World-News

The FBI sought personal information on thousands of Americans last year from banks, Internet service providers and other companies without seeking approval from a court, according to new data released by the Justice Department.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206O.shtml

The Secret Service has agreed to turn over White House visitor logs that will show how often convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff met with Bush administration officials - and with whom he met.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206L.shtml

Three leading Democratic senators blasted President Bush yesterday for having claimed he has the authority to defy more than 750 statutes enacted since he took office, saying that the president's legal theories are wrong and that he must obey the law.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206K.shtml

The greenhouse gases widely blamed for raising the planet's temperature are still building up in the atmosphere. Overall, NOAA said, its annual greenhouse gas index "shows a continuing, steady rise in the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206G.shtml

Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else. Opponents of these plans are supporting Net-neutrality legislation, which would require all web sites to be treated equally.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206E.shtml

"However much President George W. Bush's 'Freedom Agenda' asserted itself into US foreign policy in the wake of the Iraq invasion three years ago, traditional geopolitics - and the realpolitik that goes with it - is making a remarkably strong comeback," writes Jim Lobe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206D.shtml

36 US House representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush's impeachment.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206C.shtml



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

Lt. Gen. William E. Odom urges, "Only with a rapid withdrawal from Iraq will Washington regain diplomatic and military mobility. Tied down like Gulliver in the sands of Mesopotamia, we simply cannot attract the diplomatic and military cooperation necessary to win the real battle against terror. Getting out of Iraq is the precondition for any improvement."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206B.shtml

Many states and smaller jurisdictions are making last-minute efforts to switch to electronic voting, and early signs of trouble are appearing. Flaws in the reliability and security of electronic voting machines are unlikely to be addressed by vendors in time for the 2006 election.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206A.shtml

Scientists agree that global warming threatens California's future. California is the twelfth largest emitter of global warming pollution in the world, and if left unchecked, global warming could worsen California's air quality; reduce the Sierra snowpack that is a source of our drinking water; and jeopardize the state's economy, including our agriculture, tourism, skiing and forestry industries.

Other states and countries often adopt California's environmental policies, so limiting the state's pollution could have a real impact on curbing global warming, well, globally. If we act soon to limit pollution, California could also spur investments in the emerging clean energy market, making "clean tech" the new "high tech" and fueling the state's economic prosperity for years to come.

California lawmakers have proposed a bill that would help implement the voluntary pollution reduction targets set forth by Governor Schwarzenegger in June 2005. The Global Warming Solutions Act would set enforceable limits to cut the state's global warming pollution 25 percent by 2020. The act faces several crucial votes during the next couple of months, so Californians must demonstrate broad support for the bill as it moves through the state legislature.

== What to do == If you live in California, send a message urging your state senator and assemblymember to support and vote Yes for the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).

== Contact information == You can send your state legislators a message directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53490 .

On May 17th, the members of the Assembly Appropriations Committee will vote on three bills that would severely weaken California's ability to protect our national forests, state parks and other precious public lands from illegal off- road vehicle damage. These votes will be critical to the future of California's public lands and waterways.

Even though off-road vehicle abuse threatens wildlife, disrupts rural communities and damages California's fragile public lands and waterways, ORV business groups are trying to weaken the rules that govern off-road vehicle use and activities throughout the state. Several ill-conceived legislative proposals have been introduced that, collectively, would diminish public input, transparency and legislative oversight for California's off-road vehicle management program; open state parks to increased off-road vehicle damage; and divert funds from needed environmental restoration.

== What to do == If you live in California, send a message urging the members of the Assembly Appropriations Committee to vote No on AB 2337, AB 2784, and AB 2298, and to protect California's wild places from off-road vehicle abuse.

== Contact information == You can send the committee members a message directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53488 . Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

California Assembly Appropriations Committee State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249 Fax: 916-319-2181

== Sample letter ==

Subject: Reject AB 2337, AB 2784, and AB 2298

Dear Assembly Appropriations Committee members,

I urge you to protect California's public lands, wildlife and clean water supplies by supporting the sustainable management of off-road vehicles throughout the state. Please vote No on the following bills that would weaken California's ability to manage off-road vehicle use:

1. AB 2337, which would reduce legislative oversight, public input and transparency for California's off-highway vehicle management program;

2. AB 2298, which would lead to increased off-road vehicle damage in California's state parks; and

3. AB 2784, which would unwisely divert environmental "restoration" funds to off-road vehicle trail maintenance.

Please protect California's environment and wildlife from off-road vehicle damage by rejecting these three harmful bills.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

The Eagle Lake region in northeastern California and northwestern Nevada comprises more than one million acres of public lands in California's Lassen, Sierra and Plumas counties and in Washoe County in Nevada. The rugged landscape of this remote area includes grasslands, sagebrush flats, deep canyons, steep mountains, innumerable caves and spires of volcanic rock. Herds of pronghorn antelope, Rocky Mountain elk and mule deer graze there, while golden eagles soar above.

Over the years the open space of this region has been slowly criss-crossed by roads that facilitate mining, livestock grazing, utility development and recreation. It's up to the Bureau of Land Management to protect the region's tens of thousands of acres of remaining wilderness-quality lands from the rugged Skedaddle Mountains to the petroglyph-etched rocks of Tunnison Mountain. The BLM has released a draft land use plan that will serve as the agency's blueprint for managing the region over the next decade or more. The BLM is accepting comments on its proposed plan through July 28th.

== What to do == Send a message, before the July 28th comment deadline, urging the BLM to adopt the strongest possible protections for Eagle Lake.

== Contact information == You can send an official comment directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53487 . Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

Eagle Lake RMP Comments Att'n: Planning Coordinator Bureau of Land Management Eagle Lake Field Office, 2950 Riverside Drive Susanville, California 96130 Fax: 530-257-4831 Email: necarmp@ca.blm.gov

== Sample letter ==

Subject: Choose and strengthen Alternative 2 to protect Eagle Lake

Dear Eagle Lake Planning Coordinator,

The Eagle Lake Field Office is the steward for one of this country's most unique and remarkable landscapes. As one of the owners of the public lands in this region, I appreciate your proposals in the draft resource management plan to close roads in several wilderness study areas, manage Smoke Creek as a wild and scenic river, designate seven areas of critical environmental concern, confine vehicles to designated routes and manage much of the region for non- motorized or primitive recreation. I also support your proposal to allow fire to play an important role in maintaining the high desert's ecological health.

I urge the BLM to choose Alternative 2 as the preferred alternative in the final version of the management plan, with the following key changes: First, please manage all wilderness study areas as primitive zones. And second, please manage the core portions of the Observation Peak, Shaffer Mountain, Shinn Mountain, Skedaddle Flats, Skedaddle West and Snowstorm Mountain roadless areas as primitive zones. These areas have extraordinarily high wilderness qualities and deserve to be protected to the fullest extent.

Please develop a final plan for this remarkable region that will adequately protect its irreplaceable resources for the future.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

Bei der Unterzeichnung von über 750 Gesetzen hat US-Präsident Bush den Vorbehalt angemeldet, sich aus angeblich verfassungsmäßigen Gründen nicht daran halten zu müssen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22575/1.html

by Nancy Duff Campbell, TomPaine.com

Bush slashed funding for working families' child care, and now the battle for tax credits is on.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/02/the_child_care_squeeze.php

Last month, right before Coke’s annual shareholders' meeting, we delivered thousands of messages from activists just like you to Coke’s executives. By challenging corporate control of our water, you made Coke executives really feel the heat at this year’s annual meeting! Now it’s time to make Pepsi feel that same pressure.

Tomorrow, we are heading to Pepsi’s annual meeting in Plano, Texas, where Pepsi will showcase Aquafina—the #1 bottled water brand on the market. Pepsi’s top executives will be there—and so will we! With your help, we’ll send a strong message to Pepsi’s C.E.O. Stephen Reinemund that “our water is not for sale!” Join with thousands of people from across the U.S. by taking action now!

With campaign pressure mounting, Pepsi has made it more difficult for citizens to express their concerns about the corporation’s irresponsible and dangerous actions. To take action you must copy and paste the letter below into Pepsi’s web form found at http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_Investors/CorporateGovernance/contact/contactForm/

Corporations, like Pepsi, cannot turn water into a profit-driven commodity and determine who gets it and who doesn’t. Take action today! Tell Pepsi’s C.E.O. Stephen Reinemund that you are joining people around the world challenging corporate control of our water.

Onward,

Patti Lynn
Campaigns Director


Letter to CEO:

Please copy and paste the letter below into Pepsi’s web form found at: http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_Investors/CorporateGovernance/contact/contactForm/

Dear C.E.O. Stephen Reinemund:

This spring, thousands of people joined the Think Outside the Bottle campaign and took action to challenge the corporate control of water.

