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Khaled el-Masri, who claims the CIA kidnapped and tortured him, recounted his story on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and said he hoped he could help prevent others from suffering a similar fate. The Kuwaiti-born German citizen said he had brought his story to Washington to encourage greater oversight of CIA activities and force the US government to acknowledge what happened to him.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113006F.shtml

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Watch El-Masri and his attorneys tell his story in video from events this week, and learn more about the case.

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Why the U.S. study group won't solve anything

The forthcoming report by James Baker's Iraq Study Group has enjoyed the biggest public buildup since the Segway. And it is likely to be just as big of a bust.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15957154/site/newsweek/



From Information Clearing House

Campaigners have reacted with disbelief after learning they have lost their fight against a mobile phone mast being built next to a Cubbington pub.

Hundreds signed a petition earlier this year against the plan to install a 12m antenna next to the Rugby Tavern in Rugby Road, and felt victorious after Warwick District Council refused permission for the proposal.

But phone company O2 appealed against the council's decision - and this week overturned it after the Planning Inspectorate, based in Bristol, ruled that there were no valid reasons for refusing permission.

And the decision has infuriated those who battled hard to stop the mast being erected. Rugby Road resident Shirley Rush, who lives opposite the pub, said: "It seems unbelieveable. There's nothing else we can do now. We've tried everything. It shows that big business, with all its resources, will always win. It's very sad."

Local authorities are not allowed to use health fears to refuse phone mast applications, and there is no proven link between such masts and illness among people living near them. The district council instead turned down the plan because it felt the mast would harm the appearence of the area - and it was on these grounds that the Planning Inspectorate overruled the council.

Inspector Leslie Coop said: "There is already a considerable amount of street furniture along this part of Rugby Road, including 10m high street lighting columns on both sides of the road.

"I am satisfied the mast would blend into the street scene, particularly if the mast and cabinets were to be of an appropriate colour.

"The operator has an obligation to provide a network serving at least 80 per cent of the population by the end of 2007 and I consider this outweighs any minor visual impact that the proposed development would have."

The ruling comes just weeks after protesters in Old Milverton successfully stopped O2 building a mast in the village, which it had tried to do three times.

The Planning Inspectorate agreed in that case that the roadside mast would be a risk to traffic.

30 November 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=691&ArticleID=1907399

By Jonathan Moyes

AN application to place a phone mast on a Chingford church spire has been rejected over fears that pornography will be distributed via the network.

The proposal to build a T-Mobile base station in the spire of SS Peter and Paul Church on The Green was rejected by the Chelmsford Diocese consistory court.

Presiding judge, George Pulman QC, Chelmsford Diocese Chancellor, said: "It is wrong in law for the church to facilitate transmission of pornography, even in a slight or modest way.

"It is equally wrong for the church to gain financial advantage, even in a slight or modest way, from the transmission of pornography.

"Until there is clear evidence that antennae in church towers in this diocese cannot transmit pornography, it is unlikely that a faculty will be granted to allow church towers to be used for 3G transmissions.

"It causes me some surprise that local authorities granting planning permission for antennae may wish to adopt a different view. The dangers to children from internet pornography are well known to local authority social services departments.

"It is their social workers who give evidence before the High Court in respect of the dangers of child pornography, the effect of child pornography on adults and on children and the resultant dangers to others."

The Bishop of Chelmsford's chaplain, Chris Newlands, said: "This is a landmark ruling. The church is not supportive of anything that de-humanises or abases humanity. We can see the point the judge has been making about how the phone mast can help mobile phone users to send 3G images which could be images of pornography."

Chingford MP Iain Duncan Smith said: "I have not seen the ruling, but if it is true this is great news and a landmark victory for common sense.

"As everyone is aware, I remain concerned over the health implications of this technology and here in Chingford we will be under constant pressure from mobile phone companies for two reasons.

"The first is we are within easy reach of the M25, A406 and M11. Secondly, the mobile phone companies have to recoup the vast amounts of money the Government made them pay for their licences."

Resident Trevor Calver, Larkshall Road, Highams Park, said: "I am absolutely delighted the chancellor saw sense and kicked the mast out.

"The 3G masts are way for people to send images and to pick up things from television and computers and there is certainly a danger to children."

The Guardian contacted T-Mobile but the phone company had not resonded at the time of going to press.

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The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, shifting the US role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113006Z.shtml

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Profumo hat sich in Italien das Image eines guten, gesellschaftlich verantwortungsvollen Bankers erarbeitet. Als vergangene Woche unsere italienischen Freunde eine Protestwelle per E-Mail starteten, reagierte er bereits nervös. Jetzt wollen wir die nächste Welle starten! Partner in weiteren europäischen Ländern wollen folgen.

Schicken Sie dem Unicredit-Chef Profumo eine Protest-Mail: http://www.campact.de/atom2/ml1/mailer

Der aktuelle Flyer (mit Ablaufplan und sonstigen Infos) (pdf) http://www.protest2006.de/Einladung_Aktionskonferenz.pdf

Infos zur Anmeldung, Anreise & Übernachtung in Frankfurt http://www.protest2006.de/aktionskonferenz/aktionskonferenzinfos/infos_zur_anmeldung_und_ubernachtung_der_aktionskonferenz.html

»Es gibt den Vorschlag, die Börse lahmzulegen«

Auf Aktionskonferenz in Frankfurt/Main soll über weiteren Widerstand gegen Sozialabbau diskutiert werden. Gespräch mit Martin Behrsing, Erwerbslosenforum Deutschland, von Wolfgang Pomrehn in junge Welt vom 30.11.06 http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/11-30/053.php

Siehe dazu auch den Frankfurter Appell, der bei der Konferenz überarbeitet werden soll (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/frankfurterappell.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 30. November 2006

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

30. November 2006

Zur Entwicklung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Monat November erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Die Konjunktur zieht weiter an, die Lage scheint gut und die Arbeitslosenzahlen sinken von Monat zu Monat toll, könnte man meinen. Die politische Realität und die jüngsten Beschlüsse des Bundeskabinetts jedoch machen den schönen Schein zunichte. Beispielsweise schickt der gestern vom Kabinett gebilligte Gesetzentwurf zur Anhebung des Rentenalters auf 67 Jahre ältere Arbeitnehmer in Vorruhestands- und Altersarmut. Und wenn Franz Müntefering sagt, um diese Politik zu verstehen reiche "Volksschule Sauerland", dann sage ich: Das mag ja stimmen. Aber um eine sozial gerechte Politik zu entwickeln, reicht "Volksschule Sauerland" offensichtlich nicht. Natürlich freuen wir uns über jeden Menschen, der eine Arbeit gefunden hat, besonders, wenn es sich um eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Arbeit handelt. Man darf jedoch die Augen nicht davor verschließen, dass nach wie vor 3,995 Millionen arbeitslos sind. Nach wie vor ist die Arbeitslosigkeit im Osten doppelt so hoch wie im Westen. Hier muss aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik ansetzen. Hier kann Franz Müntefering die Effizienz der "Volksschule Sauerland" unter Beweis stellen. Geld ist vorhanden, erst gestern hatte die Bundesagentur für Arbeit einen elf Milliarden Überschuss angekündigt. Dieses Geld auf dem Kapitalmarkt anzulegen, bringt den heute Betroffenen gar nichts. Die Linke fordert, dass ein Großteil des Geldes für eine verstärkte Investition in öffentliche Beschäftigung genutzt wird, um auch Langzeitarbeitslosen und älteren Arbeitslosen wieder eine Chance auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt zu verschaffen. Nur wer sich für Arbeit einsetzt, von der man menschenwürdig leben kann, hat das Recht, sich über Verbesserungen bei der Arbeitslosigkeitsstatistik zu freuen. Alles andere ist unglaubwürdig. Wer sich aber, wie die Regierungsparteien, für einen ausgedehnten Niedriglohnsektor und gegen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von mindestens 8 Euro wendet und ältere Arbeitnehmer durch die Rente mit 67 in Altersarmut schickt, der freut sich nur über den schönen Schein der Statistik.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34667

Hawaii Reporter
by Tim Kane

11/29/06

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), soon to chair the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, has announced his intention to reinstate the draft. He has offered three different justifications for the reversion to conscription after 33 years of an all-volunteer force: social justice, peace, and better troops. Rep. Rangel claims that poor people with few opportunities enlist, often driven to military service because of structural unemployment. 'If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career, or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq,' he said on FOX News Sunday (11/26/2006). This serious charge -- that the most vulnerable citizens are being hauled away to fight in corporate America's wars of choice while the elite are snow-skiing -- is untrue...

