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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html


Informant: NHNE

May 12 2006

Alison Anderson

FEARS for the health of children living close to mobile phone masts are not valid reasons for refusing planning permission – providing the mast complies with government guidelines.

This was the harsh message given to the development control committee of Perth and Kinross Council and to objectors of a proposed mast on the roof of the Drummond Arms Hotel in the centre of Crieff.

Applicant Hutchison 3G UK Ltd are seeking planning consent to replace the existing flagpole with a thicker flagpole which incorporates three telecommunications antennae on the roof of the B-listed building in James Square.

Colin Campbell, representing the applicants, told the committee that the visual impact of the new pole would be minimal, while on health issues, the proposals were compliant with existing guidelines.

He also explained that the mast was needed to fill a gap in mobile phone coverage in the Crieff area.

When quizzed about why his company could not mast share with other mobile phone networks, Mr Campbell said Hutchison 3G were not able to enter into agreement on mast sharing.

Crieff councillor Helen Macdonald initially motioned for the application to be rejected, claiming the hotel roof “could not be in a worse location to have a mast.”

But after being given legal advice from council officers, she changed her motion to one of deferral for the applicant to present evidence that all efforts had been made to find an alternative site and establish operational need.

The application had attracted a raft of objections, including local woman Caroline Boxer, who told the committee that her four-year-old daughter’s bedroom was just 30-50 metres from the proposed mast.

She told the committee of her and other nearby residents’ concerns about the unproven risks to health from masts, and pointed out that in the USA mast sites have to be 500m from vulnerable people.

Omega the risks to health from masts are not unproven. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

“The council has a duty to look after residents and it would be failing in this duty if the mast was approved,” Ms Boxer told the committee.

aanderson@s-un.co.uk

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Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts today released the Toxic 100, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters. The Toxic 100's top five companies are E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., US Steel, ConocoPhillips, GE, and Eastman Kodak.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206P.shtml

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The Toxic 100: The Top Corporate Air Polluters in the U.S.
http://www.peri.umass.edu/Toxic-100-Index.421.0.html



Top Corporate Air Polluters Named

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:40:15 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: DuPont, Nissan, ADM, Bayer: Top Corporate Air Polluters Named TOP CORPORATE AIR POLLUTERS NAMED

AMHERST, MA - April 10, 2008 -- Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts today released the Toxic 100, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States.

The Toxic 100 informs consumers and shareholders which large corporations release the most toxic pollutants into our air, said James K. Boyce, director of PERI's environment program. We measure not just how many pounds of pollutants are released, but which are the most toxic and how many people are at risk. People have a right to know about toxic hazards to which they are exposed. Legislators need to understand the effects of pollution on their constituents.

The Toxic 100 index is based on air releases of hundreds of chemicals from industrial facilities across the United States. The rankings take into account not only the quantity of releases, but also the relative toxicity of chemicals, nearby populations, and transport factors such as prevailing winds and height of smokestacks.

The Toxic 100 index identifies the top U.S. air polluters among corporations that appear in the Fortune 500, Fortune Global 500, Forbes Global 2000, and Standard & Poor's 500 lists of the world's largest corporations. The Toxic 100's top five companies are E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Nissan Motor, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Eastman Kodak, and General Electric.

The new edition of the Toxic 100 for the first time includes foreign corporations with facilities in the United States. This addition reveals a number of important sources of industrial toxic pollution, said Corporate Toxics Information Project co-director Michael Ash. Three of the top ten corporations in the Toxic 100Nisssan, Bayer Group, and Acelor Mittalare foreign-based firms.

Users of the web-based list can view the details behind each companys Toxic Score, including the names and locations of individual facilities owned by the corporation, the specific chemicals emitted by those facilities, their toxicities, and their contributions to the company's overall score.

A new feature of the website is a look-up tool that allows users to access detailed information on all 7,000 companies with facilities in the EPA database as well as the Toxic 100 list of top polluters.

The data on chemical releases come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI is widely cited in press accounts that identify the top polluters in various localities. But reports based on TRI data alone have three limitations:

a.. Raw TRI data are reported in total pounds of chemicals, without taking into account differences in toxicity. Pound-for-pound, some chemicals are up to ten million times more hazardous than others. b.. RI data do not calculate the numbers of people affected by toxic releases--for example, the difference between facilities upwind from densely-populated urban areas and those located far from population centers. c.. TRI data are reported on a facility-by-facility basis, without combining plants owned by one corporation to get a picture of overall corporate performance. The Toxic 100 index tackles all three problems by using the most recent Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) data developed by the EPA. In addition to the TRI data, the RSEI data include toxicity weights and the number of people at risk. PERI researchers added up facility-by-facility RSEI data released by the EPA to construct corporate rankings.

In making this information available, we are building on the achievements of the right-to-know movement, Boyce explains. Our goal is to engender public participation in environmental decision-making, and to help residents translate the right to know into the right to clean air.

For more information visit PERI's Corporate Toxic Information Project on the web. Toxic 10 Index Links on company names lead to detailed company reports.

Rank Corporation Toxic score
(pounds released x toxicity x population exposure) Millions of pounds of toxic air releases Millions of pounds of toxic incineration transfers

1 E.I. du Pont de Nemours
285,661
12.73
23.00

2 Nissan Motor
218,837
2.72
0.00

3 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
213,159
12.92
0.00

4 Bayer Group
191,627
0.79
6.93

5 Dow Chemical
189,673
11.12
42.02

6 Eastman Kodak
162,430
2.66
0.36

7 General Electric
149,066
4.14
7.14

8 Arcelor Mittal
134,573
0.94
0.00

9 US Steel
129,124
2.21
0.10

10 ExxonMobil
128,755
12.70
0.39

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Informant: Dorothee Krien

Reacting to today's news that the NSA is "amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans," Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) have put out a statement questioning the legality of the program. Their statement contains this: "When the Attorney General was forced to testify before the House Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, he misled the Committee about the existence of the program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206N.shtml

"Given George W. Bush’s history of outright lying, especially on national security matters, it may seem silly to dissect his words about the new disclosure that his administration has collected phone records of some 200 million Americans," writes Robert Parry. "In his brief remarks, however, Bush didn’t define what he meant by 'ordinary Americans' nor whether the data-mining might cover, say, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, just not 'millions.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206K.shtml

As the Senate prepares to hold hearings on George W. Bush's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the issue of domestic spying - as authorized by Bush himself - is again drawing strong words from Congress members who say they oppose it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206J.shtml

Sari Gelzer reports, "200 American Middle East experts have warned President Bush against threatening US military action against Iran. Experts have not been consulted as the US has developed policy toward Iran. Professor Ahmad Sadri explains, 'This is the same mistake the US government made before going to Iraq. We're saying don't do that again.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206I.shtml

The most serious security breach that's ever been discovered in a voting system has been discovered in the Diebold voting machines. The security hole allows someone with a common computer component and knowledge of Diebold systems to load almost any software without a password or proof of authenticity and potentially without leaving telltale signs of the change.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206F.shtml

The United States has again refused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to terrorism suspects held in secret detention centers, the humanitarian agency said on Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206E.shtml

The Defense Department's accounting practices are in such disarray that defense officials can't track how much equipment the military owns, where it all is, or exactly how they spend defense dollars every year, according to a report Thursday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206D.shtml

As the George W. Bush administration pushes for a showdown over Iran's nuclear program in the UN Security Council, it has presented the issue as a matter of global security - an Iranian nuclear threat in defiance of the international community. But the history of the conflict and the private strategic thinking of both sides reveal that the dispute is really about the administration's drive for greater dominance in the Middle East and Iran's demand for recognition as a regional power.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206C.shtml

A Layer Cake for Mother's Day

Kelpie Wilson writes, "The basic demands of the Motherhood Manifesto have been articulated for years by the feminist movement, but they have fallen on deaf ears, as women's priorities are continually relegated to the status of a 'special interest.' Such denigration is also familiar to environmentalists who advocate for 'Mother' Earth. Women and the Earth seem to occupy a similar position in modern society's hierarchy of importance as expressed in that most authoritative of institutions: The Economy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206A.shtml

"Weißbuch zur Bundeswehr": Linksfraktion kritisiert "Handbuch zur Militarisierung der Außenpolitik" (12.05.06)

Nach dem Bekanntwerden einiger Eckdaten des neuen "Weißbuchs der Bundeswehr" kritisierte die Linksfraktion, es handele sich dabei "offenbar um ein Handbuch zur Militarisierung der deutschen Außenpolitik". Für die Truppe solle als neuer Auftrag "die Sicherung unserer Rohstoff- und Energieversorgung festgezurrt werden". Verteidigungsminister Franz-Josef Jung wolle sich hierbei auch vom Grundgesetz "nicht aufhalten" lassen, sagte der verteidigungspolitische Sprecher der Fraktion, Paul Schäfer. "Die Umdefinition der Landesverteidigung in Verteidigung deutscher Interessen, mit der die letzten Barrieren für Auslandseinsätze weggeräumt" werden sollten, sei nicht akzeptabel.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13607

12.05.06

Der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) hat offenbar in weit größerem Ausmaß als bisher bekannt Journalisten bespitzelt und sie in rechtswidriger Weise bei der Arbeit und bis ins Privatleben hinein beschattet. Das geht aus dem Bericht des ehemaligen Vorsitzenden Richters am Bundesgerichtshof, Gerhard Schäfer, hervor, den dieser am Mittwochabend im geheim tagenden Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremium (PKG) des Bundestages vorlegte, wie die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" schreibt. Dem Bericht zufolge belegen die Untersuchungen Schäfers, dass der BND nicht nur einzelne Journalisten beschattet hat. Der Dienst habe Journalisten auch gezielt auf Kollegen angesetzt, um zu erfahren, an welchen Themen diese gerade arbeiteten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13593

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/12/bushs_unanswered_letter.php


Informant: NHNE

No Rules, Just Might

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/12/no_rules_just_might.php

The Army has shaken up a program to heal recruits injured in basic training after soldiers and their parents said troops hurt at Fort Sill were punished with physical abuse and medical neglect. "The supreme irony," said one mother, "is that I was more worried about my son at Fort Sill than the one in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Z.shtml

Friday, May 12, 2006

BALLYGUNNER GAA Club has been urged to take down a mobile phone mast sited beside St Mary’s National School.

Senator Brendan Kenneally of Fianna Fail, said the mast was erected without any public consultation or planning permission and its radiation emissions could threaten the health of nearby schoolchildren.

“It is very disappointing that Ballygunner GAA Club allowed this mast to be erected without any consultation with local residents or the local school,” said the Senator. “There is plenty of cause for concern about radiation emissions from mobile phone masts and until these fears are allayed by hard scientific evidence, we should not site them close to schools or health centres.”

Senator Kenneally, who is a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, pointed to a recent wide-ranging report the committee undertook on mobile phone safety. “The Joint Committee investigated health fears prompted by mobile phone use. It found that there is a cloak of secrecy surrounding radiation levels emitted by the country’s 4,500 masts. The report suggested that planning guidelines be amended to stop the erection of masts near schools and playgrounds. It also recommended that the results of all emission testing on masts be published.

“The report, entitled ‘Report On Non-ionisation From Mobile Phone Handsets And Masts’, put forwards some very useful guidelines on the safe use of mobile phone technology. It is crucial that we err on the side of caution when dealing with mobile phone masts.

“I would urge Ballygunner GAA Club to immediately take down the mobile phone mast until we establish for sure that its emissions pose no threat to human health, particularly that of children,” added the Senator.

Meanwhile, as we went to press last night (Tuesday), a public meeting was taking place in the Scout Hall in Ballygunner amid continuing concerns about the mast.

© Waterford News & Star, 2006.

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=21770

Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

05/12/06

This is to notify the man in the white house that I am not addicted to oil. I would be happy to use any of the alternatives, such as hemp production of fuels, that work better than gasoline from petroleum. Such fuel is cheaper to produce and burns cleaner with no adverse effects on the environment. Or, how about hydrogen produced from water. One small amount of water will power engines forever, assuming no leaks, as the waste product of burning hydrogen is water...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2006/may17/Addicted.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

05/11/06

The Constitution contains the text of the oath of office only for the President. But for members of Congress, it specifies that they 'shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution.' According to the U.S. Senate website, the first oath, written and sworn to by members of the First Congress, was a simple one: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States.' During the Civil War, the oath was expanded and complicated with language necessitated by the events of the day. Apparently, it's far too complicated for Senator John McCain, once again on his quest to limit political speech...

http://tinyurl.com/pqqwd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11489


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by John Nichols

05/11/06

President Bush's nomination of Air Force General Michael V. Hayden to direct the Central Intelligence Agency has opened a debate over whether the most fundamental principles of the American Republic remain will remain in place. The founders who proposed to 'chain the dogs of war' established civilian control over the military as an essential underpinning of the American experiment. Along with their determination to put in place a system of checks and balances, which they constructed to prevent presidents from leading the country into war without properly consulting Congress, Jefferson, Madison and their compatriots believed that giving civilians the means to manage the military was necessary if the nation they imagined was to be free. Agonizingly aware of the abuses that had been imposed upon the former colonies by a British military accountable only to a distant and dictatorial king, the founders worried about the degeneration of the American experiment into a state of affairs similar to that of the Empire against which they had rebelled...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=82760


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Intellectual Conservative
by Nathan Alexander

05/11/06

It is the rare sociology book that warrants the epitaphs 'exciting' and 'brilliant.' Such is Christie Davies' The Strange Death of Moral Britain, a book that deserves to be read by readers on the political right and left. The book's argument is that between 1950 and 1960 a new form of political reasoning replaced the old ideology or 'logic' of 'moral Britain,' which underlay legal and social sensibility. The new outlook the author identifies as 'causalism,' and it has insidiously become the ethos of modern British society. The consequences of 'causalism' as a political ideology are that the tradition of individualism, the legal principle that a just society rewards just behavior, and even national sovereignty, all concepts based upon the idea of moral hierarchy, have been radically undermined...

http://tinyurl.com/jkb62


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

05/12/06

It is not enough for a merchant to find out who wants a yacht; the merchant must find out who is willing to give up some other form of consumption and make the necessary sacrifice to actually shell out for a yacht. That is something different entirely. So let's say that we put our politics on the market model. Everyone who is still nuts for Bush would be entitled to be so. They should not be belittled or dismissed or called crazy. They should be permitted to be ruled by him completely and without question. But there must be a few conditions: his rule must not be allowed to impinge on the person or property of anyone who does not want to be ruled by him. Also, the Bushians must demonstrate a willingness to do more than talk the talk; they must also be willing to pay the bills...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/bushrule.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Stephen Pizzo

