World-News

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13411/index.php


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news

Aug 19 2006

"Consumers will not be aware which meat and poultry products have been treated with the spray." Agency Approves First Use of Viruses as a Food Additive

A mix of bacteria-killing viruses may be sprayed on cold cuts, wieners and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials ruled Friday. The ruling, by the Food and Drug Administration, is the first approval of viruses as a food additive, said Andrew Zajac of the Office of Food Additive Safety at the agency.

http://www.legitgov.org/


Informant: bigraccoon

http://www.aclu.org/prison/conditions/26198res20060809.html


Informant: Alice Kim

PART 4

by Jill Walker, JD

As the battle for total control over our children escalates, the bastions of social services in almost every nation are working overtime to steal them and turn them into state property. This is a global effort, not just an assault on American children, and no effort is too great to those who want to brainwash the children and make them citizens of the new global order...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Walker/jill24.htm



Part 5

by Jill Walker, JD

Allowing children to participate, even “innocently” in witchcraft shows how far removed we are from good parenting. Remember the words, “Suffer the children to come unto Me.” That means Christ, not Harry Potter, the Smurfs, Wicca, or paganism of any kind. The First Commandment is quite clear on the issue, but that commandment has been banished from the public square and the minds and hearts of the majority of our children, just as the New World Order crowd was so careful to mastermind......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Walker/jill26.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brainwashing+the+Children
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Walker

The estimated costs for the development of major weapons systems for the US military have doubled since September 11, 2001, with a trillion-dollar price tag for new planes, ships, and missiles that would have little direct role in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081906Y.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4984/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The United States has named a special "manager" for its intelligence operations against Cuba and Venezuela, in effect putting the two Latin American nations on a par with "axis of evil" states confronted on multiple levels by the administration of President George W. Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081906X.shtml

A message from Charles W. Sanders:

A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS RULED, RENEW THE CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT NOW

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum262.php

On Friday, August 18th, I filed the necessary nominating petition signatures to compete for the Democratic party nomination for the U.S. House in the 3rd District of OH. Due to the sudden and unexpected withdrawal of our candidate, it has been determined that there must be a special election on September 15 to fill the election vacancy

We now have a fresh opportunity to make the case to my constituents that the Bush administration must be peaceably removed from office. This is made all the more urgent by the ruling of a federal judge that the president has categorically broken the law in deliberately violating the 1st and 4th amendments to the Constitution by wiretapping American citizens without warrant. He did so by defying the secret FISA court expressly created to not only prevent such abuses of power but also to protect our real national security in the most diligent possible way.

We hear about the recent police action in Great Britain which successfully disrupted a possible terrorist plot before it was even remotely close to being operational. And all this was done by proper warrant and scrupulously so by our British counterparts. Why is it that our own president cannot protect us without acting as a Constitutional outlaw? Indeed, why cannot he protect us from threats that were of widespread public knowledge, like Hurricane Katrina?

To all my loyal friends an supporters, I ask you again to join me in the fight for real policy change. Based on the momentum we had already developed, and with your continued support, I am confident that my constituents will recognize that the there is one candidate they will always be able to count on to stand strong on the critical issues of our time, Charles W. Sanders. Please submit my renewed action page on impeachment today to keep the pressure on.

Thank you

Charles W. Sanders

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum262.php

We NEED candidates like Charles Sanders to stand up and make an issue of the repeated trangressions of the current administration. Charles needs your help to get his message out for all of us. Please make a contribution now to enable Charles to go to Congress and fight for you on the issues you care about.

DONATIONS LINK: http://www.charleswsanders.org/donations3.html

How many times have you felt helpless and wished you could influence the votes of representatives in other districts to prevail on a critical vote in Congress, but thought you could not do so effectively because you were not one of their own constituents? How much more would you support Charles if you do live in his district?

Here we have a courageous candidate who will fight for all the issues you care about, if only he is given the chance to make the run. Please donate whatever you can to help Charles get on the radio to recruit and mobilize even more people to speak out so we can have a real impact on these policy decisions now and for the future. What would you give to have a whole legislature of people like Charles Sanders? Won't you give him your support now to make that a reality?

We have been valiantly speaking out with action alerts based on one fundamental premise --- either our representatives in Congress would listen to and heed the voices of their people --- or else we would work to replace them in the next election.

The time for the replacement action is NOW.

DONATIONS LINK: http://www.charleswsanders.org/donations3.html

If each of us will just contribute what we can, to the most worthy candidates we can find, it will make a real difference in the kind of Congress we will all have to deal with in 2007. Most importantly, strong showings NOW by candidates who DO have a backbone, and WILL stand up and fight, can send a powerful message to the rest that they better start shaping up or we will ship them out too. Make your donation today and it will have cascading positive effects in many other races for months to come.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1228779,00.html


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
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217-333-7954 (voice)
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Time reports on Watada's Article 32 hearing
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4995/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Putting the Iraq War on Trial

When he refused to deploy to Iraq in June, Army Lt. Ehren Watada said he was following his conscience and upholding his duty not to obey illegal orders. Military officials charged him with violating Army rules and sent him on a path toward a likely court-martial. In doing so, they set up an unusual collision between a man who is believed to be the first officer to refuse duty in Iraq and a military justice system that is now effectively being asked to rule on the war's legality.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082206D.shtml



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

LOMMISWIL

Das Trassee kann nicht als Bauzone betrachtet werden (Foto: mz)


Keine Mobilfunkantenne beim «Tunneli» in Lommiswil. Das Verwaltungsgericht entschied gegen die Baukommission sowie das Bau- und Justizdepartement. Das Bahntrassee, neben dem die Antenne gebaut werden sollte, liege nicht in der Bauzone.

