Wolfgang Maes: Mobilfunk-Zitate
rudkla - 14. Jul, 23:05
Freitag, 14. Juli 2006
La Symbolique des Drapeaux
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:57
What's Rove Got to Do With It?
Right-wing columnist Robert D. Novak's confirmation that White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of his sources for identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA officer leaves unresolved two other troubling questions," writes Robert Parry. "Who passed this sensitive information to Rove and why was Rove cut in on such a discrete intelligence secret?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406M.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406M.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:52
"Out of Iraq" Caucus Joins "Troops Home Fast"
In a press conference on the steps of the Cannon House Office Building, members of the "Out of Iraq" Congressional Caucus expressed their support for the "Troops Home Fast."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406K.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406K.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:51
Kerry, Feingold, Biden Speak Out on Iraq
Senate Democrats, including several prospective presidential candidates, charged Thursday that the Bush administration's optimistic assessments on Iraq are not borne out by events on the ground.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406H.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406H.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:18
Female Soldiers Treated "Lower Than Dirt"
US Army Specialist Suzanne Swift will spend her 22nd birthday tomorrow confined to the Fort Lewis base in Washington, where she is awaiting the outcome of an investigation into allegations that she was sexually harassed and assaulted by three sergeants in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406E.shtml
Iraq Vets Force Congressional Investigation of Suzanne Swift Case
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Veterans for Peace, and Oregon constituents achieved a victory on the road to ending military sexual violence today with a pledge from Congressman Peter DeFazio's (D-Ore.) office that he will be initiating a congressional investigation into the case of Army Specialist Suzanne Swift.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206R.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Swift
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406E.shtml
Iraq Vets Force Congressional Investigation of Suzanne Swift Case
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Veterans for Peace, and Oregon constituents achieved a victory on the road to ending military sexual violence today with a pledge from Congressman Peter DeFazio's (D-Ore.) office that he will be initiating a congressional investigation into the case of Army Specialist Suzanne Swift.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206R.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Swift
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:15
Baghdad Starts to Collapse as Its People Flee a Life of Death
"I returned to Baghdad on Monday after a break of several months, during which I too was guilty of glazing over every time I read another story of Iraqi violence," reports James Hider. "But two nights on the telephone, listening to my lost and frightened Iraqi staff facing death at any moment, persuaded me that Baghdad is now verging on total collapse."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406B.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406B.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:14
Freundschaft statt Recht: der Besuch des US-Präsidenten
rudkla - 14. Jul, 22:12
Iraq's Hidden Victims
by Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com
The U.S. invasion of Iraq has unleashed a wave of sexual terrorism aimed at Iraqi women.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/14/iraqs_hidden_victims.php
The U.S. invasion of Iraq has unleashed a wave of sexual terrorism aimed at Iraqi women.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/14/iraqs_hidden_victims.php
rudkla - 14. Jul, 18:24
The Poverty Of Energy Security
by Neil Watkins and Steve Kretzmann, TomPaine.com
If the G-8 is serious about addressing energy issues, it can't ignore global poverty.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/14/the_poverty_of_energy_security.php
If the G-8 is serious about addressing energy issues, it can't ignore global poverty.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/14/the_poverty_of_energy_security.php
rudkla - 14. Jul, 18:22
PHONE MAST PROTESTERS TARGET AHERN
I am sending you these articles for posting. The Bray, Co Dublin one is transcribed below while the Bandon, Co. Cork ones are in the attachments:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/co._dublin_and_co._cork_protests1.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/co._dublin_and_co._cork_protests2.jpg
Best, Imelda, Cork
THE IRISH TIMES, JULY 13, 2006
"PHONE MAST PROTESTERS TARGET AHERN
[by] Time O'Brien
South Dublin residents who yesterday successfully prevented a phone company from erecting a mast on Dalkey Garda station will this afternoon picket Taoiseach [prime minister] Bertie Ahern when he launches a local summer project. Under an agreement between telecoms companies and the Office of Public Works (OPW) the erection of mobile phone masts on Garda stations is exempt from the planning process. Members of the Dalkey Community Against Radiation group claim they only found out about the plans to locate a new generation 3G phone mast on their local Garda station, by word of mouth yesterday. Vilicom, the company employed to manage the work was attempting to replace an existing mast on Dalkey Garda station, when locals placed one of their own cars across the station driveway preventing access. An existing, smaller mast on the station already provides services for the standard GSM mobile phone service providers. The residents were supported in their action by community groups in Shankill who are opposing plans to extend the mast over the garda station there, again to incorporate 3G services. Residents in Dalkey said they will again block access to the phone company this morning and take part in a dignified protest when Mr Ahern opens a local summer school at Hyde Park, a local sports club. Speaking to THE IRISH TIMES yesterday, Oliver McCabe of Dalkey Community Against Radiation, said the intention of this afternoon's protest was not to disturb the launch of the summer school, but to "peacefully make the Taoiseach aware" that the 3G masts were an issue. Mr McCabe said the new mast "will initially triple the size of the current mast by increasing the number of antennae from two to six, with, it is believed, an eventual total of 12 antennae planned. The proposed site is in the middle of a densely populated area and close to six national and private schools. Residents were "not consulted." He added that the residents wanted the mobile phone companies to agree to site the mast on "a safe site well away from houses, schools, playgrounds and care facilities." In Shankill three protest marches have already been held against the work, with crowds numbers estimated as high as 2,000. Some 2,500 letters have been sent to the three Government TDs for the constituency, Dun Laoghaire. Shankill residents also had a meeting with Minister of State Tom Parlon in March, but they claim they have not had a committment that the masts will be sited elsewhere."
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/co._dublin_and_co._cork_protests1.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/co._dublin_and_co._cork_protests2.jpg
Best, Imelda, Cork
THE IRISH TIMES, JULY 13, 2006
"PHONE MAST PROTESTERS TARGET AHERN
[by] Time O'Brien
South Dublin residents who yesterday successfully prevented a phone company from erecting a mast on Dalkey Garda station will this afternoon picket Taoiseach [prime minister] Bertie Ahern when he launches a local summer project. Under an agreement between telecoms companies and the Office of Public Works (OPW) the erection of mobile phone masts on Garda stations is exempt from the planning process. Members of the Dalkey Community Against Radiation group claim they only found out about the plans to locate a new generation 3G phone mast on their local Garda station, by word of mouth yesterday. Vilicom, the company employed to manage the work was attempting to replace an existing mast on Dalkey Garda station, when locals placed one of their own cars across the station driveway preventing access. An existing, smaller mast on the station already provides services for the standard GSM mobile phone service providers. The residents were supported in their action by community groups in Shankill who are opposing plans to extend the mast over the garda station there, again to incorporate 3G services. Residents in Dalkey said they will again block access to the phone company this morning and take part in a dignified protest when Mr Ahern opens a local summer school at Hyde Park, a local sports club. Speaking to THE IRISH TIMES yesterday, Oliver McCabe of Dalkey Community Against Radiation, said the intention of this afternoon's protest was not to disturb the launch of the summer school, but to "peacefully make the Taoiseach aware" that the 3G masts were an issue. Mr McCabe said the new mast "will initially triple the size of the current mast by increasing the number of antennae from two to six, with, it is believed, an eventual total of 12 antennae planned. The proposed site is in the middle of a densely populated area and close to six national and private schools. Residents were "not consulted." He added that the residents wanted the mobile phone companies to agree to site the mast on "a safe site well away from houses, schools, playgrounds and care facilities." In Shankill three protest marches have already been held against the work, with crowds numbers estimated as high as 2,000. Some 2,500 letters have been sent to the three Government TDs for the constituency, Dun Laoghaire. Shankill residents also had a meeting with Minister of State Tom Parlon in March, but they claim they have not had a committment that the masts will be sited elsewhere."
rudkla - 14. Jul, 18:18
Fix the seriously flawed "American Fisheries Management and Marine Life Enhancement Act," H.R. 5018
Our oceans are in serious decline: overfishing, marine habitat destruction, coastal development, and pollution are pushing our ocean systems to the brink of collapse. Unfortunately, some foolish, anti-environment members of Congress are currently trying to roll back existing ocean conservation laws, rather than strengthen them!
We need your help to preserve and strengthen the laws that protect our oceans. Fill out the form below to write a letter to your Representative telling him or her that it is important to you that our oceans are protected!
http://ga3.org/campaign/oceans
We need your help to preserve and strengthen the laws that protect our oceans. Fill out the form below to write a letter to your Representative telling him or her that it is important to you that our oceans are protected!
http://ga3.org/campaign/oceans
rudkla - 14. Jul, 17:50
Mast plans go before council
By Melanie Vass
TWO controversial applications for new mobile phone masts in Bournemouth will go before councillors next week.
Plans to put an O2 mast on land rear of Warnford Road in West Southbourne are being recommended for approval despite objections from hundreds of residents.
A proposal to switch a street lamp outside Tesco at Castle Lane East with another O2 mast, which has sparked a far lower number of objections, is recommended for refusal. continued...
