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Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon are stepping up their campaign against oil companies, as the BBC's Dan Collyns reports from the capital, Lima.

Peru's Amazon state, Loreto, takes up almost a third of the entire country.

A vast expanse of rainforest divided by tributaries of the Amazon river, even its main city Iquitos is only accessible by boat or plane.

But its inaccessibility has not discouraged oil companies from hunting for black gold, and they have been doing so for the last 35 years.

During that time, the Achuar people, who have lived in harmony with their environment in this part of western Amazon for thousands of years, say their way of life has been systematically violated.

The Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes' river (FECONACO) says that for every barrel of oil there are nine barrels of contaminated water produced as a by-product - a total of more than a million barrels a day.

The water contains high concentrations of hydrocarbons and heavy metals, like lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic.

The Achuar people say it is destroying the fragile eco-system in which they live, killing the fish and wildlife, contaminating their water source and seriously damaging their health.

Health problems

Geanina Lucana is a nurse who has been working with indigenous communities in the area for six years. She says the contamination affects every part of the human body, causing a chronic breakdown of the immune system.

"The toxins affect the central nervous system, causing a complete mental and physical breakdown. I've seen a person die but the doctor was not able to determine a single cause of death," she said.

It is widely acknowledged that high levels of heavy metals, hydrocarbons and chlorides can cause serious physical and mental health problems, including cancer and genetic deformities.

A survey carried out by Peru's Ministry of Health in May found that cadmium levels in the blood of more than 98% of the Achuar exceeded safe levels.

The oil companies, with the complicity of the state, are systematically violating our human rights Robert Guimaraes, vice president of AIDESEP

And more than 66% of children had levels of lead in their blood which exceeded the maximum permissible.

Yet despite the evidence of its own health ministry, the Peruvian government has been slow to act.

Different worlds

Last week, Achuar leaders, with the help of two not-for-profit groups, brought their fight to Peru's capital, Lima.

At one end of a large boardroom table, two apus - or community leaders - sat dressed in western clothes but with their traditional head-dresses.

At the other end of the long table sat three suited officials from Peru Petro - the state-run body which issues licences to foreign oil companies.

For a short time these people from different worlds inhabited the same space, while the community leaders from the jungle spoke of their outrage in their own Achuar language.

"I represent 31 communities and we all say we don't want more oil companies on our land," said Cesar Dawua, leader of the Providencia community.

"You live happily here in Lima working for the Peruvian state," he told the state officials. "We too want to live happily in our community of Rio Corrientes - but we can't because of the contamination.

"That's why we've come to say to you loud and clear that this is the last opportunity that we have to try to resolve this issue - you can't allow this to drag on any more."

The issue was not resolved, however, despite the appeals of the community leaders.

Extreme poverty

Both FECONACO and the Inter-ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP) have appealed to their government to make the oil company, in this case Pluspetrol, re-inject the contaminated water back into the earth.

Pluspetrol say they plan to be able to re-inject 20% of the waste water by
2009.

However, Peru's vice-minister for energy and mines, Pedro Gamio, says the government is pressing Pluspetrol to re-inject 100% of the contaminated water by that date.

He added that the oil company stated this would be impossible because it lacked the correct equipment to carry out the work.

Mr Gamio went on to say he could not order them to stop production because this would affect the country's economy and in turn a portion of the company's royalties, which are returned to the Corrientes region.

The region provides 60% of the oil consumed in Peru. At the same time it is also officially registered as a zone of extreme poverty.

The Peruvian government says the oil and mineral companies are bringing wealth and helping development in the country.

But those representing indigenous communities say they pay too heavy a price.

Robert Guimaraes, vice-president of AIDESEP, says: ""The Peruvian state is incapable of imposing sanctions on those who pollute our rivers and our land. Where is the justice?"

Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/5337802.stm

Published: 2006/09/13 10:13:14 GMT

© BBC MMVI


Informant: binstock

Democrats contend the president has used a prime-time address commemorating the September 11 terrorist attacks to make partisan arguments bolstering support for the Iraq war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306O.shtml

Robert Scheer writes: "Bush was correct in saying Monday night that 'Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War.' Unfortunately, it's Bush's administration that is testing us - with its relentless incompetence, attacks on our civil liberties and inability to acknowledge the bankruptcy of its policies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306M.shtml

The Secretary of the Air Force said the military is interested in using nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306K.shtml

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OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
http://www.freedomfchs.com/page5.html

Hey George

Cindy Sheehan writes to George W. Bush: "Torture is a crime against humanity, George, and information gained from torture is highly compromised and not even admissible in a court of law, so basically, the information you have been cruelly gleaning from 'suspected' terrorists is useless in protecting America."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306J.shtml

URGENT

Will the U.S. authorize indefinite detention – without any possibility of judicial review – for anyone labeled an "enemy combatant"? Even if those people are actually innocent? Please take a moment to call your Senators first thing this morning at 202-224-3121, especially if they are on the Armed Services Committee (see the list at the bottom of this email), and send a fax through our website.

We’re in a brutal legislative fight over two bills proposed by President Bush and Senator Warner to legislate military commissions. However problematic the commissions are, they’re a distraction from the really dangerous provisions that would strip detainees of their right to challenge the legality of their detention. The bottom line is, if either bill passes as currently written, it would prevent anyone taken into U.S. custody – anywhere in the world, past, present or future, innocent or not – from ever having their case heard. This goes against every principle this country was founded on.

Every person detained by our nation must receive a fair hearing. After all, wouldn’t we demand that right for our soldiers and civilians if they were captured by our enemies abroad?

We need your help urgently in order to stop this legislation!

Last week the President admitted to detaining men in secret CIA facilities and transferred 14 of them to Guantánamo: since it has become embarrassingly clear from the military’s own documents that most of the men at Guantánamo have nothing to do with terrorism and were often given over to the U.S. for bounty when they were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Administration’s strategy was to move a handful of actual high-level detainees there so they could push through this legislation.

Here are some talking points for your calls. The military commissions bill pending in Congress would:

.. authorize the lifelong detention of more than 400 men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay – men who have never been charged with a crime or received a fair hearing – many of whom our military admits never took up arms against the U.S.

.. give President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld absolute discretion to lock up farmers and humanitarian aid workers for life – based on their exclusive determination that these men are “enemy combatants” – and subject these men to whatever treatment they themselves deem appropriate and legal.

