Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006

5,000 Public Housing Units in New Orleans Are to Be Razed

Federal housing officials announced on Wednesday that more than 5,000 public housing apartments for the poor were to be demolished and replaced by developments for residents with a wider range of incomes. The proposed demolitions have renewed a debate about the future of the city's enormous poor population, most of which remains displaced.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506F.shtml

Feingold Addresses Group, Criticizes Bush

Democratic senator Russ Feingold, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, received a raucous, enthusiastic greeting Wednesday as he criticized President Bush for the Iraq war and a secretive domestic wiretapping program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506D.shtml

A Mountain of Riches on Capitol Hill

Annual disclosure data offer a look at the finances of lawmakers and their top aides.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506C.shtml

NATION'S LARGEST DAIRIES TRYING TO AVOID MONSANTO'S BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE

The largest retailers and distributors of milk and dairy products in the U.S. are considering eliminating rBGH from their products. According to the trade journal Dairy Food and Market Analyst, Wal-Mart and Dean Foods have begun pressing suppliers for a larger supply of milk produced without rBGH, in response to increasing consumer demand. The synthetic hormone rBGH is a genetically engineered drug designed to make dairy cows produce more milk. The controversial hormone has been banned in Europe and Canada due to its links to increased risks for cancer and antibiotic resistance. Despite these bans, 18% of U.S. dairy cows, especially those on factory-style farms, continue to be injected with the drug. Over the past few years, millions of consumers have switched to milk and dairy products from organic farms, which ban the use of rBGH and antibiotics. Starbucks, by the way, is still serving up coffee drinks across the country that are laced with rBGH--another good reason to patronize local independently owned coffee shops that offer organic and Fair Trade alternatives.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_747.cfm

TAKE ACTION: USDA CLOSE TO APPROVING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLUMS

The United Sates Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting public comments regarding the commercial approval of a genetically engineered plum, known as "C5." The approval of C5 would be the first widely released genetically engineered (GE) tree in the United States. Approval of C5 will also pave the way for more GE tree and fruit varieties, including peaches, cherries, and apricots. GE tree pollen can drift for several miles, leading to contamination of neighboring organic crops and indigenous trees. The USDA is currently accepting public comments on this issue.

Learn more and Take Action: http://organicconsumers.org/plum_alert.htm

The Marine Who Saw Too Much

A former lance corporal explains why he intentionally failed a drug test to avoid going back to war-torn Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506P.shtml

War on Terror Called Failure

Washington is failing to make progress in the global war on terror, and the next 9/11-style attack is not a question of if, but when. That is the scathing conclusion of a survey of 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506N.shtml

This is a time for Congress to finally hold Mr. Bush accountable for his extralegal behavior and stop it

A Leap of Faith, Off a Cliff

"This is not a time to offer the administration a chance to steamroll Congress into endorsing its decision to ignore the 1978 intelligence act and shred Constitutional principles on warrants and on the separation of powers. This is a time for Congress to finally hold Mr. Bush accountable for his extralegal behavior and stop it," writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506M.shtml

GOP Measure Forces House Debate on War

Nearly four years after it authorized the use of force in Iraq, the House today will embark on its first extended debate on the war, with Republican leaders daring Democrats to vote against a nonbinding resolution to hold firm on Iraq and the war on terrorism.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506L.shtml

Security Breaches for "Sleepover" Voting Machines Used in Busby/Bilbray Race

"Based on the review of several different, very specific state and federal requirements, laws and provisions, the unsecured overnight storage of Diebold voting machines and their memory cards in poll workers' houses, cars and garages in the days and weeks prior to the closely-watched election between Republican Brian Bilbray and Democrat Francine Busby violated several federal and state provisions which, if not followed, would revoke the certification of use for the voting systems in any California election," writes BradBlog.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061506K.shtml

Grausamer Walfang droht ausgeweitet zu werden

Tagung der IWC: Grausamer Walfang droht ausgeweitet zu werden (15.06.06)

Anlässlich der diesjährigen Tagung der Internationalen Walfangkommission (IWC) veröffentlichen Tierschützer neues Filmmaterial. Es zeigt: Ein Wal ist nicht schnell und schmerzlos auf See zu töten. Selbst unter besten Wetterbedingungen dauert der Todeskampf der Tiere viel zu lang. Das Filmmaterial wurde vor einem Monat vor der norwegischen Küste von Hamningberg von Ermittlern der WSPA (Welttierschutzgesellschaft) und der EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) aufgenommen. Es zeigt wie eine Sprengharpune auf einen Zwergwal abgefeuert wird. Trotz bester Wetterbedingungen dauert es zweieinhalb Minuten bis der Wal tot ist. Die Tagung soll darüber beschließen, ob künftig auch Großwale wieder gejagt werden dürfen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13816

Theobromine, a chemical found in cocoa mulch, can be harmful to pets

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp

The Iraq Non-Debate

by Rep. Maxine Waters, TomPaine.com

While our nation deserves an honest discussion about the war, the Republicans are staging a PR stunt.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/15/the_iraq_nondebate.php

Korruption im Gesundheitswesen

Jahrbuch "Korruption im Gesundheitswesen"

PRESSEMITTEILUNG Misswirtschaft abstellen: Beitragserhöhungen sind keine Lösung

"Die Unterhändler beider Regierungsparteien verhandeln derzeit auf Regierungs- und Parlamentsebene die neueste Gesundheitsreform. Sie soll für etliche Jahre Bestand haben. Zur gleichen Zeit legt Transparency International Deutschland die deutsche Fassung des "Global Corruption Report" mit dem Titel "Jahrbuch Korruption - Schwerpunkt: Korruption im Gesundheitswesen" vor. Diese Fassung ist angereichert durch einen analytischen Einführungstext zur Situation des Gesundheitswesens in Deutschland mit Vergleichen zur Situation in den deutschsprachigen Ländern Österreich und Schweiz. Die drei Autoren dieses Textes erklären dazu: "Deutschland ist nach den USA und der Schweiz das drittteuerste Land, was die Kosten seines Gesundheitswesens angeht. Die Leistungen für die Versicherten und der Gesundheitszustand der Menschen in Deutschland liegen im internationalen Vergleich aber nur im Mittelfeld. Wir fragen uns und die Öffentlichkeit seit nunmehr mehr als fünf Jahren: Welchen Anteil an dieser Diskrepanz haben Misswirtschaft, Betrug und Korruption im Gesundheitsbereich? Eine Antwort auf unsere diesbezüglichen Fragen sind uns Bundes- und Landesregierungen seit unserer ersten Untersuchung 2001 immer noch schuldig." (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.transparency.de/2006-05-16_Gesundheit.911.0.html?&contUid=1670 Transparency International, Pressemitteilung vom 16. Mai 2006

Jahrbuch "Korruption im Gesundheitswesen" im Parthas Verlag:
http://www.parthasverlag.de/?bid=132

Bericht im SPIEGEL:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,416477,00.html


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 23/2006

Vogelgrippe-Impfstoff: das eingebildete ethische Dilemma

Junge Menschen sollen zuerst gegen Vogelgrippe geimpft werden Pandemie würde zu einem fundamentalen ethischen Dilemma führen

"Bethesda (pte/12.05.2006/09:15) - Junge Menschen sollen im Falle einer Pandemie bei Impfungen gegen Vogelgrippe gegenüber Älteren, Kranken und Körperbehinderten bevorzugt werden. Diesen Vorschlag haben Wissenschaftler der National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov in einem in Science http://www.sciencemag.org veröffentlichten Bericht gemacht. Die Forscher betonen, dass die Gesellschaft mit wahrscheinlich nur in eingeschränktem Ausmaß zur Verfügung stehenden Impfstoffen gegen Vogelgrippe vor einem fundamentalen ethischen Dilemma steht. Die Studie argumentiert dahingehend, dass junge Menschen ein Recht darauf hätten, alle Stationen des Lebens zu durchlaufen und daher Vorrang haben sollten. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=060512012 Pressetext, 12. Mai 2006

Kommentar: Der Viruswahn treibt schon erstaunliche Blüten. Da zerbrechen sich kluge Leute den Kopf darüber, in welche ethischen Konflikte sie geraten könnten, wenn sie darüber entscheiden müssten, wem sie einen völlig nutzlosen Impfstoff gegen eine herbeigeredete Pandemie vorenthalten müssen, wenn nicht genug von diesem Impfstoff da ist...


Treat elderly last in pandemic: Study

"The sick and elderly should be the last to be given a flu vaccine in a pandemic, according to a controversial paper published today in the journal Science.

Healthy teens and young productive adults aged 13 to 40 should get the vaccine ahead of the old and sick, states the commentary, which calls for a radical rethinking of how countries ought to ration the short supply of vaccine in the months after a pandemic breaks out. The proposal runs contrary to American and Canadian vaccine advisory committees and pandemic plans that recommend people 65 and older be given priority due to their increased risk of dying, while healthy children and adults from the ages of 2 to 64 be vaccinated last. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147384212150&call_pageid=968332188
492 Toronto Star, Canada, May 12, 2006


Kommentar von Barbara Loe Fisher:

Just about anyone with an M.D. or Ph.D. can call themselves an "ethicist" these days and feel free to appoint themselves judge of who will live and who will die. There is a tendency for public health types employed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to believe they are in charge of deciding which groups of individuals within society are expendable for the "greater good." Whether it is maintaining that the casualties of forced vaccination are expendable or, in the case of this pandemic flu "study," that babies and children under 13 and parents and grandparents over 40 are expendable, these elitists wield the ugly utilitarian rationale like a club. Those who believe utiliitarianism has a shred of morality within its philosophy, should read the post World War II transcripts of The Doctor's Trial at Nuremberg. Revealed there, for all the world to see, is why it is dangerous and inherently immoral to use the utilitarian pseudo ethic to support any State policy. Emanuel and Wertheimer's suggestion that babies and children under 13 are expendable and should be denied vaccine in a lethal flu pandemic is forcing a "Sophie's Choice" on parents and grandparents over and under 40. It is a non-starter. However, if an experimental pandemic flu vaccine is as dangerous as the flu it purports to protect against, ironically the policy of denying the very youngest ones the vaccine might end up saving them. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, about one-third of the population became infected and about 10 percent of those infected died. The vaccine benefit risk ratio might well tip in favor of either escaping infection or recovering naturally from the disease rather than deliberately taking a risk with an experimental pandemic flu vaccine. But if a pandemic flu vaccine were really the low risk lifesaver it is meant to be, a more humane prioritizing of scarce vaccine supplies might be to allocate them to those with the greatest chance of dying from the infection. And that would be entirely dependent upon the nature of the particular influenza virus circulating and whether it was especially lethal for certain groups of individuals. The serious business of deciding who gets a lifeboat when the ship is sinking should involve people from all segments of society. The people, not the "experts," should decide.

NVIC-Newsletter vom 16. Mai 2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 23/2006

Battle Lines Drawn Over Mercury in Shots

States push for bans in children's vaccines. But leading medical groups are pushing back. As lawmakers in about 20 states press for bans on mercury in children's vaccines, they are meeting stiff resistance from influential health and medical organizations, including groups that get substantial funding from drug makers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Seven states have adopted the anti-mercury bills - California being one of the first. California's law, passed in 2004 and to take effect July 1, will prohibit shots with more than a trace of thimerosal for pregnant women and children younger than 3. In recent weeks, similar bills have been defeated in at least five states. (...)

