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Over the strong objections of Native people, wildlife biologists, sportsmen’s groups, and the general public, the Bush Administration remains intent on leasing one of the most remarkable wetlands complexes on the planet.

We need your help in urging the new Interior Secretary to postpone the oil and gas lease sale for this fragile area that is now set for late September.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010901MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML


Bob Fertik


Hurry! As soon as Sept. 27, a special wild place could be sold to oil and gas.

Protect millions of wildlife.

Click here today!
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010904MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML


Dear Friend,

It is one of the most remarkable wetlands on the planet. Millions of waterfowl and tens of thousands of caribou are lucky enough to call it home.

But their luck may run out as soon as Sept. 27, when our government plans to sell the fragile habitat to the oil and gas industry. The place is the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area in Alaska, and you have a chance right now to protect this land – public land – from getting sold to the highest bidder.

We urgently need your help! Click here to write the Interior Secretary and demand that the imminent oil and gas lease sale be postponed!
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010902MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

The Teshekpuk region, part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is a stunning sweep of landscape, remarkable even in Alaska where a grand scale is the only scale. It is one of the most important wetland complexes in the Arctic, providing essential habitat for millions of birds and caribou. We do not oppose oil drilling in the NPR-A, only in places with outstanding environmental values.

Together, we can get the Interior Department to do the only sensible thing: cancel the Sept. 27 sale of this precious wild place.

Native people, conservation groups, scientists, sportsmen’s groups, and the general public strongly oppose the oil and gas plan. Will you join the call?

We don’t have much more time to weigh in – act today before it’s too late!
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010903MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Thanks so much for your help,

Bill Meadows
President
The Wilderness Society

The Federal Education Department shared personal information on hundreds of student loan applicants with the Federal Bureau of Investigation across a five-year period that began after the September 11 terror attacks, the agencies said yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106P.shtml

"We are here to say, 'We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. No more inhumanity.' Let's raise our voices," Salt Lake City mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson proclaimed, "and demand, 'Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth!'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106L.shtml

Under assault from Republicans on issues of national security, Congressional Democrats are planning to push for a vote of no-confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this month as part of a broad effort to stay on the offensive ahead of the November midterm elections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106K.shtml

In the face of increased Congressional opposition to US nuclear weapons development, the Bush administration appears to be making an end run around governmental checks and balances. The bizarrely named Divine Strake project is a 700-ton explosive experiment first scheduled to detonate at the Nevada Test Site in June of this year. Thanks to furious grass-roots opposition to the proposal, Divine Strake has been twice delayed, and is currently projecting a detonation date of no sooner than early 2007.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106J.shtml

A message from NANCY

Original Message:


Hi Friends..

Please SIGN this new petition I have just authored! Please foward it/cross post it to ALL your friends in Care2! I hope alot of Malaysians will be bold enough to put their signatures to paper too!? I know that I am taking a really brave step here and I could end up being put behind bars if someone in the Malaysian government decides to teach me a lesson. But I have had enough of it. I have had enough of my Prime Ministers silence on the subject!! I want changes...not in ten years time when all animals etc are dead at the hands of evil Malayian animal owners!!

Demanding Tougher Penalties For Animal Abusers In Malaysia
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/757672309

I have one drunken animal abuser three doors away from where I live! He also recently threatened my wife, daughter and my two dogs! Ive made a police report BUT he is well known in my neighbourhood to even beat his wife! He also beats and mistreats his own dog on a daily basis!. I dread to think once he has his own children!!. I must remain vigilant and on-guard at ALL times...you never know what these kind of sadistic morons are capable of!!?

We have to put a stop to these drunken abusive individuals!! The Malaysian government is allowing their kind of poison being 'fed' into everybody's lives....inspite of numerous petitions and emails sent to them!

For your kind attention!

Ross Ariffin
Malaysia

E.J. Dionne Jr. writes: "The proportion of the poor who are very poor has risen. People are considered in deep poverty if they have half or less of the yearly income of those at the poverty line. In 2005 half the poverty line for a family of three was $7,788; for a family of four it was $9,985. (Try living on that.) According to the new report, 43.1 percent of poor people lived in that sort of deep poverty - a record since 1975, when the government started assembling such statistics."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106H.shtml

It is not just the state of California that is bypassing the authority of the US government to take action on global warming. The mayors of more than 300 cities across the country have signed a Climate Protection Agreement in which they have pledged to meet the emissions-cutting timetable laid down by the Kyoto Protocol - regardless of what the Bush administration decides.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106E.shtml

Activists filed a civil-rights lawsuit Thursday claiming Secretary of State Ken Blackwell deprived people of their voting rights during the 2004 presidential election, and are seeking to have him removed from overseeing the general election in November.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106C.shtml

Förderkreis für Solar- und Windenergie Neumarkt e.V., http://www.solarkreis.de
ÖDP-Kreisverband Neumarkt, http://www.neumarkt.oedp.de
Stellvertretender Vorsitzender Josef Neumeyer, Kastanienstr. 16, 92334 Berching Tel. 08462-27036, UMS-Fax 012125 18467081

30.08.06

NEUMARKT. Gefährlich oder nicht: Die Neumarkter Lammsbräu baut die auf dem Brauereigelände installierten Mobilfunkantennen schrittweise ab.

Der ersten Antennen werden in der nächsten Woche demontiert. Sämtliche Verträge mit den Betreibern wurden von der Neumarkter Lammsbräu zum frühest möglichen Zeitpunkt gekündigt, hieß es am Mittwoch.

Brauerei-Chef Dr. Franz Ehrnsperger kommentiert diesen Schritt: "Als wir vor zehn Jahren die Antennenanlagen aufgestellt haben, bestätigten alle staatlichen Gutachten die Unbedenklichkeit, das heißt es konnten keine negativen Einflüsse auf den Menschen festgestellt werden". Seitdem würden sich jedoch die kritischen Fragen hinsichtlich der möglichen Auswirkungen dieser Antennen mehren.

"Diese Kritik nehmen wir sehr ernst", erklärte Ehrnsperger, "obwohl es bis heute hierzu keine wissenschaftliche Klarheit gibt - weder im Sinne der Befürworter noch der Kritiker des Mobilfunks -, haben wir uns nun entschlossen, die Antennenanlagen auf den Brauereigebäuden abzubauen."

Vor über 25 Jahren hat die Neumarkter Lammsbräu einen ganzheitlichen ökologischen und zukunftsgerichteten Weg eingeschlagen. Auf dieser Grundlage wurde die Brauerei in praktisch allen Bereichen nach und nach umgestellt. Die beständige Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Entwicklungen und Technologien, aber auch die gleichzeitige Neubewertung früherer Entscheidungen ist Teil dieses Weges, heißt es von der Brauerei.

Am kommenden Montag wird der Gerüstaufbau beginnen und ein Baukran von der Amberger Straße aus die ersten Antennen abbauen.

http://www.neumarktonline.de/art.php?newsid=46009

In erster Lesung wurde im NRW-Landtag die von Innenminister Wolf (FDP) erstellte Novellierung des Verfassungsschutzgesetzes behandelt, die dem Geheimdienst "offensive Internetbeobachtung" und das Eindringen in private Rechner ermöglichen würde - für die Opposition ist das Hausfriedensbruch.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23465/1.html

Jason Leopold writes that: "Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't change the fact that Karl Rove told former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper the same thing three days later - and then subsequently failed to tell federal investigators about it for a year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106Z.shtml

Sep 1 2006

By Matt Smith

SOLIHULL MP Loreley Burt has added her weight to a campaign to stop a mobile phone mast being put up in Widney Manor.

Angry residents discovered letters from mobile phone company O2 on bank holiday weekend that an application for a 15-metre mast on Widney Lane close to the train station had been submitted.

The Solihull News reported in July that Austcliffe Road residents Carole Robertson and Clive Raybould took it upon themselves to stop the proposed plans by alerting 50 of their closest neighbours.

Now the duo have run off more than 300 leaflets and started a petition against the plan.

"We have already got a petition going," said Carole.

"But what makes me really angry is the tone of the letter from the planning department received on August 26 which said that the mast falls within a type of development that planning legislation permits without the need for planning permission," she added.

Lorely Burt MP has now written to planning chiefs at Solihull Council raising concerns over the proposed site for the mast and the poor level of consulatation.

She said: "I was phoned by a resident who told me notices had been received by a handful of residents and that they were delivered over bank holiday weekend, giving inadequate time to register objections.

"I have asked the chief planning officer to refer the application to the planning sub-committee bearing in mind the strength of local opposition. "I think that O2 should have another look at the location and see if they cannot site the mast a much greater distance away from local housing."

© owned by or licensed to Midland Weekly Media (Solihull) Limited 2006

http://tinyurl.com/gsqlw

hg.editorial@archant.co.uk

01 September 2006

ANGER is mounting over a mobile phone company's plans to replace a free-standing mast in Lower Clapton with one which is more powerful.

Two years ago Landfield estate residents lost a battle against a mast which went up behind their homes on neighbouring property at the Braydon Motor Company in Rendlesham Road.

The council has now sent out letters asking for residents' views on a bid by mobile phone giant, O2, to replace the 15-foot mast with another, more powerful structure.

"There are schools all around here and I've never seen a mobile phone mast like this at such a low level," said Marilyn Vears, 55, chairwoman of the estate's tenants' and residents' association.

She added that residents feared the increased power of the mast could be an even greater health risk as it is positioned at a height of just 30 feet off the ground.

FOR THE FULL STORY SEE THIS WEEK'S GAZETTE AVAILABLE NOW.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Foundation for Economic Education
by Charlotte Twight

Given America's carefully crafted constitutional restrictions on central government power, how is it that intrusive federal powers over the lives of ordinary Americans took root in the twentieth century? If you had just fifteen minutes to explain it to James Madison, what would you say? Here is what I would say: Mr. Madison -- James, if I may -- I am deeply saddened by the facts I must describe. You and your colleagues anticipated many things, and the product of your labors has made possible an unprecedented degree of freedom in this country for more than 200 years. But your work is now in jeopardy: liberty is being crowded out by an ever more intrusive central government... (written 10/00; posted 08/31/06)

http://tinyurl.com/m4edm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

08/31/06

When Giuliani started to speak, I was expecting a Lifetime vignette: A story about a fallen firefighter or a 9/11 widow bearing up under unspeakable pain, or perhaps a riff about how he looks out his office window toward lower Manhattan and never forgets. Every other politician is misusing the 9/11 anniversary, why wouldn't he? But he did none of that, showing tasteful restraint he'll have to give up if he actually runs for president. Instead, Giuliani's remarks about 9/11 were general. 'Sept. 11 is not over. It's not just a piece of our history. Sept. 11 is still going on. There are still people like that who want to attack us today. They're trying to do an attack that's even bigger than Sept. 11 to kill more Americans. That's just the reality of the world we live in. To deal with it, you have to be on offense.' And the mayor didn't even mention Iraq as the central front of the war on terror...

http://www.slate.com/id/2148741


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Joe Conason

09/01/06

In a year when 'lobbyist' may replace 'liberal' as the dreaded L-word, the wise politician draws no attention to any connections with the corporate shills who infest Congress like a biblical plague. Any elected official whose spouse is paid to represent or advise an unpopular special interest should observe that simple caution even more carefully. Naive voters may not understand that this is simply how business is done in their corrupt capital these days -- so it is best to say nothing and hope that nobody asks too many questions. That was how Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign handled the potential problem of his wife, Hadassah, and her employment by Hill & Knowlton, the public relations and lobbying firm that has flacked for a gamut of gamy clients, from the tobacco lobby and the Kuwaiti government to Enron, at least until last weekend... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/01/hadassah_lieberman


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

08/31/06

While the rest of us make our way through life, surviving by our own wits and cautions, we allow our one 'leader' to luxuriously manipulate current and future events, at our expense. While we wait in airport security lines (or lines at any other government facility), and submit ourselves to searches, our Executive has someone to do virtually everything for him … at our expense. I often wonder whether there is an official Presidential a...-wiper. There is an Air Force non-com who cleans his toilet, and a personal Air Force steward who does gawd knows what for him. This pandering to the President is a religion. He is treated like a god. Citizens flock to get a glimpse. Those with some 'in' (usually involving money) may get to shake his hand. Those who pay enough may get to sleep in the same building...

