strahlen und Elektrosmog für junge Menschen Gesundheitsrisiken darstellen. Stefanie Ertl, Umweltberaterin beim Verbraucherservice, erinnerte daran, dass viele Erkrankungen langsam und unbemerkt entstehen, weshalb frühe Aufklärung von besonderer Bedeutung sei. Bereits jeder vierte Jugendliche leidet an einer beginnenden Schwerhörigkeit. Freizeitlärm ist eine der Hauptursachen für Hörschädigungen. Da Ohren immer auf Empfang sind, brauchen sie besonderen Schutz vor Lärm.

http://www.donau.de/SID_2152e8c4493fe5bd201dee2c8c91c6a5/nachrichten/region/regensburg/meldung.shtml?rubrik=mz&id=64926

The Story of Carl

"How can we best return to our governments the essential values of protecting the 'life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness' of their people, and separate from our governments contamination by the profit motive, which rightly should remain in the realm of business and not politics?" asks Thom Hartmann.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806I.shtml

"The Christian Right's reclamation of Luc Jacquet's documentary tends to make us smile here in a France where the secular foundation and the recoil from religious practice more and more cloud any understanding of the dislocations under way in the American psyche and progressively increase the cultural differences that separate our two countries." Political researcher Catherine Croisier wonders whether the US is poised to return to a "Technicolor version of the pre-Civil Rights" era.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806H.shtml

With over 65 percent of Americans disapproving of our current president, why can't we get some credible opposition in Washington? As we head toward midterm elections and look ahead to those of 2008, it's a question that is weighing heavily on millions of American minds. Two longtime observers of our increasingly corrupt political system, Robert Scheer and Joe Klein, have written books documenting the causes and the consequences. Onnesha Roychoudhuri interviews Scheer, who has some startling insights.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806G.shtml

Judith Coburn examines: "Much has been written about how President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld waged war on the cheap, sending too few ill-equipped young soldiers - 30% of them ill-trained reservists and National Guardsmen - into battle. But little has been reported about how shockingly on-the-cheap the homecomings of these soldiers have proved to be."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806B.shtml

A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806A.shtml

The beaches of Orissa, India is home to one of the natural wonders of the world. Every year, between November and May, hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley turtles congregate and mate in the coastal waters, before the females struggle up the beach in their tens of thousands to nest en masse, a rare phenomenon called the arribada (Spanish for arrival). The Olive Ridley turtle is famous for this mass nesting behaviour (explanation: the Kemps ridley also exhibits mass nesting behaviour) and Orissa is one of only three places in the world where it happens.

But over the last decade instead of the beaches bringing life and a new generation of turtles, the beaches have become a mass graveyard, with over 100,000 washed ashore, dead. They are victims of illegal fishing in no take zones and the thousands that die every year are just a fraction of the total, as most are not washed ashore. Industrial development and mega projects that are in the pipeline, particularly large ports, pose another danger to the turtles and their nesting beaches, threatening the very existence of this ecological marvel.

In 2006, the Year of the Turtle, Greenpeace has established the Turtle Witness Camp in the Devi region, a former mass-nesting site, bearing witness to the magic and fragility of an entire Olive Ridley season.

Join us in our campaign to protect the Olive Ridleys of Orissa.

Provide your details below and help us tell the Prime Minister of India to take action to protect the endangered Olive Ridleys Turtles:
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/20057.2475012.5409

Erwerbslosengruppen sind durch neue Gesetzesinitiativen der großen Koalition alarmiert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22553/1.html

U.S. PREPARES TO FACE U.N. ON TORTURE AS AMNESTY REPORT BLASTS 'WAR CRIMES'

Raw Story Friday,
April 28, 2006

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/As_U.S._prepares_to_face_U.N._0428.html

As the United States prepares a team of 30 to defend its record on torture before a U.N. committee, Amnesty International http://news.amnesty.org/ has made public a report blasting the United States for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world, RAW STORY has learned.

