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Rendering The CIA Useless

by John Prados, TomPaine.com
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Revisiting The Dream by Leutisha Stills, TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/16/revisiting_the_dream.php

A FATHER and son fear a 20ft mobile phone mast next to their factory could have a devaststaing impact on their business.

Barrie Fitzpatrick and son Colin (34) opened Formet metal works at Great paxton in 1981.

A planning application has been submitted to Huntingdon District Council for the mast by T-Mobile, next to the businessmen's factory on the Harley Works industrial estate, Paxton Hill.

The pair are concerned radio waves from the monopole could affect a sensitive laser which is crucil to the factory's production of sheet metal.

Barrie Fitzpatrick, managing director of Formet, claimed any interference to the Amada 2610v machine could damage the business and even threaten the jobs of its seven workers.

He said: "It is more the unknown that we are frightened of. We have a laser machine that handles every bit of production we do.

"If they were to put the mast up and it did affect the machine we would have to close the factory. We live and die by that machine.

"I am worried about the health side, and I don't like phone masts, but if we are going to live with mobile phones they have to go somewhere.

"But why they need to put it right next to a building I don't know?"

The company has written to the district council objecting to the siting of the monopole.

Colin Fitzpatrick, general manager of Formet, said: "We are only a small business, and if we couldn't afford to move. There is just no need to have it that close to the factory."

The latest objections follow concerns reported in the Town Crier last week from mother-of-three, Fleur Bateman, who is worried about potential health risks from the phone mast.

Objections to the planning application must be made to Huntingdon District Council before Wednesday next week.

A spokesman for the mobile phone company said: "T-Mobile understands there sometimes can be concerns when locating base stations in communities.

"Base stations are low powered radio transmitters, and it is important to recognise that the radio frequency signal from mast the represents just one source of RF (Radio Frequency) in everyday lives.

"Based on over 40 years of research, T-Mobile is confident that its base stations, operating within strict national and international guidelines (recognised by the World Health Organisation), do not present a health risk to any member of the public."

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

Omega read also "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

16 February 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.huntingdontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1704&ArticleID=2056042

Nach Kritik an den großen BMW-Limousinen der Grünen-Führung will der Parteivorstand künftig auf verbrauchsärmere BMW-Modelle umsteigen. "Man muss auch einem geschenkten Gaul näher ins Maul schauen", sagte Grünen-Chef Reinhard Bütikofer dem Berliner "Tagesspiegel" in Anspielung auf die Tatsache, dass der Automobilkonzern BMW die Fahrzeuge der Partei gespendet hat. Bislang fahren die Grünen zwei BMW der 5er-Reihe und einen BMW der 1er-Reihe.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15373

Die Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) hat das am Freitag vom Bundesrat bestätigte "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz" scharf kritisiert. Künftig würden sich Beschäftigte in der Drittmittelforschung noch mehr als bisher von einem befristeten Arbeitsvertrag zum nächsten hangeln müssen. "Unbefristet befristet" - so laute die Perspekte für die Wissenschaftler, kritisiert GEW-Vorstand Andreas Keller. Deutschland brauche vielmehr "attraktive Arbeitsbedingungen" in der Wissenschaft, "um in Forschung und Lehre qualitativ hochwertige Leistungen und Innovationen zu erbringen". Dieses Ziel verfehle das neue Gesetz. Mit der Ausweitung der Befristungsregelungen würden den Beschäftigten elementare Schutzrechte genommen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15368

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5771/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Democrats in Congress are moving quickly to impose their economic agenda now that they've returned to power on Capitol Hill. Many Democrats campaigned against the trend of widening income inequality, and they're trying to make good on promises to push economic policy to better serve the poor and middle classes.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607H.shtml

Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said yesterday that the increase of 17,500 Army combat troops in Iraq represents only the "tip of the iceberg" and will potentially require thousands of additional support troops and trainers, as well as equipment - further eroding the Army's readiness to respond to other world contingencies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607D.shtml



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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday linked her support for President Bush's war-funding request to strict standards of resting, training and equipping combat forces, a move that could curtail troop deployments and alter the course of US involvement in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607B.shtml



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An Italian judge Friday indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect on a Milan street in what would be the first criminal trial stemming from the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607A.shtml



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Informant: Mitchel Cohen

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Der Konflikt zwischen Iran und USA wird auch von Medien geschürt
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24656/1.html

By Rob Devey

PHONE giant T-Mobile has won its appeal to install a taller mast outside Horwich Leisure Centre.

Bolton Council's planning and highways committee last year threw out the company's plan to replace the existing 15-metre mast near the centre entrance with a 20-metre version.

Residents had objected and councillors said the increased height would make the mast an even greater blot on the landscape.

T-Mobile, which argued that a taller mast was needed to improve network coverage, appealed and has now been granted permission for the new mast by Government planning inspector Bruce Barnett.

Mr Barnett said that the difference in height "would not be particularly noticeable", adding that T-Mobile had met guidelines on raidation.

However, campaigners are hopeful the council can still block the mast in its capacity as landowner.

A council spokesman said: "While planning permission has been granted on appeal, consent still has to be granted by Bolton Council and the Bolton Community Leisure Trust as landowners and occupiers.

"A report will be presented to the executive member for development."

Last year, Cllr Andy Morgan was backed by fellow councillors in a motion banning masts on council land but subsequent legal advice means the authority still looks at each case on its merits.

He said: "I will be urging executive member Cllr Ebrahim Adia to take account of last year's motion, which means we do not routinely put masts on our buildings.

"I'm very disappointed with the inspector's decision. It seems madness for some faceless bureaucrat at the planning inspectorate in Bristol to overturn a decision made by local councillors.

"There's no proof about whether masts are safe and some people may unwittingly use the leisure centre not knowing about the mast".

He said plenty of youngsters used the centre and the independent Stewart Report into masts urged caution about allowing masts near children.

Cllr Barbara Ronson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group and the party's spokesman for development, said she was also unhappy with the decision.

Cllr Ronson, who is a Horwich borough and town councillor, added: "I would be very disappointed if, having turned down the mast on planning grounds, the council now allowed it as landowners."

Horwich town councillor Lynn Rock said: "It's bad enough having the existing mast, I don't want to see it being made bigger.

"A leisure centre is the wrong place for masts."

The mast sparked a storm of protest when it appeared in 1999. The council receives £5,500 a year in rent for the structure which goes towards a sports and recreation but is not necessarily spent in Horwich.

