World-News

http://www.counterpunch.org/dickinson05262006.html


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm


Informant: Scott Munson

"Democrats overwhelmingly oppose the war and favor censure and impeachment," David Swanson writes.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606G.shtml



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

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a brilliant new article about the biggest political story in the history of the United States: An American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud," writes Thom Hartmann.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606E.shtml

A Film by Rebecca MacNeice

As the destruction of America's Appalachian Range accelerates in the mad rush for cheap energy, activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock and former Congressman Ken Hechler act as our tour guides as we fly over regions of mind-boggling devastation. Truthout filmmaker Rebecca MacNeice is aboard a SouthWings flight. SouthWings provides flyovers of mountain top removal sites to promote conservation through aviation.

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

"George Bush is entirely mistaken if he thinks that his amendment 'serves the interests of all,' just as he is entirely mistaken if he thinks that bigotry - be it motivated by racial hatred, ethnic rivalry, religious intolerance or homophobia - ought to be sanctioned by the Constitution," writes John Nichols.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606N.shtml

"It defies belief that this administration is still clinging to its benighted policies on prisoners after the horrors of Abu Ghraib, the killings at American camps in Afghanistan and the world's fresh outrage over what appears to have been the massacre of Iraqi men, women and children in the village of Haditha," writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606M.shtml



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

"Faced with a loss of influence in Latin America as a result of the shift to the left, the US government has been furiously lobbying sympathetic European states to create political leverage on Washington's behalf," writes Ian Gibson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606L.shtml

A former White House budget official acknowledged Monday that he had provided "a lot of insight and advice," including government information not available to the public, to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2002.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606K.shtml

Congressional aides took $30 million in trips paid for by private groups from 2000 through mid-2005, surpassing the privately sponsored travel of their bosses by nearly $10 million over the same time, according to a new analysis of publicly disclosed travel expenses.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606J.shtml



Firms Donated to Groups That Gave Judges Free Trips

Two organizations that have provided free trips to hundreds of federal judges received large contributions from tobacco, oil and other corporate interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13517.htm



The free trips of Congressman Solomon Ortiz

U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz accepted free trips to China from a Houston-based husband-and-wife business team convicted recently in an illegal immigration scheme involving Chinese nationals.

http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4753903,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Kein Primat der Politik: Gabriel kritisiert wachsende Einflussnahme der Wirtschaft auf die Umweltpolitik (06.06.06)

Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel kritisiert einen wachsenden Einfluss der Wirtschaft auf den Natur- und Klimaschutz. Die Globalisierung werde in der Umweltpolitik "immer wieder missbraucht, um alle Ansprüche auf eine demokratisch legitimierte Einflussnahme auf wirtschaftliche Prozesse zurückzudrängen", sagte Gabriel am Dienstag in Berlin. Vom Primat der Politik könne oft keine Rede mehr sein. Nötig sei "so etwas wie eine zweite Aufklärung": Nach der Trennung von staatlicher und religiöser Macht gehe es nun um die Rückeroberung des Vorrangs der Politik über wirtschaftliche Einzelinteressen, sagte Gabriel. Staat und Regierung müssten vor der Androhung von Produktionsverlagerungen immer wieder kapitulieren, kritisierte der Minister.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13757

The Japanese are still working to lift the ban on commercial whaling later this month. Below is a Greenpeace update on what's happening and how you can help.

Nick


For me, the oceans are fascinating, full of exotic and mysterious creatures – a world apart. But of all the creatures in the ocean, I’m not sure anything is more captivating and beautiful than a whale. And to me, nothing is as ugly or egregious as a whale slaughtered for profit.

I may not have been onboard the Esperanza with Nathan, stopping Japanese whalers from killing whales in the Southern Ocean, but I will be onboard the Arctic Sunrise in two weeks, when we try to stop the Japanese government’s efforts to take control of the International Whaling Commission.

We’ve been working hard to stop the slaughter of whales for what Japan calls, "scientific research." This year alone, the Japanese government performed lethal so-called research on nearly 1,000 whales – and then sold them in the marketplace. But if the Japanese are successful in their bid to reopen commercial whaling, the death toll for whales will climb even higher. That’s not only cruel and inhumane, it could send some endangered species spiraling back toward extinction.

I need your help to STOP the Japanese Government from winning a majority vote on the International Whaling Commission in 2 weeks.

Take Action Now Write to the governments of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Marshall Islands urging them to vote with the whales, not the whalers, at the upcoming IWC meeting. With the voting margins razor-thin this year, the Japanese have a good chance of winning a majority vote for the first time.This means that pro-whaling countries will control the agenda, and begin pushing to reopen commercial whaling.
http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/103/?&ref_source=listswhaleaction

We can’t allow that to happen. Every vote counts, and we urgently need your help to reach these 3 voting nations with a strong message. Please, Take Action Now, and then encourage your friends and family to do the same.
http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/103/?&ref_source=listswhaleaction

I’ll be in touch from onboard the Arctic Sunrise, and you can follow what’s happening on my blogs.

Sincerely,

Buffy Baumann
Ocean Campaigner

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/more_evidence_r_1.html


Informant: ranger116

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jun/06/ln/FP606060344.html


Informant:
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)

No New Refineries

By Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/06/no_new_refineries.php

Estate Tax Pyramid Scheme

By Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/06/estate_tax_pyramid_scheme.php

http://tinyurl.com/nof4s


Informant: Julien Ball

Jun 6 2006

By Paul Rhys

WORRIED parents have spoken out over a mobile phone mast they fear will affect their kids' health.

Neighbours in Delverton Road, Walworth, claim they were left in the dark over plans to erect Orange communications equipment next to their homes.

Mum-of-three Jackie Mitchell, 44, said she was afraid to let kids Daniel, 18, Ben, 15, and Luke,five, near her garden wall, which is next to the installation on the roof of the adjacent Rose O'Grady's pub.

She said: "I was told they were just doing some repairs, so I let them put scaffolding up in my garden. I didn't know they were putting in a phone mast.

"I've read reports saying they cause leukaemia, cancer, brain damage - the lot. Everyone round here is worried sick.

"We just want to know why we weren't told about it and why it's been put up right next to houses where everyone has kids."

Her friend Angela Munian, 45, is worried about the effect on her daughter Alex, two, and son Mason, 11.

She said: "They should have notified us.No one round here has a clue what's going on.

"We're all frightened to let the kids out. You don't know what sort of radiation is coming off that thing."

Rose O'Grady's landlady Delia Henderson, 64, said that because she was just a leaseholder she had no control over the mast being built, and brewery Enterprise Inns received planning permission two years ago.

She said: "I'm not involved in the dispute - there's absolutely nothing I can do.

"Orange has told me there's more danger using a mobile than being near the mast.

"Half the time you read that they're a problem, half the time they're completely safe."

Orange spokeswoman Jacqueline Sibanda said: "People have absolutely nothing to worry about.

"Phone masts have become stigmatised but there's been exhaustive research and no problems have emerged. We also comply with World Health Organisation guidelines on transmissions.

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

"There's a lot of misinformation but hopefully the message will soon get out that this technology - which has been in use for years - is safe."

