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Plans to build a mobile phone mast on top of a church spire have set alarm bells ringing in Two Mile Ash.

But the Church of the Holy Cross has this week promised that if the parishioners object, then the proposal will not go ahead.

The church, used daily to house a popular Under 5's playgroup, has been offered a "substantial sum" of rent each month to accommodate the mast and transmitting base station.

Making the offer is a company called QS4, which acts as an intermediary between mobile phone companies and churches all over the country in a bid to find new sites for masts.

"It's too early for us to comment about this proposal," said a QS4 spokesman this week. "We have made an approach to the Church of the Holy Cross but they have not yet reached a decision."

The spokesman refused to say how high the mast would be or how much money the church would receive each month.

Ministry team leader Rev Tim Norwood has assured residents and church users their views would be taken into account before any decision was made.

Church organisers organised a meeting, due to be held yesterday evening (Wednesday) for people to have their say.

"We know very little about the plans at the moment," said a spokesman for the pre-school group. "A letter went out to parents a couple of days ago and we've only had a few responses so far.

A couple were worried about any side-effects to the children's health and a couple objected on religious grounds."

Said Rev Norwood: "It is a difficult decision to make. Undoubtedly any church would welcome the money the companies are offering and they could put that money to very good use. But unless everyone agrees unanimously, we simply will not go ahead."

"We don't know what to think," said one Two Mile Ash resident.

"It seems wrong somehow to put a mast on top of a place of worship – but then there are three different masts on the roundabouts next to the church building!"

sally.murrer @mkcitizen.co.uk

18 January 2007

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By Jonathan Bunn

LET DOWN: Residents by the phone mast which is at the centre of a row between O2 and the council. (EL630-79)

RESIDENTS are caught in the middle of a row between the council and communications giant O2 over a phone mast that was erected without planning permission.

O2 says it was entitled to put up the 15 metre mast and it will remain in Markhouse Road, Walthamstow, because it was not informed of the council's decision to refuse the application within the required 56 days.

The Guardian understands O2 received notification of the decision 24 hours late, but the council denies there was any delay and says negotiations are ongoing.

The Department for Communities and Local Government confirmed O2 is within its rights.

Residents believed they had been successful in their campaign to fight the proposal, with a petition signed by 185 people.

Officers turned the mast down under delegated powers in July last year, but just before Christmas residents were shocked to discover that it had appeared.

Tony Alveranga, 42, of nearby Samantha Close, said: "Last Friday January 12 there were some guys working on the the mast and I asked them what they thought of it. They said it was a strange place to put it - halfway across the pavement.

"Local planning officers are there to protect the interests of residents. We feel let down. We expect proper procedure to be followed.

"I would point the finger at the planning office, but assuming O2 received the letter a day late, it has been inconsiderate at least."

An O2 spokesman: "The council has 56 days to come to us with a reply and if they don't, we take that as permission being granted.

"There is no possibility that we will take the mast down. It does not obstruct the pavement."

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Former "60 Minutes" producer and author Barry Lando connects the dots between Saddam Hussein and his American backers in this powerful documentary.

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The pharmaceutical companies are under tremendous pressure from Wall Street to perform. The bottom line of it is the pharmaceutical companies cannot make money selling drugs to treat disease. Thus, they have to create markets for drugs in order to have profits. Two major areas they focus a lot of their marketing efforts on is the baby boomers.....

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By Janaki Mahadevan

Phone giant T-Mobile has failed to win permission to build a phone mast on Green Belt land in Shenley after a Government inspector dismissed its appeal last Friday.

The company, which challenged Hertsmere Borough Council's decision to refuse it planning permission, has had a temporary mast at London Colney Cricket Club in Green Street for nearly four years. That could now be removed next month after council enforcement action, leaving the company with no network coverage in the area.

T-Mobile had applied to build a permanent mast on the grounds of the cricket club but councillors refused permission in July last year, prompting the appeal.

In his report dismissing the appeal, the Government inspector said: "Because of their size, the mast and the associated cabinets and other equipment would reduce the openness of the Green Belt, and would cause some limited harm.

"In order for very special circumstances to exist sufficient to outweigh harm to the Green Belt, and other harm to the character and appearance of the area, a vigorous assessment of alternative locations is required."

The temporary mast was built after one erected on the Shenley Water Tower, in Porters Park estate, had to be removed when renovation work started on the building at the beginning of 2003.

The council issued an enforcement notice for T-Mobile to take down the temporary mast next month. If it is not removed, the council could take the company to court.

John Marks, clerk of Shenley Parish Council, said: "We are disappointed that the whole process has gone on for so long. But that is how the system works and we are bound by that.

"The mobile operator obviously wanted to keep the mast up so tried all it could to do so and you can't hold that against it.

"I do laugh every time it is called a temporary mast because it has been here for so long, but I am glad it is finally being taken down."

A spokesman for T-Mobile said: "We are considering the judgement of the inspector and his reasons for the dismissal of the appeal. We are also looking at other options in the area because we still have to provide a service there."

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18.01.07

Zum Auftakt der Grünen Woche in Berlin formiert sich breiter Widerstand gegen den vermehrten Einsatz der Gentechnik auf dem Acker. "Der Anbau von genveränderten Pflanzen im Freiland birgt erhebliche Risiken für die menschliche Gesundheit und die Umwelt, die vor allem in ihrer langfristigen Wirkung nicht abschätzbar sind", sagte der Präsident des Deutschen Naturschutzrings, Hubert Weinzierl, der "Berliner Zeitung". Angesichts dieser Risiken sei der Einsatz in der Landwirtschaft und der Lebensmittelproduktion nicht zu rechtfertigen. Er wandte sich damit gegen Pläne der Regierung, Forschung und Anbau von genveränderten Pflanzen zu erleichtern.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15146

18.01.07

Die aktuellen Winterstürme liefern nach Einschätzung des World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) einen Vorgeschmack auf das Klima der Zukunft. In einer am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Stellungnahme heißt es, dass die Wetterturbulenzen bereits auf eine Änderung des Klimas hinwiesen. Die Organisation erinnerte daran, dass ihr bereits im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlichter Report "Stormy Europe" auf "diese Tatsache" hingewiesen habe: "Wenn wir den Klimawandel nicht in den Griff bekommen, werden die Winter noch ungemütlicher." Dem WWF zufolge steigt die Temperatur in Europa tendenziell an. Dies lasse das Wetter unbeständiger werden. Es müsse deshalb davon ausgegangen werden, dass sowohl die Zahl als auch die Stärke der europäischen Winterstürme in Zukunft erheblich zunähmen, "wenn es nicht gelingt, den Ausstoß an Treibhausgasen entscheidend zu drosseln", meint der WWF.

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18.01.07

Der frühere US-Botschafter in Deutschland und politischer Bush-Konkurrent, Richard Holbrooke, hat in ungewöhnlich scharfer Form mit der bisherigen Leistung von US-Präsident George W. Bush abgerechnet. Bush werde "ohne Zweifel" als der Kriegspräsident in die Geschichte eingehen. Bush "hat das Land in zwei Kriege geschickt, von denen er keinen beenden wird. Dann haben wir ein riesiges Haushaltsdefizit und eine tief gespaltene Nation. Das ist eine furchtbare Hinterlassenschaft", sagte Holbrooke der "Berliner Zeitung".

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18.01.07

Die geplante Gesundheitsreform birgt laut einem Gutachten der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-Böckler-Stiftung auch europarechtliche Risiken. Die Reform schwäche das Solidarprinzip in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) und könne die Versicherungen so in Konflikt mit dem EU-Kartellrecht bringen, schreibt der Gesundheitsrechtler Thorsten Kingreen von der Universität Regensburg. Bislang gelten die gesetzlichen Kassen wegen des Solidarprinzips nicht als Unternehmen. Diese Sonderstellung werde durch die Reform gefährdet, heißt es in dem am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Gutachten.

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18.01.07

Anlässlich der Internationalen Grünen Woche stellte die Nichtregierungsorganisation Oxfam am Donnerstag ihre Bilanz der Politik des deutschen Landwirtschaftsministeriums seit Amtsantritt von Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) vor. Oxfam kommt bei der Analyse der bisherigen politischen Arbeit des Bundesministeriums zu der Einschätzung, "dass Entwicklungsanliegen keinen Platz in Seehofers Agrarpolitik haben". Die Kleinbauern in den Entwicklungsländern, die durch "subventionierte Billigimporte" der EU in ihrer Existenz gefährdet seien, würden den Exportinteressen der Ernährungsindustrie geopfert und dem Exportdumping weiterhin ausgesetzt", sagte Marita Wiggerthale, Agrarreferentin bei Oxfam. Eine Wende in der Förderpolitik hin zu einer sozial gerechten, bäuerlichen, regionalen und ökologisch verträglichen Landwirtschaft sei nicht in Sicht und "politisch nicht gewollt".

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18.01.07

Der Bremer Türke Murat Kurnaz hat seine Misshandlungsvorwürfe gegen deutsche KSK-Soldaten erneuert und zugleich erstmals detailliert weitere Menschenrechtsverletzungen im US-Gefangenenlager im afghanischen Kandahar sowie in Guantanamo geschildert. Vertreter aller Fraktionen zeigten sich nach der knapp dreistündigen Befragung im Untersuchungsausschuss erschüttert und wollen ihre Aufklärungsarbeit nach Angaben des Ausschussvorsitzenden Karl Lamers (CDU) zumindest bis zum Sommer fortsetzen. Kurnaz wurde fraktionsübergreifend als "glaubwürdig" eingeschätzt.

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George Bush's super-hyped speech calling for escalation in Iraq was a political disaster. The American people now overwhelmingly oppose Bush's handling of the war (72%), oppose Bush's escalation plan (61%), and want to bring all our troops home in 2007 (56%).

These polls are terrifying to Republicans - their own pollster told them "if U.S. boots are still on the ground in Iraq and U.S. blood is still being spilled there at the end of the year, the GOP disaster in 2008 will eclipse 2006." Even Bob Novak predicts an "electoral catastrophe."

Please send this message to your Representatives: End War Funding, Begin War Investigations http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/90


Presidential Candidates Should Take the Lead

The 2008 Presidential campaign is in full swing, and the Democratic candidates want our support.

Let's tell them what they must do to earn it!

1. Deny all funds for Bush's escalation
2. Support immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, to be completed by the end of 2007 using the funds already appropriated
3. Oppose the $100 billion "Supplemental" appropriation in March and any other bills to extend the U.S. occupation of Iraq

We are keeping track of the positions of all the candidates here: http://www.democrats.com/democrats-iraq-scorecard

You can click on the name of each candidate and email our three principles. They are listening to us very carefully - let's speak up!


March and Lobby in Washington on January 27th, 28th, and 29th

Come to Washington, D.C., on January 27. Join in the march for peace being organized by United for Peace and Justice, and impeachment events on January 28th being planned by Progressive Democrats of America.

Make appointments now to meet with your Congress Member on January 29th to demand impeachment and peace. Get organized with others in your Congressional District.