More than 500 people have signed a petition against the plans for a mast in Southbourne, with a further 60 writing letters of objection.
Ward councillor Nick King and the headteacher of Stourfield Junior School are among those urging councillors to reject the proposal.
But planners believe there are no grounds to turn the application down, saying that the level of radiation reaching Stourfield Infant and Junior School would be less than 0.01 per cent of the accepted safety levels.
They also say there are no landscaping issues as the mast would be disguised as a timber telegraph pole and would be well-screened.
Eight residents have expressed concerns about the planned mast for Littledown but they have been boosted by an objection from the council's highways department.
Highway officers say they are formulating plans to improve the pedestrian and cycle paths in this location and that the introduction of any street furniture would be inappropriate until these have been carried out.
Both applications will be considered by councillors on Monday.
12:27pm today
© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.835544.0.mast_plans_go_before_council.php
TWO controversial applications for new mobile phone masts in Bournemouth will go before councillors next week.
Plans to put an O2 mast on land rear of Warnford Road in West Southbourne are being recommended for approval despite objections from hundreds of residents.
A proposal to switch a street lamp outside Tesco at Castle Lane East with another O2 mast, which has sparked a far lower number of objections, is recommended for refusal. continued...
More than 500 people have signed a petition against the plans for a mast in Southbourne, with a further 60 writing letters of objection.
Ward councillor Nick King and the headteacher of Stourfield Junior School are among those urging councillors to reject the proposal.
But planners believe there are no grounds to turn the application down, saying that the level of radiation reaching Stourfield Infant and Junior School would be less than 0.01 per cent of the accepted safety levels.
They also say there are no landscaping issues as the mast would be disguised as a timber telegraph pole and would be well-screened.
Eight residents have expressed concerns about the planned mast for Littledown but they have been boosted by an objection from the council's highways department.
Highway officers say they are formulating plans to improve the pedestrian and cycle paths in this location and that the introduction of any street furniture would be inappropriate until these have been carried out.
Both applications will be considered by councillors on Monday.
12:27pm today
© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.835544.0.mast_plans_go_before_council.php
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:48
GM Egg Plant Contains Bt Toxin Linked to Hundreds of Allergy Cases and Thousands of Sheep Deaths
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:46
Rationalizing war crimes
CounterPunch
by Rev. William Alberts
07/13/06
The Bush administration is adept at saying the obvious to hide the devious. This tactic reveals a deep disrespect for the intelligence of the American people. It assumes that Americans are gullible and, in their patriotic fervor, will believe anything their leaders tell them -- no matter how false, criminal, or harmful to them and their children -- if it is draped in the American flag or presented in the name of 'God.' A glaring example is President Bush's recent 'surprise' visit to Baghad. ... The apparent purpose of President Bush's secretive visit to Iraq was not to give a message to the Iraqi people, but to use them as a safe PR backdrop for the message he wanted to take home to the American people...
http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts07132006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Rev. William Alberts
07/13/06
The Bush administration is adept at saying the obvious to hide the devious. This tactic reveals a deep disrespect for the intelligence of the American people. It assumes that Americans are gullible and, in their patriotic fervor, will believe anything their leaders tell them -- no matter how false, criminal, or harmful to them and their children -- if it is draped in the American flag or presented in the name of 'God.' A glaring example is President Bush's recent 'surprise' visit to Baghad. ... The apparent purpose of President Bush's secretive visit to Iraq was not to give a message to the Iraqi people, but to use them as a safe PR backdrop for the message he wanted to take home to the American people...
http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts07132006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:40
Are you the maker or the tool?
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:34
The world seems to be falling apart, and the designated powers are fumbling at the controls
Reality bites
Slate
by Fred Kaplan
07/13/06
The world seems to be falling apart, and the designated powers are fumbling at the controls, unsure which levers spin, which axes in what direction. The metaphor is a bit of a stretch; no country or alliance could command the planet, like an orchestra conductor or a god, regardless of how clever its leaders might be. Still, it's horrifying to scan the full horizon of disasters -- in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, East Asia, South Asia, all the simmering hot spots on the verge of boiling over -- and to realize that no one in charge knows what to do...
http://www.slate.com/id/2145701/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Slate
by Fred Kaplan
07/13/06
The world seems to be falling apart, and the designated powers are fumbling at the controls, unsure which levers spin, which axes in what direction. The metaphor is a bit of a stretch; no country or alliance could command the planet, like an orchestra conductor or a god, regardless of how clever its leaders might be. Still, it's horrifying to scan the full horizon of disasters -- in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, East Asia, South Asia, all the simmering hot spots on the verge of boiling over -- and to realize that no one in charge knows what to do...
http://www.slate.com/id/2145701/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:31
We can't keep spending like this
National Review
by Grover G. Norquist
07/14/06
On Tuesday, President Bush announced that the federal budget deficit will be $100 billion lower than initially expected due to higher levels of economic growth. This is the third consecutive year substantial downward revisions were made to the deficit as part of the administration's mid-year budget review. The president further claimed that the nation is ahead of schedule by one year in its goal to cut the budget deficit in half. On the surface this appears to be good news. Yet the biggest mistake the conservative movement could make is to focus on the budget deficit. The deficit is an unimportant number that reflects two very important numbers: how much the government takes in taxes and how much the government spends. Fixing a deficit 'problem' can be achieved by raising taxes or by cutting spending -- and raising taxes is always the establishment-approved solution...
http://tinyurl.com/efow4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Grover G. Norquist
07/14/06
On Tuesday, President Bush announced that the federal budget deficit will be $100 billion lower than initially expected due to higher levels of economic growth. This is the third consecutive year substantial downward revisions were made to the deficit as part of the administration's mid-year budget review. The president further claimed that the nation is ahead of schedule by one year in its goal to cut the budget deficit in half. On the surface this appears to be good news. Yet the biggest mistake the conservative movement could make is to focus on the budget deficit. The deficit is an unimportant number that reflects two very important numbers: how much the government takes in taxes and how much the government spends. Fixing a deficit 'problem' can be achieved by raising taxes or by cutting spending -- and raising taxes is always the establishment-approved solution...
http://tinyurl.com/efow4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:30
Fed policy destroys the value of your savings
The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
07/14/06
For years officials at the Federal Reserve Bank, including Chairman Bernanke himself, have assured us that inflation is under control and not a problem -- even as the price of housing, energy, medical care, school tuition, gold, and other commodities skyrockets. The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002177.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
07/14/06
For years officials at the Federal Reserve Bank, including Chairman Bernanke himself, have assured us that inflation is under control and not a problem -- even as the price of housing, energy, medical care, school tuition, gold, and other commodities skyrockets. The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002177.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:28
John Fund and the truth: on trial in NY
OpEdNews
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
07/13/06
On Tuesday, John Fund refused to participate in arbitration; a few minutes later he, the attorneys, his victim, and the judge were seated in a courtroom and potential jurors were filling out the forms that will help determine if they will be empaneled to hear the case. Wednesday empaneling was finished; the trial started. John did not think he should have to be bothered with a trial. After all, he is routinely briefed by the White House. Important people cannot be held accountable -- at least that is what Fund believes, and he has his reasons for holding such a belief. This is what our present administration has taught him by their own behavior...
http://tinyurl.com/r7w8f
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
07/13/06
On Tuesday, John Fund refused to participate in arbitration; a few minutes later he, the attorneys, his victim, and the judge were seated in a courtroom and potential jurors were filling out the forms that will help determine if they will be empaneled to hear the case. Wednesday empaneling was finished; the trial started. John did not think he should have to be bothered with a trial. After all, he is routinely briefed by the White House. Important people cannot be held accountable -- at least that is what Fund believes, and he has his reasons for holding such a belief. This is what our present administration has taught him by their own behavior...
http://tinyurl.com/r7w8f
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:25
Activists Sue to Block Electronic Voting
Computerized voting was supposed to be the cure for ballot fiascos like the 2000 presidential election, but activist groups say it has only worsened the problem, and they've gone to court across the country to ban the new machines. Lawsuits have been filed in at least nine states, alleging that the machines are wide open to computer hackers and prone to temperamental fits of technology that have assigned votes to the wrong candidate.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406Z.shtml
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Groups sue vs. electronic voting
Macon Telegraph
07/13/06
Just days before Georgia's primary elections, a coalition of groups opposed to the state's electronic voting machines filed a lawsuit challenging the system. The legal challenge, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, claims the system is illegal and unconstitutional because it fails to give voters a verifiable record showing their ballot was recorded correctly. ... The lawsuit asks a judge to stop the state from using any electronic voting system that does not produce a paper ballot and a system for hand-counting at least some ballots to ensure the accuracy of the machines...
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15032769.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406Z.shtml
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Groups sue vs. electronic voting
Macon Telegraph
07/13/06
Just days before Georgia's primary elections, a coalition of groups opposed to the state's electronic voting machines filed a lawsuit challenging the system. The legal challenge, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, claims the system is illegal and unconstitutional because it fails to give voters a verifiable record showing their ballot was recorded correctly. ... The lawsuit asks a judge to stop the state from using any electronic voting system that does not produce a paper ballot and a system for hand-counting at least some ballots to ensure the accuracy of the machines...