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2006/08/protecting-our-president.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

08/31/06

For the past four years, the US military has held Adel Hassan Hamad in prison at Guantanamo Bay, based in part on allegations that he worked for two charity groups in Afghanistan that the US military says support terrorism, according to the military's summary of evidence against Hamad. But neither group appears on the State Department's list of designated terrorist organizations, and one of them operates openly from an office in Britain. In the case of another Guantanamo detainee, whose name does not appear in the record, the US military states in its summary of evidence that the man should be held as an enemy combatant in part because he worked for the International Islamic Relief Organization, a global relief group whose branches in the Philippines and Indonesia have been linked by the US Treasury Department to terrorism...

http://tinyurl.com/e7z4w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Christian Science Monitor

08/31/06

It's the kind of announcement that should put white-collar criminals on notice. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now investigating more than 80 companies in the growing stock-option scandal. The government has charged officials at two companies for backdating options- - a practice that funneled guaranteed profits to executives. More indictments are expected. But far from ratcheting up the fight against financial wrongdoing, the federal government is actually shifting resources away from it. The number of white-collar crime prosecutions is down 28 percent from five years ago, according to an analysis of federal data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The reason? The government's focus on homeland security, experts say. In the same period white-collar crime prosecutions fell, for instance, immigration prosecutions more than doubled... [editor's note: Once more, this nebulous "war on terror" (like its cousin, the war on [some] drugs) diverts law enforcement away from protecting lives and property from real criminals. Intentionally? - SAT]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0831/p03s02-usju.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Poughkeepsie Journal

08/31/06

President Bush said Thursday the war against Islamic militants was like last century's fight against Nazis and communists and that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to its conquest by America's worst enemies. 'The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq,' Bush said in a speech to rally support for his unpopular war strategy two months before congressional elections...

http://tinyurl.com/qqv8g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

08/31/06

The nation's governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control -- and governors less -- over the National Guard during disasters. A letter from the two chairpersons of the National Governors Association, along with the two governors who head the group's work on the Guard, asked Rumsfeld to join the unanimous opposition of governors to proposed changes spurred by the chaos and delays in sending help that followed Hurricane Katrina...

http://tinyurl.com/f2a88


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A RESIDENT hopes to get more than 2,000 signatures on a petition to stop a phone mast being put up next to a medical centre.

Dave Picton, of Tillingham Way, Stone Cross, was so incensed that mobile phone operator 3 had appealed against a decision to refuse permission for the mast, he set about gaining local support.

Now the petition is making the rounds throughout the village. It already has the backing of staff at the Stone Cross Medical Centre, which is located right next to the proposed site.

Mr Picton said, ''The mast is due to be sited next to the medical centre, will be in close proximity to Stone Cross primary school, the pre-school which meets in the memorial hall and the group which meets in St Luke's church.

''It's completely the wrong site.

''If there is no risk for the young, why do the government say that children younger than eight years old shouldn't use a mobile?

''No one wants the mast there. There is a mast further down Dittons Road, which the company has said is not big enough.

''Why don't they get their act together and site it somewhere where no one lives?''

Councillors at Wealden District Council threw out the proposal when it came before the development control south committee in May this year.

However 3 has appealed to the planning inspectorate against the decision.
The refusal notice from Wealden stated, ''The proposed siting of the 12 metre high 'telegraph pole' mast is unacceptable as it would result in a visually incongruous feature at an inappropriate location on the edge of the pavement immediately fronting a busy medical centre, with the possible risk of interference with equipment, and in close proximity to the local primary school, village hall and other community facilities where the general public, including children, regularly visit.''

Kelly Hartland, practice manager for Stone Cross Medical Centre, said, ''Our new doctors' surgery is not on the site location plan and we can only assume that it was not known that a medical centre was going to be built next to 3's preferred site.

''Last year we saw more than 59,000 patients for appointments at our sites in Westham and Pevensey Bay and we expect to be busier at Stone Cross.

''I do not have a suggestion for where it would be better suited, but I do not think that next to a doctor's surgery and a school is the best site.''

William Comery, spokesman for Ericsson which is creating 3's mobile phone network, said, "We have looked at a range of sites and the Dittons Road site was the one which met the criteria best in terms of coverage and how it fits in with the street scene.

"The government's own advice is that mobile phones do not interfere with medical equipment."

01 September 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.eastbournetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=488&ArticleID=1735940

Friday, September 01, 2006

AN appeal will be lodged with An Bord Plean·la before the end of this week against a decision to locate a mobile phone mast at Ballygunner GAA Club’s grounds.

The ‘Concerned Parents Against Masts’ group have confirmed they are putting the “finishing touches” to their appeal and will be sending it to Dublin by Friday.

It’s understood a letter has also been sent to the planning authority by the Parent Teacher Association at St. Mary’s National School in Ballygunner who are also against the development.

The club, who have done a deal with telecommunications company Meteor, received permission from Waterford City Council to retain the controversial mast on their grounds a fortnight ago.

However, local residents remain ‘up in arms’ over the decision, maintaining the city planning office has “let the community down” on the issue.

Last week, Ballygunner GAA chairman Pat O’Sullivan told the Waterford News & Star that he believed the mast posed no health risk to children at the neighbouring St. Mary’s NS, saying that 10 of his own grandchildren attended the school.

However, a spokesperson for the ‘concerned parents’ said this week that their fears weren’t in the slightest bit allayed by these comments.

“The fact of the matter is that we wouldn’t bother going to the effort we are if we didn’t genuinely believe these masts posed a risk,” she said.

“The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Telecommunications, of which local TD Brendan Kenneally is a member, has clearly identified children as being more vulnerable than anyone in these situations.”

“International research indicates that these masts pose a risk and that further research is needed. We don’t want our children in Ballygunner to become guinea pigs for this and so we will continue to fight this battle to the end.”

© Waterford News & Star, 2006.

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=23005

August 30, 2006

Economy grows, environment suffers

Humans are consuming too much and doing too little to protect the environment.

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/aug/business/pt_economy.html

The Worldwatch Institute has concluded that the economy is flourishing at an unsustainable pace. In the past year, according to Vital Signs, the organization’s annual review of future trends, humans produced more steel and aluminum than ever before in history.

[url for report] http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4344

Automakers put a record 45.6 million vehicles on the market, and retailers sold >816 million cell phones.

Manufacturing these goods requires the exploitation of a large amount of natural resources, as well as the additional environmental expense of burning fossil fuels. The institute states that the average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose 0.6% in 2005, the largest recorded annual increase of the greenhouse gas. Meanwhile, the planet’s average temperature rose to 14.6 °C. NASA scientists report that global surface temperatures in 2005 were the hottest ever recorded in more than a century of instrumental data.

Current consumption patterns can only sustain a global population of 1.8 billion, the report’s author said in a prepared statement. The planet now has 6.5 billion people, and that number is expected to grow. “Business as usual is harming the Earth’s ecosystems and the people who depend on them,” he said.

The report includes various web resources that can be accessed for further information.


Informant: binstock

Across the nation, states have enacted new laws supposedly designed to prevent voter fraud and avoid election day debacles, but qualified voters may also be left out in the cold, especially minorities, the poor, the elderly and the disabled.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106U.shtml

STOP THE WAR ON IRAN BEFORE IT STARTS!
http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml



Tell Bush and Congress: Hands Off Iran!

We must act now to stop another war.

As the war in Iraq drags on into a fourth brutal year, the same politicians who led the U.S. to war in 2003 are preparing for a new war --this time against the people of Iran.

Once again using the pretext of "weapons of mass destruction," the U.S. is moving the forces into place in preparation for a possible attack. The USS Eisenhower strike force, with some 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles and a fleet of bombers, has moved into the Persian Gulf. A second carrier group, led by the USS Stennis, is now steaming toward the region. The London Telegraph reported this spring that "a major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East."

In addition to moving military forces into place, the U.S. pushed through UN Sanctions on December 23 intended to cut off vital technology and funds to the people of Iran. Donate

History teaches us that we cannot trust politicians in Washington to stop this new war. In 2002, both Democrats and Republicans rushed to vote for war against Iraq and they have voted every year to fund that war. Now, politicians of both major parties are calling for aggressive action against Iran, at the same time they are discussing sending more troops to Iraq.

The only force that will stop this war is a grass roots movement, and we need your help now to help stop a new brutal war in the Middle East.

Over the next few months, the Stop War on Iran campaign will be organizing meetings, speak outs, and teach-ins to help build a movement to stop the drive to war. We will also be preparing "Stop War on Iran" placards, banners, and leaflets to bring to antiwar and progressive activities, including the national antiwar marches on January 27 and March 17, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

What we do over the next few weeks and months can be decisive. Please join us in helping to build a movement to stop Bush's new war.

Sign the petition - Sign the online petition -- flood Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, and Congress with the message - No War on Iran!
http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml

Donate to help with organizing expenses

Tell a friend help get the word out!

Volunteer - we need thousands of activists across the country to help build a movement to stop a new war

* Hands Off Iran!
* No Sanctions! No War!
* Money for Jobs, Education, and Healthcare, Not War!
* U.S. Troops OUT of the Middle East!

for updates, see the Stop War on Iran blog
http://stopwaroniran.blogspot.com/

Stop War On Iran - 55 West 17th St, 5C, New York, NY 10011

From Gary

A COUNCILLOR fought to have a mobile phone mast near her house because she said it was the best place for it.

Pat Hawkes has campaigned against similar masts in her Hollingbury and Stanmer ward in Brighton.

But she said a new application for a pole by her home was "the lesser of all evils".

A petition with 72 signatures was sent to Brighton and Hove City Council to object to plans for a 12.5m mast on land by Coldean Lane.

Objectors said the application from telecom giant O2, which would share its signal with H3G, would be too close to a school and would be out of keeping with the area.

