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http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n178.htm



France inter 6 février 2007, Service public : Antennes relais, quels dangers pour la santé ?

Les reportages et les témoignages des auditeurs de l'émission (compilation des extraits - audio 17'16).

http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=nouvellesdumonde24#1

Human Rights

A new UN Convention for the Protection of All People Against Forced Disappearance opened for signing in Paris on February 6. Le Monde considers this important addition to internationally recognized human rights.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707G.shtml

According to trial transcripts obtained by Truthout, former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney instructed him to divulge portions of a then-classified report to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Libby testified that Cheney said authorization to leak a section of the report had come directly from President George W. Bush, the court transcripts state.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

But vaccine injuries are real despite claims that occurrences are rare. Fears of developing autism as a result of vaccination have been dismissed by mainstream medicine which prefers to attribute the increase incidence of autism, currently at 1 in 166 children, to a “better diagnosis.” Thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines has received much attention in the association with autism. Undoubtedly, many children have.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri13.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Tenpenny

- die katholischen Nachrichten berichten ausgiebig:

http://www.kreuz.net/article.4650.html

"Notfalls durch Gewaltanwendung"

15 Polizisten wurden kürzlich in Deutschland eingesetzt, um ein gesundes, 15jähriges Mädchen aus intaktem Elternhaus in die Psychiatrie abzuschleppen. Melissa (15) - die älteste Tochter - wurde der Familie mit Gewalt entrissen und zwangsweise in die Psychiatrie eingeliefert.

Jetzt sitzt das Mädchen im Klinikum Nürnberg Nord, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie. Den Eltern wurde per richterlichem Beschluß das Sorgerecht entzogen.....

Und http://www.kreuz.net/article.4663.html

Der Fall eines normalen 15jährigen Mädchens, das von den Behörden aus ihrem Elternhaus verschleppt wurde, erschüttert gegenwärtig Deutschland....


Eine Nachricht des Werner-Fuß-Zentrum im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de

Richard W. Behan writes: "The long-held suspicions about George Bush's wars are well-placed. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not prompted by the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. They were not waged to spread democracy in the Middle East or enhance security at home. They were conceived and planned in secret long before September 11, 2001, and they were undertaken to control petroleum resources."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707P.shtml

As Senate Democrats seek votes on capping troop numbers and funding for Iraq, they may use the pending bill on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission as a vehicle, setting up a replay of the debate over funding for troops that this week derailed their leadership-backed non-binding resolution on Bush's "surge" proposal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707L.shtml



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

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0207/p03s02-sten.htm


Informant: binstock

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/07/MNGR1O07N51.DTL


Informant: binstock

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Boxer Rips EPA Chief as Bowing to Industry

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer ripped the Environmental Protection Agency's top official Tuesday for rules changes that could limit the input of scientific advisers into agency decisions and reduce public access to information about toxic substances in communities. Boxer accused EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson of bending to the wishes of industry, rather than protecting public health.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020707EA.shtml

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16636683.htm

USDA Faulted On Oversight Of Test Crops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601712.html


Informant: binstock

http://tinyurl.com/3xfl8p


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bird+flu+pandemic

Die Bundesregierung hat fast 300 Grenzwerte für Pestizide angehoben und sich im Kompetenzgerangel der eigenen Behörden verfangen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24594/1.html

Das Weiße Haus schlägt für die nationale Sicherheit einen
Rekordhaushalt vor und hat sich damit der Hochzeit des Kalten Kriegs
und der staatlichen Förderung des militärisch-industriellen Komplexes
wieder angenähert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24596/1.html

http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?t=621


Informant: binstock

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18255


From ufpj-news



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

A secret air war is being waged in Iraq -- often in and around that country's population centers -- about which we can find out little. The U.S. military keeps information on the munitions expended in its air efforts under tight wraps, refusing to offer details on the scale of use and so minimizing the importance of air power in Iraq. But expert opinion holds that the forms of aerial assault being employed in that country, though hardly covered in our media, may account for most of the U.S. and coalition-attributed Iraqi civilian deaths there since the 2003 invasion. While some aspects of the air war remain a total mystery, Air Force officials do acknowledge that U.S. military and coalition aircraft dropped at least 111,000 pounds of bombs on targets in Iraq in 2006.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2894.shtml

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America's Secret Air War in Iraq
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt261.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt

Übersicht über Leistungen der sozialen Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende

Broschüre von Jonny Bruhn Tripp und Gisela Tripp vom November 2006 (Stand: Gesetz zur Fortentwicklung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende vom 25. Juli 2006), hrsg. vom Evangelischen Bildungswerk Dortmund (pdf) http://www.evangelisches-bildungswerk-do.de/pdf/A_A_2006-Optimierungsgesetz-Leistungen.pdf


Was man als Erwerbsloser zur Gegenwehr alles wissen muss…

Hinweise, die ein Mitstreiter des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland zusammen getragen hat (pdf) http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/Gegenwehr.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Februar 2007

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/debatte/organisierung.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Februar 2007

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Selbstorganisierung fördern

„Das Job-Wachstum während des zurückliegenden Jahrzehnts bedeutete vor allem einen Zuwachs an flexiblen, überwiegend prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen. Das Phänomen der Prekarität lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Wiederkehr sozialer Unsicherheit in die an sich reichen und sicheren Gesellschaften des Westens. Die Gewerkschaften sind gut beraten, eine wirksame Politik der Entprekarisierung zu entwickeln…“ Artikel von Prof. Klaus Dörre bei ver.di Perspektiven ohne Datum http://perspektiven.verdi.de/gewerk_persp/selbstorganisierung


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Februar 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=prek%C3%A4r
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Prekarisierung

You report that the mobile phone mast in Akers Way has been moved 40 metres away from its original position (SA, February 1).

I don't think the residents of Manor Crescent should get the champagne out just yet, though. If your article is correct, it will still be only 85 metres from people in Manor Crescent.

The 10-year Naila study by doctors in Germany found a threefold increase in the risk of malignant tumours in people living within 400 metres of a mast. Another (Israeli) study discovered a fourfold increase in cancer within 350 metres, and a tenfold increase specifically among women, compared to people living away from the mast.