TIP: Buy a dozen or more Impeachment Shirts, bring them to D.C., sell them at a profit, and pay for your trip.


Sign Up for Lobby Day Now

Register now for the UFPJ Congressional Advocacy Day (lobby day) January 29, 2007

March to the Capitol on J27 -- march into your Rep. and Senators' offices on J29! Register Here: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=121

Plan to spend three days in D.C. On Saturday, march. On Sunday, take part in workshops and training sessions on peace and impeachment. Meet with fellow activists from your state and congressional district and prepare for Monday. On Monday, lobby your Congress Member and Senators for two things:
1. No more funding for this war.
2. Investigations of the justification for and conduct of this war.


Print Out a Flyer and Make Copies
Blank areas on right are for you to fill in local info.
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Forward this message to everyone you know!

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Who Will Hold Science Teachers Association Accountable?

"The world's largest science teachers association has rejected 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Who will hold them accountable at their annual national conference?" asks John Borowski.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012507H.shtml



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Video Interview

Truthout's Geoffrey Millard interviews Lieutenant Ehren Watada's parents on the eve of his court-martial. They spoke about their son and his courage as he faces the fight of his life.

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Washington - The climate here has definitely changed. Legislation to control global warming that once had a passionate but quixotic ring to it is now serious business. Congressional Democrats are increasingly determined to wrest control of the issue from the White House and impose the mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions that most smokestack industries have long opposed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807P.shtml

David Swanson argues that by any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now. This illustrates the worst problem with our media. It's not how they cover stories. It's how they do not cover stories. A Newsweek poll a while back said that 51 percent of Americans want Bush impeached and 44 percent do not. That's about double the support there was for impeaching Clinton when it was in the news every single day.

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As the House prepared to impose new fees on oil and gas taken from federal waters, some Senate Democrats said Wednesday that royalty breaks for energy companies ought to be abandoned. House Democrats are confident they can approve an energy package Thursday that includes a conservation fee on oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico, seeks to recoup royalties lost because of a government error in drilling leases in the late 1990s, and rolls back several oil-industry tax breaks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807N.shtml

Kelpie Wilson writes: "A renewable-energy economy could be a decentralized free-market paradise. Imagine a network of small power producers, ranging from the family that invests in some extra solar panels to the city that owns a fleet of wind turbines - all feeding electricity into a robust electric grid, sharing electrons with Internet-like intelligence and resilience. The future is coming fast, and we'll choose it through our actions as citizens, consumers and voters. The question remains: Do we have the energy for freedom?"

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President Bush's decision to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court represents the latest step back from the expansive interpretation of executive power he has asserted since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Under pressure from Congress and the courts, Bush in the past six months has closed secret overseas CIA prisons, transferred previously unidentified detainees to regular military custody, negotiated Congressional approval for tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects and accepted at least some regulation of how harshly such prisoners could be interrogated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807K.shtml

According to John P. Briggs, MD, and J.P. Briggs II, PhD, President George W. Bush prides himself on "making tough decisions." But many are sensing something seriously troubling, even psychologically unbalanced, about the president as a decision-maker. They are right. Because of a psychological dynamic swirling around deeply hidden feelings of inadequacy, the president has been driven to make increasingly incompetent and risky decisions. This dynamic makes the psychological stakes for him now unimaginably high. The words "success" and "failure" have seized his rhetoric like metaphors for his psyche's survival.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807J.shtml

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By David Swanson

Larry Everest made an interesting comment on a panel we did in Memphis last weekend. He said that if Nancy Pelosi, who claims her top priority is ending the war and who claims to support democracy, were to ask people to come to Washington, D.C., on January 27th to march against the war, probably 20 million people would come. Such an action by Pelosi would not require that she take any controversial position, merely that she lead.

Rev. Glenda Hope sent around an Email that was forwarded to me and a lot of other people. She has a ministry in Pelosi's district and recently met with Pelosi's office. Hope was joined in the meeting by the President of the University of San Francisco (a Catholic priest), the pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church (the largest church in San Francisco), the Senior Rabbi of the largest synagogue in San Francisco (Congregation Emanu-el), and Richard Smoak, a Presbyterian minister and founder/director of San Francisco Network Ministries (a 34-year-old ministry among the poor in San Francisco's Tenderloin). They met for 45 minutes with Pelosi's District Director Dan Bernal and Deputy District Director Melanie Nutter in Nancy Pelosi's office.

Here's the Email:

Subject: RE: Meeting with Pelosi Staff in SF

I began the conversation by saying flatly that I believe we must cut off the funding immediately, as that is the only effective way to begin the process of withdrawal of troops and US disengagement. All of the others agreed. Dan, her Dist. Director, argued that the votes are not there for that, even if Nancy voted "no", and such a cutoff would be widely regarded as "not supporting the troops." I stated that I believe Nancy has enormous influence and others would follow her lead. Also that "if something keeps being said then in the mind of the larger public it becomes true." Therefore, Nancy should quit saying that and tell the truth: that we are not supporting the troops by leaving them there but are only making targets of them more and for longer. Also said that I know there is enough money already in the pipeline to continue the war for 6-7 months and that is enough to make a continuing but losing effort to prepare Iraq to take over and to bring our people home.

Dan said Pelosi, Murtha, et al are preparing strings to be attached to the supplemental and other legislation which "will have the force of law" and will force a disengagement. Wouldn't Rev. Hope accept that approach rather than cutting off the funding? I replied that I do not believe anything will work other than cutting off the funding. Dan labeled that a "symbolic gesture," a response which I found mind boggling. Rabbi Pearce spoke eloquently from the position of the Hebrew and contemporary prophets, stating that there are times when one must quit the "political plotting, psyching out, and maneuvering and take a stand: do the right thing." Dan replied with an insulting little lecture about the difference between being an activist and working within the system. (All of us have been working for social justice a lot longer than he has been around. For example, I am 70 and my first involvements were in the Deep South in the Civil Rights Movement)

This went on about 45 minutes which was astonishing and I think one of our number might have been won over to the gradualist approach, though he may have changed back since recent events. The rest of us held firm.

I took in a letter to Pelosi, who I know personally, and the dep. Dist. dir. (who said little but later indicated that she agreed with me) said: "Oh, good!" and snatched it up.

We also talked, myself especially since I have worked in the Tenderloin for 34 years, about the domestic impact with reduced funding for programs such as our own SafeHouse for Homeless Women Leaving Prostitution (ll% cut in HUD funds in the last 2 years). And I spoke about the memorial services I do for homeless people and people living in the TL, noting that a large number of them are veterans (a particular concern for Pelosi) suffering from PTSD, homelessness, addiction and mental illness related to combat. I said we expect a "surge" of additional vets onto our streets now with similar afflictions and the longer we stay in Iraq the more there will be. I noted the absence of effective and adequate treatment for them. I also said that Nancy knows I work with drug addicts and I have learned that no matter how passionate my pleas, how eloquent and clear my reasoning, or how dire my threats, if I keep giving an active user money he will continue using. I connected that with cutting off the funding.

If we were going today, I would also talk about the number of Iraqi refugees, esp. middle class people who are essential to "building a democracy." I hope this doesn't sound like we were ignoring what is happening to the country and the people of Iraq. we were trying not to spread out over everything but to stay focussed on cutting off funds.

NB: in Wednesday's SF Chronicle there will be an OpEd piece by Cong. Lynn Woolsey. You should alert all your email contacts to read this.

Oh, Dan also said "we need progressive Christians to get involved in speaking out against this war." I pointed out that he should have said "and progressive Jews, such as Rabbi Pearce" (!). I said that I preach this every chance I get at a pulpit or other speaking engagement and have contacted people across the country urging them to speak out for cutting off the funds.

Amazingly, he also said "Nancy doesn't need and isn't helped by demonstrations, etc., by people calling for cutting off the funding. She thinks their plan is the only workable one and, again, cutting off funding will be widely perceived as not supporting the troops."

I could draw conclusions and strategy from all this but I think you can, too. Thanks for your efforts. Keep the faith!!

Rev. Glenda Hope.


So, Pelosi claims to support majority positions that are unpopular within the Beltway (like ending the war), but she opposes demonstrations. Pelosi claims to be blocked by the idea that cutting off the funds for the war somehow hurts the troops we would thereby bring safely home, but she is herself a chief proponent of that nonsense. Pelosi wants to end the war, but wants to fund it. Pelosi is the new leader but considers leadership merely symbolic. Can we get our votes back? Maybe we should have taken a vacation on November 7 instead of voting. Maybe we should all march on January 27th BECAUSE Pelosi doesn't want us to: http://www.unitedforpeace.org


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HLV INFO 5/AT

18-01-2007

Helmut Breunig

Wo sind sie denn, die "unbelasteten" Vergeichsgruppen?

Widersprüchliche Untersuchungen

13-01-2007

SEEHEIM. Sämtliche Anlagen in Seeheim-Jugenheim senden nach Angaben der Bundesnetzagentur innerhalb des gesetzlich erlaubten Rahmens, die Grenzwerte werden dabei nicht annähernd tangiert.

Doch gerade um die Höhe der Grenzwerte gibt es seit Jahren eine mitunter erbittert geführte Debatte zwischen Mobilfunkgegnern – sie befürchten gesundheitliche Langzeitschäden durch die Senderstrahlung und halten die Grenzwerte für zu hoch – und Befürwortern der Technik. Kernpunkt der Debatte ist das Fehlen von Beweisen für oder gegen die Schädlichkeit der Mobilfunktechnik. Dazu fehlt es vor allem an Langzeituntersuchungen und auch daran, dass in Deutschland mit seiner beinahe kompletten Mobilfunknetzversorgung keine Vergleichsgruppe, die nicht von Sendeanlagen bestrahlt wird, zu einer Untersuchung herangezogen werden kann.

Nur durch das Heranziehen einer unbelasteten Vergleichsgruppe könnten die Untersuchungen an „bestrahlten“ Bürgern seriös eingeschätzt werden.

Die europaweit fast 1500 Untersuchungen und Gutachten zu diesem Thema lassen bis heute keine allgemein gültige Antwort zur Schädlichkeit oder Unschädlichkeit von Mobilfunkstrahlung zu.

http://www.echo-online.de/suedhessen/template_detail.php3?id=423962

http://www.alternet.org/story/46794/


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Foreign Policy In Focus
by Conn Hallinan

01/15/07

Is Israel, supported by the Bush Administration, preparing to launch an atomic war against Iran? On January 7, the London Sunday Times claimed that the Israeli government is planning to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. While the Israeli government denies the story, recent statements by top Israeli officials and military figures — along with recent White House threats against Iran and Syria and a shuffling of American commanders in the Middle East — suggest that the possibility is real...