They argued the mast would spark health concerns and was unnecessary because a mast from another company was put up recently.

But the green light was given to the proposals on Wednesday after Coun Hawkes spoke in their favour.

She said it was inevitable that all mobile phone companies would eventually put up masts in the area and the key was to make sure they were in the best place and shared poles as much as possible

(The Argus, Sept 1st)

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I read with dismay the comments of Cllr. Pat Hawkes supporting the sitting of a mast close to her home and a nearby school. If she is willing to have a mast so close, with the full knowledge of the adverse health effects that both she and the hundreds of children may well encounter as a result, then one must surely doubt her competence to represent the local community. Does she not understand that a second mast simply doubles the exposure and risk, or did she not take maths at school? She has scant regard for the health of the local electorate and her position, as a councillor, should be brought into question.

If on the other hand she has no knowledge of the inevitable adverse health effects, despite having been warned of the potential risks, then she should at least adopt the precautionary approach before making such uninformed comments. I would suggest that she reads any or all of the following reports. Freiburger, Santini or Nalia.

Freiburger:- On the basis of our daily experiences, we hold the current mobile communications technology (introduced in 1992 and since then globally extensive) and cordless digital telephones (DECT standard) to be among the fundamental triggers for this fatal development.

Santini:- From these results and in applying the precautionary principle, it is advisable that cellular phone base stations should not be sited closer than 300 m to populations and most significantly because exposed people can have different sensitivities related particularly to their sex and their age. The facing position appears to be the worst one for distances from cellular phone base stations less than 100 m.

The result of this retrospective study in Naila shows that the risk of newly developing cancer was three times higher among those patients who had lived during past ten years (1994-2004), within a distance of 400m from the cellular transmitter, in comparison to those who had lived further away.

These and others can be found on the following web sites.

http://www.mastsanity.org/
http://www.scram.uk.com/
http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/


Peter Mobley
Concerned Resident
13 Wellington Road, Brighton.

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Dr Boyask (Argus letters, Sept 1st) rightly slams the ineffectiveness of Government advice in preventing the siting of phone masts near schools and nurseries. Overwhelming evidence of what masts and other microwave devices are doing to people health is on Mast Sanitys' website at http://www.mastsanity.org

Conversely, key Government advice favouring the telecom companies is treated as law by Council planning departments. Council planners are scared into agreeing to mast proposals by paragraph 30 of section eight of the Governments' Planning and Policy Guidance notes which states that in the Governments’ firm view, if the mast meets ICNIRP (International Commission on Non Ionising Radiation Protection) guidelines then health should not be considered further. The point of this is to bully Councils into thinking that this is a rule they have to follow. It is not. It is just the Governments’ opinion.

The Newport case, a non mast case which won because the judge said perceived health should have been, but wasn’t, considered, has proven that perceived health risk is a valid planning condition and the Government do not have the power to overthrow the court's ruling in this.

Specifically relating to masts, in the Stroud case the judge stated that if the decision maker blindly stopped at the ICNIRP guidelines then they would fetter their obligation to consider the concerns of residents on a case by case basis.

For everyones sakes we cannot afford the fatalistic attitude of Councillor Pat Hawkes (The Argus, September 1st) that it is inevitable that all mobile phone companies will eventually put up masts anywhere they like.

Gary

Worried about American citizens attacking their own country, law enforcement and intelligence officials are trying to learn how and why extremist sympathizers cross a line and become operational terrorists.

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=32380


From Information Clearing House

Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, the New Jersey attorneys who subpoenaed the White House and the NSA on August 30, as part of the lawsuit on Verizon over illegally giving phone records to the Bush Administration.

http://www.innworldreport.net/video_launcher.php?2006-08-30i


From Information Clearing House

In a move to satisfy the GOP's most conservative supporters, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people as appeals court judges, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_judges


From Information Clearing House

A New York Times decision to block British online readers from seeing a story about London terrorism suspects raises new questions on restricting the flow of information in the Internet age, legal and media experts say.

http://tinyurl.com/rz3ha


From Information Clearing House

Who might have guessed this well-thought of financial host would transform himself into a raving racist never letting a program pass without blaming all the country's ills on the poor and desperate people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14774.htm

Entire video
http://kutv.com/video/?id=18850@kutv.dayport.com


From Information Clearing House

President George W. Bush warned Iran would pay a price for not freezing sensitive nuclear work and predicted an apocalyptic future if the United States hastily quits Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060831/pl_afp/uspoliticsiraq



Bolton: U.N. must now focus on sanctions

President Bush said "there must be consequences" for Iran, adding that the war between Tehran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israel demonstrated that "the world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran."

http://tinyurl.com/oolqc


From Information Clearing House

WHEN President Bush declared last week that "nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered" the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a large segment of the American public must have been very surprised.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006608310321


From Information Clearing House

Two Marines have confessed to kidnapping and killing a 52-year-old Iraqi man in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad, a military prosecutor said Wednesday at a preliminary hearing.

http://tinyurl.com/ph6ah


From Information Clearing House

By Luciana Bohne

Why should the news from Baluchistan interest us? I’ll let you connect the dots by presenting a bit of context and concluding with an article from the Carnegie Endowement, which, I think, will underline the significance of the event for the prospected US attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14770.htm

By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

There is strong evidence that the US administration's recent public statements that it is now willing to negotiate with Iran are highly disingenuous: they are designed not to reach a diplomatic solution to the so-called "Iran crisis", but to remove diplomatic hurdles toward a military "solution".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14771.htm

Video

"The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet."

Click to watch. Windows Media http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14765.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0831-21.htm



There is silence in the streets

New York Times
by Andrew Rosenthal

08/31/06

The audience rose for Neil Young's blast at George Bush, 'Let's Impeach the President,' and sang the words displayed on a huge TV screen, even the 20-something in front of us who had been text-messaging throughout the concert. That same screen also displayed thumbnail photos of slain soldiers while a counter ran up the most recent toll. It takes longer than you might think to count to 2,600. It was a surprisingly political moment for a rock concert in 2006. But when those four men sang their protest songs four decades ago, their lyrics echoed and personified a powerful political movement sweeping America. Now they are entertainment, something to leave behind in the concert hall...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/opinion/31observer.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

ABC 20/20

Thu Aug 31, 2006 02:28

'Last Days on Earth' Change How You See the World AUDIO: http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L001I060830-20-20-last-days-on-earth.MP3

'Last Days on Earth' Change How You See the World http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2319986

How smart are we as a civilization?

Smart enough to control our destiny and avoid the cataclysms that may end life as we know it?

Watch "Last Days on Earth," a special 2-hour edition of "20/20," Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 9 p.m.

For thousands of years, different religions have warned Earth about Armageddon and the final days.

We are now living in an age where scientists are adding their voices and their evidence in support of end-of-the-world possibilities.

"Last Days on Earth" is a program that could change the way you see your world and yourself.

The world's top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, considered the foremost living theoretical physicist, describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity.

Some can destroy the planet, others have the ability to render us extinct, and all have the power to destroy civilization.

How likely are they to occur, and what exactly would happen if they did, and could we survive?

"Last Days on Earth" goes beyond science fiction to science fact.

Using state-of-the-art visual effects, it will take viewers on a journey that is both breathtaking and terrifying, from the outer reaches of the universe to the inner world of DNA, with an around-the-globe tour in between.

"Of all the generations of humans that have walked the surface of the Earth — for 100,000 years, going back when we first left Africa — the generation now alive is the most important," said Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York.

"The generation now alive, the generation that you see, looking around you, for the first time in history, is the generation that controls the destiny of the planet itself."

"Last Days on Earth" is anchored by Elizabeth Vargas. Rudy Bednar is the executive producer. Michael Bicks is the senior producer.

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=104120;show_parent=1

VIDEO: Olberman invokes Edward R. Murrow as he blasts Rumsfeld

[In a remarkable extended commentary in a segment broadcast on MSNBC Wednesday evening (6:41) and posted on YouTube,[1] Keith Olberman lambasted Donald Rumsfeld for invoking the appeasement of Nazism as a historical parallel in the speech he delivered
( http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5056/2/ ) on Aug. 30 to the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. -- Olberman sounded like a modern Edward R. Murrow, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow ) and indeed quoted Murrow at length in closing. -- Thanks to Bob Rudolph for sending this. --Mark]

1.

KEITH OLBERMAN BLASTING RUMSFELD’S FASCISM COMMENT

MSNBC August 30, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98BByBrhdA


From ufpj-news

A message from Hazel

Please, help speak out for the pets in China that have no voice for themselves! We have to get the madness to stop!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/607674331

Please crosspost, or send to your friends! Thank you for your help!

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By Roger Harrabin
BBC News
August 31, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5303574.stm

One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change.

In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted.

"We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future.

"We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and we're going to experience more," Professor Holdren said.

He emphasised the seriousness of the melting Greenland ice cap, saying that without drastic action the world would experience more heatwaves, wild fires and floods.

He added that if the current pace of change continued, a catastrophic sea level rise of 4m (13ft) this century was within the realm of possibility; much higher than previous forecasts.

To put this in perspective, Professor Holdren pointed out that the melting of the Greenland ice cap, alone, could increase world-wide sea levels by 7m
(23ft), swamping many cities.

Safe limits

He blamed President Bush not only for refusing to cut emissions, but also for failing to live up to his rhetoric on harnessing technology to tackle climate change.

"We are not starting to address climate change with the technology we have in hand, and we are not accelerating our investment in energy technology research and development," Professor Holdren observed.

He said research undertaken by Harvard University revealed that US government spending on energy research had not increased since 2001. In order to make any progress, funding for climate technology needed to multiply by three or four times, Professor Holdren warned.

Last year, the UK's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, held a science conference to determine the threshold of dangerous climate change. Delegates concluded that to be relatively certain of keeping the rise below 2C (3.6F), CO2 levels in the atmosphere should not exceed 400 parts per million (ppm) and the highest prudent limit should be 450 ppm.

In October, at an international conference in Mexico, UK environment and energy ministers will try to persuade colleagues from the top 20 most polluting nations to agree on a CO2 stabilisation level.

Professor Holdren expressed doubt that progress could be achieved because if the US administration agreed that there was a need to limit CO2, this would inevitably lead to mandatory caps. President Bush has already rejected that option.

For more than a year, the BBC has invited the US government to give its view on safe levels of CO2. Our request is repeatedly passed between the White House office of the Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the US chief scientist.

To date, we have received no response to questions on this issue that Tony Blair calls the most important in the world. Professor Holdren called on the US Government to back the UK position.

John Holdren, in addition to his presidency of the AAAS, is a director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University


Informant: NHNE

By Sarah Cassidy

The Independent September 1, 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1223131.ece

The world faces a catastrophic rise in global warming in 2050 unless urgent action is taken to cut human-induced carbon emissions, a leading academic warned yesterday.

Professor Peter Cox, of Exeter University, told the Royal Geographical Society annual conference that temperatures could rise 8C by 2100 because of a "compost effect" which could see carbon dioxide levels increase 50 per cent faster than previously estimated.