05/12/06

[S]oon after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, Halliburton and other administration-connected contractors were caught stealing hundreds of millions. ('Stealing:' such an ugly word. They prefer 'billing disputes' and 'cost overruns.') The flap over those early capers resulted in the appointment of Stuart Bowen as special inspector for Iraq reconstruction. Bowen was given a $24 million annual budget and a staff of 55 junkyard dog auditors. Apparently, the White House failed to conduct its usual background checks of Mr. Bowen. Because, if they had, he would have never been hired. Unlike the standard issue administration yes-men, Bowen turned out to be the real deal. He and his small auditors thought they were actually supposed to catch cheats. And, sure enough, they began catching contractors forcing them to put the cookies back in the jar. Which explains this week's White House hat trick. The administration had GOP senators on the appropriation committee to make a tiny change in wording to the new $109 billion authorization. It was a tiny change and, I am sure, they hoped it would go unnoticed...

http://www.alternet.org/story/36150/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle

05/11/06

Oil companies aren't the only ones raking in the money because of rising prices at the fuel pump. The coffers of state and local governments are seeing big gains as a result of increased revenue generated by the sales tax that consumers pay on gasoline. Sales tax receipts from the gas pumps in the fourth quarter of last year grew by nearly $100 million from the same period the year before , according to the latest figures available. And that was when California's average price for a gallon of gas at the pump, which includes state and local sales tax along with fixed state and federal excise taxes, was at $2.56. Since 2002, sales tax revenues on gas have been growing annually by $300 million to $400 million to reach $2.86 billion in 2005, according to the California Board of Equalization. And with fuel prices at the pump already well above $3, the gas tax boom will likely continue for state and local governments...

http://tinyurl.com/pfanh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

05/11/06

Following a report that the U.S. agency in charge of a domestic spying program is building a database of every phone call made in the country, President Bush on Thursday told the nation from the White House that all anti-terrorism efforts are within the law. Facing new concerns in Congress, President Bush referred to the report but did not confirm or deny it and instead sought to assure Americans that their privacy is being 'fiercely protected.' 'We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans,' Bush said before leaving for a commencement address at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Biloxi. 'Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaida and their known affiliates'...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12734870/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

05/11/06

Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country. Facing mounting congressional criticism, President Bush sought to assure Americans that their civil liberties were 'fiercely protected.' ... The disclosure, reported in USA Today, could complicate Bush's bid to win confirmation of former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden as CIA director. It also reignited concerns about privacy rights and touched off questions about the legal underpinnings for the government's actions and the diligence of the Republican-controlled Congress' oversight of a GOP administration...

http://tinyurl.com/mt25x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum293.php

The world's most oppressive regimes are moving forcefully to censor the internet. In communist China today they are actually policing political thought online right now. And even in our own country, telecom giants are pushing for legislation to force democracy into the slow lane or worse. They are spending millions of dollars to try to get Congress to enable corruption of the internet. Already AOL has started trashing emails containing a reference to a web site they did not like.

But some heroic members of Congress like Ed Markey (D-MA), have been fighting for amendments to the deceptively named "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006" (COPE) to guarantee net neutrality. And just this last week he sponsored a freestanding "Network Neutrality Act of 2006" [H.R. 5273] to address this issue headon. Please tell your members of Congress to support the Markey amendments and to co-sponsor H.R. 5273.

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An excellent breakthrough - the first strong, significant investigative report is published in Globes economic newspaper, about the conflicts of interests in the Israeli Cancer Society and how they downplay the role and weight of environmental carcinogens in cancer, also avoidance from funding research on the subject. It is very long but all of the article (5000 words) is one strong exposure and criticism about the people who work for the society and at the same time they own/ belong to the most polluting industries. And the stress is given by the society to avoid the sun, eat "balanced" diet but people are not protected from cancer because environmental causes are ignored and people continue to be exposed. There are examples and proofs of how different members of the society (and also as a group) - avoid touching the industries that feed them with money. The cellular business has its own section - shortly it details names of people who are invested in the cellular companies (stocks) and manage the society, an executive of a cellular company was the manager of the "knock on the door" operation in which people go from house to house to collect money for the society. It also says for the first time (I asked the reporter to find out about it) that "the contribution of the society to the study [INTERPHONE] is considered in the part of sum which is not funded by the cellular companies, although part of the society's money comes from the same companies".

And it also relates to professor Yossi Riback, head of occupational and environmental unit at the public health school of Tel Aviv university, who sits in the committee of environmental carcinogens of the Israeli Cancer Society while he is also a paid expert of the cellular companies.

The husband of the executive of the Israeli Cancer Society is the manager of the biggest industrial disposal site in the country and is running the council of several industries in south Israel - part of his role is, of course, to claim that the industries don't pollute the country.

It is good to translate it but I don't have the energy/ time right now, if people want it to be tralated I will do that but not now.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/investigative_report_about_the_israeli_cancer_society.pdf

Best,

Iris Atzmon.

11 May 2006

ANGRY residents have vowed to battle a mast being built near their homes.

Mobile phone giant Orange has submitted plans to Bexley council to install a 10 metre mast at the junction of Penhill Road and Harcourt Avenue, Sidcup.

Ian Brooks, of Penhill Road, claims residents have fears over potential health risks and believes the mast will be an eyesore.

He said: "We will fight this application to the very end. The residents in our area feel very strongly against such a mast, we have already fought off two previous applications from another firm.

"The Government has now conceded that radiation levels may not be safe and now we are expected to be guinea pigs under a mobile phone mast until the facts are proven."

Resident Wade Freeman said: "We will obviously do everything in our power to prevent this mast from being erected, not merely from a health perspective, though this will be our main point of concern, but also from an environmental view."

Orange spokesman Jacqueline Sibanda said: "Base stations are extremely low powered and in order to provide good coverage, they have to be located close to the demand.

"Communities have been happy to have radio and television transmitters all around them for the past 80 years.

"Base stations are essentially low powered radio transmitters and therefore there is no reason for them to be considered more dangerous than broadcast transmitters."

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

A Bexley council spokeswoman confirmed an application had been submitted.

She added that the consultation period is due to end on May 24 and it will go to a committee meeting on June 15.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Document the Costs of Corruption: See the photos and submit your own:
http://www.dccc.org/r/11372/482695

Alle notwendigen Infos dazu hier:

http://www.protest2006.de

und hier:

http://www.elo-forum.org/forum/forum62.html
http://www.elo-forum.org/forum/forum63.html

From: Tom Hughes, Democracy for America info@democracyforamerica.com
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 19:45:52 GMT
To: Bob Banner

This morning, USA Today published a major cover story reporting that the "National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans." If you use AT&T, Verizon or BellSouth, your personal and business phone records may have been turned over to the NSA.

This isn't eavesdropping on suspected terrorists. This is a massive search and seizure of your personal information. Every phone call you make -- across town or across the country -- is being tracked by the NSA. And guess what? President Bush defends this with his usual double-speak. At a hastily arranged White House event this morning, Bush stated, "We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of Americans." However, that is exactly what the Bush administration is doing. As USA Today reports, "The [NSA] today is considered expert in the practice of 'data mining.'"

Congress needs to investigate this government intrusion...immediately. Call on the House and Senate today to issue subpoenas and expose the extent of this intrusion:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/nsa

Senator Arlen Specter has already indicated that he's willing to call on the heads of the companies involved to appear before the Justice Committee. But that's not enough. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and former AG John Ashcroft need to be brought before Congress. And, unlike in past charades, they need to testify under oath.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/nsa

We'll deliver the petition to the Republican and Democratic leadership of the House and the Senate.

Tens of millions of innocent Americans are affected by this warrantless surveillance. Both you and I could be included. I urge you to join Democracy for America in the call for a full investigation into this latest Bush administration intrusion on our privacy.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/nsa

Thank you,

Tom Hughes
Executive Director

USA Today Article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

May 12, 2006

Dear Citizens' Initiative ,

On Mother's Day weekend, May 13-14, we will bring 3,000 roses to grieving mothers of wounded soldiers who have little to celebrate this Mother’s Day. This central part of our 24-hour vigil http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=894 honors the mothers and other women who have paid the greatest price for this administration’s senseless war on Iraq. Our partners at Working for Change, the activist arm of Working Assets Funding Service, has helped us raise the money for this action, helping us send a strong message to the occupants of the White House and the country: Mothers Say NO to war.

We have received thousands of letters from you to Laura asking her to tell Bush end the war in Iraq. Now we've been invited by Working for Change to join their Mother's Day action and send her another letter: this time not to invade Iran. Please join Working for Change and send a letter to the First Lady to urge her not to let her husband start another catastrophic, costly war in Iran.

President Bush was unwilling to listen to intelligence specialists, who told him that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. He was unwilling to listen to military specialists, who told him that he would need a much larger force to occupy Iraq and prevent civil war. If he won't listen to his advisers, let's see if he will listen to his wife.

This Mother's Day, President Bush and his wife Laura will take joy in their daughters. But for thousands of mothers across America, past years' joy will now be replaced by unspeakable grief. They will usher in this Mother's Day not as a celebration of motherhood, but as one more painful reminder of an irreparable loss.

Now, the President is rattling his saber at Iran. Despite the fact that top experts say that Iran is at least ten years away from a working nuclear weapon, recent news reports have indicated that the Bush Administration is already planning offensive military operations -- and even, ironically, the use of nuclear bombs -- against Iran.

Please, this Mother’s Day, celebrate by asking Laura Bush to tell the President to get out of Iraq, and not to Invade Iran.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=20734

See you in the streets on Mother's Day,

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

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/nsag-m12.shtml


Informant: Friends

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8980


Informant: Kev Hall

Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert hat die Klage von sechs Abgeordneten beim Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen die Veröffentlichungspflicht der Nebeneinkünfte zum Anlass genommen, um mindestens bis zum Sommer die Neuregelung auszusetzen. Welche Abgeordnete wie viel von wem erhalten, bleibt weiter im Dunkeln. Campact schafft jetzt schon ein Stück mehr Transparenz und veröffentlicht in einer Übersicht die Abgeordneten, die freiwillig ihre Nebeneinkünfte offen legen.

Zur Campact-Übersicht: http://www.campact.de/nebenekft/infos/offen/home


Aus: Campact-Newsletter 9/06

Campact-Newsletter 9/06

Freitag, 12. Mai 2006

Es schreibt: Christoph Bautz

Wir haben lange gezögert, den Konflikt um das iranische Atomprogramm als Kampagnenthema aufzugreifen. Vieles erscheint unübersichtlich und komplex. Aber der Streit eskaliert von Woche zu Woche. Auch uns bereitet die Gefahr eines atomar bewaffneten Iran Sorgen. Doch ein militärisches Eingreifen kann die Atombombe nicht verhindern und würde unermessliches Leid nach sich ziehen. Eine diplomatische Lösung des Konfliktes ist alternativlos.

Lesen Sie warum: http://www.campact.de/iran/info/home

Iran: E-Mail-Aktion an Außenminister Steinmeier und die Botschafter der UN-Sicherheitsratsmitglieder in Deutschland

Derzeit ringen Deutschland und die 5 ständigen Mitglieder des UN-Sicherheitsrates um einen Resolutionsentwurf, der die Verurteilung Irans nach Kapitel VII der UN-Charta als "Gefährdung des Weltfriedens" vorsieht. Wie beim Irak-Krieg könnte dies den USA als Legitimation für einen militärischen Alleingang dienen.

Fordern Sie die verhandelnden Staaten auf, die militärische Option explizit auszuschließen und den Konflikt auf dem Verhandlungsweg zu lösen.

Machen Sie mit: http://www.campact.de/iran/ml1/mailer

Ruth Rosen discusses what she terms "the Care Crisis": "It's as though Americans are trapped in a time warp, certain that women will still do all this caring, even though they can't, because more than half are outside their homes working in the paid workplace. And so, we have the mounting Care Crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051106WB.shtml

Senate Democrats threatened Tuesday to filibuster Republican-backed legislation they said would scale back health insurance for millions.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051106HA.shtml

With massive amounts of toxin-laden consumer electronics hitting the trash heap every day, few are taking responsibility for their ecological and health impacts.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051106EC.shtml

Suman Sahai argues that India's new agricultural biotechnology deal with the United States will take power away from farmers and endanger a rich genetic heritage.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051106EB.shtml

A David-and-Goliath-style battle between Honduran villagers and an international conglomerate shows how the hunt for precious metal can threaten some of the world's most vulnerable people and their environment.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051106EA.shtml

Congressional Republicans and Democrats demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a government spy agency secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106R.shtml

The Institute of Science in Society
Science Society Sustainability
http://www.i-sis.org.uk

This article can be found on the I-SIS website at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/

Dear all

For your information, Third World Network and the Sunshine Project have a campaign on-going to ensure that this year's World Health Assembly (WHA) (22-27 May 2006, Geneva) adopts a strong resolution on the destruction of smallpox virus stocks, including prohibiting the genetic engineering of smallpox.

We have recently sent the letter below to all the EU Health Ministers .We hope that Europe can take a lead in ensuring a good outcome at the WHA. Please feel free to use/forward on the letter.

More information is available from www.smallpoxbiosafety.org
with best wishes

Lim Li Ching

Third World Network


10 May 2006

Dear EU Ministers of Health and EC Health Commissioner,

We write to urge the European Union and its Member States to support a resolution at the upcoming 59th World Health Assembly (WHA) (22-27 May 2006) that fixes a new date for the destruction of all remaining stocks of smallpox (variola) virus, that prohibits genetic engineering of smallpox and distribution of viral DNA for non-diagnostic purposes and which withdraws WHA authorization for the retention of virus stocks for the already accomplished purposes of sequencing and development of diagnostics and vaccines.

Since natural transmission of smallpox was ended in 1977, World Health Organization (WHO) Member States have sought eradication of the virus by the destruction of remaining virus stocks. Early efforts to reduce the number of institutions holding such stocks met with success, and today variola virus is held at only two WHO Collaborating Centres, in Russia and the United States.