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

Enterprise Inns were unavailable for comment as we went to press.

owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Plc 2006

http://tinyurl.com/lm2d4

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sue A. Blevins

written 10/02; posted 06/05/06

If the Bush administration has its way, beginning in April 2003 individuals' personal health information -- including genetic information -- will be shared with data-processing companies, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, researchers, and others without their consent. This is a major shift from today's standard whereby patients give their consent before their medical records are shared with third parties. The administration proposes to eliminate the current standard in order to make processing medical claims more efficient. If the changes are adopted, every American will have effectively lost any ability to maintain a confidential doctor-patient relationship. How did the federal medical privacy rule come about? Who was behind it? What can Americans do to protect their medical privacy?

http://tinyurl.com/o8rul


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

06/05/06

The Bush administration is congratulating itself on finally agreeing to direct talks with Iran about Iran's nuclear program. This smugness shows just how out of touch with reality the administration has become. The United States and the Europeans joining together to negotiate with Iran merely mirrors the multilateral approach already taken many years ago with North Korea. Unfortunately, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice combined the offer with a blunt and arrogant pronouncement that Iran had a choice between two paths -- cooperation or confrontation with the international community...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1742


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle
by Jon Carroll

06/05/06

This is so great. The Congress of the United States, which has cheerfully given President Bush essentially everything he's asked for in his extensions of executive power, has condoned or at least not condemned illegal wiretaps, illegal detentions, torture, violations of the Geneva Conventions and essentially any other action the government wants to take against American citizens it thinks might be somehow, maybe connected with someone who may be connected with someone who knew someone who once went to Pakistan or some country that sounds like Pakistan -- that Congress is now upset because some FBI agents raided the offices of Rep. William Jefferson, an apparently corrupt Louisiana Democrat. A corrupt Louisiana politician -- what are the odds?

http://tinyurl.com/mjt26


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Jim Babka

06/06/06

[W]e were told that federalizing airline security would make us all safer, but avenues for terrorist attack on airplanes remain wide open, while everyone in America suffers through cumbersome airport security measures that are worse than useless. We would have been much better off if government had gotten out of the business entirely, and left the airlines to compete with a hundred different, DECENTRALIZED, approaches to airline security. But the beat goes on ... We are now told that massive, centralized databases, like REAL ID and NAIS, the National Animal Identification System, will make us all safer. But the truth is that a fool and his identity are soon parted. Whenever you centralize anything, especially in the hands of government, you create conditions for massive failures that harm everyone...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/5172/2006-06-06.asp?nid=5172&wid=64


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Your help is urgently needed. Countless Americans continue to be denied equal access to the ballot box, and now, as the Voting Rights Act heads for renewal, a handful of lawmakers from Georgia and Texas are trying to delay the process in an attempt to severely weaken the landmark law that has protected the rights of millions of minority voters from discrimination.

Your voice is needed now to keep the renewal process moving. Please contact your representative in support of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 (H.R. 9).

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=TXNEkQq-L8onv1PtfF6TeQ..

If passed, this bill will renew and restore the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act that protect minorities from discrimination.

A final House vote on H.R. 9 is currently scheduled for next week -- the week of June 12 -- so we need you to contact your representative right now and urge him or her to protect voting rights and oppose efforts to weaken the act and prevent it from moving forward.

Act now at: http://action.aclu.org/vra

States and local jurisdictions, mostly in the South, now covered by the expiring enforcement provisions will no longer be covered if the provisions are not renewed. Undoubtedly, the worst offenders of the Voting Rights Act would backslide by implementing discriminatory voting practices. It should come as little surprise that Georgia and Texas have the worst records of continued voter discrimination.

The Voting Rights Act is one of the most important civil rights laws ever enacted. It eliminated literacy tests, language hurdles and other discriminatory barriers that were used to deny minorities equal access to the ballot box. While progress has been made, voting discrimination remains a significant problem in the United States. We need the Voting Rights Act to ensure fair and equal participation in the political process for all citizens today as well as for future generations.

Contact your representative right now and tell him or her to support H.R. 9 without making changes that would weaken or compromise the spirit and effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=SOtpu-BJS4wjK35bxDEk9Q..

Or, read more about the Voting Rights Act first.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=D88MLBSOS3iEDcE7zWBItQ..

And be sure to forward this message to your friends!

Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union

Lesson plan

Moscow Times
by Chris Floyd

Many observers have compared the methodical murder of 24 innocent civilians by U.S. Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha -- now confirmed by Pentagon and congressional sources -- to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. troops slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a bloody rampage. But this is a false equation, one that gravely distorts the overall reality of the coalition effort in Iraq. For it is not the small-scale Haditha atrocity that should be compared to My Lai. It is the entire Iraq War itself. The whole operation -- from its inception in high-level mendacity to its execution in blood-soaked arrogance, folly and greed -- is a war crime of almost unfathomable proportions, a My Lai writ large, a My Lai every single day, year after year after year...

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/06/02/120.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Sozialpolitik und soziale Kämpfe
Erwerbstätige und Erwerbslose

Technologischer Wandel und schrumpfende Arbeitsvolumen führen zu
Erwerbslosigkeit und Armut. Wie sollen Gewerkschaften und demokratische
Bewegungen darauf reagieren? Artikel aus „Hälfte – Unabhängiger
Mediendienst zur Arbeit und zur Erwerbslosigkeit“ vom 29.05.2006 (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/ch/erwerbstaetigdt.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Juni 2006

Zwangsumzüge – Aktionen, Kampagnen und praktischer Widerstand: Besetzung des Barmer Viertel in Köln

Polizei als Putztruppe - Die Stadt Köln lässt das besetzte Barmer Viertel räumen. Die Wohnungen sollen bis Monatsende abgerissen werden, obwohl es immer noch keinen Investor für das Gelände neben der Messe gibt

„…Rund drei Monate waren die Häuser neben der Kölner Messe besetzt. Gestern Morgen um 4 Uhr kam dann die Polizei mit mehreren hundert Beamten und umstellte das Viertel. Die Stadt will die Häuser abreißen lassen, um Platz für Bürobauten sowie einen neuen Eingang zur Kölner Messe zu machen. Nach und nach durchkämmte die Polizei die 260 Wohnungen. Rund 35 Menschen wurden dabei festgenommen, nach Angaben der Polizei ohne Gegenwehr. "Wenn nichts gegen sie vorliegt, werden sie wieder entlassen", versicherte Polizeisprecher Jürgen Laggies…“ Artikel von Dirk Eckert in der taz-NRW vom 02.06.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/02/a0007.1/text

Siehe dazu:

Barmer Viertel wird geräumt. Die Gewalt siegt über den politischen Dialog.

Die Pressemitteilung zur Räumung von der Initiative Barmer Viertel vom
01.06.2006 05:45 Uhr (pdf) http://barmerviertel.ina-koeln.org/PDF/060601%20pm-ibv%20raeumung.pdf


Köln: Wie aus Opfern Täter gemacht werden

„Da stehen sie. Für rund 5 Euro Stundenlohn stehen die Wachleute der Sicherheitsfirma Kötter vor den Eingängen des Barmer Blockes. Verschanzt hinter einem doppelten und diagonal verstrebten Bauzaun. Darum herum patrouilliert die Polizei. Die Angst ist groß, dass die ehemaligen und nun teils obdachlosen Besetzer des Barmer Blockes in Köln-Deutz einen Versuch starten könnten erneut in die einst denkmalgeschützten Gebäude einzuziehen. Jetzt müssen Menschen für einen Hungerlohn Tag und Nacht dafür sorgen, dass noch ärmere, nicht in ihre Unterkünfte kommen…“ Kommentar von Heinz Peter Fischer in Linkezeitung vom 02.06.2006 http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/601/32/


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Juni 2006



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zwangsumz%C3%BCge

Übersicht über regionale Anti-Hartz-&-Co-Bündnisse

Die Übersicht http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/regionen.html wurde aktualisiert; beachte den Aufruf zur Gründung einer Aktions-Gruppe im Raum Bodensee unter „Bawü“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/bawue.html


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Juni 2006

Schwere Vorwürfe an den Berliner Innensenator Erhard Körting (SPD)

„Unter dem Motto: „ Schluss mit den Reformen gegen uns“ demonstrierten am 3. Juni ca. 20.000 Menschen aus der ganzen Bundesrepublik in Berlin, um gegen die Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik ihren Unmut auszudrücken…“ Presseerklärung der Organisatoren vom 06.06.2006 http://www.protest2006.de/presse/presseerklarungen/gewaltsam_gegen_hartz-iv_empfanger_vorgegangen.html


Die Welt zu Gast bei Arbeitslosen. In Berlin protestierten mehrere Tausend bei Dauerregen gegen Hartz IV / Polizei griff Demo an

„Mehrere tausend Menschen haben am Samstag in Berlin gegen Sozialabbau protestiert. Die Beteiligung fiel allerdings deutlich geringer aus, als von den Organisatoren erhofft. Das schlechte Wetter in der Hauptstadt dürfte dabei nur eine der Ursachen gewesen sein. Am Rande ging die Polizei mehrmals gewaltsam gegen Demonstranten vor. Der Grund: Transparente waren angeblich zu lang…“ Artikel von Tom Strohschneider in ND vom 06.06.06 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=91544&IDC=2


Polizeiübergriffe auf Demo gegen Sozialabbau

„Am heutigen Sonnabend, haben in Berlin trotz strömenden Regen etwa 15.000 Menschen gegen Hartz IV demonstriert. Am Rande versuchte die Berliner Polizei einzelne TeilnehmerInnen herauszuziehen und griff mehrfach die Demonstration an (u.a. mit Schlagstock und Pfefferspray)…“ Bericht von E-G-A-L vom 03.06.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/06/148912.shtml


Ruf nach Alternativen. Demonstration »Schluß mit den Reformen gegen uns« am Samstag in Berlin. Trotz strömenden Regens Tausende auf der Straße. Die Beiträge einiger Kundgebungsredner in Auszügen in junge Welt vom 6.6.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/06-06/056.php


Liebe KollegInnen, FreundInnnen und alle, die diese unmenschliche Gesellschaftsordnung nicht für der Weisheit letzten Schluss halten!