Despite claims that your company respects people’s “right to have access to water,” Pepsi is the leader in an industry that is turning a right into a commodity, like oil. Through misleading advertising of brands like Aquafina and interference in public policies, the bottled water industry is undermining people’s confidence in public tap water.

As you and the Board of Directors meet this week, I want you to know that I am joining people around the world in a common refrain: “our water is not for sale.”

And we want to know: When will your company stop prioritizing profit over people and the environment?

I await your prompt reply.

Sincerely,

Your Name Address


Pepsi's annual meeting is tomorrow, so be sure to encourage your friends to take action! Click the link below to pass this along.
http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/stopcorporateabuse/join-forward.html

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters skipped work, school and shopping on Monday and marched in dozens of cities from coast to coast.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206Z.shtml

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/01/06

Both liberal and conservative U.S. advocates of non-proliferation policies pay too little attention to the effect U.S. interventionist foreign policy has on the acceleration of nuclear proliferation around the world. Countries interested in developing nuclear technology saw the respect that a nuclear North Korea got from the United States as well as the absence of respect that a non-nuclear Iraq received. Many conservatives neglect this intervention-proliferation causal relationship because they believe U.S. military interventions overseas are necessary for the promotion of the national interest. On the other hand, some liberals minimize this relationship because they advocate military interventions for 'humanitarian' purposes. Both camps, however, should realize the long-term effects of U.S. military interventions on the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1713


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

„Während die Welt zu Gast bei den deutschen Freunden ist und sich scheinbar alles und jeder auf den Fußball und das lukrative Geschäft damit freut, sind alle Anzeichen, die eine friedliche, freundliche und gut gelaunte Atmosphäre stören könnten, bei den Herrschenden und sämtlichen Geschäftemachern unerwünscht. Schließlich könnte die ganze Welt mitkriegen, dass im Gastgeberland eben nicht nur Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen und Fußballlaune „ohne Grenzen“ herrschen…“ Diskussionspapier von BAG-SHI e.V. und Tacheles e.V. und Labournet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/wmdezentral.pdf


Absageagentur in Leipzig am 03.05.2006

„am 03.05.2006 könnt ihr wieder kostenlos Absagen schreiben. Wir haben einen Stand im Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum der Universität Leipzig, Beethovenstr. 15, von 15 - 18 Uhr. Wir stellen einige Absagen vorheriger Aktionen aus, ihr könnt Stellenanzeigen lesen und natürlich Absagen schreiben. Die Aktion findet im Rahmen eines Tages zur "Generation Praktikum", organisiert vom kulturpolitischen Salon Leipzig, statt. Dazu gibt es eine Podiumsdiskussion. Siehe: http://www.kulturpolitischer-salon.de/kooperation/002-praktikum.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 1.Mai 2006

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Dezentrale bundesweite Proteste während der WM

Bochum

Rote Karte gegen Sozialraub! Erwerbslose - Raus aus dem Abseits! Im Windschatten des „Deutschland“-Jubels: Größte Steuerabzocke in Tateinheit mit dem massivsten Sozialraub der Nachkriegsgeschichte. "WM-Flugblatt" des Bochumer Sozialforums, verteilt am 27.06. und 29.06. (pdf) http://www.kolabor.de/sozialforum/pdf/2006/27junibosofo.pdf

Dortmund

Deutschland ist in der WM weiter - aber die Soziale Bewegung seit dem 3. Juni auch !

Zum heutigen Spiel in Dortmund gegen Italien ist eine erneute WM-Aktion der Sozialen Bewegung geplant, sie soll in Dortmund um 18:00 Uhr starten, Treffpunkt ist U-Bahn Haltestelle Reinoldikirche. Das ist zu Fuss gut 5 min. vom Bahnhof entfernt.


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Juli 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6ec15f3c-d93d-11da-8b06-0000779e2340.html

Carl Schmitt and the Bush Dictatorship
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=355


Informant: Kev Hall

The Future

A piece hidden away in the Financial Supplement to yesterday's Mail on Sunday:

"Property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz has joined forces with defence technology firm QuinetiQ to develop a mobile phone mast that can be used by several network operators. Until now, phone companies have each used their own masts, but with £15 million of backing from Tchenguiz, QuinetiQ has developed an aerial that can handle multiple operators. Quintel, the joint-venture company set up be Tchenguiz and QuinetiQ, has developed the masts over the past five years and the first two have just been installed. One in Cheshire was originally a Vodafone site, which the 3 network can now run off, while one in Staffordshire now accommodates Vodafone ans 3. Quintel chief executive Gary Dawson said the networks had little choice. 'To deliver 3G effectively across the UK, mobile operators each need to build in the region of 10,000 more 3G base stations', he said. 'However, because of a commitment made to the Government to halt the proliferation of phone masts, networks must think more laterally - which means sharing.' Quintel is looking at 40,000 potential sites where its technology could replace existing masts."

Watch this space!

David Baron

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TETRA Airwave, owned in Spain, decrypted and listened to in the USA...

And mobile networks on antenna technology owned by Iranians, developed from defence technology, by a company embroiled in the Bush / Cheney / Carlyle network, hosted in church steeples, and used by the police and emergency services for what Airwave won't do?

And they might be buying a pub near you (Mitchells & Butlers) soon!

What interesting globalisation we have.

Andy

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Qinetiq is the MoD Science privatisation spin-off criticised for making loads of dosh for the Carlyle Group end of last year. They made a deal via business unit QS4, with the Church of England, to supply multi-user antennae in church towers and steeples.

But just because an old GSM mast can be shared doesn't put it in the right place for 3G, so it doesn't solve many of the problems, just reduces planning hassle for some.

Signal characteristics remain the same as before per operator, this is just a way of handling multiple protocols simultaneously. Presumably the total power of QS4 antenna setup is the sum of what would have been produced separately.

Andy

Die Online-Petition gegen eine mögliche Zwangsimpfung in Verbindung mit der angekündigten Influenza-Pandemie hat inzwischen mehr als
6.500 Unterstützer! Die Mitzeichnungsfrist läuft noch bis Mittwoch, den 24. Mai 2006.

Ob wirklich eine Zwangsimpfung geplant ist, ist nicht sicher. Sicher ist jedoch jetzt schon das Aufstallungsgebot für Geflügelzüchter. Da es diesbezüglich meines Wissens nach bisher keine Petition gibt und mit Blick auf die Demonstration am 14. Mai in Bad Waldsee, habe ich mich entschieden, selbst eine Online-Petition zu starten. Sie wurde von mir am 30. April per Email eingereicht.

Bis sie auf der Petitionswebseite verfügbar ist, kann es einige Tage dauern. Wenn Sie die Petition gut finden und bereits jetzt Unterstützerunterschriften sammeln wollen, können Sie den Text zusammen mit einer Unterschriftenliste herunterladen und sofort beginnen. Sobald die Petition zusätzlich online ist, werde ich dies über diesen Newsletter bekannt geben.

Ihr

Hans U. P. Tolzin


--> Petitionstext mit Unterschriftenliste: http://www.impfkritik.de/vogelgrippe/petition

--> Demo gegen Aufstallung von Geflügel am 14. Mai in Bad Waldsee: http://www.me-na-ti.de/024bff977b1104f09/024bff977f10a9604.html

--> Bereits laufende Petition gegen Zwangsimpfung: http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=106


Öffentliche Petition an den deutschen Bundestag zur sofortigen Aussetzung des Aufstallungsgebotes für Geflügel

eingereicht von Hans U. P. Tolzin, Augsburg, per Email am 30. April
2006

Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen, das Aufstallungsgebot von Geflügel mit sofortiger Wirkung so lange auszusetzen, bis nachfolgende Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind:

1. Die Sicherstellung der Eichung indirekter Virennachweisverfahren

Wie jedes andere Messgerät auch bedürfen Virentests einer Eichung anhand eines "Urmaßes". Wie verschiedene Anfragen von Bürgern beim Friedrich-Löffler-Institut ergaben, ist eine Eichung der für gewöhnlich verwendeten indirekten Virennachweisverfahren anhand des isolierten (hochaufgereinigten) spezifischen Virus nicht gesichert. Es kann somit nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass die positiven Testergebnisse bei Mensch und Tier möglicherweise reine Laborartefakte
(Kunstprodukte) darstellen und die Tests falschpositive Ergebnisse bringen, indem sie auch auf sonstige Virentypen, Zellbestandteile oder sonstige Mikropartikel reagieren.

2. Die eindeutige Klärung des Infektionsweges

Überträger und Infektionsweg sind immer noch unbekannt. Dass Wildvögel oder Freilandgeflügel Überträger der als Vogelgrippe bezeichneten Krankheit sind, ist bisher reine Vermutung und umstritten.

3. Die gleichberechtigte Einbeziehung von Toxikologen in die Ursachenforschung

Eine gehäufte Erkrankungsrate innerhalb eines Bestandes kann auch nichtinfektiöse Ursachen haben. Diese werden aber gar nicht mehr untersucht, sobald ein positives (und fragwürdiges) Virentestergebnis vorliegt! Die Symptome der Vogelgrippe können jedoch laut FLI auch durch Vergiftungen verursacht werden. Dazu gehören z.B. Umweltgifte, Pestizide, Medikamente und verdorbene Nahrung.