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The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

11/29/06

The most likely candidate for a near-term, even more catastrophic identical error is, of course, Iran. The terms in which virtually everyone discusses the possible threat that Iran might represent reveal that none of this framework has been altered to any significant degree. I regret to note that this judgment applies to far too many liberal and progressive bloggers, as well as to the foreign policy establishment. That basic framework is entirely false. It led to the disastrous U.S. involvement in World War I, to the debacle of Vietnam, and to the catastrophe of Iraq. It has already led to almost a century of worldwide devastation -- and it threatens to lead to still another century of death and chaos reaching around the globe. If the framework is not rejected at its foundation, the scale of devastation and death may finally overwhelm our ability to grasp and comprehend it at all...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cato Institute
by Timothy Sandefur

11/30/06

In a powerful response to last year's Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, voters approved nine state-ballot initiatives prohibiting the seizure of homes and businesses for private development. These initiatives -- in Florida, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Michigan -- won in a landslide, with a nationwide average of some 75 percent in favor. Louisiana passed a similar initiative in October. Only two eminent-domain initiatives -- in California and Idaho -- failed. California's came within a few percentage points of succeeding, despite the powerful opposition of government and wealthy interest groups. Add these to new laws enacted by the legislatures of some 25 states and recent anti-eminent-domain decisions by the supreme courts of Ohio, Oklahoma, and Michigan, and the message is clear: Americans are fed up with eminent-domain abuse...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6791


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Raw Story

11/29/06

President Bush and U.S. Senator-elect Jim Webb got into a testy exchange over the status of Webb's soldier son, who is serving in Iraq, The Hill is reporting. Emily Heil writes that at a White House private dinner just after the election featuring 'newly elected lawmakers,' Bush asked Webb 'how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.' According to a person who was present at the dinner, Webb replied to the President that he 'really wanted to see his son brought back home.' 'I didn't ask you that, I asked how he's doing,' Bush replied, according to The Hill's source. 'Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn't,' writes Heil. 'It's safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won't be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon'...

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Miami Herald

11/29/06

A record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday. More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Young people who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a new study has found.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112906HA.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1201-01.htm

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Scientists Fear Results of Collapsed Ice Shelf

A New Zealand-led drilling team in Antarctica has recovered three million years of climate history, but the news is not good for the future. Initial analysis of seafloor cores near Scott Base suggest the Ross Ice Shelf had collapsed in the past - and had probably done so suddenly.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112906EC.shtml

A 2007 UN report with stronger evidence that humans are causing global warming is likely to spur more lawsuits around the world such as a case to be heard by the US Supreme Court on Wednesday. "We're going to get more and more of these cases," said Peter Roderick, director of the Climate Justice Programme, which is linked to the environmental group Friends of the Earth. "The stronger the evidence of human influence gets, the more relevant the question will be for courts."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112906EB.shtml

The sudden weakness of the U.S. dollar began late last week, soon after Chinese officials suggested that holding a lot of dollars might be a losing investment strategy. Investors read that as a signal that the massive trade and financial imbalances between Asia and the U.S. may be about to unwind.

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US setbacks see dollar plunge to near 15-year low

An 8.3pc crash in US industrial orders and an admission by the Federal Reserve chairman that Washington does not know how bad housing really is set off another day of wild gyrations on the currency markets.

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Dollar woes poised to carry over into next year

Greenback is down about 50% vs. euro in past five years; down 6% vs. yen.
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From Information Clearing House

New details have emerged about how an al Qaeda spy named Ali Mohamed penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI before the 9/11 attacks. We speak with investigative journalist Peter Lance about his new book, "Triple Cross."

Video and transcript.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15775.htm

Majlis Second Vice Speaker Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi Fard in a meeting with the Swedish MP and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Urban Ahlin here Wednesday said that any irrational measure and decision against Iran will make the US pay a high price.

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0611290186175314.htm


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the United States one day might have to launch surgical missile strikes into Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting control of nuclear bombs.

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From Information Clearing House

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Senator in a fog

CounterPunch
by Glen Ford

11/29/06

Barack Obama is a windblown politician. The junior Illinois senator avoids anchoring himself to any principle, lest his political sails fail to catch the slightest breeze blowing from the left or the right. His political direction is always tentative, although his ultimate destination is never in doubt: he will be a formidable national presence -- maybe even president. But Barack Obama -- who has never claimed to be a Black leader -- is in fact not a leader at all. Nowhere is this more evident than in the most critical issue facing Americans and the world at this dangerous juncture in history: the war in Iraq...

http://www.counterpunch.org/ford11292006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

They come from Mexico, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Colombia, Cambodia and a hundred other countries across the globe to find the promise of America. Increasingly they enlist to fight, and sometimes die, in America's wars.

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From Information Clearing House

The only thing America did wrong in its "effort to bring progressive politics or democracy to this region" was not coming down hard enough on this darky riff-raff.

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From Information Clearing House



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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Iraq’s violence meets the standard of a civil war and thinks President Bush needs to acknowledge that.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/29/powell-civil-war


From Information Clearing House

Rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups are massing their militias in expectation of major confrontations, Iraqis say.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061128-115226-2217r.htm


From Information Clearing House

"This is a very sad day. Bush has become a symbol of bigotry and injustice towards Arabs and Muslims," the 32-year-old engineer said just hours before Bush was due to arrive in Amman on Wednesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28318405.htm


From Information Clearing House

Violence against Iraqi civilians, which is already taking between 60 and 100 lives a day, is likely to rise still further, Major General William Caldwell, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, conceded yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1959496,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas Watt in Brussels

Britain's role in CIA "torture flights" was roundly condemned yesterday by the European parliament in a scathing report which for the first time named the site of a suspected secret US detention centre in the EU - at Stare Kiejkuty in Poland.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15772.htm



We Are All Tortures Now!

This video provides some evidence of the type of torture engaged in by by our allies. As citizens of the U.S. each of us is responsible for the actions of our government. We are complicit in the torture, distance from the tools used to inflict pain in no way reduces our part in these disgusting acts of barbarity.

- Warning -

This video contains graphic images and audio of torture and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15740.htm



The Torture Society

By Ted Rall

The United States is trying to burnish its nasty image as one of the world's leading torture states--not by eliminating torture, but by silencing its victims. In a remarkable bit of legal sang-froid, the Bush Administration has filed a brief in its case against Majid Khan asking a federal court to seal its torture of him as "top secret."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15778.htm



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The New Scientist
November 29, 2006

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225804.300-climate-change-sceptics-lose-vital-argument.html

By Zeeya Merali

The "hockey stick" graph, which shows a rapid rise in world temperatures over recent decades, has been both poster child for the dangers of human- induced global warming and prime target for climate change sceptics. They cite an anomaly in the graph - it does not record a dip in temperature between 1200 and 1850 - as reason to ditch the whole thing. Now new data may help explain why the graph does not record the "little ice age".

Ocean currents in the North Atlantic, dominated by the Gulf Stream, usually keep winter temperatures in western Europe mild by carrying warm water north from the tropics towards Europe and heating the westerly winds travelling from North America. Climate scientists have suspected that a weak Gulf Stream may have caused the little ice age, but until now there has been no direct evidence for this theory.