.. prevent any accountability for torture or abuse of detainees, rendering the McCain Amendment prohibiting torture unenforceable.
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATORS IMMEDIATELY. Tell them that the American people will not tolerate indefinite detention in our name – at Guantánamo or anywhere else in the world. Tell them that executive detention must be subject to judicial review. No military commission bill should limit the most fundamental of all rights – habeas corpus.

Thank you for all your help.

Sincerely,

Vincent Warren
Executive Director


For more information, visit our website at http://www.ccr-ny.org.

Please make a donation and help us stay on the frontlines.

Keep up to date by viewing CCR's event calender.

To call your Senator, dial (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator's office. Please keep your call brief and to the point. Identify yourself as a constituent (and a donor if you have donated money in the past), and ask to speak with the aide who deals with issues such as the military commissions bill. After identifying yourself, tell the aide what you think of the bills. Finally, ask for your Senators' position on the issue.

The Senate Armed Services Committee:

John Warner (R – VA) (202) 224-2023
John McCain (R – AZ) (202) 224-2235
James Inhofe (R – OK) (202) 224-4721
Pat Roberts (R – KS) (202) 224-4774
Jeff Sessions (R- AL) (202) 224-4124
Susan Collins (R – ME) (202) 224-2523
John Ensign (R – NV) (202) 224-6244
James Talent (R – MO) (202) 224-6154
Saxby Chambliss (R – GA) (202) 224-3521
Lindsey Graham (R – SC) (202) 224-5972
Elizabeth Dole (R – NC) (202) 224-6342
John Cornyn (R – TX) (202) 224-2934
John Thune (R – SD) (202) 224-2321
Carl Levin (D – MI) (202) 224-6221
Edward Kennedy (D – MA) (202) 224-4543
Robert Byrd (D – WV) (202) 224-3954
Joe Lieberman (D – CT) (202) 224-4041
Jack Reed (D – RI) (202) 224-4642
Daniel Akaka (D – HI) (202) 224-6361
Bill Nelson (D – FL) (202) 224-5274
Benjamin Nelson (D – NE) (202) 224-6551
Mark Dayton (D – MN) (202) 224-3244
Evan Bayh (D – IN) (202) 224-5623
Hillary Clinton (D – NY) (202) 224-4451

Forgot to include this link to the free fax in previous mailing. You must scroll down to end of page for fax and please don't forget to check fax (you may also want to get mailings since they don't send many emails & I probaby won't forward from them again). If you forwarded before, please forward this info too because this fax page is difficult to find otherwise.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5182

Thanks, Cheryl


Informant: Cheryl Guttman

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/pu-rr091306.php


Informant: littlebrit1961

Dean Baker writes: "Most people didn't see this headline, because the deficit that just soared to a new record was the trade deficit, not the budget deficit. The newly released trade data for July showed the deficit running at an annual rate of almost $820 billion, more than 6 percent of GDP. This is more than three times the size of the $260 billion dollar budget deficit now projected for 2006."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306F.shtml

The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has printed a list of stories the media have largely ignored over the past year. Here are the Top 10 most ignored stories from an annual list developed by Project Censored, a media research group based at Sonoma State University that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306E.shtml

Peaceful German citizen Chaled El-Masri, Canadian computer consultant Maher Arar, and Yemeni Muhammad al-Assad were all kidnapped, secretly imprisoned, tortured, and finally released by the CIA. None of them has been charged with any links to terrorism.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306D.shtml

"The facts we know provide key answers: Was there a White House effort to discredit Wilson by dishing details to trusted journalists? Yes. Fitzgerald's public filings last April make that clear. Were Cheney, Libby and Rove involved in the effort? Again, yes. And Fitzgerald's filing says President Bush wanted it done," writes Martin Schram.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306C.shtml

Congressman Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is desperate to hold onto his seat in the Philadelphia suburbs. He is sounding more like a Democrat and like the increasing number of dissident Republicans who are talking about a timetable for bringing the troops home.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306B.shtml

The Good News Is Local

Kelpie Wilson interviews Jason Bradford, who has initiated a community organizing effort in Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL). "The greatest challenge we, as a species, face right now is to create a way of life based on the energy flow of sunlight, not fossil or nuclear energy, to do so without destroying our soils, and to enroll others in this transition. We are under no illusion that Willits can tackle this alone, but hope that Willits can be an inspiration to others. If we can do it here, it is possible elsewhere."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091306A.shtml

http://iraqforsale.org/trailer.php

You Are Invited To A Screening Join film director Robert Greenwald for the official Washington, D.C. premiere of "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," a new documentary exposing the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision-makers who allow it.

http://ga3.org/ct/md20pgF1jXj9/

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Now Playing in United States

http://iraqforsale.bravenewtheaters.com/screenings/us/

by T. Christian Miller, TomPaine.com

How corporate contractors wasted billions and lost lives in Iraq—and got away with it.
http://ga3.org/ct/ud20pgF1jXjE/

by Gareth Porter, TomPaine.com

The truth behind Bush's false linkage of Iran, Hezbollah and al-Qaida.
http://ga3.org/ct/u720pgF1jXjU/

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

It's time to face the reality that the campaign against terrorism has been misnamed and overhyped.

http://ga3.org/ct/j120pgF1jXjh/

http://arcticbeacon.com/9-Sept-2006.html


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

Christian Science Monitor
by Alexander S. Belenky & Richard C. Larson

09/12/06

Of all the issues that decide federal elections, the length of lines at polling stations shouldn't be one of them. Yet, as egregious as that would be, they may. And as implausible as that would be, nobody seems to care. After two straight close presidential elections, the 2006 midterms and the 2008 election are likely to be nail-biters, too. This means that the integrity of the election process matters more than ever. Is there cause for concern? Yes. Consider the 2000 presidential election. George W. Bush won the presidency by a margin of just 537 votes in Florida. Assume (optimistically) that all the voters were properly registered and marked their preferred candidate, and that no voting machines malfunctioned. Even then, if only 538 Floridians who came to the precincts did not vote due to the widely reported long lines, the election outcome would be in doubt...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0912/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

