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US Securities and Exchange Commission asked to investigate Kleenex manufacturer’s false environmental claims

Greenpeace investigation reveals that Kimberly-Clark has been lying to shareholders, the public and regulators since 1998.

Many of you have written to Kimberly-Clark asking them to make Kleenex and other tissue products more forest friendly. In response you’ve likely received a generic response letter that attempts to paint the company in a very “green” light. Included in the response is a statement that the company has a proud environmental record. An example of this record is the fact that the company since at least 1998 does not “source use pulp from coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia Canada.”

This claim forms one of the central pillars of the company’s Corporate Policy on Sustainable Use of Natural Resources. It’s a claim that shown up in a lot of different places over the past 8 years including several of Kimberly-Clark’s annual environmental reports, letters to customers and environmental organizations and in communications to shareholders. It’s even shown up a letter from Kimberly-Clark’s lawyers to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which regulates American corporations.

We decided to look into these claims. And surprise, surprise… we’ve uncovered evidence that Kimberly-Clark has been lying to the public, shareholders, customers and SEC. Possibly for years. In fact, they use very large amounts of pulp from coastal temperate rainforests to manufacture products that are sold throughout North America and shipped to Europe.

You can check out the claims and the evidence of the lies, Greenpeace uncovered in a new report called “Chain of Lies: The Truth About Kimberly-Clark’s Use of Ancient Rainforests for Tissue Products”. The report details the shipment of logs from coastal temperate rainforests in British Columbia to Seattle-area sawmills to the company’s pulp mill in Everett, Washington. The evidence is based in part on US Customs data.

Although we presented this breach of policy information to the company executives, in April at the company’s annual stockholder meeting, to date the company has neither changed its stated policy on coastal temperate rainforest pulp, nor issued a clarifying statement.

One thing is for sure, these false claims cast serious doubt on ALL other environmental claims the company professes to hold true and dear. These include a ban on the use of pulp from virgin rainforests and a prohibition against using pulp from designated ecologically significant old growth forests in the North American Boral and mixed hardwood forests in Indonesia.

If a company’s been lying for years about one ancient forest– could it be possible that they are lying about all the others as well?

You decide.

We’ve asked the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator of corporations, to investigate. Stay tuned.

Please check out the report and media release online at: http://kleercut.net/en/coastal

Keep up the good work,

Richard Brooks
Forest Campaigner Greenpeace



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

by Dorothy Seese

I have observed that when all eyes are drawn to the concourses of airports, it is well to look down the halls of leadership's house and find out which are the war rooms. What is going on while we're distracted? If, IF the media would focus on some of those things about to come to pass, we might find out more about why we're having our attention riveted on a non-event....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Seese/dorothy43.htm

Please help pass the word: (links will open in new window) as you know....of late, I've been involved with several groups that encourage and devote time to helping others. One is:

Brothers of the Poor - Tsunami Aid to Sri Lanka.....visit their website here:
http://www.tsunami-aid-sri-lanka.org/

In an attempt to increase donations, the owner of the organization (a dear friend of mine - Pius) has asked me to help spread the word. To make a donation (no actual money from you), all you need to do is use goodsearch (FREE search engine) when you are searching for stuff on the internet. IT IS FREE TO USE. For each search, a penny is donated to the organization. All you need to do is: go to

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before you type in your search word(s), go to the I'm supporting section (on same page, just under the search box) and put this in (or any of the other charities you want to support):

Brothers of the Poor - Tsunami Aid to Sri Lanka

then click verify. That's it....search away. You can also download the goodsearch toolbar to use! They also have other organizations that you can contribute to!