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15032769.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jul, 16:21
Die Vertreibung von Menschen aus Slums ist heute weltweit eine meist unbeobachtete soziale Katastrophe
"Wir wollen doch nur euer Bestes..."
Die Vertreibung von Menschen aus Slums ist heute weltweit eine meist unbeobachtete soziale Katastrophe, gegen die die Betroffenen sich (meist alleine) so gut es geht wehren. Und ob es Stadtplaner in Indien, Kazachstan, Nigeria, Brasilien oder eben Angola sind: immer wollen sie ja nur das Beste...Die kurze Korrespondenz "Boavista adieu" von Jaime Pereira vom 10. Juli 2006 berichtet eben von der "Umsiedlung" mehrerer Hundert Menschen an den Stadtrand Luandas.
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/ang/pereira.html
Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juli 2006
Die Vertreibung von Menschen aus Slums ist heute weltweit eine meist unbeobachtete soziale Katastrophe, gegen die die Betroffenen sich (meist alleine) so gut es geht wehren. Und ob es Stadtplaner in Indien, Kazachstan, Nigeria, Brasilien oder eben Angola sind: immer wollen sie ja nur das Beste...Die kurze Korrespondenz "Boavista adieu" von Jaime Pereira vom 10. Juli 2006 berichtet eben von der "Umsiedlung" mehrerer Hundert Menschen an den Stadtrand Luandas.
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/ang/pereira.html
Aus: LabourNet, 14. Juli 2006
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:50
Wilson, Plame to Sue Cheney, Rove and Libby
Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joseph Wilson initiate a civil action against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby for violations of their constitutional and other legal rights.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306Y.shtml
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Why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Filed
"Early Thursday, the Wilsons filed a civil suit against Rove, Vice President Dick Cheney, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, who is the only White House official who has been indicted in the leak case," writes Jason Leopold. "The civil suit may help vindicate the Wilsons and hold these officials accountable for their actions three years ago, but it's worth revisiting some of the evidentiary findings that Fitzgerald's probe has turned up since he was appointed Special Prosecutor in December 2003 that prove the White House's culpability in the leak."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406J.shtml
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Plame Wilson v. White House: Round 1
Jason Leopold reports: The showdown between the White House, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a former covert operative for the CIA whose identity was unmasked by Bush administration officials, entered its first stage Tuesday. The Justice Department contends that Rove, Cheney ... and the other defendants are immune to civil lawsuits.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111606J.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306Y.shtml
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Why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Filed
"Early Thursday, the Wilsons filed a civil suit against Rove, Vice President Dick Cheney, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, who is the only White House official who has been indicted in the leak case," writes Jason Leopold. "The civil suit may help vindicate the Wilsons and hold these officials accountable for their actions three years ago, but it's worth revisiting some of the evidentiary findings that Fitzgerald's probe has turned up since he was appointed Special Prosecutor in December 2003 that prove the White House's culpability in the leak."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406J.shtml
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Plame Wilson v. White House: Round 1
Jason Leopold reports: The showdown between the White House, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a former covert operative for the CIA whose identity was unmasked by Bush administration officials, entered its first stage Tuesday. The Justice Department contends that Rove, Cheney ... and the other defendants are immune to civil lawsuits.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111606J.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:39
You And Me Against The Brave New World
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
With almost complete unanimity, the two major parties are walking in lock-step in their support for President Bush's efforts to merge the United States into a trilateral hemispheric government with Mexico and Canada. In addition, for the most part, the major media (including Fox News) remains virtually silent on the subject. Furthermore.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin310.htm
With almost complete unanimity, the two major parties are walking in lock-step in their support for President Bush's efforts to merge the United States into a trilateral hemispheric government with Mexico and Canada. In addition, for the most part, the major media (including Fox News) remains virtually silent on the subject. Furthermore.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin310.htm
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:38
Chernobyl's 'nuclear nightmares'
Just when we thought we had got rid of him, he turns up like a bad penny. We've all just had a gut full of watching Repacholi on TV, BBC 2 Horizon programme. The programme was about Chernobyl.
** Chernobyl's 'nuclear nightmares' **
Claims that thousands will die as a result of the Chernobyl disaster are unfounded, scientists tell the Horizon programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/5173310.stm
He was saying that they need to re-evaluate the whole radiation spectrum as they now believe that radiation does not harm as much as they previously believed and it might also protect against cancer!!!!!!!
The programme presented a very one sided view.
Take a look at some of Repacholi's friends who featured on the programme:
Professor Ron Chesser, of Texas Tech University, US, http://www.biol.ttu.edu/fac_staff.asp?tp=faculty&name=Ron_Chesser
http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/chesser/CenterEnvRadStud.pdf
page 7
DR. ANTONE L. BROOKS
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/faculty/brooks/Brooks_A.html
http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/chesser/PUBLICATIONS.pdf
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/tbrooks/
CURRENT MAJOR AREA OF WORK
I currently have a three-year grant to act as a communication specialist and chief scientist for the DOE Low-Dose Research program. This is a $20 Million dollar a year 10 year program which is directed toward providing a scientific base for radiation protection standards after very low exposures to ionizing radiation. As outlined above this grant provides me with $570,280 dollars over a three year period. This grant will provide most (70-80%) of my salary, travel money and a part time secretary. My role in this program is to:
Provide scientific and technical support for the DOE Low-Dose Research Program.
Facilitate the interactions between DOE, scientists, regulatory and scientific committees, and other government and regulatory agencies.
Provide a focal point for generation of educational materials and for communication of research results between the scientists, decision-makers and the public.
All the best
Eileen O'Connor
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Parthian shot by Repacholi?
Horizon
because the radiation debate matters, and ionising/non-ionising can be a rather arbitrary distinction...
Maybe you watched it, or will pick it up online. "A little radiation is good for you"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5173310.stm
You may be familiar with the Chernobyl Forum. A singular view used exclusively in this programme. But at least the BBC Horizon web page on the programme has some healthy counterbalances for this rather strategically-timed programme in the light of the government's energy review.
The G8 have already decided on a global strategy of nuclear power, including fast breeder reactors, and this profiling of "no risk" supported by WHO and the UN is very useful.
Russian voices (quite absent from the programme!) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4926600.stm
Greenpeace: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4917526.stm
and the Low Level Radiation Campaign: http://www.llrc.org/
feel strongly about it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C1824
end of subject; similar treatment of risk to perpetuate an industry. If we need nuclear to buy time against climate catastrophe (not long term change) as Lovelock says, we should be honest about it. This appears more like spin.
Andy
Nuclear Nightmares: BBC 2 Horizon 21.00 13th July 2006
A preliminary response from LLRC.
We have never seen such utterly biased reporting in our entire existence. There was not an iota of balance, not the ghost of any attempt to offer a countervailing scientific opinion, not the faintest suggestion that people exposed to Chernobyl fallout had actually been dying or sickening at a rate in excess of the absolutely undeniable. "Nuclear Nightmares" was, as its preliminary media spin suggested it would be, flat out pro-nuclear propaganda.
Let's be fair; maybe there is another programme pending in the "Horizon" series that will correct the bias. We shall ask the producer if this is so. If there isn't we shall offer him an opportunity to make another programme to give the required balance. This would bring him into line with Ofcom rules. We have plenty of material for him to work with. If there is no balance and if he declines our offer we shall lodge a formal complaint.
http://www.llrc.org
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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The enclosed information from Richard Bramhall in response to Mike Repacholi’s appearance on the BBC Horizon programme ‘Nuclear Nightmares’ is interesting.
Eileen O’Connor
From Richard Bramhall
Horizon: Nuclear Nightmares. BBC Two, 9.00 p.m. Thursday 13th July (United Kingdom)
A lot of people have, understandably, been outraged at the advance spin on this documentary (see, e.g. Monday's 10th July Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2263204.html ).
The programme apparently will offer up as "new" (The Times says) the idea that there is a threshold dose below which radiation doesn't cause harm. We read that it "may even be beneficial" and that "Evidence … has convinced experts that the risks of radiation follow a much more complex pattern than predicted."
We certainly agree that dose/response curves are complex. The reason for the complexity is that more than 50 years ago the American National Committee on Radiological Protection adopted a grossly simplistic concept of "dose" as an average of energy deposited into body tissue. This model was based on external irradiation, with which they were familiar since it was what they had been dealing with for decades in the search for adequate standards for regulating X-rays. It wasn't too difficult to extend that simple physics-based model to the external irradiation from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and it was convenient to assume that radioactivity inside the body could be understood as if it were external — an approach which fails to account properly for the huge variations in energy distribution from different kinds of radioactivity. Even in 1952 Karl Z. Morgan, who was responsible for the NCRP sub-committee on internal radioactivity, refused to agree that internal could be dealt with like external. His sub-committee was closed down and for the rest of his life he was a critic of the NCRP and its successor the International Commission on Radiological Protection – "I feel like a father who is ashamed of his children." All this happened before the structure of DNA was discovered and long before biological responses like genomic instability, the bystander effect and microinflammation were even suspected. For these reasons all competent authorities now recognise that for many internal exposures "dose" is a virtually meaningless term, so it is irritating to see propaganda like The Times report still using it; inhaled particles of reactor fuel cannot be compared with chest X-rays. One size does not fit all.
