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http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22896/1.html

Referent: Dr. Herbert Kuhn, Ingenieur, Energieberater

Do., 13. Juli 2006, 19.30 Uhr, in der Brienner Str. 46, U 1/7 und Tram 20/21 Stiglmaierplatz (3 min zu Fuß), U 2/8 Königsplatz (5 min zu Fuß), Eintritt ist frei.

Klimaänderung, atomare Risiken, 75 % Importabhängigkeit der Energieversorgung bei abnehmenden Ressourcen und steigenden Preisen. Deutschland wird sich die gewohnte fossile und atomare Energieversorgung nicht mehr lange leisten können. Herbert Kuhn geht auf die zu erwartende Preisentwicklung auf den internationalen Energiemärkten ein und auf die tatsächlichen Kosten einer atomaren Energieversorgung. Alternativ werden die Potenziale und Kosten eines sparsamen und regenerativen Energieeinsatzes aufgezeigt. Schlussfolgerung des Energiewirtschaftlers: Wir müssen unsere Energieversorgung binnen 25 Jahren auf sparsamen Einsatz und regenerative Deckung umstellen, ansonsten ist der Sozial- und Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland in derzeitiger Form nicht zu halten.

Referent: Dr. Herbert Kuhn, Studium der Elektrotechnik an der TU München, Fachrichtung Energietechnik. Danach 5 Jahre wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft in München. Derzeit Betreiber eines Ingenieurbüros, das sich mit Energieeinsparung in der Industrie beschäftigt.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Markus Hollemann Regionalbeauftragter
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/244 365 397
E-Mail: m.hollemann@oedp-muenchen.de
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de


Veranstaltungshinweise:

Alle Vorträge finden jeweils am zweiten Donnerstag im Monat in den Räumen der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung statt: Brienner Str. 46, zwischen U2/U8 Königsplatz und U1/U7 Stiglmaierplatz.

Do., 10. Aug. 2006, 19.30 Uhr "Limbische Wahrheiten – Gehirnforschung, Marketing und Ökologie" Referent: Günther Hartmann, Berater im Stadt- und Regionalmarketing

Do., 14. Sep. 2006, 19.30 Uhr "Pflegenotstand - Keine Perspektive im Alter?" Referentin: Christiane Lüst, Dipl.-Soz. Päd., Initiatorin des Münchner Pflegestammtischs

Do., 12. Okt. 2006, 19.30 Uhr "Ein Jahr nach der Bundestagswahl - Wo steht Deutschland heute?" Referent: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender

Do., 09. Nov. 2006, 19.30 Uhr "Das 1,5-Liter-Auto ist machbar - Entwickler berichten" Referent: Uli Sommer, Chefentwickler Loremo-Projekt

Cindy Sheehan: "On Feb. 1, I was arrested at the State of the Union address for wearing a Veterans for Peace shirt that read: '2,245 Dead. How many more?' A little more than four months later, we are now tragically marking the deaths of 255 more of our brave and wonderful young American soldiers. So today, with 2,500 dead, I ask again: How many more?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061706X.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4677/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Dreckiger geht's wohl nicht mehr ! Kinder müssen herhalten um Handys zu verkaufen!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen übersandt:
Pesché Jeannot (Luxemburg)


T O P S T O R I E S + + +

Vodafone und Orange setzen auf kleine Hände bei Telefonkartenverkäufen

Samstag, 17.06.2006, 12:10 http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2j09,1,7a5g,cznc,7x4o,5psz

By Lynn Jackson

MOBILE phone mast campaigners in Dorset have joined forces with other activists across the south to keep track of any bids to put up new masts.

The new watchdog group, Wessex Registry of Active Masts (WRAM), aims to keep tabs on planning applications in Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey and monitor mast locations.

Members are urging anyone who wants to be kept up-to-date with mast developments to get in touch. continued...

Campaigners in Bournemouth who fought mobile phone masts in Moordown, Southbourne and Queen's Park, are among those keen to see the group get off the ground.

Many local residents were angry after phone masts slipped through the planning process due to legal blunders by Bournemouth council, or were put up without any warning.

WRAM founder member Karen Barratt, who led a campaign against a phone mast in Hampshire, said the watchdog could be a much stronger force than any individual campaigning against local masts.

She said: "This is all about communication.

"We do not want to be kept in the dark about where current masts are sited or where future masts may be required.

"We will not be telling anyone what they should do.

"If people want to raise objections to any specific site it is their choice, but they are entitled to be properly informed and consulted.

She added: "Too often people are simply unaware."

WRAM hopes to build up a picture of mast developments in the region and also monitor the behaviour of the telecom operators and the performance of local planning authorities.

"We hope to eventually have representatives from councils, schools and community groups," added Karen.