Currently, around one quarter of carbon emissions are absorbed by the soil and one quarter by the oceans. It had previously been assumed that these proportions would remain the same. But Professor Cox said that global warming is damaging the soil's ability to absorb carbon emissions.

He said this vicious circle would reach crisis point in 2050 when a key threshold would be passed. After this point the land would begin to release carbon into the atmosphere. He predicted that this "compost effect" would lead to carbon dioxide levels rising from the current 380 parts per million to more than 1,000 parts per million by 2100.

Professor Cox warned that the Amazonian rainforest would be lost unless urgent action was taken to keep carbon dioxide levels below 500 parts per million. Higher levels of CO2 would see rainfall move away from the Amazon basin causing its lush vegetation to die.

In a separate report, the growing threat of climate change to Britain was highlighted yesterday with an urgent call for the reintroduction of salt marshes along the country's coasts and estuaries.

A leading academic said that action was needed to stop flooding of coastal areas as global warming produced higher sea levels.


Informant: NHNE

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5062/



Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

By Viv Mason

A THIRD phone mast is to be placed on Sowarth Industrial Estate, adjacent to Settle Primary School.

Craven District Council's planning committee approved an application from T-Mobile to place a 17.5-metre- high mast with three antennas and a dish on land adjacent to the electric sub-station.

However, Coun David Heather, chairman of Settle Town Council and ward representative for the area, said he was unable to support the plans because of health concerns.

"We have no way of proving that the installation will not be detrimental to the health of the children in the nearby primary school," he said.

"Since we cannot prove it, I feel that I would not be doing my job as a ward representative if I did not oppose this application."

Coun Marcia Turner also voiced concern, saying other poles were not being utilised and mast sharing should be pursued more urgently.

However, planning officer Ian Swain said the council had no power to force another operator to share a mast.

He added that shared masts made more of a visual impact on the environment because of their bulk and increased height.

"It was something we discussed, but was not feasible in this case," he said.

Coun Paul English told the meeting members could not take health issues into consideration.

"We can only do it on planning grounds and on planning grounds there is no reason why this should be refused. There are two other masts in close proximity. The only difference here is it's close to a school," he said.

"Probably most people here have a mobile phone. Those who use them do expect them to provide a service.

"Wherever a mast is built it is not going to be popular. In my opinion this is better than in many other locations," he added.

Coun Ken Hart said he refused to vote because health issues had not been proved one way or another.

"There is no proof that they do not cause harm, but there is no proof that they don't. If this application is approved, there will be three masts within 170 metres of a school," he said.

Omega see under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

The application attracted 19 letters of objection, including one from Settle Primary School headteacher Richard Wright.

The application had been accompanied by a declaration of conformity with ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection).

Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

The plans were approved by a majority vote with conditions, including the installation be implemented in accordance with the plans and any equipment no longer required be removed.

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisisbradford.co.uk/news/tibnews/display.var.901764.0.controversial_phone_mast_approved.php

HLV INFO 94/AT

31-08-2006

RA Frank Sommer 31-08-06

Münchner Merkur (Würmtal) 31.08.2006

Gemeinderäte lehnen Antrag von T-Mobile ab

Keine Antenne in Aubinger Straße

VON MARTIN SCHULLERUS

Gräfelfing - Die Gräfelfinger Gemeinderäte haben den Antrag von T-Mobile auf eine neue Mobilfunkantenne in der Aubinger Straße erwartungsgemäß einstimmig abgelehnt. Nun will Bürgermeister Christoph Göbel den Antragstellern in einem Gespräch die Alternativstandorte der Gemeinde schmackhaft machen.

Der Fall hat Pilotcharakter: Erstmals prüfte ein Mobilfunkbetreiber die Veränderungssperre der Gemeinde, indem er sie zunächst unterlaufen, danach per Antrag umgehen wollte. Und erstmals stellte sich mit dem Landratsamt München eine übergeordnete Behörde hinter das Rechtskonstrukt der Gemeinde - von dessen HaItbarkeit bis zum Gegenbeweis vor Gericht nun zunächst auszugehen ist.

Wie berichtet, hatte T-Mobile beabsichtigt, auf dem Dach des Anwesens Aubinger Straße 41 eine Mobilfunkanlage zu errichten. Ein Sprecher argumentierte, dies sei trotz der Veränderungssperre möglich, da es sich um keine genehmigungspflichtige Anlage handle. Die Gemeinde vertrat eine andere Ansicht - und wurde vom Landratsamt bestätigt. Die Behörde teilte dem Mobilfunkbetreiber in vergleichsweise scharfem Ton mit, die Anlage könne in dem reinen Wohngebiet und einem durch Veränderungssperre geschützten Bebauungsplan nicht rechtmäßig errichtet werden - und drohte bei Zuwiderhandlung Konsequenzen an.

T-Mobile fügte sich und stellte den Antrag auf isolierte Befreiung von der Veränderungssperre. Den lehnte der Ferienausschuss am Dienstag in Bausch und Bogen ab. Als Begründung wird die Gemeinde anführen, dass der noch gültige Bebauungsplan diese Art gewerblicher Anlagen nicht vorsieht, die nähere Umgebung überdies faktisch reines Wohngebiet ist und schließlich eine Veränderungssperre verhängt wurde just mit dem Ziel, die Bauleitplanung bezüglich der Zulässigkeit von Mobilfunkanlagen neu auszurichten.

Trotzdem will die Gemeinde nach eigenem Bekunden den Mobilfunkbetreibern nicht die Türe zuschlagen. Bürgermeister Christoph Göbel wies in der Sitzung einmal mehr darauf hin, unter den von der Gemeinde als verträglich vorgeschlagenen Standorten fänden sich gleich zwei, die jenem in der Aubinger Straße bezüglich der Effizienz mindestens ebenbürtig seien. Dies will er Vertretern von T-Mobile in einem Gespräch auseinander setzen.

T-Mobile hingegen weiß nichts von einem Verzicht

GADENSTEDT . In den Streit um die Mobilfunkanlage auf dem Rathaus in Gadenstedt hat sich Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel höchstpersönlich eingeschaltet. In einem vom Sozialdemokraten unterschriebenen Antwortschreiben an den Verein "Haus und Grund" teilt das Ministerium mit, T-Mobile habe "infolge geänderter Prioritätensetzung" den Standort Rathaus aus der aktuellen Netzplanung gestrichen; der Wunsch, die Anlage auf dem Gebäude zu errichten, werde daher "in absehbarer Zeit nicht weiter verfolgt".

Das Ministerium will diese Zusage zwar auf Nachfrage per Fax von T-Mobile bekommen haben, doch in der Konzernzentrale in Bonn war davon gestern nichts bekannt. T-Mobile-Pressesprecher Norbert Minwegen erklärt: "Wir möchten die Anlage nach wie vor auf dem Rathaus betreiben." Auch nach Rücksprache vor Ort gehe der Konzern davon aus, dieses Vorhaben an dem umstrittenen Standort verwirklichen zu können; das Schreiben des Ministeriums bezeichnet Minwegen als "verwunderlich" und "verwirrend".

Gisela Janßen aus Groß Lafferde, Vorsitzende von "Haus und Grund" und PB-Bürgermeisterkandidatin in Lahstedt, vermutet, T-Mobile habe den Standort Rathaus gekippt, weil er zu nah am Kindergarten und an der Grundschule liege – dies beiße sich mit der freiwilligen Selbstverpflichtung der Netzbetreiber. Allerdings: Nach wie vor gibt es den Vertrag zwischen T-Mobile und Gemeinde, der den Betrieb der Funkanlage auf dem Rathaus vorsieht.

Ob die Bürgerinitiative aufatmen kann, die sich gegen die Funkanlage auf dem Verwaltungsgebäude ausspricht, ist somit noch unklar. An Lahstedts Bürgermeister Hans-Erich Ex hat die Initiative eine Liste mit 731 Unterschriften überreicht, um ihrer Forderung Nachdruck zu verleihen, die Anlage außerhalb des Orts – am Klärwerk – aufzubauen.

Im September, sagt Ex, befasse sich der Verwaltungsausschuss (VA) erneut mit dem Thema. 16 Anwohner haben laut Verwaltung Einspruch gegen den Bau der Sendeanlage auf dem Rathaus eingelegt, eine Klage ist nicht ausgeschlossen. mey

Freitag, 01.09.2006

http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2162/artid/5833548

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Funkmast in Gadenstedt: T-Mobile verzichtete schon Anfang August

Neues Schreiben aufgetaucht – Gisela Janßen nahm nochmals Kontakt zu Bundesumweltminister Gabriel auf

Von Jörg Fiene

GADENSTEDT. Neue Wende im Verwirrspiel um den umstrittenen Mobilfunkmast von T-Mobile in Gadenstedt. Samstag tauchte ein Schreiben des Unternehmens an das Bundesumweltministerium auf, das den Verzicht des Standortes auf dem Rathausdach belegt.

Die E-Mail trägt das Sendedatum vom 1. August. Sie liegt der Redaktion vor. Unterzeichnet hat sie Volker Hombach, ein leitender Mitarbeiter der Abteilung "Umwelt, EMVU und Nachhaltigkeit" des Mobilfunkanbieters in Darmstadt. Am Freitag noch hatte ein Sprecher der Bonner T-Mobile-Zentrale in den PN erklärt: Die Behauptung von Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel, das Rathaus sei als Standort gestorben, ist schlichtweg falsch. Offenkundig große Kommunikationsstörungen beim großen Kommunikationsunternehmen.

Gisela Janßen, Vorsitzende des Vereins "Haus und Grund" und PB-Bürgermeisterkandidatin in Lahstedt, hatte am Samstagabend persönlich Kontakt zu Gabriel aufgenommen, um Aufklärung in die widersprüchliche Angelegenheit zu bringen. Sie hatte im Juli in einer Mail an das Ministerium die Angelegenheit ins Rollen gebracht. Die Gabriel-Behörde schaltete T-Mobile ein, das Unternehmen reagierte nur wenige Tage später.

Wegen der Urlaubszeit, so Gisela Janßen gestern gegenüber den PN, sei das Antwortschreiben des Mobilfunkanbieters, im Ministerium aber arbeitsbedingt liegen geblieben.

Aus dem Schreiben geht hervor, dass "der Standort aus unserer aktuellen Netzplanung gestrichen wurde und sein Aufbau in absehbarer Zeit nicht weiter verfolgt wird". Die Entscheidung auf den Verzicht sei allerdings nicht in den Aktivitäten der Bürgerinitiative begründet, sondern erfolge aufgrund "firmeninterner Prioritätensetzungen".

Weiter schreibt der T-Mobile-Mann, dass die Gemeinde dem Unternehmen den Standort Rathaus seinerzeit wegen des großen Abstandes zu Kindergärten und Schulen angeboten habe. "Zu dem Wertverlust von Gebäuden in der Nähe von Mobilfunkanlagen gibt es einander widersprechende Aussagen. Aus meiner Sicht wird diese Frage insbesondere von Juristen zu klären sein", heißt es abschließend in der Antwort-Mail ans Ministerium.