Read further under: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vaccine10apr10,0,7550821,full.story?coll=la-headlines-nation Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006


Comment from Barbara Loe Fisher,
http://www.nvic.org

Mercury is a neurotoxin. In countries around the world, mercury is being eliminated as a toxic pollutant from the water and air because it can damage the brain. Every government, every politician, e- very medical and scientific organization, every doctor inside of government as well as those operating the World Health Organization should call for a ban on injecting mercury into the bodies of ba- bies via vaccines. It is a "no-brainer" so to speak. It should be against the law to inject poisons in any form into our children for any reason.

Source: NVIC-Newsletter from 11. April 2006


Debate Flares Over Vaccines, Autism Link

Debate over a possible tie between mercury-containing vaccines and autism flared up this week as activist groups launched a campaign accusing federal health agencies and prominent researchers of manipulating scientific findings on the link. Some parents of autistic children have long blamed vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal for an alarming rise in the disor- der. Thimerosal contains a type of mercury. A series of reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) ending in 2004 concluded no evidence could be found linking the vaccines to neurological diseases, including autism. (...)

Read further under: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191167,00.html
FoxNews, Monday, April 10, 2006



"As we're looking for answers related to the causes and effective treatments for autism, we have to also be careful not to base our health recommendations on unproven hypotheses or fear. We have to base our decisions on the best available science that we have in front of us, and today the best available science indicates to us that vaccines save lives, and that's a very, very important message for all of us to remember. " - CDC Press Release 4/6/06


Comment from Barbara Loe Fisher, http://www.nvic.org :

Whether or not vaccines save lives has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not vaccines cause autism. The CDC not only refuses to conduct basic science research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death, including vaccine-induced autism, but manipulates the data it does have suggesting there is a causal connection between vaccination and developmental delays that now af- fect 1 in 6 American children. As a result, some vaccine injured autistic children are being healed by biological mechanism research independent of government health agencies, medical organizations and drug companies that addresses the children's vaccine-induced brain and immune system dysfunction. The collective denial by government, medical organizations and industry of the reality of vaccine-induced brain damage will not make it go away.

Source: NVIC-Newsletter from 13. April 2006


CDC Statement regarding autism-related advertisement in USA Today

We know that autism is a heart-wrenching situation for many families and many children and it presents special challenges that we would certainly want to prevent and do anything we could to avoid. When it comes to the nation's immunization recommendations, the CDC and Public Health Service are always guided by one overriding goal and interest-all our recommendations are designed to protect the health and well being of all children. We are very disappointed in an advertisement that appears in to- day's edition of USA Today. The advertisement completely mischaracterizes the efforts of CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of Medicine, and others to protect the health and well being of the nation's children. (...)

Read further on: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/s060406.htm CDC, 6. April 2006


Mercury ban bill wins OK

"A bill that would eliminate mercury from all vaccines distributed in New Jersey by 2009 was approved by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee Thursday. The measure passed 8-1 with one abstention. The committee's chairman, Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr., D-Bordentown City, a doctor, cast the lone "no" vote. Some committee members said they were voting "yes" with reservations. Two months ago, a group of parents and advocates descended on the committee to try to persuade them to eliminate the use of Thimerosal, a preservative in flu vaccines that is 50 percent ethyl mercury by weight. They claimed a connection between that mercury and autism or other childhood neurological disorders. But Conaway, saying no national health experts had found a scientific link, held the bill at that time. No additional testimony was heard Thursday. (...)

Read further here: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060512/NEWS01/605120372/1006
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ


Comment from Barbara Loe Fisher,
http://www.nvic.org

Banning mercury in vaccines is a no-brainer. Congratulations to the New Jersey citizen activists who educated their state legislators on this health committee about the need to keep toxic mercury out of the brains of babies. Vaccine laws are state laws. If the federal government cant' or won't get the drug companies to take mercury out of vaccines, the only recourse for parents is to ask their elected state officials to do the right thing or vote them out of office and put someone in who will. Participatory democracy works if each citizen stands up and acts on the local level like these New Jersey parents who helped their legislators understand why a vote to keep toxic mercury out of vaccines is the only right one.

NVIC-Newsletter from 15. May 2006



Source: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 23/2006

Drug Industry, Sen. Frist and the White House Conspired to Obtain Broad Liability Shield for Lawsuits Related to Pandemic Illnesses

Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605080356

Drug Industry, Sen. Frist and the White House Conspired to Obtain Broad Liability Shield for Lawsuits Related to Pandemic Illnesses
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2197

Masern: Ohne Impfung kein Unterricht

Masern: Zwangsurlaub an einer Gesamtschule in Dortmund

"Das Dortmunder Gesundheitsamt hat durchgegriffen: Nachdem eine Achtklässlerin an Masern erkrankt ist, dürfen diejenigen ihrer Mitschüler, die nicht geimpft sind, zwölf Tage nicht mehr zum Unterricht. (...)"

hier weiterlesen:
http://www.wdr.de/themen/gesundheit/krankheit/masern/060512.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=gesundheit WDR, 12.05.2006

Kommentar: Der Ausschluss von ungeimpften Kindern ist rechtlich äußerst bedenklich. Da es sich beim Masernimpfstoff um einen sog. "Lebendimpfstoff" handelt, kann (aus Sicht der Schulmedizin) nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass frisch Geimpfte ebenfalls Viren ausscheiden und Mitschüler mit den "Impfmasern" anstecken. Somit werden Geimpfte und Ungeimpfte ungleich behandelt. Darüber hinaus gibt es keine eindeutigen Beweise dafür, dass Geimpfte nicht wenigstens zeitweise Wildviren ausscheiden und somit Teil der Infektionskette sein können. Selbst ein durch eine Impfung erfolgreich "programmiertes" Immunsystem benötigt etwas Zeit, bis die Abwehrmechanismen wirksam werden. Dazu kommt, dass viele Kinder die Kinderkrankheiten unbemerkt durchmachen und danach immun sind. Konsequenterweise müsste also das Gesundheitsamt zunächst den Masern-Titer kontrollieren, bevor es ein Kind in die Zwangsferien schickt, was ja für berufstätige Eltern unter Umständen zu einer enormen Belastung führt. Doch für die Behörden liegt das Hauptaugenmerk darauf, den Elternhäusern möglichst viel Druck zu machen, selbst bei in der Regel harmlos verlaufenden Kinderkrankheiten wie Masern. Die vollkommene Impfrate ist für jedes Gesundheitsamt das höchste aller Ideale, obwohl völlig unbewiesen ist, dass Viren überhaupt ausrottbar sind.



Pharmanaher Ärzteverband: Gesundheitsbehörden haben in NRW versagt

"(...) Wie konnte es dazu trotz der mittlerweile hochentwickelten Impfstoffe gegen Masern kommen? Der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte wirft den örtlichen Gesundheitsämtern Versagen vor. Ein Sprecher des Gesundheitsministeriums in Düsseldorf sagte, die Landesregierung habe Anfang der Woche in einem Runderlass an die Ämter gefordert, dass Maßnahmen ergriffen würden.

Es müsse etwa verhindert werden, dass infizierte Kinder zur Schule gingen. Auch seien "Riegelungs-Impfungen" im Umfeld infizierter Personen erforderlich, um die Ausbreitung der Krankheit zu verhindern. Letztlich sei aber jeder selbst für seinen Impfschutz verantwortlich. (...)

ganzen Artikel lesen: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub8E1390D3396F422B869A49268EE3F15C/Doc~E07E3F4947973419690D275C305941C50~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html FAZ, 12. Mai 2006

Siehe auch: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/05/12/087a0401.asp?cat=/medizin/impfen http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1144673467820.shtml


Kommentar: Der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte (BVJK) gilt in Impfkritikerkreisen als die Speerspitze der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Impfstoffhersteller in Deutschland. Sie vermuten starke Interessenskonflikte bei den Funktionären dieses Verbandes. Es ist traurig, dass sich Ärzte für eine einseitige Propaganda für bestimmte umstrittene medizinische Maßnahmen hergeben und das Augenmaß für das Interesse des Patienten verloren haben.



Fanatische Impfärzte fordern schon wieder Impfpflicht

Kinderärzte fordern nationales Impfkonzept

KÖLN (ddp.vwd). Angesichts einer Häufung von Masern-Erkrankungen in Deutschland fordert der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte
(BVKJ) ein nationales Impfkonzept. (...) Dabei solle auch über eine Impfpflicht vor Aufnahme in Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen wie Schulen und Kindergärten nachgedacht werden, wie dies etwa in den USA und Kanada der Fall sei, sagte Hartmann. (...)

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

Kommentar: Seit Jahren wird der BVKJ nicht müde, bei jeder Gelegenheit (die sie mit Hilfe ihres Presseverteilers oft selber schaffen) eine Entmündigung der Eltern in der Impffrage zu fordern. Damit einhergehend werden systematisch die Gefahren von Komplikationen bei Kinderkrankheiten wie Masern aufgebauscht und die Risiken der Impfung verharmlost.


Weitere Meldung zum Thema:

"(...) 'Ich weiß haargenau, warum ich gegen Masern impfe', betont der Kinder- und Jugendmediziner. Wie auch der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte eine gesetzliche Impfpflicht fordert, ist auch Fleer für einen 'Sicherheitsgurt für Masern'. Wer ihn nicht anlege, sprich seine Kinder nicht impfen lasse, für den solle es auch Konsequenzen geben, meint Fleer. So könnten zum Beispiel Kindergärten nach eigenem Ermessen Kinder mit fehlendem Impfstatus ablehnen. Auch Gesundheitsdezernentin Anne Janz findet eine Impfpflicht 'persönlich richtig'. Dass viele todbringende Krankheiten heute ausgerottet sind, sei Impfungen zu verdanken, betont sie. (...)"

Quelle: http://www.hna.de/kasselticker/00_20060515194722_Kleiner_Piks_grosse_Wirkung.html Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 15. Mai 2006



Masern: "Ohne Impfschutz Lebensgefahr"

Ohne Impfschutz Lebensgefahr

"Masern: Eins von 1000 erkrankten Kindern stirbt an den Folgen. Um die Krankheit auszurotten, müßten 95 Prozent der Kinder geimpft sein. In Hamburg sind es 70 Prozent. Aus Deutschland gelangen die Viren in die ganze Welt. (...)"

hier weiterlesen: http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/05/16/563359.html
Hamburger Abendblatt, 16. Mai 2006

Kommentar: Ich halte das für völlig unverantwortliche Panikmache. Zunächst mal ist unbekannt, wie viele der 16 % der erfassten Erkrankten, die in einer Klinik behandelt wurden, geimpft oder ungeimpft waren. Von den 3 in der Presse genannten Fällen mit Gehirnentzündung (Stand 24. Mai) hat sich der Verdacht in zwei Fällen (ein 17jähriger Junge und eine 26jährige Frau) nicht bestätigt. Ein 7jähriges Mädchen hat nach Auskunft der Behörden noch neurologische Beschwerden. Da es von einem Arzt überwiesen worden war, stellt sich die Frage nach den vorab eingenommenen Medikamenten und ihren Nebenwirkungen. Solche Fragen werden jedoch nur von Impfkritikern, niemals aber von den zuständigen Behörden gestellt. Die sehen ihre vornehmliche Aufgabe darin, alles zu vermeiden, was "dem Impfgedanken schaden könnte".


Irreführende Informationen in der "ZEIT"

"(...) Drei Kinder wurden mit einer lebensgefährlichen Gehirnhautentzündung - der schwersten Masernkomplikation - ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert, insgesamt mehr als 160 kleine Patienten mussten stationär behandelt werden. (...)"