It is appalling to see WHO denying the reality of life post-Chernobyl, but we must bear in mind that their minds are clouded by the ICRP dose/risk model and by the International Atomic Energy Agency's power of vetoing any WHO research on radiation and health. In their crazed world the risk model predicts no discernible health impact because doses (whatever "dose" may mean) from Chernobyl fallout were too small — a maximum of twice natural background. When there is an all-too-observable impact (e.g. 30% increase in cancer in Belarus in ten post-Chernobyl years or a similar increase in northern Sweden) they say it must be caused by something else rather than inferring that the risk model is wrong. Their science and their epidemiology are like two drunks holding each other up — a temporary marvel!
For an alternative view see http://www.euradcom.org and the European Committee on Radiation Risk's volume Chernobyl: 20 Years On. ECRR has summarised thousands of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian studies. Scientists and clinicians in those regions are reporting a melt-down in human health. Studies of animals and plants show genetic defects transmitted over 22 generations, although plants don't suffer from radiophobia. There is a flyer on http://www.euradcom.org/publications/chernobyleflyer.pdf .
In 2004 LLRC summarised about 100 of these Russian language studies for the CERRIE Minority Report: they are on our site at http://www.llrc.org/health/subtopic/russianrefs.htm.
The BBC documentary "Nuclear Nightmares" looks as if it will be propaganda intended to soften us up for a new round of nuclear power stations. We have raised this with the series producer and we shall be watching to see if the programme or the series complies with the rules of the Office of Communications. Rule 5.5. says "Due impartiality on matters of political or industrial controversy and matters relating to current public policy must be preserved […] This may be achieved within a programme or over a series of programmes taken as a whole."
We have obtained calculations of the health impact of replacing the present nuclear power generating capacity with new nuclear build. These are based on the ECRR's 2003 Recommendations and will be the subject of a separate circular.
We don't feel worried by the UK Government's announcement today. Nuclear power stations cannot operate without discharge licences, but the scientific debate over radiation risk has reached such a point that any decision to emit radioactivity will be subject to legal challenge. That's the point at which the drunks will hit the pavement.
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Speaking of Rapacholi...
If you are interested in a recent tour within the 30km exclusion zone from the meltdown look at this site. The author's father is a retired nuclear physicist that has conducted research in the region since the disaster.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
All the best
panayis zambellis luton uk
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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Repacholi declares Depleted Uranium”basically safe”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=581
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CHERNOBYL'S 10TH: CANCER AND NUCLEAR-AGE PEACE DON'T BE DECEIVED
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1792319/
Exorcising the ghosts of Chernobyl
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=522
Medical journal reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial ties to industry
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2346427/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/
** Chernobyl's 'nuclear nightmares' **
Claims that thousands will die as a result of the Chernobyl disaster are unfounded, scientists tell the Horizon programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/5173310.stm
He was saying that they need to re-evaluate the whole radiation spectrum as they now believe that radiation does not harm as much as they previously believed and it might also protect against cancer!!!!!!!
The programme presented a very one sided view.
Take a look at some of Repacholi's friends who featured on the programme:
Professor Ron Chesser, of Texas Tech University, US, http://www.biol.ttu.edu/fac_staff.asp?tp=faculty&name=Ron_Chesser
http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/chesser/CenterEnvRadStud.pdf
page 7
DR. ANTONE L. BROOKS
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/faculty/brooks/Brooks_A.html
http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/chesser/PUBLICATIONS.pdf
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/tbrooks/
CURRENT MAJOR AREA OF WORK
I currently have a three-year grant to act as a communication specialist and chief scientist for the DOE Low-Dose Research program. This is a $20 Million dollar a year 10 year program which is directed toward providing a scientific base for radiation protection standards after very low exposures to ionizing radiation. As outlined above this grant provides me with $570,280 dollars over a three year period. This grant will provide most (70-80%) of my salary, travel money and a part time secretary. My role in this program is to:
Provide scientific and technical support for the DOE Low-Dose Research Program.
Facilitate the interactions between DOE, scientists, regulatory and scientific committees, and other government and regulatory agencies.
Provide a focal point for generation of educational materials and for communication of research results between the scientists, decision-makers and the public.
All the best
Eileen O'Connor
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Parthian shot by Repacholi?
Horizon
because the radiation debate matters, and ionising/non-ionising can be a rather arbitrary distinction...
Maybe you watched it, or will pick it up online. "A little radiation is good for you"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5173310.stm
You may be familiar with the Chernobyl Forum. A singular view used exclusively in this programme. But at least the BBC Horizon web page on the programme has some healthy counterbalances for this rather strategically-timed programme in the light of the government's energy review.
The G8 have already decided on a global strategy of nuclear power, including fast breeder reactors, and this profiling of "no risk" supported by WHO and the UN is very useful.
Russian voices (quite absent from the programme!) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4926600.stm
Greenpeace: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4917526.stm
and the Low Level Radiation Campaign: http://www.llrc.org/
feel strongly about it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C1824
end of subject; similar treatment of risk to perpetuate an industry. If we need nuclear to buy time against climate catastrophe (not long term change) as Lovelock says, we should be honest about it. This appears more like spin.
Andy
Nuclear Nightmares: BBC 2 Horizon 21.00 13th July 2006
A preliminary response from LLRC.
We have never seen such utterly biased reporting in our entire existence. There was not an iota of balance, not the ghost of any attempt to offer a countervailing scientific opinion, not the faintest suggestion that people exposed to Chernobyl fallout had actually been dying or sickening at a rate in excess of the absolutely undeniable. "Nuclear Nightmares" was, as its preliminary media spin suggested it would be, flat out pro-nuclear propaganda.
Let's be fair; maybe there is another programme pending in the "Horizon" series that will correct the bias. We shall ask the producer if this is so. If there isn't we shall offer him an opportunity to make another programme to give the required balance. This would bring him into line with Ofcom rules. We have plenty of material for him to work with. If there is no balance and if he declines our offer we shall lodge a formal complaint.
http://www.llrc.org
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
--------
The enclosed information from Richard Bramhall in response to Mike Repacholi’s appearance on the BBC Horizon programme ‘Nuclear Nightmares’ is interesting.
Eileen O’Connor
From Richard Bramhall
Horizon: Nuclear Nightmares. BBC Two, 9.00 p.m. Thursday 13th July (United Kingdom)
A lot of people have, understandably, been outraged at the advance spin on this documentary (see, e.g. Monday's 10th July Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2263204.html ).
The programme apparently will offer up as "new" (The Times says) the idea that there is a threshold dose below which radiation doesn't cause harm. We read that it "may even be beneficial" and that "Evidence … has convinced experts that the risks of radiation follow a much more complex pattern than predicted."
We certainly agree that dose/response curves are complex. The reason for the complexity is that more than 50 years ago the American National Committee on Radiological Protection adopted a grossly simplistic concept of "dose" as an average of energy deposited into body tissue. This model was based on external irradiation, with which they were familiar since it was what they had been dealing with for decades in the search for adequate standards for regulating X-rays. It wasn't too difficult to extend that simple physics-based model to the external irradiation from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and it was convenient to assume that radioactivity inside the body could be understood as if it were external — an approach which fails to account properly for the huge variations in energy distribution from different kinds of radioactivity. Even in 1952 Karl Z. Morgan, who was responsible for the NCRP sub-committee on internal radioactivity, refused to agree that internal could be dealt with like external. His sub-committee was closed down and for the rest of his life he was a critic of the NCRP and its successor the International Commission on Radiological Protection – "I feel like a father who is ashamed of his children." All this happened before the structure of DNA was discovered and long before biological responses like genomic instability, the bystander effect and microinflammation were even suspected. For these reasons all competent authorities now recognise that for many internal exposures "dose" is a virtually meaningless term, so it is irritating to see propaganda like The Times report still using it; inhaled particles of reactor fuel cannot be compared with chest X-rays. One size does not fit all.
It is appalling to see WHO denying the reality of life post-Chernobyl, but we must bear in mind that their minds are clouded by the ICRP dose/risk model and by the International Atomic Energy Agency's power of vetoing any WHO research on radiation and health. In their crazed world the risk model predicts no discernible health impact because doses (whatever "dose" may mean) from Chernobyl fallout were too small — a maximum of twice natural background. When there is an all-too-observable impact (e.g. 30% increase in cancer in Belarus in ten post-Chernobyl years or a similar increase in northern Sweden) they say it must be caused by something else rather than inferring that the risk model is wrong. Their science and their epidemiology are like two drunks holding each other up — a temporary marvel!