Die drei Gesuchsteller Swisscom Mobile AG, TDC Schweiz AG sunrise und Orange Communications SA sowie die Baukommission und das BJD betrachteten das Areal um die Bahnstrecke, das im Zonenplan als «weiße, also unbehandelte Verkehrsfläche» erscheint, als Bauzone.

In dieser wäre die Installation einer Mobilfunkantenne zulässig. Außerhalb der Bauzone ist eine Ausnahmebewilligung nötig. Der Regionalverkehr Mittelland (RM) als Landbesitzer hatte überdies erklärt, dass er seinen Funkverkehr ebenfalls über diese Antenne abwickeln wolle.

«Weit entfernt von der Bauzone»

«Vorliegend handelt es sich um ein Bahnareal, das weit entfernt von der Bauzone in der Landwirtschaftszone liegt», schreibt das Verwaltungsgericht in seinem Urteil. Die Antenne soll nicht im Bahnhofareal gebaut werden, sondern im Bahntrassee auf dem freien Feld zwischen zwei Siedlungen.

Zwar sei das Gebiet für den Bahnbetrieb mit einer Straßenüberführung überbaut worden, es handle sich aber um ein Gebiet, auf dem keine Hochbauten stehen. «Die Bauparzelle liegt inmitten landwirtschaftlicher Flächen und im Richtplan ist sie keinem Siedlungsgebiet zugeordnet», schreibt das Gericht.

Antenne ist nur eine Nebenanlage

Da der RM die Antenne auch für seinen eigenen Funkverkehr nutzen will, stellte sich die Frage, ob die Antenne als Eisenbahn- oder Nebenanlage dient. Für Eisenbahnanlagen ist der Bund zuständig, weil diese unter das Eisenbahngesetz fallen. Nebenanlagen, die nicht ganz oder überwiegend dem Bahnbetrieb dienen, unterstehen dem kantonalen Bau- oder Planungsrecht.

Dies können Bauvorhaben der Bahn oder Dritter sein. Und: Sie gehören in die Bauzone. Das Gericht kam zum Schluss, dass die Antenne primär die Allgemeinheit mit Telefonverbindungen versorge. «Es handelt sich nicht um eine bahnbetrieblich nötige Anlage.»

«Präventiv Einsprache erheben»

Friedrich Brotschi, einer der Beschwerdeführer aus Selzach, ist über das Urteil des Verwaltungsgerichts erfreut. «Es ging mir nicht um die Strahlung oder so etwas, sondern ums Prinzip. Der Juraschutzzone wurde zuvor zu wenig Bedeutung eingeräumt», erklärt der frühere Präsident der Planungskommission Selzach.

Weniger glücklich über das Urteil ist Meinrad Engesser, Präsident der Baukommission Lommiswil: «Wir werden präventiv Einsprache beim Bundesgericht mit Fristerstreckung erheben. Dann werden wir die rechtliche Lage mit unserem Anwalt erörtern und das weitere Vorgehen besprechen.»

Engesser ist jedoch pessimistisch: «Wir bräuchten vor Bundesgericht wohl neue Argumente, über die das Verwaltungsgericht noch nicht entscheiden konnte, um zu bestehen. Ich glaube daher nicht an eine große Chance.» (mz/ms/pbl)


18.08.2006 09:22

http://www.mzbern.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=31&id=101315161&rub=100004740&arub=100002030&nrub=0

I have just sent the following letter to the Sussex Argus letters page: letters@theargus.co.uk . Their editorial policy is (1) to try to publish letters with a common theme together (so if only one or two are sent, there is much LESS chance of publication), (2) that they generally be less than 200 words (mine is more but the chances of getting it published would be massively increased with 2 or more letters from other people) and (3) preference given to local senders (contact me for a local address ;-)) gary.kemp7_at_ntlworld.com

Any other contributions greatly appreciated. The Argus has a huge readership. If we can get a debate going in their letters pages, that's what the Editor wants.

Letter below.

Thanks

Gary
Brighton


The relentless proliferation of microwave wireless technology in Brighton really worries me.

The latest of thousands of independant scientific papers showing widespread health damage from this technology is analysed by Lloyd Morgan, a Director of the US Central Brain Tumor Registry (see http://www.powerwatch.org.uk ) ; a study of "the worst type of brain tumors: those collectively referred to as "brain cancer" (e.g., gliomas, astrocytomas, glioblastoma multiforme--AKA GBM--etc.)" by research team Hardell et al.

Omega see also under: "On the Hardell studies of phones and the comparison between their research and the Interphone studies"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2546167/

The study examined 905 cases of these brain tumors, ages 20 to 80, diagnosed between 1997 and 2003, with 2162 controls. All the teams' previous 12 studies had found increased risks from wireless (Mobile, Analog and DECT) phones.

He continues: "The survival statistics for these tumors are very grim (e.g., one year GBM survival is 29%) and the devastating effects, even if there is survival, can be heartbreaking including loss of physical, emotional and mental abilities"

The study found the risk increased by an average of 25% below 1000 hours of phone use, to 130, 270 and 490% for 2 - 3000 hours for DECT, Cell and Analog phones respectively, and by 20% (all types) for 1 - 5 years use, to 80% (DECT), 140% (Analog) and 180% (mobile) after 10 years.

Morgan states:"the most troubling aspect of the Hardell et al. study is that of the early latency times it is demonstrating with regards to cellphone exposure. It is well known that the time from exposure to a carcinogen to the diagnosis of a tumor takes decades (25 to 40 years), yet we are seeing an increased risk of brain cancer for as short as 1 to 5 years.."