Despite WHA resolutions that these stocks be destroyed, neither the US nor Russia has done so. In 2002 the WHA began to slide backwards in its determination to see smallpox eradicated, most notably in Resolution 55.15, wherein it approved an overbroad smallpox research agenda and simultaneously ceased to insist on a deadline for destruction of the stocks.

The foreseeable result of the WHA's retreat were the recommendations tabled by the Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research in 2005. The Committee recommended approval of genetic engineering of smallpox, insertion of smallpox genes in other orthopoxviruses, and unlimited distribution of smallpox DNA segments. These recommendations collectively could result in the creation of viruses even more dangerous than smallpox and are potentially tantamount to permitting distribution of smallpox virus itself - an unravelling of decades of to eradicate this most dangerous virus.

While the Advisory Committee, at the urging of the WHO Director-General, has since withdrawn its recommendation to permit insertion of smallpox genes into other orthopoxviruses, many more steps must be taken for the WHA to return to the path of virus destruction. We therefore urge you to take the following steps at the 2006 WHA:

Prohibition of Genetic Engineering of Smallpox and Distribution of Smallpox DNA for Non-Diagnostic Purposes: In 2005, many objections were raised to these recommendations and, in response, the WHO Secretariat took special note of these objections. Yet the Advisory Committee has not reconsidered these recommendations and their status is dangerously ill-defined. The 59th WHA should remedy this situation by specifically directing the Director-General, in a resolution, to reject a) any smallpox genetic engineering experiment and b) any distribution of smallpox DNA for non-diagnostic purposes. Consequently, the Advisory Committee should be requested to withdraw these two proposals.

End WHA Authorization for the Retention of Smallpox Virus for DNA Sequencing, Diagnostics and Vaccines: Broad agreement exists that sufficient sequences of smallpox strains have been obtained, rapid and accurate diagnostics have been developed, and that effective vaccines exist that do not require the smallpox virus. Therefore, the WHA should bring to an end research involving live smallpox virus on these items by explicitly withdrawing its temporary authorization for the retention of smallpox virus stocks for these three purposes in its resolution.

Establishment of a New Destruction Date for Smallpox Virus: The remaining smallpox virus stocks will never be destroyed without a new date being fixed. For four years, the two smallpox virus research programmes have operated without a destruction date and, in that time, they have sought to further expand permitted smallpox virus research, rather than stepping toward consensus on a destruction date. A new date of destruction for all remaining smallpox virus stocks should be set, preferably by 30 June 2008; but no later than 30 June 2010.

Reform of the Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research: The Advisory Committee has failed in its task of implementing WHA's mandate to control variola virus research and to determine what research, if any, is essential. Only at its seventh meeting did it move to take basic steps required to oversee a research programme (such as a format and presentation and review of proposals) and, alarmingly, it had to request that the repositories submit descriptions of ongoing research. The Advisory Committee and its advisors are not geographically and scientifically balanced, it lacks transparency, and it is principally funded by a single Member State.

In its resolution in 2006, the WHA should open the Advisory Committee's meetings to non-governmental observers, improve representation from developing countries, and better balance the committee by increasing the representation of public health fields. It should also be expressly required to report all new recommendations and the implementation of prior recommendations to the WHA. This should include all approved research proposals, safety documentation, and research results. These important reforms may be undertaken as directions to the Director-General.

In particular, the European Union and its Member States could play a key role, by helping to diversify the Advisory Committee's sources of funding. This could include voluntary contributions from European WHO Member States for the operations of the Committee, for example, to fund travel costs for developing country Committee members, advisors, and observers. Alongside other reforms, this could help rectify the imbalances evident in attendance at the Committee's meetings to date.

Smallpox will never be truly eradicated if WHO Member States do not confront the final hurdle of ensuring that the remaining stocks of smallpox virus are destroyed. This year there are particular opportunities, as the WHA will consider a draft resolution that contains (sometimes in brackets) many of the steps that we have asked you to support in this letter.

We urge the European Union and its Member States to step forward and to work with developing countries to put the smallpox virus stocks back on a fast track to destruction.


Sincerely,

Martin Khor
Director

Edward Hammond
Director

Third World Network
The Sunshine Project

“I would like to see Jeb run at some point in time, but I have no idea if that’s his intention or not,” said the president.

http://tinyurl.com/f56p7


From Information Clearing House

Concerns over spending, immigration policy running high, experts say.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12729893/


From Information Clearing House

The National Security Agency has doubled procurement spending since 2000 and will do so again by the end of this decade, according to Harry Gatanas, the organization's senior acquisition executive.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0604/060104g1.htm


From Information Clearing House

"The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment," said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston.

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=12298


From Information Clearing House

Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889&WNT=true


From Information Clearing House

The Beltway was abuzz Thursday with fallout from a “USA Today” report that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting phone data on millions of Americans since Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.newtelephony.com/news/65h11104742.html


From Information Clearing House

Seventy two members of Congress filed papers late Wednesday seeking to end President George W. Bush's warrantless NSA eavesdropping program.

http://tinyurl.com/n5l8y


From Information Clearing House

A USA Today report that says the National Security Agency has been secretly using records provided by the three largest American telephone companies to build a massive database of foreign and domestic phone calls. The program was launched shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13010.htm

Video: Beyond Treason

Depleted Uranium weapons and the Golf War Syndrom! What the Department of Defense doesn't want you to know.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13003.htm

Seventy-five men and three women were arrested in Montana and charged with sedition, with 41 of them sent to prison for terms of up to 20 years, for speaking out against the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13008.htm

The US, known for its poor record on human rights, voiced its opposition to the appointment of representatives of Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia to the council.

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=33029


From Information Clearing House

The US state department today rejected Lord Goldsmith's calls for the Guantánamo Bay detention camp to be closed down.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1772633,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The nuclear hypocrites

ERIC RUDER examines the hypocrisy of the U.S. government’s case for war against Iran.

http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/588/588_04_Hypocrisy.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the greatest proliferators of them all!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13005.htm

Ritter said that it is enough to look through military maps, if one wants to realize how important it is for the United States to dislocate its military forces in Azerbaijan.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=9599


From Information Clearing House

According to military and intelligence sources, an air strike on Iran could be doable in June of this year, with military assets in key positions ready to go and a possible plan already on the table.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13012.htm

The U.S. Army Reserve, taxed by recruiting shortfalls and war-zone duty, has adopted a policy barring officers from leaving the service if their field is undermanned or they have not been deplo yed to Iraq, to Afghanistanor for homeland defense missions.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/11/content_4536124.htm


From Information Clearing House

A former diplomat from Arkansas, who said she resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service in part as a protest against the war in Iraq, says many people in the government believe the war is crazy, but are afraid to speak out.

http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2006/05/11/ap-state-ar/d8hhev6o0.txt


From Information Clearing House

Iraq is embroiled in a “low-level civil war” that is forcing the United States to react to events on the ground rather than shape them, according to a former U.S. military adviser who spent two years there studying the insurgency.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1764639.php


From Information Clearing House

Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite hard-liner distrusted by his foes, will almost certainly be unable to stop Iraq's slide to chaos.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13007.htm

Don’t count on the U.S. ever withdrawing completely from Iraq, a retired Marine general said Tuesday. Anthony Zinni, the four-star who commanded U.S. Central Command before retiring in 2000, said when the U.S. commits forces to a country now, it means a long-term commitment. Iraq is no different.

http://www.armytimes.com/print.php?f=1-292925-1765707.php


From Information Clearing House

By Leslie Cauley

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13011.htm

By Kevin Zeese

The story of the invasion of Iraq and theft of the Iraqi economy is part of a larger story of multi-national corporations and corporate globalization affecting much of the world. Under the guise of "free trade" economic policies that make multinational corporations more powerful than governments. Laws favoring corporations are put in place:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13006.htm



The Corporation

One of the best and most important documentary films to be made in many years.

This is an extraordinary film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12998.htm

The Iowa House and Senate have already approved a Bill 2797 with a "hidden provision" allowing dogs to be classified as "farm products". Gov. Vilsack is about to sign this bill into law. If dogs become classified as "livestock", they would be in the same category as pigs, chickens and cows --- and not protected by cruelty and abuse laws. This could allow for eating dog meat, using dog fur on clothing and other ornaments. This dangerous change in the law is designed to give dog breeders a tax break! Sign our petition to stop this assault on animal rights.

You can view this bill at: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2797.

Particularly note page 43, lines 25-35 and page 44, lines 21-28 which would classify dogs as "farm products" and their breeding as "agricultural production".


Informant: Blue Ridge Mama

We need your help to save a newly discovered nursery for blue whales along the Patagonia coast of southern Chile.

This irreplaceable refuge for the world's largest creatures is imperiled by massive hydroelectric dams, industrial pollution and ship traffic.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/patagonia/takeaction.asp and ask Chile's new president, Michelle Bachelet, to designate a national protected area in the Corcovado Gulf that will help ensure a future for its remarkable population of blue whales and the diverse ecosystem they depend on.

These waters, located off Chiloe Island among Patagonia's breathtaking fjords, also nourish one of the world's smallest dolphins, dozens of other marine mammals and a wide array of native ocean life.

If we don't act now, though, industrialization along Chile's coastline and rivers could pollute this area and attract massive tankers that would disturb the whales' peaceful sanctuary.

A broad coalition of Chilean scientists, community leaders and environmental groups has developed a proposal to make the Corcovado Gulf one of Chile's first marine protected areas.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/patagonia/takeaction.asp right away and show your support for this important proposal.

Thank you for taking action to save the blue whales of Patagonia.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council

PARENTS of children at Lyminster Infant School have threatened to remove their children from the school permanently if a controversial 50ft tall mobile phone mast is put up nearby.

The O2 "monopole" mast, with three shrouded antennae, had already been turned down by Arun councillors and by the Planning Inspectorate on appeal, but the mobile phone company took their case to the High Court where the decision was overturned.

The High Court ruled that the law had not been correctly applied by the Planning Inspectorate in its objection to the plans and that the inspectorate must now reconsider the plan and apply the law correctly.

It is unclear at this stage what point of law was mis-interpreted.

If the mast gets the go-ahead, it will be sited north-west of the A259 roundabout, opposite the school, which is on the corner of Wick Street and Worthing Road in Littlehampton.

When the Planning Inspectorate first considered the case in March last year, its inspector David Harmston said that although the mast would be more than 100m away from the school, it was still "near" Government planning guidelines.

He also said that the fact that O2 had not consulted the school over the plans was significant and that the presence of the mast close to the school would be likely to generate "genuine and significant fears and apprehension, however unjustified".

Mr Harmston also said he was not satisfied that an alternative, suitable location for the mast could not be found elsewhere in the area.

On Tuesday, the school's headteacher Jane Taylor was not willing to comment on the issue but did say that it was the parents' right to remove their children from the school if they wished to do so.

Parents of four children at the school have contacted the Gazette to say that if the mast goes up, their children would be moved to different schools in the area.

Some had already put their child's name down on application lists for other schools in the area.

Mark Grout, who has one child at the school and one due to start in September, said: "I've got a mobile phone, everybody I know has got one and there's no problem with reception round here.

"No research has been done on the safety of these masts particularly with young children. I don't know if it's safe.

Thankfully my eldest child will leave anyway this year but my youngest, who's due to start in September will go somewhere else.

"It seems that if you are a big company like O2 with lots of money you can keep on appealing and buy your way through the planning process."

Another parent who also wished to remain anonymous, said: "I'm disgusted that officials seem to feel that they can treat our children like guinea pigs regarding the health issues surrounding these masts.

"I will be removing my daughter from the school should the mast go up."

Many more parents said they objected to the mast being erected so close to the school and had concerns over the possible health implications for their children.

Lesley Coulson of Holly Drive, Wick, Littlehampton, whose five-year-old daughter goes to the school,said: "My concerns are for the health of the children. We don't know what sort of radiation these masts give out and as far as I know there's no proof to say they are safe.

"The children at the school are only young and still developing. They start there when they are four and their skulls are not as hard as an adult's."

At the time of going to print, O2 and the Planning Inspectorate were unavailable for comment.

27 April 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.littlehamptontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=467&ArticleID=1467407

American Civil Liberties Union

Yesterday the nation learned that American telephone companies are helping the government amass what one source called “the largest database ever assembled,” compiling call information on millions of consumers and businesses served by Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth. Take action now!
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=PvzxTBeHLPPVmZqXXWPMTg..

Scrambling to defend his program, President Bush told reporters “we’re not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,” but that’s simply not true.

This illegal spying is not only directed toward terror suspects or international calls, as the Bush administration has frequently claimed. With the help of these phone companies, the government is tracking the calls and communications of millions of ordinary Americans. And that's just plain wrong.

The government shouldn't track when you call your mother, order pizza, or hold a conference call -- and your phone service provider shouldn’t help them without a warrant or Congress' approval.

Send these companies a message today. Sign our petition at http://action.aclu.org/dontspy and tell them you expect your phone records to be held in the strictest privacy.

We'll be delivering these petitions directly to AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.

You’ll be hearing more about this consumer campaign in the days and weeks to come. The ACLU and its members will do whatever it takes to rally consumer voices against these abuses of power. There will be much more for us all to do.


Sincerely, Anthony D. Romero Anthony D. Romero Executive Director ACLU

P.S. After signing our petition, be sure to tell your friends.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=jRVAQVdVE78Np03PxuuHVQ..

© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004

Permission to reprint or excerpt granted, with link to http://www.blackboxvoting.org

- The Oakland Tribune scooped other newspapers yesterday on the story. - Pennsylvania's Michael Shamos sequestered all Diebold touch-screens. - California is invoking emergency procedures. - The state of Iowa is trying to figure out a way to scrub Diebold clean.

Harri Hursti has just come out with Hursti Report II, a Black Box Voting project.

Here it is: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

A second study with 12 more defects will be released Monday May 15.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS?

Back doors were found in three separate levels. They can be used one at a time or combined for a deep attack that can permanently compromise the Diebold touch-screens.

Almost nothing will work to ensure that machines that have already been delivered have not been contaminated -- the very forensic procedures that MIGHT identify tampering also wipe clean any evidence.

The procedures being used in Pennsylvania, California, and Iowa will not necessarily work if the system has already been contaminated. Worse, the very procedure needed to cleanse the system can just as easily re-contaminate it.

