Freitag, 2. Juni 2006

Fmr. Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix Calls for Permanent Worldwide Ban on WMDs

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/1414244


Informant: Kev Hall

Petition to stop the quarrying of the Thornborough Henges Complex

A message from Eleanor

DEAR FRIENDS

PLEASE SIGN AND PLEASE FORWARD TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS YOU CAN - PLEASE LET THESE COUNCILLORS KNOW THAT THERE IS AN INTEREST IN THIS SITE ALL OVER THE WORLD - IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE SITE! TO DIG IT UP FOR GRAVEL WOULD BE A SCANDAL!

LOVE

Eleanor


Original Message

Dear Friend

For four years I have been striving to stop international mining conglomerate Anglo American Plc from quarrying the largest prehistoric religious site in Britain.

I have recently had a small success, as the application for further quarrying was rejected, but the quarrying continues and I'm informed that the UK planning system will almost certainly allow the quarry to expand on appeal.

Without government intervention this supremely important site, only six miles from my house will suffer further damage simply for gravel that can be easily obtained elsewhere.

If you have not already done so, please sign my petition, regardless of where you live.

Thanks

George

Petition to stop the quarrying of the Thornborough Complex.

In the UK, the largest prehistoric religious site, the Thornborough Henges Complex, is being quarried for gravel by Tarmac Ltd. The company is part of the massive Anglo American Corporation, and are not only destroying one of Britain’s most important ancient sites, but also they are using there financial muscle to make it appear to the general public that this is of benefit to British heritage!

Please help us try to stop this, Thornborough is not the only important ancient site Tarmac are quarrying, lets us send a clear message to the British government that this must stop.

Note: Two versions of the same petition – in case you have trouble loading one.

To HM Government - stop quarrying at Thornborough Henges

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/790535280
http://www.petitiononline.com/TimeW1/petition.html

More information at http://www.timewatch.org

Mehrfachverwendung von Einwegartikeln bei Operationen

Sehr geehrte Frau Bundesministerin Schmidt,

in der Sendung. "Kontraste" vom 1.6.2006 wurde berichtet, dass Einwegartikel (z.B. Instrumente und Zubehör zu Operationsgeräten) wiederaufbereitet und dann wieder zu Operationen verwendet werden. Bei einer Überprüfung von wiederaufbereiteten Einwegartikeln wurden gravierende Hygienemängel (z.B. tropfte bei Betätigung eines überholten Geräts noch Sekret heraus) und technische Mängel entdeckt!! Der Anblick war so ekelerregend, daß ich beinahe jetzt noch k... muß!!!!!!!!!

Ist der Sparzwang bei den Krankenhäusern schon so groß, daß man Todesfälle bei Operationen akzeptieren muß?!?

Falls Deutschland schon so bankrott ist, dann soll man doch die 7000 deutschen Soldaten aus den verschiedenen Krisengebieten zurückholen und die großzügige Geldverteilung bei Staatsbesuchen durch Mitglieder der Bundesregierung verbieten.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

G. Pischeltsrieder

Rachel's News #857

http://www.omega-news.info/rachels_news_857.htm

Homeless Youth Initiative

A message from Eleanor

This petition sums up the needs of the young homeless so well! Please sign to urge Congress to address these needs. Every young person deserves the chance of a decent life. Please forward if you possibly can!

Eleanor


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/496623675

Homeless Youth Initiative Congress should take the following actions related to runaway and homeless youth:

Congress and the Executive Branch should take the following steps to ensure an appropriate response to the needs of runaway and homeless youth:

Expand funding for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which establishes three national programs:

The Basic Center Program which provides temporary shelter for youth in crisis and counseling for those youths and their families.

The Transitional Living Program which assists older homeless youth to move successfully toward independence.

The Street Outreach Program which connects youth on the streets to services and prevents sexual abuse and exploitation of these youths.

Ensure that services, supports and opportunities for young people are part of the local continuum of care and efforts.

Enhance funding for the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program and enforce the requirement that all barriers to public school enrollment, attendance and success of homeless children and youth are eliminated.

Ensure that, for short periods of time, alternatives to mainstreaming are available to homeless youth under the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program, to provide supplementary services to meet the unique needs of these youth.

Provide federal leadership to encourage cooperation at all levels of government and to involve leaders in state and local government and nonprofit organizations to better address the problems of runaway and homeless youth.

Provide federal support for aggressive campaigns and increased coordination to prevent child abuse and neglect, and provide early, effective intervention.

Improve homeless youths' access to health care, education, job training programs, and national service.

Support legislation for better low-income housing options and improved access to housing programs for young adults, including Section 8 vouchers for youth receiving services or graduating from transitional living programs or aging out of the foster care system.

Land Acquisition Program Suffers in House, Next Chance: Senate Action

Take Action

Despite the tens of thousands of phone calls and emails that WildAlert subscribers made to Congress last month, the House made deep cuts in the Land and Water Conservation and Forest Legacy Programs, both key to protecting land at risk of development. The Interior Department also suffered deep cuts to its programs.

The Senate is expected to take up this measure soon. Even if you have already written to your Senators, we need you to contact them before this important vote. Please click here to tell your Senators to provide adequate funding for land acquisition projects in all states.

http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/SenLWCF

Oil, if found in the Arctic Refuge, would irreparably scar the Refuge's spectacular coastal plain

On the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, caribou calves prance in the summer sunlight just as they have done for thousands of years. Meanwhile, in Washington, politicians dance around the issue of America's energy security as they have for what seems an eternity.

Last Thursday the House voted 225-201 to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling. This was actually the strongest pro-Refuge showing in recent years, but was little more than a political stunt to give the impression that Congress is actually "doing something" about rising energy costs. Of course we all know that oil, if found in the Arctic Refuge, would do next to nothing to reduce our costs at the pump but would irreparably scar the Refuge's spectacular coastal plain.

Have you visited the Coastal Plain lately? Click here.
http://www.wilderness.org/OurIssues/Arctic/slideshow.cfm

Learn more about the vote.
http://www.wilderness.org/NewsRoom/Statement/20060525.cfm


Best wishes,

Kathy Kilmer
Director, E-Communications

Tell the Forest Service the Boise River is more precious than gold

USFS is considering Canadian mining company's proposal that threatens
the Boise River with a cyanide-leach open-pit gold mine

Atlanta Gold, a Canadian mining company, wants to build an open-pit cyanide heap-leach gold mine sixty miles northeast of Boise, Idaho's capital city. The mine would be in the headwaters of the Boise River and threatens Boise's drinking water supply, as well as fish, wildlife, and public health and safety.

Please take action.
http://tinyurl.com/lfeza

Atlanta Gold's mine proposal would:

* blast two giant open pits blasted into the mountains
* remove over 1,000 feet of mountain
* dump more than 25 million tons of arsenic-containing mine waste into a valley above the mine
* truck dangerous, toxic chemicals on narrow, unpaved, riverside roads including -- 1.4 million pounds of sodium cyanide, 2 million pounds of ammonium nitrate, 2.3 million gallons of diesel fuel

A cyanide or disel fuel spill could pollute the Boise River and reservoirs where much of the areas drinking and irrigation water comes from. Over 20% of Boise's drinking water comes from the Boise River.

What You Can Do:
Please tell the U.S. Forest Service to protect the Boise River!
http://tinyurl.com/lfeza
Please act by June 9th. Tell the USFS that the Boise River is more precious than gold.

Sincerely,

Alan Septoff
EARTHWORKS

LACK OF U.S. LEADERSHIP SLOWS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4590/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Cunningham Investigation Expands to Another GOP Lawmaker

San Bernardino County, California, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury for records connected to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis and a lobbying firm with strong ties to Lewis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206N.shtml

Iraqi Prime Minister: 'US Troops Attack Civilians Daily'

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206J.shtml

A Sign of What's To Come

http://tinyurl.com/nhjpq

The telephone and cable companies are engaging in cynical wordplay when they cry "hands off" the Internet

by Art Brodsky, TomPaine.com

Net Hypocrisy
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/02/net_hypocrisy.php

Who Owns the Internet Superhighway?

Big business wants a fast lane on the information superhighway, but who'll get left on the side of the road? The future of equal access on the Internet. Next Time on NOW.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206I.shtml

Head of France's Nuclear Watchdog 'Lied Over Chernobyl Fallout'

Professor Pierre Pellerin, who was the head of France's nuclear safety watchdog 20 years ago, has been formally accused of deliberately concealing the seriousness of contamination of parts of the French countryside from the French people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206G.shtml



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

US Impedes Efforts to Curb Nuclear Weapons Worldwide, Says Hans Blix

Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, said today that American unwillingness to cooperate in international arms agreements is undermining the effectiveness of efforts to curb nuclear weapons.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206C.shtml

Willkommen in der Zukunft: Wer nicht arbeitet, soll auch nicht essen

http://www.attac.de/aktuell/neuigkeiten/3terjuni-03.php

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"Wer nicht arbeitet, soll auch nicht essen"

Workfare statt Welfare: Irina Vellay zu einer ersten Studie über den "dritten Arbeitsmarkt" der Ein-Euro-Jobs.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26359/1.html



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Handy-Ortung für Jedermann

http://www.haz.de/wisp/287972.html

Claverhouse mast given go-ahead

02 June 2006

The Scottish Executive has once again overruled councillors to allow a mobile phone mast to be put up in Dundee, writes Grant Smith.
Vodafone will now be able to expand its 3G network with a 13.5m mast and antennas at Forfar Road, next to the Claverhouse West industrial estate.