Gisela Janßen will nun mit der Lahstedter Verwaltung Kontakt aufnehmen, um sich über die anstehende Abwicklung des Vertrages zwischen Gemeinde und T-Mobile zu informieren. Zudem will sich "Haus und Grund" gemeinsam mit Bürgerinitiativen dafür einsetzen, dass die Bauleitplanungen in den Gemeinden geändert und Standorte für Mobilfunkanlagen bürgerfreundlich ausgewiesen werden.

Montag, 04.09.2006

© Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag 2006

http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2162/artid/5842059

This week's sad anniversary of Hurricane Katrina reminds us that millions of Americans continue to struggle against poverty. A job - even two or three jobs - no longer guarantees access to the American Dream.

Let's send a Labor Day message to Congress: Restore the American Dream.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010801MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Bob Fertik


Dear Friend,

What does the "American Dream" mean to you? Being able to make ends meet on your income? Sending your children to college without huge debts? Being able to retire with dignity? Or maybe doing better than your parents and grandparents?

Growing up, we were taught that the "American Dream" was the idea that with enough hard work and determination America would always be a place where anyone could succeed.

But this Labor Day a majority of working Americans say that the American Dream is slipping away and is at risk, according to a new Change to Win survey of 800 workers.

Don't let it happen.

Click here to email your members of Congress today. Tell them not to let the American Dream disappear!
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00010802MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Most members of Congress are up for reelection this November. Right now they are holding campaign events throughout their districts explaining their visions for the future of our country.

Let's make sure putting the American Dream back within reach of all working families is on the agenda.

Click here to email your members of Congress today. Tell them not to let the American Dream disappear!
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After you send your message, see the full results of Change to Win's poll of 800 working people and check out our new "Worked Up" dialogue about working in America.

Change to Win was founded to restore the American Dream - seven unions and six million members joined together to build a movement of working people with the power to provide a paycheck that supports a family, universal health care, a secure retirement, and dignity on the job. Help us ensure that the American Dream will be a reality for decades to come - take action today!

Thanks for all that you do,

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Change to Win

"Most workers have seen very little real wage growth over the last quarter century. There is not a single explanation for the upward redistribution of income over this period, but most economists agree that globalization is at least part of the story," writes Dean Baker.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106Q.shtml

With the midterm elections coming into view, President Bush is launching an extended publicity tour to draw attention back to the threat of terrorism, quickly pivoting to more comfortable political territory for him after the focus in recent days on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106L.shtml

US military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of US and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106D.shtml

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has been exposed, by the process of elimination, as the middle-of-the-night insider who blocked a bill to make public the spending patterns of the government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106C.shtml

A damning six-page letter on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, according to a former senior diplomat.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106B.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/washington/31ohio.html?ex=1157688000&en=45fc705acc45440c&ei=5070&emc=eta1


Informant: Kathy Dopp

Want to be Part of something big? Right now Amnesty International is in the midst of one of the most important campaigns we’ve ever launched.

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Censoring the Net

Impossible to repress or control. Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression. But you can do something about it!

Learn more
http://irrepressible.info/

Bürgermeister Rabe weigert sich, Ratsbeschluss auszuführen: "Wäre rechtswidrig"

Von Uli Hagemeier

Northeim. Muss der Northeimer Stadtrat vor der Wahl doch noch einmal tagen? Eigentlich hatten sich dessen Mitglieder Mitte Juli aus dieser Legislaturperiode verabschiedet, aber jetzt gibt es noch einmal heftigen Streit mit Bürgermeister Irnfried Rabe (FDP). Grund sind juristische Details, die wohl nur Verwaltungsrechtler zur Gänze durchblicken. Aber da es um Northeims Wahrzeichen, den Wieter geht, ist die Sache brisant. Es dreht sich um folgende Frage: Muss der Bürgermeister der Firma Vodafone mitteilen, dass der Rat den von ihr geplanten Mobilfunkmast neben dem Wieterturm nicht will oder darf Rabe sich diesem Auftrag widersetzen?

Komplizierte Rechtslage

Die Sache ist kompliziert. Vodafone will einen Funkmast bauen, der höher ist als der bestehende. Dagegen läuft eine Bürgerinitiative Sturm, der Landkreis Northeim hat die Baugenehmigung aus naturschutzrechtlichen Gründen abgelehnt. Gegen diese Ablehnung wiederum klagt Vodafone vor dem Verwaltungsgericht Göttingen. Aber bis das entscheidet, kann noch einige Zeit ins Land gehen. Vodafone hat deshalb bei der Stadt Northeim, die nachbarrechtliche und denkmalschutzrechtliche Belange prüfen muss, einen Antrag gestellt, den Bauantrag erst einmal ruhen zu lassen.

Neben der Bürgerinitiative will auch die Mehrheit des Rats den Bau verhindern. Das Gremium hat Rabe deshalb in seiner letzten Sitzung aufgefordert, Vodafone mitzuteilen, dass der Rat den Antrag auf Ruhenlassen des Bauantrages ablehnt und beabsichtigt, die Baugenehmigung aus denkmalschutz- und nachbarrechtlichen Gründen abzulehnen. Das hat Rabe aber nicht gemacht - und das will er auch nicht machen. Denn: Aus Sicht des Rechtsamtes der Stadt wäre die Umsetzung des Ratsbeschlusses rechtswidrig.

Denkmalschutzrechtlich könne man dem Bauantrag nichts entgegensetzen, sagt Rabe, auch nachbarrechtlich nicht. Bleibt das Naturschutzrecht - und genau diese Frage liegt ja dem Göttinger Verwaltungsgericht noch zur Klärung vor. "Dessen Entscheidung will ich erst abwarten", sagt Rabe.

Grüne wollen Offenlegung

Eine Stellungnahme des Landkreises als Kommunalaufsicht bestätigt diese Argumentation. Rabe hat seine Entscheidung dem Verwaltungsausschuss der Stadt am Montag mitgeteilt.

Diese Vorgehensweise gefällt der grünen Stadtratsfraktion allerdings gar nicht: "Ich empfinde das als Missachtung des Rats", heißt es in einer Pressemitteilung des Fraktionsvorsitzenden und Bürgermeisterkandidaten Torsten Seidel. Rabe habe die Ratsmitglieder über diese Rechtsauffassung viel früher unterrichten müssen, nicht erst kurz vor Ablauf der sechswöchigen Frist für die Umsetzung des Ratsbeschlusses. Seidel fordert die Offenlegung des gesamten Schriftverkehrs in dieser Sache. Geschehe dies nicht, erwäge die Fraktion, eine außerplanmäßige Ratssitzung zu beantragen.

31.08.2006

http://www.hna.de/northeimstart/00_20060831183551_Wieder_Streit_um_Mast.html

Sabotage aus dem Hintergrund http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23459/1.html

Seit 2000 ist nach der Statistikbehörde der Anteil der ganz Armen um 20 Prozent gestiegen, Wissenschaftler warnen vor der wachsenden Zahl der Menschen ohne Krankenversicherung.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23443/1.html

Mit dem Ablauf des Ultimatums des UN-Sicherheitsrates für Iran gelangt der "Atomstreit" in die nächste Runde - eine Woche nachdem der Geheimdienstausschuss des US-Repräsentantenhauses die bisherigen Fakten des iranischen Nuklearprogramms neu aufgemischt und Iran weiterhin zur strategischen Bedrohung für die USA stilisiert hat.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23456/1.html

Die Verwaltung soll ein Standortgutachten in Auftrag geben und das Baurecht überprüfen.

Lintorf. "Die Hochhäuser am Konrad-Adenauer-Platz sind 30 Meter hoch, der Funkmast 34!" Was den Lintorfer CDU-Ratsherren Karl-Heinz Jörgend in Rage brachte, wurde auch im Rat engagiert und heftig diskutiert: Der geplante Mobilfunkmast am Ortseingang. Zuvor waren im Bezirks- und Umweltausschuss die Wogen bereits hoch geschlagen. Einstimmiger Beschluss des Rates: Die Verwaltung soll bei dem renommierten Ecolog-Institut ein Gutachten für den Standort in Auftrag geben. Zudem sollen das Baurecht noch einmal überprüft und mit dem Grundstückseigentümer erneut Gespräche geführt werden.

Das Baudezernat hatte eigentlich nur schlechte Nachrichten parat: So sei der Vertrag des Grundstückseigentümers mit dem Funkbetreiber bereits unterschrieben und der würde "nichts unternehmen, den Vertrag nicht zu erfüllen", wie Dezernent Ulf-Roman Netzel ausführte. Zudem sei aus "rechtlicher" Sicht nichts zu machen weder hinsichtlich der Planung noch der Grenzwerte. Und am Runden Tisch des Kreises sei der geplante Mast besprochen und abgesegnet. Doch hier liegt der Hase im Pfeffer. Nach der Selbstverpflichtung der Funkbetreiber dürfen die Masten nur in einem Mindestabstand von 200 Metern zu sensiblen Bereichen errichtet werden.

In Lintorf wäre dies aber nicht der Fall: Zum Kindergarten an der Tiefenbroicher Straße sind es nur 120 Meter, zur Wohnbebauung 130 Meter und zur Comenius-Schule gerade so die geforderten 200 Meter. Diese Information soll jetzt als Hebel dienen, das Projekt noch einmal komplett auf den Prüfstand zu stellen.

Angesichts dieser "beänstigenden Nähe" erklärte Lothar Diehl (Bürger Union), man müsse auch "Risiken eingehen und nicht alles als gegeben hinnehmen." Die Mobilfunkbetreiber seien schließlich auf ihre Konsumenten angewiesen. In der Debatte hatte Marcel Heckermann (FDP) darauf hingewiesen, dass mit dem neuen Mast nicht etwa ein Funkloch gestopft, sondern das vorhandes Funknetz engmaschiger werde. Das hätte dann auch zur Folge, dass die Sendeanlagen mit einer geringeren Intensität abstrahlen könnten. Barbara Esser (Grüne) hielt dagegen: Wenn mehrere Betreiber den Mast nutzen, erhöhe sich automatisch die Strahlenbelastung.

31.08.06

Von Joachim Dangelmeyer

http://www.wz-newsline.de/sro.php?redid=126390 (Auszug)

Keith Olbermann says: "The confusion is about whether this secretary of defense, and this administration, are in fact now accomplishing what they claim the terrorists seek: the destruction of our freedoms, the very ones for which the same veterans Mr. Rumsfeld addressed yesterday in Salt Lake City so valiantly fought. And about Mr. Rumsfeld's other main assertion, that this country faces a 'new type of fascism.' As he was correct to remind us how a government that knew everything could get everything wrong, so too was he right when he said that, though probably not in the way he thought he meant it. This country faces a new type of fascism - indeed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106Z.shtml

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From Freedom to Fascism on Google Video
Aaron Russo - America: Freedom To Fascism FULL

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3719132275557884702&hl=en-CA


The Money Masters

The videos gives a history of how the European and American the banking system are being taken over.