4. Die Einbeziehung von Halte- und Lebensbedingungen in die Ursachenforschung

Bisher werden von den Behörden die Bedingungen der Massentierhaltung im Zusammenhang mit der Vogelgrippe nicht berücksichtigt. Die Vogelgrippe-Problematik betrifft jedoch laut FLI in erster Linie genau diese Betriebe. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass die in der Regel nicht artgerechten Haltebedingungen (z.B. Überzüchtung, Mangel an Tageslicht und Auslauf, denaturierte Nahrung, Enge, ständige medikamentöse Behandlung) die eigentlichen Ursachen für eine sehr instabile Gesundheit der Tiere darstellen und zumindest Mitursache für die beobachteten Infektionskrankheiten sind.

5. Klärung des Durchseuchungsgrades

Es ist nicht bekannt, wie hoch der Durchseuchungsgrad mit dem angeblichen Vogelgrippevirus bzw. seinen als hochpathogen angesehenen Subtypen bei Mensch und Tier wirklich ist. Aus diesem Wert würde sich jedoch u.a. ableiten, wie gefährlich das Virus tatsächlich ist und in welchem Ausmaß andere Faktoren für Erkrankungsausbrüche verantwortlich sein müssen

6. Überprüfung naturheilkundlicher Methoden durch unabhängige Studien

Bisher werden einzig antivirale Medikamente und Impfungen als Möglichkeit der Behandlung bzw. Vorsorge bei Tier und Mensch angesehen und somit eine bestimmte, sehr finanzkräftige und einflussreiche Industrie bevorzugt. Alternativmedizinische bzw. naturheilkundliche Methoden wurden unverständlicherweise nicht in die Überlegungen und Entscheidungsfindung der Verantwortlichen einbezogen.

7. Eindeutige Beweisführung für tödliche Mutationen des Influenzavirus

Die weltweite Pandemieangst beruht auf der Mutationshypothese. Diese ist bisher nicht eindeutig bewiesen und basiert außerdem auf der konsequenten Ausblendung aller sonstiger Faktoren, die bei schweren Komplikationen währen einer Influenzainfektion eine Rolle spielen können.

8. Die Einsetzung einer unabhängigen Experten-Kommission Diese Kommission soll aus ausgewiesenen Experten verschiedener Fachrichtungen bestehen, die frei von Interessenskonflikten sind und dies öffentlich dokumentieren können. Sie soll die Bundesregierung neutral und sachlich beraten und die Einhaltung der oben genannten Bedingungen für die Erlassung eines Aufstallungsgebotes überwachen.

--> Petitionstext mit Unterschriftenliste: http://www.impfkritik.de/vogelgrippe/petition


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 16/2006

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=151 (plus comments at the end)

Whose paranoia should win?

from Andy:

April 28, 2006 School ban cellphones. Parents go wild.

New York City schools set off a firestorm this week by doing random searches for weapons and confiscating cellphones, the New York Times reports. School administrators are out to lunch, city parents say, if they think they're sending their kids to NYC public schools without cellphones.

"I have her call me when she gets out of school, and she's supposed to get on the bus right away," Lindsay Walt, an artist, said of her daughter, Eve Thomson, 11, a sixth grader at Salk. "Then I have her call me when she gets off the bus, and I have her call me when she gets in the house. The chancellor will have civil disobedience on his hands. No one in New York is going to let their child go to school without a cellphone."

Dr. Moira Kennedy, a psychiatrist with daughters at the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies and at Stuyvesant High School, said the policy indicated "a disregard for the concerns of parents," adding, "I think it shows a big lack of awareness of the essential nature of having a way to communicate with your child during the day."

The civil disobedience started when NY police set up a random scanning operation at a Brooklyn school and confiscated 129 cellphone, 10 CD players, 2 iPods, a boxcutter and a knife. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein defended the policy. "We all understand the concerns that parents are talking about, but I think they have to see it from our point of view," he said. "There is always an enforcement issue, but the enforcement issue doesn't mean the policy is wrong. And obviously through the work we're doing now, I think that will improve enforcement."

Among the clueless: teacher Lisa Miller, who said, "If it's really an emergency, they can call the school."

That doesn't sit well with parents like Jane Reiff. "We sit here and we tell our parents, 'Care about your kids, do this, do that,' and then you say, 'You've just lost that safety net that you rely on,' " said Reiff, a Queens parent whose daughter Nikki, 12, uses her cellphone to call for a ride if the friends she usually walks home with are out sick. "It's just not safe out there."

Given how important cellphones are to people's lives, what exactly is the objection to having them in school? That they're one more think requiring classroom discipline? After all phones can be banned from the classroom and kept in lockers. Penalties for cheating can be made stiff enough to prevent all but the most apathetic. Maybe administrators just want school to be like it always was.

Read the latest Talkback post ummmm....public school spoiled? While I am sure they are spoiled, as most kids today are, including mine, what does their being in a... (Read the rest)

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Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

The danger of chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409463/

Brains and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1888981/

MOBILE TELEPHONE CAN CAUSE CANCER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586356/

Rejection of Death

Le Monde suggests that while Zacarias Moussaoui may in some ways be a perfect scapegoat, official killing is incompatible with human rights.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106H.shtml

More than 34,000 Iraqis, according to MOHR figures, are held at one of the dozens of prisons across the country run by either the US military or the Iraqi Ministries of Interior, Defense, and Justice. Even for prisoners who can be located, families often face confusing circumstances and long waits before legal proceedings take place.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106C.shtml

"In a replay of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction charade," Robert Parry explains, "neoconservative supporters of George W. Bush are pushing the US intelligence community to take a more alarmist view about Iran’s nuclear program - only this time, the nation's top spy, John Negroponte, is resisting the pressure, unlike former CIA chief George Tenet."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106B.shtml

Why May Day?

Geov Parrish reminds us that May Day is an American holiday celebrated for the last century everywhere in the world except America. The origins of May Day are worth remembering because May Day began as a strike - by mostly immigrants - for basic workplace rights we're now in the process of losing.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050106LA.shtml

For as long as anyone can remember, Anyie Apoui and his people have lived among the majestic trees and churning rivers in an untouched corner of Borneo, catching fish and wild game. But all that is about to change. The Indonesian government has signed a deal with China that will level much of the remaining tropical forests.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050106EB.shtml

All across Asia, governments are searching for crops that can help them offset a dependence on imported oil that can only skyrocket as their economies soar. But environmental dangers loom, such as plans by Indonesia to convert millions of acres of rain forest on the island of Borneo into palm oil plantations.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050106EA.shtml

China is racing to lock up energy resources for its fast-growing economy, acquiring energy from countries with horrific human-rights records such as Sudan, Chad and the Republic of Congo. China's willingness to deal with rogue states gives it an edge over the US in competition for oil and gas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106T.shtml

William Fisher says that FEMA faces the same set of problems that afflicts the Department of Homeland Security: rampant cronyism, a confusing congressional oversight process and a lack of resources. Both agencies will continue to fail until they undertake fundamental reforms.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106R.shtml

http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/052006/ImpeachmentPetitions.shtml


Informant: ranger116



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

May 2, 2006

Horrified Stafford residents have been told that nothing can be done about a mobile phone mast that was erected just yards from their homes following a council gaffe.

People in Burton Manor were shocked when the mast was sited on the Wolverhampton Road, near Gravel Lane, despite the fact that council had rejected the application.

It was discovered that a council blunder meant the legal documents did not reach mobile phone company Orange within the specified deadline, meaning the company was within its rights to erect the mast.

Despite negotiations between the council and the mobile company, Orange have refused to budge and Stafford Borough Council has now admitted that the talks have reached deadlock, two months after the mast was erected and almost 18 months after the original decision to refuse the application.

Paul Freeman, spokesman for Stafford Borough Council, said: "We would like to apologise to residents for what has happened. We deal with thousands of these applications and this is one that has, unfortunately, slipped through the net. Occasionally mistakes are made and we would like to assure people that it won't happen again."

Councillor Geoff Rowlands today criticised officers for what he described as unforgivable inefficiencies. He said: "I am angry that an important decision by a committee of Stafford Borough Council has been undermined by the inefficiency of council officers. This has resulted in residents of Moss Pit having to suffer the consequences."

Applications for mobile phone masts have to be dealt with within a time period of 56 days and when the planning decision was made in September 2004 there were still five days in which to issue the relevant documents. However, officers failed to send off the paperwork informing Orange of the decision.

Sue Hammett, spokeswoman for Orange said: "We don't feel that we want to move from the site."