Die Rede von Tom Adler http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2006/demo0306_ta.html


Fotobericht bei Freies Politikforum http://www.carookee.com/forum/freies-politikforum/1/20_000_bei_der_Grossdemo_3_Juni_in_Berlin_Fotobericht_Teil_1.11074166.0.01105.html


Pressespiegel auf der Demo-Homepage http://www.protest2006.de/presse/pressereview/


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Juni 2006

On June 9, the War Resisters League, the venerable pacifist organization, will give its 2006 Peace Award to women GIs who came to believe only after they enlisted that they didn't believe in war or violence. Four extraordinary women-- Diedra Cobb, Anita Cole, Kelly Dougherty, and Katherine Jashinski-will represent the growing class of these new COs.

What: War Resisters League Annual Dinner and Peace Award Ceremony

When: Friday evening, June 9, at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Cyril and Methodius Church Hall
502 West 41st St. (at 10th Ave.) Manhattan

One of the women receiving the award, Katherine Jashinski, will not be able to accept the award in person. At her court martial May 23, she pled guilty to "refusal to obey a legal order," and was sentenced to 120 days confinement, of which she has already served 53 days.

These women are among the newest wave of conscientious objectors--the only kind, indeed, that can exist when the armed services consist entirely of volunteers--and that, for the first time in history, includes women as well as men.

"These four brave women will represent the class of women now refusing, for reasons of conscience, to continue to serve in the Armed Forces," said Ellen Barfield of the War Resisters League and Veterans for Peace. "That Katherine Jashinski will now serve prison time only underlines the courage and integrity that brought all of them to their declarations of conscience." To reserve a ticket for the Peace Award and Dinner, please call 212-228-0450 or visit https://secure.serve.com/resist/dinner2006.htm

Among those gathered to lend support to the Peace Award honorees will be former GI Ellen Barfield, and former U.S. Army officer and diplomat Ann Wright. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel has also sent a message of support.

The WRL Peace Award was begun in 1958 to honor an organization or person whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent platform of action. Jeannette Rankin, the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry into both world wars, was the first recipient; others have included peace agitator A.J. Muste, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, writer Grace Paley, socialist and many times presidential candidate Norman Thomas, feminist and pacifist theorist Barbara Deming, Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, Plowshares movement founder Daniel Berrigan, Judith Malina and the Living Theatre, and Iraq War opponent Fernando Suarez del Solar.

Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. (See http://www.warresisters.org ).


PLEASE CIRCULATE AND POST


Informant: John M Miller

China's drive for economic growth is in direct conflict with efforts to safeguard the environment, the government warned on Monday, and degradation is worsening despite official efforts to curb pollution.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060506EA.shtml

After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman could become that conflict's first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506T.shtml

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is calling on citizens to phone their US congressmen on Wednesday, June 7, to urge them to sign a Discharge Petition that would force, for the first time, a full and open debate on Iraq on the floor of the House of Representatives.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506R.shtml



Eight States Hold Primaries for Some Offices

Primaries on Tuesday for governor in Alabama and California, a Senate seat in Montana and a handful of House contests, among other races, will test whether national dissatisfaction with Iraq, immigration and political corruption will topple sitting politicians.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506S.shtml

Güllen ist überall
http://www.gigaherz.ch/1030

Die Juni-Sendung des Dissidentenfunks
am Donnerstag, den 8.6. um 16 Uhr hat zum Thmea:
HEUCHELEI STATT MENSCHENRECHTE

Die psychiatrische Zwangsbehandlung wäre eine Aufgabe für amnesty international, denn sie erfüllt die Kriterien von Folter. Der Versuch von mehreren Mitgliedern von amnesty international diese Aufgabe bei der deutschen Sektion von ai in die Diskussion zu bringen, ist an "Nichtbefassung" gescheitert. Dies führt zu dem Vorwurf, dass amnesty international die Menschenrechte nicht ungeteilt vertritt und ihr deswegen Heuchelei vorzuwerfen ist.

Wiederholung der Sendung am 22.6.06 um 16 Uhr.

DISSIDENTENFUNK
Wir senden an jedem 2. und 4. Donnerstag im Monat von 16 bis 17 Uhr im
Offenen Kanal Berlin UKW: 97,2 MHz (Kabel: 92,6), oder man kann im
Internet unter http://www.okb.de/radiostream.htm den Livestream
empfangen (z.B .mit dem Winamp Mediaplayer sollte das kein Problem
sein). Allerdings machen wir im zweiten Halbjahr 2006 eine kreative Pause, so dass wir danach erst wieder am 11. Januar 2007 auf Sendnung sind.

In dem Archiv in der Dissidentenfunk Homepage:
http://www.dissidentenfunk.de
finden Sie die GEMA-freien Teile der vergangenen Sendungen als Audio-
und Textdateien sowie weitere Informationen zu den einzelnen Sendungen:

Mai.......Der Gegensatz von Vernunft und Menschenrechten
April.....Nachruf Stanislaw Lem – Patientenverfügung - Ärztestreik
März......Anonyme Geburt - Wege aus biologistischen Denken
Februar...Patientenverfügung - aktueller Stand der Diskussion
Januar....Warum psychiatrische Zwangsbehandlung Folter ist
aus 2005:
Dezember..25 Jahre Irren-Offensive
November..Das Celler Urteil gegen Zwangsbehandlung und die Menschenrechte
Oktober...Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen
September.Antipsychiatrie und die Linken
Juli......Sommer-News
Mai.......Faulheit (und die Folgen)
April.....Prinzhorn - "Entartete" Kunst - Biennale Meine Welt
März......Patientenverfügung
Februar...Irrenoffensive - die Oper
Januar....Forensik
aus 2004:
Dezember..Ambulante Zwangsbehandlung in Bremen
Oktober...Das Gert-Postel-Experiment
September.Psychiatrie - ein Witz
August....Vorsorgevollmacht
Juli......Zwangsbetreuung und die geplante Änderung des Betreuungsrechts


Werner-Fuß-Zentrum
Scharnweberstr. 29
10247 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
http://www.die-bpe.de
http://www.antipsychiatrie.de
und
http://www.dissidentenfunk.de

http://www.democrats.org/lgbtdiscrimination


Informant: Alan Dicey

Monday, June 5, 2006

By CURT WOODWARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Forests_and_Fish.html

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Federal wildlife officials gave their blessing Monday to a 50-year forestry plan aimed at saving Washington state's salmon runs while shielding timber companies from costly Endangered Species Act lawsuits.

The sweeping deal, which covers about 9.3 million acres of private forestland and more than 60,000 miles of streams, is believed the biggest of its kind in the country.

It requires wider buffers of trees along streams and rivers, reduces the amount of logging on unstable slopes, and establishes new rules for logging roads to reduce the amount of sediment runoff.

In return, foresters who follow its provisions are assured by federal fish and wildlife managers that they are not violating endangered species protections for fish and other species.

The blueprint, known formally as a Habitat Conservation Plan, and its organizers were praised by officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

"I can think of no better hands to place it in," said Bob Lohn, who heads the fisheries service's Northwest regional office in Seattle.

Gov. Chris Gregoire praised the plan's goals of preserving private forests while protecting salmon.

"Their health and their well-being mirror our health and our well-being," Gregoire said.

The plan stems from state legislation approved in 1999 and subsequently adopted as part of the state's forestry regulations. Officials said the process has involved more than a decade of negotiations.

"We're proud to have the guts to stay the course," said Bill Wilkerson, director of the timber industry's Washington Forest Protection Association.

Not everyone was entirely pleased with the outcome.

