World-News

The four giant construction firms that received controversial no-bid contracts to house Hurricane Katrina evacuees last September will be earning up to $250 million apiece to do similar work after future disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006P.shtml

The Waiting Game

Sara Rich writes, "It has now been 60 traumatic days since my daughter - who signed up with the Army as an MP, and after bravely serving one tour in Iraq, chose to go AWOL rather than engage in the two more tours to Iraq that awaited her - was forcibly taken from our home in handcuffs. Like many soldiers, she was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What we didn't know, what she couldn't tell us, is that she was also suffering military sexual trauma."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006L.shtml

Klage "prüfen": Abgeordnete wollen Auskunft über Bespitzelungen von Abgeordneten (10.08.06)

Die Grünen drohen der Bundesregierung mit einer Klage vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht, falls sie keine befriedigende Antwort bekommen, inwieweit Parlamentarier in den letzten Jahren im Visier der Nachrichtendienste waren. "Wenn die Bundesregierung erneut die Antwort bezüglich der Überwachung von Bundestagsabgeordneten durch ihre Geheimdienste verweigert, werden wir die Möglichkeiten des Ganges nach Karlsruhe zur Durchsetzung unseres parlamentarischen Fragerechtes prüfen", sagte der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Grünen, Volker Beck, der "Rheinischen Post".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14190

"Missouri is the latest front in the Republican Party's campaign to use photo-ID requirements to suppress voting. Missouri's new ID rules - and similar ones adopted last year in Indiana and Georgia - are intended to deter voting by blacks, poor people and other groups that are less likely to have driver's licenses," writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006G.shtml

In October 2002, lawmakers in Congress were presented with a pre-election test about where they stood on Iraq, and most answered it by siding with President Bush, voting to authorize his use of force against Saddam Hussein and promising an anxious electorate that they would be protected against a potential threat from Iraq. Four years later, with nearly 2,600 US soldiers dead and no trace of the weapons of mass destruction that the White House said Hussein possessed, it is the Iraq war hawks who are on the defensive.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006D.shtml

The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal. The move by the administration is the latest effort to deal with treatment of those taken into custody in the war on terror.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006A.shtml

HLV INFO 87/AT

10-08-2006

Leserbrief:

Die Aussage des Bürgermeisters Arnold Nagel, man habe als Vermieterin bezüglich der Einhaltung der Grenzwerte eine Kontrollfunktion ist ausgesprochen naiv.

Die jetzigen Grenzwerte bieten leider keinen Schutz vor der gesundheitsschädigenden Einwirkung in biologische Systeme. Es gibt Untersuchungen, welche die Gesundheitsschädigung solcher Anlagen beweisen.

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

Mit einer bauleitplanerischen Steuerung von Standorten unter Einbezug einer Veränderungssperre hätte die Kommune durchaus die Möglichkeit gehabt, im Sinne einer Prävention die Interessen der Bevölkerung wahrzunehmen.

Dabei wäre auch eine „ungesteuerte Installation“ auf Privatgebäuden nicht möglich gewesen! Außerdem hätte auch ein Aufruf der Stadt, analog der Gemeinde Attendorn z.B., an die Bevölkerung, keine Standorte ohne Rücksprache mit den Hauptamtlichen der Stadt Wachenheim zu vermieten ein weiterer Schutzmechanismus sein können.

Die funktechnisch fundierte Bauleitplanung ist für Kommunen, die an Vorsorge interessiert sind, die erfolgversprechendste und damit gebotene Möglichkeit zur Minimierung von Immissionen. Damit kann überdies eine gleichmäßigere Abdeckung auf minimiertem Niveau erreicht werden. Eine solche hätte auch den Vorteil der Planungssicherheit für die Betreiber geboten. Abgesehen von der jetzigen "einfachsten Lösung" der Stadträte, die keine reale Wahrnehmung ihrer Planungshoheit beinhaltet, ist die Installation im Kirchturm in ethischer und moralischer Hinsicht ein Drama. Trotz zunehmender Einsicht in zunehmenden Kirchenkreisen, keine Installationen mehr zuzulassen, hat man scheinbar in Wachenheim nichts dazu gelernt.

Alfred Tittmann, Bruchköbel

10. August 2006/AT

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BI Bad Dürkheim 10-08-06

Weg frei für Mobilfunkanlage im Turm

WACHENHEIM: Stadtrat stimmt Verträgen mit Betreiber-Firmen zu

Dem Bau von Mobilfunkanlagen im Turm der Lutherischen Kirche steht nichts mehr im Wege. Der Wachenheimer Stadtrat hat am Dienstag entsprechenden Verträgen mit drei Anbietern zugestimmt.

Damit ist bei einem lange Zeit stark kontrovers diskutierten Thema eine Entscheidung getroffen worden. Die Meinungen darüber sind sowohl in der Bürgerschaft als auch im Rat selbst geteilt. Eine Minderheit, drei Ratsmitglieder, stimmten gegen den Abschluss der Verträge. Bisher gibt es in Wachenheim an zwei Standorten Mobilfunkanlagen: am Mittelberg und an der Kläranlage.

Bürgermeister Arnold Nagel (FWG) machte gleich zu Beginn klar, dass die Stadt nur die Möglichkeit hat, als Eigentümerin der Lutherischen Kirche den Einbau an dieser Stelle zu verhindern. „Wir können dann aber nichts machen, wenn zehn Meter weiter Privatleute Mobilfunk -Anlagen auf ihre Immobilien bauen lassen." Als Vermieterin habe die Stadt zumindest die Möglichkeit, die Einhaltung der Grenzwerte zu kontrollieren. Ein zentraler Standort habe außerdem den Vorteil, dass die Betreiber dann auf weitere Anlagen verzichten könnten. Nagel erinnerte daran, dass die Firmen die Stadt bereits vor längerer Zeit darauf hingewiesen haben, dass in Wachenheim der Gebrauch von Handys nicht überall möglich ist. Mittlerweile liege auch bereits ein Bauantrag von einem Privatmann vor, sagte Nagel.

