World-News

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/research_funding_for_electromagnetic_radiation.htm

UK MEPs e-mail addresses
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/uk_meps_email_addresses.htm

Gary Hart and CodePink talk about how leading Democrats are abdicating responsibility on ending the war in Iraq.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/13/iraq_everyones_problem.php

by Ken Miller, The Nation

While some may profit from war, the instability it brings harms everyone.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/12/the_credit_cabal.php

The "C" Word

"Once upon a time there were real 'Conservatives.' They believed in fiscal and political responsibility. They expounded on the virtues of getting government out of people's lives. They talked about caution with regard to the use of military force and foreign intervention. They even promoted a policy of governmental accountability. Many of these people existed in the Republican Party. They might have been off track, behind the curve possibly, or at times deluded, but most tended to be civil, honorable and sincere," writes Bill Zide. "Now, it seems that this new brand of 'Neo-' or 'Theo-Conservative' that populates the rank and file of the current GOP leadership has put the 'con' back into 'conservative.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306P.shtml

A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan questioned a lawyer for the federal government yesterday as to whether the Central Intelligence Agency had a legitimate national security interest in refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306M.shtml

Twenty-seven religious leaders, including megachurch pastor Rick Warren, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, have signed a statement urging the United States to "abolish torture now - without exceptions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306L.shtml

LET THERE BE LIGHT - AT LAST

Monday, June 12:

Hemelhempstead Today

Residents and councillors in Hemel Hempstead are fuming after a major telecoms company replaced street lamps with telephone masts and faulty new lighting. According to residents in Gadebridge and Warners End, perfectly good lamp posts were removed by a contractor in November last year on the orders of mobile phone giant T-Mobile.

The street lamps, in Galley Hill and Long Chaulden, were replaced with lamp posts carrying telephone masts and new lighting that did not work.

Residents and local councillors tried for months to find out why they had been left in the dark but could not get any answers from the contractor hired by T-Mobile.

A spokesman for T-Mobile confirmed that the phone masts were working and said the company was aware that there was a problem with the street lighting.

Jun 12 2006

By Gareth Deighan,
The Evening Chronicle

Jo Moore outside her Whickham home

A council is threaten-ing action after a mobile phone mast was put up without planning permission.

Jo Moore, 63, was made aware of an application by phone company O2 to put up the mast last year but was under the impression it had been denied planning permission.

Then the mast appeared outside her home in Holme Avenue, Whickham, Gateshead, and she says it now dominates the view from her front windows

Mrs Moore, who has lived in her two-bedroom semi-detached house for the last 20 years, said: "This is ridiculous. I went to all the meetings and heard everything that was said and it just wasn't allowed.

"So you can imagine my surprise when I saw it has been put up anyway.

"I went to the council and they told me that the phone company didn't have permission and something was going to be done.

"It has spoiled what you can see from my house. I woke up one morning, looked out of my window and there it was. There was no warning."

Gateshead Council confirmed the mast had been put up by the company without the proper permission and said when O2 approached them they were given preliminary planning permission.

A spokesman for Gateshead council said: "Getting planning permission for something like this is a fairly long process and O2 were in the midst of that process.

"But they did not get their final plans approved by us and put up the mast anyway which is not acceptable and we will be taking action.

"In the area of Holme Avenue there are already some masts and it is therefore difficult to refuse planning permission for more. But in this case the phone company have put this up without proper permission."

But a spokesman for O2 said the situation was a matter of paperwork. "We are in talks with Gateshead Council about the mast and as far as we're concerned, they are going well and we will be able to come to some sort of arrangement with them," he said.

"It is a matter of paperwork and we are confident the mast will be allowed to stay."

Mrs Moore said: "My neighbours and I think the mast is horrendous and we want to see it gone."

owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Plc 2006

http://tinyurl.com/z4ozy

Ahnungslose Behörden?: NABU wirft Länderbehörden Vernachlässigung der Gentechnik-Kontrollen vor (13.06.06)

Der Naturschutzbund NABU hat die deutschen Bundesländer für eine "mangelnde Kontrolle bei der Aussaat von genmanipulierten Pflanzen" heftig kritisiert. Die Länder seien nach nationalem und europäischem Recht verpflichtet, eine Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung für den Gen-Pflanzen-Anbau in Schutzgebieten durchzuführen, wenn dadurch eine Beeinträchtigung dieser Gebiete drohe. "Bis heute hat keines der Länder die entsprechende Regelung des Paragraphen 34 a des Bundesnaturschutzgesetzes in Landesgesetz umgesetzt", teilte der Naturschutzbund, gestützt auf eigene Untersuchungen, mit. "Darüber hinaus wissen die zuständigen Landesbehörden in der Regel nicht, ob ihre Schutzgebiete überhaupt vom Gen-Pflanzen-Anbau betroffen sind. Sie schauen schlicht nicht in das Standortregister."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13801

http://tinyurl.com/kkbjr


Informant: binstock

http://tinyurl.com/zv9u9

Japan is poised -- yet again -- to increase whaling operations and wants to overturn the international whaling ban altogether.

Take Action Now!
http://tinyurl.com/zv9u9

Write to the White House urging opposition to Japan's permanent membership on the UN Security Council until Japan complies with international laws for the protection of whales.

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Pro-whaling Nations Plot Diplomatic Coup
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0616-01.htm

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ACTION: Help save whales

As you know the worlds whale populations are in danger. The future of these beautiful creatures was dealt a huge blow today with when pro- whaling nations, led by Japan, succeeded in winning their first vote at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 20 years.

The non-binding decision stated that the 20-year moratorium on commercial whaling was "no longer necessary". It also blamed whales for depleting fish stocks and said non-governmental organisations were a threat.

The short-sighted action occurred because four small pacific island nations (Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Nauru and Kiribati) changed their votes and voting alongside the pro-whaling nations such as Japan and Norway. It has been suggested that Japan, in particular, has put a lot of aid money into the pacific in the hope of gaining the votes of these smaller countries.

You can view more information on this at:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3705494a10,00.html
http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/news/news_main.asp?PRID=929

I would like to encourage you to write to the governments of these countries (Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Nauru and Kiribati) to express your concern at their sudden support for commercial whaling. I am very hopeful a demonstration of public opinion will sway the governments of these countries the next time the issue is voted on.

I have listed some relevant e-mail addresses that you can contact below. If you do send an email, can you please BCC the message to whale_save@yahoo.co.nz (so that I can count an approximate number of e-mails sent). Also please be polite in you message, these a very small and poor nations, and rude or offensive messages to them will be remembered by them and will not help the whales!

NAURU:

Republic of Nauru
Permanent Mission to the United Nations
800 Second Avenue, Suite 400A
New York, NY 10017
nauru@onecommonwealth.org
nauru@un.int

Helen Bogdan
Public Affairs Consultant for Nauru
h.bogdan@bigpond.com

Consulate General of Nauru to Australia
Level 51, Nauru House
80 Collins Street
Melbourne, Vic 3000
Australia
Consul-General
Mr. Vollmer Appi (Acting)
Phone: +61-3-9653-5709
Fax: +61-3-9654-4738
consulate@nauru.com.au


TUVALU:

Tuvalu at United Nations
Permanent Mission of Tuvalu
800 Second Avenue, Suite 400 B
New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (+1 212) 490-0534
Facsimile: (+1 212) 808-4975
enele@onecommonwealth.org

Parliament (Palamene) of Tuvalu
Private Mail Bag
Vaiaku
Funafuti
Telephone: (+688) 20250
Facsimile: (+688) 20253
Email: palamene@tuvalu.tv


SOLOMON ISLANDS (This country is very poor and has been through
significant civil strife, please be very careful and polite with messages):

Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources
Permanent Secretary: Tione Bugotu psfisheries@pmc.gov.sb

Department of Forest, Environment and Conservation
Permanent Secretary: Steve Likaveke psforestry@pmc.gov.sb

Department of Foreign Affairs
Permanent Secretary: Jerry Manele psfa@pmc.gov.sb

Prime Minister's and Cabinet
Permanent Secretary: Fred Ganete pspm@pmc.gov.sb

Director of Foreign Investment: Derick Ahaira
investment@commerce.gov.sb

Department of Infrastructure and Development
Permanent Secretary: John Ta'aru psinfrastructure@pmc.gov.sb

Department of Culture and Tourism
Permanent Secretary: Francis Lomo pstourism@pmc.gov.sb

Soloman Islands Visitors Board: info@sivb.com.sb

Ministry of Provincial Government and Constituency Development
Permanent Secretary: John. M.Tuhaika tuhaika@pipolfastaem.gov.sb

JAPAN

For a list of Japanese embassies or consultates visit:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/mofaserv.html

Ministry of the Environment
http://www.env.go.jp/en/
Address: No. 5 Godochosha, 1-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-8975
Phone: +81-3-3581-3351
MOE@env.go.jp

Prime Minister of Japan
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html

Office of the Cabinet Public Relations, Cabinet Secretariat
Address: 1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8968
e-mail: kanteihp-info@cas.go.jp

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Stop The Slaughter

action at the International Whaling Commission meetings I’m writing you from St. Kitts, site of the 58th meeting of the International Whaling Commission. Our ship, the Arctic Sunrise, after being refused entry for more than a week, entered the waters of St. Kitts today to stage a peaceful protest. We landed on the beach and began placing more than 866 whale tails in the sand to symbolize the number of whales slaughtered by the Japanese government this year. Ten of our activists have already been arrested.

