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Sign our petition urging Ohio lawmakers to rescind new, burdensome rules severely restricting our ability to register new voters in traditionally disenfranchised communities.


Dear ...,

As you may know, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is at it again, abusing his power by disenfranchising already underrepresented communities in the coming elections. Election Protection 365 is not taking it sitting down.

Secretary of State Blackwell effectively shut down all voter registration efforts in Ohio when he enacted regulations a week and a half ago that severely restrict the operations of groups seeking to register traditionally disenfranchised voters. Under these new regulations, compensated voter registration workers must turn in the forms they collect directly to elections officials, and not to the group sponsoring the voter registration drive. This means that voter registration groups can’t keep good records – and that means they can’t do the necessary follow up to make sure the voters actually make it onto the voting rolls (and we all know we’ve seen problems with that in the past!).

As if that weren’t enough, these new rules also threaten criminal penalties for individuals registering voters if they do not exactly conform to complicated, burdensome procedures. The threat of criminal prosecution will have such a chilling effect that no one will want to risk engaging in voter registration efforts that expand democracy and empower their communities, and poor people, young people and African Americans will be shut out of our democracy.

On June 26, the Ohio Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) will have the opportunity to reject the Secretary of State’s new policy and they need to hear from you! Even if you don’t live in Ohio, your voice matters – this type of blatant voter suppression in any state sets a dangerous precedent that all Americans have an obligation to speak out against.

People For the American Way Foundation is launching an online petition against Blackwell’s unjust regulations. Sign it today and an e-mail will go directly to JCARR members registering your opposition to this blatant voter suppression.

http://www.pfaw.org/go/OHSuppression

We’ve already had one victory in this battle. Due to backlash from civil rights organizations, the media and everyday citizens, Blackwell announced Thursday that he would rescind one part of the rule that had required certain registrations to be hand-delivered, and not mailed. While this is a step in the right direction, too many unnecessary burdens remain.

Shutting people out of the democratic process is not the American Way. Weigh in against this right-wing attack on voting rights by signing our petition today!

After you sign the petition, please forward this e-mail to your friends and ask them to show their support for voting rights by signing as well.

http://www.pfaw.org/go/OHSuppression


Together in the struggle,

Sharon J. Lettman
Vice President for External Affairs and Director of Election Protection 365 People For the American Way Foundation

P.S. You can also support our work to protect voting rights, ensure the fair administration of elections, and register new voters by making a secure online contribution today.

P.P.S. June 26 is my birthday, and I’d really like to celebrate a victory on that day. Tell JCARR to give me the birthday present I deserve – stop the madness!

To contact us online, please use the web form at: http://www.pfaw.org/go/contact_us/

PFAW FOUNDATION © 2006


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Le Monde posits that the China-US "relationship inaugurates a new paradigm in international relations: a strategic split amidst shared globalization. Centrifugal geopolitics and a centripetal economy pull in opposite directions and finish by canceling one another out."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606H.shtml

Senate Democrats on Thursday accused the Bush administration of withholding key details about toxic waste sites that present risks of exposure to nearby residents.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606E.shtml

"The American press and policy-making elite have portrayed the crisis with Iran as a two-sided struggle between Washington and Tehran," writes Michael T. Klare. "Another equally fierce - and undoubtedly more important - struggle is also taking place: a tripolar contest between the United States, Russia, and China for domination of the greater Persian Gulf/Caspian Sea region and its mammoth energy reserves."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606D.shtml

Eugene Robinson laments, "George W. Bush forges ahead, trying vainly to kill a poisonous, retrograde ideology with bullets and bombs. His 'war' is self-perpetuating, and no one even knows what victory would look like. Long after he's gone, we'll still be looking for a way to end the mess he began."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606C.shtml

The First United Methodist Church of Tacoma has declared itself a sanctuary for servicemen and servicewomen who are unable to deploy to combat areas for reasons of conscience.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606B.shtml

"As the United States passed another milestone with word that 2,500 American troops had been killed in the Iraq war, Congress engaged in a sham debate Thursday about the direction of US policy in Iraq," stated the Register-Guard.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606A.shtml

By Kevin Barnes

It is known as the home of the Derby and for affording spectacular views of the London cityscape on a crystal-clear summer afternoon.

