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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21268910-5005961,00.html


Informant: binstock

Nach einjähriger Arbeit verabschiedete das Europaparlament letzte Woche den Abschlussbericht über der Aktivitäten der CIA in Europa. In dem heftig diskutierten Dokument wird festgestellt, dass die CIA mindestens 1245 Flüge in Europa durchgeführt habe und dass es in bis zu 21 Fällen zu Verschleppungen gekommen sei. Der Bericht wirft den Mitgliedsstaaten vor, die Aktivitäten geduldet zu haben und mit dem Untersuchungsausschuss des Europaparlaments nicht kooperieren zu wollen. Noch vor der endgültigen Abstimmung im Parlament führte der Bericht offenbar dazu, dass in Deutschland, Italien, Spanien und Portugal gerichtliche Ermittlungen eingeleitet wurden. Deutsche und italienische Behörden forderten sogar die Festnahme der an den Überstellungen beteiligten CIA-Agenten. http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15411

Timothy Garton Ash writes: "Does this lack of any clear ideological alternative mean that capitalism is secure for years to come? Far from it. With the unprecedented triumph of globalized capitalism over the last two decades come new threats to its own future. They are not precisely the famous 'contradictions' that Marx identified, but they may be even bigger. For a start, the history of capitalism over the last hundred years hardly supports the view that it is an automatically self-correcting system. As George Soros (who should know) points out, global markets are now more than ever constantly out of equilibrium - and teetering on the edge of a larger disequilibrium. Again and again, it has needed the visible hands of political, fiscal and legal correction to complement the invisible hand of the market. The bigger it gets, the harder it can fall."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207H.shtml



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Steve Fraser writes: "All media eyes have turned toward the presidential election of 2008. Like the headlights of an onrushing train, it mesmerizes. Every news bulletin about the latest bloodbath in Iraq, each ominous forewarning of a face-off with Iran, the endless dirge of abandonment and despair issuing from New Orleans, the daily register of those cut loose from any semblance of a social safety net, public or private, and each new official confirmation that the Earth is reaching a boiling point compels us to anticipate the 2008 election with fear and trembling, and with the greatest expectations. Something momentous might happen, then. Haven't we already seen the first signs of that in the extraordinary electoral outcome of November 2006?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207E.shtml



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William Fisher writes: "We all know why our public servants are held in such low esteem: earmarks, bribery, corruption, obfuscation, et cetera. But there is another practice just as cynical, just as toxic, and just as widespread. It's called 'pandering'. And it's not only practiced, but widely accepted as 'professional politics' by office-seekers and their campaign staffs, and apparently by voters."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207A.shtml



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AND MORE FROM CRS

The statutes that enable the government to gain legal access to telephone records, whether for law enforcement or intelligence purposes, are examined in a newly updated report from the Congressional Research Service.

The report also discusses prohibitions on access to, or disclosure of, such records, along with exceptions to the prohibitions.

See "Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities," updated January 25, 2007:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33424.pdf


From Secrecy News -- 02/22/07

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A New Bush Power-Grab

by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com

The White House is seizing undue control over business regulation, and Congress must push back.

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by David Corn, TomPaine.com

The ugly divide between progressives and moderates over Iraq is scaring party insiders.

http://ga3.org/ct/8p20pgF10Xle/

The International Federation of Journalists today condemned as "outrageous and inexcusable" the action of American soldiers who carried out an armed raid on the Baghdad offices of the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists. United States soldiers caused destruction and havoc last night when they broke into the offices of the Syndicate, which is a member of the IFJ's global union network. They destroyed furniture, ransacked the offices, arrested state-employed security guards, and confiscated 10 computers and 15 small electricity generators destined for the families of killed journalists.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2918.shtml

By Sarah Harker

DEFLATED residents have lost an ongoing battle to prevent the erection of a controversial mobile phone mast in Cinnamon Brow.

Despite councillors fighting on their behalf to block the mast, a Government inspector has upheld an appeal from Vodafone, which means the mast can go ahead.

The application, to erect a 12 metre high mast with antennas on the top and housing for radio equipment on a grass verge on Blackbrook Avenue was refused in April last year by members of the council's development control committee.

They voted against the advice of council officers who recommended that the application be approved.

But Vodafone appealed against the decision and following a visit by a Government inspector, it was upheld.

The application was the fourth to be made and the decision is all the more devastating, as it became the mission of the late Albert Clemow, borough and parish councillor for the area, to see it defeated.

He fought against the application on behalf of residents, arguing that the erection of a previous mast had ruled out the need for another.

Nevertheless, the inspector upheld the appeal stating that the structure would be simple and uncluttered' and would not dominate the street scene and therefore the effect on the character and appearance of the area would not be serious''.

Liberal Democrat borough councillor for the area Colin Oliver said: "This is sad news. The residents are so disappointed.

"Ironically, the inspector made a good case for the mast to be refused in her report but allowed it anyway. Albert and myself really fought against this especially when an earlier mast was erected we were told that it would prevent the need for any others."

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By Pat Smith

Protesters at the site

VILLAGERS in Bishampton are angry over a plan to erect a mobile phone mast.

An open meeting in the village hall was planned for last night (Wednesday) to fight the application for Nightingale Farm, which villagers fear could put their health at risk.

Leading the protest is Tony Waghorn, who delivered information packs downloaded from the internet to every villager in Bishampton.

Mr Waghorn, who lives near the farm in Main Street, said: "Everybody is incensed. These systems are, to say the least, contentious and controversial.

"There has been no consultation between T-Mobile and villagers. Scientific research has shown that these masts should be 500 metres from homes and a lot of households come within that - it's appalling."

His neighbour, Jenny Perkins, said: "I am worried. My daughter Abigail has cystic fibrosis, which is a life limiting disease. She's only five and I think the mast could have an affect on her condition."

Farmer William Robertson, of Nightingale Farm, said he had been assured that there was absolutely no risk to health.

"There is no way I would put at risk my own family and animals if I thought there was a danger," he said.

"The mast has to go somewhere in the village because mobile phone users can't get a signal here."

John Shaughnessy, for T-Mobile, said: "We take advice of the World Health Organisation. Its latest fact sheet, published in May 2006, said that the low exposure levels and research results concluded that there was no scientific evidence that the weak radio frequency levels from base stations and wireless networks, caused adverse health effects."

Omega this is not true. See under:
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http://www.buergerwelle.de/science.html

Omega read also "Competing interests, conflicts of interest: Who's funding WHO?"under http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3347390/

He said the company did not need permission to erect the mast, to be attached to a barn, because it was under 15metres. He added: "We always choose the best place for reception and from a visual impact point of view. We can access highway land for nothing, or we can choose private land where we will pay the owner from a few thousand pounds a year upwards, depending on the installation."

At the meeting which was to take place last night, Mr Waghorn was calling for concerned residents to form a protest group to try to stop the plans.

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February 22, 2007

Nonviolent activists across the United States have entered offices of Senate and Congressional representatives to "assemble peaceably," seeking assurance that the elected officials will vote against President Bush's proposed $93 billion dollar supplemental spending bill that would fund ongoing war in Iraq.

Sign up to participate: http://vcnv.org/signup For a list of local campaigns that are currently underway see: http://vcnv.org/campaign-descriptions

In Fairbanks, Alaska, on February 20, 2007, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver "emphatic requests" to end the war and then began reading the names of Iraqis and Americans who were killed in Iraq. They separated the names of Americans by age. When ordered to leave, they were only half way through the commemoration of the twenty one year old U.S. troops who died in Iraq. Seth Warncke was issued a citation, while Rob Mulford and Don Muller were taken to the Fairbanks Correctional Unit where they spent the night in jail and were released after 23 hours in custody. They were charged with criminal trespass and ordered to appear in court on April 4, 2007.

For more information: Don Muller donmuller @msn.com 907-747-8808 Rob Mulford mulfordrob @gmail.com 907-457-5578

On Feb 21, in Toledo, OH seventeen Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition Occupation Project participants entered Congresswoman Kaptur's office. Nine people refused to leave when the office closed. The group had visited Congresswoman Kaptur's office last week and urged her to sign a pledge to vote against further war funding, with the understanding that they would assemble peaceably in her office the following week. Two of Congresswoman Kaptur's staff persons left the office to change clothes and then returned to remain with the activists. The building closed at 11:00 p.m., but several of the activists plan continued commemorating U.S. service members and Iraqis who have died in Iraq, respectfully reciting the names. Four people were arrested: Jeff Klein, Steven Miller, Larry Coleman, and Trudy Bond.

For more information: Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition Mary Anthony 419-367-4586 Mike Ferner 419-729-7273

A similar action is underway as of the evening of February 21, in Portland, ME, where seventeen people entered the office of Congressman Tom Allen. Sixteen people have remained in the office, and more are planning to arrive before the office closes at 11:00 p.m. They represent Peace Action Maine, Veterans for Peace and Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. No arrests have been made at this time. The group is also continuing their commemoration of those Iraqis and members of the military who have lost their lives and are asking for a commitment from Tim Allen to vote against any additional war funding.