Jean Lynch-Stieglitz at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and her colleagues calculated the strength of the Gulf Stream during the little ice age by looking at marine fossils in sediment cores taken from the Straits of Florida. Ocean circulation is driven by variations in water density caused by differences in temperature and salinity. These variations also affect the ratio of oxygen isotopes in marine fossil shells. By measuring these isotope ratios, the team calculated that the Gulf Stream was 10 per cent weaker during the little ice age (Nature, vol 444, p 601).

Moreover, the cooling that resulted was confined mainly to the northern hemisphere, says Lynch-Stieglitz - which indicates it was a regional effect. Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, who constructed the hockey stick graph, has always argued that if this were so, the little ice age would not show up on a global temperature record (New Scientist, 18 March, p 40).

"We're seeing a rearrangement of heat around the globe - so globally overall it's not colder," says Lynch-Stieglitz.

Last month, climate scientists played down the possibility of a mini ice age in the near future (New Scientist, 7 November, p 13). "We usually look for a much more dramatic weakening - an almost total shutdown of the circulation - when considering the impact on future climate," says Meric Srokosz at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. By contrast, the 10 per cent weakening found by the Georgia team is surprisingly small, says Lynch-Stieglitz. She says that climate scientists have to incorporate this finding into their models to better understand how such a small change brought about the little ice age.


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Informant: Scott Munson

Did you know that Congress is about to approve a bill blocking your social networking, blogging or chat room site?

This legislation is called the "Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)", but the name of the bill is misleading. If you take a close look at DOPA, you'll find that this legislation actually limits your rights to access and express yourself on the Internet instead of "deleting online predators". But before this legislation becomes law, it needs to get approved by the Senate and, ultimately, signed by President George W. Bush. The HR5319 bill would even ban websites that are used for positive, professional and social experiences.

HR5319 will censor the communication of our generation and tell us who we can talk to, when and how. Tell Congress that social networking is a movement that our generation has built and is something that we are going to fight for.

Visit http://www.saveyourspace.org take action, tell your friends and get creative about finding other positive solutions to Internet Censorship. -- giselle giselleb @ earthgrid.com


Informant: Scott Munson

Here's something else we need to change asap.

Informant: Scott Munson

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October 26, 2006

Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14,
2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States.

It doesn't matter if you have a U.S. passport-a "travel document" that now, absent a court order to the contrary, gives you a virtually unqualified right to enter or leave the United States, any time you want. When the DHS system comes into effect next January, if the agency says "no" to a clearance request, or doesn't answer the request at all, you won't be permitted to enter-or leave-the United States.

Consider what might happen if you're a U.S. passport holder on assignment in a country like Saudi Arabia. Your visa is about to expire, so you board your flight back to the United States. But wait! You can't get on, because you don't have permission from the HSA. Saudi immigration officials are on hand to escort you to a squalid detention center, where you and others who are now effectively "stateless persons" are detained, potentially indefinitely, until their immigration status is sorted out.

Why might the HSA deny you permission to leave-or enter-the United States? No one knows, because the entire clearance procedure would be an administrative determination made secretly, with no right of appeal. Naturally, the decision would be made without a warrant, without probable cause and without even any particular degree of suspicion. Basically, if the HSA decides it doesn't like you, you're a prisoner-either outside, or inside, the United States, whether or not you hold a U.S. passport.

The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized there is a constitutional right to travel internationally. Indeed, it has declared that the right to travel is "a virtually unconditional personal right." The United States has also signed treaties guaranteeing "freedom of travel." So if these regulations do go into effect, you can expect a lengthy court battle, both nationally and internationally.

Think this can't happen? Think again¦it's ALREADY happening. Earlier this year, HSA forbade airlines from transporting an 18-year-old a native-born U.S. citizen, back to the United States. The prohibition lasted nearly six months until it was finally lifted a few weeks ago. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are two countries in recent history that didn't allow their citizens to travel abroad without permission. If these regulations go into effect, you can add the United States to this list.

For more information on this proposed regulation, see http://hasbrouck.org/IDP/IDP-APIS-comments.pdf

Today our neighbourhood woke up to find a massive 15-metre mobile phone mast had been put up by phone company O2 in front of the Five Bells, in East Finchley, despite planning permission being refused by Barnet Council. It dwarfs another phone mast just 50 feet away, while yet another operator is appealing to install a mast 200 yards along the same road, outside two care homes for the elderly. A school for children with special needs is further along the road.

It's an obvious targeting of the East End Road area by the phone companies, who have each application considered in isolation and on its own merits. But it is the community which has to bear the cumulative impact of all these installations, both the visual detraction and health hazards, for years to come.

O2 has erected the Five Bells mast by default, just like it did its one in Chesterfield Road, Barnet (Phone mast protestors block road', November 22), in the confidence that the council would not take it to court after some minor technical error by the council.

The telecommunications corporations have deep pockets and armies of lawyers to fight local residents and cash-strapped councils. It appears the planning process is all a game rigged to make the community the loser.

Gayle Goshorn Pulham Avenue, East Finchley

© Copyright 2001-2006 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.edgwaretimes.co.uk/news/letters/display.var.1048804.0.community_is_losing_out_to_companies_mobile_phone_masts.php

Nov 29 2006

By Ben Clover

A PROPERTY firm has offered not to go ahead with a controver-sial mobile phone mast development - as long as residents hand over £130,000.

Protesters in and around Arthur Road, Wimbledon, have gathered a petition and written to their MP protesting at the plan but have been told they must pay up if they want to stop it.

An email received last week from the site owner, Towerstile, read: "It has been suggested Towerstile should forgo the potential income.

"We would be willing to withdraw consent to the mast on receipt of £130,000."

The email to campaign organiser DeNica Fairman continued: "If you and your fellow objectors feel strongly about the issues, I am sure you will have no problem in raising this money.

"I already have a contract for signature and I shall therefore need a very quick response if this offer is of interest.

"Incidentally, I would be interested to know how many of you use your mobile phones in the presence of children and/or in built-up areas."

The mast would be above a cafe in the street which is home to many young families. The height of the proposed mast means no planning permission is necessary.

MP for Wimbledon, Stephen Hammond told The Post: "This company is trying to hold the community to ransom. Just because we have more than 2,000 signatures on our petition doesn't mean we can suddenly go off and raise £130,000.

"I have met with Orange who want to put the mast up and suggested eight alternative sites that would serve the same area."

He said nearly every other property in the street had been approached by Orange, but their owners, most of which were based in the area, refused. Towerstile are based in Horsham, West Sussex.

Ms Fairman said delivering the petition to Parliament last night would not be the end of their campaign.

She warned Towerstile: "People will be getting in touch to say how unhappy they are about this."

The Post approached Towerstile for comment but as we went to press had received no reply.

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European report details the secret CIA flights to detention facilities in Poland and Romania. Airport directors were offered large sums of cash to land planes from faraway places like Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906O.shtml



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Elizabeth de la Vega constructs a fictional indictment of the Bush administration based on criminal facts. She writes: "We're here today in the case of United States v. George W. Bush et al. In addition to President Bush, the defendants are Vice President Richard B. Cheney, former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice - who's now the Secretary of State, of course - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. It's a one-count proposed indictment: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906N.shtml



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The US military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission in Anbar province.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906L.shtml



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Jason Leopold reports that the Justice Department's Inspector General announced Monday that it will immediately launch a probe into the agency's involvement with the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, raising suspicions among Democrats who believe the timing of the investigation is an attempt by the Bush administration to circumvent Congressional hearings into the issue when Democrats assume control of the House in January.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906J.shtml

· Sea temperature rise will intensify global warming · Marine life may be badly hit, warns Lovelock

David Adam, environment correspondent
Wednesday November 29, 2006

The Guardian

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1959556,00.html

Global warming is creating a climate time bomb by storing enormous amounts of heat in the waters of the north Atlantic, UK scientists have discovered.

Marine researchers at Southampton and Plymouth universities have found that the upper 1,500 metres of the ocean from western Europe to the eastern US have warmed by 0.015C in seven years. The capacity of the oceans to store heat means that a water temperature rise of that size is enough to warm the atmosphere above by almost 9C.

