World-News

http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/NsaRoutingData.htm


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

"France has no monopoly on the use of secret services for political ends," writes Jacques Amalric, arguing that none of the actual or proposed changes to the US intelligence structure provide any confidence that the US will stop politicizing its intelligence any time soon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806H.shtml

A decade ago, the experimental use of tactical laser devices by US Marines in Somalia was curtailed at the last minute for "humane reasons," according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, which called their use "repugnant to the public conscience" in a 1995 report.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806E.shtml

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U.S. to use lasers on drivers in Iraq
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003001829_iraqlasers18.html


Informant: ranger116

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Star Wars In Iraq

Is The U.S. using new experimental "Tactical High Energy Laser" weapons in Iraq?

RAI - Italian TV Investigation

"It was a very strange and horrible situation. In the roof of the car there were parts of the body: intestines, brains, all parts of the body. It was a very very very miserable situation."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13129.htm

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STAR WARS IN IRAQ

Is The U.S. using new experimental "Tactical High Energy Laser" weapons in Iraq?

“Star Wars in Iraq” is a new investigative report by Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Ranucci. RAI 24 News - Run Time 25 Minutes

" It was a very strange and horrible situation. In the roof of the car there were parts of the body: intestines, brains, all parts of the body. It was a very very very miserable situation." According to official Pentagon sources, military vehicles equipped with this laser device have been used in Afghanistan to explode mines. According to two reliable military information sites – Defense Tech and Defence Industry Daily - at least three such vehicles are being used in Iraq as well and some people report having seen them.

WATCH THE VIDEO: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13129.htm
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Planet Earth As Weapon and Target - A new generation of US weapons: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoNature-International/message/158


From InfoNature.Org

A senior official in US president George W. Bush's re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key US Senate race, a scandal that Democrats charge may involve the White House. What remains unclear is why the national Republican Party spent millions of dollars defending Tobin.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806D.shtml

At a ceremony on the White House lawn, Bush said his tax cuts had helped the economy grow, "which means more tax revenue for the federal Treasury." However, the cuts Bush extended Wednesday will cost the Treasury an estimated $70 billion over five years. They may help spur economic growth, but they still lose more revenue than they generate.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806C.shtml

CIA nominee General Michael Hayden insisted today that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was legal and that it was designed to ensnare terrorists. "We always balance privacy and security."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806B.shtml

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Hayden's 'Tap Phones To Catch Terrorists' Lie Doesn't Wash
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/911



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

Another US ally in the war in Iraq distanced itself from the US-led effort today when Italy's new prime minister, Romano Prodi, called the invasion and occupation a "grave error" and said he would propose a withdrawal of Italian troops.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806A.shtml

"In a world where so much wealth and so much poverty coexist, the maintenance of a rough status quo depends on a sense of propriety that borders on - and even intersects with - moral if not legal criminality," writes Norman Solomon. "The institutional realities of power may numb us to our own personal sense of the distinction between what is just and what is just not acceptable."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806O.shtml

The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806N.shtml

Michael Schwartz writes that the "rather comfortable portrait of the US as a bumbling, even thoroughly incompetent giant overwhelmed by unexpected forces tearing Iraqi society apart is strikingly inaccurate: Most of the death, destruction, and disorganization in the country has, at least in its origins, been a direct consequence of US efforts to forcibly institute an economic and social revolution, while using overwhelming force to suppress resistance to this project."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806K.shtml

18.05.06

Ein Bündnis von Umweltverbänden warnt eindringlich vor einem fortschreitenden "Landverbrauch" in Deutschland. Deutschland werde "zubetoniert". Täglich würden "über 100 Hektar Boden und freie Landschaft geopfert". Claus-Peter Hutter von der Umweltstiftung Euronatur plädierte am Donnerstag in Berlin gegenüber der Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Astrid Klug für eine dauerhafte "Abkopplung" des Landverbrauchs vom Wirtschaftswachstum. Die Umweltverbände plädieren für eine "konsequente Innenentwicklung statt Bauen auf der grünen Wiese" sowie für eine "ökologische Reform des Gemeindefinanzsystems". Dies könne "gleichermaßen Wirtschaft wie Lebensqualität fördern".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13652

18.05.06

Das Bundeskabinett hat am Mittwoch beschlossen, die Bundeswehr in die Demokratische Republik Kongo zu schicken. Der Deutsche Bundestag soll dem am Freitag zustimmen. 780 Deutsche sollen sich am EU-Einsatz "EUFOR RD CONGO" führend beteiligen, die wiederum den Kriegseinsatz der UN-Truppe MONUC unterstützen soll. Obwohl die deutsche Bundesregierung in den vergangenen Monaten vielfach über die Vertretung deutscher Interessen sowie über die Sicherung von Rohstoffen und Märkten durch die Bundeswehr gesprochen hatte, begründet sie den Kongo-Einsatz mit altruistischen Motiven: Die Bundeswehr solle "helfen", Störungen der ersten freien Wahlen seit mehr als vier Jahrzehnten zu verhindern. In der deutschen Friedensbewegung wird eher vermutet, dass mit dem Militäreinsatz "der Boden für lukrative Investitionen und Geschäfte für Transnationale Konzerne bereitet" werden soll. Nach Einschätzung des Auswärtigen Amtes tobt in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo ein "Krieg der Rohstoffe".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13628

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Friedensbewegung: "Lehnen Sie den Bundeswehreinsatz im Kongo ab!"

Vor der am Freitag (19. Mai) stattfindenden Bundestagsdebatte über eine deutsche Beteiligung am EU-Einsatz im Kongo hat sich der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag mit einem Schreiben an die Fraktionen gewandt. Darin wird ausführlich dargelegt, warum das Militärunternehmen im Kongo "überflüssig" ist. Beide von Regierungsseite vorgebrachten Einsatzziele (Wahlen zu sichern und evtl. Evakuierungen vornehmen zu können) sind mit der EU-Mission entweder nicht oder aber anders zu erreichen. Der abrüstungspolitische Sprecher des "Friedensratschlags", Lühr Henken, vermutet daher, dass es der EU und der Bundesregierung vor allem darum gehe, die "Legitimationsbasis für den Aufbau der EU-Battle-Groups zu verbessern", das Battle-Group-Konzept in einem "Praxis-Test" zu erproben und - last but not least - "den Boden für lukrative Investitionen und Geschäfte für Transnationale Konzerne zu bereiten". Siehe das Schreiben des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 18.5.06 (pdf) http://www.sonnenseite.com/fileport.php?file=v1_file_5291_6.pdf&filename=kongo.pdf


Deutschland wird auch in Kinshasa "verteidigt". Der neokoloniale Militäreinsatz der EU in der DR Kongo

„Zur aktuellen globalen Situation: Nach Angaben der UNO wird weltweit jährlich über eine Billion Dollar für Krieg und Militär ausgegeben, davon allein 450 Milliarden Dollar von den USA. Die USA sind militärisch ein Welthegemon. Die zweitgrößte Militärmacht ist die Europäische Union, deren Mitgliedsstaaten jährlich zusammen etwa 200 Milliarden Dollar fürs Militär verplanen…“ Artikel von Bernd Drücke in der Graswurzelrevolution 309 vom Mai 2006 http://www.graswurzel.net/309/kongo.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2006

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EU im Kongo

"Den Kopf hinhalten". Für wen deutsche Soldaten unter anderem an den Congo gehen

„Einige Gründe für den EU-Militäreinsatz in der Demokratischen Republik Congo (DRC) liegen auf der Hand. Es geht natürlich darum, in der rohstoffreichen Region einen Fuß in der Tür zu behalten, es geht darum, die europäische Militärkooperation im Feld zu üben und gegenüber dem Rest der Welt Handlungsfähigkeit zu demonstrieren. Nicht zuletzt geht es speziell Deutschland darum, seine Armee und seine Öffentlichkeit auf robustere Einsätze vorzubereiten…“ IMI-Standpunkt 2006/039 vom 19.5.2006 http://www.imi-online.de/2006.php3?id=1353


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Mai 2006

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"Rohstoffarme Ländern wie Deutschland": Bundestag beschließt Militäreinsatz in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (01.06.06)

Auf Antrag der Bundesregierung hat der Deutsche Bundestag am 1. Juni 2006 dem Einsatz von bis zu 780 Bundeswehr-Soldaten in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo zugestimmt. FDP und Linkspartei trugen den Einsatz deutscher Soldaten in dem zentralafrikanischen Land nicht mit. 440 Abgeordnete stimmten für den neuen Auslandseinsatz der Bundeswehr. 135 votierten dagegen. Sechs Parlamentarier enthielten sich ihrer Stimme. Nach Angaben von Parlamentsvizepräsident Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) gab es 47 schriftliche Erklärungen zum persönlichen Abstimmungsverhalten. Die Grünen begründeten ihre mit großer Mehrheit getragene Zustimmung ebenfalls mit der "UN-Bitte" sowie der notwendigen "Hilfe" für eine friedliche Entwicklung in dem afrikanischen Land. Der SPD-Abgeordnete Christoph Strässer verwahrte sich gegen die Gleichstellung der UN-mandatierten "Kongo-Mission" mit dem "völkerrechtswidrigen Irak-Krieg". Der CDU-Abgeordnete Eckart von Klaeden begründete den Einsatz deutscher Soldaten in d em zentralafrikanischen Land damit, dass Kongo und andere rohstoffreiche Länder in ein faires, internationales System eingebunden werden müssten, das auch rohstoffarmen Ländern wie Deutschland die Nutzung ermögliche.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13727

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EU im Kongo

"Als Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages habe ich nur die Möglichkeit, dem von der Bundesregierung vorgelegten Antrag unverändert zuzustimmen oder ihn abzulehnen"

Das genaue Ergebnis der namentlichen Abstimmung über den Bundeswehreinsatz im Kongo - Abweichende Meinungen und Persönliche Erklärungen „Am 1. Juni stimmte der Bundestag über den Kongo-Einsatz der Bundeswehr ab. Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir das genaue Ergebnis der namentlichen Abstimmung, wobei natürlich nur die jeweils abweichenden Stimmen aus den einzelnen Fraktionen von Interesse sind. Darüber hinaus dokumentieren wir die schriftlich zu Protokoll gegebenen Persönlichen Erklärungen einzelner Abgeordneter, die ihre Stimmabgabe extra begründeten. Die Debatte selbst haben wir hier dokumentiert: Die Bundestagsdebatte…“ Doku der AG Friedensforschung http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Kongo/bt-abstimmung.html

Zustimmung im Bundestag - Skepsis, Kritik und Ablehnung in der Gesellschaft: Die Kongoentscheidung des Deutschen Bundestags - Erklärungen aus der Friedensbewegung, vom Bundeswehrverband und con caritativen Einrichtungen. Doku der AG Friedensforschung http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Kongo/bt-baf.html

Wahlen im Kongo – Aufgabe für die Bundeswehr? Rohstoffe, Militär und Interessen in der DR Kongo

Eine Analyse von Lühr Henken, Sprecher des Hamburger Forums für Frieden, Abrüstung und Völkerverständigung sowie Sprecher des Bunddesausschusses Friedensratschlag. Der vorliegende Text basiert auf dem Manuskript einer Veranstaltung zum Kongo vom 23. Mai 2006 im Hamburger Curiohaus. http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Kongo/henken.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Juni 2006

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Deutsche Kriege für das "nationale Interesse"?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2024431/

Den Friedensauftrag aus Artikel 26 Grundgesetz endlich einlösen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2026042/



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

"Ich kommuniziere, also bin ich verdächtig."