If you want to join the group's mailing list, contact WRAM on mail.wram@ntlworld.com

1:05pm today

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Murky procedures, lack of oversight and inadequate resources led to mistakes in the way U.S. troops treated Iraq and Afghanistan detainees. But two Pentagon reports, made public Friday, found no widespread mistreatment or illegal actions by the military. A human rights group called the reports a whitewash that ignored countless documented accounts of detainee abuse.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061706Z.shtml

By Sam Knight
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2229211,00.html

The UN has warned the world's governments that humankind's exploitation of the sea could be passing the point of no return.

A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found that more than half of the world's fish stocks are being exploited to their full extent, with nearly a quarter suffering from over-fishing.

Meanwhile, pollution, litter and deep sea drilling are all reaching into the depths of a marine environment hitherto preserved from the hand of man.

In the Central Pacific, the study found, there is now up to 6lb of marine litter to every 1lb of plankton. Elsewhere, there are around 46,000 pieces of plastic litter for every square mile of the world's oceans.

Achim Steiner, UNEP’s new executive director, said that particular attention must be paid to the 60 per cent of the world's oceans that are beyond the reach of national jurisdictions and conservation efforts, where modern technology and a lack of regulation is combining to harm the environment.

"Humankind's ability to exploit the deep oceans and high seas has accelerated rapidly over recent years," he said.

"It is a pace of change that has outstripped our institutions and conservation efforts whose primary focus have been coastal waters where, until recently, most human activity like fishing and industrial exploration took place. We now most urgently need to look beyond the horizon and bring the lessons learnt in coastal water to the wider marine world."

According to the report, just 1 per cent of the world's 3.5 million fishing boats are thought to be large, industrial vessels, but the giant loads they trawl from the deep sea account for around 60 per cent of all the fish caught on the planet.

Industrial fishing has helped to drive down the world's stocks of tuna, cod, swordfish and marlin by as much as 90 per cent in the last century.

Adding to the strain on the oceans, the UN estimated that nearly $10 billion of fish are caught illegally each year, up to 30 per cent of which is taken from unregulated waters.

Illegal longline fishing also kills more than 300,000 seabirds every year, including 100,000 albatrosses. Nineteen out 21 albatross species are now threatened with extinction.

The report also described a range of activities, including energy development and scientific research such as "bioprospecting" - the collection of biological artefacts for new products - that encroach on waters up to 2,000m below the ocean surface.

"Throughout the oceans, shipping, military operations and seismic exploration have intensified with growing impacts on deep water and high sea ecosystems and biodiversity," said Kristina Gjerde, a UN High Seas Policy Advisor who wrote the report.

"The spectre of climate change and its impacts such as ocean warming and acidification underscore the need to reduce direct human impacts, because healthy ecosystems are better able to respond to changing oceanic conditions."

Reacting to the report, Tim Yeo, the Conservative MP who is chairing a study of the Government's plans for a Marine Bill, said that Britain should take the lead in devising a new regulatory framework for the world's open waters.

"For generations we have regarded the sea as a resource we can all deplete at will. Those chickens are now coming home to roost," he said.



Time running out to curb effects of deep sea pollution, warns UN

· Pace of change outstrips conservation efforts · Water temperature rises as alkalinity falls

David Adam,
environment correspondent
Saturday June 17, 2006
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1799872,00.html

Damage to the once pristine habitats of the deep oceans by pollution, litter and overfishing is running out of control, the United Nations warned yesterday. In a report that indicates that time is running out to save them, the UN said humankind's exploitation of the the deep seas and oceans was "rapidly passing the point of no return".

Last year some 85 million tonnes of wild fish were pulled from the global oceans, 100 million sharks and related species were butchered for their fins, some 250,000 turtles became tangled in fishing gear, and 300,000 seabirds, including 100,000 albatrosses, were killed by illegal longline fishing.

Article continues Into the water in their place went three billion individual pieces of litter - about eight million a day - joining the 46,000 pieces of discarded plastic that currently float on every square mile of ocean and kill another million seabirds each year. The water temperature rose and its alkalinity fell - both the result of climate change. Coral barriers off Australia and Belize are dying and newly discovered reefs in the Atlantic have already been destroyed by bottom trawling.

Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN's environment programme, said: "Humankind's ability to exploit the deep oceans and high seas has accelerated rapidly over recent years. It is a pace of change that has outstripped our institutions and conservation efforts."

Mining, for example, could soon spread to the sea floor for the first time. The Canadian company Nautilus Minerals plans to dig for deposits of gold and copper off Papua New Guinea.

More than 90% of the world's living organisms are found in the oceans, but a new UN report says that researchers are only now beginning to understand the nature of their ecosystems."Today, these environments are considered to have been the very cradle for life on Earth."

Yesterday's warning from the UN came as officials and experts met in New York to discuss ways the international community could better police activities in international waters.