Neil Wells, a scientist on the project at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton, said: "People might think it doesn't sound like a big temperature rise but it's very significant." The findings were announced in the journal Geophysical Research Letters as James Lovelock, the UK scientist who developed the gaia theory of life on Earth, warned that such ocean warming could stifle marine life and accelerate climate change.

Professor Lovelock said that thermal mixing of water and nutrients shuts down when the upper layer of ocean water reaches about 12C. "That's why the tropical waters are clear blue and the water in the Arctic looks like soup," he said. Such a change would affect marine life, which research suggests could help form clouds over the oceans. Warmer waters would receive less protection from sunlight, which would warm them further.

The Southampton and Plymouth study suggests heat stored in the oceans could be released into the atmosphere in future, tempering efforts to stabilise global temperatures with cuts in manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

The scientists used 200 floats spread across more than 9m square miles of the north Atlantic in 1999 to measure the water's temperature profile accurately for the first time. The floats, part of a worldwide network called Argo, sink to about 2,000 metres and return to the surface every 10 days to transmit their data.

Dr Wells said the floats revealed that Atlantic waters closer to the surface between the UK and the US had warmed much more than the average
0.015C figure.

Speaking before a lecture to the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Prof Lovelock repeated the prediction, made in his recent book The Revenge of Gaia, that global warming will kill billions of people this century. He said the Earth was undergoing a rapid transition that could boost temperatures by 8C, making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and food production impossible. A hotter planet might be able to support less than a tenth of its 6bn population.

"We are not all doomed," he said. "An awful lot of people will die, but I don't see the species dying out."

Scientists say global warming, due to unrestricted carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels, could boost average temperatures by up to 6C by the end of the century, causing famine and violent storms. But they also say that action now to cut greenhouse emissions could stop atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide reaching 450 parts per million - equivalent to a temperature rise of 2C from pre-industrial levels. But Prof Lovelock said temperature rises of up to 8C were built in. "Trying to take the job on of regulating the Earth is as crazy as you can get," he said. "We have to adapt."



Climate change already affecting UK's marine life
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2023835.ece



Informant: binstock

Bob Herbert writes: "There is something terribly wrong with this juxtaposition of gleeful Americans with fistfuls of dollars storming the department store barricades and the slaughter by the thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, including old people, children and babies. The war was started by the US, but most Americans feel absolutely no sense of personal responsibility for it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906G.shtml

The race for Florida's 13th Congressional District has been surrounded by a contentious mystery: Why were there no votes for Congress recorded from more than 18,000 people who chose candidates in other races? The answer is central not only to the outcome of the election, which for now has been won by Republican Vern Buchanan by a mere 369 votes and is in litigation, but also to the ongoing debates over whether the electronic voting systems in use nationwide can yield reliable tallies and recounts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906F.shtml



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"The reputation and stature of the United States has been incredibly damaged by the torture and abuses on the part of graduates of the School of the Americas over the past thirty years and by torture perpetrated by the US military and the CIA on behalf of the Bush administration," writes Ann Wright. "For the integrity of our country and the moral structure of our military, we, the citizens of the United States, must demand that the new Congress, as one of the first items of business, close the School of the Americas and repeal the torture and criminal free-pass provisions of the Military Commissions Act. We are complicit in the abuses if we do not get the SOA closed and the legalization of torture repealed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906D.shtml



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"I'm tired of nit-picking over how we should bully the Iraqis into becoming better citizens of their own country," former CIA Middle East expert Ray Close wrote in an email. "The long-term effect of blaming Iraqis also could be poisonous," said Juan Cole, a University of Michigan specialist in Middle Eastern issues, who predicted that it will "infuriate the Iraqis and worsen further the future relationship of the two countries."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906C.shtml

William Fisher writes: "The paranoid wing of the blogosphere continues to go ballistic with joy about the six Muslim imams who were removed in handcuffs from a US Airways flight because one passenger thought it was 'suspicious' that they knelt on their prayer rugs and prayed in the airport waiting room before boarding their flight.... US Airways' knee-jerk reaction to the six imams simply adds another layer of mistrust to the deep suspicion that still lingers after the treatment of Muslims following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906A.shtml

HLV INFO 123/AT

29-11-2006

HNA 17-11-06

Mutprobe in luftiger Höhe

Spezialfirma ersetzt Mobilfunk-Anlage im Kirchturm Sankt Anna

Wolfhagen. Das sorgte gestern für Aufsehen: 55 Meter hoch, bis zur Turmspitze der Kirche Sankt Anna, beförderte ein Kran stundenlang Bauteile nach oben.

Gestern wurde die alte Anlage von E-Plus durch eine modernere ersetzt.

Unter dem Dach der evangelischen Wolfhager Kirche, noch über den Glocken, haben die drei Mobilfunkanbieter Vodafone, T-Mobile und E-Plus seit Jahren ihre Sender installiert.

Damit es in dieser Zeit für die Kunden keine Versorgungslücke gab, hätten in dieser Zeit andere Sender im Umkreis das Stadtgebiet versorgt, so Bernhard Alt, der für den Mobilfunk-Anbieter die Arbeiten überwachte.

Auch die neue Anlage sei von außen nicht zu erkennen: "Die Sender sind alle optisch getarnt", sagt Alt.

Arbeiten im Turm müssen vom Landeskirchenamt genehmigt werden. Auch diesmal hat Pfarrerin Brigitte Engelhardt-Lenz dort das Okay eingeholt. Die Mobilfunkanbieter zahlen an die Wolfhager Kirchengemeinde eine Nutzungsgebühr. "Dieses Geld kommt direkt dem baulichen Erhalt der Sankt Anna zugute", sagt Engehardt-Lenz.

Mehr...
http://www.hna.de/wolfhagenstart/00_20061117172050_Mutprobe_in_luftiger_Hoehe.html


HLV Kommentar:

Über den Fall St. Anna wurde vom HLV bereits ausführlich seit 2004 berichtet.

Das Wichtigste für den „Überwacher“ für E-Plus ist die Tatsache, dass auch die neue Anlage schön versteckt und unsichtbar ist....einfach toll!!!

Die dort lebenden Menschen werden seit Jahren mit gesundheitsgefährdenden Strahlen aus dem Kirchturm bestrahlt! Und die Kirche kassiert dafür Geld!


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http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/rendition.html

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Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse, Seeks Acknowledgement, Explanation and Apology

The ACLU today argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that its lawsuit on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, a victim of the CIA’s policy of “extraordinary rendition,” should proceed. Earlier this year a federal district court in Alexandria, VA dismissed El-Masri’s lawsuit based on the government's argument that allowing it to proceed would jeopardize state secrets.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/27520prs20061128.html


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November 29, 2006

Recommendations for Federal Legislation to Ensure the Integrity of our Democracy

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/EI-FederalLegislationProposal.pdf

By Kathy Dopp

These recommendations are the result of detailed discussions with the foremost election integrity experts in the U.S., over a period of several months. They are complex and technical because counting votes is a complex process with many vulnerabilities. Protecting the vote count is not a simple matter.

In the interest of brevity, we have omitted many technical details. Below the list of recommendations are more detailed comments. A list of experts who can provide details and answer questions will be provided.

Recommendations

1. Manual Audits: Require manual audits of machine vote counts sufficiently statistically valid to ensure that electronically-counted election outcomes are correct.

2. Voter Service Reports: Require states to submit timely reports of detailed election data that can be used to measure voter disenfranchisement and voter service levels.

3. Auditable Voting Systems: Provide funds for upgrading voting systems for jurisdictions that have un-auditable voting systems, but fund only "fully-auditable" voting systems where all able-bodied voters can directly record votes on a paper ballot that is voter-verified.

4. Fund Manual Audits and Voter Service Reports: Provide funds for conducting sufficiently statistically valid manual audits of machine vote counts and producing voter service reports in federal elections.