It says it would seek to negotiate an increased rent if the replacement mast is approved.

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Democratic senators introduced legislation that would bar U.S. use of cluster bombs in or near civilian areas. The bill would restrict funding for the use, sale or transfer of cluster munitions unless their submunitions have a failure rate of less than one percent, or unless the president grants a waiver on national security grounds.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607P.shtml

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Support regulation of cluster munitions
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Informant: WRL West

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"If UnitedHealth can be shown to have broken the law - and let's just say that this company, which is America's second largest health insurer, has a reputation for playing even rougher than its competitors - by all means, let's see justice done. But the larger problem isn't the behavior of any individual company. It's the ugly incentives provided by a system in which giving care is punished, while denying it is rewarded," writes Paul Krugman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607O.shtml



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Jay Bookman writes, "Trying to make sense of the Bush administration's strategy toward Iran may be a fool's game, because it assumes a strategy exists in the first place. That doesn't seem the case. Statements and policies issued one day are contradicted the next, perhaps the result of internal White House struggles between hardline and more moderate factions who can't agree on a single approach."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607L.shtml



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Arbeitstreffen in Berlin am Samstag, 17.2. Peter Grottian (pgrottia@zedat.fu-berlin.de, Tel.: 0171/8313314) bittet die lokalen Aktionsbündnisse dringlichst darum, ihm und der Koordinationsgruppe mitzuteilen, wer am Hungerstreik teilnehmen will (nur Leute, für die es nach ärztlichem Rat gesundheitlich zu verantworten ist, dürfen selber hungerstreiken!) und welche einzelnen lokalen Aktionsbündnisse durch eine Fahrt nach Berlin die Aktion in Berlin unterstützen werden. Er bittet Mitmachende und UnterstützerInnen zum 1. Vorbereitungstreffen am Samstag, d. 17.2. von 12-18 Uhr in das Café Cum Laude (Ecke Dorotheenstr./Universitätsstr., 3 Min. vom S-Bhf. Friedrichstr.). Die Hungerstreik-Gruppe soll sich kennenlernen, ihr Konzept entwickeln und den Ablauf des Hungerstreiks besprechen. Fahrtkosten können zu 50% ersetzt werden. Da diese Rundmail nicht früher versendet werden konnte, hat Peter Grottian viele Initiativen, die in der Vergangenheit Interesse an einer Beteiligung am Hungerstreik bekundet haben, bereits telefonisch kontaktiert.

Aus Rundmail: Gegen-Armut-2007 - Statt Kombilohn für Niedrigverdiener



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Dezentrale Aktionen

In der Aktionswoche sollen vielfältige dezentrale Aktionen von allen lokalen Bündnissen umgesetzt werden. Aktionsideen gehen von der Magdeburger "Mauer der Grausamkeiten" über "Sattessen im Supermarkt", Aktivitäten gegen bestimmte Träger von 1-Euro-Jobs, evtl. Blockaden des Fernverkehrs und der Idee, dass Eltern ihre Kinder bei der Behörde abgeben, weil sie die Kinder von den Hartz-Regelleistungen nicht mehr versorgen können, bis zu Aktionen für ein Sozialticket, wie sie in Leipzig stattfanden und stattfinden. Einige Aktionsideen wurden auf dem Treffen in Göttingen genannt und können im Protokoll nachgelesen werden. Dies sind aber sicherlich nicht alle. Wir denken, dass ein gegenseitiger Austausch nicht nur durch den Besuch der anderen Webseiten möglich ist, sondern auch das Online-Diskussions-Forum sich für die gegenseitige Anregung und Diskussion der verschiedensten Aktionsideen eignet. Ihr findet es unter http://www.aktive-erwerbslose.de/forum und Ihr könnt Euch dort registrieren lassen. Kampagnenmaterial, welches bundesweit verwendet werden kann, wird in den nächsten Wochen durch den Koordinierungskreis erarbeitet werden. Auch hierzu würden wir uns über Anregungen freuen. Es sollen Flugblätter für die Erläuterung unserer Forderungen erstellt werden. In ihnen sollen auch die Hintergründe, die in diesem Zusammenhang von Bedeutung sind, wie verfehlte unsoziale Steuerpolitik und andere wichtige Tatsachen und Betrachtungen in einfacher Form dargestellt werden. Außerdem sollen für die Aktiven vor Ort häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten darauf zusammen gestellt werden, damit wir als Sozialproteste gemeinsam in der Öffentlichkeit und beim persönlichen Gespräch auf der Straße gezielt die Diskussionen in dieser Gesellschaft weiter beeinflussen können.


Aus: Rundmail: Gegen-Armut-2007 - Statt Kombilohn für Niedrigverdiener

Phillies 2008: 2008 Is Too Late

Rational Review
by George Phillies

02/16/07

Once upon a time, real conservatives like Barry Goldwater stood four-square for protecting the civil liberties of the American people. Now Bush Republicans say we should give up freedom for safety. Let me tell you the truth: When you hear someone say that we should give up freedom for safety, when you hear someone refer to America as the ‘homeland,’ you are listening to someone who hates the real America, hates our Constitution, hates our Bill of Rights, and hates our way of life. That person has no business anywhere near the levers of political power...

http://www.rationalreview.com/content/24945

http://www.businessportal24.com/en/Pelosi_Bush_Lacks_Power_Invade_121092.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

02/15/07

Setting up a new showdown over Iraq, Senate Democratic leaders announced Thursday they will hold a key test vote Saturday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to send additional troops into combat. Majority Leader Harry Reid said a Saturday session will take up a non-binding measure now before the House of Representatives. The Saturday vote will be a procedural vote on whether the Senate should move on to a final vote on a resolution that expresses opposition to President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops to Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/2n6gg9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Senate Dems Call GOP Bluff, Iraq Vote Set for Saturday

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday committed to stay in session through Saturday and perhaps into next week to debate President Bush's proposed troop surge in Iraq, saying they were calling the bluff of GOP moderates who were demanding the Senate sidestep the upcoming recess to consider the issue.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607K.shtml



