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Constitutional Cafeteria

It seems that Bush has asserted the right to ignore, as the Boston Globe puts it, "vast swaths of the law" simply because he thinks that these laws are unconstitutional. Michael Kinsley writes, "Legitimate outrage comes when the president acts in flagrant violation of the Constitution, defending his actions unconvincingly, disingenuously or not at all."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506F.shtml

David Cole writes, "At a secret CIA 'black site' prison, the United States is holding the alleged mastermind of Sept. 11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. And at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has Mohamed al-Qahtani, who the government now claims is the real would-be 20th hijacker. But the administration can't try either of these men, because any such proceeding would turn into a trial of the United States' own tactics in the war on terrorism."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506E.shtml

About the following interview with Antonia Juhasz, Joshua Holland writes, "Juhasz shows that the invasion of Iraq - an invasion that was as much economic as military - was the centerpiece of a larger project: the creation of a New American Century in which the end-goal of American foreign policy is to enrich the corporate elites, and dissent at home will not be tolerated."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506D.shtml

The UN was grilling the United States on its compliance with the global ban on torture today for the first time since Washington declared war on terrorists, focusing on allegations of secret CIA prisons and flights transferring suspects to other countries for possible torture.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506C.shtml

The rise and fall of the Republican $100 rebate offers a window on how Washington sometimes works in a slapdash way, featuring in this case Congressional aides who misread the political climate and lawmakers desperate to hang onto their jobs. It is a story, as well, of how concepts and plans can be reduced to sound bytes that make them seem absurd.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506B.shtml

Allegations that CIA flights through Europe carried people bound for ill-treatment are damaging transatlantic intelligence cooperation, a lawyer acting for the State Department said on Thursday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506O.shtml

Veto? Who Needs a Veto?

"President Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply declares his intention not to enforce anything he dislikes," write the editors of the New York Times. "Charlie Savage at The Globe reported recently that Mr. Bush had issued more than 750 'presidential signing statements' declaring he wouldn't do what the laws required. Perhaps the most infamous was the one in which he stated that he did not really feel bound by the Congressional ban on the torture of prisoners."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506M.shtml

Ray, You da Man!

"Today, Ray McGovern, the man who used to give George Bush senior his daily intel update, spoke truth to power," writes Larry C. Johnson. "Rumsfeld, to his credit, permitted Ray to speak rather than having him carried out of the auditorium. In retrospect, Rummy probably regrets that decision."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050506L.shtml

05.05.06

Die Innenminister von Bund und Ländern haben sich auf ihrer Konferenz in Garmisch-Partenkirchen auf Einbürgerungsstandards verständigt. Als Voraussetzungen für die Einbürgerung werden ein "rechtmäßiger Daueraufenthalt" von generell acht Jahren (in Ausnahmen sechs Jahre) und das Beherrschen der deutschen Sprache genannt, ferner der Besuch eines Einbürgerungskurses, das Bekenntnis zur freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung mit Einbürgerungsgesprächen in Zweifelsfällen sowie ein Ausschluss verfassungsfeindlicher Bestrebungen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13537

05.05.06

Das Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) hat einen für dieses Frühjahr geplanten Freisetzungsversuch der Technischen Universität (TU) München mit gentechnisch manipulierten Kartoffeln gestoppt. Nach Darstellung des Umweltinstituts München "musste" das Bundesamt "die Notbremse ziehen" und das Verfahren neu aufrollen, nachdem das Umweltinstitut "zahlreiche falsche Angaben in der amtlichen Bekanntmachung beanstandet hatte". Damit werde es zumindest in diesem Jahr nicht mehr zu einer Aussaat der genmanipulierten Pflanzen in Olching im Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck kommen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13545

Analyse: Bundesregierung diskutiert weitere Kostensteigerungen für die Bevölkerung (05.05.06)

Permanent wird die Bevölkerung mit neuen Überlegungen für die Erhöhung von Gebühren, Steuern und Abgaben sowie mit Dementis, Beschwichtigungen, Drohungen und Relativierungen durch hypothetische noch weitergehende Schritte konfrontiert. Ein Spiel mit verteilten Rollen. Der Fantasie von Wirtschaft und Politik für die immer weitere Erhöhung der "Lebenshaltungskosten" der breiten Bevölkerung sind offenbar keine Grenzen gesetzt. Umgekehrt läuft das gleiche Spiel, wenn es darum geht, "die Wirtschaft zu entlasten" oder Besserverdienenden ein Elterngeld von 1800 Euro zu bezahlen. Aktuell erregt ein Bericht der Zeitung "Die Welt" die Gemüter. Demnach sollen Patienten nicht mehr nur einmal im Quartal zehn Euro zahlen, sondern künftig bei jedem Arztbesuch fünf Euro. Das Bundesgesundheitsministerium wies den Bericht am Freitag "kategorisch" als "Unsinn" zurück. Der CDU-Gesundheitsexperte Jens Spahn sagte dagegen lediglich: "Wir diskutieren offen über alles, entschieden ist nichts".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13533

A message from Lyn

Original Message:

Hi,

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives giant corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have to outbid Amazon for the right to work properly on your computer.

If Net Neutrality is gutted, many sites--including Google, eBay, and iTunes--must either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or risk having their websites process slowly. That why these high-tech pioneers, plus diverse groups ranging from MoveOn to Gun Owners of America, are opposing Congress' effort to gut Internet freedom.

You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your member of Congress to preserve Internet freedom? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6706829-j0bz0VvGE7_Dl2urPt8ZWQ

I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petition will be delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives votes next week. When you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep the heat on Congress.

Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the Internet, explained:

Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has precedence over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes using Google, reads an article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's MySpace profile, all of that data is treated equally and delivered from the originating web site to the user's web browser with the same priority. In recent months, however, some of the telephone and cable companies that control the telecommunications networks over which Internet data flows have floated the idea of creating the electronic equivalent of a paid carpool lane.

If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google to eBay to iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast lane" or risk opening slowly on your computer. We can't let the Internet--this incredible medium which has been such a revolutionary force for democratic participation, economic innovation, and free speech--become captive to large corporations.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Together, we do care about preserving the free and open Internet.

Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Internet freedom. Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6706829-j0bz0VvGE7_Dl2urPt8ZWQ

Thanks.

Mit der verpflichtenden Vorratsdatenspeicherung könnte ein neues Zeitalter in Europa anbrechen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22608/1.html

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Kommunikationsfreiheit und Datenschutz > Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Die Spitzelrichtlinie. Mit der verpflichtenden Vorratsdatenspeicherung könnte ein neues Zeitalter in Europa anbrechen

„Die am 15. März 2006 vom Europäischen Parlament beschlossene Richtlinie über die Vorratsspeicherung von Daten wurde am 13. April im Amtsblatt der EU unter L 105/54 veröffentlicht. Am 3. Mai 2006 ist sie in Kraft getreten (Richtlinie 2006/24/EG). Was der europäische Gesetzgeber da von den EU-Staaten verlangt, ist das glatte Gegenteil dessen, was Rechtsstaaten europäischen Standards bisher gewohnt waren. Es ist auch das Gegenteil dessen, was er selbst noch vor wenigen Jahren verordnet hat (RL 2002/58/EG). Weg vom Schutz der Grund- und Freiheitsrechte, hin zur Überwachung total. Aber wohlgemerkt nicht zur Überwachung aufgrund eines konkreten Anlasses nach reiflicher Abwägung der Güter. Nein, Überwachung von allem und jedem, ohne Anlass, nur vorbeugend für den Fall des Falles…“ Artikel von Franz Schmidbauer in telepolis vom 05.05.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22608/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Mai 2006

by Craig Holman, TomPaine.com

The so-called lobbying reform bill that just passed only adds fuel to the fight for real change on Capitol Hill.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/05/cleaning_up_congress.php

A message from Ruth

Hi Everyone,

I hope you'll join me and others in one of the most exciting grassroots movements on the Internet today: MomsRising.

http://www.momsrising.org/keepmeposted

MomsRising gives people a voice in the motherhood and family issues that are shaping our lives. This is particularly important because frankly American mothers and families are in trouble. A full quarter of families with children under six live in poverty, at least 9 million children don't have any health care, and far too many parents can't afford to stay home with sick children.

MomsRising is working to promote common sense family-friendly policies. You can sign online petitions and pledges that will be shared with political, community, and business leaders, as well as receive email alerts on timely issues, and read The Motherhood Manifesto book all for free.

MomsRising is building a vibrant online community and has great personal stories posted, as well as hot issues and timely actions for change. There are also current event discussion topics to spark group or personal conversations--and information about how start small groups, as well as how to get more involved working toward solutions.

By working together we can ignite a major movement that brings common sense, necessary change to the lives of mothers and families.

I hope you'll join us today at:
http://www.momsrising.org/keepmeposted

Have a great weekend,

ruthc

A message from Stephanie

Original Message:

Dear friends,

It seems I can't sign as a Swedish citizen, but I'm glad to pass this on - I rely on the independent group of scholars that there are some really incomprehensible issues in the handling of the catastrophy on 9/11. If you are busy, please check out only the second petition below - and you'll see why a new more thorough investigation is needed, if you weren't of the opinion before - I couldn't believe my eyes, that so much important information has been handled so sloppily, to say the least! Supporting you to demand the truth, because 9/11 has affected the whole world's history, wishing you justice and peace, and feeling great compassion for all who have suffered because of the tragedies on and after 9/11, sending them and all of you greetings!

Warmly,

Doris


Original Message:

Review the following petitions regarding 9/11. Sign those you agree with and forward to your friends please. If you are not interested in political involvement, not to worry, no pressure, just disregard and go on with what you were doing. 9/11 affected all of us and is about all of us. I believe Knowledge is power. What we don't know can hurt us. I don't know what I believe about a conspiracy, however, I'm open to reading public records, educating myself and making an informed decision - I think that's being patriotic and a true American. Thanks for listening.

Peace & light,

Jennie B.


Original Message:

Please sign and pass on these four petitions:

1. CITIZENS' COMPLAINT AND PETITION TO A.G. OF NEW YORK FOR AN INDEPENDENT GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION (justicefor911.org) sponsored by 911truth.org, et al.
http://justicefor911.org/

2. Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information to Congress, sponsored by Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.st911.org/petition

3. The SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TREASON INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR ACT sponsored by Campaign for Cooperation in Space.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736718529?ltl=1142266342

4. Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks sponsored by Citizens for Legitimate Government
http://www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html

New to 9-11 Research?

No. 2 is a Care2 PetitionSite Petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/929981172

No. 3 is also a Care2 PetitionSite Petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736718529.

Please at least take a look at all the petitions! and sign them if you agree there should be an investigation. Help the victims of the attacks, their families, firefighters and their families, NYPD and their families. They are fighting to get at the TRUTH!