Der Hamburgische Datenschutzbeauftragte Hartmut Lubomierski über die "Überproduktion von Sicherheit" seit dem 11. September 2001 und das abhanden gekommene Bewusstsein für das Grundrecht auf Achtung und Schutz der Privatsphäre.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22689/1.html

http://www.caritas.de/2338.asp?detail=1&id=9986&area=dcv&order=datum&pageNr=1

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Wohlfahrtsverbände für Kürzungen bei Hartz IV
Siehe dazu ein Special
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/wohlfahrt.html


Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband und 1-Euro-Jobs

"Ein-Euro-Job bedeutet häufig das Gegenteil von Fördern". Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband hält Vorschläge zur Hartz IV-Optimierung für lebensfremd

„Ulrich Schneider, Hauptgeschäftsführer des Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverbandes, hält die Absicht der Koalition, künftig jedem Antragsteller auf Arbeitslosengeld II ein Beschäftigungsangebot zu machen für "illusorisch". Schneider lehnt es auch ab, die Arbeitswilligkeit durch Ein-Euro-Jobs zu überprüfen. Dabei würden die Wohlfahrtsverbände nicht mitmachen, sagte er im Interview mit epd sozial in Berlin…“ Interview von Bettina Markmeyer in epd sozial vom 28.04.2006 http://www.epd.de/sozial/sozial_index_42385.html

Aus dem Text: „…So weit ich das übersehe, sind die Träger nicht bereit, die Ein-Euro-Jobs auszuweiten. Wir als Wohlfahrtsverband haben vereinbart, dass wir Langzeitarbeitslose nur dann in Ein-Euro-Jobs beschäftigen, wenn sie sich freiwillig melden. Nach dem, was Herr Brandner und andere skizzieren, sollen die Arbeitsangebote aber auch dazu dienen, die Arbeitswilligkeit zu überprüfen und Sperrzeiten zu verhängen bzw. das Arbeitslosengeld II drastisch zu senken. Für solche Überprüfungen stehen wir nicht zur Verfügung….“ Aber:


Wohlfahrtsverband setzt "Ein-Euro-Jobber" anstelle von regulären Arbeitnehmern ein

„Nach Recherchen von NDR 1 Niedersachsen setzt ausgerechnet der Wohlfahrtsverband der ‚Paritätische’ sogenannte Ein-Euro-Jobber zumindest teilweise anstelle von regulären Arbeitnehmern ein. In einer Einrichtung des betreuten Wohnens in Adendorf bei Lüneburg übernimmt der ‚Paritätische’ beispielsweise den Grundservice für Pflegebedürftige und Behinderte. (…) Der Einsatz der Billigkräfte ist für den Paritätischen kostenlos, selbst der "eine Euro" pro Stunde kommt von der Arbeitsverwaltung. Die Bewohner allerdings müssen monatlich die vollen
127,82 Euro für den Grundservice des ‚Paritätischen’ zahlen und zwar im voraus. Das geht aus dem Vertrag hervor, der NDR 1 Niedersachsen vorliegt, den Behinderte und Pflegebedürftige mit dem ‚Paritätischen’ für ihre Grundversorgung schließen müssen…“ NDR1-Meldung vom 11.05.2006 http://www1.ndr.de/ndr_pages_std/0,2570,OID2599426,00.html


Arbeitsagentur stoppt Fördergelder für Paritätischen in Lüneburg

„Der Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Jobbern hat für den Wohlfahrtsverband Paritätischer erste Konsequenzen. Die Regionaldirektion der Arbeitsagenturen habe die Fördermittel für den Paritätischen in Lüneburg vorerst eingefroren, berichtete NDR 1 Niedersachsen am Mittwoch. Die Ein-Euro-Jobber seien mittlerweile abgezogen worden, so die Lüneburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Landkreis und Arbeitsagentur (ARGE). Der Verband hatte von Pflegebedürftigen Geld für den Einsatz der Ein-Euro-Jobber kassiert, obwohl die Mitarbeiter von der Arbeitsagentur bezahlt wurden. Der Wohlfahrtsverband hat NDR 1 Niedersachsen diese Praxis bestätigt. Für rechtswidrig hält er sein Vorgehen nicht…“ NDR1-Meldung vom 17.05.2006 http://www1.ndr.de/ndr/ndr_pages_std/0,,OID2616304,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2006

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Wohlfahrtsverbände für Kürzungen bei Hartz IV

Hintergründe zur Stellungnahme der Diakonie

Kommentar von Erwin Denzler vom 20.05.06 im tacheles-Forum http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/forum/thread.asp?FacId=429230

Aus dem Text: „…Die Diakonie ist damit nicht nur einer der größten Arbeitgeber überhaupt, sondern auch einer der größten Niedriglohn-Arbeitgeber. Für Arbeitsplätze in den W-Gruppen dürfte es jetzt schon so sein, daß das Netto-Gehalt kaum attraktiver ist als SGB-II-Leistungen. Fachkräfte wie Krankenschwestern, Altenpflegerinnen oder Erzieherinnen werden zwar noch relativ gut bezahlt im diakonischen Dienst. Aber auch für sie ist in allen Ländern eine Diskussion über die Absenkung der kirchlichen Tarifgehälter im Gange, im Bereich der Landeskirche Hessen-Nassau wurde sie schon umgesetzt. Deshalb könnte die Befürchtung schon zutreffen, daß man bald keine motivierten Bewerber mehr finden kann, falls die Hartz-IV-Leistungen nicht deutlich gesenkt werden…“

Stellungnahme der Direktorin des Diakonischen Werkes Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, Susanne Kahl-Passoth, zur persönlichen Erklärung von Präsident Dr. Jürgen Gohde zur „Reform des SGB II" vom 17.05.2006

„Mit großer Betroffenheit hat das Diakonische Werk Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz (DWBO) die als persönlich bezeichnete Erklärung des Präsidenten des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, Dr. Jürgen Gohde, zur Kenntnis genommen. In der Erklärung, die unter anderem gemeinsam mit Vertretern des Städte- und Landkreistages sowie dem Deutschen Roten Kreuz und der Arbeiterwohlfahrt herausgegeben worden ist, wird u.a. gefordert, die passiven Leistungen für Hartz IV-Empfänger zu senken und die Inanspruchnahme von Sozialleistungen zurückzuführen. Wir distanzieren uns insbesondere von inhaltlichen Aussagen und Bewertungen, die den vorgenannten Zusammenhang betreffen ...“ Stellungnahme vom 19.05.2006 http://www.diakonie-portal.de/Members/Kotnik/presse/DiakonieundHartzIV/ImageDoc_view


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Mai 2006

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SOGA - Sozialinitiative gegen Armut und Ausgrenzung - Neumünster e.V. weitere Informationen unter http://www.soga-nms.net


Wasser predigen und Wein saufen!

In Neumünster soll mit Mitteln aus dem europäischen Sozialfond, einen Betrag 479.500 EUR, das schon bestehende Sozialkaufhaus im Parkcenter erweitert werden. 45 Ein-Euro-Jobs sollen nach dem Willen der Diakonie geschaffen werden.

Ein paar Tage später fordert der Präsident der Diakonie Dr. theol. h. c. Jürgen Gohde gemeinsam mit dem deutschen Städtetag, dem Deutschen Landkreistages, des Deutschen Städte- und Gemeindebundes und wie kann es anders sein, der Arbeiterwohlfahrt eine Kürzung der Regelsätze im Arbeitslosengeld II.

Es geht uns nicht darum, EIN-EURO-JOBs zu verteufeln, nur sollten diese mit den Betroffenen genau definiert werden. Die AWO selbst hat in einer Presseveröffentlichung vom 20.12.2004, geschrieben:

"Nach Ansicht der AWO darf in der Debatte um die Höhe des Existenzminimums nicht übersehen werden, dass zur Grundsicherung Zuschüsse für Miete und Heizung, ein Kinderzuschlag sowie Übergangsgelder hinzu zu rechnen sind. Die Einkommenshöhe reicht damit an die Niedriglohnsektoren heran. Beim Arbeitslosengeld II stocken Möglichkeiten des Hinzuverdienstes sowie die gemeinnützigen Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung die Einkommen weiter auf."

Diese Presseveröffentlichung der AWO, zur Expertise des Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverbandes (DPWV) zur Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende, kritisierte die Regelsätze die um 19 % unter dem früheren Sozialhilfeniveau liegen würden. Hier wird demnach dem Lohndumping über die EIN-EURO-JOBs das Wort geredet. Die AWO handelt also frei nach dem Motto: "Wer nicht im EIN-EURO-JOB arbeiten will, kann ruhig unter das soziokulturelle Existenzminimum fallen."

Mit scharfer Kritik hat deshalb der Hauptgeschäftsführer Dr. Ulrich Schneider, des paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverbandes (DPWV) die auch von einzelnen Wohlfahrtsverbänden, hier die AWO und Diakonie die erhobene Forderung nach einer Senkung von Hartz-IV-Leistungen zurückgewiesen: "Forderungen nach weiteren Leistungskürzungen sind angesichts des Umfangs sozialer Not unverantwortlich. Wer Kürzungen fordert, lenkt von den eigentlichen Problemen ab", sagte DPWV-Hauptgeschäftsführer Dr. Ulrich Schneider. Der Verweis auf angeblich zu hohe Leistungsansprüche oder eine zu geringe Arbeitsmotivation gehe an den sozialen Realitäten vorbei, sagte Schneider.