Ken Miller, a private forester who hosted Monday's signing ceremony on his family's lakeside 40-acre plot thick with evergreens, said smaller private landowners are still worried about the effect of the new regulations.

But by committing to the state's plan, "We're betting on the long term," he said.

Sherry Fox, spokeswoman for the Washington Farm Forestry Association, said small foresters such as Miller are hit harder by the regulations because they can't shift logging away from fish habitat as easily as major landowners.

To help remedy those problems, the association is working with regulators to develop long-term permits that would cover forestry for 15 years rather than the present two years.

Leading environmentalists also are wary of the plan's effectiveness, said Miguel Perez-Gibson, a policy adviser for a collection of conservation groups known as the Forest and Fish Conservation Caucus.

Environmentalists have walked away from the plan in the past, and its promise to adjust forestry practices to protect water and habitat are key to the environmental groups' continued participation.

"We want to make sure that the long-term effects, the cumulative effects are being addressed," Perez-Gibson said. "While this plan is a step in the right direction, we want it to be able to adjust to new biology and new science."


On the Net:

Department of Natural Resources:
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/

Forest Protection Association:
http://www.wfpa.org/

Farm Forestry Association:
http://www.wafarmforestry.com/

Conservation Caucus:
http://www.wflc.org/advocacy/promotingrealsalmonrecovery/cc


Informant: Teresa Binstock

By John Vidal
The Guardian Monday,
June 5, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1790471,00.html

The 500 million people who live in the world's desert regions can expect to find life increasingly unbearable as already high temperatures soar and the available water is used up or turns salty, according to the United Nations. Desert cities in the US and Middle East, such as Phoenix and Riyadh, may be living on borrowed time as water tables drop and supplies become undrinkable, says a report coinciding with today's world environment day.

Twentieth-century modernist dreams of greening deserts by diverting rivers and mining underground water are wholly unrealistic, it warns.

But the report also proposes that deserts become the powerhouses of the next century, capturing the world's solar energy and potentially exporting electricity across continents. For instance, a 310-square mile area of the Sahara could, with today's technology, generate enough electricity for the whole world.

The problem now facing many communities on the fringes of deserts, says the UN environment programme report, is not the physical growth of deserts but that rising water tables beneath irrigated soils are leading to more salinisation - a phenomenon already taking place across large tracts of China, India, Pakistan and Australia. The Tarm river basin in China, it says, has lost more than 5,000 square miles of farmland to salinisation in a period of 30 years.

The report suggests that Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia have used water from the desert very unwisely. Rather than growing staple crops such as wheat or tomatoes, it suggests that precious water should be used only for high value crops such as dates and fish farming.

The mining "fossil" water, laid down many millions of years ago, was once believed to have the potential to green deserts, but is now not thought to be a solution - except in Libya, where opinion is divided as to whether supplies may last 100 or 500 years.

But the greatest threat to people and wildlife living anywhere near deserts is climate change, which is already having a greater impact on desert regions than elsewhere. The Dashti Kbir desert in Iran has seen a 16% drop in rainfall in the past 25 years, the Kalahari a 12% decline and Chile's Atacama desert an 8% drop.

Most deserts, says the report, will see temperatures rise by 5-7C by the end of the century and rainfall drop 10-20%. This will greatly increase evaporation and dust storms, and will move deserts closer to communities living on their edges.

The problems of more heat and lower rainfall are being compounded by the melting of glaciers in mountainous regions. These waters sustain life in deserts but would be perilously close to drying up if global warming continued as expected.

The glaciers in the mountains of south Asia are expected to decline by 40% to 80% in the next century with profound effects on large populations in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China.

Much of the water used for farming the south-west US, central Asia and around the Andes is drawn from rivers that originate in snow-covered mountains, says the report.

Development in the next 100 years is largely contingent on what happens to the climate. However, the report envisages that deserts will become more popular tourist destinations and that some of the plants that grow there could be "crops of the future".

"Deserts are threatened as never before by climate change, overexploitation of water and salinisation," said Professor Andrew Warren of University College London, one of the report's authors.

"We risk losing not only astounding landscapes and ancient cultures but also wild species that may hold keys to our survival."


Informant: NHNE

STUDY WARNS

By James Owen
National Geographic News
June 5, 2006

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060605-hawaii.html

A chain of tiny, remote Hawaiian islands could become the largest marine sanctuary in the U.S. as soon as next year.

But the rare wildlife living there could disappear beneath the waves by the end of this century because of global warming, a new study warns.

A team of Hawaii-based scientists calculates that two-thirds of some islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) could be submerged by 2100.

A scattered archipelago stretching some 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean, NWHI is home to colonies of unique animals that may be swamped as their low-lying islands succumb to rising sea levels, researchers say.

Animals at risk include rare seals, sea turtles, and bird species found only on NWHI.

The NWHI consist of islands, atolls, and pristine coral reefs and are slated to form part of the largest national marine sanctuary in the United States, if approved by the Bush Administration.

Threats to the islands from future sea level rise were assessed for the first time by a team led by Jason Baker of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Studies suggest that sea levels rose almost 6 inches (15 centimeters) during the 20th century.

Levels are expected to rise farther and faster this century, as global warming accelerates the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, and as higher water temperatures expand the volume of the world's oceans.

The team created 3-D computer models of NWHI to gauge the possible impact of future sea level rises using scenarios forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based in Gland, Switzerland.

Their findings suggest that by 2100 up to 65 percent of some islands would be lost if the sea level rose 18.9 inches (48 centimeters), which is the average IPCC projection.

The team also found that a 34.6-inch (88-centimeter) rise -- the maximum sea level rise forecast by 2100 -- could result in up to 75 percent of NWHI wildlife habitat disappearing.

The researchers report their findings in in the latest issue of the journal Endangered Species Research.

Hawaii's Vulnerable Species

Vulnerable species include the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal, one of the world's rarest marine mammals; the Hawaiian green sea turtle; and the Laysan finch, one of four endemic birds.

Other species found only on the NWHI include 3 land snails, 12 plants, and more than 60 invertebrates.

"Oceanic islands in general tend to have high levels of [unique species], due largely to their isolated nature, and the Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated in the world," NOAA's Baker said.

"These little islands are important nurseries for monk seals, sea turtles, and millions of seabirds," he added.

"Yet much of this lively activity occurs just a few meters above sea level."

In the worst-case scenario, Baker says, some islands would come close to disappearing entirely.

For example, up to 99 percent of Trig Island could be submerged.

Trig Island has become the main birthing site for Hawaiian monk seals after the loss of other sites to the sea.

Researchers suggest this has led to overcrowding on the island, resulting in increased predation of seal pups by sharks.

Writing in Endangered Species Research, the team says further loss of the seal's habitat "can only be expected to exacerbate an already lamentable situation."

Sea Turtles

The Hawaiian green sea turtle is similarly at risk, the team says, with more than 90 percent of females laying their eggs on one NWHI atoll.

The study suggests the main island haven for the Laysan finch isn't in danger, but smaller colonies would be wiped out under the average scenario for sea level rise, increasing the overall risk of extinction.

Nor is sea level rise the only threat to NWHI wildlife from global warming, the team says.

Surveys led by Greta Aeby of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe have revealed damage to reef systems in the region in recent years caused by coral bleaching.

Bleaching is a phenomenon linked to higher water temperatures that can cause corals to die.

Scientists fear coral bleaching events may become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise.

The study team, however, suggests there may be a way to help counter the effects of sea level rise in NWHI.

This would involve redistributing sand to increase the size and stability of vulnerable islands in a process known as beach nourishment, Baker says.

"If this were done in the NWHI, it could help preserve key islands and the species which depend upon them," he said.

"Any such work should only be undertaken after very careful planning to ensure no harm is done in the process."

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are currently being considered as the 14th and largest national marine sanctuary in the U.S. Final designation is expected next year.

The NOAA says federal sanctuary status would give the islands and their wildlife enhanced protection in terms of enforcement, research, and funding.


Informant: NHNE

By Lindsey Tanner
Associated Press
June 5, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060605/ap_on_sc/road_rage_disease

CHICAGO - To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it -- intermittent explosive disorder -- and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans.

"People think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don't know ... is that there's a biology and cognitive science to this," said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school.

Road rage, temper outbursts that involve throwing or breaking objects and even spousal abuse can sometimes be attributed to the disorder, though not everyone who does those things is afflicted.