"Could the implication be then, that what we are seeing is actually the tail of a 25 to year latency time distribution?"

I am reminded of the words of Dr Leif Salford, head of a major study into cell phone use in Sweden in the late 1990s, who said "Brain damage from intensive cell phone use is a probability rather than a possibility"

And with researchers worldwide warning particularly against cell phone use by under 16s, I see a very grim future for todays' children.

"Facing Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to help Mr. Lieberman win in November."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081906Z.shtml



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

http://www.computerbase.de/news/internet/zugang_provider/2006/august/boeings_flugzeug-internet_bruchlandung/


Informant: Paul Günther

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

aufgrund diverser Anfragen nach den Möglichkeiten einer Bauleitplanung in Sachen Mobilfunk erhalten Sie heute diesbezügliche Dokumentationen von Herrn Rechtsanwalt Frank Sommer, München sowie zur Thematik der mobilfunkrelevanten Rechtsprechung etc.:

a) Gutachterliche Stellungnahme Sachstand 2002 (übermittelt von Volker Hartenstein)

b) Anhörung im Bayrischen Landtag Sachstand 2.04.2004 (s. Homepage der Landtagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grüne)

c) Den Sachstand Anfang 2006 finden Sie in: Runge, Sommer, Oberfeld (Hrsg.): Mobilfunk, Gesundheit und die Politik, Streitschrift und Ratgeber http://www.agenda.de/programm/index_details.php?bid=3-89688-288-0

Wir hoffen, daß Ihnen diese kompetenten Definitionen zur Planungs- hoheit, -sicherheit, -verpflichtung und zur Rechtssprechung hilfreiche Ansätze bieten.

M.f.G.

Alfred Tittmann
c/o HESSISCHER LANDESVERBAND MOBILFUNKSENDERFREIE WOHNGEBIETE e.V.


Sehr geehrter Herr Tittmann,

mich erstaunt, dass das Gutachten jetzt über den Verteiler gelaufen ist. Es stammt aus 2002, ist daher teilweise nicht mehr up-to-date und kann seit 2002 kostenlos von der Homepage der Landtagsfraktion der bayerischen Grünen heruntergeladen werden.

Sie können es gerne weiterreichen, bitte aber mit Hinweis auf den Sachstand 2002.

Neuer, wenn auch nicht aktuell (2004) ist der beiliegende Beitrag, der gleichfalls auf der Homepage der Landtagsfraktion zu finden ist; Sie können ihn ebenfalls weitergeben.

Den Sachstand Anfang 2006 finden Sie in: Runge, Sommer, Oberfeld
(Hrsg.): Mobilfunk, Gesundheit und die Politik, Streitschrift und Ratgeber http://www.agenda.de/programm/index_details.php?bid=3-89688-288-0


Beste Grüße

Frank Sommer

By Robert Fisk

Work under way on the mobile phone mast site BR5144

CAMPAIGNERS have lost their fight against a mobile phone giant and its controversial mast.

Workers for T-Mobile have almost finished putting the mast up on the corner of St Paul's Wood Hill and Beddington Road, St Paul's Cray.

Security guards kept watch at the site last night after angry scenes yesterday when anti-mast protestors - who have fought a six-month battle against the development - attempted to tear barricades down.

Workers arrived early this morning and installed the electronic equipment needed for the mast to work.

Campaigner Sam Anderson, 35, said: "We're all pretty gutted.

"It is just amazing that T-Mobile goes to such an extent to have security guards there overnight and to double barricade themselves in.

"Surely that means nobody wants it."

The mother-of-three is now focusing her attention on organising a mass march through central London to Downing Street.

She is currently waiting for a call from the Met Police to finalise a date for the protest which she hopes will take place as soon as the House of Commons meets after the summer recess.

Call Mrs Anderson on 020 8302 4043 to get involved with the campaign.

T-Mobile has been unavailable for comment since yesterday.

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.882505.0.workmen_back_on_phone_mast_site.php

Lured by huge checks handed out by the country's top lobbyists, members of Congress could soon strike a blow against Internet freedom as they seek to resolve the hot-button controversy over preserving "network neutrality."

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


From Information Clearing House

Software that will help sort millions of Canadian health records was developed by a company funded through the CIA's venture capital partner, sparking concerns about the confidentiality of patient data.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/060817/x081718.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush and the GOP are in trouble, and neoconservatism is in the dock.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14610.htm

Of the estimated 1,200 mostly Arab and Muslim men detained nationwide as potential suspects or witnesses in the Sept. 11 investigation, Benatta would earn a dubious distinction: Human rights groups say the former Algerian air force lieutenant was locked up the longest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6022127,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Telecommunications and Internet companies accused of working with the Bush Administration's domestic eavesdropping program could be in for more legal headaches, after a federal judge ruled Thursday that the warrantless wiretaps violated the constitution.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060818_382622.htm


From Information Clearing House

For the last four years, the Bush administration has deliberately violated multiple laws because it has adopted radical theories which vest law-breaking powers in the President. It also happens to be well on its way to obtaining the power to criminally prosecute journalists for articles they publish about the administration's conduct.

http://tinyurl.com/fefzl


From Information Clearing House

Judge Rules NSA Warrantless Spy Program Unconstitutional
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14613.htm

There are new details emerging about a Vermont woman’s bizarre behavior that forced a trans-Atlantic flight to be diverted to Logan Airport Wednesday.