But last week Epsom Downs was more talked about for being the site of a 30m-high hydraulic platform casting a slender shadow on the Old Paddock. The cherry picker was the source of speculation last Wednesday as neighbours tried to decipher just what purpose it was serving.

A quick call to Epsom and Ewell Borough Council ended all doubt: the lift was intended to test the visual impact of a proposed 30m mobile phone mast.

When the old grandstand at Epsom racecourse is demolished in September, a hub of two dozen transmitters will be pulled down. Six affected mobile phone operators are seeking permission for a replacement grey lattice tower with 28 antennas, 20 microwave dishes and 26 cabinets. continued...

David Smith, chief executive of the borough council, said: "It's unusual to do something like this, but this is a fairly sensitive location.

"The dummy mast will allow us to evaluate the visual impact in the flesh, rather than just superimposing something on to a photo."

Not everyone seemed entirely convinced about using a "pole" to judge whether breathtaking vistas will be marred by a giant radiation-emitting device. Sarah Clayton, secretary of Epsom and Ewell Environ- ment Forum, said: "It doesn't seem the best way to go about it, but you can see where the top will be, then use a bit of imagination."

l What do you think? Write to us at Epsom Guardian, Newspaper House, 34-44 London Road, Morden SM4 5BX or email epsomnewsdesk@slguardian.co.uk.

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/roundup/display.var.798268.0.solved_mystery_of_the_mast.php

By Matt Wilkinson

Jem Duckmanton, eight, leads the protest at the Chester Arms

People power has brought a halt to plans to build mobile phone masts on two pubs in Oxford.

Residents living near the Marlborough House in Grandpont and The Chester Arms in Chester Street, East Oxford, have been protesting against mast plans by mobile phone company T-Mobile.

Now the firm has put installation on hold after hundreds turned out at public meetings to oppose masts being planted on the pubs.

On Wednesday, more than 50 residents living near The Chester Arms took to the streets in a bid to get the plans rejected. continued...

Protester John Lo Breglio said: "Our protests have been the main cause as they don't want the bad publicity.

"This mast would have gone up two weeks ago if we hadn't found out about it by chance.

"This would have been a done deal and we'd be looking at a phone mast out the window now.

"But T-Mobile has only put the masts on hold and it's still the same situation until the plan is scrapped."

T-Mobile did a deal with pub owners Punch Taverns which allows them to install masts on some of its 90 pubs nationwide.

Although an estimated 80 pubs across the country will house the masts, T-Mobile has agreed to review the plans for two in Oxford.

Around 100 residents met T-Mobile executives last week to oppose the Chester Arms proposal and neighbours com- plained about similar plans at the Marlborough House last month.

Protesters armed with placards met outside the Chester Arms yesterday to keep the heat on the phone firm only hours after it decided to suspend plans.

Gordon Simmons, of T-Mobile, said: "T-Mobile has decided to place the proposals to site mobile phone base stations at the Marlborough House and Chester Arms public houses on hold while we consider other options."

The company would not comment on what other sites it was looking at or whether its plans had been scrapped or just postponed.

Nick Trueman, of Punch Taverns, said: "We've got no plans at the moment for masts on other Punch Taverns in the area."

Chester Arms landlord John Dunkley fears customers will boycott the pub if the 3G mast gets the go-ahead.

The firm has permitted development rights at the pubs and does not need planning permission.

The Marlborough House mast is also opposed by parents and governors of nearby St Ebbe's Primary School in Whitehouse Road. The rear entrance to the school grounds is opposite the pub.