Wir fordern deshalb die Diakonie auf, das Sozialkaufhaus, das sicherlich eine gute Idee ist, mit festen Arbeitkräften einzurichten. Schaffen wir endlich Arbeit, von der ein Mensch auch leben kann. Es kann nicht sein, das ein Sozialkaufhaus mit öffentlichen Geldern ausgerechnet im Parkcenter errichtet wird, während kleine Einzelhändler in Neumünster reihenweise um ihre Existenz kämpfen müssen.

Jürgen Habich,
Vorsitzender und Sozialberatung der SOGA e.V.

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Wuppdika den Wohlfhartsbonzen

„Für die Wohlfahrtsverbände war der 5. Transbergische Triathlon ein Anlass in die Offensive zu gehen. Fix haben sie zwei Tage vor dem Start gefordert, das ALG II zu kürzen. Die Überflüssigen kamen der Bitte des TTs gerne nach, den von den Armendisziplinierungsverbänden produzierten Müll umgehend dort wieder abzuliefern…“ Bericht von Minna Knallenfalls vom 22.05.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/05/147767.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Mai 2006

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Wohlfahrtsverbände für Kürzungen bei Hartz IV

Ein-Euro-Jobs als lukratives Geschäft. Wohlfahrtsverbände im Hartz IV-Kürzungswahn.

Das schöne Wort Gemeinnützigkeit soll sich noch mehr in eine Nutzungsberechtigung für extrem billige Arbeitskräfte verwandeln. Artikel von Wolfgang Lieb in Freitag vom 26.05.2006 http://www.freitag.de/2006/21/06210201.php


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Mai 2006

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Präsident des Diakonischen Werkes der EKD hat Amt niedergelegt

Von: Frank Steger
vorstand@berliner-arbeitslosenzentrum.de
Datum: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:42:52 +0200

Folgende Pressemiteilung des Diakonischen Werks der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland gebe ich euch/Ihnen zur Kenntnis. Sie zeigt, dass die Einschätzung richtig war, dass der Präsident mit seiner Unterschrift unter die von den kommunalen Spitzenverbänden verbreitete "Persönliche Erklärung zur Reform des SGB II" nicht für "die" Diakonie gesprochen hat. Aufgrund des großen Unmuts innerhalb von Kirche und Diakonie, den das Verhalten Jürgen Gohdes ausgelöst hat, hat er jetzt sein Amt niedergelegt.

Frank Steger
Berliner Arbeitslosenzentrum (BALZ) e. V. Vorstand - Kirchstr. 4 - 14163 Berlin Tel. (0 30) 8 01 40 61 - Fax (0 30) 8 02 63 07

E-Mail: vorstand@berliner-arbeitslosenzentrum.de
http://www.berliner-arbeitslosenzentrum.de


Berlin, den 21. Juni 2006

Die Pressesprecherin des Diakonischen Werkes der EKD gibt folgende Erklärung des Diakonischen Rates der EKD bekannt:

"Der Diakonische Rat hat sich in seiner heutigen planmäßigen Sitzung in Berlin unter anderem mit der von Präsident Dr. h.c. Jürgen Gohde mitunterzeichneten "Persönlichen Erklärung zur Reform des SGB II" (15. Mai 2006) befasst. In diesem Zusammenhang wurde im Diakonischen Rat, dem Aufsichtsorgan der Diakonie, die Frage der weiteren gedeihlichen Zusammenarbeit erörtert. Der Rat ist nach intensiver Diskussion zu der Auffassung gelangt, dass die Grundlagen hierfür nicht mehr bestehen. Daraufhin hat Präsident Dr. h.c. Jürgen Gohde sein Amt niedergelegt."

Kirchenpräsident Eberhard Cherdron, Vorsitzender des Diakonischen Rates der EKD

Rückfragen richten Sie bitte an:

Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland e.V.
Barbara-Maria Vahl
Pressesprecherin
Diakonie-Pressestelle
Reichensteiner Weg 24
14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Telefon (030) 8 30 01-130
Fax (030) 8 30 01-135
E-Mail: pressestelle@diakonie.de
Internet: http://www.diakonie.de



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wohlfahrtsverb%C3%A4nde

by Frida Berrigan, TomPaine.com

When Rumsfeld asks for more money for the war machine, Congress should ask why he's ignoring other national security tools.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/18/smart_defense.php

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Smart Defense

Frida Berrigan explains: "Those in charge of our defense are still trying to use the costly, ineffectual and inefficient tools of previous eras to solve them - namely, overwhelming military force. In doing so, they're ignoring currently underfunded security alternatives such as non-proliferation programs, diplomacy, public health initiatives and foreign aid to unstable regions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806I.shtml

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

Why the Bush administration makes nice with Moammar but goes beserk over Hugo.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/18/oil_diplomacy.php

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Oil Diplomacy

By Robert Dreyfuss

Nothing the Bush administration ever does is about oil. It didn’t invade Iraq because that country might have more oil than Saudi Arabia. It isn’t threatening Iran because Iran has a tenth of the world’s oil and one-sixth of its natural gas. And the United States isn’t cozying up to autocrats in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan because the Caspian Sea is a mini-Persian Gulf in the middle of Central Asia, either.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13101.htm

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/17/06

The Bush administration, without court authorization, collects our telephone records and eavesdrops on calls involving U.S. residents to and from foreigners. It refuses to rule out wiretapping of fully domestic calls. Meanwhile, the administration is building military bases in Iraq and throughout the Persian Gulf. And now the president is about to formally militarize the southern border, the better to keep out Mexicans seeking economic opportunity. To underscore grounds for concern, the administration has pronounced a theory of presidential power that should alarm anyone who wants government power limited...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0605f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Baltimore Sun
by Steve Chapman

05/17/06

The Bush administration has managed to cross George Orwell with Sting. Every step you take, every move you make, Big Brother will be watching you. No one is exempt from the National Security Agency's program to amass a record of every phone call, with the help of major telecommunications providers. As one insider told USA Today, 'It's the largest database ever assembled in the world.' And have no doubt: You're in it...

http://tinyurl.com/mkdtz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNet

05/16/06

A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned. The proposal comes just weeks after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Internet service providers should retain records of user activities for a 'reasonable amount of time,' a move that represented a dramatic shift in the Bush administration's views on privacy...

http://tinyurl.com/jvg8s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wired News

05/17/06

When former AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center, he was certain he had stumbled onto the Total Information Awareness program, a Defense Department research project that intended to scour databases across the country for telltale signs of terrorists. Though the program had mostly been terminated by Congress in September 2003, portions of the program were allowed to continue. Klein believed he had found these remnants, according to a written statement by Klein acquired by Wired News...

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70910-0.html?tw=wn_index_2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Concord Monitor

05/17/06

Public confidence in Republican governance has plunged to the lowest levels of the Bush presidency, with Americans saying they now trust Democrats by wide margins to deal with Iraq, the economy, immigration and other issues, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll that underscores the GOP's fragile grip on power six months before the midterm elections. Dissatisfaction with the administration's policies in Iraq has overwhelmed other issues as the source of President Bush's and the Republican's problems. The survey suggests that a pessimistic mood about the direction of the country -- 69 percent said the nation is now off track -- and disaffection with Republicans has dramatically improved the chances of Democrats to win gains in November...

http://tinyurl.com/pt97x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

18 May 2006

Residents are fighting plans to install a seven-metre-high mobile phone mast just 100 metres from two schools.

Seventy-eight Blackfen residents attended a meeting on Monday night to find out more about the application by T-Mobile.

The company submitted an application to Bexley council to install the mast at the junction of Days Lane, Berwick Crescent and Fen Grove on April 26.

Residents are concerned that the mast will be too close to Days Lane Primary School in Days Lane and Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School in Holbeach Gardens. They say installing the mast so near the schools will endanger the health of the children.

Paul Crudge, 36, of Berwick Crescent, who is leading the campaign against the mast, said: "The siting is the main objection, but there are also the unknown effects the mast could have on people's health. We are also concerned about the devaluation of our houses. A local estate agent has said we could be looking at losing £10,000 to £20,000 on the price of our homes if the mast is installed."

Mr Crudge, a father of two, added: "We don't object to technology - we all have mobile phones - it's just the siting of the mast that concerns us. There has to be somewhere more suitable to put it." Objectors have until May 26 to send their views on the application to the council. Protestors are urging residents to send in letters of objection.

Barry Turner-Smith, community relations officer for T-Mobile, said residents had nothing to fear because all the company's telephone stations met the precautionary guidelines recommended in the 2000 Stewart Report.

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

He said the World Health Organisation had not found any scientific evidence that radio-frequency fields produced by mobile phone masts posed health risks to the public.

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

He added: "If that organisation says it's safe then we will follow that".

For more about the campaign, go to http://www.notransmitter.co.uk.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/q3dhb

By Karen Bate

Concerns have been raised about the safety guidelines governing radiation exposure to the public from mobile phone base stations

TIME is running out for the residents of Ashley Heath, near Ringwood, to lodge their objections against a plan to put up a 30-metre high mobile phone mast in the village.

Mobile phone company Orange PCS Ltd wants to build the mast comprising three antennae, four microwave dishes, six equipment cabinets, an electricity meter and associated fencing on land at the rear of the Forestry Commission office, just off Horton Road.

Objectors to the proposal have only until tomorrow to lodge their protests in writing with East Dorset district council.

Plans for the mast have already upset some residents and St Leonards and St Ives parish councillors, who have fears about its implications on their health, as well as the prospect of living in the shadow of such a "large" structure.

Parish clerk Ann Jacobs said: "The mast is too close to residential areas, it is too dominant and is a sensitive structure, with adverse implications in respect of public health."

Caroline Lucas, the Green Party Euro-MP for South East England, warned that safety guidelines for phone masts are inadequate.

She said: "Research conducted on behalf of the European Parliament has demonstrated those safety guidelines governing the exposure of radiation to the public from mobile phone base stations are inadequate.

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

Ms Lucas added: "However, the planning laws make it difficult for local authorities to take risks to human health into account when deciding whether to give phone operators permission to erect masts.

"The government must review the legislation and require local councils to adopt the precautionary principle, when considering the siting of mobile phone masts."

If approved, the Ashley Heath mast would be the second to be built in the village.

Residents at Sunnyside Caravan Park already live within metres of a BT Cellnet mast, which caused controversy when it was in the planning stages.

East Dorset district council spokesman James Brightman said of the Orange mast application: "It is par for the course, although 30 metres is pretty tall. The government require 21 days for objections to be voiced and the time frame is considered to be satisfactory."

