World-News

The Sutton Coldfield Observer are running a story today about two local young boys age 4 and 8. The boys are to be used as the faces to promote the new mobile DECT football phones throughout the UK for Geemarc. I spoke to the sales manager Jacqui MacKinnon from Geemarc today, she said she was completely unaware with regards to health concerns from using DECT phones and would appreciate any research to show the dangers, I would be most grateful if anyone could provide her with research that is currently available, she is also interested in receiving information about the German DECT phone which is now available and does not give out radiation from the base station, contact Jacqui at Jacqui@geemarc.com .

Take a look at the website http://www.geemarc.com and also read the news story about Tony Blair ‘poster boy’. I believe Geemarc’s intentions are good; however they need the research to show it might not be sensible to promote DECT phones especially to children. We need to give them the information and the chance to reconsider the poster campaign using two young boys, please help!


Prime Minister ideal ‘poster boy’ for hearing campaign


http://www.suttonobserver.co.uk

30th June 2006

MOBILE FACE OF FOOTBALL

Two football-mad Sutton Coldfield brothers are over the moon after being signed up as the faces of a national campaign to launch a new phone in time for the World Cup. Tom and Elliot White, aged eight and four, from Boldmere, have been chosen to star in the launch of Geemarc’s Football DECT phone this month.

Geemarc UK sales manager Jacqui MacKinnon said the boys, who attend Boldmere Junior School, had been selected for their big smiles and love of football.

She added: “We wanted to have fun photos which really showcase the new phone’s appeal to children and were looking for true football fans.

“When we spotted Tom and Elliot and heard they were not only big fans of Aston Villa but also England, we knew we had the right boys.”

The pictures of the boys will be used as part of a campaign to promote the phone – which is cordless and has a St George design – across the UK.


Best wishes

Eileen O’Connor
Trustee – EM Radiation Research Trust
http://www.radiationresearch.org

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WLAN, DECT in Schools and Kindergardens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1579030/

by Earl Hadley, TomPaine.com

Conservative hypocrisy puts college out of the reach of working-class Americans.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/30/divesting_from_our_future.php

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com

The Supreme Court just checked White House power. Now it's up to the other two branches to follow its lead.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/30/hamdan_not_over_yet.php

"Instead of standing up for a fair electoral landscape, the Supreme Court produced a ruling that did little to ensure the vibrancy of American democracy, and that itself had an unfortunate whiff of partisanship," writes the New York Times Editorial Board.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006L.shtml

"The only surviving World War II veteran on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens, appointed three decades ago by a president as Republican as W., delivered the plain and airtight message: President Bush violated every standard of the military code, the US Constitution and international law with its order for military tribunals at Guantanamo," writes Bruce Shapiro.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006K.shtml

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney spent much of their first term bypassing Congress in the service of what they labeled a "different kind of war." Now they will almost certainly plunge into negotiations they previously spurned over the extent of the president's powers, this time in the midst of a midterm election in which Bush's wartime strategies and their consequences have emerged as a potent issue.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006J.shtml

Unternehmenssteuerkonzept soll offenbar vor hochprofitable Konzerne entlasten (30.06.06)

Das Unternehmenssteuerkonzept von Bundesfinanzminister Peer Steinbrück (SPD) entlastet offenbar vor allem Unternehmen mit hoher Eigenkapitalrendite. Eine große Kapitalgesellschaft, die auf 100 Millionen Euro Eigenkapital eine Rendite von 20 Prozent erzielt, könne knapp eine Million Euro Steuern sparen, berichtete das "Handelsblatt" unter Berufung auf Berechnungen des arbeitgebernahen Instituts der Deutschen Wirtschaft (IW). Das selbe Unternehmen müsste jedoch bei einer nur fünfprozentigen Eigenkapitalrendite gut 400.000 Euro mehr an den Fiskus abführen. Insofern könnte die Unternehmensbesteuerung künftig möglicherweise einen starken Anreiz dafür darstellen, durch Entlassungen Kosten zu sparen, um die Eigenkapital-Rendite zu steigern.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13914

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/July4.htm


Informant: Cheryl Guttman

A message from Eleanor:

Dear Friends,

I wrote to the HSUS, concerned that the petition for the sharks may have disappeared. I received this immediate reply. Please take the web alert action! Thanks for all you do!! PLEASE FORWARD AND CROSSPOST!
*sign* *thanks*

Hi Eleanor,

Thanks for your concern for shark tournaments. We think letters, calls and emails are more effective than petitions, which we usually avoid. For contact information for the Chamber of Commerce and the Oaks Bluff town selectmen, see our web story at http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/wildlife_news/oak_bluffs_shark_hunt_4-06.html and our web alert at
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/oak_bluffs_shark_contest_06

You can also contact the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, the state agency that allows the shark tournaments at: Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
251 Causeway St, Suite 400 Boston, MA 02114-2152
617-626-1590
http://www.state.ma.us/dfwele/dfw/

Thanks again for your support. Check back to http://www.protectsharks.org soon for updates. We'll be putting up a lot more info on tournaments and how you can help quite soon.


Cheers,

Andrea Cimino
Campaign Coordinator
The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L St. NW Washington, DC 20037
(301)-258-3109
acimino@hsus.org

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We just came out with a video we'll be putting on the web and promoting so that people know what really happens at these events. Here is the link (this was filmed at the tournament in Ocean City, Maryland): http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/video_features/shark-tournament.wmv&type=wmv

I watched some but it got too much for me. Please do all you can to stop this butchery. Please help the HSUS in their efforts. My thanks and appreciation!

Eleanor

http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/wildlife_news/oak_bluffs_shark_hunt_4-06.html
If you haven't already done it, please take action for the sharks of Martha's Vineyard. Try to stop this happening to them.