The International Whaling Commission meetings have just ended, and they dramatically displayed how narrow a margin exists between the pro-whaling and anti-whaling nations. A mere 2 votes (remember that number!) prevented Japan from eliminating conservation efforts for dolphins, porpoises, and small whales; and implementing a secret ballot. The Japanese delegation also narrowly lost their bids to abolish the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, exempt themselves from the commercial whaling ban, and kick Greenpeace out of the IWC meetings.

And you should know that your efforts played a major role in these victories. Due to pressure from concerned people around the world, including thousands of emails and faxes from you, Guatemala and Honduras decided NOT to attend the IWC meetings. Those two votes made all the difference. THANK YOU!

But after losing several votes, Japan pulled out all the stops, and actually won a non-binding resolution pronouncing that whales are guilty of over-fishing – by 1 vote! That’s right, the Japanese succeeded in convincing more than 30 nations that whales eat too much fish! And that wasn’t the only fishy thing that happened during the meetings. One of Japan’s pro-whaling allies arrived late to the meetings with their membership fees in cash, in a brown paper bag.

TAKE ACTION
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=106

We've taken a stand against Japanese Whaling, now it's your turn to send a strong message!

The stage is clearly set for next year’s meeting in Alaska, and it will take everything we have to turn the tide. Now more than ever, the fight to protect whales is at a critical phase. That’s why we’ve announced that we’ll be returning to the Southern Ocean this winter to confront the Japanese whalers again.

Please, support our efforts, follow this story, and share the news with your friends and family.

Sincerely,

Buffy Baumann
Ocean Campaigner

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Japanese Whaling A Barbaric Spectacle
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2210437/

Former Le Monde editor Andre Fontaine meditates on how democracies can revive from their current malaise.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306H.shtml

"As has been repeatedly stated by the most informed observers of the Iraqi scene, the real source of insurgent strength was never the foreign fighters, mainly under Zarqawi's control, but rather the indigenous militias along with elements from the old regime - Baathists and allies of Saddam Hussein. It will benefit the region, as well as Iraq, if Zarqawi's death is not allowed to become another occasion of wishful thinking by those who remain committed to Washington's policies of invasion and occupation," writes Richard Falk.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306C.shtml



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

A message from Eleanor

Original Message:

THANKS YOUNI AND PENNY LYNN!

Eleanor


HELLO, this is from JOUNI, from the topic of MAKE PEACE NOT WAR at the GLOBAL ACTION CENTRAL GROUP, which I RECOMMEND JOINING FOR A VARIETY OF COVERED ISSUES, please sign this important petition. The Nuclear Industry has been attempting to UNDO over 25 years of our hard work on educating citizenry about Nuclear weapons, and the insanity of even thinking that they are acceptable..We must not allow the UNITED STATES MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, CONTROLLED BY THE PENTAGONIANS (my new word for them) TO START THE SPACE WAR CONCEPT AGAIN! SOME OF US ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE FEAR THAT WE GREW UP WITH EVERY SINGLE DAY, DUE TO THE INSANITY OF ALL THINGS NUCLEAR and this Space issue is not just for the US to decide on!!! PLEASE HELP WITH ThIS IMPORTANT ISSUE, and THANKS VERY MUCH, PENNY LYNN DUNN...
(for more information on nuclear issues, one of the best sites is http://www.napf.org and http://www.wagingpeace.org )


Friday, 3:09 PM

Please, keep on signing this petition and spreading word about it, it is topic right now in UN as governments of UK and US have expressed their opposition to talks about preventing an arms race in space... ...CAMPAIGN FOR COOPERATION IN SPACE

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563

China, Russia Object to Weapons in Space

China and Russia yesterday told a U.N. body that the threat from space-based weapons would be equal to that posed by weapons of mass destruction, Reuters reported (see GSN, May 11).

The U.N. Conference on Disarmament is looking to begin negotiations on preventing an arms race in outer space. The United Kingdom and United States have expressed their opposition to such talks (see GSN, May 18).

Russian Ambassador to the conference Valery Loshchinin likened the weaponization of outer space to the “emergence of a new type of weapon of mass destruction.”

“If there are no weapons in outer space, no room for the use of force, then there will be no arms race there. We must nip it in the bud,” he said.

“A world free of outer space weapons is no less important than a world free of the weapons of mass destruction,” said China’s ambassador to the conference, Cheng Jingye.

“The development of outer space weapons keeps progressing quietly and relevant military doctrine is taking shape,” he said.

The White House is expected issue a new space policy for the first time in a decade this month, according to Reuters (Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters/Yahoo!News, June 8)

Privatsphäre und die Auswirkungen von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22860/1.html



Virales Eigenlob

Internetkommunikation und wirtschaftliche Interessen. Ein Überblick - Teil2
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22830/1.html



Aspekte der Zerstörung von Privatheit und Intimität

Reality-TV, Doku-Soaps und Daytime-Talk-Shows
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22849/1.html

Ich glaub, mein Handy pfeift!

Jamba-Sommerhit 2006: der lehrersichere Klingelton?
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22866/1.html

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Handy-Verbot an Schulen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1677088/

http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/23792.2561633.5409

This week, the Marshall Islands government will meet to decide how they vote at the International Whaling Commission.

Under pressure from the Japanese government, the Marshall Islands are widely expected to side with pro-whaling nations, This means that pro-whaling nations could resume control of the IWC. Japan expects the vote of the Marshall Islands to tip the balance.

This island country could hold the fate of the whales in their hands!

Don't let the Marshall Islands go down in history as one of the countries which brought about an end to whale protection.

Urge the Marshall Islands to vote with their consciences and save whales. Your message will go to President Kessia Note, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerald M Zakios, and Chief Secretary Robert Muller.

Please provide the following information necessary to send the letter 'The world is watching: vote to save whales!'.

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_3929151


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Long-time resident says she will probably sell up due to health fears

By Debbie Leigh

RESIDENTS are furious after the Government overturned a decision by Leeds City Council to refuse planning permission for a mobile phone mast.

A government inspector dismissed the health fears of residents in Roundhay living near the BP Gledhow Service Station on Roundhay Road, where the 12-metre mast will be installed. They are bitterly disappointed at the decision.

Nazreen Ahmed who has lived near the site for more than 20 years said she was so horrified by the potential health risks she would probably move house.

Mrs Ahmed, who lives at Well House Drive with her husband, mother-in-law and two young children said: "I'm worried about all the radiation you hear about and it will affect us directly as we are not too far away from it.

Overrule

"If it does go up we will be strongly considering moving house. Why have a local planning department and procedures if the Government is just going to overrule the decision? If it's not right for the local authority the Government shouldn't interfere."

The application by T-Mobile was refused in September last year after local councillors raised concerns about the health threat and the impact of the mast on the appearance and character of the area.

But an inspector allowed an appeal by T-Mobile and has now approved the plan.

Coun Valerie Kendall (Con, Roundhay) said: "With the effect on public health unclear, residents are understandably concerned. However when it comes to phone masts this case shows that the Govermnent can simply push those local concerns to one side in favour of big business with the stroke of a pen."

Other residents living near the site said they were worried by the decision.
Mohammed Rashid moved to Well House Gardens three weeks ago and said he would have objected to the plan if he had known about it. He said: "My son suffered from eczema and I have heard phone masts are not very good for eczema sufferers."

Under planning rules, a mobile phone operator is entitled to appeal a decision to an Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.