9:12am today

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.796814.0.demos_delay_masts.php

Fünfjähriges Moratorium: Söder gegen "vorschnellen Einstieg" in die grüne Gentechnik (16.06.06)

CSU-Generalsekretär Markus Söder warnt vor einem vorschnellen "Einstieg in die kommerzielle Nutzung" der grünen Gentechnik. Noch sei die Ablehnung in der Bevölkerung zu groß: "Solange die Verbraucher nicht völlig sicher sein können, dass genetisch veränderte Nahrungsmittel unbedenklich sind, werden sie sich im Supermarkt gegen diese Produkte entscheiden", schreibt Söder in einem Beitrag für den Berliner "Tagesspiegel". Ein "bewusster und verantwortungsvoller Umgang mit unserer Umwelt" verpflichte zu einem zu einem Vorgehen mit Augenmaß: "Nur eine vollständig ausgereifte Technologie darf letztlich auch zum Einsatz kommen", meint der CSU-Generalsekretär.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13830

You may have heard recently of our decision to join a lawsuit filed against the State of Nebraska because of its plan to re-segregate public schools in and around the city of Omaha. For well over 50 years, the accepted law and practice of this nation has been to honor the principles of Brown v. Board of Education. Naturally, we are very concerned about any legislative action that would attempt to bury the progress we've made as a nation and return our children to separate and unequal systems of education.

History and research tell us that over 40% of African American public school students nationwide attend school where more than 75% of the students are poor. Additionally, schools with high concentrations of minority and low-income students are more likely to employ inexperienced and/or non-certified teachers. In Nebraska, 70% of African American public school students are educated in Omaha Public Schools. Keeping them in separate and unequal schools denies them the quality education they deserve.

The State of Nebraska recently passed Legislative Bill 1024 ("LB 1024"), a law we believe threatens quality public education for all students in three important ways. First, LB 1024 orders the division of the Omaha public school district into three racially identifiable school districts. Second, LB 1024 in effect could foreseeably decrease fairness and equity in public school funding. Third, the law erects barriers that, left unchallenged, could deny students the positive benefits of integration.

The NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit challenging the segregation plan based on its unconstitutionality and its attempt to retreat from the law and legacy established by the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. The plaintiffs in the case are the Omaha Branch of the NAACP, the African American Achievement Council and the families of a racially diverse group of Omaha students.

Our lawsuit is specifically asking the courts to enjoin the State of Nebraska from creating three racially separate and distinct school districts and breaking up Omaha Public Schools. The State of Nebraska does not have the right or authority to intentionally further racial segregation in its public schools. Legislative Bill 1024 denies Omaha Public Schools students of color the equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

The NAACP will continue its firm stand in the pursuit of social justice and equal opportunity while opposing any and all forms of social inequity and racial discrimination. In Nebraska, we will continue to fight for the rights of all students to benefit from a fair and equitable quality education.

For more information on LB 1024, visit http://katrina.naacp.org/r/233/91290


Sincerely,

Michael T.S. Wotorson
National Director of Education
http://katrina.naacp.org/r/236/91290

Was Arbeit ist, bestimmen wir

Sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft, Teil 1: Wie die ALGII-Gesetzgebung den "Wert des Menschen" in der Gesellschaft neu definiert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22898/1.html

Das australische Verteidigungsministerium verweigert Gefangenen in Afghanistan wie die USA und Kanada die Rechte von Kriegsgefangenen und wirft damit erneut schwerwiegende Fragen über den "Krieg gegen den Terror" auf.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22904/1.html

The public fully appreciates what Social Security does and would never support efforts to privatize the program if they believed that Social Security was fundamentally sound," writes Dean Baker. "Therefore, proponents of privatization have undertaken a massive effort over the last quarter-century to convince the public that Social Security is going bankrupt."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606N.shtml

Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert and two partners turned a profit of more than $3 million on property they accumulated and sold in just over three years near the route of a proposed controversial freeway on the western fringe of suburban Chicago, according to land records and financial disclosure reports released Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606M.shtml

"Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper from Texas and mother of five, has become legendary for her struggles to stop chemical companies from dumping devastating toxins into the Gulf Coast," writes Medea Benjamin. "Diane, a founding member of CODEPINK, announced at the Mother's Day peace vigil in Washington, DC, on May 14 that she was going on a hunger strike to bring the troops home from Iraq and invited others to join her. The Troops Home Fast, which will begin on July 4, has already attracted hundreds of supporters."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606K.shtml

"The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote," writes Greg Palast. "A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606J.shtml

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

The FBI's effort to muzzle watchdogs is a chilling defiance of historical precedent.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/16/targeting_journalists.php

by William Fisher, TomPaine.com

Plans for U.S. soft-power diplomacy in Iran may not be enough to overcome years of neglect and perceived hypocrisy.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/16/buying_democracy_in_iran.php

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the Department of the Army, per order of US District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, has released to Judicial Watch approximately 100 pages of documents which detail the multi-billion dollar, no-bid contract awarded in 2003 by the Army to Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. One document uncovered by Judicial Watch suggests the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) may have publicly lied regarding the involvement of the Vice President's office in awarding the contract.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061606Z.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/zsspu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/16/06

The Republican offensive in support of the Iraq war should have crashed shortly after launching: unfortunately, they had some essential allies who helped fuel their shaky effort -- the Democrats...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9153


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Scotsman [UK]

06/14/06

The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating whether a Marine did anything wrong by singing an obscenity laced song to a laughing and cheering crowd of fellow U.S. troops in Iraq making light of killing Iraqis. A four-minute video of the performance, posted on the Internet, showed Cpl. Joshua Belile, who returned home from Iraq in March, singing lyrics about encountering an Iraqi woman and her family. He sings, 'I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally.' In the background, laughing, clapping and cheers can be heard...

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=878542006


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

06/15/06

Most American cities and states remain unprepared for catastrophes, a government analysis concludes, calling the shortcomings in emergency planning a cause 'for significant national concern.' Nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 months after Hurricane Katrina, the Homeland Security Department concluded that nationwide response plans for major disasters are antiquated and often uncoordinated. Although emergency plans appear to be stronger in 18 states along the nation's 'Hurricane Belt,' the analysis cited preparedness gaps in 131 state and city emergency response plans...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13351916/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

06/15/06

More than 1,000 journalists have visited Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. military began locking up suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants there 4 years ago. But access has been severely restricted: Journalists could not talk to detainees, they had to be accompanied by a military escort and their photos were censored. Now, the Pentagon has shut down access entirely -- at least temporarily -- expelling reporters this week and triggering an outcry from human rights groups, attorneys and media organizations even as the prison comes under renewed criticism for the suicides of three detainees last weekend...

http://tinyurl.com/rw4ao


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum320.php

This week Congress is taking up campaign propaganda masquerading as a debate on Iraq. The House measure put forward without opportunity for amendment, H.Res. 861, defies any member of the House to vote against a resolution that twice proclaims that we should honor our troops, and declares that any schedule to draw down our forces there must by definition be "arbitrary".

Our fallen service members deserve better.

The entire strategy of terrorists in the Middle East has been to engage us into fighting them "over there", driven by irrational and baseless fears of weapons of mass destruction, which the Bush administration has exploited shamelessly for the benefit of their war profiteers. There were no terrorists in Iraq to got to war AGAINST, except ones the Bush and Cheney themselves elevated by their reckless occupation. And continuing the occupation will just breed two more insurgents for every one they manage to pick off in a photo-op bombing.

But there are candidates for Congress who see through the charade, like Stacey Tallitsch, running in the Louisiana 1st district. Here is what Stacey has to say about the occupation:

There is just no other way to put this; it is plainly self-evident and clear. The War in Iraq is a complete failure. George W. Bush’s dream has wrought nothing but death and destruction to both the United States and Iraq.

