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Informant: ranger116

Unter "Eine ganz lange Leitung" wird mangelnde Initiative gegen Gefahren des Mobilfunks beklagt. Als ich gestern einem Stadtteil-Bürgerkreis über den Freiburger Appell und formellen Bürgerantrag informierte, regte ich gleichzeitig dazu Initiativen an. Die nachfolgende Antwort ist typisch für Menschen, die entweder einäugig oder blind sind.

Klaus Kowakowski


----- Original Message -----
From: B
To: Klaus Kowakowski kl.kowa_at_t-online.de>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:57 PM
Subject: Mobilfunk

Hallo Klaus,

wir alle haben großes Interesse gesund zu sein.
Nur wo fangen wir da an.

1. Autos mit Abgasen, rollende Musikboxen, Stau, Streß?
2. Sat-Schüsseln massenweise an den Häusern.
3. Handys, wo man geht und steht, wird man davon umgeben. (Für Leute mit Herzschrittmacher lebensgefährlich, wie auch die Schranken in den Kaufhäusern und die dazugehörenden Chips.
4. Handtelefone zu Hause, Funkwecker, Radiowecker, Mikrowelle.
5. Fernseher, Computer.
6. Schmutz gehört auch zu dem Thema, sobald er Überhand nimmt.

Wenn die Türkenkinder aus dem Urlaub kamen, waren Läuse und anstecktende Gelbsucht in der Schule nichts neues. Habe ich alles in der Schulzeit meiner Tochter erlebt. Dieser Unrat,der auch bei unseren Nachbarn rumfliegt und liegt, zieht Ratten an, auch das ist gesundheitsschädigend.

Damit will ich nicht, die Mobilfunkprobleme herunterspielen, liegt mir fern. Die Leute die sich die auf das Dach installieren lassen, denken ans Geld. Der Rest denkt an das Handy, was sonst nicht mehr so benutzbar ist.

Das ist eine Sache, die kaum in den Griff zu kriegen ist. Du hast von den kleinen Schritten gesprochen. Aber das würde ein Kampf an allen Fronten. Das ist auch für denjenigen die im Beruf ,Selbstständig oder Familie mit Kinder haben, kaum zu bewältigen. Was nützt es, dass wir was für die Gesundheit der Allgemeinheit tun und dabei die eigene Gesundheit durch ständigen Streß ruinieren. Selbstverständlich kannst Du das Thema bei dem Treffen ansprechen, vielleicht finden sich dort Leute, die Dich bei dieser Sache unterstützen.

Das Problem ist, dass sich manche bereits jetzt schon überfordert fühlen, mit Dingen die per E-Mail kommen die nicht zur Sache gehören. Also wenn bei unsere Sache SOS viele mitmachen sollen, müssen wir beim Thema bleiben. Mobilfunk wäre was für die, die sich freiwillig dafür bereit erklären.

Nichts für ungut, es ist leider so. Auch ich bin nicht bereit, da mit einzusteigen.

Ich wünsch Dir bei dieser Aktion viel Erfolg.

Gruß

U.

"Once we bankrupt ourselves to make Iraq a giant military prison camp, what will we do then? Find a new Hussein to take over Iraq?" asks Robert Scheer. "As Lamont wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, staying the course when the car is headed off the cliff is hardly a realistic position."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306P.shtml

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Warring Over the Heart of the Party
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0823-20.htm

While there is no talk among the world powers right now about hitting Iran militarily, European diplomats in particular said they worried about a downward spiral if the sanctions did not work. "They've been dragged into three wars over there by the US," Mr. Parsi said, referring to Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. "They don't want a fourth."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306L.shtml

"Faced with George W. Bush's disastrous policies in the Middle East and his adamant refusal to change course," writes Robert Parry, "the question now arises whether the President has become a 'clear and present danger' to the security of the United States and, indirectly, to Israel."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306K.shtml

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http://tinyurl.com/jq3le


Informant: mark phillips

http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08232006.html



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

More than a few politicians and commentators once firmly in Bush's camp have joined the doubters on the war, which has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and the lives of more than 2,600 US troops.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306F.shtml

Jim Hightower writes about "An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors - all courtesy of the imperial presidency."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306E.shtml

nlnews@archant.co.uk

23 August 2006

Father Pearson with the church tower in the background, where the phone mast will be installed Picture: Tony Gay

A HISTORIC church could be used to house a mobile phone mast if planners get their way.

Mobile network operator Vodaphone is hoping to get public backing to install a mast inside the tower of the Grade II* listed Church of All Hallows, in Church Lane, Tottenham.

Now the church's parochial church council is appealing for public feedback to the proposal from Vodaphone's agent QS4 Ltd, the approved installer of telecommunications equipment for the Church of England.

Father Roy Pearson, 71, pastor of the church, said his congregation had no objections.

He said: "We are all in support of it. We need a lot of work done on the church, and this will help enormously.

"It is a listed building and we have had no help from anywhere to keep it in good order, and we have just got to do it ourselves.

"The floor needs some attention, and the gutters all round the church are in a very bad state, and that is a major task and is urgent."

He added: "This is being done through the Archbishop's Council, and it's all done very, very carefully and takes account of everybody's feelings.

"All the schools have been consulted and they have not even replied, and this was well before the term ended. They have no concerns at all."

QS4 Ltd says that no part of the church, which has stood on the site in various forms since the 14th century, will be visually affected by the mast.