For an alternative view see http://www.euradcom.org and the European Committee on Radiation Risk's volume Chernobyl: 20 Years On. ECRR has summarised thousands of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian studies. Scientists and clinicians in those regions are reporting a melt-down in human health. Studies of animals and plants show genetic defects transmitted over 22 generations, although plants don't suffer from radiophobia. There is a flyer on http://www.euradcom.org/publications/chernobyleflyer.pdf .
In 2004 LLRC summarised about 100 of these Russian language studies for the CERRIE Minority Report: they are on our site at http://www.llrc.org/health/subtopic/russianrefs.htm.
The BBC documentary "Nuclear Nightmares" looks as if it will be propaganda intended to soften us up for a new round of nuclear power stations. We have raised this with the series producer and we shall be watching to see if the programme or the series complies with the rules of the Office of Communications. Rule 5.5. says "Due impartiality on matters of political or industrial controversy and matters relating to current public policy must be preserved […] This may be achieved within a programme or over a series of programmes taken as a whole."
We have obtained calculations of the health impact of replacing the present nuclear power generating capacity with new nuclear build. These are based on the ECRR's 2003 Recommendations and will be the subject of a separate circular.
We don't feel worried by the UK Government's announcement today. Nuclear power stations cannot operate without discharge licences, but the scientific debate over radiation risk has reached such a point that any decision to emit radioactivity will be subject to legal challenge. That's the point at which the drunks will hit the pavement.
--------
Speaking of Rapacholi...
If you are interested in a recent tour within the 30km exclusion zone from the meltdown look at this site. The author's father is a retired nuclear physicist that has conducted research in the region since the disaster.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
All the best
panayis zambellis luton uk
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
--------
Repacholi declares Depleted Uranium”basically safe”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=581
--------
CHERNOBYL'S 10TH: CANCER AND NUCLEAR-AGE PEACE DON'T BE DECEIVED
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1792319/
Exorcising the ghosts of Chernobyl
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=522
Medical journal reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial ties to industry
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2346427/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:18
Bush administration 'simply overwhelmed' by magnitude of its failures in Mideast
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:08
Breaking the Unions
This summer, the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board may vote to destroy the union memberships of millions of Americans.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306LA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306LA.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 11:06
Mountaintop Removal Drives Protests
"Anyone concerned about the burning of fossil fuels and resultant climate change is scared beyond words at the prospect of coal usage growing or continuing. But there is an additional side of coal, an even darker one," writes Jan Lundberg.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306EA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306EA.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:59
Death Penalty Doctors
Should medical professionals play a part in state executions?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306U.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306U.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:58
South Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With US
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the center of the South Korean capital protesting a proposed free trade agreement between the US and South Korea that negotiators are working on this week. It is the most ambitious trade pact for the US since NAFTA in 1994.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306T.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306T.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:57
Medical journal reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial ties to industry
So much for evidence-based medicine. Drug approval decisions have little to do with evidence and everything to do with materialistic greed and cold, hard cash. That cash is doled out to decision-makers in the form of research grants, consulting fees and outright bribes.
http://www.newstarget.com/019608.html
From Information Clearing House
--------
Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled
For the second time in two months, The Journal of the American Medical Association says it was misled by researchers who failed to reveal financial ties to drug companies.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306HA.shtml
http://www.newstarget.com/019608.html
From Information Clearing House
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Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled
For the second time in two months, The Journal of the American Medical Association says it was misled by researchers who failed to reveal financial ties to drug companies.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306HA.shtml
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:49
Spy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants
The report detailed the case of Yassine Ouassif. Last November Yassine's green card was taken away from him when he crossed the border from Canada. Yassine was then sent home to San Francisco and told to contact a counterterrorism agent at the FBI.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13971.htm
A Muslim's Choice: Turn U.S. Informant or Risk Losing Visa
Walid Mustafa, a 53-year-old Palestinian American who teaches kung fu, first encountered the FBI when a young agent knocked on his door in Sacramento to ask about fund-raising at the local mosque.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13970.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13971.htm
A Muslim's Choice: Turn U.S. Informant or Risk Losing Visa
Walid Mustafa, a 53-year-old Palestinian American who teaches kung fu, first encountered the FBI when a young agent knocked on his door in Sacramento to ask about fund-raising at the local mosque.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13970.htm
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:41
Russia-Iran military cooperation cannot be target of sanctions
"Russian-Iranian military-technical cooperation is proceeding in complete compliance with relevant international norms," Lavrov told reporters on a plane en route to Moscow from Paris on Thursday.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11553176
From Information Clearing House
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11553176
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:28
Russia and Iran lead the new energy game
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already spectacularly preempted this weekend's Group of Eight (G8) summit in St Petersburg with his own bit of Pipelineistan news. Putin announced in Shanghai on June 15 that "Gazprom is ready to support the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India with financial resources and technology".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HG14Dj03.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HG14Dj03.html
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:26
War Veterans Feeling Stressed, Deserted
According to a recent report from the Veterans Administration, more than 50,000 vets from Iraq and Afghanistan are believed to be suffering from mental health problems — nearly half of them from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/topstories_story_193204627.html
From Information Clearing House
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/topstories_story_193204627.html
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:24
Administration To Request Another $110 Billion For Iraq Next Year
Yesterday, the White House released its FY2007 mid-session budget review with great fanfare, celebrating its projection that the deficit will be nearly $300 billion this year.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/12/110-billion/
From Information Clearing House
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/12/110-billion/
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:20
Comparing the cost of war and domestic expenses
We are spending $267 million a day, or $11 million an hour on Iraq
By Congressman John Murtha
I wanted to demonstrate what these expenses mean to domestic policy in the United States and give you an idea of just some of the things that we could accomplish with this amount of money.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13976.htm
By Congressman John Murtha
I wanted to demonstrate what these expenses mean to domestic policy in the United States and give you an idea of just some of the things that we could accomplish with this amount of money.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13976.htm
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:18
New Bill Would Put Government in Hands of Bush
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:11
Enforcing Mileage Standards Based on Real-World Testing Would Cut Oil Imports 20 Percent
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:07
No Escaping Parallels to Vietnam
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:06
A Politics of the Common Good
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:06
The Hidden War on Women in Iraq
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:04
Al Gore Is Back and Greener Than Ever
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:03
The State's Interests Are Not Ours
rudkla - 14. Jul, 09:58
On the US police state's international reach
rudkla - 14. Jul, 09:57
No one wants to believe they are ruled
rudkla - 14. Jul, 09:55
War costs will top $400 billion
rudkla - 14. Jul, 09:52
Global Warming 'Will Cancel out Western Aid and Devastate Africa'
rudkla - 14. Jul, 08:30
House Eyes National Toxics Law to Block Tougher State Bills
rudkla - 14. Jul, 08:30
Republican Congressman Says Bush Should Be Removed from Office
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12959
Informant: Kev Hall
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
Informant: Kev Hall
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
rudkla - 14. Jul, 08:27
Giant airships could replace mobile phone masts
09 Jul 2006
A Swiss inventor has drawn up plans to create a network or high altitude airships to replace terrestrial mobile phone masts.
The technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems, would drastically reduce radiation remove the problems that networks have in finding suitable sites for their masts.
Kamal Alavi is a former aerospace engineer and is planning text flights of the airships in 2007. Solar powered GPS systems and giant propellers will keep the 60 metre long helium filled zeppelins 21 kilometres above the earths surface.
The system would also be able to carry radio, television and internet signals making the initial £20 million cost of each airship seem quite reasonable. Around 30 of the ships would be required to cover Europe.
mad4mobilephones.com © 2006
http://www.mad4mobilephones.com/news.php3?id=136
A Swiss inventor has drawn up plans to create a network or high altitude airships to replace terrestrial mobile phone masts.
The technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems, would drastically reduce radiation remove the problems that networks have in finding suitable sites for their masts.
Kamal Alavi is a former aerospace engineer and is planning text flights of the airships in 2007. Solar powered GPS systems and giant propellers will keep the 60 metre long helium filled zeppelins 21 kilometres above the earths surface.
The system would also be able to carry radio, television and internet signals making the initial £20 million cost of each airship seem quite reasonable. Around 30 of the ships would be required to cover Europe.
mad4mobilephones.com © 2006
http://www.mad4mobilephones.com/news.php3?id=136
rudkla - 14. Jul, 08:22
Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2006
American Policy in Middle East Caught in "a Perfect Storm"
rudkla - 13. Jul, 23:29
Republicans Hinder Renewal of Voting Rights Act
After Latinos came out in greater force than they have in decades to protest a House-passed immigration bill, conservatives persuaded Republican leaders not to force a vote last month to extend for 25 years the law that requires bilingual ballots in precincts with large non-English-speaking populations. They joined with a group of Southern Republicans who object to extending the law's requirement that nine states have federal oversight decades after they quit hindering blacks' access to voting booths through Jim Crow laws.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306E.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306E.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 23:26
Cheney's Office Cultivated Pro-Torture Environment
Steve Clemons writes, "Documents and memos that have already made their way into the public domain make it clear that the Office of the Vice President bears responsibility for creating an environment conducive to the acts of torture and murder committed by US forces in the war on terror."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306C.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306C.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 23:24
You Are Not Safe
"One would think, looking at the priorities outlined by the National Asset Database, that the most populated cities, the most critical infrastructure, the most important financial and national security institutions, don't have a lot to worry about from terrorism. One would also think the country is made of money, and can dedicate gobs of cash to defend cornfields and potato farms instead of bridges and power plants," writes William Rivers Pitt.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306A.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306A.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 23:23
Toying With Terror Alerts?