Iraq is making terrorism worse. It's a breeding ground. We're sowing seeds to a bitter fruit we never wanted and certainly don't need. We need to leave as soon as possible without creating a regional war. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying. They are building their imperfect institutions and they must live with the result.

We need to get out of Iraq as soon as possible. And then we need to take quick action to hold those responsible for the greatest error ever perpetrated on America.

And here is Stacey's action page on ending the occupation:

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum320.php

There is absolutely nothing that would deflate the insurgency in Iraq faster than a definite committment to give the Iraqis back control of their own country, and they know it. It is only our foolish White House and the insurgents themselves who strive to draw us in deeper and attack even more Muslim countries.

THE CALL TO ACTION RADIO SPOT CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

Those living in Los Angeles know that since the L.A. primary challengers ran their call to action radio spots on impeachment, another group has now picked up the ball to run their own call to action spots on Air America Radio. Just as we promised, your donations have had impact beyond the elections themselves by raising the visibility of this issue. And Stacey Tallistch wants to do the same thing with the end the occupation issue.

So for those who are blessed to be able to do so, please consider making a donation so Stacey can start running his own call to action radio spots, to open up an issue activism front in Louisiana as well.

STACEY TALLITSCH DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/donations.php

And if you can't do that, there is something JUST as important that you can do to help, and that is to get involved in the virtual phone bank project. If you could just dedicate a little time to make 10 phone calls a week, to reach out to potential supporters of brave candidates like Stacey Tallitsch, and if we do this every week between now and November we can reach an amazing number of people with the issue activism message.

While we are setting everything up for Stacey, please assign yourself a Blades of Grass password, and it will be good at any of the virtual phone bank installations we will be doing, and we'll let you know where you are most needed.

BLADES OF GRASS SIGNUPS: http://www.usalone.com/bladesofgrass.htm

PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL SUNRISE MEDITATION JUNE 21

One of our participants also asked us to publicize a special spiritual consciousness raising event. Here is their message:

We are conducting an e-mail and social network campaign to spread the word to as many people as possible. We are asking those who are interested to organize sunrise meditations in their area, preferably where they can see the sun rising. We have also contacted groups that are already doing events on Equinoxes and Solstices to include a sunrsie meditation in their gathering if they are not doing so already.

At very least, we are asking people to wake up for the sunrise and tune in for 10 minutes before and after the sunrise focusing their mind on a world in peace through unconditional love as well as invite 10 other people to join us in the meditation.

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

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Newsletter der Giordano Bruno Stiftung (15.6.05)

PETITION bitte unterstützen

Im Iran ist Anfang des Jahres die 18-jährige Nazanin zum Tode verurteilt worden. Der Grund: Sie hatte sich als Minderjährige gegen drei Männer, die sie vergewaltigen wollten, zur Wehr gesetzt und einen der Angreifer in Notwehr getötet. Sie wurde von einem iranischen Gericht zum Tod durch Erhängen verurteilt. Gegen das Urteil wurde Revision eingelegt, der nächste Verhandlungstermin ist voraussichtlich noch im Juni. Es ist zu befürchten, dass das Urteil erneut vom Gericht bestätigt und kurz darauf vollstreckt wird.

Mina Ahadi (Köln), Vorsitzende des Internationalen Komitees gegen die Todesstrafe (und Kooperationspartnerin der GBS), sowie Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Sängerin, Model (Miss Canada 2003) und Menschenrechtsaktivistin, übergaben Anfang Juni der Menschenrechtskommision der UN (New York) eine Petition mit 180.000 Unterstützern zur Rettung von Nazanin Fatehi. Die Petition kann und soll weiterhin unterschrieben werden unter:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Nazanin/

Bitte leiten Sie den Hinweis auf die Petition an Bekannte weiter!