The eight-bell peal, now used just for weddings and other special occasions, will also be unaffected.

The building is rated by English Heritage as among the top six per cent of most important buildings in the country.

People are invited to send their comments, with reference number A06535, by September 14 to john.horsley@qs4.com or by post to John Horsley, QS4 Ltd, Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 0LX.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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A message from Eleanor

Please sign and forward and crosspost! This is horrific!


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New Petition - Please Sign & Crosspost, *thanks* Karen. M xoxoxoxox

Help put an end to British Horse Slaughter!"

EVERY FOUR MINUTES OF A WORKING WEEK A HORSE, FOAL OR MARE IS BRUTALLY AND UN-NECESSARILY SLAUGHTERED IN THE UK.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/612169753

Republican governor Frank Murkowski, stung by accusations of arrogance and stubbornness, lost his bid for a second term Tuesday after polling last in a three-way GOP primary. Tony Knowles, a former two-term governor, won the race to be the Democratic nominee for governor in the November 7 general election. He beat state congressman Eric Croft.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306Z.shtml

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/74940.html


Informant: jensenmk

From Mitchel Cohen

Reason
by Jeff A. Taylor

08/21/06

When President George Bush confidently told reporters Friday that a district court judge's ruling against his administration's secret wiretap program would be overturned, he wasn't just spinning. There is a good chance he is right. As much as it might pain those looking for something, anything, to use against the Bush administration's ever-increasing definition of executive power, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's opinion probably ain't it. There is a reason the Justice Department rushed to appeal this decision...

http://www.reason.com/links/links082106.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cato Institute
by Michael D.Tanner

08/22/06

On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a bill that despite its obscure title represented the most extensive revision of federal welfare policy in more than 30 years. Among other things, the bill ended the legal entitlement to welfare benefits, established time limits and work requirements for participation in the program, and gave states much more authority to establish other requirements and restrictions. At the time, most American liberals predicted disaster. ... One frequently cited study predicted that more than a million children would be thrown into poverty. Welfare advocates painted vivid pictures of families sleeping on sidewalks, widespread starvation, and worse. ... Ten years on, we see that these claims were about as correct as intelligence estimates on Iraq...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6629


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The beginning of a start? Maybe

Self-Sovereign Individual Project
by Kitty Antonik Wakfer

08/06

The logic that when the military enforcers refuse to fight an aggressive war, the war will cease, extends to other actions by government, which always makes use of force or threat of it and therefore requires enforcers for its continued potent existence. When growing numbers of individuals resign their jobs as enforcers -- police, customs agents, border guards, drug enforcement agents, tax agents, FDA regulation enforcers, etc -- and few can be hired to replace them, then the legislators/executors at all levels will either have to take up the reins of enforcement themselves or acknowledge their impotence to rule others...

http://selfsip.org/focus/startbeginning.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Jack Heyman

08/22/06

Spying on grannies in Sacramento who were planning to “mark Mother’s Day urging the Governor and Legislature to support bringing California National Guardsmen home from Iraq by Labor Day”; doing undercover surveillance at a union rally for health care in San Francisco and prompting police to fire “less-than-lethal” weapons at anti-war protesters and longshore workers in the port of Oakland -- this is the veiled face of the “war on terror” exposed in a just-released American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report...

http://www.counterpunch.org/heyman08222006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Bob Barr

08/20/06

Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer. ....The issue at hand is the so-called Cybercrime Treaty, drafted by European bureaucrats and championed by the Bush administration. .... Similarly, if law enforcement officials in another signatory nation with much stricter gun control laws than ours, decide there's some evidence on a U.S. citizen's computer in this country that they say is related to an anti-firearms prosecution, all they need do is ring up our Justice Department and request the information. It matters not that the offense in the other country triggering the investigation might not be a crime under U.S. law...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060819-095338-7577r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

08/22/06

The Homeland Security Department wants to dig even further into the backgrounds of the 20 million overseas travelers who fly here every year — not by asking for more information about them, but by doing more with the data the U.S. already gets. 'This is an invaluable research tool for us, to be able to see if there's links from individuals of concern that we can find through these database systems,' says Jayson Ahern with Customs and Border Protection...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14470828/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

08/22/06

It's a dangerous world. And even five years after 9/11, the nation remains far from ready to respond in an effective way to a major disaster such as a terror attack or a flu pandemic, says Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In his new book, Americans at Risk (Knopf, $24), Redlener urges the federal government to develop a cohesive, coordinated approach to disaster planning — and Americans to emerge from a state of national denial...

http://tinyurl.com/ff4hx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0822-07.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0822-03.htm



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

Anne McElroy Dachel discusses official denial of the increase in autism from one in 10,000 children, to one in every 166, including one in every 80 males, in just twenty years, pointing out that this happened at the same time as a dramatic increase in the number of mercury-containing vaccines.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082206HA.shtml



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

Robert Kuttner says: "I hope Wal-Mart does become a poster child for all that's out of whack with the US economy. But we need to go after a great deal more than Wal-Mart if politicians are serious about restoring the dream of an America where people who work hard and play by the rules can aspire to be middle class."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082206LA.shtml

Republican Senator John McCain, a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be "some kind of day at the beach."

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

The US Marine Corps will recall thousands of Marines to active duty, primarily because of a shortage of volunteers. This is the first time the Marines have had to use the involuntary recall since the early days of the Iraq combat. The Army has ordered back about 14,000 soldiers since the start of the war.