For more information: danny @peaceactionme.org

In St. Louis, MO, activists have occupied the offices of Senator Claire McCaskill, and Congressman Russ Carnahan. There have been repeated arrests over the past few weeks and plans for ongoing occupations are continuing.

For more information: occupation @ctsastl.org - http://www.occupationstl.net

or call Betsy at Vets for Peace 314-725-6005 breznicek@veteransforpeace.net

In Denver, CO, on February 21st, four Occupation Project participants commemorated the dead and presented photos of Americans who have died in Iraq to the staff in Senator Ken Salazar's office.

For more information: Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center http://www.rmpjc.org/
303-444-6981

In Portland, OR, 2 people were arrested at about 3:30 PST in Senator Gordon Smith's office. They were told that no one could speak to them and they could come back another day. They decided to stay.

For more information: Contact Troy Horton
Whitefeather Catholic Worker,
troyhorton @centurytel.net
website: http://www.defundthewar.com

In Madison, WI, a group visited and occupied the office of Senator Herbert Kohl. Office occupations began on February 7 and will continue weekly throughout the campaign. Activists are reading the names of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed in the war. For more information, contact: Joy First, jsfirst @tds.net

In Seattle, WA, on February 21st, activists planned to maintain a presence in Senator Maria Cantwell's office from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., reading the names of the dead and transcripts from the Citizens Tribunal, along with singing and chanting remembrance of those who've been killed in Iraq.

For more information: Erin Alexander, 206-856-4059 Erin_Alexander2003 @yahoo.com

In Charlottesville, NC, an occupation took place at Congressman Virgil Goode's office. At 3:45 p.m., activists entered the office and three were intending to remain beyond the closing office hours. This is the first of weekly Wednesday actions planned for the remainder of the campaign.

Contact Jennifer Connor 434-465-1111

In Chicago, IL, on February 21st, at an ecumenical prayer service hosted by the American Friends Service Committee, the Eighth Day Center for Justice, and numerous other Chicago faith based peace groups, people gathered to pray for forgiveness, as a nation, for the times we had not spoken out against the war. Wanting to assure that the Senators of Illinois understood their remorse and knew that the participants decried the war and ongoing funding of the war, twenty-five participants walked to the offices of Senators Durbin and Obama to deliver a letter. Senator Obama's office staff told the assembled group that they wanted to receive their letter, but, unfortunately, the Federal Building was locked and the participants in the prayer service were not allowed to enter. When a high school student who had joined the prayer service placed a cell phone call to Senator Durbin's office, he was disappointed that the staff member hung up the phone after a very brief exchange. Eventually, three of Senator Durbin's staff members emerged from the Federal Building to receive the letter.

For more information: American Friends Service Committee 312-427-2533 Eighth Day Center for Justice 312-641-5151

Yesterday, February 20th, in Chicago, IL four women were arrested as they knelt in the lobby of the Federal Building, chanting a litany in remembrance of Iraqis and Americans who have been killed in Iraq. Prior to their action, ten women met with Senator Durbin's chief of staff for the district and asked the Senator to exercise more leadership by rebutting claims that failure to approve the supplemental spending constitutes failure to support the U.S. troops. A spirited group of women gathered outside the building in support of the women who were arrested.

For more information: Dickelle Fonda, 847 491-9748 (office) -
847-682-5038 (cell)

In Los Angeles, CA, on February 22nd, activists plan to risk arrest in the office of Representative Henry Waxman, following repeated visits.

For more information, contact Kyle or Kamgi Finch, 323-301-2823
email: be-love @earthlink.net

More information will very likely be available tomorrow, and we will readily update you as we learn more about these promising campaigns.


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"Your brave military is being used and depleted. Your national defense is being squandered. Your countrymen and women are considered expendable, and again it's not a priority to get them what they reasonably need. Your great country is unable to solve this small element of the war situation, even given plenty of money and four grueling years!" writes Stephany Kern.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207P.shtml

Resolved, that Richard B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that these articles of impeachment be submitted to the American people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207N.shtml



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Twenty-five members of Congress caved to partisan pressure and voted in favor of troop escalation in Iraq, despite having publicly criticized President Bush's strategy in the weeks prior to the vote.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207L.shtml



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"In another low moment for American justice, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that detainees held at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to be heard in court. The ruling relied on a shameful law that President Bush stampeded through Congress last fall that gives dangerously short shrift to the Constitution. The right of prisoners to challenge their confinement - habeas corpus - is enshrined in the Constitution and is central to American liberty. Congress and the Supreme Court should act quickly and forcefully to undo the grievous damage that last fall's law, and this week's ruling, have done to this basic freedom." writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207K.shtml



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John Cory writes: "Every Congressional office should be flooded with phone calls and email demanding not only an investigation, but also immediate funding and corrective action on the treatment of our veterans. Viewers should require every media outlet that has dedicated untold hours and resources to the Anna Nicole Smith story to cover the failure of this administration to prioritize the healing and medical support of our troops and the wounded and their families."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022207J.shtml

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The impeachment movement is uniting and expanding. Democrats.com is joining with many other organizations to launch Impeach07, a coordinated series of nationwide actions aimed at impeaching Bush and Cheney through widespread public protest, creative dissent, media activism, education, and lobbying: http://www.impeach07.org

Bush and Cheney have misled this nation into an aggressive war, spied in open violation of the law, and sanctioned the use of torture - among numerous other offenses. Newsweek reported in October that a majority of Americans favor impeachment, and in January that 58% said they wished the Bush administration were over. "Only a great popular upheaval," historian Howard Zinn said recently, "can push both Republicans and Democrats into compliance with the national will."

We need to end the Iraq War and prevent an Iran War, and impeachment is the way we will do it.

On March 17, the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war (and the 40th anniversary of the famous 1967 March on the Pentagon), Impeach07 will mobilize for a March on the Pentagon to demand peace and impeachment: http://www.marchonpentagon.org

On March 18-20, Impeach07 will organize local events for peace and impeachment around the country: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event

Impeach07 is also planning:

A "Make Hip Hop, Not War" bus tour promoting peace and impeachment on March 19 - April 21: http://www.hiphopcaucus.org

A boycott of major corporations that are profiting from the Bush administration's policies, making a killing off of killing, on April 15- 22: http://www.wearenotbuyingit.org

And a nationwide day of protest: Impeachment Day, April 28, 2007: http://www.a28.org

Initial participating organizations represent hundreds of thousands of antiwar, military family, peace, youth and women activists and lawyers. They include After Downing Street, Backbone Campaign, Center for Constitutional Rights, Citizens Impeachment Commission, CODE PINK Women for Peace, Constitution Summer, Consumers for Peace, Democrats.com, Democracy Rising, Gold Star Families for Peace, Green Party of the United States, Hip Hop Caucus, Impeach the President, ImpeachBush.org, Military Free Zone, National Lawyers Guild, Patriotic Response to Renegade Government, Progressive Democrats of America, Independent Progressive Politics Network, Velvet Revolution, and World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime.

http://www.impeach07.org


NM Leads State Race to Send Impeachment Resolution to Congress

House rules allow impeachment to begin with a Resolution from one state legislature. Three states have begun the process - NM, WA, and VT - and NM has an early lead...

1. New Mexico's resolution (SJR 5) cleared its first hurdle last Friday when it passed the Rules Committee on a unanimous 5-0 vote. Citizens turned out in force and gave powerful emotional appeals for impeachment. Incredibly, not a single Republican showed up to defend Bush! (Is that a signal that Republicans want to quietly help Democrats impeach Bush before the 2008 election to avoid a repeat of the 2006 GOP wipeout?) The NM bill must clear two more committees before it goes to the full Senate. Video and details here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/nm http://impeachbush.tv/impeach/state_nm.html

2. In Washington State, Senator Eric Oemig's Resolution (SJM 8016) will have its first hearing on March 1. Activists led by "state-at-home mom" Linda Boyd will hold a rally for impeachment and investigations in Olympia on the Capitol steps in at 1:00 p.m. Video and details here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/wa http://impeachbush.tv/impeach/state_wa.html

3. In Vermont, Rep. Daryl Pillsbury's resolution (JRH-15) has 22 co-sponsors, with 75 needed for passage. State legislators are getting heavy anti-impeachment pressure from Vermont's Members of Congress, so a strong grassroots movement is urgent. Cindy Sheehan and John Nichols will barnstorm VT for impeachment from March 2-4. Audio and details here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/vt http://impeachbush.tv/impeach/state_vt.html

The main argument against state (and local) resolutions has been that states (and towns) should not get involved in national policy. Of course states have always been involved - state legislatures actually appointed U.S. Senators until 1913, and have always weighed in on national issues. Right now 20 legislatures are considering resolutions against Bush's escalation in Iraq. It's time for all state legislatures to call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney!