Quelle: http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/20/masern
DIE ZEIT, 15. Mai 2006

Kommentar: Es waren nicht "drei Kinder" sondern ein 7jähriges Mädchen, ein 17jähriger Junge und eine 26jährige Frau und der Anfangsverdacht hat sich bei den beiden Älteren nicht bestätigt (Stand 24. Mai). Von den mehr als 160 "kleinen Patienten" waren ca. 45 % über 20 Jahre alt! Die Altersstruktur der Masernepidemien hat sich seit Beginn der Impfära bemerkenswert verändert!


Masern: Leserbrief von drei Kinderärzten an die Süddeutsche Zeitung

An die Redaktion der Süddeutschen Zeitung Abt. Leserbriefe
17. Mai 2006

Leserbrief zu Ihren Artikeln

"EPIDEMIE DER FAHRLÄSSIGKEIT", "UNVERANTWORTLICHE MYTHEN" und "ANSCHNALLEN IST AUCH PFLICHT" vom 15. Mai 2006

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

alle Jahre wieder gibt es großformatige Artikel in der Deutschen Tagespresse zum Thema Masern. Impf-Hardlinern wird großzügig Platz eingeräumt, vor dem geneigten Leser ihre ordnungspolitischen Vorstellungen von Impflicht auszubreiten oder zu Anzeigenkampagnen gegen angeblich untätige Behörden aufzurufen. Dem Leser wird das Gefühl vermittelt, es bestünde im Fall der Masern ein bedrohlicher volksmedizinischer Notstand.

Sicher gehören die Masern zu den schwereren Kinderkrankheiten, und es gibt in seltenen Fällen bedrohliche Komplikationen wie Lungenentzündung oder Gehirnentzündung. Noch kann jedoch niemand mit Sicherheit sagen, ob der Versuch der Ausrottung durch generelle Impfprogramme auch langfristig zu einer günstigeren Situation führt: Ein Teil der Geimpften bleibt ohne Schutz oder verliert nach Jahren den Impfschutz wieder, so dass künftig mit Epidemien unter Erwachsenen gerechnet werden muss, die besonders stark zu Komplikationen neigen.

Die schwerste und immer tödliche Masernkomplikation SSPE ist sogar in Folge der Impfung häufiger geworden: Geimpfte Mütter geben ihren Säuglingen nur noch einen minderwertigen Nestschutz mit, so dass diese schon im ersten Lebensjahr an Masern erkranken können, was häufiger als nach einer späteren Erkrankung zur SSPE führt.

Des Weiteren gibt es Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass durch die Impfung zwar die Gehirnentzündung durch das Masernvirus seltener wird, die Gesamtzahl schwerer Gehirnentzündung in der Bevölkerung jedoch gleich bleibt, weil andere Viren die entstandene Lücke auffüllen.

Wir möchten nicht die Masernimpfung als solche kritisieren. Die ge- genwärtige Impfkampagne jedoch, mit der um jeden Preis die über
95%ige Durchimpfung im Kindesalter durchgesetzt werden soll, bringt es mit sich, dass die Bevölkerung nicht mehr objektiv über die Impfung und ihre möglichen Folgen informiert wird. Da werden die Masernkomplikationen ins Groteske übertrieben (Hartmann: "SSPE tritt bei jedem tausendsten Infizierten auf"), und es wird behauptet, es gäbe so gut wie keine Impfnebenwirkungen. Dabei ist es allgemein bekannt, dass systematische Untersuchungen zu Nebenwirkungen von Impfungen nicht durchgeführt wird, dass das diesbezügliche deutsche Meldewesen völlig zusammengebrochen ist und dass das zuständige Paul-Ehrlich Institut die spärlich eingegangenen Meldungen von Impfnebenwirkungen weder laufend noch detailliert veröffentlicht.

Der Vorsitzende der deutschen Impfkommission STIKO Heinz-Josef Schmitt hetzt Ihrem Bericht nach Eltern dazu auf, Politiker und Gesundheitsämter im Falle der Masernepidemie wegen "fahrlässiger Kör- perverletzung" anzuzeigen. Eine Institution, deren Vorsitzender Impfkampagnen mit den juristischen Dampfhammer durchführt, disqualifiziert sich selber und vertritt offensichtlich nicht die Interessen mündiger Bürger, die einen Anspruch auf differenzierte Informationen haben. Eine Impfkommission, die regelmäßig wichtige und weit reichende Empfehlungen herausgibt, sollte von unabhängigen und dialogbereiten Kräften besetzt sein.

Dr. med. Martin Hirte
Kinderarzt
Leopoldstr. 68
80802 München

Dr.med. Steffen Raabe
Kinderarzt
Offenbachstr. 9
81245 München

Dr.med. Stefan Schmidt-Troschke
Kinderarzt
Ärztlicher Direktor des Gemeinschaftskrankenhauses Herdecke Gerhard-Kienle-Weg 4
58313 Herdecke
für den Verein "Ärzte für eine individuelle Impfentscheidung"

Links zu den Artikeln der Süddeutschen Zeitung: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/artikel/883/75808/ http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/306134 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt4m1/wissen/artikel/879/75804/


Masern: Schmitt und Hartmann zunehmend isoliert?

"(...)Dass diese Maßnahmen rechtzeitig eingeleitet wurden und ausreichend waren, das bezweifelt Heinz-Josef Schmitt. Tatenlos hätte das Gesundheitsamt in Duisburg zugesehen und Striche gemacht, als die Zahlen hochgeschnellt seien, kritisiert der Leiter der Ständigen Impfkommission beim RKI. Statt die betroffenen Gebieten durchzuimpfen, habe man sich auf Appelle und das Nachverfolgen der Infektionswege beschränkt. Angesichts der tödlichen Bedrohung, die durch die Krankheit besteht, würde er Anzeige gegen den Oberbürgermeister und das Gesundheitsamt wegen fahrlässiger Körperverletzung stellen, empfiehlt Schmitt Eltern, deren Kinder an Masern erkrankt sind.

Hysterie und Keimschleudern

Im Düsseldorfer Gesundheitsministerium weist man die Kritik des Mediziners zurück. Auch am RKI distanziert man sich von den Äußerungen des Impfexperten, die am vergangenen Freitag sogar in der Behauptung gipfelten, Deutschland sei bei Masern die "Keimschleuder der Welt". Das sei die Meinung eines einzelnen Professors, hieß es dazu in Berlin. (...)

ganzen Artikel lesen: http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/306134 Süddeutsche Zeitung, 14. Mai 2006

Kommentar: Es ist mehr als bemerkenswert, wenn sich sogar das RKI vom umstrittenen Vorsitzenden der Ständigen Impfkommission (STIKO) distanziert. Prof. Schmitt und der Vorsitzende des Bundesverbandes der Kinder- und Jugendärzte Hartmann haben sich möglicherweise mit ihren Forderungen nach einer Impfpflicht ein wenig zu weit aus dem Fenster gelehnt. Darüber hinaus hat der Rückgang der Masernzahlen vermutlich wenig mit irgendwelchen Maßnahmen der Bundesbehörden zu tun. In alten Fachbüchern fand ich den Hinweis, dass solche Epidemien schon immer in Wellen auftraten und spätestens im Mai ihren Höhepunkt erreicht haben...


"Kind nach Gehirnentzündung in Lebensgefahr - Masern auch in Kiel"

Duisburg/Kiel (dpa) - Beim größten deutschen Masernausbruch der vergangenen Jahre ist in Duisburg ein zweijähriger Junge lebensgefährlich an Maserngehirnentzündung erkrankt. Das Kind leide unter einem angeborenen Immundefekt und habe deshalb nicht geimpft werden können, teilten am Mittwoch der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte in München und das Katholische Klinikum in Duisburg mit. Es ist das zweite Kind mit einer Gehirnerkrankung durch Masern während der aktuellen Epidemie.

Unterdessen sollen auch in Kiel mehrere Menschen an Masern erkrankt sein. (...)

hier weiterlesen: http://www.krankenkassen.de/frameset.php?page=%2Fdpa.php%3Fid%3D53816 DPA, 17.05.2006


Aus: impf-report Newsletter Nr. 23/2006

Historic Hunger Strike to bring the U.S. Troops Home FAST!

http://tinyurl.com/kwjsu

13 phone masts are enough says mayor

THE new mayor of South Ribble has hit out at the explosion in the number of phone masts in Bamber Bridge.

Coun David Watts, who is the ward councillor for Bamber Bridge, decided to speak out after an application for another mast was submitted to South Ribble Borough Council.

If plans for the 20m mast at Old Lemon House, on Seedlee Road, were granted it would mean two phone masts situated within 400 yards of each other as one is already on Dodd Way.

Masts

A third has also been erected on Walton Summit Road on the road adjoining Seedlee Road.

Coun Watts says enough is enough, and does not want to see any more masts added to the 13 in Bamber Bridge.

He said: "It would seem that Bamber Bridge has relinquished its title of hot food capital of South Ribble, but that now seems to be replaced by the title of hot airwaves capital of South Ribble.

"I understand that many of the mobile phone networks are competing with each other to get the best possible coverage, but do we need another to add to the 49 already in the borough?"

Coun Watts has been in touch with Orange, which is applying for the mast on Seedlee Road, to get some answers, but was baffled by their response.

Mobile

He said: "Orange has said that it wants to increase the coverage to customers on the M65 and M61. This raises an important question: Should we as a council be encouraging people to use their mobile phones while driving?

"You cannot object to a mobile phone on their perceived health risks, but surely if there is a law to stop people using mobile phones while driving then it is an actual risk. Why do we really need another mast?"

Nearby residents and businesses have been notified of the application and so far, the council has received no objections.

A decision will be made by the South Ribble Council planning committee.

A spokesman for the Mobile Operators Association said: "Site and mast sharing by operators is a priority, but while it cuts down the number of mobile phone masts in the landscape, it can also have adverse environmental impacts.

"In some cases, local planning authorities and communities prefer to see several smaller masts, rather than a larger one. In others, mast sharing may not be possible because the existing site is not in the best place for the oncoming sharer's coverage needs.