"In these perilous days, we must be ready to think the unthinkable," writes Joshua Michah Marshall. "No, I don't mean the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, that's all too easy to imagine. No, I'm talking about a thought that even now seldom forces its way into respectable conversation: the quite reasonable suspicion that the Bush administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306L.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306L.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 22:14
Bush's Geneva Convention Decision "Only Partial Compliance"
The Bush administration's belated decision to recognize the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to terrorism suspects in military custody is a step forward, Human Rights Watch said today. But because the Pentagon memorandum that codifies the change does not extend to detainees held by the CIA, it represents only partial compliance with the recent US Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306K.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306K.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
rudkla - 13. Jul, 22:12
Radio interview with Lt. Ehren Watada
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4803/
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 - 13. Jul, 22:08
Bedenken zerstreuen: Waldzustandsbericht womöglich nur noch alle vier Jahre
13.07.06
Die Zukunft des jährlichen Waldzustandsberichts steht offenbar auf der Kippe. Nach einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Rundschau" bestätigte das Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerium Pläne, wonach die seit 1982 jeden Herbst erscheinende Analyse nur noch einmal pro Legislaturperiode herauskommen soll, also alle vier Jahre. Dies sei der Wunsch von Bundesagrarminister Horst Seehofer (CSU). Seehofers Ziel hierbei sei der Abbau von Bürokratie. Der Bericht werde zudem möglicherweise in einer Gesamtbilanz zur Lage von Landwirtschaft, Fischerei und Forst aufgehen, da auch der jährliche Agrarbericht in der bisherigen Form nicht mehr erarbeitet werden solle, schrieb die Zeitung.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14008
Die Zukunft des jährlichen Waldzustandsberichts steht offenbar auf der Kippe. Nach einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Rundschau" bestätigte das Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerium Pläne, wonach die seit 1982 jeden Herbst erscheinende Analyse nur noch einmal pro Legislaturperiode herauskommen soll, also alle vier Jahre. Dies sei der Wunsch von Bundesagrarminister Horst Seehofer (CSU). Seehofers Ziel hierbei sei der Abbau von Bürokratie. Der Bericht werde zudem möglicherweise in einer Gesamtbilanz zur Lage von Landwirtschaft, Fischerei und Forst aufgehen, da auch der jährliche Agrarbericht in der bisherigen Form nicht mehr erarbeitet werden solle, schrieb die Zeitung.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14008
rudkla - 13. Jul, 22:03
Sozialverband kritisiert Überforderung chronisch Kranker
"Einfallstor für Leistungsausgrenzungen": Sozialverband kritisiert Überforderung chronisch Kranker (13.07.06)
Der Sozialverband Deutschland hat Verschlechterungen für chronisch Kranke durch die geplante Gesundheitsreform angeprangert. "Es ist völlig unverantwortlich, ausgerechnet chronisch Kranke noch stärker zu belasten", sagte Verbandspräsident Adolf Bauer der "Berliner Zeitung". "Hier geht es um Menschen, die auf Grund ihrer dauerhaften Erkrankung schon jetzt hohe Kosten schultern müssen. Eine Einschränkung der Chronikerregelung lehnen wir daher entschieden ab." Bauer kritisierte auch, dass erstmals für Krankenversicherte das Prinzip des Selbstverschuldens eingeführt werden soll. "Diese Regelung ist ein Einfallstor für künftige Leistungsausgrenzungen", sagte er.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14011
Der Sozialverband Deutschland hat Verschlechterungen für chronisch Kranke durch die geplante Gesundheitsreform angeprangert. "Es ist völlig unverantwortlich, ausgerechnet chronisch Kranke noch stärker zu belasten", sagte Verbandspräsident Adolf Bauer der "Berliner Zeitung". "Hier geht es um Menschen, die auf Grund ihrer dauerhaften Erkrankung schon jetzt hohe Kosten schultern müssen. Eine Einschränkung der Chronikerregelung lehnen wir daher entschieden ab." Bauer kritisierte auch, dass erstmals für Krankenversicherte das Prinzip des Selbstverschuldens eingeführt werden soll. "Diese Regelung ist ein Einfallstor für künftige Leistungsausgrenzungen", sagte er.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14011
rudkla - 13. Jul, 22:02
The President is Always Right
http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/12/the-president-is-always-right/
by CrooksAndLiars.com
Justice Department Head Counsel Steve Bradbury: The president is always right. For comparison, Nixon in '77: "Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
http://tompaine.com/#passiton
by CrooksAndLiars.com
Justice Department Head Counsel Steve Bradbury: The president is always right. For comparison, Nixon in '77: "Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
http://tompaine.com/#passiton
rudkla - 13. Jul, 18:13
Voting Rights: Still Lacking
By Wade Henderson, TomPaine.com
The House should stop pretending that minorities don't face obstacles to voting. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/voting_rights_still_lacking.php
The House should stop pretending that minorities don't face obstacles to voting. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/voting_rights_still_lacking.php
rudkla - 13. Jul, 18:11
Medicare's Hollow Heart
by Britt Cass, TomPaine.com
The infamous "doughnut hole" is coming -- when millions will lose prescription drug coverage.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/medicares_hollow_heart.php
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Medicare's Hollow Heart
"Everybody has heard of the costly and inefficient failure of the Republican Medicare prescription drug plan, Part D. But few people understand how for many Americans, even as they continue to pay a monthly premium, Part D provides no coverage at all," writes Britt Cass.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306HB.shtml
The infamous "doughnut hole" is coming -- when millions will lose prescription drug coverage.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/medicares_hollow_heart.php
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Medicare's Hollow Heart
"Everybody has heard of the costly and inefficient failure of the Republican Medicare prescription drug plan, Part D. But few people understand how for many Americans, even as they continue to pay a monthly premium, Part D provides no coverage at all," writes Britt Cass.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071306HB.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 18:09
A Legal House Of Cards
by Jennifer Van Bergen, TomPaine.com
Democracy is undermined by "terror" indictments based on nothing more than talk.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/a_legal_house_of_cards.php
Democracy is undermined by "terror" indictments based on nothing more than talk.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/13/a_legal_house_of_cards.php
rudkla - 13. Jul, 18:08
Mum urges families to fight mast plans
Norwich Evening News
A worried mother has urged families living on a sprawling estate to back her in a fresh fight against a 12.5metre mobile phone mast which could be built at the heart of their community.
Councillors on Broadland District Council's planning committee will meet next week to decide whether the O2 mast, with enclosed antennae and ground-based equipment cabinets, should be built on a highway verge on Dussindale Drive, Thorpe St Andrew.
Michelle Dickerson, a mum-of-two who lives on Association Way, off Dussindale Drive, said she intends to speak at the meeting in opposition to the mast and wants other people living on the estate to let the council know they do not want it.
“I'm quite willing to put my case forward for the children living in the area,” said Mrs Dickerson. “You have to register your intention to speak which I have done. If there are several people they only want one speaker for three minutes, but if they want me to do it, I will do it.
“I will take the children with me and go down and do it. It might just slip through if people leave it for someone else to do something about it.”
The mast was initially to be sited just yards from a plot of land at Vane Close, off Dussindale Drive, where work to build a £4million primary school has started.
The choice of site caused outrage among families living in the area, who campaigned against the mast, leading O2 to withdraw the application in March.
But Mrs Dickerson said it is now time for people to campaign again with the company wanting to site the mast on Dussindale opposite an existing 10m mobile phone mast operated by Orange.
“I'm looking at the site where it's going to be and it will be higher than the other one and will look like an eyesore,” she said.
Mrs Dickerson, who is a committee member of the Fitzmaurice Pavilion Nursery in Thorpe, said there was still time for parents to email their concerns ahead of the meeting which takes place at Broadland District Council at 9.30am on Wednesday, July 19,
As the Evening News reported last month a spokesman for O2 said the application was moved from a site where people were strongly opposed to it, but was needed to provide adequate access and cover for mobile users 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.
Anyone wanting to register comments about the application should log onto the planning section of Broadland's website at http://www.broadland.gov.uk and add comments under application number 20061004 or call (01603) 431133 and ask for details about how to submit written comments.
Are you battling a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk.
Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/o2b6e
A worried mother has urged families living on a sprawling estate to back her in a fresh fight against a 12.5metre mobile phone mast which could be built at the heart of their community.
Councillors on Broadland District Council's planning committee will meet next week to decide whether the O2 mast, with enclosed antennae and ground-based equipment cabinets, should be built on a highway verge on Dussindale Drive, Thorpe St Andrew.
Michelle Dickerson, a mum-of-two who lives on Association Way, off Dussindale Drive, said she intends to speak at the meeting in opposition to the mast and wants other people living on the estate to let the council know they do not want it.