Talkback

What are your specific health fears with regard to phone masts?
Call 0113 238 8152. (Lines open 24 hours.)
Or write to: Talkback,
Yorkshire Evening Post,
Wellington Street,
Leeds LS1 1RF.
E-Mail: eped@ypn.co.uk
Text: NEWSDESK then message up to 160 characters to 83070

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1561279

Das kleine Dorf Leingarten in Baden-Württemberg bietet Monsanto die Stirn – und hat damit ein Testfeld für Genmais verhindert: Aus Protest gegen ein geplantes Monsanto-Feld hat ein Bauer in der Nähe konventionellen Mais angesät. Damit drohte der Antrag auf Einrichtung eines Testfeldes zu scheitern, weil Monsanto mit seinem Testfeld die Abstände zum konventionellen Anbau nicht einhalten konnte, die das Gentechnik-Gesetz vorschreibt. Als die Genehmigung aus dem Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Landwirtschaft ausblieb, zog Monsanto seinen Antrag zurück und verzichtet nun auf den Test-Anbau des neuartigen Gen-Mais. Dieser Sieg eines kleinen Dorfes gegen den Gentechnik- Riesen Monsanto zeigt: Gentechnik stößt auf breite Ablehnung in der Bevölkerung. Und wenn es gelingt, diese Ablehnung in Protest umzusetzen, ist Monsanto verwundbar.

Ausführlicher Hintergrundbericht: http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/1153943?_suchtag=2006-05-08


Aus: Monsanto Newsletter Nr. 2

Monsanto sorgt erneut für einen Skandal: Nach Informationen von Greenpeace weigert sich der Konzern, die Forschungsergebnisse von Laborversuchen für seinen gentechnisch veränderten Mais MON810 offen zu legen – und das, obwohl ab April 1700 Hektar Ackerfläche in Deutschland mit dieser Sorte bepflanzt werden. Zum wiederholten Male stellt sich Monsanto damit gegen eine Offenlegung von Forschungsergebnissen. Warum hält Monsanto die Versuchsergebnisse unter Verschluss? Die Weigerung ist ein weiteres Indiz dafür, dass der Gentechnik-Konzern etwas zu verbergen hat. Es scheint, dass Gentechnik auf dem Acker doch mehr Risiken für Mensch und Umwelt nach sich zieht, als der Konzern zugeben mag. Bereits im Jahr 2004 hatten geheim gehaltene Forschungen für einen Skandal gesorgt: Ratten, die mit dem Monsanto-Mais MON863 gefüttert wurden, hatten beunruhigende Veränderungen im Blutbild und an den Nieren gezeigt. Trotzdem wurde der umstrittene Mais nicht vom Markt genommen. Monsanto stritt jegliche Gesundheitsgefahren ab. Der aktuelle Fall zeigt: Die Auswirkungen der Gentechnik auf Mensch und Natur sind weitgehend unerforscht. Monsanto ignoriert alle Risiken und will unbeirrt weitere Sorten in Europa etablieren. Für die VerbraucherInnen hingegen ergibt sich kein zusätzlicher Nutzen – daher lehnen auch 2/3 der europäischen VerbraucherInnen die Gentechnik auf dem Teller ab. Wir fordern von Monsanto: Ausstieg aus dem Risiko-Geschäft Gentechnik!


Aus: Monsanto Newsletter Nr. 2

Mother Jones
by Tom Engelhardt

06/12/06

Let me, on this, be neither conservative, nor cautious. Every now and then, you have to rely on history as your guide. And hasn't this happened to us enough? Don't we know that, in every turning-of-the-tide moment in Iraq, it soon turns out that, despite the hoopla, our tide was ebbing and someone else's invariably rising? A number of experts are already suggesting that Zarqawi's death will have 'minimal impact' on the Iraqi resistance and may, in fact, serve to strengthen it by removing the most divisive and detested oppositional figure in the country; or perhaps, as the superb independent journalist Nir Rosen suggests in a thoughtful obit at the Truthdig website, Zarqawi's death 'was the greatest advertisement for his cause' and the path he blazed into sectarian warfare is now unstaunchable...

http://tinyurl.com/s36h8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

06/12/06

[T]he U.S. government's propaganda machine has made al Qaeda the most overrated organization in the world and its leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the controlling force behind worldwide violent Islamic jihad -- even though they act mainly as inspiration for the movement. Similarly, in Iraq, the U.S. government needed a villain to personify the rather faceless Iraqi insurgency. The vicious and brutal Zarqawi fit the bill perfectly. The Bush administration demonized Zarqawi's foreign jihadists as the instigators and dominant force of the much larger Sunni insurgency to demonstrate that foreigners were causing most of the problems in Iraq rather than Iraqis who wanted to oust the occupying superpower. After building up Zarqawi and the jihadists, the administration could now shore up sagging public support for the war at home by nailing the bad guy in classic Hollywood fashion. Yet the administration's public relations coup is likely to be temporary and do a favor for the Iraqi insurgency and maybe even bin Laden and Zawahiri...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1748


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AlterNet
by Ray McGovern

06/12/06

Several months ago, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada decided that U.S. involvement in Iraq is illegal and immoral. Like so many of us, Watada concluded that intelligence was manipulated to 'justify' the invasion. Unlike so many of us, he has had the courage to stick his neck out and pay the price for resistance. We should, I suppose, give the neck its due. It is a pleasant thing -- a convenient connection between head and torso. We do not risk it out of caprice. But if there is nothing for which we will risk that neck, then it has become our idol. And necks are not worthy of this status. Finally, an active duty U.S. Army officer has refused to engage in that kind of idol worship...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/37381/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

National Review
by John Derbyshire

06/12/06

Since the Iraq war was obviously a gross blunder, is it time for those of us who cheered on the war to offer some kind of apology? Here we are -- we, the United States -- in our fourth year of occupying that sinkhole, and it looks pretty much like the third year, or the second. Will the eighth year of our occupation, or our twelfth, look any better? I know people who will say yes, but I no longer know any who will say it with real conviction. It's a tough thing, to admit you were wrong. It's way tough if you're a big-name pundit with a reputation to preserve. For those of us down at the bottom of the pundit pecking order, the stakes aren't so high. I, at any rate, am willing to eat some crow and say: I wish I had never given any support to this fool war...

http://tinyurl.com/gfx9m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

06/12/06

'I did a good job,' Tom DeLay said Thursday in his farewell speech to the House of Representatives. 'I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years. The K Street project and the K Street strategy I am very proud of.' At least Republicans will have to finally stop denying its existence. The K Street Project was the business of forcing the big corporate lobbyists to hire Republicans and donate to Republicans if they wanted to do business on Capitol Hill. For years, the boys used to claim that it really didn't exist. Just a figment of overactive Democrat imaginations, they used to say. Guess again. K Street is the stretch of Washington populated by expensive restaurants frequented by fat cat lobbyists and the members and staffers who feed at their trough. But it is not simply a place, but a way of doing business...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199038,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News

06/12/06

Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class -- and many teachers can't even hear the ring. Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. With it, high schoolers can receive text message alerts on their cell phones without the teacher knowing. As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear -- a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds. The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers -- not help them. A Welsh security company developed the tone to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected. The company called their product the 'Mosquito'...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Post

06/12/06

U.S. troops sent to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea to prepare for joint war games left Ukraine after two weeks of protests organized by pro-Russian parties prevented them from carrying out their mission. Some 200 Marine reservists arrived in Ukraine on May 27 to help refurbish a training facility for the exercises in mid-July. But the protesters, who accused NATO and the United States of seeking a foothold in the ex-Soviet republic, prevented the reservists from getting on to the base. ... U.S. and Ukrainian officials said the 200 reservists began leaving the region on Sunday because their contract had ended. Russian television broadcast footage of several dozen flag-bearing protesters shouting 'Yankee Go Home!' at buses apparently carrying the Americans...

http://tinyurl.com/o92fc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

06/12/06

Private military contractors are earning billions of dollars in Iraq -- much of it from U.S. taxpayers. Business is booming for those willing to tackle one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Lucrative U.S. government contracts go to firms called on to provide security for projects and personnel -- jobs that in previous conflicts have been done by the military. A single contract awarded to Britain's AEGIS Specialist Risk Management company by the Pentagon was worth $293 million, and while the government says it cannot provide a total amount for the contracts -- many of which are secret -- industry experts estimate Iraq's security business costs tens of billions of dollars...

http://tinyurl.com/nhzqa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Just to put perspective on the size of this science/truth issue, Exxon/Mobil has ploughed millions of dollars into setting up some 40 "scientific" organisations to refute or confuse the human contribution to climate change issue, and be ready "independent" commentators to the media. During the tenure of the latest Chairman, ExxonMobil has contributed some 60bn tonnes of CO2 to our atmosphere.