© Express & Star Ltd, 1997-2006

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_89811.php

I really had no idea how to spot a terrorist until I studied the manuals published by the Phoenix FBI, the state employees of Virginia, and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Now that I have absorbed these manuals, I not only know how to spot a terrorist, but I have discovered that I probably am a terrorist.

http://tinyurl.com/orogf


From Information Clearing House

From Brockton to the Berkshires, illegal immigrants and their supporters rallied for immigration reform Monday as part of a nationwide day of demonstrations, boycotts and walkouts.

http://tinyurl.com/qt757


From Information Clearing House

THE dollar has embarked on a big decline that will see it fall against all leading currencies, according to analysts. The plunge is being prompted by America?s $800 billion (?438 billion) current-account deficit, they say.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2157799,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Video: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12906.htm

As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/14462039.htm


From Information Clearing House

Chill over China

Managing China’s arrival as the world’s second superpower will demand consummate diplomatic skills. The United States must devise ways of living with China’s economic competition, surging demand for resources, and inevitable growing geopolitical influence in Asia and the western Pacific while avoiding confrontation.

http://tinyurl.com/kcvxb


From Information Clearing House

Hugo Chavez Predicts

This century will see the end of the US empire, said Hugo Chavez on Saturday during a rally in Havana, where he highlighted the progress of Latin American integration efforts.

http://tinyurl.com/k7ffh


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned on Sunday the United States might take steps outside the UN Security Council to pressure Iran to stop its nuclear program.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/711267.html


From Information Clearing House

The US is trying to deceive the world on Iran's nuclear program by making it appear that the program has objectives beyond civilian ones, said Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad-Javad Zarif today.

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060429/2006042904.html


From Information Clearing House

There doesn’t seem to be much doubt that their intention is to produce nuclear weapons; a handful every year, perhaps.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2157918,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The British and the Americans are guarding Iraq's Persian Gulf oil platforms -- the troubled country's only real sources of revenue -- like crown jewels. But Iraqi oil is flowing sluggishly at best, while hoped-for investments haven't materialized and the Iraqi oil industry is on the verge of collapse -- both technical and political.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12899.htm



Iraq is on the verge of collapse - report

Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and fragmentation, a leading British think-tank said on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17723.htm

Personally, I am against breaking up Iraq. I don't think it is more unworkable than Nigeria or Lebanon. And, the consequences are unforeseeable and potentially very, very dangerous.

http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/settling-iraq-before-it-blows-up.html


From Information Clearing House

By Daniel Jordan and Neil Wollman

The Neo-Con’s vision of a “New American Century” has dragged us into an Anti-American Century in which our children will pay dearly for our mistakes. Destroying our country and others is not a form of salvation, but of mass suicide.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12895.htm

By Mike Whitney

2,400 American servicemen and 100,000 Iraqis have now sacrificed their lives on the altar of corporate profiteering. Bush has spread his energy war from Central Asia to the Middle East; increasing the incidents of terrorism by 4 fold. At the same time, the American middle class has been crushed by government malfeasance and diminishing civil liberties even though well-heeled oil moguls are raking in the largest profits in history.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12898.htm

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/official_culture.htm


Informant: Friends

http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker19.html

Immigrant Boycott Set to Test Employers in US
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0501-02.htm

Big Oil proponents in Congress are again calling for opening the incomparable Arctic Refuge to oil drilling as Washington struggles with America's oil addiction and consumer outrage at pump prices. Please take a moment to tell Congress to keep Big Oil out of the Arctic Refuge. See Take Action, below.

Thank you to all who took action on special land acquisition projects. Last week, residents from ten states descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for those projects and for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. They were bolstered in their efforts by thousands of emails from WildAlert subscribers supporting those projects.

Kathy Kilmer
Director,
Electronic Communications
The Wilderness Society


Take Action


As Big Oil rakes in record profits and consumers shell out more and more at the pump, some members of Congress are casting about for ways to keep their poll numbers from plummeting. No surprise then that late last week we saw a renewed call for drilling in the Arctic Refuge as part of a package of proposed "consumer relief" measures.

Of course, it would take ten years to bring Refuge oil to consumers (if oil is found at all) and savings would amount to just a penny per gallon. But to Big Oil and its friends in Congress, this issue is seen as a symbol of their power, and they will not rest until they show that power by being able to drill in America's last great wilderness.

Your phone calls to Congress today and tomorrow are urgently needed. Phone numbers are below. Click here to see talking points and more info.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/ArcticPhoneIn

Click here to look up the names and phone numbers of your Members of Congress: http://action.wilderness.org/wilderness/leg-lookup/search.tcl

The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106L.shtml

Weltklima im Wandel - was erwartet uns in der Zukunft? http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22563/1.html

In den USA boomt die Gefängnisindustrie seit Jahren. Nun entdecken Betreiber von Haftanstalten Irak als Investitionsgebiet.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22486/1.html

[April 30, 2006]

(Nottingham Evening Post Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Mobile phone giant O2 has been given permission to put up a phone mast in Mapperley.

Hurtej Kaur Mapperley The company says it needs the site for a 12.5-metre base station to boost coverage for its 3G network.

But people living near the site in Woodborough Road are worried about possible health implications and objected to the planning application.

Student Tom Riley, 20, who lives opposite the site, said: "Basically I think there's enough masts around as it is.

"When you look around the city centre, there's so many on top of buildings and things.

"Is it really necessary? It's right near a school as well and there's lots of kids who live around this area. It's not an ideal place for it even if it does help with reception coverage.

"It's unnecessary but I think it was always going to be a foregone conclusion." Fellow student Laura Mitchell, 21, said: "I think it's awful. We had a postcard telling us a bit about it.

"It's just a really bad idea - why would you want to stick it in the middle of a residential area?" Ann Kinsella, a resident of St Ann's Hill for 30 years, said: "I would rather it wasn't down the bottom of our road.

"I would also be worried about the possible health effects; we definitely don't want it there." The city council approved the mast plan.

A spokesman from the planning department said: "We did take into account the siting of the mast and health concerns." He added the appearance and siting were acceptable.

No one was available for comment from O2.

Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-2006

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-mast-be-built-despite-protests-/2006/04/30/1625233.htm

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/the-total-information-awareness-project-lives-on


Informant: Neo Mulder

by Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews

Neocons are upset with intel czar John Negroponte for refusing -- so far -- to help the White House hype Iran's nuclear threat.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/01/iran_intelligence_war.php

by Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange

The immigrants striking today are on the leading edge of a struggle faced by all American workers.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/01/why_may_day.php

The Hightower Lowdown
by Jim Hightower

04/30/06

The Bush administration has pushed hard for limitless powers to spy on, imprison and torture American citizens in the name of 'security.' Is this really what America stands for? A fellow from a town just outside of Austin wrote a four-sentence letter to the editor of our local daily that astonished me: 'I want the government to please, please listen in on my phone calls. I have nothing to hide. It is also welcome to check my emails and give me a national identification card, which I will be proud to show when asked by people in authority. What's with all you people who need so much privacy?' Well, gee where to start? How about with the founders?

http://tinyurl.com/jkpjn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Cindy Sheehan

04/30/06

May 1st, 2006 will be the 3rd Anniversary of the end of 'major combat' in Iraq. It was a glorious day when George Bush flew onto the deck of the Abraham Lincoln and was hailed by the rapturous throngs of toadie 'news' persons ... Now that BushCo has done such a fantastic job with the invasion and occupation of Iraq that never should have happened, but now that it has happened is extraordinarily evil in its scope and tactics, he is warning Iran that if it doesn't shape up the US is going to come and impose freedom and democracy on that country. The rah-rah, 'yes, sir' Congress who has an easy job of approving everything that George Bush does, thereby eliminating critical thinking, debate, or any semblance of rational discussion has voted for sanctions that will lead to an attack on Iran which will be devastating for our troops in Iraq and for that poor region that had the unfortunate luck to be built upon tremendous oil and natural gas reserves...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0430-28.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/04/it-cant-happen-here.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Loose Cannon Libertarian
by Garry Reed

05/01/06

Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday accused critics of 'corrupt and shameless' revisionism in suggesting the White House misled the nation in a rush to war. 'We never had the burden of proof,' he said, adding that it had been up to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to prove to the world that he didn't have such weapons. Pre-war Baghdad, Iraqi Presidential palace, Saddam Hussein addresses UN weapons inspectors: 'This first slide doesn't show the gigantic caves that we didn't dig into the sides of mountains where we didn't hide the chemical weapons that we don't have. This next slide doesn’t show the steel and concrete bunkers that are not cleverly concealed beneath sand dunes where we don't hide the biological weapons that we don't have. And this is not a metal canister that does not contain a deadly nuclear dirty bomb that we haven't developed. So there, ladies and gentlemen, is your negative proof that we don't have weapons of mass destruction'...

http://www.freecannon.com/BurdenOfProof.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by John Chuckman