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_229090749.html


From Information Clearing House

Were these guys for real, or have they, and the counterterrorist officials supposedly protecting us, been watching too many action movies?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14607.htm

Intelligence officials doubt Iran uranium claims
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Intelligence_officials_doubt_Iran_uranium_claims_0818.html


From Information Clearing House

It has been known that Marines who carried out the killings made false statements to investigators and that senior officers were criticized for not being more aggressive in investigating the case, in which most or all of the Iraqis who were killed were civilians. But this is the first time details about possible concealment or destruction of evidence have been disclosed.

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=89c93e84-5615-4584-bf69-0a3f8c4d6f27


From Information Clearing House



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

By James Cooke

Liberal commentators continue to respond with hysterics or dumfoundedness at the ability of Conservatives to destroy civil liberties while thus far waging three preemptive wars (yes Lebanon is a U.S. war). It should have been clear by now— with the media and Democrats suppressing or supporting the most blatant atrocities engineered by the Republicans— that larger forces are at play.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14605.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14603.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17963.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gilad+Atzmon

The timing is political

We should be sceptical about this alleged plot, and wary of politicians who seek to benefit.

By Craig Murry

None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not have passports. It could be pretty difficult to convince a jury that these individuals were about to go through with suicide bombings, whatever they bragged about on the net.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14608.htm

By Aaron Glantz

Twenty-one former generals and high ranking national security officials have called on United States President George W. Bush to reverse course and embrace a new area of negotiation with Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. In a letter released Thursday, the group told reporters Bush's 'hard line' policies have undermined national security and made America less safe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14614.htm

Crossposting

Just read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1844789,00.html and then the below. As someone who lives near forest and has seen many fires in our valley I found it interesting and sad.


August 7, 2006

Where there’s fire, there’s global warming

by Matt Jenkins

"I think there was a tendency to think that the overwhelming factor
(driving forest fires) was short-term weather. There’s this idea that drought matters, and it does. But it’s taking time and a lot of research to show that climate plays a big role as well." -- Anthony Westerling

Six years ago, climate scientist Anthony Westerling began obsessively poring over the meticulously detailed invoices that U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service land managers use to itemize firefighting expenses.

"These things will have 170-plus fields," says Westerling — including information on when a fire was first reported, when firefighters finally controlled it, and how many acres were burned. Westerling, who works at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (which also studies climate and earth sciences) in La Jolla, Calif., didn’t aspire to be an accountant, nor was he searching for fraud in government spending. He was hoping to answer a question that had not been seriously asked before: How do rising global temperatures affect wildfire behavior?

Along with fellow researchers in La Jolla and at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Westerling wove the information in the invoices together with data from streamflow gauges, soil moisture measures, and temperature and precipitation records to form a comprehensive picture of the driving forces behind the West’s fires.

The group will present its findings in the journal Science next month; a preliminary article appeared in the July 6 issue of Science Express. The basic conclusion may not startle: Large forest fires increased beginning in the mid-1980s — particularly in the Northern Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and the southern Cascades — and the changes closely correlated with an increase in spring and summer temperatures during the same time period.

But some of the nuances are surprising. Westerling and his colleagues found that a delicate "tipping point" exists, particularly in forests in the Northern Rockies and Northern California. When snowpack melts earlier in the spring — even just a few days sooner — the severity of the fire season intensifies greatly. "It didn’t take a very big temperature increase (to) switch from very few fires to a lot of fires," says Westerling. As spring and summer temperatures gradually increased, "You were getting closer and closer to this tipping point, so that the (climate) variability from year to year just pushes you over it easily."

Westerling grew up in Los Angeles but vacationed at a family cabin on the east side of the Sierra, and later lived abroad in places like Saudi Arabia, China and Brazil. He returned to California to get his Ph.D., and in 2000, he went to work at Scripps. That year proved to be a banner one for fire, and that’s when Westerling began looking more closely at the relationship between climate and fire.

Because of the wide variability in fire regimes throughout the West — from ponderosa forests in the Southwest to chaparral in Southern California to lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests in the Northern Rockies — long-term trends can be hard to pick out from the year-to-year "noise."

That was precisely the value of Westerling’s research: Zooming out to look at the entire region helped bring the phenomenon into relief.

Usually, blame for the bigger and more frequent fires of the past 20 years is ascribed to the federal government’s aggressive firefighting policies, which have left a lot of dead and small-diameter trees in Western forests ready to burn. Westerling’s research suggests that rising temperatures, not land-management practices, may play a greater role in driving forest fires.

But, he writes, if warming is the main driver of increased fire activity, "ecological restoration and fuels management alone will not be sufficient to reverse current wildfire trends." Scientists and planners must also plug global climate change into their equations.


Informant: Charlie's Angel

http://www.truthpublishing.com/FightForYourHealth.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.truthpublishing.com/TheHundredYearLie.html


Informant: binstock

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2006/07/26/private_prisons_expect_a_boom


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/losing-our-democracy-to-t_b_27486.html


Informant: ranger116

Long-simmering claims of ignoring labor abuses in Colombia are still the biggest piece of mud sticking to Coca-Cola, as well as environmental issues in India. A hunger strike was reported last month outside a Coca-Cola plant in Mehdiganj, Uttar Pradesh, which ended when the state government agreed to study charges of pollution and exhaustion of water supplies.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081806LB.shtml



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

Former senator John Edwards said Thursday he made a mistake in 2002 when he voted to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq. Edwards was the keynote speaker at a rally with Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, the Democrat who defeated US senator Joe Lieberman in last week's primary.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806T.shtml

Sarah Olson reports on Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision yesterday that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional. The ruling is the first federal challenge to the wiretapping program allowing the NSA to secretly listen to phone calls placed from the US to foreign countries.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806R.shtml

The time has come to put organic and related issues on the table for the 2006 elections. Please help us identify local, state, and Congressional politicians seeking office in 2006 who support policies that move us toward a more democratic, healthy, sustainable and re-localized society--with organic agriculture and Fair Trade leading the way. Please take a moment to help OCA's lobbying partner, the Organic Consumers Fund (OCF), identify our real friends and champions. This ambitious, people-powered political candidate survey has the potential to impact local, state, and federal election races across the country.