The council confirmed that there have been no objections from either Dorset county highways or the East Dorset tree officer.

A spokesman for the Forestry Commission said that an agreement had been reached in principle with Orange and the phone mast was going through the planning stages.

When asked if the commission had any concerns about the health implications for its employees at the Ashley Heath branch, the spokesperson said: "None, because the mast is around 80 yards away."

11:29am today

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/display.var.764324.0.clock_ticks_on_mast_decision.php

http://www.savechildrennow.org/

A message from Starlight

FOR THE CHILDREN! It will be sent to ALL leaders of ALL countries. Every child on Earth has the right to food, health care and education. We just can not wait any longer; we must act NOW!!! It would be very satisfying if You spread the word to all Your friends!


Thank You very much for signing!

Michael Owens

The New York Times says the House should end federal subsidies for clear-cutting Alaskan forests, and: "In the same protective spirit, it should also kill a mischievous free-standing bill sponsored by Greg Walden of Oregon that would suspend environmental rules to accelerate logging in burned forests."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051706EA.shtml



Seattle's Big Role in Fight on Global Warming

The city of Seattle, a group of Alaska Natives and some of the nation's top climate scientists are mounting a national campaign to convince the Supreme Court that the federal government's failure to regulate automobile emissions is already causing harm, from shrinking mountain snowpack to ecological changes in Alaska.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051706EC.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4485/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The $500 billion deficit in U.S. company retirement plans is about to bite corporate bond investors.

http://tinyurl.com/g6vju


From Information Clearing House

Beware: all of this has bubble written all over it. It is a time of extreme danger for the unwary, with all the sadly familiar tell-tale signs of trouble ahead. There is the sense of supreme optimism that this time the permanent bull market is for real. There is always a reason why it's different this time, and this time that reason is China.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329480140-108725,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration has launched a multipronged attack on a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of collaborating with the U.S. government in illegal electronic surveillance, arguing that customers can't prove their phones were tapped or that the company or the government broke the law -- and that, in any event, the entire case endangers national security.

http://tinyurl.com/ftocm


From Information Clearing House

The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/3501_americans_.html


From Information Clearing House

A Travesty of an "Investigation".
http://www.counterpunch.com/churchill05162006.html



Ward Churchill

The University of Colorado's report on the investigation of Ward Churchill's alleged scholarly misconduct has just been released. Churchill was found guilty of deliberate false assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060517/cm_huffpost/021132


From Information Clearing House

The waning influence of the USA in the Asian century.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13089.htm

Congressman John Murtha says President Bush has no plan for victory in Iraq, and U.S. troops should leave.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13087.htm

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Pete Seeger: Bring Them Home

3 Minute Video: If you love your uncle Sam? Bring them home, bring them home.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13085.htm

By Ray McGovern

Is Congress aiding and abetting the creation of a police state?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13091.htm

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2006/phone-mast-17-05-06.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Burnham-On-Sea

Far and wide please :>)

Cheers

Lisa


Subject: research into phone masts


Dear Lisa, I hope you and your family are well. I am circulating the email below. It represents an excellent opportunity and I hope that you can pass it on.

Best wishes

Andrea


I am writing on behalf of Caroline Lucas, the Green Party Euro-MP for the South-East of England. Together with other Green colleagues, she has tabled an amendment to the European Parliament's 7th Framework Programme for Research. The amendment calls for research into electromagnetic radiation and therefore phone masts. As I am sure you will agree, there is an urgent need for research into the effect of electromagnetic radiation on health and wellbeing.

The amendment in question is number 629, pasted at the end of this message. It relates to the part of the programme which talks about Information Communication Technology research in general, and Caroline has proposed some additional text (in red) to try and ensure that health effects are closely monitored.

It is likely that this amendment will not be very popular which is why we are asking for your assistance in contacting MEPs to urge them to vote for it. It would be great if you could call on your contacts to write to the members of the Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) - the lead Committee on this dossier - who are due to vote on this on 30 May. Naturally, please also write to MEPs yourself! The list of members of the Committee can be found at

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/committees/allMembers.do?committee=1240&language=EN.

They are most likely to take note of approaches made by citizens / groups from their own country, so if you have contacts in other countries who could target their own MEPs that would be even better.

Please let me know if you need any further information; otherwise any help you can offer on this would be much appreciated. The success of the amendments may depend on it!

Your sincerely,
Andrea Smith
Office of Caroline Lucas MEP
023 92 361 988


THE AMENDMENT:

Amendment of the Green/Efa Group - Amendment 629 Annex I, Chapter I 'Cooperation', subtitle 'Themes', point 3 'Information and Communication

Technologies', subtitle 'Rationale', paragraph 2

The escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits set a growing agenda for research. To bring technology closer to people and organisational needs means: hiding technology complexity and revealing functionality on demand; making technology very simple to use, available and affordable; providing new ICT-based applications, solutions and services that are trusted, reliable, and adaptable to the users' context and preferences. Driven by the demand of more-for-less, ICT researchers are involved in a global race to achieve further miniaturisation, to master the convergence of computing, communications and media technologies, and the convergence with other relevant sciences and disciplines, and to build systems that are able to learn and evolve. From these diverse The escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits set a growing agenda for research. To bring technology closer to people and organisational needs means: improving usability; providing new ICT-based applications, solutions and services that are interoperable and reliable, and adaptable to the users' context and preferences; using ICT for sustainable development, particularly in the management of transport, in conservation of energy and in natural resource use; monitoring closely any possible impact of ICT on human health and wellbeing, in particular, as regards the effects of electromagnetic radiation. Special emphasis shall be placed on overcoming barriers of jurisdiction, language and location. Driven by the demand of more-for efforts a new wave of technologies is emerging. ICT research activities will also draw on a broader range of scientific and technological disciplines including bio- and life sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social sciences. less, ICT researchers are involved in a global race to achieve further miniaturisation, to master the convergence of computing, communications and media technologies, and the convergence with other relevant sciences and disciplines, and to build systems that are able to learn and evolve. From these diverse efforts a new wave of technologies is emerging. ICT research activities will also draw on a broader range of scientific and technological disciplines including bio- and life sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social sciences.

Heard on CBC News May 17th 06, (The natives in Nunavut are suddenly complaining of headaches, nausea and dizziness). The Natives in Nunavut Canada now enjoy Free WiFi. ComGuard CTS launched the system April 6.. The government is checking their homes for -------------MOLD.--------The natives want new homes.

Robert

Sukattuq Online http://support.comguardcts.com/forums/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=21

The Canadian Headache Broadcasting Corporation-RER

In the Great North, the small capital of Iqaluit has free Wi-Fi
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060419.gtiqaluit0419/BNStory/Technology/home

Free Wi-Fi in Nunavut, Canada
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006496.html


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Health risks of Wi-Fi and WLAN on our health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122031/

By Kevin Burchall

Basil Jones, centre, with Karen Kelly and her son Morgan in front of a mobile phone mast Picture Ref: 201762

A WORLD authority on the health implications of mobile phone masts will be sharing his expertise with Swindon parents next week.

Roger Coghill will be giving a talk on the dangers of phone masts at the Pilgrim Centre in Regent Circus next Friday after being invited to the town by the Swindon-based charity Stop Harming Our Children (SHOC).

Mr Coghill, who runs an independent science laboratory in Pontypool, believes the health hazards of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, power lines and other sources are seriously understated.

And Basil Jones, chairman of SHOC's trustees, is hoping Mr Coghill's knowledge of the dangers of electromagnetic fields will bring the phone mast issue to the fore in Swindon. continued...

"Our function (at SHOC) is to bring to the public's attention important issues about threats to our children," Mr Jones said.

"As mobile phone masts is a big issue locally, with more than 400 masts alone in Swindon, we thought this would be a good starting point to see what kind of reaction we get from the public.

"So we found that one of the top experts in the field of electromagnetic fields was Roger Coghill and luckily he agreed to come along.

"He has pointed towards the need to be extremely cautious about mobile phone masts and it will be very interesting for us to hear what he has to say."

SHOC was founded last September by a group of worried parents and grandparents who wanted to raise awareness of child nutrition and vaccination advice.

Eventually, the aim is to visit local schools to give out information and advice with expert guest speakers.

The group's main purpose is to bring back knowledge that has often been lost in today's media, to the attention of parents.

Karen Kelly, of Manor Cres-cent, Moredon, has spent more than a year protesting against an O2 phone mast, which was put up close to her home.

The mum-of-two has campaigned tirelessly for the mast to be moved and has applauded SHOC's efforts in highlighting the potential dangers of mobile phone masts.

The mast has not been moved yet but O2 has agreed in principle. "I think a lot of these masts go up because people sit back and think there isn't a lot they can do about it," she said.

"But I think anything that draws people's attentions to the dangers has got to be a good thing.

"There does seem to be a general view that if you want mobile phones you have to accept the masts and I agree with that, but I do think these masts must be put up away from residential areas."

Mr Coghill's talk starts at 7.30pm, but the Pilgrim Centre will be open for tea and coffee at 7pm. All are welcome to attend.

For more information, log onto http://www.shocswindon.org

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.763827.0.expert_to_give_views_on_masts.php

State-by-State Numbers
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0517-11.htm

Study
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0517-05.htm

We already know so many of you feel very strongly that the well-deserved impeachment of President Bush and vice-president Cheney is long overdue. We don't have to recite their many lies and illegal acts which have been allowed by a spineless Congress. The question is, what will persuade these worthless incumbents that we the people are SERIOUS about demanding accountability?

There can only be one answer. They must see one of their cowardly own lose an election to a candidate taking a strong stand for impeachment, and we don't have to wait until November to do it. In fact, the sooner the better. And that means a successful primary challenge.

For the next three weeks we are going to put every effort into making that a reality in California. There is already a movement in the CA legislature to initiate the call for impeachment (AJR 39), using a Congressional rule allowing a state to do that. And, we have at least two Congressional candidates in Democratic primaries in the Los Angeles area who have agreed to team up to take a stand on an impeachment platform, Charles Coleman, Jr. (CA-28) and Bob McCloskey (CA-29). These are two very safe Democratic districts, so whoever wins the primary will certainly win in November as well.

As you know, these candidates already have their own action pages on impeachment. What they have agreed to do is dedicate the bulk of any donations they receive from you from this email to running "call to action" campaign ads to encourage even MORE people to speak out now. What this means is that any contribution you can make will go directly into building the movement for impeachment itself. Please read on and you will understand the importance of this.

