'Disturbing' global warming data seen in fruit flies
rudkla - 3. Sep, 23:39
Sonntag, 3. September 2006
The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy
rudkla - 3. Sep, 23:37
The return of people power
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:56
John Dean on Rumsfeld
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:45
"National Security" Converts the United States into a Monarchy
First Time Released Documents Expose Subservient Congress.
http://nswbc.org/Press%20Advisories/PR-TiceLetters-Sep3-06.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://nswbc.org/Press%20Advisories/PR-TiceLetters-Sep3-06.htm
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:43
It’s the American Way or the Highway
Despite the United States presenting the American Way as an offer the rest of the world can’t refuse, increasing numbers of nations and groups are successfully resisting. Since opposition threatens their relentlessly acquisitive agenda, the US power elite demonize leaders like Hugo Chavez and nations like Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14812.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14812.htm
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:40
U.S. Policies Trigger Terrorism
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:37
US carries out subcritical nuclear test
Many activists and experts argue that the tests undermine the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons and that the Bush administration is carrying them out to use them to boost its efforts to develop new nuclear arms.
http://tinyurl.com/n6pqb
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/n6pqb
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:36
We should nuke Iran
Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14819.htm
Mass Murder for Iranians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant14.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14819.htm
Mass Murder for Iranians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant14.html
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:33
Military option against Iran open, says US
The consequences of an Iran with nuclear weapons are not only the capability they're seeking to deliver them through ballistic missiles, but also the possibility they could transfer a nuclear weapon to a terrorist group."
http://tinyurl.com/hn3c4
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/hn3c4
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:32
'Why did Blair send my teenage son to fight an illegal and dishonest war?'
Mrs Hamilton-Bing said that anger at seeing her son sent to fight a dishonest war had driven her to take action, adding that many other military families shared her views.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1269497.ece
From Information Clearing House
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1269497.ece
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:29
Iraq: A Sweeping, Secret New Report
Bush administration policymakers and their congressional backers may get some unwelcome news from a new analysis on Iraq that the office of intelligence czar John Negroponte will soon produce.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14638232/site/newsweek/
From Information Clearing House
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14638232/site/newsweek/
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:26
How do you sell a war?
War is Sell
Documentary By Brian Standing
How do you sell a war? How do the techniques of government propagandists, public relations consultants and commercial advertisers work, and why are they so effective? How did the United States become a master of domestic war propaganda over the course of the twentieth century?
Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14800.htm
Documentary By Brian Standing
How do you sell a war? How do the techniques of government propagandists, public relations consultants and commercial advertisers work, and why are they so effective? How did the United States become a master of domestic war propaganda over the course of the twentieth century?
Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14800.htm
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:15
The Great American Oligarchy
By Stephen Fleischman
The war in Iraq is the best example of an oligarchy at work-produced and managed to make money and to secure the remaining reserves of oil in the world. As they say, the world's oil has "peaked". It's all down hill from here, so we better grab it before somebody else does. To do this, we're got to keep a perpetual war spinning in the best oil-producing areas, the Middle East and the Caspian region.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14807.htm
The war in Iraq is the best example of an oligarchy at work-produced and managed to make money and to secure the remaining reserves of oil in the world. As they say, the world's oil has "peaked". It's all down hill from here, so we better grab it before somebody else does. To do this, we're got to keep a perpetual war spinning in the best oil-producing areas, the Middle East and the Caspian region.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14807.htm
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:14
US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown
By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
09/02/06
"Dissidentvoice"
In a little-noted article printed in early August in the Armed Forces Journal, a monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the United States military community, early retired Major Ralph Peters sets out the latest ideas in current US strategic thinking. And they are extremely disturbing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14810.htm
09/02/06
"Dissidentvoice"
In a little-noted article printed in early August in the Armed Forces Journal, a monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the United States military community, early retired Major Ralph Peters sets out the latest ideas in current US strategic thinking. And they are extremely disturbing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14810.htm
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:12
Fingerprints für Mickey Mouse
rudkla - 3. Sep, 21:55
Glasfiber-Imitation eines Daches zur Tarnung von Mobilfunk-Antennen
Beachten Sie die Glasfiber-Imitation eines Daches zur Tarnung von Mobilfunk-Antennen!
