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Michael T. Klare writes: "There are many reasons why President George W. Bush might have wanted to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with Robert M. Gates: To distance himself from the current military disaster in Iraq, to make the adoption of a new Iraqi strategy easier, to prevent further disunity within the military, or to clear the path for a revival of Republican fortunes in the 2008 elections." He continues, "...on a deeper level, the move can also be read as signaling a momentous shift in America's global posture - from imperial offense to imperial defense."

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Warrantless wiretaps that the government says are necessary to fight terrorism pose a threat to American democracy, the American Civil Liberties Union said in court papers filed Tuesday.

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Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected Senate Majority Leader yesterday, said last night that President Bush still has not grasped the urgent need to change course in Iraq. Reid vowed to press quickly for phased troop withdrawals, a more international approach to Iraq's problems, and a rebuilding of the depleted US military.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506K.shtml

Jason Leopold reports that the Senate voted Tuesday in favor of keeping open a federal agency that monitored taxpayer-funded reconstruction efforts in Iraq, a month after the Republican majority in both houses of Congress quietly passed legislation signed into law by President Bush to close down the agency.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506J.shtml

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Steueroasen am Starnberger See: Bundesregierung lehnt offenbar bessere Prüfung von Einkommensmillionären ab (15.11.06)

Einkommensmillionäre werden von den Finanzämtern nur unzureichend geprüft. Der Bundesrechnungshof kritisierte in seinem am Dienstag vorgelegten Jahresbericht, dass im Bundesdurchschnitt jährlich nur 15 Prozent der Einkommensmillionäre Außenprüfungen über sich ergehen lassen müssen. Dadurch gingen dem Fiskus erhebliche Steuereinnahmen verloren, betonte Rechnungshof-Präsident Dieter Engels. Als viel zu gering erachtet der Bundesrechnungshof auch die Quote von zwei Prozent bei Umsatzsteuer-Sonderprüfungen von Unternehmen. Rechnerisch sei damit eine Firma nur alle 50 Jahre an der Reihe. Die Steuergewerkschaft wirft Bayern und anderen Ländern jetzt "eine stillschweigende Tolerierung von Steueroasen für gutbetuchte Bürger" vor. Die Bundesregierung lehnt effektivere Kontrollen der Millionäre offenbar ab.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14744

Larry Johnson writes that one critical dilemma we confront in Iraq is the burden of our status as the Superpower. "All people in the region - Sunnis, Shia, Kurds, and Persians - assume that we have a secret plan that we are pursuing unilaterally. The majority of these folks cannot accept that the sectarian violence unleashed in Iraq is a consequence of US incompetence. They assume that the rising sectarian violence is something we want because we are a Superpower. By virtue of our status as a Superpower it is inconceivable that we would allow such violence unless it suited our 'hidden' purposes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506D.shtml

Truthout's UK Correspondent Chris Floyd writes that in a season already notable for the official demonization of British Muslims, the new assault twisted the screws even tighter. It is obvious that Blair has been badly stung by his American partner's rejection at the polls, which makes his own fanatical devotion to Bush and the bloodsoaked folly in Iraq look even more absurd. His frenzied waving of the terror flag is, in part, Blair's panicked response to the political diminishment of the Washington regime that has been a mainstay of his own power.

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15 November 2006

ANTI-mobile phone mast campaigners in Muswell Hill are claiming a plan to build a new mast should not go ahead because it would be illegal.

Mobile operator, O2, is planning to replace an unused mast on top of the old BT Exchange in Grand Avenue with a new one.

The company, along with Haringey Council, claims that because there is already a mast there they do not need to get planning permission for a new one.

But Richard Buxton, a lawyer for Muswell Hill Against the Masts (MHAM), insists the council has got it wrong.

He says the previous mast should have been removed long ago and fresh planning permission sought for a new one. He has written to the planning department.

A spokeswoman for MHAM said: "O2 argues that it is erecting on an existing mast which is unused and therefore does not need planning permission. Protesters say under planning regulations, the old mast should have been removed and that planning permission would therefore be required for a new mast."

The head of MHAM, Sarah Purdey, has also protested to Councillor Gideon Bull, head of the scrutiny review which was looking into the issue, who pledged to take a tough stance on it.

A spokesman for Haringey Council said:

"We have fully complied with planning regulations and government guidance in this case. We will be replying separately to Mr Buxton."

An O2 spokesman said: "There was a mast there before so all we are doing is replacing one with the other. It's no big deal. It's smaller than the previous one.

"I can assure the people there that there is no problem and no danger at all from the mast.

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Mobile phone operator Hutchison 3G has received a hostile reponse to plans to put a new mast at "the gateway" to Kenilworth.

The company hopes to erect a 12.5m aerial capable of transmitting picture and video signals on the grass verge outside the De Montfort Hotel.
It needs the mast to improve reception in the town centre but claims opposition from businesses is the reason for placing sites near pavements and not on top of buildings.

The company considered 29 sites, including outside the Bear and Ragged Staff pub and the Shell garage, both in Warwick Road.

Plans by rival operator O2 for a mast in Abbey End were recently refused planning permission.

And a 13-page consultation document from Hutchison received short shrift from Kenilworth Town Council planning committee on November 9.

Coun Michael Coker said he could not understand why the firm had admitted the mast would look out of place at other sites in the town centre but decided outside the De Montfort Hotel would be acceptable.

He added: "We are hoping to have a civic centre on the other side of the road, we are hoping the De Montfort will renovate itself. This is the last place we want another intrusion."

Coun Pat Ryan said: "It is a very big structure to have right in the gateway to the town and will intrude very much into the Abbey End area.

"The reason for the problem is that no business is happy to have these things on its building.

"The intensity of microwave radiation from these aerials are much higher than from previous generations.

"This raises the question of whether we are willing to countenance them on the public highway where people are walking past."

Coun Doug Golby (Lib Dem, Park Hill) said he understood the business community had a need for the masts, but Coun George Illingworth (Con, Abbey) told the meeting the only demand was from "kids sending photos to each other."

He added: "Of all the sites they could have picked, this is the worst."

And Coun Alison Tyler (Lib Dem, Park Hill) said: "If they have struggled hard to find a site, they haven't struggled hard enough."

No one from Hutchison was available for comment when the Weekly News went to press.

15 November 2006

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Still Not Necessarily The News

Fake news is everywhere, including your local TV news station. Film at 11!
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Energy For Change
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by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

Forget about the center; push progressive ideology and crush the opposition.
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15 November 2006

A MOBILE phone mast has been hidden in the tower at Hornsey Town Hall for the past four years, it has been revealed.

The mast, operated by O2, brings in an estimated £10,000 a year for Haringey Council, but residents are angry that they didn't know it was there.

Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, described the installation of the mast as "underhand".

She said: "I would have thought the council would have wanted to make sure that people were aware of this, given the amount of concern there is about mobile phone mast dangers. But I am surprised that they have acted in such an underhand way."

Haringey Council insisted that permission for the mast was dealt with in the proper manner, but residents are angry that the council did not allow the information to become common knowledge.

Details of the mast were announced at a meeting of the Hornsey Historical Society last week, where those in charge of guiding the development of the listed building were invited to discuss plans for the landmark.

It was there that Chris Warburton, chairman of the Hornsey Town Hall Partnership Board (CPB), told the audience that the mast was there.

Sue Hessel, of Haslemere Road Residents' Association, said: "Mr Warburton was as pleased as punch when he revealed the fact that they have now got a mobile phone mast in the town hall.

"It was as if it hadn't occurred to him that people might be concerned about this.

"They should have jolly well consulted about this."

Mrs Hessel pointed to the housing development planned for the town hall site, where around 140 new homes are planned.

She said: "This will be the largest housing development in Crouch End since Chettle Court. Surely people will be concerned that there will be a mast right on their doorstep."

Kit Greveson, of Crouch End for People - which is opposed to the CPB plans - described the mobile mast as "skulduggery".

She said: "Was anyone consulted about this? Are we to applaud this piece of skuldugerry and deceit.

"Haven't we been banging on all over the borough about the potential health risks of these modern pieces of development?"`

A spokesman for Haringey Council said that planning permission was granted in September 2002. He added: "The application was notified in the normal way, and complies with Government guidelines that councils have to follow when considering proposals of this type."

The money raised by the mobile phone mast may go into developing the town hall.

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15 November 2006

A PETITION is being gathered against plans for a mobile phone mast in a Muswell Hill church.

Mast installation company QS4 wants permission to put a mobile phone mast in the tower of St Peter-le-Poer, Albion Avenue.