Next week, Black Box Voting will release recommended solutions in conjunction with a recommendation to pull all Diebold touch-screen machines off the shelf.

For more information, visit the following links:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27675.html

and to see what the Diebold lawyers are trying to do to Bruce Funk, click here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27671.html
(Scroll past the Georgia cluelessness to a transcript of the retaliatory meeting held to try to force Funk out of office.)

Diebold lawyers are also retaliating against Stephen Heller, trying to put him in jail for leaking documents that have been compared in importance to the actions of famed Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsburg. Click here for the latest on Heller:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27423.html

and click here to donate to his defense fund:
http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com

(Diebold lawyer's vindictiveness has cost Heller his job and very nearly his home. His courage in fighting for YOUR right to vote needs your support.


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(We realize we just hit you up twice -- But really. Stephen Heller is one of our personal heroes, and we put him first for a reason. Please read the story about Diebold's attempt to put him in prison for leaking documents showing they were planning a criminal defense budget for carrying out actions they had already been told were illegal.)


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Informant: DitziSis

http://www.sobran.com/columns/2006/060427.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-20.htm

Hey Democrats, Truth Matters!
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-29.htm

Ab heute unter http://www.oedp-muenchen.de

ödp-München stellt Mobilfunk-Einheitenumrechner zum kostenlosen Download zur Verfügung

Um weiter über die Risiken des Mobilfunks aufzuklären, stellt die ödp einen Mobilfunk-Einheitenumrechner unter http://oedp-muenchen.de/landtag/mobilfunk-umrechner.html zur Verfügung. Markus Hollemann, Regionalbeauftragter der Münchner ödp, erklärt dazu: "Wer sich mit dem Reizthema Mobilfunk beschäftigt, kennt die Problematik: Die einen beziffern die Strahlungsgrenzwerte in Volt pro Meter, die anderen in Watt pro Quadratmeter. Hinzu kommen verschiedene Größenordnungen wie Milli, Mikro oder gar Nano. Viele scheitern an der richtigen Umrechnung derartiger Werte. Damit ist jetzt Schluss: Mit dem neuen Einheitenumrechner der ödp ist die Umrechnung im Nu erledigt."

Der Einheitenrechner steht im Zusammenhang mit zwei öffentlichen Bürgerinformationsständen, bei denen die ödp über die Gefahren und Risiken von Mobilfunkstrahlung aufklärt. Auftakt ist am 20.05.2006 in München am Infostand auf dem Walter-Sedlmayr-Platz bei der U/S-Bahnstation Feldmoching. Interessenten können dort zwischen 9.00 Uhr und 13.00 Uhr mitgebrachte Handys einem Strahlungstest unterziehen. Der zweite Termin ist am Samstag, den 27.05.2006, München-Schwabing, Leopoldstr. 75, vor Postamt 44, nähe Ecke Herzogstraße.

Hollemann: "Der Bürgerprotest gegen nahe Mobilfunksender ist ungebrochen. Die ödp ist die einzige Partei, die sich für die Bürger bei diesem Thema einsetzt. Kommen Sie vorbei und unterziehen Sie ihr Handy einem Strahlentest. "

Bildmaterial: Markus Hollemann: http://oedp-muenchen.de/images/Markus-Hollemann-s-w.jpg

Orte und Zeiten für öffentliche Bürgerinformationsstände zum Thema „Gefahren und Risiken von Mobilfunkstrahlung“:

Datum: 20.5.
Ort: Josef-Frankl-Str. / U/S-Bahnaufgang/Walter-Sedlmayr-Platz
Beginn: 9 Uhr
Ende: 13 Uhr

Datum: 27.5.
Ort: Leopoldstr. (West) vor Postamt gegenüber Karstadt, Münchner Freiheit
Beginn: 10 Uhr
Ende: 14 Uhr


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Martin Kraus
Stadtvorsitzender

Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/244 365 397
E-Mail muenchen@oedp.de www.oedp-muenchen.de

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ödp misst Mobilfunkstrahlung bei Handys auf Infostand am 27. Mai

"Kommen Sie am 27. Mai zur Münchner Freiheit und unterziehen Sie ihr Handy einem Strahlentest", fordert Markus Hollemann, der Münchner ödp-Regionalbeauftragte, alle Münchnerinnen und Münchner auf.

Viele Bürger informierten sich bereits auf einem Infostand am 20. Mai in Feldmoching über die Gefahren und Risiken von Mobilfunkstrahlung. Einige hatten extra ihr Handy mitgebracht, um live durch den Ausschlag des Messgeräts mitzuerleben, wieviel Strahlung bei der Nutzung des Mobiltelefons entsteht. Gerade das Thema "Mobilfunksender in meiner Nachbarschaft" war der Dauerbrenner bei den Gesprächen am ödp-Bürgerinfostand. "Es zeigt sich, dass Rot-Grün in der Stadt und die CSU von Landesebene aus die Bürger weiterhin mit ihren Ängsten alleine lassen. Die ödp ist die einzige Partei, die sich zum Wohl der Bevölkerung einsetzt und konsequent Aufklärungsarbeit leistet", so Hollemann.

Bildmaterial: www.oedp-muenchen.de/Mobilfunkinfostand-Hollemann.JPG

Nächster Handy-Strahlungstest-Termin:

Datum: 27.5. Ort: Leopoldstr. 75, nähe Postamt/HVB gegenüber Karstadt, Münchner Freiheit
Beginn: 10 Uhr
Ende: 14 Uhr


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Martin Kraus Stadtvorsitzender

Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp) Stadtverband München Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/244 365 397 E-Mail muenchen@oedp.de www.oedp-muenchen.de

Veranstaltungshinweise:

Alle Vorträge finden jeweils am zweiten Donnerstag im Monat in den Räumen der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung statt: Brienner Str. 46, zwischen U2/U8 Königsplatz und U1/U7 Stiglmaierplatz.

Do., 08. Juni 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'EU-Feinstaubrichtlinie - zahnloser Papiertiger?' Referent: Dr. Stefan Taschner, Mobilitätsexperte, Green City

Do., 13. Juli 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'Die Welt vor einer neuen Energiekrise? - Solare Zukunft ohne Erdöl und Atomenergie?' Referent: Dr. Herbert Kuhn, Ingenieur, Energieberater

Do., 10. Aug. 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'Limbische Wahrheiten – Gehirnforschung, Marketing und Ökologie' Referent: Günther Hartmann, Berater im Stadt- und Regionalmarketing

Do., 14. Sep. 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'Pflegenotstand - Keine Perspektive im Alter?' Referentin: Christiane Lüst, Dipl.-Soz. Päd., Initiatorin des Münchner Pflegestammtischs

Do., 12. Okt. 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'Ein Jahr nach der Bundestagswahl - Wo steht Deutschland heute?' Referent: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender

Do., 09. Nov. 2006, 19.30 Uhr 'Das 1,5-Liter-Auto ist machbar - Entwickler berichten' Referent: Uli Sommer, Chefentwickler Loremo-Projekt

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12999.htm


Informant: David Diggins

Why have prominent foreign scholars had their visas to speak or teach in this country denied or revoked? Many, including the academic institutions who invited them, are baffled. Some suspect the application of Section 411 of the Patriot Act, which excludes foreigners who "endorse or espouse terrorist activity."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106P.shtml

The Pentagon has been forced to delay the release of its updated Army Field Manual on Interrogation because of Congressional opposition to several provisions, including one that would allow tougher techniques for unlawful combatants than for traditional prisoners of war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106O.shtml

Popular children's author Patricia Polacco has been censured by McGraw-Hill for her statements critical of President Bush's education reform program, No Child Left Behind.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106N.shtml

Federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into Congressman Jerry Lewis, the Californian who chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, signaling the spread of a San Diego corruption probe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106L.shtml

The Bush administration is facing pressure both in the United States and overseas to drop its long-standing refusal to talk directly with Iran about its nuclear program, particularly in the wake of the unusual 18-page letter sent this week to President Bush by Iran's president.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106K.shtml

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50150


Informant: ranger116

Congress wants to change the Internet, and major news media have not actively pursued the story. The House and Senate Commerce Committees are promoting new rules governing the manner by which most Americans receive the Web. Congressional passage of new rules is widely anticipated, as is President Bush's signature. Once this happens, the Internet will go out of the hands of the people and into the pockets of big business.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106I.shtml

"The bill, which was passed yesterday by the House and is expected to clear the Senate as early as today, has two main provisions. The first, and dearest to the hearts of President Bush and his allies in Congress, is an extension of the temporary low tax rates on investment income. The top 10 percent of income earners will get almost all of the benefits, and everyone else will get crumbs," according to the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106F.shtml

President Vladimir V. Putin, in a blunt response to US criticism of his domestic and foreign policies, declared Wednesday that Russia would boost its military strength to ensure its ability to resist foreign pressure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106E.shtml

Iran's former top nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani warns, "This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106D.shtml

The Bush administration's top procurement official offered his assistance to now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff as his lobbying empire began to crumble, according to emails released Wednesday by the White House.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106B.shtml

Thank you for your recent action to demand the immediate release of Shi Tao and the end of censorship by the US Internet giant, Yahoo. Faced with growing public pressure, Yahoo has heard our call - however we still have a long road ahead to ensure that Yahoo fully addresses our demands.

Unfortunately, other US Internet companies like Google and Microsoft have also been assisting the repressive Chinese Government in its effort to limit the rights of their citizens. Amnesty International is concerned about the ways these companies are aiding violations of freedom to information and expression, by actively censoring content on topics such as human rights, political reform, Tiananmen Square and democracy, among others.

Today is Google's annual shareholder meeting and Tony Cruz, AIUSA's Corporate Action Network Coordinator for California, will be there to let the company know that Amnesty International will not stand by and let them violate human rights. Today also marks the start of a global call to action - across the world we are asking concerned citizens and Internet users to send an urgent message, by email, fax, or phone, to demand an end to these abuses.

Take action online! Visit our internet censorship action page http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/takeaction.html to get the full story about what Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are doing in China and find out why their claim that they are only following the law is a weak excuse for abusing human rights in pursuit of profit.

There are several ways you can act. Simply click to email our prepared online letter, or print off a copy and fax it to the number provided. Companies will often work fast to block mass emails from organizations like Amnesty, so it's important to try a variety of avenues. If you are a customer of Google or Microsoft, we recommend also contacting their user support lines, or filling out a complaint form through their website. All of the information you need to do this can be found on our action page.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/takeaction.html

If you have questions about internet censorship or any of the issues CAN works on, feel free to contact us anytime at corpaction@aiusa.org

In solidarity,

Amy O'Meara
Corporate Action Network
Amnesty International USA

A message from Eleanor

Primate experimentation in the United States is out of control. In the last ten years the number of primate experiments funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increased by 76%. Statistics based on data published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveal that primate experimentation in the U.S. has reached an all time high with over 120,000 of our closest relatives suffering and dying in laboratories during the last two years.

Repetition is rampant among NIH-funded projects. Currently 170 National Institutes of Health projects study neural information processing in macaque monkeys. 75 grants fund examinations of cocaine in primates. 70 experiments examine vision in macaque monkeys. These experiments continue for decades wasting millions of tax dollars and victimizing primates for an entire lifetime.

We must all continue to work together to insure continued progress for animals in laboratories.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/930125492

There are over two hundred primate laboratories in the U.S. If we are to change the fate of primates within these many facilities we will need the support of activists across the United States. Please contact us ASAP to get involved in this crucial campaign EPE@etaep.org .

Richter bezweifeln Verhältnismäßigkeit der Maßnahme gegen den Journalisten, der Betrügereien bei der EU nachging.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22655/1.html

Das umstrittene geheime Lauschprogramm der NSA ist weit umfassender, als bislang angenommen, und speichert die Verbindungsdaten fast der gesamten Inlandskommunikation.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22650/1.html

NEWS RELEASE From the office of the South-East England's Green MEP Caroline Lucas

May 11th, 2006

HAMPSHIRE'S

Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has called on Test Valley Council to block plans to build a ten-metre mobile 'phone mast in a residential area in Chandler's Ford.

Dr Lucas said the proposed mast, which T-Mobile wants to build at Knightwood Road - within 300 metres of 100 homes - could pose dangers for residents' health and should not be sited in such a highly-populated area.

"Research conducted on behalf of the European Parliament has demonstrated that safety guidelines governing the exposure of the public to radiation from mobile 'phone base stations are inadequate," said Dr Lucas.

"In the face of real health risks we should adopt the precautionary principle and stop allowing masts to be built at sites - such as Knightwood Road - which are close to built-up residential areas."

Current Government guidelines allowing masts to be built near homes are based on incomplete research, according to a report by Warwick University Professor Gerard Hyland and commissioned by Dr Lucas for the European Parliament.

By measuring the effects of radiation intensity only - and not the frequency of microwave pulses - the research on which the guidelines are based fails to account for unexplained levels of ill-health, including cancers, in those living in proximity to the masts.

"I hope Test Valley planners will protect local residents by rejecting this application," added Dr Lucas.

"But the planning laws make it very difficult for local authorities to take risks to human health into account when deciding whether to give 'phone operators permission to erect masts - and the Government must review the legislation and day-today guidance to require local councils to adopt the precautionary principle when considering the siting of mobile 'phone masts."

ENDS

Note to Editors: Dr Lucas' objection to the planning application can be found at http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk or on request

For more information please contact Ben on 01273 671946, 07973 823358 or ben@greenmeps.org.uk

http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk

Ben Duncan Media Officer to Caroline Lucas MEP benduncan@greenmeps.org.uk
01273 671946 (office)


Informant: Eileen O'Connor

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index905.htm


Informant: Martin Greenhut

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=362


Informant: Kev Hall

The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106Z.shtml

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0511/p09s01-coop.html

Exploiting The U.N.

by Helena Cobban, Christian Science Monitor

The U.S. should be using the U.N. to prevent conflicts -- not to build a coalition for another unwinnable war.

http://www.tompaine.com/

by Eric Lotke, TomPaine.com

The real winners in Medicare's new drug benefit are the industries that lobbied for it.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/11/drugs_for_money.php

by Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com

Capitol Hill slugs it out this week in the latest battle to preserve a democratic Internet.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/11/war_on_the_web.php

Call for Worldwide June 6, 2006 "NO ARMAGEDDON FOR BUSH" Rallies

Members of the Washington, DC Antiwar Network http://dawndc.net encourage groups worldwide to join us in holding NO ARMAGEDDON FOR BUSH rallies on June 6, 2006 (6/6/6). Publicity is assured because "666" is the "Mark of the Beast," the biblical evil one who brings about Armageddon. Media already have begun noting both the humorous and the serious aspects of this, including law enforcement concerns about "incidents."