09/11/06

This is not the anniversary the Republicans would have liked. People are not spending it reminding themselves how much safer they feel because George W. Bush is president. The traditional Republican lead on national security has evaporated, along with their advantages on every other measure of leadership. This is not like 2004, when the Republicans couldn't schedule their convention close enough to September 11. In terms of time or location. What a difference two years makes. But in politics you don't look back, not when you're in an election year. For Republicans, there is only one question at this point: What can you do in six weeks to rescue the troops?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213403,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Half-baked

Slate
by John Dickerson

09/12/06

By talking about the wide sweep of the conflict, Bush and his Republican allies hope to rally the country around his policies and frame the national security debate for the remaining days before the election. They are the big-picture party. Democrats may talk about difficulties in Iraq, but Republicans have their eye on the historical prize. As Bush spoke, I wondered whether Republican candidates are really signing up for all of this. The president outlined a protracted struggle not just to kill the people who are trying to kill us but to take on a much more difficult second chapter: spreading democracy throughout the Middle East...

http://www.slate.com/id/2149360


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Classically Liberal
by "CLS"

09/12/06

The stench from the White House has become so odious and repulsive that even the most conservative of conservatives are begging for a Democratic victory come November. ... Richard Viguerie was one of the architects of the New Right. He has says he has never seen conservatives so unhappy. He says they are debating whether to take a chance on the Democrats...

http://tinyurl.com/knk35


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/e4sru


Informant: Kev Hall

say scientists

· Katrina-like storms could become more common
· Effect 'can't be explained by a natural cycle'

Ian Sample, science correspondent Tuesday September 12, 2006 The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1870267,00.html

Hurricane breeding grounds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are being warmed by greenhouse gases, raising fears that more intense and devastating storms will be unleashed on nearby coastlines, scientists warned yesterday.

Climate researchers found that emissions from burning fossil fuels and other industrial activities were to blame for driving temperatures upwards in tropical waters where hurricanes form. They predict warmer ocean waters will energise hurricanes and make them more powerful. If sea temperatures continue to rise, scientists fear that category four and five hurricanes, such as Katrina, which battered New Orleans last summer, will become more commonplace.

The scientists, led by Ben Santer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, used 22 climate models to investigate the possible causes of a rise in sea surface temperatures of up to 0.67C in the Atlantic and Pacific tropics from 1906 to 2005. Each computer model was run several times to work out how much sea surface temperatures would have warmed with and without rising levels of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

They found that tiny particulates from volcanos and sulphates from industrial plants blocked the sun, and so cooled the oceans. But the effect was swamped by the rise in greenhouse gases, which led to warmer oceans. The study appears in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nathan Gillett, a co-author of the study at the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, said: "We know the oceans have been warming in these regions and some scientists have said it was because of natural events. But this study confirms that it cannot be explained by a natural cycle."

Hurricanes form in tropical waters when evaporating water is sucked up into storms. As the vapour rises, it condenses, releasing energy that fuels the storm. The warmer the ocean surface, the more energy is pumped into the hurricane. "The study suggests that with increasing sea surface temperatures, we can expect more intense hurricanes," Dr Gillett added.

Although the rise in ocean temperatures is slight, it is expected to have a dramatic effect on the intensity of hurricanes. In March Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claimed that while sea temperatures had increased by only about half a degree during the past 30 years, the power of hurricanes had doubled.

Tom Wigley, another scientist on the study, at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, added: "The best explanation for these increases has to include a large human influence. We expect global temperatures and sea surface temperatures to increase more rapidly over the next century."


Informant: binstock

This is happening today:

Elections in MD (Diebold touchscreens and Diebold voter rolls) today are a train wreck including polls opening late, battery problems, running out of backup paper ballots, missing voter cards, voters told that they have already voted, ballots missing entire candidate sections, etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091200535.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-vote0912,0,1406145.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3459


Informant: Kathy Dopp

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren

Presse-Information vom 13. September 2006

Brief an europäische Lebensmittelbehörde EFSA:

„EU darf keine Import-Genehmigung für Gen-Reis von BAYER erteilen“

Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren hat heute in einem Brief an die European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) gefordert, keine Import-Genehmigung für gentechnisch veränderten Reis zu erteilen.

Der BAYER-Konzern hatte im Jahr 2003 bei der EU eine Import-Zulassung für Reis der Sorte LL 62 beantragt. Die Sorte ist resistent gegen das von BAYER produzierte Herbizid Liberty Link mit dem Wirkstoff Glufosinat. Ende August war bekannt geworden, dass in den USA eine ebenfalls gegen Glufosinat resistente Reis-Sorte in den Handel gelangt war. Der Langkorn-Reis mit der Bezeichung LL 601 ist nirgendwo auf der Welt zum Verzehr zugelassen, die gesundheitlichen Risiken für Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher sind unbekannt. Recherchen von Greenpeace deckten Anfang der Woche auf, dass auch in Deutschland Kontaminationen mit LL 601-Reis auftraten, unter anderem in Produkten des Discounters Aldi.

Philipp Mimkes von der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG): „Der Fall bestätigt alle Befürchtungen: eine gentechnisch veränderte Reis-Sorte landet im Handel, ohne dass die gesundheitlichen Risiken bekannt wären oder eine Genehmigung erteilt wäre. Dies muss Konsequenzen für die Zulassung von Gen-Reis in der EU haben“. Insgesamt neun EU-Mitgliedsstaaten hatten Bedenken gegen Liberty Link-Reis geäußert, weswegen die EFSA bis heute keine Zulassung erteilt hat. Die CBG fordert die Bundesregierung auf, sich bei der EFSA gegen eine Importgenehmigung von LL 62-Reis stark zu machen.

Neben den Risiken für die Konsumenten stehen bei der Zulassung von Gen-Reis die Auswirkungen in den Anbau-Ländern, vornehmlich in Asien, im Blickpunkt. Philipp Mimkes: „Millionen Bauern in den Ländern des Südens, die bislang durch Tausch und Eigenzüchtungen ihr Saatgut selbst produzieren, drohen in Abhängigkeit von multinationalen Konzernen zu geraten - die Verwendung ihrer Ernte als Saatgut wäre wegen des Patentschutzes künftig verboten. Durch den bereits in der "grünen Revolution" beobachteten Konzentrationsprozess würden Millionen Landwirte ihre Existenz verlieren und in die Elendsgebiete rund um die Metropolen abwandern. Zudem würden durch Auskreuzungen einheimische Sorten verdrängt – mit dramatischen Konsequenzen für die Biodiversität und die weltweite Ernährungssicherheit.“

Bitte lesen Sie den Brief an die EFSA im Original
http://www.cbgnetwork.com/1592.html

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren http://www.CBGnetwork.org
Fon 0211-333 911, Fax 0211-333 940
Fordern Sie per eMail kostenlos weitere Informationen an.