You might also reflect on the current moves by the Royal Society to squash science that might create awkwardness and worry people. Let's hope their attempt to have Andrew Wakefield struck off over MMR backfires.

It seems globalised humankind would rather self-destruct than moderate its money-making.

Andy

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1796266,00.html#article_continue


Informant: Davey Garland

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4648/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy22.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis33.html

Zarqawi and the Drug War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger90.html

Without reservation
http://militaryweek.com/columns/withoutreservation.php?id=19


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed98.html

Sovietizing the Economy: The Final Phase
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w63.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/reed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/grigg

A new documentary chronicles a summer camp where children, as young as six, are trained to become devout Christian soldiers.

http://www.alternet.org/movies/37373/


From Information Clearing House

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God’s Army
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=576

http://tinyurl.com/n8z2b


From Information Clearing House

Russia has angrily accused the U.S. government of injecting political questions about democracy and human rights into the trade negotiations, but Schwab this was not the case.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/10/wtopolitics.shtml


From Information Clearing House

The administration has suffered a decisive defeat of its effort to get international sanctions for possible military action against Iran.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33571


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13584.htm



I Stand In Solidarity With The Prisoners Of Guantanamo

Because the unjust and inhumane treatment of any man or woman, diminishes me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13589.htm



US prison at Guantanamo condemned

Human rights groups and politicians have called for the controversial US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be closed after the suicides of three inmates on Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/hlbgt


From Information Clearing House

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A profound disassociation from humanity
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4647/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Lies, Damn Lies and Spades
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=574

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Close Guantanamo now

The Progressive
by Matthew Rothschild

06/12/06

What's it going to take to close down Guantanamo Bay? It should have been closed long ago, if Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Gonzales had any respect for international law and human rights. And it definitely should be closed now, after the suicides of three detainees on Saturday morning. At the very least, there appears to have been gross negligence on the part of the guards there, who are supposed to 'observe prisoners at least every two minutes,' according to The New York Times. One of the detainees was 17 when he was captured in Afghanistan back in 2001, the Times said. ... Another one of the detainees who committed suicide was supposed to be released, but 'was not told because U.S. officials had not decided which country he would be sent to,' BBC reports, citing Mark Denbeaux, a lawyer for some Guantanamo prisoners...

http://progressive.org/mag_wx061206


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

THE intercepted top-secret fax contained information that America never wanted the world to know – that the US was holding war-on-terror captives at clandestine “black site” prisons in eastern Europe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13577.htm

The U.S. denies accounts saying that the terrorist was beaten by American troops before he died, but confirms that a child was among the dead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13581.htm

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So 'Zarqawi' is finally dead
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=570



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

Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue. The figure is high even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of corpses this year.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5478162


From Information Clearing House

U.S. forces killed seven "militants". Two children were also been killed.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBA228362.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13588.htm



Nuking Iran: Jorge Hirsch interviewed by Foaad Khosmood

You had written back in October of 2005 that "The strategic decision by the United States to nuke Iran was probably made long ago." What led you to that conclusion at that time? What do you think of the Hersh piece?

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/apr/1094.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jorge+Hirsch

By Mark H. Gaffney

Our problem in 2006 is that the world can no longer afford even a single miscalculation, lest we become irradiated flakes of ash on the wasted winds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13590.htm

By Dahr Jamail and Arkan Hamed
Inter Press Service

In the wake of the Haditha massacre, reports of another atrocity have surfaced in which U.S. troops killed two women in Samarra, and then attempted to hide evidence of their responsibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13591.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0612-21.htm



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

U.S. Criticized over Guantanamo Suicides
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0612-03.htm

Former Guantanamo Detainees Recall Despair
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0612-01.htm

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When Suicide becomes Resistance

By Mike Whitney

Guantanamo is the face of America under Bush. It has changed how we are perceived in the world and it has eroded our moral authority.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13587.htm



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

http://associationnationaleapursetap.centerblog.net/


Next-up news

Fears of an imminent U.S. assault on the Sunni city of Ramadi are increasing. On Saturday U.S. and Iraqi forces cordoned off the city of 400,000 people. The Los Angeles Times reported that fleeing residents say the U.S. has begun bombing residential areas. Thousands of families are reportedly trapped in the city and facing a mounting humanitarian crisis. Food and medical supplies are running low. Prices for gas have soared because of shortages. The Iraqi government has tried repeatedly to send medical and food aid into Ramadi, but it has been thwarted by insurgent attacks. A former governor of the city said that people in Ramadi are caught between two plagues: the vicious, armed insurgents and the American and Iraqi troops.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/12/1320226


Informant: John Calvert



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

"Since President Bush has not commandeered the television screen to address the American people on the latest wrinkles in his 'strategy for victory' in Iraq, former diplomat John Brown, who resigned his State Department post in 2003 to protest the onrushing invasion of Iraq, and who now compiles the Public Diplomacy Press Review, thought he might lend the President a hand," writes Tom Engelhardt.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206P.shtml

The federal district judge overseeing the CIA leak case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will hold a pre-trial status hearing today. Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is facing five counts of obstruction of justice, false statements and perjury in the investigation of who leaked CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to the media.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206O.shtml

"There is a direct link between the alleged atrocities in Haditha and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld," writes retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste. "His poor decisions and bad judgment in 2003 and 2004 are the root causes for the prolonged challenge we now face. Haditha is but a symptom of a much bigger problem."


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206N.shtml



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

America plans to retain a garrison of 50,000 troops, one tenth of its entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206M.shtml

"Today, there must be, at the very least, hundreds of civilian and military officials in the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, National Security Agency and White House who have in their safes and computers comparable documentation of intense internal debates - so far carefully concealed from Congress and the public - about prospective or actual war crimes, reckless policies and domestic crimes: the Pentagon Papers of Iraq, Iran or the ongoing war on US liberties," writes Daniel Ellsberg. "Some of those officials, I hope, will choose to accept the personal risks of revealing the truth - earlier than I did - before more lives are lost or a new war is launched."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206L.shtml

Spinning Suicide

"Three men being held in the United States military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killed themselves by hanging in their cells on Saturday. The Team Bush spin machine immediately swept into high gear," writes Marjorie Cohn.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206J.shtml

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"Killing Themselves Was Unnecessary. But It Certainly Is a Good PR Move."

The Bush administration stared down a new wave of international condemnation of Guantanamo yesterday, dismissing the suicides by three inmates of the prison camp as a "good PR move" on their part and an "act of asymmetrical warfare."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206K.shtml

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And the Oscar Goes To ...

"You can only be bemused by the title of the lady at the US State Department who called the suicides of three prisoners a 'good PR move to draw attention,'" writes William Fisher. "Her name is Colleen Graffy, and her title is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. That's Public Diplomacy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306J.shtml

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Outcry Over Suicides at Guantanamo

The deaths and the official commentary on the dead men's motives have inspired broad criticism. The fatalities also brought appeals for independent investigation of the detention process here as well as insistence that the prison be closed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306K.shtml

Sozialforum: Verfassungsschutz beobachtet angeblich Wissenschaftler Grottian (12.06.06)

Der Wissenschaftler und Mitbegründer des Berliner Sozialforums Peter Grottian wird laut einem Bericht des Magazins "Der Spiegel" vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet. Die Behörde sammle seit Jahren Informationen über die Aktivitäten von Grottian und über linke Gruppen, die gegen den rot-roten Senat in Berlin opponierten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13797

David Safavian's trial, the first arising from the Abramoff scandal, draws closer to an end Monday, with prosecutors depicting the former top procurement official in the government as a liar who improperly capitalized on his position.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206H.shtml

The war in Iraq has generated some of the most startling images in the Middle East today: a dictator's fall, elections in defiance of insurgent threats, and carnage on a scale rarely witnessed. Less visibly though, the war is building a profound legacy across the Arab world: fear and suspicion over Iraq's repercussions, a generation that casts the Bush administration's policy as an unquestioned war on Islam, and a subterranean reserve of men who, like Abu Haritha, declare that the fight against the United States in Iraq is a model for the future.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206F.shtml

The Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wire-tapping program will face its first big court test on Monday, when a federal judge in Detroit hears a direct challenge to the program’s legality for the first time. Opponents of the program have broadened their campaign to include not just opposition in Congress, but more than two dozen lawsuits against the government and the telephone companies allegedly complicit in the spying, plus complaints to state and federal agencies that regulate telecommunications companies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206C.shtml

Across the country this school year, hundreds of "counter-recruiters" have been quietly setting up information tables in high schools. Their message: Military recruiters lie. War is hell. Think long and hard before you enlist.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206D.shtml

"Fearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid, imposing curfews, and attacking by means of snipers and random air strikes. This time, Iraqis there are right to fear the worst - an all out attack on the city, similar to what was done to nearby Fallujah, " writes Dahr Jamail.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramadi
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Falluja/

by Steven Hill, TomPaine.com

On publicly owned voting machines and other ways to rescue our broken election system. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/12/recipe_for_a_fair_election.php

by Robert L. Borosage, The Nation

Given the scope of conservative ruin, how do progressives seize the day? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/12/time_for_bold_politics.php

Jason Leopold reports on a sealed federal indictment that could prove very interesting to those following the Fitzgerald/Plame investigation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206Z.shtml

Village Voice
by Nat Hentoff

06/08/06

With Congress refusing to hold the executive branch accountable for even its clear violation of the law in unleashing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us -- and also collect all our phone records -- only the courts remain to guard the constitutional separation of powers. ... But, as for the courts, increasingly the White House -- with the full support of the president's faithful vassal Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- has been compelling judges to dismiss cases that could expose the administration's misrule of law. By invoking the 'state secrets' privilege, the administration ensures that all documents and reports central to the case at hand are excluded -- and the case cannot proceed...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0624,hentoff,73492,6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Reuel Marc Gerecht

It may well be that the manner of Zarqawi's death will send the wrong signal to the U.S. military, which seems determined to continue its 'intelligence-driven" counterinsurgency. Good intelligence was followed by laser-guided munitions -- just the kind of action that warms Secretary Rumsfeld's heart. But neither we nor the Iraqis are going to find salvation through good intelligence and smart bombs. If we continue on this 'easy' path, we will only guarantee that Abu Musab al Zarqawi's name will endure... (for publication 06/19/06)

http://tinyurl.com/mfgct


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Ted Galen Carpenter

06/10/06

The air strikes that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on June 7 should cause rejoicing in both Iraq and the United States. An especially evil, brutal, bloodthirsty terrorist is gone, and Al Qaeda has suffered a significant blow. That being said, Americans should not assume his death will make a major difference in Iraq’s overall security environment. The episode is simply the latest milestone that is not really a milestone in that unhappy country. We should be especially skeptical of those who proclaim every favorable development as a crucial turning point in the Iraq conflict. We’ve heard it all before. ... The reality is that the level of violence in Iraq has increased rather than declined since those premature claims of victory. ... Both the Bush administration and the American people need to recognize just how bad the sectarian violence in Iraq has become...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198938,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Why I am moving to Wyoming

The Price of Liberty
by Boston T. Party

06/06

Folks, we're no longer presumed innocent, we're presumed guilty. We're no longer punished for what we've done, but for what we might do. This 'prior restraint' is a slap in the face of our Common Law heritage, and is carried to such ridiculous extremes that 90 year old ladies are now automatically presumed to be people of aggression, theft, and fraud...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/06/12/boston.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

06/09/06

Owing to the appearance of hard-to-dismiss photographic and videotaped evidence, certain 'incidents,' such as the massacre at Haditha or the disgusting fun and games at Abu Ghraib, find their way into the U.S. news media from time to time. The government reacts predictably: first, officials cover up or obfuscate the evidence; then, they blame 'a few bad apples' in the enlisted ranks and insist that we take the time to 'find out the facts before leaping to conclusions,' especially to any conclusions about misconduct by senior officers; finally, they bury the whole matter in a drawn-out proceeding by which the military investigates and, for the most part, exculpates itself, while the general public shifts its attention to the lastest story of a vanished coed. It's the tried-and-true method by which the government deals with unpleasant reports about its actions: hunker down, pronounce inanities, and wait...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1745


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Las Vegas Review-Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz

06/11/06

Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation -- your quintessential modern 'conservative' think tank -- finally laid his cards face-up in an op-ed piece in this section March 26. In the essay, headlined 'Curing the conservative crack-up,' Mr. Feulner proposed six criteria by which conservatives should weigh any proposed government action. Among his criteria were 'Does it make us safer?' and 'Does it unify us?' It's hard to imagine any of the world's worst dictators having any problem eagerly embracing those justifications for their actions. Freedom often looks dangerous, disorderly and divisive; bureaucratic control and the cops reading our mail, 'wanding us down,' and/or peering in every window are nearly always sold as 'necessary to make us safer.' And there sure is a feeling of 'unity' as we're herded down those airport cattle chutes or race to mail in our tribute every April 15...

http://tinyurl.com/q6c8a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Stars & Stripes

06/11/06

Iraqi soldiers in Al Anbar province are leaving their army in droves, draining much-needed manpower from fledgling Iraqi security forces and preventing U.S. troops from reducing troop strength in the volatile region, U.S. and Iraqi military officials say. Lousy living conditions, bad food and failure to receive regular pay are the main reasons behind the exodus, which is running at least several hundred soldiers a month, the officials say...

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=37831


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent [UK]

06/11/06

Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq have reacted furiously to a letter from Tony Blair saying that their loved ones died defending their country, since, they say, the Iraqi regime never posed a threat. The anger has strengthened the resolve of mothers and wives who yesterday launched their campaign to bring British troops back home from the Gulf. They also called for a nation-wide picket of Army recruiting offices...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article756020.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

06/10/06

For nearly a decade, Allen Raymond stood at the top ranks of Republican Party power. He served as chief of staff to a cochairman of the Republican National Committee, supervised Republican contests in mid-Atlantic states for the RNC, and was a top official in publisher Steve Forbes's presidential campaign. He went on to earn $350,000 a year running a Republican policy group as well as a GOP phone-bank business. But most recently, Raymond has been in prison. And for that, he blames himself, but also says he was part of a Republican political culture that emphasizes hardball tactics and polarizing voters. Raymond, 39, has just finished serving a three-month sentence for jamming Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire during the 2002 US Senate race. The incident led to one of the biggest political scandals in the state's history, the convictions of Raymond and two top Republican officials, and a Democratic lawsuit that seeks to determine whether the White House played any role. The race was won by Senator John E. Sununu, the Republican...

http://tinyurl.com/h2tvf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/epto2

New Book available from Powerwatch UK called "The Powerwatch Handbook, simple ways to make you and your family safer" Alasdair and Jean have donated all royalties from this new book to the UK charity Children with Leukaemia. Please support it and order a copy, essential reading. See article in major UK news paper The Daily Mail.

Well done to the Powerwatch we owe them a debt of gratitude.

Eileen O'Connor

Die Politik der USA produziert Flüchtlingsströme und ist gleichzeitig extrem flüchtlingsfeindlich. Kolumne von Mumia Abu-Jamal in junge Welt vom
10.06.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/06-10/040.php


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juni 2006

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Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Weltweit wird am heutigen 10. Oktober gegen die Todesstrafe demonstriert – siehe dazu:

ai-Focus: Nein zur Todesstrafe - Aktuelles über Erfolge im Kampf gegen die Todesstrafe! http://www.amnesty.at/fokus/todesstrafe/index.htm

World Coalition against the death penalty website http://www.worldcoalition.org/

Aus diesem Anlaß widmen wir den heutigen Newsletter Mumia Abu-Jamal – siehe dazu:

Wettlauf gegen den Tod. Mumia Abu-Jamal - Ein schwarzer Revolutionär im weißen Amerika

Biographie von Michael Schiffmann (ISBN 3-85371-258-4, br., bebildert,
320 Seiten, 21,90 Euro, 39,90 sFr., gerade erschienen im Promedia Verlag Wien). Siehe dazu:

Verlagsinformationen http://www.mediashop.at/022polit/202schiffmannwettlauf.htm

Das Inhaltsverzeichnis (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/solidaritaet/mumia/schiffmann1.pdf

Die Einleitung – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/solidaritaet/mumia/schiffmann2.pdf