We have good reason to fear the spread of these masts, particularly with regard to our children who are particularly vulnerable to radiation. Their brains are still developing and undoubtedly there will be trouble ahead unless mast proliferation is better controlled.

The dangers are not confined only to cancer. Other problems have been found, including headaches, dizziness, depression, fatigue and poor concentration - just what our children need as they try to cope with the demands of our education system.

If I lived in Manor Crescent, I would demand that the mast be moved at least a further 600 or 700 metres away. Then the champagne corks could really pop.

B Jones (Chairman).
SHOC (Stop Harming Our Children).
Old Town, Swindon

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisisswindon.co.uk/news/swindonletters/display.var.1174709.0.you_mast_the_point.php

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The Naila-Study
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/398279/

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

02/03/07

There are times when I think our species is hopeless. In my fellow humans, I see high energy, bountiful creativity, and splendid innovation. I see that in our personal dealings, almost all of us treat each other with respect and fairness. We are superbly capable and talented beings, yet we have one flaw that is very likely to destroy our species if we don’t recognize it and dispense with it. We, as individual beings, are so willing to live in subjugation to others. We eagerly subject ourselves to territorial governments that abuse us no end. We also humbly accede to a variety of mystical claimants seeking our obedience and worship...

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/02/can-our-species-survive.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith

Legalization now!

Liberty For All
by David Goree

As I listened to the President’s speech on the War on Drugs, I was astonished at his unbelievable lack of understanding of the problem and any realistic solution. It would seem with his own history of drug use, he openly admits to a past drinking problem, and with that of his daughters and niece, Mr. Bush might actually understand. He, in one sentence proposes spending 19 Billion dollars on the failed War on Drugs, including over 9 Billion for interdiction, then a scant minute later states: ‘As long as there is a demand for drugs in this country, some crook is gonna figure out how to get ‘em here’... (written 02/02; posted 02/03/07)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=500


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs

It’s time to sharpen the scissors

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

02/05/07

The military budget that President Bush released today is much bigger than the official summaries let on. It’s not $481.4 billion, as the Defense Department is claiming. No, a squint through the fine print of the White House and Pentagon budget documents reveals that the true request for new military-spending authority comes to $739 billion. Measured in real terms (that is, adjusted for inflation), that’s about one-third higher than the previous record for U.S. military spending, set in 1952, when more than 30,000 American soldiers were dying in the Korean War and the Pentagon was embarking on its massive Cold War rearmament drive...

http://www.slate.com/id/2159102


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Andrew G. Eggleston Sr.

02/05/07

Those few of us who are responsible for ourselves are constantly under attack; on the defensive against a government that is no longer beholden to the voters, under attack daily by police who wish to rule as medieval Lords over some fiefdom they imagine is theirs, and defending ourselves illegally against neighbors who would “see us do well, but not better than them”. We are under attack by the minions of the lazy and as a result are overwhelmed; the pain of day-to-day life is compounded when we are forced to also take responsibility for those who would not take care of themselves...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle404-20070204-04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+G.+Eggleston

Hawaii Reporter
by Tom Macdonald

02/06/07

Perhaps enough time has passed since the last election for partisan passions to have cooled sufficiently to entertain a question with profound implications for American democracy: Is the average American voter well enough informed to vote intelligently? In the recent campaign we heard the slogans ‘count every vote’ and ‘every vote counts’ ad nauseam, but did most of those casting ballots know who or what they were voting for?

http://tinyurl.com/38o87m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Attleboro Sun Chronicle

02/07/07

Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush’s decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel. ‘We’re going to stand by our soldiers, but we’re not going to stand by a failed policy that exposes more of our soldiers to death and suffering,’ said Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois …

http://tinyurl.com/2vgdtd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

07. Februar 2007

Heute vor 15 Jahren unterzeichneten die Staats- und Regierungschefs der damals 12 Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaften im niederländischen Maastricht den Vertrag über die Europäische Union. Aus diesem Anlass erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Helmut Scholz:

Betrachtet man den Maastrichter Vertrag aus heutiger Sicht, so ist sein Beitrag zur europäischen Integration zwiespältig: Einerseits war erkannt worden, dass die Herausforderungen der Globalisierung nicht nur wirtschaftliche, sondern auch politische Integration erfordern. Dem wurde mit der Schaffung der EU als Staatenverbund entsprochen, jedoch waren und sind die praktischen Ergebnisse sowohl was den Inhalt betrifft als auch die vertraglichen Grundlagen und Institutionen nicht auf der Höhe der Zeit. Andererseits wurde durch die Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion ohne Sozialunion eine neoliberale Entwicklungsrichtung zementiert, die dazu führte, dass die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich in der EU immer größer wurde. Das Grundprinzip einer offenen Marktwirtschaft mit freiem Wettbewerb führte nicht nur zu gnadenloser Konkurrenz zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten im Bereich der Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik, sondern zugleich zur Unterminierung und schrittweisen Beseitigung ihrer sozialstaatlichen Sicherungssysteme, jahrzehntelang erkämpft von der Arbeiter- und Gewerkschaftsbewegung. Und leider veranschaulicht das Ansteigen von Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus, Nationalismus und Gewalt in ganz Europa auch wachsende Bedrohungen für die Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Das Grundübel des Maastrichter Vertrages und seiner Nachfolger einschließlich des EU-Verfassungsvertrages besteht darin, dass sie die vertraglichen Grundlagen für eine Politik maximaler Profite der Großkonzerne und Großbanken legen, die Bedürfnisse aller hier lebenden Menschen aber viel zu wenig berücksichtigen. Die europäische Integration seit Maastricht hat für sehr viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu einer direkten Verschlechterung ihrer Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen und zu wachsender sozialer Unsicherheit geführt. Das löst nicht nur Fragen und Irritationen zum europäischen Projekt" aus, sondern lässt sie richtigerweise auch an seiner Ausrichtung zweifeln. Das haben auch die Volksentscheide in Frankreich und den Niederlanden zum EU-Verfassungsvertrag gezeigt: eine solche Politik gehört abgelehnt. Deshalb ist es auch notwendig, die Logik und die Substanz des EU-Verfassungsvertrages zu verändern: nicht Festschreiben einer neoliberal geprägten Wirtschaftsordnung und Militarisierung von Politik sind die Lösung für die Überwindung der Krise im europäischen Integrationsprozess. Sie sind vielmehr das eigentliche Problem! Europäische Integration wird nur dann erfolgreich sein, wenn in ihrem Mittelpunkt die realen Bedürfnisse von Mensch und Natur stehen, wenn die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, alle hier und heute auf unserem Kontinent lebenden Menschen real gefragt sind, das Zusammenleben in Europa konkret auszugestalten; wenn sie über die weitere Entwicklung der EU entscheiden können. Dafür kämpft die Linkspartei.PDS und mit ihr viele Verbündete in Parteien und Bewegungen in Deutschland, in der EU und in ganz Europa. Der Maastrichter Vertrag stellte die bisher größte Vertragsänderung seit den Römischen Verträgen dar. Mit ihm wurde aus einer Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft ein Staatenverbund mit einer konzipierten Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (1.Säule), einer Gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (2.Säule) und einer Zusammenarbeit in der Innen- und Rechtspolitik (3.Säule), der zugleich eine Union der Mitgliedstaaten als auch der Bürgerinnen und Bürger (Unionsbürgerschaft) sein sollte. Die PDS hat damals den Maastrichter Vertrag abgelehnt, weil er zwar eine Union von Mitgliedstaaten und Bürgerinnen und Bürgern begründete, vor allem aber die Bürgerinnen und Bürger weitgehend von der Mitentscheidung und Mitgestaltung der Politik der Europäischen Union ausschloss. Die wirtschaftliche Integration wurde über die Währungsunion realisiert, die auf ausschließlich monetären Kriterien beruhte. Mit der Europäischen Zentralbank wurde zudem eine Institution geschaffen, die ausschließlich der Preisstabilität verpflichtet ist, keiner Kontrolle unterliegt und aufgrund der Abgabe der nationalen Souveränität in der Währungspolitik gravierenden Einfluss auf die nationalen Ökonomien hat. Eine Sozialunion wurde von vorn herein ausgeschlossen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35078