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

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"Bedenken von neun EU-Mitgliedsstaaten": Protest gegen mögliche Import-Genehmigung der EU für Gen-Reis von BAYER

13.09.06

Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren hat am Mittwoch in einem Brief an die europäische Lebensmittelbehörde EFSA gefordert, keine Import-Genehmigung für gentechnisch veränderten Reis zu erteilen. Die Kritiker wenden sich gegen einen Antrag des BAYER-Konzerns bei der EU aus dem Jahr 2003 auf Zulassung von Importen für Reis der Sorte LL 62. Die Sorte sei resistent gegen das von BAYER produzierte Herbizid Liberty Link mit dem Wirkstoff Glufosinat. Insgesamt neun EU-Mitgliedsstaaten haben den Angaben zufolge Bedenken gegen Liberty Link-Reis geäußert, weswegen die EFSA bis heute keine Zulassung erteilt habe. Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren fordert jetzt auch die deutsche Bundesregierung auf, sich bei der EFSA gegen eine Importgenehmigung von LL 62-Reis stark zu machen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14335

Arizona's governor signed an executive order late last week to cut emissions of gases linked to global warming, becoming the second state leader in the US West to try to bypass President George W. Bush's refusal to regulate output of the gases.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091206EB.shtml

Climate Change Seen Pushing Plants to the Brink

Thousands of plant species are being pushed to the brink of extinction by global warming, and those already at the extremes are in the greatest danger, a leading botanist said on Tuesday. Botanists are on target to have sorted and stored seeds from 10 percent of the world's plant species by 2010 in a race against time as global temperatures rise due to burning fossil fuels.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091206EA.shtml

From Private Eye magazine - 15 Sept. 06

'Labour Conference (2006) Special' -

Delegates to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester may be looking forward to big changes at the top, but on the fringes it will be 'business' as usual.

The big corporations will be out in force, rubbing shoulders with ministers at the usual round of self-interested meetings masquerading as policy discussions.......

Mobile Phones

Lord Sainsbury meanwhile will discuss how the media should respond to science "scare stories" at a meeting sponsored by the Mobile Operators Association. He will speak alongside the trade body's own Mike Dolan.

The phone operators are keen to get Labour onside in the many local battles they face to get their phone masts built and conference will host a rash of other ministers-and-mobiles meetings too.

Financially challenged '3mobile' is sponsoring a separate get together with Culture Minister Tessa Jowell (in charge of telecom regulator OfCom) and Home Office Minister Liam Byrne.

O2 meanwhile is paying for a meeting with Jowell, hosted by another Labour-linked think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.

(article continues with other big. biz. New Labour schmoozings - big food, nuclear, big oil, pensions etc. ......)

(artjar)

Experts
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0912-02.htm

http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/09/prophet_and_loss.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Robertson

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14948.htm

Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14941.htm

Last week's eleventh-hour request by moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee put off its vote on President George W. Bush's nomination of the outspoken -- some say bullying -- envoy pending clarification of the administration's current Middle East policies may have doomed Bolton's chances.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34685


From Information Clearing House



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

Video

How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm

Iraqis are not primitive people who need American colonial tutelage to resolve their problems.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14942.htm

In spite of a sharp increase in Sunni-Shiite violence, however, attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces are still the primary source of bloodshed in Iraq, the report found. It was the latest in a series of recent grim assessments of conditions in Iraq.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15494904.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_suzanne__060911_cell_phones__26_childr.htm

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Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

http://michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7847


Informant: Bob Banner

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum487.php

Friends, we have lost 450,000 American jobs since 2000, victim to corporate outsourcing. Do you realize that current corporate law continues to provide tax payer monetary support for relocation of even the most unscrupulous businesses, regardless of their mission? That's right, our tax laws actually promote the exportation of our good jobs by allowing greedy corporations to defer taxation on "foreign" income, shortchanging our treasury at the same time.

As a member of the most prestigious AFL-CIO for over thirty years, I fought with vigor and measured success the concept of outsourcing, which involved bringing in outside American contractors who would in turn take meaningful work from the bargaining unit of which they were not a part, entirely out of the purview of the skilled labor pool who were well positioned to accomplish the proposed new work change or feature. As you know, today the scope of outsourcing has changed to such an extent that it has taken on a life of its own. The prospect of control has been ceded to foreign nations to the peril of our long standing pride of originality that we all share and have come to expect.

But I am not just waiting to be a member of Congress to expose America's harvest shame. We must work together starting now to craft new domestic and international policy which reverses this most deplorable hemorrhaging of American jobs going overseas, to cease and desist this practice immediately. Now is the time to put a tourniquet on this gushing flow of prosperity out of America, which is threatening our very standard of living. Please submit this action page and begin the process of regaining control of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

ACTION PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/petitions/pnum487.php

This alert is brought to you through the activism of Charles W. Sanders, running for Congress from the 3rd district of OH, where there will be a special primary election this FRIDAY, September 15. Please consider making a contribution to his campaign if you have not done so already, so he can get his courageous call to action TV commercial as much exposure as possible.

VIDEO PAGE: http://www.charleswsanders.org/donations4a.php

When we find a representative brave enough to take strong stands we like on the critical issues of our time, shall we do everything we can to support him or not? Our only real chance to influence what our choices will be in the general election is by backing the best candidate in the primary process. Please encourage Charles to continue to stand up and fight for us any way you can.