U.S. compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment will be the topic of May 5 and 8 U.N. hearings in Geneva.

The United States last appeared before the Committee Against Torture in May, 2000. Amnesty claims that practices criticized by the Committee six years ago -- such as the use of electro-shock weapons and excessively harsh conditions in "super-maximum" security prisons -- have been used and exported by U.S. forces abroad.

The Amnesty report reviews several cases where U.S. detainees held in Afghanistan and Iraq have died as a result of torture. The group also lambasts U.S. use of electro-shock weapons, inhuman and degrading conditions of isolation in "super-max" security prisons and abuses against women in the prison system -- including sexual abuse by male guards, shackling while pregnant and even in labor.

As of now, the U.S. has yet to prosecute a single official, military officer or private contractor for "torture" or "war crimes" related to its occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, or the "war on terror."

"The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in U.S. custody is five months," notes Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director for Amnesty International USA. "[That's] the same sentence that you might receive in the U.S. for stealing a bicycle."

The five month sentence resulted from the death of a 22-year-old taxi-driver, who had been hooded and chained to a ceiling, then kicked and beaten until dead.

"The U.S. government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture," he adds, "it is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish -- including by trying to narrow the definition of torture."

The report argues that these cases are not isolated incidents, but part of an overall pattern condoned by U.S. officials.

"While the government continues to try to claim that the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody was mainly due to a few 'aberrant' soldiers, there is clear evidence to the contrary," said Javier Zuniga, Amnesty International's Americas Program Director. "Most of the torture and ill-treatment stemmed directly from officially sanctioned procedures and policies -- including interrogation techniques approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."

Amnesty's findings have already been sent to members of the UN Committee Against Torture.

At its May 1-19 session, the Committee Against Torture will consider reports presented by Georgia, Guatemala, Republic of Korea, Qatar, Peru, Togo and the United States. With the exceptions of Korea and Peru, Amnesty has also provided reports about the actions of these nations.


Informant: NHNE

Streaming Audio
http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23270/


NEIL YOUNG'S HARSH WORDS

By Chris Lee
Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-young21apr21,0,5676591,full.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

To anyone who's followed Neil Young's socially crusading, four-decade musical career, it was hardly a surprise to learn earlier this week that he's just recorded a 10-song collection that takes President Bush to task and sharply criticizes the war in Iraq.

The real surprise for Young loyalists is that it took him so long. As the veteran rocker explains it, he was finally moved to record the album, "Living With War," in a two-week burst of creativity after his patience with Generation Next ran out.

"I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up," Young said. "I waited a long time. Then, I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the '60s generation. We're still here."

The album's explosive centerpiece is "Let's Impeach the President." Over an urgent, guitar-driven backdrop, Young sings:

"Let's impeach the president for abusing all the power we gave him and shipping all our money out the door.

Let's impeach the president for bending the facts to fit their new story of why we have to send our men to war."

In Young's view, the number is more than simply a political diatribe; it's an affirmation of free speech.

"You're always going to rub somebody the wrong way when you sing 'let's impeach the president,' " Young said. "But that's what this country's all about -- being able to express your views." Warner Bros. Records executives heard the 10-song set for the first time this week. Though news of the aggressive anti-Bush tone had already led to a flurry of comments on blogs. (Young's manager, Elliot Roberts, also played the CD for The Times.)

But "Impeach," with its mocking use of Bush sound bites, represents only one side of Young's emotional reaction to the war in the CD.

The collection is by turns empathetic toward soldiers' families and scornful of runaway consumer culture. With a nod to '60s protest music, Young shares his optimism and outrage -- at social ills including religious zealotry and patriotism run amok.

There is more anger, most notably the reference to Bush's famous 2003 "one victory" remarks against the backdrop of a "Mission Accomplished" banner atop an aircraft carrier deck, which the singer ridicules in the song, "Shock and Awe."