Thanks for all of your help with this!
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Auslandseinsätze und Terrorgefahr: Innenministerium nutzt Terroralarm für Bundeswehr-Debatte (11.08.06)

Das Bundesinnenministerium nutzt den Terroralarm in Großbritannien für eine erneute Debatte über einen möglichen Bundeswehreinsatz im Innern, der über die Vorgaben des Grundgesetzes hinausgeht. Innen-Staatsekretär August Hanning sagte am Freitag im RBB-Inforadio, zwar sei die Polizei im Normalfall vollkommen ausreichend. "Aber wir müssen uns natürlich auf besondere Situationen einstellen, die wir auch im Umfeld der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft diskutiert haben." In solchen Fällen müsse deshalb daran gedacht werden, die Bundeswehr einzusetzen. Zugleich lobte der frühere Präsident des Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND) die bisherige Zusammenarbeit von Polizei und Nachrichtendiensten. Bayerns Innenminister Günther Beckstein sieht einen Zusammenhang zwischen den Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr und der Terrorgefahr in Deutschland.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14192

The Intel computer company has invested heavily in developing WiMax wireless computer technology. WiMax was recently made available on the commuter train between Silicon Valley and San Francisco. No telling where it will turn up next.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is auctioning off a portion of the radiofrequency spectrum to wireless companies and the government may make up to 15 billion dollars from this. No wonder they are so unwilling to acknowledge health risks.

John Lankes

Unfortunately, Warner's case is not isolated. There have been so many attacks by the medical industry (especially in the U.S) on people who succeed in non-toxic (non patented, no profitable) therapies who become a threat on the market of the chemo industry. Such cases are documented in detail in an excellent book http://www.politicsinhealing.com

Other excellent books that open the mind: Questioning chemotherapy Ralph Moss (on the lack of therapeutic effect of chemotherapy) Chemotherapy helps cancer and the earth is flat. Lothar Hirneise (in German, lately translated into english) The cancer industry Ralph Moss (classic).

By the way feedback@caseyresearch.com email did not work for some reason.

Iris Atzmon

----- Original Message -----
From: Sianette Kwee
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:43 PM
Subject: Former president of the American Chemical Society: Physicians ignore chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.”

Posted by Casey Research, Aug.8, 2006

The Chemotherapy Mafia

On July 20, 1995, the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission raided the office of Glenn Warner, MD, an oncologist with unusual views on healing, and revoked his medical license. Allegedly, Warner had cured more than 1,000 patients from terminal cancer—not with chemotherapy and radiation but with diet and exercise regimens, certain immunotherapeutic drugs, and other holistic methods. When he appealed his case in court, the commission’s attorney, Beverly Goetz, argued that cancer patients were “incapable” and “unqualified” to decide whether they received quality care or not. Only experts—like the members of said commission—were capable of making that judgment call, she said.

Unfortunately, this standpoint seems to prevail in the United States these days. Self-determination takes a backseat in favor of state-mandated “health care.” A fact that becomes eerily obvious in cancer cases where minors are involved.

But first, we should ask how valuable chemotherapy really is. There is no doubt that cancer is big business in the U.S. While in 1990, $3.53 billion was spent on chemotherapy, the number more than doubled to $7.51 billion only four years later. By 2009, so the latest projections, cancer therapy products and services will rake in over $27 billion.

As the unfortunate Glenn Warner put it: “We have a multi-billion-dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison.”

Other experts agree.

Alan C. Nixon, PhD, former president of the American Chemical Society, states, “As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.”

Alan Levin, MD, of the University of California Medical School agrees: “Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors. . . Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it.”

His opinion is echoed by Ralph Moss, former assistant director of public affairs at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and author of the book The Cancer Industry: “In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of a patient.”

Even the General Accounting Office (GAO) found in a 1987 study on the progress of cancer treatment that “For a majority of the cancers we examined, the actual improvements have been small or have been overestimated by the published rates. . . Progress has been made, but not as great as that reported.”

More and more cancer patients and their families are feeling skeptical about the value of chemotherapy and radiation as well. However, not allowed to think for themselves, some states have imposed mandatory treatment.

The first widely published case was that of Katie Wernecke, a 12-year-old Texan who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease in January 2005. After undergoing four rounds of chemotherapy, her cancer went into remission.