Zustimmung erfuhr der Vorschlag von Michael Wendel (Wachenheimer Liste), ein Forum einzurichten, das sich etwa zweimal jährlich trifft, um die Entwicklung der Mobilfunk -Szene in Wachenheim zu beobachten. „Die Ängste sind da, und der Rat hat das Konfliktpotential in der Vergangenheit vielleicht unterschätzt", sagte Wendel, der aus prinzipiellen Überlegungen gegen den Beschluss stimmte. Er räumte aber ein, dass das Verfahren in Wachenheim schon ziemlich weit gediehen ist. Darauf machte auch sein Fraktionskollege Lothar Sturm aufmerksam, der an einen Ratsbeschluss vom Mai letzten Jahres erinnerte. Damals hatte der Rat sich mit einem Grundsatzbeschluss auf die Lutherische Kirche als Standort für Mobilfunkanlagen geeinigt.


Der Vorteil dabei sei, dass die Stadt als Vermieterin „Herrin des Verfahrens" bleibe, sagte Rolf Kley (SPD). Auch Elke Helfer (Wachenheimer Liste) argumentierte in diese Richtung: „Wenn, dann ist mir dieser Standort lieber als andere." Andreas Berger (FDP) formulierte es so: „Die wissenschaftliche Frage ist nicht zu klären, deshalb spricht viel für den Standort Lutherische Kirche." Verbandsbürgermeister Klaus Huter (SPD) wies darauf hin, dass die Betreiber angekündigt hätten, auf die Shell-Tankstelle auszuweichen, falls der Stadtrat nicht bald eine Entscheidung treffe. In diesem Falle wäre aber eine weitere Anlage im Süden der Stadt notwendig. (kkr) Kommentar

Quelle: Publikation: DIE RHEINPFALZ Regionalausgabe: Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung Nr.184, Datum: Donnerstag, den 10. August 2006, Seite: Nr.13



KOMMENTAR

Fair diskutiert

Von Kathrin Keller

Die Installation von Mobilfunkanlagen hat schon in vielen Städten und Gemeinden für heiße Diskussionen gesorgt. Die Gegner sind sich in der Regel darüber im Klaren, dass sie am kürzeren Hebel sitzen. Mobilfunkanlagen können höchstens an bestimmten Objekten verhindert werden (wenn der Eigentümer sein Veto einlegt), nicht aber generell. Die Proteste wiederholen sich dennoch, denn sie haben ein anderes Ziel: Sie sind politische Signale, sie zeigen, dass der Elektrosmog, die unsichtbare Strahlung, vielen Menschen Angst macht. Und diesen Ängsten müssen sowohl die Politik als auch die Unternehmen Rechnung tragen. So gesehen hat auch der Protest in Wachenheim seine berechtigte Funktion. In der Sache an sich aber ist er sinnlos, sogar kontraproduktiv. Zahlreiche Ratsmitglieder, auch der Bürgermeister, haben darauf hingewiesen: Es geht nicht um die Frage, ob die Mobilfunkanlagen gebaut werden, sondern nur wo. Als Vermieterin hat die Stadt zumindest die Möglichkeit, den Mobilfunk -Unternehmen genau auf die Finger zu gucken.

Der Wachenheimer Rat hat das Thema Mobilfunk jedenfall ungewöhnlich fair und sachlich diskutiert. Schade, dass das nicht öfter so ist.

Quelle: Publikation: DIE RHEINPFALZ Regionalausgabe: Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung Nr.184, Datum: Donnerstag, den 10. August 2006, Seite: Nr.13

Nach dem Verbot von Gentech-Saatgut bläst nun auch den Importeuren von Gentech-Futtermitteln ein scharfer Wind entgegen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23298/1.html

by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com

A federal judge tells the EPA to stop making it easier for industry to pollute and start doing its job.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/10/environmental_delinquency.php

by Ann-Louise Colgan, TomPaine.com

Bush talks tough yet fails to act as the cease-fire agreement in the Sudan is being shot full of holes.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/10/empty_promises_for_darfur.php



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

Veranstaltungsankündigung zum Thema Mobilfunk am 12.9.2006 in Wien

S.g. Damen und Herren!

Zu Ihrer Info darf ich Ihnen eine Veranstaltungsankündigung zum Thema Mobilfunk am 12.9.2006 in Wien übermitteln.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/einladung.pdf


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Hans-Peter Petutschnig
Referat für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Kommunikation und Medien der Ärztekammer für Wien Abteilung Pressestelle
1010 Wien, Weihburggasse 10-12
Tel. +43 / 1 / 51501-1223
Fax: +43 / 1 / 51501-1289
E-Mail: hpp@aekwien.at
Homepage: http://www.aekwien.at

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Dr. Gerd Oberfeld 10-08-06


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

In der Anlage wird eine Einladung zu einer Podiumsdiskussion der Ärztekammer Wien übermittelt.

TELEFONIEREN MIT DEM HANDY
Wie gefährlich sind Mobilfunkstrahlen?

D I S K U T I E R E N S I E M I T !