But the proposal has angered many residents.

Anne Shepherd, who lives in nearby George Crescent, said: "I think it is appalling that the church can sell the neighbourhood off down this route for 30 pieces of silver. My bedroom window is 40 yards from the church and I am not having it."

A drop-in session was held at the church hall last week for people to view the plans and talk to QS4 representatives.

Reverend Bruce Bridgewood, of St Peter-le-Poer, said: "Of course there are legitimate concerns. Every time a mobile phone mast is put up anywhere people will say there's a health risk but they're all over the place as we know.

"The local authority can put one up at the end of the road without consultation and you're stuck with it. There are arguments on both sides and that is part of the reason for public consultation."

A spokesman for Barnet Council said it had not yet received a formal application to put a mast there.

Petitions are available to sign in shops at 79 and 131 Colney Hatch Lane.

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Mother Jones
by Bill McKibben

11/06/06

Ten percent of a two-year-old's nouns are brand names; by the time an American child heads to school, he or she can recognize hundreds of logos. Disney is now putting its cartoon characters on fresh fruit, arguing (perhaps correctly) that it's the only way to get kids to eat it. If that's the world we're born into, is it any wonder we want corporations to solve our biggest problems as well? Isn't it a parent's job to protect us? And besides, who else has the capital and the power to do what needs to be done in the face of a crisis like global warming? Any sign that corporations might be willing to take on the job is greeted with an enthusiasm that borders on delusion.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/11/hype_vs_hope.html


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The American Conservative
by Jeffrey Hart

"Eisenhower, a thoroughgoing realist, was one of the most successful presidents of the 20th century. So was the prudential Reagan, wary of using military force. Nixon would have been a good secretary of state, but emotionally wounded and suspicious, he was not suited to the presidency. Yet he, too, with Henry Kissinger, was a realist. George W. Bush represents a huge swing away from such traditional conservative Republicanism. But the conservative movement in America has followed him, evacuating prudence and realism for ideology and folly... (for publication 11/20/06)

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_11_20/article.html


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The Weekly Standard
by Tod Lindberg

for publication 11/20/06

Pathetic Republicans, who can save you now? With all due respect to Ming the Merciless and all due deference to Sen. John McCain's pending arrival on a Hawk-man rocket cycle in 2008, the answer is that Republicans can, and are going to have to, save themselves. To do that, what's required is frank acknowledgment that the national majority that brought them to congressional power in 1994 is a thing of the past -- no longer there, or no longer theirs...

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Strike the Root
by Kevin Van Horn

11/14/06

By January 1, 2025, every American who is determined to live free shall do so. Those who are content with their chains are welcome to keep them, but we who must be free will have our own centerless legal system and free institutions that are not subject to the State. Let's start talking in more detail about how to achieve this goal, using Nonviolent Struggle...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/horn/horn2.html


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/15/06

This election was all about accountability – and that means someone must be held accountable. That's one front in the war on the War Party, but only one of three. The other two must target funding for military operations in Iraq and preparations for war with Iran. The conventional wisdom, given voice by Borger and her 'centrist' clones, both in Congress and among the punditocracy, is that a Democratic move to cut off Iraq war funding is out of the question, a political non-starter, and could only set up the Democrats for disaster in '08. Yet this is precisely the kind of sharp fillip our gridlocked system needs to free itself up long enough to actually do something about our failed policy in Iraq...

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Tennessean

11/14/06

Religious conservatives' interjection of their view of Bible-based values into American civic and political life is leading to an erosion of constitutional protections for everyone, according to Barry Lynn, executive director of the Washington-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Lynn is being criticized by some conservative Christian leaders for trying to 'bully' churches away from participation in civic affairs. But Lynn, in town today to speak about the recent election and promote his new book, Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom, says he believes in a government that leaves decisions about God and faith in the hands of individuals, not the state...

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Amarillo Globe News

11/14/06

More Americans rank Iraq as the top priority of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, but nearly three out of five say the party does not have a plan to deal with the war. In the aftermath of an anti-Republican wave, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed lingering uncertainty about the country's direction and the ability of Democrats and President Bush to work together. Underscoring the country's political divisions, Democrats expressed more confidence and optimism than Republicans...

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USA Today

11/14/06

An environmental group has sued to block logging on 50,000 acres of private timberland, arguing the state's population of northern spotted owls has been reduced by half since the 1990s. The Seattle Audubon Society sued last week in federal court, asking U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman to bar logging on private timberlands west of the Cascades...

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Klamath Falls Herald and News

11/14/06

Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming's impact on the country's environment, economy and public health. The plaintiffs claim the government must complete such a report every four years under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The plaintiffs say the last report was due in November 2004...

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KERRY BACKS GLOBAL WARMING SUIT
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CNN

11/14/06

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist known for lavishing politicians with football tickets or whisking them away on exotic golf junkets, will start life Wednesday with a new identity: federal inmate No. 27593-112. Abramoff is to report to federal prison to begin serving a nearly six-year prison sentence for a fraudulent deal to buy a fleet of casino ships in Florida. He also is awaiting sentencing for corrupting government officials and their staff members...

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Her name doesn't show on any official list of American military deaths in the Iraq war, by hostile or non-hostile fire, who died in that country or in hospitals in Europe or back home in the USA. But Iraq killed her just as certainly. She is Jeanne "Linda" Michel, a Navy medic. She came home last month to her husband and three kids (ages 11, 5 and 4), delighted to be back in her suburban home of Clifton Park.... Two weeks after she got home, she shot and killed herself.

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As Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, incoming leaders are planning to insert labor and environmental protections into pending trade treaties and to demand that the Bush administration adopt similar measures in future pacts it negotiates, congressional aides and government officials said yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/111406LA.shtml

Global warming could stoke ferocious wildfires that will be more difficult and costly to fight and might drastically alter the environment in parts of the world, some scientists warn.

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"The weakening of George W. Bush, in short, has opened the door for an alumnus of the Iran/Contra scandal, Robert Gates, to gain control of the Pentagon - his nomination, as yet, has met with little Congressional resistance. This process was managed by James Baker, whose Carlyle Group made billions off the Iraq occupation and whose fealty to the American people has all too often taken a back seat to the needs and desires of the royal family of Saudi Arabia. These two, along with Hamilton, have been instrumental in crafting, by way of the Iraq Survey Group, what by all accounts will soon be America's foreign policy lynchpin in Iraq and the Middle East as a whole," according to William Rivers Pitt.

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Nearly three quarters of all bird species in northeast Australia and more than a third in Europe could become extinct unless efforts to stop global warming are stepped up, a report says.

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From Information Clearing House

Election Issues

Ohio 's 2006 vote count now includes a higher percentage of uncounted ballots than in 2004, and a statistically impossible swing to the Republicans.

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In late April last year, while I was out at the hair salon, my husband phoned to tell me that two Department of Homeland Security agents had arrived at my home in Santa Barbara, Calif., to serve me with a subpoena.

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From Information Clearing House

The current version of the Military Commissions redefines an "unlawful enemy combatant" (UEC) so broadly that it could include anyone who organizes a march against the war in Iraq.

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Abuses carried out under the CIA's secret programme of extraordinary rendition are to be investigated by one of the Senate's most powerful committees, it emerged today.

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The complaint requests that the German Federal Prosecutor open an investigation - and ultimately, a criminal prosecution - looking into the responsibility of high-ranking U.S. officials for authorizing war crimes in the name of the so-called "War on Terror.

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Even if Russia and China had been willing to endorse robust sanctions, it is unlikely that such measures would convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons or dismantle its nuclear facilities. Sanctions have a poor record of getting regimes to abandon high-priority policies, and North Korea's nuclear program clearly falls in that category.

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From Information Clearing House

According to recent reports received by Western intelligence agencies, the Iranians are training senior al-Qa'eda operatives in Teheran to take over the organisation when bin Laden is no longer leader.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/14/wiran214.xml



War pimp alert: Iranians Training Qaeda Terrorists to Attack Our GIs

The Iranian government has been providing a safe haven for fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror group since they were forced to flee Afghanistan in late 2001.

http://www.nysun.com/article/43442?access=701719


From Information Clearing House

The neo-conservatives (neocons) who gave us the "cakewalk" prediction for Iraq before the war are now plugging "a walk in the park" in Iran -- i.e., a U.S. bombing campaign to consign the mullahs' nuclear ambitions to oblivion, or at least to retard the advent of an Iranian bomb for a few years.

