World-News

Robert Parry writes, "As Americans go to the polls in two months, they should have one thought fixed in their minds: they will be voting on whether to commit the nation to fighting World War III against large segments of the world’s one billion Muslims. Beyond the cost in blood and treasure, this war will mean the end of the United States as a democratic Republic."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090706N.shtml

According to the New York Times, two months before a Congressional election in which voters are expressing serious doubts about the Republicans' handling of national security, Bush admitted yesterday that the Central Intelligence Agency has been secretly holding prisoners, and thus exposes his administration's "miscarriage of justice."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090706J.shtml

Nach dem Verunreinigungsskandal bei US-Langkornreis tauchte in Deutschland, Frankreich und England jetzt auch noch illegaler GV-Reis aus China auf.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23496/1.html

US-Präsident Bush bestätigt und rechtfertigt die geheimen CIA-Gefängnisse und die Verhörmethoden

Mit einem geschickten Schachzug versucht die US-Regierung im Wahlkampf, sich als gesetzestreu darzustellen und den Kongress unter Druck zu setzen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23501/1.html

More than 6,000 of you took action on August 23 and told Target to support the No Dirty Gold campaign’s call for responsible gold mining. Thank you for taking action.

Target acknowledged it received your faxes. We are hopeful that Target will soon add its name to the growing list of retailers that have endorsed No Dirty Gold’s goals.

But there's more you can do. You can write a letter to your local newspaper letting its readers know they have the power to change the way gold mining is done. And if you're one of the first 100 activists who notify us that your letter was printed, you will receive a No Dirty Gold t-shirt.
http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/ndg_lte

The editorial section is one of the most-read parts of your newspaper and it offers an opportunity to build awareness in your community about the impacts of gold mining.

We have provided suggested language for your letter. Please adapt it to suit your community and your background. If there is a Target store within the circulation area of your paper, use your letter to urge Target to sign the Golden Rules.

It is usually helpful to relate your letter to topics the newspaper has covered recently. Newspapers generally limit letters to the editor to between 100 and 200 words.

To the editor,

I was shocked to learn the production of a single gold wedding ring generates 20 tons of mine waste on average. This waste contains toxic materials, which often pollute nearby water sources and compromise the environment of local communities that may have had no say in the opening of the mine.

About 80 percent of newly mined gold is used in jewelry. Some jewelers understand this and are calling on the mining industry to clean up its act. These jewelers have endorsed the No Dirty Gold campaign’s criteria for responsible gold production called the Golden Rules.

Many jewelers have not expressed their support for responsible gold production. The next time I visit a jeweler, I will ask if they have endorsed the No Dirty Gold campaign’s Golden Rules. I urge other consumers in this community to do the same.

Alternative text for Target localities: Many retailers, such as Target, have not yet expressed their support for responsible gold production. The next time I’m at a Target, I will ask them to endorse the No Dirty Gold campaign’s Golden Rules. I urge other consumers in this community to do the same.

Sincerely, [Make sure you include your name, address, and telephone number in your letter. Some newspapers verify authorship before printing letters.]

Check your newspaper's letter to the editor requirements in its editorial page or on its Web site. After submitting the letter, please send us a copy and monitor the paper to see if your letter is printed.
http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/ndg_lte


Thank you,

Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America

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Fall is a time of new opportunities and responsibilities for students returning to school. The same is true for the class rings vendor Jostens.

Tell Jostens to support responsibly mined gold.
http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/ndg_jostens

In February 2006, the No Dirty Gold campaign http://act.oxfamamerica.org/ct/07AwXnF1RRFN/ named Jostens one of the eight jewelry retailers lagging behind other retailers in its support for responsible gold production. As students return to campus and Jostens begins its biggest sales season, the company has another chance to show its commitment to the environment and human rights.

Tell Jostens http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/ndg_jostens that the pride class rings signify is undermined by the environmental and human rights costs of irresponsible gold mining. Remind them that it is their responsibility to show it respects the values of the institutions its class rings represent.

As you know, Oxfam America works to end poverty, hunger, and injustice. Tell Jostens http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/ndg_jostens to do its part by endorsing the No Dirty Gold campaign's Golden Rules.

Sincerely,

Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America

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Tell Jostens You Can't Take Pride in a Class Ring Made of Dirty Gold
http://tinyurl.com/v5s79

Sign the No Dirty Gold pledge
http://www.nodirtygold.org/take_action.cfm

Liebe Interessierte bzw. Betroffene!

Habe versucht das neuartige „Krebsgeschwür“ an unseren Hausfassaden zu dokumentieren und publik zu machen. Bitte um Kommentare und Ergänzungswünsche.

Das Problem mit dem Mobilfunk auf der Hausfassade:

Mittlerweile wird in Österreich das Ortsbild mehr geschützt als die Menschen. Einen schönes Beispiel dafür sind die Standorte für Mobilfunksendeanlagen (Handymasten). Diese wurden früher auf Hausdächer oder auf eigens errichtete Sendemasten montiert. Neuerdings werden diese Sender immer öfter auf die Hausfassade geschraubt. Diese Sender sind zwar klein, aber aufgrund der geringen Distanz zum Kopf bzw. Mensch besonders nachteilig. Dies sehr zum Leidwesen der Bewohner und Büromitarbeiter im Raum dahinter.

Hier ein paar Beispiele für einen solchen "Mobilfunk auf der Hausfassade" aus dem 1. Bezirk in Wien:

=> zum Artikel und den Fotos: http://www.wien-konkret.at/wirtschaft/telekommunikation/mobilfunk/mobilfunk-wien-erster-bezirk-hausfassade/

* Crosslinks von http://www.handymast.at/handymasten-wohnen.htm und http://www.schutz-vor-elektrosmog.at/messungen.htm

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Mag. Robert Marschall
Herausgeber vom Stadtmagazin Wien-konkret:
Internet: http://www.wien-konkret.at



Michael Meyer
michael_meyer_at_aon.at
Risiko Mobilfunk Österreich
Plattform Sozialstaat Österreich - Netzwerk Zivilcourage
A - 5165 Berndorf, Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

Dr. Eduard Christian Schöpfer, Salzburg

In der Samstagsausgabe der SN vom 8.7.2006 wurde auf die Ergebnisse einer Studie aus den USA hingewiesen, wonach Personen, die mit Handy oder Freisprecheinrichtung telefonieren, vergleichbare Defizite wie Autolenker mit einem Alkoholwert von 0,8 Promille aufweisen. Es überrascht nicht, dass dem amerikanischen Gesetzgeber darauf die Untersagung von Telefonaten mit dem Handy während der Fahrt empfohlen wurde. Sieht man sich die Situation auf Österreichs Straßen an, möchte man meinen, bei uns müsste ein solches Verbot erst gesetzlich eingeführt werden. Dem ist aber nicht so: § 102 Abs. 3 Kraftfahrgesetz (KFG) sieht nämlich ausdrücklich vor, dass dem Lenker das Telefonieren während des Fahrens ohne Benützung einer Freisprecheinrichtung verboten ist.

Laut einer von der Mobilkom Austria in Auftrag gegebenen Studie verwendet nur jeder zweite Handybesitzer, der in seinem Auto telefoniert, eine Freisprecheinrichtung. Dementsprechend hoch ist das Unfallrisiko: Es ist fünfmal höher als jenes von Lenkern, die auf ein Telefonat während der Fahrt verzichten. Ungeachtet dessen ist die für derartige Verwaltungsübertretungen vorgesehene Geldstrafe äußerst bescheiden, sie beträgt sage und schreibe 25 Euro! Das heißt, wenn jemand hinter dem Steuer mit dem Handy am Ohr erwischt wird, kommt er mit diesem Geldbetrag davon – vorausgesetzt, er wird von der Polizei angehalten! Nach der derzeitigen Rechtslage können Lenker, die mit ihrem Handy während der Fahrt telefonieren, nämlich nicht angezeigt werden, solche, die ein anderes Verkehrsdelikt begangen haben – etwa die Überschreitung einer Kreuzung bei Rotlicht – sehr wohl. Dramatisch ist die Situation vor allem für jene Verkehrsteilnehmer, die dem Ganzen schutzlos ausgeliefert sind: Bei Beobachtungen des Kuratoriums für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV) drosselten über 70 % der telefonierenden Fahrer weder das Tempo, noch hielten sie an, wenn ein Fußgänger die Straße queren wollte. Mit Recht fordert das KfV verstärkte Kontrollen der Autofahrer durch die Polizei (sie sind leider Mangelware) und eine Erleichterung der Sanktionierungspraxis für die Exekutive.

Nach ständiger Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte wird durch Art. 2 der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (Recht auf Leben) ein Anspruch jedes Menschen auf Bewahrung seines Lebens sichergestellt und den Staaten aufgetragen, diesen Anspruch durch rechtliche Vorkehrungen zu schützen; ein Auftrag, der sich vor allem an den Gesetzgeber wendet, in bestimmtem Umfang aber auch an die Vollziehung. Die staatliche Schutzpflicht setzt allerdings nicht erst dann ein, wenn der Einzelne von einer vorsätzlichen Tötungshandlung betroffen ist, vielmehr besteht der Schutzanspruch gegen den Staat auch schon gegenüber potentiellen Lebensgefährdungen.

Es wird nun jedem einleuchten, dass die für die Verwendung von Handys am Steuer festgelegte Strafe schwerlich geeignet ist, Autofahrer vom Gebrauch ihres Handys abzuhalten. Nähme der Gesetzgeber seine Verantwortung bezüglich der Bewahrung des Schutzguts Leben tatsächlich ernst, müsste er die besagte Geldstrafe drastisch erhöhen, die Polizei anweisen, verstärkt Schwerpunktkontrollen durchzuführen und auch das Telefonieren per Fernsprecheinrichtung gesetzlich verbieten.