"Living With War" concludes with a deeply emotional version of "America the Beautiful," with Young backed by a 100-member choir. Young, a Canadian-born longtime resident of the U.S. whose career started in the '60s, joins other high-profile artists who've recently recorded politically minded pop songs. Pearl Jam's "World Wide Suicide" addresses "a world of pain" in which "war has taken over." The song recently topped rock radio.

The Dixie Chicks' new single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," takes up where group member Natalie Maines' 2003 anti-Bush comment (about the group being ashamed that the president was from Texas) left off. And next month, Paul Simon, another '60s crusader, will release his album "Surprise," which includes the song "Wartime Prayers," a disheartened meditation about psychic war wounds.

Last month at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Texas, conference organizer Roland Swenson recalled Young's "Ohio," written after the Kent State shootings. Addressing Young, who was the conference's keynote speaker, he said, "Mr. Young, we need another song."

And so he set out to do just that.

Rather than merely a protest, Young wanted "Living With War" to amplify the public sentiments he's encountered.

"It's the people I've been talking to: people in restaurants, people in cars," he said. "Whenever the talk gets around to what's going on in the world, people are saying what's on this record."

On his website he said he tried to draw upon the '60s folk protest tradition of writers such as Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, only framing some of the songs in a harder "metal folk" style.

The album's "Flags of Freedom" is the most direct homage to that tradition, echoing the anthem-ish undercurrents of Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom."

In Young's song, he conjures the image of a girl listening to a Dylan song as she watches her brother march off to war.

"Have you seen the flags of freedom?

What color are they now?"

"Do you think that you believe in yours more than they believe in theirs?"

"I found Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan's protest songs of the '60s to be tremendously inspired," Young said. "These people were writing from their souls about something that was happening in the country at that time. Civil rights, the injustices in society -- they were huge. It's good to have a voice."

Or 100.

Young said he enlisted that many back-up singers because he liked the metaphorical weight of having "100 voices from 100 lands." One vocalist, Alicia Morgan, wrote about the atmosphere in the Los Angeles recording studio on her blog.

"The session was like being at a 12-hour peace rally," she writes. "Every time new lyrics would come up on the screen, there were cheers, tears and applause. It was a spiritual experience."

When Young and Roberts played the CD for the Warner Bros. staff, the closing "America the Beautiful" moved some of the group to tears, according to one executive present.

"Living With War" marks another turn in the restless rocker's long and varied career, arriving on the heels of recent dramatic events in his life. Young's 87-year-old father died last June, just as the singer was recovering from a brain aneurysm discovered in March 2005, which required emergency neuroradiology.

Asked about the difficulty of maintaining his idealism, Young remained sanguine -- and committed as ever to the democracy of ideas.

"I'm eternally optimistic," he said. "Change doesn't have to happen tomorrow. Maybe the day after tomorrow. The endgame is, when people hear it, it's up to them to think whatever they want. And I can say whatever I want. We seem to be losing track of that."


Informant: NHNE

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Neil Young's "Living With War" Shows He Doesn't Like It

Today, Neil Young has launched his most powerful album in years, a disc fueled by outrage at Washington. Young is the latest in a string of recording stars to take musical aim at US President Bush and his conduct of the war in the Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806N.shtml

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Neil Young joins the hate Bush bandwagon

Had Neil Young released a song titled Let's Impeach the President three years ago, he would have been exiled to the fringes of American music: just ask the Dixie Chicks.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1763207,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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NEIL YOUNG'S CALL TO ARMS
http://counterpunch.org/jacobs04292006.html

Neil Young Clobbers the Thought Police
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0429-22.htm


Informant: Kev Hall

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Neil Young and the Restless
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0508-22.htm



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by Jim Lobe, TomPaine.com

A new report details the widespread nature of detainee abuse and the severely limited response.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/28/after_abu_ghraib_impunity.php

Democracy 2.0

by Timothy Karr, TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/28/democracy_20.php

US Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) convened a forum on "Ending the War in Iraq" yesterday morning at 9:00 a.m. on Capitol Hill. The forum included testimony from Iraqis, a US veteran who shared his personal experiences, and Members of Congress who presented their plans for ending the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Z.shtml

Bungle in the Jungle

Big Oil has been pushing its pipelines into the Amazon rainforest frontier since the 1960s. Nowadays, prompted by high oil prices and militarization of the Middle East's fossil fuels, the eastern slope of the Andes and the Amazonian jungle lowlands are being stripped, sawed, plowed, and piped into a global barrel of politically cheap fossil fuels.