Veranstaltungshinweis: Anlässlich des WM-Spiels der iranischen Fußballnationalmannschaft veranstaltet TERRE DES FEMMES zusammen mit dem Internationalen Komitee gegen die Todesstrafe und der Kampagne "Vergesst niemals Hatun" AM FREITAG, DEM 16. JUNI, VON
13.00 - 15.00 UHR IN FRANKFURT auf dem Opernplatz eine KUNDGEBUNG gegen die Todesstrafe von Nazanin im Iran.

Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.leitkultur-humanismus.de/nazanin.htm

In diesem Zusammenhang weisen wir auf eine neue Rubrik unserer Projektseite http://www.leitkultur-humanismus.de hin: "Weltkultur Humanismus und Aufklärung versus Islamischer Totalitarismus". Zur Zeit findet sich dort u.a. ein Hinweis auf die Internationale Kampagne "THIRD CAMP", die sich kritisch zum Iran-USA-Konflikt äußert. http://www.leitkultur-humanismus.de/islamwha.htm

(...)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Das Newsletter-Team der Giordano Bruno Stiftung http://www.giordano-bruno-stiftung.de



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

Violence against civilians and widespread infrastructure damage are making it difficult for Iraqi women to agree about the US occupation or concentrate on pushing for a role in the reconstruction process.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061506WB.shtml

"If the president and his advisers ever stop to wonder why so many people hate them, they need look no further: They talk about exporting democracy and freedom but what does any of it mean to women in Helmand province [Afghanistan]?" says Joan Smith.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061506WA.shtml

Emergency medical care in the United States is on the verge of collapse, with the nation's declining number of emergency rooms dangerously overcrowded and often unable to provide the expertise needed to treat seriously ill people in a safe and efficient manner.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061506HA.shtml

Study

A nationwide ban on night flights would significantly reduce the aviation industry's impact on the climate, a new study shows. Scientists have found that the warming effect of aircraft is much greater when they fly in the dark, because of the effects of the condensation trails (contrails) they leave.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061506EC.shtml

Editors at the Los Angeles Times and two other newspapers protested the Pentagon decision to expel their reporters Wednesday from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the journalists were reporting on the weekend suicides of three prisoners.

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



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

The House erupted in impassioned election-year debate over the Iraq war on Thursday. Republicans defended the conflict as key to winning the global struggle against terrorism, while Democrats called the war a failed policy, lamenting the lives lost, billions of dollars spent and the bruised US image since the war started.

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



Senate Approves Another $65.8 Billion for War

The US Senate on Thursday easily passed a $94.5 billion compromise emergency bill to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and rebuild after last summer's hurricanes. When Bush signs the legislation into law, $65.8 billion will be rushed to the Pentagon so it can continue combat in the two countries through September.

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

Jun 15, 2006

A 50ft "monstrous" mobile phone mast near a Netherton school is being opposed.

O2 has applied to site the equipment on Cinder Bank, sparking fierce opposition.

If approved it would be next to Corbett Garage and near Hillcrest School and Community College.

Ward councillor Martin Bradney said he feared for the health of pupils at the Simms Lane school and the mast would spoil views from Saltwells Nature Reserve, which backs onto the proposed site for the telecommunications equipment.

He said: "I am no scientist and although the hazards of radiation emitted from masts have not been proved neither have they been disproved." He added that he would support any campaign by residents to block the application.

O2 said it needed a mast to increase network coverage in the area. Spokesman Jim Stevenson said: "I can say categorically that there are no health risks."

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

And that he did not think it would be unsightly.