Ähnlich wie beim Ruf der Bevölkerung nach einem effektiven Rechtsschutz gegen gesundheitsschädliche Auswirkungen durch „Handymastenstrahlung“ sind die verantwortlichen Politiker bisher untätig geblieben. Somit stellt sich einmal mehr die Forderung nach der gesetzlichen Einräumung einer Beschwerde wegen gesetzgeberischer Untätigkeit an den Verfassungsgerichtshof. Ferner sollten Politiker generell haften, wenn sie es verabsäumt haben, notwendige Vorkehrungen zum Schutz des Lebens und der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung (hier: der Verkehrsteilnehmer) zu treffen.

Übrigens bestehen gute Gründe für die Annahme, dass § 134 Abs. 3c KFG (er legt das Strafmaß für das Telefonieren mit dem Handy während der Fahrt fest) wegen Verstoßes gegen Art. 2 EMRK verfassungswidrig ist. So könnte etwa der Verfassungsgerichtshof mit der Begründung angerufen werden, diese Bestimmung sei angesichts des darin vorgesehenen geringen Strafrahmens nicht geeignet, das Leben der Verkehrsteilnehmer angemessen zu schützen. Ferner stellt sich die Frage, ob § 134 Abs. 3c KFG nicht auch gegen den in Art. 7 der Bundesverfassung verankerten Gleichheitsgrundsatz verstößt. Es ist nämlich nicht ersichtlich, warum im Bereich des unerlaubten Telefonierens am Steuer andere Maßstäbe gelten sollten wie etwa in Bezug auf das Fahren über die Kreuzung bei Rotlicht (das mit wesentlich höheren Strafen geahndet wird, wobei bereits eine Anzeige genügt), da beides gleichermaßen gefährlich ist und Schutzziel hier wie dort die Sicherheit der Verkehrsteilnehmer ist.

Der Text ist am 29.08 in den Salzburger Nachrichten/ Staatsbürger erschienen


Michael Meyer
michael_meyer_at_aon.at
Risiko Mobilfunk Österreich
Plattform Sozialstaat Österreich - Netzwerk Zivilcourage
A - 5165 Berndorf, Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/06/are_the_gitmo_gloves_back_on.php



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

Larry Johnson: "If we had to rely solely on the word of George W. Bush about the progress in the war on terrorism and the value of information obtained from Muslim prisoners in US custody we would be in trouble. Bush's speech today from the White House was both self-serving and misleading. I give the President credit for one thing - he's a great propagandist."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090706Z.shtml



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

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TreasonAbounds
http://www.unitedpatriotsofamerica.com/Home/Popup_Article_Details/Params/objects/2194/default.aspx
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060607222327971
http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/temp/articles/morphosis/part1.asp


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Dennis Lee Wilson

09/04/06



The inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads:

'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.'

What a remarkable open policy! And this is also the chosen symbol of the Libertarian Party! I notice that nowhere does it say 'But only after they have been properly vetted, tempest-tossed some more, and stamped and fully approved for political correctness by the immigration bureaucrats of Amerika's Fascist Government, will they be allowed to actually breathe free and come out of the darkness of tyranny to enjoy the light of liberty...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle383-20060903-05.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Ronald Bailey

In the wake of the 9/11 atrocities, President George W. Bush asserted sweeping powers that no prior president had ever claimed. He ordered indefinite detentions of American citizens, created secret military tribunals, authorized the torture of 'enemy combatants,' threatened to prosecute journalists and others for disclosing national security secrets, and monitored Americans' e-mail and phone calls without warrants. The so-called War on Terror is the justification for this unprecedented expansion of executive authority. The United States is the most powerful nation in the world. In the first century BCE, the Roman Republic was the most powerful nation in the Western world. Does this suggest a worrying parallel? Will history repeat itself? (for publication 09/11/06)

http://www.reason.com/9-11atfiveyears/rbailey.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Texas Straight Talk
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

09/04/06

It's clear that many political and business interests are only too willing to drive people literally out of their homes to make way for the grand schemes of those in power. This is why every American needs to understand that property rights are the foundation of a free society. Without property rights, all citizens live subject to the whims of government officials. When government can seize your property without your consent, all of your other rights are negated. Our founders would roll over in their graves if they knew that the takings clause in the Fifth Amendment was being used to justify unholy alliances between private developers and tax-hungry local governments...

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst090406.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

09/07/06

President Bush acknowledged on Wednesday, for the first time, that the CIA has been holding top al-Qaida prisoners, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in secret prisons. Bush announced that 14 such prisoners would be transferred to the Pentagon's custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The president also said that those prisoners would be tried before a military commission and, consistent with a Supreme Court ruling in July, would be afforded the protections of the Geneva Conventions. This announcement may appear superficially to constitute a reversal, or even a capitulation, by the Bush administration, but there are significant political benefits to be gained from the White House's maneuver, including election-season pressure on lawmakers to support policies the administration has pursued all along for the 'war on terror'... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/06/detainees


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Thomas Gale Moore

09/07/06

The president has often contended that we must continue the fight until we have achieved victory in the war on terror. However, since we are fighting insurgents, terrorists, and other ad hoc groups, how will be know when we have achieved victory? Unlike World War II, there will be no one to surrender to us. Even if Osama bin Laden were to surrender, an impossibility, it would not mean victory in the war on terrorism...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/moore.php?articleid=9661


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Ryan McMaken

09/07/06

Relying on the false premise that immigration numbers are at historically unprecedented levels, anti-immigration advocates have managed to whip a sizable portion of the American public into a nationalistic frenzy against immigrants. In general, illegal immigrants are targeted as the more politically acceptable scapegoat, and these immigrants, we are told, come to the United States to do nothing other than steal jobs from Americans, live off the welfare state, inconvenience us with their strange foreign languages, promote bizarre political movements, or simply introduce their inferior foreign ways into our pristine civilization. While many of these arguments made against immigrants are based on little more than pop-psychology and pseudo-science, not all of them are, and we can't conclude that opposition to open borders and unrestrained immigration is necessarily a bad thing. There are good reasons to oppose them...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken116.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

BBC News [UK]

09/06/06

President Bush has acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons and said 14 key terrorist suspects have now been sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The suspects, who include the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have now been moved out of CIA custody and will face trial. Mr Bush said the CIA's interrogation programme had been 'vital' in saving lives, but denied the use of torture. He said all suspects will be afforded protection under the Geneva Convention...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5321606.stm



Bush to unveil plans for Gitmo trials

Associated Press

09/06/06

President Bush pushed Wednesday to resuscitate his plan to subject Guantanamo Bay detainees to special trials, a key policy in his anti-terror strategy that was struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House asked television networks for live coverage of Bush's announcement later Wednesday. The president has said he eventually wants to close the Guantanamo prison, as critics and allies around the world have urged. But White House spokesman Tony Snow said the president was not going to announce any such plan Wednesday. 'We want to bring to justice those who are detained there,' Snow said...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060906/D8JVDUMG0.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Author Sees Science, Religion Saving Environment

Scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author E.O. Wilson is out to save life on Earth - literally - and as a secular humanist has decided to enlist people of religious faith in his mission. The Harvard professor sees science and religion as potential allies, as he argues in his latest book, "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090606EC.shtml

New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost. As the Earth warms, greenhouse gases once stuck in the long-frozen soil are bubbling into the atmosphere at a rate five times faster than originally measured, according to a study in Thursday's journal Nature.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606S.shtml

Former Illinois Republican Governor George Ryan, who was acclaimed by capital punishment foes for suspending executions in Illinois and emptying out death row, was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years behind bars in the corruption scandal that ruined his political career.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606R.shtml

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Ryan sentenced in graft case

Belleville News-Democrat

09/06/06

Former Gov. George Ryan, who gained international fame as a critic of the death penalty, was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for steering big-money state contracts to political insiders, using tax dollars for his campaign and covering up corruption. ... Ryan was convicted April 18 of racketeering, mail fraud, tax fraud, filing false tax returns and lying to FBI agents. Convicted along with him was businessman Larry Warner, who was sentenced to just under 3 1/2 years. The sentencing capped an eight-year federal investigation of drivers license selling and other corruption in state government in the Ryan era that has seen 79 individuals charged and 75 convicted...

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15454688.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Video

The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress is the story of one of the most blatant power grabs in American history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13803.htm



Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife

The Justice Department's congressional lobbying-and-bribery investigation is looking into whether former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's wife received money from a lobbying firm for a no-show job, recent FBI interviews indicate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14865.htm

Diverse organizations are taking a stand to stop the re-nomination of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

http://snipurl.com/w0z6


From Information Clearing House

Democrats need to wake up and realize they have the votes to defeat the Bolton nomination. They’ve been lulled to sleep by the August recess and psyched out by the Republicans' phony show of confidence in Bolton's confirmation chances.

http://snipurl.com/w0z3


From Information Clearing House

07 September 2006

ANGRY parents have staged a demonstration at the building site of a mobile phone mast.

Despite being just two weeks away from giving birth, campaigner Elizabeth Canavan, 35, joined the demonstration to try and stop the T-Mobile mast being erected in Aldersbrook Road, near Aldersbrook Primary School.

She said: "Phone companies talk about acceptable risks but we are not prepared to accept any risks involving our children."

Full story in the Ilford Recorder.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/korkw

30 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is the greatest threat to global stability. Iran is second on the list with 23 per cent, followed by China with 15 per cent, Iraq with 14 per cent, North Korea with eight per cent, and Russia with two per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13028


From Information Clearing House

A majority of Britons believe that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government should change its foreign policy and, in particular, distance itself from the US to reduce the risk of further terror attacks in the UK, as shown by results of a new poll.