Given President George Bush's own Christian fundamentalist beliefs (see below) and his drive for war against "evil" Iran, including probable use of nuclear weapons, it is particularly appropriate to protest war that day. We encourage peace loving activists and people worldwide to rally in creative, fun and attention getting ways to reject the religious/political views of Bush and his cronies that they represent the "good" which must vanquish "evil" using the most deadly of military force.

DC activists already have planned a rally at 6 PM EST in front of the White House in Washington, DC. Our demands are: End U.S. Global Dominance -- World Nuclear Disarmament Now.

To endorse this rally or have your rally listed on our web page http://stopthewarnow.net/protests/6-6-6.html
Email iranworkinggroup@earthlink.net

ADDITIONAL INFO ON GEORGE BUSH'S EVANGELICAL VIEWS AND IRAN WAR PLANS

President George Bush became a “born again” Christian under the tutelage of Billy Graham who teaches the expansion of Israel will lead to the return of the anti-Christ (666), the battle of good and evil at Israel’s valley of Armageddon and the return of Christ. Who can believe Bush’s denials he has made statements like: “'I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President." and "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.” and "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq…”

Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in April 2006 that Bush believes only he has the “courage” to bomb and “save” Iran, even if that means through the "nuclear option" against its nuclear facilities. Given Iran's commitment to fighting back against any attack, either conventional or nuclear attacks quickly could spiral into world nuclear war - i.e., armageddon or apocalypse. Just imagine what Russian leaders will feel when they see aircraft and missiles, possibly nuclear armed, approaching just a few hundred miles from Russia's borders. What if lethal radiation from an attack drifts over Russia? Russia still has several thousand nuclear missiles on hair trigger alert pointed at the United States.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Bush's Armageddon Obsession
by Michael Ortiz
Hill
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill1019.html

Bush's Armageddon Obsession,
Revisited by Michael Ortiz
Hill
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html

When U.S. Foreign Policy Meets Biblical Prophecy
By Paul S. Boyer
http://www.alternet.org/story/15221/

The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
by Seymour Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact

Nuke Nightmare: Bush's Drive to Armageddon
by Joel Wendland
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=5824

(Possible Iran War Scenario) Four Day War: The Iran/Israel conflagration, a history by Claude Salhani
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_09_13/article.html

LIST OF GROUPS ACTIVELY ORGANIZING VS. IRAN WAR
See http://stopthewarnow.net


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

05/11/06

The burning issue in Washington today is high gas prices, and it won't go away anytime soon. Americans are not happy about paying $3 per gallon at the pump, and they want something done about it. But price controls won't work, and allegations of price gouging and 'windfall profits' amount to nothing more than congressional grandstanding. No government official or politician is fit to define a 'fair' price for gas or a 'fair' profit for oil companies. This is not the Soviet Union. The last thing we need is centralized government planning when it comes to our precious energy supplies...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002056.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

05/10/06

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans -- most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews...

http://tinyurl.com/poz4j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Aufstallung: Und fertig ist die Vogelgrippe Durch die "vorsorgliche", sogenannte "Aufstallung" von Geflügel sollen die Bestände angeblich vor dem Vogelgrippe-Virus H5N1 geschützt werden - und davor, zu erkranken und zu sterben. Trotzdem leiden und sterben Tiere reihenweise, allerdings nicht an der Vogelgrippe, sondern an der Aufstallung. (...)

hier weiterlesen:
http://www.gerhard-wisnewski.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=205&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Gerhard Wisnewski, 8. April 2006


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

(engl.)

Impfung allein gegen Polio machtlos

Seit seiner Geburt ist Shan-e-Ali 15 Mal gegen die Kinderlähmung (Polio) geimpft worden, seine Chancen, an diesem Leiden zu erkranken waren also eigentlich gering. Trotzdem ist der Anderthalbjährige heute von der Hüfte ab gelähmt. "Wir haben keine einzige Impfung verpasst", sagt Shan-e-Alis Mutter Shannu. Interessanterweise waren alle Betroffenen die sich in den letzten Jahren in Indien mit Polio infiziert hatten, geimpft worden. Der Polio - Impfstoff soll gegen drei Erreger wirken: P1, P2 und P3. Im Jahre 2005 wurden in Indien 66 neue Polio - Fälle entdeckt, 62 davon waren mit dem P1 - Erreger infiziert worden. Darauf hin führte die Regierung einen Einfach - Impfstoff ein, der nur gegen das P1 effektiv war - dennoch wurden 2006 bisher schon 16 neue Polio - Fälle entdeckt. In allen Fällen war der Erreger wiederum das P1. "Wir brauchen einen zweiteiligen Zugang," sagt Professor Ritu Priya. "Impfung und besseres sanitäre Verhältnisse, bessere Ernährung und sauberes Trinkwasser. Nur mit der Impfung allein lässt sich die Polio nicht besiegen". Denn die meisten Poliofälle stammen aus den Regionen Uttar Pradesh und Bihar. Das ist ein eindeutiger Hinweis darauf, dass die Wirksamkeit eines Impfstoffs immer in Frage gestellt werden muss, wenn nicht gleichzeitig sanitäre Ujmstände und die Ernährung verändert werden. Zusammenfassung in Deutsch: Axel Berendes

ganzen Artikel lesen (engl.): http://www/ibnlive.com/article.php?id=7992&section_id=3
CNN-IBN, 8. April 2006

Kommentar: Fast kommt man sich ein wenig wie im realen Sozialismus vor: Hier wie dort geht Planerfüllung über alles. In den Entwicklungsländern bedeutet dies, dass es zum Teil immer wieder die gleichen Kinder sind, die von den jährlichen Polioimpfaktionen "heimgesucht" werden. Dadurch können einzelne Kinder bis zu 15 oder vielleicht auch mehr Impfungen (immerhin ist Shan-e-Ali erst anderthalb) erhalten. Dies ist auch aus schulmedizinischer Sicht völlig sinnlos und erhöht natürlich das Nebenwirkungsrisiko enorm. Die Impfung von Kindern ohne jede Berücksichtigung der individuellen Situation, eine der "Todsünden" der modernen Medizin, trifft hier auf das verzweifelte Bemühen der WHO und ihrer Organe, ihren jährlichen Plan um jeden Preis zu erfüllen und so gegenüber der Weltöffentlichkeit mit reiner Weste dazustehen. Die Kinder bleiben dabei auf der Strecke, wie das Beispiel von Shan-e-Ali zeigt.


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 17/2006

Newcastle (pte/12.04.2006/06:10) - Wissenschaftler der Newcastle University in Australien http://www.newcastle.edu.au haben in der jüngsten Ausgabe des Public Library of Science Medicine http://medicine.plosjournals.org vor den Praktiken der Pharmaunternehmen gewarnt, wonach Krankheiten erfunden werden, um mehr Produkte zu verkaufen. Konkret kritisieren die Experten etwa den Umgang der Pharmahersteller mit der Menopause als gefährlich. Sie warnen davor, dass gesunde Menschen durch Medikamente in ihrer Gesundheit geschädigt werden, in dem Zustände als Krankheiten beschrieben werden, die gar keine sind. Dieser Umstand wird als Disease mongering http://www.diseasemongering.org bezeichnet. Die Pharmaindustrie hingegen winkt ab und bestreitet diese Tatsachen. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=060412001
Pressetext Austria, 12. April 2006


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Impfen im Fernsehen: Ein Redakteur berichtet

Eine persönliche Erfahrung von Michael Houben

"Eigentlich wollte ich eine Sendung über Kinderkrankheiten machen und dabei auch entsprechende Impfungen thematisieren. Doch die Redaktionskonferenz fand vor allem den Aspekt des Impfens spannend. In den Buchläden häuft sich Literatur, in der seine Erfolge angezweifelt und es als potentiell schädlich dargestellt wird. Ich erhielt den Auftrag eine Sendung über diese Impfkritik zu gestalten: Was hat es damit auf sich? Hält die Kritik einer wissenschaftlichen Überprüfung stand? Was kann man dem Patienten raten? Ich begann mir die Argumente gegen das Impfen anzuschauen, las entsprechende Bücher, recherchierte im Internet und fand erst einmal folgende vier Ansatzpunkte. (...)"

hier weiterlesen (sehr spannend!): http://www.wissenschafts-pressekonferenz.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WPKCMS.woa/wa/bericht?documentId=LSTX11392
(Herbst 2004, die besagte Sendung lief am 20. Sept. 2004 im WDR)


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 17/2006

Seehofer rechnet mit Vogelgrippe auf Jahre - gegen jetzige Impfung

Berlin (dpa) - Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) rechnet mit einer jahrelangen Belastung durch die Vogelgrippe.
(...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D52667 DPA, 06.04.2006



Vogelgrippe: Seltene Ehrlichkeit

Forscher: Vogelgrippe erinnert an Bedeutung von Infektionsforschung

Tübingen (dpa/lsw) - Allem Ärger zum Trotz hat die Vogelgrippe auch ihr Gutes: "Sie ruft uns ins Gedächtnis, wie wichtig die Erforschung von Infektionskrankheiten ist", sagte der Tübinger Mikrobiologe Andreas Peschel in einem dpa-Gespräch. Es sei zu hoffen, dass künftig mehr Forschungsgelder in diesen Bereich fließen.
(...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D51411 DPA, 11.03.2006



Psychologe: Angst vor Vogelgrippe weniger verbreitet als angenommen

Würzburg (dpa) - Die Angst vor der Vogelgrippe ist in der Bevölkerung nach Expertenansicht deutlich geringer ausgeprägt als gemeinhin angenommen. "Bei uns haben sich nur sehr wenige Leute gemeldet, die tatsächlich starke Angst vor der Krankheit haben", sagte der Psychologe und Angstforscher Georg Alpers von der Universität Würzburg der dpa.
(...) Medienberichte über Panik, Hysterie und psychotische Zustände - gerade zu Beginn der Vogelgrippe-Ausbreitung - seien übertrieben gewesen. "Das sind auch völlig falsche Begriffe. Sie haben nichts zu tun mit diesen Gesundheitsängsten." (...)

ganzen Artikel lesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D52713 DPA, 9. April 2006



Umfrage: Große Mehrheit hat keine Angst vor Vogelgrippevirus

Allensbach (dpa) - Eine große Mehrheit der Bundesbürger hat einer Umfrage zufolge keine Angst vor einer Ansteckung mit dem Vogelgrippevirus. 72 Prozent sagen, sie fühlten sich nicht persönlich gefährdet. 20 Prozent jedoch glauben an diese Gefahr. Das geht aus einer Meinungsumfrage des Instituts für Demoskopie in Allensbach hervor, die am Donnerstag veröffentlicht wurde. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D52200 DPA, 23.03.2006

Kommentar: Die Verursacher der Vogelgrippe-Panikseuche müssen sich also fragen, ob das Ganze den Aufwand wert war. Obwohl, wenn man bedenkt, wie viele Milliarden Dollar und Euro bereits weltweit in die In- dustrie geflossen sind, die von dieser Panikmache leben...


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 17/2006



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

(...) (openPR) - Eine erschreckende Bilanz zeigt die vom Zentralverband europäischer Laufentenhalter ZEL unter Hobbyhaltern im deutschsprachigen Raum durchgeführte Umfrage zur Aufstallung 2005.
11% des Geflügels starb demnach im letzten Herbst an den Auswirkungen der Vogelgrippe.

Der tödliche Feind hieß jedoch nicht H5N1, sondern Trittin und Schnappauf. Pathogen war nicht der H5N1-Virus, sondern die Anordnung der Stallpflicht für Geflügel: der Entzug von 98% des Auslaufs und der Bademöglichkeit. Die Tiere, auf zwei Prozent ihrer gewohnten Auslauffläche zusammengepfercht und überwiegend ohne die für Wasservögel so wichtige und von der EU-Kommission postulierte Bademöglichkeit, wurden in der ungewohnten Enge von Artgenossen totgepickt, starben durch Stress und Krankheit oder wurden aus Platzmangel geschlachtet. (...)

ganzen Artikel lesen: http://openpr.de/news/74926.html
Siehe auch: http://www.zel-eu.de/?Vogelgrippe_Umfrage Zentralverband europäischer Laufentenhalter, 23. Jan. 2006



Vogelgrippe: "vermutlich", "möglicherweise" "vielleicht"

Vogelgrippe bei Nutztieren vermutlich durch Wildvögel ausgelöst

Leipzig/Wermsdorf (dpa) - Der erste Vogelgrippe-Fall bei Nutztieren in Deutschland ist vermutlich auf eine Einschleppung des Virus durch Wildvögel zurückzuführen. Dies teilte das sächsische Sozialministerium am Montag unter Berufung auf einen Zwischenbericht des Friedrich-Loeffler-Institutes mit. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D52743 DPA, 10. April 2006

Kommentar: Ist eigentlich überflüssig. Achten Sie bei allen Pressemeldungen einfach darauf, wie wenig man über die Vogelgrippe sicher weiß.