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3910


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In These Times
by Christopher Moraff

01/17/07

U.S. prisoners working for a computer-recycling operation run by Federal Prison Industries (FPI) are being exposed to a toxic cocktail of hazardous chemicals through their prison jobs while efforts by some prison officials to protect them have been met with stonewalling and subterfuge. Since 1994, FPI has used inmates to disassemble electronic waste (e-waste) — the detritus of obsolete computers, televisions and related electronics goods — for recycling. According to a new report, ‘Toxic Sweatshops’ — published jointly by the Texas Campaign for the Environment, California-based Computer TakeBack Campaign and the Prison Activist Resource Center — the waste contains high levels of arsenic, selenium, mercury, lead, dioxins and beryllium — all considered dangerous by the Environmental Protection Agency...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2982/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by George McGovern

Senator George McGovern delivered these remarks at the National Press Club January 12. They are published here as part of Moral Compass, a series focusing on the spoken word. “I’m glad to be back at the National Press Club. Indeed, at the age of eighty-four, I’m glad to be anywhere. In my younger years when the subject of aging came up, trying to sound worldly wise, I would say, ‘It doesn’t matter so much the number of years you have, but what you do with those years.’ I don’t say that anymore. I now want to reach a hundred. Why? Because I thoroughly enjoy life and there are so many things I must still do before entering the mystery beyond. The most urgent of these is to get American soldiers out of the Iraqi hellhole Bush-Cheney and their neoconservative theorists have created in what was once called the cradle of civilization. It is believed to be the location of the Garden of Eden. I mention the neoconservative theorists to recall Walter Lippman’s observance, ‘There is nothing so dangerous as a belligerent professor’...

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Frontiers of Freedom
by Dan Sernoffsky

01/18/07

Patriotism, it appears, is passe, at least as far as the Democrat-controlled New Jersey legislature is concerned, and teaching the real historic roots of our history is something to be avoided. History is politically incorrect. George Orwell knew that. ‘He who controls the present,’ Orwell said, ‘controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.’ Like Winston Smith, the protagonist in ‘1984,’ we are allowing ourselves to become fellow employees of the Ministry of Truth, where Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Truth...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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George Orwell 1984
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2902724/

Tacoma News Tribune

01/17/07

A Democrat-driven resolution on Iraq that has attracted the support of at least two Republicans threatens to expose fissures within the GOP over the unpopular war. Republicans are deeply divided on the war in Iraq and how Congress should react to President Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more troops to join the estimated 130,000 already there...

http://tinyurl.com/2b3bvm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Today, January 17, 2007 marks the 30th anniversary of the execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah, the first to take place after the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia allowed for the resumption of executions. Since that time, more than 1,050 executions have taken place in the United States.

Even as we pause to reflect on 30 years of state-sanctioned killing, executions continue unabated in states such as Texas, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. At the same time, executions are on hold in at least 10 states, due to challenges to lethal injection protocols and other concerns about this fatally flawed system.

Please read Amnesty International's statement http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7228860510612138239755465 on this somber occasion and an accompanying review of 30 years of executions http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7228720810612138239755465 .

Also, please take action to stop the pending execution of Ronald Chambers in Texas, scheduled for January 25.
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7228719110612138239755465

Mr. Chambers has spent the past 31 years in prison, nearly all of it on death row. To quote Supreme Court Justice Breyer, "It is fairly asked whether such punishment is both unusual and cruel."


The time has come for society to recognize that our 30 year-experiment with the death penalty has failed. We must end the death penalty once and for all.

Thank you for your support and commitment to this issue.

In Solidarity,
AIUSA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty

Kurzer feuilletonistischer Streifzug durch das Elend der Arbeitslosigkeit und Höhen-, wie Sturzflüge des Existenzgeldes von Gerhard Hanloser in der trend onlinezeitung 01/2007 http://www.trend.infopartisan.net/trd0107/t080107.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007

Welcome to the New World Job Order - Doubling the number of part-time employees

Jack Rasmus, Gewerkschaftsaktivist und Autor des Buches „The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive From Ronald Reagan To George W. Bush“ hat in der Dezember-Ausgabe des Z-Magazine-Online eine überarbeitete Fassung eines gleichnamigen Kapitels aus dem o.a. Buch veröffentlicht. Millionen von Full-Time-Jobs werden auf Kosten der Angestellten zu Teilzeit-Jobs oder in allgemein prekäre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse umgewandelt. Und: Dieser Trend beschleunigt sich stark. Mittlerweile müssen mehr als 43 Millionen amerikanischer Arbeiter, also ein Drittel der Gesamt-Beschäftigten, unter solchen Job-Verhältnissen arbeiten und versuchen zu überleben. Siehe dazu:

Welcome to the New World Job Order - Doubling the number of part-time employees

Der (englische) Artikel von Jack Rasmus im Z-Magazine-Online vom Dezember 2006 http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Dec2006/rasmus1206.html


The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive Against American Workers and Unions from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush

Die Seite des Verlages „Kyklos Productions“ mit dem Einleitungskapitel, Pressestimmen und Bestellmöglichkeiten. In Deutschland kann es folgendermaßen bestellt werden: Verlag: Kyklos Productions; Auflage: 1st
(Mai 2006); ISBN-10: 0977106209; ISBN-13: 978-0977106202. Es hat 517 Seiten und kostet 20 Euro http://www.kyklosproductions.com/homewar.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007

Wir nennen es Arbeit - Die digitale Boheme oder: Intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung

Das neue Buch von Holm Friebe und Sascha Lobo, erschienen bei Heyne in der Verlagsgruppe Random House. Gebundenes Buch, 304 Seiten, ISBN-10: 3-453-12092-2, ISBN-13: 978-3-453-12092-1, € 17,95

Siehe dazu:

Wir nennen es Arbeit - Die digitale Boheme oder: Intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung

Die Verlags-Homepage zum Buch „Wir nennen es Arbeit“ bei Random House mit weiteren Informationen zum Buch und direkten Bestellmöglichkeiten http://www.randomhouse.de/book/edition.jsp?edi=216237


Etwas Besseres als die Festanstellung finden wir allemal

Dies ist die Website und das Blog zum Buch "Wir nennen es Arbeit – die digitale Bohème oder intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung" von Holm Friebe und Sascha Lobo. Das Buch handelt davon, wie eine neue Klasse von Selbstständigen mit Hilfe digitaler Technologien dem alten Traum vom selbstbestimmten Arbeiten in selbstgewählten Kollektivstrukturen ein gutes Stück näher kommt. Das Blog schreibt das Buch fort, gibt Updates zu den einzelnen Kapiteln und informiert über neueste Entwicklungen und Frontverläufe im Kampf um den Individualismus 2.0. http://www.wirnennenesarbeit.de/


Die Vorrede

„Unsere gemeinsame Vorgeschichte, und damit die Vorgeschichte dieses Buchs, beginnt etwa um das Jahr 2001 herum. Die New Economy war gerade zusammengebrochen und hatte uns in ihrer Spätphase unabhängig voneinander tiefe Einblicke in die Unternehmens- und Arbeitswelt beschert. Wir waren hin und her getaumelt zwischen Internet-, Trend- und Werbeagenturen, die heiße Luft mit je nach Bedarf angepasster Temperatur verkauften. Es hatte anfangs durchaus Spaß gemacht. Dann war es unbequem geworden. Und danach standen wir beide wieder auf verschiedenen Seiten der Trümmer…“ Die Vorrede aus dem Buch exklusiv im LabourNet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/branchen/medien-it/health/arbeit_vorrede.pdf


Digitale Bohème - Frei und ängstlich

Nach dem Abrauschen der New Economy formiert sich im Internet eine neue Generation der Selbstständigen. Wie sieht es in dieser Arbeitswelt aus? Artikel von Julian Weber, Hamburg in der schweizerischen WOZ vom 07.12.2006 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2006/nr50/wirtschaft/14195.html


Digitale Boheme

Holm Friebe und Sascha Lobo verdienen ihr Geld mit kreativen Projekten im Internet. Ein Gespräch über Strategien des Durchwurstelns und das Auslaufmodell Festanstellung. "Es gibt inzwischen viel mehr freie Jobs, als man glaubt." Interview von Elisalex Clary in Die Welt vom 12.10.2006 http://www.welt.de/data/2006/10/12/1068777.html


Digitale Bohème. Sie nennen es Arbeit

Artikel von Eberhard Rathgeb in der FAZ vom 08.12.2006 http://www.faz.net/s/Rub117C535CDF414415BB243B181B8B60AE/Doc~EF67729E92A7E41239ACE1CF187AEC5E2~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007

Artikel von Herbert Masslau vom 14. Januar 2007 auf seiner Homepage
http://www.herbertmasslau.de/pageID_3933615.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007

Zwei Jahre Hartz IV am Beispiel Dortmund

Zwei Jahre Hartz IV – Hausarbeit als "Dritter Arbeitsmarkt"?

Artikel von Irina Vellay, Mitautorin der Studie über 1-Euro-Jobs in Dortmund, zum Jahrestag "Zwei Jahre Hartz IV" beim Sozialforum Dortmund (pdf) http://zope1.free.de/sofodo/themen/erwerbslosigkeit/hartz_iv_hausarbeit.pdf


Zwei Jahre Hartz IV – Startphase eines Langzeitversuchs

Artikel von Wolfgang Richter beim Sozialforum Dortmund (pdf) http://zope1.free.de/sofodo/themen/erwerbslosigkeit/hartz_iv_startphase.pdf


Ein-Euro-Jobs bringen selten Erfolg

Ein-Euro-Jobs sind mittlerweile weit verbreitet. Doch sie bringen recht wenig: Nur 15 Prozent finden der Mini-Jobber finden anschließend eine reguläre Arbeit. Die Bundesagentur legt jetzt Eingliederungsbilanz vor - und der DGB übt harsche Kritik. Artikel in Die Welt vom 16.1.07 http://www.welt.de/data/2007/01/16/1178161.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Die Wirkung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Instrumente im SGB II

BA-Presse Info 002 vom 15/01/2007 http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_287882/zentraler-Content/A01-Allgemein-Info/A011-Presse/Presse/2007/Presse-07-002.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ein-Euro-Jobs

Jan 18 2007

By John Hill

AN UNWANTED Christmas present has sent tongues wagging around Limehouse.

Residents clearing out their yuletide trees and tinsel were shocked to discover telecommunications company T Mobile had already set the wheels in motion for a 10-metre slimline black phone mast to be constructed off Branch Road.

An application for the monopole, which would include shrouded antennas and an equipment cabinet, was lodged on December 11 to improve the "poor quality" reception in the area. The pole will also be designed to cater for the next-generation 3G network, which will allow users to browse the internet, listen to music and watch video on their mobiles.

But the message was not passed on to Limehouse homeowners until they were tipped off by an email from a fellow resident - Limehouse West Management Team chairman David Ronaldson.

Among the objectors is Victory Place Residents Association chairman Donald Davies, who has submitted a petition signed by more than two-thirds of the 143 apartment owners. He said: "People are keen to object to this. It would be on a footpath, and people sit around there just to enjoy life.

"I suppose masts have to be put up somewhere, but it's a funny place. T-Mobile users don't seem to have a problem around here. And we're concerned they seem to be trying to slip this through. We found out just after Christmas from another resident, but nobody's seen any notices relating to the application anywhere around Limehouse."