By definition, intermittent explosive disorder involves multiple outbursts that are way out of proportion to the situation. These angry outbursts often include threats or aggressive actions and property damage. The disorder typically first appears in adolescence; in the study, the average age of onset was 14.

The study was based on a national face-to-face survey of 9,282 U.S. adults who answered diagnostic questionnaires in 2001-03. It was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

About 5 percent to 7 percent of the nationally representative sample had had the disorder, which would equal up to 16 million Americans. That is higher than better-known mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Coccaro said.

The average number of lifetime attacks per person was 43, resulting in $1,359 in property damage per person. About 4 percent had suffered recent attacks.

The findings were released Monday in the June issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The findings show the little-studied disorder is much more common than previously thought, said lead author Ronald Kessler, a health care policy professor at Harvard Medical School.

"It is news to a lot of people even who are specialists in mental health services that such a large proportion of the population has these clinically significant anger attacks," Kessler said.

Four a couple of decades, intermittent explosive disorder, or IED, has been included in the manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness, though with slightly different names and criteria. That has contributed to misunderstanding and underappreciation of the disorder, said Coccaro, a study co-author.

Coccaro said the disorder involves inadequate production or functioning of serotonin, a mood-regulating and behavior-inhibiting brain chemical. Treatment with antidepressants, including those that target serotonin receptors in the brain, is often helpful, along with behavior therapy akin to anger management, Coccaro said.

Most sufferers in the study had other emotional disorders or drug or alcohol problems and had gotten treatment for them, but only 28 percent had ever received treatment for anger.

"This is a well-designed, large-scale, face-to-face study with interesting and useful results," said Dr. David Fassler, a psychiatry professor at the University of Vermont. "The findings also confirm that for most people, the difficulties associated with the disorder begin during childhood or adolescence, and they often have a profound and ongoing impact on the person's life."

Jennifer Hartstein, a psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said she had just diagnosed the disorder in a 16-year-old boy.

"In most situations, he is relatively affable, calm and very responsible," she said. But in stressful situations at home, he "explodes and tears apart his room, throws things at other people" to the point that his parents have called the police.

Hartstein said the study is important because many people are not aware of the disorder.


Informant: NHNE

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Striking Bipolar Illness increase in the US
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4234057/

by Nancy Levant

What’s wrong with this picture is that we, as American people, are 1) governmentally ignorant, 2) prefer denial to truth like all good addicts (television, drugs, genetically modified foods and water additives, etc.), and 3) remain locked in a prescribed televised loyalty to partisanship...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy44.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0605-22.htm

'I oppose the war because it's illegal': 22 arrested in Olympia
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2101106/

http://www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/gardening_for_bumblebees.htm

If anyone has a garden and wants to help the bees then this site has a list
of the British wild flowers that one can plant to attract the bees.

Does anyone know of a similar list for birds?

Sarah

A must see!
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=2

Watch the Trailer
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=3

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. Here's what the critics are saying about the movie

An Inconvenient Truth

"One of the most important films ever. If this does not move you to change, nothing will." — Larry King, CNN "Made me want to buy a hybrid and shoot my old car, so no one else could drive it... Amazing and smartly done film." — Bob Mondello, NPR "This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option-in fact, it's immoral." — Sundance Film Festival "Not to be missed. It doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative... your mind will be changed in a nanosecond." — Roger Friedman, Fox News

More reviews: Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1197075,00.html

Los Angeles Times: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-truth24may24,0,577270.story?coll=cl-mreview

New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/17092/index.html

"Go see Al Gore’s new documentary—and then pay attention to who attacks it." TAKE ACTION: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/

This is more than an animal ethics issue, this is a world issue. This will affect all of us regardless of nationality, economic status or creed. Please see the film and let us join together to solve the most pressing issue facing us today. Our very survival as a species depends on it.

Thanks to all our dear friends of Care2.

Zahra and Adis P.

The big concern here is tyre dust; ignored too long, and worse than exhaust particulates.

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=543
http://www.ejnet.org/rachel/rehw439.htm


Industry response
http://www.dunloptyres.co.uk/dunlop/environmental/


Andy

Please Ask Your Local Radio Stations to Air These PSAs

This is an important project that we should each devote some time to. Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Tim Robbins, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Ed Asner have recorded pro-impeachment public service announcements. We'll be adding more all the time at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/psa

How to get them on the air:

1. Call a radio station. Ask to speak with the person responsible for public service announcements and/or ask to speak with hosts you expect to be friendly.

2. Identify yourself by name and say that you are assisting the nonpartisan coalition AfterDowningStreet.org and PDA in distributing public service announcements in support of Congressman John Conyers' House Resolution 635 - which calls for an investigation of the Bush administration.

3. Tell them the PSAs are available on a website as high-quality mp3s, and that you can give them the address http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/psa and that you can send them as Email attachments or on a disc, whatever is easier. Exchange contact information and arrange to get the PSAs to the station.

4. Follow up. Be persistent, without being annoying.

These Public Service Announcements are available for download and play on the radio. Simply Right-Click on an image and choose "Save Target As."

AfterDowningStreet.org would like to thank The People Speak radio, Pacifica radio, Ed Asner, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Tim Robbins, Cindy Sheehan, and Ann Wright. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/psa


Website Launched to Promote Impeachment Resolution in California Legislature

Impeachment resolutions are sweeping the country. If you live in California, please check out this new website for how you can help your state legislature send impeachment charges to Congress: http://www.ajr39.com

The Maine Democratic Party passed an impeachment resolution this weekend. Here's the growing list of parties, towns, cities, and state legislatures that have passed or introduced such resolutions: http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list

ImpeachPAC, a federal PAC funding pro-impeachment candidates for Congress, has announced its first endorsement of a candidate for the Senate, Jean Hay Bright of Maine, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Olympia Snowe, who stands solidly with Bush no matter how many crimes he commits. http://impeachpac.org/endorse-bright

Thanks to you, ImpeachPAC has raised $77,336.94 from 1,974 dedicated impeachment supporters. Help us reach our goal of $100,000 here: http://impeachpac.org/dm02


What You Can Do for Peace on 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


FORWARD THIS INFORMATION



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

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0605/p01s01-usfp.html


Informant: Kev Hall

In the case of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), court records, sworn affidavits, plea agreements and search warrants show Jefferson made quite a deal, one of several involving at least seven business entities, nearly a dozen family members and hundreds of thousands of dollars sloshing through bank accounts, all for Jefferson's personal benefit.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506H.shtml

Democrats want the party to turn forcefully against the war in Iraq and to investigate, censure or even impeach President Bush should the party win control of Congress this fall.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506G.shtml

"There are several reasons for the decline of America's soft power. The most immediate is President George W. Bush's aggressive foreign policy. Since our internationally condemned attack on Iraq, our country is seen as the illegitimate sheriff that shoots first and asks questions later," writes John Brown.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506F.shtml

Power Grab

Elizabeth Drew points out that "During the presidency of George W. Bush, the White House has made an unprecedented reach for power. It has systematically attempted to defy, control, or threaten the institutions that could challenge it: Congress, the courts, and the press. It has attempted to upset the balance of power among the three branches of government provided for in the Constitution; but its most aggressive and consistent assaults have been against the legislative branch."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506E.shtml

A MOBILE phone mast on a South Shore school is to come down.

Bosses at Arnold School have confirmed the aerial on top of the school on Lytham Road will be switched off by July next year.

The school has decided not to renew the contract with mobile phone giant Orange following concern from parents and residents.

As revealed in The Gazette on Friday, Orange is seeking planning permission to place a similar mast on Highfield Road.

Residents living close to the site, Moulton's Printers, have launched a campaign to block the plans and are collecting names on a petition to Blackpool Council.

They fear masts are dangerous and could have health implications for the community.

They are particularly concerned the antennae on the roof of the printer's building would be next to a children's playground and close to a nursery and homes.

Pat McCarthy, bursar at Arnold School, said while the school did not have any concerns about the safety of the mast it had decided it was not in the school's best interests for it to remain.

He said: "Our current contract expires in July 2007 and as part of an ongoing review by the governing council it was decided not to renew the contract. We have given Orange the required notice.

"Some parents were unhappy with the mast so although the governing council was satisfied the mast itself is safe, in the end they decided the school would be better off without it."

Coun Susan Fowler said: "It is great news that the one at Arnold is coming down. The safety of such masts has not yet been proven and until it is we should not be putting them in built-up areas."