Wearing hats shaped like smokestacks and carrying signs that said, "Coal Investments Cook the Climate," a group known as Billionaires for Coal raised awareness last week about the plans by TXU, a Dallas-based utility company, to build eleven pulverized coal-fired power plants in Texas. The activists delivered suitcases of coal, but the recipient of their gift was not TXU, and they were a long way from Texas. Instead, their action took place in New York's financial district, where they visited the headquarters of Merrill Lynch - a company that is putting coal and profits above human health and climate change.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020607EC.shtml

The Bush administration again proposed selling off hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland to help continue a program that is vital to Oregon county and school budgets.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020607EB.shtml

Under a 2005 energy bill signed by President Bush, an array of programs was promised more money. But when Bush unveiled his new budget Monday, some of these programs - including energy assistance for low-income families and energy efficiency - lost out.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020607EA.shtml

The former US occupation chief in Iraq defended Tuesday the way he haphazardly doled out billions of dollars in Iraqi funds after the US invasion, as Congressional Democrats began a two-year effort to scrutinize fraud, waste and abuse under the Bush administration.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607T.shtml



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

Permission Be Damned

William Rivers Pitt writes: "Because I was unable to attend the anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, last week, I made sure to watch the broadcast of it on C-SPAN. It was, from what I could see through the camera's eye, almost exactly like every other protest against this Iraq occupation that has taken place in the capital since October of 2002. It was loud and colorful, festooned with famous faces and eloquent voices, a showcase for the hundreds of thousands of souls who stand against this terrible conflict."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson169.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/060207falseflag.htm



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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601606.html


Informant: binstock

Growing political instability in the US will weigh heavily on the dollar during 2007. This weight, combined with growing political pressure for dollar devaluation and a slew of negative economic factors, is likely to prompt significant dollar depreciation against most other currencies. The dollar's decline will help send asset values in the US sharply lower and precious metals prices soaring.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/392/2/

The U.S. military will establish a separate U.S. Africa Command to oversee military operations on the African continent, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced during Congressional testimony today.

http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2940


From Information Clearing House

Iranians are giving greater weight to the threat of a U.S. military attack after a former chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on the state television monopoly, Sedaosima, last week that Washington had opted for "serious confrontation" with Iran.

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20070131-115118-7828r_page2.htm


From Information Clearing House

"Military action is not likely to be a short, sharp engagement but could have a profound effect on the region, with shock waves felt far beyond," the report says,

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=76275


From Information Clearing House

Sen. Joseph Lieberman said on Tuesday that Congress should consider a tax to fund the U.S.-declared war on terrorism and reduce the need to cut domestic programs to pay for security spending.

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06252236.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

If we feel we need to clear Sadr City to bring stability, we will do that. Are there restrictions that will not allow us to do that? Right now there are not," said Heckman, who works with an army division that has responsibility for the area.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2849790&page=2


From Information Clearing House

By Farhad Manjoo

A radical proposal by two Yale professors goes far beyond any reform envisaged by Feingold or McCain.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/400/2/



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

By Mike Whitney

The massive equity bubbles which arose from artificially low interest rates and the deliberate destruction of the dollar by reckless increases in the money supply have shifted trillions of dollars from working class Americans to the predatory aristocrats at the top of the economic food chain. The gulf between rich and poor has grown so wide that it now poses a direct threat to our increasingly fragile democracy.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/405/2/



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

By James Rothenberg

While most Americans have no difficulty reciting the flattering components of the “American way” – the routine stuff of political speeches such as life, liberty, justice – far fewer seem willing to identify as “American” unflattering, complementary components of our national ethos.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/383/2/



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

By Timothy J. Freeman

In refusing deployment to Iraq Lt. Watada is serving the country with his conscience, and in so doing, is giving the highest service. If Lt. Watada goes to prison, as seems now very likely, he will be a powerful symbol of the injustice of the nation and its shame in ignoring the judgement at Nuremberg and refusal to remember Justice Jackson’s counsel.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/391/2/



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

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/377/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Molly+Ivins

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Nobel Committee is experiencing difficulty in finding suitable candidates for the Peace Prize. Perhaps the solution is to consider candidates over a broader range of people.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/385/2/