http://www.fiberglas-technik.de/hb-hochbau.html
Knut W. Schlanert
http://www.fiberglas-technik.de/hb-hochbau.html
Knut W. Schlanert
rudkla - 3. Sep, 17:29
Great Lakes drain away
Light snowfalls, dry summer leave Lakes Michigan, Huron near historic low levels
By James Janega
Tribune staff reporter
September 3, 2006
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0609030287sep03,1,2724906,print.story
A decade of warm winters with sporadic snowfall has failed to refill the snow-dependent Great Lakes, with falling water levels bringing the top ever closer to the bottom in Lakes Michigan and Huron.
The ebb has raised cries to dredge harbors, cost lake freighters small fortunes and meant trouble for breakwaters, which can survive the fiercest storms but won't suffer exposure to the air.
As the lake floor unexpectedly peers up through shallow spots, experts and observers say the situation has offered a dramatic lesson in the ancient machinery that empties and refills the Great Lakes.
It is gravity, and in the lakes, it is working on a massive scale.
A billion years ago, North America tried to tear itself apart, and the leftover rift became the Great Lakes. Dying mountains and sprawling mud flats filled it with sand and shale.
A continentwide glacier tamped it down next, then filled what remained as it melted 10,000 years ago. That water has been replaced 100 times over, continuously shoved out by more recently melted snows.
The system is time-tested and works well, provided it's fueled properly.
When snows are small and sporadic, problems arise, said Scott Thieme, chief of Great Lakes hydraulics and hydrology for the Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit. Last winter's spotty snowfalls are a good example.
"It [was] just melting in pieces instead of one big slug in the spring," Thieme said. "We just didn't get a huge spring ride--it wasn't doing bad in the April-May time period, but it did suffer in the summer time period."
Not too long ago, the lakes were brimming with water. Levels sloshed far above average in 1986 and 1997 in Lakes Michigan and Huron--technically considered the same lake because they rise and fall together.
The snow that supplies them blankets forests in central Ontario and Interstate Highway 70 in western Ohio. From Minnesota nearly to Montreal, the land works to feed the lakes. Yet because the area is so big, the lower lakes sometimes live separately from the lakes upstream.
Lakes Ontario and Erie are flourishing at average levels this year, after a series of dying tropical storms dumped what was left of their water on them in 2005. Lake Superior, on the other hand, is in drought, as is northern Lake Michigan, and the upper lakes are suffering accordingly.
Dry summer didn't help
A dry summer exacerbated last year's mediocre winter, whose meltwater trickled out as quickly as it could sprinkle in. The disappointing result is a level at about the low reached in 2000--and not far from other historic lows in the 1960s and the Dust Bowl era.
As of late August--typically the high point of the lakes' annual swelling--Lake Michigan is 2 inches lower than it was two months ago. It's down 2 inches from 2005 and is 19 inches below its long-term average.
"It's just been waffling around the low point," said Cynthia Sellinger, lakes hydrologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Does it matter that the lakes are low? Yeah, it matters."
It matters to sailboat owners obliged to polish piloting skills around once-submerged sandbars, and to lake freighters running with partly empty holds to clear the bottom.
And around older harbors, like Chicago, the low water has brought an unexpected threat to the wooden pilings beneath breakwaters: rot.
"You would expect to develop problems after a big storm event, or after a major problem with ice," said Steve Hungness, chief of operations for the Army Corps of Engineers in Chicago. But mild winters make an unlikely and potent enemy.
The curving cement crescent most people think of as Chicago's breakwater is actually just a concrete cap. Beneath it, a 20-foot stack of lumber holds it up, vestiges of virgin Wisconsin and Michigan forests felled in the 1880s. Protected by rubble, it has rested in watery comfort, impervious to the elements.
Until now.
Low water since 2000 has let airborne bacteria flourish, weakening the wood and compromising the breakwall, Hungness said. Three 60-foot sections of the wall have dropped a few feet in recent years, and repairs are needed soon.