The petitioners claim the company has presented no evidence for its claims of poor reception, and have complained about the "insufficiency of notice and consultation".

They also say health concerns will cause "fear and stress" to residents, and argue the mast will be an eyesore in the attractive area.

Mr Davies is aware of several other petitioners against the mast, which would be set up on British Waterways land in Limehouse Basin.

T-Mobile claims the location was decided after an "exhaustive site search", and that "no other site share opportunities were available".

It said: "The proposed installation will be of a sympathetic nature due to its minor scale and bulk and painted to blend with existing structures in the surrounding."

© owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Southern Limited 2007

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0117-05.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0117-06.htm

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Rogue State America

By John B. Judis

What exactly are we doing in the horn of Africa, where we have encouraged the Christian government of Ethiopia to invade Somalia and replace its Islamic government? As far as I can tell, we have violated international law, committed war crimes, helped Al Qaeda recruit new members, and involved ourselves in a guerrilla war that could last decades.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16223.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0117-30.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Derrick+Jackson

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0117-29.htm



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

18. Januar 2007

Der erwerbslose Soziologe Thomas Meese (36) aus Hamburg hatte vom August 2005 bis Juni 2006 an zwei Instituten der Universität Hamburg einen so genannten Ein-Euro-Job. Nun klagt er gemäß dem von Deutschland 1956 ratifizierten Abkommen Nr. 29 der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) zum Verbot von Zwangsarbeit auf Entschädigung in Höhe von 10.784 Euro. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping (MdB):

Ich fordere die Große Koalition auf, unverzüglich die rechtswidrigen Zumutbarkeitskriterien und Sanktionsandrohungen bei Hartz IV zurück zu nehmen. Entschädigungen für bisherig erzwungene Ein-Euro-Jobs sind zu zahlen. Im Abkommen Nr. 29 der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation von 1930 wird Zwangsarbeit als eine Arbeit oder Dienstleistung bezeichnet, "die von einer Person unter Androhung irgendeiner Strafe verlangt wird und für die sie sich nicht freiwillig zur Verfügung gestellt hat". Die ILO hat verschiedentlich betont, dass unter "Strafen" auch der "Verlust von Rechten und Privilegien" bzw. der "Ausschluss aus dem gemeinschaftlichen und sozialen Leben" zu verstehen sind. So auf der
93. Internationalen Arbeitskonferenz 2005 in Genf. Die Nichtannahme eines 1 Euro - Jobs hat die Absenkung bzw. den Wegfall des gesamten Leistungsanspruches des ALG II als mögliche Konsequenz. Ein von PDS-Landtagsfraktionen in Auftrag gegebenes Rechtsgutachten zu Hartz IV von Ulf Wende kam bereits 2004 zum Schluss, dass die Zumutbarkeitskriterien und die drohende Absenkung bzw. der Wegfall der Leistungen bei Hartz IV mit dem Arbeitszwang-Verbot im Grundgesetz
(Art. 12) unvereinbar ist, "wenn die Aufnahme von Arbeitsgelegenheiten gegen den Willen des Betroffenen verlangt wird und diesem der Arbeitsmarkt verschlossen ist." Eine Beschwerde gegen diese rechtswidrige Praxis kann gemäß Artikel 24 der ILO-Konvention jede Organisation der Arbeitgeber oder der Arbeitnehmer beim Verwaltungsrat der ILO einreichen. Es wird höchste Zeit, dass dieser Schritt gegangen wird.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34953



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Meese

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0117-32.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Rall

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0117-20.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0117-03.htm



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Silverman heads a second company that sells the rice-size people chips, which are the only ones with Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval, for implantation in an individual's right biceps. They carry an identity marker that would be linked to medical records. His goal is to create "the first RFID company for people."

http://www.businessweek.com/print/smallbiz/content/jan2007/sb20070111_186325.htm


From Information Clearing House

Video

Watch this video and tremble -fear for the future of Democracy, Due Process of Law, freedom itself:
http://tinyurl.com/2m6gyy


From Information Clearing House

Congress's new Democratic majorities should repeal the law passed last year that denies detainees their habeas corpus right to challenge their continued detention.

http://tinyurl.com/3b9vxq


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus

The Bush administration made a decision to start blaming its new problem in Iraq on Tehran. On August 4, 2005, Pentagon and intelligence officials leaked the story to the National Broadcasting Co (NBC) and the Columbia Broadcasting System that US troops had "intercepted" dozens of shaped charges said to have been "smuggled into northeastern Iraq only last week".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17201.htm

One of Iraq's most powerful Shia politicians has condemned the arrest of Iranians by US forces in Iraq as an attack on the country's sovereignty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6270957.stm


From Information Clearing House

Sudan on Wednesday summoned the senior U.S. diplomat in Khartoum after it said American troops raided the Sudanese embassy in Baghdad, violating diplomatic conventions, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MCD752305.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Fred Grimm

The accused was held in extreme isolation for 1,307 days. Held in a nine-by-seven-foot cell. The only window blacked out. He was the lone prisoner on the two-tier cellblock. He was given food through a slot in the door. He slept on a steel mattress. No reading material. No calendar. No clock. Nothing to connect him to the outside world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17205.htm



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Audio

Radio National host Paul Barry interviews Scott Ritter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17203.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

By Paul Craig Roberts

Suddenly the media is full of Bush Regime propagandistic assertions designed to make the American public believe that Iran is the enemy that is fighting against our troops in Iraq. To facilitate this deception, the Bush Regime staged a propaganda event by invading an Iranian government liaison office in Northern Iraq, kidnapping the Iranian officials and declaring them to be involved in plans to kill US troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17204.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

By Michel Chossudovsky

At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17206.htm



5 Minutes to Midnight

Board Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17208.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michel+Chossudovsky

http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Electrohypersensitivity

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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1992315,00.html


Informant: Mark G.

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The Rubin study was MTHR. They released a literature review (published in the American Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine) http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/2/224

then their provocation study published in the BMJ. (see also discussion at the end) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7546/886

which features in WHO's "factsheet" on EHS: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs296/en/print.html

Rubin's team concluded that since the sensitive people reacted to everything equally but differently from the control group, the response to "sham" shows it's all psychological.

What they assumed was that the standard MTHR mobile phone dummy fields were too low in "sham" condition. The mobile unit in fact produces equal signals in all modes, it just runs to a "load" rather than the antenna. Powerwatch also has some critique of this

This is criticised by Frans in Don's blog: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=436

Rubin's boss is Simon Wessely, but let's not be prejudiced. It's just that Wesseley's agenda on MCS, ME on GWS and on EHS is that "idiopathic environmental intolerance" can be wished away with cognitive behavioural therapy. The most disturbing fact about the Wessely approach is that he has been funded by insurance companies, which is ideal in the case of GWS. Martin Walker ("Skewed") tells some disturbing accounts of the effects on people's lives and health of misinterpreting ME (a subject on which you should look up the Countess of Mar as a protagonist vs Wessely).

Here's my reply to the Guardian, should they wish to file it away or use it:

Andy


Dear Sir

With reference to Technology Guardian "Electrosmog in the clear with scientists" (18 January) your article is over-conclusive. There is a real difficulty with provocation testing - ie subjecting a person who claims to be electro-sensitive (ES) to double-blind exposure in controlled conditions.

First, there are two few studies, even those interpreted as "best" by the Rubin team, that truly replicate each other without introducing fresh variables in what is in all probability a complex biological interaction. Any "sham" testing should achieve a natural EM environment, since ES people show sensitivity to extremely small changes, and this is rarely achieved. The Kings college researchers assumed that extraneous fields were simply too small to affect their results, and this has been challenged.

Second, testing for responses takes very little account of "lag time", ie it assumes an instantaneous response in the course of a 40 minute changing EM environment, and this is far from often the case.

Third, introducing placebo and nocebo advances us nowhere. If the mind affects the body in this way, there is a fair chance that at least part of that neurological communication itself involves endogenous electromagnetic communication.

The human body is highly energetic, not a bag of chemicals. There is abundant scientific research showing that EM fields can alter the skin (mast cell activity and conductance), the blood (red cell flocculation and leukocyte balance), blood pressure, gene expression and EEG rhythms. It seems hardly conclusive to compare provocation studies and psychiatric analysis with the physiological indicators, especially when an increasing number of people are developing a quite unexpected sensitivity. The HPA report on hypersensitivity and EM fields (Irvine, 2006) itself identified the most effective remedies of ES as being removal of EMF sources.

If CBT works for some people, it no more proves the cause of ES to be psychological than that aspirin proves the cause of pain to be chemical.

yours

End



He is a wessley protege at kings college couple of links outlining his involvement the recent work he has done was funded by the MTHR I think
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/ppro/experts/expert/720/printversion
http://internal.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ipublic/staff/profile/external.aspx?go=10361

Alasdair brought this up with me in a recent meeting we had and the sham signal in the study was done in a way that they could still have the phone switched on, so they placed a dummy load across the antenna output to limit the amount of RF going out of the antenna when the experiment was conducted. As a radio ham the notion of placing a dummy load to contain RF is laughable as RF seems to be predisposed to leak out and spread "through" everything in its path at every opportunity, at best the dummy load may have reduced the output by 90 % but that is not the same as zero output to truly be a sham exposure, this makes the study very "amateurish" if I may say so!!


panayis zambellis luton uk



From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_polar_0107

Protect Polar Bears From Global Warming
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/polar_bears2

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Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Thanks to your action and support – Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was persuaded to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

However, the final decision about whether or not to list the polar bear will not be made until the proposal goes through a 12-month review process. In the interim, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking requests for public hearings until FEBRUARY 23rd.

They are not required to hold public hearings nor will they unless they are swayed by an outpouring of public concern. For this reason, your activism is needed now in order for the Service to listen to and heed our concerns about the polar bear and its melting habitat.

Please send an email to Rosa Meehan at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management program at rosa_meehan@fws.gov.

Together, Alaska Wildlife Alliance members can influence the Service's decision regarding the life-or-death outcome of the great white bear. Send Ms. Meehan an email today.


SAMPLE EMAIL MESSAGE to Rosa Meehan

rosa_meehan@fws.gov

Dear Ms. Meehan,

Thank you for proposing to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior's foresight on this matter is greatly appreciated but as a concerned citizen I am requesting that the FWS hold public hearings here in Alaska and across the lower 48.

The plight of the polar bear and its melting habitat are the sentinels of global warming, causing a vast majority of Americans to be concerned about the future welfare of the great white bear and the Arctic sea ice.

Therefore, I urge you to please allow the American public to participate in the planning process that will determine that fate of the polar bear and the variety other species that are dependent on the most endangered habitat in the world – the Arctic Sea Ice.

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A message from Linda

JANUARY 17, 2006

WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC

“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” - published on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and other Arabic speakers in the Middle East.

"We are making 'U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability' available in Arabic because we want to increase its accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge of the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there," said Nick Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace.org. "We hope that this will assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in getting reparations for what has been done."