Heute (10. Oktober 2006) findet in Wien die Buchvorstellung des Promedia-Verlages mit dem Autor statt (19 Uhr, Amerlinghaus, Stiftgasse 8, 1070 Wien). Gezeigt werden zusätzlich Ausschnitte einer von Michael Schiffmann gedrehten Dokumentation über Mumia Abu-Jamal

Berlin: Bündnis für Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Menschenwürde und die Gruppe „Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal“ laden ebenfalls zu einer Veranstaltung mit Michael Schiffmann ein: Freitag, den 13. Oktober 2006 um 19:00 Uhr im Rathaus Schöneberg, Raum 195


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Oktober 2006

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Hoffen und bangen um Abu-Jamal

„Im Fall eines der prominentesten Verurteilten der USA, des schwarzen Journalisten Mumia Abu-Jamal, wird sich ab morgen entscheiden, ob er wieder wegen Polizistenmordes die Todesstrafe fürchten muss oder sein Verfahren neu aufgerollt wird…“ Artikel von Afrienne Woltersdorf in der taz vom 16.5.2007 http://taz.de/dx/2007/05/16/a0164.1/text


Justizmord verhindern. Solidaritätsbekundungen für Mumia Abu-Jamal in Berlin. Anhörung am 17. Mai in Philadelphia entscheidet über Leben und Tod des Journalisten

Artikel von Roland Etzel in junge Welt vom 14.05.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/05-14/041.php


„Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal!“

“Für Mumia Abu-Jamal kann der kommende Donnerstag zum Tag der Entscheidung über Leben oder Tod werden. Wie die NRhZ in ihrer Ausgabe 92 berichtete, wird dann in Philadelphia (US-Staat Pennsylvania) eine Anhörung vor einem Berufungsgericht stattfinden, deren Ergebnis eine Wiederaufnahme des Prozesses sein könnte, in dem der afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtler vor 25 Jahren zum Tode verurteilt worden war. Am Samstagabend sprach Rachel Wolkenstein, Anwältin des Partisan Defense Committee und in den 90er Jahren Mitglied des Verteidigungsteams Mumia Abu-Jamals, dazu nach einer Solidaritätsdemonstration im Berliner IG Metall-Haus. Hier ihr Vortrag in der deutschen Übersetzung…“ Rede von Rachel Wolkenstein in der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung Nummer 95 vom 16.5.07 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10918


Union back Free Mumia

“BRITISH trade unionists gave the Free Mumia Campaign a welcome boost at the weekend, pledging to mobilise support in their branches and nationally to stop US authorities stealing the life of an internationally renowned death-row political prisoner. Time is running out for Mumia Abu Jamal…” Artikel von Louise Nousratpour in “Morning Star”, daily paper of the British left, vom 7.5.07 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/solidaritaet/mumia/morningstar.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Mai 2007

Rote Karte für Deutschlands Abschiebetaktik!

Deutschland wird Abschiebeweltmeister PRO ASYL startet Kampagne: Rote Karte für Deutschlands Abschiebetaktik. Appell an den Deutschen Bundestag: Bleiberechtsregelung gesetzlich beschließen. Presseerklärung von Pro Asyl vom 30.5.06 http://www.proasyl.de/de/archiv/presseerklaerungen/presse-detail/news////deutschland_wird_abschiebeweltmeister/back/105/chash/cfbe3b0d8a/index.html


Unterschriftensammlung „Beim Flüchtlingsschutz steht Deutschland im Abseits!“

„PRO ASYL bereitet eine Petition für eine großzügige Bleiberechtsregelung vor, die wir zusammen mit den gesammelten Unterschriften dem Deutschen Bundestag überreichen werden. Sorgen Sie dafür, dass Deutschland seinem Anspruch auf Weltoffenheit und Fairness ein Stück näher kommt.“ Kampagnenseite von Pro Asyl http://www.proasyl.de/de/appell-bleiberecht/index.html

online-Unterschriften http://www.proasyl.de/de/wm-bleiberecht-online-unterschreiben/index.html


Guinea-Delegation in Dortmund

Beamte aus Diktaturen zu Gast bei Freunden

Presseerklärung des Internationalen Aktionsbündnisses vom 28.5.06 zu den skandalösen Vorgängen um die "Anhörungen" von Flüchtlingen durch eine Delegation aus Guinea in Dortmund mit der Schilderung der Vorgänge um die Anhörungen von papierlosen Flüchtlingen (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/migration/doguinea.pdf

Medizin und Ökonomie

Dr. med. Moloch. Warum es so schwer ist, das Gesundheitssystem zu reformieren.

Artikel von Annette Jensen in der taz vom 8.6.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/08/a0165.1/text


Gesundheit und Armut

Von Patientenerlös und "erlösten" Patienten

Der Hauptstadtkongress Gesundheit befasste sich auch mit den Folgen von Nichtversicherung. Artikel von Ulrike Baureithel in Freitag vom 26.05.2006 http://www.freitag.de/2006/21/06210501.php


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juni 2006

Solidarität mit Dr. Nikolaus Brauns

Verfahrensverschleppung. Ermittlungen gegen junge-Welt-Journalisten Nick Brauns dauern an. Der aktuelle Verfahrensstand zusammengestellt von Ludwig König http://www.labournet.de/solidaritaet/nickbrauns1.html

Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juni 2006

A message from Eleanor

There is no hope for Primates in the UK without a ruling in their favour from the EU. Please sign if you haven't already and forward! I know I have sent this before - but it is so frustrating to see the petition lack just 159 signatures.

Lots of love,

Eleanor


PLEASE COPY, PASTE AND FORWARD, CROSSPOST!!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/580843335

Primates possess many qualities which were once considered solely human attributes. The central nervous system of Primates and humans is organized in almost the same way, and there are similarities between the social behavior, emotional needs and intellectual capabilities of humans and other Primates. Primates demonstrate the ability to reason, to exhibit friendship and altruism, to suffer fear and stress.

UK and EU legislation has been partially expanded to supposedly protect their specific requirements in the laboratory and afford them a 'higher' status than other animal species under Directive 86/609/EEC. The reality is, however, that this legal provision does not prevent thousands of primates each year enduring terrible pain, suffering and death in the laboratory. . Experiments that would be unthinkable if performed on human subjects should also be considered morally unacceptable when carried out on our genetic cousins.

Researchers use primates as 'models' of human diseases on which the development and progression of such diseases can be monitored and treated. However primates, like other animals, make poor 'models' and attempting to extrapolate test results from one species to another is a fundamentally flawed research methodology. Despite their similarities, there are also many significant differences between humans and others Primates.

The fundamental flaw underlying the research of human diseases in primates is that researchers can only attempt to artificially induce similar superficial symptoms of human diseases in Primates, which is very different from studying a naturally occurring disease in a biologically relevant animal i.e. a human patient.

Primates who are removed from their normal habitat, deprived of environmental stimulants and social interaction, make poor 'models' on which to record the 'natural' development of disease or infection. Like human beings, primates react very differently to disease or illness depending on their physical and psychological states.

The reality is, despite what the research industry would have us believe, primates do not provide a reliable 'model' of the human being. After decades of research on primates, scientists have repeatedly failed to make significant breakthroughs in fully understanding the onset and progression of HIV or AIDS, cot death, epilepsy, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, or cancer - all human conditions which have been thoroughly, though pointlessly, explored through research on Primates.

Disney Phone Service Has Parents in Mind

The New York Times

By LAURA M. HOLSON

Published: April 5, 2006

LOS ANGELES, April 4 — With the help of the Walt Disney Company, parents can make sure it’s still a small world for their children, at least when it comes to their cellphone use.

On Wednesday, the company will introduce a wireless phone service that will allow parents to set limits on their children’s cellphone use as well as track them on a map using Global Positioning System technology.

Parents can determine what hours and days of the week children can use phones, blocking school hours for example, and what numbers they can dial. They will also be able to set spending limits on their phone bills.

The new service, called Disney Mobile, has not been priced yet. It will be unveiled in Las Vegas at the annual trade show for CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, and will be available in June. The service comes on the heels of Disney’s February debut of Mobile ESPN, a service for sports fans.

Disney, like many media companies, is hoping to take advantage of the proliferation of cellphones by offering services of its own, like ring tones and wallpaper.

Many consumer groups, however, have begun voicing concerns about escalating bills. Every item, from text and picture messaging to downloading of content, costs a fee, with some unwitting users racking up hundreds of dollars in charges. Parents have complained, too, that it is hard to monitor their children’s mobile use when they are out of the house.