Mr Steiner said: "Well over 60% of the marine world and its rich biodiversity is found beyond the limits of national jurisdiction and is vulnerable and at increasing risk. Governments must urgently develop guidelines, rules and actions needed to bridge this gulf."

The UN says countries need to manage oceans along ecological boundaries rather than political borders. It says more research is needed to investigate the 90% of the oceans that remain unexplored. It also calls for greater protection for vulnerable species such as cod, marlin and swordfish, which have lost 90% of their global stocks over the last century.

Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy adviser with the International Conservation Union's global marine programme, who wrote the new report, said: "Once limited largely to shipping and open ocean fishing, commercial activities at sea are expanding rapidly and plunging ever deeper." She said the effects of climate change made conservation efforts more important.


Informant: binstock

http://tinyurl.com/mt7lz


Informant: binstock

By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2226227,00.html

POLAR bears and other Arctic animals are being poisoned in their thousands by man-made chemicals, the wildlife charity WWF has said.

The chemicals are causing serious health problems for wildlife that dramatically reduces its chances of survival in the Arctic environment.

Whales, seals and polar bears are among those found with heightened levels of chemicals in their bodies, according to the WWF report. Effects include suppressed immune systems, weakened and deformed skeletons, cancers, vitamin deficiency and changes in behaviour.

Elizabeth Salter Green, the director of WWF-UK’s toxics programme, said: “What we are seeing here is a mass contamination of Arctic wildlife. We believe it is making these animals less capable of surviving the harsh Arctic conditions and the impacts of climate change. The survival of wild animal populations is threatened.

“Chemical contamination of our environment is spiralling out of control because of poor global chemicals regulation. The Arctic ecosystem is being ravaged by chemicals.”

Chemicals found in Arctic mammals and birds include DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are widely banned but can remain locked in ice for decades. Among those in use today and found contaminating the wildlife are perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), used in non-stick coatings for saucepans, which have been linked to neonatal mortality and respiratory problems. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
(PBDEs), widely used as flame retardants, are also found in high levels.

The report, Killing Them Softly, analysed a series of scientific studies into a range of Arctic creatures to establish what effects contamination had. The WWF concluded that the problem is so severe that, taken in conjunction with other threats, such as the melting ice, extinction is only a matter of time for some species.

Polar bears are already predicted to die out in a century. Most of the contamination is carried from the industrialised world to the Arctic by air and sea currents.

Predator species, such as polar bears and sea lions, are severely affected because their bodies absorb contaminants within food, such as fish.Other animals suffering high levels of toxins include hares, lemmings, wolverines, caribou, walrus, wolves, foxes and reindeer.

PCB levels are so high in polar bears that they could affect their chances of reproducing, and organochlorines reduce their ability to produce the antibodies needed to fight off infections.

Beluga whales have been especially hard hit. Some carcasses are so contaminated “that their bodies are treated as toxic waste”. They have a cancer rate higher than any other wild animal population.

The WWF, launching its report today, is calling on industrialised nations, especially in the European Union, to impose strict controls on chemicals to prevent them getting into the ecosystem. The EU is planning legislation but the WWF fears that it will be watered down under pressure from industry.

Professor Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University said: “One thinks of the Arctic as a pristine environment. It isn’t. There are all sorts of contaminants carried by the ocean currents and air masses which can disperse them at very high latitudes.

“These contaminants move up the food chain. The way these things appear to be taken into the Arctic food chain is definitely detrimental.”

POISON PROBLEM

Polar bears: impaired immune system, altered hormone production, weaker bones

Seals and sea lions: skeletal deformities, skin diseases, cancers, breeding problems, altered hormone production

Beluga whales: cancers, infections, reproductive problems

Birds: changed behaviour when sitting on eggs, reduced immunity


Informant: binstock

One quarter of the global disease burden in adults is related to environmental risk factors that could be modified with existing interventions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report Friday. The WHO is thus calling on environmental policymakers, industry, energy, transport and the health sector to work towards the objective of making "wise investments" in terms of the environment, in order to prevent health problems related to environmental factors, says Maria Neira, WHO director of public health and environment.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061606HA.shtml

Ancient roots and bones locked in long-frozen soil in Siberia are starting to thaw, and have the potential to unleash billions of tons of carbon and accelerate global warming, scientists said Thursday. This vast carbon reservoir, contained in permafrost soil in northeastern Siberia, contains about 75 times more carbon than the amount released into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels, the researchers said in a statement.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061606EC.shtml

The alarm sounded by scientists about global warming has deep implications for the insurance industry and consumers, participants said Thursday at a climate change summit in Seattle.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061606EB.shtml

On Monday, the Bush administration told a judge in Detroit that the president's warrantless domestic spying is legal and constitutional, but refused to say why. The judge should just take his word for it, the lawyer said, because merely talking about it would endanger America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13638.htm

A judge in Cook County has again put off the release of a report into allegations that Chicago police tortured suspects.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4276760


From Information Clearing House

The apparent suicide of three Guantanamo Bay detainees this past Saturday highlights the tragic results of arbitrary and indefinite detention. A human rights travesty.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=65


From Information Clearing House



"I Was Tortured"

By Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU

Sister Ortiz relates her personal experiences and tell us that U.S. personnel were present in interrogation and torture rooms,” in Guatemala in 1989 when she was kidnapped, taken to a secret prison and repeatedly raped and tortured by troops commanded by General Hector Gramajo (a CIA asset and graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas).