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

By Fawzy Aboyoussef

We are going to witness within the few coming days and weeks the unfolding of a play authored by President Bush’s Administration about the immediate future of the Middle-East.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/389/2/

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

During the Cold War, the two super powers realized that there was no logic in engaging militarily given that each had the benefit of resorting to nuclear weapons, thus, with the exception of a few proxy wars, their ‘war’ became a war of propaganda to win over minds and hearts. Today, the Bush White House is following the same pattern of warfare replacing communism with Islam. However, much like everything else this administration embarks on, the disastrous consequences of this war have not been deliberated.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/388/2/



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

By Michel Chossudovsky

The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens the future of humanity.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/398/2/



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

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

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Eat To Live: 1 Million against GM Food
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0207-08.htm

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reiland/reiland18.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Santorum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/reiland

http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald10.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/greenwald

Brant County Health Unit

Please provide a copy of the attached letter to Dr. Lock and a copy to members of the Brant County Board of Health.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/dr._lock_brantford_electromagnetic_radiation_and_health_concerns.htm

Yours sincerely

Martin Weatherall.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Michrowski
To: Martin Weatherall
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: follow-up to letter from M Weatherall to Malcolm Lock MD

Please note that our learned society, The Planetary Association for Clean Energy lends support to the information supplied by Mr. Martin Weatherall to your health unit.

The enclosures may constitute supplementary information to the situation at hand, namely that Brantford is one of communities most affected by the trend of rising levels of environmental radiofrequency / microwave emissions in Southern central Canada.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/wholelife_emf_2005.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emf_brantford_mayor_rf_mw_advisory_05_30_05.DOC http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/pace_flyer_memberlist_origin_aims.doc

Note that in follow-ups, we have measured doubled environmental levels to what we have reported earlier - still in dry soil conditions, which means some areas of Brantford can get exposures of up to 20 times more elevated that what we reported in 2005.

We are also including information from the City of Toronto Board of Health on the same issue. It is significant that your community is often exposed to levels above the maximum allowed under the Toronto Board of Health.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/toronto_rf_backgrounder.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/torontorf_boh_technical.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/toronto_rf_boh_final.pdf

We would be pleased to lend an independent hand to any line of inquiry that you might wish to follow.

Andrew Michrowski PhD
The Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Inc.
100 Bronson Avenue, Suite 1001 Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6G8
(613) 236-6265
http://pacenet.homestead.com

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0206-21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ben+Cohen

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0206-25.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0206-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0206-05.htm

The Death Toll of 31 Days in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0206-06.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0206-03.htm



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

Please sign (or help revise) this letter to Congress by emailing me your name, address and credentials or affiliations. We have over 200 signees so far.

California has all other states beat by far.

The Letter to Congress was revised tonight to:

1. Stress citizen oversight at the top of the letter, and

2. Respond to the inadequacies of the Holt tiered election audit.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/Letter2Congress.pdf

It has a couple more end notes and an altered paragraph or two.

Thanks to Arthur Keller for helping to make some earlier revisions this a.m., which made it easier for me to revise this now.

Please let me know if the letter to Congress still needs any revisions before tomorrow which is the last day I'll be doing any revisions. And Thursday is the last day I'll be adding any new signatures before my trip back East where I'll visit DC and pass the letter out a little to Congress.

A link to Holt's bill, so you can read it yourself, is here:

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/HoltBill_FinalDraft_020507.pdf

There are a lot of mischaracterizations of Holt's bill being spread, so read it.

Holt's best provision is that it requires and funds jurisdictions to replace DRE voting systems that do not use voter verified paper ballots as the initial ballot of records, with ballots of archive weight for the official ballots, and which provide voter anonymity.
(thus requiring the replacement of all DRE voting systems which are paperless or use paper rolls and do not meet any of those requirements).

The worst oversight of the Holt bill is the lack of citizen oversight which means that none of its other provisions would be effective.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816

From Elena P.


02/10/07

Sign against Tobacco Experimenting on Animals

PLEASE CROSSPOST FAR & WIDE! This petition is being sent in on Feb. 10th! Their goal is 15,000, but as of this email, there are only 1,673 signatures. Please help bring this up for the impact of the petition to work! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/759977084?ltl=1157245560

"Experiment after experiment attempts on even more in rats, mice, hamsters, lambs, dogs, cats, monkeys, and other animals need to be put to a stop at once! This is so disgusting and horrible that animals are forced to go through this. Do your part and help to put this cruel testing to a stop!"
*READ MORE ON THE SPECIFICS BELOW. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/759977084?ltl=1157245560

http://www.petitiononline.com/Abstain/


A message from Hazel

Asia Times
by Jim Lobe

02/05/07

Just in case they needed reminding ahead of passing a non-binding resolution on President George W Bush’s plans to send more troops to Iraq, US senators have it officially: a civil war is raging in Iraq and the country’s troubles won’t end any time soon. The US intelligence community’s report also debunks a frequent Bush claim that Iran plays a major role in support of Shi’ite militias...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB06Ak02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Christian Science Monitor
by Alec Ian Gershberg & Darrick Hamilton

02/05/07

The Supreme Court is considering two school desegregation cases that will probably result in limits on the use of race as a criterion for admission to public elementary and high schools. Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is supporting the plaintiffs’ arguments that the use of such racial criteria is unconstitutional. … But Bush officials are being inconsistent. They don’t apply that standard to their own public education policies. It’s time they embraced the premise of their own student testing rules — race matters — and support efforts to promote access and diversity in schools. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, is remarkable because it deals with racial issues in a manner at odds with nearly every other policy advocated by the Bush administration — including its current argument to the Supreme Court that school desegregation plans must be ‘race neutral’...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0205/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

02/05/07

I know, there are wars on — which is the main justification given for the ballooning defense budget. It is true that during Bush’s tenure, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have squandered a staggering $500 billion — all to actually increase the chances that anti-American terrorism will again occur. But the military services, which play the bureaucratic budget game well, have used the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to fund high-tech military toys that have little to do with fighting against terrorism or in Iraq or Afghanistan. And according to the hawks, such as the Journal, the taxpayer should be happy that all of this wasted money, plus some legitimate spending on what should be relatively inexpensive efforts against terrorists, comes in at only 4% of the GDP! No armed force ever fought another — even a guerrilla army or terrorist group — with a percentage of GDP...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1906