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-239/0609063429133911.htm


From Information Clearing House

Fascists Under the Bed

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Islamofascism” should be jettisoned from Bush’s vocabulary. It yokes the faith of a billion people with an odious ideology. Imagine how Christians would have reacted had FDR taken to declaring Franco’s Spain and Mussolini’s Italy “Christo-fascist.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14863.htm

Is It Too Late To Turn Back?

Video

Can we still turn this thing around, or is America doomed to follow this administration straight to our country's destruction?

Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14870.htm

By James Cooke

After five years of post 9/11 government, U.S. foreign and domestic policy continues to be dominated by the all-encompassing ‘war on terror’. Events have since exposed this so-called war for what it is: a gross propaganda campaign used to suppress civil liberties and launch global war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14869.htm

By NBC

President George W. Bush on Wednesday said for the first time that some suspected terrorist leaders have been held by the CIA outside the United States in secret locations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14871.htm

By Michel Chossudovsky

Confirmed by official statements and military documents, the US in close coordination with Britain (and in consultation with its NATO partners), is planning to launch a war directed against Iran and Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14860.htm

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/ban_on_the_sale_of_foie_gras.htm

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Show your love for ducks by supporting foie gras bans
http://www.stopforcefeeding.com/page.php?module=press_release&article_id=6853



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foie+gras

Camp Democracy opened on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday, and will run through September 21st. We need you to come and join us now!

Here's what the Washington Post had to say about us this morning: http://campdemocracy.org/node/234

or http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501225.html

PHOTO: Penny Gamble-Williams, a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts, performs an opening ceremony at "Camp Democracy." Photo Credit: By Michael Robinson Chavez -- The Washington Post

Check out the schedule of upcoming events: http://campdemocracy.org/schedule

If you live outside of the Washington, D.C., area and you come, we will find you a free or cheap place to stay. But you can make it easier for us by signing up here: http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy

If you live in the DC area, please offer a bed or couch or floor to people who are acting on behalf of all of us by coming to make their voices heard. Please list any space you have here: http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy

We are buying radio ads to spread the word. We need your financial assistance. Please contribute what you can: http://www.campdemocracy.org/sponsor

Listen to Pete Seeger's New 60-Second Recording
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/seeger.mp3

The exciting events at Camp Democracy this coming weekend and through September 21st keep growing. Here's the schedule: http://www.campdemocracy.org/schedule

Camp Democracy Veterans to Lead March

When: Saturday September 9, 2006

What: Silent March and Vigil around the Capitol Building

Why: To remember the fallen and remind Congress and the public of the human cost of the War on and Occupation of Iraq.

Gather at 9 am at 1st and Independence Southwest corner located 1 block North of Capitol South Metro Stop

Step off at 9:30 am end at 10:30 am

All invited


This Is What Democracy Sounds Like

Listen to this 30-second message from Rev. Lennox Yearwood: MP3 http://www.campdemocracy.org/sites/campdemocracy.org/files/downloads/yearwood.mp3 Please ask radio stations to play it as a Public Service Announcement.

And please send us money, so that we can air it as an advertisement on more stations. http://www.campdemocracy.org/sponsor

The Pacifica station in DC, WPFW, recorded this audio for us. Please support them. http://www.wpfw.org

While we are spending billions of dollars to house people in illegal prisons outside the rule of law or human rights, there are 14,000 homeless people in the Washington, D.C., area. Help us stop the closure of the Franklin Shelter! http://savefranklinshelter.com


Listen to Two of the Speakers Who Have Visited Camp Democracy

Rep. Jim McGovern live from Camp Democracy September 6th, 2006 Listen here. http://www.pluggd.com/channel/episodes/voices_of_progressive_democrats_of_america

Rep. Barbara Lee live from Camp Democracy September 6th, 2006 Board member and Congresswoman Barbara Lee reporting live from Camp Democracy Listen here. http://www.pluggd.com/episode/show/rep_barbara_lee_live_from_camp_democracy


CORPORATE MEDIA EXPOSED BY A PROGRESSIVE WHO GOT INSIDE

In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Jeff Cohen takes you inside TV news and the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they condemn, but Cohen -- who founded the media watch group FAIR -- spent years at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. He was a senior producer at MSNBC's Donahue during the run-up to the Iraq war, and witnessed war-enabling bias and censorship firsthand.

He tells all in a biting, humorous paperback taking aim at the entire rightwing hot-air brigade that Cohen saw up close: O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Novak, Falwell, etc. (Ann Coulter wouldn't debate him.) The book includes a foreword by Jim Hightower.

MOLLY IVINS says: "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince."

IF YOU LIKED "OUTFOXED," YOU'LL LOVE CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL. The book has won praise from Robert Greenwald, Tim Robbins, Studs Terkel, Bob McChesney and others.

BARBARA EHRENREICH: "A deliciously funny expose." HOWARD ZINN: "Future historians will have this book as a primary text." AMY GOODMAN: "Read this book and fight for change."

HELP MAKE THIS BOOK A BIG SELLER.

EXPOSE THE MYTH OF A "LIBERAL MEDIA."

ASK STORES TO ORDER IT. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE.

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Im heutigen Schreiben an Sie geht es maßgeblich um Politik. Die Entwicklung der Europäischen Meeresstrategie-Richtlinie steht an, und diese Chance für den Schutz der Meere wollen wir nutzen.

Beifang: maßlose Verschwendung und Ignoranz

Worum geht es dabei? Die Meere sind weltweit in einer Krise, auch in Europa. Besonders schlecht geht es Nord- und Ostsee und dem Mittelmeer. Die Fischbestände werden skrupellos geplündert mit dem Ergebnis, dass unsere einstigen "Brotfische" Kabeljau (Nordsee) und Dorsch (Ostsee) massiv überfischt sind. Grundschleppnetze zerstören den Lebensraum Meer und nebenbei landen zig Tausende von Meerestieren als Beifang in ihren Netzen. Meist tot werden sie zurück ins Meer geworfen.

Öl- und Gasförderung gefährdet durch ölhaltiges Produktionswasser und Bohrschlämme Seevögel und Meerestiere. Auch Sand- und Kiesabbau setzt den Meeren und seinen Bewohnern zu, indem riesige Mengen Meeresboden abgesaugt werden. Durch zunehmenden Schiffsverkehr steigen Ölverschmutzung, Müll- und Schadstoffeinträge. Zusammengefasst: Die Meere werden leer gefischt, voll gemüllt und vergiftet.

Quelle des Übels ist die kurzsichtige und profitorientierte EU-Meerespolitik; hierbei speziell die Zergliederung der Zuständigkeiten: Die Fischerei wird von der "Gemeinsamen Fischereipolitik" geregelt, der Abbau von Bodenschätzen von der Wirtschaftsabteilung, der Schutz der Meere von der Umweltabteilung und die Schifffahrt von der Internationalen Maritimen Organisation (IMO). Unbeachtet bleibt der Schutz der Meere, wenn es um Planungen und Regelungen zur Nutzung der Ressourcen geht.

Ein gemeinsames Dach für Meeresschutz und -nutzung ist nötig, um die Artenvielfalt zu bewahren und die langfristige Nutzung ihrer Ressourcen zu sichern. Dieser Gedanke steht hinter der Entwicklung der Europäischen Meeresstrategie-Richtlinie, die auch einen rechtsverbindlichen Rahmen schaffen soll.

Greenpeace unterstützt dieses Ziel, jedoch reicht der derzeitige Vorschlag nicht aus. So sind explizit keine Maßnahmen zur Fischerei genannt, obwohl die Kommission anerkennt, dass sie zu den Hauptgefahren der Meeresökosysteme gehört.

"Ölunfall" als Normalfall "Ölunfall" als Normalfall Auch das übergeordnete Ziel, "das Anstreben eines guten Umweltzustandes für 2021", bietet den Staaten alle Möglichkeiten, um sich aus der Verantwortung zu stehlen. Hier müssen Zwischenziele genannt werden, wie beispielsweise die Beseitigung von Pestizideinträgen durch die Landwirtschaft. Vor allen Dingen aber müssen Schutzgebiete eingerichtet werden. Ohne großflächige strikte Schutzgebiete wird sich die Lage der Meere Europas nicht verbessern.

In diesen Tagen gehen die Diskussionen um die EU-Meerestrategie-Richtlinie in die nächste Runde. Jetzt ist es an der Zeit unsere Politiker aufzufordern, sich für eine zukunftsweisende Richtlinie einzusetzen. Die Einrichtung von Schutzgebieten muss dabei wesentlicher Bestandteil sein. Deutschland übernimmt ab Januar 2007 die EU-Ratspräsidentschaft und erhält so die Gelegenheit, die Meeresstrategie-Richtlinie maßgeblich mitzugestalten. Das ist eine große Chance!

Greenpeace ist aktuell mit der MV Arctic Sunrise in Nord- und Ostsee unterwegs, um Umweltsünder aufzuspüren und den Menschen an Land die Zerstörung auf See zu zeigen. Aber das allein reicht nicht aus. Eine wirklich starke EU-Meeresstrategie-Richtlinie braucht die Stimmen vieler Tausender - auch die Ihre. Bitte setzen Sie sich gemeinsam mit uns für den Schutz von Nordsee, Ostsee und dem Mittelmeer ein!

Schreiben Sie direkt an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel.
http://newsletter.greenpeace.de/d/r/808

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.

Dr. Iris Menn
Meeresbiologin

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Informant: Elizabeth Pfeiffer

DAN GRIMMER

04 September 2006 12:14

Families moving into new houses could find they have an unwelcome neighbour - a 25 metre high mobile phone mast.