04/29/06

Never mind that the American Constitution says nothing about language. Never mind that waves of immigrants from Europe about a hundred years ago founded countless private schools and cultural institutions in the United States where German or Italian or Hebrew were the languages used and promoted. Never mind that after a generation or two, minority immigrants always end up adopting the language of the majority, something which is close to an economic necessity. And never mind that xenophobia in a land of immigrants should have no place. ... Throughout history, fascism is closely associated with xenophobia, but then we find many other unpleasant aspects of fascism -- from illegal spying to recording what people read in libraries, from torture to illegal invasion -- feature in George Bush's America...

http://www.counterpunch.org/chuckman04292006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Oh, Say, Can You See Xenophobia in a Land of Immigrants?
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/050306Chuckman.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Arizona Republic

04/30/06

Scientists tried to discover Saturday why hundreds of dolphins washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar. Among other possibilities, marine biologists were examining whether U.S. Navy sonar threw the animals off course. Villagers and fishermen were burying the remains of the roughly 400 bottlenose dolphins, which normally live in deep offshore waters but washed up Friday along a 2 1/2-mile stretch of coast in Tanzania's Indian Ocean archipelago. ... Some scientists surmise that loud bursts of sonar, which can be heard for miles in the water, may disorient or scare marine mammals, causing them to surface too quickly and suffer the equivalent of what divers call the bends, when sudden decompression forms nitrogen bubbles in tissue...

http://tinyurl.com/nxjck


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Your support needed to stop Pentagon & mining company
“Divine Strake" June 2, 2006
A massive Near-nuclear blast
Blast will generate a 10,000-foot mushroom cloud

It's time to stop talking and take action! use info below to send your emails and phone calls. Draft a short letter demanding “Divine Strake" be stopped!

US Senator Orrin Hatch http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact (202- 224-5251)

Newmont Mining Corporation (303-863-7414) http://www.newmont.com/en/contact.asp

National Nuclear Security Administration (1-800-342-5363) ighotline@hq.doe.gov

Defense Threat Reduction Agency please contact (703) 767-5870 dtra.publicaffairs@dtra.mil

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld http://www.dod.gov/faq/comment.html


Western Shoshone Defense Project

The “Stop Divine Strake Coalition” Calls for an International Day of Action

The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) plans to detonate a
700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive on June 2, 2006 at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a federal facility 65 miles north of Las Vegas. They are calling this test “Divine Strake.”

While this test is not nuclear in composition, its purpose, according to DTRA documents, is to “simulate a low-yield nuclear weapon.” Given that previous nuclear tests have occurred only a few miles away from where Divine Strake will occur, this test raises the specter of kicking up previous radioactive contamination and sending it downwind. We have been told too many half-truths and outright lies to believe in the “safety” of this test. Furthermore, no full environmental impact statement has been done to verify that there is no radioactive contamination at the particular site.

It must be stressed that the presence of the United States military on Western Shoshone land is uninvited. In fact, the Western Shoshone have been fighting for sovereignty over their ancestral and treaty-recognized lands, and to shut down the NTS for years. Most recently, their efforts brought them to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) which found the United States in violation of recognized fundamental human rights standards and international law, and ordered the United States to “freeze”, “desist” and “stop” their activities on Western Shoshone land. All this while the DTRA was preparing for the “Divine Strake” test.

Western Shoshone Defense Project http://www.wsdp.org/index.htm

Welcome to Downwinders http://www.downwinders.org/

www.UnitedNativeAmerica.com http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/

United Native America Press Release
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=6828


Informant: Teresa Binstock

As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106Z.shtml

"Es gibt keine bedeutende Wanderungsroute von Ost nach West" Experten bezweifeln Zugvögel-These

"PARIS - Viele Experten zweifeln inzwischen an der These, dass das gefährliche H5N1-Virus vor allem durch Zugvögel verbreitet wird.

Wie die französische Zeitung "Le Monde" in der Ausgabe vom 30.3. berichtete, schließt auch die UN-Ernährungs- und Landwirtschaftsorganisation FAO nicht mehr aus, dass der Handel mit Vögeln eine wichtigere Rolle bei der Verbreitung spielt als bisher angenommen. Vogelkundler verwiesen zudem auf Unstimmigkeiten bei der Annahme, dass das Virus von Asien aus den bekannten Wanderrouten bis nach Europa gefolgt ist. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.medical-tribune.de/patienten/news/16470/ Medical Tribune, 3. April 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 15/2006

Nur keine Sauregurkenzeit: Masern wieder auf Vormarsch?

Impfmüde: Masern wieder auf Vormarsch - Deutsche riskieren Ausbrei- tungswelle

"31.03.06 - Region - Die Deutschen sind Impfmüde. Das lassen zumindest die aktuellen Zahlen zu Neuerkrankungen bei Masern vermuten. Allein im Ruhrgebiet meldete der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte jüngst 160 neue Ansteckungen. Das ist regional bereits jetzt ein Anstieg von 470 Prozent Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr (34 Neuerkrankungen In 2005 In Nordrhein-Westfalen). (...)"

Hier weiterlesen: http://www.osthessen-news.de/beitrag_A.php?id=1123664 UWAG, 31.3.06


Kommentar: Die angebliche "Masern-Epidemie" im Ruhrgebiet ist in erster Linie das Ergebnis einer PR-Kampagne des "Berufsverbandes der Kinder- und Jugendärzte". Dieser Verband fällt seit Jahren durch eine völlig einseitige und industrienahe Impfpropaganda auf. Da die Influenza-Impfung sich für diese Saison erledigt hat und die Vogelgrippe-Panikmache abzuflauen droht, besteht aus PR-Sicht die Gefahr einer Saure-Gurken-Zeit des Impfens. Da die FSME-Aktion erst langsam im Anrollen ist, muss eben schnell eine angebliche Masern- Epidemie her. "Masernwellen" treten immer wieder auf, sind eine Erscheinung der Natur und auch durch Massenimpfungen offensichtlich nicht zu verhindern. Bei den Komplikationsfällen sollten wir etwas genauer darauf achten, ob sie nicht eher das Ergebnis von symptomunterdrückenden Medikamenten als der Infektion sind. Auch sonstige Faktoren, die zu einer Komplikation beitragen können, sind durchaus untersuchenswert (wenn auch nicht für die "Masernvirenjäger").



Wie kam das Masernvirus von der Ukraine nach Deutschland?

Masern breiten sich weiter aus - 350 Infektionen

DUISBURG (dpa). An Rhein und Ruhr sind bislang mindestens 350 Kinder und Jugendliche an Masern erkrankt. Epidemiologen des Robert Koch-Instituts (RKI) und des Landesinstituts für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst werden heute Schüler und Lehrer einer Duisburger Gesamtschule befragen. "Dabei geht es unter anderem um den Impfstatus und die Wege zur Schule", so RKI- Epidemiologin Dr. Anette Siedler. Nach Angaben des Berufsverbands der Kinder- und Jugendärzte stammt das Virus aus der Ukraine. "Wie es hierher kam, ist völlig unklar", sagte Verbandssprecher Sean Monks aus München. Nach den Erkenntnissen des RKI stehen die Masernfälle in Nordrhein-Westfalen untereinander in Zusammenhang. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/04/04/062a0409.asp?cat=/medizin/impfen Ärzte Zeitung, 04.04.2006

Kommentar: Wieder einmal wissen die Experten nicht, wie das Virus von A nach B kam. Wieder einmal sind sie sich aber absolut sicher, dass es von A kam und nach B wanderte, und wenn das verhindert worden wäre, hätte es in B keine Krankheitsfälle gegeben. Das ist nicht das erste Mal, dass die Experten im Grunde durch Nichtwissen glänzen und gleichzeitig an ihren Hypothesen über die Krankheitsverursachung durch Ansteckung festhalten. Was nun, wenn die angebliche genetische Ähnlichkeit zwischen den ukrainischen und deutschen Masernviren reiner Zufall wäre (die Tests sind ja nicht am gereinigten Virus geeicht und könnten auf alle möglichen Mikropartikel reagieren) und die Viren tatsächlich schon immer da waren und erst unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen aktiv werden? Was, wenn sie sogar vom Organismus selbst erzeugt werden, um bestimmte Aufgaben zu erfüllen? Vielleicht sollten wir die derzeitige Masernpanikmache zum Anlass nehmen, uns mit dem Wesen der Krankheit - und dem Sinn einer symptomunterdrückenden Medikation bzw. einer Impfung - neu auseinanderzusetzen.



Masern: Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner...

Erster Maserntodesfall in Großbritannien seit 14 Jahren

"London - Nicht nur am Niederrhein sind die Masern ausgebrochen. Auch aus Großbritannien wird eine Epidemie gemeldet. Dort ist es sogar zu einem Todesfall gekommen, dem ersten seit 14 Jahren.

