Big Mother
Sind paranoide Eltern die neuen Überwacher?
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22965/1.html
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22965/1.html
rudkla - 25. Jun, 22:06
Sonntag, 25. Juni 2006
Geistige Gesundheit im Atomic Café
In Politik und Film drängt sich die gleiche Frage auf: Wie verrückt muss ein Staatschef sein, der die Bombe wirft?
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22776/1.html
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22776/1.html
rudkla - 25. Jun, 22:04
Ask Amnesty: Outsourcing Torture
rudkla - 25. Jun, 21:56
Abramoff Sold Face Time With President for $100,000 Donations
Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff's clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist's tax-exempt group.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506X.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506X.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 21:55
MAKE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AN ETERNAL PART OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum327.php
As most of you know, a cabal of Southern Republicans this week blocked the 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Even their own Party isn't happy about this blockage as it opens the door to voting requirements that could bring back the days of being denied the right to vote even with triple photo IDs. Without the Federal Voting Rights Act, individual states can find many ways to disguise their discrimination against people of color and other nationalities.
This is an outrage! Even if you are younger, you still remember seeing the TV tapes of the people of the South, with help from all over the USA, rising up and demanding their civil rights, the most important one being the Right to Vote. They paid dearly, sometimes with their lives, to get that right codified into law. Some of you who are older may even have shed your own blood in that fight.
We must not allow a minority of legislators, running rogue even against their own leadership, to block this important 25 year extension for even one more week. Join Stacey Tallitsch in sending a message to every member on The Hill that this is intolerable and we will not stand still for it. There will be a price paid at the polls by any legislator who doesn't fight for this Act.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum327.php
Stacey Tallitsh, running for the U.S. House in the 1st Congressional district is one of the leading progressive voices in the state of Louisiana. Many of you have already submitted his action page calling for the troops in Iraq to start coming home now, a policy that is more surely correct with every passing state of emergency in Baghdad.
Stacey has already produced his first call to action radio spot, calling for an end of the obstinate occupation of Iraq, a military escapade which has brought nothing but death and destruction to both their country and our own. With your help, Stacey wants to start running these radio spots on his local stations as soon as possible, to build the consensus to actually start bringing our brave troops home. You can hear the new spot on this page.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/donations.php
Nobody can predict how a particular race will turn out. But we know that the spots we ran on impeachment had tremendous secondary impact, as TWO other groups were inspired to run their own call to action ads on this issue as a result of the investment we made in this action. If you are able to do so, please make whatever donation you can to continue the stand we are taking on issue after issue.
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.
Powered by The People's Email Network Copyright 2006, Patent pending, All rights reserved
As most of you know, a cabal of Southern Republicans this week blocked the 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Even their own Party isn't happy about this blockage as it opens the door to voting requirements that could bring back the days of being denied the right to vote even with triple photo IDs. Without the Federal Voting Rights Act, individual states can find many ways to disguise their discrimination against people of color and other nationalities.
This is an outrage! Even if you are younger, you still remember seeing the TV tapes of the people of the South, with help from all over the USA, rising up and demanding their civil rights, the most important one being the Right to Vote. They paid dearly, sometimes with their lives, to get that right codified into law. Some of you who are older may even have shed your own blood in that fight.
We must not allow a minority of legislators, running rogue even against their own leadership, to block this important 25 year extension for even one more week. Join Stacey Tallitsch in sending a message to every member on The Hill that this is intolerable and we will not stand still for it. There will be a price paid at the polls by any legislator who doesn't fight for this Act.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/pnum327.php
Stacey Tallitsh, running for the U.S. House in the 1st Congressional district is one of the leading progressive voices in the state of Louisiana. Many of you have already submitted his action page calling for the troops in Iraq to start coming home now, a policy that is more surely correct with every passing state of emergency in Baghdad.
Stacey has already produced his first call to action radio spot, calling for an end of the obstinate occupation of Iraq, a military escapade which has brought nothing but death and destruction to both their country and our own. With your help, Stacey wants to start running these radio spots on his local stations as soon as possible, to build the consensus to actually start bringing our brave troops home. You can hear the new spot on this page.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/stacey/donations.php
Nobody can predict how a particular race will turn out. But we know that the spots we ran on impeachment had tremendous secondary impact, as TWO other groups were inspired to run their own call to action ads on this issue as a result of the investment we made in this action. If you are able to do so, please make whatever donation you can to continue the stand we are taking on issue after issue.
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.
Powered by The People's Email Network Copyright 2006, Patent pending, All rights reserved
rudkla - 25. Jun, 21:52
War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000
At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies — a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration. Higher than the US estimate, but thought to be undercounted.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506Y.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506Y.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 21:49
Big Pharma Research Racket Is Killing People
rudkla - 25. Jun, 17:22
Oil industry targets EU climate policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1661916,00.html
The point is we should expect it. They have a lot at stake, almost limitless funds, and all they need do is confuse things, because most people can't tell the difference between science and "reason" from the different sources.