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

http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/whos-watching/20060816150109990001


Informant: Dave Newton

Video

Most people think that blindly believing what out government tells us is patriotism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14650.htm

Video

Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Where does your nation stand on these scales?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14653.htm

Judge Taylor’s decision not only puts the Administration on notice. It puts Congress and all of us as citizens on notice: Bush is a law-breaker of the highest order.

http://progressive.org/mag_wx082106


From Information Clearing House

Video: We Can't Make It Here Anymore
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14098.htm

Homeowners in Louisiana, have not yet received a single dollar of federal housing rebuilding assistance to rebuild their severely damaged houses back into homes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14658.htm

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Trying to Make It Home: One Year After Katrina

Bill Quigley: "If you have seen recent television footage of New Orleans, you probably have a picture of how bad our housing situation is. What you cannot see is that the rest of our institutions, our water, our electricity, our health care, our jobs, our educational system, our criminal justice systems - are all just as broken as our housing."

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

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have now stamped as national security secrets the long-public numbers of U.S. nuclear missiles during the Cold War.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB197/index.htm


From Information Clearing House

Corps faces shortage of volunteers for deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14468245/


From Information Clearing House

An Iraqi investigative panel has launched an independent probe into the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl allegedly by American soldiers currently in U.S. custody, who will be tried in absentia if necessary, an official said Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2341038


From Information Clearing House

Please help birds!

Take action right now by urging PetSmart to stop selling birds:
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By Robert Fisk

Workmen barricade themselves in to put up the mobile phone mast BR5127

CAMPAIGNERS have lost their fight against a mobile phone giant installing a 8.5m-high mast.

They had staged protests at the site of a T-Mobile mast on the corner of St Paul's Wood Hill and Beddington Road, St Paul's Cray, since the company was granted permission by the Government's Planning Inspectorate in February.

The group, which is worried about the health implications of having a mast near homes, thought it had won when it managed to prevent work on the site during the second week of August by standing round the hole where the mast was supposed to be installed.

But workers for T-Mobile caught the protestors off-guard by returning to the site at 7am on August 16.

They had barricaded themselves in with two layers of security barriers and guards were standing watch by the time campaigners arrived.

Angry scenes erupted with protesters claiming T-Mobile had broken its agreement to not start work on the mast until the protest group had a meeting with Bromley police about the legalities of protesting.

Police were called after the group of about 15 campaigners tried to lift the barriers so they could crawl into the site and stand in the hole to stop work.

A security guard kept watch overnight and the work was completed on August 17.

Mother-of-two Claire Burton, 37, said: "Everything T-Mobile does is underhand.

"It does not go about things the right way."

The St Paul's Wood Hill resident added: "When we try and do things the right way it just does nothing."

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

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

"Surely this means nobody wants it."

The mother-of-three added: "It is typical. They have stabbed us in the back."

Mrs Anderson is focusing her attention on organising a mass march through central London to Downing Street.

Call 020 8302 4043 to get involved with the campaign.

A T-Mobile spokesman said: "We did not make any commitments about when work would restart and therefore did not break any agreements with the protesters.

"The security guards were there for health and safety reasons."

For video footage of campaigners trying to tear down the barricades, click here
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/videonews/index.var.81.0.0.php

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/localheadlines/display.var.889365.0.protesters_stabbed_in_the_back_by_company.php

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=33703

23. August 2006

Heute wird das Thema "Mindestlohn" im Bundeskabinett Thema sein. Die Regierung berät einen Gesetzentwurf, mit dem das Entsendegesetz für die Baubranche auf das Gebäudereiniger-Handwerk ausgedehnt werden soll. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Es ist höchste Zeit für einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn. Diese Forderung der Gewerkschaften und der Linkspartei.PDS ist zwar bei den Regierenden angekommen, aber, das Thema ist zu wichtig, als dass es weiterhin Spielball zwischen SPD und CDU sein darf. Der jetzt von Müntefering vorgelegte Vorschlag geht er am eigentlichen Problem vorbei. Es macht keinen Sinn, einen Mindestlohn nur für einzelne Branchen einzuführen. Das ist Etikettenschwindel. Notwendig ist ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn für all jene, die keinen Tariflohn erhalten und für Armutslöhne arbeiten. Ein Mindestlohn nur für die Beschäftigten von einzelnen Branchen schafft neue soziale Ungerechtigkeiten und löst das Problem nicht. Vollkommen unverständlich ist, dass erneut unterschiedliche Sätze in Ost und West gelten sollen. Damit werden Ostdeutsche erneut als Bürger zweiter Klasse abgestempelt und das 16 Jahre nach Wiederherstellung der deutschen Einheit. Nach den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen in den vergangenen Tagen und der nach wie vor ablehnenden Haltung breiter Kreise der Union wird sich heute erstmals zeigen, wie ernst Angela Merkels jüngstes Bekenntnis zur sozialen Marktwirtschaft, zu Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit zu nehmen ist. Schöne Worte reichen nicht aus, die Regierungschefin muss auch handeln. Nur durch einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn können Dumpinglöhne wirksam bekämpft werden. Die Linkspartei.PDS und der Fraktion DIE LINKE bleiben dabei: Von Arbeit muss man leben können unabhängig davon, in welcher Branche man tätig ist. Deshalb führen wir unsere Kampagne für einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von 8 Euro die Stunde fort. Das entspricht einem Einkommen oberhalb der Pfändungsfreigrenze, die derzeit bei monatlich 990 Euro liegt.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5000/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/08/18/ccview18.xml&site=1&page=0


Informant: Lew Rockwell

BONN – Die meisten Jugendlichen in Deutschland besitzen bereits ein Handy. Wird das Gerät allzu oft aus der Tasche gezogen, sollten sich Eltern und Freunde Sorgen machen: Nach einer koreanischen Studie sind starke Handynutzer deutlich ängstlicher als ihre „unkommunikativen“ Altersgenossen und neigen eher zu depressiver Verstimmung.