Mobile phone firm Three, formerly Hutchison 3G, was to install a mast with dishes and equipment on land owned by Toucan Hire Services in Havers Road, Mile Cross.

Protesters have sent objections to Norwich City Council and say it would be unfair to families moving into new homes being built next to the site.

The area used to be used for industrial purposes and was used by Harmers shoe factory, but in the last couple of years hundreds of homes have been built on the site - with the next set of homes currently being built due to be occupied later this month.

It comes just days after the Evening News reported how Three wants to put up a mast just yards from Eaton Park and families living nearby.

Steve Morphew, Labour leader of the city council, said: “We have got an area which has gone from being an industrial area to being a very nice residential area.

“Putting an 81 foot aerial there might have been fine for what the area used to be, but isn't now. The visual intrusion is the reason we want to object.

“Of course people are concerned about the health implications, but I think we have a strong case against giving planning permission based on the visual impact.

“There is a real sense of unfairness about the people who will be moving into the houses nearby. They won't have had the opportunity to know the mast is proposed.

“It might be some people had done searches on their home before this application was put in and do not know it has been submitted.”

Mr Morphew said he had put in a letter of objection on behalf of about 20 people who live in the homes that have already been occupied on the site.

One of the objectors, a 41-year-old graphic designer, who lives on Junction Road opposite the site of the proposed mast, said he was worried that radiation outfall could be cancerous and the mast would be a blot on the landscape.

He said: “They should put it up on the Sweet Briar Industrial Estate which is not near homes. It will stick out like a sore thumb whenever I look out of my window.

“It is going to tower 30 feet above the trees and will destroy the look of that lovely green space of Anderson's meadow.”

Another objector John Russell, who lives on Drayton Road, said: “I don't like the way that Norwich City Council is going about this. It's inappropriate that they should push this through before the residents move in.

“They should defer it until the residents have been consulted. These families are going to move in and they won't want this big contraction on their doorstep.”

William Comery, spokesman for Ericsson Services Ltd, which is setting up the masts on behalf of Three, said it would be up to the planning authority to decide on the mast.

But he said: “We looked at about a dozen to 15 possible sites in that area and approached various freeholds. This was the only one which came through in terms of meeting our needs, but was also the most suitable in fitting in with the environment.

“It is in a group of industrial units, 50 metres from the road and further away from residential properties.”

The Evening News 'Put Masts On Hold' campaign has called for no mobile phone masts to be installed near homes or schools until they are conclusively proved to be safe.

Are you battling a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on 01603 772439 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Informant: jensenmk

Sendemast am Kitzelberg beschäftigt Ortsbeirat Rambach: Strahlenbelastung im Stadtteil ist hoch

Vom 07.09.2006

Besorgt hatte sich Ortsbeirat und Bürger angesichts eines Sendemasten an der Kitzelbergstraße gezeigt. Gemeinsam sollte der Magistrat der Landeshauptstadt darum gebeten werden, künftig keine weiteren Sender am entsprechenden Mast installieren zu lassen. Erst im Frühjahr hatte das Gremium die Strahlenbelastung im Stadtteil von einem Sachverständigen messen lassen. Dieser war zu dem Ergebnis gelangt, dass besonders am Kitzelberg eine erhöhte Belastung zu verzeichnen sei. "Sieht man die die gemessenen Werte im Vergleich zu denen in anderen Städten, erscheint der Wert hoch, zumal die gesetzlichen Grenzwerte umstritten sind", erklärte Nissen stellvertretend für alle Fraktionen.

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2514687 (Auszug)

Aufstellen der Antenne vorerst verhindert

Vom 07.09.2006

ten. HARTENBERG/MÜNCHFELD Anwohner des Martin-Luther-King-Parks protestierten gegen die Aufstellung eines neuen Sendemasts für Mobilfunk. Etwa 50 Erwachsene und Kinder hatten sich kurzfristig zu einer Kundgebung vor dem Bauplatz an der Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 1 zusammengefunden. Der Hauseigentümer, die Wohnbau Mainz, hat mit T-Mobile einen Vertrag geschlossen, den neuen D1-Mast auf dem Dach des Gebäudes aufstellen zu lassen. Die erforderlichen Genehmigungen wurden bereits erteilt. Durch ihr Eingreifen verhinderten die Anwohner nun vorerst, dass der Baukran die Antenne aufstellen konnte. Sie fühlen sich im Vorfeld nicht ausreichend informiert. "Lediglich die Bewohner des Hauses wurden während der Ferien benachrichtigt, die Nachbarn haben offiziell nichts erfahren", sagte Olaf Jacobsen-Vollmer, Bewohner der Abraham-Lincoln Straße. Gemeinsam mit anderen Betroffenen forderte er die Wohnbau auf, öffentlich Stellung zu nehmen.

Eine Sende-Antenne mitten in das Wohngebiet zu bauen, stößt bei den Anwohnern auf Unverständnis. "In 100 Meter Entfernung sollte kein sensibler Bereich sein, sagt die Stadt Mainz bei Masten auf ihren Grundstücken", erklärt Anwohner Andreas Münster. "Der Kindergarten ist 130 Meter weg - hier wird auf formalen Kriterien herumgeritten." Überhaupt sollte nach Meinung der Bürger der ganze King-Park als sensibles Gebiet angesehen werden. "Wir sind das kinderreichste Wohngebiet in ganz Mainz."

Bei einer Versammlung im "Parkhaus", dem Versammlungsraum des King-Park-Vereins, besprachen die Betroffenen ihr weiteres Vorgehen. "Verwaltungsrechtlich werden wir kaum etwas erreichen können", meinte Jacobsen-Vollmer. Die Bürger wollen deshalb politischen Druck erzeugen. Aus den Reihen des King-Park-Vereins hat sich eine Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Handy-Mast-Gegner formiert. Sie trifft sich heute um 20 Uhr im "Parkhaus". Auch der Ortsbeirat wird sich in seiner Sitzung am 12. September, 18.30 Uhr, in der Ortsverwaltung, mit dem Thema befassen.

Copyright: Allgemeine Zeitung, Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main

http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2514611

Anti-war activists picket the president's ranch and set up camp near the White House to continue their vigil. Many protesters are military family members, veterans, and peace activists, but the main voices heard yesterday were those of veterans. They talked about how to end the war and the shortfalls in veterans' benefits and medical care.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606N.shtml

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, investigating the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, found that two senior White House officials may have lied to FBI investigators.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606J.shtml

President Bush pushed Wednesday to resuscitate his plan to subject Guantanamo Bay detainees to special trials, a key policy in his anti-terror strategy that was struck down by the Supreme Court. The president has said he eventually wants to close the Guantanamo prison, as critics and allies around the world have urged. But White House spokesman Tony Snow said the president was not going to announce any such plan Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606E.shtml



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

"The latest nuclear insult to democracy, common sense and morality is described in a document called the 'Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement,' or SWEIS for short, for the operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory," writes Willem Malten. "In it, the National Nuclear Security Administration, an autonomous fiefdom within the Department of Energy, describes the first 5 years of its plan to turn Los Alamos into a nuclear bomb factory."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606C.shtml

In the last few weeks, FBI agents have interviewed several people at the Alexander Strategy Group lobbying firm to determine if Christine DeLay, wife of former House majority leader Tom DeLay, was being paid $3,200 per month - a total of $115,000 over three years - but not earning it. In a series of interviews last month, investigators questioned people who used to work at Alexander Strategy as well as people who worked in the same building as the now-defunct firm.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606B.shtml

http://www.justiceblind.com/airplanes.html


Informant: Kev Hall

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Informant: Gotemf

RESIDENTS want to see a mobile phone mast scheme kicked into touch at a sports ground.

Complaints have been lodged with South Tyneside Council about plans to place a telecommunications mast at Hebburn Sports and Social Club.

The plans by mobile phone company 02 (UK) Ltd, of Leeds, include the demolition of an existing 16.5m high lattice tower and floodlights at the north west corner of the site in North Drive, off Victoria Road West, and the construction in the same location of a new tower of the same height, incorporating three telecommunications antennas, floodlights and two microwave dishes.

But nearby residents are unhappy about the plans, citing health fears and possible damage to property values.

John Shippen, of North Drive, Hebburn, who plans to speak out against the mast plans at a future council meeting, said: "Basically, I think it will be in the wrong place and there are still health fears about mobile masts."

Neighbour Thomas Johnsen added: "We already have problems with double parking when football is played at the ground.

"We have spoken to local councillors about the mast and we hope to get their support.

"A petition will also be going around the estate, because we have been told that will carry more weight with the council."

A planning spokesman confirmed that a dozen letters objecting to the mast scheme have already been received by South Tyneside Council.

A council consultation exercise about the plans has been under way for some time.

Mary McNabola, another North Drive resident, said: "I don't think the mobile mast should be so close to people's homes.

"I think people are also worried about the possible effect on house values."

Coun Eddie McAtominey, for the Hebburn South ward, said: "I have met with residents in the area and it's clear people are unhappy about the mast being placed so near their homes.

"South Tyneside Council owns the land and leases the site to the sports club and I don't think Hebburn ward members will look on this application favourably."

No one was available for comment at Hebburn Sports and Social Club.

terry.kelly@northeast-press.co.uk

06 September 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1111&ArticleID=1745411

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000317.php

September 06, 2006

NOTE: Today's Washington Post story, Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501384.html , suggests that serious water pollution is affecting the entire Potomac river basin not just the Shenandoah river tributary described in the piece below. This underscores the consequences of the Bush administration's failure to conscientiously enforce the Clean Water Act for the past six years. Write to your local papers today.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=559

It seemed like an excellent solution to a vexing problem—turning waste into fertilizer. That's the theory, anyway, behind Sheaffer International's plan to treat concentrated waste from the Cargill Meat Solutions and Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plants and use that wastewater to irrigate cropland.