Smaller cargo ship loads
The menace for cargo ships is not air, but fear of grounding. Thousand-foot freighters now move so nerve-rackingly close to the bottom that crews aren't loading them as full.
"Every inch we lose, we would lose 120 tons of cargo capacity" to make it down the St. Lawrence Seaway, said Dennis Mahoney, president of the United States Great Lakes Shipping Association. The lost cargo's value translates to between $6,000 and $12,000 per voyage, he said.
A pinch is also felt for carriers on the upper lakes, said Glen Nekvasil, vice president of the Lake Carriers' Association. Loads are being reduced by 500 tons to navigate locks between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie.
Still, loads bring the massive ships to within inches of the bottom at the locks and in destination harbors.
In harbors, marina managers say shallower spots have been closed or rented for inflatable dinghies and jet skis. Wilmette workers have had to move boats around, and boat owners have paid to dredge the harbor twice in the last year.
In Saugatuck, Mich., yachtsmen leery of a sandbar in Lake Kalamazoo have taken to following the Star of Saugatuck--the theory being that if the paddle-wheeler can make it, they can. Only a few have gotten stuck in a lake that locals are convinced can be navigated on foot if one knows where to walk.
It all boils down to one visceral and unforgettable image--an up-close look at what long has lain beneath. It's the bottom, they say, and they shudder.
"It's mucky. It's silty," said Wilmette Harbor Association Executive Director Sabine Herber, whose north suburban marina is often at odds with Lake Michigan and its moods.
"Eventually, it's a clay bottom," she said. "But there's a lot of muck on top of that."
jjanega@tribune.com
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
Informant: binstock
By James Janega
Tribune staff reporter
September 3, 2006
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0609030287sep03,1,2724906,print.story
A decade of warm winters with sporadic snowfall has failed to refill the snow-dependent Great Lakes, with falling water levels bringing the top ever closer to the bottom in Lakes Michigan and Huron.
The ebb has raised cries to dredge harbors, cost lake freighters small fortunes and meant trouble for breakwaters, which can survive the fiercest storms but won't suffer exposure to the air.
As the lake floor unexpectedly peers up through shallow spots, experts and observers say the situation has offered a dramatic lesson in the ancient machinery that empties and refills the Great Lakes.
It is gravity, and in the lakes, it is working on a massive scale.
A billion years ago, North America tried to tear itself apart, and the leftover rift became the Great Lakes. Dying mountains and sprawling mud flats filled it with sand and shale.
A continentwide glacier tamped it down next, then filled what remained as it melted 10,000 years ago. That water has been replaced 100 times over, continuously shoved out by more recently melted snows.
The system is time-tested and works well, provided it's fueled properly.
When snows are small and sporadic, problems arise, said Scott Thieme, chief of Great Lakes hydraulics and hydrology for the Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit. Last winter's spotty snowfalls are a good example.
"It [was] just melting in pieces instead of one big slug in the spring," Thieme said. "We just didn't get a huge spring ride--it wasn't doing bad in the April-May time period, but it did suffer in the summer time period."
Not too long ago, the lakes were brimming with water. Levels sloshed far above average in 1986 and 1997 in Lakes Michigan and Huron--technically considered the same lake because they rise and fall together.
The snow that supplies them blankets forests in central Ontario and Interstate Highway 70 in western Ohio. From Minnesota nearly to Montreal, the land works to feed the lakes. Yet because the area is so big, the lower lakes sometimes live separately from the lakes upstream.
Lakes Ontario and Erie are flourishing at average levels this year, after a series of dying tropical storms dumped what was left of their water on them in 2005. Lake Superior, on the other hand, is in drought, as is northern Lake Michigan, and the upper lakes are suffering accordingly.
Dry summer didn't help
A dry summer exacerbated last year's mediocre winter, whose meltwater trickled out as quickly as it could sprinkle in. The disappointing result is a level at about the low reached in 2000--and not far from other historic lows in the 1960s and the Dust Bowl era.
As of late August--typically the high point of the lakes' annual swelling--Lake Michigan is 2 inches lower than it was two months ago. It's down 2 inches from 2005 and is 19 inches below its long-term average.