Dienstag, 12. September 2006, 19:30 Radio-Kulturhaus des ORF
1040 Wien, Argentinierstr. 30A

Anmeldung erforderlich - siehe Programm


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Dr. Gerd Oberfeld

Dr. med. univ. Gerd Oberfeld
Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung
Landessanitätsdirektion Referat Gesundheit, Hygiene und Umweltmedizin Postanschrift: Postfach 527, 5010 Salzburg, ÖSTERREICH
Adresse: Sebastian-Stief-Gasse 2
Tel. ++43 (0)662) 8042 - 2969
Fax ++43 (0)662) 8042 - 3056
gerd.oberfeld@salzburg.gv.at
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/umweltmedizin



T E L E F O N I E R E N M I T D E M H A N D Y
W i e g e f ä h r l i c h s i n d M o b i l f u n k s t r a h l e n ?

D I S K U T I E R E N S I E M I T !


Sendung Hot doc
ORF

Die heißen Themen der Medizin
Diskurs ohne Censur


Handys für Kinder: Ärzte schlagen Alarm.“ „Machen Handys unsere Kinder krank?“ „Rauch-Kallat prüft Warnung vor Handys.“ – So lauteten einige der Schlagzeilen, als die Wiener Ärztekammer vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr vor dem übermäßigen Gebrauch von Handys, speziell bei Kindern und Jugendlichen, warnte und ihre „10 medizinischen Handy-Regeln“ publizierte.

Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „hot doc.“ wird offen über ein Thema diskutiert, das wohl jeden von uns betrifft.

Sind nun die Warnungen der Ärztekammer berechtigt? Oder stimmt die Meinung der Kritiker, dass alles doch ganz harmlos ist? Machen Sie sich selbst ein Bild!

Die Ärztekammer sah ihr Vorgehen als längst fällige Warnung im Sinne eines Vorsorgegedankens, die Mobilfunkindustrie sprach von unseriöser Panikmache.

19.30 Uhr

Begrüßung: Dr. Jörg Hofmann
Referent für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Ärztekammer für Wien

Impulsreferat: Dr. Gerd Oberfeld

Pro: Referent für Umweltmedizin der Österreichischen Ärztekammer
Impulsreferat: Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Möbius

Contra: Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V., Bonn

Podium: Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ernst Bonek
Institut für Nachrichtentechnik und Hochfrequenztechnik,
Technische Universität Wien

Dr. Wolfgang Ecker
Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Frauen

Dr. Erik Huber
Referent für Umweltmedizin der Ärztekammer für Wien

Dr. Gabriela Moser
Grüne-Abgeordnete zum Nationalrat

Moderation: Martin Haidinger
Ö1 Wissenschaftsredaktion


A N M E L D U N G

Tel.: 5 1 5 0 1 - 1 2 8 9
Fax.: 5 1 5 0 1 - 1 2 2 3
e-mail: pressestelle @ aekwien.at

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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

AlterNet
by Celina R. De Leon

08/07/06

Despite rare glimpses of growing popular opposition to the war, such as Cindy Sheehan or Medea Benjamin with 'Bring Troops Home Now' signs on national television, the mainstream media still does not provide a consistent space for a critique of American foreign policy. And while soldiers continue to desert the military, and 72 percent think that the United States should exit Iraq within the next year, the Bush administration and Congress cannot seem to come up with a concrete strategy for addressing the growing chaos and deaths in Iraq. Impatient with the current status quo, students, war veterans, anti-war activists and soldiers and their parents across the country are thinking of new ways to get their message to the government and general public. Realizing that mass national protests did not sway the Bush administration from staying the course in Iraq, many young organizers focused their strategy on local counter-recruitment campaigns. And their work seems to be making an impact...

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/39913/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by Timothy Noah

08/08/06

Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, has finally thrown in the towel on his hapless re-election bid. Ney is the member of Congress most identified with the scandals surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ney (aka 'Representative #1') is named in no fewer than four plea agreements as the recipient of much largesse from and doer of many favors for Abramoff. ... Ney, incidentally, is the blowhard who punished France by renaming pommes frites 'freedom fries' during the run-up to the Iraq invasion...

http://www.slate.com/id/2147357/entry/0/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Foundation for Economic Education
by Joshua M. Parker

08/09/06

Two years. That’s how long Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is requesting that internet service providers (ISPs) retain data concerning websites that users visit and logs of their online communication -- including both e-mail and instant messaging. Bipartisan legislation on data retention, sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), appears to be imminent. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has organized several contentious meetings with leading ISPs and privacy groups to discuss the merits and perils of a data-retention scheme...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=685


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Christopher Westley

08/09/06

So I am getting a ride home from daily Mass, and my friend and driver, a history professor at my school, is angry at British Petroleum's latest announcement that a major oil field is being shutdown. This was news to me because I hadn't checked any of the news sites that day, although I must admit that following Mass, such events are furthest from my mind. 'What happened?' I asked...

http://www.mises.org/story/2275


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Erwerbslosenarbeit der Gewerkschaften: Erwerbslose in die Satzung!

„»Die Würde des Menschen ist unser Maßstab«: Das war das Motto des 18. Ordentlichen Bundeskongresses des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), der vom 22.-26. Mai 2006 in Berlin tagte. Was aber folgte aus diesem Motto für die Organisation? Offenbar nicht viel…“ Artikel von Carsten Zinn und Andreas Steiner vom 8.8.06 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/debatte/alosdgb06b.html

Aus dem Text: „…Leider haben die Gewerkschaftsspitzen die ganze Sache seinerzeit mit Vertretern in der Hartz-Kommission »sozialpartnerschaftlich begleitet« und scheuen sich nun davor, eine deutlich kritischere Haltung einzunehmen, gravierende Fehler einzugestehen und nun die Wendung um 180° zu vollziehen. Sie werden aber nicht drum herum kommen. Denn die wirtschafts- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Folgen von einem Jahr Hartz IV sind verheerend - und der Flächenbrand geht weiter. Auch wenn es weh tut, muss sich auch der DGB endlich dazu bekennen und sich eindeutig gegen Hartz IV positionieren….“