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/04/26/hearn/index.html


From Information Clearing House

South American nations will have to choose whether they want continental unity or individual trade agreements with the United States -- but not both, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/l93uj


From Information Clearing House

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/042706Parry.shtml

A lesson unlearned in El Salvador
http://tinyurl.com/rpxdh


From Information Clearing House

A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, held without charge for more than four years, has tried to kill himself a dozen times in an attempt to escape the misery and isolation of his incarceration.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article360403.ece


From Information Clearing House

The American public is being lulled into a false sense of insecurity. And insecurity, constructed or real, is what gives those in power - our purported protectors - their self-righteous aura of indispensability.

http://tinyurl.com/qt5pt


From Information Clearing House

We shouldn't allow them to go out and die in a cause that's not worthy of the sacrifice. I just think it's a cop-out to say that we have to have a draft before America cares. America should care without a draft.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/35517


From Information Clearing House

Depleted uranium (DU) is steadily taking down our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s time for the soldiers to follow the lead of their commanders in order to end the war.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12861.htm



http://tinyurl.com/jsf3n

Two images changed my life when I visited the Peace Museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 2000, on my first trip to Japan. I had worked as a geoscientist in two U.S. Nuclear weapons labs – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Lab – but I never knew what a nuclear weapon really was, nor the horrific effects of radiation on the environment and biological systems. Now I know.

http://lonestaricon.com/2006/CurrentIssue/17/14guest.htm


From Information Clearing House

It states that weapons of mass destruction-related sanctions against Iran remain in effect until Iran has verified that it is dismantling its WMD programs. It requires that sanctions be imposed on any person who exports or supplies to Iran goods or technology that help Iran obtain WMDs.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/14436154.htm



“Diplomacy,” the smokescreen for savagery
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_742.shtml


From Information Clearing House

When gunmen killed a sister of an Iraqi vice president on Thursday, it grabbed world headlines. A few streets away, however, another slaying, typical of hundreds in Baghdad in recent weeks, went all but unnoticed.

http://tinyurl.com/pq57j



Widow numbers rise in wake of violence

More than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide, according to government officials and non-governmental organisations devoted to women's issues.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/0e9b19596e7ec143feaa10e2d4d2e996.htm


From Information Clearing House

study

By Alister Bull

America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a rags-to-riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world, according to a new study published on Wednesday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12863.htm

An investigative report that answers the question: What role did Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff play in allowing American companies to profit by exploiting tens of thousands of female workers in the Northern Marianas Islands?

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042706LA.shtml

The wall between church and state is being stretched once again in Ohio, this time not just by politicians, but by church leaders themselves. So-called "patriot pastors" are mobilizing to deliver one-sided messages about social policy, secular laws and even political candidates before the state's May 2nd gubernatorial primary.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042706U.shtml

A federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top White House aide who was indicted on perjury and obstruction charges last year in the CIA leak scandal. The judge turned down a motion that challenged the authority of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to handle the case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042706T.shtml

Powerwatch News: 27/04/2006

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20060427_hpa_emfdg.asp

Summary: At the personal request of Sir William Stewart, Chairman of the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA), a new discussion group has been set up to help develop suitable precautionary advice for the general public regarding exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The people invited to participate in this group have considerable expertise in relation to addressing possible health effects from exposure to EMFs. Sir William Chaired the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones which published “The Stewart Report” in May 2000.

The terms of reference for the work of the new discussion group are:

to provide a forum for considering possible health concerns related to exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and to provide an input to the development of HPA advice.