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Watertown Daily Times

02/15/07

A Marine lance corporal cracked jokes and lifted the lifeless hand of an Iraqi civilian whom his squad had just shot, slapping it across the dead man’s face, a sailor testified Thursday. The government called Seaman Recruit Melson J. Bacos as a witness in the sentencing hearing for Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping and conspiracy...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In spite of all of our efforts around the world, the Danish government took part in the pro- whaling meeting in Japan. The Danish government needs to hear from all of us again, and this time even stronger, that their position is not acceptable and we need to convince them to support the whales: not the whalers. Please, HELP ME THINK OF THE BEST GIFT WE CAN BRING OR SEND TO THE DANISH EMBASSIES around the world. The gift has to represent our disgust with the Danish government’s support of whaling. What should that present be?? Flowers? Candles? Chop Sticks??. Let's go to all their embassies around the world and bring them our gift, so they can feel the pressure we need to exert on them to START DEFENDING WHALES!! The gift should be something we can bring them physically, or something we can send as a photograph by e-mail. Greenpeace is helping me by promoting this campaign. We have to decide the gift BEFORE FEBRUARY 18TH !!!

http://whales.greenpeace.org/campaign/5837



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The House Education and Labor Committee begins markup on the "Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which has strong bipartisan backing in Congress. The EFCA would make it easier for workers to form a union. Under the current law, "even when a majority of workers asks for union representation, their employers can force them to undergo an election process" administered by the Bush administration's "anti-worker" National Labor Relations Board.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021507LA.shtml



Business, Labor Brace for Battle

In what is set to be their first major showdown since Democrats took control of Congress, business and labor interests are poised for a multimillion-dollar clash over a measure to make it easier for workers to unionize.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021507LB.shtml



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With Democrats controlling the environmental agenda in Congress, a panel of international scientists saying there's a greater-than-90 percent chance that humans contribute to global warming, and former vice president Al Gore calling climate change a moral issue, many besieged global warming skeptics are starting to tone down their rhetoric.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021507EC.shtml



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Two conservation groups sued the federal government, claiming that the US Fish and Wildlife Service did not fully consider the effects of global warming as it wrote regulations allowing for incidental harassment of polar bears and walruses by the industry in the Beaufort Sea and nearby coastal areas.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021507EB.shtml



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On February 16 at 8:30 p.m. (check local listings), NOW reports on new evidence suggesting the existence of a secret government program that intercepts millions of private emails each day in the name of terrorist surveillance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021507U.shtml



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Ankündigung der Gründung einer Aktions-Plattform welche die Ziele hat, eine Senkung der gesetzlichen Grenzwerte für Mobilfunk-Anlagen herbeizuführen und unabhängige Studien zur Erforschung der Auswirkungen...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/politik/033ea298dd0279c01/033ea298e61211501.html

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3GSM Welt Kongress in Barcelona 2007
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/3GSM_WorldCongressBarcelona2007.php#1

Auf deutschen Äckern sollen in diesem Jahr mehr als 3500 Hektar Gen-Mais wachsen, die überwältigende Mehrheit davon in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern. Dies geht aus den Angaben des amtlichen Standortregisters hervor.

http://www.umweltinstitut.org/genmais2007



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By Sue Vickers

Residents protesting against the Pickersleigh Road phone mast this week.

PICKERSLEIGH Road protesters want to know where are all the trees that are supposed to camouflage a proposed 40ft high mast.

Residents living near the site say claims by mobile phone company Hutchison 3G that the mast will be disguised by mature trees nearby is nonsense.

"Where are the trees they are talking about? There's a broad green sward but no trees here. The mast won't be disguised at all," said Hilda Forsyth, who is determined, along with neighbours, to fight the phone company's proposal.

"We are not having the mast here and that's final. It's too tall, too near our houses. Why should we have to look at it and live right next to it?" said Mrs Forsyth.

She said she and other residents had concerns about the safety of the mast.

"A friend living near a phone mast in Scotland died from cancer. No one really knows what the risks are. I know I don't want to sleep with a mast less than 50 yards from my bedroom window," said Mrs Forsyth.

“We are not having the mast here and that’s final. It’s too tall, too near our houses. Why should we have to look at it and live right next to it?”
Hilda Forsyth

Signatures for a petition against the mast are already being collected and angry residents have put up banners protesting against the mast in their gardens.

A planning application for the mast, described as a slimline monopole structure painted green, has been made to Malvern Hills District Council.

Originally the company wanted the mast on land near Bicknells garage but this fell through.

Alternative sites considered by Hutchison 3G include the council's former depot site, where the new health centre is being built.

Hutchison 3G spokesman Mike Dobson said the company recognised peoples' right to protest and it was important the planning process was followed comprehensively, in order that their objections could be considered appropriately.

"I'd like to reassure people the equipment is low-powered and well within international guidelines as recognised by the World Health Organisation," he said.

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PETER WALSH
16 February 2007 08:48

Families were horrified to discover a mobile phone mast could be installed near their homes, a community pub - and a 12-apartment development which has yet to be built.

Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has submitted plans to build the mast, with associated equipment cabinets, next to the King Edward VII pub on Aylsham Road, Norwich.

The site is close to homes, sheltered housing at Edmund Bacon Court, the Royal British Legion's branch headquarters and is also just across the road from Aylsham Road Motor Company - which is to be developed into flats by the end of the year.

Deborah Judge, who has lived on Aylsham Road for the past 25 years, said she was “appalled” at plans for the mast so close to people's homes and would be opposing it.

“That's absolutely unacceptable - it's a disaster,” she said. “The health issues have not been proven either way, but you can't just take risks with these sorts of things.

“It's going to make the price of the property drop dramatically - it's absolutely dreadful.”

Damon Aspland, a sales manager at Aylsham Road Motor Company, which is just across the road from the pub where the mast would be put said he did not think it was suitable for the area - particularly with apartments due to be built on the site.

“If I was thinking about buying one of those flats going here it would be a no-no,” he said. “I just think its technology which hasn't been proven and they are using people like us as guinea pigs.” Mr Aspland, who lives in the Bowthorpe area, said he thinks masts should be sited away from people. The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

Dr Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, said: “It's a fight that's going on everywhere. I'm still waiting to hear what the new planning laws will say about it, but the government are prevaricating and should just go for it.”

A spokesman for T-Mobile said the mast was needed to provide a “quality service”. “Without mobile phone base stations, mobile phones simply do not work,” he said. “All of our installations comply with stringent national and international guidelines.”

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

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Andrew Patel, one of Padilla's attorneys, said brig staff members told him Padilla was so "docile and inactive that his behavior was like that of 'a piece of furniture.'"