Support Oklahoma's "Petition for Impanelment of a Presidential Grand Jury Probe" - Signatures Impeachment News
http://www.bushbusiness.com/impeachment%20news.htm

2006 Audio:
http://www.bushbusiness.com/audio/Let's%20Impeach%20the%20President%20Intro.mp3

Support Oklahoma's "Petition for Impanelment of a Presidential Grand Jury Probe" - Signatures
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?gjprobe


Informant: ranger116



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

The controversial ABC film "The Path to 9/11" has been hit for alleged political bias, and fictional events, but now a major corporation has denounced its treatment in the movie. American Airlines has stated that the film is "inaccurate and irresponsible" in its portrayal of the events that occurred on the morning of September 11, 2001.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206O.shtml

The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al-Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the US military can do to improve the political and social situation there.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206N.shtml

The Phony War

Robert Dreyfuss writes, "President Bush not only created a fake 'War on Terror' to scare voters into supporting his policies - he is failing to address the real threat facing America."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206M.shtml

The United States said on Monday it still aimed to seek UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program this month despite Iranian hints of readiness to compromise in talks with Europe. Ali Larijani reported progress in weekend talks to try to launch negotiations to end a stalemate over Tehran's pursuit of technology that could yield atom bombs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206L.shtml

Spilling the Beans

A whistleblower and former employee of Monsanto says genetically engineered crops may cause disease and that GMOs are endangering the food supply.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206I.shtml

Arnaud de La Grange argues in the conservative Figaro that "everything takes place as though al-Qaeda's would-be destroyers had been unceasingly knocking themselves out to enlarge the terrorist organization's base of support the last five years."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206H.shtml

Jason Salzman reviews Jeff Cohen's new book, "Cable News, Hazardous to the Republic": "After reading Cohen's book, cable news will never look the same to you, as you'll understand the formula of fake 'breaking news,' false debates, and journalistic gutter-feeding that add up to, as Cohen puts it, 'disinfotainment.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206G.shtml

Dahr Jamail quotes one of the emails he's received from Baghdad: "Although I have perfect job satisfaction as a full professor with an MRCP, FRCP, and two more degrees from London and France, things are so unhappy here in Baghdad. There is no quality of life at all. There are no services; we are loaded with garbage as it is not collected more than once every so many weeks. Garbage collectors are also afraid of being killed. We have almost no electricity, no fuel, bad water supply and what is more, you could get killed whether you are Shi'ite or Sunni if you fall into the wrong hands!"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206E.shtml

William Rivers Pitt begins: "The anniversary has passed, and with it went an ocean of televised words and images to mark the day. I can't be sure, of course, because I marked the day by refusing to turn on my television. I didn't care to commemorate the occasion by wallowing in a lot of noise from TV people who maybe should have known better five years ago, TV people who have hauled oceans of water between then and now to help us into our diseased estate, simply because scaring people to boost ratings is a shortcut to thinking."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206A.shtml

According to a news team featured in this documentary film the RFID chip can "amplify the EMF signal and potentially BURN YOU".

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=noverichip


Informant: Gotemf

Artikel vom 13. September 2006

O2 pocht auf den Vertrag mit der Stadt Balve und stellt sogar noch Ausbau in Aussicht. Rat und Verwaltung im Mittelpunkt der Anwohnerkritik.

Von Volker Griese

BALVE · Die Bürgerinitiative UMTS kann gegen den geplanten Mobilfunksendemasten auf dem städtischen Wohnhaus "Zu den Dinkeln 13" offenbar nichts machen. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Bürgerinformation, die am Montagabend im Rathaus stattfand, und bei der Vertreter der Stadt, der Bundesnetzagentur und des Mobilfunkanbieters O2 der Bevölkerung Rede und Antwort standen.

Der Bauantrag von O2 sei am 24. November in einer öffentlichen Sitzung des Bauausschusses behandelt worden, versuchte Bürgermeister Hubertus Mühling den Vorwurf der Bürgerinitiative, die Stadt habe die Angelegenheit hinter verschlossenen Türen verhandelt, zu entkräften. Was er allerdings auch einräumte: Dem Mietvertrag mit O2 hatte der Rat bereits rund acht Wochen vorher zugestimmt. Und die vom Rat zur Bedingung gemachte Bürgerinformation sei zu spät erfolgt, räumte Mühling ein. "Politik und Rat haben in dieser Sache versagt", warf der von der Bürgerinitiative beauftragte Rechtsanwalt Björn Syring den Stadtvertretern vor.

Überhaupt richtete sich der Zorn der Anwohner vor allem gegen die Stadt Balve, von der sie sich schlecht informiert sehen. "Die Anwohner wollen eine solche Anlage ja, um auch die Technik nutzen zu können, aber nicht mitten in einem Wohngebiet", sagte Syring und fragte nach Alternativstandorten. Da musste ihn allerdings O2-Sprecher Ralph Bergmeier enttäuschen: "Dieser Standort ist für uns funktechnisch die beste Alternative", sagte er. Und Frank Heinemann, bei O2 zuständig für Mobilfunk und Umwelt ergänzte, dass eine Positionierung der Anlage zum Beispiel auf den Berge außerhalb der Innenstadt nicht möglich sei, weil sie dann von den Mobiltelefonen nicht mehr erreicht werden könne. Allerdings verschwendet man bei O2 wohl auch keinen Gedanken daran, von dem mit der Stadt Balve bereits abgeschlossenen Mietvertrag noch zurückzutreten. "Für uns sind alle rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen abgeklopft und wir sehen keine Veranlassung, unsere Rechte aus diesem Vertrag nicht auszuschöpfen", sagte Bergmeier klipp und klar.

Auch Bürgermeister Mühling sah keinen Ansatz, den rechtsverbindlichen Vertrag zu lösen, ohne Regressansprüche fürchten zu müssen. Überdies glaubt er, dass dies erst der Anfang ist: "Wir können uns dieser Sache nicht verschließen", erwartet er für die Zukunft weitere Anträge dieser Art, was Frank Heinemann von O2 auch schon bestätigte: Wenn die jetzt für den Mobilfunkstandard GSM geplante Anlage in etwa drei Jahren auf UMTS, den Mobilfunkstadard der dritten Generation, umgerüstet werde, müssten allein von O2 noch zwei bis drei weitere Anlagen installiert werden, um die Innenstadt abzudecken.