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

Dean Baker writes: "While bipartisan progress would be encouraging, it is very difficult to see any evidence of compromise from President Bush in key areas of public policy. In fact, in almost every important area, the positions he has adopted since the November election have been more extreme than those he had previously advocated. Most of the public has probably failed to recognize President Bush's sharp turn to the right, because the media has chosen to place more emphasis on his public gestures toward the Democratic leadership than his policy proposals."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

Republicans have blocked a potentially momentous Senate debate, at least for now, on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq. Forty-nine senators, almost all Democrats, voted to proceed with the debate, eleven short of the number needed under Senate rules on the issue. Forty-seven senators, nearly all Republicans, voted not to proceed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607C.shtml

President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending - much of it for the Iraq war - and to curb many domestic programs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607B.shtml

The people running the Iraq War are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience - helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon's top officials are so eager to protect.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

In an extraordinary internal challenge to the unruly Office of the Vice President (OVP), the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) has formally petitioned the Attorney General to direct the OVP to comply with a requirement that executive branch organizations disclose statistics on their classification and declassification activity to ISOO.

For the last three years, Vice President Cheney's office has refused to divulge its classification statistics to ISOO, despite a seemingly explicit requirement that it do so. Prior to 2002, such information had routinely been transmitted and reported in ISOO's annual reports to the President.

The disclosure requirement appears in ISOO Directive 1 (at section 2001.80): "Each agency that creates or handles classified information shall report annually to the Director of ISOO statistics related to its security classification program."

Such ISOO directives "shall be binding upon the agencies," President Bush wrote in Executive Order 13292 (section 5.1). Significantly, an "agency" here means not only a statutorily-defined executive branch agency (which would not include the OVP), but also refers to "any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information" (which would include the OVP).

Last May, the Federation of American Scientists urged ISOO to press for the Vice President's compliance. (SN, 05/31/06).

"Since the Office of the Vice President has publicly staked out a position that openly defies the plain language of the executive order, ISOO now has a responsibility to clarify the matter," we wrote at that time. "Otherwise, every agency will feel free to re-interpret the order in idiosyncratic and self-serving ways."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2006/05/isoo-ovp.pdf


From Secrecy News -- 02/06/07



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

http://tinyurl.com/27k3mz



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

Gentechnik: Einwendungen gegen Pharma-Erbsen in Gatersleben

Die Gentechnikfirma Novoplant plant einen Freisetzungsversuch mit genmanipulierten Pharma-Erbsen in Gatersleben. Das Umweltinstitut München befürchtet die Kontamination traditioneller Erbsensorten und ruft zum Widerstand auf. Einwenden kann jede/r - ein Wohnsitz in Gatersleben ist nicht Voraussetzung.

Weitere Infos und Mustereinwendung http://www.umweltinstitut.org/pharmaerbse


Aus: Campact-News 02/07

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Steuergelder für wirkungslose Pharma-Erbsen: Gentechnik-Skandal in Ostdeutschland

Das Bundesforschungsministerium und das Land Sachsen-Anhalt fördern die Entwicklung wirkungsloser Pharma-Erbsen durch die ostdeutsche Gentechnikfirma Novoplant mit weit über einer Million Euro. Durch die Verfütterung der Gen-Erbsen an künstlich infizierte Versuchstiere wurde aber "kein einziger positiver Effekt auf den Infektionsverlauf erreicht", heißt es in einer Fütterungsstudie der Universität Hannover, die dem Umweltinstitut München vorliegt. Es bleiben die Risiken wie Bestäubung traditioneller Erbsenfelder und die Gefahr einer gentechnischen Verschmutzung der Genbank Gatersleben. Das Umweltinstitut München fordert das Aus für dieses riskante Experiment. Auf unserer Internetseite finden Sie Hintergründe und eine Mustereinwendung gegen den geplanten Versuch. Bitte schicken Sie unterzeichnete Einwendungen bis zum 7. März an das Umweltinstitut München zurück!

Lesen Sie unsere Pressemitteilung auf: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/allg/press/f-20070213.htm

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"Wirkungslose Pharma-Erbsen"

Das Umweltinstitut München wirft dem Bundesforschungsministerium und dem Land Sachsen-Anhalt vor, die Entwicklung "wirkungsloser Pharma-Erbsen" durch die ostdeutsche Gentechnikfirma Novoplant mit weit über einer Million Euro zu fördern. Durch die Verfütterung der Gen-Erbsen an künstlich infizierte Versuchstiere sei "kein einziger positiver Effekt auf den Infektionsverlauf erreicht" worden, heiße es in einer Fütterungsstudie der Universität Hannover, die dem Umweltinstitut München vorliege. Während also auf der einen Seite kein positiver Effekt festzustellen sei, blieben auf der anderen Seite "die Risiken wie Bestäubung traditioneller Erbsenfelder und die Gefahr einer gentechnischen Verschmutzung der Genbank Gatersleben", kritisiert das Umweltinstitut. Die Umweltwissenschaftler fordern "das Aus für dieses riskante Experiment".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15378

It's just wrong: The Bush budget makes serious short-term and long-term mistakes.
http://ga3.org/ct/2720pgF1gzoh/

"Paycheck Protection": No depths of hypocrisy are too deep for the Bush administration.
http://ga3.org/ct/sd20pgF1gzol/

by Alan Jenkins, TomPaine.com

Bush talks a good game of opportunity, but how is the country really doing?
http://ga3.org/ct/s120pgF1gzoo/

Our Children's Homeland Insecurity

by Michael Petit, TomPaine.com

Where conservative ideology rules, our youth are left increasingly vulnerable.

http://ga3.org/ct/w720pgF1gzok/

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Homeland insecurity

TruthDig
by Marie Cocco

02/14/08

Grim talk of terrorism is again making headlines. First came the announcement that the United States will try the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, through military commissions — contemporary kangaroo courts. Now comes Senate approval of a vast surveillance bill that gives sanction to the warrantless snooping on Americans that President Bush carried out secretly until the program was exposed in the press...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080214_homeland_insecurity/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=kangaroo+courts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+commissions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Cocco