“This is very much about putting control in the hands of the parents,” said Steve Wadsworth, president of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

As part of the mobile service, parents can set up a monthly allowance of minutes, text messages or other services for each child to use. Once a monthly allowance is reached, both the parent and the child receive an alert on their Disney Mobile phones. The parent then can decide either to increase the allowance or restrict the phone’s use.

Parents can also use an online tool to designate when phones can be used (no more interruptions at dinnertime) and what numbers can be dialed. Certain numbers, like the home number, can be programmed to always be available in case of an emergency.

The service will be available to consumers through disneymobile.com and Disney Mobile kiosks in malls. To gain access to the service, a child must own a Disney Mobile phone, which costs $59.99 with a two-year service contract. Parents will not need to buy a Disney Mobile phone for themselves, but if they do not, they will have to monitor the child’s phone use online instead of directly by phone.

The idea behind the service was to give parents flexibility, said George Grobar, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Mobile. For younger, less mature children, the service can be restricted to incoming and outgoing calls from family members. “Kids are terrified of the phone timeout,” he said. But teenagers who want to send text messages and download videos can have the freedom to do as they wish.

Perhaps the most novel feature is that parents can determine the location of a child’s phone, either from their own cellphones or by entering a code online that will show a map. In that way they will know whether their son or daughter is really at swim practice or hanging out at the mall instead.

And what about wives or husbands who want to keep track of their spouses? Can they be tracked, too?

“Only kids can be tracked,” Mr. Wadsworth said, because they have to identify themselves.

Still, Mr. Grobar added, “there could be many interesting uses.”

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Jun 11, 2006 11:28

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ELECTRONIC HARASSMENT / A REAL THREAT

DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS

Was located here :
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=1622

Michele Moore writes and speaks on the subjects of Happiness and Spiritual Success. She produces the Happiness Blog HappinessBlog.com and is author of an upcoming book titled the Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People. Michele's background includes a MBA Finance and 20+ happy years in management & technology consulting. She brings a fresh analytical view to the subjects of Happiness and Spiritual Success. Michele Moore lives in Atlanta and travels widely.

Michele Moore

August 4, 2005

Suppose there was a technology that would allow you to secretly and silently stupefy and befuddle your adversaries, competitors and rivals without a trace. If the stakes were high enough in terms of money and power, would you use it? Can you be sure such weapons are not being used against you? The answer is, probably not.

It is an established fact that non ionizing microwave radiation, especially Extra Low Frequency ELF microwaves can induce sudden and dramatic changes in human psychological states, alter sleep patterns, cause headaches, memory loss and physiological changes.These ELF microwaves are invisible and virtually undetectable. Their effects are not widely known and the equipment to prove they are being used is not generally available.

Specific Electronic Threats:

Microwaves pulsed at specific frequencies over stimulate the brain production of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter associated with the storage of memory, inducing memory loss and a sense of timelessness and/or missing time.

Other ELF microwave frequencies induce an aversive reaction characteristic of avoidance learning. Think of the impact of this if used during political debates.

A weak (1 mW) 4 Hz magnetic sine wave can modify human brain waves in 6 to 10 seconds. The psychological effects of a 4 Hz sine magnetic wave are negative -- causing dizziness, nausea, headache, and can lead to vomiting.

The telephone and electric wiring in our homes and businesses can serve as gigantic transmitters and receivers. Technology to transmit specific ELF frequencies into our homes and businesses is readily available. It is not unlike the devices that allow you to install a telephone extension by sending radio frequencies through your electric lines.

Microwave transmissions can be focused quite narrowly over long distances. They can penetrate walls, glass and physical barriers just as cell phone transmissions do. Microwave transmissions aimed at a bed head board could literally cook a victim brain during sleep without their ever being fully aware of what is happening to them.

Ultra Sonics: It is also possible to hear and understand spoken words transmitted by pulsed-microwave analogs of a speaker's sound vibrations. The words could be inaudible to the people around listener and would seem to be the listener own thoughts. Imagine the implications for disseminating disinformation during corporate presentations.

Electronic harassment technology has come a long way since the Soviets bombarded the US Embassy with microwaves in the 1970's. A similar system was apparently used against the British women protesting the presence of American cruise missiles at Greenham Common Air Base also during the seventies. These devices employed electromagnetic radiation (EMR) of gigahertz frequency, pulsed at extremely low frequencies (ELF) to torture people physically and mentally, covertly from a distance.

Congressional inquiry into electronic harassment technologies, especially after the MKULTRA affair in the 1980's quickly drove the development and deployment of these electronic harassment devices into the hands of independent contractors where they remain today. These contractors move seamlessly and secretly between the government and private sectors.

Sadly, there is remarkably little information readily available about the status and use of electronic harassment devices in the world today. What is accessible is old and is often associated with extra terrestrial alien internet sites. Three fairly credible links are:

http://www.subversiveelement.com/MK_Psychotronic_weapons.html
http://www.subversiveelement.com/MKmartin5.html
http://www.whale.to/b/krawczyk.html

The threat of electronic harassment technologies to American businesses and freedom is real. Anyone involved in a contentious and competitive business situation needs to be aware these technologies exist so they can protect themselves and their interests.

Michele Moore
Michele@HappinessBlog.com

The author, Michele Moore, is not affiliated with any physical protection or internet security firm. She has experienced the symptoms of ELF harassment during an intellectual property dispute. Her computer was remotely disabled ten minutes after sending an email containing the three links mentioned in this article to a friend.

Michele writes and speaks on the subjects of happiness and well-being from her home in Atlanta. See http://www.HappinessHabit.com, http://www.HappinessBlog.com and http://www.MicheleMoore.com for more information about her work.


Scary stuff

Gerry Duffett

Pager # 416-612-5689

http://www.goliathboards.com/users5/gerryduffett/index.cgi

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

12. Juni 2006

Sind so kleine Hände ...

Zum "Internationalen Tag gegen Kinderarbeit" am 12. Juni erklärt Sascha Wagener, jugendpolitischer Sprecher des Parteivorstands der Linkspartei.PDS:

Die Vereinten Nationen erklärten am 20. November 1959, dass "die Menschheit dem Kinde ihr Bestes zu geben schuldig ist". Weiter hieß es: "Das Kind wird erst nach Erreichung eines geeigneten Mindestalters zur Arbeit zugelassen; nie wird es gezwungen oder wird ihm erlaubt, einen Beruf oder eine Tätigkeit auszuüben, die seiner Gesundheit oder Erziehung schaden". Nach Berechnungen der ILO (Internationale Arbeitsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen) sind 50 Jahre später viele Gesellschaften weit davon entfernt, die Rechte der Kinder zu achten.
211 Millionen Kinder (127 Millionen in Asien, 48 Millionen in Afrika) zwischen 5 und 14 Jahren müssen arbeiten, um zum Überleben ihrer Familien beizutragen. Viele werden zu Hungerlöhnen und unter der Sklaverei ähnlichen Bedingungen ausgebeutet. Den "Internationalen Tag gegen Kinderarbeit" haben die Vereinten Nationen 2002 eingerichtet, um auf die Rechte der Kinder vor wirtschaftlicher Ausbeutung aufmerksam zu machen. Kinderarbeit wird nicht von heute auf morgen verschwinden. Sie begleitet die Industrialisierung armer Staaten und die Armut zu vieler Familien auf der Welt. Aber es ist gut, dass sich die Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch die Unterzeichnung der ILO-Konvention 182 im Jahre
2000 verpflichtet hat, Maßnahmen zu treffen und Aktionsprogramme durchzuführen, die schlimmsten Formen von Kinderarbeit abschaffen zu helfen. Unter Bezugnahme auf diese Konvention sind die Kommunen und Städte Deutschlands aufgefordert, ihre Vergabepraxis zu ändern. München, Dresden oder Schwerin haben entsprechende Ratsbeschlüsse gefasst; viele andere Städte sollten folgen. Globales Denken und lokales Handeln müssen dazu führen, bei Ausschreibungen nur noch Produkte zu berücksichtigen, die ohne ausbeuterische Kinderarbeit hergestellt sind.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=32953

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

I referred to the goal of global "integration" on the part of the Bush administration. This was also the goal of the Clinton administration and of the power elite in general. Their plan has been globally to integrate regional economic arrangements and then advocate their management by a World Socialist Government. Currently there is an effort to integrate the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and that is why American politicians have no real desire to control our borders despite their posturing to the contrary....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis68.htm

Mobile phone mast campaigners in the South have formed a new watchdog group to monitor planning applications.