The Arabic language edition of the War Crimes Report is available for free download as a pdf file through these websites:

http://www.consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://traprockpeace.org/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://vcnv.org/files/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.videos1.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_arabic.pdf
http://www.uruknet.info

English language editions are available at these sites and the sites listed below. We thank Dahr Jamail for coordinating the translation, which includes all references in his extensively researched report.

Adobe Reader for pdf files is installed on most computers, or available for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The English language edition had been prepared by Consumers for Peace - http://www.consumersforpeace.org - with the advice of Karen Parker, noted lawyer in human rights and humanitarian law. Ms. Parker is President of the San-Francisco-based Association of Humanitarian Lawyers and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the Los Angeles-based International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project (IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental organization on the U.N. Secretary-General’s list.

Endorsements from the forward:

Howard Zinn, a historian, playwright, and social activist, is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment. He writes:

This report on the war crimes of the current administration is an invaluable resource, with a meticulous presentation of the evidence and an astute examination of international law.

Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, has visited Iraq 28 times in the last 15 years. She writes:

“After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone, in Iraq, during September ’06, former Secretary of State James Baker III assured that the investigative panel he led had not spent any time “wringing our hands over what mistakes might or might not have been created in the past.” (NYT, September 20, 2006). The “Consumers for Peace” report on war crimes committed in Iraq helps us understand our responsibility not to wring our hands but rather to demand accountability from elected representatives by delivering this report to them and to local media. How many people killed? How many families torn apart? How many homes destroyed? How many livelihoods gone? How many lives ruined? How many cities sacrificed? We bear responsibility to end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for suffering caused, and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes committed. This report beckons all who read it to stop collaborating with illegal, immoral warmongers who recklessly afflict Iraq.”

Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more than eight months reporting from occupied Iraq, writes the following about the report:

“I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen Parker regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq. Having witnessed much of what is so well documented in this report, it is a clear and encompassing indictment of the Bush Administration for the war crimes they are directly responsible for in Iraq. Until evidence such as this begins to see the light of day in a court of law and the perpetrators brought to justice, the world remains unsafe and unstable from an administration determined to rule the world. After witnessing what they are capable of in Iraq, I have no doubt these people will not stop in their quest for world domination. Instead, they must be stopped. And the only way to do that is bring the guilty to justice. This document will help achieve that goal.”

Neil MacKay, multi-award winning Home Affairs and Investigations Editor of the Sunday Herald (Scotland), writes:

"What has happened in Iraq is a great sin and a great crime. The invasion and occupation have stained the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty; and disgraced the good name of the people of both the United States of America and Great Britain. As a journalist who has investigated the roots of this war, and the on-going horror of what is happening in Iraq, I fully commend this report to readers. It is an important reminder of the blood which is on the hands of our leaders, and the shame that the governments of the UK and the USA have brought to the British and American people by perpetrating a criminal war in our name."

Ann Wright, 29 year US Army veteran who retired as a Colonel and US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq commented on the War Crimes Report:

"While in the US Army at Ft Bragg, NC, I taught to US military officers and non-commissioned officers the responsibilities of military forces under the Geneva Convention and the Law of Land Warfare, as well as the obligations of an Occupying Power.

The War Crimes Report is an extraordinarily comprehensive and important presentation of international law that governs the conduct of nations and their military forces. The Report documents the blatant violations of international and domestic law by the Bush administration and US military forces including the use of illegal military tactics and illegal weapons.

Because of a huge media failure in the United States, many Americans do not realize how many times the Bush administration has violated international law. But, the rest of the world knows very well the extent of these crimes.

As a retired military officer, I know that accountability is one of the foundation elements of the US military. The Bush administration has undercut the professionalism of our military forces by encouraging and condoning the violation of international and domestic war in treatment of detainees, torture and use of illegal tactics and weapons. For the sake of our own military we must demand accountability from civilian leaders, as well as our military forces. This report provides specific mechanisms for much-needed accountability of criminal behaviour by Bush administration policy makers and by US military forces."

Charles Jenks, human rights attorney (1981), Past President of Traprock Peace Center (1998-2005) and Chair of its Advisory Board, and consultant to Consumers for Peace writes:

This war crimes report accurately and succinctly states the case that US officials in the Executive Branch and military have committed grievous war crimes in Iraq. Of course, this is not to say that US culpability stops at the Executive Branch and military. It was the US Congress that authorized the Bush Administration to go to war against Iraq and that has funded the war through every request made by the Executive Branch.

In addition to the fact that this was an illegal war to begin with, the war has been conducted in myriad ways that violate international humanitarian law, including the use of uranium munitions, chemical weapons (white phosphorus), cluster bombs, torture, the indiscriminate killing of civilians and laying waste to cities and the land.

No treatment of crimes, criminals or atrocities could completely describe the wrongs of this tragic conflict. This war crimes report strikes a balance. It manages to be concise at 37 pages, yet has sufficient scope, factual detail and exposition on the law to be useful in both considering the war crimes committed, and the grounds and theories of prosecution for those crimes. Further, it is a treasure trove of resources, with 120 notes and references.

War Crimes Report publishers (English edition):

Consumers for Peace
http://www.consumersforpeace.org

Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
http://www.humanlaw.org

Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org

Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://www.vcnv.org

Uruknet.info
http://www.uruknet.info

Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

AfterDowningStreet.org
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

Socialist Worker newspaper
http://www.socialistworker.org

The Brussells Tribunal (for International Anti-Occupation Network)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/

Stop the War Coalition (UK)
http://www.stopthewar.co.uk


Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board, Traprock Peace Center
Media Liaison, Consumers for Peace
Consultant, ExxonMobil War Boycott Campaign
http://www.traprockpeace.org
http://www.consumersforpeace.org


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Maliki stresses need to bolster Iraqi forces

MSNBC

01/17/07

The Iraqi government’s need for American troops would ‘dramatically go down’ in three to six months if the United States accelerated the process of equipping and arming Iraq’s security forces, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday. The head of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim-led government defended his country’s independence and sovereignty and called on U.S. leaders to show faith in his ability to lead...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16660849/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36065

The impact of carbon trading in the Third World
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36066

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36064



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The ticks who suck the blood of our freedom--the ones in the word "politics"--never sleep. This particular tick is Dianne Feinstein, a DEMOCRAT!

(...and people ask me why I have no loyalty to parties!) It's a wonder that we have any freedom left at all after more than 230 years since the founders attempted to preserve it.

Below is something very simple you can do to stop something that will further needlessly annoy and inconvenience us all.

Frank J. Gonzalez
Received 41% in 2006 vs. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, lampooned by Jon Stewart here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLcgE_N_fo
Running again in 2008
Post Office Box 832586
Miami, FL 33283-2586
cell: 786-287-7491
Email address: voteliberty @bellsouth.net
Official campaign site: http://www.electfrank.org
Facebook campaign site: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500078956
MySpace campaign site: http://www.myspace.com/gonzalezforcongress
Email list of campaign updates & issues commentary: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/gofrank/

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."

--founder of the Democratic Party, 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)


* Action Alert - Tell Congress to Keep DRM out of Radio! The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have to adopt digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or lose the statutory license for broadcasting music.

Letters from constituents like you helped beat this dangerous proposal last year -- take action now to block it again:

http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221

This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite and digital radio. Such devices would be allowed to include "reasonable recording" features, but that excludes choosing and playing back selections based on song title, artist, or genre. Want to freely move recordings around your home network or copy them to the portable player of your choice? You'll be out of luck if PERFORM passes.

This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM- laden, proprietary formats, so you can say goodbye to software tools like Streamripper that let you record programming to listen to it later.

Tell your representatives to oppose the PERFORM Act now: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221
Learn more about the bill: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005078.php
Learn more about related bills:
http://www.eff.org/IP/digitalradio/

http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/centralcoast/news04.txt


Informant: Sheila Baker

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/170107critics.htm


Informant: shane_digital

Sixteen months after Hurricane Katrina tore this city apart, a hidden sort of damage is emerging. Local officials see it in reports of suicides, strokes and stress-related deaths. They see it in the police calls for fights and domestic violence. They see it in the long waiting lists for psychiatric care that they have no way to provide. These days, life in the Big Easy isn't easy at all.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011707HB.shtml



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President Bush will outline a policy on global warming next week in his State of the Union speech but has not dropped his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. White House spokesman Tony Snow said media reports suggesting that Bush would agree to mandatory emissions caps in an effort to combat global warming are "wrong."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011707EB.shtml

The Justice Department, easing a Bush administration policy, said Wednesday it has decided to give an independent body authority to monitor the government's controversial domestic spying program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707T.shtml

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Administration: We’ll stop breaking wiretap law

CNN

01/17/07

Reversing a position it defended for more than a year, the Bush administration announced Wednesday that it has begun getting court approval before eavesdropping on the communications of suspected terrorists or their associates. The Justice Department notified Congress that a court set up to specialize in wiretapping would oversee its ‘terrorist surveillance program,’ which the administration has said could operate without judicial review. Critics said that violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which set up a special court to review wiretap applications in intelligence cases...

http://tinyurl.com/2x98vu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dr. King's Inconvenient Truth
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Ghosts Of Vietnam
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Big Change, Not Big Oil
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Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/32snqu



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media+reform

17.01.07

"Die USA ignorieren den weltweiten Trend zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe", so die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty international anlässlich des 30. Jahrestages der Hinrichtung von Gary Gilmore. Gilmore wurde am 17. Januar 1977 im US-Bundesstaat Utah hingerichtet - es war die erste Hinrichtung, nachdem die USA die Todesstrafe fast 10 Jahre ausgesetzt hatten. "Gilmore war der Erste in einer langen Reihe von Todeskandidaten", sagte Oliver Hendrich, der sich in einer Pressemitteilung von Amnesty als "Todesstrafen-Experte" bezeichnet. Seit 1977 sind nach Angaben der Organisation in den USA mehr als über 1050 Todesurteile vollstreckt worden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15132

As the US Senate debated an ethics bill last night, conservative Christian groups and "Jack Abramoff's friend" Grover Norquist were unleashing a major cyber-lobbying effort in opposition to the bill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707H.shtml

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Only Appearing to Clean House
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0118-31.htm



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Michael Klare writes: "Not 'Islamo-fascism' but 'Energo-fascism' - the heavily militarized global struggle over diminishing supplies of energy - will dominate world affairs (and darken the lives of ordinary citizens) in the decades to come."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Klare

The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein and two lieutenants by Iraq's Shiite-led government has helped to accelerate Sunni-Shiite sectarianism across an already fragile Middle East, according to experts across the region. The chaotic executions and the calm with which Mr. Hussein confronted the gallows and the mocking Shiite guards have bolstered his image among many of his fellow Sunni Muslims.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707E.shtml



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The Justice Department is removing several United States attorneys from their jobs, among them Carol C. Lam, the top federal prosecutor in San Diego, who led the corruption prosecution of former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707D.shtml



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

Senate leaders will introduce a bipartisan resolution of opposition to President Bush's new Iraq policy as early as today, taking the lead from House Democrats, who are increasingly divided on how far to go to thwart additional troop deployments to Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707B.shtml



Senators Agree on Iraq War Resolution

A group of senators, including a Republican war critic, announced agreement Wednesday on a resolution opposing President Bush's 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq, setting their marker for a major clash between the White House and Congress over the unpopular war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707R.shtml



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Army Denies Watada Illegal-War Defense

Truthout's Geoffrey Millard interviews Lieutenant Ehren Watada's parents on the eve of his court-martial. They spoke about their son and his courage as he faces the fight of his life.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707A.shtml



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Der Fall Stoiber führt vor, was eine Studie von US-Psychologen belegt: Machthaber können nicht erkennen, was Andere sehen, denken und empfinden - was mitunter auch zu ihrem Untergang beiträgt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24464/1.html

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/22001.html



Informant: rafeswhiterose

http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start/134/



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By Staff Reporter

A PLAN to install a mobile phone mast has met with opposition from councillors.