Scooter Libby Lied to Cover Up Cheney's Crimes - Impeach Cheney First!

"There is a cloud over the Vice President," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told the jury in the Scooter Libby trial. Libby lied to Fitzgerald in 2003 to cover up Cheney's direct role in outing covert CIA operative Valerie Plame by having his staff leak her identity to reporters.

And why did Cheney "out" Plame at great damage to the CIA's war on terror? Because her husband Joe Wilson had exposed Bush's State of the Union Big Lie about Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger - a lie that was thoroughly debunked by the CIA but included in the SOTU at the insistence of Dick Cheney's neocon agent on the National Security Council.

Based on the evidence revealed at the Libby trial, Emptywheel has written a detailed indictment of Cheney for his direct role in outing Valerie Plame: http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/02/indicting_dick_.html

We certainly hope Fitzgerald will prosecute Cheney: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107A.shtml

But even if he doesn't, Emptywheel provides more than enough evidence for Congress to begin Cheney's impeachment. Sign our petition to Impeach Cheney First: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/73


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Coburger Jobcenter fordert Vollmacht zum Schnüffeln

„Ein Formular aus dem oberfränkischen Landkreis Coburg schränkt die Rechte von Arbeitslosengeld II - Beziehern (ALG II) drastisch ein. Dabei handelt es sich um ein krasses Beispiel von Behördenwillkür und Rechtslosstellung von Langzeitarbeitslosen durch eine Alg II -Behörde. Diese Praxis ist repräsentativ für eine neue Qualität des Umgangs mit Alg II-Bezieher/-innen und die Ausbreitung „rechtsarmer” Räume in den Sozialbehörden…“ Pressemitteilung des Sozial- und Erwerbslosenvereins Tacheles vom 22.2.07 http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2007/coburger_erklaerung.aspx

Siehe dazu auch:

Stellungnahme zum Vordruck des Jobcenter Coburg Land, der von allen ALG II-Beziehern bei der Antragstellung zu unterzeichnen ist

„Wir haben schwerwiegende rechtliche Bedenken gegen die „Coburger ERKLÄRUNG”. Dieser von allen Antragstellern zu unterzeichnende Vordruck beschneidet die durch das SGB II ohnehin stark eingeschränkten Rechte von ALG II-Antragstellern in unzulässiger Weise. Diese kumulative Aufzählung von angeblichen, d.h. tatsächlich nicht vorhandenen und phantasievoll konstruierten bzw. ausgeweiteten Pflichten lässt den Eindruck entstehen, dass betroffene und hilfebedürftige ALG II-Antragsteller bereits bei der Antragstellung eingeschüchtert und zum Verzicht auf elementare Rechte gedrängt werden sollen. Die teilweise offenkundigen Rechtsverstöße legen den Verdacht nahe, das Jobcenter Coburg Land würde mit dem Vordruck vorsätzlich Falschinformationen verbreiten, um Rechte Erwerbsloser zu entziehen und damit Leistungsansprüche zu reduzieren…“ Stellungnahme von Gregor Kochan (Sozialrechtler, Greifswald) und Harald Thomé (Tacheles – Online- Redaktion, Wuppertal) vom 22.2.07 bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2007/coburger_erklaerung_stellungnahme.aspx


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Februar 2007

„Nach der Ablehnung seines Wahleinspruchs durch den Deutschen Bundestag im Dezember klagt der Frankfurter Physiker und Software-Spezialist Ulrich Wiesner jetzt beim Verfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe. In dem Verfahren geht es um die Verwendung von Wahlcomputern bei der Bundestagswahl im September
2005. An den Geräten der niederländischen Firma Nedap hatten in 1831 von insgesamt rund 80.000 Stimmbezirken etwa zwei Millionen Wähler ihre Stimme abgeben müssen….“ Meldung vom 21.02.2007 bei heise online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85616


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Februar 2007



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Interview von Friederike Rüll in Freitag vom 23.2.07 mit Bettina Winsemann und Carsten Giesenfeld von der Organisation "Stop 1984" über den Staatsbürger, der das Verfügungsrecht über seine eigenen Daten verliert. http://www.freitag.de/2007/08/07080401.php


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Februar 2007

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Protest gegen siebentägige Vorratsspeicherung von T-Online, Congster und 1&1

„Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung kritisiert in einem Offenen Brief an den Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten Peter Schaar, dass dieser die siebentägige Vorratsspeicherung von Nutzungsdaten durch Internet-Zugangsanbieter genehmigt hat. Der Arbeitskreis warnt, mithilfe der gespeicherten Daten könne das Nutzungsverhalten sämtlicher Internetnutzer minuziös nachvollzogen werden…“ Pressemitteilung vom 11.03.2007: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=55


Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Zwangsidentifikation im Internet, Telekommunikationsüberwachung und sonstige verdeckte Ermittlungsmaßnahmen

„…Die Konferenz der Datenschutzbeauftragten des Bundes und der Länder betont erneut, dass die Vorratsdatenspeicherung deutschem Verfassungsrecht widersprechen würde. (…) Die geplante Ausweitung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung geht weit über die europarechtliche Umsetzungsverpflichtung hinaus und wäre ein zusätzlicher unverhältnismäßiger Eingriff in die Kommunikationsfreiheit der Bürgerinnen und Bürger…“ Entschließung der 73. Konferenz der Datenschutzbeauftragten des Bundes und der Länder vom 08. bis 09. März 2007 in Erfurt http://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/LPSA/index.php?id=23104


Aus: LabourNet, 12. März 2007

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EG-Kommission fürchtet um Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung

„Die EG-Kommission hat den Zugang zu Dokumenten abgelehnt, die die Gültigkeit der Richtlinie zur Vorratsspeicherung von Telekommunikationsdaten betreffen. Bürgerrechtler werten die Entscheidung als Ausdruck einer zunehmenden Nervosität der Brüsseler Behörde in Bezug auf eine laufende Klage gegen die Richtlinie…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom Sonntag, den 25.03.2007: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?/content/view/94/55/


Bundesregierung verteidigt Telekommunikationsüberwachung in Karlsruhe

„Die gesetzliche Identifizierungspflicht für Telefon- und Handynutzer steht auf dem Prüfstand der Bundesverfassungsrichter. In der Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das Telekommunikationsgesetz liegen nun die Stellungnahmen der Bundesregierung und der Datenschutzbeauftragten vor. Die Datenschutzbeauftragten bezeichnen die leichte Identifizierbarkeit aller Telekommunikationsnutzer als verfassungswidrig. Die Bundesregierung verteidigt die Regelungen demgegenüber als unverzichtbares Ermittlungsinstrument und will ab Herbst auch Verbindungsdaten speichern lassen…“ Pressemitteilung der Initiative daten-speicherung.de vom 23.03.2007 mit weiteren Informationen: http://www.daten-speicherung.de/?p=152


Aus: LabourNet, 26. März 2007



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

22. Februar 2007

Zur aktuellen Klimaschutzdebatte erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Klimaschutz ist zu einer Überlebensfrage für die Menschheit geworden. Wir haben keine Zeit mehr für lange Debatten, drastische Maßnahmen sind erforderlich. Politiker brauchen für diese Einsicht offensichtlich etwas länger, zumal wenn sie sich als Interessenvertreter der deutschen Autoindustrie verstehen. Wir müssen aufhören, darüber zu diskutieren, ob wir in der Verkehrspolitik umsteuern müssen. Nicht Worte, Taten sind gefragt. Wir brauchen ein ganzes Bündel von Maßnahmen. Dazu gehören die

* Senkung des Kraftstoffverbrauchs,

* Reduzierung des CO2-Ausstoßes,

* Verlagerung des Güterverkehrs von der Straße auf die Schiene,

* Besteuerung von Kerosin,

* Drastische Reduzierung von die Bodenversiegelungen,

* Aufforstung und Schutz der Biodiversität.