The reality is somewhat different. According to a suit filed by Waterkeeper Alliance, Shenandoah Riverkeeper and Potomac Riverkeeper, Sheaffer has committed a "multitude" of violations of the federal Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and numerous Virginia environmental laws by dumping excessive levels of major pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay and Shenandoah River.

How excessive? Let us count the ways:

*384,965 pounds of phosphorous dumped into the North Fork, which exceed federal limits by an astounding 6000 percent. (The federal limit is 7,054 pounds.)

*Nitrogen discharges that also exceeded their permitted level by over 1000 percent.

These violations continue to this day. State and national environmental agencies have been unable to structure meaningful remedies to what is a potentially irreversible situation. And this despite EPA's own findings that "90 percent of the [Chesapeake] Bay's waters are on the nation's 'dirty waters' list due to nitrogen and phosphorous pollution."

Despite that finding, the EPA has painted a deceptively rosy picture of Bay restoration. Waterkeeper Alliance Executive Director, Steve Fleischli, puts it this way: "EPA has wholly abdicated its responsibility to stop even the most flagrant violators . . . [we're] stepping in for government enforcement officials who have failed to stop the pollution."

Nitrogen and phosphorous are particularly deadly because they rob water of oxygen needed by aquatic life and vegetation, decrease water clarity and encourage the growth of algal blooms. Explains Ed Merrifield of Potomac Riverkeeper, "…the pollution loads have continued to go up, creating dead zones in our rivers…suffocating marine life."

Indeed, Shenandoah's North Fork has seen populations of adult smallmouth bass and sunfish reduced by 80 percent in recent springs, which may explain the declining sales of fishing licenses in the seven counties bordering the river. If this trend continues, its effect may go well beyond fish kills. It will kill tourism and decrease the critical revenue stream river-centered recreational activities generate for the region and the state.

For its part, Sheaffer says that the excessive discharges are not due to corporate misfeasance but to state regulations that have limited the amount of water that could be diverted to irrigation. "What we couldn't irrigate had to go into the river," said Jack Sheaffer, company chairman and a hydrologist. "You can't make it disappear." He added that the company is working to "implement changes" that would reduce its emissions.

The Virginia State Department of Environmental Quality claims it has been pressing Sheaffer to correct violations. The violations have continued, despite a 2002 settlement in which the company promised to take necessary action.

The suit filed by the three river watchdogs gives Sheaffer sixty days to show that it is cleaning up its act. Jeff Kelble of Shenandoah Riverkeepers admits that this is a "very difficult case," but as Ed Merrifield says "…we have to be here for the river itself" and stop the pollution.

Take action - Write to your local papers today.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=559

Al-Qaida und Iran, Bin Laden und Hitler/Lenin

Mit einer gefährlichen Rhetorik will US-Präsident Bush die Menschen wieder hinter sich bringen und spricht erneut vom geschichtlichen Auftrag im Krieg gegen den Terrorismus, wobei die Schiiten und der Iran nach al-Qaida zum neuen Feind aufrücken.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23490/1.html

Überwachungslisten und Anti-Terror-Dateien
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23488/1.html

Stop the Abuse of Power
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=mXZHUToDbLWW8fCubDru2Q..

Sep 6 2006

PLANS to put a mobile phone mast on a house roof in Erith have been rejected by the council.

Applicant Hutchinson 3G wanted to install three antennas, two dishes and associated radio equipment on the roof of the house at 172 Park Crescent.

The mast and equipment was proposed to be hidden within the house's roof spire.

Councillors rejected the application owing to the adverse impact on the architecture, insufficient information on emissions from the mast and alternative sites hadn't been explored.

© owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Southern Limited 2006

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----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Riedlinger
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: I would like letters of reiforcement

To All.

I will be meeting with the Mayor and council of Harrison Hot Springs on Sept 11 at 7 PM . I sent them a letter along with some info such as the Athens court case where 10 towers were ordered down for health reasons and the Frieburger Appeal.I received a phone call that day from the Mayor who has set a date for me to address council. Harrison Hot Springs is the Village where I suffered in my home by the tower to the extent that I had to move.I have since sold the home and I have been waiting for good news such as the Athens Court case. I would greatly appreciate any letters of reinforcement from those with knowledge and or personal experience of living near towers telling council why a tower that houses TV,FM radio and cellphone antennas should not be placed close to homes. Letters can be sent to me or directly to Mayor and Council At info@harrisonhotsprings.ca Please CC to me.

Regards Robert


Dear Mayor and council members.

Back in 1995 I purchased a home on Pine Ave.in HHS which was situated aprox 350 feet from the CBC broadcast tower which also houses cellphone and FM radio antenna's.Within one year I became so ill that I had to move from that home.I soon discovered that the radio waves from the tower was the cause of my illness.Since that time I have devoted to research on the subject and have found that many people around the world have become ill from cellphone towers near their homes and some have had to move as I did. While living in HHS I contacted Industry Canada,Health Canada and BC Radiation Protection Office in Burnaby and could not get any help. They all deny that there could be adverse health effects from towers even though there are many studies that show biological effects. There are surveys that have been done that show illness from radio waves. Please read below. I srongly suggest ,for the protection of public health,that you insist that the CBC remove the tower on McCoombs Street. I would like to address council if you are interested.Please call 604 8266791. Your Truly Robert Riedlinger 30199 Silverhill Ave Mission BC V4S 1H9 I should point out,a family living close to my home was also affected.


Betreff: Re: Electro Magnetic Radiation from Antennas
Von: Robert Riedlinger
Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:30:24 -0700
An: Martin Weatherall

Dear Martin

Thank you ver much for your support I will call you soon.

Best Regards

Robert


----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Weatherall
To: info@harrisonhotsprings.ca
Cc: Robert Riedlinger
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:45 AM
Subject: Electro Magnetic Radiation from Antennas

The Mayor and Members of Council Harrison Hot Springs British Columbia Canada

5 September 2006

Dear Mayor and Members of Council

This letter is written in support of Robert Riedlinger, who has asked to address council and is trying to make you aware of the dangers of electro magnetic radiation (EMR) from antennas.

I live in south western Ontario and have been badly affected by EMR emissions from antennas and the electrical system. I also (same as Robert) had to move out of my own home due to the terrible effects from EMR. During the last two years I have found clear evidence that cell phone antennas, broadcasting antennas and other strong sources of electro magnetic radiation are causing cancer, sleep depravation and many other unpleasant and dangerous health effects to persons exposed to EMR. That evidence, is in the form of much research by scientist in countries throughout the world, the observations of many doctors around the world and the stories of victims who have been affected. I am in touch with many other persons in Canada who have been seriously harmed by EMR emissions.

I encourage you to listen closely to Robert Riedlinger and to study some of the research that is available about the dangers of EMR. It appears that there is a period of time, possibly as long as ten years for EMR to cause serious damage to health. There is no point waiting for your citizens to become ill, develop cancer or die. You can take action now that can safeguard your community for the years to come. I have attached a few documents that may assist you to understand the dangers that we all face. I have many more documents and will gladly assist you, if I can.

Yours sincerely

Martin Weatherall
Bright, Ontario.
519 463 6251.

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By ROBYN STUBBS, 24 HOURS

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2006/09/06/1806242-sun.html

Once boasting an abundant and healthy marine eco-system, B.C.'s west coast marine life is now fighting for survival against an endless stream of chemicals, toxins and waste.

In fact, if a killer whale washed up dead on B.C.'s shores today, the carcass would likely be considered hazardous waste due to the high levels of contaminants stored in its blubber, says David Lane, executive director of the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation.

"We do know there are a host of harmful chemicals that kill fish and have long-term health impacts, and those chemicals are in our sewage, in our landfills and each and every input into our rivers and oceans," says Lane.

Apart from causing immediate death and cancerous growths, toxins in certain brands of everyday cleaning products and laundry detergents, as well as excreted pharmaceutical drugs, have serious and potentially deadly effects on the reproductive, immune and hormonal systems of marine life.

"People used to say the solution to pollution is dilution, that if you dilute it enough, it would go away," said Robie MacDonald, research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

"That is true for some things ... but the trouble with the contaminants that we've invented over the last 50 years, such as PBDEs, PCBs and POPs, is that they tend to be fat soluble, and they enter in at the bottom of the food web and make their way up."

And, even though PCBs, a particularly persistent organic pollutant, were banned in Canada in the 1970s, they're still showing up in high levels in whales and other marine predators. It will take decades to flush them out of the marine eco-system, and even longer for pollutants that are still entering the ocean, MacDonald says.

The T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, along with the Georgia Strait Alliance, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, and private investigator Doug Chapman, are currently represented by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund in a private charge against the GVRD and the provincial government for poor sewage treatment practices at the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant in West Vancouver.

The charge alleges the primary treatment plant dumped toxic sewage into Burrard Inlet on at least seven separate days in the last two years, and that the province has been negligent in its responsibility to uphold protective measures of the Fisheries Act.

"The province, the federal government and the GVRD are aware they have been contravening the Fisheries Act, and nothing's been done," says Christianne Wilhelmson, program co-ordinator at the Georgia Strait Alliance, who argues all sewage plants in the GVRD should have at least secondary treatment to remove not just larger objects, but chemical toxins as well.

"For some reason in British Columbia, we've got a very backward idea about sewage treatment ... If people would just look at the new technologies that are being used in Sweden and Australia and other parts of the world, we can actually turn our waste into a resource, rather than using our ocean as a dumping ground."