Please go now to the OCF voter action page and follow the step-by-step instructions to encourage candidates in your area to take part in the "Organic Consumers 2006 Political Candidate Survey." Once your local, state, and Congressional candidates respond, the OCF website will automatically rank them in terms of their response on key issues of health, justice, and sustainability. It's a whole lot easier than you might think, and the results will have a powerful impact. Please locate candidates in your area and send them the survey here: http://www.organicconsumersfund.org/voterguide.cfm


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A message from NANCY S.

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WE NEED YOU TO HELP TO PROTECT OUR TREES, COASTS AND FORESTS. PLEASE DO JOIN US. ALSO AS USUAL, PLEASE CPOST, SHARES .... THANKS, BRAZILIAN TREEHUGS,

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1. ---Please read and sign the following petitions:

A == Oppose Arctic and Coastal Drilling... http://www.sierraclub.org/petition/drilling

B == Save Alaska's Teshekpuk Lake... http://www.savetlake.org/

Thank you!

JimT


In our Care2 Front Page (link below)

2. -----MUCH INTERESTING TO READ, NOTE AND LEARN : http://www.care2.com/news/member/147064281/154489 about our solar system and its planets.

Still fighting for this one .....Please help!
3. -----Tell Kimberly-Clark: Use Recycled Paper Instead of Old Forests! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/921729930

Another one to fight strongly for ...!!!
4. -----Ask Congress to Save Our Shores! at the following web site - http://floridapirg.org/FL.asp?id=1688&id4=TAFsent

From our dear friend JeffreyA

5. Save South African Primates ----"It's ultimate goal is to seek protection for all species perceived to be a 'problem’ who have been tainted by human intervention due to the ongoing encroachment of human development on their territories."
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/932716846

6. -----PLEASE CHECK IN THE LINK BELOW FOR THE ACTUAL CURRENT PETITION – THANKS. Thank you for your comment on the Proposed Land Management Plans for the Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The 90-day comment period for the Proposed Plans has been extended to provide the public more time to review and comment because we understand that these plans were developed under new regulations and that it may take additional time for review. The official comment period now ends September 9, 2006. All comments received will be reviewed and considered before the final Land Management Plans are released, which are anticipated for release in the March of 2007.

For current information about our Proposed Land Management Plans, please visit our website: http://www.fs.fed.us/kipz . For additional information, please contact Jodi Kramer in Idaho (208-765-7235) or Kirsten Kaiser in Montana (406-283-7659). (above received in my personal email inbox-agnesC) From our dear friend JeffreyA Another one to fight strongly for ...!!! Still fighting for this one .....Please help!

A message from Eleanor:

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=15877

Thought you might be interested. Many thanks for your share!

Best wishes

Eleanor

Take Action!

Remind President Bush that all Americans must abide by the Constitution>>
http://tinyurl.com/h76z3

Challenge promised over ruling in Bush spy case http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/NEWS05/608180422/1007/NEWS05

About - Judge Anna Diggs Taylor http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/NEWS05/608180425/1007/NEWS05

Photo of - Judge Anna Diggs Taylor http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&nojs=1&q=anna+diggs+taylor&btnG=Search

Excerpts from the judge's ruling http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/NEWS05/608180424/1007/NEWS05

Even now, some afraid to make calls http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/NEWS05/608180423/1007/NEWS05


Informant: ranger116

Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium has leaked into the groundwater beneath the San Onofre nuclear power plant, prompting the closure of one drinking-water well in southern Orange County.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806I.shtml

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget projections, estimating the deficit will rise to $286 billion in fiscal 2007, up from this year’s $260 billion projected deficit. Moreover, the long-term outlook remains bleak; total deficits over the next decade are estimated at $1.7 trillion.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806D.shtml

"It is a week since news broke in London about an alleged plot to blow up nine commercial jetliners, and there are emerging indicators that Bush and Blair exaggerated the truth about the actual readiness of the so-called plot," writes Larry C. Johnson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806B.shtml

Ray McGovern writes that yesterday Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, "ruled that Bush's eavesdropping program is 'obviously in violation of the Fourth Amendment' as well as the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which expressly forbids eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806A.shtml

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The Constitution: Checking a Would-Be King

By Ray McGovern

When questioned about the legality of President Bush's eavesdropping program on May 8, the widely respected Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, who was director of the National Security Agency (NSA) when the FISA law was passed (and later deputy director of the CIA), said: "There clearly was a line in the FISA statutes which says you couldn't do this ... There was even an extra sentence put in the bill that said, 'You can't do anything that is not authorized by this bill.'"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14622.htm

Bush is under election-year pressure to start bringing some troops home this year, but a spasm of violence in Baghdad has forced commanders to move some American forces from other parts of Iraq into the capital.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806M.shtml

In ruling on Thursday that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional and must be halted, US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor slammed the White House on several critical fronts. "In her decision," writes David Corn, "she accused the administration of dishonestly arguing that the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others (including journalists, researchers and lawyers) against the NSA wiretapping should be dismissed because it would expose state secrets."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806L.shtml