Part 1:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1583154561904832383&q=money+masters

Part 2:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-529716659023952808

Or order a DVD:
http://www.themoneymasters.com


Informant: shane_digital

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An article by Stan Goff. Very worthwhile. You can visit the website, TRUTHDIG, and participate in the discussion.

Marilyn.


Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/

Interview with Dr. Fred Baughman Author of "The ADHD Fraud"
http://tinyurl.com/nbr2c

Dear Dr. Baughman: You are doing a great job of exposing the fraud of ADD and ADHD!!! You are correct that persons' are being subjected to "experimentation WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT...!!!" http://www.adhdfraud.org/

I am a non-accredited EMF/EMR researcher with over 15 years of personal experience, research, and fighting major fraud on the part of the government, electrical industry, telecommunications' industry, and pharmaceutical industry.

I am currently writing a book that will be co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute and Physicist/Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist Marjorie Lundquist titled "Inflammation and EMF/EMR."

Personal experience re harmful effects of low level EMF/EMR is extensive and involves two grandsons who were dx'd w/rare immune. Their cells were "aging..."....they were toddlers...told they may develop Leukemia...improved after moving beds away from electric meters.

Guinea pig studies in my home (re electric meter) yielded white blood cell changes such as hypersegmented neutrophils (slowed DNA synthesis -- which are "markers for irradiation"), severe neutropenia and lymphocytosis (collapse of immune and/or pre-cancerous blood changes).

One guinea pig later died from Reactive Renal Amyloidosis (rare bone marrow disease -- a form of TSE-like problem (mad cow family of disease).

Husband has Alzheimers. Moved his electric clock radio and he "improved" on next neuropsych test!!!

Friend and RN at Vets Hospital in Minneapolis (Bonnie Boyum) has given me permission to share that her son, Michael, who died from Leukemia at age 23, had an electric clock and small fan on headboard of his waterbed.

I frequently appeal to political candidates and officials for help in regard to notifying the public of the vital need to move electric appliances from close proximity to beds. I call this "an avoidable healthcare crisis" and believe that every single health problem, including the so-called ADD, ADHD, will be reduced by over 51% by just moving appliances and some telephone equipment away from especially the heads of beds!!!

Additional concerns are high frequencies on electrical wiring, wiring errors, grounding problems, telecommunications' antennae and, of course, promotion of cell phones to children.

I would like to read your book -- you "hit-the-nail-on-the-head" regarding BIG PHARMA and the rest -- the tragic "poisoning of children," and more, however, I am swamped with my own work of trying to inform while also not being able to keep up with book-writing, etc.

EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation) are listed as "toxic" on the webpage for the National Library website.

Consider the doubling/tripling effect a child who is taking toxic Ritalin, or other medications, experiences when sleeping in a bed that subjects that child's brain cells to electron changes that are out-of-sync with his or her own body's cells and how that child is then unable to sleep and restore circadian rhythm that is necessary to "maintain balance" of all bodily functions...including his or her brain....

The cover-up re need for prudent avoidance measures re low level EMF/EMR is all-encompassing -- goes all the way to the World Health Organization. The REAL FACTS re the $46 mil EMF RAPID Study have never been presented to Congress thereby allowing our U.S. National Institute of Health and National Institute of Environmental Health Science to keep the public in-the-dark (no pun intended -- there are theories that light at night may cause cancer too -- now that I think of it, even small nightlights are capable of inducing ADD-like symptoms).

Anyway, I greatly appreciate your help in exposing the fraud re ADD and ADHD. Dr. Russel Reiter (University of Texas/San Antonio), is the author of an excellent book titled "Melatonin." He is the expert who claims "light at night may cause cancer." EMF/EMR, particularly at night, greatly reduces production of one's own Melatonin. As you most likely know, this vital hormone plays a major role in regard to production of other hormones.

If I can be of assistance to you in any way -- speaking, furnishing info that proves the American Cancer Society knows full well about the appliance-at-night issue (in 1994 they mailed copy of "USA Today" article recommending moving electrical items away from beds) and also a small EMF flyer by utilities' communications' experts w/same recommendation (2001) .....now taken out-of-print.....please let me know.

You may be interested in checking out BauBiologist/Lecturer Oram Miller's site also: www.createhealthyhomes.com .

Best wishes and take care!!! Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (8-31-06)


Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it. -Mark Twain

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Re: Interview with Dr. Fred Baughman re ADHD FRAUD......
From: Fred Baughman
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:59:01 -0700
To: JCMPelican

Dear Joanne,

You should understand that no one or several symptoms (symptoms are subjective do not equate to signs/abnormalities--objective) of ADHD or any social or psychological construct, equate to a physical abnormality = disease. Until an abnormality = disease is in hand one cannot logically, scientifically speak of its physical cause/causes. You appear to miss the essence of my message.

Good luck.

FB

----- Original Message -----

From: JCMPelican
To: Fred Baughmanm ; G. Kohls
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: Interview with Dr. Fred Baughman re ADHD FRAUD......

To recipients: I intended to include this very important email re interview with Dr. Baughman with my email re information about Dr. Baughman's book "ADHD Fraud" and his website.

While we can all appreciate Dr. Baughman's reference to children and adults who are being misdiagnosed as ADD/ADHD as really "being normal," we who fight every day for the rights of our "uninformed society" to reduce toxic EMF/EMR pollution from electrical appliances, high voltage powerlines, telecommunications' antennae, high frequencies on electrical wiring, various wiring errors and grounding problems within homes, schools, workplaces, healthcare facilities, hospitals, etc. realize that many symptoms that are being identified as ADD/ADHD are related to ES (electrical sensitivity).

Even health problems such as sudden deaths and heart problems that Dr. Baughman and others have linked to taking the toxic medications being given for ADD/ADHD are also linked to chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR exposures "alone!!!"

So, when you read about the deceptive practices -- pressure placed on institutions and physicians by Big Pharma, also promoted by lobbyists and politicians, pretty much all the words can be used (have been written about many times by EMF Guru, Roy Beavers -- himself a former lobbyist) to explain what is often discussed in regard to intimidation, loss of funding, loss of jobs, by EMF/EMR scientists and researchers who attempt to produce accurate, conclusive studies as well as to replicate positive findings.

As most of you know, Dr. Duane Graveline, retired astronaut, medical doctor and scientist is waging a similar war against pharmaceutical companies in regard to statins. See http://www.spacedoc.net .

All of these subjects are linked in every way!!!! The issues re drugs for ADD/ADHD and misdiagnoses are tragic!!! The issues surrounding the industry-created need for statins and fervent promotion are equally tragic!!!

I note without exception the alarming rates of increase mentioned for every health problem I review. Many health experts write about or infer that there is some mysterious reason why so many health problems are increasing at alarming rates and most refer to "in past couple of decades," etc. and some even say "over past 100 years."

Many EMF authors continue to point out that the alarming increases in health problems directly correlate with what many refer to as "the electrification of the U.S." This theory obviously applies to other countries and reports in other countries around-the-world also correlate with development.

While my usual focus on EMF-related health problems has to do primarily with immune deficiency and Leukemia (due to personal experiences, interactions and studies), it is difficult to not separately address other health problems. The evidence re EMF's and its causal relationship to immune deficiency and Leukemia is "conclusive." The information, however, is being minimized and suppressed by the U. S. Government with the blessings of the World Health Organization!!!

I see an urgent need for experts working on every health problem to join forces with EMF scientists and researchers. The resultant tragedies of not doing so will be ENORMOUS!!!

Best wishes to all....... Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (8-31-06)


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire. But my heart is all my own...Goethe

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Dear Dr. Kohls: I really appreciate your input re what was also "my impression" in regard to Dr. Baughman's response to me.

What you say re psychiatry and Big Pharma sounds feasible but you, of course, are an expert in that area. I do know from lots of research, most of which does not pertain to psychiatry that "drugs" appear to be "the highest priority" in regard to many symptoms.

I doubt whether I or anyone else would be successful in regard to starting arguments with "Big Pharma" particularly since "touchy subjects" are typically ignored but I do understand some of your reasons for pointing this out.

Unrelated to Dr. Baughman's interview/website, etc. re ADHD fraud, I was very shocked to discover that the NIH's supposed "high priority research" re amyloid/protein folding/misfolding etc. is for the primary purpose of coming up with "drugs" as opposed to "prevention." Ironically, much of the research that is being done involves EMF exposure in one form or another even tho the "EMF subject" is not necessarily evident.

I should know by now that the "people don't count....but I keep "looking for the good guys" in industry and government. With the help of more doctors such as yourself, maybe the "hills soon won't be so steep!!!"

Thanks for all of your efforts to help in this matter .......for now, your contribution has greatly improved my outlook. I do realize, of course, that EMF's alone are not the only reason for symptoms being identified as ADHD and many other problems; but exposure to even low dose EMF/EMR when such exposure is "chronic and prolonged" -- persons can't escape effects from telecommunications' antenna, high voltage powerlines and can't do anything to mitigate effects of other EMF pollution -- appliances and electric meters, cell phones, high frequencies on electrical wiring, correct grounding problems, etc. unless they are warned.

I do realize you know this too but wanted to make the point that persons with any sort of injury occuring from other than EMF exposure, might suffer a doubling/tripling effect when additionally exposed to EMF pollution -- especially at night when their bodies are trying to restore circadian rhythm and deal with whatever else might be toxic and/or the result of other trauma.

My comment re experts joining forces with EMF scientists and researchers had to do with creating awareness re EHS symptoms as opposed to "stirring the pot" between anti-psychiatrist groups and Big Pharma. My statement was ambiguous although I do think there is merit to the other interpretation. I do, however, basically agree with your input. Not my "main purpose" even tho very important.......