It has become almost routine for phone companies to successfully appeal against the refusal of planning permission, with only one case out of nine being rejected by the Executive’s inquiry reporters unit during 2005/06.

In this instance, the ruling reverses a 15 to 10 vote by councillors that the mast would result in “visual clutter” because there were already another two masts a short distance away.

There had also been a petition with 116 signatures and a letter of objection from the Mill O’ Mains residents’ association, which raised health concerns about the possible effect of emissions on pupils at a nearby primary school.

In their appeal, Vodafone argued that the telephone pole-like mast would be designed and positioned as sensitively as possible to minimise its visual impact.

Sharing one of the existing mast sites was not a good option because a taller, thicker pole would have to be used to accommodate the extra antennas.

In his judgement, Executive reporter Ron Jackson noted that Vodafone was intending to put up a fence around the mast’s base station and plant trees to provide screening.

There were already several street lighting columns, large road signs and a CCTV camera pole in the area and one more mast would make little difference.

He said, “I consider that it would not be visually intrusive in that particular urban location.

“It would simply appear as another pole, of which there are many at that location.”

Mr Jackson rejected the residents’ association concerns about emissions, saying he had found nothing to substantiate them. In any case, the Executive had ruled that emissions need not be taken into account when deciding on planning applications.

Claverhouse councillor Andy Dawson said he was “sorely disappointed” by the outcome of the appeal, which he felt was undermining the role of elected members.

“We have people coming into the town and overturning our decisions when we have the local knowledge. This wasn’t the first time and I don’t think it will be the last.”

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2006/06/02/story8403393t0.shtm

Willkommen im Hochsicherheitsland

http://quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/index?id=000100003616

New "Iraq Massacre" Tape Emerges

The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. The video appears to challenge the US military's account of events that took place in the town of Ishaqi in March. The US said at the time four people died during a military operation, but Iraqi police claimed that US troops had deliberately shot the 11 people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206Z.shtml

Who's calling?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Becky Akers

06/01/06

As we all know, thanks to USA Today, in 2001 the National Security Agency (NSA) pressured AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth, and Qwest to divulge 'call-detail' records for their customers. Only Qwest refused, though Verizon and BellSouth now claim 'inaccuracies' in reports that they helped the Feds spy on us. Whether you called from your home, cell, or office phone, whether you dialed next door, Netcong, or the Netherlands, the NSA apparently knows what number was dialed and the duration of the call. These records don't include names or street addresses, but -- comforting thought -- the government could match that information with the call-details any time it pleases. 'It's the largest database ever assembled in the world,' an unidentified source told USA Today. The newspaper went on, 'The agency's goal is ‘to create a database of every call ever made’ within the nation's borders, this person added'...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=516


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The meaning of Haditha

Justin Raimondo
by AntiWar.Com

Last year, I wrote about the 'El Salvador option' -- the emerging strategy of this administration in fighting a losing war, which amounts to throwing off all constraints and simply terrorizing the Iraqi people into cowed submission. We are now seeing the results of this policy of desperation in practice. Haditha is not just an 'isolated incident,' but evidence of a new strategic orientation by the U.S. military -- a scorched-earth policy designed to stave off the humiliating prospect of impending defeat...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9081



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

Beware of oil pundits

Free Market News Network
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

06/01/06

Those who espouse clever government-led solutions to high oil prices should bear in mind that new discoveries have outpaced consumption for a number of years, but too much bureaucratic interference has hampered supply. Restrictions on building new refineries and pipelines in the U.S. have kept prices up and increased America's dependence on foreign energy. Half of Europe's motorists already use diesel fuel, but the lack of refining capacity to turn heavy crude into diesel has made the rest of the world rely a lot more on light crude, pushing up its price. And, of course, supply would be higher if almost 80 percent of oil reserves did not belong to incompetent government-owned companies around the world, such as in Russia, Sudan and Nigeria. Not to mention that huge tariffs on imports of Brazilian sugar cane have hampered the development of ethanol in the U.S. (Brazil's use of ethanol as an energy source has been a huge success.) Why make matters worse by meddling further?

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/175/5121/2006-06-01.asp?nid=5121&wid=175


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Blacking out speech

National Review
by Newt Gingrich

06/01/06

In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson became president and swept his party into power due, in part, to the country’s overwhelming opposition to the Sedition Act of 1798. This act was a deliberate attempt by the Federalists in power to silence their political opponents. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law enacted in 2002 is an equally dangerous modern-day assault on the First Amendment. It could more accurately be called the McCain-Feingold censorship law because it stifles political speech, protects incumbent politicians and consolidates power in Washington. This law is of the Congress, by the Congress, and for the Congress, because it protects members of Congress by silencing opposing points of view...

http://tinyurl.com/gsak4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal

CNet

05/31/06

In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers' online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism, CNET News.com has learned. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller privately met with representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last week and said that Internet providers -- and perhaps search engines -- must retain data for two years to aid in anti-terrorism prosecutions, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday...

http://tinyurl.com/pexvg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bush "worst" president since WWII

USA Today

06/01/06

Of the 11 presidents since World War II, President Bush is the 'worst,' said 34% of those surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll released today. That was double the percentage of the next 'worst' president, Richard Nixon (17%). The 'best' president, chosen by 28% of those surveyed, was Ronald Reagan. President Clinton came in second in that category, at 25%. (Clinton was named "worst" president by 16%.) Quinnipiac researchers say the nationwide telephone survey of 1,534 registered voters was conducted May 23-30 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points...

http://tinyurl.com/qztjz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Phone mast gets a poor reception

RESIDENTS in South Shore are fighting moves to put a mobile phone mast near a children's playground.

A planning application has been lodged with Blackpool Council to mount a six metre mast close to Highfield Road Park.

Communications company Orange wants to put the antennae, along with a satellite dish and six equipment cupboards, on top of Moulton Printers on Highfield Road.

But neighbours say that while the safety of masts is still uncertain they should not be sited in residential areas.

They are now collecting signatures on a petition and are determined to block the plans.

Peter Brown, 51, of Highfield Road said: "There are just too many unanswered questions about these masts. We are not saying they are definitely dangerous, we are just saying that until people can tell us they are definitely not dangerous, they shouldn't be putting them in densely populated areas like this where it is next to a children's playground, a nursery and hundreds of homes."

Annie Carr, who lives opposite the proposed site, has even vowed to picket the printing firm if councillors approve the scheme.

The 57-year-old said: "It is a case of better safer than sorry. While there is any doubt about dangerous radiation we don't want one here.

"We have delivered petitions to most of the shops on Highfield Road and we want as many people as possible to sign them so we can show the council how much opposition there is to the mast.

"I have been looking into concerns about mobile phone masts and it is frightening.

"I know some people argue there are no dangers associated with them but then again they said there was no problem with thalidomide, asbestos and BSE."

The group is supported by Highfield ward councillor, Susan Fowler.
She said: "Until it is categorically proven they pose no threat they should not be put in built up areas.

"Back in November 2000 people power successfully saw off plans to put a similar mast in Fishers Field.

"Hopefully, we can do that again."

Geoff Williams, North West co-ordinator of anti-antennae campaign group, Mast Sanity, believes mobile phone masts are linked to cases cancer, leukaemia and brain tumours.

He said: "I have lived under the shadow of a mast for years and it has devastated the health of my family.

"Radiation can have frightening implications for people's health. There have been clusters of cancer cases near where I live."

The planning application was submitted to council planners on May 18 and the consultation period expires on June 15.

A Gazette investigation last year found that thousands of Blackpool children were playing in the shadow of huge mobile phone masts.

It revealed that around one in four of the resort's schools were within 100m of an antennae.

Among them were St Cuthbert's in Lightwood Avenue, South Shore, and Palatine High School in St Annes Road, South Shore.

The UK has over 45,000 masts used to provide coverage for 55 million mobile phone subscribers in the UK.

No-one from Orange was available for comment.

rebecca.smith2@blackpoolgazette.co.uk

02 June 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.blackpooltoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=62&ArticleID=1541811

Marcy Winograd is Pro-Impeachment and Pro-Peace

Make Calls for Marcy Winograd from Your Home

Marcy Winograd is a pro-impeachment, pro-peace Democrat who is poised to pull off a huge upset in her primary challenge to Rep. Jane Harman, a pro-war, pro-illegal-spying, corporate hawk in California's 36th District. Once elected, Marcy will be a leading national voice for our progressive movement! She'll speak for all of us, not just for her constituents in CA's CD 36: http://www.winogradforcongress.com/

YOU can help make it happen! Your volunteer phone calls, from anywhere in the country, can help turn out the pro-impeachment, pro-peace vote for Marcy between now and Tuesday June 6th! The PDA phone-calling system makes it easy. To volunteer, Email: phonecalls@pdamerica.org

Audio interview of Marcy Winograd: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/marcy.mp3

Article on Marcy Winograd by David Swanson: http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/477

Other California pro-impeachment candidates in next Tuesday's primary:

* CA12: Kevin Hearle
* CA28: Charles Coleman, Jr. (Impeach Team)
* CA29: Bob McCloskey (Impeach Team)
* CA42: Mark Hull-Richter (write-in)
* CA52: Karen Marie Otter


What You Can Do for Peace Next Wednesday

Demand an Open Debate on Iraq: National Call-In Day June 7 Call your Representative 202-224-3121 An open debate on Iraq is overdue!