"In terms of the coverage to motorways it is sometimes the case that passengers in vehicles need to use mobile phones, or indeed some drivers if they break down on the hard-shoulder and do not want to walk to the next emergency phone box. "

15 June 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.leylandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=77&ArticleID=1566743

Heading off a 'Coal War' with China

Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson

06/14/06

In 1972, while toasting Premier Zhou En-Lai during the landmark visit to China, President Nixon asked, 'What legacy shall we leave our children? Are they destined to die for the hatreds which have plagued the old world, or are they destined to live because we had the vision to build a new world?' Despite a disgraced presidency, Nixon was credited with melting that aspect of the Cold War. Today, China and the United States have the Coal War. President Bush could salvage a portion of his legacy by ending it. We are not fighting each other for the resource. Instead, we burn it up in our parallel universes and toast the planet like no one else. The United States currently spews out the most global warming emissions in an endless drive to satisfy the highest level of materialism on earth...

http://tinyurl.com/kp776


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

There is no good solution to the situation we have created in Iraq, none

Desperately seeking salvation

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

06/14/06

I seem to recall something along the lines of, 'Iraq for the Iraqis.' Well, I guess whatever is left once we're done 'liberating' them. Look, returning to the point of my earlier post, here is an announcement which apparently comes as startling news to many prowar hawks. It's quite simple: there is no good solution to the situation we have created in Iraq. None...

http://tinyurl.com/pozjb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Kerry demands US troop pullout

Boston Globe

06/14/06

Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year. The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a 'cut-and-run' strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists. The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago... [editor's note: This means he IS running for President in 2008; otherwise, he would not be making this stand - SAT]

http://tinyurl.com/mavr7



Bush rejects calls for Iraq pullout

Bend Bulletin

06/14/06

President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home. 'It's bad policy,' Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference Wednesday, about six hours after he returned from Iraq. 'I know it may sound good politically. It will endanger our country to pull out of Iraq before we accomplish the mission'...

http://tinyurl.com/l9vaq



Top Dems' split on Iraq shows party's struggle

San Francisco Chronicle

06/14/06

In a span of 90 minutes Tuesday, three prominent Democrats offered competing visions of how to proceed in Iraq and displayed how difficult it will be to turn what was once the Republican Party's strongest asset into its electoral downfall. ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a leading contender for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination, told a gathering of nearly 2,000 liberals that the war was a 'strategic blunder' but warned it would not be in the nation's interest to 'set a date certain' for withdrawal. She was followed by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, who told the same group the war was a 'grotesque mistake' and that troops should be withdrawn 'at the earliest practical date.' Moments later, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the party's standard bearer in 2004, said he had made a mistake by voting to authorize the president to use military force in Iraq, and he called for a 'hard and fast deadline' for troop withdrawal...

http://tinyurl.com/ljutu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Feds seek to quash NJ subpoenas

USA Today

06/14/06

The U.S. government is asking a court to invalidate subpoenas the state of New Jersey issued to major telecommunication companies seeking disclosure of federal demands for telephone call history data, according to court papers. New Jersey issued the subpoenas as part of an ongoing consumer fraud investigation. The investigation was triggered after USA TODAY reported last month that telecommunication companies were providing call detail information to the National Security Agency for use in its terror surveillance program...

http://tinyurl.com/ree64


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Petition gegen E-Smog der Mobilfunk-Antennen

http://www.kleinreport.ch/meld.phtml?id=35210

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497


Informant: Scott Munson

Call for the Closure of Guantanamo

Human rights violations continue at Guantanamo Bay and we need your help now. This past weekend three detainees reportedly committed suicide at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, highlighting the tragic results of extended arbitrary and indefinite detention.

With many of the approximately 460 men detained in Guantanamo well into their fifth year of detention, the vast majority without charge or trial, a growing number have resorted to desperate measures such as hunger strikes and suicide attempts.

It’s time to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Send a message to President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld http://tinyurl.com/f775v and ask them to:

- close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and not transfer the lawlessness to another location,

- conduct an independent investigation into the deaths of the three detainees, and

- end the policy of indefinite and arbitrary detention of alleged terrorism suspects.

After you submit your letter, please be sure to tell your friends and family to do the same. The time to act is now. There is no better time with news of these apparent suicides fresh on the Administration’s conscience.

As always, thank you for your commitment to preserving human rights around the world.

Larry Cox,
Executive Director Amnesty International USA



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

Innenminister peilt die Handy-Ortung an

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/brandenburg/archiv/15.06.2006/2597137.asp

Ramsey Clark on worldwide U.S. militarization: the case for impeachment is clear beyond question

A message from Ramsey Clark

The case for impeachment is clear beyond question.

The list of Bush's crimes is long. The “Shock and Awe” invasion was Bush’s war of aggression -- a crime identified as the “the Supreme international crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Remember Falluja, the American Guernica, a virtual destruction of a defenseless city by superior military technology (36,000 homes, 8,400 shops destroyed in the final assault alone); Abu Ghraib, the shameful celebration of sick forms of sexual torture; Haifa Street, Baghdad, where a U.S. helicopter gun ship killed 13 unarmed people and injured 50 dancing around a burned out Bradley Armored Vehicle; Abu Shifa, a small village, where U.S. soldiers were accused of rounding up civilians, forcing them into a room, then opening fire, killing 11 people, including a 75 year-old, a 6 month-old baby, and five children under the age five; Haditha, where Marines murdered 15 defenseless civilians, and injured many more, most women and children; and tiny Guantanamo, where the U.S. has compiled human rights violations in four years that have been denounced by the entire world including the United Nations. Yet President Bush arrogantly refuses to close the Guantanamo prison, or return the land and sovereignty to Cuba while U.S. officials fret over three prisoners who committed suicide in one day to “embarrass the U.S.”

The grand total of civilian deaths in Iraq is probably more than 250,000, and rapidly growing. (The Lancet Medical Journal) U.S. military deaths exceed 2500, the seriously injured number more than 15,000 and the number who will suffer mental and physical impairment from the occupation of Iraq is in the unknown tens of thousands.

What respect for human dignity! What reverence for life! What better way to make enemies?

The necessity for citizen action to secure impeachment is also clear beyond question. The Congress will not act unless We, the People demand it and vote those out of office who fail to respond.

Our government is geared for war as directed by transnational corporations, domestic industries, and the corporate media.

Both branches of our One Party system, Democrat and Republican, favor the use of force to have their way. Consider,

* (1) Regime Change in Iran (1953) the Shah replacing democratically elected Mossadegh; Eisenhower (R);
* (2) Regime Change in Guatemala (1954) military government for democratically elected Arbenz; Eisenhower (R);
* (3) Regime Change in Congo (1961) assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Eisenhower (R)
* (4) the Vietnam War (1959-1975), Eisenhower (R), Kennedy (D), Johnson (D), Nixon (R);
* (5) Invasion of Dominican Republic (1965), Johnson (D);
* (6) Contra Warfare against Nicaragua (1981-1988), resulting in regime change from the Sandinistas to corrupt capitalists; Reagan (R);
* (7) Attack and occupation of Grenada (population 110,000)(1983-1987) Reagan (R);
* (8) Aerial attack on the sleeping cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, (1986) Reagan (R);
* (9) Invasion of Panama Regime Change (1989-1990), George H. W. Bush (R);
* (10) Gulf War (1991), George H. W. Bush (R);
* (11) "Humanitarian" occupation of Somalia leading to 10,000 Somali deaths (1992-1993) George H. W. Bush (R) and Bill Clinton (D);
* (12) Aerial attacks on Iraq (1993-2001) Bill Clinton (D);
* (13) War against Yugoslavia (1999) 23,000 bombs and missiles dropped on Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton (D)
* (14) Missile Attack (21 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles) destroying the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Khartoum which provided the majority of all medicines for Sudan (1998) Bill Clinton (D);
* (15) Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan, Regime Change (2001-present) George W. Bush (R);
* (16) War of Aggression against Iraq and Hostile Occupation (2003)-present) George W. Bush (R);
* (17) Regime Change in Haiti (2004) Democratically elected Aristide for three years of chaos and systematic killing, George W. Bush (R).

There have been major aggressions every several years.

Remember that every Congress in the past half century has approved excessive military budgets and the last three have approved increases that have made the U.S. military budget larger than those of all other nations combined.

The U.S. will remain a military threat to the world until it vastly reduces its military expenditures. The single highest priority for peace is cutting the U.S. military budget. The United States government may have been able to outspend the Soviet Union into economic collapse in the Cold War arms race, injuring the entire planet in the process. Now Bush has entered a new arms race and is provoking a Second Cold War with China. Yet what can China do, as the U.S. builds a first-strike oriented missile shield and uses Japan and a huge advanced military base at Pyongtaek on Korea's west coast, not 500 miles from Beijing?

The U.S. at this time is capable of striking any place on earth with a nuclear armed missile within one hour of the order to fire, launched from a Trident II, or other nuclear weapons system. We are at this time spending billions on a new generation of nuclear weapons that can be used tactically, against four blocks of Falluja, or an alleged Al Queda camp in Pakistan. At the same time, we threaten Iran and others for seeking to develop nuclear energy with the claim that they may build a crude bomb. Yet the only defense a nation today has to U.S. militarism is the threat of nuclear retaliation. The U.S. is seeking total dismantlement and prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction everywhere else, because it possesses the vast majority of all WMD’s and far superior delivery systems.

George Bush loved being a War President while he was winning - winning over the bodies of impoverished and defenseless people, that is. Someone told him only war presidents can be great presidents. He will love war again if his polls go up.

President Bush would rather make enemies by the use of force to have his way, than seek agreement with friends by helping others and recognizing their rights and interests. He prefers to go it alone, and then entice or coerce whatever help he can get from others, whether it is for Iraq, global warming, the prohibition of land mines, or the use of minors in war, addressing hunger, poverty, AIDS, natural disaster relief, or most United Nations activities, and absolutely, the International Criminal Court which might indict him. He is spared defeat at the polls because he cannot seek re-election.

He can be held accountable only by impeachment. The American people must not acquiesce to his crimes.

Consider that all the major candidates, Democrat and Republican -- Clinton, Edwards, Kerry, McCain, Frist, -- voted for the war and/or favor the Iraq Occupation.

To stop U.S. militarism, the U.S. must vastly reduce its military expenditures, 50% in five years and further down from there on. It must use those savings to combat poverty, hunger, sickness and unemployment at home and abroad.

The U.S. must seek friends by word and deed, rather than make enemies. The harm George Bush has done to the way the rest of the world sees our country will take a generation to overcome, after we change our warlike ways.

But the only way to convince the world that We the People do not approve of the conduct of George W. Bush is to impeach him. Otherwise we can only be seen as approving of his acts, or as powerless to prevent them.

And the only way we can deter the next, and future Presidents, from seeking war rather than peace is to impeach George W. Bush and his key advisors now. Only then will political leadership know the American people will not accept more war.

Last week ImpeachBush.org placed an ad calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush on the second page of the internationally read newspaper, USA Today. The impeachment movement has placed similar ads in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. The time to impeach is now. This movement has grown with your continuing support. Please make a donation to the campaign today so that the movement will grow in the coming months. Click here.
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=T742YWYaN6oPt5BPm3a8DA..

Ramsey Clark June 15, 2006


Go to http://www.impeachbush.org/ to get involved and support the campaign to impeach Bush.



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

Predator Poisoning and Killing Planned In Wilderness Areas

Oppose new predator control rules
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/wilderness_predators

The U.S. Forest Service just announced plans to relax rules that govern "predator control" in federal Wilderness areas and Research Natural Areas of our National Forests. The move would greatly expand the ways that wolves, coyotes, cougars, bears, foxes and other predators can be killed in these areas, and it signals a very disturbing shift in the way our public land is managed.

The proposed rule would permit aerial gunning and motorized vehicles in Wilderness areas to trap and kill predators and meet nebulous "wildlife management" objectives, which would be created by industry-driven "collaborative groups." The rule would also allow notoriously dangerous "M-44" cyanide guns to be used in Wilderness areas, even though these devises have accidentally killed thousands of family pets and non-targeted wildlife. Please take a minute to write the Forest Service and demand that it reverse this disastrous plan – and instead put its energy and resources towards ensuring these animals continue to grace the wild.

Tell me more
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/wilderness_predators/explanation

Wir lassen uns nicht residieren

Projektvorschlag: „Wir lassen uns nicht residieren!“
v. Wolffram Vorwerk (Dresden)

Dazu möchte ich folgende Überlegungen ausführen.

Mit dem „Residenzgesetz“ ab dem 01.08.06 werden die ALG II – Bezieher in einem unzumutbaren, mittels jeglicher Willkür – bei elementarem Verstoß der Regularien des Grundgesetzes der BRD –, Verlust der Menschenwürde ausgesetzt!