Wie britische Medien unter Berufung auf die Health Protection Agency melden, sind in England und Wales bisher hundert Menschen an Masern erkrankt. Im gesamten letzten Jahr hatte es nur 77 Erkrankungen gegeben. Erstmals seit 1992 ist in Großbritannien auch ein Todesfall an Masern zu beklagen. Ein Junge, der wegen einer nicht näher benannten Lungenerkrankung immunsuppressiv behandelt wurde, starb an der Kinderkrankheit, die von der Öffentlichkeit häufig verharmlost wird. Der Junge soll nicht geimpft gewesen sein. (...)"

Hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=23729 Dienstag, 4. April 2006

Kommentar: Der verstorbene Junge litt an einer Lungenkrankheit und er wurde immunsuppressiv* behandelt. Aber laut Experten ist natürlich die hinzu gekommene Maserninfektion am Tod des Jungen schuld und nicht die schulmedizinische (Fehl?)Behandlung. Da die Infektionshypothese auch bei Masern nicht wirklich bewiesen ist, könnte es auch sein, dass die Infektion eine Reaktion des Organismus auf Krankheit und die Medikamente darstellt. Außerdem stellt sich die Frage, ob die Impfung des Verstorbenen angesichts der künstlich hervorgerufenen Immunschwäche nicht ohnehin kontraindiziert* gewesen ist.

Immunsuppression: Unterdrückung des Immunsystems (durch Medikamente) Kontraindikation: Gegenanzeige; Umstand, der eine medizinische Maßnahme verbietet


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 15/2006

H5N1-Infektion durch Kontakt mit lebendem Geflügel

"PEKING (dpa). Zwei Vogelgrippe-Kranke in China sind offenbar nicht mit erkranktem oder totem Geflügel in Berührung gekommen. Es besteht der Verdacht, dass sie sich bei geimpften Tieren angesteckt haben.

So konnte bei einer 29jährigen Chinesin, die in Schanghai gestorben ist, und bei einem Mann aus Kanton nur ein Kontakt mit gesundem Geflügel nachgewiesen werden. In beiden Gebieten waren keine Ausbrüche der Krankheit bei Geflügel gemeldet worden. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/03/31/060a0504.asp Ärzte Zeitung, 31.03.2006


Kommentar: Einen Vorteil hat also die umstrittene Geflügelimpfung für die Mikrobenjäger: Sie bietet eine Erklärung für die angebliche Infektion mit H5N1, wenn alle anderen Erklärungen versagen. Kennen Sie aus Ihrer Schulzeit noch den nachfolgenden Spruch?:

§ 1: Der Lehrer hat immer Recht
§ 2: Hat er einmal nicht recht, tritt automatisch §1 in Kraft

Die Existenz eines spezifischen H5N1-Virus ist zwar nicht wirklich bewiesen, noch weniger seine pathogene Eigenschaft und die Eichung und Aussagekraft der Virentests fraglich. Aber ein positives Testergebnis ist immer der Beweis für eine Infektion mit einem potentiell tödlichen Virus. Der Lehrer hat also immer Recht.


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 15/2006

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org

"Evidence of Harm" has won the 2005 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting in a Book. EOH is also a finalist for the NY Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. The winner of that award will be announced May 10 at a special luncheon at the NY Public Library.

Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic - A Medical Controversy by David Kirby

Das Buch "Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic" von David Kirby (St. Martin's Press, April 2005) ist mit dem Journalistenpreis "Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting in a Book" der "Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc." ausgezeichnet worden Das Buch gehört außerdem zu den Finalisten des "NY Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism", der am 10 Mai 2006 verliehen wird. Aus der Begründung der Jury: "Autismus, früher in den USA eher selten, tritt heute bei einem von 166 Kindern auf. Auch die Aufmerksamkeitsstörungen haben explosionsartig zugenommen und eines von sechs Kindern leidet heute unter einer Lernstörung. David Kirby hat nun untersucht, ob als einer der Gründe für diese Störungen des Kindesalters das Thimerosal in Frage kommen könnte, ein Konservierungsmittel in Impfstoffen, das Quecksilber enthält. Kirby berichtet über die Hinhaltetaktik und Maßnahmen zur Verdrängung und Verschleierung durch Bundeskontrolleure, medizinischen Interessengruppen und die Pharmaindustrie und er dokumentiert die heimlichen Bemühungen der gleichen Gruppen, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem US - Kongress jenen Herstellern eine Generalamnestie zu gewähren, die das Quecksilber unter die Impfstoffe gemischt haben. Wie bei vielen Schnittmengen von komplexer Wissenschaft und profitorientierter Wirtschaft wird auch dieses Thema äußerst kontrovers diskutiert. Kirbys sorgfältiger und akribischer Bericht ist wegen seiner Ausgeglichenheit, Genauigkeit und Dokumentation beispielhaft.

(Übersetzung: Axel Berendes)

Quelle: http://www.ire.org/contest/05winners.html#mercury Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., 28. März 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 15/2006

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org

BL Fisher Note: "For the past several decades, NVIC has received continuing reports that hepatitis B and flu vaccine can induce multiple sclerosis and relapse of MS in some individuals. Federal funds should be made available - not to create epidemiological studies in an attempt to dismiss a causal relationship - but for basic science research into biological mechanisms and genetic factors that will identify those at high risk for developing MS following vaccination."


Multiple sclerosis after hepatitis B vaccination in a 16-year-old patient

"(...) A 16-year-old female patient was vaccinated against hepatitis B in May 1999. Neurological symptoms were observed 10 weeks later. There was an insidious development of weakness in the left arm [ 4/5 Medical Research Council (MRC ) scale ] and later in the right hand (4/5 MRC scale), and the neurological examination revealed bilateral proximal weakness in the lower legs (3/5 MRC scale). The deep tendon reflexes were brisk in all four limbs, the plantar responses were up-going and abdominal reflexes were absent on both sides. Sensory loss was noted distally from the Th6 level. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.cmj.org/Periodical/PaperList.asp?id=LW8451 Chin Med J (Engl). 2006 Jan 5;119(1):77-9.


Deutsche Zusammenfassung beider Texte:

(durch Axel Berendes) Im Laufe der vergangenen Jahrzehnte hat das amerikanische nationale Impfstoffinformationszentrum NVIC immer wieder Berichte darüber erhalten, dass Grippe- und Hepatitis B - Impfstoffe bei einigen Personen eine Multiple Sklerose herbeiführen bzw. bei einer bereits bestehenden Erkrankung einen Rückfall auslösen können. In einem aktuellen Fall trat bei einem 16-jährigen Mädchen 10 Wochen nach einer Hepatitis B- Impfung eine Schwäche des rechten Arms und der rechten Hand auf. Die neurologische Untersuchung ergab zudem eine beidseitige Schwächung im Bereich der Unterschenkel. Eine MRI - Untersuchung zeigte Läsionen im Bereich des Hirnstammes und des Rückenmarks von Hals- und Brustwirbelsäule, was die Diagnose einer Multiplen Sklerose sicherte. Eine Behandlung mit intravenösen Prednison- und Immunglobulingaben führte zu einer fast kompletten Besserung der Beschwerden, allerdings trat vier Jahre später ein weiterer Rückfall auf, der nur noch mit Hilfe (deutlich höherer) Immunglobulingaben behandelt werden konnte. Das Ende ist noch offen. "In dem hier vorgeführten Fall", so die Autoren des Fallberichts, "wird ein direkter Zusammenhang zwischen der Erkrankung und der Hepatitis B-Impfung schon durch die enge zeitliche Abfolge wahrscheinlich. Die uneinheitlichen Ergebnisse früherer Studien zu diesem Thema lassen die Notwendigkeit weiterer Untersuchungen über die Zusammenhänge zwischen einer Hepatitis B Impfung und der Entwicklung einer MS erkennen."


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Erster und einziger Impfstoff gegen Gürtelrose und Postherpetische Neuralgie erhält positive Beurteilung von der Europäischen Zulassungsbehörde EMEA

"Brunn am Gebirge (OTS) - Der Zoster-Lebendimpfstoff von Sanofi Pasteur MSD gegen Gürtelrose (Herpes zoster) und Postherpetische Neuralgie (lang anhaltender und schwerer Schmerz bei Gürtelrose) hat am 23. März 2006 eine positive Bewertung des Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) erhalten. Das CHMP ist das wissenschaftliche Gremium der Europäischen Zulassungsbehörde EMEA, das die Qualität, Sicherheit und Wirksamkeit von Arzneimitteln in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft beurteilt. Die positive Bewertung ist ein maßgeblicher Schritt auf dem Weg zur Erteilung der europäischen Zulassung dieses Impfstoffes. Wenn die Zulassung erteilt wird, ist dies der erste und einzige in Europa zugelassene Impfstoff gegen Gürtelrose. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=OTS_20060328_OTS0072&ch=wirtschaft ots.at , Di, 28. März 2006


Kommentar: Die Impfstoffzulassung auf europäischer Ebene ist dem Wirtschaftsressort unterstellt und nicht dem Gesundheitsressort. Das bedeutet in Konsequenz: Wirtschaftliche Argumente haben Priorität z.B. gegenüber gesundheitlichen Risiken eines Impfstoffs. Zudem darf nicht vergessen werden, dass die Gürtelrose auch aus schulmedizinischer Sicht als eine mögliche Folge der Windpockenimpfung betrachtet wird. Man impft also unter Umständen gegen die negativen Folgen einer anderen Impfung!