Tomorrow, 24 hours takes an in-depth look at the status of a worrisome set of chemicals, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and how the federal government stacks up when it comes to protecting the public.

YOU SHOULD KNOW

- The GVRD operates five wastewater treatment plants in Greater Vancouver: Annacis Island, Lulu Island and North West Langley, which provide secondary sewage treatment and lona and Lions Gate which are primary treatment facilities.

- Primary treatment, also known as mechanical treatment, filters out oils, grit, sand and solids while secondary treatment removes up to 90 per cent of toxins, including heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants.

- Stockholm, Sweden, has been turning sewage sludge into biogas to fuel cars for more than a decade, and according to the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), the renewable fuel doesn't contribute to the CO2 content in the atmosphere.


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06. September 2006

Die Leistungen für Hartz-IV-Empfänger und deren Hinzuverdienstmöglichkeiten stehen wieder einmal im Mittelpunkt der Debatte. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping, sozialpolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion DIE LINKE:

Weil die "Reform" des Arbeitsmarktes vollkommen versagt hat, sollen nunmehr Kombilöhne hoffähig gemacht werden. Der Druck auf Erwerbslose, die mehr Stunden für einen Niedriglohn plus geringen Sozialtransfer arbeiten sollen, nimmt damit weiter zu. Wer sich diesem perfiden Lohndumping widersetzen will oder keinen Niedriglohnjob findet, der soll für seine Grundsicherung gemeinnützige Arbeit leisten. Die ideologischen Missbrauchs- und Arbeitsdienstdebatten von CDU/CSU und FDP haben also gefruchtet. SPD-Arbeitsminister Franz Müntefering will die Erwerbslosen zwingen, mehr Niedriglohnarbeit anzunehmen. Wer sich dagegen zur Armutsgrundsicherung Hartz IV geringfügig etwas dazu verdient, dem soll dieser Verdienst künftig voll von der Grundsicherung abgezogen werden. Die Bundesregierung versucht durch eine repressive Ausweitung des Niedriglohnsektors den Mindestlohn als Kombilohn einzuführen. Aber, nur ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn kann Niedriglöhne verhindern, als Kombilohn würde er die Löhne dagegen massiv ins Rutschen bringen. Verschärfter Arbeitszwang und Beförderung des Niedriglohnsektors das ist das neoliberale Konzept der Bundesregierung am Ende des Sachverstandes. Die Linkspartei bleibt bei ihrer Forderung nach einem armutsfesten gesetzlichen Mindestlohn sowie einer repressionsfreien und armutsfesten Grundsicherung. Menschen müssen mit und ohne Arbeit ein Einkommen zum Auskommen haben. Hintergrund der derzeitigen Debatte sind Äußerungen der so genannten Sachverständigen zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, die der Bundesregierung eine Absenkung der Regelsatzleistungen bei Hartz IV um 30 Prozent, also auf 240 Euro, empfehlen. Damit sollen dann Kombilöhne finanziert werden. Der Arbeits- und Sozialminister Franz Müntefering plant ebenfalls die Hinzuverdienstmöglichkeiten für gering beschäftigte Grundsicherungsbeziehende einzuschränken.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=33856

Now You Can Watch, Too, at a New 'Blow-by-Blow' Site.

By BILL BLAKEMORE and CLAYTON SANDELL

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=2399066&page=1

An Ice-Free Arctic ... Happening Before Our Eyes

Sept. 6, 2006 — - Summer at the North Pole may be gorgeous, but the news from there is devastating again this year.

"The land of the polar bear" -- where in fact there is no land, only frozen sea surface -- is melting.

America's "summer air conditioner" -- the vast fields of sea ice that constantly rotate around the North Pole and feed cooling winds that sweep down to the lower 48 -- is continuing to shrink back this summer.

It is the effect of global warming occurring far faster than scientists predicted just a few years ago.

The refreezing of sea ice during the long, dark polar night of winter is also reportedly declining sharply.

Scientists believe this is all due not only to higher average temperatures of the air but also to the water, contributing to an Arctic that could be ice-free in summer far sooner than predicted only a year ago.

"It's continuing the pattern of extreme sea-ice loss," Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center said to ABC News. "What we're seeing in
2006 is way below the average ice extent over the 20 years ending in
2000."

There are still three weeks to go before the Arctic's "summer sea ice minimum," and already experts at the data center can see the bad news -- and you can, too, at "Figure 2" when you click here. http://nsidc.org/news/press/2006_seaiceminimum/20060816_arcticseaicenews.html

That light-blue line snaking down and hugging the dotted line? It's bad news.

It shows the 2006 summer melt back of sea ice virtually as great as that in the summer of 2005 -- which all means major changes under way for life, natural and human -- in the Arctic, the United States and worldwide.

The public is getting smarter and smarter about the importance of sea-ice loss, Serreze says.

The arcane craft he and his colleagues practice in the academic quiet of their labs and computer rooms is no longer quite so lonely.

All sorts of people now call up wanting to know what's up with Arctic melt back.

"That's why we created this new blow-by-blow site," Serreze said. "People can watch along with us" as each warming Arctic month shatters ever more sea ice -- and often records as well.

Bad News Bears

It's also more bad news for the world's polar bears, as confirmed in a new article in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Arctic.

Claire Parkinson, a NASA ice expert and author, told ABC News about new satellite data that show "the date at which the sea ice breaks up each summer, forcing polar bears back onto land, has been coming seven [days] or eight days earlier each decade" in Canadian Arctic regions she studies.

Polar bears -- Latin name Ursus maritimus or "Sea Bear" -- get virtually all their food, principally seals, on the sea ice.

The scientists say global warming means that summer melt backs are now dumping polar bears on land three weeks earlier each summer than in the mid-'70s, which means more hungry bears on land and more trouble for humans.

See our full report on the new polar bear findings on ABCNEWS.com Thursday.

The Holy Grail -- 'What We Really Need to Know'

"But sea-ice volume is what we really need to know," Serreze said.

"It's the Holy Grail" for sea-ice experts, he says, adding that the news here is probably worse than any we've heard about sea-ice extent.

News from NASA that Arctic summer sea ice melted back 30 percent in the last 30 years -- and could well be gone completely by about the year 2070 -- made headlines in the summer of 2005.

But those findings measured only the loss of surface area, not the thickness -- thus the volume -- of the ice.

Satellites are close to being able to measure ice thickness accurately, Serreze said.

New techniques are closing in on how to measure the amount of ice "freeboard" floating above the surface, which with a little fancy math can tell scientists the volume of the ice.

The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, made the first submarine sonar measurements of Arctic sea-ice thickness in 1958.

"In the early '60s, they found thicknesses in the North Pole region of about 3½ meters [about 11 feet], and then in the late '80s and early '90s it was down to about 2½ meters [7 feet or 8 feet,]" Serreze said to ABC News.

"They needed that info back then for two reasons. First, to know where they could surface in an emergency. Second, to know where they could surface if there was a 'boomer' and they needed to fire off some missiles."

A third reason now adds great value to those ice-thickness measurements from Cold War submarines -- the accelerating advance of global warming.

Both U.S. and former Soviet Union ice-thickness measurements have been declassified and are available to the world's ice experts.

Serreze says that a number of his colleagues are now working on Arctic summer sea-ice thickness, and that their findings so far show massive volume loss over the last 30 years.

Serreze cites work by Wieslaw Maslowski of the U.S. Navy Post Graduate School in Monterey, Calif., that strongly suggests it's not only Earth's warming atmosphere that is melting the Arctic ice from above.

"Wieslaw is saying it's also the warming sea currents melting the sea ice from below. He's been arguing that 2070 is way too far out in the future -- way too conservative. I suspect he may be right," Serreze said.

Both these reporters walking out on the Arctic sea ice last summer in the company of scientists and Coast Guard officers of the Ice Breaker USCG Healy, were, as Arctic first timers, naturally worried about walking on thin ice a mile and a half above the sea floor.

"How thick? Is it safe?" we asked several times, stepping from small landing craft onto the beautiful white and blue undulating planes of ice reaching to the horizon.

We always got answers something like: "It's still OK -- it's about four feet thick. It used to be eight feet thick, but now it's about four in most places."

Coasties and scientists are watching that thickness ever more closely now as they step off their landing boats, racing to gather what knowledge they can of this largely unknown and breathtakingly beautiful environment that is now melting away fast.

Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures


Informant: binstock

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Polar Bear Survival Rate Falls as Climate Warms

Polar bear cubs in Alaska's Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to about 20 years ago, probably due to melting sea ice caused by global warming, a study released Wednesday said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/111606EB.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606Z.shtml

Keith Olbermann: "Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama bin Laden and others seek - a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety."