The doctors advised subsequent radiation treatment, but father Edward Wernecke had informed himself on the Internet and was taken aback by an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Vincent DeVita, former director of the National Cancer Institute. DeVita stated that radiation “by itself increases the risk of late second solid tumors in the irradiated field and the incidence rises steeply when radiotherapy and chemotherapy are combined.” Other mentioned side effects were stunted growth, sterilization, and an increased risk of breast cancer.

Worried about the harmful long-term effects, Katie’s parents decided to forego the radiation and follow up with holistic therapies. When Michelle Wernecke took her child out of the hospital despite protests of the oncologists, the Texas State Department of Child Protective Services issued an Amber Alert. The mother was arrested and sent to jail for kidnapping. Katie was put into foster care, along with her three brothers who were later released.

At a court hearing in June, a radiologist asserted that Katie’s cancer had returned and that she needed to undergo treatment again. Even though Katie said in a video statement that she was not willing to undergo radiation, she was ordered by the courts to do so. What’s more, convinced that the Werneckes negatively affected her decisions, CPS cut off all communication with their daughter. Left to her own devices, the 12-year-old decided to make the choice herself, resisting treatment by pulling catheters out of her arm and disobeying doctors’ orders.

After a ten-month ordeal, at the end of October 2005, a district judge ruled that Katie could rejoin her family and seek alternative treatment out of state. “On June 11th, Katie celebrated her 14th birthday at home with family and friends,” her father writes in his blog. “Katie is doing very well. . . but she is not cancer free yet, so there is still a battle to win. She is in better physical condition than ever.” A happy ending?

Recently, another story broke the news: The case of Virginian teenager Starchild Abraham Cherrix. The 16-year-old, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease last summer, had undergone three months of chemotherapy that, in his own words, left him weak and nauseated. When the doctors told him in February that the cancer was back, he refused more chemotherapy.

“I think it would kill me the second time,” said Abraham, who instead opted for a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal treatments at a clinic in Mexico. Here, too, Child Protective Services and the courts became involved, and a six-month-long battle began. In May, a judge ruled that Abraham’s parents were guilty of neglect for supporting their son’s decision; he also ordered shared custody between the parents and the Accomack County Department of Social Services, with the possibility of the Cherrix’ losing custody entirely.

Yet Abraham refused to comply with court orders, cheered on by supporters of holistic medicine: "I think it's my body. I can choose what's best for my body. If I don't have the right to do that, then I don't have any rights at all anyway."

At the Cherrix’ request, a second judge stayed the first court order until trial, scheduled to begin on August 16.

[Necessary intervention or medical terrorism by the nanny state? We’d like to hear from you at feedback@caseyresearch.com.] Claudia French RN, LPHA cfrench180@tampabay.rr.com International
Medical Veritas Association http://imva.info/
Diabetics International Foundation http://members.tripod.com/diabetics_world/

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It is VERY MUCH the same here in Sweden, I'm afraid...

Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

"When unsmiling agents at the airport take away your contact lens solution, your toothpaste, and your cologne or after-shave, remember Osama bin Laden. Remember the real war on terrorism that the Bush administration and its allies decided not to fight, preferring cowboy-style military adventures" reminds Eugene Robinson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106D.shtml

"Last December, when Congressman John Conyers released a huge report documenting the evidence that Bush and Cheney had lied us into a war, he also introduced a bill to start a preliminary investigation of the matter and make recommendations on impeachment. Last week, Conyers released an expanded report, including new superfluous evidence of proved crimes related to the war, plus a lengthy Section 2 focused on illegal spying programs. The evidence of blatant criminality and threat to the Constitution in this new section is devastating. And the crimes have been confessed to," writes David Swanson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106C.shtml

There is a sense that the growing number of crises in the "new Middle East" - proudly midwifed by the administration of President George W. Bush - is rapidly spinning out of control with potentially catastrophic consequences for the entire region and beyond. The first cracks in Israeli support for the war in Lebanon emerged Thursday, with leading intellectuals and mainstream politicians criticizing the government's decision to send more soldiers into Hezbollah territory.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106A.shtml