It was agreed that the work of the Group would involve discussion of areas of public concern that relate to the work of HPA Radiation Protection Division and the development of its advice. It needs to ensure that its work concentrates on topics of direct relevance to HPA-RPD and that it does not duplicate the work of other Groups and Committees. The RPD has a primary responsibility to provide a scientific view of how various radiations across the EMF spectrum can affect public health. RPD also has a responsibility to ensure that when information is presented to the public, it should be informative and address any concerns.

Three main topics were discussed at the first meeting, held on the 2nd of March 2006. These were:

A recent RPD report on Electrical Sensitivity Exposures to Magnetic Fields from Power Frequencies A report from the independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR) on Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer.

Minutes for this first meeting have now been published by the HPA RPD and are available from here.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/understand/radiation_topics/emf/emfdg/index.htm

Current Membership consists of:

Sir William Stewart, Chairman (Health Protection Agency)
Dr John Stather, Secretary (Health Protection Agency)
Mr Mike Bell (Chairman, EM Radiation Research Trust)
Dr Mike Clark (Health Protection Agency)
Mr Andy Davidson (Tetrawatch)
Mr Michael Dolan (Mobile Operators Association)
Professor Denis Henshaw (University of Bristol)
Mr George Hooker (Department of Health)
Dr Myron Maslanyj (Health Protection Agency)
Dr Jill Meara (Health Protection Agency)
Mr Alan Meyer (Mast Action UK Services)
Professor Mike O‚Carroll (Chairman, Revolt)
Mrs Eileen O‚Connor (EM Radiation Research Trust)
Mr Alasdair Philips (Powerwatch)
Professor Alan Preece (University of Bristol)
Mr Lee Searles (Local Government Association)
Dr Zenon Sienkiewicz (Health Protection Agency)
Mrs Anne Silk (Independent Consultant)
Dr John Swanson (National Grid Transco)
Mr Chris Woollams (CANCERactive)

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=446

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The HPA acknowledged the condition of hypersensitivity exists and that it affects some people in the population
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1878998/

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First Meeting of the HPA - Radiation Protection Division EMF Discussion Group

From Sylvie Hsem:

See full report at: http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/understand/radiation_topics/emf/emfdg/emfdg_minutes_2_3_06.pdf

Chilton Thursday, 2 March 2006 Those Attending Sir William Stewart, Chairman (Health Protection Agency)…

Welcome and Work of the EMF Discussion Group…

Three main topics had been identified for discussion at the meeting. These were:

1 A recent RPD report on Electrical Sensitivity
2 Exposures to Magnetic Fields from Power Frequencies
3 A report from the independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR) on Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer

Each item was introduced by a member of HPA-RPD staff who summarised key points in the published reports. They were then opened for discussion by member of the EMFDG…

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=510

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042706S.shtml

This is very very interesting. Let us hope good things can indeed come out of it.

Alan Dicey Miami, Florida


Taking the President to Court

by Congressman John Conyers

Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 02:46:24 PM EST

As some of you may be aware, according to the President and Congressional Republicans, a bill does not have to pass both the Senate and the House to become a law. Forget your sixth grade civics lesson, forget the book they give you when you visit Congress - "How Our Laws Are Made," and forget Schoolhouse Rock. These are checks and balances, Republican-style.

As the Washington Post reported last month, as the Republican budget bill struggled to make its way through Congress at the end of last year and beginning of this year (the bill cuts critical programs such as student loans and Medicaid funding), the House and Senate passed different versions of it. House Republicans did not want to make Republicans in marginal districts vote on the bill again, so they simply certified that the Senate bill was the same as the House bill and sent it to the President. The President, despite warnings that the bill did not represent the consensus of the House and Senate, simply shrugged and signed the bill anyway. Now, the Administration is implementing it as though it was the law of the land.