"It's just been waffling around the low point," said Cynthia Sellinger, lakes hydrologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Does it matter that the lakes are low? Yeah, it matters."
It matters to sailboat owners obliged to polish piloting skills around once-submerged sandbars, and to lake freighters running with partly empty holds to clear the bottom.
And around older harbors, like Chicago, the low water has brought an unexpected threat to the wooden pilings beneath breakwaters: rot.
"You would expect to develop problems after a big storm event, or after a major problem with ice," said Steve Hungness, chief of operations for the Army Corps of Engineers in Chicago. But mild winters make an unlikely and potent enemy.
The curving cement crescent most people think of as Chicago's breakwater is actually just a concrete cap. Beneath it, a 20-foot stack of lumber holds it up, vestiges of virgin Wisconsin and Michigan forests felled in the 1880s. Protected by rubble, it has rested in watery comfort, impervious to the elements.
Until now.
Low water since 2000 has let airborne bacteria flourish, weakening the wood and compromising the breakwall, Hungness said. Three 60-foot sections of the wall have dropped a few feet in recent years, and repairs are needed soon.
Smaller cargo ship loads
The menace for cargo ships is not air, but fear of grounding. Thousand-foot freighters now move so nerve-rackingly close to the bottom that crews aren't loading them as full.
"Every inch we lose, we would lose 120 tons of cargo capacity" to make it down the St. Lawrence Seaway, said Dennis Mahoney, president of the United States Great Lakes Shipping Association. The lost cargo's value translates to between $6,000 and $12,000 per voyage, he said.
A pinch is also felt for carriers on the upper lakes, said Glen Nekvasil, vice president of the Lake Carriers' Association. Loads are being reduced by 500 tons to navigate locks between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie.
Still, loads bring the massive ships to within inches of the bottom at the locks and in destination harbors.
In harbors, marina managers say shallower spots have been closed or rented for inflatable dinghies and jet skis. Wilmette workers have had to move boats around, and boat owners have paid to dredge the harbor twice in the last year.
In Saugatuck, Mich., yachtsmen leery of a sandbar in Lake Kalamazoo have taken to following the Star of Saugatuck--the theory being that if the paddle-wheeler can make it, they can. Only a few have gotten stuck in a lake that locals are convinced can be navigated on foot if one knows where to walk.
It all boils down to one visceral and unforgettable image--an up-close look at what long has lain beneath. It's the bottom, they say, and they shudder.
"It's mucky. It's silty," said Wilmette Harbor Association Executive Director Sabine Herber, whose north suburban marina is often at odds with Lake Michigan and its moods.
"Eventually, it's a clay bottom," she said. "But there's a lot of muck on top of that."
jjanega@tribune.com
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
Informant: binstock
rudkla - 3. Sep, 17:10
The End of Eden: We've Pushed the Earth Too Far
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101800.html
Informant: binstock
Informant: binstock
rudkla - 3. Sep, 17:04
The hungry planet
rudkla - 3. Sep, 16:45
WHY WE MUST ADVANCE THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM
by Tom DeWeese
The Principles of Freedom In a Free Society, government shouldn’t be in the energy business. It shouldn’t be holding congressional hearings to rule on the kind of toilet you should have in your home.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom60.htm
The Principles of Freedom In a Free Society, government shouldn’t be in the energy business. It shouldn’t be holding congressional hearings to rule on the kind of toilet you should have in your home.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom60.htm
rudkla - 3. Sep, 08:42
Die Handysucht und ihre Folgen - Gesundheitsrisiko Mobilfunk - das Mikrowellensyndrom
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/oegt.doc
Mit freundlichen Grüßen übersandt,
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Ferdinand Ruzicka
Habilitiert für „Medizinische Physik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zytophysik“ (cytophysics) an der Medizinischen Universität Wien
http://www.mikrowellensmog.info
--------
Wenn Handys süchtig machen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3434087/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mikrowellensyndrom
Mit freundlichen Grüßen übersandt,
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Ferdinand Ruzicka
Habilitiert für „Medizinische Physik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zytophysik“ (cytophysics) an der Medizinischen Universität Wien
http://www.mikrowellensmog.info
--------