"CALL TO ACTION" AD DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/impeachteam/donations.php

Some fear that taking a strong stand for impeachment will hurt our chances in November. The opposite is in fact true. Your fellow constituents, and this crosses party lines, are just as appalled as you are with our current members of Congress and their continued failure to stand up for us. Strong candidates who are NOT afraid to speak the truth, and NOT afraid to stand up now help our chances in November. By supporting these candidates, we can inspire the turnout we need to overcome the expected pre-meditated election fraud.

Some fear that challenging the president will mobilize his base against us. What base? Less than 30% still cling to the vain belief that Bush and Cheney are either competent or truthful. Instead, we will rally our own base in a way that is not otherwise possible, and it will be the other side who sits out the election in disgust with the neocon nightmare we have for an Administration.

Some fear that any replacement for either Bush or Cheney might be equally as bad, however, once enough people have spoken out to make impeachment happen in the first place, we will have the power to control who the successor is. And that successor, must of course be approved by Congress, a Congress finally chastened by the people's voice.

What we are asking is that everyone who reads this should contribute at least ten dollars to help these brave candidates run their call to action ads. They want to run ads on Air America, not just in Los Angeles, but nationally to build the people's impeachment movement. They want to run ads in the L.A. Times so that the impeachment movement has real visibility. If each and every one of you can just contribute what you can now, this could be a real tipping point.

"CALL TO ACTION" AD DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/impeachteam/donations.php

If you can contribute more, what a blessing that would be. There are many for whom $25, $50 or $100 is something they could comfortably do. Imagine what it would be like if you were so fortunate as to be able to contribute the campaign limit of $2100 to one of these worthy candidates. That's enough to buy an entire WEEK's worth of Air American streaming ads, calling on progressives everywhere to join the impeachment movement now.

We have spent two years complaining about the incumbents we have now, watching as they have failed us again and again. Now we have the chance to actually DO something about it. What we are asking is that even if you respond to no other appeal this year, THIS is the one that counts. THIS is the one that could mean the difference between being stuck with the same smug losers for what could be the last gasp of our great democracy, or replacing them NOW with candidates with the courage to take a stand for us.

This is your chance America. This is your chance to be rid of Bush and his gang of cronies forever. They remain in power only because they have conned you out of your own democracy. They remain in power only because we have not yet all spoken out at one time, all at the same time, to finally throw them out.

Look at what they have done to our country. Look at what it costs you every day extra just in the increase in gas prices caused entirely by their reckless destabilization of the Middle East, which they are determined to turn into an even wider conflagration. Look at all the money they have stolen from your own pocket to give lavish gifts to their most wealthy corporate cronies, in unlimited interest rates, propped up prescription drug prices, and paid for by the gutting of programs for the most needy.

Then, please think what it would be worth to you to remove our tormentors from office right now. And whatever that number is, make that donation today to build the impeachment movement which will make it happen.

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

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

From ufpj-news

Appell zum Grundgesetz-Artikel 26 bitte unterzeichnen!

An VertreterInnen von Friedensorganisationen

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,

wir bitten Euch um Unterstützung für eine kurzfristige - aber längst überfällige - Aktion zum Grundgesetztag.

Ihr kennt vermutlich die skandalöse Antwort des Generalbundesanwalts zu den erneuten Anzeigen nach Bekanntwerden der Unterstützung von BND-Agenten für die US-Armee im Irak-Krieg. Kern: Das wäre ja Beteiligung an einem Angriffskrieg gewesen, aber nur die Vorbereitung sei strafbar. Da ist also der Gesetzgeber gefordert und den wollen wir jetzt dazu öffentlich ansprechen.

Wir glauben, dass wir auch innerhalb einer kurzen Frist von zwei Tagen zwei Dutzend Repräsentanten aus Organisationen der Friedensbewegung als Unterzeichnende gewinnen können und bitten Dich herzlich, dabei zu sein.

Sende Deine Unterschrift incl. Anschrift bitte baldmöglichst an friekoop@bonn.comlink.org

Herzlichen Gruß

Martin Singe (Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie)
Mani Stenner (Netzwerk Friedenskooperative)

Hier der Text:

Appell aus der Friedensbewegung zum Grundgesetztag: Den Friedensauftrag aus Artikel 26 Grundgesetz endlich einlösen!

Köln - Bonn - Berlin, 20. Mai 2006 zum Grundgesetztag 23. Mai 2006


An alle Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages

An den Petitionsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

aus Anlass des Grundgesetztages am 23. Mai appellieren wir an alle Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages - zugleich formell als Petition an den Deutschen Bundestag -, den Gesetzgebungs-Auftrag aus Artikel 26 Grundgesetz endlich umzusetzen. Der Grundgesetzartikel 26 legt im Kontext mit Artikel 24 und 25 sowie der Präambel des Grundgesetzes die Friedensverpflichtung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fest. Artikel 26 Grundgesetz fordert explizit, alle friedensstörenden Handlungen, insbesondere die Führung eines Angriffskrieges, unter Strafe zu stellen.

Inzwischen hat sich die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1999 an einem völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg gegen die damalige Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien beteiligt. 2003 war die Bundesrepublik Deutschland an dem auch vom UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan als völkerrechtswidrig gekennzeichneten Angriffskrieg einer alliierten Koalition u.a. mit Gewährung von kriegsrelevanten Überflugrechten und kriegsunterstützenden Aktivitäten von BND-Mitarbeitern beteiligt. Solche Handlungen werden vom Grundgesetz in Artikel 26 als verfassungswidrig gekennzeichnet.

Mitglieder aus der Friedensbewegung, die in diesen Kontexten Strafanzeigen gegen verantwortliche Mitglieder der jeweiligen Bundesregierungen gestellt hatten, wurden seitens des Generalbundesanwaltes dahingehend belehrt, dass der Strafgesetzbuch-Paragraph 80 zum Verbot der Vorbereitung eines Angriffskrieges nicht hinreichend sei, um Ermittlungen einleiten zu können. Zum einen verwies der Generalbundesanwalt darauf, dass § 80 StGB lediglich die Strafbarkeit der Vorbereitung (also nicht der Führung!) eines Angriffskrieges umfasse (3 ARP 8/06-3). Diese Interpretation steht in offenem Widerspruch z.B. zu den Ausführungen des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts zur Gehorsamsverweigerung eines deutschen Soldaten im Irak-Krieg (BVerwG 2 WD 12.04). Zum anderen wurde bemerkt, dass Artikel 26 Grundgesetz zwar ein umfassendes Friedensgebot enthalte, § 80 StGB jedoch keine dementsprechend umfassenden Sanktionen vorsehe. Man habe sich 1968 im Strafrechtsausschuss nur auf eine Teilumsetzung des Artikels 26 Grundgesetz einigen können. Der Generalbundesanwalt führte aus (3 ARP 84/03-3): "Bei den Beratungen wurde deutlich, dass die Durchführung des verfassungsrechtlichen Gesetzgebungsauftrages erhebliche Schwierigkeiten bereitete und dass deshalb eine vollständige Umsetzung nicht in Betracht kam (vgl. BT-Drucks. V/2860)."

Es ist nun - angesichts möglicherweise neuer bevorstehender Kriege - an der Zeit, endlich den Gesetzgebungsauftrag aus Artikel 26 Grundgesetz zu erfüllen und den Anforderungen in vollem Umfange nachzukommen. Deshalb richten wir zum Grundgesetztag 2006 diesen Appell an den Deutschen Bundestag! Alle friedensstörenden Handlungen müssen als verfassungswidrige Handlungen unter Strafe gestellt werden. Wir verstehen das Strafrecht in diesem Bereich als Ausdruck einer dem Frieden in der Welt dienenden verantwortlichen Politik, die verbindlich, klar und eindeutig Grenzmarkierungen aufzeigt, um die Friedensstaatlichkeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu gewährleisten. Statt einer Neudefinition des Verteidigungsfalles oder der Kriegslegitimation angeblich völkerrechtsgewohnheitsmäßig auf dem Vormarsch befindlicher "präventiver, humanitärer Angriffskriegsberechtigungen" bedarf es einer Rückbesinnung auf die Friedensstaatlichkeit des Grundgesetzes!

Unterzeichnende:
(( VertreterInnen aus der Friedensbewegung, mit Funktionsangabe und vollständigen persönlichen Anschriften - wg. des offiziellen Charakters einer Petition an den Bundestag;))

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Deutsche Kriege für das "nationale Interesse"?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2024431/

Krieg der Rohstoffe: sollen im Kongo deutsche Interessen vertreten werden?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2029797/

With the announcement that Britain is going to possibly build more nuclear power stations, this map is timely and the fall-out and hot zones falling a similar accident to chernobyl. Good to send about

http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/Chernobyl-UK.php#

Davey Garland

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4489/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

HLV INFO 63/AT

17-05-2006

HNA online 14-05-06

Keine Einigung über Standort

Neue Mobilfunksender für Vollmarshausen - T-Mobile und Gemeinde im Clinch

Von Holger Schindler

Lohfelden. Der Kirchturm in Vollmarshausen wäre ein idealer Standort für eine Mobilfunkanlage. Das dachten zumindest die Planer des Telefonriesen T-Mobile, und nahmen Kontakt mit der Kirchengemeinde auf. Doch die lehnte eine Sendeanlage auf dem Turmdach ab. Das war bereits vor etlichen Jahren.

Seit vergangenem Jahr nun beschäftigt die Suche nach geeigneten Mobilfunk-Standorten eine von der Gemeinde eigens eingerichtete Kommission. Vertreter von Parteien, aber auch sachkundige Bürger und Mitglieder von Bürgerinitiativen suchen zusammen nach verträglichen Standorten. Auch ein Gutachten wurde in Auftrag gegeben.

Man wolle für die Lohfeldener "die bestmögliche Lösung", sagt Bürgermeister Michael Reuter, und zwar "was die Nutzung von Handys angeht, aber auch um eventuelle Gefährdungen auszuschließen oder gering zu halten".

Die Kommission hat aufgrund des Gutachtens nun zwei Standorte außerhalb der Vollmarshäuser Ortslage auf gemeindeeigenen Grundstücken vorgeschlagen: Auf dem Hohen Rod und Am Hempel. Sie treffen bei den Mobilfunkbetreibern allerdings auf ein geteiltes Echo. Während die Telefongesellschaft O2 sich einen Funkmast Auf dem Hohen Rod vorstellen kann und laut Bauamtsmitarbeiterin Jutta Kothe bereits eine entsprechende Bauvoranfrage gestellt hat, lehnt der Branchenriese T-Mobile die beiden Standorte ab. Sie seien ungeeignet, teilte Maika-Alexander Stangenberg als Sprecher der T-Mobile in Hamburg auf Anfrage mit.