Das können und wollen wir nicht hinnehmen. Mit weiterhin durchzuführenden Montagsdemos ist dies nicht ausnahmslos zu schaffen!

Es müssen andere Formen des politischen Widerstandes ebenfalls eine neue dominierende Rolle einnehmen!

Der Politik muss demonstrativ, aber auch politisch und juristisch gezeigt werden, dass sie nicht große Wählerschichten und Menschen in das „Nirwana der Armut und Verelendung“ abschieben kann.

Mein Projekt bezieht daher aus der juristischen Gesetzgebung und ihrer Begleitmechanismen die Zuversicht, dass damit ein juristischer Umkehrschluss hinsichtlich des „Fortentwicklungsgesetzes“ d. SGB II v. 01.08.06 versucht werden sollte und ein wahrscheinlich politisch-juristischer Umdenkungsprozess erfolgen kann, will man nicht das Grundgesetz völlig aushebeln.

Inhaltlich skizziere ich hiermit die Herangehensweise wie folgt:

Alle ALG II – Bezieher kommen ihrer gesetzlich festgelegten Meldepflicht an 2 Wochentagen an welchem die ARGE`S bis 12.00 Uhr geöffnet haben, für einen 6 wöchigen Zeitraum –Kampagnenzeitraum – nach und lassen sich ihre schriftlich fixierte Forderung hinsichtlich eines Nachweises für eine Vermittlung auf einen Arbeitsplatz mit 8 € brutto! vom Fallmanager mit einem positiven oder eher wahrscheinlich negativen Vermerk auf dem mitgebrachten und vor gedruckten Formular attestieren.

Nach dem Ende des festgelegten Zeitraumes der Kampagne sollten die Nachweise kopiert und als Kopie für eine Dokumentation hinsichtlich einer unbedingt vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht in Eilangelegenheit durchzuführenden Klage gegen die Bundesregierung mit dem Tenor: „ Die Bundesregierung kommt den im SGB II und Ihren weiterführenden Gesetzesänderungen, im § 1 Abs. 2 Pkt. 1 festgelegten Fördermaßnahmen nicht nach und verstößt damit gegen die Gesetzesgebung im höchsten Mass!“

Somit kann man einen politischen Druck auf die Regierung ausüben!

Es sollten sich selbstverständlich alle ALG II – Bezieher unbedingt an dieser Kampagnenform beteiligen, denn sie haben damit gleichzeitig ihrer Mitwirkungspflicht Genüge getan und sind somit vor Willkürmaßnahmen und damit verbundene Sanktionsandrohungen geschützt!

Entsprechende Begleitung der Kampagne durch fortwährende Pressestatements müssen gewährleistet sein!

Vorschlag für das Vorlageformular bei den jeweiligen Institutionen der ARGE`S:

Name, Vorname
Bedarfsgemeinschaftsnummer
Datum


Eingliederungsforderung entsprechend d. § 2 Pkt. 1 Satz 2, Abs. 2 d. SGB II und seiner fortgeschriebenen Gesetzesänderungen

Mit Wirkung des heutigen Tag, dem …………..2006, stelle ich die Forderung, unterstrichen durch den § 2 d. SGB II, mir von Ihnen einen Arbeitsplatz mit 8 € brutto zu vermitteln zu lassen.

Sie sind dazu nach § 1 d. SGB II in Vertretung und für die Bundesregierung der BRD sowie als Bevollmächtigter der ARGE…………………. in Persona verpflichtet!


Erklärung

Als Vertreter der Bundesregierung hinsichtlich der Ausführungen des SGB II und seiner fortgeschriebenen Gesetzesänderungen und in Persona als Stellvertreter der ARGE ……………….. attestiere ich Ihnen hiermit, dass es zur Zeit nicht möglich ist, Sie in einen derartigen Arbeitsplatz einzugliedern.

Ich bestätige Ihnen hiermit ausdrücklich, dass Sie Ihrer gesetzlichen Mitwirkungspflicht nachgekommen sind!


…………………………………………………………..
- Mitarbeiter der ARGE


Aus: Rundmail des Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste (ABSP) am 15. Juni 2006

Alle Dokumente lassen sich im Archiv unter http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de ansehen und downloaden.

Shell and BP: Still Drilling

"Shell Oil and British Petroleum are trying to fool the public into thinking they've gone green." George Monbiot reports on the truth behind their PR.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061406EC.shtml

We Cannot Afford This Extra Pollution

"In April, American satellites tracked the progress of a vast cloud of pollution and desert dust from China as it passed over the US," writes the Daily Astorian. "But far from being a one-time occurrence, we increasingly are literally on the front lines of a burgeoning global environmental crisis as China and India step up coal consumption ..." the newspaper continues.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061406EA.shtml

ACLU Sues Pentagon Over Anti-War Group Monitoring

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the US Defense Department on Wednesday to demand information it says the government has collected on groups opposed to the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406T.shtml

US continues global market slump

The global stock market sell-off has continued with US shares the latest to suffer amid mounting fears about inflation and interest rates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5074300.stm


From Information Clearing House



The Short View: Braced for very bad news

Another day, another bout of jitters on global equity markets. This time round, it seemed to be a rash of hawkish statements from Federal Reserve governors that convinced investors more US rate rises were on the way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13620.htm

Ward Churchill: My Trial By Media

On February 2, 2005, Colorado Governor Bill Owens called for me to be fired because of statements I made about U.S. foreign policy that were clearly protected by the First Amendment. It would have been illegal to do so then, and it is just as illegal today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13624.htm

Congress Gives Itself 7th Straight Pay Raise

Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9364688/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

The Case of the Missing $21 Billion: Who's Following the Iraq Money?

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/060806Lindorff.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?

Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50618


From Information Clearing House

Behind the Terror-arrests in Toronto

Are the 17 Muslim men arrested in Toronto on June 3, 2006 innocent until proven guilty? Theoretically, yes. But practically, they are absolutely not.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13626.htm

None Of Us Are Free If One Of Us Is Chained

4 Minute Video - Flash presentation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8199.htm

Russia Will Not Discuss its Nuclear Weapons With U.S.

Russia does not intend to discuss issues relating to the future of nuclear tactical weapons with the United States, a senior defense ministry official said Tuesday.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/14/rustacticalweapon.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Doctors forbid roles in harsh interrogations

The 544-member house of delegates, which sets policy for the leading U.S. physicians group, voted at its annual meeting to approve a seven-page report that outlined a physician's duty "as healer" not to take any part in interrogating prisoners.

http://tinyurl.com/qf2uo


From Information Clearing House

We wouldn't be allowed to treat animals like this

DAVID Hicks is being subjected to sensory deprivation having been returned to solitary confinement in a concrete cell after previously surviving 244 nights and days without sunlight or human contact. This is in clear violation of the third Geneva Convention.

http://tinyurl.com/pq6pf



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

Baghdad's unwelcome visitor

For the Iraqi prime minister, just beginning the arduous task of establishing legitimacy for his national-unity government, Bush's trip is not likely to help at all.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HF15Ak02.html


From Information Clearing House

Congressional Oversight Needed to STOP FDA's "Trilateral Cooperation Charter"

http://tinyurl.com/rry55

Pentagon going all out to prep for remote-controlled robot wars

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4662/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

TELL THE SENATE TO VOTE TO END THE WAR

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/Peaceact/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4180


Informant: ranger116

Immigrant troops become citizens on Flag Day

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13321758/


Informant: ranger116

Stop BabyFirstTV from Deceiving Parents Marketing Television as Educational for Babies is False and Deceptive

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0614-22.htm

American Friends Service Committee Sues the U.S. Defense Department for Unlawful Surveillance

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0614-08.htm

Now, What About Cheney?

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0614-29.htm

US Image Abroad Takes a New Turn South

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0614-07.htm

Scientists Urge G8 Not to Ignore Global Warming

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0614-04.htm

Guantanamo Victims' Lawyers Protest 3-Day Notification Delay

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0614-06.htm

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Postmark Guantanamo: Why is the Pentagon keeping prisoners’ mail from their lawyers?

Paracha, 58, decided to write a letter to 98 U.S. senators describing his plight. The senators haven’t responded, though it’s hard to blame them. They don’t know the letters exist. The Department of Defense won’t release them for delivery.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2689/


From Information Clearing House



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

Japan Buys Votes to Take Control of Whaling Body

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0614-08.htm

Kummerkasten macht dicht Kummer bleibt

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

14. Juni 2006

Zum Monatsende wird der Hartz-IV-Ombudsrat seine Arbeit einstellen. Dazu erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der Linkspartei Dietmar Bartsch:

Der Hartz-IV-Ombudsrat wird zum Monatsende seinen Abschlussbericht vorlegen und danach seine Arbeit einstellen. Ein wirklich ernstzunehmendes Gremium war der Rat, dem Kurt Biedenkopf, Christine Bergmann und Hermann Rappe angehörten, nicht die letzte Pressemeldung ist ein halbes Jahr alt, der letzte Zwischenbericht liegt ein Jahr zurück. Sein Wirkungsgrad zumindest ist umstritten. Dennoch: Allein in der ersten Woche sollen 5000 Anfragen und Beschwerden von Hartz-IV-Betroffenen, vorrangig aus Ostdeutschland, den selbsternannten Kummerkasten für die Opfer der Arbeitsmarktreform erreicht haben. Manchmal wurden aus den eingehenden Beschwerden gar die richtigen Schlüsse gezogen und als Empfehlung an die politisch Verantwortlichen weitergeleitet. Für die Rechte der Langzeitarbeitlosen gegenüber den Behörden hat er nicht gestritten. Letztlich aber war der Ombudsrat keiner, der zu dem einzig richtigen Schluss kam: Hartz-IV ist Armut per Gesetz und gehört abgeschafft. Das konnte schon deshalb nicht sein, weil seine Mitglieder mehrheitlich den Parteien angehören, die die unsoziale Politik der Massenverarmung zu verantworten oder zumindest mitgetragen haben. Seinem Namen ist der Ombudsrat nicht gerecht geworden. So wird es die Betroffenen wenig schmerzen, dass sich diese Alibi-Institution verabschiedet. Ihre Interessenvertretung findet woanders statt in der Politik der Linkspartei.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=32962

America Loves War

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/velvel8.html

War Atrocity Evidence in Iraq

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt197.html

Elections Change Nothing

http://www.lewrockwell.com/katz-j/katz-j8.html

Why Home Schools Are Superior to Private Schools

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north460.html

Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006

Can the Democrats muster a strategy to counter the "stay-the-course" Republicans?