It's a mixed blessing, this open blog world, and you can see many people simply giving up with "I just don't know who to believe any more".
Andy
The point is we should expect it. They have a lot at stake, almost limitless funds, and all they need do is confuse things, because most people can't tell the difference between science and "reason" from the different sources.
It's a mixed blessing, this open blog world, and you can see many people simply giving up with "I just don't know who to believe any more".
Andy
rudkla - 25. Jun, 17:19
Small Bug Is Big Threat to Trees in Illinois
June 25, 2006
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/us/25beetle.html
[foto] Kenneth Dickerman for The New York Times - The beetle, native to Asia, has killed millions of trees in the Midwest.
CAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Ill. --- After watching her stately ash trees lose leaves and sprout mysterious green shoots, ReBecca Mathewson discovered a tiny metallic green bug snared in a spider web hanging off one of the sorry trees.
She promptly trapped the culprit in a jar and sent it to the proper authorities (the United States Department of Agriculture), setting off an investigation by agriculture officials here. They deemed Ms. Mathewson's the first emerald ash borer beetle ever found in Illinois. The insect, deadly to trees, has threatened millions of ash in the Midwest in recent years.
As surveyors searched neighborhoods around this township about 40 miles west of Chicago for telltale signs of the beetles --- thinning leaves, tiny holes in the trunks of ash trees and leafy shoots growing from their bases --- officials began trying to identify the size and scope of an infestation they fear could destroy many of the roughly 131 million ash trees in this state, and perhaps more elsewhere.
It did not look like "a menacing bug at all," Ms. Mathewson, 45, said. "Initially, you would think it was just a little grasshopper. But if you remember in biblical times, they had grasshopper plagues."
Despite its innocent appearance, the emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has already destroyed about 20 million trees in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and led to the quarantine of about 15,000 square miles of land since it was first identified in the United States four years ago, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The initial identification was made in Detroit in 2002, where, agricultural officials speculated, the insect may have arrived in the cargo hold of a ship. Michigan quickly issued a quarantine prohibiting the removal of wood or nursery stock from ash trees. Nevertheless, the beetle turned up in Ohio and Maryland in 2003 and in Indiana in 2004.
In Ms. Mathewson's neighborhood, a quiet subdivision with large houses and meticulously landscaped yards called the Windings of Ferson Creek,
19 trees have been identified as infested since her discovery in early June.
More than a dozen tree surveyors and four tree climbers explored more than 16 square miles around the subdivision and found no additional infested trees.
But officials said the affected area could be much larger. Trees often appear healthy while the beetles destroy them from the inside out.
"If you didn't know what you were looking for, you would never see it," said Mark Cinnamon, supervisor of the bureau of environmental programs at the Illinois Department of Agriculture. "It's really hard to see what's wrong with the tree until it's too late."
Recently, Jim Senechalle, one of a team of tree surveyors, peered through binoculars and tramped across lawns in pursuit of infested trees.
"First of all, we like to tell the people we're here," said Mr. Senechalle, a plant and pesticide specialist with the state's agriculture department, as he and a colleague approached a house to tell residents what they were doing. "Hopefully they don't have dogs." Other potential search hazards included rain and animal droppings.
Curious neighbors asked questions as basic as "What's an ash tree?" and what should be done about poison ivy in front of one woman's house. (She showed them the rash on her legs to prove it.)
Ash trees are sturdy and commonly used in flooring, baseball bats and furniture construction. They make up about 20 percent of the trees in the Chicago area but just 5 percent of the population in the infested suburban area west of the city.
Sizing up one plot, Mr. Senechalle said, "There's no ash around here, which I guess is good." But walking near a densely wooded area in a neighboring subdivision, he said, "I'm not sure how that wooded area is going to get surveyed at this point."
The emerald ash borer's small size and concealed destruction make it more difficult to identify than another exotic pest, the Asian longhorned beetle, which destroys several types of hardwood trees and set off panic when it was found in the Chicago area in recent years.
Of the emerald ash borer, Mr. Senechalle said, "The only good thing you could say, if you could say there's a good thing, is it only kills ash trees."
Larvae chew through the bark and feast on wood underneath, weaving serpentine paths that cut off the flow of water and nutrients. The adults bore out of the bark in the summer and die after two to three weeks, leaving their eggs on the bark. Trees usually die two to four years after infestation.
"I feel so sorry for those poor people," said Pat Piaskowy, 59, referring to residents who have become unsuspecting hosts to the pest. "I am very attached to each and every one of my trees." Neither of Ms. Piaskowy's two ash trees seemed to be infested.
For now, officials say they do not know how many trees may be felled by the emerald ash borer beetle. But they fear it may have actually been skulking here much longer than anyone realized, perhaps as long as six years. Eventually, officials will set a quarantine area, barring people from removing any ash trees from a certain radius, and the infested trees will be cut down.