I will send your comments to others on my list. As you know, I thanked Dr. Baughman. I am not sending him a copy of your email or this response to you. Thanks again and take care!!! Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (9-3-06)



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

25. July 2006

Jetzt online: der “Report Mainz”-Beitrag über Arbeit der Pharmahersteller gegen eine Arzneimittelliste der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Nordrhein. Die Liste enthält Medikamente, die laut wissenschaftlicher Analyse teurer, aber nicht besser sind als andere. Auch der Spiegel bringt diese Woche eine Reportage über den Lobbyismus im Allgemeinen und die Pharmalobby im Speziellen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=287

26. July 2006

Die Berliner Zeitung druckt heute Auszüge aus dem Protokoll der BDI-Vorstandssitzung vom 19. Juni ab, in der Norbert Röttgen zum neuen Hauptgeschäftsführer berufen wurde. Daraus läßt sich ableiten, dass der BDI mit der Wahl Röttgens seine Kontakte in die Politik und seinen Einfluss verstärken wollte. Wenig überraschend - aber interessant zu lesen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=288

1. August 2006

Der CDU-Politiker und Wirtschaftslobbyist Reinhard Göhner will nun nach Ablauf dieser Legislaturperiode seine stark kritisierte Doppeltätigkeit beenden. Welchen Posten er aufgeben will, ließ er aber laut Handelsblatt auf Nachfrage offen. Auch die Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA) will sich bislang nicht äußern.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=292

8. August 2006

Eine heute von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung vorgestellte Studie zeigt den Zusammenhang von emotionalisierenden Kampagnen à la “Du bist Deutschland” und Initiativen wie der Arbeitgeber-”Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft” (INSM) und sagt für die Zukunft eine Zunahme solcher Art von wirtschaftlicher Einflussnahme voraus.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=294

18. August 2006

Otto Schily, ehemals Bundesinnenminister und heute einfacher Abgeordneter, engagiert sich nun in den Aufsichtsräten von Byometric Systems AG und SAFE ID Solutions. Den Firmen, die an der Iriserkennung bzw. der Hard- und Softwareproduktion für biometrische Reisepässe arbeiten, steht er mit seinem Fachwissen und seinen politischen Kontakten zur Verfügung.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=297

21. August 2006

Die Lobby- und PR-Agentur DCI verbreitete ein vermeintliches Amateurvideo auf YouTube.com, das sich über Al Gore lustig macht und seine Warnung vor der Erderwärmung als überzogen darstellt. Beworben wurde es über Google-Anzeigen. Man kann davon ausgehen, dass PR-Experten und Werbeagenturen in Zukunft häufiger Videoportale im Internet wie YouTube nutzen werden, um die öffentliche Meinung zu beeinflussen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=298

23. August 2006

Nicht nur in den USA (siehe Gore) versucht man, unliebsame Kritik zu diskreditieren: der Atomkonzern Vattenfall hat nach dem Störfall im AKW Forsmark Medien mit unwahren Informationen versorgt und versucht, den ehemaligen Reaktorkonstruktionschef Lars-Olov Höglund zu diskreditieren. Die taz berichtet darüber mit Verweis auf die schwedische Zeitung Upsala Nya Tidning.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=299

Rumsfeld's Misuse Of History
http://ga3.org/ct/d120pgF1fRjx/

August 31, 2006 edition -

Even advocates of these crops were shaken recently when modified plants 'escaped' from test areas.

By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0831/p15s01-sten.html

In rice-growing states, traces of an unapproved genetically modified (GM) rice have been found mixed in with conventional rice meant for human consumption.

In Oregon, genetically engineered creeping bentgrass, being tested for possible use on golf courses, has been found miles outside its test beds, making it the first GM plant known to have escaped into the wild.

In Hawaii, a federal judge has admonished the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for displaying "utter disregard" for the state's endangered native plant species. The judge says the USDA failed to conduct research on the environmental effects of fields of experimental corn and sugarcane that had been genetically modified to produce pharmaceuticals. Environmental and food-safety groups have asked for a moratorium on all field tests of experimental drug-producing plants until their safety precautions can be reviewed.

Early indications are that in each case little substantial harm has been done. The experimental rice, for example, is similar to two other GM strains already approved for general use.

But many who closely watch how biotechnology is changing agriculture, including those who see a valuable role for GM crops, are disturbed by what appears to be a series of recent incidents showing lax supervision of experimental plantings by the government and agribusinesses.

"You absolutely should be in compliance with regulations," says Martina Newell-McGloughlin, an internationally recognized advocate for the uses of biotechnology based in Davis, Calif. She directs the University of California's systemwide biotechnology program. The three incidents "aren't health concerns, but they are regulatory concerns," she says. "It's incumbent on the companies, on the USDA ... to ensure that everybody complies with these regulations."

The three incidents convey a message that "the US government has been somewhat lax in its oversight of the biotechnology industry and in some instances has not taken its responsibility to regulate as strongly as it should," says Gregory Jaffe, director of the biotechnology project for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group in Washington that has expressed qualified support for the use of genetic modification in agriculture.

"Clearly this shows that the companies and the government don't have as much control over experimental crops as they need to have," Mr. Jaffe says. "I think there's a sloppiness out there. Industry doesn't take the rules of conduct as seriously as it should."

Government agencies, he says, have adopted what almost amounts to a "don't look, don't find" policy. "We have a fairly passive regulatory system," he says, that does "a little spot checking" but mostly relies on businesses to step forward and report their own problems.

The cases of the escaped GM grass and the mysterious appearance of experimental rice in the food supply raise important questions, says Michael Fernandez, executive director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, a nonprofit group in Washington that seeks to be an independent and objective source of information on agricultural biotechnology. "How do you know that [GM crops] are staying where you want them to stay?" he asks. "As there are more kinds of genetically-engineered crops out there, it continues to pose challenges for companies and for regulators."

Some amount of movement of GM crops outside their containment areas "is virtually inevitable," Mr. Fernandez says. "The question is, how do we feel about that? How important is that? Does it matter what the crop is?" The bentgrass may pose no significant danger, he says, but "would we feel differently" if it were a plant that produced pharmaceuticals?

Last December, a report from the USDA's own Office of the Inspector General urged the department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) division "to strengthen its accountability for field tests of [genetically enhanced] crops." The report added that "weaknesses in APHIS regulations and internal management controls increase the risk that regulated genetically engineered organisms (GEO) will inadvertently persist in the environment...."

The report also criticized APHIS for lacking "basic information about the field test sites it approves and is responsible for monitoring, including where and how the crops are being grown, and what becomes of them at the end of the field test."

In a response, APHIS agreed to implement 23 of the inspector general's 28 recommendations. Among those it rejected was a request to develop guidelines to physically restrict public access to unapproved edible GM crops. US corn and cotton are mostly GM

America is awash in genetically modified crops that already have been approved for use both as animal feed and for human consumption. This year, 61 percent of all corn and 89 percent of all soybeans planted in the United States were GM varieties, the USDA estimates. More than 80 percent of the US cotton crop is also GM.

But despite that wide usage, the development of other applications and other crops has largely stalled. Plans to introduce a GM wheat to the market have yet to go forward. Nearly all widespread applications of GM to agriculture have been limited to two functions: enhancing resistance to insects or to herbicides. Plans to alter plants through genetic modification to improve such qualities as their flavor, growth rates, or size have yet to blossom.

Suspicion of GM foods in Europe, and to some extent in Asia, is limiting the world market for GM crops. China had been expected to OK the use of GM rice by now, but appears to be dragging its feet. After the news spread that unapproved GM long-grain rice had been found in US consumer supplies, the European Union announced it would require imports of long-grain rice from the US to be certified as free from the GM strain. Japan has suspended its imports of American long-grain rice pending further review. Farmers sue over 'contaminated' rice

Earlier this month, the USDA reported that a long-grain GM rice strain produced by Bayer CropScience had been found in bins of conventional commercial rice. It marked the first instance in which an unapproved GM rice had been found in the rice supply. The GM rice poses no health or environmental threat, the USDA said. But rice farmers in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas filed a lawsuit against Bayer this week alleging its genetically modified rice contaminated the crop, according to the Associated Press.

The USDA is conducting an investigation to determine how the contamination occurred, and Bayer now is petitioning to have the strain approved for general use, a spokesman for APHIS says.

In Oregon, APHIS is continuing to monitor the escaped creeping bentgrass, an APHIS spokeswoman says.

The ruling in Hawaii by a federal judge was the first to involve drug-producing GM plants. A coalition of consumer and environmental groups is asking that the government suspend all field tests of drug-producing plants until its process for issuing permits can be reviewed.

In addition, says Bill Freese, science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, a consumer group in Washington that is among those seeking a moratorium, the USDA should follow all the recommendations in its inspector general's report. It should also take additional measures, such as regularly testing fields neighboring GM test beds for potential contamination, he says.

But Dr. Newell-McGloughlin hopes that this summer's outbreak of GM fiascos won't be taken out of context.

"The few missteps that have occurred, in my opinion, are tiny in the context of the large amount of good that has been done with this [GM] technology," she says. Genetic manipulation has much more promise for good that has yet to be tapped. By overreacting, we could miss out." The risks, she says, always must be weighed against the benefits. "There is the cost of not doing something," she says.


Informant: binstock

Mother Jones¹ interactive Iraq timeline database lets you separate truth from spin:

http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/

Last week, President Bush said, "The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East." Pressed by a reporter on what 9/11 had to do with Iraq, Bush testily responded: "Nothing. Nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack."

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Informant: bigraccoon

From the Wilderness
by Michael C. Ruppert

08/16/06

My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny, and in so doing, they have become tyranny's primary support group; its base constituency; its chief defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations that run it. The great Neocon strategy of George H.W. Bush has triumphed. Convince the American people that they can't live without the 'good things,' then sit back and watch as they endorse the progressively more outrageous crimes you commit as you throw them bones with ever-less meat on them. All the while, lock them into debt. Destroy the middle class, the only political base that need be feared. Make them accept, because of their own shared guilt, ever-more repressive police state measures. Do whatever you want...

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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

08/30/06

President Bush’s critics complain that the new TSA restrictions were based more on politics than real security concerns, but they should not be surprised. The only endeavors unencumbered by politicization are those that are free from political decision-making -- those separated from the state. After 9/11, airline security was nationalized. Democrats were the first to insist on the change; Republicans initially resisted, but ultimately backed it. Government airline security has been burdensome, bizarre and ineffective...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1804


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

08/30/06

Gov. Rick Perry ordered on Tuesday a special election for the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay to coincide with the general election Nov. 7, when only two months will remain on DeLay's term. Candidates wishing to run in the special election must file with the Texas Secretary of State by 5 p.m. Friday. Shortly after DeLay announced in April that he was resigning from Congress, Perry said he would not schedule a special election to fill the vacancy before the general election. Tuesday's order officially set the date. The winner of the special election will represent the 22nd Congressional District from the day the election results are certified until a new Congress begins in January... [editor's note: This shouldn't be a surprise. The whole point of it is to give the Republican write-in candidate in the "real" election a boost. While probably technically legal, it's blatant election-rigging of the type we've come to expect from "the rules? Oh, they're not for US!" Republicans and Democrats - TLK]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4150557.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

08/30/06

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff strongly backed a program Wednesday that would ease airport security for passengers who pass voluntary background checks to show they aren't terrorists. Chertoff told USA TODAY that checking air travelers' backgrounds, including phone numbers and travel histories, would improve security by allowing the department to focus on passengers with unknown backgrounds...

http://tinyurl.com/gr8ox


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Terrorismusbekämpfung und Grundrechte

Der "Krieg gegen den Terror" im Kampf gegen den Rechtsstaat?