Bush's Iraq Offensive

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/14/bushs_iraq_offensive.php

The Iraq War as a Trophy Photo

"A peace activist should keep a photo in his or her wallet of a small Iraqi child torn to pieces - a constant reminder to live like others are dying," writes David Swanson. "The trouble is that we find it almost unbearable to look at such images. We believe the war would end if the corporate media showed such images, yet we turn our faces away if they're placed in front of us; even more so, if they happen to be images of torture or of soldiers enjoying humiliating Iraqis."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406O.shtml

The Other Cheney Behind the Scenes

"Since 2005, Dick Cheney's daughter Elizabeth has held a powerful position guiding Middle East policy," writes Robert Dreyfuss. "And like father, like daughter: Liz is a key player in the push for regime change in Iran and Syria."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406M.shtml

DeLay's Mission Continues

"What is the born-again East Texas Christian word for chutzpah? Whatever you call it, DeLay displayed enormous amounts when he, a GOP party boss who long fought for the expansion of federal government influence over all areas of Americans' private lives up to and including when to pull the plug on brain-dead relatives, castigated liberals for wanting 'more control over people's lives and decisions,'" writes Robert Scheer.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406L.shtml

Global Image of the US Is Worsening

Survey Finds

As the war in Iraq continues for a fourth year, the global image of America has slipped further, even among people in some countries closely allied with the United States, a new opinion poll has found.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406K.shtml



Keeping Iraq's Oil in the Ground

Greg Palast asks, "Did the petroleum industry, which had a direct, if hidden, hand in promoting invasion, cheerlead for a takeover of Iraq to prevent overproduction?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406J.shtml

Animal Bill of Rights

A message from Sophia

Original Message:

Hi!! Some of you have emailed me and let me know that the link didn't work for you in the previous email I sent out. I am sorry about that; I put the direct link at the very bottom of this email. Thank you for letting me know that it didn't work instead of just ignoring it! This is a very important petition. Thanks again,

Kristy


Animal Bill of Rights

The struggle to end cruelty to animals is not an easy one. But there is something easy you can do right now to make a difference in the lives of abused animals. It's as quick and simple as typing in your name. Through the Animal Bill of Rights, we are working to show Congress a groundswell of support for legislation that protects animals and recognizes their rights. Ultimately, we hope the petition will be a bill. In the meantime, the thousands of signatures on this petition send a clear message to our legislators that Americans strongly support legal protection for animals. When animal-related legislation is proposed, Congress will remember the huge number of signatures on the Animal Bill of Rights. With that in mind, they will cast a vote for the animals.

Sign the Animal Bill of Rights
http://www.aldf.org/petition.asp?sect=action

Thanks!

Kristy

Florida Turnpike System killing thousands of animals

Email Jim Ely the Director of Florida's turnpike system:
jim.ely@dot.state.fl.us,
turnpike.pio@dot.state.fl.us

http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/carmelcase/MI22509/

Turnpike

Air Date: 06/13/2006

Reported by: Carmel Cafiero

When it comes to the Florida Turnpike - you might think the only thing "wild" is the way some people drive. But there are also thousands of animals co-existing with the cars and trucks in neighboring wetlands. In tonight's Carmel On The Case, investigative reporter Carmel Cafiero shows why the animals living in one section of South Florida are in danger.

WSVN--It might seem like a piece of the everglades.

There are fish who cruise along as if they own the waterway.

Lizards - large and small - who hang on limbs and rest on logs.

Birds looking for lunch and finding it.

Even a family of coots waiting for their eggs to hatch.

But all these creatures aren't living in the everglades, they're living in canals along florida's turnpike.

And it's all being covered up in Broward County to add more lanes from Griffin Road to Atlantic Boulevard.

Bev Hoppe: "There's some poor fishes getting it right there."

That's Bev Hoppe talking to her home video camera.

She took these pictures as the canal behind her home was filled in.

Bev Hoppe: "Oh I found it very sad. I kept saying you know - the poor critters, ya know, all the critters are dying - but nobody care about fish and turtles."

Lots of fish and lots of turtles.

The 500 million dollar project will affect 21 miles of what a spokesperson calls - ditches.

Ditches originally dug back in the 1950's.

Nicole Kalil: "With construction we needed the ditches back to make room not only for the roadway but also for the sound walls which a lot of these neighbors have advocated for very heavily throughout the years."

But some neighbors are also concerned about the wildlife that has flourished along the waterways in the fifty something years they've been around.

Loretta Murray: "Buried alive - all these animals couldn't escape. Where are they going to go to? It's a travesty. It's a graveyard now."

Captain Dan Kipnis: "It says to me we're gonna lose a lot of species - fish, birds, reptiles, snakes, alligators and turtles - things that are normally here - we're gonna lose them."

Captain Dan Kipnis is on the board of directors of the Florida wildlife federation - a citizens organization.

He says the area is much more than ditches.

Captain Dan Kipnis: "There is value to this. Obviously its got animals living in it. We've taken a lot of wetlands out of South Florida - we can't lose more."

Wetlands are critial to the environment because they support a wide variety of plants and animals and are protected by federal law.

But when we asked the spokesperson for the turnpike, she maintained wetlands were not being destroyed.

Carmel Cafiero: "Is this considerd a wetland - area?"

Nicole Kalil: "Again it's - it's a ditch."

Carmel Cafiero: "Is it consider a wetlands area?"

Nicole Kalil: "Not that I know of, but again I will look to experts if you'd like me to find out."

The spokesperson later told us by phone - look up wetlands in the dictionary.

So we took it a step further and contacted the U.S. Army corps of engineers.

It says these areas are considered wetlands.

The corps only issued a permit for the project after turnpike officials agreed to keep this area from peters road to broward boulevard and plant native wetland species.

The records also reflect the turnpike will have to pay into a fund that purchases and preserves wetlands.

Carmel Cafiero: "The Corps of Engineers determined this project will not jeopardize critical habitat for threatened or endangered species. As for the critters that won't live through the project - its the price of progress."

Nicole Kalil: "I think the most important thing to know about this project is that there's no intentional cruelty when the water drains a majority of the wildlife goes out with it."

A bright spot here - those eggs we showed earlier - have now hatched.

The baby birds will be able to fly away when their little piece of paradise - is the next to be paved.


If You Have A Story For Carmel:
Call her in Dade at 305-627-CLUE Or in Broward at 954-921-CLUE Contact: clue@wsvn.com


Informant: SledDogAC

Urgent Flag Day Alert: Free Speech at Risk

I write today to urge you to take action on a matter near and dear to my heart -- free speech. The ACLU urgently needs the help of everyone across America who values our Constitution and the fundamental freedoms it protects.

Here is the situation -- the Senate is poised to vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to prohibit desecration of the flag. This amendment would restrict certain freedoms in the Bill of Rights for the first time in our history, setting a dangerous precedent that puts all of our liberties at risk.

With your help, the Senate has blocked the flag amendment in past years. This year, the vote is closer than ever. Election-year political posturing has taken over in the Senate and we are now within just one vote of losing this fight.

It is critical that you take action right now at http://action.aclu.org/flag. Urge your senators to protect free expression and vote "no" on the flag amendment.

Free expression and the right to dissent are core principles that the American flag represents. Our liberties can only remain vibrant and strong when we stand by these principles. If exceptions are made every time someone in power disagrees with a particular act or statement, our liberties will surely be compromised.

From my travels around the country, I know that many military veterans strongly oppose this amendment because they know the cost of freedom and believe that measures like this would unnecessarily restrict the very liberties they fought to defend. They also understand that the flag amendment is a distraction from the real concerns of veterans, like adequate health care and VA funding.

Congress should not be sacrificing our First Amendment freedoms in order to mobilize some politicians’ political base.

I urge you to contact your senators right now and tell them to vote "no" on this proposed amendment. If passed, it would betray the very principles the flag represents. http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=2-V6vWg5unL62epzNcy6bg..

If you would like to read more before taking action, go here. http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=zxH1QuMJqYHOTS_HCaqsBQ..


Sincerely,

Nadine Strossen President, ACLU

P.S. We'll need all the supporters we can muster in this battle. Once you've taken action, get your friends involved by sending them an eCard about the Flag Amendment.

In Argentinien mehren sich die Probleme mit Gentech-Soja und Rumänien will demnächst aussteigen

Soja ist ein Unkraut
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22879/1.html

Fraudulent Katrina and Rita Claims Top $1 Billion

The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and was hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406G.shtml

Military Has Ordered All Independent News Media off Guantanamo

On Tuesday, the military ordered all independent news media off the base by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, and had arranged a flight to Miami to expedite their departure. A directive from the Office of the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated: "Media currently on the island will depart on Wednesday, 14 June 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Please be prepared to depart the CBQ [quarters] at 8:00 a.m."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406B.shtml




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

Fear for My Daughter: Ft. Lewis soldier refusing to return to Iraq arrested

Sara Rich is the mother of an AWOL US soldier. Facing three deployments to Iraq in less than four years, Sara's daughter Suzanne Swift searched her soul and decided that she could not go back to Iraq and continue to go out on what she calls "useless missions." Nor could she continue to cope with the constant sexual harassment and fear of rape by her own officers and fellow soldiers that she had to endure. On Sunday night, the city police of Eugene, Oregon, without a warrant, raided Sara Rich's home and took Suzanne away. She was taken to Fort Lewis, Washington.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406A.shtml

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Ft. Lewis soldier refusing to return to Iraq arrested, alleges sexual harassment
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4663/

Suzanne Swift's ordeal
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4682/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Be the Face of Arms Control

http://www.controlarms.org/index.htm

Petition: Kein Bundeswehreinsatz im Kongo

http://www.online-petition.de/petitions.php?id=225


Nachricht von Helmut Gobsch



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

Amnesty International: EU and US "Partners in Crime" on CIA Flights

Amnesty International urged European states on Wednesday to stop being "partners in crime" with the United States over the alleged kidnapping of terrorism suspects and their transfer to countries that use torture. In a report and a letter addressed to EU leaders meeting on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, the human rights groups backed accusations that the US Central lntelligence Agency ran secret transfer flights and that European countries were aware of it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406Z.shtml

US opens new war front in North Africa

Asia Times
by Jason Motlagh

06/14/06

Despite a setback in Somalia, where anti-Islamist warlords recently lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, to a jihadist militia, the United States is plunging into a far vaster set of commitments, stretching across the 'Wild West' of Saharan Africa. Over the next five years, Washington is expected to spend US$500 million on an overt counter-terror program to secure what it has dubbed the latest front in its 'global war on terror.' Detractors insist the move could backfire and have the same unintended consequences as in the Horn of Africa, albeit on a much larger scale with even more at stake...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF14Aa01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The terror raid that backfired

Independent [UK]
by Mohammed Abdulkahar

06/13/06

To come into my house like that, accusing me, shooting me in my chest, and saying that I was a terrorist, it really hurt. As to the identity or motive of the police informant, I have no idea. I'm in the same situation as everyone else. In my eyes, the person that said this -- gave the police inaccurate intelligence -- they are the terrorists to me. They terrorised me and my family. ... I don't see this as an end. It's far from ending. I see it as the start. They will do it to another family, family after family. I knew they made a mistake when they entered my house, of an innocent family...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article994078.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Postmark Guantanamo

In These Times
by Christopher Hayes

06/13/06

After the U.S. Senate voted last year to strip Guantanamo detainees of the right to habeas corpus, you'd think it would have dashed the hopes of the desperate prisoners that the world's greatest deliberative body would prove their salvation. But Saifullah Paracha is apparently an eternal optimist. In March, after 18 months in Guantanamo, Paracha, 58, decided to write a letter to 98 U.S. senators describing his plight. The senators haven't responded, though it's hard to blame them. They don't know the letters exist. The Department of Defense won't release them for delivery. 'He lived in the United States,' says Paracha's lawyer G. T. Hunt. 'He's a pro-American person. He believes in American justice. He believes that if he can get a hearing he'll get out'...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2689/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


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

It's official: Lying's not illegal

The Nation
by David Corn

06/13/06

Early this morning, Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, told reporters that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald had sent him a letter stating that Rove would not be indicted in the CIA leak case. In a statement, Luskin declared, 'We believe that the Special Counsel's decision should put an end to the baseless speculation about Mr. Rove's conduct.' Bush administration (and Rove) advocates will spin this news as vindication for the mastermind of George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. But there is no need for baseless speculation to conclude that Rove was involved in the leak and that the White House misled the public about his participation and broke a pledge to fire anyone who had leaked information about Valerie Wilson, the CIA officer married to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the administration. Here is what is known about Rove and the leak...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=91184