"It is hit or miss, and it would be very easy to miss it," Mr. Senechalle said of the surveying process. "I'm sure it's going to be years and years that we're out here doing some of this."
To Ms. Mathewson, who said she adored her two ash trees even now, in their fading moments, the prospect is crushing. "Every time I think of it, it's heart-wrenching to me how many trees are going to be gone," she said.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
Informant: Teresa Binstock
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/us/25beetle.html
[foto] Kenneth Dickerman for The New York Times - The beetle, native to Asia, has killed millions of trees in the Midwest.
CAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Ill. --- After watching her stately ash trees lose leaves and sprout mysterious green shoots, ReBecca Mathewson discovered a tiny metallic green bug snared in a spider web hanging off one of the sorry trees.
She promptly trapped the culprit in a jar and sent it to the proper authorities (the United States Department of Agriculture), setting off an investigation by agriculture officials here. They deemed Ms. Mathewson's the first emerald ash borer beetle ever found in Illinois. The insect, deadly to trees, has threatened millions of ash in the Midwest in recent years.
As surveyors searched neighborhoods around this township about 40 miles west of Chicago for telltale signs of the beetles --- thinning leaves, tiny holes in the trunks of ash trees and leafy shoots growing from their bases --- officials began trying to identify the size and scope of an infestation they fear could destroy many of the roughly 131 million ash trees in this state, and perhaps more elsewhere.
It did not look like "a menacing bug at all," Ms. Mathewson, 45, said. "Initially, you would think it was just a little grasshopper. But if you remember in biblical times, they had grasshopper plagues."
Despite its innocent appearance, the emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has already destroyed about 20 million trees in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and led to the quarantine of about 15,000 square miles of land since it was first identified in the United States four years ago, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The initial identification was made in Detroit in 2002, where, agricultural officials speculated, the insect may have arrived in the cargo hold of a ship. Michigan quickly issued a quarantine prohibiting the removal of wood or nursery stock from ash trees. Nevertheless, the beetle turned up in Ohio and Maryland in 2003 and in Indiana in 2004.
In Ms. Mathewson's neighborhood, a quiet subdivision with large houses and meticulously landscaped yards called the Windings of Ferson Creek,
19 trees have been identified as infested since her discovery in early June.
More than a dozen tree surveyors and four tree climbers explored more than 16 square miles around the subdivision and found no additional infested trees.
But officials said the affected area could be much larger. Trees often appear healthy while the beetles destroy them from the inside out.
"If you didn't know what you were looking for, you would never see it," said Mark Cinnamon, supervisor of the bureau of environmental programs at the Illinois Department of Agriculture. "It's really hard to see what's wrong with the tree until it's too late."
Recently, Jim Senechalle, one of a team of tree surveyors, peered through binoculars and tramped across lawns in pursuit of infested trees.
"First of all, we like to tell the people we're here," said Mr. Senechalle, a plant and pesticide specialist with the state's agriculture department, as he and a colleague approached a house to tell residents what they were doing. "Hopefully they don't have dogs." Other potential search hazards included rain and animal droppings.
Curious neighbors asked questions as basic as "What's an ash tree?" and what should be done about poison ivy in front of one woman's house. (She showed them the rash on her legs to prove it.)
Ash trees are sturdy and commonly used in flooring, baseball bats and furniture construction. They make up about 20 percent of the trees in the Chicago area but just 5 percent of the population in the infested suburban area west of the city.
Sizing up one plot, Mr. Senechalle said, "There's no ash around here, which I guess is good." But walking near a densely wooded area in a neighboring subdivision, he said, "I'm not sure how that wooded area is going to get surveyed at this point."
The emerald ash borer's small size and concealed destruction make it more difficult to identify than another exotic pest, the Asian longhorned beetle, which destroys several types of hardwood trees and set off panic when it was found in the Chicago area in recent years.
Of the emerald ash borer, Mr. Senechalle said, "The only good thing you could say, if you could say there's a good thing, is it only kills ash trees."
Larvae chew through the bark and feast on wood underneath, weaving serpentine paths that cut off the flow of water and nutrients. The adults bore out of the bark in the summer and die after two to three weeks, leaving their eggs on the bark. Trees usually die two to four years after infestation.
"I feel so sorry for those poor people," said Pat Piaskowy, 59, referring to residents who have become unsuspecting hosts to the pest. "I am very attached to each and every one of my trees." Neither of Ms. Piaskowy's two ash trees seemed to be infested.
For now, officials say they do not know how many trees may be felled by the emerald ash borer beetle. But they fear it may have actually been skulking here much longer than anyone realized, perhaps as long as six years. Eventually, officials will set a quarantine area, barring people from removing any ash trees from a certain radius, and the infested trees will be cut down.
"It is hit or miss, and it would be very easy to miss it," Mr. Senechalle said of the surveying process. "I'm sure it's going to be years and years that we're out here doing some of this."