5. Teeth: Provide certain and swift penalties whenever an election jurisdiction fails in a transparency, auditing, or reporting obligation.

6. Public Election Records: Require election officials to make publicly available in original paper and electronic form all election data and records that would reveal fraud or errors in elections or are necessary to verify voter service reports and manual audits, prior to certification of results.

7. Election Monitoring Website: Create a website containing a publicly accessible database for logging and tabulating voters' complaints in elections; and for publicly displaying the reports from the states.

8. Submission of Reports: Require state election officials to submit auditable, audit and voter service reports to the US GAO prior to state certification of election results.

9. Public Disclosure of Voting System Software: Require public disclosure of voting equipment as a condition of any further contracting to enable post-election voting machine integrity verification.

10. Prohibit Certain Network Connections: Outlaw Wide Area Network connections to, and wireless capability in, voting equipment and prohibit voting through any network.

11. Qualifications for Technical Guidelines Development Committee: Require that members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) for voting systems have at least Masters-level academic credentials in a technical field.

12. Public Right to Observe: Require jurisdictions to allow citizens to observe all aspects of elections.

13. Vote Count Audit and Recount Committee: Create a U.S. Vote Count Audit and Recount Committee whose functions include approving state election audit and recount procedures and policies; and setting standards for state auditable, audit, and voter service reports.

14. Repository for Voting System Disclosure: Fund a repository for publicly disclosed voting system software or require "OVC Listed".

15. Prohibit Practices that Disenfranchise Voters: See a specific list in the "Detailed comments" section.

Please print a pdf copy of the proposals to submit to your US Congressional Representative and Senators including "Detailed comments" and a soon-to-be-released list of Experts here:

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/EI-FederalLegislationProposal.pdf


Authors Website: http://ElectionArchive.org

Authors Bio: Founder and President of US Count Votes, dba The National Election Data Archive. Volunteer for honest, accurately counted elections since 2003. Masters degree in mathematics with emphasis on computer science. Has written numerous academic and scientific papers with computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians on election integrity topics, inluding how to calculate minimum manual audit amounts necessary to ensure election outcome integrity.

Informant: Scott Munson



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Presse-Information vom 29. November 2006

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren

Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren protestiert gegen die nachträgliche Zulassung der gentechnisch veränderten Reis-Sorte LL 601 in den USA. „So schnell kann aus einem Gen-GAU ein beschleunigtes Zulassungsverfahren werden“, urteilt Jan Pehrke, Vorstandsmitglied des Vereins. Pehrke fordert den BAYER-Konzern auf, alle gentechnisch veränderten Reis-Sorten vom Markt zu nehmen und die betroffenen Bauern, die ihre Ernte nicht mehr verkaufen können, zu entschädigen.

In den USA ist praktisch die gesamte Langkornreis-Ernte mit LL 601 kontaminiert. Die gegen das von BAYER produzierte Herbizid Glufosinat resistente Sorte kam dadurch weltweit in den Handel. Erst nach Bekanntwerden des Skandals im August beantragte BAYER eine Zulassung - nicht, um LL 601 kommerziell anzubieten, sondern um Schadensersatz-Verfahren den Wind aus den Segeln zu nehmen. Jan Pehrke: „Die US-Behörden machen sich zu Handlangern von BAYER. Eine seriöse Sicherheitsprüfung ist in wenigen Monaten nicht durchführbar – ob von herbizidresistentem Reis langfristige Gesundheitsgefahren ausgehen, ist völlig unklar.“

Ende Oktober wurde in Lieferungen aus den USA auch noch die von BAYER hergestellte Genreis-Sorte LL 62 gefunden. Dieser Fund ist von besonderer Brisanz, da der Konzern eine EU-Importzulassung für LL 62 beantragt hat und die Gefahr einer unkontrollierten Ausbreitung stets bestritten hat. In beiden Fällen ist die Ursache der Kontamination unklar. Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren forderte die EU in den vergangenen zwei Jahren mehrmals auf, keine Importgenehmigung für genmodifizierten Reis von BAYER zu erteilen.

Auch Friedrich Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Agrarausschusses des EU-Parlaments, kritisiert das Vorgehen von BAYER: „Ein Unternehmen, das sich aus der Verantwortung stiehlt, indem es im Nachhinein eine Vermarktungsgenehmigung für die USA erwirken will, zeigt blanken Zynismus gegenüber den Landwirten, die geschädigt wurden. Der Fall des Gentech Reises zeigt, dass entweder ein gezieltes Interesse vorliegt, den Bäuerinnen und Bauern Gentech-Getreide unterzumischen oder aber, dass die Gentech-Saatgutindustrie nicht in der Lage ist, zu kontrollieren, wo ihre Gen-Konstrukte auftauchen.“

In den Schadensersatz-Prozessen, die hunderte US-Farmer anstrengten, schaltet BAYER bislang auf stur. In einer 30-seitigen Antwort auf die Vorwürfe der Bauern und Bäuerinnen spricht der Konzern von einem „Akt Gottes“ und einer angeblichen „Nachlässigkeit“ der Farmer. „Es ist bedauernswert, dass BAYER, anstatt die Verantwortung zu übernehmen, versucht, den Reisbauern die Schuld zuzuschieben - den Menschen, die am meisten von der Unternehmenspolitik betroffen sind“, so Adam Levitt, Anwalt der Kläger.

Weitere Informationen:

* Brief an europäische Lebensmittelbehörde EFSA: Gen-Reis von Bayer nicht in der EU zulassen!
http://www.cbgnetwork.de/1606.html

* Artikel zur Gen-Kontamination von Reis
http://www.cbgnetwork.de/1615.html

* Briefing about the food safety and environmental risks of Bayer's GMO rice
http://www.cbgnetwork.org/328.html

* Washington Post: Firm Blames Farmers, 'Act of God' for Rice Contamination
http://news.google.de/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=456bb46ddcb9af11&ei=JStrRaXjJrLywQG_p5HgDA&url=http%3A//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101265.html&cid=0


Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren
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Fon 0211-333 911,
Fax 0211-333 940

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A message from Gwen

Tuesday, 8:45 PM
From: American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:07:27 -0800

The Bureau of Land Management has issued its 2007 Round-Up Schedule. Close to 7,000 horse and burros will be captured, further threatening the genetic viability of our wild herds. The absolute minimum estimated cost of these round-ups and annual containment of the captured horses exceeds 15 million of our tax-dollars.

Of immediate concern is the plan to zero out horses and burros from yet more Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in Southern Nevada, leaving less than 100 horses on over 1 million acres. After this latest round, BLM will have zeroed out horses from 6 out of 9 HMAs in the area. A total of 4 HMAs will also have lost their entire burro populations.

Cold Creek near Las Vegas is of particular interest, as it was the site of a mystery helicopter round-up last summer. About 200 horses are feared gone, yet BLM denies any horses were taken. Officials have failed to investigate the matter, despite repeated pleas by concerned residents who witnessed most of this beloved herd being hauled away to an uncertain fate.

Please protest this gross waste of tax-dollars and mismanagement of our natural resources by contacting the following: - Karla_Norris@nv.blm.gov Assistant Field Manager Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive Las Vegas, NV 89130-2301 Make sure to include your name and signature, and this reference number: 4700 (NV052)

- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV), who should be urged to revise his position on wild horse management in his state. You can email him via this web contact form http://reid.senate.gov/contact/email_form.cfm, or write him at 528 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-2803 - fax: 202.224.7327.

- Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, http://www.congress.org/congressorg/mail/?agencyindid=114&type=AN, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., Washington DC 20240 - fax: 202.208.5048

- Please also alert Nevada to the fact that continued mismanagement of its wild horse herds will hurt tourism in the state. Contact the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, TAinfo@lvcva.com, 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109 – ph: 702.892.0711; fax: 702.892.2906, and the Nevada Commission on Tourism, 401 North Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701 – ph: 800.638.2328.