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Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Iraq Study Group that Iran was a 'strategic threat' to the Middle East that had to be confronted with the choice of helping to secure peace 'or face isolation', his spokesman said.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/11/14/afx3173419.html


From Information Clearing House

The cut-and-run stage hasn't yet arrived. But it's close.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15609.htm

The US president has renewed his objection to any timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq after discussing the situation there with a bipartisan commission.

http://tinyurl.com/yhsgwa



Commission improbable

What chance Baker's Iraq Study Group coming up with something original? Don't hold your breath.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1947003,00.html



Premature US Exit From Iraq Will Boost Terrorists, Says Australian PM

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that the premature exit of the United States from Iraq will be seen as a victory for international terrorists and added that "Iraq will become a haven for terrorists".

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"Iraq Is Not Winnable": What happens next in the Middle East?

SPIEGEL spoke to Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, to find out. A widely respected foreign policy expert, Haass warns that the Middle East could become dangerous for years to come.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,447763,00.html



"We Will not Be Able to Survive Much Longer"

An interview with Iraq's health minister
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448290,00.html



From Information Clearing House



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By Matt Apuzzo

The Bush administration said Monday that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have no right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of detainees should be dismissed.

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By Patrick J. Buchanan

As the Democrats have now captured Congress, they assume co-responsibility for the retreat from Mesopotamia. Which is as it should be.

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The case for impeaching Bush
http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/iraq/iraqwar17.html


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Cheney, Libby ask dismissal of civil complaint
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A message from Debs

Original Message:

Global warming is the most serious environmental issue facing the planet today. If we don't act now, scientists warn of devastating consequences.

Please join me in sending an urgent message to the incoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Time is running out and we need to make sure 2007 is the year for meaningful global warming action. Send an email today!

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DARK SIDE OF THE MOON



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Moon Landing A Fake or Fact?
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Mobile phone company Vodafone has been given permission to install a mast near two areas where children play.

The firm's proposal to site the mast on a grass verge along Elmer Road close to two grassed areas was given the go-ahead by a planning inspector.

William Cunningham overturned Arun District Council's refusal of the plans. He said the 12m high mast's location close to, but outside, the open space meant that it could be installed.

He also said it was not insensitive to site the structure opposite the mid-19th century St Nicholas Church because the church was not a listed building.

Bognor Regis Civic Society deputy chairman Hugh Coster, who opposed the plans, said: "I am particularly angry about this decision. It would seem to me that it is entirely illogical.

"The inspector has failed to take account of a number of important factors. Vodafone already have a mast in this village and the fact they want to put up another one takes no account of mast sharing, which is what mobile phone companies are supposed to do nowadays."

Full report in the November 9 issue of the Bognor Regis Observer

15 November 2006

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http://www.questionsforcandidates.org/node/1499


Informant: Scott Munson

[While some politicians scream about illegal logging many if not most are aiding and abetting the theft & destruction of America's forest and "commonwealth." For instance, the federal govt under Clinton fired its "Timber Theft Task Force" for fingering Weyerhaeuser as the biggest thief of national forest trees, while Oregon under Gov Goldschmidt fired most of its Dept of Forestry law enforcement agents (like many other states, yielding to the corrupt power of the dishonest & destructive timber industry and its Crimes Against Nature, and by extension, Crimes Against Humanity. TGH]

Illicit logging incenses lawmakers

Two valuable black cherry trees felled despite Legislature order halting action

By JOHN F. BONFATTI News Staff Reporter
10/10/2006

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061010/1047966.asp?PFVer=Story


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dumping8oct08,0,4957760.story?coll=la-home-headlines


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/10/06/ed.letters.1006.p1.php

"Half of the manmade carbon emissions released into the atmosphere come from deforestation," according to Nigel Sizer of the World Resources Institute.

In case you didn't catch that, let me repeat: "Half of the manmade carbon emissions ... come from deforestation."

Any serious attempt to limit the severity of the climate crisis involves not only restricting carbon dioxide emissions (essential), but also protecting and preserving the forests that store and absorb carbon - effectively cleaning up our mess free of charge.

In the United States, our first major step toward combating climate change should be placing our 643 million acres of public lands off limits to the corporate extraction industries, corrupt government agencies and bought-and-sold politicians colluding to ravage our living life-support system: our forests.

JOSH SCHLOSSBERG

Eugene


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt240.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bliss5.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/kraegel2.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/liechty/liechty11.html



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

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3790


Forwarded by
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111406.html


Informant: Martin Greenhut



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Gates

ROAD TO 2008
http://www.roadto2008.org/officialsite/

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Fixing the 2008 election

Tom Paine
by Jonah Goldman & Tova Wang

11/14/06

The mainstream media in its instant analysis has proclaimed the election system worked surprisingly well in 2006. While it is true that no single catastrophe of election administration grabbed headlines this year, it is quite dangerous to suggest that the problems voters encountered on Election Day were not serious. As over 25,000 callers from across the country to the 866-OUR-VOTE voter information and protection hotline confirm, these problems led to thousands of eligible Americans being denied the opportunity to cast a ballot. There's a sense that the book is already closed on the 2006 election. But despite the nation's attention now turning to the seismic political shift in Washington, several House races remain undecided. ... While the case should not be overstated, it is critical that as we immediately enter the 2008 presidential election cycle, we undertake a more honest assessment of what happened in this election...

http://tinyurl.com/ve7aa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15003314/


Informant: rafeswhiterose

Informant: Scott Munson



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

Monday, October 2, 2006 in The Liberator, the newsletter of ReclaimDemocracy.org

California community provides a compelling model for radical change

by Jeff Milchen

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1002-31.htm

In 1999 Eureka, CA became one of the first communities to fight Wal-Mart at the ballot box and win -- soundly defeating a ballot initiative that would have forced a change in zoning laws to allow a new “superstore” near the city’s waterfront.

Residents celebrated a hard-won victory, but some questioned why a corporation could force them to fight a purely defensive campaign in which “victory” meant merely maintaining the status quo.

Three years later, another global corporation, Maxxam, funded an attempt to recall the District Attorney in Eureka’s (Humboldt) County, who had the audacity to aggressively watchdog and even sue the corporation for alleged fraud. Voters thwarted the intimidation and kept the man they elected in office, but again at enormous cost of time and money.

More people began to question why they could be forced to defend against the political agenda of distant corporate executives. They wondered what could be accomplished if absentee-owned companies were barred from bankrolling candidates and ballot questions to advance the corporate agenda, enabling citizens to focus their energy on proactive work.

They now have the opportunity to find out.

In June, Humboldt County residents passed Measure T, a ballot initiative that forbids non-local corporations and other outside organizations from contributing money to political campaigns within the county. In a hotly-contested battle, citizens passed into law perhaps the most significant challenge to corporate political “speech” since Montana citizens voted to ban corporate expenditures on ballot questions in
1996.

Like Montanans, Humboldt citizens likely will face a second hurdle in their quest for self-governance: corporate lawyers (perhaps including some now serving on the U.S. Supreme Court).

Soon after the people of Montana decided elections should be a corporate-free activity, the state Chamber of Commerce and other groups successfully challenged the law as a violation of corporations’ “free speech” rights.

A federal appeals court sided with the Chamber and discarded Montanans’ efforts. The judges cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti ruling, which nullified a Massachusetts law that forbade corporate spending on ballot initiatives.

As with other key challenges to precedents that suppressed democracy and human rights, the outcome may depend more on social circumstances than legal points. Virtually every advance for human rights in the Supreme Court (e.g. Brown v Board of Education) has been preceded by shifts in public opinion and visible demonstrations of demand for change. At least in part due to fear of social upheaval and undermining the Court’s authority, the Court follows.

It’s time to instill that concern in the Justices again.

For judges, overturning the will of citizens in a single community -- especially one that corporate interests marginalize as a hippie enclave -- is no cause for concern. But to overturn an ordinance replicated in dozens of communities dispersed around the country is a different equation altogether. In other words, it’s up to us to build irresistible pressure for judges do the right thing.

Citizens should realize that federal action to reduce corporate dominance is unlikely in the near future and consider such local actions as a necessary means toward building the movement necessary to subordinate corporations to democracy.

In those states and communities permitting ballot questions, revoking corporations’ ability to corrupt what should be the purest form of democracy may be the most vulnerable point of attack.

But such organizing must be approached as a long-term commitment, not a quick fix. Measure T was preceded not only by two instructive local lessons in corporate power, but also by years of local educating and organizing by locals through Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County. The organization built awareness of the destructive impacts of corporate political power on the lives of residents and helped people recognize that citizens themselves -- not elected officials -- had the ability and responsibility to change the status quo.