To see the video click here: http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

http://tinyurl.com/pbuts


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Jacob Sullum

09/06/06

As of Friday, when the 60-day blackout period for 'electioneering communications' by nonprofit interest groups begins, political speech will enjoy less protection than dirty movies. While a sexually explicit film is protected by the First Amendment if it has some socially redeeming value, an 'electioneering communication' is forbidden even if it deals with important and timely public policy issues. ... It seems Americans now need permission to speak out on political issues and petition the government. I'd suggest a constitutional amendment protecting those rights, but I thought we already had one...

http://www.reason.com/sullum/090606.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Robert Freeman

09/05/06

With his announcement that the war on terror is actually a war against 'Islamo-fascism,' President Bush has opened a fruitful debate. As is so common with Bush, however, his use of the term seeks to stigmatize more than characterize, to evoke glandular excretions more than intellectual reflections.But in one sense, the president has performed a useful service. By re-introducing fascism into legitimate public discourse -- by 'rehabilitating' it, as it were -- the president may actually help inform the country about the real dangers it faces as the war on terror continues its relentless march...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0905-22.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

09/05/06

The real reason of the increasing violence in the Middle East is the return to imperial control and foreign occupation half a century after the European colonial empires were broken up. This is the fuel for Islamic militancy. This is why fanatical but isolated Islamic groups can suddenly win broader support. Governments allied to the US and Britain have no legitimacy. The very attempts by America and Britain to crush Islamic militancy across the Middle East are making sure that it will become stronger...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick09052006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In These Times
by Terry J. Allen

09/05/06

Trust me, George Bush says, perched on the remains of Geneva Conventions, the Constitution and habeas corpus. From this moral high ground, the United States is assuring the world that a new facility for researching a horror shop of weaponized infectious diseases will be used purely for defensive purposes. The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center’s (NBACC) $128 million, 160,000-square-foot facility is under construction at Fort Detrick, Md. There, the United States has already weaponized more than a dozen diseases -- including anthrax, plague, botulism and ebola -- and bioengineered war-friendly 'improvements.' Scientists are also using DNA-synthesizing techniques to fabricate genetically altered or man-made viruses, and to study the feasibility of creating germ weapons targeting particular ethnicities. 'De facto, we are going to make biowarfare pathogens at NBACC in order to study them,' Penrose Albright, former assistant Homeland Security secretary for science and technology, told the Washington Post...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2779/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Jonathan Hafetz

09/05/06

Congress returns from recess this month to confront fundamental questions presented by the president's five-year long global 'war on terrorism.' On the table is nothing less than the future scope of presidential power, with battles looming over military trials, detainee treatment, and domestic surveillance. In the past several months, courts have dealt the administration a series of setbacks on these issues. Undeterred, the president intends to reverse those defeats by asking lawmakers for even greater authority. The ball is now in their court. Military trials top the legislative agenda. The impetus is the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld striking down the president's military commissions at Guantanamo Bay...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11946


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Radley Balko

09/04/06

The fatal flaw in the 'war on terror' has always been its open-endedness. The president of the United States is never going to sit down on a battleship to sign a peace treaty with terrorism. So when we give the government special, allegedly temporary powers to fight terrorism, we're essentially handing over that power permanently. And of course, it's likely that even if we were to defeat Al Qaeda for good, there will be more terrorists attacks, be it from other Islamic fundamentalist groups or from homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh. But as we approach the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11, it's worth noting that we haven't see another attack of anywhere near he same scope and magnitude of that awful day...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212081,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway

09/05/06

The spread of democracy, especially in the undemocratic Middle East, is one of the cornerstones of President Bush's foreign policy. 'It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world,' he said in his second inaugural address. Few would deny the nobility of this goal. Bush was following in the footsteps of George Washington who, in his inaugural address, spoke of 'the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government ... entrusted to the hands of the American people'

http://tinyurl.com/nd8pm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Has Bush destroyed GOP's libertarian-religious coalition?

Human Events
by Bruce Bartlett

09/05/06

This week, New York Post columnist Ryan Sager, one of the most thoughtful young conservatives writing today, publishes an important new book, 'The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party.' The gist of the book is that the coalition of religious conservatives and libertarian free-marketeers is breaking apart. The basic principle that held them together throughout the postwar era -- the idea that morality and virtue need to be freely chosen to have meaning -- is breaking down...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16849


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

09/04/06

In the Journal's interpretation, one shared by like-minded ideologues, this means that: '... the leaker wasn't Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or anyone else in the White House who has been accused of running a conspiracy against Ms. Plame as revenge for her husband Joe Wilson's false accusations against the White House's case for war with Iraq. So what have the last three years been all about anyway? Political opportunism and internal score-settling, among other things.' Not quite. The very significant news about Armitage's role in all of this is but one strand in a many-tentacled scandal that has led, among other places, to the office of the Vice President and to the President himself. Attempts to portray this news otherwise are just the latest effort by the right to mute the scandal, which has included questioning whether Plame was really covert and not just a Langley office hand...

http://tinyurl.com/mqrvh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/lyjvj


Informant: NHNE

Frontiers of Freedom
by Nelson Lee Walker

09/05/06

It is a mystery to me that, in all the new 'good government' websites that I come across, I never find any that stress the fact that, in order to effect REAL reform, it is necessary to have a Congress made up of 'citizen' legislators, rather than the current crop of careerist professional politicians who grimly hang on to their jobs and the status quo. Additionally, in all the 'sound and fury' in editorials and blogs on all the issues on both sides of the political spectrum, nowhere does one see any suggestion that the overriding problems of good governance lie with the professional politicians, who are more interested in holding their seats permanently, than in constructively addressing the country's issues...

http://tinyurl.com/ltbr3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A letter about objecting to masts, Mast Sanity help line, and health effects of microwave radiation was printed in the Bognor Regis Observer 24th August 06 and in the West Sussex Gazette today, with a colour photo of Sidlesham TETRA mast.

On the 31st August edition of the Bognor Regis Observer there was a long letter ridiculing my letter of the 24th from supposedly a local resident who had all his facts wrong i.e. calling all phone masts TETRA masts; saying that the likelyhood is that we are all being cooked alive; saying TETRA has been around for years; that cordless phones do not use microwaves, but lower frequency radio waves - as does WiFi; that people could join my club and be given a free foil hat; and describes me as a frightened resident with too much time on her hands. (I wish!) I had emails and phone calls from the local sensitives who were livid.

This could hold the letters page for a while if the Bog Ob prints mine and another I had sent to me to say she was backing me - so is this worth thinking about for letters to the editor?

Sandi

See 2 replies to this below.

I am used to responses such as that of Alex Murphy to my letter of 24th August 06 (Letters 31st August edition of Bognor Observer) but I acknowledge that he is as much entitled to his viewpoint as I am to mine.

I have also learnt from experience that you just can’t have a sensible debate with people who scorn what they do not understand and have not researched properly – and Mr Murphy clearly has not researched this issue. If he had, he would have known that TETRA is a communications system and not a mobile phone network. Even Sir William Stewart, the Government’s own independent advisor acknowledged that TETRA was not in his remit.

TETRA was introduced in the UK about 4/5 years ago and only came to the Bognor area in January 2004.

No one in this country will be ‘slowly cooked alive’ as the ICNIRP guidelines are set to avoid going over the threshold of what is safe for the thermal effects of microwave radiation, and this includes TETRA and mobile phone masts, TETRA handsets and mobile phones.

However, Sir William Stewart in his 2005 report for the National Radiological Protection Board (now Health Protection Agency) did clearly state at:

“1.18 There is now scientific evidence, however, which suggests that there may be biological effects occurring at exposures below these guidelines. (paragraphs 5.176-5.194. 6.38). This does not necessarily mean that these effects lead to disease or injury, but it is potentially important information and we consider the implications below.

1.19 There are additional factors that need to be taken into account in assessing any possible health effects. Populations as a whole are not genetically homogeneous and people can vary in their susceptibility to environmental hazards. There are some well-established examples in the literature of the genetic predisposition of some groups, which could influence sensitivity to disease. There could also be dependence on age.

We conclude therefore that it is not possible at present to say that exposure to RF radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential adverse health effects, and that the gaps in the knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach. (Chapter 5, paragraphs 6.35-6.42)”

I will not go on to discuss the cordless phones, pulsed signals and other things because clearly Mr Murphy would rather ridicule the plight of some unfortunate people who have become sensitive to this technology rather than research and be sure of his facts. It puts me in mind of how insensitively the mentally ill and handicapped are treated at times by people who just cannot be bothered to try to understand.

For those who do want to understand I will simply say that it can be a bleak and lonely existence. Sensitive people – and there are those who are sensitive to electrical and magnetic fields – need protection, which costs extra money. They are also limited as to what they can do or what they can use. Many cannot experience the convenience of the mobile phone, digital TV/radio/computers etc.

Some cannot leave their protected homes for long – or even at all - or visit shops, entertainment centres, or towns and cities.

If one partner is not sensitive to this technology there can be a lot of stress, even in long-standing relationships; or relatives who do not understand can distance themselves from the sensitive person.

I have to say that there are many wonderful and caring people in the mast movement who are concerned for people, our children and their future - even those like Mr Murphy who ridicule them. Why? Because a well known independent scientist, Professor Olle Johansson believes, as we do, that time will prove that we ‘sensitives’ are the forerunners of what is to come.

We would dearly love to be proved wrong, but the jury is out and only time will tell. Meanwhile too many of us live as we do and as best we can.

My letter was not one of a ‘frightened resident’ trying to cause panic. I have lived this way since early 2003 when I encountered TETRA in another area and did not even know what it was, or what a mobile phone mast looked like. I did not discover what had made me disabled and ill until March 2004. I accept that until there is change then I can expect no different. Rather, I was hoping to make the isolated sensitive people in this area aware that there are others like them, and that we are trying to press for changes in getting this condition recognised so that their condition is accepted and better understood in society.

Mrs Sandi Lawrence


I have just read with disgust, Alex Murphy’s letter on the attempt to ridicule the people who seemingly suffer from the technology of Tetra Masts!

It always brings a smile to my face when I read another ignorant letter from an unsympathetic resident who obviously cares only for themselves and who would like to stop all freedom of speech! It makes me smile because Alex Murphy has no evidence to suggest that Tetra does not affect some people. He has no evidence to suggest that the problem in some people will not increase as time goes on. He has no evidence to suggest that Tetra will not form clusters of illness such as Motor Neurons Disease or Cancer as time goes on. Tetra is an untested technology! In my opinion, to be untested means that questions and answers need to be asked and found. We have so many things pushed onto us, so many technologies that later are found to be unsafe. Nobody yet, knows the long term affects of Tetra and unfortunately it is we, the people who have to wait for time to pass before we find the truth! Alex Murphy is one such person!