- Our Nevada supporters should also contact their U.S. Representatives to protest this eradication plan (locate your Representative at www.house.gov).

On behalf of the horses, thank you for your support,

The AWHPC Team American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign http://www.wildhorsepreservation.org

RIAA Legal Ruling Could Shut Down The Internet
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/291106shutdown.htm

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Web censorship 'bypass' unveiled

There is growing concern about web censorship

A tool has been created capable of circumventing government censorship of the web, according to researchers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187486.stm


Informant: Kev Hall

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PT. 2: http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=27827


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-warcosts29nov29,0,2663211.story?track=tottext

If this request is granted, then war related spending will increase to around $200 billion or more for next year. That could purchase 10,000 new $20 million dollar schools.

Chris

Meanwhile, On "As The World Burns..."
http://ga3.org/ct/Z120pgF1omhU/

Leaving Integration Behind
http://ga3.org/ct/Kp20pgF1omhE/

Gates, Hadley: More Of The Same
http://ga3.org/ct/Kd20pgF1omhj/

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

Democrats can gain from the gutting of the Republican moderate wing if they make the right moves.

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by Bill Moyers, TomPaine.com

Before heading to Iraq, graduates are asked to consider the kind of country they are serving.

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Bill Moyers: Message to West Point

"Many of you will be heading for Iraq," said Bill Moyers in his address to West Point. "I have never been a soldier myself, never been tested under fire, never faced hard choices between duty and feeling, or duty and conscience, under deadly circumstances. I will never know if I have the courage to be shot at, or to shoot back, or the discipline to do my duty knowing the people who dispatched me to kill - or be killed - had no idea of the moral abyss into which they were plunging me. I have tried to learn about war from those who know it best: veterans, the real experts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120706S.shtml



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Von der Verpflichtung eines jeden Lehrers, hier tätig zu werden!

Seit der Einführung eines Handynutzungsverbots an allen bayerischen Schulen, wird an unseren Bildungseinrichtungen vermehrt über das Thema Mobilfunk diskutiert. Einerseits geht es dabei zunächst vor allem um die sinnvolle Umsetzung des Handynutzungsverbots, andererseits aber auch um die Problematiken der Handynutzung bzw. der Mobilfunktechniken insgesamt. Vielfach werden dabei durch Unkenntnis, oder gar durch politische Einstellungen verursacht, Fehlinformationen weitergegeben. Es sind sogar schon Fälle bekannt geworden, wo für Umweltschutz, Gesundheits- und Medienerziehung engagierte Lehrerinnen und Lehrer wegen der Thematisierung der gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen der derzeit verwendeten Mobilfunktechnik von ihren Vorgesetzten gemaßregelt wurden. Als Argumentationshilfe darum hier einige entscheidende Belege für das Aufgreifen dieser Thematik im Unterricht:

1. BESCHLUSS DES BAYERISCHEN LANDTAGS (14. 5. 2002)

Antrag der Abgeordneten Kreidl, Steinmaßl CSU

Handy-Gebrauch durch Kinder und Jugendliche: Informationen an den Schulen

„Die Staatsregierung wird aufgefordert, im Sinne eines vorbeugenden Gesundheitsschutzes darauf hinzuwirken, dass an den bayerischen Schulen Kinder und Jugendliche in geeigneter Weise über einen verantwortungsvollen Gebrauch von Mobiltelefonen (Handys) informiert werden. Dabei sollten sie, um die Exposition gegenüber elektromagnetischer Strahlung zu minimieren, angehalten werden, „Dauertelefonate“ mit Handys zu vermeiden sowie nach Möglichkeit Freisprecheinrichtungen zu benutzen.“

2. Artikel 56 Absatz 5 Bayerisches Erziehungs- und Unterrichtsgesetz:

„Im Schulgebäude und auf dem Schulgelände sind Mobilfunktelefone und sonstige digitale Speichermedien, die nicht zu Unterrichtszwecken verwendet werden, auszuschalten. Die unterrichtende oder die außerhalb des Unterrichts Aufsicht führende Lehrkraft kann Ausnahmen gestatten. Bei Zuwiderhandlungen kann ein Mobilfunktelefon oder ein sonstiges digitales Speichermedium vorübergehend einbehalten werden.“

3. Beschluss des Bayerischen Landtags (15. 2. 2001)

„Die Staatsregierung wird aufgefordert, das freiwillige Engagement von Lehrkräften im Bereich der Umwelterziehung im Sinne der Bayern-Agenda 21 zusammen mit bereits bestehenden Kriterien bei der dienstlichen Beurteilung zu werten.“

Weitere Informationen zum Thema Mobilfunk und Schule unter: http://www.uip-online.de/


Hans Schütz
Umweltfachberater
Füssener Str. 52
86971 Peiting

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Handy-Verbot an Schulen
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Schule und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403986/

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1480.shtml


Informant: Andrea Ball

Orangeburg Times and Democrat

11/28/06

A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday. The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as 'specially designated global terrorists' after the 2001 terrorist attacks...

http://tinyurl.com/ygsac5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Judge Strikes Bush's Terror List

A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-September 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906K.shtml

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/00000097f313f5d03/00000098820624c01.html

Kernaussagen gestrichen
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/00000097f40c6132a/000000988b0c7f402.html

Anbei sende ich Ihnen die Aussagen von Dr. Wetzig, Leiter vom staatlichen Gesundheitsamt Calw.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/aussagen_von_dr_w.doc

Wenn jemand zu diesem Vortrag von Dr. Wetzig einen Stellungnahme abgeben möchte bitte an das

Landratsamt Calw
Landrat Hans-Werner Köblitz
Postfach 1263
75363 Calw

Die Aussagen wurden bei einem Vortrag auf der Bürgerversammlung am 16.11.06 zum Thema Mobilfunk in 76332 Bad Herrenalb-Neusatz gemacht. Bei dem Vortrag sollten die Bürger, Gemeinderäte und vor allem unser Bürgermeister Herr Mai aus Bad Herrenalb informiert werden. Bürgermeister Mai hat einen Vertrag für eine Mobilfunkantenne im Wohngebiet auf dem Feuerwehrgerätehaus in Neusatz unterzeichnet.


Nachricht von Frau Keppler-Merkle

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Hallo zusammen,

ein kurzer Hinweis:

Herr Dr. Wetzig ist mit seinem Gelaber auf dem Stand von 2002 stehen geblieben, siehe

http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/pforzheim2.htm

Er sollte sich besser um seine Gelbfieber-Impfungen kümmern.

http://www.crm.de/beratungsstellen/index.asp?URL=gelbimpf7.htm
(Unter 75365 Calw)

So jemand als Referent zu bestellen ist schon echt lachhaft.

Herzlichen Gruß

Klaus Böckner

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Offener Brief an den Landrat von Calw, Hans-Werner Köblitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3019958/

http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Massacre.htm


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

The New York Times writes: "The Bush administration has been on a six-year campaign to expand its powers, often beyond what the Constitution allows. So it is odd to hear it claim that it lacks the power to slow global warming by limiting the emission of harmful gases. But that is just what it will argue to the Supreme Court tomorrow, in what may be the most important environmental case in many years."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112806EC.shtml

Democrats won control of the state House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years Tuesday, as Chester County officials settled a pair of hotly contested House races three weeks after the election.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806T.shtml

A new report says several EU governments were aware of the CIA's secret detention and transfer of terror suspects. It further accuses governments and top EU officials of failing to cooperate fully with the European parliament's investigation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806S.shtml

nlnews @archant.co.uk

29 November 2006

HARINGEY Council hopes to raise £10,000 a year from allowing mobile phone masts to be placed across the borough.

Bosses could start marketing its land and buildings as prime sites for mobile phone masts in a bid to raise the cash.

The proposals are contained in next year's budget proposals and have been met with anger from residents.

Sarah Purdy, who lives close to Fortismere School, Muswell Hill, has been involved in numerous protests against mobile phone masts.