That’s not to say such ordinances can’t be accomplished more rapidly, especially in communities where people already have witnessed corporations overturning democratically-enacted decisions through running initiatives backed by overwhelming advertising. Wal-Mart alone has created fertile ground in communities nationwide, from Bennington, VT to Flagstaff, AZ. And with more educational work on these issues nationally, local campaigns will have a stronger foundation beneath them.

Through wildly creative interpretation of the Constitution, our courts have repeatedly subordinated the rights of citizens by elevating corporations to entities with political “rights.” Almost every national representative of the dominant political parties accepts this perversion of our Constitution (few have even considered the issue), so building a grassroots Democracy Movement is essential to overturn those precedents.

Citizens of Humboldt County have provided one concrete model to help advance this Movement. Let's ensure their pro-democracy ordinance is joined by dozens more by the time judges decide whether to advance corporate rule further or help restore the long-unrealized ideal of rule by the people.

Jeff Milchen directs ReclaimDemocracy.org, a grassroots organization working to revoke illegitimate corporate power. The organization has a detailed primer and resource library on corporations and ballot initiatives and is eager to help activists succeed in related efforts.


Informant: Scott Munson

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Fran Korten: 10 Ways to Stop Corporate Dominance of Politics
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/26-3



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+dominance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court

Here are a bunch of resources linking meat-eating to global warming
(and how to fight global warming with your fork):
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/05/18318275.php

Another Inconvenient Truth
http://www.eatkind.net/inconvenient.htm

EarthSave: A New Global Warming Strategy
http://www.earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm

Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3312

ABC News: Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/TenWays/story?id=2119267&page=1

Greenpeace: On Your Plate
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/green-living-guide/on-your-plate

Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian
http://goveg.com/environment-globalwarming.asp?int=weekly_enews

Vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml

The SUV in the Pantry
http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/gasfood112105.cfm

Cut Global Warming by Becoming Vegetarian
http://www.physorg.com/news4998.html

Five Food Choices for a Healthy Planet
http://www.veg.ca/issues/enviro-5reasons.html

and

Eco-Eating: Eating as if the Earth Matters
http://brook.com/veg


Informant: Scott Munson

Tom Noe, a coin dealer and former Republican fundraiser, was convicted of 29 felony counts, including theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering with evidence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406P.shtml

The nation's Catholic bishops, saying the United States needs to move past the "shrill and shallow debate" of last week's midterm Congressional elections, declared yesterday that the goal in Iraq should be justice and peace, rather than victory, and that the nation should withdraw its forces at the earliest opportunity, consistent with a responsible transition.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406O.shtml

General Mike Hagee, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, repeatedly asked superiors what the post-invasion plan was for Iraq and never heard back. In the end, the general and his superiors didn't have a plan for control of Iraqi cities.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406N.shtml

Former member of Congress Elizabeth Holtzman writes: "Democracy means you trust people to make their own minds up, but this president knew that if he told the truth, we wouldn't be in this war. The framers of the Constitution knew that someday there was going to be a Richard Nixon who was president of the United States and someday there was going to be a George Bush who was going to be president of the United States, and they gave us the power of impeachment to revoke them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406M.shtml



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

Jeremy Brecher writes: "Few elections in history have provided so clear a mandate. As the New York Times put it, Democrats were 'largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on [Bush's] administration.' But the first response of the new Congressional leadership has been to proclaim a new era of civility and seek accommodation with the very people who need to be held accountable for war crimes and subversion of the Constitution."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406L.shtml

Thump

The senior editor for the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg, writes: "Americans have had enough, and their disgust with the administration and its Congressional enablers turned out to be so powerful that even the battered, rusty, sound-bit, TV-spotted, Die-bolded old seismograph of an American midterm election was able to register it. Thanks to the computer-aided gerrymandering that is the only truly modern feature of our electoral machinery, the number of seats that changed hands was not particularly high by historical standards."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406K.shtml

Thirty to fifty of the world’s remaining North Atlantic right whales are in mortal danger. Lobster season has begun in the Bay of Fundy, and the whales which have usually left the area by this time of year are in grave danger of becoming ensnared in fishing gear and dying.

With only about 350 North Atlantic right whales left on the planet, even the loss of one of these gentle giants is too many.

Fill out the form below to send a message to Canadian Minister of Fisheries Loyola Hearn urging him to delay opening the fishing grounds until the right whales have left the area.

Take Action red:
http://tinyurl.com/y597sm

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=RNkt5z9hW-PYT-BMTwlH-w..
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=ZFfs6gTWD6HN2HpvI7VbBQ..

14.11.06

Nach Darstellung der internationalen Wal- und Delfinschutzorganisation WDCS gibt es in Japan offenbar Absatzprobleme für Walfleisch. Das für den Walfang verantwortliche japanische Walforschungsinstitut (ICR) unternehme "verzweifelte Versuche, um neue Abnehmer für das Walfleisch zu finden", behauptet die Organisation. Die Nachfrage nach Walfleisch sei in Japan in den vergangenen Jahren "rapide zurückgegangen". Dennoch laufe am 15. November erneut die aus fünf Schiffen bestehende japanische Walfangflotte Richtung Antarktis aus. Es sei geplant, im dortigen Walschutzgebiet im Rahmen des so genannten "wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramms" 10 stark gefährdete Finnwale und bis zu 900 Zwergwale zu töten. Bevor die Fangflotte mit weiteren Tausenden von Tonnen zurückkehren könne, müsse zu Hause "zunächst das in den Kühlhäusern gelagerte Fleisch der letzten Jagden zumindest teilweise veräußert werden".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14732



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

Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo: Rumsfeld wird erneut in Karlsruhe wegen Kriegsverbrechen angezeigt (14.11.06)

Wenige Tage nach seinem Rücktritt wird der ehemalige US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld erneut bei der Bundesanwaltschaft wegen Kriegsverbrechen angezeigt. Wie die "Frankfurter Rundschau" berichtete, soll die Strafanzeige einer deutschen Bürgerrechtsorganisation gegen Rumsfeld, US-Vizepräsident Richard Cheney und 15 weitere hohe Vertreter von US-Militär und Zivilverwaltung am Dienstag der Strafverfolgungsbehörde in Karlsruhe zugehen. Ihnen würden Kriegsverbrechen im Zusammenhang mit dem Vorgehen im irakischen US-Gefängnis Abu Ghraib und im US-Gefangenenlager Guantanamo Bay vorgeworfen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14730



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

14.11.06

Das Verhalten des hessischen Ministerpräsidenten Roland Koch (CDU) in der Wahlkampfkostenaffäre grenzt nach Ansicht des Parteienkritikers Hans Herbert von Arnim "an Nötigung". Offenbar solle mit Steuergeldern erreicht werden, dass sich die CDU im nächsten Landtagswahlkampf einen unliebsamen Konkurrenten vom Hals halte, sagte Arnim dem Berliner "Tagesspiegel". Der hessische Gesetzentwurf zur Erstattung kommunaler Wahlkampfkosten habe seit rund sechs Jahren als Referentenentwurf vorgelegen. "Hochproblematisch ist jetzt die anscheinende Verknüpfung mit der Bedingung, dass die Freien Wähler nicht auf Landesebene antreten sollen", sagte der Verwaltungsexperte.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14729

14.11.06

Der Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club (ADAC) weist in seiner aktuellen Mitgliederzeitschrift darauf hin, dass Deutschlands Verkehrsteilnehmer "immer häufiger durch heimliche Überwachungsmaßnahmen kontrolliert werden". Der Autoclub kritisiert "die Erfassungswut des Staates und fordert eine datenfreie Fahrt". Die Autobahn-Mautbrücken würden nicht nur Lkw, sondern auch Pkw erfassen. Beim "Video-Scanning" würde die Polizei schon jetzt in Bayern, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und in Rheinland-Pfalz "anlass- und verdachtsfrei" die Nummernschilder von Autos erfassen. "Fünf Millionen Nummernschilder scannt zum Beispiel allein die bayerische Polizei allmonatlich auf Autobahnen und Bundesstraßen - eine neue Dimension der Massenüberwachung".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14733

Authors Thierry Malleret and Erwann Michel-Kerjan, both risk-management academics, raise the issue of governance in the face of proliferating global risks, "phenomena that neither anyone nor any single entity can control alone, that have the ability to strike anywhere at any time and to spread with epidemic speed, [that] can potentially provoke large scale destabilization and inflict catastrophic economic losses."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406H.shtml

The Pentagon has been without its chief watchdog for more than a year, even as the military spends billions of dollars a month in Iraq and controversy simmers over warrantless surveillance, missing weapons and friendly fire deaths.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406F.shtml

Out of 700,000 soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War, 118,000 are suffering from chronic fatigue, headaches, muscle spasms, joint pains, anxiety, memory loss, and balance problems, and 40% receive disability pay. Gulf vets are also twice as likely to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and between two and three times more likely to have children with birth defects. The Veterans Administration treated 20,638 Iraq vets for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in just the first quarter of 2006 and is currently processing a backlog of 400,000 cases.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406D.shtml

The Bush administration said on Monday that Guantanamo prisoners have no Constitutional right to challenge their detention before US federal judges, and the lawsuits by hundreds of detainees must be dismissed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406C.shtml



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

"The important question is: Can the Iraq Study Group be expected to come up with constructive suggestions for alternative policy on Iraq?" asks Ray McGovern. "The answer is no."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406A.shtml

Keep O&G Rigs Out of America's Special Places

There are wild lands in America that are just too special to touch. But the Bush administration is planning to litter them with 118,000 new oil and gas wells – an accelerated drilling plan that threatens one million acres of western public lands!