Congressman John Conyers's diary :: :: Several public interest groups have sought to stop some parts of the bill from being implemented, under the theory that the bill is unconstitutional. However, getting into the weeds a bit, they have lacked the ability to stop the entire bill. To seek this recourse, the person bringing the suit must have what is called "standing," that is they must show they were injured or deprived of some right. Because the budget bill covers so many areas of the law, it is difficult for one person to show they were harmed by the entire bill. Thus, many of these groups have only sought to stop part of it.

After consulting with some of the foremost constitutional experts in the nation, I determined that one group of people are injured by the entire bill: Members of the House. We were deprived of our right to vote on a bill that is now being treated as the law of the land.

So, I am going to court. With many of my Democratic Colleagues (list appended at the bottom of this diary), I plan to file suit tomorrow in federal district court in Detroit against the President, members of the Cabinet and other federal officers seeking to have a simple truth confirmed: a bill not passed by the House and Senate is not a law, even if the President signs it. As such, the Budget bill cannot be treated as the law of the land.

As many of you know, I have become increasingly alarmed at the erosion of our constitutional form of government. Whether through the Patriot Act, the President's Secret Domestic Spying program, or election irregularities and disenfranchisement, our fundamental freedoms are being taken away. Nothing to me is more stark than this, however. If a President does not need one House of Congress to pass a law, what's next?

The following is a list of co-plaintiffs on this lawsuit. I would note that I did not invite every Member of the House to join in the suit, and I am certain many, many more Members would have joined if asked. However, this was not possible for various arcane legal reasons.

The other plaintiffs include Rep. John Dingell, Ranking Member on the Energy and Commerce Committee; Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Ranking Member on the Ways and Means Committee; Rep. George Miller, Ranking Member on the Education and Workforce Committee; Rep. James L. Oberstar, Ranking Member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Rep. Barney Frank, Ranking Member on the Financial Services Committee; Rep. Collin C. Peterson, Ranking Member on the Agriculture Committee; Rep. Bennie Thompson, Ranking Member on the Homeland Security Committee; Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, Ranking Member on the Rules Committee; Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark, Ranking Member on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Rep. Sherrod Brown, Representing Ohio's 13th District.



Taking the President to Court

John Conyers announced today that he and other House members are suing the President for signing a budget bill that was not passed by the House. The House and Senate passed different versions of the budget bill last year, but the Republican leadership did not bother to secure the final House vote needed to officially pass the bill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042706R.shtml



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

http://www.feasta.org/documents/energy/nuclear_power.htm or
http://www.feasta.org/documents/energy/nuclear_power.pdf


Informant: Hopedance

BBC NEWS

A mobile phone company is refusing to turn off a mast that is at the centre of a row over claims it was wrongly erected on council-owned land.

Vodafone has been told to de-activate the mast in Fisherman's Walk, Bournemouth, Dorset, by the council.

But the company has maintained the site is on a public highway and says no decision will be made until after talks have been held with the authority.

A council spokeswoman said: "We are not asking them, we are telling them."

Campaigners have also previously called for the mast to be turned off immediately.

We do not intend to switch off the mast because it would deprive local people of our service Vodafone spokeswoman

Protestor Charmaine Despres said: "I would much prefer it was off but I understand that formalities and procedures have to be followed."

The mast first caused controversy when it was revealed the council had failed to inform Vodafone of its objections within the 56-day statutory time limit.

Last week, campaigners discovered that the mast was actually sited on land owned by the council, which has a policy of not approving phone masts on its property.

Joint talks

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: "We are looking into the suggestion that they own the land.

"As far as we are concerned the land has been used as a highway for over 20 years.

"We are happy to talk to the council about it but we do not intend to switch off the mast because it would deprive local people of our service."

Talks between Bournemouth Borough Council, Vodafone and local resident representatives are due to held on Thursday.

The current council policy of not allowing masts on its land is to be reviewed on 17 May.

Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/dorset/4942676.stm

Published: 2006/04/25 11:53:56 GMT

© BBC MMVI

Unsere Forderungen an Monsanto Deutschland:

1. Keine Terminatortechnologie - Weder auf dem Feld noch im Labor!

2. Vielfalt achten - Keine Systematische Unterwanderung der Landwirtschaft!

3. Ausstieg aus dem Risiko-Geschäft Gentechnik!

Zum Hintergrund: Der Gentechnik-Riese Monsanto

Der Gensaat-Konzern Monsanto hat eine Schlüsselstellung inne, was die Verbreitung der Agro-Gentechnik angeht. Er ist verantwortlich für 90% der weltweit verwendeten genetisch veränderten Eigenschaften, die entweder in eigene Saatgutsorten eingebaut oder an andere Unternehmen lizenziert werden. Das bedeutet, dass auch im Gen-Saatgut anderer Konzerne meist Monsanto seine Finger im Spiel hat. Bei der Ausbreitung der Gentechnik hat Monsanto ehrgeizige Ziele: Innerhalb der nächsten zwei Jahre will der Konzern ein Drittel der weltweiten Maisanbaufläche auf Gen-Anbau umgestellt haben. Laut Aussage des Vizepräsidenten von Monsanto soll es auf dem gesamten europäischen Maismarkt in 4 Jahren nur noch Gentechniok geben. Damit wäre keine Alternative zur Gentechnik mehr vorhanden.

Üble Geschäftpraktiken

Zur Umsetzung dieser ehrgeizigen Ziele ist Monsanto jedes Mittel recht. Um nur eine paar Beispiele für die unsägliche Geschäftspraxis des Konzerns zu nennen: Mit Klagen werden Kleinbauern, die sich nicht an die äußerst rigiden Verträge halten, an den Rand der Existenznot gebracht. Durch massives Lobbying, z.T. an der Grenze zur Korruption, wird wirksame Gentechnik-Regulierung verhindert. Schließlich führt Monsanto durch Propaganda Bauern über die vermeintlichen Vorzüge der Gentechnik in die Irre, meist mit vermeintlich neutralen Studien von hauseigenen Instituten. Diese Liste ließe sich beliebig weiterführen. Doch auch so schon wird am Beispiel Monsanto deutlich: Hinter der Einführung der Gentechnik stecken die Interessen großer Konzerne.

Zeit zum Handeln

Wenn Monsanto und Co. mit dieser Strategie Erfolg haben, befindet sich bald der Großteil der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion unter ihrer Kontrolle- und das gegen den erklärten Willen von 70% der europäischen VerbraucherInnen. Wenn auch in diesem Jahr wieder auf vielen Äckern Gensaat ausgesät wird, entscheidet sich ein Stück weit die Zukunft der Landwirtschaft in Europa und der gesamten Welt. Höchste Zeit zum Handeln also: Wollen wir die Einführung der Agro-Gentechnik auf unseren Äckern verhindern, müssen wir Monsanto stoppen.

Mehr dazu unter:
http://www.attac.de/oekologie/monsantokampagne.php

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Monsantobericht

Für alle, die ihn noch nicht haben: ganz unten ist ein Link zu der Monsanto-Studie, die Friends of the Earth anfang des Jahres rausgebracht hat - allerdings nur der Link zum 'executive summary' (20 Seiten). Wer das ganze Ding haben will, der kriegt es unter http://www.foei.org/publications/pdfs/gmcrops2006full.pdf (76 Seiten). Und wer nur die wesentlichen infos (key facts) haben will, bekommt diese unter http://www.foei.org/publications/pdfs/gmcrops2006factsheet.pdf (4 Seiten)

lg chrissi

http://www.worldheritagealert.org/


Informant: George Chaplin

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_04_24/article2.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

says Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul320.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4419/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Mobilfunkantennen erzürnen Anwohner

28.04.2006, Allgäuer Zeitung

Bürger in der Neuen Zeile sehen ihre Gesundheit gefährdet

Neugablonz (fro). - Seit voriger Woche soll auf dem Gebäude des Bundesverbandes der Gablonzer Industrie eine weitere Mobilfunkantenne montiert worden sein, beklagen zwei AZ-Leser. Das hätten sie als Anwohner beobachtet. Dabei sei von Seiten des Bundsverbandes zugesichert worden, dass nach den ersten Antennen keine weiteren folgen sollen, so die Leser. Der Bundesverband hat als Vermieter die Arbeiten genehmigt, aber es sei nichts Neues hinzugekommen: „Der Mobilfunkbetreiber hat seine Anlage nur modernisiert“, erklärt der Geschäftsstellenleiter des Bundesverbandes, Thomas Nölle.