Der Umbau der KFZ- Steuer ist dabei ein wichtiger Schritt, er allein reicht aber nicht aus. Die Linkspartei.PDS unterstützt die Vorschläge von Minister Tiefensee, kommt er damit doch seit langem auf dem Tisch liegenden Forderungen unserer Partei sehr nahe. Ein Tempolimit auf allen Autobahnen ist ebenso notwendig, wie die Schaffung von Anreizen, auf kleinere schadstoffarme PKW umzusteigen. Wer entgegen aller klimapolitischen Vernunft dennoch große Autos mit hohem Kraftstoffverbrauch und hohen Schadstoffemissionen fahren will, muss dafür kräftig zur Kasse gebeten werden. Für alle diejenigen, die auf das Auto angewiesen sind, sich aber auf Grund ihrer sozialen Situation kein neues umweltfreundliches leisten können, sind nicht nur Übergangsfristen, sondern vor allem attraktive und kostengünstige Alternativen im Öffentlichen Personenverkehr nötig. Die in den vergangenen Tagen laut gewordenen Widerstände der Länderfinanzminister sind mir schon deshalb unverständlich, weil es nicht um die Reduzierung sondern den Umbau der Kfz-Steuer gehen soll. Die Kosten für den Schutz vor Klimakatastrophen werden ungleich höher sein, wenn wir jetzt nicht endlich handeln.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35175

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/European_Ministers_Uphold_Hungary_Right_To_Ban_GMO_Crop_999.html


Informant: binstock

STEVEN REINBERG

c. 2007 HealthDay News
Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate

Inhaling fine-particle air pollution, at least during warm weather, may increase people's risk for stroke, Finnish researchers report. Earlier research had linked air pollution with heart attack, but this is the first study to look at ultra-fine-particle air pollution and stroke.

"We evaluated the effects of these and other particle sizes on stroke to help determine the most harmful particle sources in the air," study author Jaana Kettunen, a researcher for the National Public Health Institute in Kuopio, said in a prepared statement. The report is published in the March issue of Stroke.

Fine-particle pollution is made up of tiny particles of dust and soot, less than 2.5 microns, about 1/30th the width of a human hair. They mostly come from car exhaust, power plant emissions and burning of fossil fuels. Ultra-fine particles are less than 0.1 microns and are usually found in car exhaust.

In the study, Kettunen's team looked at air pollution data, as well as data on people aged 65 and older who died from stroke in Helsinki from
1998 to 2004. They analyzed both warm and cold months.

"We found that, during the warm season, there was a positive association between stroke mortality among the elderly and current-day level of fine particles," she said in a statement. "There was a 6.9 percent increase in stroke death for every 6 micrograms per cubic meter of air increase in fine particles. In addition, there was (a) 7.4 percent increase in stroke mortality for every 6 micrograms per cubic meter of air increase of previous-day, fine-particle levels."

This seemed to be a warm-weather phenomenon, however: There was no association in the cold season with stroke and fine particles, ultra-fine particles or carbon monoxide, the researchers reported.

Kettunen suggests that people might be more vulnerable to air pollution in warmer months, because they are outside and open their windows and doors more often than in cold months, and therefore their exposures to such pollution are higher. In addition, differences in the makeup of air pollution between seasons may play a role.

"We suggest that on high pollution days, elderly people should avoid spending unnecessary time in traffic, whether in a vehicle or walking, especially if they suffer from cardiovascular diseases, to lower their exposure to pollutants," Kettunen says. "They should also avoid heavy outdoor exercise on high air-pollution days. And nursing homes, for example, should not be built along heavily trafficked roads, where particle concentrations are at their highest."

One expert believes the association between stroke and pollution is possible, just as it is with heart attack.

"The link between pollution and heart attacks has been established a few years ago," says Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. "Now, we see more reports coming out to suggest that there are links between pollution and stroke as well. Possible explanations are systemic inflammations, which could change blood clotting parameters or could lead to rupture of atherosclerotic plaques, as well as increases in plasma (blood) viscosity, which could increase the stroke risk."

Another expert thinks these findings need to be repeated in other studies before they are convincing. "The findings are intriguing, but the authors tested a number of associations," says Dr. S. Claiborne Johnston, director of the Stroke Service at University of California, San Francisco. "The association only with ultra-fine pollution and only in the warm season seems quite strange, and could be due to chance. These results really need to be repeated."

Published February 21, 2007

http://health.theledger.com/article/20070221/TOPSTORY/3670/-1/RSS2&source=RSS


Informant: binstock

Brenda Peterson writes: "When news of the US Navy's anti-terrorism plan to deploy Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to patrol the Bangor submarine base made headlines here in the Puget Sound region, I was contacted by concerned citizens called Knitting for Dolphins. This group is symbolically knitting sweaters to keep the dolphins from freezing to death in our Puget Sound. 'Is this a joke?' I asked Jan Bailey, wildlife rehabilitator and member of Knitting for Dolphins."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022107EB.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5807/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Smalley Place is the worst location in the town centre to install a mobile phone mast, according to Kenilworth Town Council.

But despite the opposition, telecommunications company Hutchinson 3G is appealing against a Warwick District Council refusal to build a 12-metre high mast on a grass verge outside the DeMontfort Hotel.

The company's original application was thrown out in January by planning committee councillors, who considered the plans to be "incompatible" with environmental improvements being made in that area of Kenilworth. The application, which includes a 12-metre high monopole mast, three antennas and equipment cabinets, will now be considered by the planning inspectorate.

Kenilworth Town Council is currently preparing its evidence to present to the appeal.

Coun George Illingworth (Abbey) said: "The town council has agreed it will oppose the appeal.

"We don't want to be against the company, we would like to work with them.

"We can think of several other possible locations in the town centre but to do that is not in the town council's remit.

"Of all the places to pick in the town centre it seems to be the worst. That end of town, by the clock tower, is an area we are trying to improve."

All comments submitted in connection with the original application will be forwarded to the planning inspectorate.

A spokeswoman from Hutchinson 3G said: "We have seen a rise in the number of people subscribing to 3 services in Kenilworth. As long as people require the services then 3 has a duty to meet these demands.

"To meet customer requirements, 3 does need a base station in the town centre. Technical constraints means base stations have to be located close to where people use their phones, which tends to be in town centres and residential areas. Without enough base stations in the right locations, mobile phones simply will not work.

"The base station will provide third generation (3G) services to the town centre, which enables quick and easy access to a range of multi-media data services via mobile handsets.

"Having spent four years searching the area for options and consulting with the local community, the streetworks proposal on Smalley Place is the only option left available.

"The proposed location was recommended for approval by the local planning authority and the its professional advisors advised that the proposal would have no impact on amenity.

"We have designed and located the proposed scheme for minimum visual impact to the area. The pole will be ultra slimline, seen in the context of existing tall lamppost, with the Hotel and an eight metre tall tree providing a backdrop.

"For these reasons, we believe an appeal on the planning committee's decision is wholly justified."

To withdraw or modify written comments already made write directly to Rob Nash, The Planning Inspectorate, Room 3/18b, Eagle Wing, Temple Quay House, 2, The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol. BS1 6PN, quoting reference number APP/T3725/A/07/2035978/NWF. Comments can also be made at: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/pcs

The deadline for comments is March 6.

21 February 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.kenilworthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=698&ArticleID=2065143

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"A spokeswoman from Hutchinson 3G said: "We have seen a rise in the number of people subscribing to 3 services in Kenilworth. As long as people require the services then 3 has a duty to meet these demands."

Is anyone sick of this "duty" mantra the mobile companies use to justify treading all over our rights?

If I sold melons and people in town X said they wanted to buy melons, that does not mean I have a "duty" to provide melons, let alone the right to set up shop pretty much anywhere I choose in the face of local opposition. Why do mobile companies enjoy such rights? (no need to answer that by the way).

Pete


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5812/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The EFF suit charged that AT&T let the National Security Administration (NSA) snoop on e-mails and telephone calls without warrants required to do such spying legally. The White House has confirmed that it authorized the NSA program to track overseas communications as part of "war on terror" attempts to uncover threats against the country.

http://snipurl.com/1awna



Revealed: 439,000 snooping requests made

UK security and law enforcement agencies made nearly 439,000 requests to monitor people's phone calls, emails and post during a 15-month period, the spying watchdog has revealed.

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39165898,00.htm



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From Information Clearing House

In a widely overlooked report to the Senate Judiciary Committee in November, bureau officials ticked off their counterterrorism take over the past four years: 519,217 hours of audio. 5,508,217 electronic data files . 1,847,497 pages of text.

http://snipurl.com/1au6v


From Information Clearing House



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

Japanese Cabinet Ministers have openly denounced US policy in Iraq as childish and accused the Bush Administration of being cocky. The latest blow was last week’s agreement on North Korea’s nuclear programme which is privately regarded by many in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Government as an American betrayal.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1415509.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

Sami al-Askari, a Shiite lawmaker and political adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said: "The withdrawal is the wish of the Iraqi government and all the political powers in the country."

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/259904/1/.html



Lithuania mulling Iraq troop withdrawal

Defense Ministry spokeswoman Ruta Apeitkyte told The Associated Press that the Baltic country was considering not replacing the contingent when its mission ends in August.

http://snipurl.com/1ax9w


From Information Clearing House

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today released the following statement on news that the British government will begin to redeploy its troops from Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1ax9p


From Information Clearing House

From his office in clouded cuckoo land

Cheney said Pelosi and other Democrats were pushing a policy in Iraq that would "validate the al Qaeda strategy."

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=nation_world&id=5053734


From Information Clearing House



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

A U.S. soldier under court-martial at a Kentucky military base broke down in tears on Wednesday as he described how he and others planned the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, murdered along with her family.