Alle zehn Minuten prüften einige der 575 beobachteten Schüler, ob nicht eine SMS eingegangen sei. Die exzessiven Nutzer von Mobiltelefonen verschickten auch selbst ständig Nachrichten und telefonierten sehr lange. Eine südkoreanische Studie belege, dass diese Jugendlichen häufiger ängstlich und depressiv sind, so die Krankenkasse AOK. Die befragten Schüler gaben Frust und Langeweile als Grund an, wenn sie mehr als 90 Mal am Tag das Handy benutzten.

Den koreanischen Wissenschaftlern zufolge hängt hingegen oft ein niedriges Selbstwertgefühl mit der starken Handy­nutzung zusammen. Es sei beruhigend für die betroffenen Teen­ager, mit anderen in ständigem Kontakt zu stehen. Auch würden sie an der Zahl der eingegangenen SMS ihre eigene Popularität bemessen, so die Forscher. Die Gefahr sei groß, dass unsichere Jugendliche die Kurznachricht­en einem direkten Kontakt vorzögen und sich zunehmend sozial isolierten. Auch in Deutschland könnte dies zu einem Problem werden – immerhin besitzen schon über 90% der 12- bis 19-Jährigen ein Handy.

MT-Online D, Sy, AOK; Foto: irislblende.de

http://www.medical-tribune.de/patienten/news/18285/


Nachricht von Frau (Herr) Schnepper

http://nightweed.com/20AmazingVotingFacts.html

Read it and weep.

Where were Floridians marching out in the streets in protest after not one but TWO stolen elections? Where were the government workers who could have made government come to a complete standstill? Where was Kerry and his sidekick's promises about "every last vote"? Nowhere, of course. Aside from a few so-called "extremists" who actually had real nerve, the masses were behaving like good, law-abiding lambs, taking it with a stiff upper lip and a lot of lubricant.

Many have fooled themselves into believing that quiet desperation is the "civilized" way of making a statement. It's easier that way than to realize we face the responsibility of pruning our "tree of liberty" ourselves against our own government. Someone might call such a thing "radical" or "unstable."

By the way, a local elections watchdog told me that there were 5,000 votes undercounted in the Broward side of District 21 alone. Broward is just 20% of District 21. If this proportion holds consistent with Miami-Dade, it means a total of 25,000 votes went unreported for me. Instead of the 27.2% official result, I would've had 39%.

But what can I do alone if no one with any integrity or balls is going to stand up and fight on principle instead of parroting their Party leadership's "official" bunk? Where are the volumes of letters and boycotts and calls from INDEPENDENT THINKERS AND DOERS for firings of the big-mouthed bureaucrats who pull these dirty tricks?

Where are the throngs of people even now who supposedly have "had enough" lining up to volunteer for poll worker positions and other needed roles?

Fine job. The beatings--figurative and literal--will continue 'til your defiance, not your morale, improves, America.

It's not those who vote who determine the future. It's those who count the votes who determine it.

If you only knew how relatively little effort it takes for a small, dedicated group of people to change the world, you would have endlessly more confidence in yourselves.

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


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

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

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

A message from Judy

Please help save Frida the lion cub! See below...


Original Message:

Dear friends,

Please know that I don't send messages like this out often - this is close to my heart and close to home, and I therefore am asking for your help.

I am upset, outraged, tearing my hair out, over what may happen to a lioness named Frida.

Please read about it here http://www.care2.com/news/member/379549259/159099 and please please sign the petition, I am going to be calling this place in the morning to find out what is going on.

A summary of Frida's plight: "This lion cub was sentenced to death. Sentenced by people for whom only money matters. She can be shot at any time, or restricted in a cage and forced to breed. Again, till death. Only for money."

This will be my first of many steps on a campaign to put an end to canned hunting, trophy hunting.

Thank you so much!

Mandy

Critics of Senator Joseph Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

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



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

"Conservatives want the government to redistribute income upward," writes Dean Baker. "This is done through a variety of mechanisms, the most obvious of which are their tax policies, which favor upper-income people. But conservatives want the government to intervene in the market in a wide variety of ways that have the effect of redistributing income from those at the middle and the bottom to those at the top."

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

"The storm came, the levees failed, and the nightmares began to unfold. Days passed without any help coming from the federal government. Memories and images of the devastation left behind in the wake of Katrina - in Alabama, Mississippi, and most searingly in New Orleans, Louisiana - are today as much a part of this nation's tragic history," writes William Rivers Pitt, "as the memories and images of September 11, Pearl Harbor, and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906."

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

"Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have a new book, which is always a good thing," writes David Swanson, "but this one is especially good. It's called 'The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq.' It's 206 pages, and you'll read it in one sitting, because it's more entertaining than the corporate media whose infotainment is the book's focus."