Die beiden Leser wohnen schon länger in der Neuen Zeile in Neugablonz. Vor über zehn Jahren seien bereits Antennen für Mobilfunk auf dem Gebäude des Bundesverbandes der Gablonzer Industrie installiert worden. In der Folgezeit habe der Verband aber versichert, dass keine weiteren Antennen auf das Dach sollen. Schließlich habe der Turm auf dem Gebäude ohnehin „die meisten Antennen in ganz Kaufbeuren auf dem Dach“, so ein Leser. Nun sei wieder auf dem Dach gearbeitet worden und die Leser argwöhnen, es könnte sich um weitere Mobilfunkantennen handeln.

Stimmung der Anwohner nicht gut „Die Stimmung unter den Anwohnern ist deshalb nicht gut“, erklärt eine Leserin. Denn bei Gesprächen mit Nachbarn habe sich herausgestellt, dass es ausgerechnet in der Neuen Zeile und Am Rehgrund eine bemerkenswerte Zunahme von Schlafstörungen, Kreislaufbeschwerden und sogar Krebserkrankungen in den vergangenen rund fünf Jahren gegeben habe.

Omega siehe hierzu auch „Krebshäufungen um Sendeanlagen in Thüringen“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1730505/

Außerdem seien drei Kindergärten und zwei Schulen im weiteren Umkreis. „Wir machen uns ernsthafte Sorgen um unsere Gesundheit“, so die Leserin weiter.

Bei den Arbeiten auf dem Turm seien keine neuen Antennen aufgestellt worden. Es habe lediglich eine „Modernisierung“ stattgefunden, so der Geschäftsstellenleiter des Bundesverbandes, Nölle. „Wir sind der Meinung, dass eine gut ausgebaute Mobilfunk-Infrastruktur wichtig für die Industrie und auch für Teile der Bevölkerung ist“, erklärt er. Der Verband habe vor über zehn Jahren deshalb die Flächen auf dem Turm an Mobilfunkbetreiber verpachtet. Und das soll auch noch einige Jahre so bleiben. „Aber wir nehmen die Bedenken der Anwohner ernst. Deshalb haben wir auch in der Vergangenheit öfter Informationsveranstaltungen zu dem Thema gemacht“, erläutert Nölle. Die Stadt weiß über die Modernisierung Bescheid. „Wir wurden benachrichtigt, dass der Mobilfunkanbieter seine Anlage aufrüsten will. Das muss uns reichen, da das genehmigungsfrei ist“, erklärt Baureferatsleiter Ralf Baur. Er verweist aber darauf, dass die Stadt ab und zu die Strahlenwerte von den Mobilfunkmasten misst. „Sie waren immer innerhalb der zulässigen Grenzwerte. In Kaufbeuren lagen sie sogar unter der weitaus niedrigeren Schweizer Norm“, so Baur.

Omega siehe hierzu „Die Schweizer Grenzwerte - Eine Mogelpackung erster Güte“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283430/

http://www.all-in.de/redsys/c.php/allin/lokales/index.php?l=de&dom=dom1&id=609049

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/309435047


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.3sat.de/kulturzeit/tips/91062/index.html
http://www.3sat.de/nano/astuecke/91375/index.html

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Das Imperium der Schande: der Kampf gegen Armut und Unterdrückung
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1694438/

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Mobilfunksenderstrahlung und Agro-Gentechnik
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1693238/