"The Most Comprehensive Minute By Minute Timeline On 911"
http://911timeline.net/


VENEZUELA TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO 9-11 Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 31 2006

Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into 9/11.

Rodriguez was the last survivor pulled from the rubble of the north tower of the WTC, and was responsible for all stairwells within the tower. Rodriguez represented family members of 9/11 victims and testified to the 9/11 Commission that bombs were in the north tower but his statements were completely omitted from the official record.

Jimmy Walter has been at the forefront of a world tour to raise awareness about 9/11 and has still yet to receive any response to his million dollar challenge in which he offers a $1 million reward for proof that the trade towers' steel structure was broken apart without explosives.
http://reopen911.org/Contest.htm


Don't be scared to actually PRESS THE BUTTON ["Navigation for 9/11 Newbies"] and start doing your OWN research! We want everybody to do their OWN research and come to their OWN conclusions and not take ANYBODY'S word for ANYTHING, not even OUR word!!!! By lots and lots of people doing this research, the TRUTH WILL FINALLY BE KNOWN!!!!

If you have time to read only ONE petition, read the Scholar's Petition IN FULL.

Cheers,

BT

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

05/04/06

While most of the country has been discussing immigration, Republicans in Congress have been making fools of themselves debating which earmarks they're willing to own up to. This is the issue that reportedly brought Speaker Dennis Hastert to his knees in the Republican Conference, begging his colleagues for support. Yes, would they admit to each other who was sponsoring special hurricane relief of $500 million for Northrup Grumman, or spending $700 million to move a railroad that had already been rebuilt, or spending $15 million to encourage people to eat seafood? Earmarks are the special interest goodies added to bills to benefit a particular person (no, not one of us) or company, one that usually has a relationship with the lawmaker who makes this wonderful gesture for him or her. This is how Washington works, and if you have a good lawyer and a good lobbyist, it's all legal...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194163,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein

05/04/06

Increasingly economic doomsayers are warning that 'the world is running out of oil,' and in fact we have already passed peak annual oil production. Their forecast: Ever-higher oil prices and food prices, electricity brownouts and blackouts, the end of the automobile and the suburbs, and even the collapse of western civilization. Some pundits are even calling for the U.S. to launch a global 'oil war' to seize remaining, dwindling supplies. Absolute nonsense says Princetown Geologist Ken Dreffeys ...

http://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/peak-oil-myth.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Mark D. Tooley

05/05/06

On the Religious Left, the great hope these days is that the Religious Right is melting down over Global Warming. Liberal evangelical activist Jim Wallis rejoiced about the crack-up in a recent column, claiming that 'the Religious Right is losing control' thanks to environmentalist evangelicals. Wallis, head of 'Sojourners' and author of God's Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Just Does Not Get It, is predicting a 'sea change' among evangelicals since the Religious Right has 'now lost control of the environmental issue'...

http://tinyurl.com/fjrxd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Rebecca Clarren

05/05/06

In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called 'fracking' may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the EPA refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls 'irrational and corrupt'... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/05/fracking/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

05/04/06

Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as 'tools of intimidation or blackmail.' It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran. Cheney's criticism -- some of the administration's toughest language about Russia -- came just two months before President Bush joins Putin in St. Petersburg for a summit of major industrial powers...

http://tinyurl.com/94eco



Comrade Cheney vs. President Putin

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/05/06

So what is this 'blackmail' Cheney is talking about? It is the Russians abandoning the doctrine of socialist internationalism and putting good old capitalist theory into practice. Instead of continuing to offer oil and natural gas to Ukraine at below-market prices, they insist on charging the price set by the international market. To Cheney, this is 'blackmail:' an economist would call it capitalism. I don't know if this signifies Cheney's formal conversion to Marxism, but surely it ought to dispel the myth that our Vice President believes in anything approaching the free market. Or, perhaps, he believes that capitalism is a system reserved for the U.S. Whatever is going on here, the brazen hypocrisy of Cheney's remarks are hard to take: here, after all, is the vice president of a nation that imposes draconian economic sanctions on countries that fail to kowtow to its every edict, making accusations of 'blackmail!' Here is a nation whose president refuses to take the nuking of Iran off the table as a distinct possibility -- and it's the Russians who are the blackmailers. Go figure! Cheney, however, was just getting started...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8942


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hostile War Critics Confront Rumsfeld

Las Vegas Review-Journal

05/04/06)

Already under fire from some retired military brass who want him to resign, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was greeted at a speech in Atlanta by unusually hostile anti-war protesters. 'This man needs to be in prison for war crimes,' shouted Gloria Tatum, 63, of nearby Decatur, Ga., before being hauled away by security officials. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and noted critic of the war in Iraq, waited patiently in line to question Rumsfeld, then let loose. 'Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?' McGovern said. 'I did not lie,' shot back a feisty Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern .... Rumsfeld said: 'People need to trust each other and their government. The idea that people in government are lying is fundamentally destructive of that trust.'" [editor's note: Then stop lying, Mr. Rumsfeld! - TLK]

http://tinyurl.com/5mtlk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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In case you missed it on the news

VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/04/rumsfeld-called-out/


Informant: Jack Topel

05.05.2006 - Technik

Meteorologen messen Niederschläge anhand der Dämpfung von Mobilfunksignalen

Die Mobilfunknetze sind ideale Instrumente zur Messung von Niederschlägen, sagen Forscher aus Israel. Der Regen dämpft die von den einzelnen Sendemasten ausgesandten Funksignale, so dass sich aus dieser Abschwächung die Stärke und der Ort des Regens ablesen lassen. Da besonders in den Städten die Dichte von Sendern sehr hoch ist, ergibt sich ein engmaschiges Messnetz, das sehr präzise Messungen ermöglicht. Diese können durchaus mit der Niederschlagsmessung mit Regenmessern oder mit einem Wetterradar mithalten, erklären die Wissenschaftler.

Die Wissenschaftler um Hagit Messer erprobten ihre Idee am Beispiel eines Regentages in Israel im Januar 2005. Sie verglichen die Werte, die Wetterkundler auf einem insgesamt etwa 21 Quadratmeter großen Gebiet mit gewöhnlichen Regenmessern gesammelt hatten mit ihren Messergebnissen, die sie aus den Sendedaten eines israelischen Mobilfunkanbieters ermittelt hatten. Dabei stellten sie eine sehr gute Übereinstimmung fest. Die Genauigkeit der Daten war sogar noch deutlich höher als die von Vergleichsmessungen mit einem Wetterradar. Ein solches auch Niederschlagsradar genanntes Gerät sendet Mikrowellen aus und kann aus der von den Regentropfen zurückgeworfenen Strahlung die Dichte des Niederschlags bestimmen.

Damit sei die Niederschlagsmessung mithilfe des Mobilfunknetzes eine gute Ergänzung oder sogar Alternative zu herkömmlichen Verfahren, schreiben die Forscher. Die erforderlichen Daten sind von den Netzbetreibern leicht zu ermitteln und die Senderdichte ist vielerorts sehr hoch. So seien nicht nur billige, sondern auch sehr genaue Regenmessungen mit einer räumlichen Auflösung von durchschnittlich ein bis drei Kilometer und in Echtzeit möglich, erklären Messer und ihre Kollegen. Das Verfahren eigne sich nicht nur zur Messung von Regenfällen, sondern auch für die Bestimmung der Konzentration von Schnee, Hagel, Nebel, Graupel und sogar Staub in der Luft.

Hagit Messer (Universität in Tel Aviv) et al.: Science, Bd. 312, S. 713

ddp/wissenschaft.de – Ulrich Dewald

© wissenschaft.de, Konradin Relations GmbH 2006

http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissen/news/264909.html

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Das Handynetz als Wetterstation
http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/107410/

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Bei schlechter Verbindung regnet es

Dass das Wetter die Qualität von Mobilfunk-Signalen beeinflusst, wollen Wissenschaftler zur preiswerten Umwelt-Beobachtung nutzen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22603/1.html

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Ursache der globalen Klimaerwärmung: Elektromagnetische Welle erzeugen Schwingungen und erwärmen die Luftmolekühle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/155035/

Schäden an Bäumen durch Mikrowellen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/522990/

The giant Freeport mine is polluting West Papua's rivers and estuaries and a world heritage-protected national park. Documents leaked to an environmental group show that the world's largest gold and copper mine has dumped a billion tons of mine waste into surrounding rivers, polluting forests and river systems with heavy metals such as copper and arsenic.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050406EB.shtml

A Shell oil pipeline being built in Russia crosses 1,100 rivers and water courses and threatens spawning fish and the critically endangered Western Grey Whale.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050406EA.shtml

Approximately 45 million Americans have no health insurance, even though most of them are working. Will a new bill solve the problem, or make it worse? On May 5 on PBS, NOW looks at families who coped with both catastrophic illness as well as shockingly inadequate insurance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406U.shtml

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! interview John Dean and Daniel Ellsberg, two figures who played central roles in the fall of President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal of a generation ago.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406T.shtml

William Fisher discusses Cheney's recent declaration that Russia is breaching civil rights. "But what was President Bush thinking when he chose Vice President Dick Cheney to go to Lithuania as the messenger? Could there be anyone less credible on subjects like democratic reform and open government?" wrote Fisher.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406R.shtml

This Mother's Day, during our 24-hour vigil in front of the White House, we will honor all the mothers -- US and Iraqi -- who have lost sons and daughters in the conflict in Iraq. We will call for our troops to come home so that no more mothers will suffer the unbearable grief of losing a child to Bush's war. And with your help, we'll also send a message of sorrow, friendship and peace directly to the women of Iraq and their families.

How? For the first time ever, a group of Americans will challenge the free press in Iraq to print an advertisement calling on the people of both nations to work together to end the occupation. Below is an English version of the ad we'll be taking out in newspapers all over Iraq on Mother's Day. We'll also set up a special website in Arabic that so that Iraqis with access to computers (and electricity!) can communicate with us directly.

Let's make this Mother's Day a special one. Come to Washington to join us during part or all of our 24-hour vigil at the White House. You'll be in the best of company, including Susan Sarandon, Dolores Huerta, Randi Rhodes, Jill Sobule and Patch Adams, and grieving parents Cindy Sheehan, Fernando Suarez del Solar and Elaine Johnson. Click here for more info, to sign up, and to send a notice about the vigil to your friends.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=119405443&url_num=5&url=http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?list=type&type=123
And join us in this first-ever effort, through ads in Iraqi newspapers, to reach across oceans, across borders, across cultures to show our love and compassion for the Iraqi people.

With hope for peace,

Allison, Dana, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae and Tiffany


P.S. Any extra funds will be used to bring Iraqi and Iranian women to Washington DC for Mother's Day and to send them around the United States on a speaking tour, following the tremendous success of the tour we organized in March. One of our new speakers is Dahlia Wasfi, a powerful Iraqi-American doctor who gave a searing testimony at a Congressional hearing on April 27, 2006. Click here to hear her testimony. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=119405443&url_num=6&url=http://politicstv.com/dspan.php
Contact june@globalexchange.org if you'd like Dahlia or another Iraqi woman to visit your community.