Bundeskabinett verabschiedet Entwurf eines Terrorismusbekämpfungsergänzungsgesetzes

„Darf man Behörden, deren Praktiken gegenwärtig Gegenstand eines Untersuchungsausschusses sind, die möglicherweise in die Entführung deutscher Staatsangehöriger verstrickt sind, mit zusätzlichen Schnüffelbefugnissen ausstatten? Behörden, die außerdem verdächtig sind, sich in schwerwiegender Weise gegen das Folterverbot vergangen zu haben, indem sie "zurechtgefolterte" Gefangene in ausländischen Folterverliesen vernahmen? Man darf, sagt die Bundesregierung mit ihrem Kabinettsbeschluss vom 12. Juli dieses Jahres…“ Artikel von Fredrik Roggan in Mitteilungen der Humanistischen Union Nr. 194, S. 6-8 http://www.humanistische-union.de/publikationen/mitteilungen/online_artikel/2006/mitteilungen_2006_detail/back/mitteilungen-2006/article/mitteilungen-nr194-s6-8/


Gesucht: Die dümmsten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen

„"Wer Freiheit für Sicherheit opfert..." In den letzten Jahren wird zunehmend nicht nur die Freiheit, sondern auch die Logik geopfert, wenn es um (Schein)Sicherheit geht. "Welche Sicherheitsmaßnahmen sind so dumm, dass sie einen Preis verdienen?", fragt nun eine britische Bürgerrechtsorganisation…“ Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) in telepolis vom 30.08.2006 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23440/1.html

Die Nominierung für den "Stupid Security Award" hat gerade begonnen. Es werden Preise in fünf Kategorien verliehen. Nominierungen sind an die Adresse stupidsecurity@privacy.org zu richten.



Kommunikationsfreiheit und Datenschutz > Datenschutz

“Schwarzbuch Datenschutz“

Mautdaten für die Fahndung, Anti-Terror-Dateien, Konsumprofile durch Kundenkarten, Adresshandel, geheimdienstliche Ausforschung von Journalisten, Scoring, Videoüberwachung, RFID-Schnüffelchips... das Thema "Datenschutz" hat mittlerweile eine breite Öffentlichkeit erreicht ? nicht zuletzt wegen der BigBrotherAwards. Den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ist keineswegs egal, was mit ihren Daten passiert. Deshalb gibt es nun das "Schwarzbuch Datenschutz". Es dokumentiert die übelsten Datensammler aus sechs Jahren BigBrotherAwards und bietet zu allen Preisträgern aktuelle Ergänzungen. Dazu ein Index, Buch- und Filmtipps sowie eine Beitrag mit dem programmatischen Titel "Tausche Bürgerrechte gegen Linsengericht". Das Buch versammelt Beiträge von Alvar Freude, Frank Rosengart, Fredrik Roggan, Karin Schuler, padeluun, Rena Tangens, Rolf Gössner, Thilo Weichert und anderen. Der Autor und Bachmann-Preisträger Peter Glaser schrieb das Vorwort „Orwellness“.

Das Buch: Rena Tangens & padeluun (Hg.): Schwarzbuch Datenschutz. Ausgezeichnete Datenkraken der BigBrotherAwards. Edition Nautilus (13,90 Euro, ISBN: 3894014946)

Siehe auch Informationen beim Verlag http://www.edition-nautilus.de/proc.php?buecher/tangens_padeluun/pol_schwarzbuch.html

Über dieses Buch Vorwort von Rena Tangens & padeluun – exklusiv im LabourNet http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/schwarzbuch.html



Aus: LabourNet, 31. August 2006

31 August 2006

MOBILE phone chiefs who planned to install a mast yards from a primary school are set to have their proposals rejected.

Hutchinson 3G had submitted a planning application to Bexley council to install a five metre mobile mast in Park Crescent, Erith.

Residents feared the antenna may be harmful to children who attend nearby schools and launched an objection campaign.

Now the protestors are claiming victory as Bexley planning chiefs are set to turn down the plans at a committee meeting at the Civic Offices tonight.

Resident Harvey Bignell, who has chaired campaign meetings about the mast, said: "[The council] has had 500 plus letters, three very big petitions.

"It is the biggest uproar they have against any proposed mobile phone mast to date."

The residents, who are set to attend tonight's meeting in their dozens, have had the support of their ward councillors and MPs who are also against the mast proposals.

A spokesman for Bexley council confirmed the planning committee would recommend the refusal of the application.

John Austin, MP for Erith and Thamesmead, has urged residents to write to Hutchinson 3G to lodge their objection.

Erith ward councillor Bernard Clewes said: "I feel sorry for the residents who I think have been put through an awful lot of strain as this has been going on for some time.

"I am delighted that the officers are going to recommend that the mast is not accepted."

A spokesman for Hutchinson 3G was unavailable for comment as we went to press.

lisa.jarvis@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/gkoon

The Interior Department is set to sell oil leases to nearly 500,000 acres north and east of Lake Teshekpuk, an area that has long been protected because of its value to caribou and as breeding habitat for tens of thousands of geese.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/083006EA.shtml

Reuters August 28, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N8S372113


Informant: NHNE

http://www.slate.com/id/2148546/nav/tap1/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1860673,00.html


Informant: NHNE

Democracy Now! interviews Congressmember John Murtha (D - PA) about
his position on the Iraq war, the Haditha massacre and Sen. Hillary
Clinton's refusal to endorse his troop withdrawal plan.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/30/1417256


From Information Clearing House

Tomorrow marks the deadline for Iran to comply with U.N. demands to suspend portions of its nuclear program. Fox is using the opportunity to sell another preemptive war.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/30/fox-selling-iran-war/


From Information Clearing House

Why should Geneva Convention protections be applied to Guantanamo detainees? One innocent man's journey through the legal black hole of the War on Terror—four prisons, three countries, two years—may be the best argument yet.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/guantanamo.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Controlling the Masses: from Religion to Bernaise

A brief overview of the methods used to assert control over the masses. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14763.htm



Video

The Century of the Self

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm

New Census Bureau data show the real state of the current economy. The Bush record on combating poverty and insuring more Americans is an undisputed failure.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/29/bush-record/

Full Report:

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States:
2005 [PDF] http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf



'Don't Feed The Homeless'

Recent attempts in Las Vegas and Orlando to restrict sharing food with poor and homeless people are only the latest examples of a nationwide trend by cities to target homeless people.

http://tinyurl.com/z4xto



Oil Company CEO Pay Averaged $32.7 Million in 2005, Study Says

In 2005, the CEOs of the largest 15 oil companies averaged $32.7 million in compensation, compared with $11.6 million for all large U.S. firms, according to the study, released today by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aJqpyEwim0Fw


From Information Clearing House

Laufen: Berechtigungsscheine für Altstadtbewohner

31.08.2006

Laufen. Der Ortsverband der Grünen in Laufen hat sich in seiner jüngsten Zusammenkunft mit der Parksituation in der Altstadt befasst. Ein Bericht von Herbert Fial über eine Anhörung im Bayerischen Landtag zum Thema Mobilfunk stand weiter auf der umfangreichen Tagesordnung.

Im zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung berichtete Vorstandsmitglied Herbert Fial von der dritten Anhörung der Grünen Landtagsfraktion zum Thema Mobilfunk und Gesundheit. Das Thema sei aktuell, weil auf dem AWO-Seniorenheim ein weiterer Mobilfunkmasten in Betrieb genommen werden solle. Dieser sei nur rund zehn Meter Luftlinie vom Rottmayr-Gymnasium entfernt! Als erster Referent habe Prof. Dr. Hecht darauf hingewiesen, dass es seit etwa 70 Jahren vom Menschen erzeugte elektromagnetische Felder (EMF) gebe. Im kalten Krieg hätten sich die USA und die UdSSR in Moskau gegenseitig bestrahlt. Zuerst hätten die USA von ihrer Botschaft in Moskau aus Telefonate sowjetischer Politiker abgehört. Diese hätten im Gegenzug die US-Botschaft bestrahlt. Die Folge seien viele Erkrankungen gewesen und erste Warnungen, dass diese von der Bestrahlung herrühren könnten. Von 1962 bis 1979 seien von vier US-Botschaftern in Moskau drei an Krebs gestorben. Z Ferner wies Hecht darauf hin, dass man bei Einführung neuer Medikamente beweisen müsse, dass diese nicht schädlich sind. Bei der Einführung des Mobilfunks sei es genau umgekehrt: Hier müsse bewiesen werden, dass die Strahlen schädlich sind. - Und Wissenschaftler, vor allem von den Mobilfunkbetreibern beauftragte, könnten dies nicht. Dr. Hecht forderte Warnhinweise auf Handys, ein Handyverbot für Kinder und eine jährliche Gesundheitskontrolle für Anwohner in der Nähe von Handymasten.

Als zweiter Redner stellte Dr. Warnke Studien vor, die Schädigungen durch Mobilfunkstrahlung belegen. Die ersten Chromosom-Schäden seien 1958 im Report von Neu England bestätigt worden. Belegt sei ferner, dass sich im Körper verstärkt Stickstoff-Monoxyd bilde. Die neueste Forschungsarbeit sei die Reflexstudie von Prof. Adelkofen. Erschwert werde die Forschung dadurch, dass es in wenigen Jahren keine unbelasteten Kontrollgruppen mehr geben werde, da Satelliten-Scanner und das Mobilfunk-Basis-Netz jeden Bürger erreichen werde.

Der zweite Block der Anhörung widmete sich dem Thema "Mobilfunk und Kinder/Jugendliche" und ging nicht zuletzt auf das Konsumverhalten junger Menschen ein. Bereits 37 Prozent der Neun- bis Zehnjährigen hätten ein eigenes Handy, bei den 13- und 14-Jähringen seien es knapp 90 Prozent. Dabei sei das Handy eine der größten Schuldenfallen. 14 Prozent der Jugendlichen würden doppelt so viel Geld für das Handy ausgeben, wie sie zur Verfügung haben. Nur 66 Prozent der Eltern setze den Kindern hier Grenzen.

Die Biologin, Autorin und Dozentin Heike Solweig-Bleuel betreibt seit fünf Jahren Mobilfunkaufklärung an Schulen. Sie führte an, dass durch die Handy-Kultur das Sozial- und Lernverhalten empfindlich beeinträchtigt werde. Dem stimmt der Hauptschullehrer und Umweltfachberater Hans Schütz, zu: Es werde nicht mehr miteinander gesprochen oder gespielt, die Zuverlässigkeit und Entscheidungsfreudigkeit sinke. Handynutzer seien in der Schule nicht wirklich bei der Sache. Auch hätten Messungen der elektromagnetischen Feldstärke in den Klassen ergeben, dass sich diese versiebenfacht, auch wenn die Handys nur auf "stand by" geschaltet sind.

Frau Süß vom Kultusministerium ging auf die neue Verordnung der Bayerischen Staatsregierung ein, die seit dem 1. August den Betrieb von Mobilfunktelefonen und sonstigen digitalen Speichermedien auf dem Schulgelände verbietet. In der sich anschließenden Diskussionsrunde wurde dies nicht ausschließlich als Ruhmestat der Regierung gesehen: So sei diese Verordnung erst aufgrund der Vorkommnisse in Immenstadt und Kaufbeuren erlassen worden. Dort seien Mobiltelefone von Schülern zum Downloaden von rechtsradikalen, pornographischen oder Gewaltvideos verwendet worden. Es sei schlimm, dass die Verordnung erst daraufhin zustande gekommen sei, jedoch gar nicht angedacht worden wäre, wenn es nur um den Schutz der Gesundheit der Kinder gegangen wäre.

http://www.suedostbayerische-rundschau.de/lokal/text.php3?satz=11679 (Auszug)