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Standing Down on the Rove Matter
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2006/6/14/182858/234


Informant: John Calvert

Hillary Rodham Clinton faces anti-war critics

Raw Story

06/13/06

A liberal crowd both booed and cheered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday after she encouraged Democrats to have a 'difficult conversation' about their position on the Iraq war in order to win over middle-of-the-road voters. ... At a speech before a liberal gathering dubbed 'Take Back America,' the New York senator took grief from those in the audience critical of her vote for the Iraq war and her opposition to an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. 'I do not think it is a smart strategy, either, for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government,' said Clinton. ... 'Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests,' said Clinton, prompting loud booing from some at the gathering...

http://tinyurl.com/o2jpr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Pentagon won't hide interrogation tactics

Visalia Times-Delta

06/13/06

Under pressure from Congress, the Pentagon has dropped plans to keep some interrogation techniques secret by putting them in a classified section of a military manual, defense officials said Tuesday. Two senior officials said there will not be a classified section in the long-awaited revision of the Army Field Manual. One of the officials said descriptions of interrogation techniques initially planned for the classified section are either being made public or are being eliminated as tactics that can be used against prisoners... [editor's note: How long before we learn that they just classified the existence of the classified section? - TLK]

http://tinyurl.com/mpfw3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Existenzgelddebatte: Grundsicherung, Grundeinkommen

Existenzgelddebatte

"'Morgen Kinder wird’s was geben…' – Grundsicherungskonzepte auf dem frauenpolitischen Prüfstand"

Dokumentation der Veranstaltung des AK Frauenpolitische Bildung, Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und der LAG Frauen- und Geschlechterpolitik, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen am 6. Dezember 2005 in Berlin (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/frauenpruef1.pdf

Grundsicherungs- und Grundeinkommenskonzepte in der aktuellen Debatte

Eingangsreferat von Katrin Mohr (Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Sprecherin des Netzwerks Grundeinkommen)(pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/frauenpruef2.pdf

Grundeinkommens- und Grundsicherungsmodelle im Vergleich – Tabelle zum Vortrag (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/frauenpruef3.pdf

Konzept des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Grundeinkommen in und bei der Linkspartei (pdf) http://www.bag-grundeinkommen.de/BGE-Konzept_0604.pdf


Also los!

Kommentar von KT vom 23.5.06 zum Beitrag von Wolfgang Schaumberg (s.u.). KT war während seiner Arbeit als Verlagslektor bei ver.di organisiert und arbeitet heute im Umsonstladen Hamburg. http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/adanderewelt.html

Siehe dazu:

Eine andere Welt ist vorstellbar? Schritte zur konkreten Vision... Oder: Zur Aufgabe von postkapitalistisch orientierten Linken, am Beispiel des Kampfes in Auto-Multis. Diskussionsbeitrag von Wolfgang Schaumberg
(pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/anderewelt.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

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Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen (BGE), Mindestlohn, Arbeitszeitverkürzung

„Oft wird auf die Triade Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Mindestlohn und Arbeitszeitverkürzung hingewiesen. Warum nicht nur Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, warum nicht nur Mindestlohn, nicht nur Arbeitszeitverkürzung? Warum ist eine Kombination von Grund-/Mindestsicherung, Mindestlohn und Arbeitszeitverkürzung nicht ausreichend? Ich versuche Antworten auf diese Fragen aus armutspolitischer und emanzipatorischer Sicht zu geben…“ Artikel von Ronald Blaschke vom Juni 2006 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/blaschke3.pdf


"Netzwerk Grundeinkommen": 8. Newsletter des Netzwerks Grundeinkommen vom 4.7.06 (pdf) http://www.grundeinkommen.info/fileadmin/Text-Depot/Newsletter8.pdf

mit folgenden Schwerpunktthemen: - Essay: Ronald Blaschke zu konkurrierenden Modellen gegen den Sozialkahlschlag, zur Trias von Arbeitszeitverkürzung, Mindestlohn und bedingungslosem Grundeinkommen - Interview: "Umbau ohne Angst" - der Ökonom und Leiter des Hamburgischen Weltwirtschaftsinstituts HWWI, Prof. Thomas Straubhaar, erläutert im Gespräch mit dem Newsletter seine Vorstellungen für die Realisierung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens - Schwerpunktthema Finanzierung mit einer Fortschreibung des von Prof. Helmut Pelzer entwickelten Transfergrenzen-Modells, einem Beitrag von Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn zum Konzept einer "Basis Income Tax", dem Finanzierungskonzept der BAG-Grundeinkommen der Linkspartei.PDS für ein Grundeinkommen und Positionen der Grünen Jugend.


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Juli 2006

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Diagnose und Perspektiven > Existenzgelddebatte

Aus aktuellem Anlass (Auseinandersetzung von und mit Michael Schlecht) wird unser erst kürzlich errichtetes Special „Rainer Roths Kritik am BGE“ umgetauft in „Debatte um linke Kritik am BGE“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/linkskritik.html


Bedarfsorientierte Grundsicherung – Teil eines alternativen Gesamtkonzeptes

Artikel von Michael Schlecht vom Juli 2006 (pdf). Es handelt sich um eine Weiterentwicklung seines Beitrags „Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen“ in Sozialismus 3/2006 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/schlecht.pdf


Grundeinkommen. Oder: Ertrinken im Abwaschwasser?

Eine Replik von Jens-Eberhard Jahn auf Michael Schlecht: „Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen“, in: Sozialismus 3/2006, 21-23 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/jahnadschlecht.html


Freiheit – kein Thema im Sozialismus?

„Die Vollbeschäftigungs-Linken haben das Thema Grundeinkommen entdeckt und sind schockiert. Ein ausreichendes hohes, als individueller Rechtsanspruch allen zustehendes und ohne inquisitorische Bedürftigkeitsprüfung und vor allem ohne Arbeitszwang gewährtes Grundeinkommen – wo kommen wir da hin! Ein „leistungsloses“ Einkommen, das geht den Arbeiterbewegungstraditionalisten zutiefst gegen den Strich…“ Antwort von Robert Ulmer auf „Suche nach grenzenloser Freiheit“ von Michael Schlecht in Neues Deutschland vom 29./30. April 2006 (bereits im Labournet verlinkt) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/ulmeradschlecht.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. August 2006

JUNE 15: GIVE LOW PAY THE RED CARD ON INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY

http://www.seiu.org/media/pressreleases.cfm?pr_id=1315

Wider den menschenrechtsblinden Antiterrorismus

Terrorismusbekämpfung und Grundrechte

Die BürgerInnen-Information des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie zur Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts in Sachen (Luft-)sicherheit betont die Konsequenzen aus der Würde des Menschen und seiner Freiheit. Die Reaktionen der meisten PolitikerInnen auf das Verfassungsgerichtsurteil sind erschreckend. Statt sich auf die Verfassung rückzubesinnen, wollen sie Flugzeugentführungen nach Kriegsrecht handhaben. Einzelexemplar kostenlos, Online-Bestellung möglich: http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_bestellung.php?articleID=198


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Müller: "Wer sich dem Arbeitsdienst verweigert, soll finanzielle Einbußen erleiden"

http://tinyurl.com/qn5zp

Online-Repression: eine neue Bedrohung der Freiheit

„Internet-Cafés werden geschlossen, Chatrooms überwacht, Blogs gelöscht: Zum 45. Jahrestag der ai-Gründung hat die britische Sektion von amnesty international die Kampagne „Be irrepressible“ („Sei ununterdrückbar“) gestartet. Sie richtet sich gegen die wachsende Zensur im Internet. amnesty international ruft Benutzer des weltweiten Internets auf, online eine Petition zu unterschreiben. Darin werden Regierungen aufgefordert, die Zensur von Websites zu beenden. Die Unterschriftenliste soll im November bei einer UN-Konferenz zur Zukunft des Internets präsentiert werden…“

Weitere Infos bei amnesty Deutschland http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/windexde/KA2006005

Online-Unterschiften http://irrepressible.info/pledge

weitere (englische) Informationen auf der Aktionsseite http://irrepressible.info


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Berliner Regierungskreise setzen die verdeckte Einflussnahme in der Medienszene fort

BND bespitzelte Journalisten: Einflussnahme auf Journalisten nicht nur durch Geheimdienste. Bundeswehr noch intensiver als BND

“Trotz angeblich beabsichtigter Strafmaßnahmen wegen der Bespitzelung von Journalisten durch den deutschen Auslandsgeheimdienst BND setzen Berliner Regierungskreise die verdeckte Einflussnahme in der Medienszene fort. Entsprechende Maßnahmen verfolgt die Bundeswehr. Sie zieht in- und ausländische Journalisten als Informationsquellen und Multiplikatoren heran und unterhält eine eigene Abteilung für die Anbahnung von Medienkontakten…“ Artikel von Hans Georg als Online-Flyer Nr. 46 vom 30.05.2006 in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=1609


Recherche ohne Strafandrohung. Warum gesetzliche Verbesserungen keinen Aufschub dulden

Kolumne von Rüdiger Lühr in der «M» 06/2006 http://mmm.verdi.de/archiv/2006/06/kolumne/recherche_ohne_strafandrohung


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Sicherheitsrisiko Mitarbeiter: unbeabsichtigte und beabsichtigte Sabotage von innen

„Dass man keine Bonbons von Fremden nehmen sollte, lernen schon kleine Kinder. Als Erwachsene vergessen sie es dann aber gerne wieder. Richtige Probleme handeln sich Unternehmen allerdings eher mit verärgerten Mitarbeitern ein…“ Artikel von Wolf-Dieter Roth in telepolis vom 12.06.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22853/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Die eCard: das große Gesundheitsversprechen und seine große Täuschung

Datenschutz: elektronische Gesundheitskarte

Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Das große Gesundheitsversprechen - und seine große Täuschung

„Nächstes Jahr soll die elektronische Gesundheitskarte eingeführt werden. Damit verbunden ist ein gigantisches informationstechnologisches Projekt, über das das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie die Bürger und Bürgerinnen, die als PatientInnen alle betroffen sind, informieren will…“ Aus der Presseinformation des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie vom 8. Juni 2006 zum Erscheinen der Broschüre des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie. In der Broschüre wird das geplante Projekt elektronische Gesundheitskarte beschrieben und in den Kontext des Gesundheitssystems gestellt.

Einzelexemplare können kostenlos online bestellt werden: http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_bestellung.php?articleID=199

Infos zur Broschüre (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/ecard_kg.pdf

WIR SAGEN NEIN! Die eCard: Das große Gesundheitsversprechen und seine große Täuschung

Aufruf und Unterschriftensammlung des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie (pdf) http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/files/articles/aufrufnein.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Ein Festival der Überwachung: Freiheit statt Sicherheitswahn

"Freiheit statt Sicherheitswahn"

„Um gegen Sicherheitswahn und die ausufernde Überwachung zu protestieren, gehen wir am 17. Juni 2006 in Berlin unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Sicherheitswahn" auf die Straße. Treffpunkt ist der Alexanderplatz um 14 Uhr. Der Protestzug beginnt um 15 Uhr…“ Für weitere Infos und Aufrufe siehe die Aktionsseite http://www.FreiheitStattSicherheitswahn.de


WM 2006: Die Welt zu Gast – fühl Dich wie im Knast

Ein Festival der Überwachung - Ein internationales Sportfest unter Freunden?