A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806J.shtml



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

Are We Falling For It Again?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/17/are_we_falling_for_it_again.php

Take Action:
http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/ben_jerrys_scoop_of_lies.html

Auf einer Müllhalde bei Ankara (Mamak) wurden zahlreiche tote Hunde entdeckt. Einigen Tieren hatte man die Beine zusammengebunden, sie misshandelt oder vergewaltigt, bevor man sie, teils bei vollem Bewusstsein, in Gruben schmiss und sie zuschüttete. Welpen steckte man in Säcke, schoss wahllos darauf oder wartete, bis die Tiere in den Säcken erstickten...

http://www.peta.de/de/home.cfm?p=616

Als Reaktion auf den Aufschrei der Öffentlichkeit hat die chinesische Regierung jüngst ihr Vorhaben aufgegeben, es Jägern zu gestatten, Lizenzen für das Töten von Wildtieren, darunter auch gefährdete Arten, zu kaufen. Ihre Stimme kann und wird Gewicht haben! Falls Sie es nicht schon getan haben, appellieren Sie bitte an die Regierung, dem Massenabschlachten von Hunden Einhalt zu gebieten...

http://www.peta.de/de/home.cfm?p=645

Common Dreams
by Bob Burnett

08/17/06

It's time for liberals to tell the truth: President Bush's war on terror has failed. Keeping America in a permanent state of 'war' isn't a foreign policy objective but rather a political one. It's part of an Orwellian Bush strategy to keep Americans paralyzed with fear and Congress in emergency mode where Bush Administration budgetary, military, and human rights abuses are overlooked. It's time for liberals to declare that Bush's 'war' is over and to propose a real strategy for combating terrorism...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0817-22.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

08/17/06

The Republicans are beginning to sound more and more desperate. With the midterm elections barely three months away, the war in Iraq going badly, the Republicans losing on the generic question of whether you'd rather vote for a Democrat or Republican for Congress, and President Bush's popularity still in the toilet, it's easy to understand why. So what do you do when you're desperate?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208805,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tom Paine
by Aziz Huq

08/17/06

The partisan posturing began within hours of reports the British had arrested 20-odd suspects in connection with an alleged terrorist conspiracy to blow up passenger airplanes. Arrests were made in the U.K, not the U.S. The plot was hatched in the U.K. and Pakistan. But it was U.S. politicians who first mounted their soapboxes. 'Move to question your opponent's commitment to the defeat of terror,' crowed National Republican Party Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds. Following this rush to judgment was a campaign to expand government powers. ... Set aside for a moment the hazards of enlarging executive power when public fear is at fever pitch and partisan politics at its zenith. Are the proposed powers really new or really needed? The short answer is no...

http://tinyurl.com/qu8q9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

08/18/06

It's not enough that the Transportation Security Administration wastes hours upon endless hours of time. It's not enough that they confiscate our Chapstick and toothpaste and claim that it is for our own protection. It's not enough that we must fork over our ID at five different checkpoints before boarding a plane, and have strangers paid with our tax dollars rifle and snoop through our bags...

http://www.mises.org/story/2290


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Asia Times
by MK Bhadrakumar

08/17/06

'Bombs ... plots ... al-Qaeda ...' The authorities have spoken, from Washington to New Delhi, and so it's time to willingly suspend disbelief once again. The sky is definitely falling...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HH18Df03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Larry Beinhart

08/18/06

Say it loud, say it often, 'Republicans are bad on national security.' Every Democrat running for national office -- and local offices too, why not? -- should say, 'I'm running because Republicans are bad on national security.' Then they should go on to say, here's why I'm saying it ...

http://www.alternet.org/story/40438/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Jim Babka

08/17/06

We're afraid. We're afraid of more war. We're afraid because war makes government grow and organizations devoted to downsizing government shrink. This is what happened after 9/11. This is what happened when our government invaded Iraq. This could be what happens again if our government attacks Iran. We're afraid because we believe Downsize DC is on the cusp of rapid growth, but more war could cause us to implode. We're afraid because we cannot Downsize DC without dealing with the war issue. But if we deal with it as we should we may lose so many supporters that we never become large enough to Downsize DC...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/5787/afraid.asp?nid=5787&wid=64


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Miami Herald

08/17/06

Gov. Jeb Bush reinstated a death warrant Thursday for a condemned killer, despite a ruling this year from the U.S. Supreme Court that the inmate could challenge the state's method of lethal injection. Prison officials scheduled his execution for next month. The attorney for convicted killer Clarence Hill said he would ask a federal appellate court for a stay on the execution so the Supreme Court decision can be carried out...

http://tinyurl.com/j4dbk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

08/18/06

The issue before an Army officer Thursday was whether Lt. Ehren Watada ought to face a court-martial for refusing to go to Iraq. But the war itself and whether it is based on deceit or defense of a nation was on trial. And so was Watada and whether he acted out of courage or dishonor. In a cramped courtroom on this Army base that just sent thousands of its soldiers to Iraq, three witnesses for Watada called the war illegal. The four-hour hearing is likely a prelude to what could occur at a court-martial. The decision on a court-martial will be made later...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/281742_watada18.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.slate.com/id/2147823/


Informant: Kev Hall

The White House manipulated the reports of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about the air quality in the environment of Ground Zero after the attacks and thus exposed all the relief workers, residents and employees in south Manhattan to extreme health risks.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/344173.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Video

Noam Chomsky, explores how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populace.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

As Republicans struggle to keep control of Congress, each new headline that relates some sign of progress in battling terrorism - President Bush's strongest issue - is a boon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0817/p03s03-uspo.html