“I'm quite willing to put my case forward for the children living in the area,” said Mrs Dickerson. “You have to register your intention to speak which I have done. If there are several people they only want one speaker for three minutes, but if they want me to do it, I will do it.
“I will take the children with me and go down and do it. It might just slip through if people leave it for someone else to do something about it.”
The mast was initially to be sited just yards from a plot of land at Vane Close, off Dussindale Drive, where work to build a £4million primary school has started.
The choice of site caused outrage among families living in the area, who campaigned against the mast, leading O2 to withdraw the application in March.
But Mrs Dickerson said it is now time for people to campaign again with the company wanting to site the mast on Dussindale opposite an existing 10m mobile phone mast operated by Orange.
“I'm looking at the site where it's going to be and it will be higher than the other one and will look like an eyesore,” she said.
Mrs Dickerson, who is a committee member of the Fitzmaurice Pavilion Nursery in Thorpe, said there was still time for parents to email their concerns ahead of the meeting which takes place at Broadland District Council at 9.30am on Wednesday, July 19,
As the Evening News reported last month a spokesman for O2 said the application was moved from a site where people were strongly opposed to it, but was needed to provide adequate access and cover for mobile users 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.
Anyone wanting to register comments about the application should log onto the planning section of Broadland's website at http://www.broadland.gov.uk and add comments under application number 20061004 or call (01603) 431133 and ask for details about how to submit written comments.
Are you battling a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk.
Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.
http://tinyurl.com/o2b6e
rudkla - 13. Jul, 17:53
Camp for your Right
Camp for your right - Jugendliche werden nicht ausgebildet und andere nach
der Ausbildung nicht übernommen, statt dessen von der Bundesregierung
unter Hausarrest gestellt. Als Protest gegen diese Situation campen sie
nun von 10. - 14. Juliauf dem Sendlinger Tor Platz in München. Rund herum
finden mehrere verschiedene Aktionen dazu statt – siehe dazu die Seite der
der ver.di Jugend Bayern
http://www.verdi-jugend-bayern.de/verdi/aktuell/detail.php?nr=160&kategorie=aktuell
und den Flyer (pdf)
http://www.verdi-jugend-bayern.de/pdf/flyer_camp.pdf
Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2006
der Ausbildung nicht übernommen, statt dessen von der Bundesregierung
unter Hausarrest gestellt. Als Protest gegen diese Situation campen sie
nun von 10. - 14. Juliauf dem Sendlinger Tor Platz in München. Rund herum
finden mehrere verschiedene Aktionen dazu statt – siehe dazu die Seite der
der ver.di Jugend Bayern
http://www.verdi-jugend-bayern.de/verdi/aktuell/detail.php?nr=160&kategorie=aktuell
und den Flyer (pdf)
http://www.verdi-jugend-bayern.de/pdf/flyer_camp.pdf
Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2006
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:18
Global government and its American leadership
News With Views
by Nancy Levant
07/11/06
Every 'elected' official knows full well that America is being systematically, secretly, illegally, and bureaucratically dismantled. After all, they've been quietly and steadfastly working at global governance for over 100 years. However, they have never been held to account, and they never, ever bring up the subjects of their treasonous legislating and back door dealings. They speak no evil, whatsoever. Instead, they play the terrorism game while double-timing to implement their custom made fascist system of total corporate ownership of the entire world -- including 'all human resources' (translation: all human beings)...
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy49.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Nancy Levant
07/11/06
Every 'elected' official knows full well that America is being systematically, secretly, illegally, and bureaucratically dismantled. After all, they've been quietly and steadfastly working at global governance for over 100 years. However, they have never been held to account, and they never, ever bring up the subjects of their treasonous legislating and back door dealings. They speak no evil, whatsoever. Instead, they play the terrorism game while double-timing to implement their custom made fascist system of total corporate ownership of the entire world -- including 'all human resources' (translation: all human beings)...
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy49.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:09
Minimum standards
Truthout
by William Rivers Pitt
07/12/06
BBC News reported it this way: 'All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions. The White House announced the shift in policy on Tuesday, almost two weeks after the US Supreme Court ruled that the conventions applied to detainees.' A small thing, one would think. We have been told time and again, after all, that we are engaged in a 'War on Terror,' and the rules of war should therefore apply. The fact that we are also fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan further simplifies the issue. With the Bush administration, however, nothing is so straightforward. The administration argument, on the surface, has been that because 'terrorists' are affiliated with no official government, they do not fall under the umbrella of Geneva protections. The real reason for the denial of protections, though, was the Cheney-born insistence that the powers of the executive are plenary and not to be restricted in any way. Holding people indefinitely without trial while subjecting them to torture, therefore, was a marvelous way to establish the precedent of limitless power...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206J.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by William Rivers Pitt
07/12/06
BBC News reported it this way: 'All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions. The White House announced the shift in policy on Tuesday, almost two weeks after the US Supreme Court ruled that the conventions applied to detainees.' A small thing, one would think. We have been told time and again, after all, that we are engaged in a 'War on Terror,' and the rules of war should therefore apply. The fact that we are also fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan further simplifies the issue. With the Bush administration, however, nothing is so straightforward. The administration argument, on the surface, has been that because 'terrorists' are affiliated with no official government, they do not fall under the umbrella of Geneva protections. The real reason for the denial of protections, though, was the Cheney-born insistence that the powers of the executive are plenary and not to be restricted in any way. Holding people indefinitely without trial while subjecting them to torture, therefore, was a marvelous way to establish the precedent of limitless power...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206J.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:07
Ending CIA rendition of terror suspects
Christian Science Monitor
by John K. Cooley
07/12/06
It's time for the Bush administration, and those European governments that have aided its 'renditions' of suspected terrorists, to come clean about the process and return to international, legal procedures that govern the treatment of detainees. Renditions refer to the Central Intelligence Agency's process of secretly nabbing suspects in one country -- with at least implicit, if not explicit, cooperation of agents for that government -- and transferring them to another for interrogations. The suspects are often 'rendered' to secret prisons in countries such as Egypt, Syria, or Afghanistan. They may be placed in isolation, denied due legal process, and in some cases, allegedly tortured. Until recently, European governments have been extremely critical of the US rendition process and have mostly denied hosting secret prisons and transit points in their countries...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0712/p09s02-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by John K. Cooley
07/12/06
It's time for the Bush administration, and those European governments that have aided its 'renditions' of suspected terrorists, to come clean about the process and return to international, legal procedures that govern the treatment of detainees. Renditions refer to the Central Intelligence Agency's process of secretly nabbing suspects in one country -- with at least implicit, if not explicit, cooperation of agents for that government -- and transferring them to another for interrogations. The suspects are often 'rendered' to secret prisons in countries such as Egypt, Syria, or Afghanistan. They may be placed in isolation, denied due legal process, and in some cases, allegedly tortured. Until recently, European governments have been extremely critical of the US rendition process and have mostly denied hosting secret prisons and transit points in their countries...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0712/p09s02-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:05
Protecting us from ourselves
Frontiers of Freedom
by Greg Reeson
07/12/06
Whether it's games at recess, fireworks, or clothing requirements for motorcycles, our society has become overly protective in the name of safety. Personally, I think it's stupid to ride a motorcycle without a helmet and eye protection and I would never subject myself or my family to that sort of risk. My concern is that over regulation of behavior takes away individual choice and responsibility as authority figures and government officials come up with new ways to run our lives for us, all in the name of protecting us from ourselves...
http://tinyurl.com/lno2j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Greg Reeson
07/12/06
Whether it's games at recess, fireworks, or clothing requirements for motorcycles, our society has become overly protective in the name of safety. Personally, I think it's stupid to ride a motorcycle without a helmet and eye protection and I would never subject myself or my family to that sort of risk. My concern is that over regulation of behavior takes away individual choice and responsibility as authority figures and government officials come up with new ways to run our lives for us, all in the name of protecting us from ourselves...
http://tinyurl.com/lno2j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:03
Voter registration issues cloud elections
National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff
07/11/06
The key to victory in some of this year's elections may be who wins the battle over voter registration rules, say observers. A relatively obscure area of election law has sparked a flurry of lawsuits over who gets to register new voters and how they perform the task. Several lawsuits have been filed in states that helped decide the 2004 presidential election and could be key this year in determining which party ends up with control of Congress...
http://tinyurl.com/gtkcc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
07/11/06
The key to victory in some of this year's elections may be who wins the battle over voter registration rules, say observers. A relatively obscure area of election law has sparked a flurry of lawsuits over who gets to register new voters and how they perform the task. Several lawsuits have been filed in states that helped decide the 2004 presidential election and could be key this year in determining which party ends up with control of Congress...