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

As political leaders give two cheers on Tuesday for the 10th anniversary of the welfare reform law that helped draw many single mothers from dependency into the work force, though often leaving them still in poverty, social workers and researchers are raising concerns about families that have not made the transition and often lead extraordinarily precarious lives.

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

United States and European authorities, looking for more tools to detect terrorist plots, want to expand the screening of international airline passengers by digging deep into a vast repository of airline itineraries, personal information and payment data.

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

Aviel Rubin writes, "I am a computer scientist. I own seven Macintosh computers, one Windows machine and a Palm Treo 700p with a GPS unit, and I chose my car (InfinitiM35x) because it had the most gadgets of any vehicle in its class. My 7-year-old daughter uses email. So why am I advocating the use of 17th-century technology for voting in the 21st century - as one of my critics puts it?"

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

Tamworth Herald

10:30 - 17 August 2006

Almost every month, controversial phone mast applications are submitted to the council.

These applications are ignoring Tamworth's 100m IPG policy. My own surveys indicate that over 97 per cent of Tamworth's residents support this policy and the signs/indications are that the applicants are seeking to undermine its importance.

The problem is not unique to Tamworth and in Telford there are now over 400 masts; 'the people do not want these close to their homes'.

Over on the east coast, residential groups have been set up who work with the applicants and the local authority to identify and assist in identifying appropriate locations that satisfy the applicants' views and also respect the views of the community. To date, the applicants are not showing respect for the local views.

I propose that the residents of Tamworth form a similar group. These will not go away and we need to accept that these phone masts are required. I have talked with a few councillors and a few residents and the idea has received support.

I therefore ask the residents of Tamworth to communicate with me if they are willing to consider working to set up such a group and to move forward constructively.

The intention is, once a group is set up, to register with the local authority as a non statutory consultee purely on this single issue.

To be successful, residents who are members of other groups all over Tamworth or are active in the community and know their area are required. The success of such a group will depend on its community input.

Anyone interested in helping to move this forward should contact me. All responses will be answered and an evening weekday meeting will be arranged. Please give in your response, evenings that suit you.

To date, I understand that the council has rejected all those that do not comply with the 100m policy and consequently, eight appeals have been registered. Time is short for local action.

Please do not leave this to others because we are all likely to be affected.

Any councillor who is not on the planning committee will also be welcomed/invited to respond.

Ken Forest


Although I am not a resident in Tamworth, I am pleased to see that more and more people are waking up to the human rights abuse of the insensitive placing of mobile phone masts. I am a Parish Councillor in a village where we are being placed "under siege" by mobile operators who are now installing and upgrading at will. I would urge anyone who feels that their rights are being abused to contact their MP - or the Government direct if your MP is unwilling to take up this cause - and demand that planning laws are tightened to restore democracy. OFCOM - who are supposed to be the Government Body who oversees this Industry are, I am afraid, very heavily committed to rolling out the networks and, therefore, would appear to be operating with a serious conflict of interest. I wish this new group every success.

Cllr Sylvia Wright,
Essington,
Staffordshire

Aug 18 2006

Stafford ic network

By Justine Halifax

FAMILIES are celebrating victory over a mobile phone giant after plans for a mast near homes and a primary school were thrown out.

Vodafone told Tamworth Borough Council it wanted to erect a 12m high mast, equipped with a microwave dish, on a grass verge in Pennine Way, Stonydelph.

It sparked fierce opposition from families over fears it would have been just ten metres from the nearest house and 150 metres from Stonydelph Infants and Junior School.

Angry residents joined forces to object to the plans and won when the council rejected Vodafone's application.

Independent councillor Chris Cooke, of Stonydelph, said: "This must have been one of the cheekiest applications yet.

"It was barely 150 metres from Stonydelph school and close to an old people's complex. There were literally dozens of homes within the 100 metre reach. This application was totally insensitive."

A council spokesman said: "The siting of the proposed mast within ten metres of a residential property is considered insensitive and ill thought out.

"Ten metres is not judged an acceptable distance from a residential property to site a telecommunications mast, nor appropriate given the residential density of the area.

"The proposed mast will appear visually intrusive and is likely to have a detrimental impact on the character of the area."

Vodafone defended its decision to site a mast so close to homes and a school.

A spokeswoman said: "Every reputable scientific body has said that providing we comply with guidelines, there is no risk to human health whether you are right next to it or a mile away."

It is the second bid by Vodafone to be thwarted following campaigns in Tam-worth this month.

Last week jubilant families blocked the company's plans for a 12m high mast in Overwoods Road, Hockley, Wilnecote.

We need a few more news items like this and they are around. With David's info sheets on planning and a little help with writing letters, we are making dents in the system.

Sandi


No go for mobile mast

Aug 22 2006 icSouthLondon

By Emily Twinch

PARENTS and residents are celebrating victory after plans for a mobile mast on a pub near a school were withdrawn.

Campaigners started fighting in September last year against the proposed mast on top of the Crystal Palace Tavern in East Dulwich.

Punch Tavern, owners of the pub in Crystal Palace Road, has now agreed with T-Mobile to withdraw the application.

Resident, lead campaigner and mum-of-two Lisa Precious,35, said: "Everybody is delighted - overjoyed. We were getting to the point where we thought it was going to be a victory for T-Mobile.

"We are not against technology. We see the need for it, and mobiles can save people's lives.

"But until research has been done, a cautious approach should be taken to sites near schools."