The provision may have the unintended consequence of harming several million US citizens who, for a variety of reasons, will not be able to produce the necessary paperwork. They include mentally ill, mentally retarded and homeless people, as well as elderly men and women, especially African-Americans born in an era when hospitals in the rural South barred black women from their maternity wards.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006F.shtml

"On its face, this is a very prescriptive application of the welfare law," said Elaine M. Ryan, deputy executive director of the American Public Human Services Association. "We're surprised there is so much micro-management coming from the federal government on a block grant that was designed to be a flexible source of funds to meet the needs of the most vulnerable members of society."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006E.shtml

Steven Rosenfeld asks, "What's a bigger problem with American elections: disenfranchisment of minority voters or new electronic voting machines stealing votes?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006D.shtml

Rosa Brooks points out, "The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both US military law and the Geneva Convention. But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with al-Qaeda - a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006B.shtml

A Moment of Pause

"A rolling sense of awe has enveloped the mainstream news media since yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo," writes William Rivers Pitt. "The specifics of the decision are part of the discussion, to be sure, but the sense of amazement has a more basic root. After all this time, after a seemingly endless series of over-reaching power grabs by the Bush administration, someone with a big enough stick finally got in the way and said 'No.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006A.shtml

http://pierreterre.com/story.asp?ID=49


Informant: Kev Hall

James Randerson,
science correspondent
Friday June 30, 2006
The Guardian

Using a hands-free kit while at the wheel is as dangerous as drink driving, according to a study of volunteers in a driving simulator. The researchers conclude that all mobile phone use while driving should be banned.

"Just like you put yourself and other people at risk when you drive drunk, you put yourself and others at risk when you use a cellphone and drive. The level of impairment is very similar," said the report's lead author, David Strayer, a professor of psychology at the University of Utah.

The researchers studied the driving skills of 40 volunteers who followed a virtual car in a driving simulator which was programmed to brake at random.

Each of the volunteers performed the task four times: without distractions, while using a handheld phone, while speaking on a hands-free kit and after downing enough vodka to put them just over the drink-driving limit.

As in previous studies, the researchers found that talking into the phone, whether hands-free or hand-held, impaired their driving. Drivers were 9% slower hitting the brakes, 24% more variable in the distance they kept behind the lead car and 19% slower resuming their normal speed. Their impairment was similar to that when they drove drunk.

Proposed new legislation which is passing through parliament will mean that drivers caught using a hand-held phone will receive three points on their licence. A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents welcomed the move. "We hope that will give the law new teeth," he said.

The society had wanted hands-free kits to be included from the start, he added, although he conceded that this would be difficult to enforce.

"We want people to take the law very seriously," said a spokesman for the Department for Transport. "We don't want people to lose their licence, we want them to hang up."

He said there were no plans to extend the law to cover hands-free kits, but added that users who became distracted and caused an accident risked other penalties. "Don't think you are above the law because you are using hands-free."

Another study, carried out by researchers at the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute, which involved observing 36 drivers covering more than 80,000 miles on the road, found that speaking to passengers could be as distracting as talking on a mobile. Drivers nattering to the person next to them strayed further from the centre of their lane, for example.

Although less research has been done on the effects of distracting passengers, the result goes against conventional wisdom. Researchers had assumed that passengers would be more likely to keep quiet at difficult driving moments.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1809550,00.html


From Andy

http://tinyurl.com/reox8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Conservative
by James Bovard

for publication 07/17/06

The 'signing statement' gambit for stretching presidential power was hatched during the Reagan administration. Attorney General Ed Meese instructed Samuel Alito, then a Justice Department lawyer, to analyze how such presidential assertions could buttress the administration's viewpoints in court. But Alito was a piker compared to George W. Bush. Alito declared that the Justice Department should 'concentrate on points of true ambiguity, rather than issuing interpretations that may seem to conflict with those of Congress.' Bush, on the other hand, has used signing statements to negate the most important parts of legislation. According to the Bush administration, if the president issues a signing statement memo that is printed in the Federal Register, federal agencies are not obliged to obey laws enacted by Congress...

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_07_03/feature.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Hannah Eaves

06/30/06

Interview/film review: "Roughly divided into two segments, 'Who Killed' first addresses the broad history of the electric car, from its birth in the early days of the automobile through its sudden realization and untimely demise. Leased in limited quantities beginning in 1997, the EV was developed by auto companies to fulfill California's mandate even as the companies sought to have the law repealed. When the requirement was altered to their liking in 2003, the cars were taken back and destroyed. The passion and ire of the drivers left behind is touchingly captured in a funeral held for General Motors' flagship electric car, the EV-1. This sets the stage for a dramatic unmasking. Who were the players behind the car's death?

http://www.alternet.org/movies/38220/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

You have to watch this introduction about the movie Who Killed the Electric Car. Please follow up on this clip by going to your neighborhood video rental place and renting or even BUYING this documentary. It will leave you really angry that the free market is being subverted by big corporate interests. There's no denying the scam here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GUlP0Dpir4


Frank J. Gonzalez
Nov. 7 candidate for Florida's U.S. House Dist. 21 vs. incumbent Bush Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Post Office Box 832586
Miami, FL 33283-2586
cell: 786-287-7491
Email address: voteliberty@earthlink.net
Official campaign site: http://www.electfrank.org
MySpace campaign site: http://www.myspace.com/gonzalezforcongress
Blue Broward campaign link: http://www.bluebroward.org/campaigns.php

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."

--founder of the Democratic Party, 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Washington Times

06/30/06

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking unknowingly into an open microphone, chastised her Russian counterpart yesterday for bemoaning the killing of five Russian diplomats in Iraq, saying it was wrong to focus on the deaths of diplomats when so many others are dying there. 'The implication that by somehow declaring that diplomats need to be protected, it will get better, I think is simply not right,' Miss Rice said during a closed luncheon as the foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized countries negotiated their meeting's final statement...

http://tinyurl.com/g3frc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

06/29/06

The House voted Thursday to end a quarter-century offshore drilling ban and allow energy companies to tap natural gas and oil beneath waters from New England to Alaska. Opponents of the federal ban argued that the nation needed to move closer to energy independence and insisted the gas and oil could be taken without threatening the environment and coastal beaches. They said a state choosing to keep the moratorium could do so. The measure was approved 232-187...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13573049/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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House Votes to End 25-Year Offshore Drilling Ban

House Republicans, led by Rep. Richard Pombo, are intent on cramming offshore oil drilling down our throats. The bill that they passed on Thursday to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling contains some unusually coercive measures, including an unprecedented grant of power to the Secretary of Interior over federal aid to states. In typical fashion for this Republican Congress, the full text of the bill was not made available in time for lawmakers to read it and analyze it. Even some Republicans are crying foul.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006Z.shtml

By quietly dismissing statutes just after signing them, Bush refuses to comply with major elements of newly-signed legislative packages, rather than merely questioning or taking exception to specific provisions of a bill on Constitutional grounds.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906I.shtml

"Lt. Watada is doing the right thing. As a US Army veteran myself of eight years' active duty, with five years in the military police and three years as a special agent in the US Army Criminal Investigation Command, and as a former soldier who remembers very well being explicitly trained by the Army that it is the duty of a soldier to disobey any unlawful order and to comply with the Geneva Convention, I honor Lt. Watada for the courage to be true to his conscience and true to his oath of office as a commissioned officer to support and defend the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the same."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906G.shtml



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

Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said, "It's outrageous to first expose millions of Americans to credit fraud and identity theft, and then try to cut food stamps, student loans and youth programs to pay for it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906C.shtml

A former CIA official who described himself as a conservative Republican said the war in Iraq has provided global terrorist groups with a recruiting bonanza, a valuable training ground and a strategic beachhead at the crossroads of the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Turkey, the traditional land bridge linking the Middle East to Europe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906B.shtml

What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran, North Korea and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way?

Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and to show their support for their country. Bush's rhetoric is perfectly designed to appeal to this desire. "You are with us or against us" elicits a blind and unquestioning response from people determined to wear their patriotism on their sleeves. "You are with us or against us" vaccinates Americans against factual reality and guarantees public acceptance of administration propaganda.

http://tego.elequity.com/index.php?topic=56.0

President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13783.htm



Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.

http://spp.gov/



Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

Canada, the United States and Mexico announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) for North America on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas.

http://www.fac-aec.gc.ca/spp/spp-menu-en.asp


From Information Clearing House

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North American Union to Replace USA?
http://tinyurl.com/2jgrvd



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Union

The AT&T spy rooms are "in far more locations than would be required to catch the majority of international traffic"; the configuration in the San Francisco office promiscuously sends all data into the secret room.

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1510938


From Information Clearing House

Dr Iain Banks said it was a scandal that doctors were "becoming involved in torture practices".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5128138.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

The impact of today’s Supreme Court decision on military commissions goes well beyond Guantanamo. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Authorization for the Use of Military Force – issued by Congress in the days after 9/11 – is not a blank check for the administration.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/29/gitmo-wiretapping/


From Information Clearing House

A BAHRAINI detainee at Guantanamo Bay can barely stand or exercise after being subjected to painful force-feeding in an effort to make him abandon his hunger strike, his lawyers claimed yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/mlsu4


From Information Clearing House



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

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry responded angrily to a call by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for democratic elections next year, saying it doesn't need "outside'' advice.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5919021,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said in a report that through the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the government will have spent $437 billion on overseas military and foreign aid funding. That includes the latest supplemental.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=148346


From Information Clearing House

Issam Hamza and his son Ahmed were killed in their Baghdad home by U.S. troops who say the men ignored shouted orders during the arrest of an al Qaeda suspect. Relatives said they were simply panicked by the night-time raid.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13797.htm

News: The confrontation with Iran has very little to do with nukes—and a lot with the agenda of empire

By Robert Dreyfuss

President Bush may or may not order a massive aerial bombardment of Iran later this year. Or he may wait until 2007. Or he may simply escalate a risky confrontation with Iran through covert action and economic sanctions. But whatever the next act in the crisis, don’t be fooled by the assertion that the problem is Iran’s pursuit of nuclear arms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13793.htm

Equality in voting is fundamental to the American democratic system. For more than 40 years, the Voting Rights Act has protected the right of every American citizen to cast an informed vote. Consequently, the NAACP strongly encourages Congress to swiftly reauthorize the Voting Rights Act (Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 [S. 2703/H.R. 9]). http://katrina.naacp.org/r/293/91290

Although the reauthorizing legislation was introduced in Congress on May 2, 2006, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006, a small band of obstructionists in the House of Representatives hampered the reauthorization process by stalling H.R. 9. These congressional obstructionists—like Representatives Lynn Westmorland (GA), Charlie Norwood (GA) and others—represent retrogressive forces that America hasn't seen at this level since the 1960s.

Many of those trying to derail this bill represent states with the most egregious records of discrimination in voting. Their actions would return us to a time when the rights of racial and ethnic minority Americans-specifically the right to vote-were not protected or enforced.

Leaders in the House of Representatives must move past this small group of obstructionists and get the bill back on track immediately. The nation's continued progress towards equality demands this.

Starting on Wednesday, June 27, 2006, the NAACP will join People for the American Way and the National Education Association to hand-deliver signed petitions gathered from around the country to the House leadership.

Tell Congress to stop stalling and renew the Voting Rights Act. Please sign the petition now to tell Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, and Majority Leader, John Boehner, to stand up and lead the effort to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act!
http://katrina.naacp.org/r/294/91290

Dr. John H. Jackson
Chief Policy Officer

Democrats ratcheted up their election-year push for an increase in the federal minimum wage Tuesday by promising to block a Congressional pay hike unless some of the lowest-paid hourly workers get their first raise in nearly a decade.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062906LA.shtml

Low-income citizens backed by anti-poverty groups filed a proposed class action on Wednesday, challenging a federal law requiring proof of citizenship in exchange for benefits under the government's Medicaid health insurance program for the poor.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062906HC.shtml

Just months after a new standard took effect to limit levels of arsenic in drinking water, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) will introduce a measure today to suspend enforcement of the rule for small water systems, including more than 100 in California.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062906HA.shtml

The US Environmental Protection Agency does not enforce clean air and water laws consistently and is crippled by sloppy record keeping, the investigative arm of Congress told a Senate panel on Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062906EA.shtml

Trucks and railcars filled with deadly chemicals, largely unguarded and unprotected. America the vulnerable.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906U.shtml

Former Governor Don Siegelman and former Health South CEO Richard Scrushy were convicted Thursday in a bribery scheme that derailed Siegelman's campaign to retake his former office.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906T.shtml

Study
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0629-03.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0629-08.htm



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

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/gumbel


Informant: ranger116

by Larry Pratt

If we fail to pay attention to, and ultimately take control of, American universities, our students will be graduating with a hatred of the very culture and Constitution that has produced and fostered the richest and freest country in the world. Students influenced by the professors of Big Brother U. will eagerly vote their freedoms away.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry62.htm

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.surveillance28jun28,0,1931941.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1808133,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Saw an ad for this in today's newspaper. http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cable/InternetContent/portable.asp
I wonder what effect this will have on people. Not only will it increase the ambient readings in the home or office, but I imagine that it will put additional pollution on the wiring. I'd be interested to hear some opinions.

Milt Bowling
Clean Energy Foundation
Phone: 1 888 436 2152 or 604 436 2152 in Vancouver
Fax: 604 436 2154
http://www.cleanenergycanada.com

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4732/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Exploding laptops could be deadly, a Canadian research group reported Thursday.