"The media has been complicit in allowing the president to get away with establishing baselines for the debate," writes Andre Stephens. "They ask questions using the false premises already laid out by the administration. Through a combination of repetition by administration officials and the mainstream media, and the absence of real challenges to these premises by Democrats, the nation winds up hearing about 'the way forward' instead of a real and honest debate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607M.shtml

A lengthy Senate floor debate on the Iraq war is inevitable, despite a Republican effort to block it, Democrats say. Following a procedural vote Monday that sidetracked a resolution on the war, Democrats said they would eventually find a way to put each senator on record. On the table is a nonbinding resolution backed by several Republicans and most Democrats that would state Senate opposition to President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607K.shtml



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

Bill Simpich writes: "'Special security precautions do not erode the presumption of innocence.' Judge John Head's observation captured his style of jurisprudence. Mindful of public relations as several security officers monitored the proceedings in the small courtroom, but vigilant in making sure that every one of First Lt. Watada's witnesses would be deemed 'irrelevant.' Absent a stroke of luck, the lieutenant's defense against the charges of missing movement to Iraq, and 'disgraceful' conduct unbecoming an officer, have been whittled down to his own testimony and that of his commanding officer as a character witness. When Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, excoriated the proceedings as an 'atrocity' and accused the judge of judicial misconduct, the court's response was almost sheepish."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607J.shtml



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

Löbau sperrt aus

Damit sie nicht umziehen müssen: Zimmerverbot für ALG-II-Empfänger

„Es ist kein Scherz: In Löbau macht die Woba kurzerhand Zimmer dicht, um Wohnungen zu verkleinern. Denn ist das Domizil eines ALG-II-Empfängers unangemessen groß, wird ein Raum einfach abgesperrt. 95 Fälle gibt es schon….“ Artikel von Petra Siemon in der Chemnitzer Morgenpost vom 2. Februar 2007 http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1397008


Hartz IV: Mietern wird ein Zimmer ihrer Wohnung abgeriegelt. Mitarbeiter kontrollieren regelmäßig

„Wie die „Dresdner Morgenpost“ berichtet dürfen in der sächsischen Stadt Löbau von Hartz IV betroffene Mieter in ihren Wohnungen jeweils ein Zimmer nicht mehr betreten, wenn die Größe der Wohnung den Regelquadratmetersatz überschreitet…“ Artikel von Peter Weinfurth in Linke Zeitung vom 03.02.2007 http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/2061/32/


»Die Gesetze sind nun mal so, wie sie sind«

In Löbau verzichten 100 ALG-II-Empfänger auf einen Teil ihrer Wohnraums. Er ist größer, als das Jobcenter erlaubt. Ein Gespräch von Ralf Wurzbacher in junge Welt vom 06.02.2007 mit Matthias Urbansky, Geschäftsführer der Wohnungsverwaltung und Bau GmbH im sächsischen Löbau http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-06/055.php


BAG-SHI: Zunehmend Probleme im Bereich Anerkennung der Unterkunftskosten bei Wohneigentum in ‚Hartz IV’

„Aufgrund sich häufender Beschwerden von Eigentumswohnungs- und Eigenheimbesitzern, die auf Leistungen nach dem Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) angewiesen sind, stellt die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) klar, dass bei selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum die angemessenen tatsächlichen Aufwendungen für die Unterkunft zu übernehmen sind…“ Pressemitteilung vom 29.1.2007 http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/070129pm-unterkunftskosten


Die Bundesagentur bestätigt: Viele ALG-II-Betroffene müssen Wohnkosten aus der Regelleistung bestreiten

Anne Ames von der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen hat die offizielle Statistik der BA zu „Alg II und Wohnen” genau unter die Lupe genommen und etwas gegen den Strich ausgewertet. Sie liefert gute Argumente für die örtlichen Auseinandersetzungen um „angemessene“ Kosten der Unterkunft und für eine grundlegende Korrektur der Gewährungspraxis. Artikel von Anne Ames aus dem BAG-SHI Rundbrief im Dezember 2006 bei tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2007/wohnkosten_anne-ames.aspx


"Zwangsumzug bei Arbeitslosengeld II?

Artikel von und bei Herbert Masslau in einer Neufassung 4. Februar 2007. Dabei wurden soweit dies zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt möglich war, die ersten veröffentlichten Entscheidungen des Bundessozialgerichts zu "Hartz IV" eingearbeitet. http://www.herbertmasslau.de/pageID_2856171.html


Demonstration für höhere Miet- und Heizkostenobergrenzen in Bremen

Demo am 8. Februar 14 Uhr Bahnhofsvorplatz / 15 Uhr Sozialbehörde, Contrescarpe 72. Siehe Aufruf und weitere Infos bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1629


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Februar 2007

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Löbau sperrt aus

Der Laie wundert sich…. Oder auch nicht (mehr)?

Kommentar von Armin Kammrad vom 06.02.2007 zur rechtwidrigen Selbstjustiz gegen ALG II-Bezieher in Löbau http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/adloebau.html

Aus dem Text: „…Es gibt für die Betroffenen als zwei Möglichkeiten, die am besten kombiniert werden. 1. Einfach in die geräumten Räume wieder einzuziehen. Da noch ein Mietvertrag besteht und das Mietverhältnis nicht gekündigt ist, handelt es sich hier auch um keine Besetzung. Voraussetzung ist jedoch, dass nicht bereits ein neuer Mietvertrag vereinbart wurde. Kommt das „Räumkommando“ der Woba einfach nicht reinlassen, Kontakt zu Freunden, Erwerbsloseninitiativen aufnehmen um den Wohnraum zu schützen, allerdings ohne selbst handgreiflich zu werden. Gut ist auch ein Anruf bei der Polizei und Anzeige gegen die „Räumer“ wegen Hausfriedensbruch. Zwar verhaftet die Polizei sicher nicht die Woba-Leute, aber eine Räumung zulassen wird sie sicher auch nicht; kann sie nicht zulassen, solange ein Mietverhältnis besteht. 2. Möglich ist natürlich auch der Rechtsweg. Dazu kompetenten Rechtsanwalt ansprechen. Ist dies nicht möglich, wenigstens Strafanzeige dort stellen, wo versucht wird, gegen den Willen die Räume zu betreten. Wie aus dem Interview der „jungen welt“ hervorgeht, plant die Woba erst neue Mietverträge. Das bedeutet eben, dass die alten über den früheren Wohnraum noch weiter gelten. Es ist schlichtweg immer noch Eure Wohnung.“