Aus: LabourNet, 8. August 2006

Environmentalists and government watchdogs are condemning the president's nomination to head an "obscure but powerful" regulatory office - the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) - saying Bush's pick would prioritize corporate interests over protecting the public.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080906EB.shtml

Lieberman is announcing he will move forward with plans to abuse loopholes in Connecticut's election laws, ignore Democratic Party voters who voted in our democratic process for change, and mount a Lieberman for Lieberman Independent bid.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14429.htm



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

Any morning which carries the fragrance of a defeat for Joe Lieberman is one that should be savored. And his humiliation at the hands of Connecticut voters yesterday is all the sweeter for the fact that it looks as though we may be able to enjoy another Lieberman defeat in November.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14452.htm



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

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14428.htm

The administration's two other responses to the Supreme Court's rejection of its military tribunal system have been to seek legislation blocking Guantanamo prisoners' right to sue to enforce their newly won protections; and to draft a bill that replaces an absolute human rights standard with consideration of intelligence-gathering needs during interrogations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14436.htm



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

http://tinyurl.com/jy7t5


From Information Clearing House

Video

"Nothing Iran is accused of is illegal"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14465.htm

10/08/2006

VODAFONE is pressing ahead with its plans to build a mobile phone mast in Horsell Way despite massive opposition from residents.

The application by Vodafone was first made public in November, when residents were consulted on the idea of building a 10-metre construction on the junction of Horsell Way and Horsell Birch.

They condemned the plans as unsuitable and Woking MP Humfrey Malins wrote personally to Lord MacLaurin, chairman of Vodafone, to plead the case of around 100 families who had met him during a site visit.

Ward councillor Ann-Marie Barker said: “We suggested other suitable sites to Vodafone, including a site on Horsell Common that the Horsell Common Preservation Society said it would not oppose. But this was thought to be too far away. We also suggested the Littlewick roundabout but this was apparently in the green belt.

“The site is quite close to the Church of England and the Infant school isn’t far away either. The little place that they are proposing is called Buttercup Corner and it’s got rather nice green trees.

“Vodafone says the trees will mask the mast but they are deciduous so they won’t do all year round.

“It is a nice little spot where people go a lot but they would be confronted by this mast in a dense residential area. Cllr Richard Sanderson and I are working together on this to get a letter out to residents to let them know what Vodafone is doing and allow them time to get any objections in.

“I do think this is a highly inappropriate place for a mast.”

Caroline Brooker, a resident of Horsell Way, said: “We are really concerned to be honest because last year this application first emerged and we objected against it then.

“We have been messed around by Vodafone and it’s very stressful. The site is completely inappropriate, a mast would completely change the character of that spot.

“The cabinets that go with it would be obstructive. We are very disappointed but we are going to have a good fight.”

Copyright © Surrey & Berkshire Newspapers Limited

http://www.woking.co.uk/news/article/article_id=16653.html

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0809-10.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0809-28.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0809-24.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0809-06.htm



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

http://www.booksmatter.com/b0452286158.htm


Informant: dunl254

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2006/phone-mast-09-08-06.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Burnham-On-Sea

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger97.html

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Why They Hate Us

Julia E. Sweig writes that recovering our global standing will come not only from how we fight or prevent the next war, or manage an increasingly chaotic world. Domestic policy must change as well. Steering the body politic out of its insular mood, reducing social and economic inequalities, and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels will help improve our moral standing and our security.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081506Z.shtml

By Leo Lewis in Tokyo
The Times
August 10, 2006

The rapid spread of Western business practices in Japan has caused widespread mental illness and is responsible for a deepening demographic crisis, government officials say.

Statistics indicate that 60 per cent of workers suffer from ³high anxiety² and that 65 per cent of companies report soaring levels of mental illness.

Meanwhile, the size of the Japanese population is shrinking, and for the first time the Government has acknowledged that the falling birth rate is linked to job-related factors. Directors of the Japanese Mental Health Institute blame the same factors for rising levels of depression among workers and the country¹s suicide rate, which remains the highest among rich nations.

Merit-based pay and promotion are of particular concern because they are at odds with the traditional system, built on seniority, that has reigned supreme in corporate Japan. In the harsh new atmosphere of cut-throat rivalry between workers, the Institute for Population and Social Security argues, young people do not feel financially stable enough to start families.

The trend is put down to Japanese companies¹ attempts to globalise by adopting working practices more closely in line with US and British models. Larger numbers of temporary staff, a greater willingness to sack people and greater pay disparities are the downside.

A spokesman for the Mental Health Institute said that the emphasis on individual performance was driving Japanese workers -- particularly those in their thirties -- to mental turmoil. ³People tend to be individualised under the new working patterns,² he said. ³When people worked in teams they were happier.²

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2305849,00.html


Informant: NHNE

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4932/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Gentechnik: Greenpeace protestiert gegen gentechnisch veränderten Mais (09.08.06)

Greenpeace-Aktivisten ernteten am Mittwoch genmanipulierten Mais auf einem Acker in Wölsickendorf und deponierten ihn in 30 Mülltonnen sowie drei überdimensionalen Landliebe-Milchflaschen und Campina-Joghurtbechern. Die "Agrargenossenschaft Höhe e.G." aus Wölsickendorf, die den Gen-Mais anbaut, liefere ihre Milch an den Molkereikonzern Campina/Landliebe. Daher werde Greenpeace die Mülltonnen mit Gen-Mais am Donnerstag bei der Campina-Zentrale in Heilbronn abgeben. Die Umweltschützer fordern den Konzern auf, Anbau und Verfütterung von Gen-Mais bei seinen Vertragslandwirten zu verbieten. Mais werde in Deutschland vorwiegend als Futter für Milchkühe verwendet. Greenpeace kritisiert, dass die Sicherheit der Gen-Pflanzen für Mensch und Umwelt nicht geklärt sei. Das zeigten auch Fütterungsversuche mit dem Gen-Mais MON810 an Ratten, die am Mittwoch die Europafraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen veröffentlichte.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14178

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

By: Alan Healy

DESPITE ministerial intervention and a prolonged campaign by a close-knit community, a controversial mobile phone mast planned for Glenbeigh has been given the go ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

Kerry County Council had originally refused permission for the mast because it was to be sited less than one kilometre from residences and from Curaheen National School.