English version of the ad:

From American Women to Iraqi Families on Mother's Day: Let's Unite to Bring the US Troops Home and Put an End to the Bloodshed

In the United States, today is Mother's Day. But many mothers -- in the US and Iraq -- have little to celebrate. We've buried too many of our loved ones in this conflict. We've seen too many lives crippled forever by physical and mental wounds. We've watched in horror as our precious resources are poured into war while our families' basic needs of food, shelter, education and healthcare go unmet. We've seen the growing plague of fear, hatred and intolerance seep into our homes and communities.

This is not the world we want for ourselves or our children. That's why we are marking this Mother's Day by holding a 24-hour protest outside the White House in Washington DC to call for an end to the occupation of Iraq, an occupation that has fueled an endless cycle of violence.

We have seen in poll after poll that the majority of Americans and Iraqis want the US troops to return home. Even the majority of US troops (72%) think they should return by the end of this year. It is time for the politicians in both countries to listen to us, the people.

We want you to know that we will continue to organize protests and pressure our government to end this illegal occupation of your country so that you, with the help of the international community, can begin to heal your wounded nation.

We have also been circulating a petition demanding an end to the occupation and an end to US permanent bases in Iraq; the petition also calls for money for rebuilding to go directly into the hands of Iraqis -- not US companies ( http://www.womensaynotowar.org ). We will be delivering these to George Bush, Iraqi officials, and the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. You can read our petition here and join the call. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=119405443&url_num=8&url=http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=185&t=WSNTW2.dwt You can also contact us at info@womensaynotowar.org with your ideas of how we can work together, family to family, to promote peace.

This Mother's Day, we extend our hand in friendship to Iraqi mothers and their families. We look forward to the day when we can work together in peace.

By Colleen McDonnell

Plans to put up a mobile phone mast outside a school in Hampton has caused uproar among councillors and residents who say they are "outrageous".

The mobile phone company O2 sent a letter to Hampton Community College last week to announce that it plans to submit an application to erect a base station outside the school.

The letter from O2 said the mast would be proposed to go up at the junction of Dean Road and Rectory Grove.

Hampton North councillor, Geoffrey Samuel, said: "This is an outrageous proposal.

"The intended site is just opposite the present entrance to the nursery, which will be the main entrance for students when the now-agreed new building opens next year.

"It is all the more deplorable as alternative sites are available."

Cllr Samuel found out about the mast by accident and vowed he would do his best to get the proposal rejected.

He said the owners of flats beside the site have not been notified nor have the residents of Dean Road.

A petition will be organised to ensure the application is rejected.

Hampton resident Catriona Nason co-established Schools and Hospitals Against Mast Emissions (SHAME) to fight the Ashley Road, Hampton, phone mast. SHAME is now a national campaign.

Mrs Nason said: "It is wholly unacceptable to place a mast near children and certainly there are better sites.

"People need to make sure that their local authority knows they do not want this mast.

"Richmond council's planning department are aware of the issues from previous cases, and I cannot believe that they would not block this mast, but they may have their hands tied. It is up to parent power to stop these plans now."

James Stevenson, community relations manager for O2 , said: "We want to improve the network facilities that we have in that area. The area is growing, there are more and more people and more and more people want to have better services. We are putting the mast there to give them a better network service."

Mr Stevenson said O2 would listen to anyone who wishes to contact him with their feelings about the siting of the mast.

9:50am today

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.751315.0.mast_proposal_to_face_fight.php

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been conducting widespread deportation raids and immigration roundups. We speak with two young immigrant women who tried to follow the path to citizenship and were subsequently jailed. One of them was deported and has been separated from her three year-old son.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/04/146251


From Information Clearing House

The administration plans to grant $3 million to private contractors to develop inmate rehabilitation programs centered on a single faith.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3119


From Information Clearing House

Panel Finds

Faulty evidence masquerading as science sent two men to death row for arson in Texas and led to the execution of one of them, a panel of private fire investigators concluded in a report released Tuesday in Austin.

http://tinyurl.com/p8s3a


From Information Clearing House

HAS GEORGE W. Bush come to believe he's king?
http://tinyurl.com/fadco


From Information Clearing House

Amnesty International today made public a report detailing its concerns about torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners and detainees both in the US and in US detention sites around the world.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510702006


From Information Clearing House

Each day brings more information about the appalling abuses inflicted upon men and women held by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/torture.htm


From Information Clearing House

A global war of ideas is set to begin and Anglo-American dominance of international TV news about to end. Arab and Muslim perspectives will get wider play after Al-Jazeera introduces a global television channel that will telecast news in English.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HE04Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House

An American released Sunday after serving time in Afghanistan on charges of torturing people in an illegal jail appeared in federal court Thursday to press a lawsuit that accuses the State Department and FBI of instigating his arrest and conviction.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060504/ap_on_go_ot/afghan_us_prisoners


From Information Clearing House

The latest US National Security Strategy document, published this year, labeled Iran as the most serious challenge to the United States posed by any country.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HE04Ak04.html


From Information Clearing House

“On the one hand the Americans say the issue with Iran is our nuclear programme, and on the other they allocate $70m for overthrowing the Islamic Republic,” he said, referring to president George Bush’s decision to fund groups wanting regime change in Tehran.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/167fbcf2-da9f-11da-aa09-0000779e2340.html


From Information Clearing House

Before the international community is lead to another “crisis of choice”, it is imperative that the public knows all the facts and is empowered to make an informed and sober decision about an impending catastrophe.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12942.htm

Bolton said targeted sanctions would also likely include "restricting trade in dual use and other sensitive items." He didn't rule out tougher sanctions at some future date.

http://tinyurl.com/z2lv2


From Information Clearing House



UN resolution on Iran: full text of draft:

Full text of a draft UN Security Council resolution put forward by Britain, France, the United States and Germany as the council’s proposed response to Iran’s nuclear programme.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12946.htm

It said these Iranian-produced rods were already in use in a 5-megawatt reactor built by the United States — before Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution — at the nuclear research center in Tehran.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060504/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani accused Syria of exporting terrorism to Iraq and Iran of posing a great danger to his country.

http://tinyurl.com/fzu92


From Information Clearing House

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For God's Sake, Tell Me Where To Begin?

By Layla Anwar

Junior member of parliament in the Green Zone brothel makes 30'000 dollars a month plus fringe benefits. Now do you want to know how much the matron makes? No joke here. Jalal Talabani makes 1 million dollars A MONTH plus fringe benefits. This heavy hooker has pocketed in 2 years, 24 million dollars! Whilst the majority of the Iraqis don't have a piece of bread..

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17921.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Talabani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Layla+Anwar

Muhannad al-Fahadawi, a doctor at the main hospital, said two girls and a boy aged 8 were among at least 11 people he believed had been killed in the violence.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12943.htm

By David Clark

The argument of last resort for those who supported regime change has always been that at least Saddam has gone and the torture chambers have been closed. Even that has turned out to be an illusion, with the news that the director of the Baghdad morgue has had to flee Iraq under threat of death for revealing that thousands of Iraqis are being killed by death squads, many of them linked to the interior ministry.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12947.htm

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12945.htm


Informant: V

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‘The Salvador Option’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek


From Information Clearing House

Let's Get Ready for a Real Battle!

Health advocates gained a huge advantage this week at the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) when the mandated implementation pro-health, pro-nutrition World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (GS) was put in place. This pro-health, pro-nutrition stance is unprecedented within Codex.

Next, CCFL's recommendations will be presented to the Codex Commission (Geneva, Switzerland, July 3-7, 2006). Since WHO mandated Codex implement the GS, the principles laid down this week are immensely important because they set the stage for health forces to have an impact they have not been able to exert before. Click here to read how it happened http://prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb381188.htm .

Because of the courageous South African delegate, Ms. Antoinette Booyzen, a group of pro-health principles will become part of Codex. Of course, this powerful advance was opposed by the US which declared its opposition to optimal health and its endorsement of advertising junk food to children! It was not a proud moment.

Ready or Not, Here They Come

Will the other side just lie down and go away? Of course not. There's too much at stake. But now is the time for us to marshal our forces, lay our strategy and get our ducks in a row. Click here http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/ for important steps you can take now to help get us ready for the next phase of this battle. This wonderful sea change could be the beginning of a new era in health freedom if we play our cards right. Thank you, South Africa!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

PS: If you would like to read the WHO Global Strategy, click here http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/en/ .

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Informant: Lew Rockwell

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You got to listen to Stephen Colbert
http://tinyurl.com/zca9p

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Bush in distress: reaction shots at the WH Correspondents Dinner
http://tinyurl.com/l4g9o

The camera is fixed on Bush at around 17:00 minutes
Video here: http://tinyurl.com/hdqjv
Thread here: http://tinyurl.com/k8adn


Informant: sasha

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GOOD for Stephen Colbert.... we need more courageous Patriotic Americans like him !!!

Gomez


Transcript of Stephen Colbert's WHCA Speech: You Be the Judge http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002461887

By E&P Staff

Published: May 04, 2006 10:25 AM ET NEW YORK Four days after the event, the controversy over Stephen Colbert's routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night -- and the media's reaction to it -- continues to build, with followup stories in The New York Times, Los Angeles, and dozens of other places, including MTV.com.

E&P published the first account of the affair on Saturday night, and has presented numerous stories -- and dozens of letters to the editor -- since. But you be the judge. Here is a transcript of his speech, delivered in his usual faux-Bill O'Reilly voice. It closed with a video segment, not transcribed here.

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COLBERT: Wow, what an honor. The White House Correspondents' Dinner. To actually sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what? I'm a pretty sound sleeper -- that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face.

Is he really not here tonight? Dammit. The one guy who could have helped.

By the way, before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Somebody from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.

Mark Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps, Madame First Lady, Mr. President, my name is Stephen Colbert and tonight it's my privilege to celebrate this president. We're not so different, he and I. We get it. We're not brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut, right sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up.

I know some of you are going to say "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works. Every night on my show, the Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, OK? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it the "No Fact Zone." Fox News, I hold a copyright on that term.

I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states. And I cannot wait to see how the Washington Post spins that one tomorrow.

Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome. Your great country makes our Happy Meals possible. I said it's a celebration. I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible -- I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical. And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be you Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it's yogurt. But I refuse to believe it's not butter. Most of all, I believe in this president.

Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

So, Mr. President, please, pay no attention to the people that say the glass is half full. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.