Wenn Handys süchtig machen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3434087/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mikrowellensyndrom
rudkla - 3. Sep, 08:35
Smearing the Wilsons and Sliming America
"How low can they go? I refer of course to the latest vitriol directed at Valerie and Joe Wilson by the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post, who claim that Joe Wilson, not Bush administration officials, is responsible for destroying his wife's cover and exposing her as a CIA operative. Hitchens's battle with the bottle may account for his addled thinking, but what is Hiatt's excuse?" asks Larry C. Johnson.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090206Y.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090206Y.shtml
rudkla - 3. Sep, 00:06
Samstag, 2. September 2006
War Is Not a Solution for Terrorism
Howard Zinn writes, "Massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only morally reprehensible, but useless in achieving the stated aims of those who carry them out. The United States, in three years of war, which began with shock-and-awe bombardment and goes on with day-to-day violence and chaos, has been an utter failure in its claimed objective of bringing democracy and stability to Iraq"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090206D.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090206D.shtml
rudkla - 2. Sep, 23:56
House of Rep. HR635 to Investigate Bush Adm. and Recommend Impeachment
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.RES.635:
Informant: ranger116
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
Informant: ranger116
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
rudkla - 2. Sep, 23:12
The MOTHER Of All Action Alerts
Brave candidates are now stepping forward all over the country to confront the Bush administration on their Iraq lies. Many of you have already seen the magnificently courageous new TV spot of Charles W. Sanders in the 3rd District of Ohio.
TV SPOT: http://www.charleswsanders.org/donations4a.php
Charles has a special Democratic primary election coming up in just two weeks, and we need to make absolutely sure that we turn out every vote we can to support a candidate who is taking such a strong stand on these life and death issues.
We've made it so easy, all you have to do is set your own password at the new Charles Sanders virtual phone bank:
http://www.charleswsanders.org/virtualphones2_sanders.html
Once you login you will find a script ready for you to use, answers to all questions (including statements of Charles' position on lots of other issues), there is even a live chat function you can use to get live help on the spot.
Those of you who have only one phone line and use it also for your internet connection asked if we could find a way to let you use the system. AND WE DID IT. Now you can get 10 numbers at once and make your calls while you go offline.
Literally, everything you need to become an instant phone pro is at your fingertips. We can even set you up with a phone card to pay for the calls.
Won't you make a couple phone calls on your own schedule to help get the peace message out? You can have an enormous impact by helping to locate people who would also be very motivated to be additional local volunteers for him. If each of us just does a little bit week by week, we can turn the whole country around by mobilizing our friends and neighbors as never before.
This next election is our last chance to save us all. We HAVE to do it. Please help.
The Pen
TV SPOT: http://www.charleswsanders.org/donations4a.php
Charles has a special Democratic primary election coming up in just two weeks, and we need to make absolutely sure that we turn out every vote we can to support a candidate who is taking such a strong stand on these life and death issues.
We've made it so easy, all you have to do is set your own password at the new Charles Sanders virtual phone bank:
http://www.charleswsanders.org/virtualphones2_sanders.html
Once you login you will find a script ready for you to use, answers to all questions (including statements of Charles' position on lots of other issues), there is even a live chat function you can use to get live help on the spot.
Those of you who have only one phone line and use it also for your internet connection asked if we could find a way to let you use the system. AND WE DID IT. Now you can get 10 numbers at once and make your calls while you go offline.
Literally, everything you need to become an instant phone pro is at your fingertips. We can even set you up with a phone card to pay for the calls.
Won't you make a couple phone calls on your own schedule to help get the peace message out? You can have an enormous impact by helping to locate people who would also be very motivated to be additional local volunteers for him. If each of us just does a little bit week by week, we can turn the whole country around by mobilizing our friends and neighbors as never before.
This next election is our last chance to save us all. We HAVE to do it. Please help.