Solche Aussichten lassen die Anwohner in Balve-Süd erschauern, denn sie fürchten gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen durch Elektrosmog. Deshalb interessierten sie am Montag auch alle Beteuerungen nicht, dass die gesetzlichen Strahlengrenzwerte weit unterschritten würden. "Die Grenzwerte sind rein fiktiv, weil die Wirkung der Strahlen noch nicht bekannt ist", drückte Dr. Bernhard Genzel die Sorgen der Bevölkerung aus.

http://www.come-on.de/lokales/story.php?id=202085

Cindy Sheehan writes, "One of the main lessons I have learned these past months, since BushCo's war of terror took the life of my oldest son, is that one should also never argue with someone who is still so blind and/or so naive to stubbornly hold on to the gospel according to George and believe that Saddam had WMD or ties with al-Qaeda."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206J.shtml

12.09.06

Nachdem Greenpeace am Montag bekannt gegeben hatte, Gen-Reis bei US-Reis von Aldi Nord gefunden zu haben, meldete die Europäische Kommission am Abend ihre Ergebnisse: Bei Untersuchungen der Industrie von US-Langkornreis sollen 33 von 162 genommenen Proben illegalen Gen-Reis enthalten haben. Es habe sich um den so genannten LLRice 601 der Bayer AG gehandelt. Auch Analysen der niederländischen Behörden von Importreis aus den USA haben offenbar gentechnische Verunreinigungen ergeben. Nach Auffassung von Greenpeace "handelt sich hier nicht um ein einzelnes Feuer, sondern um einen Flächenbrand". Rund 20 Prozent der von der Industrie beprobten Produkte seien mit illegalem Gen-Reis belastet. "Der Lebensmittelhandel muss sofort reagieren und US-Langkornreis sowie alle Produkte, die diesen Reis enthalten, aus den Supermarktregalen räumen", fordert die Organisation.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14333

12.09.06

Die Bundesregierung lehnt die von der US-Administration in Europa eingerichteten Geheimgefängnisse für mutmaßliche Terroristen verbal ab und fordert vom Bündnispartner eine Kurskorrektur. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) sagte am Wochenende in Berlin: "Der Einsatz solcher Gefängnisse ist nicht vereinbar mit meinem Verständnis von Rechtsstaatlichkeit." US-Präsident George W. Bush hatte unlängst erstmals offiziell die Existenz solcher Gefängnisse in Europa eingeräumt, über die lange nur spekuliert worden war. Er nannte aber keine Details, in welchen Ländern sich die Haftanstalten befinden oder befanden. Der Grünen-Politiker Volker Beck vermisst seintens der deutschen Bundesregierung allerdings konkrete Initiativen gegen die Geheimgefängnisse in Europa. Die Kritik von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) an US-Geheimdiensten sei "gut und schön, aber wo bleibt die Konsequenz", fragte Beck am Samstag in Berlin. Bislang habe die Bundesregierung "jeden Einsatz vermissen lasse n, im deutschen Luftraum Verschleppungen von Gefangenen luftverkehrsrechtlich zu unterbinden", kritisierte der Oppositionspolitiker. Zu Zeiten der Regierungsbeteiligung wurde nach Auffassung von Menschenrechtsorganisationen auch seitens der Grünen ein konsequentes Vorgehen etwa im Fall Murat Kurnaz vermisst.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14316

RESIDENTS have hit out at mobile phone chiefs after a mast was erected in a residential area.

T-Mobile installed the mast at the junction of John Street and Redbrae Road in Kirkintilloch.

The application was turned down by East Dunbartonshire Council, but the company won an appeal to the Scottish Executive.

One resident said: "I have real concerns about this mast.

"It's been erected less than 100 metres from another mast which is in the grounds of a nursery.

"This was done without consultation and without taking into consideration the fact that there are a lot of children living in the immediate area.

Health issues relating to mobile telephone masts have never been disproved.

"The apparent disregard for residents in this area is nothing short of disgraceful."

Richard Owens, T-Mobile's community affairs officer for Scotland, said: "We do understand that locating base stations in and around communities can sometimes give rise to concerns and do everything possible to keep the public informed throughout the process.

"In this case, we undertook voluntary pre-consultation with the ward councillor, local schools, nursery and the local housing association.

"At the point of submitting the application we then did statutory neighbour notification for properties in the immediate vicinity.

"Dozens of studies have taken place over twenty years on the safety of base stations.

"The World Health Organisation said in May this year: 'Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations cause adverse health effects'."

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

12 September 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.kirkintillochtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=956&ArticleID=1764130

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WHO survey for children using mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2657187/

WHO, EMF, Electromagnetic Radiation and Mobile Phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1194586/

US-Präsident Bush versucht mit der üblichen Rhetorik des Schicksalskampfs anlässlich des fünften Jahrestags des 11.9. die kriegsmüden Amerikaner wieder zu gewinnen und den Irak als wichtigste Front darzustellen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23536/1.html

by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com

Incompetency, corruption, betrayal of a noble mission and horseracing make Ken Tomlinson the new Michael Brown.

http://ga3.org/ct/Kp20pgF1uX7f/

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

As he commemorated a national tragedy, the president cheapened the debate over Iraq.

http://ga3.org/ct/Kd20pgF1uX74/

by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, TomPaine.com

Bush's brand of nation-building must be replaced with an approach in touch with global realities.

http://ga3.org/ct/K720pgF1uX7r/

A message from NANCY

Original Message

READ THIS TRAGIC STORY OF TWO FAMILY PETS, WHO NOW ARE CONSIDERED TO BE KILLED DUE TO A MISTAKE. LET US HELP THEM TO STAY HOME WITH THEIR BELOVED OWNER !!!!! THEY ARE HIS BABIES !!!!! LOVE YOU, INGE AND MIKKILINO.DK.


Original Message

If you haven't already, please read and sign this petition to help save Kristen's dogs.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/476995806

September 12, 2006

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/science/12ocean.html

Rising ocean temperatures linked by some studies to tropical storms are very likely a result of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research.

The lead author of the new study, Benjamin D. Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the Energy Department, said the findings suggested that further warming would probably make hurricanes stronger in coming decades.

But while environmentalists and some researchers have asserted that storms like Hurricane Katrina were already measurably stronger because of warming caused by humans, Dr. Santer said his study did not address that issue.

The study was published online yesterday by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers compared a century of observed temperature changes with those produced in more than 80 computer simulations of how oceans respond to natural and human influences on the climate. The simulations were generated on 22 different computer models at 15 different research centers.

The simulations correctly mimicked the cooling caused by plumes from volcanic eruptions, which temporarily block the sun. At the same time, the authors said, the only warming influence that could explain the changes in the oceans was the buildup of heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases in the air.

Earlier studies concluded that greenhouse gases from human activities were warming the oceans, but this analysis was the first to examine thoroughly trends in particular tropical regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that serve as nurseries for the destructive storms.