Mobile phone company O2 wants to erect a 12.5 metre pole and antenna in Wearish Lane, Westhoughton.

But the plans, earmarked for the Victoria Road Motor Company site, have been refused by Westhoughton town council.

Councillors fear the mast would look out of place, as it would be visible from nearby beauty spot The Clough.

Council leader Cllr Jim Gilfillan said: "The town council, along with Bolton Council's environmental services, are putting a lot of money into redeveloping the nearby nature spot. The pole would be very prominent from the top of the road. I would recommend that O2 resubmit the plans to erect the pole on an industrial estate."

The matter will now go before Bolton Council's planning committee.
http://www.bolton.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=147,1&_dad=portal92&_schema=PORTAL92

10:11am Tuesday 16th Jan

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.1125181.0.phone_mast_plan_opposed.php

17 January 2007

The mast at Downfield bus terminus.

Residents of Downfield in Dundee have expressed their anger at Government legislation that has allowed a mobile phone company to erect a telecoms mast without planning permission.

Contractors working on behalf of T-Mobile have put up a temporary mast near the junction of St Mary’s Street and Cox Street using emergency legislation from Scottish planning laws.

The structure is twice the size of other masts in the area and stands in plain sight of surrounding neighbourhoods.

Lee McMurchie, of St Mary’s Road, said he would be asking local residents to petition T-Mobile for its removal.

He said, “They have erected this huge mast right outside my door. I think residents should have been consulted before such a monstrosity was put up.

“The council has told us the company is allowed to put the mast up for a six-month temporary period without planning permission or consultation with residents. It’s a disgrace.

“There are two other 30-ft masts nearby, but they are partly obscured by trees so they don’t bother anyone.”

Dundee City Council said it was powerless to intervene in the matter for six months as the company had acted within the law.

A spokesman said, “Under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order, T-Mobile has the power to summarily erect the structure in an emergency.”

Martin Cheyne, acquisitions director of T-Mobile contractor Wilkinson Helsby Projects, confirmed the mast has been put there on a temporary basis to replace one removed from a building at Baberton Court, which is undergoing redevelopment.

T-Mobile is obliged by the terms of its licence to provide coverage at all times, and the company claims the temporary mast is necessary to conform to that licence.

Mr Cheyne said his understanding of the emergency powers afforded to T-Mobile would not permit the company to erect a shifting network of temporary masts to plug holes in the mobile coverage, thereby allaying fears that, after six months, the telecoms company could simply shift the mast to another location.

WHP was not in a position to comment on whether it would respond to residents’ objections and remove the mast once Mr McMurchie’s petition has been lodged, saying any decision would have to come from T-Mobile.

A liaison officer at the firm has been informed about the situation and said he would comment in due course, although no response had been received at the time of going to press.

© All copyright D C Thomson & Co Ltd., 2007

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2007/01/17/story9186076t0.shtm

PETER WALSH

17 January 2007 14:11

Families in a block of flats in the north of the city have begun a campaign against a mobile phone mast being installed near where they live.

People living in Catton View Court, off Woodcock Road, were shocked to receive letters from T-Mobile informing them of plans to install a 12.85m mast and substation near their homes.

The Evening News has opposed the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools, until it is proved they are safe, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign.

Brian Minister, 52, who has lived in the flats since 1998, said: "This letter was a shock when it arrived last week. Most people weren't aware of what they wanted to do. It's quite tall and with the health issues we're quite concerned on that side.

"People are suffering from cancer and other conditions and I think there's a lot in it."

Mr Minister, a well-known face around many of Norwich's pubs as a volunteer charity collector for Cancer Research, said he has started to produce some leaflets which he will post through other residents' doors to highlight the proposals by the mobile phone operator.

"We've started a petition and are putting leaflets through people's doors," he said. "We're trying to get some support because people might not know what to do about it."

David Lowe, 53, who has lived at Catton View Court for the past four years, is also opposed to the planned mast. "It's outrageous," he said. "We've had no information about it and have just been told its going to happen. We don't want it and hopefully will be able to prevent this happening - we're all absolutely seething about it."

Mr Lowe, who is out of work but used to work for Archant in the public notices department, said he has raised concerns about the mast in a letter to Norwich North MP Dr Ian Gibson.

He said: "It's a health hazard and anyone living in the area for up to a mile will be affected by it. We don't need that being forced upon us."

No one from T-Mobile was available for comment.

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast where you live? Call Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on 01603 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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By Rob Devey

RESIDENTS who are opposing plans for a phone mast on a busy Harwood footpath told a planning inspector it would be a blot on the landscape and a health-and-safety hazard.

T-Mobile appealed after Bolton Council's planning and highways committee ignored the advice of officers and refused permission for the 3G mast in Lea Gate near the Morrisons supermarket.

Councillors said that as the 11.7-metre mast would narrow the footpath, pedestrians, including mothers with pushchairs and people in wheelchairs, might be forced to use the road.

Yesterday, at the appeal hearing in Bolton Town Hall, planning inspector Elizabeth Hill listened to arguments from the company, the council and residents.

Ian Calderbank, Bolton's principle engineer, said the width of the footpath would be reduced to 1.8 metres - below the legal two-metre minimum.

But T-Mobile agent Susan McMorrow said that when the path was busy she believed pedestrians would wait for people coming the other way to pass rather then attempt to walk round them in the road.

Residents Gillian Platt and Veronica Goodman said the footpath was the main route to the supermarkert, library and health centre.

They also raised concerns that the mast would spoil the character of the area, with the 16th-century Lea Gate Farm and two cottages nearby being listed buildings.

Mrs Platt said residents feared the mast could pose a health risk and said its position near the supermarket's petrol station could also be dangerous.

That suggestion was denied by T-Mobile's regional property surveyor Simon Mitchell, who added that the company would be willing to pay for the footpath to be widened to two metres.

After the hearing, Mrs Platt, of Tottington Road, said: "I hope the inspector has listened to residents, many of whom have lived here all their lives and know the area better than anybody.

"The footpath is not wide enough as it is, and even if they extended it that would not be enough to persuade us."

Mrs Platt, aged 63, added: "You're not supposed to use mobile phones at petrol stations but here they want to site a phone mast near one, it's ludicrous.

"We're worried there could be an explosion."

A site visit followed the hearing and a decision is due within seven weeks.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1128202.0.mast_opposition_to_phone_firms_plans.php

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2160081.ece


Informant: binstock

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'Five Minutes to Midnight': Doomsday Clock Reset for an Alarming World
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0117-06.htm

17/01/2007

TETRA, mobile comms mast, mobile comms health risk Researchers from the University of Essex are to carry out a two year study to establish if there are any short term health effects from exposure to TETRA mobile radio masts. The move follows the recent completion of the largest ever scientific study of the health effects of conventional and 3G mobile phone masts, carried out at the University’s Electromagnetics and Health Laboratory. The study tested 176 people under carefully controlled conditions and the results are due to be published later this year. The project, which has won £265,624 of funding from the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, will examine the effect of the electromagnetic fields emitted by the TETRA system on up to 264 volunteers. Because TETRA is used by the emergency services, the researchers hope to recruit participants from these services. If you would like to volunteer, contact ehstudy@essex.ac.uk or call 01206 873784.

Author Graham Pitcher

Supporting Information

http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/EHS/

© Findlay Publications Ltd 2007

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/article/index.aspx?articleid=khoIiLjhFYLbXq6vVGTr9JvIHEyXTVhFYZmheslex9EA

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The Essex MTHR study has returned results to volunteers and reports later this year.

Somehow it seem it is worth another £265k to see if there are any "short-term health effects" of TETRA. Good.

All they need now is volunteers.

For more see http://www.tetrawatch.net/main/news.php


Andy


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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A Defense Department database devoted to gathering information on potential threats to military facilities and personnel, known as Talon, had 13,000 entries as of a year ago - including 2,821 reports involving American citizens, according to an internal Pentagon memo to be released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The Pentagon memo says an examination of the system led to the deletion of 1,131 reports involving Americans, 186 of which dealt with "anti-military protests or demonstrations in the US."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707P.shtml

A letter from about 1,000 active-duty, Guard and Reserve members calling for Congress to end the war in Iraq was delivered to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The letter contains just three sentences: "As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for US troops to come home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707M.shtml



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Common Dreams
by Stephen Zunes

01/16/07

The U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia and subsequent U.S. air strikes and naval blockade against that east African country mark another dangerous chapter in the Bush administration’s war against Islamic nations. And, despite no authorization from Congress for the United States to become engaged in that country’s civil war and despite the failure of President Bush to consult with Congress as required by the War Powers Act, the new Democratic leadership in Congress has apparently not raised any objections to this dangerous and illegal escalation...

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0116-32.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

In These Times
by H. Candace Gorman

01/17/06

I fell into the world of Guantanamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a luncheon discussion on the legal issues surrounding the infamous detention facility at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. I received an e-mail thanking me for my attendance (I should have gone but didn’t) and asking for volunteers to represent the nearly 200 known unrepresented prisoners at the base. I had assumed that I was well-informed about our criminal president and his assault on the rule of law; it never occurred to me that four years after being captured (and more than one year after the Supreme Court affirmed their right to hearing and counsel) individuals were still being held without legal representation. I replied to the e-mail, offering my services...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2966/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

01/16/07

As you read the following, think about what you may have done during a five-year period in your own life. Think about the work you did, or the school(s) you may have attended, the friends you spent time with, the person you may have fallen in love with and married. Think about all that. And then consider this …

http://tinyurl.com/2783yr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Christian Science Monitor

01/16/07

To pay for World War II, Americans bought savings bonds and put extra notches in their belts. President Harry Truman raised taxes and cut nonmilitary spending to pay for the Korean conflict. During Vietnam, the US raised taxes but still watched deficits soar. But to pay for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has used its credit card, counting on the Chinese and other foreign buyers of its debt to pay the bills. Now, as President Bush is promising to boost the number of troops in Iraq, there is increased scrutiny over how the US is going to pay for it all. The US is spending about $10 billion a month on Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year, the total funds appropriated will be nearly $600 billion –- approaching the amount spent on the Vietnam or Korean wars, when adjusted for inflation...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0116/p01s01-usfp.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1990498,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Target Iran

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh talk about Iran and the prospect of nuclear war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16209.htm

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar79.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski80.html



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San Francisco Chronicle

01/16/07

A cell phone in the front pocket of a Vallejo man’s pants spontaneously combusted, quickly ignited his clothes and left the man with second- and third-degree burns across at least half his body, according to investigators. Luis Picaso, 59, was apparently sleeping on a white, all-plastic lawn chair in his room late Saturday night and was awakened as he was ablaze, said Vallejo Fire Department investigator and spokesman Bill Tweedy. By the time authorities arrived shortly before midnight, Picaso was on the floor of the bathroom. He was in stable condition Sunday, Tweedy said Monday night. The plastic lawn chair — a petroleum product causing a high-heat fire — had melted. Picaso’s soccer jersey — made of quick-burning nylon — was almost completely burned away...

http://tinyurl.com/yhtm96


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

01/16/07

A Pentagon domestic intelligence agency overpaid and might have broken the law in awarding a $100 million contract to lease office space, federal investigators say. The Pentagon’s Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) awarded the no-bid deal in 2003 to TKC Communications. Federal auditors say the agency lacked the authority to sign the contract and overpaid by more than $2 million...

http://tinyurl.com/26g2f7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Klicken Sie folgenden Link an, es lohnt sich den Text ganz durchzulesen à Studenten- und Autofahrer-„Missbrauch“.

http://www.gigaherz.ch/1104


i. V. http://www.mobilfunk-erlenbach.ch



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=WLAN

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/611538404?z00m=9399082
http://www.dylan-the-boy-blake.com/


Informant: Rosemary R.