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From Information Clearing House



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India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1386812.ece



Russia may scrap U.S. arms control treaty: Interfax

Russia warned the United States on Thursday it might pull out of a Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty because of plans by Washington to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

http://tinyurl.com/272c5c


From Information Clearing House

A leading Iraq war opponent threatened Thursday to try prohibiting any U.S. military action against Iran without congressional sanction as House Republicans used military veterans within their ranks to oppose a resolution renouncing President Bush's Iraq troop buildup.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2878258


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The Vermont State Legislature made headlines yesterday when lawmakers passed resolutions in both the House and Senate calling for the immediate and orderly withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

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Talk About Anything But Escalation
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A dozen Republicans arrived in the House chamber on Wednesday to set aside their party allegiances and lend their names to a resolution intended to rebuke President Bush for his Iraq policy.

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The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said today.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4556507.html


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Video - BBC Money Programme

This programme meets the scientists who believe that we are at the beginning of the long term decline in conventional oil production.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17076.htm



The Ghawar Oil Field: How Much Is Left?

Decline of the world’s largest reserve could cripple the global economy

By David S. Elliott

Back in 2001, before the issue of energy scarcity ever entered my mind, I read a chilling online article called "Ghawar Is Dying" that bluntly speculated about the massive global upheavals modern industrial society would suffer if the largest oil field in Saudi Arabia were indeed running dry.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17077.htm

BBC: Video Report By Greg Palast

Vulture funds - as defined by the International Monetary Fund and Gordon Brown amongst others - are companies which buy up the debt of poor nations cheaply when it is about to be written off and then sue for the full value of the debt plus interest - which might be ten times what they paid for it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17070.htm



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By Josh White

A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an "enemy combatant" against the United States, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the Republican-controlled Congress last year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17073.htm



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Video

Images set to Sara Thomsen's powerful song "Is It For Freedom?"
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Killers in the Classroom
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17074.htm

Angry residents in Shenley have described a phone company as underhand' and sneaky' after failing to take down a mast it had been ordered to remove this week.

Hertsmere Borough Council issued an enforcement notice for T-Mobile to remove the temporary mast at London Colney Cricket Club in Green Street by Wednesday. But, after the company removed the mast from the enforcement zone, it was erected again just outside the specified area.

Samantha Gee, 37, from London Road, Shenley, said: "I am very dissapointed that they have done whatever they want to do again. It shows that the council does not have any power to stop them. It certainly does not restore my faith in the system. It is an underhand way of dealing with this. It is just sneaky."

The temporary mast was erected nearly four years ago after a mast on Shenley Water Tower, in Porters Park estate, had to be removed when renovation work started on the building at the beginning of 2003. Another mast, owned by O2, was given permission for the cricket ground because it was to be shared with the emergency services.

Shenley councillor Rosemary Gilligan said: "It was so obvious that they T-Mobile have been playing the system until the technology changed to allow them to share the O2 airwaves mast. They have now taken it out of the enforcement zone but have moved it, saying it is an emergency. They have had more than a year to plan the removal of the mast, so how can they say it is an emergency?

"It is definitely a matter that the council is going to take really seriously. I think enough is enough and I am really cross they have blatantly taken advantage of the system. T-Mobile has really taken it to the limit and the council is going to make sure they abide by the decision of the inspectors."

Hertsmere planning officer Chris Lewcock said: "We are exploring the legal implications of this with our advisers. But we are somewhat dissappointed with T-Mobile's approach to this matter."

A spokeswoman for T-Mobile said: "T-Mobile has fully complied with enforcement notice issued and will be looking for an alternative site for a permanent mast in the area, to ensure a high level of service for our customers."

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How Feds' Top Environmental Prosecutor Built Home With Big-Oil Lobbyist

A House committee will investigate and request documents on a real estate deal involving the government's top environmental prosecutor and ConocoPhillips's top lobbyist, and also legal agreements between the government and the oil company. The inquiry by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was announced hours after The Associated Press reported that the prosecutor, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, bought a $1 million vacation home with ConocoPhillips Vice President Donald R. Duncan, nine months before agreeing to let the company delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup.

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by Mary Earls

AN APPLICATION to erect a telecommunications mast on the roof of Villier’s Secondary School, which was turned down by Limerick City Council, has also been shot down by An Bord Pleanala.

The main reasons cited for refusing the mast were health risks and property devaluation.

Pat O’Donovan, PRO with Better Environmental and Safer Telecommunications (BEST) said that he was delighted the decision was upheld by a higher body and that "they are accepting that there’s a health risk involved”.

Stating that common sense has prevailed, he added that this "huge decision marks a change in thinking,” as regards planning for mobile phone masts.

Hutchison 3G Ireland Ltd., had applied for permission to put a 5m white flagpole on the rooftop of the school with antennae last May.

However, concerned parents, school staff, nearby residents and councillors, were outraged over the application.

Mr O’Donovan had earlier complimented the Planning Department of Limerick City Council for issuing "one of the most detailed condemnations of a mast planning application that I have come across in a long while”.

A spokesperson from the planning department at City Hall explained that the application was turned down because the proposed mast, being on a school site and near housing, would "detract from the amenities of the area” and "depreciate the value of adjacent residential properties”.

City planners also believed the development would set "an undesirable precedent for similar development in Limerick city.

Mr O’Donovan commented: "This was an outrageous proposal from day one. And to have the school’s board of management pushing for it just made it worse. It has been well documented that phone masts shouldn’t be placed near schools especially as the radiation can be very harmful for growing children. But this mast was to be placed in a densely populated urban area, so it would have affected the students as well as the wider community. 3G masts which are used for picture phones, have more powerful emissions.

"BEST has learned that there are much higher instances of cancer and people suffering from other diseases when they live near a mast. And many people living in close proximity to a mast have talked about the ‘constant headaches, fatigue, nausea and a sensation of burning in their heads’. Before phone masts would just be planted down without question. But now the planners are inspecting every single aspect of a planning application much more seriously”.

Last year, there was widespread condemnation that the Board of management at the school issued a letter that they "consented to this planning application based on research and subject to all current Health and Safety guidelines”.

And there were also reports that staff, parents and students at Villier’s School, were reluctant to complain about the proposed 3G Mast, because of alleged intimidation.

A student at Villier’s secondary school had told the Limerick Post that many parents were considering sending solicitors letters to management holding them directly responsible for any adverse health effects they may suffer from the planned installation of the 3G mast on the school’s roof. It is understood parents had also considered taking their children out of the fee-paying school.