Illegaler Holzeinschlag dank Schmiergeld und Bestechung.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23306/1.html

Update: Der angeblich geplante, aber bislang noch sehr im Vagen bleibende "Massenmord in unvorstellbarem Ausmaß" stellt wieder einmal die Frage, wem das Drücken der "Paniktaste" nutzt.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23316/1.html

http://tinyurl.com/zgmte



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

"For the neoconservatives," writes Joe Conason, "the answer to every international conflict is shock and awe, so long as they remain safely distant from the carnage. The American people are turning away from that mindless and dangerous attitude, which is leading us toward disaster. Politicians of both parties should do likewise."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106P.shtml

The Bush administration has begun sounding out lawmakers and other key figures about mounting a new bipartisan effort to rein in the costs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security after the midterm elections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106O.shtml

"While the Bush administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled 'private' and 'illegal' militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions overseas. The secretive program, which spans at least twenty-seven countries, has been an incredible jackpot for one heavily Republican-connected firm in particular: Blackwater USA," writes Jeremy Scahill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106N.shtml

Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot today to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having forgotten the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of the November Congressional elections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106K.shtml

Resolute Cubbington villagers protested in force this week against O2 plans to install a mobile phone transmitter in the heart of the village. The communications firm has launched an appeal against a Warwick District Council decision to block the 12.5 metre construction.

Campaigners of all ages gathered on a grass verge outside the Rugby Tavern pub, where the equipment would stand, on Wednesday.

Lorraine Wright and her son Daniel, 3, were among around 100 people at the demonstration.

Mrs Wright, 46, of Dunblane Drive, said: "It's not just now, but the future we have got to think about.

"There are two schools nearby and the parents are worried about the effects on their children.

"Of course everybody needs a signal but it's the close proximity to where people live and work that worries us.

"I know it sounds like 'not in my back yard' but there are other places where the mast could be put.

"I don't think we know enough about the risks to have this equipment right in the middle of a residential area.

"If this gets passed where will it end?

"Other companies will want to expand their network into residential areas too."

Campaigner Shirley Rush, of Rugby Road, has been rallying opposition against the appeal, which will be dealt with by written representations to the Planning Inspectorate in Bristol.

A decision is likely to be announced in October.

Mrs Rush said: "We sent 900 letters out and had 600 protests back, which we are sending on.

"We are not against mobile phone masts, we just think they should be in an appropriate area, not a busy road close to two schools."

District council officers did not state health reasons - given no weight in planning terms - as grounds for refusal.

Instead they ruled the mast would spoil the character of the area and have a "harmful visual impact".

An O2 spokesman was not available for comment.

But the firm has repeatedly insisted the Rugby Road site - which would extend 3G coverage in a two-kilometre area - was chosen with care and there are no adverse health effects.

* O2 has put in an application for another 12.5 metre mast on a highways verge near the Warwick Gates estate in Tachbrook Road, Bishops Tachbrook.

Susan Villis, 56, of Reignier Place, said: "While I appreciate these masts must be sited somewhere, is close proximity to a large population with many young families a good place?

"This is especially so in the light of many recent reports of health concerns connected to these masts.

"In many areas people have lobbied to have them removed or placed further afield.

"I feel the residents of Warwick Gates should be made aware of what is being proposed."

11 August 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=691&ArticleID=1691269

By Linda Piper

PLANS to install the first mobile phone mast on the roof of a house in the borough are facing mass protests from residents.

Nearly 150 people turned out at a public meeting in Erith to hear the facts about the proposal and to put together a plan of action.

Hutchison 3G has applied to Bexley Council to put three antennas and two dishes on the top of 173 Park Crescent, Erith.

The house, formerly Riversfield Manor, was built in 1860 and is now divided into rented flats.

The proposal is to conceal the equipment in a false fibreglass spire, which could be up to five metres high, on the top of the house.

The rest of the equipment required for the mast would be housed in the loft.