She said: "It's absolutely appalling. Other councils have banned putting masts on their own land, let alone promoting it.

"What does it mean - that council tenants are going to get fried?"

A council spokeswoman also confirmed that it charges business rates for every phone mast in the borough, regardless of whether it is on council or private land. It can also earn rent for those masts sited on their own land, "in line with Government policy".

She added: "Central government guidance is to encourage public bodies to make sites available for telecommunications installations.

"In visual terms it can be better to place antennae on a roof, such as at River Park House, than have a mast of 50ft to 100ft in height."

Liberal Democrat councillor Matt Davies, of Fortis Green ward, said: "I am concerned that we are actively promoting more mobile phone mast sites when there are so many residents who have concerns about the possible health risks involved."

An updated and comprehensive list of the 125 mobile phone mast locations in Haringey, plus a further 27 locations within 250 metres of the borough border, will be available this week on our web site, http://www.hornseyjournal.co.uk

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/uxj7g

A MOBILE phone giant is hoping to erect a mast in the grounds of a cricket club.

Hartlepool Cricket Club, in Park Drive, has been offered a cash sum by T-Mobile to house the telecommunications mast in the form of a flag pole. The company has yet to formally lodge a planning application, but a meeting to discuss the proposal with Hartlepool Borough Council and the club committee has been arranged. The club has so far got no objections to the plan, as the money would allow it to buy an all-weather pitch. However, members would refuse it if a danger to health could be proved. Councillor Pauline Laffey, Conservative representative for the Park ward, is convinced there would be detrimental affects to health. She said: “I object very strongly to the erection of this mast on health grounds, but particularly the health of our children. “Nothing is certain about these masts but many people believe or are convinced that there is a danger to humans. “We have a park nearby and hundreds of homes, and I just don’t think it’s safe.” She added: “It’s our children’s health for sale, that’s what it amounts to.” Bill Shurmer, chairman of Hartlepool Cricket Club, said: “My vision of a mobile phone mast was probably like that of many people, an unattractive hi-tech piece of equipment, that would have absolutely no place in the beautiful Park Drive area. “However, they are proposing a flag pole, which will simply replace the existing one and be sighted at the rear of the club, away from the public areas. “This, we felt, was acceptable from an aesthetic viewpoint and therefore we have, at this stage, allowed them to proceed with a planning application. “The money on offer would be used to create an all-weather practice facility at the ground, which is something that we are urgently in need of. “We have tried to obtain grants and sponsorship, but at this stage we have not been successful and therefore feel that this is an alternative option that we should explore to the full. “I repeat, at this stage no decision has been made and be assured that we will do nothing that the experts consider a danger to health. “Indeed, any decision may be out of our hands, subject to the result of the planning application.” A council spokesman confirmed that planning chiefs have been invited to “enter into pre-application discussions” about the mast. A T-Mobile spokesman said its interest was “due to the demand of services”. A meeting for club members to discuss the issue with experts will be held on Wednesday, December 6, at 6pm, in the club.

29 November 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.hartlepooltoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1109&ArticleID=1903324

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-11-28T153508Z_01_L28841108_RTRUKOC_0_US-EARTH-FEVER.xml


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lovelock
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gaia

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=d3f4ee4e-1e90-475a-b1b0-bbcd5baedd78


From Information Clearing House

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Gingrich Against Free Speech
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=6139175C-F96C-4C44-AE01-8FB5133DE881&f=00&fg=copy

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann smashes Newt Gingrich
"When you talk about closing down internet sites, who is the one who is going to decide which those are?

It could be the Daily Kos, it could be Citizens For Legitimate Government - if he doesn't like any one of them in particular."

Full Length Version
http://www.corvuswire.com/olbermann-clg.htm


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news



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

'We are just watching things get worse':

When Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that the liberation of the country's burka-shrouded women was one of their top priorities. So did they deliver? Five years on, Natasha Walter visits Kabul - and is shocked by what she discovers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1958707,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1


From Information Clearing House

Britain's level of defence spending isn't related to real threats we face, but the needs of our military-industrial complex.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15761.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Monbiot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+industrial+complex

http://www.heise.de/mobil/newsticker/meldung/81650


Nachricht von:
Wolfgang Welzel
Baubiologie und Umweltmesstechnik

http://www.omega-news.info/wahnsinn_der_gruenen_gentechnik.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gr%C3%BCne+Gentechnik

"We've been funding this war dishonestly," wrote Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., in a Sunday op-ed piece.

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061126-065026-3972r


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chuck+Hagel

Ripping away the veil that hides Iraq’s descent into chaos .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15756.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nir+Rosen

Italy is to complete the pull-out of its troops from Iraq by the end of this week, Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/y25t3w


From Information Clearing House

Iraq is rending itself apart. The signs of collapse are everywhere. In Baghdad, the police often pick up more than 100 tortured and mutilated bodies in a single day. Government ministries make war on each other.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2021233.ece


From Information Clearing House

US Marines fought with suspected insurgents in Ramadi, killing six Iraqis - one man and five females, including an infant – the US military said.

http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=202643886&p=zxz64459z&n=202644646


From Information Clearing House



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

By John M. Crisp

Now that Iran looms on our horizon, here's a story that every American should know.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15755.htm



It Could Happen Here

By Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto

Daniel Ellsberg ’s warning that another 9-11 event “or a major war in the Middle East involving a U.S. attack on Iran …will be an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree,” involving massive detention of both Middle Easterners and critics of the policy, the latter deemed terrorist sympathizers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15754.htm



9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out

David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips, Kevin Ryan, Ray McGovern

Video

Editors and contributors to the book, "9/11 and American Empire" assess the Bush administration's responsibility for the attacks on 9/11, arguing that key administration officials either purposefully ignored the threats leading up to the attacks or were complicit in the planning them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15752.htm



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

By Cindy Sheehan

The villagers who walk the narrow streets of Daechuri, bowed by lifetimes of carrying heavy burdens and children on their backs, are now carrying burdens placed there by American imperial gluttony, and I, as an American, want to help them carry this burden, as many kind people all over the world have tried to help me carry mine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15753.htm

Click:

Clueless in America

Feeding the Tape Worms of Desire

By Charles Sullivan

There are millions of Americans who still care about the health of the planet and the rights of other people, and they struggle to be heard above the din of excessive commercialism that overwhelms the senses and causes us to behave like caged rats in a laboratory.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15760.htm

"There is no solution."

Writer Nir Rosen on Iraq's Descent Into Chaos

We’ve destroyed Iraq and we’ve destroyed the region, and Americans need to know this. - There was no civil war in Iraq until we got there. And there was no civil war in Iraq, until we took certain steps to pit Sunnis against Shias. And now it is just too late. But, we need to know we are responsible for what’s happening in Iraq today.

This is a must watch. Video and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15757.htm



Bury my heart in the Green Zone

By Pepe Escobar

Everyone is guilty in the ongoing Iraq tragedy. The US-trained new Iraqi army is infiltrated by militias, by death squads and even by al-Qaeda in Iraq. The SCIRI, Da'wa and the Kurds are only worried about their own interests, not the interests of Iraq as a nation. And the US - always hiding under the dubious mantra of "Iraqi democracy" - totally evades its responsibility in provoking the appalling chaos in the first place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15763.htm



Death On The Streets of Iraq

Warning - This video should only be watch by a mature audience. Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15764.htm



Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq

A documentary film by John Pilger

Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren't even born when the Gulf War began.