The Ontario-based Info-Tech Research Group pointed out that computer batteries on laptops have caused several product recalls over the past year and pose a threat to personal safety, especially when traveling by air.

"The most recent event we're aware of involved a Dell laptop exploding and bursting into flames at a business meeting in Osaka, Japan," said senior analyst Carmi Levy. "The potential for an in-flight incident of this nature when travelers are using battery power for portable PCs certainly exists. Everyone worries about covert explosives being taken on board planes, but what about the average laptop that could be just as dangerous?"

In April, Hewlett-Packard recalled 15,700 HP and Compaq notebook computer batteries, while Dell recalled about 22,000 notebook computer batteries last December, and Apple Computer recalled 128,000 batteries for its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops this spring.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

http://www.physorg.com/news70804623.html


Informant: Karen

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4727/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Roger Stillwell, the desk officer for the Mariana Islands at the US Department of the Interior who dealt closely with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of false certification, his attorney confirmed Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906M.shtml

"Congressman Jim McDermott became involved in politics through his opposition to the Vietnam war," writes David Swanson. "He came to Washington 17 years ago hoping to create national health coverage. Instead he's spent much of his time opposing new wars and war crimes. McDermott's record on matters of peace and war is unsurpassed in the Congress."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906L.shtml

Tuesday June 27, 2006 09:57AM PDT

The three most commonly purchased machines are all vulnerable to breach and fraud, according to a new report.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6088464.html?tag=zdnn.alert


Informant: Martin Greenhut

29.06.06

Nach Darstellung des Umweltinstituts München "kontaminiert" genmanipulierter Mais gentechnikfreie Pflanzen "weitaus stärker und über wesentlich größere Distanzen als bislang propagiert". Das gehe aus dem letztjährigen so genannten Erprobungsanbau mit genmanipuliertem Bt-Mais in Bayern hervor. Demnach käme es bei einer Entfernung von 20 Metern zu einer Kontamination von gentechnikfreien Pflanzen durch genmanipulierte von bis zu neun Prozent. Die "Kennzeichnungsschwelle" für Kontaminationen von 0,9 Prozent werde teilweise sogar erst bei 75 Metern Entfernung unterschritten. Der bayerische Landwirtschaftminister Miller habe diese Ergebnisse am gestrigen Mittwoch in Freising bekannt gegeben. Während die CSU jetzt nach Auffassung der Wissenschaftler "langsam zurückrudert", fordern sie "das endgültige Aus für transgene Pflanzen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13901

"Das rollende CO2"

US-Amerikaner stellen 5 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung, aber sie fahren ein Drittel aller Fahrzeuge und geben damit weltweit fast die Hälfte des CO2-Ausstoßes, der von Fahrzeugen verursacht wird, in die Atmosphäre ab.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22999/1.html

Offene Fragen um die Überwachungstechnik in Münchens neuer Fußballarena.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22990/1.html

I would like to request that anyone who is electrosensitive, to take part in a survey questionnaire about your condition.

I am acting on behalf of a lady by the name of Sarah Dacre, who would like to gather as much information as possible, on people with electro-sensitivity. This will then be presented to Sir William Stewart of the National Radiological Protection Board.

If you would like to take part in the survey, please send me an e-mail and I will send you a word document to complete and send back.

ryanaw@myway.com

Thank you for your cooperation

Ryan



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Dacre
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Dacre

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/06/privacy-group-seeks-to-block-release.php


Informant: Martin Greenhut

by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com

They can't be a credible force for reform as long as they are in bed with corporate lobbyists.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/29/democrats_K_street_addiction.php

by Mark Engler, TomPaine.com

Bush won't cheer a progressive win in Mexico's presidential election, but the rest of us should.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/29/mexicos_left_turn.php

Ralph Lauren, seit langem anerkannt als führender Modemacher, ist jetzt auch in Sachen Mitgefühl in der Spitzenklasse vertreten, denn er gab in einer beispielhaften Entscheidung bekannt, dass er aus rein ethischen Gründen ab sofort auf Pelz bei seiner Kleidung und seinen sonstigen Artikeln verzichten wird...

http://www.pelzinfo.de/f_ralphlaurensieg.php

Bremer Institut für Arbeitsmarktforschung und Jugendberufshilfe (BIAJ) Knochenhauerstraße 20-25
(Postfach 10 67 46)
28195 Bremen
(Postfach: 28067 Bremen)
Tel. 0421/302380


Hartz IV-Eingliederungsleistungen („Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit“):

Haushaltsauschuss sperrt 1,1 Milliarden Euro – um Mehrausgaben beim Alg II zu finanzieren

Ländervergleich Eingliederungsleistungen: Ist bis Mai 2006 und Soll 2006 nach Mittelsperrung

In einigen Kreisen - insbesondere in Ostdeutschland - zeichnet sich Bewilligungsstopp ab

nachrichtlich:

Ländervergleich „Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit“ und Alg II-Ausgaben (bis Mai 2006)


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

der Haushaltsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages hat am 31. Mai 2006 die im Entwurf des Bundeshaushalts 2006 vorgesehenen SGB II-Eingliederungsmittel um 30 Millionen Euro gekürzt und 1,1 Milliarden Euro gesperrt. Für „Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit“ nach dem SGB II (Hartz IV) stehen in den 439 Kreisen derzeit statt der ursprünglich vorgesehenen 6,5 Milliarden Euro nur noch 5,37 Milliarden Euro zur Verfügung. Die gesperrten Mittel sollen der Deckung der erwarteten Mehrausgaben beim Arbeitslosengeld II dienen. Ob die Sperre zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt ganz oder teilweise wieder aufgehoben wird, ist unbekannt, aber vermutlich eher unwahrscheinlich.

Wie sich SGB II-Mittel und -Ausgaben für "Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit" in den 16 Ländern nach den ersten 5 Monaten des Haushaltsjahres 2006 darstellen können Sie dem Anhang entnehmen. (Anm.: Die Länderdaten zu den Ausgaben beziehen sich ausschließlich auf die 370 Kreise, die "nicht optiert" haben. Grund: Für 69 Kreise liegen noch immer keine zugänglichen Abrechnungsergebnisse vor.)