Several climate experts said that while debate persisted about the role of warming in pumping up hurricanes, there was little doubt about the long-term trend should warming continue as projected.

“Even under modest scenarios for emissions, we’re talking about sea surface temperature changes in these regions of a couple of degrees,” Dr. Santer said. “That’s much larger than anything we’ve already experienced, and that is worrying.”

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company


Informant: binstock

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78071

Der Reis, den keiner wollte

Jede fünfte Probe Langkornreis in Europa enthält illegalen Gentech-Reis LL601 aus dem Hause Bayer.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23538/1.html

This report is dedicated to those lost. In this report, we will attempt to clarify to the best of our ability what brought about the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106Z.shtml

http://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/

A rousing speech about Iraq set to a techno beat and snappy Flash animation. As Abraham Lincoln said, "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/06/we_will_not_be_silenced_2.php

By Mai Yamani, TomPaine.com

The Muslim world's hopes for democracy after 9/11 have been buried in the rubble of Baghdad, Beirut and Kandahar.

http://ga3.org/ct/X120pgF17XuR/

by Helena Cobban, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/Bp20pgF17XuQ/

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/B720pgF17XuP/

by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/Bd20pgF17Xup/

Dokumentation in junge Welt vom 06.09.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/09-06/043.php


Website zum Handbuch Ein-Euro-Jobs

Auf der Homepage zum gerade erscheinenden Buch finden sich viele grundsätzliche Materialien und Rechtsprechung http://www.ein-euro-job-handbuch.de/


Proteste & „weisse Schafe“

Ein-Euro-Jobs: ASB steigt wegen Kürzungen aus. HAB: Vertrag gekündigt. Geschäftsführer Knut Fleckenstein: Statt "zu fördern und zu fordern" werde nur noch gefordert und gespart.

„Der Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Hamburg beschäftigt künftig keine Ein-Euro-Jobber mehr. Vergangene Woche sei der im April 2005 geschlossene Kooperationsvertrag mit der Hamburger Arbeit Beschäftigungsgesellschaft (HAB) gekündigt worden, so ASB-Geschäftsführer Knut Fleckenstein. Er sei "richtig wütend": "Vom Prinzip des Förderns und Forderns ist nur das Fordern und Sparen übrig geblieben."…“ Artikel von Anne Klesse in Hamburger Abendblatt 08.09.06 http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/09/08/608509.html

Siehe dazu auch: Bestandsaufnahme von 1 Euro-Jobs in Hamburg bei ver.di Hamburg http://hamburg.verdi.de/politik2/themen/bestandsaufnahme_von_1_euro_jobs_in_hamburg


Aus: LabourNet, 12. September 2006

Nur 241 Euro zum Leben?

Sachverständigenrat plädiert für das soziale Elend. Leistungsstreichungen für ALG-II-Empfänger sollen 350000 Arbeitsplätze schaffen. Artikel von Peter Wolter in der jungen Welt vom 06.09.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/09-06/051.php


Arbeitslosengeld II reformieren: Ein zielgerichtetes Kombilohnmodell

„…Um die Attraktivität einer Arbeitsaufnahme im Niedriglohnbereich des ersten Arbeitsmarkts im Vergleich zur Nichterwerbstätigkeit oder einer Tätigkeit auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt spürbar zu erhöhen, werden als Kernstück unseres Vorschlags beim Arbeitslosengeld II der Regelsatz für erwerbsfähige Mitglieder einer Bedarfsgemeinschaft um 30 vH abgesenkt und gleichzeitig bessere Hinzuverdienstmöglichkeiten für am ersten Arbeitsmarkt erzielte Erwerbseinkommen geschaffen…“ Expertise im Auftrag des Bundesministers für Wirtschaft und Technologie, herausgegeben vom Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung im August 2006 (pdf-159 Seiten!) http://www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/download/press/ges_kombi.pdf


ALG II - 30 Prozent runter?

„Arbeitslosengeld runter auf 240 Euro - das empfehlen die "Weisen" aus dem Sachverständigenrat. Sie wollen noch mehr Druck auf Erwerbslose machen und sie zwingen, zu immer noch niedrigeren Löhnen zu arbeiten. So wird der Druck auf die Löhne für alle erhöht…“ Wirtschaftspolitik Aktuell Nr. 16/2006 vom ver.di Bundesvorstand, Bereich Wirtschaftspolitik (pdf) http://wipo.verdi.de/wirtschaftspolitik_aktuell/data/06_16_SVR_Hartz.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 12. September 2006

Brent Budowsky writes, "The man who campaigned as the Great Uniter, and declared himself the Great Decider, will burn in history as the Great Divider with all of the catastrophic consequences that are escalating every hour of every day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106P.shtml

A leading Afghanistan scholar says that America's military counterterrorism strategy has failed to eliminate the Taliban - and may actually be contributing to the growth of the insurgent Islamist group.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106O.shtml

Amy Davidson talks with Seymour M. Hersh, Jon Lee Anderson, and George Packer about Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and whether America is stronger now.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106K.shtml

11.09.06

Der Grünen-Vorsitzende Reinhard Bütikofer geht mit juristischen Schritten gegen die arbeitgebernahe Lobby-Organisation "Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (INSM) vor. Die Initiative habe ohne seine Zustimmung bei einer Aktion vor dem Brandenburger Tor sowie im Internet mit seinem Bild für ihre Ziele geworben, teilte Bütikofer am Freitag in Berlin mit. Er habe nun "unter Androhung gerichtlicher Schritte" die Zusicherung erwirkt, "es künftig zu unterlassen, fotografische Darstellungen von mir oder meinen Namen ohne meine Zustimmung werblich zu nutzen". Der Grünen-Politiker betonte, er habe diese Organisation noch nie unterstützt und lehne deren "marktradikale Politik" ab.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14327