Americans want their sons and daughters home. Children want their mothers and fathers home. The Iraqis want their nation back. Most of the troops think they should leave in the next six months. These are the compelling majority opinions that must be addressed. Facing this is a moral and non-partisan challenge.

But, after more than three years, $300 billion, and the death of over one hundred thousand Iraqis and nearly 2,500 American soldiers, Congress still refuses to debate real alternatives to the President's stay-the-course policy. It is a policy that over 80% of Iraqis, more than 70% of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq and a majority of Americans say is a failure.

As a people who seek peace and justice, we have a unique opportunity to demand that Congress stop passing the buck. So far, 122 members of the House of Representatives have signed a 'discharge petition' calling for immediate debate and consideration of ALL alternatives to the policy of open-ended occupation of Iraq. All we need is 96 more members to sign the petition for debate to begin. We need your help!

Call your U.S. Representative on June 7th. Ask your Representative to sign H.Res. 543 OR thank them if they have already signed and ask them to ask a colleague to sign H.Res. 543.

Here are lists of those who have and have not signed: http://www.openiraqdebate.com/inner/roll-call.html

The pressure we are applying is already having an impact. There have been news reports that some Republican members of Congress, hoping to dodge a real discussion about Iraq, will offer a tightly-controlled debate framed by supporters of the war. This alternative is clearly an election-year effort to sell the war to the public rather than address the failed policy and the need to bring the troops home. This alternative won't allow members who oppose the war to offer plans to bring the occupation to an end.

Tell your Congress Member that you demand to see a debate with an "open rule," meaning that any amendments can be introduced, debated, and voted on. The surest route to that debate is for them to sign the discharge petition and ask their colleagues to do the same.

Call 202-224-3121 and give the operator your Representative's name, or go to power search on Congress for the local district office: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/powersearch.htm

MORE INFO: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/discharge


Join Us at Democracy Fest, July 14-16 in San Diego

Join progressives from all over the country for the third annual Democracy Fest from July 14 to 16 at San Diego State University, a long weekend of organizing and partying. Speakers include Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ed Schwartz, Ann Wright, Margorie Cohn, David Sirota, Robert Greenwald, Ralph Miller, Kevin Spidel, David Swanson, and many more. Learn more and sign up here: http://www.democracyfest.us


Have You Seen Howard Berman?

Remember when we worked our tails off to pass a bill in the House International Relations Committee to launch an investigation into the White House Iraq Group's efforts to sell the public a fraudulent war? http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/whig

We had 109 cosponsors. Two Republicans on the Committee voted with us. We lost by one vote. Democrat Howard Berman was AWOL, appearing in a parade in California. Listen to this brilliant ad by Charles Coleman, who is running against Berman in the primary. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/coleman.mp3


Impeach Bush Yard Signs - No Yard's Complete Without One
http://impeachbushyardsigns.org


Col. Ann Wright Speaks Out on Impeachment

Listen to Ann Wright's PSA http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/wright.mp3


Watch Liberty News TV Report on Impeachment
http://www.libertynewstv.com


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Wenn das neue Gesetz durchkommt, werden sie zu Sklaven

"Die Immigrantenproteste, die in den letzten Wochen mit diversen Massendemonstrationen und einem Streik am 1.Mai in den USA stattfanden und sich gegen das neue Einwanderungsgesetz der Bush-Administration richteten, übertreffen die Sans Papier-Proteste in Westeuropa bei weitem. Sie sind ohne Frage die größte und massivste derartige Bewegung in den letzten Jahrzehnten und bilden – trotz der „We are America“-Parolen – einen bedeutenden Ansatzpunkt, um diesen Sektor der Lohnabhängigen aus ihrer Rolle als allzeit erpressbare Arbeitskraftreserve des Kapitals herauszuholen. Gelänge dies zumindest zum Teil und ließe sich ein Brückenschlag zum (überwiegend weißen) Kernbereich der US-amerikanischen Arbeiterklasse herstellen, würde dies die politischen und sozialen Kräfteverhältnisse für die Blue collars insgesamt (und damit auch für die schwache US-Linke aller Couleur) deutlich verbessern. Bis dahin ist es allerdings noch ein weiter Weg. Zur gegenwärtigen Situation interviewte die Korrespondentin der linken italienischen Tageszeitung „il manifesto“ für die Ausgabe vom 30.4.2006 den heute 57jährigen Vorsitzenden der Landarbeitergewerkschaft Farm Workers Union (FWU), David Bacon" - so beginnt das Interview"Wenn das neue Gesetz durchkommt, werden sie zu Sklaven !“ übersetzt und kommentiert von Antifa-AG der Uni Hannover & Gewerkschaftsforum Hannover am 11. Mai 2006:

http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/ufwmigra.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juni 2006

Beobachtung durch Verfassungsschutz ist ein Skandal

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

02. Juni 2006

Zu der heutigen Spiegel-Vorabmeldung, dass der Verfassungsschutz Bundestagsabgeordnete der Linkspartei überwacht, erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Bodo Ramelow:

Die vom Spiegel benannten Fakten sprechen eine deutliche Sprache. Bundestagsabgeordnete der Linkspartei.PDS werden vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet. Ich empfinde das als fortgesetzten Skandal und als Kriminalisierung der Gesamtpartei. Die mir zugestandene Akteneinsicht und die zugesandten Dokumente zeigen, dass mich der Verfassungsschutz intensiver beobachtet als bislang bekannt war. Aber es geht nicht um Bisky, Bartsch und Ramelow, sondern darum dass offenbar nicht nur wie bislang vorgegeben Teile der Linkspartei, sondern die gesamte Partei unter Generalverdacht gestellt und ausgeschnüffelt wird. Das heißt alle Mitglieder, Funktionäre und Abgeordneten können betroffen sein. Ich werde der Bundestagsfraktion vorschlagen, dass alle Abgeordneten der Fraktion Akteneinsicht beantragen und notfalls gerichtlich erstreiten. Gleiches empfehle ich den Abgeordneten in Landtagen und weiteren Funktionärsträgern. Es wird Zeit, dass die fortwährende Bespitzelung von demokratisch gewählten Mandatsträgern ein Ende hat. Ich fordere den Präsidenten des Verfassungsschutzes auf, die Beobachtung unverzüglich zu beenden. Offenbar wird von den führenden Köpfen in Köln der Kalte Krieg fortgeführt. Es ist gefährlich, wenn 16 Jahre nach der Herstellung der Deutschen Einheit Menschen eingeschüchtert werden sollen, die sich politisch für soziale Gerechtigkeit und linke Ideen engagieren wollen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=32898

Save the whales by not buying Japanese

The Monitor's View http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0602/p08s02-comv.html

Japan's export titans often get their way with their government. Right now they want senior politicians to end their controversial visits to a Tokyo war memorial that also honors war criminals - the visits are bad for business in China. But they should add this request: Don't overturn a ban on commercial whaling.

Japan has spent heavily to influence poor countries that are members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It just announced a fresh $410 million aid package to South Pacific nations. Its aim is to reverse a 1986 IWC ban that has allowed many whale species to begin a long, slow recovery. In mid-June, the 66 nations of the regulatory body will gather, and Japan is expected to succeed in winning the votes of many cash-poor IWC members. Overturning the ban requires a 75 percent vote, but Japan may first secure a 51 percent vote to conduct balloting in secret.

The prospect of the IWC allowing the slaughter of whale species not fully recovered has yet to raise much fuss in many antiwhaling nations. But it should, given the importance of whales in the health of oceans.

If the UN General Assembly or the US does not act soon, then a consumer boycott of Japanese products is needed. That will catch the attention of Japanese corporate leaders, who can then pressure politicians leading the pro-whaling campaign.

These politicians regard the ban as Western "culinary imperialism" aimed at Japan's tradition of eating whale meat. But the issue is conservation, not culture, and the Japanese data and arguments that many whale species are fully revived should remain suspect, and certainly not acted on in a secret IWC ballot.

It's not even clear if the Japanese people want to consume whale meat in large quantities. Less than 1 percent now eat the meat that is sold from the more than 1,000 whales Japan catches annually "for scientific research" (allowed under IWC rules). Some of the meat has ended up simply as doggie treats.

Emotions either against or in favor of whaling are usually strong. Many Japanese see hypocrisy in those who argue against the killing of such intelligent animals, but who also eat lamb or pig. Environmentalists see Japan as little concerned about nature's well-being beyond its shores. And the resurgence of nationalism in Japan - something its business chiefs sometimes oppose - may be behind this pro-whaling initiative.