Okay, look, folks, my point is that I don't believe this is a low point in this presidency. I believe it is just a lull before a comeback. I mean, it's like the movie "Rocky." All right. The president in this case is Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed is -- everything else in the world. It's the tenth round. He's bloodied. His corner man, Mick, who in this case I guess would be the vice president, he's yelling, "Cut me, Dick, cut me!," and every time he falls everyone says, "Stay down! Stay down!" Does he stay down? No. Like Rocky, he gets back up, and in the end he -- actually, he loses in the first movie.

OK. Doesn't matter. The point is it is the heart-warming story of a man who was repeatedly punched in the face. So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't.

I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound -- with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.

Now, there may be an energy crisis. This president has a very forward-thinking energy policy. Why do you think he's down on the ranch cutting that brush all the time? He's trying to create an alternative energy source. By 2008 we will have a mesquite-powered car!

And I just like the guy. He's a good Joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half. And polls show America agrees. She's a true lady and a wonderful woman. But I just have one beef, ma'am. I'm sorry, but this reading initiative. I'm sorry, I've never been a fan of books. I don't trust them. They're all fact, no heart. I mean, they're elitist, telling us what is or isn't true, or what did or didn't happen. Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American! I'm with the president, let history decide what did or did not happen.

The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

As excited as I am to be here with the president, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side.

But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished.

Over the last five years you people were so good -- over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.

But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!

Because really, what incentive do these people have to answer your questions, after all? I mean, nothing satisfies you. Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the White House has personnel changes. Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!

Now, it's not all bad guys out there. Some are heroes: Christopher Buckley, Jeff Sacks, Ken Burns, Bob Schieffer. They've all been on my show. By the way, Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to be on my show. I was just as shocked as everyone here is, I promise you. How's Tuesday for you? I've got Frank Rich, but we can bump him. And I mean bump him. I know a guy. Say the word.

See who we've got here tonight. General Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff. General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They still support Rumsfeld. Right, you guys aren't retired yet, right? Right, they still support Rumsfeld.

Look, by the way, I've got a theory about how to handle these retired generals causing all this trouble: don't let them retire! Come on, we've got a stop-loss program; let's use it on these guys. I've seen Zinni and that crowd on Wolf Blitzer. If you're strong enough to go on one of those pundit shows, you can stand on a bank of computers and order men into battle. Come on.

Jesse Jackson is here, the Reverend. Haven't heard from the Reverend in a little while. I had him on the show. Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he's going to say what he wants, at the pace that he wants. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have used a spoon! There's no predicting him. By the way, Senator McCain, it's so wonderful to see you coming back into the Republican fold. I have a summer house in South Carolina; look me up when you go to speak at Bob Jones University. So glad you've seen the light, sir.

Mayor Nagin! Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city! Yeah, give it up. Mayor Nagin, I'd like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., the chocolate city with a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption. It's a Mallomar, I guess is what I'm describing.

Joe Wilson is here, Joe Wilson right down here in front, the most famous husband since Desi Arnaz. And of course he brought along his lovely wife Valerie Plame. Oh, my god! Oh, what have I said? [looks horrified] I am sorry, Mr. President, I meant to say he brought along "Joe Wilson's wife. "Patrick Fitzgerald is not here tonight? OK. Dodged a bullet.

And, of course, we can't forget the man of the hour, new press secretary, Tony Snow. Secret Service name, "Snow Job." Toughest job. What a hero! Took the second toughest job in government, next to, of course, the ambassador to Iraq.

Got some big shoes to fill, Tony. Big shoes to fill. Scott McClellan could say nothing like nobody else.

[VIDEO FOLLOWS] E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge - even to ourselves - that we've been so credulous." - Carl Sagan

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."-Thich Nhat Hahn - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.

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Beating Up On Colbert

We need more journalists, faux or otherwise, willing to offend the president in polite company.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/05/beating_up_on_colbert.php

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Did you hear the one about the satirist and the President?

Common Dreams
by Heather Mallick

05/09/06

History was made last week at the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner. But it took a non-journalist -- a comedian in fact -- to do the job the well-fed journalists failed to do: take on George W. Bush. The thing is, you likely won't have heard about it. The mainstream media ignored the keynote speech by Stephen Colbert, which made Bush look like a smashed toadstool and the American press look like the compost a mushroom grows in. Hot spit, it was great. I was weeping with laughter while the portly millionaires of the American media sat there going whiter with shock (even as their younger female companions smirked) and the president looked as if he were about to have Colbert whacked...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0509-27.htm



White House press corps plays it safe

San Francisco Chronicle

01/17/07

The performance of Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Association electrified liberals a year ago, as Bush- and media-bashers cheered the courage of the comedian who satirized the president sitting just a few feet away while skewering the media elite in the audience for their lack of aggressiveness. The performance — and the traditional media’s initial lack of reporting on his remarks — made Colbert a hero with the truth-to-power crowd; a video of his remarks was one of the year’s most downloaded. Of course, the scowl on the president’s face and the snippy comments of some of the scorned media types afterward offered a less giddy review. And it was another example of how a story ignored by the mainstream media could achieve a major buzz in the blogosphere and on video-sharing sites....

http://tinyurl.com/yqm4sv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.counterpunch.org/swindell05042006.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger41.html

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Death Squads
Exposed: The reality of U.S. occupation Of Iraq

Channel 4 Video Investigation

This shocking film investigates the links between the death squads and high-ranking Shia politicians. It reveals how the Shia militia that these politicians control have systematically infiltrated and taken over police units and even entire government ministeries. It investigates how these units are closely linked to the death squads, indeed they often are the death squads. And the killers act with impunity -- there's little investigation into their activities.

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15615.htm

dpa-Meldung, 28.04.2006 (13:02)

Ravensburg - Mit Handy am Steuer ist ein 20 Jahre alter Autofahrer am Freitagmorgen in Ravensburg tödlich verunglückt. Er kam in einer Kurve mit seinem Wagen von der Straße ab und prallte gegen einen Baum, teilte die Polizei mit. Dabei erlitt er so schwere Verletzungen, dass er noch am Unfallort starb. Der Mann hatte sich nach Polizeiangaben während der Fahrt mit seinem Handy beschäftigt.

© 2006 - Verivox

http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?version=print&cat=Mobile&aid=14479

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

im Anhang finden Sie die aktuelle Pressereaktion auf den Besuch von Frau Dr. Waldmann-Selsam in Icking.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/4_5_20_1.JPG


Viele Grüße

Ingrid v. Brandt



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4438/


Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0503-28.htm


Informant: dmetke

From ufpj-news

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Subject: W-LAN an städtischen Schulen - Presseinformation Mag. Bernhard Carl

Presseinformation
Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006

W-Lan an städtischen Schulen:

Unglaublich: BM Schaden und Leiter des Schulamtes machen Werbung für Apple-Konzern!

Stadt Salzburg ignoriert Empfehlungen der Landessanitätsdirektion sowie die Bedenken der Eltern und Lehrer!

mehr: http://www.buergerliste.at/d_home.htm?aktuell/d_presse_detail.asp?ID=1636


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Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops an Hessens Schulen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1335988/

Rumsfeld exposed by a former CIA analyst
http://audio.wegoted.com/dailyaudio/5306Rumsfeld.mp3


Informant: ranger116

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McGovern Almost Ejected For Confronting Rumsfeld WMD "Lies"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/886

"Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?" asks Richard Morin. "Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted the Republican Party's share of the vote in the 2000 election and delivered Florida to Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406M.shtml

Ohio's first election without punch card ballots was marred by a slew of problems with new voting machines, raising a crucial question: Can the state that decided the last presidential race get it together before November?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406O.shtml

"The most scathing public critique of the Bush presidency and the complicity of a craven press corps was delivered at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday by a comedian," writes Sidney Blumenthal. "Bush was reported afterwards to be seething, while the press corps responded with stone-cold silence."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406K.shtml



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

"In the absence of a fundamental reorientation of American policy, the overall situation in the Middle East will continue to deteriorate," writes Thierry de Montbrial, who suggests how that reorientation might begin.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406H.shtml

Populist Left in South America

There is a sense across Latin America that George Bush, distracted by terrorism and Iraq, has failed to pay sufficient attention to his neighbors to the south. Washington now finds itself largely powerless to halt the shift to the left in these countries. Indeed, if it tried, the backlash would surely only get worse.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406E.shtml

Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst specializing in counter-terrorism in the Middle East and Asia, said that the United States had particularly wanted to prove a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. "That was not the case; I suppose by some definitions that could be called a lie. There was an organized campaign of manipulation," Pillar says. "That would be the proper way to define it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406D.shtml

In a new report, Amnesty International charges that torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees by US forces is widespread and, in many cases, sanctioned by top US government officials. The UN Committee Against Torture will begin hearings Friday, May 5, in Geneva.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406A.shtml

04.05.06

Die Organisationen Robin Wood und Urgewald protestierten am Donnerstag gemeinsam mit Indianern der brasilianischen Stämme Tupinikim und Guarani vor dem Neusser Werk zur Produktion von "Tempo"-Taschentüchern. Procter&Gamble, dem Produzenten der Taschentücher werfen sie indirekt "Landraub" und Umweltzerstörung vor. Grund: Der brasilianische Zellstoff­kon­zern Aracruz habe den Indianern 11.000 Hektar Land im Bundes­staat Espirito Santo weggenommen, "um dort Eukalyptus-Monokulturen anzulegen". Die Eukalyptus-Pflanzen dienten der Zellstoffproduktion. Nach Re­cherchen von Robin Wood soll der Ara­cruz-Zellstoff in Form von Tempo-Taschentüchern so­wie als Charmin- und bess-Klopapier auch auf dem deutschen Markt "landen". Hersteller dieser Produkte sei der multinationale Konzern Procter&Gam­ble (P&G).