To Ms. Mathewson, who said she adored her two ash trees even now, in their fading moments, the prospect is crushing. "Every time I think of it, it's heart-wrenching to me how many trees are going to be gone," she said.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
Informant: Teresa Binstock
rudkla - 25. Jun, 15:29
Defend the Democratic Process: Don't Let Congress Block Your Email
I have just read and signed the petition: "Defend the Democratic Process: Don't Let Congress Block Your Email"
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/608846216
Thanks!
Bugs
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/608846216
Thanks!
Bugs
rudkla - 25. Jun, 15:26
Mobile Chiefs Seek to Allay Fears Over Phone Radiation
Staff Writer
Major mobile providers rejected claims that their network transmission equipment causes a risk to human health, nonetheless vowing to invest significant efforts to investigate the high radiation levels in certain areas of St. Petersburg.
Heads of the big three mobile operators, MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon, met Thursday with members of the public to discuss the question of transmitter base stations set up in residential areas.
Many have accused the stations of attracting unnaturally high levels of radiation, which has allegedly had a detrimental effect on people's health, including loss of hair and increased cancer risks.
Nikolai Demenchuk, deputy head of MegaFon Northwest, and Igor Zarudnev, head of VimpelCom (brand name BeeLine) in St. Petersburg, said that the operators already monitor the effects base stations have on the health of local residents.
"Our specialists always look at the radiation coming off the stations, and usually we prove that these stations do not have an effect on health," Zarudnev said, as cited by Interfax.
"It is possible, however, that the electromagnetic waves that base stations radiate can affect health in cases where other factors are involved - such as in areas with poor ecology. And we are ready to take part in research on this issue," Zarudnev said at the meeting, which was organized by Sotaweek analytical and research agency.
Research conducted by Sotaweek found the amount of radiation given off by base stations in Russia is largely under the legal safety requirement levels. Federal regulations allow up to 0.1 watts per square meter of electric radiation in places where people may spend a whole day. The level is allowed to rise to 1 watt per square meter in places where people would not spend more than 2 hours.
Sotaweek data, presented at the meeting, showed that radiation levels close to base stations reached 0.5 to 0.7 watts per square meter, yet they fell to 0.01 watts per square meter on the top floors of high-rises, the roofs of which accommodate mobile network base stations.
"This research was done to measure the actual levels of radiation from [mobile network] antennas and base stations, and to inform both sides of the debate about this," Denis Kuskov, head of Sotaweek, said Thursday after the meeting.
Kuskov added that base stations emit much less radiation than TV antennas, the levels of the latter often being several times higher than legal requirements.
In addition, Zarudnev pointed out that high-riser tenants themselves decide whether to allow a mobile network antenna or base station on top of their apartment block or not.
"It's simple to demand for all those stations to be taken down from residential houses, but then you will have a drop in the quality of the mobile networks, and that solution won't win any votes among the population either," Zarudnev said.
Mobile phone providers agreed that a possible solution may be to work with the government and concentrate on further research in the field of electromagnetic radiation.
© Copyright The St. Petersburg Times 1993 - 2005
http://www.sptimes.ru/story/3777
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And the usual non sequitur!
"Our specialists always look at the radiation coming off the stations, and usually we prove that these stations do not have an effect on health".
Andy
Major mobile providers rejected claims that their network transmission equipment causes a risk to human health, nonetheless vowing to invest significant efforts to investigate the high radiation levels in certain areas of St. Petersburg.
Heads of the big three mobile operators, MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon, met Thursday with members of the public to discuss the question of transmitter base stations set up in residential areas.
Many have accused the stations of attracting unnaturally high levels of radiation, which has allegedly had a detrimental effect on people's health, including loss of hair and increased cancer risks.
Nikolai Demenchuk, deputy head of MegaFon Northwest, and Igor Zarudnev, head of VimpelCom (brand name BeeLine) in St. Petersburg, said that the operators already monitor the effects base stations have on the health of local residents.
"Our specialists always look at the radiation coming off the stations, and usually we prove that these stations do not have an effect on health," Zarudnev said, as cited by Interfax.
"It is possible, however, that the electromagnetic waves that base stations radiate can affect health in cases where other factors are involved - such as in areas with poor ecology. And we are ready to take part in research on this issue," Zarudnev said at the meeting, which was organized by Sotaweek analytical and research agency.
Research conducted by Sotaweek found the amount of radiation given off by base stations in Russia is largely under the legal safety requirement levels. Federal regulations allow up to 0.1 watts per square meter of electric radiation in places where people may spend a whole day. The level is allowed to rise to 1 watt per square meter in places where people would not spend more than 2 hours.
Sotaweek data, presented at the meeting, showed that radiation levels close to base stations reached 0.5 to 0.7 watts per square meter, yet they fell to 0.01 watts per square meter on the top floors of high-rises, the roofs of which accommodate mobile network base stations.
"This research was done to measure the actual levels of radiation from [mobile network] antennas and base stations, and to inform both sides of the debate about this," Denis Kuskov, head of Sotaweek, said Thursday after the meeting.