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15385.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. November 2006

Zur Einstellung des Mannesmann-Verfahrens erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Es ist ein Skandal: Ohne Skrupel und mit der Begründung, es gäbe kein öffentliches Interesse an einer Fortsetzung des Verfahrens, wurde die Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz ad absurdum geführt. Viktory-Ackermann kann sich freikaufen. Das Signal ist eindeutig: Die Kleinen hängt man, die Großen lässt man laufen. Die Sitten verlottern auch oder vor allem an der Spitze der Gesellschaft. Das führt zu zunehmender Politikverdrossenheit und schadet der Demokratie. Bei Ackermann & Co. ging es um 57 Millionen Euro Prämien, die sich die Manager selbst zugeschanzt hatten - zu Lasten des Unternehmens und nach Gutsherrenart. 3,2 Millionen Euro Strafe sind für Herrn Ackermann Peanuts. Er hat sich freigekauft, gilt fortan als unbescholtener Bürger und kann weiterhin seinen Geschäften nachgehen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34623

Awards 2006 - bis 4. Dezember
http://www.worstlobby.eu/abstimmen.php

----- Original Message -----
From: Maria Rudnick
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:47 AM
Subject: find cell towers in your neghbourhood

You might have seen this b4. You can put in your address anywhere in the US and they will tell you where all the cell towers are within an 8 mile radius as well as future towers.

http://www.antennasearch.com/


Informant: Martin Weatherall

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2006/11/27/why-trust-robert-gates-on-iraq/


Informant: Alan Dicey



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

TIGHT security was in place as campaigners finally lost their battle to stop a mobile phone mast being erected in a Sheffield suburb.

Residents had fought against the development at the junction of Slayleigh Lane and Hallamshire Road, Fulwood, by operator Hutchinson 3G, trading as 3, for two years ago.

Hundreds of protestors took to the streets in opposition in June 2004, and kept a 24-hour watch to turn back any workmen trying to erect the mast.

Hutchinson suspended proposals to consider alternative sites, but none were found.

Yesterday police and security guards were on watch with fences round the site as workmen put up the mast.

Tom Barker, of Hallam Grange Rise, a member of protest group Sheffield Hallam Against Masts, said: "There were about 15 police officers and eight security guards. Very few residents were about because they turned up at about 9.30am when people had set out for work.

"There was no major protest because we had no advance warning, and only about 15 of us gathered to watch what was going on. It was a complete shock. There was little anyone could do. The mast is an eyesore."

Fulwood Lib Dem councillor John Knight said: "The fact they have done this work very sneakily without warning will only encourage further protests if they try to put any other masts in the area."

Hutchinson 3G said it looked at alternative sites but none were acceptable.

It asked to use the Sheffield NHS build in Old Fulwood Road but the health service refused. A proposal to site the mast at Hallam Grange tennis club, Slayleigh Lane, was refused planning permission.

Brian Spooner, of 3, said: "We have made efforts to help it blend in with the surroundings."

29 November 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1902596

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1128-30.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5344/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5345/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

A message from Gwen

Original Message

Request an immediate Senate Vote on S. 1915 - The Ban on Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/615024357

Thank you all! We need as many signatures as we can get in one week!

Marjorie :)

http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/232079

A message from Kim

Original Message from Catman P.

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OK Jennie, signed & now forwarding...

Lil

Original Message

Please sign my new Petition "Boycott Troy Lee Gentry for Killing Cubby the Black Bear." Most of you have read the unfortunate story of Cubby, the domesticated black bear, who lived in a penned-in 3 acre area next to a wilderness hunting area in MN. Troy Lee Gentry, country singer of the Montgomery Gentry duo, in a pre-arranged "canned" Killing, shot Cubby in his pen, had his head mounted. Please read the whole story on the petition and sign it. I am asking for you to boycott Troy Gentry's concerts and products - let's let him know that people do not approve of dishonorable "canned" killing, nor do we find him a good role model for our children. Rich, successful "stars" often do not understand anything but their fans disapproval of their behavior. A BOYCOTT is a way to get our message across LOUD and CLEAR! Please sign and pass the word around to your friends and friends of friends. Thank you for Cubby's sake! It's the only justice he will get. Even if you like his music, Remember Cubby! Peace, love, and kindness, Jennie B.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/237370630

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A message from Pam

Original Message

For those of you who are outraged by Troy Gentry's recent canned killing of a domesticated bear, here are links to four of the top rated country music stations where you can voice your opinion. The link below them is a radio locator to target any station in the USA. Please forward to all your friends.

KCYY 100.3 FM San Antonio, TX
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=KCYY&service=FM

KAGG 96.1 FM Madisonville, TX
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=KAGG&service=FM

KPLX 99.5 FM Fort Worth, TX
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=KPLX&service=FM

WSM 650 AM Nashville, TN
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WSM&service=AM

Radio Locator:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?format=cnt&s=R&sr=Y

by NewsWithViews.com

Canadian Mounties smashed down the door of a North Vancouver, British Columbia, woman's home and injured her guest when she accidentally dialed the 9-1-1 emergency number instead of 4-1-1 for telephone information. When Marget Lieder of North Vancouver accidentally dialed 9-1-1, she says she just simply hung up and dialed 4-1-1. What followed was something out of a Stephen King's horror novel.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/news_worthy/news_worthy74.htm

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

hiermit laden wir Euch zu der bundesweiten

„Aktions- und Strategiekonferenz gegen Sozial- und Lohnabbau“ in Frankfurt am 2. und 3. Dezember 2006 ein.

Unter dem Titel „Wie weiter mit dem Widerstand gegen Sozial- und Lohnabbau?“ wollen wir mit Euch und dem gesamten übrigen Spektrum des Widerstands diskutieren, wie wir zu einem breitestmöglichen Bündnis und zu Aktionen gegen Sozial- und Lohnabbau kommen.

Wir wollen dabei anknüpfen an der bisher breitesten Plattform der Widerstandsbewegung, dem “Frankfurter Appell” und wollen diesen weiterentwickeln - jenseits von ideologischen, organisations- oder parteitaktischen Interessen.

Wir erwarten von der Konferenz gemeinsame Absprachen zu Widerstandsaktionen.

Den Konferenzaufruf und die Details zum Ablauf entnehmt bitte dem beigefügten Flyer.

http://www.protest2006.de/Einladung_Aktionskonferenz.pdf
http://www.protest2006.de/material/material/mobilisierungsmaterial.html

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn ihr diese Einladung (inkl. Flyer) an Eure Untergliederungen und Einzelmitglieder weiterleiten würdet.


Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Martin Behrsing
(für das „Bündnis dritter Juni“)

Pressekontakt
Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland
Martin Behrsing
Schickgasse 3
53117 Bonn
Tel.: 0228 2495594
Fax: 0180 5039000 3946
http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de redaktion@erwerbslosenforum.de

Petition: "Stand Against Female Genital Cutting"
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/119494672

The male (USA) one is at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/616953036


Informant: Scott Munson

TELL OUR CONGRESS TO RESCIND BUSH'S WAR STARTING POWERS

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/aumf.php

The history of the last four years has proven that the Bush administration cooked intelligence and lied to obtain the original Authorization for Use of Military Force ("AUMF"), which was then immediately abused to launch an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion and indefinite occupation of Iraq. Yet, even as the strategic disaster in Iraq lurches further out of control day by day, the Bush administration is still talking about even more irrational plans to light a bigger powder keg in Iran. As reported by Seymour Hersh, Cheney arrogantly stated just before the elections that even were the Democrats to take back the Congress they would find some way around any legislative restrictions to pursue their insanity option in Iran.

Well we DID take back Congress. And the first thing Congress must do to reassert adult control over the petulant White House is to cancel the 2001 AUMF. Not only was it used to justify preemptive imperialism in Iraq, it has been trotted out incessantly since to excuse the illegal domestic wiretaps, the program of torture and secret detentions in violation of the Geneva convention, and every other manner of defiance of Congress and the federal courts since. It was NOT an authorization to unilaterally violate the Constitution, but it has been taken as such, and accordingly it MUST go.

A simple majority of Congress is all that is required to restore the appropriate and just balance of powers, to at least require the executive to have the express consent of Congress before any ill-advised new military misadventure. Only withdrawing the AUMF can send a message that foreign policy run amok will no longer be the order of the day.

The one click form below will send your personal message to all your government representatives selected below, with the subject "Terminate the Authorization for Use of Military Force." At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/aumf.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours.

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