© Express & Star Ltd, 1997-2006

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_91237.php

Newly-released government documents indicate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) may have publicly lied about Vice President Dick Cheney's role in awarding a $7 billion no-bid Iraqi oil reconstruction contract to Halliburton in the weeks preceding the March 2003 invasion, the conservative activist group Judicial Watch disclosed today.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/cheneyemails.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13631.htm

The federal government sued the New Jersey attorney general and other state officials Wednesday to stop them from seeking information about telephone companies' cooperation with the National Security Agency.

http://tinyurl.com/fpaye


From Information Clearing House

Unaccompanied children fleeing to the United States to escape persecution often meet a harsh, hostile reception, slipping through the cracks of a system designed for adults that compounds their trauma, a Harvard University study said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/g5b7q


From Information Clearing House

People who know the most about the world financial system are increasingly worried, and for very good reasons. Dire warnings are coming from the most "respectable" sources. Reality has gotten out of hand. The demons of greed are loose.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko06152006.html


From Information Clearing House

The UK knows more than it is saying about top secret American aircraft projects, recently declassified documents reveal. The release of the MoD documents have once again fuelled debate about spy planes. Liz MacKean reports for the BBC.

http://tinyurl.com/ggxcl


From Information Clearing House

The United States has denied the British Government consular access to David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1663299.htm



US military suspends Guantanamo visits by lawyers, journalists
http://tinyurl.com/jmpr4



Family of Guantanamo inmate doubts suicide
Family wants autopsy of Gitmo detainee

Family members of a Saudi inmate found dead at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba said Thursday they want his body back for an autopsy because they do not believe U.S. claims that he committed suicide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_guantanamo


From Information Clearing House



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

European countries colluded with the CIA, to stage secret flights for terror suspects, according to a human rights watchdog. The report also says evidence suggests prisoners were held in Poland or Romania - claims both countries deny. Stephen Grey reports for the BBC.

http://tinyurl.com/z4npr


From Information Clearing House

Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in China last night for a summit of Asian states and Russia that Washington fears is forming a new anti-western alliance.

http://tinyurl.com/lj7wz



Resurgent Russia aims for the summit

Two telephone calls from President George W Bush to President Vladimir Putin within the five days from May 30 to June 5, and a visit by Henry Kissinger, the ace US statesman of realpolitik, to the Russian leader's residence at Novo Ogaryovo in the Moscow suburbs last Wednesday.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HF15Ag01.html


From Information Clearing House

Non-aligned states will back Iran's right to nuclear fuel production at a UN meeting this week, unmoved by US calls to join efforts to get Tehran to stop enriching uranium, diplomats said.

http://tinyurl.com/rpn2k


From Information Clearing House

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16740


From Information Clearing House

Despite the Bush Administration’s adamant and continual denunciation of terrorism, the Department of Defense—under Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s orders—is using a terrorist organization to orchestrate attacks and collect intelligence inside Iran, according to numerous former and current military, intelligence, administration, and United Nations officials.

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1137.html


From Information Clearing House

Iran's defense minister on Thursday vowed that his country would "use nuclear defense as a potential" if "threatened by any power."

http://tinyurl.com/n4axs


From Information Clearing House

In an address that was received like a campaign stump speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, exhorting her listeners to support the United States in spreading freedom around the globe.

http://www.abpnews.com/1092.article


From Information Clearing House

The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's "diplomatic" approach to the problem of Iran's 'nuclear" program.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3972873.html


From Information Clearing House

What should journalists do? I mean, journalists who give a d...? They need to act now. Governments fear good journalists. The reason the Pentagon spends millions of dollars on PR, or “perception management” companies that try to bend the news is because it fears truth tellers, just as Stalinist governments feared them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13629.htm

After years of undermining Democratic unity and voting with the GOP on everything from the Iraq War to right wing judges to Alberto "torture memo" Gonzales (to the infamous kiss pictured here), the blogs took it upon themselves to show Lieberman that there's more to being a Democrat than the "D."

http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/37556



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4667/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4669/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.lewrockwell.com/frank/frank33.html



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0615-36.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0615-37.htm



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Informant: Scott Munson

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

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

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

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 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

"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

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

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

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

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

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


From Information Clearing House

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


From Information Clearing House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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


Informant: ranger116

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


Informant: ranger116

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

#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