Siehe dazu auch http://www.impfkritik.de/windpocken/


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Mit einer preislich gestaffelten Abgabe auf jedes verkaufte Flugticket will der französische Staat ab dem 1. Juli 2006 die weltweite Bekämpfung von Tuberkulose, Malaria und Aids voranbringen.

Vorgesehen sind Zusatzgebühren zwischen einem und 40 Euro. Die Höhe orientiert sich am Ticketpreis und an der Sitzkategorie. Erwartet werden dadurch Einnahmen von etwa 200 Millionen Euro. Das Geld fließt in einen internationalen Fonds zur Bekämpfung der drei weltweit wichtigsten Infektionskrankheiten. Außer Frankreich beteiligen sich auch Großbritannien, Norwegen, Brasilien, Luxemburg und sieben andere Staaten. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/03/27/056a1904.asp?cat=/medizin/infektionskrankheiten Ärzte Zeitung, 27.03.2006


Kommentar: Da nicht davon ausgegangen werden kann, dass auch nur ein einziger Euro aus diesem Fond in eine pharmaunabhängige und alternativmedizinische Forschung fließt, ist diese Aktion nichts weiter als ein großzügiges Zwangs-Osterhasengeschenk an die Pharmalobby auf Kosten der Flugpassagiere.


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Davon kann Ulla Schmidt nur träumen

"Die Ankündigung war eine Überraschung: Die Bundesregierung will die Entwicklung eines "Breitband-Impfstoffs" gegen Vogelgrippe- Infektionen bei Menschen mit 20 Millionen Euro fördern. "Damit sind wir in der Lage, die Bevölkerung zu impfen, noch ehe das Virus mutiert ist", sagte Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt vergangene Woche in Berlin. Und: Der Impfstoff soll schon Ende 2007 vorliegen. Wird also ab 2008 die gesamte deutsche Bevölkerung gegen Vogelgrippe geimpft? Braucht sich dann keiner mehr vor einer Grippe-Pandemie zu fürchten? (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/03/27/056a0203.asp?cat=/medizin/impfen Ärzte Zeitung, 27.03.2006


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Derzeit ist eine Studie im Peer Review Verfahren (Bewertung durch unabhängige Gutachter), die bei Mäusen neurotoxische Effekte von Aluminium aus Impfstoffen nachweist. Der kanadische Neurologe Chris Shaw stellt in seiner Studie ein Verbindung her zwischen Aluminium und Morbus Parkinson, ALS und Morbus Alzheimer. 20 Wochen nach der Aluminium-Exposition zeigten seine Versuchstiere signifikant häufiger Angst, Gedächtnisdefizite und allergische Hautreaktionen als nicht exponierte Tiere. In motorischen Hirnarealen kam es zum massenhaften Zelluntergang.

"Kein Mitarbeiter meines Instituts will sich mehr impfen lassen," so Dr. Shaw. "Wir waren vollkommen von den Socken. Es ging uns auch niemals darum, irgendwelche Impfstoffe zu diskreditieren. Aber plötzlich müssen wir beobachten, wie Neuronen zu Grunde gehen!"

Nach dem Bericht auf http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=16717 werden "die Regierungen der Welt demnächst einer Hölle von Entschädigungsprozessen gegenüber stehen".

Quelle: Aus einer nichtöffentlichen Mailingliste übernommen Übersetzung des Zitats durch die Redaktion


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"(...) Dr. Erkrath betont außerdem nachdrücklich: "Leider gibt es hanebüchene Gegenargumente militanter Impfgegner (z.B. über das Internet) zur Impfung generell, die rationale Entscheidungen erschweren. Ginge es nach diesen Impfgegnern, wären zum Beispiel die Pocken weltweit nicht ausgerottet. Bei der Kinderlähmung (Polio) steht dieser Erfolg kurz vor dem Abschluss. Dies sollte auch mit den Masern geschehen.(...)"

Quelle: http://www.bottrop.de/stadtleben/gesundheit/krankheiten/gesundheit_infektionen/060323_masern.php bottrop.de, 24. April 2006


Kommentar (Vorsicht, bissig!): Da Herr Dr. Erkrath, seines Zeichens Leiter des Bottroper Gesundheitsamtes, die "hanebüchenen Gegenargumente militanter Impfgegner" nicht beim Namen nennt, müssen wir also raten, welche er konkret meint. Oder ist etwa jedes Argument gegen das Impfen grundsätzlich "hanebüchen"?

Und was ist unter der "rationalen Entscheidung" zu verstehen, die hier so erschwert wird? Ist es "rational", sich nur die "Pro" Argumente anzuhören und die "Contra" Argumente von vornherein als "hanebüchen" abzutun? Ist es vielleicht gar "rational", jemandem blind zu glauben, sobald er der Leiter eines Gesundheitsamtes ist?

Nun ja, selbst wenn es rational wäre, wäre es denn "reif"? Schließlich hatten wir jetzt bald 60 Jahre Zeit, uns im freiesten Deutschland aller Zeiten vom früheren "Kadavergehorsam" gegenüber Autoritäten zu lösen und zu echten, selbstbewussten Demokraten zu werden, die es gelernt haben, sich nach Abwägung aller Fakten ein unabhängiges Urteil zu bilden.

Aber vielleicht hinken ja nicht die "militanten Impfgegner", sondern manche Leiter von Gesundheitsämtern 60 Jahre deutscher Geschichte hinterher...

Jede Zulassung eines Impfstoffs und jede Impfung ist ein Abwägen von Risiken und Nutzen. Eine "rationale Impfentscheidung" ist tatsächlich dann erschwert, wenn denjenigen, die die individuelle Entscheidung zu treffen haben, nämlich uns Eltern, wichtige Informationen über die Risiken vorenthalten werden.


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Die Bundesregierung fördert die Erforschung von Krankheiten, die vom Tier auf den Menschen übergehen

"(...) Die Forschungsvereinbarung der Bundesregierung sieht vor, dass in den nächsten vier Jahren insgesamt 60 Millionen Euro in die Erforschung der Zoonosen gesteckt werden. 20 Millionen fließen bereits in die Entwicklung von Impfstoffen für den Fall einer Pandemie. Jährlich fünf Millionen über vier Jahre will Schavan für einen "Förderschwerpunkt Zoonosen" zur Verfügung stellen. "Das Geld für dieses neue Programm wird im Wettbewerb vergeben."

Ausgeschrieben wird es für Forschungsvorhaben, in denen human- und veterinärmedizinische Aspekte zusammenkommen. Weitere 1,8 Millionen sind für eine "Forschungsplattform Zoonosen" gedacht, mit der die Vorhaben vernetzt werden sollen - nicht zuletzt auf europäischer Ebene.

Im Rahmen des Forschungs-Sofortprogramms Influenza fließen außerdem
9,8 Millionen an das Verbraucherschutz- und 8,4 Millionen an das Gesundheitsministerium. Davon sollen mit "praxisorientierten Forschungsbemühungen Wissenslücken geschlossen" werden, wie Seehofer sagte. "Warum fallen zum Beispiel infizierte Hühner so schnell von der Stange, warum erkrankten bisher Singvögel nicht?" Der Minister wünscht sich zudem ein Antikörper-Nachweissystem für Wildtiere. Dieses sollte Aufschluss darüber geben, ob Tiere infiziert sind, ohne zu erkranken, oder ob Krankheiten bei ihnen ausheilen. Außerdem diene das Geld der Entwicklung von Schnelltests und von Impf stoffen auch für Heimtiere. (...)"

ganzen Artikel lesen:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen-forschen/archiv/23.03.2006/2427495.asp
Berliner Tagesspiegel, 23. März 2006

Weitere Meldungen: http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb?fn=tt&sfn=go&id=1212961

Kommentar: Das "Haltet-das-Virus-Geschrei" der mikrobiologischen "Szene" hat sich gelohnt. Über 4 Jahre hinweg werden jetzt in Deutschland nach dem Gießkannenprinzip 60 Millionen Euro verteilt. Davon geht nicht ein einziger Euro in die Erforschung alternativer Krankheitsursachen bei Geflügel in der Massentierhaltung oder in die Prüfung alternativmedizinischer und nebenwirkungsfreier Heilverfahren. Wäre ich Hersteller von Influenza-Impfstoffen, würde ich meinen Jungs von der Marketing-Abteilung jetzt anerkennend auf die Schulter klopfen - und selber auf der Jahreshauptversammlung von den Aktionären Lob einheimsen. Solche erfolgreich durchgeführten Coups machen jedoch nicht satt, sondern wecken zwangsläufig neue Begehrlichkeiten. Lassen wir uns also überraschen, was sich die Pandemie-Propheten als Nächstes einfallen lassen. Dem menschlichen Einfallsreichtum sind schließlich keine Grenzen gesetzt...