Some amazing places - like Utah's Redrock Wilderness, the Rocky Mountain Front, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - are at risk. This is not the path to energy independence - it's a path to destruction.

Before it's too late, help us guard against these threats.

Join us in sending an urgent message to the Interior Department!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/TWTD/

By taking action, you will join thousands of other Americans in sending the administration a powerful message: We want to be a nation with pristine landscapes that our kids and grandkids will enjoy for years to come.

The Bush administration is hoping to accelerate oil and gas development on public lands, installing 118,000 oil and gas wells over the next two decades. We cannot let America's wild places suffer the backlash of overly aggressive oil and gas plans.

One million acres of public lands are at risk.

Tell the Department of Interior that they're supposed to guard our public lands, not drill irresponsibly on them.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/TWTD/

We don't dispute that there are places where it is appropriate to drill, but it must be done at a slower pace. Moreover, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and conservation must play larger roles in the nation's energy policy.

Thank you,

Kathy Kilmer

* In der Beilage senden wir Ihnen unsere Presseaussendung zum runden Tisch „Mobilfunk“ in Purkersdorf am 10.10.2006
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/big_pr_aussendung_2006_11_10.doc

* Höchster Messwert in Purkersdorf im Gymnasium – Verursacher sind Antennen im Kirchturm

* Sendestandort „Kirchturm“ im Senderkataster nicht eingezeichnet (verheimlicht).

* Mobilfunker lehnen eine Bewertung der Messergebnisse durch die Österreichische Ärztekammer strikt ab

* Gutachten aus dem Jahr 2002 legt 1000 µW/m2 als Grenzwert vor (siehe Seite 8 http://root.riskommunal.net/gemeinde/purkersdorf/gemeindeamt/html/MobilfunkStudie.pdf ). Dieser wird nun 9-fach überschritten

* Das beiliegende Foto vom „strahlenden“ Kirchturm in Purkersdorf können Sie honorarfrei übernehmen © Robert Marschall
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/kirche_purkersdorf.JPG

Ich stehe Ihnen für Rückfragen gerne zur Verfügung.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Mag. Robert Marschall
Erster Sprecher der Bürgerinitiative Gablitz
Anton Haglgasse 14/1/3
A-3003 Gablitz, Österreich
Tel: 02231 / 68367 und 0676 / 4039090
E-Mail: marschall @schutz-vor-elektrosmog.at
Homepage: http://www.schutz-vor-elektrosmog.at/buergerinitiative-gablitz.htm

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15.11.2006

Print-Ausgabe

Rat von neuem Experten

PURKERSDORF / Positives berichtet Stadträtin für Umwelt und Verkehr, Marga Schmidl (Liste Baum und Grüne), vom zweiten Runden Tisch zum Thema Mobilfunk.

VON CHRISTOPH HORNSTEIN

„Es gab viele Meinungen, lebhafte Diskussionen, aber auch konkrete Ergebnisse.“ Bürgermeister Schlögl, Umweltstadträtin Schmidl, Vertreter der Stadtgemeinde und der Bürgerinitiativen trafen sich letzte Woche mit den Mobilfunkbetreibern. Die in der Vorrunde beschlossenen Messungen wurden diesmal präsentiert. Das Ergebnis: Die stärkste Strahlenbelastung wurde beim Standpunkt AHS gemessen. Sonst gäbe es durchschnittliche Werte. Der Grund für die AHS-Spitze könnte freilich auch darin zu finden sein, dass möglicherweise viele Schüler ihre Handys eingeschaltet haben.

Neuer Experte als Berater herangezogen Auch die Situation rund um den Sendemast auf der Wohnanlage Wintergasse 4 soll genauer untersucht und eine mögliche Strahlenbelastung der Bewohner der gegenüberliegenden Wohnbauten geprüft werden. Für beide Standorte wurde für den 15. November eine weitere Messung vereinbart. „Wie die Messergebnisse aber endgültig beurteilt werden können, das löste heftige Diskussionen aus,“ berichtet Schmidl. Deswegen wurde vereinbart, Dr. Hans Peter Hutter vom Institut für Umweltmedizin in Wien als anerkannten Fachmann zu Rate zu ziehen.

Er sei ein Kenner der Purkersdorfer Gegebenheiten und würde von der Stadtgemeinde beauftragt werden, ein medizinisches Gutachten zu erstellen. Schmidl: „Ich habe vorgeschlagen, Hutter zum nächsten Runden Tisch einzuladen, um die Ergebnisse der bisherigen Messungen zu interpretieren und als Experte noch weiter zur Verfügung zu stehen.“ Abschließend teilte der Vertreter der Firma T-Mobile mit, dass die Telering-Sendeanlage im Kirchturm voraussichtlich im Februar 2007 abgeschaltet wird. Der nächster Runde Tisch wird am 9. Jänner 2007 sein.

Copyright ©2001-2004 Web Wiz Guide

http://www.noen.at/redaktion/n-pur/article.asp?Text=216961&cat=337

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Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

Während die Klimakonferenz in Nairobi tagt, liegt Madrid im Fieber und leidet selbst die regnerische nordspanische Region Kantabrien schon unter der Dürre.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23962/1.html

http://tinyurl.com/uzoxx

Impeachment By Spring: Here's The Plan
http://tinyurl.com/y73f77

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Impeachment By Spring: We're Off and Running!

It's been just one week since we announced ImpeachForChange in Philadelphia and the response has been tremendous!

Over 23,000 activists signed our petition - even though our overloaded server turned many away. We upgraded our server so please try again: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88 and help us reach our goal of 1 million by forwarding the petition to your friends!

Then print copies of our simplified impeachment petition http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/petition-4.pdf and collect signatures from friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Then keypunch the email addresses into our invitation letter to ask the signers to complete the full petition online. Full instructions here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/petition


31 Congressional District Impeachment Committees ... and Counting!

We also asked you to form Impeachment Committees in your Congressional District to persuade your Representative (who is supposed to represent you!) to support impeachment. And you responded in force! We now have committees forming in all of these districts:

CA30, CA38, CA52, DC00, FL10, FL18, FL19, HI01, HI02, IL03, IL11, MA08, MA10, MI10, MN04, MO08, NC04, NC06, NC11, NC13, NE03, NY07, NY08, NY15, OK05, PA18, RI01, RI02, SD00, TX18, VA08

If you live in one of these districts, you can find the announcement after you login to Democrats.com and click here: http://democrats.com/local

If there is no committee in your Congressional District, please create one here: http://www.democrats.com/cdic

Congressional District Impeachment Committees will:
1. Collect petitions on paper at busy locations (see above)
2. Write letters and op-eds to local papers
3. Meet directly with Representatives to persuade them to support impeachment
4. Organize Town Hall meetings (see below)


Impeachment Events on December 10: Human Rights and Impeachment Day

We also asked you to schedule Town Hall Meetings on Impeachment on December 10, and you responded again!

MA: Cambridge DC: Washington NC: Charlotte FL: Gainesville CA: Santa Barbara CA: San Francisco WA: Seattle

You can view existing events and sign up to attend one here.

You can create a public listing of your event here. You will be able to communicate with the people who sign up for your event, and to edit the listing for your event, changing or filling in details later.

Here is a list of available speakers with their contact info.

Be sure also to invite your Congress Member or newly elected future Congress Member to speak.

Here are resources that will make your event easy and effective.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10


Want to End the War? Ask Congress to Do Investigations

Many committees in the House and Senate can - without taking any energy away from ending the war - finally conduct the investigations that have gone undone for 6 years, exposing evidence that could very well lead to criminal, civil, or political accountability, as well as pressure to end the war and precedent to help prevent the next war.