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13521

Hauptversammlung: Aktionär Rochlitz wirft BASF eine "verfassungswidrige Geschäftspolitik" vor (04.05.06)

Der Chemiekonzern BASF feierte auf seiner Hauptversammlung am Donnerstag einen "erfolgreichen Start in das Jahr 2006". Die BASF habe im ersten Quartal 2006 ihren Erfolgskurs mit einer erneuten Spitzenleistung fortgesetzt. "Nachhaltigen Wert zu schaffen, ist unser erklärtes Ziel", sagte der BASF-Vorstandsvorsitzende Jürgen Hambrecht nach Konzernangaben bei der Präsentation der Zahlen für das erste Quartal. Der Umsatz des ersten Quartals 2006 habe mit 12,5 Milliarden Euro um 24 Prozent über dem Vorjahresquartal gelegen. "Wachstumstreiber" waren laut Hambrecht vor allem eine starke Mengensteigerung sowie "Preiserhöhungen im Chemiegeschäft und im Segment Öl und Gas". Bereinigt um Währungseinflüsse sei der Umsatzanstieg bei 20 Prozent gelegen. Harsche Kritik äußerte der Kleinaktionär und ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete Professor Jürgen Rochlitz an der Geschäftspolitik des Chemiegiganten. In mehreren "Gegenanträgen" zur Hauptversammlung warf er der BASF "ständigen Abbau der Beschäftigung" vor. Angesichts der hohen Gewinne verwies Rochlitz auf das Grundgesetz, wonach "Eigentum verpflichtet". Dieser Verpflichtung kämen Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat nicht nach. "Seit Jahren schon betreibt die BASF eine verfassungswidrige Geschäftspolitik", so Rochlitz. Das Management verwies in ihrer Stellungnahme zu den Anträgen auf die "Notwendigkeit, sich im globalen Wettbewerb erfolgreich durchzusetzen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13523



EU-Chemikalienpolitik: Greenpeace wirft BASF Produktion von Weichmachern vor (04.05.06)

Die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace wirft der BASF AG die Produktion von "gesundheitsschädlichen" Weichmachern, den so genannten Phthalaten vor. Der weltgrößte Chemiekonzern sei einer der führenden Hersteller dieser Chemikalien, die unter anderem in Regenkleidung, T-Shirts, Kosmetik, Kontaktlinsen, Duschvorhängen, Infusionsschläuchen und Farben eingesetzt würden. In den Körper gelangen Phthalate nach Darstellung von Greeenpeace "über die Atmung, die Nahrung und die Haut". Die Umweltschützer fordern die BASF auf, die Produktion dieser Stoffe zu stoppen. Zudem solle der Konzern "seinen Widerstand" gegen eine "verbraucherfreundliche Chemikalienpolitik in der EU" aufgeben.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13516

The Bush White House and Congressional leaders are exploiting rising gas prices to ram through legislation that would destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

These front men for Big Oil are doing their damnedest to convince Americans that sacrificing our nation's greatest wildlife sanctuary will solve our problems at the gas pump.

It's a lie.

Here are the facts: the Bush Administration's own Energy Department says that drilling in the Arctic Refuge will save consumers only one penny per gallon at the pump -- and that's 20 years from now! The oil companies win, everyone else loses.

Even the most optimistic government assumptions admit that Arctic Refuge oil -- at peak production -- would amount to less than 1% of world oil production. Meanwhile, we use 25% of the global supply! Our nation simply doesn't have enough oil to affect the price of this world commodity.

We will NEVER drill our way to lower gas prices and energy independence. But we CAN secure our energy future by reducing our out-of-control appetite for oil. And there's already legislation pending in Congress that would do just that.

"The Fuel Choices for American Security Act" would cut our nation's dependence on oil by 2.5 million barrels a day within 10 years -- more than we currently import daily from the Persian Gulf.

We can do it by producing more hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars...by making renewable American biofuels widely available at our local gas stations...by relying on smarter and cleaner ways to power our economy.

But unless millions of Americans demand that better future right now, President Bush and Congress will continue leading the charge for Big Oil to plunder the Arctic Refuge.

Please go to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/arctic/action.asp?step=2&item=52387 right now and send a message to your Senators and Representative.

Tell them you will not surrender the Arctic Refuge to save one penny at the pump. Tell them to get to work on solving the real energy problem: our nation's dangerous and expensive addiction to oil.

Thank you for speaking out.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford NRDC Action Fund

Speaking the Unspeakable:

Is the Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity?

HEAR THE EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF.

Tuesday, May 9th at 12:30pm
Northwestern University
McCormick School at the Technological Institute
Lecture Room 2
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston

Tuesday, May 9th at 7pm
University of Chicago
Social Sciences, Room 122
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago

With:
**Craig Murray--former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who resigned over the use of intelligence from prisoners tortured as part of the War on Terror

**Ted Glick--Climate Crisis Coalition, on the destruction of our global environment

**C. Clark Kissinger--Commission Convener and University of Chicago graduate

"I would rather die than to have anyone tortured to save my life"
-- former U.K. Ambassador Craig Murray

"When the possibility of far-reaching war crimes and crimes against humanity exists, people of conscience have a solemn responsibility to inquire into the nature and scope of these acts and to determine if they do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity."
--From the Charter of The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes
Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States.

Click here for a 14-minute video of highlights of the Bush Crimes Commission in quicktime:
http://www.deepdishtv.org/bushcommission/

*******************bushcommission.org*******************

Sponsors at the University of Chicago include: Stand Up! for Progress, Students for Human Rights, Young Democratic Socialists, Environmental Concerns Organization, Susan Gzesh, Director, Human Rights Program; Bruce Lincoln, Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; Locke Bowman, Director, MacArthur Justice Center; the MacArthur Justice Center; World Can't Wait-Chicago; the Bush Crimes Commission


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

From ufpj-news

Die EU will das Budget auf 4,1 Milliarden Euro anheben, für erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz sind nur 770 Millionen vorgesehen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22600/1.html

Verkommene Sitten
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22520/1.html

Kofi Annan legt "Globale Antiterror-Strategie" vor, erklärt aber nicht, was Terrorismus ist und wie er die geforderten Überwachungs- und Zensurmaßnahmen mit den Menschenrechten vereinbaren und gegen Missbrauch schützen will.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22601/1.html

Blocking mobile masts with democracy

Iain Thomson,
vnunet.com
04 May 2006

One of the parties in today's local elections has been set up specifically to stop Orange from installing a mobile phone mast near a local school.

The Orange Squash party is contesting one seat in the elections, in the ward of Lesness Abbey in the London borough of Bexley.

Communications company worker Gary Cripps is standing on a manifesto of stopping Orange setting up a mobile phone mast 20 metres from a local primary school.

Orange has had a mast on the roof of Bedonwell Junior School for nearly a decade but after protests from parents the school refused permission for it to stay. When the new location was decided close to the school Cripps decided to stand.

"We tried to negotiate with Orange but got nowhere. One of my neighbours first alerted people in the street to what was going on and then we began a campaign," he told The Guardian.

"I always thought there was no point in getting interested in local politics because you couldn't change anything anyway. I was meeting and engaging with my neighbours for the first time."

The battle for Bexley council could be one of the closest in years, with one vote currently deciding who runs the council.

Conservative and Labour have 63 candidates each for the council, along with 38 Liberal Democrats, 13 independents, eight UK Independence Party, five British National Party, three Thamesmead Community Party, one Orange Squash Party and one English Democrats 'Putting England First' candidates.

© 1995-2006 All rights reserved

http://www.whatpc.co.uk/vnunet/news/2155358/local-election-party-squash

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Orange candidate in Bexley

From Karen Barratt

Congratulations to Orange Squash candidate Gary Cripps. He may not have won but got more votes than the LibDem. Amazing.

The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.bexley.gov.uk/service/elections/councilelections2006/index.html#lesnes


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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The future’s bright, the future’s orange
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/display.var.741612.0.0.php

You go to war with Iran with the army you have. And, as a new report suggests, it's one still larded with obsolete ideas.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/03/you_dont_go_to_war_with_iran_with_the_army_you_want.php

by Chellie Pingree, TomPaine.com

In some ways, the current debate about ethics reform is missing the forest for the trees.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/04/the_money_machine_remains.php

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The Money Machine Remains

Chellie Pingree agrees with Alexandra Walker about ethics and lobbying reform: "Alexandra Walker said what needed to be said: that public financing for federal elections would 'revolutionize American politics' by 'turning off the gushing spigot of special interest

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406I.shtml

by Anya Kamenetz, TomPaine.com

FEMA's still running the circus and low-income blacks are locked out of the new New Orleans.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/05/katrinas_legacy.php

by Elizabeth Spiro Clark, TomPaine.com

Attacking Iran is not a "messy" or a "poor" option. It is not an option.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/04/slouching_towards_tehran.php

The Choice Channel
by R. Lee Wrights

05/03/06

Parents worldwide should reject this notion of 'controlled choice' that is being offered as a symbol of freedom in education. After all, if someone else controls your choices how free can you really be? As a friend of mine observed to me recently, when a gunman accosts you in an alley and says, 'Give me your money or your life,' isn't he offering you a controlled choice? Does controlled choice really represent some sort of freedom? It is not freedom in education when parents are forced to choose between equally bad public schools for their beloved little ones. It is not freedom that parents are forced to pay for failing public schools when they could receive better value from their money being spent on schools in the private sector. True freedom in education would be parents controlling the bureaucrats rather than the bureaucrats controlling parents' choices...

http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/1821


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by staff

04/28/06

The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called President Bush's request for higher fuel economy standards a political ploy that would be irrelevant in the short run and lethal in the long run. 'Given the current run-up in gas prices, consumers are moving far more effectively than the government to increase the fuel economy of new cars,' says Sam Kazman, CEI's general counsel...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,05294.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cindy Sheehan writes that she (and every single other individual on this planet working for peace and justice) is often accused of being "anti-American" for dissenting against her feral government that has gone wild with lawlessness and greed, even though dissent from our government is as American as apple pie. Some people believe that if one is critical of the Bush criminal regime, then one is anti-American. Cindy steadfastly believes that to be anti-BushCo means being pro-American, pro-life, and, most of all, pro-peace.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050406Z.shtml

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/03/06

The feeding frenzy in Washington over oil prices and profits may win pander-points for cynical politicians, but it takes the public's eye off the ball. The regular outcry over rising prices, which, you'll notice, requires a previous period of falling prices, highlights some fascinating puzzles. For example, there is a considerable gaggle of folks who think world oil production is reaching its peak and will soon decline. If that is correct, then where's the mystery in rising prices? Furthermore, if the 'peak oil' theory were correct, there would be no need for oil executives to conspire to gouge the public. In fact, the peak-oil theory is wrong...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0605a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by Robert Kaercher

05/03/06

America is much more than a territory lying within geographical boundaries drawn on a map. America is an idea, a philosophy, which was best encapsulated in that famous phrase in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence -- we are all created equal, and we all equally retain the right to be free to pursue our own lives and our own happiness without various methods of force and coercion constructed by others strapping us down...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/kaercher/kaercher4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

George W.'s palace

Times Online [UK]
by Daniel McGrory

05/03/06

The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth? Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call 'George W's palace' rising from the banks of the Tigris. In the pavement cafes, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2162249,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush's Presidential Palace

Sure they plan to leave.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2162249,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Reason
by David Weigel

05/03/06

Interview with Matthew Continetti, author of The K Street Gang: "Reason: What exactly is 'K Street Conservatism?' MC: One of its tenets is the packaging of clientism in the rhetoric of conservatism. If you're a K Street conservative you'd take a client, define their goals, and repackage them in terms of Republican ideals. So for the Indian gaming, Abramoff said the tribes were really opposed to taxes. Every good conservative is supposed to be opposed to taxes. With the Marianas Islands, Abramoff represented the local government and the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association by saying that these territories wished to be free of government tyranny. And every conservative is supposed to believe in self-reliance and enterprise. He championed this in conservative rhetoric when in fact he was shilling for this garment tycoon...

http://www.reason.com/links/links050306.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