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Demo am 14. Mai in Bad Waldsee gegen Aufstallungsgebot

"Am 14. Mai 2006 werden wir die staatlich willkürlich reglementierte Aufstallung unserer Hennen in eigener Verantwortung beenden und den Tieren wieder ihren gewohnten Gang ins Freiland ermöglichen.

Die Öffnung der Ställe soll im Rahmen einer möglichst großen Demonstration bei zahlreicher Beteiligung der interessierten Öffentlichkeit erfolgen. Vor allem auch Repräsentanten und Mitglieder von Tierschutz-Organisationen, mitbetroffene Berufskolleg(inn)en, sowie Vertreter der Medien sind herzlich eingeladen, an diesem "Tag des zivilen Ungehorsams gegenüber staatlicher Willkür" auf unseren Hühner-Freiland-Hof zu kommen. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.me-na-ti.de/024bff977b1104f09/024bff977f10a9604.html Begegnungs-Hof Mensch - Natur - Tier e.V., Bad Waldsee


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Die Geflügelzüchter beginnen sich gegen das unsinnige Aufstallungsgebot zu wehren:

--> Demo am 4. Mai in Berlin: http://www.bdrg.de/

--> Demo am 13. Mai in Bad Waldsee
(Baden-Württemberg, südlich von Ulm) http://www.me-na-ti.de/024bff977b1104f09/024bff977f10a9604.html

--> Petition gegen Aufstallungsgebot (noch nicht online) http://www.impfkritik.de/vogelgrippe/petition


Hans U. P. Tolzin


Aus: impf-report Newsletter (Sonderausgabe)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104


Informant: dmetke

From ufpj-news

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Stephen Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner

A blistering comedy "tribute" to President Bush by Comedy Central's faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush embarrassed at its close.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006F.shtml

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Stephen Colbert roasts Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4427/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Transcript from the White House Correspondents Dinner
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0501-30.htm

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Colbert Roasts Bush

Video

Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12900.htm

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More truthiness with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert was interviewed on 60 Minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69W70HQVawU&search=stephen%20colbert%2060%20minutes

suzanne

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Colbert Reaction Shows Media Are Frightened Of Bush
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/881

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Stephen Colbert
http://www.wingsofjustice.com/06/05/woj06018.html


Informant: Hopedance

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Show Your Support for the HEROIC Stephen Colbert
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/wordpress/archives/3


Informant: Frank J. Gonzalez



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Colbert

A juror who voted Tuesday to convict a Pakistani-American on federal terrorism charges now says that she never believed he was guilty and that she had been pressured by other jurors to change her mind and convict him.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006E.shtml

Referencing past presidents and their various forms of suppressing dissent in times of war, Jim Hightower views the Bush-Cheney regime as pushing the most massive and rapid expansion of presidential might America has ever known.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006D.shtml

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Imperial Presidency 2.0

The New York Times says: "The Democratic majority in Congress has a moral responsibility to address all these issues: fixing the profound flaws in the military tribunals act, restoring the rule of law over Mr. Bush's rogue intelligence operations and restoring the balance of powers between Congress and the executive branch. So far, key Democrats, including Mr. Leahy and Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, chairman of a new subcommittee on human rights, have said these issues are high priorities for them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807J.shtml

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Imperial presidency

Toronto Sun
by Eric Margolis

01/28/07

Presidential State of the Union addresses often strike me as embarrassing spectacles of imperial pomp and crass jingoism unworthy of the great American republic. They often recall Chairman Leonid Brezhnev’s turgid orations to the Soviet Politburo. Watching senators and congressmen jump to their feet at every presidential cliche and applaud like clapping seals cheapens what should be a dignified event...

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/01/28/3467253-sun.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Durbin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Margolis

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4425/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

In the United States, the new model of corporate business has evolved toward a form of crony capitalism, in which business and government interests are often corruptly intermingled, the system resistant to reform because of the financial dependence of both major political parties on contributed money.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/28/opinion/edpfaff.php


From Information Clearing House

The FBI issued thousands of subpoenas to banks, phone companies and Internet providers last year, aggressively using a power enhanced under the Patriot Act to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens, Justice Department data released late Friday showed.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12886.htm

It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress.

http://tinyurl.com/krayg


From Information Clearing House

In leak cases, new pressure on journalists

The Bush administration is putting pressure on the press as never before, and it is operating in a judicial climate that seems increasingly receptive to constraints on journalists.

http://tinyurl.com/j2wrq


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration formally said Friday that it will try to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans illegally.

http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6066688.html


From Information Clearing House

In a keynote address, the Bolivian leader noted it is important to free the country's natural resources from foreign domination, assuring that his government is organized and prepared to recover those resources from the oil companies, which have caused great damage to Bolivia.

http://www.periodico26.cu/english/news_cuba/evom042906.htm


From Information Clearing House

Bolivia's president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1905711


From Information Clearing House

The meeting demonstrated the difficulty the administration faces as it seeks to maintain U.S. access to oil and gas supplies from countries that may be unstable or unreliable, often because of corruption or human-rights abuses.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002960283_azer29.html


From Information Clearing House

I believe that George Bush is a prophet. But not just any old prophet. A special kind – one whose actions bring about the very things he claims will happen, albeit without any recognition of his role in causing them to occur. He is, therefore, a self-fulfilling prophet. Let me explain.

http://tinyurl.com/jy5ls


From Information Clearing House

CHINA has threatened to veto any proposal to impose sanctions on Iran if it does not give up its quest for nuclear power. This will split the United Nations as it meets this week to discuss how to handle the standoff.

http://tinyurl.com/kbuwd


From Information Clearing House

The growing international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme could trigger a catastrophic oil price spike, sending crude prices over $100 a barrel, senior Wall Street analysts are warning.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1764412,00.html


From Information Clearing House

As the crisis escalates, Washington's diplomatic partners will become gravely worried about their energy supplies.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=419464


From Information Clearing House

The Iranian deputy oil minister said Sunday he did not believe the United Nations would impose sanctions on Iran because that would boost oil prices even higher.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060430-0726-iran-nuclear.html


From Information Clearing House

He said the Security Council was only likely to be able to agree on a "quite limited" range of such measures against the regime.

http://www.itn.co.uk/news/index_1167108.html


From Information Clearing House

Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad -- the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.

http://tinyurl.com/kl2r4


From Information Clearing House

In a report to be posted on the IAEA's Web site this week, the agency states that about 1,000 Iraqi men, women and children in a village near the former Tuwaitha nuclear research facility are living inside an area contaminated by radioactive residue and ruin. "I can only guess that a lot of the damage at Tuwaitha was from bombing".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12440710/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House

President Bush warned in his weekly radio address of tough fighting to come and "more days of sacrifice and struggle" in Iraq as April drew to a close as the deadliest month for American forces this year.

http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.48464.html


From Information Clearing House

By Rev. WILLIAM A. ALBERTS

The United Methodist Church should be bringing disciplinary action against President George Bush for war crimes. Evidence continues to mount that Bush, a United Methodist, deliberately used his religious faith to deceive the American people in the run-up to his administration's pre-meditated war against non-threatening, sanctions-weakened, defenseless Iraq.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12891.htm

By Stephen Lendman

Having laid out his premises, Chomsky believes the US today exhibits the very features we cite as characteristics of "failed states" - a term we use for nations seen as potential threats to our security.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12889.htm

By Mike Whitney

When the bombing begins in Iran, the UN can finally board-up its doors and send the diplomats home; there’ll be no more reason to maintain the pretense. An attack on Iranian facilities will signal a period of global realignment where states either submit to the Washington axis or join the growing resistance. We are quickly moving towards Bush’s dream of a world that is divided into “us against them”.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12890.htm

By YNetNews

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the United States to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12887.htm

GREAT NEWS; ENERGY COMPANIES POST RECORD PROFIT AT OUR EXPENSE, GOUGE GOUGE GOUGE!

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum274.php

It is well documented, the Oval Office is a bully pulpit. That being the case, if oil magnates George Bush and Dick Cheney would call the company executives into the oval office and tell them to justify complimenting current pricing of their products or they would face windfall profits taxes from the Congress, I bet we would see some positive results.

If the swaggering Commander and Chief would do that, it would be my contention that the profit conscious Oil Barons would see to it that the prices were lowered within a week. America already knows who wrote the administration's Energy Policy, do you have any doubts? Would you join me in applying pressure as a stress reliever to the American people at the pumps? We must band together in as many ways as are conceivable to put this country and my district back on the road to real recovery, not just great profits for the monopoly driven big corporations.

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