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

USA: Eltern autistischer Kinder demonstrieren gegen Quecksilber

Eine Kundgebung gegen Autismus in Washington D.C. hat auch mehrere Eltern betroffener Kinder aus der Hauptstadt der USA aktiviert. Sie forderten mehr Forschung, um herauszufinden, ob das Quecksilber, das man in Impfstoffen ihrer Kinder gefunden hatte, ihre Töchter und Söhne zu Autisten gemacht haben könnte. Etwa 1.000 Ärzte und betroffene Eltern marschierten beim "Mercury Generation March" durch die Straßen von Washington, um die Regierung auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. Über Jahre hatten alle Forschungsergebnisse darauf hingewiesen, das Autismus eine genetisch bedingte Störung darstellt. Aber wie die Beteiligten glauben, entwickelt sich die Verhaltensstörung als Reaktion auf ein bekanntes Gift, das in den meisten Impfstoffen enthalten ist. Diese Zusammenhänge sind von einigen Studie belegt worden. Allerdings können Eltern betroffener Kinder zur Zeit noch wenig unternehmen, wenn sie das Quecksilber als Ursache für die Erkrankung ihrer Kinder halten. "FDA und CDC (zwei führende Gesundheitsbehörden der amerikanischen Bundesregierung) machen es Wissenschaftlern sehr schwer, an die Fakten zu kommen und unseren Kindern zu helfen", so eine Mutter eines autistischen Kindes. FDA und CDC bestreiten alle Verdunklungsvorwürfe. Zur Zeit leidet in den USA eines von 166 Kindern an Autismus. Zusammenfassung in Deutsch: Axel Berendes

ganzen Artikel lesen (engl.): http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/2591361.html WCAV, VA, April 6, 2006

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In den USA tobt ein Kampf um Quecksilber in Impfstoffen

Anmerkung von Barbara Loe Fisher: "Quecksilber ist ein Nervengift. In zahlreichen Ländern der Erde wird das Quecksilber aus Giftstoff aus Trinkwasser und Luft ent- fernt, da es das Gehirn schädigen kann. Jede Regierung, jeder Politiker, jede medizinische und wissenschaftliche Organisation, jeder Arzt in der Regierung und ebenfalls in der WHO sollte für das Verbot eintreten, Quecksilber in den Körper von Babies zu injizieren. Mehr noch: Es sollte generell verboten sein, Gifte welcher Art auch immer unseren Kindern aus welchen Gründe auch immer zu injizieren."

Der Kampf um das Quecksilber in Impfstoffen

In der Debatte über den Einsatz des quecksilberhaltigen Konservierungsmittels Thimerosal in Impfstoffen für Kinder sind die Fronten geklärt. Während die Gesetzgeber aus 20 Bundesstaaten ein Verbot von Quecksilber in Impfstoffen befürworten, treffen sie auf den Widerstand einflussreicher Organisationen, unter ihnen auch Gruppen, die erhebliche Spenden von der Pharmaindustrie und der "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) erhalten.

An der Spitze der Thimerosal - Befürworter marschiert unter anderem die American Academy of Pediatrics, ein Zusammenschluss von 60.000 Kinderärzten, nach deren Ansicht es keinen Beweis dafür gibt, dass die geringen Quecksilberkonzentrationen in den Impfstoffen schädlich sein könnten. Und sie befürchten, das ein Verbot von Quecksilber in Impfstoffen, wie es einige Bundesstaaten bereits ausgesprochen haben, könnte das öffentliche Vertrauen in Impfungen und Impfstoffe unterminieren und so dazu führen, dass mehr Patienten auf Impfungen verzichten.

Interessanterweise hatte die Academy noch 2001 in ihrer Hauszeitschrift "Pediatrics" gewarnt: "Quecksilber wirkt in allen Formen toxisch auf Kinder und Föten und es sollten Anstrengungen unternommen werden, um die Belastung für Schwangere und Kleinkinder ebenso auf ein notwendiges Minimum zu beschränken, wie für die restliche Bevölkerung. Wie ein ehemaliger Präsident der American Academy of Pediatrics zugab, ist das Verhalten der Agency paradox. Aber er ist auch der Meinung, dass die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse keine Änderung der Gesetze und ein Verbot von Thimerosal rechtfertigen.

Zudem befürchtet er (vermutlich zu Recht) Auswirkungen eines solchen Verbotes auf die Impfprogamme in der Dritten Welt. Die WHO versorgt Kinder in der Drittem Welt haufenweise mit quecksilberhaltigen Impfstoffen und könnte vor einem Kosten- und Versorgungsproblem stehen, wenn man die Herstellung dieser Stoffe verböte. "Würden wir quecksilberhaltige Impfstoffe in den USA verbieten", so fürchtet er, "würde es sehr viel schwerer fallen, zu erklären, warum die Bewohner anderer Nationen diese Impfstoffe einsetzen sollten. Vermutlich aber gibt es für die Haltung der American Academy of Pediatrics eine ganz andere Erklärung: Denn im letzten Jahr erhielt die Academy aus dem großen Topf der Pharmaindustrie mit 68,2 Milli- onen Dollars die schöne Summe von 1.540.000 Dollars. Hauptspender waren die Impfstoffgiganten Merck & Co., GlaxoSmithKline und Sanofi Pateur Inc. Dazu kamen weitere 1,55 Millionen Dolllars, die die A- cademy für "verschiedene Gesundheitsprogramme" voM CDC erhalten hatte.

Ähnlich erfolgreich zeigte sich die zweite Speerspitze der Thimerosal - Befürworter. Die "Immunisation Action Coalition" unterhält Webseiten und versendet Newsletter, in denen für Impfungen geworben wird. Aber für Kritikern der Anti-Quecksilber-Gesetze liefert die Coalition strategische Ratschläge und Infomaterial. "Wir verunsichern die Bürger ohne Anlass über sehr sichere Impfstoffe," so die Leiterin der Gruppe, Diane Peterson. UN dafür erhielt die Immunisation Action Coalition im letzten Jahr vom CDC 628.000 Euro - das sind etwa 42 % des 1,5 Millionen - Budgets. Zu den weiteren Förderern der Coalition - sie werden stolz auf der Webseite genannt - gehören alte Bekannte: Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur, die Chiron Corporation und Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

"Wir versuchen, Quecksilber aus der Umwelt zu eliminieren", sagt Marylin Rasmussen, Senatorin des Staates Washington und Antragsteller eines Thimerosal - Gesetzes, das im letzen Monat verabschiedet wurde. "Warum sollte wir es dann in Babies injizieren? Da sollten wir uns schon etwas besseres einfallen lassen." Nun ja, wie sagt schon der Volksmund: Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing. Oder - für unsere amerikanischen Freunde: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Übersetzung und Zusammenfassung: Axel Berendes

ganzen Artikel lesen (engl.): http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vaccine10apr10,0,7550821,full.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006

Weitere Meldungen: CDC "enttäuscht" über Zeitungsanzeige (engl.) http://www.impfkritik.de/forum/showthread.php?t=774

Parents Charge CDC Manipulated IOM Study http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191167,00.html

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Guillain-Barré Syndrom nach Meningokokken-Impfung

Im Oktober 2005 berichtete der Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) des Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) über Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Meningokokkenimpfstoff Menactra und dem Gullain-Barré Syndrom (GBS). Das GBS ist eine schwere neurologische Erkrankung, bei der es zur Entzündung und Entmarkung peripherer Nerven kommt. Zum Zeitpunkt der ersten Meldung waren dem amerikanischen Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 5 Fälle eines bestätigten GBS bekannt, bis zum Februar 2006 erhöhte sich die Zahl der Erkrankten um weitere 4 Fälle. Trotz dieser offensichtlichen Probleme empfiehlt das CDC weiter den Einsatz des Impfstoffs bei allen Personen, für die eine Meningokokkenimpfung indiziert ist, auch die 4 aktuellen Fälle haben an dieser Einschätzung nicht geändert. Zusammenfassung in Deutsch: Axel Berendes

Ganzen Artikel lesen (engl.): http://iier.isciii.es/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5513a2.htm
MMWR, 7. April 2006


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Kinderärzte fordern nationales Impfkonzept

KÖLN (ddp.vwd). Angesichts einer Häufung von Masern-Erkrankungen in Deutschland fordert der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte
(BVKJ) ein nationales Impfkonzept.

(...) Dabei solle auch über eine Impfpflicht vor Aufnahme in Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen wie Schulen und Kindergärten nachgedacht werden, wie dies etwa in den USA und Kanada der Fall sei, sagte Hartmann. (...)

ganzen Artikel lesen: Ärzte Zeitung, 07.04.2006 http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/04/07/065a0407.asp?cat=/medizin/impfen

Kommentar: Seit Jahren wird der BVKJ nicht müde, bei jeder Gelegenheit (die sie mit Hilfe ihres Presseverteilers oft selber schaffen) eine Entmündigung der Eltern in der Impffrage zu fordern. Damit einhergehend werden systematisch die Gefahren von Komplikationen bei Kinderkrankheiten wie Masern aufgebauscht und die Risiken der Impfung verharmlost. Impfkritische Kreise halten diesen Verband für den verlängerten Arm der Marketing-Abteilungen der Impfstoffhersteller.



Landtag fordert Impf-Pflicht für Kinder

Schwerin (dpa/mv) - Der Schweriner Landtag hat sich für die Einführung von Pflichtimpfungen für Kinder ausgesprochen. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D52672 DPA, 06.04.2006

Kommentar: Offenbar ist in manchen Neuen Bundesländern das Erbe des totalitären DDR-Regimes selbst in den Köpfen der demokratisch gewählten Volksvertreter noch nicht überwunden (in der DDR gab es eine Impfpflicht).


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Über den Masernausbruch in der Ukraine (z.T. engl.)

Measles outbreak in the Ukraine, 2005-2006 An increase in the number of measles cases has been reported from Ukraine to the World Health Organization (WHO) since February 2005. By the end of February 2006, 19 673 cases of measles had been re- ported; 17 281 (88%) occurred during January and February 2006.
(...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2006/060309.asp#1

Kommentar: Seit Februar 2005 wurden in der Ukraine also 19.673 Masernfälle gemeldet. Davon 17.281 (88 %) im Januar und Februar 2006.

Die Auswertung von 7136 Fällen, bei denen die Angaben relativ voll- ständig vorlagen, ergab:

- 84 % waren älter als 15 Jahre
- 16 % waren älter als 30 Jahre
- 7 % waren unter 5 Jahre
- 53 % wurden im Krankenhaus behandelt - es traten mindestens 2 Todesfälle auf
- bei 33 % war der Impfstatus unbekannt
- 15 % waren ungeimpft
- 16 % waren einmal geimpft
- 36 % waren zweimal geimpft

Von den Fällen ab 15 Jahre:
48 % keine Impfung oder aber Impfstatus unbekannt
22 % waren einmal geimpft
30 % waren zweimal geimpft

Von den Fällen von 1 bis 4 Jahre:
53 % waren ungeimpft
42 % waren einmal geimpft
6 % unbekannter Impfstatus


Was mir dazu auffällt:

--> 1. Die hohe Hospitalisierungsrate von 53 %. Hat es das jemals VOR der Impfära gegeben? Kann diese hohe Rate allein mit der Masernpanikmache und sich daraus ergebenden "vorsorglichen" Einlieferungen erklärt werden?

--> 2. Bei den Fällen ab 15 Jahren wird nicht zwischen "ungeimpft" und "Impfstatus unbekannt" unterschieden. Hier liegt möglicherweise der Hase im Pfeffer!

--> 3. Durchimpfungsrate und Wirkungsgrad
52 % waren mindestens einmal geimpft, 15 % ungeimpft. Wenn das Verhältnis bei den Kindern mit unbekanntem Impfstatus ebenso aussieht, wäre das eine Durchimpfungsrate von 78 %. Gehe ich aber davon aus, das Kinder mit unbekanntem Impfstatus wohl eher medizinisch "unterversorgt" sind, und schätze das Verhältnis der Ungeimpften zu Geimpften auf 2:1, dann läge die Durchimpfungsrate bei 52+22=74%. Dabei habe ich die Impfversager der einmal Geimpften mal vernachlässigt. Leider findet sich in dem Artikel keine konkrete Angabe über die allgemeine Durchimpfungsrate. Mal angenommen, diese läge ebenfalls bei 74 %, wäre der Wirkungsgrad der Impfung gleich null. Aber natürlich gibt es hier zu viele Unbekannte, um das mit Sicherheit behaupten zu können

--> 4. "Wir wissen zwar nicht, was es war, aber an der Wirkungslosigkeit des Impfstoffs hat es nicht gelegen" In der "Diskussion" wird der grundsätzliche Nutzen des verwendeten Impfstoffs nicht in Frage gestellt. Zudem wird auch die Möglichkeit einer Verschiebung der Erkrankung in höhere Altersstufen gar nicht diskutiert, nur von der Möglichkeit einer "verkürzten" Wirkung gesprochen und damit regelmäßigen Boosterimpfungen das Wort geredet.

Ganz nach dem Motto: "Wenn die Impfungen ihre Nutzlosigkeit offenbaren, müssen wir eben noch mehr impfen".


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MÜNCHEN (sto). Eine höhere Durchimpfungsrate hat nach Angaben des Bayerischen Gesundheitsministeriums offensichtlich dazu beigetragen, dass sich in diesem Winter deutlich weniger Menschen mit Influenzaviren infiziert haben als in den Jahren zuvor. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/04/05/063a0804.asp?cat=/medizin/impfen Ärzte Zeitung, 05.04.2006

Kommentar: Die Behauptung, die erhöhte Durchimpfungsrate habe eine Senkung der Erkrankungszahlen bewirkt, habe ich erwartet. Wie jedoch schon mehrmals zugegeben wurde, war der Impfstoff auch aus schulmedizinischer Sicht in seiner Zusammensetzung und Wirkung nicht optimal, da in unseren Breiten hauptsächlich ein Influenza B Virus zirkulierte, das jedoch im Impfstoff gar nicht enthalten war. Aber warten wir mal ab, welche Horrortodeszahlen das RKI zu Beginn der nächsten Grippesaison nachträglich propagieren wird.


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USCountVotes.net is excited to announce that we have begun testing our public election document archival system, the first step to ensuring a fair and transparent election process for every American. We're hoping that you will join us in testing the new election data upload and management system for elections data, including voter registration and elections results data with a free account at http://www.USCountVotes.net .

USCountVotes documents and analysis are freely and publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection. Not one county in America today publicly releases or monitors its own detailed vote count data broken out by precinct and by vote type (absentee, early, overseas, military, provisional, and Election Day) that would reveal probable vote miscounts. See http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf

The National Election Data Archive's current system is its first rudimentary tool that can be immediately used to publish detailed election data from ongoing primary elections for independent analysts. In the absence of independent audits of voter verified paper ballots, detailed vote count data analysis is the only way to alert the public when probable vote count errors have occurred and provide court-worthy evidence in time to contest elections and obtain hand counts or re-elections.

Here's what we're looking for:

We're looking for volunteers around the country that want to obtain their local detailed elections data to sign up at http://www.USCountVotes.net/login.php . The accounts are free, and the assistance you'll provide is invaluable. An account at USCountVotes.net allows a user to upload documents for public archiving for analysis by anyone who is interested.