However Vodafone appealed that decision to the planning board which has now overturned the council’s decision. The news will come as a major disappointment for local residents who had mounted a vigorous campaign of opposition to masts in their area.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a number of rulings on mobile phone masts made by Kerry County Council as the phone companies have argued that the council’s one kilometre ruling is unworkable as it would mean masts could only be located in remote areas where there is no demand for a phone network.

The planning board found that the council’s decision was at odds with the National Development Plan which calls for a quality mobile phone network throughout the country.

The mast is to be located 500 metres south-west of the Curraheen Bridge, off the N70 Ring of Kerry road. The planning application sought approval for the erection of an 18-metre wooden pole with three antennae and two dishes plus an equipment cabinet. Two local residents as well as An Taisce had submitted objections to the plan.

They claimed the mast would ruin the scenery along the Ring of Kerry, that it would devalue property, that it was too close to the school and residences and that locals had no problems with the current Vodafone network in the area.

Minister John O’Donoghue, who was extensively lobbied by locals on the issue, also made a submission on the application saying there was 100 per cent local opposition to the plan and he was anxious to know if the board would be taking the County Development Plan on board. However planning inspector Annette Yates, who examined the Glenbeigh case, recommended that the board give permission for the development saying she felt that Vodafone’s need for the service outweighs the potential loss of amenity in the area.

“I do not see how it would be possible to have a modern telecommunications system without having masts within 1km of places of employment or residency,” she said.

“There can be very few places in all of Ireland where there is not a house or place of employment within 1km,” she said.

An Bord Pleanála met on July 26 and members agreed with the inspector’s recommendation and granted permission for the mast. The decision comes despite a delegation of concerned Glenbeigh locals making a presentation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications on May 31.

© The Kingdom, 2006.

http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story.asp?j=21477

It’s true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant. But that isn’t all they’re after.

Under the guise of responding to the NSA spying scandal, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress are actually pushing for new ways to invade your privacy, with unprecedented and dangerous spying legislation crafted under Dick Cheney’s supervision.

The bad news is, if these bills pass, our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes will be laid bare to new kinds of government spying that are currently completely illegal. The good news is that we have a chance to stop these bills now, before White House pressure drives them to a speedy vote.

This August you can help generate a public outcry that will make Congress think twice before they hand over even more power to the Bush administration. Call your member of Congress today, and get the word out in your local community with a letter to the editor.
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=Pw4Cr8mQMDZfriz-r5SOcw..

This legislation is being characterized by some as "surveillance we can live with," but the fact is it would vastly expand the government's power to search and spy on Americans without any judicial checks, including reading any email you send if the government does not know where all the recipients are physically located.

Don’t be deceived by claims the Cheney-Specter bill restores judicial review. The legislation really tries to make warrants optional while allowing a secret court to rubber-stamp surveillance of Americans, without even knowing the names of Americans to be wiretapped or whether they’ve done anything wrong. We are running advertisements and working with every contact we have in the major news outlets to counteract the government’s spin, but we need your help.

If you’ve had enough of an administration that’s proven itself grossly indifferent to the rule of law and the balance of power time and time again, on issues from warrantless spying, to secret kidnapping, to the unlawful treatment of Guantanamo detainees, now is the time to say “NO MORE.”

Just last week, President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales were pushing Congress to rubber-stamp a new plan for military commissions at Guantanamo that would violate U.S. law and the Geneva conventions, flying in the face of the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down the entire Bush-sponsored system of detainee trials.

Use the links above to learn more about the Cheney-backed proposals and get involved during this critical month of action. You can help get out the truth about this bill and the dangers it poses.

Throughout August, we’ll be calling on you to help cut through the White House spin and tell Congress how toxic these bills are to our basic freedoms. They need to hear the wave of opposition while they’re on their summer break. And we’re counting on you to help turn the tide, by speaking out at home and online.

Thank you for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Anthony Romero, ACLU

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director American Civil Liberties Union

VoterAction has announced that California voters are challenging the use of the Diebold TSx touch screen voting system and that they have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in state court.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906G.shtml

Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war ... "I find it basically unpardonable that Congress is not going to provide funds to take care of our soldiers and sailors who put their lives on the line for their country," says Martin Foil, a member of the center's board of directors. "It blows my imagination."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906D.shtml

Former majority leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he is taking the necessary steps to remove his name from the November ballot, giving his party a chance to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding the House seat. The leading Republican candidate to replace scandal-scarred congressman Bob Ney on the November ballot may be ineligible, party officials said Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906C.shtml

A subsidiary of Halliburton is under investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office over the US oil service company's part in an alleged plot to pay more than $170 million in bribes to win billions of dollars of work at a giant Nigerian gas plant.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906P.shtml

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to US officials and a copy of the amendments.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906O.shtml