Der gemessen am Anteil von fünf Monaten am Haushaltsjahr (41,7%) relativ geringe Stand der Ausgaben (27,2% von 4,70 Milliarden Euro) deutet an, dass auch im Haushaltsjahr 2 nach Inkrafttreten von „Hartz IV“ die vom Gesetzgeber vorgesehenen Mittel für Eingliederungsleistungen bei weitem nicht ausgegeben werden. Dies aber ist nur die „halbe Wahrheit“.

Der Anteil der Ausgaben an den nach Kürzung und Sperrung zur Verfügung stehenden Ein­glie­derungsmitteln stellt sich jedoch in Ost- und Westdeutschland und in den 16 Ländern sehr unterschiedlich dar. Dies dürfte noch mehr für die 439 Kreise gelten, für die aber bisher keine Abrechnungsergebnisse zugänglich sind.

Insbesondere in Ostdeutschland dürften Kreise durch die Mittelsperrung dazu gezwungen sein, die Bewilligung von den in den Arbeitsmarktprogrammen geplanten zusätzlichen Maßnahmen zu stoppen. Dem Anhang ist zudem zu entnehmen, wie sich das Verhältnis der "Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit" zu den Alg II-Ausgaben in den 16 Ländern darstellt - für das ursprünglich einmal ein Verhältnis von 45 Euro zu 100 Euro geplant wurde. Wir hoffen auf Ihr/Euer Interesse.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Paul M. Schröder
Bremer Institut für Arbeitsmarktforschung und Jugendberufshilfe (BIAJ)

The Supreme Court ruled today that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906Y.shtml



US Law Trumps World Treaty, High Court Says

Stating that American law outweighs an international treaty, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that foreign criminals held in state prisons did not have a right to reopen their cases if their rights under the Vienna Convention had been violated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062906K.shtml



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

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID5667656_NAV_REF1,00.html

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"Rudimentärste Prozessrechte": Guantánamo-Tribunale sind illegal (30.06.06)

Der Oberste US-Gerichtshof hat die Militärtribunale in Guantánamo für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Nach der am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Entscheidung, die mit fünf zu drei Stimmen erging, dürfen die Militärtribunale, vor denen zehn der angeblich rund 450 Guantánamo-Gefangenen angeklagt sind, nicht fortgesetzt werden. Diese schwere Niederlage für US-Präsident George W. Bush hat ihm laut Spiegel Online "ausgerechnet ein Marineoffizier beibrachte". Für die Häftlinge, die zum Teil schon seit vier Jahren einsitzen, soll sich vorerst dennoch nichts ändern. Die Richter rügten laut Presseberichten, die Tribunale verstießen gegen amerikanisches Recht und seien nicht mit der Genfer Konvention vereinbar. Präsident Bush habe seine Kompetenzen überschritten, als er die Einrichtung der Militärtribunale für sogenannte feindliche Kämpfer verfügt habe, da er sich nicht an die Mindestvorschriften der Streitkräfte für Militärtribunale gehalten habe.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13918

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Symbolische Politik und Rechtsprechung

Nach dem Urteil des Supreme Court ist die Farce der Militärtribunale in Guantanamo illegal und verstößt gegen US-Recht und die Genfer Konventionen, für die Häftlinge und das US-Lagersystem wird sich dadurch erst einmal nichts ändern.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23005/1.html

29 June 2006

DETERMINED residents have vowed to continue their protests against a mobile phone mast being put up near a primary school.

Phone company T-Mobile began work on the 11.7-metre-tall mast next to Aldersbrook Bowls Club in Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead, on Friday.

The building work is set to continue despite a long-running campaign by residents who say it poses a cancer risk to pupils at nearby Aldersbrook Primary School in Harpenden Road and St Gabriel's Church pre-school in Park Road.

FOR FULL STORY SEE THIS WEEK'S RECORDER

Have your say:
http://tinyurl.com/k8qzy

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CounterPunch
by Zoltan Grossman

06/28/06

The public refusals here at Fort Lewis (Washington) of Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, Sgt. Kevin Benderman and Spc. Suzanne Swift to deploy to Iraq are the most recent chapter of a long and noble history of resistance within the U.S. armed forces. To understand this history, and where it might lead, it helps to see how resistance varies strongly according to rank, class and race, and how difficult it is for resisters to express their patriotic viewpoints alone, without support from the larger peace movement. ... Opposition within the military is far higher after three years of the Iraq War than it was three years into the Vietnam War. More than 8,000 personnel have deserted since the war began (according to USA Today), about 400 of whom have gone to Canada...

http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman06282006.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Benderman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Swift

Village Voice
by Nat Hentoff

06/25/06

Three years ago, a CIA kidnapping ring was in Italy to snatch a radical imam, Hussan Mustafa Nasr, from a street in Milan. Flown on a CIA plane to his native Egypt, Nasr was held in a dungeon where he was given electric shock treatments, hung upside down, and tortured in various positions. Released and then rearrested, Nasr disappeared in the bowels of the Egyptian prison system. While in Milan setting up the kidnapping, the CIA crew made many calls from their top-of-the-line hotel rooms, but these were not, as the spying trade puts it, on 'secure phones.' So, Italian intelligence agents had no difficulty tracking them -- leading to arrest warrants for these CIA spooks for violating the sovereignty of Italy and its laws. ... The exposure of this CIA kidnapping ring is part of the growing revulsion throughout Europe and other parts of the world against such American gangsterism. As Judge Sparato said in Florence: 'We know it's a great mistake to fight terrorism in this way'...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0626,hentoff,73639,6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Tim Cavanaugh

06/06

You'll never find anyone as impartial, disinterested, judicious, and concerned only with the well-being of the American people as a party hack laying into a politician from a rival party. Thus the case for the impeachment of President George W. Bush has grown organically from the very fabric of the universe. It's not that Democrats are motivated by frustration with Bush and his party's electoral winning streak -- h.., the Dems profoundly regret that they've been brought to this! It's that Bush's lies and violations of the Constitution are so egregious, so without precedent in American history, that we must activate the gravest of constitutional mechanisms...

http://www.reason.com/0606/co.tc.rant.shtml



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

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

06/28/06

Over the course of the past year, it has been discovered that President Bush, during his five years in office, has cancelled all or part of 750 laws of Congress, quietly and with the stroke of a pen. These so-called 'signing statements' have been used to invalidate laws passed by Congress to do everything from require government reporting on the uses of the Patriot Act's invasive provisions to banning torture and establishing a special investigator for corruption in Iraq. ... Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), one of the president's yes-men in Congress, says, 'The president is entitled to express his opinion. It's the courts that determine what the law is. I don't know why the issue of presidents issuing signing statements is controversial at all.' Well John, here's the reason: The Constitution. Remember that hoary document? It's the one you and the rest of your mealy-mouthed, high-living, coiffed and chauffeured colleagues in Congress swore to uphold when you took office and started collecting your salaries as representatives of the People...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff06282006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/28/06