Persuasion through facts and logic about the health of whale stocks are unlikely to prevail at the IWC, given Japan's long determination to overturn the ban for cultural reasons and its monied clout over weak members.

Some antiwhaling groups want the US to withhold support for a permanent Japanese seat on the UN Security Council. But that tactic is meaningless, given China's stance against Japan obtaining a seat.

Barring quick US or UN action, a temporary consumer boycott of Japanese products would carry the most certainty of saving the ban.

Forcing Japan to back down isn't a pleasant prospect. But neither is the risk of some whale species going extinct.

One side has to give, and for Japan, it's the easier give.

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Informant: Teresa Binstock

Phone mast anger

By Tamlyn Jones

Jun 2, 2006

A sports ground used by children could soon be housing a 12-metre high mobile phone mast in a "black-hole" area for coverage. Residents have already voiced their opposition to the scheme.

Telecommunications firm O2, wants to build the tower at Little Stoke Cricket Club, near Stone, as they seek to increase their 3G coverage in the area and boost the service to customers using the West Coast Mainline train service.

Little Stoke runs a variety of teams in local leagues, some as young as under 11.

O2 warned this week that if councillors follow officers' recommendations to refuse permission for the mast, then the company would continue to push for other sites nearby.

Regional spokesman for O2 James Stevenson, said: "That's a good place we are trying to keep the network going but it is a bit of a black hole.

"We spoke to the planners about this one they said they could not see any difficulties with the site we had picked.

"It is surprising that they have come back and said they don't want it.

"Even if this is refused we will continue to look in this area."

An amended plan is also due to be submitted by O2 which would see the mast increased by 50cms to account for signal disruption by nearby trees.

The application has sparked anger among residents nearly 60 people have lodged objections with Stafford Borough Council.

One of the residents even enlisted the professional expertise of a solicitor.

Residents said the mast, in Uttoxeter Road, would be visually intrusive, too close to properties and expressed concerns at the cricket club's involvement.

Mr Stevenson added: "We understand how people feel about it.

"We would come and see them (the residents ) if they wanted.

"It is an area we have got to get up and running.

"The network up there is not robust enough at the moment."

Two other nearby sites had been considered High Street and Stone Cricket Club but Little Stoke was considered the best by O2.

The mast would be sited on a rise which has prevented an application being submitted for a 15m tower further towards Stone.

In deciding to recommend refusal, planning officers said there was not enough evidence that the required coverage could not be achieved in a less visually intrusive manner.

Officers also claimed that the mast would be harmful to the amenities of the surrounding area.

The application will be discussed next Wednesday (June 7) by Stafford Borough Council's planning committee.

© Express & Star Ltd, 1997-2006

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/chronicles/stafford/article_90865.php

Don't Spy On Me

Government assaults on privacy are increasing all around us, even as the people's ability to speak without fear of reprisal is dwindling. Still, most of us have never found ourselves in a direct confrontation with the government over whether to remain silent or speak out for our beliefs.

Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian and Janet Nocek -- four librarians who were gagged by the FBI -- have faced our government's abuses of power in a deeply personal way. You and I can only hope that we would respond with the courage and commitment to principle that they demonstrated.

This week, these Connecticut librarians were finally able to speak publicly about their months-long battle against secret government demands for their patrons' library records. At great personal risk, they fought back against a government intent on using the Patriot Act to seize library records without a legal order and to bar them from telling anyone what was happening.

These courageous Americans stood up for their patrons' rights and for the rights of every library user in America - and they refused to flinch. Everyone who cares about the state of freedom and privacy in our country today owes them a debt of gratitude.

More importantly, we owe it to them to join the fight and stand up to the government's abuse of power in whatever way we can. You can do your part today by joining in the nationwide consumer campaign to stop illegal NSA spying. We need your help holding our phone companies and state and federal regulators to the same fundamental American principles upheld by our four Connecticut librarians.

Act now to stop phone companies from abusing your privacy.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=AuCmVNE2I4YB4cGsFf1sZQ..

We've seen, time and time again, how intent the government is on invading our privacy from the books we read to the phone calls we make. And we know that neither timid politicians nor quick-to-cooperate companies can be counted on to defend our privacy.

The story of these patriotic librarians reminds us all that there is a limit to how much power we should relinquish without protest or action.

The government gagged them by claiming that their story, told in public, would jeopardize national security. This administration has repeatedly abused this claim to silence its critics and conceal extreme practices they know Americans do not support.

Because when the people can see the truth, they speak out. The Bush administration may not want to hear the growing outcry against their actions. But the ACLU, our clients and our supporters will not stop speaking out until the abuses of power come to an end.

Since the news of possible cooperation between phone companies and the NSA in illegal spying operations surfaced, nearly 60,000 Americans have added their names to our demand to the Federal Communications Commission and state agencies with the authority to regulate the phone companies.

We can't stand idly by while corporations, federal regulators and even our elected leaders fail to champion our rights or uphold our basic system of checks and balances. The power to right these wrongs ultimately resides in the hands of the American people.

It's up to us. That's why I'm urging you to honor the courage of these librarians by making this the moment that you speak out. Remind regulators of their duty to investigate what may be the most massive abuse of customer privacy in American history.

Act now to stop phone companies from abusing your privacy.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=6o2rhADb1Wob54-UWHMS6Q..

Right now, it is absolutely essential that we challenge phone companies that, with stunning eagerness, have been swift to join the government in violating your and my freedom. Please take action today.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=bfrWaw1AomqUZf-e8zRaww..


Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director ACLU

CIA director Hayden plans massive expansion of spying on Americans

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8753.shtml


Informant: Allan Rubin

From ufpj-news



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

Protest Decries 'Global Warming Cover-Up'

Protesters, including survivors of Hurricane Katrina, launched a 37-hour vigil outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration today, calling for the agency's head to resign for "covering up" an alleged scientific link between severe storms and global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060106EA.shtml

Restoring the Draft: The Universal National Service Act of 2006

The bill applies to both US citizens and non-citizens, to men and women. There does not appear to be a provision which would exempt women who are pregnant and/or caring for infants/children in a young age.

http://tinyurl.com/oz88k


From Information Clearing House

Hans Blix warns against regime change

THE former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Hans Blix, today warned against any military attempt at regime change to resolve the nuclear crises surrounding Iran and North Korea.

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19337405-5001028,00.html



Video: Hans Blix, Press Conference

Mr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, on the final report of the Commission.

http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/pressconference/pc060601pm.rm


From Information Clearing House

Iran A Manufactured Crisis: Will the Security Council Go Along for the Ride Again?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13470.htm

Blair has been blinded by an imperialist illusion

Britain has been asked to leave Iraq by the leader it helped to install. Only arrogance or myopia can explain its refusal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1786425,00.html


From Information Clearing House

White House rhetoric runs counter to policy realities

President George W. Bush frequently has been criticized for being verbally challenged, but a new rhetorical analysis of the Bush White House, based on the public record, argues that the president and his colleagues have demonstrated an impressive facility with the language.

http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2006spring/06june_Bushrhetoric.html


From Information Clearing House

No More Pro-War Candidates, No More Wars of Choice

Gold Star Mother Urges Americans to Sign the Voters Pledge.
http://tinyurl.com/o62ew


From Information Clearing House

Maliki: Haditha a 'terrible crime'

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, said on Thursday that the deaths of 24 Iraqis in the western town of Haditha last November, apparently at the hands of US marines, was a "terrible crime".

http://tinyurl.com/o5alz



Values training in Iraq

The top U.S. general in Iraq today ordered American commanders to conduct core values training on moral and ethical standards on the battlefield.

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_3887931



The really big question with no answers

It's four Memorial Days and counting since "Mission Accomplished." We still have 132,000 American troops in Iraq. A million of our men and women have served by now, giving of themselves in tragic and extraordinary ways. Yet the insurgency is growing bolder - not fading away.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen314763312may31,0,687603.column


From Information Clearing House



A Time For Mutiny?

Prior to this war, we were trained to be killers, not murderers. We killed combatants, not women and children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13455.htm



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

Iraqis' Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians

She said American troops shot and killed her husband, Rashid Abdul Hamid. They killed her father-in-law, Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali, a 77-year-old in a wheelchair, shooting him in the chest and abdomen, she said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13462.htm

American Capitalism and The Moral Poverty of Nations: of Faustian Bargains and Disposable Human Beings

By Jason Miller

While our heavily entrenched corporate elites and affluent decision-makers cut their own taxes, reduce spending on social programs, and lavish insane amounts of the working poor’s and middle class’s tax money on a military which exists to protect and expand their pecuniary interests, they offer the weakest members of our society, our homeless people, a quality of life that would repulse a sewer rat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13461.htm

Politicians Lie? Say it Ain't So!