So register, sign in, request permission to upload elections data, upload data, and let us know how you like the system and what we can do to improve it. For security purposes, we must approve you to upload data and require typing in random characters when you log in.

We're also looking for volunteer archival administrators to insure that documents uploaded for each state are valid and correctly sourced through our site's document management system.

In addition to users who obtain and upload local election data from over 3300 separate local election offices, we need help with open records laws research. Each state has its own relevant open records laws, so letters requesting detailed elections data are required to be specifically tailored to the local laws. We're looking for someone to help organize research the specific formats of open records request letters for each state, so that we can publicly provide the open records letters that each states' volunteers will need. (See http://www.uscountvotes.net/public/ucv_select_info.php )

If you'd like to make a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. ( http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html ) Donations would allow us to undertake new development programs and improve the site to better allow you to ensure the continuation of Democracy in America. For $2,000/month to pay for a programmer, we could finish the election archive project in time for the 2006 November general election including:

1. a similar public archive system for statistical analysis of election results by volunteer statisticians

2. parsing the election documents to standardize the information and allow for easier analytical consistency for any location in the country

3. enable upload of web pages by simply specifying the URL (right now volunteers must create a single file from a web page and upload it)

4. backup of all archived docs to servers at another Internet location

5. statistical programming to automate and publish statistical analysis of the election data

The National Election Data Archive is creating a standard, free resource for anyone interested in elections and voting. Please donate to this project so that our new programmer can commit enough hours to finishing it in time for the November 2006 general election. http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html

I want to personally thank all the generous patriots who made donations for Ron Baiman and I to attend the upcoming May AAPOR.org
(American Association of Public Opinion Researchers) conference in order to rebut the arguments by the Election Science Institute and Mitofsky et al. that the exit polls do not show evidence of vote fraud; and to present the academic work that Ron and I performed regarding the Ohio exit polls. (See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf and http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf and http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit-Poll-Analysis.pdf
Your generous donations did amount to more than needed to attend. However, we then paid a reasonable $700 in programming fees to roll out our public election data document archive system, and so still fell a little short for next week's conference. Ron and I have been working on papers and a slide presentation for the AAPOR conference which will be publicly released afterwards.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections

A report on writer James Howard Kunstler, who says that the biggest obstacle to getting our petro-dependent society to change its wasteful ways is a collective insanity, found in the "worship of unearned riches, which is based on a very stark idea, the idea that you can get something for nothing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051006EC.shtml

Wildland firefighters called on Congress today to defeat HR 4200, a controversial logging bill headed to a vote in the House of Representatives soon, saying it fails to address the urgent needs of both wildland firefighters and rural communities.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051006EB.shtml

It's Only $300 Billion

Sunstein asks, "If we can fund the war in Iraq, why can't we fund the Kyoto Protocol?" Analysts projected the cost of fully complying with Kyoto to be $325 billion over many decades, yet we have already spent more than $300 billion on the Iraq war.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051006EA.shtml

Russian president Vladimir Putin took a swipe at the United States in his state of the nation address Wednesday, bristling at being lectured by Vice President Dick Cheney and comparing Washington to a wolf who "eats without listening."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006R.shtml

Urteil zum Thema „Eingliederungsvereinbarung“

Das Sozialgericht Hamburg beschloss unter dem Aktenzeichen S 56 AS 10/06 ER am 27.01.06: „Weigert sich der Hilfeempfänger wegen unzumutbaren oder rechtswidrigen Regelungen eine Eingliederungsvereinbarung abzuschließen - wobei eine unzumutbare Regelung ausreicht - dann liegt ein "wichtiger Grund" vor und eine Sanktion ist deshalb unzulässig.“ Das Urteil entbehrt nicht einem gewissen Charme, denn das Gericht stellt eindeutig fest, „dass den §§ 15, 31 SGB II der gesetzgeberische Wille zugrunde liegt, dass über den Inhalt der Eingliederungsvereinbarung zwischen dem Leistungsträger und dem Hilfebedürftigen tatsächlich verhandelt wird und nicht eine einseitige Vorgabe durch den Leistungsträger erfolgt (…). Dies ändert jedoch nichts daran, dass die Sanktionen des § 31 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Nr. 1a) SGB II ausschließlich an ein in allen Punkten rechtmäßiges Vertragsangebot geknüpft werden können…“ Das Urteil in der Entscheidungsdatenbank bei Tacheles e.V. http://tinyurl.com/ek2ly

Aus: LabourNet, 11. Mai 2006

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Hartz IV > Eingliederungsvereinbarung

Beispiel Ergänzung EinV

„Eine Eingliederungsvereinbarung muss unterschrieben werden, da sonst eine Sanktion/Kürzung droht und die EinV als Verwaltungsakt erlassen wird. Dagegen lässt sich dann allerdings Widerspruch einlegen. Wir empfehlen:

1. Gut vorbereitet zum Gespräch gehen, ggf. - falls überraschend – Termin verschieben lassen.

2. EinV nicht vor Ort unterschreiben, mitnehmen, kopieren. Ggf. Ergänzung lt. folgenden Mustern anfertigen.

3. EinV unterschreiben unter Hinzufügung des Satzes: „Da diese EinV nicht in allen Punkten den Inhalten unseres Gespräches gerecht wird und m.E. einige für eine Eingliederung wichtige Punkte fehlen, habe ich mir erlaubt, das in beiliegendem Schreiben festzuhalten. Ich betrachte das Schreiben damit als Teil der Eingliederungsvereinbarung und unterschreibe die Eingliederungsvereinbarung unter Einbeziehung dieses Zusatzes.“…“

Empfehlungen und Musterschreiben von Unabhängige Sozialberatung Bochum - Beratungs- und Beschwerdestelle für Erwerbslose (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/einglied_bo.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2006

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Widerspruchs-Annex zur Eingliederungsvereinbarung

Es ist ein Text, der je nach Situation oder Inhalt der Zwangsvereinbarung verändert oder übernommen werden kann. Der Anex wurde im Erwerbslosenausschuss in ver.di Ostwürttemberg/Ulm neutralisiert und diejenigen, die es sich zutrauen mit dem Arbeitsamt oder Argen aufzunehmen, verwenden ihn als variable Vorlage.

Annex zur Eingliederungsvereinbarung (Word-Datei-Vordruck, mit persönlichen Daten auffüllbar) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/eingliedannex1.doc

Vorbehalt zur Unterschrift unter eine Eingliederungsvereinbarung
(Word-Datei, auf die letzte Seite der Zwangsvereinbarung unter die Unterschrift aufdrucken!) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/eingliedannex2.doc

Siehe dazu auch:

Die Würde des Menschen ist antastbar!

Flugblatt des Erwerbslosenausschusses in ver.di Ostwürttemberg-Ulm, zur Entwürdigung durch Eingliederungsvereinbarungen (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/eingliedwuerde.pdf

»Drohung mit Sanktionen meist rechtswidrig«

Erwerbslose haben das Recht auf Bedenkzeit vor Unterzeichnen eines Eingliederungsvertrags. Ein Gespräch mit Harald Thomé, Gründungsmitglied von Tacheles e.V. in Wuppertal, von Jana Frielinghaus in junge Welt vom
30.10.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/10-30/046.php


Aus: LabourNet, 7. November 2006

Begriff der eheähnlichen Gemeinschaft im Zweiten Buch Sozialgesetzbuch“

Antwort auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Katja Kipping vom 9.5.06 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/ehe_anfrage.pdf


Urteil des Landessozialgerichts Berlin-Brandenburg zu eheähnlicher Gemeinschaft

„Im Regelfall besteht jedenfalls bei einer Dauer des Zusammenlebens von bis zu einem Jahr – von besonderen Umständen (etwa der gemeinsamen Sorge um Kinder) abgesehen – regelmäßig kein Grund für die Annahme einer eheähnlichen Gemeinschaft als Verantwortungs- und Einstehensgemeinschaft im Sinne der verfassungsgerichtlichen Rechtsprechung…“ Landessozialgericht Berlin-Brandenburg 18.01.06 L 5 B 1362/05 AS ER http://www.my-sozialberatung.de/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/my-sozialberatung.de/entscheidungen&localparams=1&db=entscheidungen&cmd=list&range=0,100&Freigabe==1&cmd=all&Id=304


Eheähnlich oder nicht? – Noch bestimmen Sie das selbst!

BAG-SHI-Flugblatt http://www.alg-2.info/info/eheaehnliche_gemeinschaft/view


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Mai 2006

„Hartz-IV-"Optimierungsgesetz" heute im Bundestag: Arbeitslose werden strenger auf Arbeitswillen geprüft und bestraft. Kleiner Aufstand in der SPD-Fraktion. Müntefering: "Wer nicht arbeitet, soll auch nicht essen." Hat er seinen Bebel gelesen?...“ Artikel von Ulrike Winkelmann in der taz vom 11.5.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/05/11/a0101.1/text


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Mai 2006



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

The hype over bird flu pandemic has greatly profited the drug industry with little sign of an effective vaccine or cure.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WTBFP.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Vaccination+-+Impfen/

A billion people currently live in slums and more than a billion people are informal workers, struggling for survival. They range from street vendors to day laborers to nannies to prostitutes to people who sell their organs [for transplant]. These are staggering figures, even more so since our children and grandchildren will witness the final build-out of the human race.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=82655


From Information Clearing House



The Imperial City and the City of Slums

In Humanity's Ground Zero, Part 1 of the latest Tomdispatch interview, Mike Davis took up the slumification of the planet - the phenomenal (and little noted) expansion of cities, especially in the global south, that are gaining people by the minute and shedding jobs just as fast. Now, Davis turns to the exchanges of planning and violence between the slum city and the imperial one, between the Pentagon and groups from the periphery intent on disruption and, often, damage - and also to the possibilities that the city, even the slum city, holds for our future.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206O.shtml

We speak with James Carroll - one of Boston's best-known writers - about his new book, "House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power." In it, Carroll examines the growth of the military industrial complex since World War II and his personal connection to the Pentagon. Real audio and transcript.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12994.htm

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics/Nightmare/nightmare.html


From Information Clearing House

In an unexpectedly belligerent state of the nation address on Russian TV, the Russian president accused the US of putting its own interests before its democratic ideals, and compared the country to a voracious wolf.

http://tinyurl.com/jhlfz



Putin calls for defence boost

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has called for a massive boost to Moscow's defence spending to bring it into line with other nuclear powers.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1635648.htm


From Information Clearing House

The Human Cost of War exhibit highlighting lives that will be lost if Congress does not take action to end the war in Iraq.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0510-03.htm


From Information Clearing House

Contrary to the myth played and promoted by the Western so-called “Left” and “Right” and the corprorate media that the “US failed [in Iraq] because of poor planning” and “incompetence,” the U.S. planned the war and the occupation (military and economic) of Iraq months before the illegal invasion took place. The U.S. failed in Iraq for the following reasons...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12995.htm

Video: Errol Morris's Oscar-winning 2003 documentary

This brilliant work by director Morris is the stuff of life. And death. It arouses the most basic moral and immoral questions of being human through an enormously complex and yet simple man, Robert Strange McNamara. It seems no coincidence, his middle name, as we get to know him in all his cleverness and contradictions. Morris subtly illuminates, literally through McNamara's eyes, what it means to have power over life and death.

Watch it here. Real Video
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12990.htm

Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor.

Click here to view. Windows Media
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12987.htm

MOBILE phone mast fears doubled this week when residents heard a mobile company submitted not one but two planning applications.
Vodaphone wants to put a 3G mast around 16 metres high on Willingdon Golf Club course.

Neighbours, some suffering from cancer and many fearing the associated health risks of living near a mast, had already written more than 80 letters of objection, but got a shock this week when they saw two proposals.

But it is understood that the company is hoping one of the two will be approved by Eastbourne Borough Council, not both.

Objectors now face the battle of collecting petitions once again to meet the specifics of both mast applications.

They take the form of a pole mast and a tree mast, the latter aiming to fit in with the wooded surroundings

Naomi Markwick, of Millbrook Gardens, has been leading the collection of written objections from her road, Colwood Crescent, plus Hill Road and others to submit to the borough council.

She said, "The tree mast is totally the wrong sort of species of tree for the area so the attempt to make the thing fit in would fail."

The site is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Mrs Markwick said, "There's quite a lot of rare wildlife there and it backs on to ancient woodland and such areas in Britain are few and far between."

The prospect of a second mast plan brought the main issue to the forefront again — objectors feel the health risks are overwhelming.

Mrs Markwick said, "There is a baby with leukaemia who is living next to the site and a number of people with cancer. I myself have a high risk of cancer because members of my family have had cancer and there are other people with immune problems."

Geoffrey Mears, of Downs Avenue, said, "We believe these masts are very dangerous.

"They are extremely hazardous to health."

Mr Mears and others quote anti-phone mast website Mastsanity.co.uk, the main national organisation opposing the insensitive siting of mobile phone and Tetra masts in the UK.

Mr Mears said, "These masts are being planned to go right at the back of a residential area so there will be a lot of people at risk.

"The original application was for one and now that's two the concern has doubled."

He said if the masts are situated on the golf course, it will devalue property in surrounding roads and cause stress to homeowners, "But this is nothing compared to the health risks," he added.

Formal written opposition to the plans must be with EBC planning department before the deadline on May 20.

11 May 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.eastbournetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=488&ArticleID=1495594

Check out this Online V-Doc. "The Death of The Internet" http://www.coanews.org/netfreedom

We need get this out to as many people as possible- I'm not very technical but I believe at the url provided above you can get html code that lets you embed the video in blogs/websites etc...

-see the short description below…


The Death of The Internet?

Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbing the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network. In political lingo this means abandoning what is called "Net Neutrality". In common sense terms it's about the government withdrawing our right to Internet Freedom, it's about the Death of The Internet. This V-Doc. (viral documentary) is about the current threat to Internet Freedom and how we can hold on to the open Internet and our right to communicate.

The only way the telecommunications companies will be successful is if we fail to raise awareness about this situation. If people find out that we are about to lose our Internet Freedom there is no way they will allow congress to do this. http://www.coanews.org/netfreedom

This congressional decision will set a monumental precedent, and thus, impact not just U.S. citizens, but citizens all over world.

The Video can be downloaded/ftp here: http://www.archive.org/details/netfreedom

Let raise some awarenesss!

Nick

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4453/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/10/domestic.spying.ap/index.html

No surprise here, though the absurdity would give Kafka a laugh...