Kuskov added that base stations emit much less radiation than TV antennas, the levels of the latter often being several times higher than legal requirements.
In addition, Zarudnev pointed out that high-riser tenants themselves decide whether to allow a mobile network antenna or base station on top of their apartment block or not.
"It's simple to demand for all those stations to be taken down from residential houses, but then you will have a drop in the quality of the mobile networks, and that solution won't win any votes among the population either," Zarudnev said.
Mobile phone providers agreed that a possible solution may be to work with the government and concentrate on further research in the field of electromagnetic radiation.
© Copyright The St. Petersburg Times 1993 - 2005
http://www.sptimes.ru/story/3777
--------
And the usual non sequitur!
"Our specialists always look at the radiation coming off the stations, and usually we prove that these stations do not have an effect on health".
Andy
rudkla - 25. Jun, 13:29
Pentagon: Vaccines may have killed soldier
rudkla - 25. Jun, 13:23
Canada: A Galloping Police State?
rudkla - 25. Jun, 13:21
Die Rolle der USA in der sudanesischen Provinz Darfur
Erdöl lockt zur nächsten "humanitären" Intervention
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24110
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24110
rudkla - 25. Jun, 13:16
Innenansichten des Krieges
rudkla - 25. Jun, 13:14
Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data
Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, and harshly criticized the news media for disclosing an operation he said was legal and "absolutely essential" to fighting terrorism.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406F.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406F.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:25
Newspapers Reject Government Request to Kill Story
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times on Friday published a major story on government surveillance of private banking records over the objections of the Bush administration. The papers reveal that the White House had asked them not to run it. This had happened with the story about NSA spying as well, prompting the New York Times in that case to put off running the story for a year.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406E.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406E.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:24
White House, Republicans Plan to Wipe Out All Federal Protections
Republicans may bring to a vote within weeks a proposal that could literally wipe out any federal program that protects public health or the environment - or for that matter civil rights, poverty programs, auto safety, education, affordable housing, Head Start or workplace safety.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406D.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406D.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:23
Republican Candidate Calls for Immigrant Labor Camp
Don Goldwater, nephew of the late Senator Barry Goldwater, caused an international stir this week when he said he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406C.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406C.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:22
Clinton Says GOP Blindly Follows Bush
One day after suffering a pair of defeats on the Senate floor, Democratic leaders argued that their internal divisions over Iraq will help push the country toward a change in policy and accused Republicans of blindly following President Bush on a path that has been disastrous for the nation.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406B.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406B.shtml
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:21
The One World Order: It's Their Party - Deliberate Decline Into Decadence
by Deanna Spingola
The Order’s methodology is a strict adherence to Hegelian Dialectics. Apply those dialectics to the two political parties. Essentially, political parties are artificial groupings designed to create division. A contrived choice between two bad options, without recognizing alternative better options, creates the perception of freedom. Supposedly opposing ideologies generates deliberate.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna43.htm
The One World Order: Deliberate Decline Into Decadence
by Deanna Spingola
The Rockefeller Foundation believed that the media constituted a uniquely powerful force in modern society for imposing the will of the elite on the masses. Secret psychological war projects to control public opinion were supported by America’s tax-exempt foundations. For example, campaigns were developed to induce Americans to support U.S. entry into.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna47.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spingola
http://tinyurl.com/h58lq
The Order’s methodology is a strict adherence to Hegelian Dialectics. Apply those dialectics to the two political parties. Essentially, political parties are artificial groupings designed to create division. A contrived choice between two bad options, without recognizing alternative better options, creates the perception of freedom. Supposedly opposing ideologies generates deliberate.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna43.htm
The One World Order: Deliberate Decline Into Decadence
by Deanna Spingola
The Rockefeller Foundation believed that the media constituted a uniquely powerful force in modern society for imposing the will of the elite on the masses. Secret psychological war projects to control public opinion were supported by America’s tax-exempt foundations. For example, campaigns were developed to induce Americans to support U.S. entry into.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna47.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spingola
http://tinyurl.com/h58lq
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:17
Brainwashing The Children: A Global Effort
Part 3
by Jill Walker
While researching the weapons of the New World Order crowd, I stumbled upon the work of Lynette Burrows, author of the book, The Fight for the Family - the adults behind children's rights. Her book contains the names of liberal activist groups that “have been campaigning since the 1970s to promote children’s rights and remove from parents the right to discipline their children and pass on their values.” It’s no surprise that the UN is.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Walker/jill22.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Walker