By Michael Boldin

The federal government extracts over Two Trillion Dollars from us every single year. Yet, with all this unthinkable wealth, it has been incapable of reducing poverty, improving our schools, preventing 9-11, catching those who perpetrated the attacks, making health care affordable, reducing crime, and so on. Going even further, each year, it passes new laws that make it legal to pry into your life even more.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13464.htm

Endgame in Iran

By Mike Whitney

US carrier groups are already moving to the Gulf and the finishing touches are being put on the battle plans. Lt General Sam Gardiner expects that an attack will come as early as June 2006.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13458.htm

Justice Denied

By Dima Tareq Tahboub

Three years last April will have passed since the killing of my husband. We spent the same number of years together, three years of happy and blessed marital and paternal life that were cut short by the dark forces of American democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13469.htm

Iraq War Vets talk about random civilian killings

Excerpt From BBC Documentary

Newsnight follow a group of former US soldiers who have returned from Iraq deeply affected by the experience. As they march across America to protest, shocking interviews emerge on the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians.

Click here to watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13454.htm

The 10,000th Haditha: U.S. accused in more Iraq civilian deaths

By Ted Rall

Months after Time magazine reported that U.S. Marines had carried out a My Lai-style massacre of at least two dozen innocent Iraqi civilians, the average "support our troops" American is waking up and smelling the butchery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13457.htm



More Lots More

By Mike Ferner

I can only hope that my fellow citizens are not being told that this latest outrage tumbling out of Iraq is some isolated incident; that Herr Rumsfeld will diligently investigate it, and dispense timely justice to all guilty parties (below the rank of Lieutenant, of course).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13478.htm



U.S. accused in more Iraq civilian deaths

A third set of allegations that U.S. troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13479.htm



'Massacre Marines blinded by hate'

Corporal claims that his comrades, who were accused of killing Iraqi civilians, lost control.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2205982,00.html



The Line of Atrocity: From the White House to Haditha

Details of the Haditha killings are finally emerging after months of official cover-up and heated denunciations of anyone who questioned the shifting, conflicting stories issued by the Pentagon following the November 2005 incident.

http://tinyurl.com/kyxst



Children of Abraham: Death in the Desert

Warning: there are graphic photographs in this movie which are not suitable for children or those of a sensitive nature.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/isahaqi/



Worse to come for US, UK in Iraq, Afghanistan, says expert

The insurgent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are exerting severe pressure on US and UK forces - and there is more to come, according to a leading British security expert.

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0606021445154731.htm



'Please stop the American troops killing any more people'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1788624,00.html?gusrc=rss


From Information Clearing House



When AWOL Is the Only Way Out

As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around 'like a soccer ball' made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13488.htm



U.S. troops routinely attack civilians, Iraqi leader says

In his comments, al-Maliki said violence against civilians had become a "daily phenomenon" by troops in the American-led coalition who "do not respect the Iraqi people."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13477.htm



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

In another town, Iraqis say US killed civilians

By Reuters

Iraqi army and police officers and several people who said they were witnesses and relatives of the dead said U.S. soldiers killed two women, aged 60 and 20, and a mentally handicapped man in their home on May 4 after insurgents fired on the troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13459.htm

Mal mystérieux au collège

Edition Spéciale Chabeuil (France) Le Dauphiné Libéré: Mal mystérieux au collège.

http://www.next-up.org/divers/images_x44.php

O2-Chef prognostiziert schlimmes Jahr für Mobilfunkanbieter

http://www.golem.de/0606/45686.html

Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines

http://www.omega-news.info/herbicide_inside_intestines.htm

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed about his article "Was the 2004 Election Stolen"

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10463875/was_the_2004_election_stolen_sources_and_commentary

11 p.m. ET Tucker's TV program starts on MSNBC tonight (June 1st)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be interviewed about his article "Was the 2004 Election Stolen" in Rolling Stone Magazine:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

This article mentions the Utah nonprofit US Count Votes (National Election Data Archive) and footnotes our papers three times>

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

Looks Like Long War

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-21.htm

A State Of Emergency: Bush a Danger To Constitution in His Wartime Capacity as Commander in Chief

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-23.htm

Media Crimes Sanitize War Crimes in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-22.htm

Conservation Lagging as Emissions Climb

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0601-05.htm

ExxonMobil: The Wrench in Action on Climage Change

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0601-03.htm

THE ONE WORLD ORDER, BY CONQUEST OR CONSENT?

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna41.htm

Iran-Contra All Over Again

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt193.html

Animal Rightists: Allies for Liberty?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/chernikov/chernikov26.html

Killing families and bringing "freedom" to Iraq

http://www.lewrockwell.com/brennan/brennan12.html

When Inflations Clash: on money and its destruction

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north458.html

Chaos in Kabul: on the other occupation

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/chaos-kabul.html

RFID-Implantat für Fremdarbeiter? - RFID-Implantate für Immigranten

http://www.intern.de/news/8012.html

RFID-Implantate für Immigranten
http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/612/35/

THE UNRELIABILITY OF MEDIA REPORTING ON IRAN

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4588/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006

Mast protesters vow to battle on

Jun 1 2006

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A BATTLE against plans for a mobile phone mast is set to go on, despite planning approval having been given.

Hutchison 3G wants to install a mobile phone mast and base on Halifax Old Road, Grimscar.

The mast site is near the last houses before Grimscar Woods.

Residents took to the streets to protest, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.

Now Kirklees councillor Mehboob Khan, one of the Greenhead ward councillors, has vowed to fight on.

"It would look unsightly," he said.

"I'm opposed to it on various grounds. There are health considerations, but it's also that this is an area of natural woodland and the mast will look like a very unsightly, alien feature."

Because applications have to be dealt with in a certain time the mast plan did not go for consideration by the planning committee, which comprises elected councillors.

Therefore, planning officers had to deal with the case. They had no grounds to refuse the application, so they approved it.

But Clr Khan hopes to get one of the company's chiefs to come and see the site. He is also asking the council's highways department to look at the issue.

Clr Khan said: "I have emailed the head of Hutchison 3G development team, asking for a site visit, in order to try to persuade him that we ought not to be allowing this and that they should look for another location."

He said the mast would encroach on to the pavement, forcing pedestrians to cross over.

He added: There's no verge on the other side, so it puts pedestrians in the line of the traffic."

Recently campaigners gathered on Halifax Old Road to protest.

They are worried about the detrimental effects the mast could have on the environment.

Protesters say it is a greenfield site and that the mast would be fully visible from across the valley.

They are also worried about the long-term health implications for children in the area.

Resident Nikki Gregg said: "Birkby is already well served for mobile phone masts. This is just another commercial exercise."

The protesters are also collecting signatures for a petition.

Hutchison 3G did not respond to the Examiner's request for a comment.

owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Plc 2006

http://tinyurl.com/pjzmq

Pakistani Villagers Pay the Price of Nuclear Ambitions

In Baghalchur, the local people have gone to the Supreme Court with a complaint that nuclear waste dumped in the area has contaminated the environment and affected the health of both humans and animals.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106G.shtml

EPA Hopes to Increase Industry Profits With Human Pesticide Testing

"In the rush to meet the August 2006 FQPA statutory deadline," scientists wrote of the EPA, "many steps in the risk-assessment and risk-management process are being abbreviated or eliminated in violation of the principles of scientific integrity and objectivity by which we as public servants are bound."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106F.shtml

No Self-Control in Bush's Budget-Making

Federal spending has already been growing at record, unconscientious levels. Bush has presided over huge tax cuts, record federal spending increases, and is committed to extending the tax cuts beyond their current expiration dates in about five years, and federal benefit programs are combining with the Iraq war to push spending upward.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106E.shtml

Prosecutors Examine Details of Safavian Dealings

Three ethics watchdogs have testified that Bush administration executive David Safavian omitted key details of his dealings with Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff. Now, prosecutors want a Senate investigator to describe efforts to learn from Safavian about a golfing trip arranged by the disgraced lobbyist.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106C.shtml

Karl Rove's Wiretap Scam

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106A.shtml

Afghanistan, Unraveling

Poorly thought-out American policies are at least partly to blame for Afghanistan's rising carnage.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106K.shtml

The abundant studies repeatedly showing serious adverse health effects

I've just got two letters pub'd in a local monthly newsletter "Hollingdean News" - Hollingdean is an area of 3500 houses in Brighton of which the newsletter gets put through nearly all the letterboxes. One of the letters was sent via a friend. They were both however very heavily edited.

Below are the letters as published (edited) and the intro.

Gary


For years, anti mast campaigners have been accused of “scaremongering”, in spite of repeated applications by Telecom companies after masts are refused (which usually end with their victory), the abundant studies repeatedly showing serious adverse health effects and scientists across the globe appealing for urgent and radical changes in the law. With £billions at stake in revenue to the UK Government and Telecoms companies, it would appear wise for local residents to focus attention on the masts targeted for the bottom of Davey Drive and recently at Fiveways, plans to instal 8 -16 times as many 3G masts (way more powerful than existing ones) in the next few years and multi frequency transmitters in every lamppost.

Safety guidelines - "ICNIRP" (International Commission on Non Ionising Radiation Protection) were formulated in 1998 to ensure the safety of phone masts, but they only cover the thermal (heating) effects of phone mast emissions.

The Thermal effects are negligible - however, NON-Thermal effects are now known to affect the make-up of our bodies and how they work, posing real risks to our health and to our lives. Hence ICNIRP Guidelines are not protecting people at all.