Here's a guide to asking your Representative and Senators to conduct investigations: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/investigations

Here's the same information on a flyer you can print and distribute: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/1pageinvestigations.pdf


A Critical Public Service Announcement from Randi Rhodes

Click image to hear 30-second audio. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rhodes2.mp3

Ask your radio stations to air it.

Check out our other PSAs. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/psa


Audio and Video from Launch of ImpeachForChange in Philadelphia on Veterans Day

Our event was a great success, with outstanding speakers and bloggers.

Here is video: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/phillyvideo
Here is audio: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/phillyaudio


We Now Have Shirts With Long Sleeves
http://www.wavelengthclothing.com/impeach_bush.html


Invite the Bush Chain Gang to Your Town Reduce fear and roadside trash: put them to work.

http://backbonecampaign.org/chaingang.cfm


Forward this message to everyone you know!



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

HLV INFO 117/AT

14-11-2006 Risiko Mobilfunk

Veranstaltungsreihe des Bündnisses saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk

Das Bündnis saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk veranstaltet am 18. November 2006, 17:00 bis ca. 21:00 Uhr im Großen Sitzungssaal des Homburger Rathauses eine Tagung zum Thema

Mobilfunk - Kinder - Schulen

mit folgenden Vorträgen:

Vorsorge - statt Spätfolgen (Prof. Dr. R. Frentzel-Beyme, Bremen)

Die Gefährdung von Generationen (Dr. U. Warnke, Saarbrücken)

Mobilfunk im Unterricht? (Heike-Solveig Bleuel, Tübingen)

Herr Frentzel-Beyme ist Umweltwissenschaftler und Epidemiologe, Herr Warnke Biowissenschaftler, Frau Bleuel Diplombiologin, Schulbuchautorin und Dozentin. Die Vorträge werden ebenso mit Ergebnissen eigener Arbeit wie mit zum Teil noch wenig bekannten Erkenntnissen internationaler Forschung vertraut machen, aber auch fragen, wie die strittige Materie sinnvoll in den Unterricht einbezogen werden kann. Anschließend ist Gelegenheit zur Diskussion gegeben.

Wir laden herzlich zu der Veranstaltung ein. Der Eintritt ist kostenlos.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i.A. Prof. Dr. K. Richter (zugl. V.i.S.d.P.)

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Kinder und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

Mobilfunk in der Schule
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/338094/

Schule und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403986/

Elektrosmog im Klassenzimmer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1870495/

Stoning is a particularly brutal form of execution, specifically designed to increase and prolong the suffering endured by the individual being executed.

Currently nine Iranian women http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7215242910612138237741565 are under sentence of execution by stoning for adultery, including one woman who claims she was forced into prostitution by her husband.

Please join Amnesty International and human rights defenders in Iran - mostly women, including activists, journalists and lawyers - to put an end to stoning!

Urge the Iranian government to commute the sentences of death by stoning and to abolish this inhumane practice, today!
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7215173210612138237741565

Sincerely,
The Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
Amnesty International
USA

Drug company Novartis is challenging India's Patent law to prevent cheaper generic versions of its drugs being sold in India. If they win, this will threaten India's ability to produce affordable generic drugs, including HIV medicines, which are benefiting millions of people in India and other developing countries.

Tell Novartis to drop their lawsuit.
http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/novartis

This could seriously impede poor people obtaining cheaper medicines and is against an international agreement that declares that developing countries can produce and import cheaper versions of medicines in the interests of public health.

Millions of poor people depend on these live-saving medicines. Please contact Novartis today and tell them to drop their lawsuit!

Thank you for your support of poor people around the world.

Sincerely,

Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0806-21.htm


Informant: Debi Clark



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

Who says hip-hop isn't political any more? Check out Dr. Octagon's latest hot track, "Trees," an environmental PSA made for MTV.

Pass It On
http://ga3.org/ct/2p20pgF1uzU3/

Nasty, Brutish And Republican
http://www.observer.com/20061113/20061113_Joe_Conason_politics_joeconason.asp

Source: http://ga3.org/ct/Np20pgF1uzU2/

A Vote For A Fair Internet
http://ga3.org/ct/2120pgF1uzUw/

by Jonah Goldman and Tova Wang, TomPaine.com

There are plenty of troubling voter problems that need to be addressed.
http://ga3.org/ct/2720pgF1uzUx/

Bush's Failed Liberation Theology
http://ga3.org/ct/2d20pgF1uzUs/

ANGRY Blidworth residents have blasted council chiefs and accused them of 'ineptitude' after a mobile phone company exploited a legal loophole to put up a mast just yards from their homes.

Phone giant 3G had applied for planning permission for a 15-metre base station on the car park of the derelict Blidworth Miners' Welfare building on Mansfield Road.

Newark and Sherwood District Council refused the application — but under new national rules a phone company must be notified of the decision within 56 days or the project can go ahead.

It was revealed this week that planners informed 3G on the 57th day, meaning the mast could be installed despite the no-go ruling.

Said head of planning Mike Evans: "Because of that hiccup we approached them and as a matter of goodwill had hoped that they would reconsider –– or at least meet us.

"But no, their attitude was 'we've got consent and we're going to erect it'. We're very disappointed."

But 3G bosses say they have done everything they were required to do — including asking relevant bodies for their comments before the planning application was even submitted — and insisted they are doing nothing legally wrong by putting up the mast.

Said spokesman Verity Blake: "It is regrettable they didn't contact us within the time frame as this causes problems for all parties."

Furious resident Susan Evans lives opposite the mast and has criticised council chiefs this week for their blunder.

"The council has been inept — it informed residents that planning permission had been refused but didn't get a letter to the company in time," she said. "The council's incompetence needs to be shown up."

Mrs Evans and her husband Bill now plan to lodge a complaint with the Local Government Ombudsman and say they are also considering legal action.

14 November 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.mansfieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=722&ArticleID=1876545

Fox News

by Susan Estrich

11/12/06

Don't get too drunk on the bubbly yet, fellow Democrats. 'Control' isn't all it's cracked up to be. This is not like winning the White House. That's 'control.' When you win the presidency, you get control of the entire executive branch. You can run the foreign policy of the most powerful country on earth. You can issue executive orders without asking anyone. You can appoint judges and justices who serve for life. When you win control of Congress, you can schedule hearings. You can run the House post office and the page program. You get better offices, and more staff people. You also get attacked for not having a plan. That's why Rush Limbaugh says he's liberated. He's liberated to start attacking. But that doesn't mean Democrats have power. When was the last time you heard anyone talking about the powerful House Republicans? Not. Or the powerhouse Senate Republicans? And there were more of them than there will be Senate Democrats...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228942,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith

11/12/06

It's time for a big fat 'I told you so' to all you Republicans, conservatives, neoconservatives, and neolibertarians who are reeling with surprise and shock over what happened to them the first Tuesday in November. You people screwed up bigtime, and you got it all back, in the shorts, in one long evening in hell you'll remember all your lives. ... It's so refreshing when what goes arounbd actually comes around. None of you would listen over the past five or six years. None of you listened over the past fifty years. If you had, things would be very different today, and it would be Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer out standing on a street corner selling pencils from a tin cup instead of you...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle393-20061112-09.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

No way out -- but out

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

11/13/06

The Perpetually Warmongering True Believers are amazed, outraged and full of damnation directed at Bush, the Iraq Study Group (such as it is), and anyone else at all who would even consider that perhaps the only conceivable way of 'stabilizing' Iraq is, among other things, to engage Iran and Syria in regional talks. The True Believers are absolutely certain that if the brutal and brutalizing force we have employed thus far is insufficient, the best solution is a still more brutal campaign of lethal, murderous bombs and bullets. They are as certain of this as they have been certain of everything else over the last five years...