Der erste Standort sei "funktechnisch zu weit weg vom zu versorgenden Gebiet", der zweite komme "aus bautechnischen Gründen" nicht infrage, so Stangenberg. T-Mobile favorisiere stattdessen die Installation auf einem Mast der Hochspannungstrasse, die am Hempel vorbeiführt und sich im Besitz der Deutschen Bahn befindet.

Darauf will sich wiederum die Gemeinde nicht einlassen. "Das ist uns zu nah an der Bebauung", sagt Jutta Kothe. Die Gemeinde muss bei einer Standortentscheidung gehört werden, verhindern kann sie ihn letztlich jedoch nicht.

Bei dem Streit geht es auch um die Frage, welche Versorgung Telefonkunden beanspruchen können. Das Gemeindeparlament Lohfelden betrachtet nach einem Beschluss vom vergangenen September eine Grundversorgung mit Mobilfunk als gegeben, wenn im bebauten Gebiet außerhalb von Gebäuden telefoniert werden kann (Outdoor-Versorgung). Den Mobilfunkbetreibern ist das zu wenig. Sie wollen eine Indoor-Versorgung realisieren. "Für uns ist es wichtig, dass unsere Kunden dort telefonieren können, wo sie sich gerade befinden, auch zu Hause und an der Arbeit", sagt Stangenberg. Dafür sei ein engmaschiges Netz von Sendern nötig. Die Standorte innerhalb des wabenförmigen Netzes seien nicht beliebig verschiebbar.

14.05.2006

http://www.hna.de/soehrestart/00_20060514202511_Keine_Einigung_ueber_Standort.html

http://tinyurl.com/nloke


Informant: John Perna

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1526462573111576587


Informant: Cal

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AMERICA IN PERIL III The Storm upon us Part 1 of 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1248046852001141661

AMERICA IN PERIL III The Storm upon us Part 2 of 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8617388682907371321

AMERICA IN PERIL III The Storm upon us Part 3 of 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4082861617779062541


Informant: Milo

The problems of corruption and the misallocation of public revenues have been endemic," a United Nations study points out. "They undermine the rule of law, impede the pursuit of social objectives, and contribute to conflicts that frequently foster human rights abuse...."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706I.shtml

Educational debt is the most visible - but not the only - barrier to the well-being of the "millennial generation," roughly defined as Americans born after 1978. Every gate on the way to middle-class life is now tougher to unlock. Mortgages, health insurance expenses, car maintenance, child care and tax loads for two-income families have all ballooned.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706E.shtml

From serious security flaws that could allow hackers easy access to electronic voting systems to routine computer malfunctions and undelivered software, state and local officials are one by one joining voter-access groups and computer scientists in questioning the reliability of the three major suppliers of electronic voting machines.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706D.shtml

ABC reported that the government had amassed the call records of tens of millions of Americans. One of the people who helped break that story is Brian Ross, an investigative reporter for ABC News who also helped break the story of the US government's secret prisons in Romania and Poland. Ross recently found out that the government was tracking his phone calls as well. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviews.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706C.shtml

In an interview conducted by Shelly R. Fredman, Howard Zinn remarks, "People think there must be some magical tactic, beyond the traditional ones - protests, demonstrations, vigils, civil disobedience - but there is no magical panacea, only persistence."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706B.shtml

"It's painful to watch Bush give a speech, and his immigration address was no exception," Matthew Rothschild writes. "Hell, it was hard not to break out into guffaws when he said, 'We have enough Guard forces to win the war on terror, to respond to natural disasters, and to help secure our borders.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706A.shtml

SCHOOL governors and neighbours are up in arms about a proposed mobile phone mast near their school and homes in Horncastle. During the past two weeks posters have appeared near Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School informing people of a proposed T-Mobile telephone mast.

The sign informed people the phone company is considering installing a 15m radio base station at Reindeer Close Industrial Estate to provide coverage to the Horncastle area.

School governors have, through headteacher Tim Peacock, asked parents to write to the company with their objections to the mast.

A letter to all parents stated: "It has been bought to out attention that plans exist to locate a telecommunications mast on the Reindeer Close site.

"We feel this is entirely inappropriate. Children should not be exposed to unnecessary risks."

An East Lindsey District Council spokesman explained: "The planning department has been approached to give pre-application advice relating to a proposed mobile phone mast to serve Horncastle.

"One of the sites proposed was on the Reindeer Close Industrial Estate."

# At the time of going to press a representative from T-Mobile was unavailable for comment.

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.horncastletoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=825&ArticleID=1508682

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4482/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/17/opinion/meyer/main1623700.shtml


Informant: sasha

The long-anticipated US announcement was interpreted in some quarters of the Middle East as the US backtracking on the region's democratization, or that the US is putting access to oil fields first in a period of deepening energy insecurity.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706L.shtml

Just two weeks after the House passed a reform bill requiring lawmakers to attach their names to pet projects, GOP leaders are advancing spending bills containing billions of dollars in such parochial "earmarks," whose sponsors remain anonymous.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706K.shtml

"The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects the privacy and liberty of Americans. It says the government can't search or seize you without a warrant issued on probable cause to believe you are involved in a crime. This right," writes Jesse Jackson, "is the line between a democracy and a police state, where the state can search or seize at will. That is the line that the NSA program erased."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706J.shtml

17.05.06

Bei der Anwendung der "grünen Gentechnik" stellt sich die CSU gegen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU). In der "Berliner Zeitung" lehnte CSU-Generalsekretär Markus Söder Freilandversuche mit gentechnisch manipulierten Pflanzen nachdrücklich ab. "Natürlich müssen wir die Forschung in diesem Bereich weiter vorantreiben", sagte der bayerische Politiker. "Aber Freilandversuche sind ein Problem, solange nicht absehbar ist, wie diese langfristig das Öko-System beeinflussen." Bundesagrarminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) bereitet derzeit eine Neufassung des Gentechnik-Gesetzes vor.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13632

Tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on your ability to access information about toxic mining pollution (and all other toxic pollution) in and around your community.

Thanks to legally required reporting of toxic releases to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Toxics Release Inventory, we know that the metal mining industry the nation's #1 toxic polluter.

Unfortunately EPA announced plans last fall to roll back reporting requirements for facilities that release toxic chemicals ? including metal mines. Since then, with your help, the public has spoken out resoundingly against EPA's proposals. However, these dangerous plans continue to move forward.

But we can still save the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) -- and our right to know about toxic mining pollution. Congress can stop the EPA in its tracks, but lawmakers need to hear from you and now's the time!

PLEASE ACT NOW (see below for link)

Contact your representative today and tell him or her to support the Pallone-Solis Toxic Right-To-Know Amendment that will save this invaluable program for public health and safety. The amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill (that decides funding levels for the EPA) would prohibit the EPA from spending any money to implement these dangerous changes.

Tell your representative to vote YES to the Pallone-Solis Toxic Right-To-Know Amendment TODAY!!

Thanks,

Alan Septoff
EARTHWORKS


INSTRUCTIONS:

* Go to: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/earthworks/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3840

* Read the sample letter and modify if you can. Personalized subject lines and/or letter text will increase the impact your letter has on decisionmakers.

* Clicking "Send My Message" will send your comment letter to your Representative in the House of Representatives..

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4483/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

The other day I noted 3 white vans driving in convoy, very early in the morning and one turning into a Mr. Williams' smallholding where he has a Vodafone and an Orange mast. The van stopped next to the Vodafone mast and on its side was printed something like _www.rtn.com_ http://www.rtn.com/ . These masts are fairly near our house and I looked up the website when I got back from the school run. As follows some of the stuff pulled up from the web.

Raytheon.com

"Under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Henry Obering 111, the Missile Defense Agency of the Secretary of Defense has been charged by the President to develop a Ballistic Missile Defense System that has four primary objectives.

1. Defend the US deployed forces, allies and friends around the world from ballistic missile attack.

2. Employ multiple layers of defensive capabilities and techologies to intercept missiles in all phases of their flight (ie. boost, midcourse and terminal) against all ranges of threats (short, medium and intermediate and long)

3. Enable the services to field elements of the system as soon as applicable.

4. Develop and test technologies, using prototypes and test assets, to provide early capability and to improve the effectivness of the deployed system by inserting new technolgies. (PLEASE NOTE THIS ONE!!)


There is a System and Engineering Integration Team which Boeing leads.

AND Battle Management, Command, Communication and Control (BMC 31) headed by Lockheed Martin.

Also, did you know that the British Royal Military College of Science gives masters degrees in guided weapons systems.

It is possible that this company has nothing to do with the vans I saw - but hey......what a co-incidence!! Tell your friends to be aware of any van, marked or not, near to mobile phone masts.

What we are really concerned with here is that it appears that new technologies are being applied to the existing ones. We already know that Vodafone are in big poo with bugging. We also know that CIA, etc are involved. I have spoken to several people whose opinion and technological expertise is worth listening to and Barrie Trower has confirmed that surveillance is one of the technologies not only being considered, but actually being tested.

What this means is that we now have to be extra vigilant. Who knows what is going up and where and what will be the outcome? Working together and chiselling away, we will get somewhere.

Kind regards,

Vivienne Baron.



Hi Vivienne,

We have vodaphone bulldozing here, laying the cables for the mast before the application is in etc. Not only that but sensitive people have had a rough (but different kind of rough) week or so here, including me. All saying words wrongly, having trouble thinking straight, pain in the left side of the neck which travels to ears and head at times, the usual sore throat, a sort of "can't be bothered to do anything" and inertia - which you know is way out of character for me! Another sensitive person came to see me yesterday and she said she was shocked at how I looked (Great pick-you-up line, but she cared, so it was okay!) She even phoned today to check how I was. No idea what is going on but th Hutchison 3G at west park sprouted 3 small square boxes a while ago and an extra small cabinet. Bognor was hell last week! (And some minor TV disruption here, too)

sandi



Bit off topic, but:

ARCO sold HAARP to Raytheon. If you believe in weather manipulation / modification, then it is interesting that Raytheon is into hurricane relief: http://www.raytheon.com/feature/katrina_05/k_ext_response/

Don't you bet they would like to be heroes by steering hurricanes out of harm's way? Perhaps they've been working on it already.

http://www.bariumblues.com/storm_fury.htm etc...