http://tinyurl.com/gtkcc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 16:02
The man who has been to America
Mother Jones
by McKenzie Funk
07/12/06
The Bush administration's late embrace of the Geneva Conventions may or may not be sincere. Either way, it comes too late for hundreds of prisoners who've spent years of their lives in U.S. detention -- like Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/guantanamo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=guantanamo
by McKenzie Funk
07/12/06
The Bush administration's late embrace of the Geneva Conventions may or may not be sincere. Either way, it comes too late for hundreds of prisoners who've spent years of their lives in U.S. detention -- like Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/guantanamo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=guantanamo
rudkla - 13. Jul, 15:59
The failure of Republicanism
Intellectual Conservative
by Steven D. Laib, JD, MS
07/12/06
What has happened, apparently, is that the conservative voter expected Presidents Bush, father and son, to follow in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan. They have also expected legislative representation in the same vein. When this didn't happen they have become more frustrated, and less supportive of a political party that shows many of the trappings of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society; a position they do not personally support. They are not satisfied with a party that says 'vote for us because the opposition will be so much worse that you can't afford to let them get in office.' They are also dissatisfied with party functionaries who refuse to fight, and fight dirty if necessary, to win the points that are supposed to make up a conservative agenda...
http://tinyurl.com/judrx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Steven D. Laib, JD, MS
07/12/06
What has happened, apparently, is that the conservative voter expected Presidents Bush, father and son, to follow in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan. They have also expected legislative representation in the same vein. When this didn't happen they have become more frustrated, and less supportive of a political party that shows many of the trappings of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society; a position they do not personally support. They are not satisfied with a party that says 'vote for us because the opposition will be so much worse that you can't afford to let them get in office.' They are also dissatisfied with party functionaries who refuse to fight, and fight dirty if necessary, to win the points that are supposed to make up a conservative agenda...
http://tinyurl.com/judrx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Jul, 15:52
Save the State Parks: STOP THE TOLLROADS
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:21
Congress, President Still Ignoring Obligation to Native American Health Care
Despite a widely acknowledged obligation to provide for the well-being of Native Americans, the federal government has allowed Native health and health care to decay horribly.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071206HB.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071206HB.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:12
British Banker With Ties to Enron Found Dead
A British banker who was questioned by US authorities in connection with the Enron scandal has been found dead, British media said Wednesday. The man's body was found Tuesday in a park in east London. Police would not immediately say how he died, but homicide officers were investigating - standard procedure on all suspicious deaths.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206T.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206T.shtml
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:10
GOP Senator Clashes With Bush Nominee Over Support for Torture
A key Senate Republican clashed yesterday with President Bush's pick for a federal appeals court, taking aim at the nominee's past support for harsh interrogation methods at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206S.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071206S.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:09
White House Pressures Alaska Legislature to Accept New Oil Tax/Gas Pipeline Deal
Would Transfer Billions to Oil Companies
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0712-03.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0712-03.htm
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:06
Stealth Strategy by US Chamber of Commerce to Influence Elections
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:05
Economic Recovery: Not Raining on the President's Parade
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:03
Road to Victory in Iraq 'Unclear,' US Auditors Conclude
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:02
Pentagon Switch on Geneva Elicits Hope, Scepticism
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:01
US Democracy Crusade Falls by the Wayside
rudkla - 13. Jul, 13:00
Global Gun Control Conference Harpooned by U.S. Opposition
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:58
Prisons at Center of Damning Report on U.S. Human Rights
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:57
Les Sacrifiés d'Orange
http://www.sauvonsleon.fr/pdf/extrait_reunion_asl_orange_mairie_03112004_crestefsef.pdf
Affaire Orange/Mariton/ASL
http://www.sauvonsleon.fr/main.php?param=proces_asl2
From Next-up news
Affaire Orange/Mariton/ASL
http://www.sauvonsleon.fr/main.php?param=proces_asl2
From Next-up news
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:52
Les articles "censurés" (cachés) d'Indymedia RU sur les rayonnements
http://tinyurl.com/mc7hv
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cancer_risk_for_rradiation_workers.pdf
From Next-up news
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cancer_risk_for_rradiation_workers.pdf
From Next-up news
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:48
Les antennes relais du Bel-Air, une menace pour la santé?
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:37
Watada hearing in mid-August
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4800/
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 - 13. Jul, 12:34
Microchips for Illegals?
rudkla - 13. Jul, 12:33
Les habitants font barrage à la nouvelle antenne-relais
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:43
"L'Antenne-relais n'est pas passée"
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:40
Enron Fraud case: Key NatWest Three witness found dead
A KEY witness in the case of the NatWest Three has been found dead. The dramatic development comes on the eve of the extradition to the US of the three British bankers.
http://tinyurl.com/grmm2
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/grmm2
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:11
Congressman Tom Feeney - Texas Tribe Sues Abramoff, Reed
Feeney, a close ally of the religious right and of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, is known as an eccentric lawmaker. He's also one of the most corrupt members of Congress according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, in part because he went on a golfing trip to Scotland in 2003 that was paid for by Jack Abramoff.
http://harpers.org/sb-congressman-tom-feeney-an-appreciation-1152659942.html
Texas Tribe Sues Abramoff, Reed
It's still unclear whether Ralph Reed has anything to fear from Justice Department prosecutors, but he's not going to get away without at least one legal headache.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001113.php
From Information Clearing House
http://harpers.org/sb-congressman-tom-feeney-an-appreciation-1152659942.html
Texas Tribe Sues Abramoff, Reed
It's still unclear whether Ralph Reed has anything to fear from Justice Department prosecutors, but he's not going to get away without at least one legal headache.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001113.php
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:09
U.S. May Want More Bank Data
The administration debates whether to force American institutions to turn over information on all international wire transfers.
http://tinyurl.com/h6hrm
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/h6hrm
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:08
Germans locked down for Bush visit
German anger at orchestration of visit by Bush to see Merkel
The reception party includes 300 soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. Ordinary people have been told to stay indoors. All shops in the town's historic market have been shut, and cars, rubbish bins and flowerpots have been removed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1818414,00.html
Germans locked down for Bush visit
EAST Germany is sealed off again with barbed wire, tanks, warships and fighter planes.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/12/1152637740850.html
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The reception party includes 300 soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. Ordinary people have been told to stay indoors. All shops in the town's historic market have been shut, and cars, rubbish bins and flowerpots have been removed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1818414,00.html
Germans locked down for Bush visit
EAST Germany is sealed off again with barbed wire, tanks, warships and fighter planes.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/12/1152637740850.html
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:06
Caracas rejects US probe into its oil policy
US officials say Mr Chávez is using Venezuela’s bumper oil revenues to undermine democracy in Latin America, but Venezuela maintains it is merely helping communities impoverished by US-backed economic policies.
http://tinyurl.com/l4xkc
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http://tinyurl.com/l4xkc
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rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:05
U.S. data mining riles Latin America: Nicaragua
For a people who have grappled with American meddling for more than a century, Nicaraguans were surprised to find that Uncle Sam's long reach may now extend right into their private lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4973.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4973.htm
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:04
U.S. government purchase data on Mexico’s 65 million registered voters
A probe has been launched into how the Atlanta-based corporation ChoicePoint Inc. was able to purchase data on Mexico’s 65 million registered voters as well as six million licensed drivers in Mexico City.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3186.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3186.htm
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:02
Italian Probe of CIA Abduction Broadens to Domestic Spying Scandal
Two Italian intelligence officers have been arrested on charges they helped CIA agents abduct a Muslim cleric off the streets of Milan three years ago.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/144215
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/144215
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rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:01
Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'
"We have made some mistakes," he said, referring to recent attacks on Russia's democracy. "So what? Please don't put even more obstacles in our way. Do you really think you are smarter than we are?"
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=2182020
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=2182020
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rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:00
Putin rebuffs 'colonialist' West
He singled out US Vice-President Dick Cheney, who earlier this year accused Mr Putin of backsliding on democracy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5172794.stm
Bushists Back Hard-Right in Russia
The reason Putin is now attracting continuous criticism from the lords of the West has nothing to do with the very real contraction of democracy and increasing authoritarianism in Russia.
http://tinyurl.com/hxco4
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5172794.stm
Bushists Back Hard-Right in Russia
The reason Putin is now attracting continuous criticism from the lords of the West has nothing to do with the very real contraction of democracy and increasing authoritarianism in Russia.
http://tinyurl.com/hxco4
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:58
Halt business With Pentagon
Twelve major suppliers of petroleum products to the Pentagon, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Valero, have been asked by a group of peace organizations and activists, including Cindy Sheehan and Howard Zinn, to stop doing business with the U.S. military until all U.S. troops and mercenary forces are out of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13964.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13964.htm
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:56
Merchants of death in Iraq
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:54
Iraqi Girl Blog: Atrocities
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:53
Fight For Your Life And Your Health
by Elissa Meininger
Most people think that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was created to protect the public from harm and to make sure that manufacturers followed the law in developing, testing and marketing their products. With the almost daily revelations about the corruption in medical research.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Meininger/elissa1.htm
Most people think that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was created to protect the public from harm and to make sure that manufacturers followed the law in developing, testing and marketing their products. With the almost daily revelations about the corruption in medical research.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Meininger/elissa1.htm
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:50
Soviet-Style Rule in Iraq
rudkla - 13. Jul, 08:45