The Pen
rudkla - 2. Sep, 17:55
Aufruf zur Demonstration am Donnerstag 7.9. in Berlin
Werner-Fuß-Zentrum Landesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. Irren-Offensive e.V.
z.Zt. im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte Greifswalder Str. 4 - 10405 Berlin
Tel.: 030-291 100 - Fax.: 030-782 8947
werner-fuss@gmx.de - http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
Aufruf zur Demonstration:
Donnerstag, 7.9.2006 von 8.00 -10.30 Uhr vor dem Bundesjustizministerium Mohrenstr. 37, Berlin Mitte
Ein laufendes Gesetzgebungsverfahren ist bisher der Aufmerksamkeit der Medien entgangen. Ältere Menschen und Psychiatrie-Erfahrerene sind betroffen. Sowohl die Persönlichkeits- als auch die Verfahrensrechte dieser Menschen werden durch die geplante Änderung des § 8, des Betreuungsbehördengesetzes (Bundestagsdrucksache Nr.16/1339: http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/013/1601339.pdf ) bedroht.
Die geplanten Änderungen haben fatale Auswirkungen: Ganz unbedarft – in der Regel sogar in guter Absicht – kann ein Arzt einem eigensinnigen Patienten testieren, er sei nicht „zustimmungsfähig“. Wenn ein solcher Hinweis in einem eingeleiteten Betreuungsverfahren auftaucht, soll nunmehr die Betreuungsbehörde in einem Geheimverfahren, also ohne Wissen und ohne Einverständnis des Betroffenen, dessen gesamtes Umfeld aushorchen, Daten sammeln und Ermittlungen anstellen können.
Vordergründig scheint es sich nur um eine bundesrechtliche „Ergänzung“ landesrechtlicher Datenschutzgesetze zu handeln. Tatsächlich geht es aber um eine umfassende Entrechtung und schwere Persönlichkeitsrechtsverletzung, die schon im Verfahren ohne vorherige Anhörung des Betroffenen vorgenommen werden soll und ohne dass z.B. geprüft wurde, ob nicht eine vorhandene Vorsorgevollmacht das gesamte Betreuungsverfahren überflüssig macht. Geheime Ermittlungen einer Behörde im Umfeld eines älteren oder psychiatrie-erfahrenen Menschen sind immer diskriminierend und stigmatisierend. Sie verletzen die Würde dieser Personen.
1998 wurde in einer Betreuungsrechtsreform der privatautonomen Regelung durch eine Vorsorgevollmacht eine vorrangige Stellung gegenüber der richterlich angeordneten Betreuung eingeräumt. Diese Entwicklung wurde inzwischen durch die letzte Betreuungsrechtsreform im Jahr 2005 von allen Parteien bestätigt. Es entspricht obrigkeitsstaatlichem Denken, wenn diese Fortschritte durch eine geheim ermittelnde Betreuungsbehörde unterlaufen werden. Der Entmündigungs-Charakter der Betreuung nimmt dadurch wieder stärker zu.
Eine schwarz-rote Koalition droht mit ihrer erdrückenden Mehrheit ein solches Gesetz durchzupeitschen. Es ist ein schlimmes Zeichen für alle Bürger, wenn per Gesetz Minderheiten mit Geheimdienstmethoden ihres Selbstbestimmungsrechts beraubt werden sollen.
Wir appellieren an alle BürgerInnen, insbesondere aber an die Bundesregierung, diesem Gesetzentwurf jede Unterstützung zu entziehen und völlig aus der Diskussion zu nehmen. Er ist mit rechtstaatlichen Prinzipien unvereinbar.