05 June 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.blackpooltoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=62&ArticleID=1545157

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a brilliant new article about the biggest political story in the history of the United States: an American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0604-20.htm


From Information Clearing House

Curiously and quietly the United States is being out-flanked in its now-obvious strategy of controlling major oil and energy sources of the Persian Gulf, Central Asia Caspian Basin, Africa and beyond.

http://tinyurl.com/haddp


From Information Clearing House

It has turned off gas supplies to Ukraine, threatened to divert Europe's vital gas supplies and is now turning to oil. Paul Mason reports.

http://tinyurl.com/no49z


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3928001.html


From Information Clearing House

Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer writes about mistakes and shortcomings in Washington's Middle East policies. Gloomy predictions about the Iraq war, he writes, have been surpassed by reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13506.htm

The marine unit involved in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November had suffered a "total breakdown" in discipline and had drug and alcohol problems, according to the wife of one of the battalion's staff sergeants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13513.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

American veterans of the war in Iraq have described a culture of casual violence, revenge and prejudice against Iraqi civilians that has made the killing of innocent bystanders a common occurrence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13504.htm

A U.S. artillery round landed in an inhabited area of Iraq on Friday and police said afterwards that two civilians were killed and four were wounded in a blast, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DAH459235.htm


From Information Clearing House

A BBC Documentary

A US government whistleblower tells Panorama how scientific reports about global warming have been systematically changed and suppressed.

Click hear to view. Real Media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13511.htm



Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/panorama/5005994.stm


Informant: binstock

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4607/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

In a Tom Englehardt interview with Barbara Ehrenreich, she states that "Katrina's a perfect example of how militarized the government has gotten even when it's supposedly trying to help people. The initial response of the government was a military one. When they finally got people down there, it was armed guards to protect the fancy stores and keep people in that convention center - at gunpoint! I mean, this is unbelievable."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506O.shtml

The board of governors of the American Bar Association has voted unanimously to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his Constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506N.shtml

Fractures among conservatives in the affluent coastal communities extending north of San Diego - coupled with dissatisfaction with President Bush - have put Democrats within striking distance of capturing a safe Republican seat that was thrown open when Representative Randy Cunningham resigned after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506M.shtml

A US probe of an alleged massacre of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, must go beyond accused Marines and up the military command to rule out any possibility of a cover-up, US lawmakers said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506K.shtml



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

THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed.

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=472

by Steven Hill, TomPaine.com

If you're in one of the eight states holding primaries tomorrow, will your vote count?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/05/election_security_2006.php

by Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, TomPaine.com

The Senate shouldn't let a political wrong define a religious rite. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/05/freedom_to_marry.php

by Tom Porteous, TomPaine.com

The Bush administration believes that anything, even a war with Iran, is better than a nuclear-armed Iran.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/05/rices_iran_gambit.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html


Informant: V

Common Dreams
by John Janks

06/03/06

Remember that in the heady days before Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 US troops were urged to read selected literature, including The Art of War, by the 5th Century B.C. Chinese writer, Sun-Tzu? Maybe the troops read it, maybe they didn't, but it is obvious that those starting this war did not. Sun-Tzu advised leaders to avoid war unless the state is threatened, never allowing haste, fear of being called a coward, and emotions like anger and hatred to influence their decisions...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0603-28.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Daniella Markheim

06/03/06

Americans can be forgiven if they're a little confused about free trade. After all, many of our leaders certainly are. In the last year, various members of congress have introduced more than 250 specific bills to waive tariffs that harm their constituents. Clearly these leaders understand that lowering tariffs (a key component of free trade) on an industry-by-industry, state-by-state basis will improve the economy. Yet when given the chance to lower tariffs in a more efficient way -- through comprehensive trade agreements with other nations -- many of these same lawmakers seem to forget what they know about the benefits of freer trade. It's a puzzling contradiction. Congress might as well decree that feathers make sense, but birds are dangerous. You can see all this at play in Massachusetts. A Lowell Sun article recently revealed that the commonwealth's two senators have introduced no fewer than 17 'suspension of duty' bills that directly lower tariffs paid by some state businesses...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198039,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

06/02/06

At the West Point commencement on May 27, President Bush said that 'each loss is heartbreaking.' Mr. Bush was talking about the 34 academy graduates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past four years, and not about the two dozen Iraqi civilians apparently killed in their homes by US Marines last Nov. 19. The massacre was first reported by Time magazine in March, and, since then, the grisly details have begun to emerge, mainly from survivors. It seems clear now that in Haditha, northeast of Baghdad, a Marine lance corporal was killed by a roadside bomb. And his enraged buddies swept through three nearby houses shooting point-blank at residents, men, women, children, old, young. It didn't seem to matter...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0602/p09s02-cods.html



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

Mother Jones
by Jeff Fleischer

06/02/06

Interview with former US president Jimmy Carter: "I don't think there's any doubt that the elementary principle of fundamentalism has existed for ages, and it obviously permeates other religions as well, such as Islam and Hinduism and others. But this trend continued and, parallel to it, there was in effect a merger of the fundamentalist Christian leaders and the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And for the last 25 years or so, that merger has become more pronounced and more evident."

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/06/jimmy_carter.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6416


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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

06/02/06

The House of Representatives recently passed funding for a new federal mandate that threatens to put thousands of small farmers and ranchers out of business. The National Animal Identification System, known as NAIS, is an expensive and unnecessary federal program that requires owners of livestock -- cattle, dairy, poultry, and even horses -- to tag animals with electronic tracking devices. The intrusive monitoring system amounts to nothing more than a tax on livestock owners, allowing the federal government access to detailed information about their private property. In typical Washington-speak, NAIS is 'voluntary' -- provided USDA bureaucrats are satisfied with the level of cooperation. Trust me, NAIS will be mandatory within a few years. When was the last time a new federal program did not expand once implemented?

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002092.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Jim Babka

06/05/06

Sadly, Congress has so far been a rubber-stamp for the Executive Branch's policy in Iraq. It is Congress, from a Constitutional perspective, that is supposed to exercise oversight. Even if you support our government's current actions in Iraq, surely you still believe that Congress has a Constitutional duty to debate the policy and judge its effectiveness on a regular basis. Is it possible that such a debate in Congress will also generate more heat than light? In our view it is almost certain. But that isn't the issue in this case. Many statements from the Executive Branch have also generated more heat than light. The point is that Congress has a Constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and a balance to the Executive Branch. Some will argue that such a debate will give aid and comfort to the insurgents. But if the insurgents are sophisticated enough to follow the U.S. Congress, they are also sophisticated enough to follow U.S. public opinion. They already know that a majority of Americans have grave doubts about the President's policy. More importantly, a debate in Congress will affirm the nature of America. We do not let one person rule unchecked...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/5154/2006-06-05.asp?nid=5154&wid=64


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Brian M. Doherty

06/02/06

"While it is almost certainly more crucial to America's future than, say, immigration, the question of what will happen between the United States and Iran in the next year or so is of surprisingly little public concern. Pollwatcher Stu Rothenberg tells me it's a complete nonissue in this year's midterm congressional elections. As for 2008's presidential race, well, what might be seen as the bellicosity of the Bush administration's Vulcans is drowned out by the mighty bellowing against Iran of prospective Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Sadly but not surprisingly, the American people, who when asked aren't excited about the prospect of war in Iran (only 13 percent said they were for such action in one recent poll), may never get the chance to vote for a president who shares that distaste...

http://www.reason.com/links/links060206.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

06/04/06

The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office. Meeting in New Orleans, the board of governors for the world's largest association of legal professionals approved the creation of an all-star legal panel with a number of members from both political parties. They include a former federal appeals court chief judge, a former FBI director, and several prominent scholars -- to evaluate Bush's assertions that he has the power to ignore laws that conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution. Bush has appended statements to new laws when he signs them, noting which provisions he believes interfere with his powers. Among the laws Bush has challenged are the ban on torturing detainees, oversight provisions in the USA Patriot Act, and 'whistle-blower' protections for federal employees...

http://tinyurl.com/eam7p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

06/04/06

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should step down amid an investigation into whether U.S. troops covered up the suspected intentional killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Sen. Joseph Biden said Sunday. The Delaware senator is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a potential presidential candidate in 2008. Military investigators strongly suspect that a small number of Marines snapped after one of their own was killed by a roadside bomb November 19 in Haditha, Iraq, and went on a rampage, sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN...