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From ufpj-news

12 February 2007

A MOBILE phone company has proved perseverance pays off after it was allowed to keep at least one mast on green belt land in Hornchurch despite council and resident protest.

T Mobile, dubbed "cheeky" by one local councillor, can now keep a mast on the Cardrome site in Upper Rainham Road.

The Planning Inspectorate allowed special circumstances on January 25 to extend the life of a 24-metre mast by a further three months, despite it originally being placed in 2005 by way of temporary six-month permission. On July 14 last year the council refused T-Mobile's application for a further two year planning consent.

Read the full story in this Friday's Recorder

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President George W. Bush on Wednesday issued an executive order that will allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to move forward and be considered by military tribunals, the White House said.

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Carl Bernstein tells Frontline: "First, Nixon's relationship to the press was consistent with his relationship to many institutions and people. He saw himself as a victim. We now understand the psyche of Richard Nixon, that his was a self-destructive act and presidency. I think what we're talking about with the Bush administration is a far different matter in which disinformation, misinformation and unwillingness to tell the truth - a willingness to lie in the Oval Office, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the office of the Vice President, the vice president himself - are such that I have never witnessed before on this scale."

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The specter of the war in Iraq - a war the Bush administration denied it was planning and supported by evidence that turned out to be false - looms large over administration policy toward Iran.

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Representatives Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters write: "The political battle lines are clear: On one side, we have a bipartisan Congressional majority; roughly two-thirds of the American people; the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Iraq Study Group; and former military leaders such as Colin Powell. On the other, an unpopular, lame-duck president; too many Congressional Republicans; and the editors of The Weekly Standard - all of whom are willing to accept more American casualties in the name of a policy that is making us less secure and damages our standing in the world."

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Unterschriftenaktion gegen "Handy-Unterricht"
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Kinder und Mobilfunk
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Mobilfunk in der Schule
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Schule und Mobilfunk
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Elektrosmog im Klassenzimmer
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Gesundheitsrisiko WLAN
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WLAN in Schulen
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Mit dem Laptop in den Unterricht
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WLAN via Laptops
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Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
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Handys können Krebs auslösen
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Zunahme der Hirntumore bei Handy-Vieltefonierern: Risiko steigt um 39 Prozent
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Lösen Handys Krebs aus, Krebs durch Handy-Strahlung?
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Handy am Ohr: Hirntumor?
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Langzeitstudie aus Dänemark: kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
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Kein Beweis für ein erhöhtes Risiko durch Handys?
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Elektrosmog als Krebsrisiko: Kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
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Flucht aus Oberammergau: Pfarrer flüchtet vor Handy-Strahlung
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Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
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Wissenschaft zu Mobilfunk
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Ärzte und Mobilfunk
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Im Abschlussbericht des EU-Parlaments gibt es keine neuen Beweise, aber Klarheit über die mangelnde Kooperation der meisten Regierungen bei der Aufklärung, die einiges vermuten lässt.

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Bush's Blow-Up With Iran

At his press conference today, Bush again showed that he doesn't know or care about cause and effect.

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In The Name Of Democracy
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by Francesca Grifo, TomPaine.com

Bush continues his war on federal science, even as Congress investigates.
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by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

Bush is discovering that boldly lying about Iran isn't enough. He needs his chorus of liars behind him ... and they're gone.

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From John D.

Responding to an outpouring of complaints, federal officials have dramatically scaled back a proposal to speed up development in wetland areas along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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California Senator Barbara Boxer enlisted the help of several Fortune 500 company executives to argue that mandatory greenhouse gas limits won't damage the US economy. Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called business leaders from PG&E, DuPont and BP America to testify before Congress about their support for economy-wide emissions limits to fight global warming.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told her colleagues and the country yesterday that the non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush's troop surge is only the first step in Congressional action on Iraq, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he is taking steps to bring the same measure to a vote in the upper chamber. "In a few days and in fewer than 100 words, we will take our country in a new direction on Iraq," Pelosi said.

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At his press conference this morning in ice-covered Washington, DC, President Bush was pressed by reporters on US officials' claims at a Baghdad briefing on Sunday. These unnamed officials charged that not only were weapons from Iran killing American soldiers in Iraq, they were being used on orders from top Iranian leaders.

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A MOBILE phone company has defended plans to erect a transmitter in a heritage site.

Local councillors are furious Wigan MBC planners gave planning permission for a mast at the Marklands Building on Stanley Street, Tyldesley.

Robert Bleakley, a former Liberal Democrat councillor and planning committee member, says the application should have been declined.
"I can't understand how they can allow this in a heritage area. It doesn't seem right.

"When I was on the committee we rejected plans for a mast at this site but now it seems they've changed their standards."

But the company who drew up the plans say a specially made housing will camouflage the ugly antenna.

Stephen Short, from Pentland GT, worked on the application for O2.

"The mast in Tyldesley is one of our 'stealth' masts."

"It's on the fourth storey and it is done in such a way that, even if you knew it was there, it would be difficult to pick it out."

Wigan Council planning officer Kevin Foster explained: "The reason this one was approved is because it's only 1.5 metres tall and it's fully encased.

"They've done it before very effectively. They sent us a sample of the material they will be using to surround it and it will blend in well."

15 February 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

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As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seeks to finish up the Democrats' initial, and much ballyhooed, legislative priorities over the next few weeks, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Edward Kennedy is plowing full-speed ahead with the broader Democratic playbook on health and education issues.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021507N.shtml

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the US Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for talks with the United States, a former senior government official said on Wednesday.

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Mobilfunk!

Nach der Einschätzung von Experten sind 15 – 20 Mio. Bundesbürger elektrosensibel!


Nachricht von Gerd Zesar

In These Times
by Mischa Gaus

02/14/07

Guards in Guantanamo have borrowed interrogation techniques from training meant to innoculate U.S. soldiers from torture. His psychiatrists call it ‘Groundhog Day.’ Jose Padilla — the once-renowned ‘dirty bomber’ who is now little more than a dim light in the government’s galaxy of desperadoes — has spent almost five years in solitary confinement. Whenever his lawyers attempt to discuss his case with him, he has the same response, begging them over and over again not to. When they try, his face seizes in tics and his body contorts uncontrollably. ‘Mr. Padilla may be suffering from some form of brain injury,’ writes a forensic psychiatrist who evaluated him for his lawyers. His story illuminates what has happened to many prisoners of America’s war on terror...