The Regional Government in Salzburg, Austria have set the acceptable THERMAL limit for emissions in homes, under advice from Independent scientists, to just under 0.1 V/m – also referred to as “the suggested 0.1 V/m precautionary maximum”, or P.Max.

"GRAM" (Goldsworth Residents Against Masts) state in their comprehensive leaflet on microwave devices that "20 to 40 times P.Max may ‘have serious health consequences for those exposed’" - these levels are absorbed by people using any current microwave devices such as: cell and DECT phones, digital baby monitors, some burglar alarms, WiMax, wireless computers, interactive whiteboards in schools, bluetooth devices (eg headsets) and masts up to about 500 metres away, new generation games consoles and wireless entertainment systems, wireless music systems, digital streamers, headphones and Wi-fi radios. The ICNIRP Guidelines also ignore long-term low-level exposure to microwaves. There are now thousands of formal and informal studies worldwide by independent scientists which conclude that there are many and serious adverse health effects from such exposure.

Gary Kemp

BHFOE Mast Campaigner
Dover Road
Brighton


Recently The Argus newspaper published two letters denying that there is any harm caused by mobile phones and phone masts, and continues to advertise microwave wireless devices whilst omitting omit to mention any of the freely available research into the adverse health effects of this technology. For example, in the March 29th edition, a JA Frapwell - on behalf of Vodafone - claimed there to be "no link between mobile communications and any adverse health effect.."

However, "GRAM" (http://www.gram.org.uk) has published an extensive document on wireless technology based on copious independent international research, which says otherwise. The main health effects discovered are; DNA damage potentially leading to cancers such as breast and testicular cancer, the worsening or causing of epilepsy, reduction in Melatonin levels - and increase (their error) in nitric oxide (NO) levels - resulting in: reduced cancer fighting cells in our bodies, sleeping disorders, increased cholesterol levels leading to greater risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, increased blood pressure giving greater risk of blood clots and strokes. Also increased are chances of serious disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s, Tinnitus and Hearing problems, Headaches, and reduced drug effectiveness.

They say "Dect and Wi-Fi are the devices that we have personally checked and found comparable, if not worse, emissions, to Mobile Telephone Masts" and "A DECT monitor placed in a baby's bedroom will expose the child to more pulsing microwave radiation than living near to a mobile phone mast"

With the Government making billions from the Communications industry, does anyone really believe that either will report any harmful effects from their technology? Neither can afford for these devices to be thought of as anything except safe.

And is it surprising that The Argus dances to the telecom tune when the press, including them, are largely owned by the telecoms industry? GRAM's advice is unequivocal; ""Don't buy any of the wireless devices listed at the beginning of this leaflet. If you already have any, get rid of them".

Masa Kepic


http://www.mastsanity.org
http://www.tetrawatch.net

Join the Struggle to Stop Torture

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WISCONSIN BANS FORCED HUMAN RFID CHIPPING

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/139/5127/2006-06-01.asp?wid=139&nid=5127

Die Milchmädchenrechnung

Es gibt keinen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen der durch die demographische Entwicklung abnehmenden Zahl der Arbeitenden und der vielfach prophezeiten Katastrophe bei der Finanzierung der Sozialversicherungen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22723/1.html

15 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD PLANT TREES

http://www.ridgefieldpark.org/content/50/83/default.aspx

1. Trees store carbon and clean the atmo sphere. In 50 years, one tree generates $30,000 in oxygen, recycles $35,000 of water, and removes $60,000 of air pollution.

2. Tree shade reduces air conditioning costs in residential and commercial buildings by 15-50 percent. Do you need a tree planted to the South or West of your house?

3. Properly placed and cared for trees and shrubs significantly increase residential and commercial property values. Would you like a new tree for your property?

4. Trees provide habitat for a large vari ety of wildlife. Do you like bird songs?

5. Trees connect us with nature and rein force spiritual and cultural values.

6. Trees prevent or reduce water pollu tion in NJ’s streams, rivers, darns, and estuaries.

7. Trees prevent or reduce soil erosion.

8. Trees help recharge ground water and sustain stream flow.

9. Properly placed screens of trees and shrubs decrease traffic noise along NJ’s busy streets and highways. Do you have a site that needs a tree along Rt. 46?

10. Trees screen unsightly views and provide privacy for NJ homeowners.

11. Trees make life more pleasant by softening harsh outlines of buildings.

12. Trees add beauty and grace to any community setting. They make life more enjoyable, peaceful, and relaxing. Do you enjoy walking through Ridgefield Park?

13. Research shows that trees help reduce stress in the workplace and speed hospital patients’ recovery. Do you hear the sighs of relief on NYC buses as they reach RP?

14. Trees provide a multitude of recreation opportunities.

15. Trees, planted as memorials, leave a valuable gift for future generations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Homeowners often ask for assistance with trees that are on their own private property. We manage only the public trees, but we can provide a list of New Jersey Certified Tree Experts with whom we have contact.

The attached document suggests guidelines for selecting an Arborist.

The Shade Tree Commission's sidewalk program is still available for homeowners who wish to repair or replace their sidewalks. Through this program, a homeowner can be reimbursed for some expense incurred due to damage by street trees. Applications are available at the municipal building or by calling 201-641-4950, extension 640.

Mulch can protect a tree by conserving moisture and preventing grass and weeds from growing too close to the trunk. But too much mulch smothers the tree just the same as it smothers the weeds. Mulch belongs around the tree but not against it.


Informant: Scott Munson

No Breed Specific Legislation in Illinois

A message from Eleanor

No Breed Specific Legislation in Illinois We, the undersigned, would like to see Breed Specific Legislation not become part of Illinois Law. Instead we urge the Illinois Senate to pass HR1026 and HJR101. HR1026 encourages individual municipalities not to enact breed specific legislation, but to target irresponsible dog owners with tougher laws that are enforced and to encourage programs that educate residents. HJR101 establishes a task force comprised of 17 members, including representatives from the veterinary community, animal control, a not-for-profit humane society, the American Kennel Club and an animal behaviorist. The purpose of this task force being to evaluate and make recommendations on how to best protect the public from attacks. It is our fervent wish that these bills are passed and enforced. Thank you for taking this into consideration.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/965771003

Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants

http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html

NSA: 10 Gigabit Überwachung im Detail

http://quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/index?id=000100003615

Town centre phone mast opposition

An action group has been formed to fight plans to erect a mobile phone mast in the centre of a Powys town.

Builth Wells Against Telephone Masts Association is threatening a protest march and has started a petition.

Hutchinson 3G is looking at locating a 12.5m (41ft) mast in Bank Square, but there are concerns among local people about a possible impact on health.

But the firm said there were "no proven adverse effects" from the low-powered equipment it used.

Omega this is not true. See under:
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http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html


In recent years a number of protests against masts have been held throughout the UK as phone firms look to extend their networks.

We're reviewing all the options in the area
Mike Dobson, Hutchinson 3G

Ralph Ollermann, chairman of the protest group, said: "We will start a petition when the company finally applies to the council and we will have tables in the streets collecting names. We already have over 60 just from this area."

Mike Dobson of Hutchinson 3G said a decision about the mast's location had not been made.

"We are currently in the process of looking in the area and Bank Square is just one option, and we're reviewing all the options in the area," he said.

"We need to provide coverage for the nearby Royal Welsh Show and the town of Builth Wells itself."

Mr Dobson said if Bank Square was chosen, the firm would have to submit a planning application.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/5037230.stm

Published: 2006/06/01 12:26:22 GMT

© BBC MMVI

Gagging Public Employees

In trying to create a bright line between protected and unprotected speech, Supreme Court conservatives leave us less free and probably less safe.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/31/gagging_public_employees.php

The Man From Haditha

By Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

For Iraq's U.S. ambassador and other Iraqis, the idea of American troops shooting unarmed civillians is all too believable.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/01/the_man_from_haditha.php


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

College Republicans Call for Beach Parties to Mock Global Warming

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000312.php

Coingate Fund-Raiser Admits Funneling Money to Bush Campaign

A top Republican fund-raiser who is the leading figure in an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty on Wednesday to illegally funneling money to President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. In an appearance in federal court, rare coin dealer Tom Noe admitted to three counts of violating campaign finance laws.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106Z.shtml

Licensee in mobile phone mast row

1 June, 2006

By Emily Wright

A licensee is having to appease angry residents as Punch Taverns allows mobile phone masts to be put up on the premises

An Oxford licensee is stuck in the firing line between local residents and his pub company because a mobile phone mast is to be erected on his premises.

John Dunkley, tenant of Punch Taverns pub the Chester Arms in Oxford, said he has been receiving abusive telephone calls and a petition has been raised by local residents campaigning against the plan.

But according to the terms of his lease Punch is allowed to erect communications equipment on the area near the pub as it has an agreement with a mobile phone company to put up masts on pub premises in the area.

Mr Dunkley told The Publican: “I don’t mind the petition - everyone is entitled to their opinion - but we’ve had some anonymous phone calls from people telling us what they think and that’s been quite upsetting.

“The problem is that the phone company is doing nothing wrong. The government has given it permission and so it is working within its rights. But it’s the licensee who the residents have links to and that’s where they’re going to go with their problems.”