The editors of the New York Times write, "The defeat of Senator Joseph Lieberman at the hands of a little-known Connecticut businessman is bound to send a message to politicians of both parties that voters are angry and frustrated over the war in Iraq. The primary upset was not, however, a rebellion against the bipartisanship and centrism that Mr. Lieberman said he represented in the Senate. Instead, Connecticut Democrats were reacting to the way those concepts have been perverted by the Bush White House."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906K.shtml



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

Jason Leopold writes, "Chuck Hamel, a highly regarded activist based in Alexandria, Virginia, who is credited with exposing dozens of oil spills and the subsequent cover-ups related to BP's shoddy operations at Prudhoe Bay, sounded early warning alarms about the issues at BP's North Slope facilities ... the oil behemoth's executives have routinely lied to Alaskan state representatives and members of the United States Senate and Congress about the steps they're taking to correct the problems."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906J.shtml

A message from Davida

Target: Eddie Francis, Mayor, City of Windsor
Sponsor: Elena Pintilie

Windsor-Essex County is one of the most ecologically important regions of Canada. Although small in size, it has a great richness of plant and animal species that are found nowhere else in the country. Unfortunately, it also is one of the most threatened. Originally a forest covered expanse dotted with grasslands, less than 4% of the County currently remains as forest. Most of Ontario’s endangered species live within the landscape of which Windsor-Essex County is a part.

Some extremely important and rare natural areas remain. For example, Windsor-Essex is fortunate to contain the 322 hectare Ojibway Prairie Complex. It is one of the best examples of tall grass prairie and oak savannah in Ontario and contains 500 types of plants (69 of which are species at risk), and several endangered and threatened animal species, including eastern massasauga rattlesnake, eastern fox snake, yellow-breasted chat, red-headed woodpecker, and gray fox. Four species of butterfly found at Ojibway are considered rare or very rare in Ontario.

Now this rare and fragile prairie is threatened. The City of Windsor is proposing a truck route through part of the Ojibway Prairie Complex. This four lane highway would bisect the Spring Garden Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI) portion of the Ojibway Prairie Complex and would have a devastatingly negative impact on its natural features and ecological functions, including an important natural corridor for animal movement.

At the recent Ontario Nature Annual General Meeting, delegates representing our 140 member organizations and 18,000 members passed a resolution declaring:

the entire Spring Garden Area of Natural and Scientific Interest and Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve are inappropriate for a truck route and are off limits to those planning the route to a second international crossing.

A strong public response will help Ontario Nature make sure that the City of Windsor reconsiders this transportation option and provides full protection for the Ojibway Prairie Complex.

Make a difference to the future for Ojibway Prairie by taking action by August 30th!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/526309670

Pension 'Reform'

by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/09/pension_reform.php

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

The right wants to wrap today's crises in the nostalgia of conflicts gone by. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/09/hungry_for_world_war_iii.php

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

There is a civil war in Irak, and there needs to be a civil war in American politics as well.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/09/bring_the_war_home.php

William Rivers Pitt writes that it wasn't just the war. It was a long, slow slide that eventually tipped Lieberman's applecart. It was a process of insinuation into the cash-and-carry culture of Washington, DC. It was a series of astonishingly bad votes on incredibly important issues. It was, above all, political cowardice; Lieberman attached himself to Bush while Bush was riding high, and was unable to extract himself as Bush's popularity collapsed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906Z.shtml



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

Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

08/07/06

You usually learn more about presidents years after they have left office. If a sitting president has a problem of some sort -- an ailment, an addiction, an out-of-his-depth problem, whatever -- his aides have things to consider, things like loyalty, national security and prestige, and that other thing, respect for the office...

http://tinyurl.com/fhyuu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Steven R. Ratner

08/08/06

The White House and Congress are embroiled in negotiations over legislation to address the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was handed down at the end of June. That decision ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay for terrorism offenses violate both federal statute and US treaty obligations. But the debates over the new law lose sight of far-reaching aspects of the court's decision for all detainees in US custody worldwide, not just the handful the US proposes to try...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0808/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

08/08/06

What I don't think is right,' Joe Lieberman said on Sunday, 'as I have said over and over again, are many of the Bush administration's decisions regarding the execution of the [Iraq] War.' Thus, a desperate and embattled U.S. senator tries to save his political career. Lieberman did, in fact, sing the 'for the war, critical of the execution' song for a time back in 2003 when he was running for president. Had he stuck with that tune -- the one intoned by Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and many other Democrats who managed not to draw serious primary challengers -- he'd almost certainly be in excellent shape today...

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?articleId=11824


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Brattleboro Reformer

08/08/06

Three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman fell to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic primary Tuesday, a race seen as a harbinger of sentiment over the conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. Unbowed, Lieberman immediately announced he would enter the fall campaign as an independent. Only six years ago, Lieberman was the Democrats' choice for vice president...

http://tinyurl.com/ecaz7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

MSNBC

08/08/06

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments. Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14236728/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Residents in Goatstown are objecting to a planned phone mast for the area that they say will be too close to a nearby crèche and primary school. Over 200 residents have signed a petition to object to a planning application by a mobile phone company to build the mast on top of a premises on Drummartin Road. Speaking to Southside People, John Connellan, a spokesman for the residents, outlined their fears and said they would stage a demonstration on site later this week. “This is a fairly substantial mast development in a highly residential area,” Mr Connellan. “There is a crèche that can be no more than 100 metres from the planned mast, while Mount Anvil Primary School is only 250 to 300 metres away. “With this in mind we feel that the mast could pose a serious threat to the local community and should not be allowed to go ahead as planned.” Mr Connellan said that what most concerned him was an apparent lack of consultation between the mobile phone company and the residents.