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

17. Januar 2007

Zum heutigen Prozessbeginn gegen Peter Hartz, dem Ideen- und Namensgeber der Hartz-Gesetze, erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Von Hartz IV-Betroffene erhalten bei Nichtmeldung im Jobcenter eine Kürzung von über 100 Euro der knappen Sozialleistungen, das ist fast ein Drittel ihres Einkommens. Bezüglich der Erstattung von Heizkosten müssen manche um jeden Euro mit dem Jobcenter feilschen, Rüdiger S. trat sogar in den Hungerstreik. Sozialdetektive schnüffeln unter der Bettdecke und in der Haushaltskasse, um so genannte eheähnliche Lebensgemeinschaften nachzuweisen und damit die Sozialleistungen der Betroffenen zu kürzen. Peter Hartz gehört zu denjenigen, die sich das ausgedacht haben. Der Name Hartz ist Synonym für Armut per Gesetz. Jetzt ist er selbst wegen Untreue in 44 Fällen und zusätzlich wegen Begünstigung von Betriebsräten angeklagt. Ihm "droht" ein Schnellverfahren. Auf Zeugen und auf das Verlesen früherer Aussagen soll weitgehend verzichtet. Niemand schaut unter seine Bettdecke, zählt die Haushaltskasse nach, kürzt seine Bezüge um ein Drittel. Während die Großen mit Milde rechnen können, wird gegen die Kleinen mit drakonischer Härte vorgegangen. Der Name Hartz ist jetzt auch Synonym für die Doppelmoral dieser Gesellschaft.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34949

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Maßgeblich von Kriminellen geprägte Hartz-Gesetze streichen!

Petition von Armin Kammrad, Augsburg, vom 17.01.2007 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/modelle/hartz/kriminell.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…hiermit fordere ich Sie auf, aufgrund fehlender demokratischer Legitimation umgehend alle durch den damaligen VW-Arbeitsdirektor Peter Hartz konzipierten und durch das Parlament verabschiedeten sog. Hartz-Gesetze (SGB II / III / XII) zu streichen und einen neuen parlamentarischen Beratungs- und Beschlussprozess zur Sozialgesetzgebung einzuleiten. Begründung: Nach Grundgesetz Artikel 20, Abs.3 ist die gesetzgebende Gewalt an die „verfassungsmäßige Ordnung“ gebunden. Dies schließt bereits vom Grundsatz aus, dass Gesetze maßgeblich von Kriminellen geprägt sein dürfen, wie es sich nun in der Verhandlung gegen den „Erfinder“ der Hartz-Gesetze, Peter Hartz, vor dem Landgericht Braunschweig eindeutig zeigt. Gegen diese Forderung kann nicht geltend gemacht werden, dass ja das Parlament die Grundkonzeption von Herrn Hartz billigte und verabschiedete. In Analogie zum BGB und der ständigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofes (z.B. BGHZ91, S.324ff.), ist vielmehr zu fragen, ob die Abgeordneten auch dann so entschieden hätten, wenn ihnen die eigentliche Gesinnung von Peter Hartz bekannt gewesen wäre. (…) Im Übrigen stellt sich auch im Konzern für die dort abhängig Beschäftigten die Frage, ob sämtliche Betriebsvereinbarungen, welche Herr Hartz durch Bestechung des maßgeblichen Betriebsrates erreichte, nicht als rechtswidrig und rechtsgeschäftlich somit unwirksam angefochten werden können. Mit Bezug auf das Betriebsverfassungsgesetz sind durch Bestechung zustande gekommene Betriebsvereinbarungen zumindest nichtig, sofern sie eine Schlechterstellung der sog. „Arbeitnehmerseite“ gegen deren Willen enthalten…“



Überflüssige rangeln mit Peter Hartz

„…Mit verschiedenen Aktionen gegen Sozialabbau, Ein-Euro-Jobs und die damit einhergehende Zwangsarbeit traten die Überflüssigen bisher in die Öffentlichkeit. Heute nahmen sie Peter Hartz persönlich in Empfang, als er vor dem Braunschweiger Landgericht ankam, wo er seinen Prozess hatte. Neben den Überflüssigen hatten sich weitere Demonstrant/innen in der Braunschweiger Münzstraße versammelt. Sie beschimpften Hartz als „Arbeiterverräter”, „Lump” und verwiesen auf die Doppelmoral des Angeklagten, der mit Hartz I bis IV sozial Schwache „fördern und fordern” wollte, andererseits seinem Kollegen Volkert Millionensummen zuschob. Hartz kaufte den VW-Betriebsrat und schaltete damit die betriebliche Mitbestimmung durch Korruption aus…“ Beitrag von Hartz IV-Empfänger_innen samt Dokumentation des Redebeitrags bei der Aktion auf Indymedia vom
17.01.2007 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166331.shtml

Siehe dazu im LabourNet unter Branchen > Auto: VW > „Die Affäre 2005“ http://www.labournet.de/branchen/auto/vw/allg/affaere.html


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Januar 2007

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Kapital contra Betriebsräte (?)

Zitat des Tages:

„…Peter Hartz beschreibt den Umgang zwischen Betriebsrat und Konzernleitung exakt so, wie die linksradikale Kritik die Mitbestimmung immer beschrieben hat: Für Hartz sind Betriebsräte und die Gewerkschafter in den Betrieben die unverzichtbaren Transmissionsriemen zwischen Werksleitung und Belegschaft. Hartz wird nicht müde klarzumachen, dass ohne die Mobilisierung der gewählten Arbeitnehmervertreter Geschäftsleitungen in großen Unternehmen keine Chance haben, ihre Pläne umzusetzen…“

Aus: Artikel von Arno Widmann „Peter Hartz. Die Last des Namens“ in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 24.03.2007 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?sid=d66f00595171650082089ea82ec1cc44&em_cnt=1101662


Aus: LabourNet, 26. März 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Hartz

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/alzheimers_manhattan_cluster_toxic_amyloid.htm



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Chris Floyd writes: "A quiet announcement at London's Hammersmith Hospital at the turning of the new year heralded a breakthrough that has the potential to be one of the most transformative developments ever seen in global affairs: a positive change on a par with - or even surpassing - the world-altering malignancies of war, greed and strife. But this boon could be strangled in its cradle by the vast corporate interests threatened by its radical new approach to both health care and business."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011607HA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

Former US Vice President Al Gore said many businesses and state governments "embrace" the aims of the Kyoto Protocol, which may force President George W. Bush to alter his opposition to the effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "Even though the national policy in the US has not yet changed, many state governments have now embraced the goals of the Kyoto Protocol," Gore said at a speech to Japanese business leaders in Tokyo.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011607ED.shtml



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

A new front in the fight to slow down global warming follows trails of money, not wisps of polluting chemicals, straight to the doorsteps of banks. A coalition of environmental groups, including Boston-based Ceres, is demanding that banks reject loan requests for projects that emit high rates of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011607EC.shtml

"It is up to greens to make sure that in 2007, a year full of possibility on energy and environmental issues, change moves in the direction of long-term sustainability and justice," says David Roberts. "Powerful forces will be pushing the other way. Before I suggest a positive agenda most elements of the green coalition can agree on (in my dreams, anyway), it's important to understand why circumstances are uniquely aligned for action, and forecast a few of the forces against which greens should consciously countervail."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011607EA.shtml

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Economics_of_Climate_Change.php

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The Economics of Climate Change

Video

A talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." Stern explains how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=real&webcastid=19229


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nicholas+Stern

Ein interessanter Bericht über den "Einfluss des pharmazeutisch-industriellen Komplexes auf die Selbsthilfe" findet sich hier: http://www.kkh.de/fileserver/kkh2006/BROCHURES/Broschuere404.pdf


Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin
http://www.die-bpe.de

It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar. You can't see it from the ground. But it can see you.

http://athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=25082


From Information Clearing House

John Cerqueira, a US citizen of Portuguese descent, charged that he was removed from a 2003 flight at Boston's Logan International Airport because he appeared Middle Eastern, and was denied service even after police determined he did not pose a threat.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8A828CD3-AA25-4BA6-A9C4-15940CDCE979.htm


From Information Clearing House

After campaigning for months on a promise to tighten ethics rules, Senate Democratic leaders tried unsuccessfully Thursday to block a measure that would shine a light on the shadowy practice of earmarking federal money for lawmakers’ pet projects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12ethics.html?ref=politics


From Information Clearing House

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Partisan dispute derails ethics reform

Pensacola News Journal

01/18/07

A dispute with Republicans derailed ethics and lobbying legislation Democrats had hoped would mark their takeover of the Senate. ‘I hope this is going to be just a bump in the road,’ said Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. ‘We will give them another chance to think about this.’ The bill would have reduced the influence of lobbyists in shaping legislation and forced lawmakers to be more open about the pet projects they slip into legislation...

http://tinyurl.com/2p6cs7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Britain is joining an American military campaign to blunt Iranian influence in Iraq and the Gulf.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2548888,00.html



Russian missiles delivered to Iran: Ivanov

Russia has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16198.htm



Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale

A Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon surplus sale.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6348793,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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Cords that cannot be broken

Several months before his declaration in a televised speech on January 10 that the Pentagon would go after the Iranian networks in Iraq, President Bush signed secret orders authorising military action to counter Iran's ambitions in Iraq and the broader Middle East.

http://tinyurl.com/ynqp32


From Information Clearing House

Selective Amnesia
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_01_15/article1.html