Weitere Informationen:
- Stellungnahme von Prof. Wolf-Dieter Narr in einem Brief an alle Abgeordneten des Bundestages:
http://www.die-bpe.de/Brief_von_Narr_an_alle_Abgeordneten.pdf
- Stellungnahme der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener in einem Brief an alle Abgeordneten des Bundestages:
http://www.die-bpe.de/#stellungnahme
- kleine Anfrage der Fraktion der Linkspartei im Bundestag: http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/023/1602355.pdf
- Bericht der TAZ vom 11. Juli, Seite 7
z.Zt. im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte Greifswalder Str. 4 - 10405 Berlin
Tel.: 030-291 100 - Fax.: 030-782 8947
werner-fuss@gmx.de - http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
Aufruf zur Demonstration:
Donnerstag, 7.9.2006 von 8.00 -10.30 Uhr vor dem Bundesjustizministerium Mohrenstr. 37, Berlin Mitte
Ein laufendes Gesetzgebungsverfahren ist bisher der Aufmerksamkeit der Medien entgangen. Ältere Menschen und Psychiatrie-Erfahrerene sind betroffen. Sowohl die Persönlichkeits- als auch die Verfahrensrechte dieser Menschen werden durch die geplante Änderung des § 8, des Betreuungsbehördengesetzes (Bundestagsdrucksache Nr.16/1339: http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/013/1601339.pdf ) bedroht.
Die geplanten Änderungen haben fatale Auswirkungen: Ganz unbedarft – in der Regel sogar in guter Absicht – kann ein Arzt einem eigensinnigen Patienten testieren, er sei nicht „zustimmungsfähig“. Wenn ein solcher Hinweis in einem eingeleiteten Betreuungsverfahren auftaucht, soll nunmehr die Betreuungsbehörde in einem Geheimverfahren, also ohne Wissen und ohne Einverständnis des Betroffenen, dessen gesamtes Umfeld aushorchen, Daten sammeln und Ermittlungen anstellen können.
Vordergründig scheint es sich nur um eine bundesrechtliche „Ergänzung“ landesrechtlicher Datenschutzgesetze zu handeln. Tatsächlich geht es aber um eine umfassende Entrechtung und schwere Persönlichkeitsrechtsverletzung, die schon im Verfahren ohne vorherige Anhörung des Betroffenen vorgenommen werden soll und ohne dass z.B. geprüft wurde, ob nicht eine vorhandene Vorsorgevollmacht das gesamte Betreuungsverfahren überflüssig macht. Geheime Ermittlungen einer Behörde im Umfeld eines älteren oder psychiatrie-erfahrenen Menschen sind immer diskriminierend und stigmatisierend. Sie verletzen die Würde dieser Personen.
1998 wurde in einer Betreuungsrechtsreform der privatautonomen Regelung durch eine Vorsorgevollmacht eine vorrangige Stellung gegenüber der richterlich angeordneten Betreuung eingeräumt. Diese Entwicklung wurde inzwischen durch die letzte Betreuungsrechtsreform im Jahr 2005 von allen Parteien bestätigt. Es entspricht obrigkeitsstaatlichem Denken, wenn diese Fortschritte durch eine geheim ermittelnde Betreuungsbehörde unterlaufen werden. Der Entmündigungs-Charakter der Betreuung nimmt dadurch wieder stärker zu.
Eine schwarz-rote Koalition droht mit ihrer erdrückenden Mehrheit ein solches Gesetz durchzupeitschen. Es ist ein schlimmes Zeichen für alle Bürger, wenn per Gesetz Minderheiten mit Geheimdienstmethoden ihres Selbstbestimmungsrechts beraubt werden sollen.
Wir appellieren an alle BürgerInnen, insbesondere aber an die Bundesregierung, diesem Gesetzentwurf jede Unterstützung zu entziehen und völlig aus der Diskussion zu nehmen. Er ist mit rechtstaatlichen Prinzipien unvereinbar.