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20239021.htm


From Information Clearing House

Video

This documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17138.htm



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An interview with Noam Chomsky

"There are several issues in the case of Iran. One is simply that it is independent and independence is not tolerated."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17146.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

By Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank

The administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate on "Trends in Global Terrorism: implications for the United States," circulated within the government in April 2006 and partially declassified in October, states that "the Iraq War has become the ‘cause celebre’ for jihadists...and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17137.htm

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The Iraq Effect: War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide

Mother Jones presents an eight-part series explaining the effects of the Iraq war, its players, politics, cost in treasure and lives, and long-term implications.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022707D.shtml

By Mike Whitney

December’s figures indicate that foreign investment is drying up and the world is no longer eager to purchase America’s lavish debt. The only thing the Federal Reserve can do is raise interest rates to attract foreign capital or let the dollar fall in value. The problem, of course, is that if the Fed raises rates, the real estate market will collapse even faster which will strangle consumer spending and shrivel GDP.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17145.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0221-22.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0221-02.htm

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Report finds U.S. terrorism statistics inaccurate

The findings drew immediate criticism from U.S. senators, who said it raised serious doubts over how effectively the administration was fighting the terrorism threat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/pl_nm/usa_security_errors_dc


From Information Clearing House

Hillary Mann Leverett, the former National Security Council director for Iranian and Persian Gulf affairs under the Bush administration from 2001 to 2004, has issued a sober warning to the public concerning Bush's intentions with Iran. In a recent interview on CNN, she accused the Bush administration of "trying to push a provocative, accidental conflict" with Iran as a pretext to justify "limited strikes" against the country's crucial nuclear and military infrastructures.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107R.shtml


Informant: ranger116

Urge your elected officials to support important animal protection bill
http://ga0.org/campaign/afpea/

Opponents raise animal welfare and food safety concerns
http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=7283206

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted a ban on selling meat and dairy products coming from cloned animals
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/browse_frm/thread/d44b08f3e6e49cb?hl=en



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Urge California Coastal Commission to file a lawsuit to stop deadly war games
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http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/070207_wolfowitz.html


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news



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

A MOBILE phone company wants to install a mast on a B-listed building in Kirkintilloch town centre.

O2 want to build four antennae and cabinets inside the clock tower at Barony Chambers in Kirkintilloch.

A spokesperson for the mobile phone company said: "The planning application is to put the mast behind the louvres on the clock tower, so there will be nothing visible to the naked eye.

"The mast is for our 3G network and it's going in there because we have identified a requirement for that service in the area.

"We recognise that putting structures on the street or green field sites can sometimes be off-putting for local communities therefore we try to find solutions to that where we can."

Barony Chambers, at Cowgate in Kirkintilloch, is a B-listed building and planning permission needs to be approved by Historic Scotland.

Leigh Johnston, Historic Scotland's senior inspector, said: "Historic Scotland has not received an application for a telephone mast to be incorporated into the steeple yet and would expect to be consulted should East Dunbartonshire Council be minded to grant permission.

"As a B-listed building it is important that any alterations are appropriate and do not unnecessarily diminish the historic character of the building."

21 February 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.kirkintillochtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=956&ArticleID=2064990

nlnews @archant.co.uk
21 February 2007

TALKS are underway between mobile phone giant T Mobile and Muswell Hill Baptist Church for a mast in its spire just yards from two schools.

The possibility of a mast in the Dukes Avenue church so close to Muswell Hill Primary School and the Hornsey Trust's Conductive Education Centre for children with cerebral palsy has prompted concern.

There are already at least 17 mobile phone base stations within three-quarters of a mile of Muswell Hill Broadway including a Vodafone mast on nearby land at The Hill bar/nightclub.

One resident, who did not want to be named, said: "I know that the local authority has said that children must not be within 200 yards of a phone mast.

"There are two opinions on this - one that it doesn't matter about mobile phone masts, the other is that we need to know where masts are going and adopt a 'play safe' attitude towards them."

Church minister Andrew Picton told the Journal a final decision would be made by congregation members.

He said: "I understand there's still a certain amount of controversy around the issue even after all these years.

"We need to make decisions as a community together and explore all the issues open and honestly. We will take any concerns seriously."

He would not say how much T Mobile was proposing to pay in rent.

A spokesman for T Mobile said: "It is at a very early stage yet. There is no agreement, no planning application, no design; it is just to see whether they are interested and whether we can fit the equipment in the area of the church.

"I think probably it will be another two months before anything happens."

Meanwhile, St Peter-le-Poer Church in Albion Avenue, Friern Barnet, has given the go ahead for its tower to be used for a Vodafone mast.

The next steps are an application to Barnet Council and for the chancellor of the diocese of London to give his blessing to the move.

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional Limited. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/3xu7o8



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by Thomas I. Palley, TomPaine.com

"New" Democrats peddle "new" rules based on old ties with Wall Street.
http://ga3.org/ct/l720pgF1lzlh/

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

Newly released slides show Bush and Blair launched the Iraq shooting war long before the 2003 invasion.

http://ga3.org/ct/op20pgF1lzlE/



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

by Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com

An international report understates the environmental danger but still prompts significant action.

http://ga3.org/ct/ld20pgF1lzly/



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"Tun Sie alles Ihnen Mögliche, um einen Krieg der USA gegen den Iran zu verhindern" - dies fordern zahlreiche Repräsentanten der deutschen Friedensbewegung von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die Wissenschaftler, Mediziner und Friedensforscher um den Osnabrücker Politikwissenschaftler Professor Mohssen Massarrat rechnen mit einem "bevorstehenden umfassenden Luftkrieg der Vereinigten Staaten gegen den Iran". Mit Hilfe von drei Flugzeugträgern wolle die US-Armee "die gesamte militärische und zivile Infrastruktur" Irans zerstören. Wie üblich werde noch nach "Vorwänden" für diesen Krieg gesucht, woran sich auch die "New York Times" beteilige. "Die Situation heute erinnert an die Lügenpropaganda in den Monaten vor dem Irak-Krieg", heißt es in dem Schreiben an Merkel.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15395

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Direkt zur Kanzlerin
http://www.direktzurkanzlerin.de/

During closing arguments Tuesday in the obstruction of justice and perjury trial of former vice presidential staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told jurors that "there is a cloud over the vice president É a cloud over the White House over what happened," according to a copy of the transcript of Fitzgerald's statements.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107A.shtml



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Dear Auditor General

Please find attached two documents, which comprise my petition to you.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/auditor_general_environmental_commissioner.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/prime_minister_stephen_harper.doc

My petition concerns the very serious environmental problem of electro magnetic radiation (EMR). EMR will increasingly affect the health and many other aspects of the lives of Canadians.

I will send you further messages with supporting information.

Yours sincerely,

Martin Weatherall

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Revised petition to the Auditor General of Canada

I have attached my revised petition to the Auditor General of Canada.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/auditor_general_environmental_commissioner_revised_final.doc

Martin Weatherall.

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Auditor General Petition

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/gerry_higgins_petition_to_the_auditor_general.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/auditor_general_petition.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/human_health_effect_from_emfs.doc



EMFs and Office of the Auditor General of Canada

We need your help.

Those of you who are concerned about radio frequency radiation, low frequency electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity or ground current in Canada and the possible health consequences can contact Roger Hillier, who is the Petitions Manage for the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.

He can be reached via email at: roger.hillier @oag-bvg.gc.ca
or by phone at: 1-888-761-5953 x 4664

I am sending this to people in Canada who have contacted me about cell phone towers, high voltage power lines, ground current, electro-sensitivity, compact fluorescent lights etc.. Apparently two petitions have been presented to the OAG (one is by Higgins and the other by Weatherall). However, I know there are a lot of you out there who have been frustrated with the answers you have received from Health Canada and other federal bodies.

Please email Roger and tell him about your concerns. It will make his job easier and it will help the two petitions currently on file.

Also, please let me know if you have/will contact him with perhaps a cc of your email correspondence. Please use "Concern about EMFs" in the subject heading.

The OAG is here to help us get Ministers in various Departments to respond to pressing concerns we all have about our health and environmental exposure to toxins (among other things). One email to Roger can make a difference. Share your story with him in a couple of paragraphs, ask specific Ministers to respond to your questions and lets see what happens.

Thanks for helping,
-magda

p.s. Please forward this email to those in Canada who have a story to share, a question to ask or are just concerned about this emerging public health issue.


Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University
Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, CANADA
email: mhavas @trentu.ca
phone: 705-748-1011 x7882
fax: 705-748-1569


Words to live by . . .