Mr Dunkley believes that the mobile phone company had handled the situation badly and that there should have been more consultation with residents before plans were made.

He added that Punch Taverns could have been more selective about where the masts were placed as his pub is positioned next to a school.

He also warned licensees to double-check anything they were unsure of in their leases.

“I saw something in mine about communications equipment but I never for a second imagined it would include a mobile phone mast being put up,” Mr Dunkley said. “Now I’ve signed it I don’t have a choice in the matter.”

A spokesman from Punch Taverns said: “All contracts are agreed in partnership with our retailers on a secure agreement on a case by case basis.

“On the few occasions where there is local opposition we do attend consultation meetings with all parties to address any concerns.”v

The Publican Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?storycode=51908

Campaign to halt mast bid

Anxious parents are urging residents to join them in their second-round battle against a controversial mobile phone mast application.

Hutchison 3G applied to put up a 12.5m mast on Stubley Lane, Dronfield – just metres away from a nursery school – but the proposal was turned down by planning chiefs at NE Derbyshire District Council.

However, the phone giant has now appealed against the decision, sparking a fresh wave of anger from parents who are worried about the unknown dangers to health.

Penny Collinson (42) of Oxclose Drive, Dronfield Woodhouse, has two children – one of whom attends Gosforth Pre-school – just 200 metres away from the proposed site and one of six schools in the immediate vicinity.

She said: "We're dismayed because they have appealed against the decision.

"It hasn't been proven either way it's bad or good, but why take the risk?.

"We don't think there is a place for something like this anywhere in Dronfield Woodhouse.

"People don't want it and they should listen."

A spokesman for Hutchison 3G said: "The original proposal for this location was placed before the planning committee and was recommended to be approved by the local planning officer, but was refused by the planning committee.

"The proposed slimline antenna and associated equipment will blend with the exisiting street furniture and the design will simply become an addition to existing elements in the local street-scene."

Penny claims 700 complaints were collected last time the scheme went before planners and wants anyone who hasn't made their voices heard to do so now.

Council planners rejected the scheme in October last year, because it is in an open, prominent location and would be detrimental to the character of the locality.

A Government planning inspector will now decide whether the proposal should go ahead or not.

Anyone who wants to make representations should write to:
The Planning Inspectorate, FAO Lucy Wootton, Room 318, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6PN, by June 19.

l Spelling it out: Lily Collinson and Ben Cornwell from Gosforth Pre-School. SCH59899

01 June 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=728&ArticleID=1537832

Councillors blast the mast

Jun 1 2006

By Judith Clay And Thelma Haworth

SUNNINGHILL and South Ascot Parish Council has promised it will not allow a hotly-debated phone mast to be put up in a children's play area.

The council owns the land on the Blythewood Green site, where mobile phone company Orange wants to build the 10m-high mast.

Parish clerk Alan Everett said the council had received 100 objection letters,which is the most it has ever had.

Cllr Thalia Chivers said: "We covenanted to keep this as open space when it was given to us."

Peter Standley,representative for the Society for the Protection and Ascot and Environs (SPAE), said: "The view has already been expressed that it's intrusive and out of character, particularly as it's public open space."

Ward councillor for Ascot and Cheapside David Hilton said: "The parish council owns the land and they can refuse the mast.

"Now the council has accepted the motion even if planning permission is granted the parish council can say no and we will say no."

Protest group Blythewood Against the Mast (BAM) has collected more than 400 signatures on its petition against the mast which residents fear will spoil the scenic area as well as pose a health risk.

Gisella Ranscombe, who lives opposite the proposed site, said: "I think it's intolerable even to suggest it."

Richard Flight of Vernon Drive added: "There is already quite a lot of clutter coming on to the green and it would be hard to screen it.

"People have said that they will not let their children play there, in an age where we should be encour-aging children's activities."

However, Rebecca D'Arcy, spokes-woman for Orange, said that it has been looking for a suitable location for five years to help meet coverage demand in the area.

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Former CIA Analyst Says Iran Strike Set For June Or July

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/929

The crumbling GOP base

Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby

05/31/06

Like a lot of conservatives, I won't be voting Republican in the congressional elections this fall. Admittedly, I won't have a choice -- in Massachusetts, Republican candidates for Congress generally spare voters the trouble of defeating them by not bothering to run in the first place. But millions of conservatives will have a choice. And the closer Election Day draws, the clearer it becomes that plenty of them will choose not to vote Republican. Unless something changes dramatically -- and soon -- the GOP is poised to lose its most reliable voters, and with them any hope of keeping its congressional majority. How disgruntled is the party's base? In recent polls, fewer than 70 percent of registered Republicans said they approve of the way President Bush is handling his job, a sharp drop from the 90 percent support on which he once could count. Among self-identified conservatives, Bush's standing is even lower...

http://tinyurl.com/q8rgy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Trouble at Treasury: Paulson wrong choice for Secretary

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by staff

05/30/06

The White House made an unfortunate mistake in nominating Henry M. Paulson, Jr. to be the next Secretary of the Treasury, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Goldman Sachs chairman's other role as chairman of the board of the Nature Conservancy, which is under investigation for financial misdealings that benefited some of its officers and donors, should automatically disqualify him for the top Treasury job. 'No conservative administration should consider appointing anyone who works for the Nature Conservancy to any position and certainly not to one carrying the high responsibilities of Treasury Secretary'...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,05349.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cheney starts new Cold War over oil

AlterNet
by Mark Ames

06/01/06

One of the oddest reactions to Vice President Cheney's now-infamous speech in Lithuania, the one which many Russians believe officially heralded the start of a new Cold War, came from the mainstream American media. What was so strange? They actually did their job. Instead of simply parroting the Administration's latest pieties, they actually allowed themselves to smell a rat. And what a putrid, bloated, rotting-in-a-flooded-Manila-gutter rat odor it was! You'd have to have been literally brain dead not to have smelled it...

http://www.alternet.org/story/36881/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Raiding reality

National Review
by Radley Balko

05/31/06

It's been amusing to watch Congress fret over the FBI's decision to raid the office of their colleague, Rep. William Jefferson. Current Speaker Dennis Hastert called it 'the wrong path,' and has demanded a return of the documents seized. An unnamed member told the Washington Post that the tactics was 'unduly aggressive.' Rep. John Conyers called the raid 'an act of tremendous violence.' On Tuesday, Rep. James Sensenbrenner held hearings titled, 'Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?' At those hearings, Sensenbrenner announced his intention to introduce legislation protecting Congress from future, similar police searches. Funny. Congress -- especially GOP leaders like Hastert and Sensenbrenner -- don't seem nearly as concerned when much more violent, confrontational raids happen to their own constituents...

http://tinyurl.com/nj65p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Gagged librarians break silence on Patriot Act

Raw Story

05/31/06

Connecticut librarians spoke about their fight to stop the FBI from gaining access to patrons' library records at a news conference yesterday organized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and in a subsequent interview with RAW STORY. The Librarians, members of Library Connection, a not-for profit cooperative organization for resource sharing across 26 Connecticut library branches sharing a centralized computer, were served with a National Security Letter (NSL) in August of last year as part of the FBI's attempt to attain access to patron's records. The NSL is a little known statute in the Patriot Act that permits law enforcement to obtain records of people not suspected of any wrongdoing and without a court order. As part of the NSL, those served with the document are gagged and prohibited from disclosing that they have even been served...

http://tinyurl.com/qa7zh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Iran calls US talks offer "propaganda"

Greensboro News-Record

05/31/06

The United States said Wednesday it would join in face-to-face talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program once Tehran puts its atomic activities on hold, a shift in tactics meant to offer the Iranians a last chance to avoid punishing sanctions. Iran dismissed the offer as 'a propaganda move.' At the White House, President Bush said that the U.S. would take a leading role in solving the conflict and that it was important to do so diplomatically...

http://tinyurl.com/m76hq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hartz IV bis zum Verhungern - BezieherInnen von Hartz IV leben in Armut

Große Koalition optimiert Hartz IV bis zum Verhungern. SPD und Union
wollen am Donnerstag auch eine 100% Kürzung des ALG-II durchbringen

Presseerklärung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland vom 31.5.06
http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/grose_koalition_optimiert_hartz_iv_bis_zum_verhungern.htm


SAK: BezieherInnen von Hartz IV leben in Armut. Kürzungsdiskussion
ohne Grundlage - Forderung nach Mindestlohn und Grundsicherung

Presseerklärung der Saarländischen Armutskonferenz vom 31.5.06
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/opti_sak.html


Aus: LabourNet 1. Juni 2006

BOBBY KENNEDY JR. TO QUESTION 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002891.htm


Informant: NHNE

Trouble de Jouissance et Dépréciation du Patrimoine

Jugement Cour d'Appel : Antennes relais (jurisprudence) -Trouble de Jouissance et Dépréciation du Patrimoine

http://www.next-up.org/pages/nouvellesdumonde55.php

Motherhood Discrimination

"Despite all the media chatter about the so-called Opt-Out Revolution - and all the hand-wringing about whether working moms are good for kids - women, and mothers, are in the workplace to stay. Yet public policy and workplace structures have yet to catch up," write Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106WA.shtml

Canada Pays Environmentally for US Oil Thirst

Huge mines here turning tarry sand into cash for Canada and oil for the United States are taking an unexpectedly high environmental toll, sucking water from rivers and natural gas from wells and producing large amounts of gases linked to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106EC.shtml

Budget Problems Overshadow America's Energy Woes

The push to solve the nation's energy woes are bumping up against the federal government's budget problems. To be sure, the Bush administration is anxious to fund long-term programs by cutting lesser-known programs whose payoffs are far more near-term.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106EB.shtml

Canadian Arctic, the New Geo-Strategic Issue

The Canadian Arctic covers 3.4 million square kilometers, and with extreme climactic conditions, it used to barely interest anyone. But times change. Affected by global warming, the ice melt's acceleration is exciting more and more greed. Canada is now preparing to defend its sovereignty in a region that could see litigation over maritime control, for the exploitation of natural resources such as oil and gas, and security matters, with the opening of a regular new point of entry into North America.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106EA.shtml

Electronic Voting Machine Security Flaws Exposed

A report released earlier this month details what experts say are the most serious electronic voting machine flaws ever documented.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330240


From Information Clearing House

Reckless Justice: did the Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?