http://tinyurl.com/jymem


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp




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

The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506Z.shtml

Unter dem Motto "Gendreck weg" starteten am Freitagvormittag die Aktionstage gegen das Gentec-Versuchsfeld auf dem Gelände der Giessener Universität. Auf einer Versuchsfläche von rund 10 qm findet dort der bundesweit erste Freilandversuch mit Transgener Gerste statt. (Infos: http://de.indymedia.org/2006/06/148745.shtml sowie: http://www.gendreck-giessen.de.vu/ ) Die Protestaktionen wurden am Abend von Polizei und Ordnungsamt auf rüde Art beendet. Der aufgebaute Informationsstand wurde von einem großen Polizeiaufgebot abgebaut und beschlagnahmt. Doch zuvor machten Anti-Gentec-AktivistInnen den Uni-Forschern einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Am frühen Nachmittag verschafften sich mehrere Personen Zugang zum eingezäunten Versuchsfeld, rissen die Schutzverkleidung um das Feld nieder und begannen die Gentec-Pflanzen zu vernichten. HR-Hessenschau-Bericht: http://tinyurl.com/pws8h

Am Rande des Genfeldes befestigten Aktivisten Transparente an Bäumen, Zäunen und Laternen. Zahlreiche Journalisten beobachteten das Geschehen. Polizisten, die sich versteckt in einem angrenzenden Gewächshaus aufghalten hatten, eilten unmittelbar nach Beginn der "Feldbefreiuung" zur Rettung der Genpflanzen herbei. Nach einem kurzen lustigen Katz und Maus-Spiel unter der nur ca. 1,20m hohen Netzabdeckung des Versuchsfeldes wurden die Aktivisten schließlich von einem größeren Polizeiaufgebot festgenommen. Auch ein Journalist, der die Aktion beobachtet hatte wurde kurzzeitig festgesetzt. Die Giessener Polizei brachte die Feldbefreier im Anschluss ins Polizeipräsidium, wo sie auch die Nacht verbringen müssen.

Am Samstag sollen sie zwischen 9 und 10 Uhr vor dem Amtsgericht dem Haftrichter vorgeführt werden.

Nachdem der weitere Nachmittag ruhig verlief und sich zahlreiche Passantinnen, darunter auch viele erstaunte NachbarInnen des Versuchsfeldes, über die Risiken und Hintergründe des Gentec-Felder im Giessener Unigelände informiert hatten, bastelten die Giessener Behörden an ihrem nächsten Repressionsschlag. Als der Infostand bereits abgebaut und nur noch die zur Überdachung gedachten Garten-Pavillions abtransportiert werden sollten, kamen Einsatzleiter Koch und sein Deputy Jung höchstpersönlich auf einen Plausch vorbei. Freundlich boten sie ihre Hilfe beim Abtransport der Pavillions an und verstrickten die im Aufbrechen begriffenen AktivistInnen in Gespräche - bis Verstärkung nahte. Diese brachte dann auch gleich die Verfügung des Ordnungsamtes mit, dass Infozelt und die Dauerdemonstration zu verbieten und die Materialien zu beschlagnahmen. Einsatzleiter Koch ließ es sich auch nicht entgehen, die ´gute Nachricht´, dass die festgenommenen AktivistInnen auch über Nacht in Haft blieben, zu verkünden.

Auf dem Heimweg kam es erneut zu Schikanen Law-and-Order-Innenminister Volker Bouffiers Polizeitruppe.

Quelle: http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/06/148862.shtml

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POL-GI: Beim Versuch Genfeld zu zerstören: Polizei Gießen nahm vier Verdächtige auf frischer Tat in Verwahrung

Gießen (ots) - Beim Versuch Genfeld zu zerstören: Polizei Gießen nahm vier Verdächtige auf frischer Tat in Verwahrung

Gießen: Nach dem Versuch ein Feld der Universität Gießen mit genveränderter Gerste zu zerstören, nahm die Polizei am Freitag, dem 02.06.06, gegen 15.15 Uhr, vier Personen im Alter von 22 bis 63 Jahren in polizeiliche Verwahrung. Eine 24-jährige Frau und ein 35-jähriger Mann, die sich in unmittelbarer Nähe unerlaubt auf dem Gelände der Universität aufhielten, wurden ebenfalls ins Polizeigewahrsam eingeliefert. Alle Sechs sind zu den Versuchsgegnern zu rechnen.

Die Festnahme geschah im Rahmen der Überwachungsmaßnahmen der Polizei. Eine uniformierte Streife und eine Streife in Zivil hielten sich in unmittelbarer Nähe des Versuchsfeldes auf. Die Beamten beobachteten, wie die vier Haupttäter Pflanzen herausrissen, nachdem sie einen Drahtzaun zerschnitten und ein Insektennetz beiseite geräumt hatten. Seit 12.00 Uhr (02.06.06) findet eine Mahnwache der Genversuchsgegner statt. Es gab aus den Reihen der Teilnehmer wiederholt Ankündigungen, die Pflanzen auf dem Feld zu zerstören.

Gegen die vier Hauptverdächtigen, zwei 24- und 41-jährige Männer aus einem Ortsteil von Reiskirchen, einen 63-jährigen Mann aus Welzheim und eine 22-jährige Frau aus Marburg werden Strafverfahren wegen Sachbeschädigung und Hausfriedenbruchs eingeleitet, gegen die 24-jährige Frau, die aus Lüneburg kommt und den 35-jährigen Mann aus Gießen, sowie einen weiteren Mann der vom Ort des Geschehens verwiesen wurde, werden Strafverfahren wegen Hausfriedensbruchs eingeleitet.

Werner Tuchbreiter

ots Originaltext: Polizeipräsidium Mittelhessen

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Straftatbestand "Feldbefreiung"

Der Streit um gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen beschäftigt in Hessen nicht nur Wissenschaftler und Öko-Aktivisten, sondern auch die Polizei. Weitere Konflikte sind vorprogrammiert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22843/1.html



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

03.06.2006

Oberhavel

Aktionsbündnis: Befürworter haben sich bei Veranstaltung selbst entlarvt

CARSTEN SCHÄFER

NEUHOLLAND/ORANIENBURG. Das Aktionsbündnis für eine gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft in Oberhavel und der Brandenburger Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz (BUND) haben die Aussaat von Genmais und die Informationsveranstaltung der Gentechnik-Befürworter am vergangenen Montag scharf krisiert.

Jörg Ditt vom Aktionsbündnis erklärte, bei der Infoveranstaltung sei augenscheinlich keine Diskussion gewollt gewesen, da es keine öffentliche Ankündigung und keine Einladung an die Gegner gab. "Gegenargumente waren wohl nicht erwünscht", sagte Ditt. "Dennoch haben sich die Befürworter des Anbaus in bemerkenswerter Weise selbst entlarvt", so der Gentechnik-Gegner. Mit der seit Jahrzehnten bewährten Pflügetechnik könne der Schädlingsbefall wirksam verhindert werden, das habe selbst der Experte Bernd Hommel von der Biologischen Bundesanstalt gesagt. Und Wolfgang Voegler vom Genmais-Hersteller Monsanto habe sogar zugegeben, dass sich eine Auskreuzung der veränderten Pflanzen nicht verhindern lasse.

Dem Bauern Christoph Plass aus Neuholland, der Genmais ausgesät hat, wirft Jörg Ditt Profitsteigerung auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit vor. "Warum er es nicht schafft, auf konventionelle Weise wirtschaftlich anzubauen, führte er nicht aus", erklärte Ditt. Plass hatte am Montag seinen Genmais-Anbau mit wirtschaftlichen Notwendigkeiten begründet.

Der BUND-Landesverband Brandenburg forderte unterdessen ein generelles Anbauverbot von gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen. "Die Risiken sind unberechenbar, zudem ist Genmais ein Ladenhüter ohne Zukunft", sagte der Landesvorsitzende Burkhard Voß. Der Anbau schade der gesamten Region.

Bei der Informationsveranstaltung am Montag hatten Landwirte und die Vertreter von Monsanto und der Biologischen Bundesanstalt für gentechnisch veränderte Produkte geworben. Am Rande erklärten Christoph Plass und die Liebenwalder Agrar GmbH, bereits Genmais ausgesät zu haben.