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin

"Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." --John Adams

"Facts don't cease to exist just because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

Never Give Up! Winston Churchill


Informant: Martin Weatherall

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/02/21/opinion/columns/doc45db844f7cd6f526415828.txt


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Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news

Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday. Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases examined by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine were either diminished or inflated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107K.shtml

The American Prospect
by Paul Starr

02/20/07

Can the public make its will felt through Congress and start the difficult process of bringing closure to the Iraq War? Although the voters spoke last November, the administration has seen no need to listen. But the prospect of another defeat in 2008 may motivate enough Republicans in Congress to break with the administration on the war — and by acting strategically the war’s opponents and the Democratic leadership can help make that happen. It is a frightening thought that however little confidence they enjoy, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be in the White House for nearly two more years...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12501


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by Aziz Huq

02/20/07

What kind of executive branch did America’s constitutional framers have in mind? It’s a question with which federal courts are now busy wrestling. And the quality of liberty American citizens enjoy very much depends on their answers. Today, President Bush’s lawyers claim unlimited power to seize, indefinitely and without charges, individuals the Administration deems ‘enemy combatants.’ In two separate appellate court cases — one of which, Omar v. Harvey was argued earlier this month, the President’s lawyers made the following, remarkable claim: When international entanglements are involved, signified in the Omar case by a United Nationals Security Council resolution, US officials can detain a US citizen, indefinitely. Last week, the DC Court of Appeals rightly — and squarely — rejected this legally specious claim...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070305/huq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Conservative
by Michael Brendan Dougherty

02/12/07

Even out of uniform, Sgt. Liam Madden looks every bit the dutiful jarhead. His dark hair is cut short, his posture stiff and composed, his square jaw barely moves when he speaks. Even in the blistering cold, while reporters look for shelter from the wind, Sgt. Madden’s arms stay at his sides. Dozens of microphones form a media bouquet on the podium, leaving no place for him to rest his notes before he speaks. Facing the television cameras that frame his stern face against the Capitol dome, Madden’s bearing says that he is on a mission. In his hands he holds a message for Congress. The communication reads As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home. Simple, devoid of radicalism, and most important to Madden, legal. This Appeal for Redress to End the War in Iraq has been signed by over 1,100 members of the Armed Forces, including 100 officers. Delivering it to Congress after the Martin Luther King holiday, Sergeant Madden isn’t nervous. But he never expected to be doing this...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_12/article8.html



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National Review
by Bruce Bartlett

02/20/07

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Republican party has a huge problem going into 2008. Usually, it has a clear frontrunner going into the process who is broadly acceptable to most Republicans. But in this election cycle, that is not true. The race is wide open and it is hard to predict who will be left standing when the last primary vote is cast. One thing that can be predicted is that a great many Republicans will be dissatisfied with their party’s presidential nominee. It won’t matter who among those currently running ends up with the nomination, because, in my opinion, none have the capacity to unite the party or to stimulate the kind of intense support a nominee needs to win the general election. … One thing that could have changed things for the better, from the Republican point of view, is if it had a sitting vice president who was a candidate...

http://tinyurl.com/yqy8x4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Liberty For All
by Lady Liberty

02/20/0

I’ve said and written any number critical things about President George W. Bush, but I’ve never called him stupid. That diminishes, in my mind, the intent behind some of his more objectionable acts, and these are things I do believe were committed with knowledge and intent. I believe he knew full well, and understood completely, the repercussions of the USA PATRIOT Act which goes well above and beyond extraordinary measures to fight the ‘war on terror.’ I think he endorses REAL ID because it gives the government more control over all of us rather than that it might give the government some dubious control over a few terrorists...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=527


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lady+Liberty

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/21/07

Given that U.S. foreign policy is, to a large degree, driven by domestic politics, the motive on the part of the administration to escalate provocative covert actions inside Iran has never been greater. With Scooter Libby likely to be convicted and Fitzgerald’s sights increasingly turned on Cheney, the War Party, cornered, has every reason to lash out in one last desperate bid to save its political skin. Fitzgerald, by all indications, is coming for Cheney. After the trial but before the sentencing, Fitz will make a strenuous effort to ‘flip’ Scooter and use his testimony to target the vice president. … What better way to distract attention away from this coming political bombshell than by dropping some real bombs on Iran?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10558


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

02/20/07

One point is crucial: a critical part of our national mythology is the insistence on viewing our nation and ourselves as Americans in comparative terms. When we insist that we are uniquely ‘good’ and ‘virtuous,’ this logically necessitates a further conclusion: we are better than everyone else. We are ‘the Good Guys.’ The emphasis is not only on ‘Good,’ but on ‘the’: we are the Good Guys in a way that no one else is, or can ever be...

http://tinyurl.com/2hzuu7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Yahoo! News

02/20/07

Merck & Co., bowing to pressure from parents and medical groups, is immediately suspending its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company’s new vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement for school attendance.The drug maker, which announced the change Tuesday, had been criticized for quietly funding the campaign, via a third party, to require 11- and 12-year-old girls get the three-dose vaccine in order to attend school...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_bi_ge/merck_cancer_vaccine


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=HPV+vaccine

Independent [UK]

02/21/07

The Government’s plan to bring in identity cards has run into further problems after it emerged that the police would be able to use the national database to check fingerprints found at crime scenes. Tony Blair was accused of contradicting previous assurances that the police would not be able to go on ‘fishing expeditions’ when the scheme takes effect. He said ID cards would help to solve crimes, in an attempt to reassure 28,000 people who signed a petition against the cards on the Downing Street website. In an email to the signatories, the Prime Minister argued that the scheme would help the police bring people guilty of serious crimes to justice. ‘They will be able, for example, to compare the fingerprints found at the scene of some 900,000 unsolved crimes against the information held on the register,’ he said. Opposition parties claimed Mr Blair was ‘changing his tune’ and that they never realised the police would be able to use the database in such a way...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2290049.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

TAKE ACTION NOW!
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=141

Harley Shaiken writes: "Polls tell us that 58 percent of eligible workers would join a union if they could, yet union membership in the private sector plummeted to a record low in 2006. What explains this yawning gap? The fact that, for many Americans, joining a union has become a risk rather than a right."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007LA.shtml

While the evidence is clear that human-caused global warming is occurring and is a threat to many humans and other organisms on the planet, many Americans have been slow to buy the whole argument.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007ED.shtml

In an article on the BBC News website, the EU environment ministers wrote: "We all know that the current Kyoto deal does not go far enough. If we are going to avoid the dangerous impacts of climate change, the EU must stand up and lead the debate on committing to further action."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007EB.shtml

Across the nation, small towns are quietly bearing a disproportionate burden of war. Nearly half of the more than 3,100 US military casualties in Iraq have come from towns like McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where fewer than 25,000 people live. One in five hailed from hometowns of fewer than 5,000. Many of the hometowns of the war dead aren't just small, they're poor.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007T.shtml

Prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby concocted an implausible story in the CIA leak case, while defense attorneys said it would be unfair to convict Libby in a case with so many memory failures. In closing arguments, prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said it's hard to believe that Libby would forget about Valerie Plame since he was eagerly trying to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had accused the Bush administration of doctoring pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby
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Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste plant kollektiven Hungerstreik im April. Kritikerin warnt vor unkontrollierbaren Folgen der Debatte. Artikel von Sebastian Wessels in junge Welt vom 21.02.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-21/047.php


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

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Kleine Dramaturgie des Hungerstreiks gegen Hartz IV

Der Zeitplan von Peter Grottian vom 16. Februar 07 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/hungerstreik3a.pdf


Kollektiver Hungerstreik gegen Hartz IV ab 02. April 2007 in Berlin – existenzielle Zumutungen mit existenziellen Protestformen beantworten! Aufruf zu einer besonnenen Debatte und für ein extremes Mittel der gewaltfreien Demonstration

Aufruf in überarbeiteter Fassung vom Februar 2007 (pdf). Die Autoren: Peter Grottian, Michael Maurer, Tommi Sander, Pia Witte http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/hungerstreik3b.pdf


„Die Würde des Menschen steht unter Finanzierungsvorbehalt". Warum ich an einem Hungerstreik teilnehme

Artikel von Ellen Diederich, Oberhausen, vom 15.2.2007 bei Linkezeitung http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/2155/39/


Die Debatte

Klarstellung: BAG-SHI und Hungerstreik

„Aufgrund einer ‚Außerordentlichen Rundmail’ des ‚Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste’ vom Dienstag, 20.02.2007 stellt die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen (BAG-SHI) e.V. zum Thema ‚Kollektiver Hungerstreik gegen Hartz IV ab 02. April 2007 in Berlin – existenzielle Zumutungen mit existenziellen Protestformen beantworten!’ fest: „Die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen (BAG-SHI) e.V. unterstützt nicht den Hungerstreik von Menschen in Berlin ab 02. April 2007 als Unterstützer oder Träger…“ Stellungnahme vom 21.02.2007 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/hungerstreik_bagshi.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Februar 2007

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Alltägliche Schikanen: In Gütersloh ist ein Erwerbsloser gegen ARGE-Schikanen und Kürzungen im Hungerstreik!