From Information Clearing House

Airlines will soon be required to give the government passenger lists for all U.S.-bound international flights before takeoff, the nation's homeland security chief said Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/n5lvj


From Information Clearing House

The perception of a national security threat, aired on cable news channels throughout the weekend, is unraveling, leading the FBI and at least one prosecutor to back off and provoking a storm of protest from Muslim-American groups who allege ethnic profiling.

http://tinyurl.com/mke56


From Information Clearing House

Declaring that airport screeners shouldn't be hampered by "political correctness," House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has endorsed requiring people of "Middle Eastern and South Asian" descent to undergo additional security checks because of their ethnicity and religion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14592.htm

April 4 was Smith's first and only day in Iraq. The Army private from Brookfield, N.Y., was returning from a shooting range when the Humvee he was riding in struck a roadside bomb. The explosion took both of his legs from the knee down and nearly killed him.

http://www.newhouse.com/archive/gifford081706.html


From Information Clearing House

Cong. Conyers' Report Newly Updated
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis


Informant: ranger116

RESIDENTS in Chorleywood have until next Thursday to comment on a T-Mobile plan to build a 10m high phone mast.

The company has proposed building a telecommunications monopole on the pavement at the junction of Quickley Lane and Heronsgate Road along with three cabinets containing radio equipment around the base of the mast.

Comments on the application must be sent to Three Rivers District Council before Thursday, August 24, by quoting application number 06/1328/PDNT.

The plans can be viewed at the council offices or http://www.threerivers.gov.uk .

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.884596.0.get_your_comments_in_on_mast_plan.php

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This is Yasmin's patch and I think she might be away! Typical operator trick in the school holidays. We had a Vodaphone one announced yesterday so I have armed the troops with good missives to throw! Or did I mean missiles??

sandi


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081606_burning_bridge.shtml


Informant: Lauren J Sullivan

From: Sen. Ted Kennedy
action@tedkennedy.com

[] here are 146,587 terrorist supporters living in the state of Connecticut according to Vice President Dick Cheney -- the number of Ned Lamont voters.

He claims they're encouraging "the Al Qaida" types who want to "break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task" in Iraq.

Cheney's gone too far. His disgraceful declaration of war on Ned Lamont supporters is an attack not just on Democrats, but on democracy itself.

We can't stand by while Republicans like Cheney slander the people of Connecticut and millions of other Americans nationwide who are showing up at the polls to reject the failed record of the Bush Administration.

I thought you might like the opportunity to send your own message to the Vice President. You can send it here:

http://www.tedkennedy.com/apologize

Cheney wants people to believe that anyone who questions the Bush Administration's misguided policies is in cahoots with the terrorists.

But the facts are clear.

The Administration's extremist agenda has drained our resources and stretched our troops. This made the war on terrorism hard to win and made America more hated in the world.

The American people want more than vicious fear-mongering from our leaders. They want realistic policies, accountability for failures, and -- most of all -- a new direction for America.

It's time for Dick Cheney to admit he went too far. Demand that the vice president apologize for his offensive remarks:

http://www.tedkennedy.com/apologize

Let's recognize a few truths: Lamont voters did not allow Osama bin Laden to escape in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Lamont voters did not mislead the American people into war with Iraq.

Lamont voters did not refuse to admit their mistakes. They did not vow to "stay the course" while more and more Americans die and Iraq descends into civil war.

Dick Cheney and Republicans of his ilk disrespect the very nature of our democracy when the results are inconvenient for them. But despite this unprecedented grab for executive power, they don't have the ability to decide elections.

The vote in Connecticut proves that free and open elections still exist -- and millions of Democrats around the country are ready to go to the ballot box in the coming months and put America back on track.

Thank you for you support.

Sincerely,

Senator Edward M. Kennedy


Informant: Martin Greenhut



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

NOW travels to Yellowstone Park to investigate how ranchers and wolves - longtime adversaries - are now facing a common enemy in encroaching development.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081706U.shtml

The Interior Department is set to open a vast area of environmentally sensitive wetlands in Alaska to new oil drilling, even as opponents point to corroding pipelines to the east at Prudhoe Bay as a reason to keep the area off-limits.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081706S.shtml

On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, "disaster profiteers" have made millions while local companies and laborers in New Orleans and the rest of the devastated Gulf Coast region are systematically getting the short end of the stick, according to a major new report from the nonprofit CorpWatch.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081706R.shtml

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/bright/pnum448.php

Jean Hay Bright, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, has been campaigning on a pro-peace, anti-war platform for more than a year, but has been ignored by the media and the Washington Beltway crowd because she's opposing Olympia Snowe, who despite being one of the most pro-war, hawkish senators in Washington has been able to FOOL the media and the public by claiming she's a moderate.

But if Republican Olympia Snowe were really a moderate, she would not have voted with the Bush administration during its first four years in office 82 PERCENT OF THE TIME.

We need you to speak out now to call on Democrats all over the country to throw their support behind Jean. First, if you blog over at the Swing State Project, go over there and leave a post to nominate Jean to be one of the Netroots Candidates on their list.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/2006/08/netroots_candid.php

Then submit the action page and express IN YOUR OWN WORDS why the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) and Russ Feingold's Progressive Patriots Fund should expressly endorse and contribute to Jean's campaign. There is a link on the action page where you can find out more about what Jean Hay Bright stands for.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/bright/pnum448.php

In truth, Olympia Snowe is a Bush-enabler who fully supports the Iraq war, the PATRIOT Act, anti-choice federal judges who would dismantle Roe v. Wade, tax cuts for the rich, elimination of the estate tax, and reduction of benefits to returning veterans, including protection from bankruptcy for the families of veterans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Olympia Snowe opposes universal health care and opposes making the minimum wage a living wage. Her campaign is funded by contributions from defense contractors, oil companies, credit card companies, HMOs and drug companies. Her campaign, her votes and the philosophy behind them is one of destroying the average working family while working to widen the income gap in America.