Last week's packed protest meeting, held in Christ Church School, Lesney Park Road, heard the owner of the house had struck a deal with the mobile phone company and was likely to receive around £8,000 a year for the use of the roof if the mast is given planning permission.

A number of the people at the meeting were parents of children at nearby schools, who were angry they had not been notified of the plans until after they had broken up for the summer holidays.

Many people suspect the company deliberately delayed the application so it would have to be decided during the school holidays, when mass protests from Christ Church and St Fidelis primary schools and Erith School would be almost impossible to organise.

Residents had the support of both Labour and Conservative councillors who attended the meeting and Erith and Thamemead MP John Austin who urged people to write individual letters of protest.

People fear if the mast is given the green light, it could open the floodgates to other people who want to supplement their income, offering their homes as sites for phone masts.

The proposal will go to Bexley's planning control committee on August 31 and the council has said it will take into account any comments received up to August 28.

The residents plan to put up speakers at the planning meeting and to turn up en masse to show the strength of feeling against the plan.

The planning control meeting is open to the public and will be held in the council chamber at the civic offices in Bexleyheath Broadway at 7.30pm.

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/display.var.875664.0.opposition_rallies_to_fight_off_mast.php

by Jim Lobe, TomPaine.com

A growing number of foreign policy veterans fear the U.S. is courting disaster.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/11/new_middle_east_out_of_control.php

11 August 2006

A CAMPAIGNING mum is leading the fight against plans to put up a 12-metre-high mobile phone mast on her street.

Claire Barker, 32, who has four young children, collected 215 signatures opposing the t-mobile mast destined for the junction of Becontree Avenue and Bennett's Castle Lane, in Dagenham.

She says the mast, which will go up near an old people's home and three schools, is not just a health hazard, it could also increase traffic accidents.

Claire is also concerned for the well-being of her elderly neighbour, who suffers from leukaemia.

She said: "When I received the bad news a couple of weeks ago I was furious. I made up a petition for the shops and visited neighbours with my seven-year-old daughter, Paige.

"What I find shocking is that half of the people I petitioned hadn't even received a letter. It is terrible, considering this issue affects a lot of old people and children."

SEE PRINT EDITION FOR FULL STORY

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

08/10/06

'Iraq could move toward civil war,' the commander of U.S. Central Command conceded to Congress on Thursday. Gen. John Abizaid said securing Baghdad was the top U.S. priority, and that the violence there was as bad as he had ever seen it. Sens. Christopher J. Dodd and Chuck Hagel, a Democrat of Connecticut and Republican of Nebraska, have since said they believe an Iraqi civil war has already begun. Amid soaring civilian casualties, other U.S. commanders have said American troops will need to remain in Iraq until at least 2016. Why would anyone want to keep U.S. troops in such an environment for another decade to referee a burgeoning blood feud between Sunnis and Shiites?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6585


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

freeman, libertarian critter
by freeman

08/10/06

If food safety is to be a serious concern, then realizing that testing and other safeguards will only be administered, or even allowed, by the government to the extent that it doesn't threaten privileged businesses is a necessary step towards ensuring that the right paths are taken to ensure safety. Rest assured that the USDA will always go down the wrong path, while also setting up roadblocks preventing passage through more proper paths. Food won't be safe until a separation of food and state occurs...

http://freemanlc.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-needs-usda.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Asia Times
by Jim Lobe

08/10/06

Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of US President George W Bush's "favorite Democrat", Senator Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East. .... n particular, the primary result is likely to give pause to several likely Democratic presidential aspirants. These include Senator Clinton and Senator Joseph Biden, who, while critical of the administration's competence in Iraq, have steadfastly resisted setting a timetable for withdrawal...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH11Aa02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/scahill


Informant: Kev Hall

Meldung vom 11.08.2006

An der Black-Hat-Konferenz in Las Vegas hat der deutsche Sicherheitsforscher Lukas Grunwald demonstriert, wie einfach Daten aus den neuen elektronischen Pässen herausgelesen werden können.
Lukas Grunwald führte anhand seines eigenen deutschen Passes vor, wie einfach man die Informationen von biometrischen Ausweisen auf eine mit einem RFID-Chip ausgerüstete Smart Card transferieren kann. Um sein Ziel zu erreichen, habe er zunächst die Smart Card darauf programmiert, sich wie ein Pass zu verhalten.