Hartz IV Hungerstreik in Gütersloh nimmt dramatische Formen an

„Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland fordert ein sofortiges Einlenken des Geschäftsführers der GT-Aktiv GmbH in Gütersloh. Das Verhalten von Geschäftsführer Kupczyk ist schon jetzt mehr als beschämend zu bezeichnen…“ Pressemitteilung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland,
03.04.2008 http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/5_052008050405_267_1.htm


Solidarität mit Berndt Pfeifer: Demonstration am 10. April um 15 Uhr vor der GT aktiv GmbH in Gütersloh

Aufruf bei Techeles e.V. http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1723


Aus: LabourNet, 7. April 2008

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Solidaritätsdemonstration für Berndt Pfeifer am Donnerstag, 10. April in Gütersloh
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/74c56300d3b1be69?hl=en

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9. April 2008

Hartz IV öffnet Tür und Tor für Schikanen

Zu dem seit mehreren Wochen anhaltenden Hungerstreik von Berndt Pfeifer aus Gütersloh (Nordrhein-Westfahlen) erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Das perfide Hartz-IV-System zwingt Menschen in Armut, grenzt sie aus – und treibt viele an den Rand der Verzweiflung. Es lädt geradezu ein, Menschen zu Objekten der Willkür zu machen. Dieses System Hartz IV muss weg. Als Sofortmaßnahme fordere ich die Herstellung der aufschiebenden Wirkung von Widersprüchen, um den Betroffenen wenigstens einen Minimalschutz ihrer sozialen Bürger- und Grundrechte zu gewähren. Der widerrechtliche Abzug eines Hinzuverdienstes, die rechtwidrigen Kürzungen des Regelsatzes bereits vor einem Klinikaufenthalt und der Leistungen für die Unterkunft – alles das musste der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II Berndt Pfeifer erleben. Dazu kommt, dass sein Antrag auf ALG II nur schleppend bearbeitet wurde – die ihm zustehende Vorauszahlung eines Teilbetrages musste er sich hart erkämpfen. Berndt Pfeifer fordert nunmehr mit seinem Hungerstreik eine Entschuldigung der zuständigen Verantwortlichen der Verwaltung. Diese sitzen nicht nur in der Gütersloher Hartz-IV-Behörde. Vielmehr sind die Schuldigen in der rot-grünen Koalition unter Schröder und in der heutigen schwarz-roten Koalition zu finden. Die Bundesregierung ist jetzt gefordert, sofort moderierend einzugreifen, um das Schlimmste in Gütersloh zu verhindern.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/hartz-iv-oeffnet-tuer-und-tor-fuer-schikanen/



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

Statt Kombilohn für Niedrigverdiener: Wir fordern eine Regelsatzerhöhung und einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn.

Konzept der Kampagnenwoche beginnend am 2. April von und bei Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste (pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/mails/Anschreiben_16-2-2007.pdf


Für Gerechtigkeit, Frieden und Bewahrung der Natur. 2. Sozialforum in Deutschland am 18.-21. Oktober 2007 in Cottbus

Aktionsseite mit allen Infos beim Sozialforum Deutschland
http://www.sozialforum2007.de/index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

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[Gegen-Armut-2007]

Die Kampagnenwoche, beginnend am 2. April, hat eine eigene Homepage mit aktuellen Informationen http://www.gegen-armut-2007.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 2. April 2007



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

»Vier Ein-Euro-Jobs ergeben drei reguläre Arbeitsstellen«. In »öffentlicher Verhandlung« wurden in Bremen Erwerbslose und Mitarbeiter von Beschäftigungsträgern befragt.

Ein Gespräch von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 21.02.2007 mit Uwe Helmke, Mitinitiator einer »öffentlichen Verhandlung zu den Ein-Euro-Jobs«, die am Freitag in Bremen stattfand. http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-21/042.php


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

Zeit statt Konsum - Arbeitsverweigerung

„Je höher die Arbeitslosigkeit und Verarmung, umso beharrlicher wird im öffentlichen Diskurs die Arbeitsmoral hochgehalten. Wie das neue Regierungsprogramm zeigt, denkt sich der Staat immer neue Kontrollen und Zwangsmaßnahmen gegen Arbeitslose aus. Bei all der übersteigerten Stigmatisierung von angeblicher Faulheit setzen viele kritische Kräfte als Gegendiskurs auf demonstrative Faulheit als Utopie. Das „Lob der Faulheit“ hat in der Linken wieder Konjunktur. Was bringt das? Und was kann „Faulheit“ eigentlich heute bedeuten?“ Ein Dossier in der österreichischen Zeitschrift Malmoe des Vereins zur Förderung medialer Vielfalt und Qualität Nr. 36 http://www.malmoe.org/


Ökonomie der Anerkennung: Tristesse ade, bonjour Pares(s)e?

„“Faulheit!” soll das wieder entdeckte Gegenmittel für das von Arbeitsalltag und -eifer geplagte partikuläre Ich heißen. Würden gesellschaftliche Veränderungen in Ratgeberliteratur ihren Anfang finden, sollten schon ein paar davon im Gange sein – so viele Bücher unterschiedlichster Couleur begrüßen, erläutern, entdecken, begründen und bringen dem/der LeserIn die Faulheit und den geschickten Umgang mit ihr bei. Die AutorInnen unzähliger Ratgeber sprechen kokett brenzlige Themen an – entfremdete Arbeit, Selbstausbeutung, aktives Distanzieren vom eigenen Unternehmen. Sie lösen überschaubare Skandale aus, schreiben mitunter subversiv und geben ihr Wissen als Tipps weiter. Wozu/wogegen Faulheit gut sein soll? Dazu, sich ein windstilles Plätzchen in einer Ecke der großen Arbeitswelt zu sichern, Stress abzubauen, die eigene Verwertbarkeit zu erhöhen, sich für den nächsten (besseren) Job fit zu machen, von der eigenen Kreativität zu profitieren, cool zu wirken oder die Kunst zu vermitteln, sich selbst die Nicht-Identifizierung mit dem Unternehmen beizubringen – eine Herausforderung, die angesichts der Popularität der hochaktuellen Ich-AGs abseits der Schizophrenie kaum zu bewerkstelligen ist…“ Artikel von Radostina Patulova http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/malmoe1.html


Recht auf Faulheit. Nach Paul Lafargue

„Als Paul Lafargue, der Schwiegersohn von Karl Marx, 1883 das „Recht auf Faulheit“ in einem polemischen Manifest diesen Titels ausruft, wird er meist ignoriert oder im günstigsten Fall belächelt. Zu sehr kippt die Kampfschrift ins Parodistische. Zu sehr nimmt der Text sich selber das Recht heraus, statt zu argumentieren in Traumwelten eines geglückten Lebens zu schwelgen. Im Rückblick erscheinen Lafargues Traumwelten jedoch zum Teil realistisch…“ Artikel von Martin Jörg Schäfer http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/malmoe2.html


Die ArbeiterInnen mögen die Arbeit nicht ...auch heute noch nicht, obwohl der Kampf gegen die Arbeit schwieriger ist

„Das Lob der Faulheit wird heute in linken Kreisen vorwiegend von der so genannten „wertkritischen“ Denkschule gesungen, die Kapitalismus als alles absorbierendes System kritisieren, das nicht durch Klassenkampf, sondern nur durch eine Kritik und anschließende Überwindung der Warenform attackiert werden kann…“ Artikel von Robert Foltin http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/malmoe3.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

„Der Vorschlag, Hartz IV und andere Sozialleistungen durch ein pauschales Grundeinkommen für alle Bürger zu ersetzen, scheint zahlreiche Probleme auf einen Schlag zu lösen. Doch viele gute Gründe sprechen gegen diesen Ansatz…“ Artikel in Böckler Impuls 01/2007 (pdf) http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/impuls_2007_01_3.pdf

und dazu:

Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: Der Weg zum Armutsfreien Sozialstaat

Eine Antwort von Karl-Heinz Pachura vom Januar 2007 auf den Artikel im Böcklerimpuls 1/2007 mit dem Titel: “Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: Keine Alternative zum Sozialstaat“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/pachura2.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Das bedingungslose Existenzeinkommen und die Arbeit: Anmerkungen zum Begriff der Arbeit

Artikel von Karl-Heinz Pachura vom Januar 2007 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/pachura.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007



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

„Ein-Euro-Jobs verdrängen sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung und schaffen bislang keine Brücken in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt. Damit Zusatzjobs für Arbeitslose mehr nützen als schaden, sollten die Arbeitsvermittler genauer hinsehen, rät das IAB…“ Artikel in Böckler Impuls 03/2007 (pdf) http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/impuls_2007_03_2.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

Die Geschichte von Jutta und Andreas Embacher aus Algermissen http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/embacher.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Februar 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-warming21feb21,0,6823000.story