Video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8807.htm



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

Pentagon confirms Iranian directorate

A recent trip by Michael Ledeen to Rome has raised red flags among those concerned about a potential war with Iran. Some believe that Ledeen -- a long-time advocate of Iranian regime change -- was involved in the Niger forgeries scandal.

http://tinyurl.com/qkbsc


From Information Clearing House

Oxfam International report says lack of control over the international ammunition trade is partly responsible for the escalating violence in Iraq. Research published on June 15 shows that the price of taking away a human life in Baghdad is currently US$2.40.

http://tinyurl.com/ehthk


From Information Clearing House

4 Minute video:

The Not Your Soldier Project gives youth the tools we need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12999.htm

We hear from three Iraq war resisters who have spoken out.

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13639.htm

Video

This documentary details the work that American troops are doing in Iraq. It details there views and opinions as to the why the war is being waged and how the war is being fought on the ground.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13634.htm

What the Republicans fear is that the midterm elections will become a genuine referendum on that war.

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17702


From Information Clearing House

Video - Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

American corporations realised that self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.

Click here to watch
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm



The Century of the Self

Documentary by Adam Curtis

This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self. - The aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12698.htm

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The war for your mind
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/44.html



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

By Patrick Buchanan

To understand who is truly responsible for a situation where a U.S. secretary of state has to go before a convention of religious conservatives to try to hold their support for a president they put in office, Rice might ask herself some questions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13645.htm

By David Sirota

Ninety thousand dollars in a Democratic Congressman's freezer. A Republican House Majority Leader indicted for money laundering, and a senior Republican thrown in jail for accepting bribes. Washington's biggest lobbyist thrown in jail for trying to buy off lawmakers. This is what the Washington Establishment and the media want America to believe is the worst form of corruption: a few dirty political hacks who had the nerve to violate our supposedly pristine democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13643.htm

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/342746.html


Informant: Bob Banner

By Mark Killiner

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a phone mast in a church near a school were discussed in a special church court pre-hearing.

The proposals to install a T-Mobile base station in the spire of SS Peter and Paul Church on the Green, Chingford, 50m from St Mary's Catholic School, have met with huge opposition from parents, children and teachers.

They are concerned about possible health risks associated with phone masts. continued...

A Consistory Court, which rules on issues connected with the church, met at the church for a directions hearing on Tuesday to establish the procedure for the full hearing next month.

During proceedings, which were presided over by George Pulman QC of the Consistory of the Diocese of Chelmsford, QS4, the company behind the mast and the vicar and wardens of the church were told they would have to present evidence supporting the plan at the full hearing.

Steve Turner, of Willow Street, Chingford, will be opposing the plans after it was established that those opposed to the mast could not afford legal representation.

He said: "I think it is undemocratic that local people should have to pay to take part in a process which could affect theirs and their children's health."

Mr Pulman explained he needed evidence to be presented in a coherent way that would best serve the interests of both parties.

Both sides agreed there should be another consultation process so a drop-in session was organised to give residents the chance to consider evidence and air their views.

Mr Turner said: "The hearing went well. We requested another consultation because so many people had no idea of the plans after the first consultation and we've got it."

The consultation drop-in takes place at the church on Saturday, July 8, and the Consistory Hearing will be held there on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 18 and 19.

9:00am today

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Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave? The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many?

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=588



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

The 'IoS' reveals today that more than 60 of the detainees of the US camp were under 18 at the time of their capture, some as young as 14

The notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay has been hit by fresh allegations of human rights abuses, with claims that dozens of children were sent there - some as young as 14 years old.

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=590



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

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=588bcf7b-64bb-4d2c-8ef5-2ba4de87548d


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar62.html



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0616-30.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0616-31.htm
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4673/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0616-01.htm

Help Save Whales: Protect the largest creatures on earth!
http://www.care2.com/news/member/870323169/111251

Whaling Foes Dodge Harpoon with Japan Defeat
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0617-02.htm

Japan Seizes Control of Whaling Group after Historic Vote
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2202839/

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

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.

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Together in the struggle,

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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/

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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.

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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



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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



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