Members of the newly-formed Wessex Registry of Active Masts have vowed to keep an eye all new mast locations across Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey.

MPs, councillors and school governors have signed up to be kept informed.

Organiser Karen Barratt, who led a campaign against a mast in Winchester, said the group would be "a much stronger watchdog than any individual".

'Improved consultation'

"This is all about communication. We do not want to be kept in the dark about where current masts are sited or where future masts may be required," she said.

"We will not be telling anyone what they should do. If people want to raise objections to any specific site it is their choice but they are entitled to be properly informed and consulted."

The group holds a list of campaigners, politicians and community leaders to whom it will send out details of any new mast applications it is told of.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/5069054.stm

Published: 2006/06/12 05:31:05 GMT

© BBC MMVI

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WRAM: Wessex Registry of Active Masts

From Karen Barratt

Caroline St. Leger Davey (Winchester), Simon Preedy (Basingstoke) and I have set up a monitoring group to try and assess the mast situation in our general area (Hampshire and beyond). I attach a letter which explains the thinking behind the idea. So far we have seven Hampshire MPs who have asked to be on our contacts list. We intend to have email groups eg planning councillors, schools governors and residents so we can target information about masts in the area as we receive it. We will be sending the 'invitation' letter to MPs in adjacent counties at some point. We'll see how it goes. There will probably be something on BBC News Online (South) in the next day or two and BBC South / Radio Solent may cover this week.


From Karen Barratt - Winchester phone mast campaigner.

As some of you know I have been active in the high-profile Byron Avenue phone mast campaign for the last five years. I have been in regular contact throughout that time with other campaigners throughout the UK, including Simon Preedy in Basingstoke. Since 2004 my fellow Winchester campaigner Caroline St. Leger Davey and I have also been volunteers with the national campaign group Mast Sanity (www.mastsanity.org). Mast Sanity gives advice on a range of issues relating to telecommunications applications and currently has around 2000 registrations from groups and individuals who have been helped. This service is most effective when people make contact early in the process ie before a formal planning application has been submitted. Too often people do not discover what is going on until time for objection has almost run out.

For this reason, I feel that there is a need to establish regional groups to exchange information and monitor the situation on mast siting in given areas. While the main problem lies with Government planning legislation there is also great inconsistency among local planning authorities in the way they handle applications and the extent to which they involve the public in the process. The enormous proliferation of mast protest groups has come about because communities are not given information or the opportunity to participate at an early stage and consequently end up feeling angry and disenfranchised.

Simon, Caroline and I are setting up a monitoring group Wessex Registry of Active Masts (WRAM) to provide a focus for information about the location of masts and the performance of local planning authorities. Initially, we want as many people as possible to be on our email list so that we can disseminate information to the wider community. The only commitment we want from 'supporters' is to let us know about mast activity in their local areas. A number of local MPs have welcomed the initiative and hope to be on the list.

This is all about communication. We do not want to be kept in the dark about where current masts are sited or where future masts may be required. We will not be telling anyone what they should do. If people want to raise objections to any specific site it is their choice but they are entitled to be properly informed and consulted. Operators have a Code of Practice (the so-called 'Ten Commitments') but weaker local planning authorities let them get away with murder. WRAM can be a much stronger watchdog than any individual can.

If you want to be on the contacts list - email mail.wram@ntlworld.com Please include your name, address and tel no. If you know which planning authority covers your area, please tell us. If you prefer not to give personal info, then at least include your postcode so we have some idea which areas we're getting feedback from.

WRAM - FURTHER INFORMATION

Why Wessex ?

There are many phone mast campaign groups in the southern region. We initially thought of making this group a Hampshire wide initiative but it seemed a pity to exclude campaigners just over the county border who we've been in touch with eg Farnham, Surrey and Bournemouth, Dorset. Wessex gives greater flexibility as a geographical definition.

Why be on the email list ?

We would like people to get in touch if they receive any communication from telecom operators or their local council about a proposed mast. We can then let everyone on the list know and they can forward the details to those who may be affected by the particular application. That way there is less chance of mast applications in 'your' area sneaking in without anyone knowing. The current Code of Practice if adhered to requires the operators to carry out pre-application consultation with interested individuals or establishments. You are in a better position to resist a mast if you have input at this stage. Remember, applications for masts under 15 metres, have to be decided in a 56-day time schedule. If they are not or the council fail to inform the operator of its decision in time, the operator can go ahead anyway.

Note: a BBC South investigation has recently discovered that in its television region alone 68 masts have the go-ahead because councils missed the deadline for notification. A recent attempt to introduce a Private Members Bill on telecommunications planning legislation included a recommendation that all masts should go through a full planning process. This would have removed the 56-day loophole. The Government blocked this bill.

Who are the operators?

There are five commercial operators. Four of them (Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2) already have 2G networks. They are now rolling out 3G. Hutchison 3G ('3') by definition only has a 3G network. In addition, Airwave O2 (a subsidiary of mmO2) is rolling out the TETRA system for the police and other emergency services and Netrail has its own GSM mast network. This adds up to eleven separate mast networks.

What is 3G ?

Third generation (3G) phones carry much more data than 2G (simply 'talk and text') and therefore require greater capacity. The option of one big mast sited away from populated area as an alternative to smaller masts in residential areas is no longer viable. If you want 3G phones you have to accept that many more masts much closer together are required.

How many masts are there now and how many more are to come?

We often hear that there are '45,000 existing masts.' In fact, this figure refers to mast sites. (Mike Dolan, Director of the Mobile Operators' Association has confirmed this) Any one site might accommodate all of the operators and dozens of antennae. Just look at the landscape (high rise buildings, water towers etc festooned with equipment.)

The only certain fact is that even if you are not threatened with a mast now you may well be in the near future !

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Informant: Lew Rockwell

Hier was aus GENF: publiziert am 10. Juni 2006, in der Zeitung: 24Heures

Die Spannung ist fast fühlbar in diesem Mietshaus in Versoix, am Ancien-Péage-Weg. Aufgebracht und unruhig zögern die Mieter nicht, ihre Geschichte zu erzählen. Seit der Installation dieser großen Mobilfunkantenne auf dem Dach ihres Mietshauses 2001,"kommen eigenartige Ereignisse vor", bestätigt Jean-Luc Tschopp. Dieser Mieter aus dem sechsten Stock, der sich direkt unter den vier Sitzen der Strahlungen befindet, hat eine Petition im Aufzug angebracht.

"Ich habe bemerkt, dass ich nicht die einzige Person war, die Gesundheitsprobleme hat z.B. Kopfschmerzen, Herzrasen oder Erbrechen" erklärt er.

Dorota Pinto, 20 Jahre alt, ist ständig in ärztlicher Behandlung wegen schweren Verdauungsstörungen. Erfolglos. Vor einiger Zeit hatte sie eine Fehlgeburt: "meine Schwangerschaft hat sich plötzlich unerklärlicherweise beendet, die Spezialisten haben keine Erklärung dafür gefunden." Ähnliche Probleme sind auch in anderen Gebieten der Schweiz vorgekommen. "Diese Antenne respektiert die legalen Grenzwerte" verteidigt sich Marie-Claude Debons, Sprecherin von Orange, der Besitzerin der Antenne.


Informant: Sibylle

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4645/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

"Debt has always played an important role in Americans' lives - not merely as a means of instant gratification but also as a strategy for survival and a tool for economic advance," explains Jackson Lears.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061106G.shtml

Republican candidate for governor Kenneth Blackwell, headed Bush's state re-election campaign at the same time he was constitutionally in charge of the state's voting machinery. Blackwell's maximum-donor list includes Mitch Given, who is a registered lobbyist for Diebold Election Systems, one of the vendors of voting machines for election boards in Ohio.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061106E.shtml

Kenneth F. Bunting writes: "Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone mega-essay is titled 'Was the 2004 Election Stolen?' If you were looking in the five or six days afterward for follow-up stories, investigations or even a mention in the P-I, its cross-town competitor or just about any other major US newspaper, you were almost certainly disappointed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061106C.shtml

"For more than six months, a few senators have been fumbling around in the dark, trying to write laws covering a domestic wiretapping operation that remains a mystery to most of them, "the editors of the New York Times write. "It's time for the Senate to stop rolling over and start focusing on uncovering the extent of the spying and enforcing the law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061106B.shtml