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The American Prospect
by Michael Tomasky

02/14/07

Put aside completely the merits of starting a war with Iran, which is easy to do since there are none. Does the White House really believe that it can help itself politically by doing this? Do the people who have alienated this country and decimated another actually think that they can get away with this — that the natural order would assert itself, and that the people would respond in the usual rallying way if the president went on prime-time television to announce the commencement of air strikes? The two most recent polls I found on the question suggest a resounding no...

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Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

02/13/07

In a letter sent to Senator John McCain, a coalition of nearly 20 grassroots, legal and public policy organizations today emphatically expressed their opposition to any attempts by the Arizona Senator and Presidential hopeful to further muzzle political speech. … The letter points to the irony of Senator McCain’s plans, as it notes that the very 527 organizations the Senator now seeks to silence are a direct consequence of the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by Congress in 2002...

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/07

There is something surreal in all this. The U.S. government is warning Iran against meddling in Iraq. But the U.S. government is meddling in Iraq! Is there a clearer case of a pot calling a kettle black? Neither country should be meddling, but there are important differences. Iraq is next door to Iran but far from the United States...

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Legal Times
by Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Huq

02/12/07

It has not been terrorism alone that has changed the nation, but our response to it. A telltale sign: At one time, the New York Daily News’ recent revelation that the president asserts open-ended power to read our mail would have shocked us. Today, it’s almost old hat. What once would have been dismissed as outlandish speculation is today the inevitable consequence of an executive branch that purports to stand above the checks and balances of the Constitution...

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Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

02/14/07

The Bush administration’s latest attempt to show that the Iranian government is providing weapons to Iraqi Shi’ites undermines its political line by in fact revealing that it has been unable to find any real evidence. This is a serious setback to the administration’s campaign to convince Congress to support its increased aggressiveness toward Tehran...

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AntiWar.Com
by Charles Pena

02/14/07

It is worth noting that none of the 9/11 hijackers were recruited from the American Muslim community but we know that the Hamburg Cell became the field marshals of the 9/11 attacks, many of those thought to be involved in the March 2005 Madrid attacks were European Muslim immigrants, and the London July 2005 subway bombings were British-born Muslims. The lesson for American Muslims — particularly those who are newly immigrated to the United States — is to not fall into the same trap as Muslims in Europe. … And the lesson for America is to not engage in policies and actions that radicalize Muslims...

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Free Market News Network
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

02/14/07

Don’t we ever learn? Have we already forgotten Iraq? The plan defies common sense. If it’s carried out, the Middle East, and possibly the world, will explode. Oil will soar to over $100 a barrel, and gasoline will be over $5 a gallon. Despite what some think, it won’t serve the interests of Israel. Besides — it’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional. And you have no moral authority to do it. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. So, Mr. President, don’t do it...

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The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

02/14/07

I stress that no proof whatsoever has been presented that Iran is in fact directly attempting to aid those in Iraq who attack U.S. troops. But even if Iran were acting in this manner, we are in no position to complain — not morally, not legally, and not strategically. We have no right to be in Iraq at all. If we wish to avoid further ’sacrifices’ by members of the American military, then leave. Our presence only worsens this disaster each moment that we remain. Because we commit additional war crimes with every day that passes, we would leave — if we recognized even minimal moral constraints on our actions, constraints that we apply to all other nations. But we won’t leave, and Congress will not end this occupation...

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Marion Chronicle Tribune

02/14/07

Breaking ranks, a small band of House Republicans declared their opposition to a troop buildup in Iraq on Wednesday, and President Bush appeared resigned to passage of a nonbinding measure disapproving of his decision. ‘I’m going to make it very clear to the members of Congress, starting now, that they need to fund our troops,’ the president said, looking past this week’s debate toward congressional action next month on his request for nearly $100 billion for the military...

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Rocky Mount Telegram

02/15/07

Challenged on the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, President Bush said Wednesday there is no doubt the Iranian government is providing armor-piercing weapons to kill American soldiers in Iraq. But he backed away from claims the top echelon of Iran’s government was responsible. Bush, at a news conference, also said he would fight any attempt by the Democratic-controlled Congress to cut off money for the war. ‘They need to fund our troops and the need to make sure we have the flexibility necessary to get the job done,’ he said...

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„Sie tragen blaue Uniformen, stehen am Schulhofrand und sollen das Gröbste verhindern. Berliner Arbeitslose wie Volker Anton, 49, passen als Ein-Euro-Jobber auf Grundschüler auf und werden so zu Wachmännern geschult. Den Umgang mit Kindern müssen sie aber erst lernen…“ Artikel von Khue Pham in Spiegel online vom 10. Februar 2007 http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/0,1518,464981,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Februar 2007

„Vorstandschef René Obermann plant einen Niedriglohn-Sektor im eigenen Haus. Damit stellt er den Konzern auf den Kopf. Das ist ein unkalkulierbares Risiko: Die Zerreißprobe für die Belegschaft könnte die Krise des Unternehmens verschärfen…“ Artikel von Lutz Frühbrodt und Thomas Heuzeroth in Die Welt vom 11.02.2007 http://www.welt.de/data/2007/02/11/1208070.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Februar 2007

„Die vergangenen zwölf Jahre, in denen der Kongress von den Republikanern dominiert wurde, waren keine gute Zeit für die Gewerkschaften in den USA. Sie verloren Millionen von Mitgliedern, ihr Einfluss in den Betrieben und der Politik des Landes ist stark gesunken, und es ist eine neue Generation von Arbeitern herangewachsen, von denen viele kaum noch wissen, was eine gewerkschaft­liche Interessen­vertretung ist…“ Artikel von William Hiscott in der Jungle World vom 14.02.2007 http://jungle-world.com/seiten/2007/07/9373.php


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Februar 2007

This is the story in our local paper. If anyone would be so kind as to write them a quick response with some facts or anyone else that suffers from exposure that would be much appreciated.

Thanks



Radiation fear at schools

nlnews@archant.co.uk
15 February 2007

YOUNGSTERS at some Muswell Hill primary schools could have their health put at risk by new technology that hasn't been proven as safe, it is claimed.

Controversy continues to surround the possible dangers of using wireless internet connections in primary school classrooms - yet one school has had the technology for years and another is to make the leap in the near future.