05/03/06

Nixon was the last of the New Deal-era liberal presidents. He sponsored and signed the legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency, the Water Quality Improvement Act and the Endangered Species Act. He oversaw the establishment of Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon created the Philadelphia Plan, the springboard for racial quotas; pushed for Title IX (the women's 'equality' law); and hired Leon Panetta (later Bill Clinton's chief of staff) as his director of the office of civil rights. Nixon pushed aggressively for national health insurance that would cover 100 percent of the nation's poor children. He increased federal spending on health and education programs by more than 50 percent and massively boosted spending on the National Endowment for Humanities. He tried to increase welfare with his Family Assistance Plan and Child Development Act. Economically, Nixon got along swell with the chamber of commerce crowd, but he was well to the left of almost any leading Democrat today, championing wage and price controls as a legitimate tool of state, and boasting 'Now I am a Keynesian in economics.' ... Bush is certainly to the right of Nixon on many issues. But at the philosophical level, he shares the Nixonians' supreme confidence in the power of the state...

http://tinyurl.com/nlwge


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by Jack Shafer

05/03/06

Every time the Bush administration cracks down on openness, it creates new sources for journalists inside the bureaucracies. Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, says the strategy of decertifying the press works only if you can block the press from obtaining alternative sources of information. That's something the administration hasn't been able to do, says Blanton, citing the blockbuster stories about the Bush's secret prisons, secret torture programs, secret rendition operation, warrantless wiretaps, and so on. Blanton attributes such scoops to a 'revolt of the JAGs,' his shorthand for the recent round of whistle-blowing by career civil service and career military officers. It's not that these whistle-blowers oppose secrecy, he notes, giving the example of the FISA court, which issues secret warrants. In the 20-plus years of FISA warrants, not one has been leaked ... He contrasts the public FISA process with the secret machinations of the 'torture lawyers' -- Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, John Yoo, et al. -- whose primary goal is to enhance presidential power...

http://www.slate.com/id/2140996/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/o3bs8

Mother’s delight at mast decision
http://tinyurl.com/fy8yh

04 May 2006 12:39

Families are celebrating after planning inspectors ruled against a mast which would have been installed near homes.

More than 500 people signed a petition against the application by O2 for a 15m mast near the Moss Pharmacy in Colman Road.

The campaign, organised by University ward councillor Roy Blower, led planning officers to reject the proposal last June before it came to the planning committee.

The telecommunication giant appealed that decision stating that more masts were needed because more people were using phones.

But Government planning inspectors have now decided the decision made by planning officers should stand.

Mr Blower said he was delighted the inspectors ruled against the mast and thanked the Evening News for raising awareness of the campaign.

He said: “Another mast had been rejected by the city council on the other side of the road once and the company lost at appeal and the same thing has happened at this one. We've had four bites of the cherry at these two masts and it is down to the community.

“I'm absolutely delighted for the people of University ward that they haven't got to put up with this blot on the landscape.”

Jean McLennan, 59, who lives at Lubbock Close, off Colman Road, signed a petition against it and was pleased planning inspectors had agreed the mast should not go ahead.

“They've got to be put somewhere, but why on earth can't they be placed away from populations,” she said.

“At the back of my mind is this fear and worry that if these emissions from masts are dangerous to people we don't want it.”

Mary Parke, 57, who lives on The Avenues with her husband Brian, said also signed the petition and was delighted the mast would not be going ahead.

“I'm very pleased,” she said. “There's a lot of houses in the area and I'm sure they can find a more open space to place it.”

The Evening News has, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign, fought against the installation of mobile phone masts until it is proved they are safe.

A spokeswoman for O2 said: “We're very disappointed, it will mean an inferior service for the people of Norwich. We will have to look in other areas. As part of our license we have a duty to provide people with good mobile phone coverage.”

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

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/ese7b

A message from Cassandra

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/964670302
(anti-war)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/546348932
(STOP DETAINING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/208745275
(death penalty)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/184764026
(draft)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/686106328
(age discrimination)

Access to high-quality child care is essential for parents to work and for children to develop and thrive. But child care is too often unaffordable or simply unavailable, and the public investment needed to address these deficiencies has been grossly inadequate.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306WA.shtml



Malnutrition Kills 10 Children Every Minute, Says UN

Ten children die every minute as a result of malnutrition, more than a quarter of children in developing countries are underweight and suffer disease because of their poor diet, and in some areas almost half of all under-fives are malnourished, a new United Nations report says.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306HA.shtml

Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, Bush's pick for Secretary of the Interior, has raised nearly $5 million in campaign contributions in the past 15 years. Agriculture and natural resource industries were his most reliable supporters while he was a US senator. The mining and timber industries supported his governorship.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306EC.shtml

Nelson writes, "Natural-gas drilling - like oil drilling - has the potential to cause serious damage to Florida's beaches and marine life.... Natural-gas rigs leak toxic liquids into the surrounding water, causing significant damage. Fires and explosions at gas sites can lead to major disasters."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306EB.shtml

A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system." The finding eliminates an area of uncertainty that the Bush administration has used to justify its inaction.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306EA.shtml

William Fisher writes, "The juxtaposition of oil, human rights, and the 'global war on terror' has exposed a giant fault line in the Bush administration's foreign policy, revealing inconsistency and hypocrisy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050306R.shtml

Today a draft resolution on Iran put forward by France and Britain and discussed in Security Council consultations was informally circulated at the UN. We posted it at http://lcnp.org/disarmament/iran/draftresUNSC03may.pdf

I have a quick reaction to it on www.DisarmamentActivist.org, at http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/05/03/britishfrench-draft-security-council-resolution-on-iran/

See also my discussion of possible alternative Security Council approaches at http://lcnp.org/disarmament/iran/remarks-may2.htm

You can send a letter to Security Council members and to Congress at http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3241

John Burroughs,
Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
675 Third Ave., Suite 315
New York, NY 10017-5704
USA tel 212 818 1861; fax 212 818 1857
johnburroughs@lcnp.org
http://www.lcnp.org


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

From ufpj-news

Gipfel und Globalisierungsproteste > 4. Europäisches Sozialforum in Athen

210 Seminare im Dreischichtsystem. Über 30 000 Teilnehmer werden ab heute in Athen zum 4. Europäischen Sozialforum erwartet / Widerstand gegen neoliberale Politik und Krieg steht im Mittelpunkt des ESF

„»Verändern wir Europa, verändern wir die Welt!« Unter diesem Motto tagt ab heute das 4. Europäische Sozialforum in Athen. Mehr als 30 000 Teilnehmer werden zu dem viertägigen Treffen in den ehemaligen olympischen Wettkampfstätten für Basketball und Fechtsport am Rande der griechischen Hauptstadt erwartet…“ Artikel von Anke Stefan, Athen, in ND vom 04.05.06 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=89866&IDC=2


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Mai 2006

Job-Karawanen in Hamburg

Jobvermittler im Einkaufscenter

Die Hamburger Arbeitsagentur geht neue Wege: Mit einer Job-Karawane tingelt sie durch die Einkaufszentren der Stadt. Kritik an Showveranstaltung und Hamburger Arbeitsmarktpolitik.

Artikel von Marco Carini in der taz Nord vom 28.4.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/04/28/a0248.1/text

Jobkarawane mit Bewachung. Propagandashow "Die Jobkarawane zieht weiter" fand trotz Verstoß gegen Persönlichkeitsrechte wieder statt.

Bericht von Tom vom 03.05.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/05/145730.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Mai 2006

Existenzgelddebatte

Grundeinkommen der Gleichgestellten. Ein Vorschlag für soziale Veränderungen

„In der Deklaration von Barcelona definierten wir 1998 einstimmig unser Verständnis von Grundeinkommen. In einem weiteren, diesmal internationalen Treffen im Jahr 2002 in Malaga waren unsere Vorschläge eindeutig antikapitalistisch. In der zweiten internationalen Zusammenkunft im Jahr 2004 haben wir die „Zweite Erklärung von Barcelona“ verabschiedet. Darin erklärten wir, was wir unter dem starken Modell des Grundeinkommens verstehen. Und jetzt, 2006 in Hamburg legen wir einen detaillierteren Vorschlag zum Grundeinkommen vor, den wir „das Grundeinkommen der Gleichgestellten“ nennen…“ Die „Hamburger Erklärung“ der Workshops zum Grundeinkommen bei der internationalen Versammlung "Die Kosten rebellieren II" am 29. und 30.4.2006 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/kosten2.pdf

Für diese Erklärung werden Unterstützungsunterschriften gesammelt – e-mail an anne.allex.web.de


Zum Thema Grundeinkommen für Erwerbslose und gesetzlicher Mindestlohn

Vortrag von Rainer Roth beim Forum Gewerkschaften Kassel, DGB-Region Nordhessen, DIDF und Kasseler Erwerbsloseninitiative in Kassel am 21.April 2004 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/roth.html



Sozialpolitik und soziale Kämpfe in der Schweiz

Für existenzsicherndes Grundeinkommen

„Weltweit wird Lohnarbeit immer knapper. Ein existenzsicherndes Grundeinkommen könnte auch in der Schweiz die Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter wesentlich fördern. Der schweizerische Arbeitsmarkt versagt zusehends bei der Existenzsicherung. Caritas Schweiz meldete Ende 2005, dass eine Million Menschen in unserem Land von Armut betroffen ist. Tendenz zunehmend…“ Artikel aus „Hälfte – Unabhängiger Mediendienst zur Arbeit und zur Erwerbslosigkeit“ vom 01.05.2006 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/internationales/ch/grundeinkdt.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Mai 2006

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Ein soziales Seil. Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen

„Leuten einfach so Geld geben? Ohne Gegenleistung? Ohne Verpflichtung? Ohne Anreiz zur Beschäftigung? Wer wird dann überhaupt noch arbeiten wollen? Wird er oder sie nicht den ganzen Tag auf der faulen Haut herumliegen, es sich bequem machen und schmarotzen auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit? Und selbst, wenn man genügend Freiwillige findet, die Kosten sind astronomisch, wer soll das bezahlen? Ist das utopisch?...“ Artikel von Harald Schauff von der Straßenzeitung Querkopf, April 2006, in "Der Linke Berliner" http://www.linker-berliner.de/volltexte/s0605151.html


Grundversorgung. "Das manische Schauen auf Arbeit macht uns alle krank"

„Er war mal ein ganz normaler Kapitalist - immer auf der Jagd nach mehr. Dann las er Schiller und Goethe. Jetzt will Götz Werner, Chef der Drogeriekette dm, Revolutionäres: ein Grundeinkommen für alle - von der Wiege bis zur Bahre…“ Interview von Arno Luik in stern.de vom 14.5.2006 http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/arbeit-karriere/arbeit/:Grundversorgung-Das-Schauen-Arbeit/560218.html


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Mai 2006

The President summoned his minions to the Oval Office yesterday for some action on extending the 2003 tax breaks for the wealthy. Looks like he may succeed. He met, of course, only with Republican leaders.