“We feel that this should have been a minimum requirement,” he added. “I don’t see why the mast couldn’t have been planned for a more suitable site such as the nearby industrial estate. “At least if the mast was developed at the industrial estate, people there would not be exposed to it as much as in our residential area. At the industrial estate people would be exposed to the mast for a maximum of 10 hours a day whereas we will be exposed to it 24/seven.” Cllr Gearoid O’Keefe (Ind) said that he would also object to the mast, pointing out that Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council adopted a policy at its July meeting that such installations should be at least 600 metres from residents or schools. Meanwhile, residents in Dalkey who successfully campaigned against a mast on the local Garda station have succeeded in getting an undertaking from the Minister at the Office of Public Works that further work has been halted. Minister Tom Parlon (PD) met with representatives from the Dalkey Community Against Radiation, local residents and councillors to discuss the contentious issue. He promised that the work would not go ahead until the findings of an interdepartmental report on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation are published. 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. Residents were supported in their action by community groups in Shankill, who are also opposing plans to extend a mast over the Garda station in their suburb. Three protest marches have already been held against the work, with crowd numbers estimated as high as 2,000.

http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493&Itemid=49

Across the nation, a number of states, counties and municipalities are courting trouble with the way they manage their pension funds. It is hard to know the extent of the problems, but by one estimate, state and local governments owe their current and future retirees roughly $375 billion more than they have committed to their pension funds.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080806LA.shtml

A federal court decided last week that the Bush administration had rushed to sell oil and gas leases on public lands without considering their wilderness characteristics. The New York Times says, "With any luck, the decision will send a signal to Ms. Norton's successor, Dirk Kempthorne, that the administration's policy of indiscriminately fast-tracking leases in fragile areas needs a fresh look."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080806EC.shtml

The Seattle Times writes: "With the Mideast at best uncertain, with the decline of North Slope and domestic oil production more certain, Congress can begin by offering a coordinated energy policy. That may seem remote today, given the indenture of Congress to special interests, but the shock of an empty pipe should be a start."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080806EB.shtml

Protesters used a log this morning to block a bridge to a timber sale in southern Oregon. One protester dangled on the edge of the log on a platform 40 feet above the river. The sale is the first logging allowed in a national forest roadless area since the Bush administration replaced the popular 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in 2005.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080806EA.shtml

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=534
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=535

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Ultrasound Can Affect Brain Development

Exposure to ultrasound can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. When pregnant mice were exposed to ultrasound, a small number of nerve cells in the developing brains of their fetuses failed to extend correctly in the cerebral cortex.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080806HA.shtml

http://seaturtles.org/prog_camp2.cfm?campaignID=27


Informant: Charlie's Angel

Handy macht Chef zu "Big Brother"

veröffentlicht: 08.08.06 - 15:41

Edinburgh (rpo). Eine neue Technik ermöglicht es Unternehmen, die Aufenthaltsorte ihrer Mitarbeiter lückenlos zu bestimmen. Entwickelt wurde das System von der schottischen Firma Trisent und es funktioniert mit ganz normalen Standardhandys.

Im Unterschied zu bestehenden Tracking-Systemen mit Hilfe von GPS verwendet der "Trilocator" übliche Standard-Handys.

Eine Mitteilung auf dem Display unterrichtet die Beschäftigten davon, dass die Daten zu ihrem Aufenthaltsort übermittelt werden. Die Kontrolle endet erst mit dem Abschalten des Mobiltelefons.

Trisent will das System für Unternehmen mit Außendienstmitarbeitern anbieten und testet es zusammen mit dem russischen Telekom-Anbieter VimpelCom. In Großbritannien wurden die Gesetze für das Mobilfunk-Tracking im Mai gelockert.

Am 16. August startet ein Angebot, mit dessen Hilfe Eltern den Aufenthaltsort ihrer Kinder bestimmen können. Die Bürgerrechtsorganisation Liberty kritisierte, dass es für einen Arbeitgeber keinen Grund gebe, rund um die Uhr den Aufenthaltsort von Mitarbeitern ermitteln zu können.

© RP Online, AFP, ap, ddp, sid, gms, teleschau-der Mediendienst, Tel-A-Vision

http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/multimedia/handys/technik/346530

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09.08.2006

Überwachung der Mitarbeiter via Handy

Das schottische Unternehmen Trisent hat eine neue Mobilfunktechnik entwickelt, die die lückenlose Kontrolle des Aufenthaltsorts aller Mitarbeiter ermöglicht. Im Gegensatz zu bestehenden "Tracking-Systemen", die über GPS funktionieren, verwendet Trisent mit seinem Gerät "Trilocator" handelsübliche Handys. Ein Hinweis auf dem Display des Gerätes unterrichtet den Mitarbeiter, dass die Daten zum Aufenthaltsort gerade übermittelt werden. Erst wenn das Gerät ausgeschaltet ist, ist eine Datenübermittlung -und somit die Übermittlung des derzeitigen Standortes- nicht mehr möglich.

Das Gerät und die Technik werden derzeit in Zusammenarbeit mit dem russischen Telekom-Anbieter "VimpelCom" getestet. Nach Abschluss der Tests will das Unternehmen Trisent sein System vor allem Firmen mit Außendienstmitarbeitern anbieten.

In Großbritannien soll, nachdem im Mai dieses Jahres das Gesetz zum Mobilfunk-Tracking gelockert wurde, ein Pilotprojekt starten, bei dem Eltern den Aufenthaltsort ihrer Kinder ermitteln können. Die Bürgerrechtsorganisation "Liberty" hat allerdings bereits Kritik angemeldet. Die Organisation meint, es gebe keinen Grund, einen Mitarbeiter rund um die Uhr überwachen zu müssen.