The mast would have stood 46ft from the ground and been about 260 yards from Heber Primary School, 56 yards from Gumboots Nursery, near Dulwich Medical School and near an after-school club.

Three petitions were raised with more than 500 signatures,and nearly 700 letters of objection were written to Southwark council.

Councillor Richard Thomas wrote to Punch Taverns in April and the application was withdrawn last month.

But the residents and parents of children at Gumboots Nursery and Heber School will not be resting on their laurels and are gearing up to fight again.

They want an existing mast on the Castle pub, also in Crystal Palace Road near Heber School, and another in Barry Road near St Anthony's School, taken down.

A Punch Taverns spokeswoman said: "We have decided this pub is no longer a suitable area for a mast installation and we have agreed with the telecoms operator to withdraw the application."

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4996/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml
http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.pdf

Say NO to war and sanctions against Iran!
http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml

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STOP WAR IN IRAN
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263308738


Informant: Bruce



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=114384

Source: http://ga3.org/ct/1p20pgF1dzuk/

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren

Presse-Information vom 22. August 2006

Nach dem Skandal in den USA: „Gen-Reis von Bayer nicht in der EU zulassen!“

Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren fordert die europäischen Behörden auf, keine Import-Genehmigung für gentechnisch veränderten Reis zu erteilen. Der jüngste Skandal in den USA belege, dass sich die Risiken von modifizierten Pflanzen nicht kontrollieren ließen.

Am Wochenende hatten US-Behörden bekannt gegeben, dass in mehreren amerikanischen Bundesstaaten herkömmlich angebauter Reis mit der von BAYER CropScience hergestellten Sorte LL 601 kontaminiert ist. Der genmanipulierte Reis ist resistent gegen das von BAYER hergestellte Herbizid Liberty Link. Die US-Landwirtschaftsbehörde kennt weder den genauen Umfang der Verunreinigung noch ihre Ursache. Japan verhängte daraufhin einen sofortigen Import-Stopp für Langkorn-Reis aus den USA. In der Europäische Union kam der kontaminierte Reis offenbar bereits in den Handel.

Philipp Mimkes von der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG): „Der Fall bestätigt alle Befürchtungen: eine nicht zugelassene gentechnisch veränderte Reis-Sorte landet in der Nahrungskette, und niemand weiß, wie sie dort hineingelangt ist. Der Umfang der Verunreinigung ist ebenso unklar wie die gesundheitlichen Risiken für die Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher. Dies muss Konsequenzen für die Zulassung von Gen-Reis in der EU haben“. BAYER hatte 2003 in der EU eine Import-Zulassung für genmanipulierten Reis der Sorte LL 62, der ebenfalls gegen Liberty Link resistent ist, beantragt. Insgesamt neun EU-Mitgliedsstaaten äußerten Bedenken, weswegen die European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) bis heute keine Zulassung erteilt hat. Die CBG fordert die Bundesregierung auf, sich gegen eine Importgenehmigung von LLRice62 auszusprechen.

BAYER ist weltweit zweitgrößter Anbieter von gentechnisch verändertem Saatgut. In Europa will das Unternehmen gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen wie Raps, Zuckerrüben, Kartoffeln und Mais in den Markt drücken. Die weltweit folgenschwerste Entscheidung betrifft jedoch die Zulassung von Gen-Reis. Neben den Risiken für die Konsumenten stehen dabei besonders die Auswirkungen in den Anbau-Ländern, vornehmlich in Asien, im Blickpunkt. Philipp Mimkes: „Die Einführung von Gen-Reis hätte dramatische Konsequenzen. Millionen Bauern in den Ländern des Südens, die bislang durch Tausch und Eigenzüchtungen ihr Saatgut selbst produzieren, drohen in Abhängigkeit von multinationalen Konzernen zu geraten - die Verwendung ihrer Ernte als Saatgut wäre wegen des Patentschutzes künftig verboten. Durch den bereits in der "grünen Revolution" beobachteten Konzentrationsprozess würden Millionen Landwirte ihre Existenz verlieren und in die Elendsgebiete rund um die Metropolen abwandern.“

Dr. Suman Sahai, Direktorin der indischen Initiative Gene Campaign, warnt vor den ökologischen Risiken für ihr Heimatland: Lokal angepasste Reissorten würden durch Hochertragssorten verdrängt, was zu erhöhten Schädlingsaufkommen, verstärktem Einsatz gefährlicher Pestizide und einer Verringerung der Artenvielfalt führt.

Weitere Informationen:

Flugblatt „Reis in Gefahr“: 20046GenReis.pdf

Umweltverbände schreiben an 25 EU-Regierungen Übersichtsartikel „Bitterer GenReis" Umweltverbände gegen EU-Import von gentechnisch verändertem Reis Briefing about the food safety and environmental risks of Bayer's GMO rice


Frankfurter Rundschau, 21. August 2006

USA: Genreis entdeckt

Washington - Nicht zugelassener Genreis von Bayer ist in den USA in Reis-Containern für den Markt entdeckt worden. Bei den Spuren handele es sich um die Genreis-Sorte Llrice 601, die ein Protein enthalte, das den Reis gegen bestimmte Unkrautvernichtungsmittel resistent mache, so das US-Landwirtschaftsministerium. Gefahr für Verbraucher oder Umwelt bestehe nicht.