by Jill Walker
While researching the weapons of the New World Order crowd, I stumbled upon the work of Lynette Burrows, author of the book, The Fight for the Family - the adults behind children's rights. Her book contains the names of liberal activist groups that “have been campaigning since the 1970s to promote children’s rights and remove from parents the right to discipline their children and pass on their values.” It’s no surprise that the UN is.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Walker/jill22.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Walker
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:16
Polar bears, beluga whales, seals sick from toxics
Growing evidence shows that harmful chemicals are already affecting the health of many Arctic animals, such as polar bears, beluga whales, seals and seabirds, according to a new WWF report.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=80&news:oid=n5488
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=80&news:oid=n5488
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:02
2008 Olympics: Plans to Sacrifice Rainforest Should be Aborted
Only days before a May 16-18 Beijing meeting to prepare the 2008 Olympiad in China, Friends of the Earth International calls on the Government of China and the International Olympic Committee to save Indonesian forests from being destroyed for the Beijing Olympics.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=80&news:oid=n5375
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=80&news:oid=n5375
rudkla - 25. Jun, 09:00
Umweltgifte schädigen die Tierwelt der Arktis
WWF-Studie
19.06.2006
Chemikalien führen offensichtlich zu massiven Gesundheitsschäden in der arktischen Tierwelt.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5486
19.06.2006
Chemikalien führen offensichtlich zu massiven Gesundheitsschäden in der arktischen Tierwelt.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5486
rudkla - 25. Jun, 08:58
Take Back America
rudkla - 25. Jun, 08:50
Samstag, 24. Juni 2006
A Statement by Ehren Watada's Mother
Carolyn Ho, mother of war resister Lt. Ehren Watada, asks the nation to support her son at an upcoming National Day of Action on June 27th. She says that her son "demonstrates that one does not relinquish the freedom to choose what is right, even in the military, and that the freedom to choose what is right transcends the allegiance to man and institutions."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406Y.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406Y.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
rudkla - 24. Jun, 22:31
Iraqi PM Calls for Withdrawal Timetable
The new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has drafted a national reconciliation plan that will be released on Sunday. The plan includes a timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq, amnesty for insurgents, release of all security detainees from US and Iraqi prisons, and compensation for victims of coalition military operations.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406X.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406X.shtml
rudkla - 24. Jun, 22:24
Die Bush-Regierung versucht, den Lauschangriff auf die internationalen Finanzdaten zu rechtfertigen
Transparenz total
Die Bush-Regierung versucht, den Lauschangriff auf die internationalen Finanzdaten, dessen Aufdeckung sie nicht verhindern konnte, zu rechtfertigen, Legitimation, so die kaum rechtsstaatliche Begründung der fürsorglichen Big-Brother-Regierung, ergebe sich durch den Erfolg, aber auch der scheint nicht groß zu sein.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22962/1.html
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Lauschangriff auf die Finanzen
Die ohne richterliche Genehmigung erfolgte Durchsuchung von Datenbergen über internationale Finanztransaktionen durch die CIA war spätestens Ende 2002 öffentlich bekannt, nur kümmerte sich damals in der Terrorhysterie niemand darum, was zeigt, wie sich die Zeiten geändert haben.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22977/1.html
Die Bush-Regierung versucht, den Lauschangriff auf die internationalen Finanzdaten, dessen Aufdeckung sie nicht verhindern konnte, zu rechtfertigen, Legitimation, so die kaum rechtsstaatliche Begründung der fürsorglichen Big-Brother-Regierung, ergebe sich durch den Erfolg, aber auch der scheint nicht groß zu sein.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22962/1.html
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Lauschangriff auf die Finanzen
Die ohne richterliche Genehmigung erfolgte Durchsuchung von Datenbergen über internationale Finanztransaktionen durch die CIA war spätestens Ende 2002 öffentlich bekannt, nur kümmerte sich damals in der Terrorhysterie niemand darum, was zeigt, wie sich die Zeiten geändert haben.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22977/1.html
rudkla - 24. Jun, 22:16
Gläserne Patienten beim Bush-Besuch
rudkla - 24. Jun, 22:08
060623 - R - Mobilfunk - Newsletter
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:51
060622 - R - Mobilfunk - Newsletter
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:51
060621 - R - Mobilfunk - Newsletter
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:50
The WHO Model Legislation for EMF Human Exposure Act
I am forwarding you for posting this attachment--the WHO "Model Legislation for Electromagnetic Fields Protection" -- that I have just received.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emf_model_legislation.pdf
I speed-read "The WHO Model Legislation for EMF Human Exposure Act". I would say it's advantageous for us EHS activists to be aware of its definition of terms, its proposed goals, et al so that it--the WHO-- may be challenged on not adhering to any of these, as occassion arises. Also, I noted these points: the Act excluded the military from its "Scope and Application" (3.2); it gave due recognition to the importance of "frequency of the field" when considering "Basic Restrictions."
Best,
Imelda, Cork
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emf_model_legislation.pdf
I speed-read "The WHO Model Legislation for EMF Human Exposure Act". I would say it's advantageous for us EHS activists to be aware of its definition of terms, its proposed goals, et al so that it--the WHO-- may be challenged on not adhering to any of these, as occassion arises. Also, I noted these points: the Act excluded the military from its "Scope and Application" (3.2); it gave due recognition to the importance of "frequency of the field" when considering "Basic Restrictions."