Impeach Alberto Gonzales? Why, yes!

"We have the power to impeach the attorney general," Issa told Tuesday's Judiciary Committee hearing titled: "Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=87770


From Information Clearing House



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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Proliferation Wars in the Intelligence Community

Since 2001, the National Security Agency (NSA) has had a presidentially authorized, law-breaking, warrantless surveillance program to listen in on the international phone calls of possibly tens of thousands of U.S. citizens.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=87452


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Accepts Draft on Iran That Omits Use of Force

The Bush administration, seeking to enlist Russian support for a United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran, has agreed to language ruling out the immediate threat of military force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13447.htm

Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”

US antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan denounced the Australian government for its participation in the Iraq war and called for the release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay and the closure of the notorious US military prison camp at a demonstration in Melbourne last Friday.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/shee-m31.shtml


From Information Clearing House

EU says US must close Guantanamo prison

Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik urged the United States on Wednesday to close a prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay as soon as possible, saying the detention of suspects there creates a legal vacuum.

http://tinyurl.com/lwwdc


From Information Clearing House

Troops told Geneva rules don't apply to Taliban

Canadian troops in Afghanistan have been told the Geneva Conventions and Canadian regulations regarding the rights of prisoners of war don't apply to Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters captured on the battlefield.

http://tinyurl.com/njpet


From Information Clearing House

IRAQ'S ambassador to the US accuses US of murder

IRAQ'S new ambassador to the US said yesterday US forces cold-bloodedly shot and killed his cousin last year in Haditha.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13445.htm



Mission Accomplished

Video

Shocking, honest, brave and an amazing eye-opener. Watch this movie if you really want to know what's happening in Iraq. Shows both sides of the story about the insurgency war that you won't see on TV. Critical of US policy, but sympathetic to the American soldiers on the ground. Historical movie.

Click here to watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13440.htm



Killings by US marines 'unjustified'

Iraqi Prime Minister: Marines rampaged through several houses near where the marine was killed, shooting the occupants, in some instances in front of their traumatised children. Some of the children also were killed.

http://tinyurl.com/nqr2x



War widows find that everything is 'just gone'

The wives who lived at Fort Lewis had six months to pack up and leave after their husbands' deaths, the first signal that they lost more than a spouse.

http://tinyurl.com/oa7mf


From Information Clearing House



Rogue Apple Defense

Anyone who thinks this was a single instance of the intentional killing of civilians, I have beachfront property to sell you in Odessa, Texas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13446.htm



No Bravery: A nation blind to their disgrace
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11799.htm



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

John Kerry's 1971 Speech Against the Vietnam War Before the Senate

Video - John Kerry describes war crimes committed in Viet Nam

Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the young Vietnam veteran says: "Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war... how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Click here to watch. Real Video.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6579.htm

Click here to listen Real Audio
http://www.videos.informationclearinghouse.info/kerryws0.ra



Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

Video - Windows Media

All the confusion, pain, despair, and even hope of the men and women who served in Vietnam is captured in Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. The footage, some newsreel, some shot by the servicemen and servicewomen, reveals a tension between the soldiers' actual experiences and the presentation their loved ones received from television.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13442.htm



Mission Accomplished

Video

Shocking, honest, brave and an amazing eye-opener. Watch this movie if you really want to know what's happening in Iraq. Shows both sides of the story about the insurgency war that you won't see on TV. Critical of US policy, but sympathetic to the American soldiers on the ground. Historical movie.

Click here to watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13440.htm

Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

Video

Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani, our Iraqi video diarist..

Click Here To View
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13452.htm



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

Pregnant woman shot dead by US soldiers in Iraq

By unison.ie

US soldiers have shot and killed a pregnant Iraqi woman and her cousin while they were driving to a maternity hospital north of Baghdad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13441.htm

Verbot der Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei

Die Regierung der Azoren setzte im vergangenen Jahr ein Verbot der Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei in ihren Gewässern durch.

Anders sieht es aus in den meisten Meeresregionen außerhalb von 200 Seemeilen - auf der so genannten Hohen See. Sie ist Gemeingut, und Regelungen zu ihrem Schutz existieren nicht. Eine Flotte von nur rund 300 Trawlern fischt hier mit gigantischer Zerstörungskraft. Sie durchpflügen täglich mit ihren riesigen, mit Eisenrollen beschwerten Netzen rund 1.500 Quadratkilometer Tiefsee, das entspricht einer Fläche von über 210.000 Fußballfeldern. Und nicht nur Fische gehen ihnen ins Netz, die Schleppnetze zertrümmern uralte Korallen, zerreißen Schwämme und töten jedes andere Meerestier. Wenn diese Beutezüge ungebremst weitergehen, wird die Artenvielfalt der Tiefsee in 15 bis 20 Jahren unrettbar verloren sein. Ein Verbot der Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei auf Hoher See ist die einzige Chance, die Tiefsee zu schützen.

Wir können diesem Treiben jetzt Einhalt gebieten! Vom 12. bis 16. Juni finden in New York die informellen Beratungen der Vereinten Nationen bezüglich des Schutzes der Meere statt. Dort muss die Europäische Union mit einer Stimme sprechen: für ein Sofortverbot der Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei auf der Hohen See! Um dies zu erreichen, bitten wir Sie: Fordern Sie Außenminister Steinmeier auf, sich für ein Sofortverbot der Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei einzusetzen. http://newsletter.greenpeace.de/d/r/381

Bitte setzen Sie sich mit uns für den Schutz der Tiefsee ein. Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung!

Company defends RFID implant product

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U.S. CALLS IRAN TALKS MOVE A 'TACTICAL SHIFT'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4581/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

New Orleans Dangerously Unprepared for Hurricane Season

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0531-10.htm

From Hubris to Humility

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-28.htm

Where Have All the Protesters Gone?

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-25.htm

'Granny D' in the West Virgina Woods

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-24.htm

Paulson: The Blind Man's Bluffer?

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-21.htm

Widening the Racial Wealth Gap

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0531-20.htm

Exxon Mobil Meeting Draws Protesters

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-08.htm

Afghans Call for Trial of U.S. Troops

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-11.htm

Religious Right Got Bush Elected Now They Are Fighting Each Other

Wing and a Prayer
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-02.htm

Gore: Bush is 'Renegade Rightwing Extremist'

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-01.htm

US Accused of Diluting Global Aids Targets

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0531-09.htm

Legislating Hate

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

When push comes to shove, Republicans expose their core values. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/31/legislating_hate.php

The real separation of powers problem isn't the FBI raid, it's Congress' neglect of other issues

Constitution Kerfuffle

By Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/31/constitution_kerfuffle.php

'I oppose the war because it's illegal': 22 arrested in Olympia

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4582/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



Anti-War Protests Continue at Port of Olympia

Anti-war protesters gathered Wednesday at the Port of Olympia to demonstrate against a 950-foot military cargo ship bound for Iraq. Crowds were small early in the day, but were expected to grow amid rumors that the ship was leaving Wednesday evening. Twenty-two people were arrested Tuesday and police pepper-sprayed a handful of protesters who pulled down a port fence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106Y.shtml



Cargo Ship Leaves for Iraq Amid Anti-War Cries
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0601-06.htm



Port Anti-War Protest Intensifies

After nearly a week of protests intended to delay a large Navy cargo ship from sailing to the war in Iraq, the vessel sailed out of Olympia on time Wednesday. But the protests, which were raucous at times, could portend a summer of escalating tensions in the port.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206M.shtml

Wisconsin Bans Forced Human RFID Chipping

http://www.newswithviews.com/McIntyre/Liz6.htm

Internal US conflicts still unresolved

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4585/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

A New Bio Warfare Arms Race Begins in Maryland

http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese34.html

Life Without a Government

http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux21.html

The Continuing State of State Justice in North Carolina

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson130.html

The Lifestyle Fascists

http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster113.html

Oil sands project in Alberta turning into environmental disaster

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4584/


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