Weitere Informationen:
- Stellungnahme von Prof. Wolf-Dieter Narr in einem Brief an alle Abgeordneten des Bundestages:
http://www.die-bpe.de/Brief_von_Narr_an_alle_Abgeordneten.pdf
- Stellungnahme der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener in einem Brief an alle Abgeordneten des Bundestages:
http://www.die-bpe.de/#stellungnahme
- kleine Anfrage der Fraktion der Linkspartei im Bundestag: http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/023/1602355.pdf
- Bericht der TAZ vom 11. Juli, Seite 7
rudkla - 2. Sep, 17:49
BLM Fails to Track Environmental Data on Gas Fields
The Bureau of Land Management has neglected its public commitments to monitor and limit harm to wildlife and air quality from gas drilling on public land in western Wyoming, according to an internal BLM assessment.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090106EA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090106EA.shtml
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:29
Fascist Appeasers
"I am no appeaser of fascism, for I have fought this administration at every step. Millions have done the same, and will continue to do so. To stand in opposition to this new type of fascism, embodied in the hypocrisies and lies of men like Rumsfeld and Bush, is as much our patriotic duty as the time I spent in that jury room," writes William Rivers Pitt.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106R.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106R.shtml
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:28
Give Voters a Choice About War
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:10
Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:09
Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:06
Private Sector 'Not the Answer to Poverty'
rudkla - 2. Sep, 11:04
Why the U.S. Is Holding Its Fire on Iran
The U.S. knows it must avoid harsh rhetoric and ease any fears of military action in order to have any chance at getting Russia and China to agree to sanctions in the nuclear standoff.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1515873,00.html
Russia rejects Iran sanctions
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Finland, want further dialogue with Iran rather than sanctions after Tehran defied Thursday's UN deadline to stop work that the West fears could be a prelude to making a nuclear bomb, officials said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3784142a12,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1515873,00.html
Russia rejects Iran sanctions
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Finland, want further dialogue with Iran rather than sanctions after Tehran defied Thursday's UN deadline to stop work that the West fears could be a prelude to making a nuclear bomb, officials said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3784142a12,00.html
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:25
Gingrich opposed to attacking Iran
"I am opposed to a military strike on Iran because I don't think it accomplishes very much in the long run," The Washington Times reported.
http://tinyurl.com/l7ea7
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/l7ea7
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:24
Iraq WMD inspector accuses Govt of cover up
Video report
The second Australian scientist who worked on the fruitless hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has broken his silence. John Gee has followed Rod Barton in claiming he gave the Government early warning in 2004 that no weapons would be found.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14783.htm
The second Australian scientist who worked on the fruitless hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has broken his silence. John Gee has followed Rod Barton in claiming he gave the Government early warning in 2004 that no weapons would be found.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14783.htm
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:18
Speaking from his home in clouded cuckoo land: Bush says Iraq the central front in war on terror
“We will fight the terrorists overseas so we don’t have to fight them here at home,” he told the veterans and current military personnel in attendance at the Salt Palace.
http://tinyurl.com/zsjce
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/zsjce
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:16
The Mayor and the President: A View in Salt Lake City
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Mr. Bush knows that unlike the story of the boy who cried wolf too many times, he can drive home his message successfully. It is the repetitiveness of his messages that will eventually give them authenticity. Once the people hear them often enough, they will not question their veracity. He is beating the drums – another war – more WMD to be destroyed, he claims. Bush is taking us to war again. More lies, more deaths.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14796.htm
Mr. Bush knows that unlike the story of the boy who cried wolf too many times, he can drive home his message successfully. It is the repetitiveness of his messages that will eventually give them authenticity. Once the people hear them often enough, they will not question their veracity. He is beating the drums – another war – more WMD to be destroyed, he claims. Bush is taking us to war again. More lies, more deaths.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14796.htm
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:14
"Fascism" Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press
Analysis by Jim Lobe
The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14792.htm
The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14792.htm
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:11
Salt Lake City mayor slams 'dishonest, war-mongering' Bush
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:06
THE NEW CENSUS: A new assault on your freedom
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:04
Hawaii Legislature Takes Steps to End War
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_david_sw_060407_hawaii_legislature_t.htm
Informant: ranger116
Informant: ranger116
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:02
Unpaid traffic ticket briefly halts Sheehan protest at Bush ranch
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/08/31/08312006wacsheehanticket.html
Informant: ranger116
Informant: ranger116
rudkla - 2. Sep, 10:00
NSA Mobilizes Against Leaks
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:57
The Evil of 'Holy War': On God's War
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:47
On the last stage in Bushian propaganda
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:44
You can't trust the Feds about inflation either
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:40
A British Harbinger of American Defeat
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:37
'I Pledge Allegiance': May I Teach Now?
rudkla - 2. Sep, 09:36