Es ist unklar, woher der Genreis genau stammt. Mit der Sorte wurden in den USA Feldversuche unternommen, die aber 2001 endeten. Bayer arbeite eng mit den Behörden zusammen, so der Konzern.

Pläne, den verunreinigten Reis zurückzurufen oder gar zu zerstören, gibt es nicht. "Es gibt nichts, was wir gesehen haben, das diesen Schritt rechtfertigen würde", sagt US-Landwirtschaftsminister Mike Johanns. Eine Untersuchung sei eingeleitet.

Bayer Crop-Science, Pflanzenschutztochter des Konzerns, hat inzwischen die Zulassung der Genreis-Sorte in den USA beantragt - obwohl Bayer nach eigenen Angaben nicht vorhat, die Reis-Sorte in den USA zu vermarkten.

Verbraucherschützer sparen nicht mit Kritik. "Die Biotech-Industrie handelt weiter unverantwortlich und ohne die Regeln zu beachten", sagt Greg Jaffe vom Center for Science in the Public Interest: "Der Vorfall wird nur die Unsicherheit der Verbraucher im Hinblick auf die Technik verstärken."

Experten gehen davon aus, dass die USA in diesem Jahr eine Reis-Ernte im Wert von 1,88 Milliarden Dollar haben; die Hälfte davon ist für den Export bestimmt. US-Reis-Pflanzer haben derzeit einen Anteil von etwa zwölf Prozent am weltweiten Reis-Handel. rtr

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Beirat

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rochlitz, Chemiker, ehem. MdB, Burgwald
Dr. Sigrid Müller, Pharmakologin, Bremen
Prof. Dr. Anton Schneider, Baubiologe, Neubeuern
Prof. Jürgen Junginger, Designer, Krefeld
Dr. Erika Abczynski, Kinderärztin, Dormagen
Eva Bulling-Schröter, MdB, Berlin
Dr. Janis Schmelzer, Historiker, Berlin
Wolfram Esche, Rechtsanwalt, Köln
Dorothee Sölle,Theologin, Hamburg (gest. 2003)

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EU beschränkt Einfuhr: SPD will von Bayer über nicht zugelassenen Gen-Reis informiert werden (24.08.06)

Die EU hat Einfuhrbeschränkungen für Langkornreis aus den USA erlassen. Bei EU-Grenzkontrollen war der Verdacht aufgetreten, dass der US-Reis mit der nicht zugelassenen, gentechnisch veränderten Bayer-Reissorte LL Rice 601 kontaminiert worden war. Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Ulrich Kelber, findet es "schade", dass der Chemieriese Bayer nicht offen über den Einsatz des nicht zugelassenen gentechnisch veränderten Reises in den USA spricht. In einem Brief an die Bayer AG bittet der Politiker um die Offenlegung aller Informationen. Wer sich in diesen Tagen auf der Website von Bayer CropScience informieren wolle, "findet leider nur ein paar dürre Zeilen, in denen unter Hinweis auf amerikanische Behörden versichert wird, dass keine Gefahr bestehe. Kein Wort darüber, dass es sich um den nicht zugelassenen gv-Reis LL601 handelt, der zuletzt im Jahre 2001 in den USA im Erprobungsanbau freigesetzt worden ist und für den bisher keine Zulassung beantragt oder erteilt worden ist", kritisiert Kelber. Es stellten sich viele Fragen, beispielsweise die wie es sein könne, "dass nicht zugelassener gentechnisch veraenderter Reis noch mehrere Jahre nach Abbruch der Versuche in Lebensmitteln vorhanden ist und offenbar erst jetzt entdeckt wurde?"

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14295

FreedomWorks
by Dick Armey

08/21/06

The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll indicates a scant 25 percent of all Americans approve of the way Congress is doing its job, while 60 percent disapprove. Why? Americans expect Congress to do its job, and they know what that job is: To pass laws that secure the blessings of liberty. By this simple measure, this Congress is not doing well and voters know it. Instead of going to voters in November with a list of legislative accomplishments, Republicans are set to return home with little more than a litany of excuses and missed opportunities...

http://tinyurl.com/fbzmh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Consortium News
by Peter Dyer

08/20/06

If and when President Bush is impeached and removed from office, the next step should be to arrest him and the other architects of the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq. If Americans ever find the will to do this, as we once did to German aggressors, history will remember it as a turning point in international relations. It will go down as one of the most spectacular and complete affirmations of the very best of American ideals...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/082006a.html



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

Ft. Myers News-Press

08/21/06

Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame. Armitage's official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show a one-hour meeting marked 'private appointment' with Woodward on June 13, 2003...

http://tinyurl.com/s4y6c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14453669/site/newsweek/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Roseburg News-Review

08/21/06

President Bush said Monday the Iraq war is 'straining the psyche of our country' but leaving now would be a disaster. Bush served notice at a news conference that he would not change course or flinch from debate about the unpopular war as he campaigns for Republicans in the fall congressional elections. In fact, he suggested that national security and the economy should be the top political issues, and criticized the Democrats' approach on both...

http://tinyurl.com/gdwrr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/trotz_headset.doc
http://tinyurl.com/edw5b

"First, their fathers noticed the palm trees that seemed to be inching toward the water's edge.... Later, researchers came, scribbled measurements, and offered a grim diagnosis: the sea is coming. There is not a power line or factory or air conditioner within a day's walk of this village of 400 people in the southwest Pacific, but these subsistence fishermen are no strangers to the power of industrialization and climate change," writes Evan Osnos.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082106EA.shtml