In den USA beginnt die Auslieferung von Millionen neuer elektronischer Pässe noch diesen Oktober. Deutschland seinerseits musste bereits erste Probleme mit den eigenen Pässen einräumen. Aus diesem Grund hat die Bundesregierung entschieden, dass ein deutscher Pass auch mit einem defekten RFID-Tag seine Gültigkeit behalte. Deshalb hat die deutsche Hackervereinigung, Chaos Computer Club (CCC), auch sofort einen Vorschlag bereit. Laut den Hackern reicht es, einen Pass mal kurz in der Mikrowelle ordentlich zu garen, um den eingebauten Chip funktionsuntüchtig zu machen. So könne man sich problemlos vor dem Datenklau schützen.

In der Schweiz sollen erste elektronische Pässe ab September 2006 ausgestellt werden. Auf dem Chip sind die Daten gespeichert, die im Pass aufgedruckt sind. (dwt)

© 1996 - 2006 by IDG Communications AG - Alle Rechte vorbehalten

http://www.pctip.ch/webnews/wn/33994.asp

Concern is growing that a forest of telephone masts is being erected in residential areas and forced upon residents against their wishes.

A planning application has been submitted, to erect a 12.5m mast on the corner of County Gate with the A1000, despite there being an identical mast about 100m north on the same road. The neighbourhood is angry at the prospect.

Health issues relating to these masts are allegedly not yet proven. Neither are they proven to be safe.

Many respected scientific studies indicate health concerns, with young children being at particular risk. Masts are rarely erected near schools and hospitals yet children and residents spend far more time at home than in either of these places.

Councillors and residents are being forced to take part in a charade as Government policies pressure councils to ignore concerns raised regarding health and property values.

The vast majority of residents believe the mast will ruin a lovely green area, be a sinister eyesore and add to the depression and pressure residents suffer under increasing overdevelopment.

Similar proposals have been rejected in neighbouring wards and should be in this case.

Gordon Tweedale
County Gate, Barnet

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.edgwaretimes.co.uk/news/letters/display.var.873911.0.mobile_phone_masts_are_being_unfairly_forced_upon_residents.php

Thursday, 10 August 2006
Marie Theresa Bray
Cosmos Online

SYDNEY, 10 August 2006: The Greenland ice sheet is now melting three times faster than predicted, making the likely rise in sea levels this century larger than originally feared, according to a U.S. study published today.

In a study published in the online issue of the U.S. journal, Science, Jianli Chen and colleagues at the University of Texas in Austin have calculated that the Greenland ice sheet has been melting at an accelerated rate since 2004.

"A direct consequence of the significant melting would be the global sea level rise," said Chen. "This melting alone will contribute about 0.6 millimetres a year of the global sea level rise.

"If the Greenland cap melted completely, it would raise global mean sea level by about 6.5 metres. If this was to occur, most of the world's coastal regions would be subject to flooding," the authors wrote.

Previously Jonathan Gregory, a climatologist at Britain's University of Reading, and Philippe Huybrechts, a glaciologist at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, had warned in a 1999 study of the possible meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet. It appears these concerns were not unfounded.

Chen and his colleagues used data collected by a pair of satellites known as the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to accurately measure gravity changes as a function of time. They analysed data collected on the gravity variation over Greenland, and then compared the monthly data of the ice sheet between April 2002 and November 2005 for the study.

"These time-variable gravity changes [from GRACE] can be used to compute mass changes, such as ice melting or accumulation on the Earth surface," said Chen. "In this sense, GRACE 'directly' measures ice mass change on a monthly basis."

The researchers now estimate that about 240 cubic kilometres of the ice sheet is disappearing annually. This is a staggering three times faster than the rate estimated in the past five years.