Tetherdown primary school, in Grand Avenue, was one of the first schools to install the technology - which allows laptop computers to link to the internet wirelessly by using radio waves to beam information back and forth.

And Coldfall primary school, Coldfall Avenue, is set to follow soon.

But there is still debate over how much electromagnetic radiation a young child can safely be exposed to.

Current advice from the Health Protection Agency says increases in sensitivity "may occur in infants and children", but there is "no firm evidence" of exposure to such radiation having adverse health effects.

But a number of schools in the UK have dismantled their "wi-fi" networks after pressure from parents, and Austria's Salzburg public health department is one of many official bodies to have issued warnings about its effects, having advised all schools and nurseries not to install wi-fi at all.

Alasdair Philips, scientific and technical director of lobby group Powerwatch, said:

"It strikes us as completely irresponsible to be putting these in schools - particularly primary schools - without

the monitoring equipment to see if this is a sensible thing to do.

"It just seems so unnecessary. I can't see the great advantage of filling the whole school with radiation.

"The radiation levels are obviously weaker than from a mobile phone mast, but on the other hand you are sitting right on top of them.

"We are looking at connecting it with chronic fatigue, attention deficit disorder, headaches and more."

Sarah Purdy, whose children attend Tetherdown, argues the system hasn't been proved safe and has no educational benefits.

She said: "They just do it because it's new technology, but no-one has thought of beaming microwaves at children all day long.

"Why are we risking our children's lives when cabled computer systems are quite possible?

"The precautionary principle should prevail - we should not expose children unless this system is tested and proved safe, which it has not been to date. We have no option and our children are being irradiated."

Tetherdown has the system installed in its classrooms, but its head teacher Evelyn Pittman said: "We have had a lot of communication with parents and every aspect of the issue has been looked at, and I don't think it needs to be something that is discussed outside of that."

Plans are afoot to install wi-fi in Coldfall Wood Primary, but Carol O'Brien, head teacher at St James C of E Primary, Woodside Avenue, said her school didn't have wi-fi.

Muswell Hill Primary and Our Lady of Muswell Hill Primary schools did not respond before the Journal went to press.

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The European parliament has approved a damning report on secret CIA flights, condemning member states which colluded in the operations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6360817.stm



Switzerland Approves Probe of CIA Flight

Switzerland on Wednesday followed Italy and Germany in raising the threat of criminal prosecution of CIA operatives involved in anti-terrorism operations in Europe.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6416237,00.html



CIA sounded-out Italy about 'renditions' in 2001

The CIA spoke with Italy's spy chief about kidnapping terrorism suspects in Italy and flying them abroad days after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to testimony being used to prosecute U.S. and Italian agents.

http://tinyurl.com/39frzx



EU nations censured over CIA 'torture' flights

THE European Parliament has approved a report admonishing 15 European countries and Turkey for helping the CIA transport terrorism suspects held in secret or for failing to co-operate in the Parliament's investigation of the practice.

http://tinyurl.com/2nu32c



European investigator says U.S. refuses to let him question Guantanamo prisoners

The Swiss senator leading a European investigation into reports that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe and illegally transferred terror suspects complained Friday that the United States has refused to let him question prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

http://tinyurl.com/2jtylx


From Information Clearing House

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EU Report Says Some Colluded With CIA

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial report accusing Britain, Germany, Italy and other European nations of turning a blind eye to CIA flights transporting terrorism suspects to secret prisons in an apparent breach of EU human rights standards.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021407S.shtml



CIA Sounded Out Italy About "Renditions" in 2001

The CIA spoke with Italy's spy chief about kidnapping terrorism suspects in Italy and flying them abroad days after the September 11 attacks, according to testimony being used to prosecute US and Italian agents.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021507D.shtml

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Geheime CIA-Gefängnisse: Schweizer Journalisten droht Strafe wegen unliebsamer Berichterstattung

Drei Journalisten der Schweizer Zeitung "SonntagsBlick" droht nach Angaben des Deutschen Journalisten-Verbandes wegen "Verletzung militärischer Geheimnisse" bis zu fünf Jahre Haft. Die SonntagsBlick-Autoren Sandro Brotz und Beat Jost hatten den Angaben zufolge Anfang 2006 in einem Artikel die Inhalte eines vom Schweizer Nachrichtendienst abgefangenen Faxes veröffentlicht. Aus dem Fax seien Indizien für die Existenz geheimer Gefängnisse des US-Geheimdienstes CIA in Osteuropa hervorgegangen. Anfang Februar habe das Schweizer Militärgericht Anklage gegen Brotz, Jost und den ehemaligen Chefredakteur des SonntagsBlicks Christoph Grenacher erhoben worden. Der Journalisten-Verband fordert das Gericht auf, die Anklage fallen zu lassen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15359

Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has accused John Howard of lacking courage as the Labor leader called for a debate on Iraq foreign policy.

http://snipurl.com/1a6d2



Secret new US spy base to get green light

AUSTRALIA'S close military alliance with the United States is to be further entrenched with the building of a high-tech communications base in Western Australia.

http://tinyurl.com/2r4hca


From Information Clearing House



Mourning A Secret Australia

By John Pilger

John Pilger describes another 'day of mourning' for the first inhabitants of his homeland, Australia, which for many whites remains a secret country behind the neo-conservative bluster of John Howard's government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17080.htm



Our brave John Howard

Australia's brave Prime Minister John Howard had the temerity to stand up in the Australian Parliament this week and call the Leader of the Opposition a coward on national television, because Kevin Rudd opposes the Iraq war and wants to bring Australian troops home.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/535/58/



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

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday urged the United States to foster a resolution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program by showing the same "flexibility" that helped produce North Korea's agreement to halt its atomic programs, Russian news agencies reported.

http://snipurl.com/1a6cs


From Information Clearing House

America’s top general appeared to contradict claims made by the White House and other US military commanders yesterday that Iran was arming Shia militants in Iraq.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1381540.ece


From Information Clearing House

U.S. President George Bush said Wednesday he is determined to do something about Iranian arms going to insurgents in Iraq.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/30623.html


From Information Clearing House

The president has sent Congress a proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2008 that would spend $967 billion on current military activities and past wars. That figure represents 44% of the federal funds budget and is $100 billion higher than the amount of money allocated for this year.

http://www.fcnl.org/budget/index.htm


From Information Clearing House

A resolution putting the House on record against Bush's expansion of troop strength was expected to be approved by week's end. It was nonbinding, but nevertheless unmistakable in its message. "No more blank checks for President Bush on Iraq,'' Pelosi declared.