Democrat Jean Hay Bright is a true grass-roots progressive. She wants to get U.S. troops and corporations out of Iraq, institute national health care, make the United States sustainably energy independent, rebuild American infrastructure and manufacturing capacity, and restore fiscal responsibility in Washington.

Maine is a small state, a blue state that supported Clinton, Gore and Kerry. Jean can win this election with 350,000 votes and only million. Her campaign has already brought unenrolled, disenfranchised Democrats back into the party. She has strong support from Democrats within the state. But the cupboard is bare, and she needs your help.

As Snowe's first women opponent, and with Snowe having voted for Alito, thousands of Democratic women who have voted for Snowe in the past will this year vote for Jean. As a commercial organic farmer, Jean has strong support in the agriculture community, and with the Maine Green Party, which is not running a U.S. Senate candidate in this race.

Recent surveys show 75 percent of Maine voters don't think the Iraq war is worth the cost and casualties it has produced. Jean's anti-war credentials are as good as those of Kucinich, Feingold, Conyers, or Lamont. She also has the support of many veterans and veterans groups, who know she will fight for veteran's rights and health care.

There is a perfect storm brewing this year, forging a movement to oust the Republican ideology that is destroying the fabric of our nation. People are beginning to understand that for many reasons, from national security to individual freedom, this country needs to replace six sitting Republicans senators with six Democrats.

Jean Hay Bright can be one of those Democrats.

YOU can help make that happen. Get the word out and the money will follow.

This race is WINNABLE, but only if the progressive community gets behind her. Please support Jean TODAY.

Thank you.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/bright/pnum448.php

This alert is brought to you through the activism of Jean Hay Bright, running for the U.S. Senate, and one of the leading progressive voices in the state of Maine. Jean wants to start running call to action radio spots to call her constituents to action on all the issue we care about.

RADIO SPOT DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/bright/donations.php

Nobody can predict how a particular race will turn out. But we know that the spots we ran on impeachment had tremendous secondary impact, as TWO other groups were inspired to run their own call to action ads on this issue as a result of the investment we made in this action. If you are able to do so, please make whatever donation you can to continue the stand we are taking on issue after issue.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0716montini0716.html

Jul. 16, 2006

Robin Silver is in the business of saving lives, which, as legacies go, is better than most. But it isn't enough. Not for him.

He also wants to save the planet, or at least one or two of its most beautiful spots, which happen to exist here in Arizona.

So when he isn't working as a physician, Silver heads up the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. I first spoke to him last July about a catastrophic event in our state that none of us noticed, and which we wouldn't have cared about even if we had.

For the first time in 75 years, stream flow in southern Arizona's San Pedro River had shrunk to zero. The 140-mile river flows north from Mexico into Arizona, passing east of Tucson and meandering to Sierra Vista.

It's the last free-flowing river in the Southwest and has been a source of life in the desert for thousands of years. The cottonwood, willow and mesquite trees along the riverbank provide shelter for 400 species of birds and other animals, as well as over 100 species of butterflies.

Imagine that. One hundred different kinds of butterflies.

The Nature Conservancy has called the San Pedro one of the "last great places" on Earth, but on July 5, 2005, the most sensitive stream flow gauge on the river registered zero. For a short stretch downstream of Sierra Vista, the river dried up.

At the time, Silver was hoping that the no-flow event would be a wake-up call for the politicians whom he says are allowing unchecked development to slowly kill one of the most lovely places on the planet.

Naturally, he was wrong.

Birds and butterflies rarely appear on the campaign contribution lists of political candidates. Unlike developers.

"I've been in this business a long time," he told me last week. "But our group (the center has 25,000 members) is not going away. We owe it to our children that rivers like the San Pedro be protected. It isn't just about preserving a beautiful spot, it's also about being wise not to squander the desert's most valuable resource: water."

Last week, Silver sent out a lengthy e-mail pointing out yet another catastrophic event in Arizona that none of us noticed, and which we wouldn't have cared about even if we had.

On June 29, a portion of the San Pedro dried up - again. It was the second time that such a thing had occurred in 75 years, and less than a year from the first time.

"We have had multiple 'proclamations' from different governors about how important the rivers are," he said. "But when it comes down to it, we just go along with the flow of development and don't protect the public trust."

Right now, he said the biggest threats to the San Pedro are new housing around Sierra Vista and the drain on resources from nearby Fort Huachuca.

"There are laws in place that, if they were enforced, would do much to solve this problem," Silver said. "It's all about restricting development based on water."

As with every other scientific debate, however, there are experts who will side with developers and with elected officials looking to expand their political base. They'll say the river is fine.

Still, Silver again is hoping that when a no-flow event that hasn't happened in 75 years happens again, that it will be a wake-up call. Again.

"To us, it seems like a slow process," he said. "It isn't. And shame on us if in a few decades the river is dry and someone has to tell people living in these developments to turn off their spigots."

Reach Montini at (602) 444-8978 or ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com. Read his blog at http://montiniblog.azcentral.com .

Anbei ein Pressebericht über das Unfallrisiko Mobilfunk (s. Anhang).
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Quelle: Gießener Allgemeine, Fr. 18. August 2006, Seite 18.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Maik Will
(Interessengemeinschaft Mobilfunk Treis)