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Februar 2007

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Wohnungsbaugesellschaften stutzen Wohnraum für ALG-II-Empfänger zurecht

Die Klagewut gegen die Arbeitsmarktreform "Hartz IV" wird wohl bald noch einmal an Intensität gewinnen. Anlass könnte die neue Vorgehensweise gegen Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) II sein, die größere Wohnungen haben als dies die ALG-II-Kriterien vorschreiben. Wohnungsgesellschaften in Mitteldeutschland sind neuerdings dazu übergegangen, die Wohnungen auf "Hartz-IV-Niveau" regelrecht zurechtzustutzen. Dafür werden ganze Räume abgesperrt oder dort zumindest die Heizung stillgelegt. Die Linkspartei sprach am Freitag von einem Skandal, der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund nannte die Vorgehensweise "würdelos und demütigend".
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15308

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Löbau sperrt aus

Zimmerklau bei Hartz IV-Betroffenen. Wohnungsgesellschaften reduzieren Wohnraum: Streit in Linkspartei, Mieterbund lobt Kreativität

„Nachdem im sächsischen Löbau Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II auf ein Zimmer verzichten, um trotz Hartz IV- Kriterien in ihrer Wohnung bleiben zu können, wollen auch Wohnungsunternehmen in Sachsen-Anhalt Arbeitslosen Räume sperren. Das Echo auf diese »Hartz IV-Anpassung« ist geteilt…“ Artikel von Gabriele Oertel im ND vom 10.02.07 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=104934&IDC=16


Richtlinien zu den Unterkunftskosten (KdU-Richtlinien)

aktualisiert bei Tacheles http://www.my-sozialberatung.de/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/my-sozialberatung.de/kdu&localparams=1&range=0,30


Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge nach Hartz IV

»Bei unserem Notruftelefon glüht der Draht«

Berliner Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge rechnet für dieses Jahr mit einer Verschärfung der Situation. Ein Gespräch von Ralf Wurzbacher in junge Welt vom 15.02.2007 mit Anne Allex, Mitstreiterin bei der Berliner Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-15/052.php


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Februar 2007

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Mieter zahlen drauf - Hartz-IV-Umzüge sorgen für steigende Mieten. Preise für gebrauchte Eigenheime blieben konstant

„Die Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II hat in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten in NRW die Mieten für einfach ausgestattete Wohnungen steigen lassen. Dies geht aus einer gestern in Dortmund vorgestellten Marktübersicht des Immobilienverbandes Deutschland (IVD) für Nordrhein-Westfalen hervor. Viele Hartz-IV-Empfänger hätten in kleinere Wohnungen umziehen müssen. Durch die größere Nachfrage seien Mieten gestiegen. Der Maklerverband verzeichnete teilweise einen Anstieg der Kaltmieten zwischen sieben und elf Prozent…“ Bericht in der taz NRW vom
14.3.2007 http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/03/14/a0001.1/text

Wir erinnern in diesem Zusammenhang an:

Wenn Kappung der Mietkosten bei Hartz IV – dann zu Lasten der Vermieter !

Ein nicht unernster Hinweis auf Art. 14 Abs. 2 GG von Lutz Eisel, Rechtsanwalt, Bochum, vom 15.4.2006 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/wohn_eisel.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV+und+Wohnen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alg+II+und+Wohnen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zwangsumzug

Reps. Jay Insee (D-WA) and Jim Ramsted (R-MN) will soon introduce the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2007 which would put into law protections for undeveloped national forest areas, protecting wildlife habitat, clean air and water, and more. They hope to have 140 co-sponsors on the bill before its introduction. Please ask your Representative to co-sponsor this bill.

Click here to take action:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/RdlessHseCospons

http://tinyurl.com/25turj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Classically Liberal
by CLS

02/03/07

How routine is it for police to stop people and conduct searches? Apparently very routine. Under the constitution such things should only happen if police have probable cause but police interpret that their powers very widely and your rights very narrowly. They see probable cause as meaning ‘any damn time we please.’ Imagine the attitude of George Bush regarding constitutional rights and give it to millions of state employees with guns...

http://tinyurl.com/yskobs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)

02/02/07

Congress is gearing up for a big Iraq debate next week. The Senate will take up the John Warner-Carl Levin resolution, which some are portraying as an important, symbolic rebuke of the president’s Iraq policy. Symbols can be powerful, but only if they have substance behind them. Read the fine print of the resolution itself, and you will find that it is not a rebuke at all. In parts, it reads like a reauthorization of the war, rejecting troop redeployment and specifically authorizing ‘vigorous operations’ in part of Iraq. This resolution isn’t a symbolic rebuke of the president; instead it symbolizes a Congress that is too timid to challenge the president’s failed Iraq policy.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/02/feingold/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Human Events
by Steve Chapman

02/04/07

When police found Shawn Hornbeck living with his alleged abductor four years after he was kidnapped, the question arose: Why didn’t the 15-year-old simply run away? But trapped and isolated, a hostage can be scared into thinking that the consequences of leaving — for himself or his loved ones — would be far worse than the consequences of staying. So he passes up opportunities to escape. That’s roughly our plight in Iraq...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19267


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman

In Search of Support for PTSD

Since leaving Iraq in 2003, Jullian Philip Goodrum - like many soldiers - has been gradually overcoming the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. When he began experiencing mental problems consistent with PTSD, he couldn't get treatment, and he blames the army for their lack of resources.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507HA.shtml



Parents Blame VA in Fatal Overdose

An Army-funded study published in January in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that almost one in five combat veterans returning from Iraq suffered from PTSD, which increases the risk of substance abuse. Many of those returning troops also suffer physical pain. The dilemma, said Dr. Andrew Shaner, deputy chief of psychiatry and mental health at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, is that "most drugs to treat pain hold potential for abuse."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031307HA.shtml



One-Third of "War on Terror" Vets Have Mental Health Problems

A new US study has found that nearly a third of war veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq who were treated by Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 returned with mental health difficulties.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031307HB.shtml

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Study: Thousands Of Veterans Return With Mental Illness: Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes.