Best,
Imelda, Cork
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:41
Families prepare for phone mast battle
PETER WALSH
24 June 2006 09:31
Families living on a sprawling estate look set for a fresh battle to stop a mobile phone mast being built at the heart of their community.
Telecommunications giant O2 has submitted plans for a 12.5 metre mast with enclosed antennae and ground-based equipment cabinets on highway verge on Dussindale Drive, Thorpe St Andrew.
The choice of site initially caused outrage among people living in the area as it was just yards from a plot of land at Vane Close, off Dussindale Drive, where work to build a £4m primary school has started.
The application was withdrawn by O2 in March following a successful community campaign opposing the mast, but now the company has put in a separate application for a mast on the road opposite an existing 10m mobile phone mast operated by Orange.
“It's down the road from the first one,” said a spokesman for O2. “We're getting out of the area of where people were saying they didn't want it - hopefully we're going to be out of the way of them.”
The spokesman said the mast was needed to provide adequate access and cover for mobile users in the area. But families who fought so hard to stop the mast last time are not impressed they will be faced with another battle to stop this one.
Roy Francis, 52, from Vane Close, who started a petition against the previous mast application, said he was shocked to hear more proposals had been lodged with Broadland District Council.
Mr Francis, an aircraft engineer, said he would support objectors to the mast even though it was further away from the site of the school.
“It's still a very densely populated residential area,” he said. “I wouldn't want it next to my house; it's hard to visualise 12.5 metres.”
Michelle Dickerson, a mum of two who lives on Association Way, off Dussindale Drive, said: “There's obviously a need for mobile phone masts, but I don't know why they have to be right outside our house.”
After their victory in March, Mr Francis thanked the Evening News for raising awareness about the issue among people living in the area.
The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools, until it is proved they are safe, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign.
Are you battling a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk .
Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/h3qbo
24 June 2006 09:31
Families living on a sprawling estate look set for a fresh battle to stop a mobile phone mast being built at the heart of their community.
Telecommunications giant O2 has submitted plans for a 12.5 metre mast with enclosed antennae and ground-based equipment cabinets on highway verge on Dussindale Drive, Thorpe St Andrew.
The choice of site initially caused outrage among people living in the area as it was just yards from a plot of land at Vane Close, off Dussindale Drive, where work to build a £4m primary school has started.
The application was withdrawn by O2 in March following a successful community campaign opposing the mast, but now the company has put in a separate application for a mast on the road opposite an existing 10m mobile phone mast operated by Orange.
“It's down the road from the first one,” said a spokesman for O2. “We're getting out of the area of where people were saying they didn't want it - hopefully we're going to be out of the way of them.”
The spokesman said the mast was needed to provide adequate access and cover for mobile users in the area. But families who fought so hard to stop the mast last time are not impressed they will be faced with another battle to stop this one.
Roy Francis, 52, from Vane Close, who started a petition against the previous mast application, said he was shocked to hear more proposals had been lodged with Broadland District Council.
Mr Francis, an aircraft engineer, said he would support objectors to the mast even though it was further away from the site of the school.
“It's still a very densely populated residential area,” he said. “I wouldn't want it next to my house; it's hard to visualise 12.5 metres.”
Michelle Dickerson, a mum of two who lives on Association Way, off Dussindale Drive, said: “There's obviously a need for mobile phone masts, but I don't know why they have to be right outside our house.”
After their victory in March, Mr Francis thanked the Evening News for raising awareness about the issue among people living in the area.
The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools, until it is proved they are safe, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign.
Are you battling a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk .
Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/h3qbo
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:35
History Of 'New Energy' Invention Suppression Cases
rudkla - 24. Jun, 13:31
Sea Lions and Dolphins May Join War Games
Alongside the submarines, ships and airplanes participating in large-scale military exercises in the Pacific this month, a team of sea lions and dolphins are expected to patrol the sea. Opponents of the program say the military should not train animals for use in warfare.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062306EC.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062306EC.shtml
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:46
Tacoma turns out for Watada
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4701/
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:34
Whistleblower Exposes Bush Officials Traded Abramoff Favors
Jack Abramoff and other lobbyists redefined "access and influence" inside this Administration. Smith blows the whistle on officials described as Abramoff's 'point man' inside the Department of the Interior.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13740.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13740.htm
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:18
Bush's domestic spying
How America is rapidly becoming a police state
http://www.counterthink.org/019444.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.counterthink.org/019444.html
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:17
Were Sears Tower "Terrorists" Set Up?