Andy

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More scary news about more spectrum uses above 60 GigaHZ.

Andrea

Ofcom today published two reports on potential uses of radio spectrum. The first examines the current state and future bands above 60GHz for devices, systems, applications, sharing and regulation. For further information click here: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/technology/overview/ese/reliable/

The second report considers optimising the use of spectrum for license-exempt applications and the use of higher powers in licence exempt applications to provide wireless broadband in rural areas. For further information click here: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/technology/overview/ese/exempt/

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Wednesbury Action for the Removal of Telephone masts. http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Has everyone connected to the communications industries gone completely mad in this country, in the world even.

Yet another band of frequencies to bombard us all with (above 60 GigaHZ.), undoubtedly un-researched as to the likely adverse effects on plant and animal life. Possible military communications systems being surreptitiously installed on normal masts.

Like Lord Nelson, these people "see no ships" or the gathering storms of ill health on the horizon in the years ahead.

We feel so saddened that the young in particular are being brainwashed into thinking they NEED these technologies in order to have a full and happy life. They have already become addicts. We see it every day, a compulsive disorder, that drives many to get withdrawal symptoms if they are parted from their beloved phones.

Like Lemmings they will soon be running headlong over the precipice with their phones glued to their ear, to late to stop and turn around, and texting home on the way down "why didn't somebody tell me". So sad !!

Peter & Ann

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With reference to Vivienne's contribution of a few days ago, something has occured in my area which could possibly be connected.

My day started early with an elderly neighbour having bad nosebleeds. When I went in to care for her I was almost knocked out by the strength of the emissions in her home. Within a short while the blood circulation in my feet had slowed and they gradually became mottled mauve/red/blue and painful. My knees and neck hurt, I could not think straight, talk straight, or concentrate, and I felt quite unwell. Being sensitve to this technology I knew it was TETRA but I could not figure out why or how. I went back to my protected home to recover and visited her later in the morning when she phoned to say she had another nosebleed and felt unwell. She has rarely ever had nosebleeds before and she is 86.

Later her son told me that he had been helping with a charity run from West Park (less than a mile from here) to Felpham (perhaps2/3 miles away from West Park) He said that a temporary mast had been erected in minutes for the police to use, as they needed a lot more handsets for extra police. Some people complained of feeling unwell during the morning.

The mast was erected and connected to the Hutchison mast's electrical supply in some way, he was told, by a firm called Raynet but he didn't know how it was spelt. That was how it sounded. The mast was switched off once the race was completed and taken away.

I wondered if we could expect temporary masts to appear anywhere/anytime if the police needed to use extra handset! That is quite a scary thought for those of us who are unwell around them.

Sandi

Die Debatte um bezahlte Sendungen der Bundesagentur nützt auch den Neoliberalen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22680/1.html

Das umfassende NSA-Lauschprogramm dürfte aus den Milliarden Telefonverbindungen mit der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse kaum bislang unbekannte Terrorgruppen entdecken.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22683/1.html

Verteidigungsminister Jung will im Weißbuch den Auftrag der Bundeswehr neu definieren. Wegmarken einer Abkehr von der im Grundgesetz verankerten Friedensstaatlichkeit.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22686/1.html

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Krieg der Rohstoffe: sollen im Kongo deutsche Interessen vertreten werden?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2029797/

Den Friedensauftrag aus Artikel 26 Grundgesetz endlich einlösen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2026042/

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_798.shtml


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Strike the Root
by Greg Palast

05/16/06

I know you're shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That's nothing. And it's not news. This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration's Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI -- though it is better described as the creation of a private KGB...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/palast/palast1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson

05/16/06

In November 1989, President Bush's father praised the fall of the Berlin Wall by saying, 'It clearly is a good development in terms of human rights.' He added, 'We're saluting those who can move forward with democracy. We are encouraging the concept of a Europe whole and free. ... I don't think anyone can resist it, in Europe or in the Western Hemisphere.' In that Thanksgiving address, he also said, 'Around the world tonight, new pilgrims are on a voyage to freedom, and for many, it's not a trip to some faraway place but to a world of their own making. On other Thanksgivings, the world was haunted by the images of watchtowers, guard dogs, and machine guns. In fact, many of you had not even been born when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. But now the world has a new image, reflecting a new reality: that of Germans, East and West, pulling each other to the top of the wall, a human bridge between nations.' In his call last night to send thousands of National Guard troops to the border between the United States and Mexico, the son once again failed to listen to the father. Bush is sending the Iraq-weary Guard to the border to mollify hardline conservatives who are building their careers around -- whether they say this explicitly or not -- a brown invasion from the south...

http://tinyurl.com/jwapg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hurricane Halliburton
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/17/hurricane_halliburton.php

Bowing to the police state

Tom Paine
by Ray McGovern

05/16/06

Is Congress aiding and abetting the creation of a police state? Recently, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., helped to give the CIA and NSA unprecedented police powers. By inserting a provision in the FY07 Intelligence Authorization Act, Hoekstra has undermined the existing statutory limits on involvement in domestic law enforcement. This comes after revelations in January of direct NSA involvement with the Baltimore police in order to 'protect' the NSA Headquarters from Quaker protesters. Add to this, the disquieting news that the White House has been barraging the CIA with totally improper questions about the political affiliation of some of its senior intelligence officers, the ever widening use of polygraph examinations, and the FBI's admission that it acquires phone records of broadcast and print media to investigate leaks at the CIA. I, for one, am reminded of my service in the police state of the U.S.S.R., where there were no First or Fourth Amendments...

http://tinyurl.com/ql9yd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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One Step Closer to a Police State

"Placing National Guard troops on the border could be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. And that's just fine with the Bush administration," writes Joshua Holland.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051906A.shtml

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Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
http://tinyurl.com/o3s37

CNN

05/16/06

BellSouth and AT&T were added to a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Communications that alleges the companies illegally participated in a National Security Agency domestic surveillance program. The complaint, filed in Manhattan District Court, is asking that the companies pay $200 billion in fines to their 200 million subscribers. Attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran said that since the lawsuit was filed Friday they have been overwhelmed with calls from people wanting to join the suit...

http://tinyurl.com/qazlr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Dahr Jamail points out that if current trends continue, May will be one of the deadliest months of the occupation yet for troops, with an average of over three being killed per day. 54 coalition soldiers have been killed in the first 16 days of May alone. Meanwhile, troops returning from Iraq are finding little comfort in the hollow rhetoric of their chief chicken-hawk. The medical attention necessary to support the troops is becoming scarcer with each passing tax-cut.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706Z.shtml

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/May/12/local/stories/01local.htm

May 12, 2006

Santa Cruz K-5 closes citing cell tower radiation

By ROGER SIDEMAN
SENTINEL STAFF WRITER

SANTA CRUZ — A new Westside elementary school is closing its doors following plans by First Congregational Church to install three cell-phone transmitters next door atop its 80-foot steeple.

Una Familia, the private school at 900 High St. that serves 25 kindergarten through fifth-grade students at 900 High St., has a stated mission of incorporating neuroscience into its curriculum. It's an emphasis that school founder Joan Harrington, who rents the space from the church, says is inherently incompatible with a business deal she says would bathe the neighborhood in electromagnetic radiation.

"This has ruined my business because the families that come to me were coming to be part of this special program," said Harrington, who taught at Bonny Doon School for 20 years before opening Una Familia on the old Pacific Collegiate site in January. "It makes absolutely no sense for me to go forward with my research."

Part of the school's so-called "brain-based" educational model looks at how ambient radiation impairs student performance and intensifies student distractibility.

Cell phone companies have long maintained that there isn't any clear evidence that cellular towers pose any health risks. In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress banned local governments from blocking towers on safety grounds.

First Congregational Church's senior minister Dave Grishaw-Jones said he's heartbroken by the situation with the elementary school.

"We believe Jean's mission at the school fit our values as a progressive church," Grishaw-Jones said. "If our leadership felt the science was clear, we'd back off in a flash. Science is used in different ways, and we thought it's best not to be intimated."

Built in the late 1950s, the church's steeple is now is disrepair and needs to be stabilized, Grishaw-Jones said. A financial deal initiated by cell provider Sprint will allow the church to keep the steeple, he said.

Raising funds to fix the steeple is one thing, local activists contend, but doing it by building a cell transmitter to benefit a private enterprise is another.

Though the new transmitters are intended to smooth out patchy phone service in the area — a frequent complaint of UC Santa Cruz staff and students nearby — Harrington and other opponents view them as nothing less than an affront to human health and the democratic process.

"It's a usurpation of our rights to choose the hazards we want or don't want to be exposed to," said Deborah Salisbury of the Alliance for Wireless Hazard Protection based in Live Oak.

Parent Annemarie Bertschi had two children enrolled in art classes at Una Familia.

"I've looked at some of the data around cell towers and a 1,000 foot buffer would be more reasonable; this is way too close," she said.

But apparently there's already a smaller cell tower much closer to the school, hidden inside a fake chimney on the church roof; it's been there since 1999. Harrington said she learned about it just five weeks ago, adding that the existing tower was also a factor in her decision to close the school.

The federal ban that prevents local governments from using health concerns as a factor in regulating cellular towers hasn't stopped some area governments. Some have called for moratoriums on tower building, and places like Gilroy have passed local laws to restrict the size, shape and location of future cell sites.

No moratorium exists in Santa Cruz, but the proposal by First Congressional Church still requires the City Council's approval, Grishaw-Jones said.

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will review wireless phone safety following a recently published study that raised concerns about a heightened risk of brain cancer. The agency continues to monitor studies for possible health problems stemming from long-term exposure to radio frequency energy.

Earlier this year in Monterey, the city approved plans to install three cell phone towers disguised inside three specially constructed fiberglass crosses to be mounted atop St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church. Elsewhere in the region, companies have begun disguising cell towers inside faux pine trees, water towers and billboards.

Contact Roger Sidemanat rsideman@santacruzsentinel.com.

Copyright © Santa Cruz Sentinel. All rights reserved.