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/11/no-way-out-but-out.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

11/10/06

'Power tends to corrupt,' Lord Acton famously said. 'And absolute power corrupts absolutely.' The voters apparently agreed. It's reasonable to conclude from the election results that most voters felt the Republicans had been in power too long. The hopeless war in Iraq, the culture of corruption and incompetence, the spending binge (which includes the war), the grating social conservatism, and the autocratic arrogance approaching the dictatorial -- all culminated in a thunderous repudiation of President Bush and the Republican Party. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0611b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Gary Kamiya

11/14/06

The neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously tossed onto the scrapheap. But they also blame the National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy Franks and George W. Bush himself. The only thing they don't blame is the actual culprit -- neoconservative ideology itself. The neocon finger-pointing over who lost Iraq, recently showcased in Vanity Fair, obscures the fact that Bush's war was a laboratory in which their doctrine was tested -- and completely failed. This failure was manifested on the ground and confirmed by the midterms. Most Americans don't even know what neoconservatism is, but they know a failure when they see it -- and they decisively rejected it... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2006/11/14/neocons


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Neocons, RIP?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar76.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neoconservatism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Hadar

The American Spectator
by Andrew Cline

11/14/06

This year marks Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert 's 20th year in the U.S. House. Had Hastert been able to stay on as speaker for the 110th Congress, he would have tied Massachusetts Democrats Tip O'Neill and John McCormack as the longest-serving House speaker in U.S. history. For anyone who remembers being energized by the Republican Revolution of 1994 and its outsider vs. insider mantle, that historical tidbit is cringe-inducing. Hastert presided over a Republican-controlled House that each year became more cynical, more spend-happy, and more obsessed with maintaining power...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10627


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

TCS Daily
by Jagadeesh Gokhale

11/14/06

As reported by its trustees, Social Security's total imbalance has increased from $10.4 trillion in 2004 to $13.4 trillion in 2006 -- a jump of $3.0 trillion in just two years. And Medicare's imbalance has grown from $61.6 trillion in 2004 to $70.5 trillion today -- an increase of $8.9 trillion in the same period. That's $11.9 trillion in new debt in the past two years alone. Put another way, it's 85 percent of the $14 trillion of GDP that the United States will likely produce this year...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111306B


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Akron Beacon Journal

11/13/06

Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees. In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/yd9z6y


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Winston-Salem Journal

11/14/06

President Bush traded ideas on Iraq with a bipartisan commission Monday and promised to work with the incoming Democratic majority toward 'common objectives.' At the same time, he renewed his opposition to any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. As Bush met with the Iraq Study Group, the Democrat in line to lead the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin of Michigan, said the administration didn't see that 'we're getting deeper and deeper into a hole'...

http://tinyurl.com/y9nqqr



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A PROPOSAL for a towering 40-foot mobile phone mast in the centre of a village conservation area has been condemned as "outrageous" by district councillor Gary Marsh.

"It would be like a Belisha beacon – visible from all over the village," Mr Marsh said. "It is absurd – complete cloud cuckoo land!"

The proposed siting by British Telecom at its telephone exchange in Stockcroft Road, Balcombe, also places the steel monopole next to Tiggers Playgroup, the village's pre-school group.

"Government guidelines say children below a certain age should not use mobile phones and yet this would be less than 50 metres from Tiggers," Mr Marsh said.

An application to site the mast in Stockcroft Road comes within days of another blow to villagers who campaigned against an application to put three wall-mounted antennae on Gilletts Surgery, near the village centre.

The district council refused permission because of fears of disturbance caused by humming from the equipment box. But an appeal by Orange has just been approved by a planning inspector on condition that noise insulation is agreed and emitted noise is measured and monitored.

Mr Marsh, district councillor for Balcombe, said he was "gutted" by the inspector's decision. He said Balcombe was already surrounded by at least 10 other masts, with permission for two more also given.

"It's bad enough having them across the valley trying to look like trees but bringing them into the village itself, on a doctors' surgery and next to a playgroup is appalling," he added.

Balcombe Parish Council will discuss the BT monopole application on Tuesday at 7.30pm in the WI Room at the Victory Hall. Residents have until December 1 to write to MSDC to comment on the application.

middy.news@sussexnewspapers.co.uk

14 November 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=516&ArticleID=1875716

Landeserwerbslosenkonferenz in Rheinland-Pfalz

Vom 24.11.-26.11.06 treffen sich in Mainz Erwerbslose aus Rheinland-Pfalz unter dem Motto „Die Würde des Menschen wird ungesetzlich!“, um eventuell eine landesweite Vernetzungsstruktur partei- und gewerkschaftsunabhängiger Betroffener zu bilden. Siehe die Einladung (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/lek_rlp06.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 14. November 2006

Kölner Nubbel ohne Skrub(p)el. Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland verleiht besondere Auszeichnung. Chefermittler Markus Galle der ARGE Köln-Porz setzt auf Denunzianten

„Pünktlich zum Karnevalsbeginn hat das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland dem Präsidenten des Karnevalsvereins „Poorzer Nubbele e. V.“ und Leiter des Bedarfsermittlungsdienstes der ARGE Köln-Porz eine Auszeichnung für besonders negative Benachteiligungen von Hartz IV-Betroffenen verliehen. Beispielhaft seien seine Einstellungen zu Denunziationen, ohne die die Arbeiten des Ermittlungsdienstes nicht möglich seien…“ Pressemitteilung des Erwerbslosen Forums Deutschland vom 11.11.2006 http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/kolner_nubbel_ohne_skrubpel.htm

Die Laudatio für Markus Galle (pdf) http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/markus_galle.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Sie gaben in der Sendung „Neugier genügt“ (WDR5 vom
12.10.2006) umfassend und gut gelaunt Auskunft darüber, wie Sie als Bedarfsermittler unverhofft vor Haustüren stehen und Ihre „Neugier“ befriedigen. (…) Beachtenswert sind auch Ihre philosophischen Betrachtungen über Denunziation. Es bleibt nun mal nicht aus, dass andere Menschen andere denunzieren, „weil Sozialleistungsbezieher eben einem gewissen Augenmerk ausgesetzt sind. Da gibt es Neider, verärgerte Verwandte und Freunde die dann keine Freunde mehr sind.“ Wie gesagt: in der Sendung des WDR hielt sich Ihre Empörung über so etwas sehr in Grenzen…“ Siehe dazu:

Wenn es klingelt - Bedarfsermittler nach Hartz IV. Mitschnitt der WDR5 Radiosendung „Neugier genügt“ von Maria Franziska Schüller vom 12. Oktober 2006, 10.15 Uhr http://www.wdr5.de/sendungen/neugier_genuegt/801164.phtml


Aus: LabourNet, 14. November 2006

Neuer Begleitservice in Leipzigs Bahnen

„In Leipzig werden von diesem Freitag an 48 Hartz-IV-Empfänger als Begleitservice in Bussen und Bahnen eingesetzt. Damit startet das vom Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) initiierte Pilotprojekt für insgesamt 300 Hartz-IV-Empfänger. (…) Das Programm ist auf drei Jahre angelegt. Die Teilnehmer erhalten zusätzlich zu ihrem Arbeitslosengeld II monatlich 100 bis 150 Euro. Die Rechtsgrundlage ist die selbe wie beim „Ein-Euro-Job“. Das Interesse an dem Projekt ist groß: Rund 600 Menschen haben sich beworben, berichtet die LVB. Die Spanne reicht vom 20- bis 62- Jährigen, vom Bewerber mit Förderschulabschluss bis hin zum Diplomchemiker. Dennoch ist das Projekt umstritten. Im Zusammenhang mit Diskussionen um die Innere Sicherheit war Tiefensee, früher Oberbürgermeister der Stadt, für die Idee kritisiert worden…“ Artikel von Marion van der Kraats vom 13. November 2006 bei „Sachsen im Netz“ http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1322994

Siehe dazu unter „Proteste gegen Ein-Euro-Jobs“: Protest in Bus und Straßenbahn. „Die Überflüssigen“ in Leipzig nahmen Tiefensees Busbegleiter – Projekt auf 's Korn http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/busbegleiter.html


Aus: LabourNet, 14. November 2006

„Mit dem am Mittwoch vorgestellten Gesetzentwurf zur Reform der Telekommunikationsüberwachung will Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries die langfristige Protokollierung von Telefon-, Handy-, Email- und Internetdaten durchsetzen, obwohl anhängige Gerichtsverfahren voraussichtlich deren Verfassungswidrigkeit ergeben werden. "Damit nimmt Frau Zypries einen Verfassungsbruch bewusst in Kauf", protestiert der Jurist Patrick Breyer vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 08.11.2006 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=27


FoeBuD entwickelt "PrivacyDongle" gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung

„Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung bedeutet langfristig, dass in Zukunft sämtliche Kommunikationsverbindungen von Telefon, Handy, SMS und Internet (wer, wann, wo, mit wem) gespeichert werden sollen. Diese Maßnahme betrifft eben nicht Terroristen, sondern 80 Millionen unbescholtene Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Deutschland. Der FoeBuD e.V. engagiert sich seit langem gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, denn diese ist eine Bedrohung für unsere Demokratie. Deswegen hat der FoeBuD mit dem "PrivacyDongle" ein Werkzeug geschaffen, das das anonyme Surfen auch für technisch nicht so bewanderte Menschen einfach möglich macht…“ Pressemitteilung von FoeBuD e.V. vom 9.11.2006 http://www.foebud.org/datenschutz-buergerrechte/vorratsdatenspeicherung/foebud-entwickelt-privacydongle-gegen-vorratsdatenspeicherung


Aus: LabourNet, 14. November 2006

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Neue Attacke auf den Bürger von Ministerin Zypries
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24531



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

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24517



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Do you know what's in that bottle of water sitting in your refrigerator? Probably not, right? Well, that's because bottled water corporations, like Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé, aggressively lobby against legislation that would require them to disclose complete water quality information.