http://snipurl.com/1a6c5


From Information Clearing House



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

It is possible but not likely that Muqtada would go to Iran. He and his family have endlessly made fun of the al-Hakim clerical leaders for fleeing to Iran to escape persecution by Saddam Hussein, when the al-Sadrs insisted on staying in Iraq.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/on-mystery-of-muqtada-al-sadrs.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

While the world focuses on Baghdad's security, a series of bombings here may be the long-feared start of a second deadly war in Iraq — this one between Kurds and Arabs, both with claims on a territory atop one of the world's largest oil reserves.

http://snipurl.com/1a6c2


From Information Clearing House

By Peter Kinderman

Why hasn't there been more of an outcry from professional psychologists about the practice of torture in the 'war on terror'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17060.htm



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

By Glenn Kessler

The Swiss ambassador to Iran informed U.S. officials in 2003 that an Iranian proposal for comprehensive talks with the United States had been reviewed and approved by Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; then-President Mohammad Khatami; and then-Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, according to a copy of the cover letter to the Iranian document.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17064.htm

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US spurned Iranian diplomatic initiative in May 2003
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5767/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

War with Iran?

We hear from four former CIA officials.

By Ken Silverstein

Yes, I think Americans should be prepared to wake up one morning and find themselves at war with Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17063.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ken+Silverstein

By Jim Lobe

Less than one in four Arabs believe Iran should be pressured to halt its nuclear programme, while 61 percent, including majorities in all six countries, said Tehran had the right to pursue it even if, as most believe, the programme is designed to develop nuclear weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17057.htm



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

Web of Deceit

Made for European television this film was never broadcast in North America.

Video - A Barry Lando and Michel Despratx documentary

The horrifying truth is the extent to which we in the west have been complicit.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17053.htm

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The Trial of Saddam Hussein We Never Saw
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/22/2037/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=trial+Saddam+Hussein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Lando

Video

The conservative movement stands intellectually and morally bankrupt while Democrats talk about a "new direction" without convincing us they know the difference between a weather vane and a compass. The right story will set our course for a generation to come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17067.htm



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

Video

- Warning - This video should only be viewed by mature audience

"Do it in the name of God"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17069.htm

By Dennis Kucinich

"The American people are waiting for us to provide real leadership to show the way out of Iraq. My 12-point plan responds to that demand. This plan, - creates a peace process which will enable our troops to come home and stabilize Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17066.htm



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

By Les Roberts

The US and Britain have triggered an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17059.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5759/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40331/story.htm


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news

February 14, 2007
By Noel Runyan

View the document (pdf) http://demos.org/pubs/improving_access.pdf

Improving Voter Access is a new report by technology expert Noel Runyan, published by Demos and Voter Action, that finds that state voting systems are widely noncompliant with federal ADA and HAVA access requirements for voters with disabilities.

Twenty percent of U.S. adults with disabilities -- more than 8 million eligible voters -- say they have been unable to vote in presidential or congressional elections due to barriers at or getting to the polls The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires that all polling places in elections for federal office anywhere in the United States have at least one voting system that shall be accessible for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation (including privacy and independence) as for other voters.

But most currently deployed voting systems, including direct-recording electronic (DRE) systems, do not meet current HAVA and ADA disability accommodation requirements, and they are far from compliance with the new Voluntary Voting System Guidelines.They are not accessible for significant numbers of individuals with disabilities for a variety of reasons that can and should be directly addressed.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org



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

http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_12/article3.html


Informant: Kev Hall

The federal "anti-hate" bill, HR 254, is stealth legislation at its most devious. Its language deceives all but the most suspicious and informed. Maybe this helps explain why evangelical watchdog organizations do little or nothing to sound the alarm, even though the hate bill has been in the House of Representatives for six weeks!...

http://www.rense.com/general75/whoswarn.htm


Informant: shane_digital

- Dossier Eglise et antennes relais / File Church and relay antennas
http://www.next-up.org/pages/EglisesAntennesRelais.php#1

- L'EST REPUBLICAIN (14/02/2007) : le " micro-ondes " de Notre-Dame.
http://www.next-up.org/pages/EglisesAntennesRelais.php#1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070215/pl_nm/congress_labor_veto_dc_1


Informant: bigraccoon



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

http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/wildlife/wolf_070214.html



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Consumer research consistently indicates that US consumers, like others, would prefer NOT to buy or consume genetically modified food (variously called GM, GMO, GE or biotech food by official sources and "FrankenFood" by many health advocates).

The US FDA believes that consumers would "make the wrong choice" (that is, NOT buy genetically modified foods in favor of natural ones) if they had the information necessary to make that decision. Therefore, the FDA policy is to deny consumers access to accurate information about genetically modified foods since labeling such foods accurately, they say, would be "false and misleading". The FDA maintains that genetically modified foods are safe although the US FDA does not carry out or review any safety data on genetically modified foods. The US FDA does not require safety testing, conducts no safety testing, does not examine documentation of any safety testing for these foods. Instead, it relies solely upon the assertion of the patent owner (the company that wants to market the GM food) that the product is safe for human or animal consumption and poses no threat to the environment.

If GM food has the same sensory characteristics as natural food, the FDA will grant a "Certificate of Equivalency" which has no safety assurance associated with it whatsoever. If GM food is "substantially different" from natural food, that difference will be labeled, but the fact that the difference arises from genetic modification is not labeled.

The US FDA regulates advertising/labeling claims and can removes products and devices it believes are unsafe or dangerous from the market and does so regularly. In the matter of genetically modified foods, the FDA policy is different since it takes no responsibility for food safety assurance in these products. It also pursues a policy which shifts questions of safety (and hence liability) for marketing unsafe foods to the the courts although in other areas, it makes efforts to determine safety of food, drugs and devices before they are put on the market, and thereafter, as well. This judicial determination is rendered, in my opinion, meaningless if there is no way of tracking whether GM foods have been consumed because of absent food labeling.

The US Delegate to the recent Working Group on Genetically Modified Foods (Feb. 6-7, 2007, Oslo) stated that the FDA could not compel companies to "say things on their labels that they did not want to say" because of "First Amendment Issues" despite the fact that the FDA regularly compels companies to add or remove language which the FDA feels is appropriate.


Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0214-29.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0214-28.htm



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