Loring

Due to my concerns over all that is already going wrong and what more will go wrong a while back I wrote to numerous government officials and one televangelist. I wrote about the National I.D., Concentration Camps, New World Order, Wars, Nuclear Bombs. However, none of those men have done anything to address those serious dangers. The government officals are paid a nice salary with tax dollars and thus are supposed to represent the citizens. The televangelist makes a good income from television. While he speaks of the serious dangers, he doesn't take any actions to address the serious dangers. Why are all of these men so accepting of the serious dangers?

It appears to me that unless something is done soon to turn the situation around we are on the brink of a World Nuclear War from what I read within one to three months. Perhaps those men are so content and not trying to stop such worse case scenario because they don't really mind that happening and they have access to bomb shelters. Most people don't have access to bomb shelters. I don't like a society's leaders to be content with serious dangers.

Of course most government officials and religious leaders are men and they have been doing a terrible job about every serious danger in this society. It all makes me wish for a government with women as leaders of government and religion.

You can see the letters I wrote to them at the link below. I've described my worries and given them wise advice about how to solve the serious societal problems that seem to be what the treacherous and murderous powers that be are upset about.

Please copy and paste this message into a blank e-mail form and mail it to people on your personal and business e-mail mailing lists. The more people that know more details the better. I have some interesting photos on the website.

http://www.wisdomstore.us/wise-reforms-writings.0.html.0.html

Sincerely,

Deborah Reid
Founder and Director Wisdom for Courts, Laws and Society
P. O. Box 15352
Durham, NC 27704
e-mail: deborahgailreid@yahoo.com

Medien gegen Iran: Der Versuch der westlichen Medien, die gewohnte Tonlage kolonialistischer Arroganz beizubehalten, klingt zunehmend nach Pfeifen im Walde der journalistischen Truppen, die zwar bereits das dumpfe Gefühl erfasst hat, dass man sich vergallopiert hat, ohne sich jedoch dies eingestehen zu wollen oder zu können.

Immer fadenscheiniger wirkt die Fassade der kolonialistischen Medienfront gegenüber denen, deren Unterwerfung sie (bzw. ihre Führung) einfordern, die ihnen aber dennoch die Gefolgschaft verweigern. In normalen Zeiten hätte man den Rebellen sicher längst die Züchtigung mit chirurgischer Uranmunition verabreicht, die ansonsten auf dergleichen dreiste Gehorsamsverweigerung steht.

Nun erweist sich allerdings, dass die eigene Führung unpässlich ist, um das erforderliche Exempel zu statuieren und das wütende Kläffen gegenüber dem ungebührlichen Verhalten des entlaufenen und als vogelfrei erklärten entlaufenen Sklaven folgenlos bleibt.

Dabei haben Blätter wie der Spiegel und die Süddeutsche schon lange nicht mehr dem Führer des Imperiums so vorauseilend sekundiert: die Letztere rollte erst jüngst dem zum Showdown bereiten Cowboy aus dem Weißen Haus den roten Teppich aus, damit dieser endlich den lang ersehnten Kreuzzug gegen die Kultur der Barbaren antreten könnte. Nicht umsonst ließ sie für diesen Zweck Daniel Goldhagen auf dem Titel ihres Wochenendmagazins die Kriegsfanfaren gegen die unbotmäßigen Ungläubigen jenseits der Grenzen von Juden-, Christentum und westlichem Neoliberalismus blasen.

Und der Spiegel nimmt dem Herrn des Reiches die Mühe der Antwort auf den frechen Herausforderer ab, und schickt die Post an den Absender zurück: "Falscher Inhalt, falsche Adresse".

Aber auch die Süddeutsche lässt nicht locker: im Interview mit dem Iran-Forscher Pohly wird unter anderem die Anmaßung des iranischen Präsidenten konstatiert, der es sich herausnahm, mit dem Herrn des Westens auf gleicher Augenhöhe kommunizieren zu wollen. Wie kann der es sich erlauben, dem Führer der westlichen Supermacht mögliches Fehlverhalten zu unterstellen, anstatt das zu tun, was von ihm erwartet wird: seine Sünden, sein Rebellentum gegenüber den Herrn der Welt einzugestehen, zu bereuen, und alsdann zu einem Haufen Schmutz zusammenzuschrumpfen ?

Manch ein Zeitgenosse äußerte bei Gelegenheit die Ansicht, die Zeiten des Kolonialismus und der großen Imperien seien längst vergangen. Die Rhetorik der Leitmedien des Westens belehrt uns derzeit eines Besseren. Wenn auch - möglicherweise hat man in den Chefredaktionen den Schuss noch nicht gehört, der grundlegendere Änderungen signalisierte: hier waren die Kollegen bei der Financial Times offenbar hellhöriger. Thomas Klau konstatiert hier am 4.5. das Ende des westlichen Machtmonopols.

Eine Zeitung aus dem Zentrum des neuen Schwergewichts im asiatischen Osten, die Asia Times bekundet im Unterschied zu ihren westlichen Redaktionskollegen Unverständnis über den Mangel an Bereitschaft in Washington, den Faden aufzunehmen, und mit den Iranern zu kommunizieren.

Möglicherweise wird man aber doch noch bei Gelegenheit auch im Westen zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass die SCO, die im Begriff ist, sich als Gegengewicht zur NATO zu formieren und an der bisher außer Russland und China die zentralasiatischen Staaten beteiligt sind, nicht nur Pakistan und Indien, sondern auch dem Iran die Aufnahme offeriert hat, die bei der kommenden Konferenz beschlossen werden könnte.

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23965 und http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23965


Infopool / metainfo hamburg http://www.hh-online.com

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/132939/1/4536

United for Peace and Justice

ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 |

We Will Not Kill: International Conscientious Objectors Speak Out!

Thursday, May 11th 2006
7pm-9pm

Bringing together conscientious objectors from South Korea, Colombia, Israel, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the United States, this panel and discussion will explore the potential of conscientious objection as a strategy for building a global anti-war movement.

Friends Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place Manhattan

Directions: Corner of 15th Street and Rutherford Place, facing Stuyvesant Park. Rutherford Place is a short street between Second and Third Avenues, which runs from 15th to 17th Streets. By subway, take a 4, 5, 6, N, R, or L train to Union Square/14th Street and walk 3 blocks east and 1 block uptown.

This public event is part of Operation Refuse War: A Week of Action Uniting Resisters in Celebration of International Conscientious Objectors Day, May 11-16 2006, in New York City and Washington DC. For more information, check out http://www.operationrefusewar.org .

Sponsoring organizations include: The War Resisters League, War Resisters International American Friends Service Committee Youth and Militarism Program, the Center on Conscience & War, Iraq Veterans Against the War - NYC Chapter, the Washington Peace Center, the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, Veterans For Peace, Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, Fellowship of Reconciliation: Disarmament Program, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), and Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) (list in formation).

For more information and to register for the conference in Washington DC, check out http://www.operationrefusewar.org .


Informant: Martin Greenhut

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=68

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde des Regenwaldes,

die Tagaeri-Taromenane gehören zu den letzten Indianergruppen in Ecuador, die jeden Kontakt mit der Außenwelt vermeiden. Sie leben isoliert auf traditionelle Weise in ihren Regenwäldern am Yasuní-Nationalpark im Amazonasgebiet. Nach Presseberichten wurden Ende April 2006 bis zu 30 Tagaeri-Taromenane im Auftrag von Holzfällern ermordet. Weil der Staat den Indigenen praktisch keinen Schutz bietet und ihre Rechte weit gehend ignoriert, brauchen sie unsere Hilfe und internationalen Druck auf die Regierung. Schreiben Sie noch heute an Präsident Dr. Alfredo Palacio González!

Weitere Informationen und einen Musterbrief finden Sie auf unserer Homepage unter http://www.regenwald.org

Es gibt auch gute Nachrichten aus Ecuador: Fast zwei Jahre anhaltender Widerstand haben den brasilianischen Ölkonzern Petrobras in die Knie gezwungen: Das Unternehmen verzichtet darauf, eine Straße in den Yasuni Nationalpark zu bauen. Indigene, die noch traditionell im Park leben, sowie Umweltgruppen aus der ganzen Welt hatten gegen den Straßenbau protestiert. Allein von unserer Homepage wurden tausende Emails an den brasilianischen Präsidenten Lula, die ecuadorianische Regierung und Petrobras verschickt. Zudem hatte Rettet den Regenwald 5000 Dollar Soforthilfe für die Huaorani zur Verfügung gestellt und damit ihren Protestmarsch nach Quito im Sommer 2005 mit finanziert.

Bitte leiten Sie diese Email an möglichst viele Freunde und Bekannte weiter, wenn diese damit einverstanden sind!

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung und herzliche Grüße.

Ihr Reinhard Behrend
Vorsitzender Rettet den Regenwald e. V.
Friedhofsweg 28
22337 Hamburg
Tel. 040 - 4103804
Fax: 040 - 4500144
info@regenwald.org

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/05/03/LI2006050300853.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

RSPB warns
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article363100.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/10166/print

STRIDER wrote:
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 07:51:42 +0200
From: Halliburton Emergency Products Development Unit epdu@halliburtoncontracts.com
Subject: HALLIBURTON SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING

May 9, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: EPDU@halliburtoncontracts.com
Photos: http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/

HALLIBURTON SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING

SurvivaBalls save managers from abrupt climate change

An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even when climate change makes life as we know it impossible.

"The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. "This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

Most scientists believe global warming is certain to cause an accelerating onslaught of hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, etc. and that a world-destroying disaster is increasingly possible. For example, Arctic melt has slowed the Gulf Stream by 30% in just the last decade; if the Gulf Stream stops, Europe will suddenly become just as cold as Alaska. Global heat and flooding events are also increasingly possible.

In order to head off such catastrophic scenarios, scientists agree we must reduce our carbon emissions by 70% within the next few years. Doing that would seriously undermine corporate profits, however, and so a more forward-thinking solution is needed.

At today's conference, Wolf and a colleague demonstrated three SurvivaBall mockups, and described how the units will sustainably protect managers from natural or cultural disturbances of any intensity or duration. The devices - looking like huge inflatable orbs - will include sophisticated communications systems, nutrient gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities, and a daunting defense infrastructure to ensure that the corporate mission will not go unfulfilled even when most human life is rendered impossible by catastrophes or the consequent epidemics and armed conflicts.

"It's essentially a gated community for one," said Wolf.

Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton's Emergency Products Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the SurvivaBall's many features. "Much as amoebas link up into slime molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community function. After all, people need people," noted Goody as he showed an artist's rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas.

The conference attendees peppered the duo with questions. One asked how the device would fare against terrorism, another whether the array of embedded technologies might make the unit too cumbersome; a third brought up the issue of the unit's cost feasibility. Wolf and Goody assured the audience that these problems and others were being addressed.

"The SurvivaBall builds on Halliburton's reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator," said Wolf. "Just as the Black Plague led to the Renaissance and the Great Deluge gave Noah a monopoly of the animals, so tomorrow's catastrophes could well lead to good - and industry must be ready to seize that good."

Goody also noted that Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society was set to employ the SurvivaBall as part of its Corporate Sustenance (R) program. Another of Cousteau's CSR programs involves accepting a generous sponsorship from the Dow Chemical Corporation, whose general shareholder meeting is May 11.

Please visit http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/ for photos, video, and text of today's presentation.

# 30 #

-- Peace!

*STRIDER*

Authors include: Derrick Jensen, John Zerzan, Robert Jensen, Marilyn Buck, Jeff Luers, Robert Thaxton, Russ Redner, Ashanti Alston, Kazi Toure, Fred Hampton Jr., Sara Olson, John Wade, Marti Kheel, Richard Kahn, Ann Hansen, Rosalie Little Thunder, and many more.

Eds. Steven Best, and Anthony J. Nocella, II

ITEM OVERVIEW

Global warming, acid rain, deforestation, air and water pollution are but a few of the overwhelming indicators that the earth's health is worsening. For decades, environmental groups have been resisting the destructive trends set by industry and government, but as the social and political climate has changed, popular protest movements have become less and less effective. As the earth's situation worsens, those opposing its destruction have out of necessity become increasingly militant. Corporate and federal properties have been vandalized, set ablaze-even bombed-and the government is meeting this new brand of environmental militance with an increasingly heavy hand.

Whether you're drawn by frustration with environmental strategies that, to date, have been ineffective against this growing ecological crisis, or simply by curiosity (Who are these people? Why are they doing this? What do they hope to gain?), Igniting a Revolution offers a fascinating and compelling look at the emerging movement of revolutionary environmentalism.

Includes essays by Marilyn Buck, Robert Jensen, John Zerzan, Ashanti Alston, Jeffrey "Free" Luers, Derrick Jensen, Ann Hansen, and a preface by Bron Taylor.

"This volume will interest any reader who wishes to hear directly from some of the leading intellectuals, activists and prisoners involved in these movements. The insights gained by listening directly to these voices...can hardly be overestimated"—Bron Taylor, from the preface. "There's no way that anyone can agree with everything laid out in this collection. But there is no way, either, that we can afford to ignore these varied voices, because the one sure path to destruction is that of business as usual."—Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature

"As we face unprecedented ecological crises, along with growing political violence and state repression, revolutionary enivronmentalists claim that another world is possible. This book promises important insights into radical alternativesw and principled resistance"—John Sorenson

"Can extralegal means justify an end? The future of terrestrial life itself may depend on whether or not serious debate on that very point is put back on the public agenda. Igniting a Revolution threatens to do just that."—Chris Hannah, Propagandhi


Informant: Anthony J. Nocella II

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0510-17.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0510-22.htm



CIA Nominee Hayden: The Perfect Bushman
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0510-34.htm




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

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19038583-7583,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060515fa_fact


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Ever hear of the yes men?
go to http://theyesmen.org

Identity theft
Small-time criminals impersonate honest people in order to steal their money. Targets are ordinary folks whose ID numbers fell into the wrong hands.

Identity correction
Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.

The yes men
The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals at conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their identities. They currently have hundreds of thousands of job openings. Sign up today!

And don't miss the movie!
http://theyesmen.org/movie/

See also "the yes men" at /RENEGADE/ -
http://fornits.com/renegade/peaars.cgi?fetch=8124


Peace!

*STRIDER*