From Information Clearing House

The war in Iraq is not an “ideological struggle against Islamic extremism”, as Bush avers, but a brutal colonial war aimed at Iraqi civilians; the rest is merely smoke and mirrors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16188.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

Spain has issued an international arrest warrant for three US soldiers accused of causing the death of a TV cameraman during the Iraq war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6268461.stm


From Information Clearing House

Gianni Magazzeni, the chief of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq in Baghdad, said 34,452 civilians were killed — an average of 94 per day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


From Information Clearing House

By Bill Moyers

"Virtually everything the average person sees or hears outside of her own personal communications, is determined by the interests of private, unaccountable executives and investors whose primary goal is increasing profits and raising the country's share price. More insidiously, this small group of elites determine what ordinary people do not see or hear. "

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16193.htm



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By Carl Bloice

Forget about all that stuff about Ethiopia having a 'tacit' o.k. from Washington to invade Somalia. The decision was made at the White House and the attack had military support from the Pentagon. The governments are too much in sync and the Ethiopians too dependent on the U.S. to think otherwise.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16194.htm



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The Pieces Are Being Put in Place

By Col. Sam Gardner

The pieces are moving. They’ll be in place by the end of February. The United States will be able to escalate military operations against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16197.htm

By Eric Pfeiffer

Mr. Murtha said that he doesn't think Democrats can stop Mr. Bush from instituting the first wave of a troop surge, but that his panel will be able to pass legislation to stop further waves within a month. "I don't know how many troops they can get in the field before we get our bill up and passed in the Congress," he said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16185.htm



John Murtha: “It’s a whole new Ballgame”

By Mike Whitney

Murtha is demanding that the administration “stop extending tours of duty, stop depleting our strategic reserves, and retrain returning soldiers so they can be ‘recycled’” according to the normal procedures. He knows that the military is gravely over-stretched, so he’s trying to derail the war with bureaucratic red tape.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16191.htm



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Informant: ranger116

This is taking place in KY - however, given the National Animal Classification Identity Program, this will affect everyone in every state sooner than later, IMO. Peace - Anna

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dawn and Gary Oaks
Date: January 16, 2007 8:06:53 PM EST
Subject: KY Dept of Ag Regulation for Animal Idnetification - How it affects you

Among the many other messages that we received in our inbox in the last 24 hours is this critical message attached below from the Weston Price Foundation. Upon reading it we contacted our contacts at the Community Farm Alliance in Frankfort. Surprisingly, and yet not that surprising, there has been virtually no public awareness of this critical hearing. The hearing will address the new proposed regulations with regard to mandatory particpation in the National Animal Classification Identity program. At first, many will now be ready to go on to their next message. Please don't, keep reading - this does apply to you!

Under the proposed regulations, anyone that owns an animal that could produce food will be required to register with the NAIS and be subject to unannounced searches of their property at the State Veterinarian's discretion - no need for even a search warrant or reasonable cause. If these regulations move forward it will greatly affect small farmers, hobby farmers, individual families with a handful of chickens, as well as all those Kentucky residents that enjoy consuming farm fresh food.

Gary has chosen to address the committee at the January 23rd hearing in Frankfort. We are asking anyone, and most especially concerned KY residents and farmers, to accompany us to Frankfort on January 23rd. Their is a strength and voice in numbers!! This is not just a raw milk issue. It applies to all those that would be interested in having chickens for their families or to raise a single beef for their own consumption.

We will be working actively with the Community Farm Alliance over the next week to help organize support in the form of attendees at the meeting as well as get press coverage of the absurdity of such regulations. If you can not attend on the 23rd, you can also submit written comments to the committee through the Department of Agriculture until January 31st. It is encouraged that your state representatives be carbon copied on the letters so that more than one entity in our state government is aware of their constitutents feelings.

By all means, please forward this to anyone, especially in the State of KY, that would have an interest in this issue. If you plan to attend on the
23rd, please RSVP back to us so that we may keep you updated on info as we receive it and we can also let the CFA know what kind of numbers we are looking at as far as participation at this hearing.

Thank you for your ear and may all of our rights as citizens of a "Free" country be protected, Gary and Dawn


[Original Message] From: info(et)westonaprice.org
Date: 1/15/2007 8:42:58 PM
Subject: KENTUCKY NAIS ACTION ALERT


NAIS ACTION ALERT Kentucky Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations to make NAIS mandatory

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture has proposed regulations that would make the premises registration and animal identification portions of NAIS mandatory, and require a certificate of veterinary inspection for sales, shows, and many routine movements! The proposed regulations would also allow the State Veterinarian to enter any farm or "any other place where animals are handled" to inspect and test, without a warrant. Kentucky residents need to act NOW!

There will be a public hearing on January 23rd, starting at 10:15, at the Kentucky Dept of Agriculture, Office of State Veterinarian, 100 Fair Oaks Lane, STE 252, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601. Anyone who wants to speak at this hearing must notify the agency in writing by January 16, 2007, of their intent to attend. Written comments will be accepted until January
31, 2007. Send written notification of intent to be heard at the public hearing or written comments on the proposed regulations to:

Robert Stout or Sue Billings, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Office of State Veterinarian, 100 Fair Oaks Lane, STE 252, Frankfort, Kentucky
40601, phone (502) 564-3956, fax (502) 564-7852.

Here are links to the proposed regulations:

http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/302/020/020reg.htm http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/302/020/030reg.htm http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/302/020/065reg.htm

At the end of this action alert are talking points for speaking at the hearing, or you can use them to develop your written comments. Focus on the issues that are most important to you and personalize your comments. It is also very important to send a copy of any letters to your elected officials. You can find who your legislator is at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/whoswho/whoswho.htm

As always, if you have questions or concerns, you can reach us at noah(et)libertyark.net. For local contacts in Kentucky to organize the opposition to these regulations, contact: Laura at laurashaggarty(et)yahoo.com or Matt at info(et)poultrymansupply.com.

GET YOUR FRIENDS TO SIGN UP TO SUPPORT LIBERTY ARK'S FIGHT AGAINST NAIS. SEND THEM THIS LINK: http://libertyark.net/pledge.dyn

Talking Points on the proposed 302 KAR 20:020 and 20:065

• The USDA has announced that the National Animal Identification System is voluntary at the federal level. There is no reason for Kentucky to move forward with the program on a mandatory basis, as is being proposed.

• The proposed regulation states that "A CVI or appropriate permit shall be required for movement or exhibition of all animal(s). Exceptions to this requirement are in each species section." Proposed regulation 302 KAR
20:065 contains very few exceptions and requires veterinary inspection for a wide range of routine, intrastate movements, including private sales and shows.

• Requiring veterinary inspections for routine movements and private sales imposes significant monetary and time burdens.

• There have been no scientific studies conducted to show that premises registration or this type of animal identification and tracking will provide significant animal health benefits.

• The Department has not done an analysis of the costs of this program.

• The costs, both in time and money, will be high.

• The intrusive, burdensome, and costly nature of these regulations will drive many small farmers out of business and discourage people from owning animals as pets. Livestock-related businesses, such as feed and supply stores, will suffer, and the economic effects will be widespread.

• The proposed regulations are vague and unclear. As just one example, when is individual identification required as opposed to group/lot identification?

• The proposed regulation provides that "All animals requiring AIN shall meet the specifications of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) on or before January 1, 2009." Yet no regulations have been promulgated under the NAIS, and the USDA has indicated that it has no intention of promulgating regulations at this time. What specifications must be met?

Talking points on the proposed 302 KAR 20:030

• The proposed regulation would give the State Veterinarian the authority to enter "any farm" or "any other place where animals are handled" after simply notice, without a warrant, reasonable cause, or any protection for the person's property or privacy rights.

• There is no evidence that such measures are needed to control animal disease in Kentucky.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Animal+Identification+System

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/05/report-military-tells-bush-it-has-only-9000-troops-available-for-surge/


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0116-05.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0116-20.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media+reform

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0116-30.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0116-01.htm

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50 Active-Duty Officers To Deliver Petition Against Sur
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=66409


Informant: ranger116

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Military Members Make an Antiwar Plea on Capitol Hill
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0117-07.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0116-04.htm

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Charging Towards the Big Melt

Record retail store sales during the holiday season in North America is one reason 2007 is predicted to be the hottest year on record. And it's well past time that people began to connect the dots between what they buy and the resulting environmental impacts such as global warming, experts say.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36176


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0116-03.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0116-02.htm



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

http://tinyurl.com/3747xr


Informant: mistralwind2001

http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/energy_subsidies_action/wxueesu4165x7n6?


Informant: Bette M.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5591/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

RELEASE: National Election Data Archive http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/press/Release-audits.pdf

It Is Not Whether Or Not To Audit Elections, But How, As Explained by a Short Paper & Spreadsheet from National Election Data Archive

Salt Lake City, UT - January 17, 2007

How many ballots have to be counted to detect vote counting errors that are big enough to change the outcome of an election? With more and more contested elections since 2000, the question is not just academic. According to an analysis by M.I.T. mathematician Ronald Rivest, in an average US House race with a 1% margin between candidates and 440 precinct counts, a 2% audit may only have a 27% chance of uncovering vote count error, while a 20% audit may have a
97% chance of uncovering vote count error.

A spreadsheet tool to allow any layman to calculate how many vote counts to audit, was released by the National Election Data Archive
(NEDA). The tool uses a formula developed by Rivest to estimate the minimum audit sufficient to detect vote count errors that could seat wrong candidates. NEDA's audit analysis spreadsheet tool and a paper explaining Rivest's formula can be downloaded free at ElectionArchive.org.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/ElectionAuditEstimator.pdf http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/HowManyToAudit.xls

NEDA president Kathy Dopp said NEDA released the election audit analysis tool because of a nationwide debate about whether or not to verify machine counts by manually counting paper ballot records. "Could there be a more inane debate?" Dopp asked. "Would you put your money in a bank that did not conduct certified audits? Would the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insure deposits if banks were not subjected to certifiable audits?"

The closer the race between two candidates, the larger manual audit is needed to uncover small machine error that might wrongly alter the outcome, according to both Dopp and Rivest.

Dopp said that other requirements to ensure the integrity of election outcomes are included in a set of 14 Recommendations for Ensuring the Integrity of Elections by experts in election integrity. Sufficient audits and public oversight are necessary to deter wholesale electronic fraud and errors.

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

For the public to have oversight over election integrity, NEDA said, the public needs to be allowed to fully observe all audit procedures, including the random selection and manual vote counts, and before the audit begins, a public report of all vote types and votes counted on each machine needs to be publicly released. Audits are hand-counts of all paper ballots associated with randomly selected machine counts.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election

"The first duty of Congress is to be Congress, to provide a check on the executive through the power to hold hearings, write legislation, and tighten the purse strings," writes George Lakoff. "The central issue raised by the president's speech last Wednesday is not whether Iraq will have a democracy, but whether we will."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011607F.shtml

In Praise of Professor Dreyfuss

William Fisher applauds the effort by Richard Dreyfuss to reintroduce civics to our public schools. "The movie legend has launched a personal campaign to urge educators to teach their young students about the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and other government basics."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011607G.shtml



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