Federal air marshals across the country are telling 7NEWS that airline passengers' safety has been compromised and managers lied to Congress to cover it up.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9552850/detail.html?taf=den


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a T-Shirt that said "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1348224


From Information Clearing House

Oil and gas supplies are becoming scarcer and more expensive. The hunt for the world's remaining resources is creating new alliances and the danger of fresh conflicts. China is moving aggressively to sate its growing appetite for energy, potentially setting up a confrontation with the United States for the dwindling resources of the Middle East and Africa.

http://tinyurl.com/hss28



The Global Battle for Natural Resources

The global economy is booming, and experts predict it will stay healthy. But competition for natural resources will change the balance of power among the world's nations as a new age of conflicts over energy begins.

http://tinyurl.com/jod9z


From Information Clearing House

The mid- to long-term fallout from Israel-Hezbollah conflict could be a good thing because it may prompt Bush to take military action against Iran.

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/20/gerecht-iran


From Information Clearing House

"I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14637.htm

BRITISH Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14634.htm



Sinister Events in a Cynical War

Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what were they planning to do with them?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10425.htm

Paul Craig Roberts

It is unclear how much longer the world will trade Americans real goods for pieces of paper that the US economy cannot redeem with tradable goods and services.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14645.htm

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/bush-on-911/


Informant: shane_digital

Greenpeace Demands Global Ban on Imports of US Ricehttp://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0821-05.htm

GM contamination warning triggers call for ban on US rice
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=944

EU Set to Stop GMO-Tainted US Rice
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0822-07.htm

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GM contamination warning triggers call for ban on US rice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1855528,00.html


Informant: binstock

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USDA ANNOUNCES U.S. RICE SUPPLY HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED

USDA Secretary Mike Johanns has announced that domestic and export stocks of long grain rice has been contaminated by a genetically engineered variety of rice that is not approved for human consumption. Johanns said that the contamination was admitted to be the fault of Bayer Corporation, but the USDA doesn't know how widespread the contamination is. According to Johanns the biotech rice poses no health risks, but could damage the U.S. $1 billion rice export market, since many nations refuse to import genetically engineered rice. Japan has already announced a ban on long grain rice imports from the US. Last year, Japan and the EU banned US corn imports as a result of yet another GE contamination scandal.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1584.cfm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0821-09.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4992/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2316788


Informant: NHNE

Did you see in the LA Times this weekend that the Bohemian Club in Monte Rio is cutting down their old growth redwoods along the Russian River. Apparently they have alot of redwoods along the river and up the hills just inland from Monte Rio. They are already cutting them down and causing clearcuts along the trails.

I tried to drive into the Bohemian Grove about 2 or 3 years ago, but they have many threatening signs along their private road so I eventually turned back. Did not see any people.

*Arnold has a miserable record on enviro, labor, and taking money from business to sell us out. NOW he is trying to get the votes of the dummies who have not been following his record for the last 3 years.

http://www.ARNOLDWATCH.org


Informant: bigraccoon

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/17/17468/7925


Informant: ranger116

http://tinyurl.com/r57by


Informant: ranger116

Implanted Chips in Our Troops?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/21/232558.shtml

Chip the Soldiers
http://technocrat.net/d/2006/8/23/7107

VeriChip wants to test human implantable RFID on military
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=36214&src=site-marq

VeriChip wants to chip every US soldier
http://media.engadget.com/2006/08/24/verichip-wants-to-chip-every-us-soldier/

VeriChip Wants To Test Human Implantable RFID On Military
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192204948&subSection=Breaking+News

US Military To Be Tagged With Spychips?
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/verichip_military.html

VeriChip wants U.S. Military to embrace RFID tags
http://www.mobilemag.com/redirect.php?content=9255

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CORPORATION WITH CLOSE BUSH TIES TRYING TO IMPLANT SPY CHIP UNDER SKIN OF ALL AMERICAN TROOPS

DC EXAMINER - A microchip company with powerful political connections is lobbying the Pentagon for the right to implant chips under the skins of the nearly 1.4 million U.S. military personnel. Verichip Corp., which is based in Florida and planning to offer its stock to the public soon, has been one of the most aggressive marketers of radio frequency identification chips. Company officials have touted the chips as versatile, able to be used in a variety of situations such as helping track illegal immigrants or giving doctors immediate access to patient's medical records.

Now the company is "in discussions" with the Pentagon, spokeswoman Nicole Philbin said. She added that Verichip wants to insert the chips under the skin of the right arms of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen. The idea is to be able to scan an arm and obtain that person's identity and medical history.

The company has political muscle in the form of Tommy Thompson. A former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Thompson is a partner at the lobbying law firm of Akin Gump and is a director of Verichip.

Thompson said he's sure that the chip is safe and that no one - not even military personnel, who are required by law to follow orders - will be forced to accept an implant against his or her will. He has also promised to have a chip implanted in himself.

Liz McIntyre, author of a book critical of the chips, said that VeriChip is "a huge threat" to public privacy. "They're circling like vultures for any opportunity to get into our flesh," McIntyre said. "They'll start with people who can't say no, like the elderly, sex offenders, immigrants and the military. Then they'll come knocking on our doors."

http://www.examiner.com/a-232630~Company_trying_to_get_under_soldiers__skin.html


Informant: bigraccoon