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/5/3/143719/0689


From Information Clearing House

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8759


From Information Clearing House



Spies Among Us:

Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12929.htm

At a recent summit meeting at a Sao Paulo hotel, presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina further progressed to consolidate the giant gas pipeline following "strategic lines of cooperation, integration and South American unity", in the words.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HE03Aa03.html


From Information Clearing House

When the heat is turned up against US interests, this country won't go quietly into the night. The plans are well underway now for a fourth attempt to oust Hugo Chavez that may include assassinations and possibly an armed assault by US invading forces.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12932.htm

I call on university students across America to begin holding antiwar rallies. The only way you can have a war on Iran is to draft the young people. It is you who are on the line. Demonstrate! Demonstrate against the very hint of war.

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From Information Clearing House

A look at the dogs of War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the PNAC as stated in the September 2000 document Rebuilding America's Defenses.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12017.htm

The United States is ready to form a coalition of countries to take sanctions against Iran if the UN Security Council does not agree measures, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton said.

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=292493&sid=WOR


From Information Clearing House

THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2162249,00.html


From Information Clearing House

A series of FOI requests has revealed that the Ministry of Defence was wrong to say there was no way of knowing how many soldiers have been injured in Iraq.

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From Information Clearing House

The soldiers watched as Ahmed Jabar Karheem, 15, who was unable to swim, began to struggle when he was ordered into the Shatt al-Basra canal in May 2003. After the boy disappeared below the surface, the soldiers drove away. His body was recovered two days later.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1766302,00.html?gusrc=rss


From Information Clearing House

Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? Try it out: be an Iraqi for a day, into your fourth year of being occupied, humiliated, tortured and killed, doing all you can just to survive.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12940.htm

By Mike Whitney

Bush has purposely generated another $3 trillion in debt ensuring that the dollar will fall mightily and working class people be left with a trifling of their life savings.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12931.htm

By Tariq Ali

Ringed by nuclear states, Iran's atomic programme is scarcely unreasonable. So why has Washington manufactured this crisis?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12927.htm

Beating about the Bush? Not with Hersh

He is about all we have left to frighten the most powerful man in the world

By Robert Fisk

Bush has a messianic vision – and intends to go down in history (probably he has chosen the right direction) as the man who will have “saved” Iran. “So we’re in a real American crisis ... we’ve had a collapse of congress ... we have had a collapse of the military ... the good news is that when we wake up tomorrow morning, there will be one less day (of Bush). But that is the only good news.”

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12928.htm

By Doug Gordon

While Ambassador Bolton refused to answer questions about US troops in Iran, Bolton did state that the US was prepared to move against Iran, with or without the UN Security Council.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12933.htm

By Human Events

He believes the cause is urgent because of the prospect that Iran may soon develop a nuclear weapon or the U.S. may use military force to preempt that. He hopes to offer a way out of this dilemma: a revolution sparked by massive civil disobedience in which the masses in the streets are backed by elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12939.htm

By Jonathan Cutler

Are neo-conservatives bumbling crackpot idealists who unwittingly opened Pandora's box in Iraq by substituting idealistic dreams of democracy ahead of realist Machiavellian statecraft?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12935.htm

PLANS to build three mobile phone masts next to residential areas in Rugby have all been thrown out unanimously by councillors.

Petitions backed by nearly 300 residents were handed into Rugby Borough Council, expressing concerns to build the Vodafone masts in Hollowell Way, Beech Drive and on the corner of Shakespeare Gardens and Dunchurch Road.

Neighbours said they were cheifly worried about possible health implications from the radiation - but councillors refused the plans because the masts would be an eyesore.

As reported in last week's Advertiser, council officers had previously recommended that councillors reject the plans.

And at a packed public meeting, councillors wasted no time in comprehensively refusing all three proposals.

Vodafone previously stated that it will also put forward planning permission to build two more masts in Clifton Road and Hillmorton Road.

Talking about the mast in Hollowell Way outside the Merry Monk pub, Cllr. Alan Webb (Lab, Brownsover South) said: "At a time when we are trying to make a better Brownsover, this is not a good step to be taking.

"The mast is close to two Brownsover schools and I would not want pupils being put through that."

Cllr. Lionel Franklyn (Con, Bilton) said the mast in Beech Drive would have been detrimental to any plans for the Western Relief Road.

He added: "As for health issues, I personally do not believe that is an issue.

"But it is near an elderly persons' home and it is a fear for them."

Many of the members in public gallery came to hear the verdict of the mast on the corner of Shakespeare Gardens and Dunchurch Road.

Cllr. Liegh Hunt (Con, Avon and Swift) said: "This is on the main road into Rugby so it should not be planted right there on the grass verge."

Planning officers said health issues did not form any part of their decision as the Government had certified them as safe.

Vodafone said that the health issues are unproven and the masts were designed to blend in with the environment.

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Furious protesters have blamed council bosses for missing a deadline to block plans for a mobile phone mast in their neighbourhood. Anne Thickett and neighbours campaigned and stopped two planning applications by Hutchinson 3G for the pole and base station, near Williamthorpe Road, North Wingfield.

But last week horrified residents discovered the mast was being erected and learned NE Derbyshire District Council had failed to inform 3G of their latest decision in time.

Mrs Thickett of Williamthorpe Road said: "We're furious that somehow because of a council oversight the mast has been allowed to go up.

"Someone should be held accountable. If it was a housing development the council would tell us to take it down, yet 3G has been allowed to build this monstrosity and we can't do anything."

The campaigners successfully blocked two applications with objection letters, including a second application for a pole with a wooden surround, and in each case were informed it had been refused.

Residents had felt the mast was too close to a residential area, was an eyesore and posed possible health threats from radio waves.

The council said that it had refused the application but 3G did not receive a council letter about the latest decision until after a 56-day legal deadline.

A council spokesman said: "In planning cases involving prior determination a planning authority has 56 days to make a decision.

"Failure to notify an applicant within that timescale means the applicant is entitled to commence building work.

"Following this case, the council has revised how it deals with prior determination cases and will in future fax or email applicants to ensure they receive a decision within the 56 days."

Mrs Thickett said she and other residents were now considering complaining to the local authority watchdog Ombudsman.

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04 May 2006

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Victory! No-Permanent-Bases Amendment Passes Both Houses!

Your efforts paid off. The Senate, like the House, passed an amendment to the supplemental spending bill banning the use of any of its funding for the construction of permanent bases in Iraq. Will the amendment survive a Republican-run conference committee? We'll be watching. Meanwhile give yourselves a huge pat on the back and get ready for the next fight.

Here it is:

Tell Congress to Tell Bush and Cheney not to Attack Iran
George Bush is considering attacking Iran, including using nuclear bombs to do so. Such an attack would be illegal and disastrous. Congress can prevent it, but only if Congres asserts its Constitutional right to decide whether or not the United States goes to war. Congressman Peter DeFazio's H. Con. Res. 391 expresses "the sense of Congress that the President should not initiate military action against Iran with respect to its nuclear program without first obtaining authorization from Congress." This bill is rapidly picking up cosponsors, but needs more. Ask your Congress Member to sign on today. Ask your Senators to take the same step in the Senate. CONTACT CONGRESS: http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/80

Tell the media to cover - and this time CRITICALLY - Bush's planning for an aggressive war: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/media

More information: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/391

Join us from 1 to 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 18, as we deliver the DontAttackIran.org petition, with all its signatures and comments to the White House: PRINT FLYER: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/daiflyer.pdf


Sign the Petition! http://www.dontattackiran.org


Register to Join PDA Grassroots Organizing and Lobbying Day May 20-22, in Washington, D.C. Featuring: 9:30 - 10:00 AM: (PDA) "Be a Part of the Growing Pro-Impeachment Grassroots Movement" by David Swanson, PDA National Board Member/Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org https://www.pdamerica.org/2006-5-21-tickets.php


Chomsky on Impeachment and the Next War
Noam Chomsky has recorded a public service announcement available for radio play on the topic of investigating grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Chomsky has also written a wonderful new book, which Stephen Lendman reviews below. He includes this update on Chomsky's views as expressed in the book:

"I hope Chomsky's assessment in the book is right that a second Middle East war is not imminent. However, I read the signs less optimistically, and from an April 29 email I received from him responding to this review which I sent him he's now more inclined to believe the US plans hostile actions against Iran and Venezuela. He added he 'wouldn't be surprised to see (US inspired) secessionist movements in the oil producing areas in Iran, Venezuela and Bolivia, all in areas that are accessible to US military force and alienated from the governments, with the US then moving in to "defend" them and blasting the rest of the country if necessary.'"

Listen to Noam Chomsky's PSA http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/chomsky.mp3

Review of Noam Chomsky's New Book "Failed States" and an Email Exchange with Chomsky By Stephen Lendman http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/9748


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*Delivery of DontAttackIran.org Petition to White House*

Thursday, May 18, 1-3 p.m. ET Lafayette Square Park, Washington D.C. We will be joining with a Pray-In held by the Network of Spiritual Progressives to deliver to the White House all of the signatures and comments posted below the petition at http://www.dontattackiran.org

*Join* Cindy Sheehan and representatives of many of these groups: After Downing Street, Gold Star Families for Peace, CODE PINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, Traprock Peace Center, Global Exchange, Velvet Revolution, Democracy Rising, Truthout, OpEdNews, Backbone Campaign, Consumers for Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, The Young Turks, Citizens for Legitimate Government, Counter Punch, United for Peace and Justice, Stop the War Coalition, This Can't Be Happening, Voters Evolt, Springs Action Alliance, Radio News America, OrbStandard, International Socialist Organization, Voters for Peace, Thom Hartmann Show, Environmentalists Against War, U.S. Peace Council, Grandmothers for Peace, Justice Through Music, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran, World Can't Wait, The Rational Response Squad, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Bush Free Zone, Voice International, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Tbilisi, Georgia, Political Cooperative, City Sites, Agir contre la guerre (France), Americans Against the War (France), Spiritual Activism Conference, Muslims for Peace (Australia), AndrewBurgin.com, Peace Movement Aotearoa, Not in Our Name Aotearoa New Zealand, Pixel4Peace.

FLYER: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/daiflyer.pdf

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Petition Bush & Congress to stop Iran war
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Don't Attack Iran petition delivered to White House

On May 18th, hundreds rallied against war in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, and a large delegation led by Cindy Sheehan delivered the Don't Attack Iran petition, with over 42,000 signatures, to the White House. Administration officials would not take the petition from the delegation, so the delegation left the petition at the gate.