Washington reruns are boring. A Democrat beholden to Big Labor proposes an increase in the mandated minimum wage. Republicans beholden to Big (and small) Business defeat the bill. End of episode. Each side has thus reestablished its bona fides with its respective constituency and thus can return to what it really cares about -- spending the people's money on war against this, that, or the other. Both sides will claim to care about the poor, but 'caring' means they can be counted on to utter the 'right' words on cue. That's Washington for you -- nothing more...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606j.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle

06/28/06

With overwhelming support from Berkeley residents, the Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night to be the first jurisdiction in the United States to let the public vote for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The measure will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot, at a cost of about $10,000. Among those who urged the council to approve the initiative were peace activists Cindy Sheehan and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as 500 Berkeley residents who sent supportive e-mails to City Hall. Only three residents said they were against the idea. The council agreed to drop a provision that would have set up a task force of Berkeley residents to monitor the President and Vice President...

http://tinyurl.com/fn5zk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

By Linda Piper

Protesters Susan Charge, Jennifer Boswell and Father Raymond from a neighbouring priory are all opposed to the mast BE4556-05

A DESPERATE father is fighting a last-ditch battle to stop a phone mast so he can bring his disabled son home.

Danch Boswell, 69, of Carlton Road, Northumberland Heath, has been battling for three years to bring home his son Levi, 34, who was paralysed after two catastrophic stem cell strokes in June 2003.

Levi, who is married with two children aged eight and four, relies on a range of hi-tec machinery, including a ventilator, to keep him alive. He can only communicate by blinking his eyes.

As his parents were making the necessary alterations to their home, they were told by doctors mobile phones could not be used in the house because of the potential effect on the medical equipment. continued...

So Mr Boswell was horrified to discover that a mobile phone mast, which he thought had been refused permission, is about to be put up just yards from his home.

T-Mobile was refused planning permission by Bexley Council in July last year to site a 10m-high mast on the footpath at the junction of Carlton Road and Erith Road.

But last month a planning inspector overturned Bexley's decision and has told the company it can go ahead and put up the mast.

Mr Boswell has appealed to T-Mobile to find somewhere else for its mast, but although they promised to talk to him, he has still not heard anything back from the company.

His son went into King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, in June 2003 to have a growth removed from his brain. The operation was a success but Levi, one of twins, suffered a double stroke soon afterwards.

Mr Boswell said the family feared he would die. He started to lose his sight, and with the help of the NHS, the family flew Levi to a German clinic, where his sight was saved.

When his family flew him back to England, Levi spent time at St Thomas' Hospital in central London and at a care home in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, to prepare him to go home.

In the meantime the family started make preparations for his return. His wife and children live in Belvedere, but their home was too small to accommodate Levi, all his equipment and specialist nurses.

So Mr Boswell and his wife Jennifer paid for extensive alterations to their own bungalow so Levi could live with his family again. Bexley Care Trust is providing specialist nursing.

Everything was in place for Levi's return in the next few weeks, when Mr Boswell discovered that the mast is to go ahead.

He told News Shopper: "I am shattered. We don't need this on our doorstep. We cannot risk this mast outside our home.

"We have fought for three years to bring Levi home. If I don't fight for my son, who will?"

All attempts by News Shopper to contact T-Mobile were unsuccessful.

10:00am today

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/display.var.811918.0.dads_desperate_plea_to_mobile_phone_company.php

Letters

Jun 29, 2006

I would like to inform Aldridge residents, in particular those living within the vicinity of the Lazy Hill shops, of the imminent erection of a mobile phone mast on the top of the Shimla Restaurant/chip shop, which will be in the form of yet another flag pole as already erected on top of the Cedar Tree public house.

This means that we will now have two mobile phone masts in close proximity to each other. All parties concerned have displayed a total disregard for the residents of this area, especially as most of the groundwork appears to have been carried out over a holiday period when people are away.

There has been no public consultation whatsoever in respect of either of these masts despite being a potential health hazard. They are contrary to the wishes of residents and tenants alike.

I would urge anyone who wishes to raise any objections to write to Mr Norman Hickson, Senior Planning Officer, Planning and Transportation, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Civic Centre, Walsall, WS1 1TP.

Mrs S. Mellar, Walsall Wood Road, Aldridge.

© Express & Star Ltd, 1997-2006

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/features/opinion/article_91490.php

„Mehr als 500 Menschen aus Bündnissen gegen den Sozialkahlschlag haben am 26. Juni in Köln gegen Sozialabbau und Verarmung protestiert. Dabei erreichten sie Tausende Passanten. Bewusst war die Demonstration unter dem Motto "Erwerbslose raus aus dem Abseits!" auf den Tag des Achtelfinales der Fußballweltmeisterschaft gelegt worden…“ Bericht von Hatice Cetin vom 27.06.2006 bei Linke Zeitung http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/705/32/

Bilder der Demo 26.06 Köln und Aktionstag 27.06 Bonn beim Erwerbslosenforum http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/bilder_demo_koln_und_aktionstag_bonn.htm

Dortmund

„wir haben uns unters Volk gemischt, beim Samba mitgetanzt und Handzettel verteilt. 9 Menschen in weißen Anzügen auf dem Rücken das Arge A und Arge-ntinos auf dem Rücken. Die zweite Aktion in Dortmund zur WM findet am 4. Juli statt. Die Arge-n-tinos treffen sich um 18.00 an der Haltestelle Reinoldikirche unterm Pylon. Wir bitten um Unterstützung, einfach zum Treff kommen, Anzüge sind vorhanden.“

Wiesbaden

Einige Engagierte haben am Wiesbadener Sozialamt Flugblätter gegen Schickanen und Grundgesetzverstöße unter dem Motto „Es spielen: Grundgesetz, Deutschland, gegen „Lex H essenauer, Wiesbaden“. Siehe dazu Die Presseinfo (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2006/wm_wiesb1.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Juni 2006

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. Juni 2006

Zur heutigen Verabschiedung des Steueränderungsgesetzes im Deutschen Bundestag erklärt Dietmar Bartsch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der Linkspartei.PDS und Mitglied des Haushaltsausschusses:

Das Steueränderungsgesetz belastet Arbeitsnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer, entlastet Unternehmen. Das ist die Philosophie der Regierungspolitik der Großen Koalition. Der deutliche Versuch, vor der heutigen Debatte die verfassungsmäßigen Rechte der Opposition zu beschneiden, ist mehr als eine Marginalie. Es ist Ausdruck der Selbstherrlichkeit und Arroganz von SPD und CDU, die Kraft ihrer Zwei-Drittel-Mehrheit einmal mehr versuchten, das Parlament zur Spielwiese koalitionärer Eitelkeiten zu degradieren. Das Steueränderungsgesetzt ist eine grundsätzlich falsche Weichenstellung. Die Wirtschaft fordert flexible Arbeitnehmer, die Politik von SPD und CDU bestraft die Flexibilität durch massive Einschnitte bei der Pendlerpauschale, besonders für die neuen Länder eine grandiose Fehlentscheidung. Die Bundesregierung beklagt die demografische Entwicklung und kürzt das Kindergeld für zwei Jahre in einer Zeit, in der sich Jugendliche oft noch in der Ausbildung befinden. Gerade Gering- und Normalverdiener werden durch die Kürzung des Sparerfreibetrages um die geringen Früchte ihrer Arbeit betrogen. Und das alles schon unter den Belastungen der um drei Prozentpunkte erhöhten Mehrwertsteuer, die vor allem Familien und sozial Benachteiligte belastet. Die Linksfraktion hat einen eigenen Entschließungsantrag eingebracht und fordert darin die Rücknahme des Gesetzentwurfes. Die Steuergesetzgebung muss einfach und transparent gestaltet werden, alle Steuerpflichtigen sollen sozial gerecht an der Finanzierung des Gemeinwesens beteiligt werden. Notwendig für dieses Land ist: Vermögende und steuerlich Leistungsfähige stärker zu belasten, Steuervergehen entschieden zu bekämpfen, die sozialen Sicherungssysteme zu modernisieren und ihre Leistungsfähigkeit zu stärken. Die sogenannte Reichensteuer ist ein Trostpflästerchen für die Seele der SPD. Mit dieser Reichensteuer plant die Regierung jährlich max.
250 Millionen Euro, das sind gerade mal 10 Prozent dessen, was Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer allein durch die faktische Streichung der Entfernungspauschale aufbringen sollen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=33157

http://www.attac.de/biss/
http://www.attac.de/biss/mfzpk/

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Bush in Deutschland: Nicht schon wieder!

Bush kommt schon am 13. Juli nach Stralsund - also demonstriert auch die Friedensbewegung am 13. Juli in Stralsund.

Für die Friedensbewegung im ganzen Land heißt das:

All das, was für den 14. Juli ursprünglich geplant war, findet nun am
13. Juli statt! Also bitte entsprechende Plakate und Flugblätter mit dem alten Stralsund-Termin ändern!

Diejenigen, die sich in der Lage sehen, am 13. Juli nach Stralsund zu kommen - mit PKW, Bussen oder Bahn -, sollten das auf jeden Fall tun und ihrerseits viele weitere Friedensfreundinnen und -freunde mitnehmen. Der Protest muss groß werden!

Auch die Planung der dezentralen Aktivitäten kann beibehalten werden. Die Regionen, die allein schon aus geografischen Gründen beim besten Willen nicht nennenswert nach Stralsund mobilisieren können, sollten am
13. (oder 15.) Juli möglichst überall im Land Aktionen gegen die US-Kriegspolitik und ihre deutschen und EU-Helfershelfer durchführen. Dieser Protest soll laut sein. Wir schlagen daher vor, am 13. Juli gegen 18 Uhr - parallel zur gleichzeitig stattfindenden Abschlusskundgebung in Stralsund – die Bush-Trommeln zu rühren und so viel Krach zu machen, dass Bush und Merkel die Ohren abfallen. Viele werden sich erinnern: Das hat schon im Mai 2002 sehr gut geklappt und nebenbei auch Spaß gemacht. Und bitte: Meldet eure Aktionen bei: frieden-und-zukunft@t-online.de und
friekoop@bonn.comlink.org

Siehe das veränderte Plakat zum Ausdrucken und Verteilen (pdf) http://www.bush-in-stralsund.de/dateien/plakat_aufruf_color.pdf

Für Details siehe die Aktionsseite http://www.bush-in-stralsund.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Juni 2006

http://tinyurl.com/s44ar



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

The Midwest Heart Foundation, and the way it has become quietly interwoven into its doctors' professional lives, is far from unique. Around the country, doctors in private practice have set up tax-exempt charities into which drug companies and medical device makers are, with little fanfare, pouring donations - money that adds up to millions of dollars a year. And some medical experts see that as a big problem.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062806HA.shtml

American cars and pickup trucks are responsible for nearly half of the greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles globally, even though the nation's vehicles make up just 30% of the nearly 700 million cars in use, according to a new report by Environmental Defense. Cars in the US are driven more miles, face lower fuel economy standards and use fuel with more carbon than many of those driven in other countries, the authors found. The report's authors hope their findings will bolster efforts in Congress to require federal regulators to raise fuel economy standards for vehicles and set a mandatory cap on greenhouse gases from all.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062806ED.shtml

To butter up Senate votes, lawmakers pushing to roll back taxes for the ultra-wealthy are throwing a tax break for timber into the mix - and drawing the ire of public-interest advocates.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062806EB.shtml

The Bush administration plans to issue sweeping new rules on Wednesday that will require states to move much larger numbers of poor people from welfare to work. The rules, drafted in response to a budget signed into law by President Bush in February, represent the biggest changes in welfare policy since 1996, when Congress abolished the federal guarantee of cash assistance for the nation's poorest children.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062806T.shtml