© Märkische Verlags- und Druck-Gesellschaft mbH Potsdam

http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/10719637/61129/

The U.S military said Saturday it had found no wrongdoing in the March 15 raid on a home in Ishaqi that left nine Iraqi civilians dead. But, as with the apparent massacre in Haditha, will a military "cover-up" in this case come undone? Editor & Publisher coverage from back in March, and other evidence, suggest that the official story may soon unravel.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406G.shtml



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

Facing a wave of litigation challenging its eavesdropping at home and its handling of terror suspects abroad, the Bush administration is increasingly turning to a legal tactic that swiftly torpedoes most lawsuits: the state secrets privilege.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406F.shtml

A proposed nuclear deal with India that the White House considers one of the most important pillars of President Bush's foreign policy legacy is in jeopardy because of growing objections in Congress and abroad.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406D.shtml

On her syndicated radio show Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Dahr Jamail, Nancy Youssef, Aparisim Ghosh and John Sifton regarding the Haditha massacre.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406B.shtml



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4602/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



Baghdad Morgue Reports Record Figures for May

New Iraqi government documents show that, excluding the nearly daily bombings, more Baghdad residents died in shootings, stabbings and other violence in May than in any other month since the US-led invasion in 2003.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406E.shtml

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/3-June-2006.html


Informant: ranger116

http://pesn.com/2006/06/02/9500276_Water_fuel_experimenter_threatened/


Informant: ranger116

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/REVIEWS/60517002


Informant: ranger116

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EDITOR'S COMMENT:

I finally had a chance to see Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". I saw it last night with two of my daughters. It was as good as the reviews we've been reading said it was. Along with deftly communicating the complex urgency of global warming, the movie is also an inspiring story of what life looks like when a person (Gore in this case) doggedly follows the calling of his or her heart.

I encourage all of you to see Gore's movie and take as many of your family and friends along with you as you can.

Here's hoping, too, that all of us can follow whatever callings we have with as much tenaciousness as Gore has followed his.

I've included several related links below. I especially encourage you to take a look at Al Gore's June 19th interview with Charlie Rose:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3412657607654281729&q=Al+Gore

And print out, pass around, and put to work Gore's list of ten things we can do to help stop global warming:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/pdf/10things.pdf

--- David Sunfellow


You can find a list of movie theaters that are currently showing "An Inconvenient Truth" at this address:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/findatheater/

Al Gore On Charlie Rose
56 min 40 sec June 19, 2006 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3412657607654281729&q=Al+Gore

Movie reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?critic=columns

News & Blogs: http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/

Download ecards, movie posters, screensavers, desktop images, buddy icons: http://www.climatecrisis.net/downloads/

Ten Things To Do To Help Stop Global Warming (pdf flyer): http://www.climatecrisis.net/pdf/10things.pdf

Ways To Promote The Movie (pdf flyer): http://www.climatecrisis.net/pdf/seethetruth.pdf

An Inconvenient Truth Website:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/


From NHNE



An Inconvenient Truth

Video

Al Gore's Documentary on the dangers of climate change and global warming.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15801.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=An+Inconvenient+Truth

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4603/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4605/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

by Professor Steven Yates

April 20. S.853, the North American Cooperative Security Act, was introduced in the Senate (the corresponding House bill, H.R. 2672, would be introduced on May 26). This bill proposes the deep integration of security strategies of U.S., Canada and Mexico and the formation of a common perimeter around all three, using the supposed threat of terrorism as a reason for close monitoring citizens of all three nations.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven18.htm

by Charlotte Iserbyt

Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat (NY), introduced on 14 February 2006 a bill (HR 4752) in the US Congress which requires: "all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a [two year] period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."

http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt34.htm



Mandatory Draft Bill Snuck In - To Be Debated 6-6-6
http://www.rense.com/general71/dd.htm


Informant: ranger116

LIVE VIRTUAL PHONE BANK: http://www.usalone.com/virtualphones.htm

Today OpedNews.com, the premier online digest of progressive opinion will be featuring an article on the new virtual phone bank we told you about yesterday.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thepen_060604_if_you_could_make_on.htm

The ultimate act of speaking out of course is to vote, and the most effective activism of all is electing someone who is dedicated to changing a disastrous course, as in the destructive occupation of Iraq.

As a case in point, Bob McCloskey in California's 29th district has challenged a Democratic incumbent has who voted again and again in support of the war crime of a war in Iraq. Bob has opposed the war from the beginning and is calling for our troops to come home now. If Bob, and others like him, win their elections, the war will be stopped. A majority of the current incumbents still see no real reason it should. Losing their seats would be a compelling reason.

This is why we must turn out every possible vote for Bob McCloskey between now and the California primary this Tuesday, June 6th.

To do so Bob has set up a revolutionary new virtual phone bank, being tried first with OpEdNews.com. It allows you to make calls from your own phone smoothly coordinated with other volunteers all over the country. The new interface includes a chat function where you can talk to other activists and get instant live help. And Bob even has prepaid phone cards available for you if you ask for one.

LIVE VIRTUAL PHONE BANK: http://www.usalone.com/virtualphones.htm

Here are some other great articles on OpEdNews.com right now:

Linda Milazzo: The Final Stretch: Linda Milazzo's "Conversation With Marcy Winograd" Based on my in-depth interview with Marcy Winograd, she may be a newcomer candidate, but she's irrefutably NO newcomer to the machinations of government and the needs of the constituents in California's "District 36". http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_linda_mi_060604_the_final_stretch_3a_l.htm

Rob Kall: Tap The Power of Story To Max Your Message or Campaign The most powerful way to get people to embrace your ideas is to package them in stories. This article describes how to identify stories to use to promote your candidate, issue or product. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_060604_tap_the_power_of_sto.htm

David Swanson: Eleven Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military But even such a person, facing a highly unpleasant and unrewarding work life, and facing a taxpayer-funded multibillion-dollar advertising campaign for military recruitment, would not for an instant consider joining the military if they had read "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military." http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_060603_eleven_excellent_rea.htm

Len Hart: *You know you're living in a dictatorship when public opinion becomes irrelevant When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said recently that journalists could be prosecuted for espionage, it was clear that an official crackdown on truth telling is one of several defining characteristics of a police state. There is yet another equally reliable sign of dictatorship: public opinion doesn't mean a thing! http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_060603_you_know_you_re_livi.htm

Dan DeWalt: Mobilize for peace and impeachment New impeachment/peace efforts are popping up daily. Where are you in this struggle? http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dan_dewa_060603_mobilize_for_peace_a.htm

Gene C. Gerard: Conservatives Favor 'Purity' over Cancer Vaccine Late last month a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously recommended approval of a vaccine for the human papilloma virus. Conservative organizations oppose it on the grounds that it might encourage promiscuity among adolescent girls. Conservatives are now working to discourage its use. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_gene_c___060602_conservatives_favor_.htm

Mark E. Smith: Global Warming vs. Election Integrity What should our top priority be? Is it health care, global warming, peak oil, election reform, or something else entirely? http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_e___060604_global_warming_vs__e.htm

WHY WE NEED YOU TO JOIN IN THE VIRTUAL PHONE BANK TODAY:

If you speak out alone, you are just one voice. And if all did the same, that's all that would be required. But if you call ten people and let them know there is a real alternative to vote for, you can increase your impact ten-fold. If you have time to call 100 people between now and June 6th, to encourage them to come out and vote against this war, you can magnify your activism 100-fold. We each can cast only one vote, but we can make as many phone calls as we like.

This is a grand experiment in democracy. If we are able to use this new technology to take Bob McCloskey over the top, we can help other candidates for free in the same way. What we are asking you to do is take a look at Bob's positions on issue after issue, and see if you agree with him on just about everything.

http://www.takingbackthehouse.org/issues.html

See how he is already standing up and fighting for you with his own action pages

http://www.takingbackthehouse.org/petitions/index.php

Why do we support particular candidates? . . . Because particular candidates REPRESENT policy change. And when they have the courage to stand up for us, we must all of us stand with them.

Let us make an example of Bob McCloskey. and example of what the people can mobilize to do for someone who deserves it. And let's do it between now and Tuesday with the help of this new virtual phone bank which makes it so easy to organize it all.

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

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The Precedents Being Set
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/eddlem9.html

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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4606/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news