Watch videos of this historic event, including the dramatic delivery of the petition to the White House, download mp3 audio of the rally and see the 75 photograph album of the rally and petition delivery at http://www.traprockpeace.org/iran_petition_video.html

Holly Near (with Pat Humprhies and Sanda Opatow accompanying), Cindy Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood (Hip Hop Caucus), Ray McGovern (former CIA official), Medea Benjamin with a CODE PINK contingent, and David Swanson (AfterDowingStreet) appear in distinct videos. The rally audio is available for download at the above link.

More multimedia reports, including Traprock's coverage, are available at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/10827

The Joint Rally was organized by the Network of Spiritual Progressives (spiritualprogressives.org) and the Don't Attack Iran (afterdowningstreet.org/iran) campaign, and facilitated by Rabbi Michael Lerner. The rally was followed by delivery of the petition (still accepting signatures) telling President Bush to not attack Iran.

Many organizations supported the Don't Attack Iran petition, including in chronological order: Gold Star Families for Peace, CODE PINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, Traprock Peace Center, Global Exchange, Velvet Revolution, Democracy Rising, Truthout, OpEdNews, Backbone Campaign, Consumers For Peace [ExxonMobil War Boycott], Campus Antiwar Network, The Young Turks, Citizens for Legitimate Government, Counter Punch, United for Peace and Justice, Stop the War Coalition, This Can't Be Happening, Voters Evolt, Springs Action Alliance, Radio News America, OrbStandard, International Socialist Organization, Voters for Peace. See the full list of supporters at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/iran

Following the rally and delivery of the petition to the White House, Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and retired 27-year CIA analyst, led a march through downtown Washington, D.C., to the home of Donald Rumsfeld, where protesters gathered to ask Rumsfeld why he lied about the need for a war on Iraq. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/rumsfeld For more information, contact David Swanson http://www.dontattackiran.org


Charles Jenks
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What’s At Stake?

A message from Ramsey Clark

George W. Bush and his principal officials are the greatest threat to world peace, to human rights, to economic justice, to the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law that the American people and the world at large face today. His personal, unilateral war of aggression has wrecked Iraq, taken 250,000 lives or more, created tensions worldwide and significantly isolated the United States, costing us international friendships, trust, respect and alliances. War of aggression was judged to be “the Supreme International Crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Proclaiming himself the “Decider,” President Bush insists he decides what is right. He threatens North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and most critically at the moment, Iran. The threats themselves violate international law and the U.N. Charter. His threats are made real by his personal record of false claims followed by arbitrary acts including the criminal aggression against and occupation of Iraq with its painful consequences just beginning for Iraq and the world. The additional U.S. military costs approach a trillion dollars and the occupation stretches the limits of U.S. military capacity. Yet he has ordered detailed plans for attacks on Iran that he could order to be executed as early as this summer. He may believe some radical action can save his presidency.

Iran has more than three times the population of Iraq. It was not debilitated by the Gulf War which cost Iraq more than 150,000 lives and destroyed its basic infrastructure. Thirteen years of sanctions, from Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1990 to “Mission Accomplished” Day “ending” the war of aggression against Iraq announced from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln by President Bush on May 1, 2003, cost Iraq 1 million lives, half children under the age of five. Iraq suffered near total isolation. Without international commerce, or the ability to rebuild, Iraq’s economy was devastated. It suffered physically and psychologically from frequent punitive bombings by U.S. aircraft throughout the sanctions period. Iran’s economy and power fueled by its oil, grew steadily through all these years.Click here to help impeach bush

Nothing could unify Iran like a military strike against it by the U.S. Few acts could better convince Muslims worldwide that George Bush is on a crusade against them. Iran with its long border with Iraq could radically alter political alignments and the level of conflict in Iraq and serve as an open conduit for fighters from many nations. Violence could spread from Egypt to neighboring Pakistan and beyond.

The Geneva Conventions prohibit assaults on “inherently dangerous” facilities, which would threaten civilian populations. Nuclear power plants are the prime example. Iran has a right to develop such plants. The Shah had ambitious plans 30 years ago, well financed and advanced, to construct nuclear plants across Iran to replace depleting oil reserves. Iran is six years or more away from the ability to build nuclear warheads if that is its purpose. The U.S. could incinerate Iran with a single launch from its worldwide land, sea and air nuclear missile capacity in place and alert today. Iran knows this. Surely it is better to seek to stop threatening and start seeking better relations and understanding with Iran and other nations that may be hostile.

Aside from the criminal nature of an attack on Iran, further aggressions by George Bush could put the United States in a rapid decline in international standing, economically and military on the defense, globally and at home.

This is only to suggest what might happen if George Bush remains President. The immediate question is whether We, the People of the United States of America, believe the future of our country is a spectator sport, or whether we will be players.

Will we let George Bush decide the fate of the nation?

Have his judgment and actions been acceptable?

With thirty-two months remaining in his Presidency, George Bush can inflict greater, even devastating injury on our people and the poor of the rest of the planet. He has squandered the largest federal surplus in history and created the largest national debt with his determination to be a War President and his ambition to enrich the rich.

He continues increasing military expenditures including the unlawful development of a new generation of nuclear weapons and a “Star Wars” shield for the U.S., insuring an arms race and increasing the probability of war.

His threats against other governments have strengthened opposition to the U.S. throughout the Muslim world, Latin American, former Soviet Union bloc countries, China, Africa and even West Europe.

President Bush’s tax cuts and “Free Trade” pressures have accelerated the concentration of wealth in oligarchies at home and abroad and further impoverished the poor. Nearly 1/3 of his tax cuts have gone to the top one percent of the population. When his estate tax cuts take hold the top one percent of the population will receive 40% of his tax cuts.

The number of billionaires is increasing rapidly while incomes of workers and the poor decline and organized labor continue to decline. And tax cuts combined with increased military expenditures and increasing deficits in balance of payments which make the U.S. the largest debtor nation are compelling cuts in federal expenditures for health care, education, social security, Medicare, humanitarian foreign aid and other needed programs for the poor. The real income of college graduates fell more than 5% from 2000 to 2004 under President Bush, eroding the middle class while concentrating wealth in the few. The richest ten percent of the population received more than half of all his tax cuts benefits.

But the concentration of wealth is accelerating most rapidly in the top 1/100th of one percent, about 30,000 individuals. The rise in income of these very rich has been astronomical. Just look at the growing number of billionaires and the bonuses and stock options of corporate CEO’s.

President Bush’s contempt for human rights and civil liberties is unprecedented in the American Presidency. He is not only above international law, he is above the Bill of Rights. He can arrest and detain people worldwide, including U.S. citizens, as enemy combatants. He condones torture. He wiretaps U.S. citizens and foreigners alike without court approval. Proclamations concerning his Presidential powers by his Attorneys General, Ashcroft and Gonzales, have stunned the international community. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo now symbolize U.S. regard for human dignity. Yet George Bush proclaims himself the champion of freedom and democracy!

Katrina is only one measure of the incompetence and indifference of the Bush Administration. Secretary of State Rice has acknowledged thousands of mistakes in Iraq without acknowledging the greatest mistake: the unilateral criminal invasion and occupation.

President Bush adheres ideologically to the belief that global warming is not caused in major part by the ever increasing human consumption of oil and other hydrocarbons.

He believes he can bully the world into accepting his way and the American people into accepting his decisions as right. For him, his ideology is truth. He professed to believe, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Because Iraq was "evil," and the U.S. is free and democratic, he believes Iraq should be controlled by the U.S. Iran is racing to develop nuclear weapons in his view, because of its dangerous hatred for freedom and democracy and must be stopped by force now. His truth translated into force has done more to damage freedom and democracy at home and abroad than all the “evil empires” he threatens. For him, his tax cuts, free trade policies and deficits benefited the poor and lower income groups most, if not in dollars, because his ideology holds that when the oligarchy rule, all will fare better.

The imperative need is action now. We cannot risk delay.

If the American people fail to impeach George Bush and his principal officials for his war of aggression, the world can only see the American people as either powerless, or supportive of it. If he is charged only, or primarily, with misleading, or lying to the American people, the world can only believe the American people will accept mass murder if it is not lied about.

Why should any other nation refrain from Wars of Aggression against oil rich states and others unable to defend themselves if they believe they can win and get away with it, while the U.S. proceeds with impunity with its threats and attacks?

Impeachment is essential to the integrity of constitutional government. It is the most urgent duty of the American people. We have the power to cause impeachment, if we have the will. Do your part now! Participate and contribute to the Constitutional Crusade to Impeach George Bush.

Ramsey Clark
May 3, 2006

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Invited to Illegal Closed-Door Meeting to Divide Up Park

WASHINGTON - May 3 - Yellowstone National Park will soon be blanketed with coverage from cell phone towers, wireless internet service, and two-way radio, as well as television and AM/FM radio signals under a plan being written behind closed doors by the telecommunications industry and park officials, according to agency records released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

The March 31, 2005 meeting had representatives from Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, Western Wireless (now Alltel) and other companies conferring with Yellowstone park officials and concessionaires. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a “Wireless Telecommunications Plan” for the park. The companies urged siting more cell phone towers (the park already has six in five locations), installing broadband wireless internet service and microwave transmitters. Meeting notes by one park official state that “up to 10 entities could provide service in the park.”

“Notably, not one park official seems the least concerned that they are sacrificing peace and quiet, the ability to be truly alone and disconnected from the modern world,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, whose organization has been drawing attention to the proliferation of cell towers throughout the park system. “Yellowstone belongs to the American people, who ought to have some say before it is transformed into a giant cybercafé.”

PEER is charging that the meeting violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act which requires public notice, published agendas and the chance for the public to attend whenever outside groups are assembled to help shape official policy. The group, which obtained the minutes and notes under the Freedom of Information Act, is asking the Interior Department Inspector General to review the matter and identify the officials responsible for the violations.

Significantly, the Park Service has a history of routinely ignoring public notice requirements prior to approving erection of cell towers. For example, Yellowstone illegally approved a tower overlooking Old Faithful without the required public notice. Last year, park officials had the tower shortened by 20 feet because its size violated the illegally issued permit conditions.

“The public should be involved at the earliest stages in shaping this policy before the final product is pre-decided and shoved down everyone’s throat,” Ruch added, noting that the final wireless policy is supposed to be unveiled in 2008. “While we are glad the park wants to plan rather than approve each new facility on a piecemeal basis, there is a difference between planning with all the stakeholders in the room and plotting in seclusion with only those who have a financial stake in the outcome.”

Currently, only one of the 390 units in the national park system has a telecommunications plan. The National Park Service still does not have a complete inventory of existing towers in its parks nor does it track new tower proposals. The agency also lacks any policy that protects wild or backcountry areas from electronic penetration.

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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): OSHA Finds Yellowstone Cell Tower Emits Excess Radiation

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0504-12.htm

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American Civil Liberties Union: Torture is Un-American - Sign petition
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Western powers offer new Iran resolution
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Please take just one minute to sign this important petition to Impeach George W. Bush.

It's Impeachment Time
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