Join our National Day of Action! Send an e-mail to the CEOs of Coke (Dasani), Pepsi (Aquafina) and Nestlé (Poland Spring, Deer Park, Arrowhead and more). Ask when these corporations will provide water quality reports based on independent testing comparable to those provided by our public water utilities.

The bottled water industry is one of the least regulated industries in the United States. Yet the giant bottling corporations spend tens of millions of dollars every year trying to convince us that bottled water is safer and more pure than tap water. We just don't buy it!

Think Outside the Bottle!
http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/ct/07AJ1Fs1xzmc/
Take action today! Click here to send an e-mail to the CEOs of Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé.
http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/ct/0pAJ1Fs1xzmB/

You can also join thousands of people across the country who are calling these corporations today in a joint Day of Action.

Call-In Day Scripts

Call Coke CEO Neville Isdell:

Call 1-800-Get-Coke. Hi, my name is ________. I'd like to speak to CEO Neville Isdell, please.

You will likely be asked what the question is, or to leave a message:

I have a question. I know that your product Dasani is regulated by the FDA. And, I know that Coca-Cola says it uses filtration systems, voluntary testing and state of the art processes for its bottled water; but all of this information comes directly from Coke. As a consumer, I want to see the actual results of water quality tests from over the past year, like my public water system must provide. Coke continues to advertise bottled water as more safe and pure than tap water; when will Coke provide water quality reports based on independent testing that are comparable to those provided by our public water utilities?

Call Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi:

Call PEPSI (914) 253-2000. Hi, my name is ________. I'd like to speak to CEO Indra Nooyi, please.

You will likely be asked what the question is, or to leave a message:

I have a question. I know that Pepsi's Aquafina bottled water is regulated by the FDA. And, I know that Pepsi says it uses filtration systems, voluntary testing and state of the art processes for its bottled water; but all of this information comes directly from Pepsi. As a consumer, I want to see the actual results of water quality tests from over the past year, like my public water system must provide. Pepsi continues to advertise bottled water as more safe and pure than tap water; when will Pepsi provide water quality reports based on independent testing that are comparable to those provided by our public water utilities?

Call Nestlé Waters North America CEO Kim E. Jeffery:

Call NESTLÉ WATERS NORTH AMERICA 1-800-937-7708. Hi, my name is ________. I'd like to speak to CEO Kim E. Jeffery, please.

You will likely be asked what the question is, or to leave a message:

I have a question. I know that Nestlé bottled water brands like Poland Spring/Deer Park/Arrowhead (put in the local brand here) are regulated by the FDA. And, I know that Nestlé says it uses filtration systems, voluntary testing, state of the art processes and protected water sources for its bottled water; but all of this information comes directly from Nestlé. As a consumer, I want to see up-to-date and current actual results of water quality tests from over the past year, like my public water system must provide. Nestlé continues to advertise bottled water as more safe and pure than tap water; when will Nestlé provide a current, comprehensive and independent water quality report comparable to reports provided by our public water utilities?

After your call, please take a moment to let us know what happened. You can report your phone calls by calling our Campaign Headquarters at 800-688-8797 or by e-mailing us at Email: mwn@pobox.com

Onward,


Patti Lynn
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1353.cfm

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/181/31/


Informant: rafeswhiterose

Leserbrief
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/total_falsche_botschaft.pdf



WLAN Funknetz als Strahlenschleuder?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293874/

Strahlend ins Internet-WLAN
http://www.ises-suedbaden.de/pdf/WLAN.pdf

Funk-Netzwerke
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/257661/

WLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293874/

WLAN in Schulen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1053669/

Mit dem Laptop in den Unterricht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1054537/

WLAN via Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1041099/

Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/191214/
http://tinyurl.com/88sg2

I'm writing you from Everett, Washington, where just moments ago, Greenpeace activists drove a Kleenex shaped bus across the entrance of Kimberly Clark's paper mill, one of the largest mills in the country. This busy mill receives thousands of tons of ancient trees throughout the year, so our action is sure to get the company's immediate attention. We're demanding that Kimberly Clark's representatives meet with us, and we've even provided a meeting room and coffee onboard the bus to facilitate the discussion.

But you can help encourage Kimberly Clark to meet with us right now.

TAKE ACTION

Write directly to the CEO of Kimberly Clark and demand a meeting with Greenpeace.
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=125

We're not the only ones demanding that Kimberly Clark stop wiping out ancient forests for disposable tissue products. Just over a month ago, Fortune magazine reported that the CEO of Walmart has also asked Kimberly Clark to clean up its forest practices. Walmart happens to be the largest retail outlet for products such as Kleenex tissues and Scott toilet paper. If companies like Walmart, and consumers like you apply enough pressure, we can bring Kimberly Clark to the table.

It's time for Kimberly Clark to stop blowing the world's last remaining ancient forests and start using recycled content and FSC-certified wood in its products.

Your friend,
Pam Ginger
Cassady Forest Campaigner

http://www.care2.com/news/member/870323169/220673



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kimberly+Clark

This is the story of so called rendition planes, otherwise known as torture taxis. They are civilian aircraft often owned by companies suspected of being fronts for the CIA. The planes are used to travel abroad, kidnap suspects, and take them to dark places at the ends of the earth, from which few ever return.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5660267


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture

The civil reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, U.S. officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for some of the work.

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061110-114629-4533r


From Information Clearing House

Saddam Finale

By Said K. Aburish

What is good for America in Iraq is not necessarily good for Iraq. Controlling Iraq and using its strategic position, oil and status within the Arab-Muslim worlds is part of America’s plans and the weaker Iraq is through religious and ethnic divisions the easier it is to control.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15593.htm

By Mike Whitney

Even after being forced to resign in utter disgrace, he still shows no sign of doubting his abilities as a military genius. His ego remains as impervious to criticism as tempered steel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15603.htm



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

By Cindy Sheehan

We the people put the Democrats back into power because we want to see a change in this country and a rejection of politics as usual. We want politics as unusual. We want to see the issue of impeachment and a speedy and safe withdrawal of our troops from Iraq de-politicized and brought into the realm of "right and wrong" where these issues belong, not "right and left."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15595.htm



Click:





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

“With Great Power…”

By Rick Banales

We must remind these people that until we have the 900-year-old principle of Habeas Corpus returned in this country – whole, undiluted, for citizen and non-citizen alike, we really do not live in America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15594.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus

After the Republicans took control of the House in 1994, perhaps no group was on the outs as much as organized labor. But now that the Democrats have swept both houses of Congress, the nation's labor unions feel as if they are back - and then some.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/111306LA.shtml

The Democrats' return to power is increasing pressure on House Republican leaders to accept a limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling. Supporters of such exploration say the next Congress, with Democrats in control come January, probably will not tamper with the long-standing drilling bans that have protected most coastal waters for a quarter-century.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/111306EB.shtml

The United States last year provided nearly half of the weapons sold to militaries in the developing world, as major arms sales to the most unstable regions - many already engaged in conflict - grew to the highest level in eight years, new US government figures show.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111306T.shtml

http://www.consumersforpeace.org/headline_iraq_troop_withdrawal_far_off.html


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

A message from NANCY

Original Message

THANKS COLLEEN FOR FORWARDING, OF COURSE I SIGNED.

VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES ON THE PETITION, BUT PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD.

THANKS, RIA.


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Hi there,

here is a very important petition for animals in China, please read it and sign, and forward it to anyone you know, thanks!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/980306975


Miwa

by Greg Evensen

Police officers will be given the ultimate responsibility to see that each one of us is carrying out the dictates of the government. They will do so because they have sworn to uphold the “law.” Ultimately, law will be what politicians and corrupted courts say that it is. Not what our constitution clearly states it actually is or is not. The due process protections will be gone as will be our dwindling Bill of Rights......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg6.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+of+Rights

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fuj/latimes104.htm


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/salyer2.html



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