11.09.06

Rasterfahndung, vorbeugende Telefonüberwachung, Luftsicherheitsgesetz: Nicht nur in den USA, auch in Deutschland sind nach dem 11. September 2001 die Grundrechte der Bürger erheblich eingeschränkt worden. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht entschied, dass der Gesetzgeber in Berlin mit seinen Maßnahmen zu weit gegangen war. "Die Karlsruher Richter haben einer Tendenz in der Gesetzgebung entgegengewirkt, die die Eingriffsschwelle immer weiter vorverlagert und die Bürger per se als verdächtig betrachtet", sagt der Leipziger Staatsrechtler Christoph Degenhart. Karlsruhe stoppte die verdachtsunabhängige Massenerhebung von persönlichen Daten in der Rasterfahndung sowie das Abhören von Telefonen im Vorfeld möglicher Straftaten und ohne Tatverdacht. Die Verfassungshüter kippten auch das Luftsicherheitsgesetz, das den Abschuss eines von Selbstmordattentätern entführten Passagierflugzeugs erlaubte.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14317

11.09.06

Die große Koalition diskutiert weiter über die Vorschläge des Sachverständigenrates der Bundesregierung zu Arbeitslosengeld II und Kombilöhnen. Der Sachverständigenrat hatte am Freitag vorgeschlagen, die Unterstützung für Langzeitarbeitslose von derzeit 345 Euro pro Monat um 30 Prozent zu kürzen und im Gegenzug die Hinzuverdienstmöglichkeiten zu erweitern. Thüringens Ministerpräsident Dieter Althaus (CDU) forderte am Montag stärkere Anreize zur Aufnahme von Arbeit. Der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialexperte der Union, Ralf Brauksiepe (CDU), wandte sich gegen eine generelle Kürzung der Regelsätze. Der arbeitsmarktpolitische Sprecher der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Klaus Brandner, mahnte, die Wirkung der jetzigen Hinzuverdienst-Regeln erst einmal abzuwarten. Links-Fraktionsvize Klaus Ernst warf den Experten vor, sie hätten den Bezug zur Realität verloren. Sein Kollege Herbert Schui kritisierte, der Sachverständigenrat wolle "die Menschen in Billigjobs zwingen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14307

Their crime? Taking five cucumbers, four or five apricots, two bundles of asparagus spears and a handful of cherries from a garbage can at Sweet Pea Produce. Their sentence? Six months in the Routt County Jail.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14917.htm

Video

Even your Republican grandpa from Texas will have doubts about 9/11 when he finishes it!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14921.htm

Bear Stearns had agreed to invest up to $300 million in new security-related ventures identified by Giuliani Partners.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060925/barrett


From Information Clearing House

The threat of "terrorism", some of it real, most of it invented, is the new Red Scare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14920.htm

The hunt

Armies have been mobilised, phones tapped, huge rewards offered - yet Osama bin Laden is still at liberty. Does anyone even have the faintest idea where he is? Declan Walsh investigates.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,1869516,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1


From Information Clearing House

CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former intelligence officials and others with knowledge of the program.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003253260_cia11.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush administration decides not to wait for UN, nuclear-related sanctions.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3301613,00.html


From Information Clearing House

“The majority of war coverage in the study heavily emphasised the soldier’s experiences, of the war while downplaying the effects of the invasion on the Iraqi people,” said Lindner. “

http://www.psu.edu/ur/2006/embedreporting.html


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon's fondness for secrecy along with partisan agendas in Baghdad often lead to contortions with death tolls and other details.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14919.htm



Marine colonel's Iraq report fuels US gloom

Iraq's biggest province has suffered a total breakdown in law and order in which al-Qaida has emerged as the dominant political force, according to descriptions of a classified US military intelligence review reported today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1870023,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Three factories in southern China that make Disney merchandise allegedly underpay their workers, overwork them and only selectively buy health or accident insurance for their employees, a survey released Sunday said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091106LB.shtml

In the aftermath of Katrina, a cash-based reconstruction economy has taken root in New Orleans, and reports of worker rip-offs are common. A labor rights attorney advocating for migrant workers describes the situation as "the new Wild West of labor law, where lawlessness is absolutely tolerated."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091106LA.shtml

At the Australian premiere of his film on climate change, Al Gore said that global warming "threatens the future of human civilization, and Australia, in many ways, is more at risk than any other nation." Australia is particularly vulnerable to water shortages, changed rainfall patterns and an increase in fires and cyclones. Gore also criticized the Australian government for not joining the Kyoto agreement.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091106EB.shtml

David Swanson, writing from Camp Democracy: "Only we, the people of the United States, getting off our couches and acting will put an end to this growing nightmare. The crimes of September 11th had nothing to do with Iraq.... The evidence is before us, and it is our unavoidable responsibility to take it up and act on it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106R.shtml

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3375


Informant: SIUHIN

Five years after 9/11, why is Osama bin Laden still at large?

As families mourned the victims of that atrocity five years ago, the Bush Administration vowed to "rally the world" and win the war on terror. Our president promised to focus on the priorities that would protect the safety of all Americans. Nations around the world rushed to offer their sympathy and cooperation. We were on the verge of a swift and united response to Al Qaeda.

And then President Bush decided to invade Iraq.

Instead of strengthening our position, Bush's folly has squandered thousands more lives of our best and brightest in a continuing quagmire, and needlessly diverted valuable resources from the real war on terror.

The numbers speak for themselves. Every day, the United States spends $200 million on the war in Iraq. Funds for just one day in Iraq could help meet our urgent homeland security needs, such as:

* improving the communications gap in more than 40 small cities or 34 mid-sized cities or six large cities so that federal, state and local first responders can talk to one another during an emergency;

* providing four million households with an emergency readiness kit;

* paying for 4,000 additional Border Patrol agents for one year to better guard our borders against potential terrorists;

* providing 1,285 explosive trace detection portals for airport screening of passengers;

* purchasing 750 fire trucks for improving local emergency response capabilities;

* employing 4,700 fire fighters, 4,000 police patrol officers, or 6,800 paramedics and emergency medical technicians for an entire year;

* providing 6,000 local law enforcement agencies with bomb-detecting robots;

* providing 9,400 port container inspection units to detect hazardous materials being shipped into the country; or

* providing 4,700 detectors for dangerous particles.

Five years after 9/11, our ports, our trains, our chemical plants and our nuclear power plants remain extremely vulnerable. The State Department reported 175 significant terrorist attacks in the world in 2003. In 2005, that number grew to more than 11,000.

Today, as we remember and honor the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, we must remind each other that our focus should never shift from the real challenge we face. We must find Osama bin Laden, protect our homeland and avoid the needless and costly distractions that entangle us now.

Thank you,

Senator Edward M. Kennedy
http://tedkennedy.com/


Informant: Quechick Barnyard