Es gibt aber noch weitere kritische Stimmen: Die Zeitung "The Sydney Morning Herald" zitiert beispielsweise den Freiheitsrechtler Doug Jewell mit den Worten, dass eine Firma kein Recht hätte, nonstop über den Aufenthalt seiner Angestellten Bescheid zu wissen, nur weil jene einen Arbeitsvertrag unterschrieben hätten. Das Unternehmen Trisent verteidigt sein System und meinte: Die Mitarbeiter würden darüber informiert, dass ihr Handy gerade getrackt wird. Außerdem sei das System so aufgebaut, dass kein Vorgesetzter die Technik heimlich einsetzen könne.

© dsltarife.net

http://www.dsltarife.net/news/1688.html

Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded? You bet it is. Has been for more than a decade. Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to turn a quick buck on its negligence, to profit off the disaster it created? Just ask the "smart pig."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14418.htm



Big Oil and the Trillion-Dollar War Bonus

It has been a very good war for Big Oil — courtesy of OPEC price hikes. The five oil giants saw profits rise from $34 billion in 2002 to $81 billion in 2004, year two of Iraq’s “transition to democracy.”

http://www.gregpalast.com/big-oil-and-the-trillion-dollar-war-bonus


From Information Clearing House

A US Senate election has become a barometer of disgust with the war in Iraq, as Democratic incumbent Joseph Lieberman -- a strong supporter of US policy there -- fights for his political life against a little-known challenger.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060808/pl_afp/usiraqvotepolitics



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

Everyday that passes shows more of those who enthusiastically supported the Bush administration's imperial drive in the Middle East leaving its sinking ship.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=10718


From Information Clearing House

A new book by the Chairmen of the 9/11 commission admits that the commission whitewashed the root cause of the 9/11 attacks—that same interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14420.htm

New Conyers Report: Propaganda from the President
http://tinyurl.com/kvxqg


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq accused Iran on Tuesday of having forces in Iraq and said Tehran could use the war between Hizbollah militants and Israel in Lebanon to try and further destabilize the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060808/ts_nm/iraq_usa_iran_dc


From Information Clearing House

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack Monday on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, breaking with his American partners on security tactics as the U.S. launches a major operation to secure the capital.

http://tinyurl.com/l32r8


From Information Clearing House

Cindy Sheehan

Every single Iraqi that we met with has been dreadfully affected by the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. One Sheik that we met with had his door broken down and he was beaten and dragged off to prison while the soldiers abused his wife.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14414.htm

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In the ideology of "democratic fundamentalism" to which George W. Bush converted after 9-11, we are simply in a rough patch on the glory road to a democratic Middle East and "the end of tyranny on this earth." In reality, our situation has never been more grim.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14413.htm

By Dan Plesch

US forces are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in the Middle East in a few hours. US readiness for more war is just one indicator that the present war is likely to spread and intensify in the coming months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14412.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0808-28.htm

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Times Call for New Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg writes, "What prompted me to begin copying 7,000 pages of highly classified documents - an act that I fully expected would send me to prison for life? I came to the conclusion that the system I had been part of as a Marine, a Pentagon official and a State Department officer in Vietnam lied reflexively, at every level, from sergeant to commander in chief, about murder. And I had the evidence to prove it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081406O.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0808-25.htm

Lieberman, Lamont and the Future of the Democrats
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0808-27.htm



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

Just after 11:00pm on Tuesday night, Senator Joeseph Lieberman stepped to the podium to congratulate his primary challenger, Ned Lamont, on his victory. A bit of history has been made in this Connecticut race; more than 95% of incumbents are re-elected to Congress, and a long-time incumbent losing a primary race is almost unheard of.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806Y.shtml



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/franke5.html



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

by Nancy Levant

Having no choice but to comply, most American people will accept their new national/international ID card. It is my understanding that without the card, we will be denied bank accounts in the United States of America, a driver’s license, and the right to fly on airplanes unless we have been issued a Real ID card. One might imagine that global retailers might require the Real ID to purchase food and gasoline. Take a look at your current driver’s license.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy53.htm

Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war. Make no mistake about it: We, the majority of Americans, want this war ended -- and we will actively work to defeat each and every one of you who does not support an immediate end to this war.

Nearly every Democrat set to run for president in 2008 is responsible for this war. They voted for it or they supported it. That single, stupid decision has cost us 2,592 American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. Lieberman and Company made a colossal mistake -- and we are going to make sure they pay for that mistake. Payback time started last night.

I realize that there are those like Kerry and Edwards who have now changed their position and are strongly anti-war. Perhaps that switch will be enough for some to support them. For others, like me -- while I'm glad they've seen the light -- their massive error in judgment is, sadly, proof that they are not fit for the job. They sided with Bush, and for that, they may never enter the promised land.

To Hillary, our first best hope for a woman to become president, I cannot for the life of me figure out why you continue to support Bush and his war. I'm sure someone has advised you that a woman can't be elected unless she proves she can kick ass just as crazy as any man. I'm here to tell you that you will never make it through the Democratic primaries unless you start now by strongly opposing the war. It is your only hope. You and Joe have been Bush's biggest Democratic supporters of the war. Last night's voter revolt took place just a few miles from your home in Chappaqua. Did you hear the noise? Can you read the writing on the wall?

To every Democratic Senator and Congressman who continues to back Bush's War, allow me to inform you that your days in elective office are now numbered. Myself and tens of millions of citizens are going to work hard to actively remove you from any position of power.

If you don't believe us, give Joe a call.

Yours,

Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com

P.S. Republicans -- sorry to leave you out of this letter. It's just that our side has a little housecleaning to do. We'll take care of you this November.



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