Sandi Lawrence does her best to inform people of the many ways in which the Tetra technology can affect the daily running of people’s precious lives. She is constant and tireless in her fight against the misuse of Tetra. She is a far better person than me because she is ceaseless.

My family and I all suffered from the Tetra mast that was on the top of Reynolds. We lived to close to it. I and many others campaigned to bring it down because it affected our health. In a small health survey, done at the time, over two hundred residents in my area, said they suffered strange and unusual health abnormalities and that could not be ignored. Families do not normally have headaches in the same place in the head, at the same time. My smaller son had nose bleeds, sometimes up to twenty five separate ones a day. He was unable to go to school properly for 10 months, during this time. We involved the school, the local council, the Doctors and paediatricians, Health and Safety, the Government. I didn’t feel very well myself and so it was all made harder. All I wanted to do was rest and not get involved, but my son was worse than me and therefore I fought on. Not one authority could give me any reason for the ill health of my family. There is no evidence, in Government to suggest that it was the Tetra mast that caused our problems, however, more importantly there is no evidence to suggest that it was not. The medical people never gave me a valid reason for the ill health of my family. I was alone and angry. The Tetra crusaders gave me strength and back up. Let’s hope that Alex Murphy’s children/ grand children are never sensitive to such technologies, because they are likely never to have any sympathy. That coupled with a permanent headache would be unbearable for them!

After spending two years battling for our health, finally I realised that the only course of action was to move house, in the hope that it would relieve of us of our plight. It took three months for us to feel alive and to enjoy our right to live normally again. No authority gave me a valid reason for our new found health either! My son is now back at school and back to full health. My advice to anyone who feels that they might have similar feelings of ill health is to move away from the masts if they can. It works! That does not mean however that we cannot feel the presence of Tetra when we travel to towns. However, living further away from it rocks! I certainly was never given any hope or relief that worked, from any authority at all. They let us down because they do not have the knowledge to help. Alex Murphy, stop having a go at the people who care, the people who go out of their way to spread knowledge to others, they people who are very busily trying to give up precious time to make the world a better place. You just keep looking the other way. My vote of confidence lies with people like Sandi Lawrence.

Yours sincerely

Turning trade deal into Republican ammo? Softwood deal pours $450 million straight into White House, says U.S. lawyer.

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/08/29/SlushFund/


From Information Clearing House

What will be passed off as a democratisation is in fact a way of ensuring the poor global majority continue to have no say.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14853.htm

"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. We are here to say most fundamentally, no more inhumanity in the name of our nation."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14852.htm

Placing tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the Arabian Peninsula between 1990 and 2001 was the pivotal factor accounting for the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14858.htm

As the West's "war on terror" burns across the Muslim world, one of Islam's most principled leaders, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, issued a grave warning from the very heart of America, the country whose troops and allies are fighting Islamists across the Middle East in a war that is costing thousands of Muslim lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14855.htm

China said earlier it still wanted major world powers to negotiate with Iran even after it defied a U.N. Security Council deadline of August 31 to stop enriching uranium.

http://tinyurl.com/krc3t


From Information Clearing House

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1359779.ece


Informant: NHNE

Climate change is exacerbating the spread of infectious diseases, according to new research. Warming temperatures are causing organisms to migrate, and European countries are seeing outbreaks of tropical diseases. Researchers also warn that not enough is being done to monitor the spread of big killers such as malaria in Africa.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090506HB.shtml



Fears of "Extreme" TB Strain

Health experts are to hold an emergency meeting in Johannesburg this week, following the discovery of a deadly new strain of tuberculosis. The strain - known as extreme drug-resistant TB - has horrified World Health Organization doctors. In one outbreak in South Africa, 52 of 53 patients died within weeks of becoming infected.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090506HA.shtml

George Monbiot reveals his misgivings about a scheme to inject sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cool the planet. The unintended consequences could be horrific. He says, "The only responsible way to tackle climate change is to reduce the amount of climate-changing gases we emit.... By re-engineering the planet's systems we could risk invoking as great a catastrophe as the one we are trying to prevent."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090506EB.shtml

http://www.newstarget.com/019957.html


Informant: NHNE

"We understand so far that the introduction of economic sanctions or a military operation...will result in the consolidation of the country's population around its current authorities, and then all attempts to develop its nuclear program would be supported by the people," Shuvalov said.

http://tinyurl.com/f2nd6


From Information Clearing House

http://counterpunch.com/cockburn09052006.html


From Information Clearing House

Video with Howard Zinn

Zinn's talk explores the notion of "just" wars with his usual candor and critical understanding.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14840.htm

He's tackled Wal-Mart and Fox News with his scathing documentaries. Now, filmmaker Robert Greenwald is releasing a documentary which argues that private companies helping to fight the war in Iraq don't have the nation's best interests in mind.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2392965


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military has lost control over the volatile al-Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of military occupation, and the strongest resistance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14854.htm

Campact-Newsletter 14/06
Mittwoch, 6. September 2006

Es schreibt: Christoph Bautz

Jeder und jede von uns zahlt im Schnitt jährlich 100 Euro an Steuern, die als EU-Agrarsubventionen ausgeschüttet werden. Was passiert mit dem Geld? Die Briten sind darüber informiert: Sie machen gerade Druck, dass die Queen nicht länger 1 Million Pfund und der Lebensmittelhersteller Nestle 21 Millionen Pfund an EU-Subventionen erhält, während umweltgerecht wirtschaftende Kleinbauern fast leer aus gehen. Kein Wunder, dass die hiesige Agrarindustrie von Transparenz nichts wissen will.

Dabei hat die EU-Kommission jetzt eine Transparenzinitiative gestartet. Es soll bekannt werden, wer von den Agrarsubventionen profitiert. Aber Wirtschaftsminister Glos sperrt sich dagegen und will nur Zahlungen an Betriebe von über 2 Millionen Euro im Jahr veröffentlichen. Die Transparenzpflicht würde de facto verhindert.

Mehr im 5-Minuten-Info: http://www.campact.de/agrar/info/5min

Fordern Sie von den Ministern Glos und Seehofer Transparenz!
Zur Aktion: http://www.campact.de/agrar/ml1/mailer

Die Aktion wird von einem breiten Bündnis von 33 Umwelt-, Entwicklungs-, Tierschutz- und Transparenzinitiativen unterstützt. Gemeinsam haben wir gute Chancen, die Minister Glos und Seehofer noch zum Umschwenken zu bewegen.

http://action.ajws.org/campaign/UN_democrats



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

http://www.newstarget.com/020303.html


Informant: NHNE

Alexis de Tocqueville:

"Eine Nation, die von ihrer Regierung nichts anderes erwartet als die Aufrechterhaltung der Ordnung, hat das Sklavendasein bereits verinnerlicht. Sie macht sich selbst zum Sklaven ihres Wohlbefindens, der nichts anderes erwartet als die Hand, die schon alles richten wird. In einer solchen Herrschaft ist der Despotismus des Faktischen nicht weniger zu fürchten als der Despotismus eines einzelnen."


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Fünf Jahre nach dem 11. September 2001
Von Michael Kleff

Fünf Jahre nach den Terroranschlägen vom 11. September: Droht Amerika, sich allmählich in ein autoritäres Staatswesen zu verwandeln? Kritiker meinen Ja und werfen dem Kongress vor, tatenlos zusehe, wie George W. Bush die Demokratie immer weiter schwäche. Dem Weißen Haus gegenüber kritisch eingestellte Politiker werden von Regierungsmitgliedern als Helfer von El Kaida diffamiert.

Zum Nachlesen: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/hintergrundpolitik/539218/

Zum Anhören: http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2006/09/04/dlf_200609041840.mp3

North American Union: A Top Goal of Secretary of Commerce

by Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

If the Department of Commerce were to openly admit that SPP.gov is rewriting U.S. administrative law, Secretary Gutierrez would need some the Constitutional justification to underpin his enthusiasm for combining with Mexico and Canada. .....

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest99.htm

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/104


Informant: NHNE

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9647


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.bordc.org/


Informant: Jonathan Markowitz

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/petsmart_jails_birds

A message from Suzanne

It only requires your email address and your full name. In fact it isn't just the PetSmart but also other pet store chain store like Petland and private bird stores. I have visited so many stores and 9 out of 10 stores are extremely dirty environments too many birds in tiny cages. And many of them are already sick and their life span is only less than the few years for the parakeets. My heart is breaking apart by seeing them suffer, and those people who are greedy and continuously breeding for the profits. This got to be stop. I really appreciate if you can sign on this campaign and spread it out to others who can support this cause. Suzanne


PetSmart Condemns Birds to a Life Sentence Behind Bars

Bird Factories: Hell on Earth for Millions of Animals

You may be aware of our nation's dog and cat overpopulation crisis, but did you know that birds face the same problem? Just as puppy mills churn out dogs for unscrupulous pet stores to sell, huge commercial bird operations house birds and remove their offspring by the thousands in order to sell them to stores like PetSmart. In homes throughout the United States, an estimated 40 million birds are kept caged and captive—lonely, bored, and a long way from their magnificent homes.

Urge PetSmart to Go Bird-Free

Please, never buy a bird. Take a moment to fill out this form and ask PetSmart to stop selling birds.

Personalized letters always work best. Feel free to use the following text, but your message will carry more weight if you write your own customized message and subject line.

Tell me more
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/petsmart_jails_birds/explanation

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Please Help Stop the Barbaric Importation of Primates
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/cdc706