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. Juni 2006

Zur Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Ein Grund für die Jubelschreie von Konjunktur und Aufschwung von Union und SPD kann ich nicht erkennen. Allen, die wieder Arbeit haben, ist zu wünschen, dass es kein 1-Euro-Job ist, der sie nur kurzfristig aus der Statistik entlässt, dass es kein WM-Arbeitsplatz ist, der am 10. Juli beendet ist oder dass es gar ein Job bei einem börsennotierten Unternehmen ist. Gerade im letzten Fall könnte es sein, dass sich der Besitzer eines Arbeitsplatzes auch bei satten Gewinnen des Unternehmens recht schnell wieder auf der Straße befindet. Die Allianz z.B. macht vor, wie man seiner Verantwortung nicht gegenüber der Gesellschaft, sondern nur gegenüber seinen Aktionären nachkommt. Menschen werden dem Staat zur Verwaltung übergeben. Dieser scheint unfähig, entsprechende Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen, sie wieder in existenzsichernde Arbeit zu bringen. Wie auch, wird doch das Verhalten der Allianz von der rot-schwarzen Allianz gefördert. Als Dankeschön gibts demnächst noch die Unternehmenssteuersenkung oben drauf. Sportlich will ich es so formulieren: Selbst Klinsmann weiß, dass das Spiel über den linken Flügel Erfolg versprechend ist! Die Linkspartei.PDS setzt auf Arbeitsmarktpolitik, die auch die Verantwortung der Wirtschaft für den Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit festschreiben soll. Unser Ansatz bleibt:

* Neue Arbeitsplätze durch eine offensive Beschäftigungspolitik

* Arbeitszeitverkürzung und Überstundenabbau

* Entwicklung eines öffentlich finanzierten Beschäftigungssektors

* Überwindung von Hartz IV hin zu versicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsverhältnissen durch die Bündelung von Mitteln aus Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=33152

They were accused of receiving money from prominent GOP donor Tom Noe, then contributing it to President Bush's re-election campaign in their own names in an alleged scheme by Noe to skirt laws limiting individual contributions to $2,000.

http://tinyurl.com/ejyb4


From Information Clearing House

Vets for Freedom is a very interesting organization. I call it a Republican front group. It might be more accurate to call it a Republican-financed, pro-war group geared toward helping the Republicans keep control of Congress and the Senate this November.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/27/1433211


From Information Clearing House

In the jungles of southern Peru, these so-called "uncontacted tribes" face an unprecedented threat from illegal loggers who are increasingly moving into remote areas in search of rare mahogany trees.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1099169.ece


From Information Clearing House

A civil liberties group has asked governments around the world, including Australia, to block the release of confidential financial records to US authorities.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19623013-2703,00.html



CIA monitors personal bank data of Irish citizens

The personal data of thousands of Irish citizens that have sent or received money transfers to and from the US has been covertly logged by US anti-terrorist agencies.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0628/4117598577HM1CIA.html



Belgium to probe US monitoring of international money transfers

Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has ordered a probe into whether a Brussels-based banking consortium broke the law when it provided US anti-terror authorities with confidential information about international money transfers.

http://euobserver.com/9/21963/


From Information Clearing House

More than a dozen European governments yesterday came under severe pressure to own up to their secret services' role in handing over suspected terrorists to US intelligence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1807444,00.html


From Information Clearing House

A Republican lawmaker, however, said the deal ‘knifed’ the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and called it a sad day for efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/28/top10.htm


From Information Clearing House

"It is estimated that 1.3 million individuals are displaced inside Iraq, nearly five percent of the country's total population," said a UNAMI statement.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1958776,00.html


From Information Clearing House

At least 14 members of the U.S. military have been convicted in connection with the deaths of Iraqis. Two received sentences of up to life in prison, while most others were given little or no jail time.

http://tinyurl.com/pglul


From Information Clearing House

By Charles Sullivan

If the greatness of a nation is measured by how it treats its poor rather than its military expenditure, America must rank near the bottom of the heap. The disparity between rich and poor has never been greater and it is widening at an accelerating pace.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13780.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0628-20.htm

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The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds

By Nir Rosen

Imagine how many Iraqi homes have been destroyed. How many families have been traumatized. How many men have disappeared into American military vehicles in the night. How many crimes have been committed against the Iraqi people every single day in the course of the normal operations of the occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13848.htm

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The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060627_occupation_iraq_hearts_minds/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0628-06.htm

Navy Will Be Sued to Stop Illegal Sonar in Massive Hawaiian War Games
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0628-17.htm

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Navy to Use Sonar That May Affect Whales

Federal regulators granted the Navy a permit Tuesday to use sonar in a maritime exercise despite environmentalists' concerns it could disturb or even kill whales and dolphins. It was the first such permit granted to the Navy, and one environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, said it would file a lawsuit Wednesday to prevent the sonar's use.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062806EC.shtml

Tonight West Kirby residents, along with Wirral West Parliamentary candidate, Esther McVey, and Conservative Councillor Jeff Green, celebrated success in Wallasey Town Hall. Over 40 residents attended Wirral's Planning Committee to hear the committee refuse planning permission for a 15 metre high telecommunications mast and ancillary equipment in Orrysdale Road, West Kirby.

Speaking on behalf of local residents at the Planning committee, Cllr. Jeff Green, Conservative Councillor for West Kirby and Thurstaston outlined the concerns of the residents and asked that the Planning Committee refuse the application.

Cllr Green said: "The location identified by 02 is clearly totally unsuitable. The mast would be five metres higher than any of the existing street lights this along with the 1.5 metre high cabinets would create clutter and clearly be detrimental to the visual amenity of the area.

West Kirby resident and mast campaigner, Kate Evans said, "I am delighted by this decision, too often planning permission is given for the erection of poorly-located masts, I have real concerns about the health implications caused by the use of these masts, it's a pity that the Government will not allow the Council to refuse applications on health grounds. Unfortunately because of the current system there is a presumption in favour of development which overrides local, environmental and safety concerns. Clearly on this occasion common sense has prevailed." "I would like to thank all those residents who came together and organised the opposition to this application. It is thanks to their pro-active and robust work in organising the petition of opposition that the officers have recommended refusal. I would also like to thank all the people who attended the planning committee this evening, those who signed the petition and sent in letters opposing the application as well as those who gave their support in many other ways", added Esther McVey 02 have the right of appeal against the planning committee's decision.

Esther and the West Kirby and Thurstaston Councillors have pledged to keep residents informed of any appeal or future planning applications by 02 or any other telecommunications companies.

http://www.wirralwestconservatives.co.uk/West-Kirby-residents-defeat-02.html


Well done to West Kirby residents.

W-A-R-T Wednesbury Action for the Removal of Telephone masts. http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

by Attorney Scott Tips

We ourselves are passing our own event horizon, even now, as you read this. Without the barest cover of legal authority, in 2004 and with little fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inked an agreement called the “Trilateral Cooperation Charter” with their unelected, bureaucratic counterparts in Canada and Mexico.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest94.htm