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6217766



One-quarter of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans filing injury claims: More than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed injury claims with the government, according to an internal Department of Veterans Affairs report.

http://staugustine.com/stories/031307/nation_4464662.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said that earnings reports show that oil industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very likely hoping to influence the mid-term election.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507ED.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Exxon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election

Founded in 1971, the EPA Library Network houses information on everything from basic sciences to local records on hazardous waste, drinking water, pollution prevention and toxic substances. In February 2006, when President Bush unveiled his budget proposal for FY 2007, the EPA Library Network learned that its annual disbursement would be slashed 80 percent.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EPA+Library

Environmentalist Bill McKibben is spearheading what will be the largest public demonstration against global warming our country has ever seen. But instead of a march on Washington, which would burn too much carbon, it will take place all over the nation, in unique forms.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EA.shtml



Game Over on Global Warming?

Action to stop global warming would have to be radical, but climate change can be slowed.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EB.shtml



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

Executives from government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, including KBR and Compass of the UK, face a rocky ride in Washington this week as Henry Waxman, new chairman of the House of Representatives' chief investigative committee, begins hearings on allegations of "waste, fraud and abuse."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507T.shtml



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

Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan, submitted to Congress on Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507R.shtml

The new testimony could make things more awkward for Cheney, due to be called as a defense witness soon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960657/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House



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

The Australian lawyer for David Hicks has accused the US military of an act of bastardry for waiting until the departure of his legal team to announce new charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1840537.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

A coalition of charities, faith groups and unions has warned Tony Blair that any military action against Iran would have "unthinkable" consequences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6330353.stm


From Information Clearing House

Two destroyers answered the call to duty today, and a unexpected call it was. The Navy is calling a surge deployment.

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6035178


From Information Clearing House

As Congress weighs action on the escalation of the Iraq War, it may want to consider the business connections of retired generals who have been making recommendations, particularly those of retired four-star Army general John M. “Jack” Keane, who is one of the authors of President Bush’s “surge” policy.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/358/2/



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On the eve of critical U.S. Senate votes on President Bush's Iraq escalation plan, the Progressive States Network announced today that over 20 state legislatures so far have introduced resolutions opposing the President's move and demanding Congress use its power to stop the so-called "surge."

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/375/2/



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

Video

What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today's Americans how to be good citizens?

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/356/59/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_trial


From Supreme Law Firm



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

http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/iraqfilibuster/fdsadc


Informant: Theresa J. Steed



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

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=10360

Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan: Iran
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10298


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2007_02_05.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-23.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bookman

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+Younge

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-30.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-22.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Colin+Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0205-01.htm

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US refusenik officer calls Iraq war illegal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2007234,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.businessportal24.com/de/Bundesnetzagentur_Chef_Kurth_UMTS_Auktion_111271.html
http://www.faz.net/d/invest/meldung.aspx?id=41059176

Neue UMTS-Versteigerung geplant
http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/mobilfunk_nid_44097.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion soll 2008 starten
http://www.golem.de/0702/50361.html

Netzagentur will 2008 neue UMTS-Lizenzen vergeben
http://www.net-tribune.de/article/060207-42.php

Bundesnetzagentur plant weitere UMTS-Versteigerung
http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/158928.html?zid=90893

Regulierer kündigt zweite UMTS-Versteigerung an
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/digitale/handy/404512

Bundesnetzagentur-Chef Kurth kündigt zweite UMTS-Auktion an
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/computer/67,1a5d10474e7a71e14b480a74e79de89d.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion steht Mobilfunkbranche bevor
http://www.cio.de/news/wirtschaftsnachrichten/832682/
http://www.mainpost.de/aaw/wirtschaft/art106,3885075.html

Neue UMTS-Lizenzen kommen unter den Hammer
http://www.silicon.de/enid/mobile_wireless/25229

Kurth kündigt zweite UMTS-Auktion an
http://www.tariftip.de/News/21407/Kurth-kuendigt-zweite-UMTS-Auktion-an.html

UMTS geht in die nächste Runde
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/archiv/07.02.2007/3065984.asp

Weitere UMTS-Lizenzen werden versteigert
http://www.xonio.com/news/news_24126440.html?tid1=7400&tid2=0

Bund hat weitere UMTS-Frequenzen im Angebot
http://de.theinquirer.net/2007/02/07/bund_hat_weitere_umtsfrequenze.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion: Wer steht in den Startlöchern?
http://www.wiwo.de/pswiwo/fn/ww2/sfn/buildww/id/126/id/245826/fm/0/SH/0/depot/0/

UMTS-Auktion zum Zweiten
http://www.haufe.de/SID106.LwhoqEIJViA/newsDetails?newsID=1170781809.55&d_start:int=0&topic=Computer_Web&topicView=Computer%20und%20Web

Zweite UMTS-Versteigerung bahnt sich an
http://www.faz.net/s/RubE2C6E0BCC2F04DD787CDC274993E94C1/Doc~EFF4BF23912BE4AFF941613F4084C0F81~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

UMTS ist da, offiziell, für jeden
http://www.stern.de/computer-technik/telefon/:Mobilfunk-UMTS/550847.html

Erste UMTS900-Netze schon 2007
http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2007/kw06/s24844.html

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Kann mobiles Telefonieren tödlich sein?
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Scheiner

Handys können Krebs auslösen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261806/

Zunahme der Hirntumore bei Handy-Vieltefonierern: Risiko steigt um 39 Prozent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261838/

Lösen Handys Krebs aus, Krebs durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3265429/

Handy am Ohr: Hirntumor?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3270151/

Langzeitstudie aus Dänemark: kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040849/

Kein Beweis für ein erhöhtes Risiko durch Handys?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271250/

Elektrosmog als Krebsrisiko: Kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271439/

Flucht aus Oberammergau: Pfarrer flüchtet vor Handy-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3258411/

Wissenschaft zu Mobilfunk
http://tinyurl.com/93epp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard40.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski173.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis67.html

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MONTAGE SET TO MUSIC: Images of Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5697/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Margolis