Informant: binstock

A generation of very young girls is being psychologically damaged by inappropriate "sexy" clothing, toys and images in the media that are corrupting childhood, leading psychologists warn today.

http://tinyurl.com/33f964


From Information Clearing House

Video
http://tinyurl.com/2kz2bj


From Information Clearing House

TINY cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.

http://www.airportbusiness.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=10315


From Information Clearing House

Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. A Washington area politician thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/02/19/0220truants.html


From Information Clearing House



http://tinyurl.com/2q4br2

Love letters, bank transactions, library books, scuba diving lessons: can the government actually use your personal information to predict whether you might be a terrorist?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1523257


From Information Clearing House



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

U.S. Gulag: Court

The federal appeals panel in Washington, D.C., sided 2-1 with the Bush administration today, upholding an act of Congress that stripped Guantánamo Bay captives of the right to challenge their detention in lower federal courts.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16740785.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Venezuela is beefing up its military capabilities by land, sea and air in preparation for what one senior official called a possible "asymmetrical conflict" with the United States.

http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=555


From Information Clearing House

In a statement reflecting the growing distrust between Moscow and the West, a top Russian general warned yesterday that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host US missile defense bases.

http://tinyurl.com/2kapkr


From Information Clearing House

War pimp alert

The Syrian regime is just as complicit as Iran in moving forward hostile activities specifically designed to kill Americans. The evidence is there and widely acknowledged by those in the know.

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070219-102043-1711r.htm



Who Is Farid N. Ghadry?

Described as a "discredited businessman from Virginia" who is "Syria’s version of Ahmad Chalabi" by Robert Dreyfuss April 17, 2006.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Farid_N._Ghadry


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ahmad+Chalabi

Andrew Stephen in Washington warns that war could easily be triggered by the Bush administration's sheer incompetence.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200702190015


From Information Clearing House

Chief Minister of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Akram Khan Durrani said here Tuesday that any US strike on Iran would be considered as attack on Muslim Ummah.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0702207733185805.htm


From Information Clearing House

The 1,000 sailors of the Saipan had just six weeks to get ready. The Captain said they're needed in the Arabian Gulf, where they could remain for four to six months.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5283960


From Information Clearing House

GEORGE Bush will launch missiles against Iran if it is proved to be behind attacks on US soldiers in Iraq, it was claimed last night.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007080330,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Iran may be able to enrich uranium on a mass scale in six months but it could be 10 years away from being able to build a nuclear bomb, the chief United Nations nuclear monitor says.

http://tinyurl.com/2uj9hr


From Information Clearing House



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

The security forces separated the men from the women and then ordered Jabouri’s wife to give them a suitcase filled with jewellery and £20,000 in cash.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1400661.ece


From Information Clearing House

The project

President Bush wanted the 'right' people in charge of the reconstruction of Iraq. Unfortunately for the country, that meant loyalty to the president rather than expertise - including a 24-year-old estate agent put in charge of the stock exchange, writes Rajiv Chandrasekaran in the second exclusive extract from his new book.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2017023,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Both houses of Congress have now gone on record opposing Bush's dispatch of 21,500 more troops to Iraq. Yet neither house is willing to end U.S. involvement by cutting off funding for the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17134.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cutting+off+funding

What would this new law mean for Iraq? - Concerning Iraq's sovereignty. Iraq will not be capable of controlling the levels -- the limits of production, which means that Iraq cannot be a part of OPEC anymore.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1523250


From Information Clearing House



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

By Carolyn Baker

"Tapeworm” is the name Fitts applies to the economic system of the U.S. which seeks to feed upon both its inhabitants and its neighbors, near and far, and at the same time, ingest them with toxins which cause them to crave the very elements which feed the Tapeworm, thereby establishing a perpetual search-and-destroy economic system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17135.htm

By Sgt. Martin Smith, USMC, ret.

It speaks volumes that in order for young working-class men and women to gain self-confidence or self-worth, they seek to join an institution that trains them how to destroy, maim, and kill. The desire to become a Marine-as a journey to one's manhood or as a path to self-improvement-is a stinging indictment of the pathology of our class-ridden world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17132.htm

By John Hanchette

Consider this mind-twisting equation from a well-researched article in the current issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine: Private federal contractors now "absorb the taxes paid by everyone in America with incomes under $100,000."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17133.htm

By Andrew Cockburn

In November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order. This ominous discovery, unreported until now, makes it clear that Iraqi insurgents have no need to rely on Iran as the source of EFPs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17131.htm

BBC News Video

Senior figures in Washington have been considering how to attack Iran if the order is given, the BBC has learned.

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17129.htm



US 'Iran Attack Plans' Revealed

By BBC

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure. - It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17130.htm

CCC warnt vor biometrischer Vollerfassung

Es hat nur wenige Monate gedauert, bis die vom Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI) versprochene Zweckbindung der für die Reisepässe erhobenen biometrischen Daten der Bürger abgeschafft wird.

Obwohl das BMI stets versicherte, dass es keine zentrale Speicherung der biometrischen Daten geben wird, hat am Freitag der Bundesrat gefordert, sowohl die Gesichtsbilder als auch die Fingerabdrücke der Bürger in einer zentralen Datenbank für immer zu speichern. Bevor die Fingerabdrücke an den Meldeämtern überhaupt abgeben werden müssen, steht die zentrale Datenbank bereits vor der Tür.

Der CCC betont, dass die Speicherung in einer zentralen Datenbank ein Risiko für die Sicherheit der sensiblen biometrischen Daten darstellt. Diese zentrale Erfassung bietet deutlich einfachere Zugriffsmöglichkeiten für Datenverbrecher.

Polizei und Ordnungsamt sollen nach dem Willen des Bundesrates auf diese Datenbank ohne weiteres, z. B. zur Verfolgung von Ordnungswidrigkeiten, zugreifen können. Dabei soll es ohne jegliche Kontrolle einen “automatisierten Abgleich mit erkennungsdienstlichen Dateien der Polizeivollzugsbehörden” geben. Das heißt praktisch, dass jedem Bürger beispielsweise bei Geschwindigkeitskontrollen wie einem Schwerverbrecher Fingerabdrücke abgenommen werden. Diese Abdrücke können dann beispielsweise mit der AFIS-Datenbank (automatisches Fingerabdruck-Identifizierungssystem), die EU-weit mehrere Millionen Fingerabdrücke gespeichert hat, abgeglichen werden.

Der einfache Abgleich ist laut Bundesrat “unverzichtbar”. Die Begründung für diese angebliche Unverzichtbarkeit ist an Dreistigkeit kaum zu überbieten. Es wird angenommen, dass dadurch “Falschinformationen enthaltende Dokumente” auffindbar werden würden. Offenbar ist den Sicherheitshysterikern und Datensammlern dabei entgangen, dass die passive Authentifikation des RFID-Chips die Veränderung der Passdaten unmöglich macht.

In der Praxis ist bei den automatisierten Abfragen mit sehr vielen fälschlich als Verbrecher identifizierten Unschuldigen zu rechnen. Ein Großteil der Bevölkerung, insbesondere Senioren, Jugendliche und Frauen, besitzt keine ausgeprägten Fingerabdrücke, was zu Fehlidentifizierungen führt. Dies wurde durch eigens vom BMI in Auftrag gegebene Studien belegt.

Außerdem ist ein massiver Datenabgleich gegen eine biometrische Datenbank in dieser Dimension noch nie getestet worden. Es handelt sich also ein weiteres Mal um einen leichtfertigen Feldtest an der lebenden Bevölkerung.

Der Bundesrat forderte bei der Gelegenheit auch gleich, auf die Löschung der sensiblen biometrischen Daten zu verzichten. Statt einer Begründung wurde vom Bundesrat als Grund nur nebulös von “präventiven Gründen zur Aufrechterhaltung der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung” gesprochen. Zu deutsch: einmal erfasste Bürger sind für immer gespeichert.

In der Praxis wird dann jeder Straßenpolizist nach seinem Gutdünken nicht nur biometrische Gesichtsdaten, sondern auch Fingerabdrücke abnehmen, die danach für immer gespeichert bleiben und den Ermittlungsbehörden weiter zur Verfügung stehen.

Natürlich soll der Bürger für den staatlichen Missbrauch seiner biometrischen Daten selbst aufkommen. Über eine erneute Erhöhung der Passgebühren wird bereits diskutiert, denn der Bundesrat stellte fest, dass über die Hälfte der Kosten des biometrischen Reisepasses für die Länder nicht gedeckt sind.

Natürlich denkt das Innenministerium auch fürsorglich an jene Bürger, die keinen Reisepass besitzen. Die Einführung von Personalausweisen mit Funk-Chip, Biometrie-Bild und Fingerabdrücken ist fest eingeplant. Die biometrische Vollerfassung des deutschen Volkes ist also in vollem Gange.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/021907.html


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