ANDREWS: So somebody had approached him to give him money to blow up buildings?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13743.htm
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Second Mistrial in Sears Tower Case
Julienne Gage reports for The Washington Post, "A federal judge in Miami declared a second mistrial Wednesday in the case of six men accused of plotting to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, and attack other targets, when a second jury failed to reach a verdict on the charges. The decision is a setback for the Bush administration, which had touted the case as an example of the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks but has failed to win convictions in two attempts."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708L.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sears+Tower
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13743.htm
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Second Mistrial in Sears Tower Case
Julienne Gage reports for The Washington Post, "A federal judge in Miami declared a second mistrial Wednesday in the case of six men accused of plotting to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, and attack other targets, when a second jury failed to reach a verdict on the charges. The decision is a setback for the Bush administration, which had touted the case as an example of the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks but has failed to win convictions in two attempts."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708L.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sears+Tower
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:13
Poverty Not a Pressing Issue for the Press
The fight against poverty, which calls for a multipronged effort against hunger, inequality, and social marginalisation, is a pressing issue in Latin America. But it is apparently not for the press. In Colombia, where roughly half of the population lives in poverty, the only nationwide newspaper, El Tiempo, dedicates just 0.8 percent of its coverage to the issue.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33684
From Information Clearing House
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33684
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:11
No army is so powerful as an idea whose time has come
Patrick J. Buchanan: Needed
A new policy on Islam: As one watches U.S. Armed Forces struggle against Sunni insurgents, Shia militias and jihadists in Iraq, and a resurgent Taliban, all invoking Allah, Victor Hugo's words return to mind: No army is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13741.htm
A new policy on Islam: As one watches U.S. Armed Forces struggle against Sunni insurgents, Shia militias and jihadists in Iraq, and a resurgent Taliban, all invoking Allah, Victor Hugo's words return to mind: No army is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13741.htm
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:10
Bush’s Austria trip has underscored just how much Europeans dislike the U.S. president
It’s more than just simple dislike. A Harris Interactive/Financial Times survey released Monday found that 36 percent of Europeans view the United States as the world’s greatest threat to “global stability.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13468342/site/newsweek/
From Information Clearing House
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13468342/site/newsweek/
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:08
In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran's Offer of Dialogue
An unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States, and the fax suggested everything was on the table -- including full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13737.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13737.htm
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:05
The height of humiliation
Threatened, abused, raped and tortured: such is the fate of untold numbers of Iraqi women amid the barbarous practices of the occupation.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/800/focus.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/800/focus.htm
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:03
Democracy in chains
By Greg Palast
US Republicans are planning to change the law to stop black, Hispanic and Native American voters going to the polls in 2008.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13745.htm
US Republicans are planning to change the law to stop black, Hispanic and Native American voters going to the polls in 2008.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13745.htm
rudkla - 24. Jun, 10:02
Our freedoms and working conditions were won through the suffering and sweat of our fathers and grand fathers in their struggle against commercial interests
H a r l a n C o u n t y USA
Least we think that America was built by the starched shirts and expensive suits featured on FOX News and CNN.
This documentary will help to remind us that our freedoms and working conditions were not won by U.S. soldiers in foreign lands but through the suffering and sweat of our fathers and grand fathers in their struggle against commercial interests.
Click here to watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13730.htm
Least we think that America was built by the starched shirts and expensive suits featured on FOX News and CNN.
This documentary will help to remind us that our freedoms and working conditions were not won by U.S. soldiers in foreign lands but through the suffering and sweat of our fathers and grand fathers in their struggle against commercial interests.
Click here to watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13730.htm
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:56
Crackdown in Ramadi
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13746.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramadi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramadi
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:54
CREW Forces Dept. of Labor to Release Anti-Union Docs and E-mails
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:39
Lieberman Stays the Course With Bush
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:38
Our Best Move Now is to Cut and Run
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:36
So Many Have Sacrificed So Much in Iraq, and For What?
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:34
In Struggle For Women's Freedom, Which Side is US On?
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:32
It's Official: We Live in Hot Times
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:30
Privacy Advocates Slam AT&T on Customer Records
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:30
Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank Transfers
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:27
This Line Is Insecured
rudkla - 24. Jun, 09:22
Mobile phone users warned of lightning strike risk
Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:52 PM BST
LONDON (Reuters) - People should not use mobile phones outdoors during thunderstorms because of the risk of being struck by lightning, doctors said on Friday.
They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm. Although she was revived, she suffered persistent health problems and was using a wheelchair a year after the accident.
"This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries," said Swinda Esprit, a doctor at Northwick Park Hospital in England.
Esprit and other doctors at the hospital added in a letter to the British Medical Journal that usually when someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover.
But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.
The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.
"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm," Esprit added.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/o3sbf
Informant: Alfonso Balmori
LONDON (Reuters) - People should not use mobile phones outdoors during thunderstorms because of the risk of being struck by lightning, doctors said on Friday.
They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm. Although she was revived, she suffered persistent health problems and was using a wheelchair a year after the accident.
"This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries," said Swinda Esprit, a doctor at Northwick Park Hospital in England.
Esprit and other doctors at the hospital added in a letter to the British Medical Journal that usually when someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover.
But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.
The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.
"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm," Esprit added.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/o3sbf
Informant: Alfonso Balmori
rudkla - 24. Jun, 08:45