The difference in estimates can be attributed to increased melting in the past one and a half years and, most importantly, to the improved filtering and estimation techniques from GRACE.

If these findings are validated, it will significantly strengthen the case of the effect of global warming and would show that melting polar ice sheets are a contributing factor to global sea level rise. According to the Chen, these findings can be used for further studies on the ice sheet.

"This is just one of many encouraging finds we are seeing from GRACE," added Chen. "After a few more years, with more GRACE data collected, we anticipate to have a much convincing conclusion and clearer picture of Greenland ice mass balance."

Greenland boasts the second largest ice cap on Earth at 3.000 metres in height. It also contains about 2.5 million cubic kilometres, or 10% of the world's total ice mass.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/539


Informant: binstock

San Diego's awful audit leaves it looking for ways to pay its pension bills. The all-but-bankrupt city of San Diego has earned the comparison with such financial failures as Enron, WorldCom and Orange County, according to Arthur Levitt Jr., and he ought to know. He is the former chairman of the Security and Exchange Commissions and a respected figure in the field of finance.

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

How many of our wolves have to die before President Bush will do something about it?

Hundreds of wolves have already been killed in Alaska, shot to death by state-licensed gunmen in low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion by the planes then shot at point-blank range.

Help us stop this killing -- demand that the Bush administration put an end to this brutal practice by enforcing the Federal Airborne Hunting Act that is supposed to protect these majestic animals.

Help end the aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska – sign the petition to demand that Bush enforce the law!
http://ga3.org/ct/u7NxS1n1Mmmz/

Bush’s Inaction = Dead Wolves

Hundreds of Alaska’s wolves have already been killed by gunmen in low-flying planes. Please help us stop the massacre--Urge the Bush administration to put an end to aerial gunning before more wolves are killed.

Click here to sign the petition.

Help us reach 100,000 signatures in the next thirty days.

Easy targets against fallen snow, Alaskan gray wolves are gunned down from airplanes carrying state-licensed marksmen. The gunners can target entire packs -- even pregnant mothers!

Aerial gunners have killed more than 550 wolves over the past three winters and hundreds more wolves could be killed under "management" plans approved by the Alaska Board of Game in May.

That's not wolf management. It's a wolf massacre.

Defenders of Wildlife has launched an all-out campaign to end this brutal practice. We need to collect 100,000 signatures in the next 30 days, and we need your help to do it.

Urge the Bush Administration to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, an existing federal law that could put an end to the killing.
http://ga3.org/ct/u7NxS1n1Mmmz/

Despite the fact that wolves help keep moose and caribou populations healthy and are an important part of Alaska’s billion-dollar tourism industry, the state continues to allow aerial gunning.

In fact, the Board of Game's new proposals would expand the kill zones where aerial gunning is permitted and allow gunners on snow machines to harass and kill wolves.

Please sign our petition to the Bush administration to help protect our wolves from aerial gunning in Alaska.
http://ga3.org/ct/u7NxS1n1Mmmz/

Once you’ve added your signature, please forward this message to your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers and ask them to join you in protecting these magnificent animals.

Thanks so much for your help,

Rodger Schlickeisen
President, Defenders of Wildlife


From EarthForceUnited

Fears of Post-9/11 Terrorism Spur Proposals for New Powers
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11150.htm

Is Iran planning a cataclysmic strike for August 22?

Is Iran planning an apocalyptic strike against Israel and/or the United States for August 22? If so, what should the U.S. do to protect Americans and our ally? Such questions are worrying a growing number of officials in the White House, at the CIA, and at the Pentagon, and for good reason.

http://tinyurl.com/o85s2



Hungry For World War III

It will surprise no one to hear that this argument is coming from certain fundamentalist Christian quarters, where premillenial dispensationalists see signs that the coming Rapture is accelerating toward its glorious end. But it is also being heard from more mainstream voices.

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


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0810-31.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Coca-Cola

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0810-21.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0810-02.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4937/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-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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10-08-2006

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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Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
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