„Mit Sorge haben wir die sicherheitspolitischen Vorbereitungen zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft beobachtet und kritisch darüber berichtet (Ein Eigentor gegen die Grundrechte - Bei der Fußball-WM werden unmögliche Sicherheitsmaßnahmen möglich). Froh sind wir über die bisherigen Berichte einer fröhlichen und friedlichen WM. Die teilnehmenden Bürger und Bürgerinnen sind die Garanten dieser Friedlichkeit, nicht die polizeilichen Überwachungen…“ Pressemitteilung des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie vom 12. Juni 2006 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/wm2006_kg.pdf


Zu Gast bei Jägern und Sammlern

Die Fußball-WM in Deutschland dient Polizei, Geheimdiensten und Bundeswehr als Anlass für eine groß angelegte Anti-Terrorübung. Artikel von Rolf Gössner in Freitag vom 2.6.06 http://www.freitag.de/2006/22/06220702.php


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Hartzer Käse: die Arbeitslosenindustrie

Alltägliche Schikanen

Rüder Ton bei Hartz IV Antragsstellung

„Dem Sozialticker gehen vermehrt Leserbriefe ein, in denen Antragssteller sich über den rüden Umgangston von Sachbearbeiter/innen beschweren. Aus Angst vor Repressionen und Schwierigkeiten bei der Antragsbearbeitung / Weiterbewilligung bleiben diese Übergriffe der Sachbearbeiter allerdings sehr oft im Dunkeln. Aufgestachelt durch die Medienberichterstattungen und den eigenen Ängsten dem Hilfesuchenden gegenüber, greifen Sachbearbeiter/innen zu verbalen Mitteln die einem Dienstleister nicht gerecht werden…“ Meldung des Sozialticker vom 13.6.06 http://www.sozialticker.com/rueder-ton-bei-hartz-iv-antragsstellung.html


Trainingsmaßnahmen und andere Umschulungen

Hartzer Käse - Die Arbeitslosenindustrie

Hartzer Käse - Die Arbeitslosenindustrie I

„In Zeiten, in denen der SPD Parteivorsitzende Kurt Beck mehr Anstand bei Beziehern von Leistungen nach dem SGB II einfordert und Politiker von CDU/CSU offen fordern die Leistungen nach SGB II noch mehr zu beschneiden, ist es an der Zeit nach den wahren Verantwortlichen für die hohen Kosten der sozialen Sicherungssysteme zu fragen…“ Artikel von alionsonny vom 09.06.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/06/149481.shtml


Hartzer Käse? Die Arbeitslosenindustrie II

„Fortbildung und Erwachsenenbildung, ein weites Feld für die Arbeitslosenindustrie. Eine Fortbildung bzw. Umschulung stellt zweifelsohne eine gute Möglichkeit dar die Bewerbungschancen zu erhöhen. Aber nur wenn die Fortbildung / Umschulung auch wirklich stattfindet und der Inhalt stimmt…“ Artikel von alionsonny vom 10.06.2006 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2006/06/149523.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

Träger der 1-Euro-Jobs: im sozialen Bereich boomen Ein-Euro-Jobs

Träger der 1-Euro-Jobs

Dreck wegräumen zur WM. Hamburger Senat verpflichtet Ein-Euro-Jobber zum Praktikum als Straßenfeger

„In Hamburg werden Ein-Euro-Jobber während der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft als Straßenkehrer bei der Stadtreinigung eingesetzt. Für ver.di-Fachbereichsleiter Roland Kohsiek ein klarer Rechtsbruch…“ Artikel von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 9.6.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/06-09/030.php


»Im sozialen Bereich boomen Ein-Euro-Jobs«

Billigarbeiter füttern, pflegen und lehren. Fachkräfte werden arbeitslos, die Qualität geht in den Keller. Ein Gespräch mit Hille Gosejacob-Rolf, Vorsitzende des Deutschen Berufsverbands für soziale Arbeit (DBSH) und Geschäftsführerin der Lebenshilfe Erlangen–Höchstadt e. V. im bayerischen Herzogenaurach, von Ralf Wurzbacher in junge Welt vom 10./11.6.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/06-10/021.php

Aus dem Text: „…F: Warum fliegt die massenhafte illegale Beschäftigung von Ein-Euro-Jobbern nicht häufiger auf? A: Aus der Not heraus. Der Staat ist ja indirekt sowohl Arbeitgeber als auch Kontrolleur der Ein-Euro-Kräfte. Warum sollte er eine Praxis unterbinden, von der er selbst profitiert. Ich selbst habe versucht, Fälle von eklatantem Mißbrauch mit den Trägern und der Arbeitsverwaltung zu klären. Seitdem habe ich Klagedrohungen am Hals.“


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juni 2006

AN INCONVIENT TRUTH

http://www.climatecrisis.net


*Went to see it tonight, Highly recommend.

bigraccoon






What price will America pay for neocon hubris?

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4657/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

NASA Admits Wrongdoing In Not Allowing Top Scientist To Discuss Climate Change Research

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/06/nasa_admits_err.html


Informant: NHNE

Katrina's Young Victims: The Scars Are More Than Skin Deep

Ten months after Katrina, its emotional effect on children is proving to be long and lasting. Two studies of children affected by the hurricane have found high rates of depression, anxiety, behavioral problems and post-traumatic stress disorder.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061306HA.shtml

California Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Proposed Biodefense Lab

An appeals court hears arguments Tuesday about whether the government should be allowed to open a laboratory in California to test lethal agents including HIV, plague and anthrax in simulations of terrorist attacks. Residents cite the lab's location in an area prone to earthquakes as an accident waiting to happen that could kill thousands of people in the San Francisco area.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061306EA.shtml

First Trial in Lobbying Scandal Goes to Jury

A federal court jury began deliberations Tuesday morning on whether former Bush administration official David Safavian concealed from ethics officials and investigators that he assisted Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff's efforts to obtain two government properties.

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

'Not Only What Is Legal, But What Is Right'

A senior White House official willfully undermined U.S. national security in an effort to tar a critic of the administration’s case for war in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/axv9g
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053#3


From Information Clearing House

Evangelism in the military under fire

"Members of the military swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States," Weinstein told United Press International. "They do not put their hand on the Constitution and swear an oath to support and defend the New Testament."

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060612-100411-9410r


From Information Clearing House

Apologise or we'll cut your funding, US envoy tells UN

AMERICA’S bitter dispute with the United Nations escalated last night when John Bolton, the US envoy to the UN, threatened to withhold funding to the organisation unless it apologised for the remarks of a senior British official.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13608.htm

Russia and China reject statement on Iran N-issue

China and Russia have rejected joining the West in a joint statement urging Iran to halt uranium enrichment, in diplomatic manoeuvring on Tuesday ahead of a debate at the UN nuclear watchdog.

http://tinyurl.com/edtsd


From Information Clearing House

US costs for Iraq war top $320bn

America has spent more on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than on all its foreign wars up to 1939, following the passage of a bill allowing $66bn (£35.8bn) in new funding for the Pentagon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1796754,00.html



Military expenditure

World military expenditure in 2005 is estimated to have reached $1001 billion at constant (2003) prices and exchange rates, or $1118 billion in current dollars - The USA is responsible for 48 per cent of the world total.

http://yearbook2006.sipri.org/chap8/chap8


From Information Clearing House

Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops From The Battlefields Of Iraq

Click here to watch: Windows Media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13609.htm

Déjà vu in Ramadi

"Come and see the blood in the streets." Pablo Neruda, ‘Selected Poems’

By Mike Whitney

We’ve seen this before. An Iraqi city is surrounded by troops and armored vehicles; the artillery is wheeled into place, the roads are blocked, a giant wall of sand is piled up around the perimeter, and everything goes silent before the final onslaught.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13605.htm



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

The US version of the Guantanamo suicides is disgraceful: the cause of death was gross injustice

A tunnel without end

By Zachary Katznelson

Islam says it goes against God to kill yourself. So what would drive a man to take his own life, despite his religious beliefs? The answer shames the US and its allies, Britain prominently included.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13598.htm



Guantanamo: A History of Torture

Interview with Alfred McCoy, Professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.

Guantanamo is a complete construction. It's a system of total psychological torture, designed to break down every detainee contained therein, designed to produce a state of hopelessness and despair that leads, tragically, sadly in this case to suicide.

Real Video - Windows Media - Transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13597.htm



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

Terrorism Is A Tactic

By Charley Reese

Terrorism is a tactic, not an entity, and it is a tactic used by people who have a political grievance. Therefore, if you want to eliminate terrorism, you have to address the political problems that gave it birth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13607.htm

Anti-Terrorkrieg fördert Terrorismus

http://www.hh-online.com/?lid=24060

All Representatives Must Be Held Publicly Accountable

by Nancy Levant

It is dangerously and absurdly past time to force our “representatives” to face the American public. Our government is full of runaway radicals who are (and have been for decades) devoted to the daily and rapidly emerging global government and it’s overrunning of our Constitutional laws and Republic. They, therefore, must be held accountable to their constituents......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy45.htm

Pentagon Blocking Wind Power

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/489003.html


Informant: Kev Hall

'War on Terror' Failing, and Distracting Politicians from the Genuine Threats to Global Security

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0613-07.htm

Proposed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Cuts Will Make a Bad Situation Worse

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0613-05.htm

Nightmare Scenario

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0613-24.htm

Behind the Spin, the Oil Giants are More Dangerous Than Ever

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0613-23.htm

Hope, Hope, Hoping Along in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0613-22.htm

Peace Activists at Hillary Clinton’s Speech Try to “Take Back America”

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0613-33.htm

Rights Groups Demand Independent Investigations into Guantanamo Suicides

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0613-04.htm



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

US Insists on Right to Develop Arms for Outer Space

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0613-03.htm

EPA Rule Loosened After Oil Chief's Letter to Rove

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0613-07.htm

There is a Dark Cloud Over America

by Dorothy Seese

Worse yet, no one owns their home as their property, free and clear. The mortgage may be paid off, but property taxes, assessments for roads and other government fees and taxes turn into a form of rental to remain in one's own home or lose it to the taxing authority! And then there's the new twist to eminent domain that says your property can be taken (for the taker's idea of a fair value) for some good reason, "good" being defined by the takers.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Seese/dorothy41.htm

Brainwashing The Children: A Global Effort

Part 2

by Jill Walker, JD

What’s happening to our young people down to the smallest member of a nursery school class is part of the most diabolical plan ever created by the ruling elites. Our children are not just part of a systematic plan to destroy their minds; they’re part of a plan to steal their souls for eternity.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Walker/jill21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Walker

Rally in response to the REAL ID Act, federal legislation that mandates standardized driver's licenses for all Americans

Spychips Co-Author Adds Her Voice to "No National ID Movement"

by Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre

The rally is being organized in response to the REAL ID Act, federal legislation that mandates standardized driver's licenses for all Americans by 2008. Under the plan, a REAL ID compliant driver's license will be needed to board a plane, open a bank account, or enter a federal building. Critics have called it a de facto national ID card....

http://www.newswithviews.com/McIntyre/Liz8.htm

Redefining Warfare

http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters/peters15.html



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

The Rotten 'Progressive Era'

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson132.html

The Project for the New American Century 'ends with a whimper'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4656/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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The Project for the New American Century

By William Rivers Pitt

The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm



The Surprising End of the New American Century
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15042.htm



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