Source: Bonnie Hicman

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=466

With a flurry of activity in Congress this week and next on environmental issues, the Sierra Club provides some brief summaries on several of the major issues. Look for critical appropriations votes on offshore drilling and clean water, and a vote on a destructive post-fire logging bill.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051606EC.shtml

Representative Waxman released a new report showing what happened to energy prices and dependency on foreign oil since Vice President Cheney's energy task force released its plan five years ago. Five years ago the average American family spent $3,300 on energy, while this year they will spend over $5,100.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051606EA.shtml

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/05/16/mcgrady/index.html


Informant: NHNE

„Die Liste der kleinen und großen Verfehlungen der gegenwärtigen US-Regierung ist inzwischen so lang und bekannt, dass ein weiterer Artikel zu diesem Gegenstand überflüssig scheint. Allein, wie Hegel schon feststellte: Das Bekannte überhaupt ist darum, weil es bekannt ist, nicht erkannt, oder mit Blick auf die USA formuliert: Nur weil wir wissen, dass die gegenwärtige US-Regierung – wie im Übrigen viele ihrer Vorgängerregierungen auch – fast zu jedem Mittel greift, um vermeintliche US-amerikanische Interessen zu vertreten, bedeutet das noch lange nicht, dass wir deshalb erkannt hätten, welche Interessen dies genau sind, warum zu diesen und nicht zu anderen Mitteln gegriffen wird und vielleicht am wichtigsten, ob und was all dies mit den sozialen und politischen Entwicklungen in Deutschland und Europa zu tun hat. Solange diese und ähnliche Fragen unbeantwortet bleiben, scheint es fast, dass es der US-Regierung nicht nur gelungen ist, ihren und den Ruf ihres Landes gründlich zu ruinieren, sondern dass sie damit auch tatsächlich ungenierter lebt, insofern es auf einen Skandal mehr oder weniger inzwischen auch nicht mehr ankommt und öffentlichkeitswirksame Kritik, wenn sie überhaupt noch auftritt, oftmals leider nur im normativen Rahmen formuliert wird. Umso bedeutsamer ist es da, dass seit einiger Zeit im englischsprachigen Raum eine Debatte über die gegenwärtige US-Politik entbrannt ist, in der weniger einzelne Verwerfungen der US-Regierung oder moralische Entrüstung über selbige im Mittelpunkt stehen, sondern vielmehr die Frage, ob und wie diese Politik mit der Entwicklung des globalen Kapitalismus zusammenhängt…“ Artikel von Slave Cubela, Teil I http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/cubela1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Mai 2006

Says 50,000 Stock Options Still Constitute a Conflict of Interest
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0516-01.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0516-24.htm



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

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

17. Mai 2006

Heute wurde im Haushaltsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages das Haushaltsbegleitgesetz verabschiedet. Dazu erklärt Dietmar Bartsch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der Linkspartei.PDS und Mitglied des Haushaltsausschusses:

Das Haushaltsbegleitgesetz ist eine gigantische Fehlleistung der Großen Koalition und wird leider die gesamte Legislatur prägen. Der Beschluss über die größte Steuererhöhung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik entlarvt die Wahlkampfversprechen von SPD, CDU und CSU endgültig als Lüge. Insbesondere die Mehrwertsteuererhöhung ist unsozial, sie belastet vor allem Familien und sozial Benachteiligte und sie ist konjunkturfeindlich. Die öffentlich nahezu kaum beachtete Erhöhung der Pauschalabgabe für geringfügig Beschäftigte von 25 Prozent auf 30 Prozent ist pure Abkassiererei. Ein schwerer Fehler ist, dass der Umbau der sozialen Sicherungssysteme nicht wirklich begonnen wird, sondern beispielsweise Zuschüsse bei der Rentenversicherung durch die Große Koalition gekürzt werden. Das Haushaltsbegleitgesetz schadet den Menschen im Land! Notwendig für dieses Land ist: Vermögende und steuerlich Leistungsfähige deutlich stärker zu belasten, Steuervergehen entschieden zu bekämpfen und die sozialen Sicherungssysteme zu modernisieren und ihre Leistungsfähigkeit zu stärken.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=32738

From: Congressman John Conyers
john.conyers@johnconyers.com

John Conyers, Jr. - 40 Years Of Jobs, Justice And Peace

Today, I am officially announcing my intent to seek reelection. I have never before sent a general email asking for help, but the stakes are simply too high at this point in our Nation's history.

"It would not be a surprise in the coming months if we hear more from the GOP about Conyers than about Osama bin Laden"
Philadelphia Daily News (5/14)

Donate Now and Help Me Fight Back and Work Toward a New Democratic Majority

Because I have been so outspoken in repeatedly speaking out against the excesses and abuses of the Bush Administration, and because the right wing fears that I will be chosen to chair the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats assume the Majority, the GOP hit man has come after me.

Help Me Fight Back

Karl Rove has identified me as the number one target of the Republican attack machine.

I need your help to help raise the resources to get reelected, to help get our message of accountability and checks and balances, and to fight back against the vicious right wing smear machine, which will only intensify in the coming weeks and months.

Help Me Lead the Charge Against this Administration's Abuse of Power

Thank you as always, for your dedication to democracy and liberty.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.
Contact Information
website: http://www.johnconyers.com/
Conyers for Congress
P.O. Box 17204
Alexandria, Virginia 17204
Phone: 313-438-2004

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Informant: Martin Greenhut

IRA Swaps Could Cost U.S. Billions in Tax Revenue

President Bush is scheduled to sign into law on Wednesday an extraordinary deal for high-income people with retirement savings accounts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/business/16tax.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


From Information Clearing House

US pharmaceutical companies have long known that the potential market for their products is limited by the finite number of sick people; so they have turned to the healthy for further expansion of their markets, using exploitative, fear-inducing advertising techniques.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13064.htm

Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research arm, may have publicly abandoned its creepiest programs, like Total Information Awareness. But the agency, as shown at its DarpaTech conference, still has a project to make you run full-speed into your bunker.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,62646-0.html?tw=wn_story_mailer


From Information Clearing House

The corporate world lurks in the shadows here. They are the “men behind the curtain.” It is our job as concerned citizens to take crises like the ones now surfacing and raise b. h. before their new technologies take us backwards into the future.

http://www.mediachannel.org/affalert417.shtml


From Information Clearing House

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/16/145201


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon's defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808342.stm


From Information Clearing House

Army Rules Put on Hold
http://tinyurl.com/gycx9


From Information Clearing House

In the last 100 years, the U.S. has ousted the governments of at least 14 countries and forcibly intervened in dozens of others -- to what end?

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/latimes5_13_06.htm


From Information Clearing House

It would be logical to expect Russia after some time to have strategic interests near U.S. borders. After all, doesn't Ms. Rice talk today about U.S. strategic interests at the Russian borders? The U.S. is certainly right about globalization.

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060510/47934816.html


From Information Clearing House



Russian Identity and the Prospects for Democracy in Putin's Russia

Ignorance falls easy prey to political deception. Witness the ease with which the Bush administration was able to persuade 51 percent of Americans, in March 2003, that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Vice President Cheney never tired of falsely linking Saddam and al Qaeda. Yet he remains in office. Where's the accountability?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13073.htm

The reality of the matter is that the U.S. has never abandoned its plans to fight and win a nuclear war, first with the Soviet Union, beginning with the Reagan administration, and with every president up to the present Bush regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13061.htm



Putin proposes creation of ruble-denominated oil, gas exchange

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a ruble-denominated oil and natural gas stock exchange should be set up in Russia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13060.htm

Iran has also proposed establishing a euro-based Iranian oil bourse to compete with NYMEX and the IPE. The proposal was first put forward in the beginning of the Third Development Plan (2000-2005), and began to receive serious attention in 2005.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13067.htm



US asks Pakistan to abandon gas project with Iran

The US has asked Pakistan to abandon the seven billion dollar gas pipeline planned to Pakistan and India ahead of next week's visit by a high-level Iranian delegation, a newspaper reported on Monday.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1531447.cms


From Information Clearing House

Russia and China will "definitely not" approve the use of force against Iran over its nuclear programme, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here yesterday after meeting with China's leaders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13065.htm

U.S. forces in Iraq, locked in a war that cannot be won by military force alone, are facing a weapon that tends to favor insurgents -- time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060516/us_nm/usa_war_time_dc_2


From Information Clearing House

By Scott Ritter

If the Republican Party won't seek to heal itself by reigning in the abuses of power conducted by the Bush administration, then it clearly demonstrates that it, as an institution, places partisan politics above constitutionally mandated checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches of government. And if the Democrats who are in power aren't willing to step into the void, then perhaps it's time a new generation of Democrats was elected in their stead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13063.htm

This chilling documentary film "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" examines the relationship between the media, corporate America, and government. In a country where the "top 1% control 90% of the wealth", the film argues that the media system is nothing but a "subsidiary of corporate America."

Click here to view. Real video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13062.htm

By Bob Herbert

In the dark days of the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt counseled Americans to avoid fear. George W. Bush is his polar opposite. The public's fear is this president's most potent political asset. Perhaps his only asset.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13075.htm

By Paul Craig Roberts

It has become commonplace to hear Americans dismiss the Bush regime's illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power on the grounds that only those implicated in terrorism have anything to fear. These Americans need to ask themselves why, if only evil doers have anything to fear from government, the Founding Fathers bothered to write the Constitution?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13070.htm

By IAN BRUCE,

Defence Correspondent

The main plan calls for a rolling, five-day bombing campaign against 400 key targets in Iran, including 24 nuclear-related sites, 14 military airfields and radar installations, and Revolutionary Guard headquarters.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13066.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4479/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.citlink.net/~goldschd/savethegeese/

A message from Suzanne:

Do these geese deserve to die because they eat the grasses and lakes that people polluted with the chemicals and pesticides? This petition is for people who care about geese should live unharmed like your own dogs and cats. Then please sign it and spread it out to other people who will also support. Thanks for being compassionate on them.

Suzanne

Please help prevent the killing of Canadian geese in Collins Lake, Scotia, NY!!!

Target: Michael H. McLaughlin, Mayor, Village of Scotia, NY Sponsor: Deb DelSole

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/361343724?ltl=1147559067

Geese accused of contaminating a local lake will face a dark fate as early as this summer.

Wildlife experts say the number of Canada Geese at Collins Lake is now more than twice the number it should be.

So to fix the problem, about 150 birds will be trapped with nets, gassed with carbon dioxide, and then buried by late June.

The cost of this task will be $300,000 and the reason for this, according to the Times Union, is to restore the quality of the lake.

Collins Lake was closed last summer because of the high levels of E-coli Bacteria.

Many critics say they're unhappy with this decision, however village officials say it's the best option for now.

Scotia's mayor says next year the city will consider non-lethal means in addressing the ongoing problem.

There are many alternatives to stop reproduction of geese and to get them out of the area without harming or hurting them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591414/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://tcrnews2.com/McCarthy3.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell