World-News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3300771/

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

Ärzte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408385/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=%C3%84rzte+und+Mobilfunk

HLV INFO 21/AT

2-03-2007


Hallo Herr Tittmann,

heute ist per Postwurfsendung die Broschüre dialog 17 der Mobilfunkbetreiber bei mir angekommen. Diese Broschüre wurde anscheinend an alle Unternehmen aus dem Gesundheitsbereich, der Prävention und des Arbeitsschutzes verschickt. Die Lobby streut gezielt falsche Darstellungen. Hier z.BSp. ein Artikel aus Forschung & Gesundheit; Recht & Politik: Neues Zwischenergebnis zur Interphone Studie; Krebs durch Handys unwahrscheinlich [ http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3388768/ ]. Die von WHO koordinierte Interphone-Studie untersucht in 13 Ländern den Zusammenahang zwischen Handynutzung und Tumoren im Kopfbereich. Infos unter:who.int/peh-emf/en/; www.izmf.de

[ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=WHO ]

Schon die Überschrift der Seite ist bemerkenswert: Forschung & Gesundheit / Recht & Politik. Auch die EU-Stellungnahme zu elektromagnetischen Feldern. (www.ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_0_006.pdf

Dies deutet sehr auf die Beiträge der führerlosen U-Bahnzüge in Nürnberg mit den Hochfrequenzfeldern an Bahnsteigen hin, um eine ev. technische Zulassung anzudeuten. Aufgrund massiver Behinderung bei der Informationsweitergabe dieses Artikels, muss davon ausgegangen werden, dass weder für den Testzug noch für die Strahlenfelder an Bahnsteigen technische Zulassungen bzw. Gefährdungsanalysen vorhanden sind.

Viele Grüße aus Gießen sendet Ihnen

Lothar Stern
Gesundheits-Prävention

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel hatte unlängst die Frage aufgeworfen, woher nach dem Atomausstieg die dann fehlende Energie kommen solle. Die EU-Energieminister haben am 15. Februar beschlossen, bis 2020 einen Anteil der erneuerbaren Energien von 20 Prozent anzustreben. Nach Auffassung des Geschäftsführers des Solarenergie Fördervereins Deutschland (SFV), Wolf von Fabeck, ist dieses Ziel nicht hinreichend. "Ich habe den Eindruck, die EU-Energieminister haben den Ernst der Lage noch nicht begriffen", sagte er im Gespräch mit ngo-online. Angesichts "der ungeheuren Gefahren" fordert er ein Verbot des Neubaus weiterer fossiler Energiegewinnungsanlagen, ein Abschalten der Atomreaktoren und einen "energischen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien bis auf 100 Prozent". Ein Umstieg auf 100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien sei bereits "mit den heute bekannten Techniken und Verfahren" möglich - "und zwar sogar auch in Deutschland, obwohl Deutschland eines der am dichtesten besiedelten und am höchsten industrialisierten Länder ist".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15458

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Klima-Appell: „Zeit zum Handeln!“
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3386287/

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

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"Versagen der Industrie vertuschen": Greenpeace kritisiert nachträgliche Änderung von CO2-Statistik

Die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace wirft der Bundesregierung vor, sie wolle "unangenehme Wahrheiten" nicht so deutlich machen, um das Versagen der deutschen Automobilindustrie Minderung des CO2-Ausstoßes von Pkw zu "vertuschen". Konkret kritisiert die Organisation nachträgliche Änderungen an einer aktuellen Statistik des Kraftfahrtbundesamtes zum CO2-Ausstoß. "Es wäre interessant zu wissen, wer in den hohen Etagen der Automobilindustrie, des Verkehrsministeriums oder des Kanzleramts am Donnerstag in Flensburg angerufen hat", sagte Greenpeace-Sprecher Wolfgang Lohbeck am Freitag in Hamburg. Das Kraftfahrtbundesamt hat laut Greenpeace die vor einer Woche veröffentlichte Statistik zur CO2-Emission von Pkw nachträglich geändert. Dass eine Bundesbehörde Presseerklärungen nach der Veröffentlichung entschärfe grenze an Dokumentenfälschung, sagte Lohbeck.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15461

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

12. März 2007

Deutschland kann und muss mehr zum Gesamtergebnis beitragen

Zu den Ergebnissen des EU-Gipfels erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Wer hätte das gedacht?! Die EU-Staaten haben sich auf verbindliche Ziele geeinigt: 20 Prozent weniger CO2-Ausstoß und 20 Prozent Anteil von erneuerbaren Energien bis 2020 zu vereinbaren, ist angesichts der zahlreichen widerstreitenden Interessen der beteiligten Länder durchaus ein Erfolg. Es bleiben jedoch erhebliche Zweifel, dass diese politische Deklaration wirklich durch nationale Aktionspläne umgesetzt wird. Nicht allen Ländern wird es leicht fallen, diese Ziele zu erreichen. Das erhöht die Verantwortung für andere, z.B. Deutschland. Insbesondere die osteuropäischen Länder haben durch den Zusammenbruch ihrer emissionsstarken nicht wettbewerbsfähigen Industrie in den vergangenen Jahren ungewollt einen hohen Beitrag zur Reduzierung des Ausstoßes von Treibhausgasen geleistet. In unserem eigenen Land bleibt auch nach dem Gipfel zu konstatieren, dass das Durcheinander nach wie vor groß ist. Deutschland kann und muss mehr zum Gesamtergebnis beitragen. Die Voraussetzungen für einen weit höheren Anteil von erneuerbaren Energien an Verbrauch und Produktion sind sehr gut. Außerdem bleibt zu hoffen, dass die starre Haltung Frankreichs zur Atomenergie nicht zu weiteren Angriffen der Atomlobby in unserem Land auf den gesetzlich fixierten Ausstieg führt. Es wird Zeit, dass die Kanzlerin hier ebenso ihr Verhandlungsgeschick beweist und ein Machtwort spricht. Atomenergie ist keine erneuerbare Energie und deshalb keine zukunftsfähige Alternative. Es muss aufhören, dass die vor allem für den Klimaschutz zuständigen Bundesminister Gabriel, Glos und Tiefensee laufend in verschiedene Richtungen weisen. Die Bundeskanzlerin muss die von ihr selbst beanspruchte Führungsposition auch in ihrer eigenen Regierung durchsetzen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35316



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

John F. Borowski writes: "Imagine this one-two punch in classrooms across America. Give the kids facts and unforgettable visuals, give them 'real science' and give them solutions. These solutions bring hope and empower them as the potentially most powerful and ecologically-caring voters and doers in human history. Most climate scientists state that we need an 80 to 90 percent reduction in carbon emissions worldwide this coming decade. The next generation may not have the ability to 'undo' the damage if we allow this generation to be made 'comfortably numb' by false promises of the American Petroleum Institute and the American Forest Foundation."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207H.shtml



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

Ira Chernus writes: "The nation seems to be remembering a lesson of the Vietnam War: We can't get security by sending military power abroad. Every time we try to control another country by force of arms, we only end up more troubled and less secure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

Paul Krugman writes, "After the bursting of the technology bubble of the 1990s failed to produce a global disaster, investors began to act as if nothing bad would ever happen again."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing+bubble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the US attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator, according to two people familiar with the contacts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207B.shtml



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

A House judiciary subcommittee approved today the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials. They will likely explore corruption and mismanagement allegations on everything from pre-war Iraq intelligence to the mishandling of the response to Hurricane Katrina. The first round of subpoenas concern the recent controversial firings by the Bush administration of seven US attorneys, some of whom were pursuing public corruption cases against Republican members of Congress.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina

by Fiona McGarry

A mobile phone company has made a fresh bid to secure planning permission for a controversial mast development outside the town of Foxford.

Towards the end of last year, O2 applied to erect a 30 metre mast at Clossaghroe outside Foxford, generating strong local opposition. That application was judged to be invalid by Mayo County Council, because of problems with the position of the site notice. However, O2 has now lodged a fresh bid for permission for the mast at the same location.

The first application for the mast was made in November of last year, but after a site inspection County planners noted that the site notice was placed “very high up on a telephone poll” and was not legible from the public road. In its letter to O2, telling them the application was invalid, the council also attached an advice note. It pointed out that the mast seemed to go against the County Development Plan, which says that masts should be located at a minimum distance of 500 metres from rural homes. The Council also told the company that forestry plantation around a mast was a requirement, so that it could be screened from view.

While the first application was rejected as invalid, it also generated objections on a number of grounds from residents of Clossaghroe. A petition with 52 signatures calling for the mast to be refused was submitted to the county council. In a letter to planners, signed on behalf of “the residents of Clossaghroe and the surrounding areas”, a number of concerns about the mast were outlined. Local people said there were already three existing masts close to the proposed site, and questioned the reason for a fourth. They also described the site as “a beautiful rural setting”, with little screening from trees. It was noted that the Foxford Way, a popular walking trail passes in front of the proposed site, and concerns were expressed about the impact on this tourist attraction. The letter also said: “It is appalling to have to accept such decisions against our will, when there are many local families having planning permission difficulties in this area.”

At the end of last month (February), the phone company lodged a fresh application for the same location. This is currently being assessed by planners, and by April 15, planners must make a decision or request Further Information on the proposed O2 mast. The deadline for submissions from the public on the proposed mast is March 25.

© Mayo Advertiser Ltd,2007

http://www.mayoadvertiser.com/index.php?aid=1149

By Eric Randolph

RESIDENTS have launched a protest against a mobile phone mast which they say will lead to health risks and the loss of trees.

It is just over a year since Hutchison 3G (H3G) were forced to abandon the use of a new base station at the Holly Tree pub in Moordown due to fierce local objections.

Now they face a similar battle in trying to get a mast erected on Castle Lane West to the rear of the Cotswold unit, with the council receiving 65 objections from residents.

John Dewar, who helped rally protestors, said: "They wanted to knock down these huge 90-year-old trees that are next to it if they interfere with the signal, which would be a disaster.

"We've lost so many trees around this area in recent years that we can't let these go."

Residents are also worried about the health implications of placing a mast in a residential area and adjacent to several busy shops.

"There's no conclusive evidence regarding radiation risks, but while there are still questions, we just don't want it around here.

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

"And once you've had one up, you get more."

Retailers are also angry about the apparent favouritism shown towards big companies.

Justin Cook, of Hollywood Fancy Dress, said: "We've tried to build a conservatory or move a couple of trees in our back yard, and we get turned down.

"But when a company like H3G shows up, they're allowed to tear them all down."

H3G spokesman Mike Dobson said: "H3G has been seeking to improve the reception for its mobile phone network in the Moordown, Muscliff and Redhill areas for some considerable time.

"This area is highways land and mobile phone operators are entitled to seek to use that. The proposed telecommunications base station would be a 15-metre ultra-slim street furniture pole with the antennas, which are located at the top of the pole, shrouded.

"In order for the installation to meet our technical requirements we are asking the council to agree to some modest trimming of trees next to the bus stop."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1233433.0.locals_in_dark_on_phone_mast.php

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01426347.htm


Informant: Corey

Simulationen zeigen, dass auch regional begrenzte Kriege mit Kernwaffeneinsatz weltweit Opfer fordern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24738/1.html

Help Bring Kei the Wolf Home Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/Earle2/petition.html

Algonquin Park Wolf Buffer Zone Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/wolf2004/petition.html

Save the Animals Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/animals9/petition.html

Stop the Seal hunt and Calgary stampede Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/seal/

Stop the sale of wolves at Ebay Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/stopebay/

Cease and Desist the sale of Wolves on Ebay Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/wolfebay/petition.html

Help save the wolves of North America
http://www.petitiononline.com/09212002/petition.html

Save Wolves Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/savewolf/petition.html

Save America's Wolves
http://www.petitiononline.com/ineedan/petition.html

Save the Wolves
http://www.petitiononline.com/wolf/petition.html

Vancouver Island Wolf and Cougar Cull Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/cull2002/petition.html

Stop Yahoo's Support of Wolf Pelt Sales Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/wolfpelt/petition.html


From Kim K.

Liebe Nachbarn, geehrte Newsletterabonnenten,

folgende Nachricht, mit der Bitte um Weitergabe, hat uns aus Olching erreicht.

Viele Grüße, Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd
http://www.mobilfunk-dachau.de


Liebe Mitstreiter, am Montag 05.März findet bei der VHS Olching Hauptstraße 82 um 20 Uhr eine Veranstaltung von VHS Olching, Bund Naturschutz und Lokale Agenda 21 Olching statt.

Das Thema

Mobilfunk- (k)eine Gefahr für die Gesundheit ?

Als interessante Referenten sind angekündigt:

Dr. Ing. Volker Schorpp, Physiker Bereich Elektrotechnik, Karlsruhe.
Seine Schwerpunkte sind: Funktionsprinzip Mobilfunk, Grenzwerte, Studien-Baumschäden durch Mobilfunkstrahlung

Dr. med Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam, praktische Ärztin, Bamberg.
Ihre Schwerpunkte sind: Ärztliche Erfahrung, Symptome und Erkrankung durch Hochfrequenzbelastung

Bitte geben Sie diesen Termin weiter…
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/handzettel_sw.pdf


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Lilli Kammerl und Paul Hornyak



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Selsam
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Schorpp

by Casey Aden-Wansbury, TomPaine.com

Nine days of current military spending would pay for universal health care for America's children.

http://ga3.org/ct/E720pgF1DmoN/

by Isaiah J. Poole, TomPaine.com

Conservatives claim the public can be brought back into the fold, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

http://ga3.org/ct/U120pgF1Dmow/

Boston Globe
by Andrew J. Bacevich

03/01/07

Rather than vainly sniping at President Bush over his management of the Iraq war, the Democratic-controlled Congress ought to focus on averting any recurrence of this misadventure. Decrying the so-called ’surge’ or curbing the president’s authority to conduct ongoing operations will contribute little to that end. … Long viewed as immoral, illicit, and imprudent, preventive war — attacking to keep an adversary from someday posing a danger — became the centerpiece of US national security strategy in the aftermath of 9/11. President Bush unveiled this new strategy in a speech at West Point in June 2002. ‘If we wait for threats to fully materialize,’ he said, ‘we will have waited too long.’… Although the Constitution endows the legislative branch with the sole authority to declare war, the president did not consult Congress before announcing his new policy. He promulgated the Bush Doctrine by fiat. Then he acted on it...

http://tinyurl.com/295tz9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+Doctrine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

03/01/07

The Iraqi oil deal set to go before the country’s parliament next month could spell the end of the country as a nation state, and signals a major Bush victory in the war. The proposed law not only opens the door to the big international oil companies, but offers them lucrative contract deals, and even a place on the national oil board that will run the industry. The Byzantine scheme for dividing up oil revenues on the basis of population is little more than a facade for the biggest rip off of resources since the British barged into Mesopotamia more than a century ago...

http://tinyurl.com/3aml6a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Dominik Saran

02/28/07

The battle over Internet freedom is heating up again. The spark this time is the proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, recently introduced in the Senate. Numerous Internet companies, website operators, and advocacy groups fear that without legislation big telecom companies will soon gain the power to restrict the quality or availability of certain types of Internet traffic — web sites, VoIP telephony, video broadcasting, and other new technologies — unless each content provider agrees to pay a toll...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05790.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Internet+freedom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Freedom+Preservation+Act

CounterPunch
by Christopher Brauchli

03/01/07

It has an appealing symmetry. George Bush is deploying a missile defense system that may or may not work to defend against nuclear weapons that might be fired from Iranian secret weapons sites that may or may not exist. This strategy is of a piece with the rest of George Bush’s foreign policy strategies that have produced such successes as, for example, Iraq...

http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli03012007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

03/01/07

Leaked reports of a recent Pentagon meeting only add to the mounting evidence that the US is preparing to attack Iran. In this context the recent ’surge’ of US troops is not meant to pacify Baghdad but to contain Iraqi Shi’ite fury in response to air strikes on Iran. George W Bush doesn’t want to have to go to Syria and Iran and ‘ask for anything’...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC02Ak07.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

Cato Institute
by William A. Niskanen

03/02/07

[T]he October 2002 war resolution provides authority for the use of U.S. military forces only to ‘defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,’ a narrowly defined mission that was accomplished in the first few weeks of the U.S. invasion in the spring of 2003. No other nation is mentioned in this resolution, and it would take an exceptionally tortured interpretation to sanction war with any nation other than Iraq. So the President has no authority for a broader war...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8020


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/02/07

The Chinese panic is being diagnosed as the ’cause’ of our own apparent meltdown, but this mistakes the symptoms for the underlying disease. The name of our affliction is debt, and that burden has increased by over 30 percent since our venture into empire-building was launched. The Chinese are — or, have been — buying that debt, but the bursting of the Shanghai bubble could soon cut off that supply of income — and then where would we get the money to pay for the biggest military build-up in world history? Bush is demanding $716 billion for his ‘defense’ budget, which, as one news report described it, is ‘greater than the annual gross domestic product of all but 14 countries.’ He’ll get that, and more: the Democrats, for all their ‘antiwar’ pretensions, fault this administration for not having a large enough military...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10610


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Kucinich was the only Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential primaries to vote against the war in Iraq. Three years later, the Iraq war has cost the lives of more than 3,000 American servicepeople and untold thousands of Iraqis. And once again, Kucinich, relentless in his call for withdrawing troops, is vying for the nation's top job. Daniel Sturm speaks with Kucinich about his decision to run again for president and his position on the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207P.shtml



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

I was just sent this by a friend in Plymouth…
http://tinyurl.com/2r6qsf


Simon

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=4xNLFaAGa4pm-saVqeHG8w..
http://action.defenders.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=18621.0&dlv_id=34321&JServSessionIdr001=egee04k8f1.app24a

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Time is running out to protect Rocky Mountain wolves
http://action.earthjustice.org/ct/Rd_XhB91wSIV/

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Idahoans Weigh In on Ending Wolf Protections

Pitting memories of wolves howling at the moon against dead cattle and failing ranches, more than 150 people drove from across the state Tuesday evening to voice their opinions on the proposed removal of gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains from the federal endangered species list.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030707EC.shtml

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Your Words, Their Actions for Wolves
http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=RoW7MOGID03nN1b6uSRxXw..



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

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Evidence_That_Global_Warming_Fuels_Stronger_Atlantic_Hurricanes_999.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/171432

Inuit petition argues pollution melts Arctic, threatens way of life
http://www.adn.com/news/environment/story/8719301p-8621351c.html


Informant: binstock



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

With 4.2 million Americans currently over 85 - a number expected to grow to 5.9 million by 2014 and then accelerate with the baby boom generation - the exploding need for long-term care is remaking the home-care industry, driving more of it underground. Gray-market hiring, fraught with risks, is a solution that middle-class families are turning to as they face the crushing burden of indefinite home-care expenses.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030107HA.shtml

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of a 1960s Democratic icon, made it clear on Monday that he wasn't critical of Bush because of his political affiliation. He was critical of him, he said, because Bush has implemented policies and circumvented the law in order to enrich his donors at the expense of thousands of lives and America's environmental future.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030107ED.shtml

A wildlife conservation group said it is trying to pressure US states to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under federal clean water laws because of harm the gas does to the cycle of life in the ocean. Unlike most other developed countries, the United States, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, does not regulate carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists link to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030107EC.shtml

"In October, recently retired Forest Service planner Richard Artley made a few headlines when he blew the whistle on his former employer's secretive plan to close thousands of recreational facilities. Now, he's blowing the whistle on the man behind it, his former boss, Mark Rey, who currently holds the position most people don't know even exists," says Bill Schneider.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030107EB.shtml

Driven by increased concerns and mounting evidence of the threats posed by global warming, some of the world's most eminent scientists are telling policymakers to get their act together before it is too late to avoid a doomsday scenario.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030107EA.shtml

Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" - largely because of shortfalls in equipment worth billions of dollars - jeopardizing the Guard's ability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a Congressional commission that released a preliminary report today on the state of US military reserve forces.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107T.shtml



Panel Slams Treatment of Guard, Reserves

The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207L.shtml

Muswell Hill Journal

nlnews@archant.co.uk
1st March 2007

THE article "Radiation fear at schools" (Muswell Hill Journal, February 15) on radiation fears for schools in Muswell Hill is the latest piece of scaremongering from people who should know better. There is no firm evidence that exposure to "wi-fi" networks brings any adverse health effects to children. The educational advantages that this technology brings far outweigh any theoretical risks that might be associated with it. This topic has been repeatedly raised with governors of Tetherdown, the local education authority and the DfES and much valuable management time has been wasted rehearsing the same arguments with the same people every time. Isn't it time that the outstanding headteacher and the governors of Tetherdown were left to get on with running the school rather than having their time repeatedly wasted on this? If parents are so worried about "wi-fi" networks then they should remove their children from the school rather than carry on dredging this up again and again. - Joanna Maude and Robert Richards, Collingwood Avenue, N10.


Anyone who lives in Muswell Hill, close to one of the largest sources of electromagnetic radiation in the UK, the Ally Pally transmitter, should have no fears about their children's school having the far lower-powered wi-fi transmitters. - Thomas Paternoster, Palace Gates Road, N22.


I am seriously concerned about the story "Radiation fear at schools"
(Muswell Hill Journal, February 15). The story simply gives people a soapbox from where they can spout opinion and speculation with not a shred of fact to back up their claims. I think such reporting is irresponsible and scaremongering. Wi-fi networks have a valuable part to play in modern educational establishments. Safety standards for this sort of equipment are set nationally, and we follow Government guidance. Of course if any evidence was produced which indicated that there were safety concerns, then we would look at such evidence and seek expert advice. - Councillor Liz Santry, Members' Room, Civic Centre, High Road, N22.


Previous week's letters below:

WiFi dismay

nlnews@archant.co.uk
21 February 2007

I read with dismay the article regarding WiFi in schools (Muswell Hill Journal, February 15). It is untrue that there is no evidence of adverse health effects. In fact there are dozens of peer reviewed research papers confirming a link. A letter sent by one of the leading scientists in this field can be found, along with several other documents, at www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk May I respectfully suggest that you take a look at them and judge for yourself without the constant stream of lies from this Government and the phone industry in general. - Name and address supplied. In response to your article on the dangers of WiFi in schools, I became electro-sensitive after WiFi transmitters were installed at the school where I teach. I should be sorry if others, especially children, were affected in this way. I am always saddened when I notice people suffering from headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, joint and nervous pains and some types of asthma, all of which can be the effects of radiation, without realising the cause. - Michael Bevington, by e-mail.

http://tinyurl.com/yvpaod

Pupils not at any risk says hi-tech school

nlnews@archant.co.uk
21 February 2007

TETHERDOWN Primary School has refuted claims that pupils could be exposed to dangerous radiation from wireless internet technology. Parents and lobby groups warned last week that the technology should not be used around young children until it had been proved harmless, as it emerged some schools had been using it for years. But Tetherdown hit back at the claims saying it had considered all health concerns and had written to parents explaining its use of the wireless network. Beth Shand, chairwoman of governors, said: "Since their introduction at Tetherdown some five years ago, the wireless laptop computers have become an increasingly invaluable tool for teaching across the curriculum in a more effective and powerful way. "The governors are in no doubt that the flexibility offered by wireless technology has educational benefits for the children and staff which would not be achieved through a more constrained, hardwired setup. "We have considered the health concerns about wireless networks at considerable length and have been guided at all times by the advice of the local authority and by central government guidelines, including those contained in the Stewart Report. Ultimate responsibility for health and safety in community schools rests with the local authority.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
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DAVID POWLES
02 March 2007 09:13

Families living in the city centre are hoping people power will scare off a mobile phone company which wants to put a mast yards from a school.

Phone company Hutchison 3G has written to bosses at Bignold First and Middle Schools, in Wessex Street, informing them of its intention to set up a 15-metre mast just 75 yards away on the corner of the nearby Jenny Lind Park.

However, parents, councillors and school governors are hoping to fend off the application before it even reaches the planning stage.

A petition has already been placed in the school corridors and dozens of parents have shown their objection amid fears that health risks caused by such masts are still unknown.

David Moon, chairman of both schools' joint board of governors, said today: “We have mixed feelings about this because the research into the health risks has proved inconclusive.

“Governors are against the proposal because of the unknown impact and parents have already been expressing their concerns to us. We are also concerned to know why the phone company has chosen this site when it is so close to a school.”

Chris Hull, county councillor for the Town Close ward, said: “I would be very concerned about a mast near the school and on the edge of a park as it is in a wholly inappropriate location. Masts cannot be refused for health reasons but there is also the fact that this will be an eyesore.

“What concerns me is when you speak to mobile phone companies they say the reception in Norwich is great, so if that is the case why do they need to keep constructing more masts?”

A letter from the phone company to Mr Moon said studies show mobile phones were unlikely to have an adverse affect on people's health.

It said: “Our proposal to site a base station at this location is in order to meet local demand for 3's services and this area of Norwich currently has poor coverage.

“We looked at of 27 other sites in this area. These were rejected for several different reasons.”

Campaigners are hoping for the same success as that which convinced council bosses to throw out plans for a mast on Grove Road.

T Mobile were told to axe proposals for a 12m mast on near a parade of shops after more than 100 people signed a petition against it.

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

What are your views on phone masts? Write to Evening News Letters, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich, NR1 1RE or email eveningnewsletters @archant.co.uk of log on to http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/forums

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/34glgc

Klima-Appell: „Zeit zum Handeln!“

Der Klimaschutz steht groß auf der Fahne der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft. Doch während des ersten Drittels der Präsidentschaft stand Deutschland bei wichtigen klimapolitischen Schritten auf der Bremse – wie vor drei Wochen bei der Reduktion des CO2-Ausstoßes von Neuwagen.

Klima-Appell: „Zeit zum Handeln!“

Das muss sich jetzt ändern! Heute in einer Woche treffen sich die Staats- und Regierungschefs in Brüssel zum EU-Gipfel. Dort wird über Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz verhandelt. Mit einem Klima-Appell fordern wir von der Bundesregierung, dass sie sechs wichtige klimapolitische Schritte durchsetzt.

Unterzeichnen Sie den Klima-Appell: http://www.campact.de/klima/home
http://www.campact.de/klima/help/recommend
http://www.campact.de/klima/info/log

Wir wollen den Klima-Appell auch nach dem EU-Gipfel fortführen. Auf dem informellen Treffen der Umweltminister am 1. Juni in Essen wollen wir tausende Unterschriften präsentieren – eingefroren in eine 5-Meter breite Eiswand mit dem Schriftzug: „Zeit zum Handeln!“ Die Eiswand schmilzt während des Treffens – wie die verbleibende Zeit zum Handeln.


Günter Metzges


Aus: Campact-News 04/07

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Zum nationalen Energiekonzept: "Energischer Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien bis auf 100 Prozent"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3388602/

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Klima-Appell zur deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: "Zeit zum Handeln!"

Die Bundesregierung hat den Klimaschutz in den Mittelpunkt ihrer EU-Ratspräsidentschaft gestellt. Doch wenn es um konkrete Schritte geht, steht sie bisher meist auf der Bremse – wie vor kurzem bei der Reduktion des CO2-Ausstoßes von Neuwagen. Das muss sich beim EU-Gipfel vom 7. bis 8. März ändern!

Unterzeichnen Sie den Klima-Appell und verlangen Sie von der Bundesregierung, dass sie sechs konkrete Schritte für den Klimaschutz durchsetzt. http://www.oekosmos.de/article/articleview/781/

Die Aktion "Bantam-Mais" will in Tausenden von Gärten Süßmais heimisch machen. Wer "Bantam" anbaut, muss über Nachbarbauern informiert werden, die Gentechnik anbauen und vor gentechnischen Verunreinigungen geschützt werden. Schmeckt köstlich und vermehrt sich von selbst.

Weitere Infos finden Sie unter: http://www.bantam-mais.de/


Aus: Campact-News 04/07

US government technologists testing a proposed new data-mining system may already have violated privacy laws by, "reviewing real information, instead of fake data".

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11495


From Information Clearing House

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Anti-terror tests broke law, says watchdog

Tennessean

03/01/07

The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. The new program, similar to a Pentagon program that Congress killed in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, could take effect as soon as next year. But system testers probably already have violated privacy laws by reviewing real information, instead of fake data, a source familiar with a congressional investigation into the $42.5 million program told The Washington Post. The program, called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), is on the cutting edge of analytical technology that applies mathematical algorithms to uncover hidden relationships in data. The idea is to troll a vast sea of information and extract suspicious people, places and other elements based on their links and behavioral patterns...

http://tinyurl.com/ypb4n8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining

John Pilger

"It is my duty," wrote the correspondent of the Times at the liberation of Belsen, "to describe something beyond the imagination of mankind." That was how I felt in the summer of 1979, arriving in Cambodia in the wake of Pol Pot's genocidal regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17219.htm



Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Video

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13769.htm



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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/02/28/seymour-hersh/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh

The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6448430,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Five years and an outlaw nuke test after President Bush blew up the peace process with Pyongyang so he could look tougher than his predecessor, he capitulated completely earlier this month in accepting a negotiating framework that tacitly accepts the huge surge in the communist state’s estimated nuclear arsenal. Bush blinked big-time.

http://snipurl.com/19gfb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+Korea

http://snipurl.com/19gf4


From Information Clearing House



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

The Russian head of a military pact including several ex-Soviet nations warned the United States on Thursday not to use force against Iran, saying a military strike would not succeed in stopping Iran's nuclear program but would destabilize the region.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/01/asia/AS-GEN-Tajikistan-Iran.php


From Information Clearing House

John Bolton, the former American envoy to the United Nations, said the U.S. should pursue "regime change'' in Iran because European governments refuse to back sanctions tough enough to halt the suspected Iranian nuclear-bomb program.

http://snipurl.com/19gf2


From Information Clearing House



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Speaking at the Omni Shoreham Hotel's Regency Ballroom in Washington DC, the presidential advisor said, "We didn't create the war in Iraq. We didn't create the war on terror."

http://snipurl.com/18p0r


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Snow

HR 1234 is a plan for the United States to use existing money to bring the troops and necessary equipment home and transition to an international security and peacekeeping force.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48622/


From Information Clearing House



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

Just hours after floating the idea of cutting $20 billion from President Bush's $142 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad was overruled by fellow Democrats Thursday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6449727,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://snipurl.com/u6rb


From Information Clearing House

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The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

03/01/07

The truth is infinitely worse than that these lives have been ‘wasted’: these deaths have served to strengthen our enemies and weaken our own country in countless ways that our actual enemies could never have achieved on their own. That these lives have been ‘wasted’ is the best one can say, not the worst. They are the greatest boon our enemies could dream of. These lives have not been ‘wasted’: they are the precious tribute laid at the feet of our enemies, by our own leaders in the pursuit of indefensible and criminal aims. Of course, the recognition of this truth requires that we act like adults, and that we are capable of coherent thought, shorn of lies...

http://tinyurl.com/3yohcf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

By John Pilger

John Howard's servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17218.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Howard
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MOBILE phone giant Orange is to fight a Town Hall decision blocking plans for a mast just feet from bedrooms.

The firm’s attempt to put up an eight-foot mast in Dynham Road, West Hampstead, was rejected by Camden planning chiefs in November last year. They ruled that the phone mast would clutter a conservation area.
Orange was the first phone company to have a mast application thrown out by the Town Hall.

The decision will now be reviewed by the planning inspectorate, a government body that has the power to overturn local planning rulings.

Lib Dem finance chief and Kilburn ward councillor Janet Grauberg opposed the siting of the mast at November’s meeting. She was concerned about its proximity to rooms where people would be sleeping, but, under planning regulations, health fears cannot be taken into account when deciding on a mast application.

Seven years ago the Stewart Report ruled that there was not enough evidence to support concerns that radiation from masts is dangerous.

Objector Simon Holmes’s home is less than 10 feet from the proposed site of the mast. The father of two wants to see health concerns incorporated into law.

He said: “The council take into consideration health risks on their own property. It’s slightly hypocritical that they don’t do the same for public property which they have been elected to safeguard.”

The Town Hall’s policy, introduced five years ago, is not to have phone masts on council buildings.

But Tory environment chief Councillor Mike Greene, who warned against rejecting the phone firm’s plans at last year’s meeting, said the appeal could be costly.

He added: “I would be delighted if the council were to win – from the point of view of residents and council tax-payers – but I fear we’re rather up against it.”

The average cost to the taxpayer of the appeal process is between £10,000 and £20,000, he pointed out. That figure shoots up to about £50,000 if costs of the case are awarded against the council. In the last two years there have been 325 planning appeals in Camden, which have cost council tax-payers about £350,000.

Residents have until March 23 to lodge their objections.

All content © New Journal Enterprises, 2006

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/030107/news030107_23.html

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mf_angst_bild.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mf_angst_text.jpg


Informant: Landesverband Thüringen
http://www.buerger-gegen-esmog.de
Hauptstrasse 106
98663 Westhausen
mail @stoppschild.de

http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2007/w070125.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson172.html



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

02. März 2007

Das Kyoto-Protokoll von 1997 legte erstmals verbindliche Ziele zur Reduktion von Treibhausgas-Emissionen für Industrieländer im Zeitraum von 2008 bis
2012 fest. Es ist seit 2005 in Kraft. Zu zehn Jahren Kyoto-Protokoll erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Es ist bisher auch in Deutschland nicht gelungen, zwingende Maßnahmen einzuleiten. Das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz war ein richtiger Schritt. Aber er reicht nicht mehr aus. Wir brauchen den Ausstieg aus der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger. Stattdessen werden Milliarden Euro in den Bau neuer Steinkohlekraftwerke gesteckt und über die Wiederbelebung der Kernenergiegewinnung philosophiert. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wurden in den letzten Jahren große Fortschritte bei der Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien vor allem Windkraft, Biomasse und Biogas erzielt. Immerhin 34 Prozent des Stroms werden aus diesen Quellen erzeugt. Damit brüstet sich heute der neue CDU-Wirtschaftsminister und forciert gleichzeitig den Bau eines neuen Steinkohlekraftwerkes in Lubmin. Welche Schizophrenie! Der Autoindustrie wird gestattet die dringend erforderliche drastische Reduzierung des Kraftstoffverbrauchs zu hintertreiben. Kerosin wird nach wie vor nicht besteuert. Von der Verlagerung des Güterverkehrs auf die klimafreundliche Schiene ist keine Rede. Nahezu jeder Vorschlag wird von der herrschenden Politikerkaste zerredet und alles bleibt beim Alten. So werden wir den Klimakollaps nicht verhindern. Vorschläge liegen von Experten, den Umweltverbänden und auch von der Linkspartei.PDS auf dem Tisch. Geredet wurde genug jetzt ist zu handeln! Das Kyoto-Protokoll war ohne Zweifel ein Meilenstein in der internationalen Klimaschutzpolitik. Angesichts der Dramatik des Klimawandels fällt die Bilanz der Ergebnisse nach zehn Jahren allerdings ziemlich bescheiden aus. Die Industrieländer haben ihre Treibhausgasemissionen um 3,3 Prozent reduziert. Das ist aber den mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten zu verdanken. Die übrigen Industrieländer verbuchen eine Steigerung der Emissionen um 11 Prozent. Die am wenigsten entwickelten Länder tragen am wenigsten zum Klimawandel bei, haben aber bereits heute am meisten darunter zu leiden. Diese nüchterne Bilanz hat die Konferenz von Nairobi im vergangenen Jahr leider ziehen müssen. Abgesehen davon, dass sich die USA aus dem Prozess bereits 2001 wieder verabschiedet haben, können sich weder Europa insgesamt noch Deutschland zufrieden auf die Schulter klopfen. Geht die Entwicklung so weiter wie bisher, wird nicht einmal das bescheidene Ziel, 5 Prozent weniger Treibhausgase als 1990 auszustoßen, erreicht. Und jedem müsste inzwischen klar sein, dass das bei weitem nicht ausreicht.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35231

- Le Journal D'ICI (Albi) : " J'assigne Tarn Habitat ".
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=regionsfr_midipyrenees#2

- France 2 : "Adolescents, Les Proies des Opérateurs" (reportage vidéo).
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=nouvellesdumonde46#2

- Chevreuse 2 Mars 2007 Débat: Téléphonie Mobile et Santé,
avec Dr Pierre Le RUZ, Me Richard FORGET, Etienne CENDRIER, Corinne LEPAGE.
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/CommuniquedePresseConferenceChevreuse02032007.pdf

The Bush administration has begun backpedaling from previous assertions that North Korea’s nuclear weapons efforts include a major uranium enrichment effort, charges that led five years ago to the unraveling of international monitoring of North Korea’s nuclear program and the acceleration of its drive to use plutonium for nuclear bombs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107D.shtml

Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army's surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups, and members of Congress for more than three years.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107B.shtml

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Four-star bureaucrats

Slate
by Phillip Carter

03/01/07

Today we learned just how far the dysfunction at Walter Reed extends. Not only did these problems happen on Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley’s watch — they literally happened across the street from his quarters. When told that soldiers were complaining about bureaucratic obstacles to medical care and substandard housing, the surgeon general ignored them. His staff summarily dismissed members of Congress — and their spouses — when they tried to advocate for wounded troops. Despite the fact that 150,000 military personnel live in the Washington area, including hundreds of generals and sergeants major, no one paid any attention to what was going on there. Despite promising publicly to fix the problems at Walter Reed, Army leaders have decided instead to torment the wounded troops by waking them up at 6 a.m. and ordering them not to talk with the press. It’s fast becoming clear that the entire military bureaucracy is rotten to the core — incapable of managing problems at Walter Reed, let alone fighting and winning a war...

http://www.slate.com/id/2160994/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Army Secretary Resigns in Scandal's Wake

Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207R.shtml



Waxman to Force Walter Reed Ex-Chief to Talk About Problems, Contract

Democratic congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is challenging the Pentagon, which is attempting to block the former chief of Walter Reed Army Medical Center from testifying before Congress next week.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207T.shtml



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

American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the two-week-old Baghdad security plan. American soldiers say these outposts pose new risks to their safety and require pulling soldiers off patrols to protect their lodgings.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107A.shtml

Fehlende Akten des Bremer Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz haben am 1. März für einen Eklat im BND-Ausschuss des Bundestages gesorgt. Sie gelten im Fall des langjährigen Guantanamo-Häftlings Murat Kurnaz als zentrales Dokument für die Weigerung Deutschlands, den Bremer Türken wieder nach Deutschland zurückzuholen. Aufgrund der fehlenden Unterlagen beschloss der Ausschuss einstimmig, die Befragung wichtiger Geheimdienst-Zeugen zunächst auszusetzen. Die Akten sollen nach bisheriger Darstellung der Bundesregierung belegen, dass Kurnaz ab 2002 als potenzieller islamistischer Gefährder galt. Jedoch widersprach der damals für Kurnaz zuständige stellvertretende Leiter des Bremer Verfassungsschutzes, Lothar Jachmann, dieser Sichtweise. Die Opposition vermutet, dass die Akten zunächst vom Bundesinnenministerium vorzensiert werden würden.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15453



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Whistleblower_Law/
http://capwiz.com/whistleblowers/utr/1/CYTYGVUJSU/JFDOGVUJUT/1099386636

The Occupation Project, in its 4th week, continues applying pressure on elected representatives.

We expect that the House Appropriations Committee will vote on the supplemental spending bill on March 7th. Call Representative David Obey, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, to voice your opposition to any additional funding for this war. Please spread the word! Rep. David Obey: 202-225-3365

We expect the full House vote to happen by March 14th. It is essential that all of our representatives hear our opposition to further funding of the war in and occupation of Iraq. Please visit http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ for full contact information for your representative, or call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121.


THE OCCUPATION PROJECT: WEEK 4 A recent visit to the Wausau, WI office of Representative David Obey, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, resulted in the arrest of 3 constituents who refused to leave when Obey did not reverse his position on war funding. Seven were arrested at the Des Moines, IA office of Sen. Grassley while 11 others were being arrested at Grassley's other office in Cedar Rapids. In St. Louis, after sitting down and discussing de-funding the war with Representative Russ Carnahan (D-MO) last week, members of Veterans For Peace and Military Famlies Speak Out members returned to Carnahan's office and 2 members refused to leave before they secured Carnahan's public commitment to oppose any new funding. Carnahan did not publicly commit so 2 members were arrested on charges of trespassing. Four Occupation Project participants were arrested in Sen. Barbara Mikulski's office in Washington, D.C.. Three were arrested in the lobby of the building housing Ohio Sen. George Voinovich's office. Three others were arrested at the office of Rep. Virgil Goode in Charlottesville, VA.

There are now over 30 local Occupation Project campaigns happening across the country: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project/campaign-descriptions

Join the efforts: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project-signup


OCCUPATION PROJECT RESOURCES AND ARTICLES

OCCUPATION PROJECT RADIO

The Occupation Project Radio has 2 new interviews conducted by Scott Burgwin; Kathy Kelly talks about the national efforts of the project and Joy First of Madison Wisconsin talks about ongoing efforts in Wisconsin. There are over a dozen audio files with interviews and updates from local campaigns. Listen: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project-radio


TALKING POINTS ON THE MURTHA SUPPLEMENTAL BILL
By Jeff Leys
February 27, 2007

[Editorial Note: Shortly after the following was written, reports broke in the media that Democratic party leadership in the House is backing away from Murtha's proposals on supplemental spending. In its place is the proposal that the full $93 billion will be approved by the House. This proposal would require that the President issue a waiver and notify Congress of any units deployed to Iraq which do not meet certain standards. Rather than acting to end the Iraq war, it would seem that the Democratic party leadership is playing political games with the lives of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens.]

Democrats who have staked out an "antiwar" position, whether consistently over the years or more recently, are beginning to join with Congressman John Murtha in placing limited conditions upon the supplemental spending request submitted by President Bush to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the so-called global war on terror. Even Representatives who have consistently voted against prior supplemental spending requests for the war and who have consistently co-sponsored legislation aimed at ending the war or placed restrictions on the waging of the war are showing indications that they will support a Murtha formulated version of the supplemental spending bill. The danger is therefore very real that fewer votes will be cast against the supplemental spending bill than were cast against prior supplemental spending bills.

Read the complete talking points: http://vcnv.org/talking-points-on-the-murtha-supplemental-bill


MY SMALL ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
by Michael T. McPhearson, Executive Director of Veterans For Peace. Michael sat-in at Carnahan's St. Louis office which resulted in his being arrested. http://vcnv.org/my-small-act-of-civil-disobedience


OCCUPATION PROJECT NATION-WIDE ARRESTS: UPDATED MARCH 1 - TOTAL SO FAR: 122
http://vcnv.org/occupation-project-nation-wide-arrests

MAIN PROJECT PAGE: http://vcnv.org/project/the-occupation-project
FULL LIST OF PROJECT RESOURCES: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project/resources

Wie sich jetzt herausstellt, gab es weder 2002 noch später Beweise für ein nordkoreanisches Atomwaffenprogramm mit hochangereichertem Uran.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24750/1.html

Protest gegen gleichzeitige Preiserhöhung der Anbieter, die einen Sieg der Konsumenten gegen das lukrative Aufrunden mehr als zunichte machen sollen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24754/1.html

Brad Friedman writes: "The good news is that over the course of the last few years, through the exhaustive and tireless work of an extraordinarily dedicated, rag-tag band of citizen patriots I call 'The Election Integrity Movement,' both the public and most of our politicians have finally come to understand that we have a serious problem with our electoral system. The bad news is that while they've finally discovered there's a problem - unreliable, inaccurate, hackable voting machines which count our public elections with secret software created by private companies - the politicians, specifically the Democrats, and many of their public advocacy groups, have gotten the solution wrong."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines

The US government should account for all "ghost prisoners" detained by the CIA in secret prisons around the world, urges a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, "Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention," contains detailed descriptions from a Palestinian detainee of his experience in a secret CIA prison before his release last year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107O.shtml



Rights Groups Report on Ghost Prisoners

William Fisher reports: "Six prominent human rights groups are charging that US authorities are secretly holding 39 terror suspects. One of the groups, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, has filed a lawsuit in US federal court demanding the disclosure of information concerning disappeared detainees, including ghost detainees and unregistered prisoners."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061207C.shtml


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ghost+prisoners
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

Senate Democrats are moving to compel some of the eight US attorneys who have been ousted to tell their stories publicly - under oath - after a federal prosecutor claimed he was fired for political reasons.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fired+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran

Karen Kwiatkowski, a veteran of the Pentagon with first-hand experience of the administration's cherry-picking of intelligence, talks to James Harris from truthdig and reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why, "When they call Iraq a success, they mean it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107K.shtml
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070227_pentagon_whistleblower_on_the_coming_war_with_iran/

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The coming war with Iran

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/26/07

The timing of the recent incident in which 15 British sailors were arrested by Iran at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway for purportedly entering Iranian waters couldn’t have been more provocative if it had been planned that way. And perhaps it was. The question is, however, who did the planning? It happened on the eve of a vote in the UN Security Council to impose stricter sanctions on Iran and in the wake of escalating rhetoric from U.S. government officials blaming Iran for anti-occupation activity in Iraq. On top of that, recent events include the kidnapping of Iranian consular officials in Irbil, Kurdistan, by U.S. forces, reports of covert U.S. support for terrorist attacks inside Iran, the ‘disappearance’ of a major Iranian military figure in the elite Revolutionary Guards unit, and suspicions that the Mossad may have had a hand in killing a renowned Iranian nuclear scientist. Add it all up, and there seems little doubt as to who carried out what seems like a brazen provocation...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10724


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25361



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kurnaz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steinmeier

by Margaret Kimberly, Black Agenda Report

Instead of giving Democratic candidates a pass, grill them on some of the most pertinent issues.

http://ga3.org/ct/H120pgF1Jzlr/

by Dick Meister, TomPaine.com

Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff says that unionized luggage screeners would imperil national security.

http://ga3.org/ct/Hd20pgF1Jzlf/

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Union-Busting as Homeland Security

"President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress agree that airport screeners play a vital role in the war against terror, yet continue to deny them the basic right of unionization by asserting that it would 'threaten national security'. It's the very least we can expect from George Bush and his Republican accomplices in their undiminished eagerness to protect the nation from the threat of unionization," writes Dick Meister.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030207LA.shtml



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

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_clash/ae.php

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Clash of civilizations?

Video

Talk is rising of a 'clash of civilizations'. But the problem isn't culture, it's politics - from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17544.htm

Auf dem EU-Gipfel am 8. und 9. März 2007 entscheiden 27 Regierungschefs über die zwangsweise Verwendung von Palmöl und anderen Plantagenprodukten aus den Tropen für die Energieerzeugung in Europa.

Palmöl- und Sojaanbau entwickeln sich zur Katastrophe für den Regenwald. Das Magazin Monitor berichtet darüber am Donnerstag, und auf der Webseite von Rettet den Regenwald haben wir Infos über Indonesien, Malaysia und Kolumbien zusammengestellt.

Bitte beteiligen Sie sich noch einmal an den Protesten auf
http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=137

Es lohnt sich. Die Bedenken der Umweltschützer werden langsam gehört!

Bitten Sie auch Freunde und Bekannte, bei der Aktion mitzumachen. Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung.


Herzliche Grüße

Reinhard Behrend
Vorsitzender Rettet den Regenwald
Friedhofsweg 28
22337 Hamburg
Tel. 040 - 4103804
info@regenwald.org
http://www.regenwald.org

Christian Science Monitor
by Andrew B. Coan

02/28/07

Significant constitutional cases don’t always arrive at the ball dressed up as such. Sometimes they come in the modest trappings of an obscure technical dispute too dull to capture public attention. Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in just such a case. Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation is unlikely to make headlines, but it could deal a sharp blow to the wall of separation between church and state. The plaintiffs are ordinary citizens who object to their federal tax dollars being used to fund the president’s program for ‘faith-based and community initiatives.’ In particular, they claim that several conferences sponsored by the program were propaganda vehicles for religion and therefore violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which forbids government promotion of religion...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0228/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Marjorie Cohn

02/28/07

Last week, in Boumediene v. Bush, two judges on a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that strips the rights of all Guantanamo detainees to have their habeas corpus petitions heard by U.S. federal courts. If that decision is left to stand, the men and boys detained at Guantanamo can be held there for the rest of their lives without ever having a federal judge determine the legality of their detention. In my opinion, this appellate decision will likely be overturned by the Supreme Court next term...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn02282007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Boumediene
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn

CounterPunch
by Susan Van Haitsma

02/28/07

In Mark’s court-martial, the fact that his conscientious objector claim had been denied prior to a looming second deployment could not be used as a defense to the charges of desertion and missing movement to which he pleaded guilty. However, it is important to note that the conscientious objector approval process in the military is considered by many to be a broken system. By law, the military must allow soldiers to apply for discharge as conscientious objectors when they have experienced, after enlisting, a ‘crystallization’ of their moral, ethical or religious beliefs about participating in war. However, J.E. McNeil, director of the Center on Conscience & War, says that, according to military figures, only about 50 percent of CO claims are being approved, and anecdotal evidence suggests the percentage may be even lower...

http://www.counterpunch.org/haitsma02282007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Wilkerson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Van+Haitsma

Guardian [UK]
by Simon Tisdall

03/01/07

An elite team of officers advising the US commander, General David Petraeus, in Baghdad has concluded that they have six months to win the war in Iraq — or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat. The officers — combat veterans who are experts in counter-insurgency — are charged with implementing the ‘new way forward’ strategy announced by George Bush on January 10. The plan includes a controversial ’surge’ of 21,500 additional American troops to establish security in the Iraqi capital and Anbar province. But the team, known as the ‘Baghdad brains trust’ and ensconced in the heavily fortified Green Zone, is struggling to overcome a range of entrenched problems in what has become a race against time, according to a former senior administration official familiar with their deliberations...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2023865,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam

AlterNet
by Jim Hightower

02/26/07

It’s instructive that only hours after changing the House rules last month to stop lobbyists from doling out certain freebies to lawmakers, Democrats celebrated. How? With a fundraising gala that drew some 200 check-writing lobbyists, still free to pay and play. Well, say the cynics, the Democrats’ hypocrisy just shows that you can’t change the system — special interests will always find their way around any restrictions reformers can dream up. Horsestuff. Look to the states and cities, and you’ll find examples of citizens reclaiming their politics and government from the exclusive grasp of the monied powers. Their reform mechanism is a rather simple notion called ‘clean elections’...

http://www.alternet.org/story/48405/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The American Conservative
by Michael Vlahos

02/26/07

We are losing our wars in the Muslim world because our vision of history is at odds with reality. This is a well-established condition of successful societies, a condition that inevitably grows more worrisome with time and continuing success. In fact, what empires have most in common is how their sacred narratives come to rule their strategic behavior — and rule it badly. In America’s case, our war narrative works against us to promote our deepest fear: the end of modernity...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_26/feature.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/03/01/cheney/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Weekly Standard
by Duncan Currie

02/28/07

Webb comes from a Marine family and earned the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, then ascended to Navy secretary under President Reagan. That’s the real ’secret’ to Webb’s sudden transformation from longtime Republican to anti-Bush Democrat to liberal hero: He combines the most salient qualities of Dean, Kerry, Edwards, and Clark that Democrats found so attractive in the last presidential cycle...

http://tinyurl.com/ytnspu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://tinyurl.com/353rx2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AntiWar.Com

by Alan Bock
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=10582


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Nation
by John Nichols

02/28/07

With the Bush administration preparing formal plans for a quick attack on Iran … a number of current and potential presidential contenders have been positioning themselves as the anti-Iran War candidate. … But the most muscular criticism of the administration’s saber rattling is coming from another possible candidate. … The speaker is Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican who has just finished a swing through New Hampshire do determine whether he should enter the race for his party’s nomination. Paul is not without his flaws. But this Constitution-wielding contender, who voted against authorizing Bush to invade and occupy Iraq and has steadily opposed that war since its launch four years ago, would certainly make the GOP debates worth watching — and perhaps applauding...

http://tinyurl.com/2l4ajg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

Boston Globe

02/28/07

Six years ago, the launch of Hillary Clinton’s career in the US Senate was marred by allegations that her brothers had received payments from people pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the waning months of his presidency. Now, in the wake of the launch of her presidential campaign, the pardon controversy has reemerged in an obscure court case in which Senator Clinton’s brother Tony is battling an order to repay more than $100,000 he received from a couple pardoned by President Clinton. Tony Rodham, who acknowledged approaching the president about a pardon for the couple, is the second of Hillary Clinton’s brothers to receive money from people who were eventually pardoned by President Clinton. Hugh Rodham received $400,000 from two people, one of whom was pardoned and one whose sentence was commuted...

http://tinyurl.com/28pgrq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

02/28/07

The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment. Louise Arbour referred to the Military Commissions Act approved by Congress last year and last month’s federal appeals court ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their detention. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court...

http://tinyurl.com/3x5avn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention

Ostermärsche und -aktionen 2007 auf der Sonderseite des Netzwerk Friedenskooperative http://www.friedenskooperative.de/om2007.htm

Ostermarsch.Info mit Übersichtskarte und Terminen http://www.ostermarsch.info/


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

Aktionen zum Prozess gegen US-Verweigerer in Würzburg, 3.-12. März
2007. Friedensgruppen fordern Untersuchung des Fall Aguayo durch die deutsche Bundesregierung

„Zum Prozess gegen den US-Kriegsdienstverweigerer Agustín Aguayo rufen Friedensgruppen zu Aktionen in Berlin und in Würzburg auf. Der Prozess wird am 6. März um 9.00 Uhr in den Leighton Barracks in Würzburg beginnen. Agustín Aguayo ist dort wegen "Desertion" und "Verpassen der Verlegung der Einheit" angeklagt. Ihm droht eine Haftstrafe von bis zu sieben Jahren. Neben Aktionen in Deutschland wird es auch Protestveranstaltungen in den USA und Großbritannien geben…“ Pressemitteilung vom 1. März 2007 von Connection e.V., Military Counseling Network (MCN), American Voices Abroad
(AVA) Military Project und Stop the War Brigade samt Übersicht der Termine und weiteren Infos http://www.connection-ev.de/usa/aguayo19.html


Unterstützen Sie den in Mannheim inhaftierten US-Verweigerer Agustín Aguayo ! Schicken Sie ihm eine Solidaritätspostkarte !

Soli-Aktion von und bei Connection e.V. http://www.connection-ev.de/postanagustin/index.html


Verweigerer in Mannheim nicht anerkannt. US-Gericht ignoriert Empfehlung der UN-Menschenrechtskommission

“Nach zwei Jahren Verfahrensdauer hat nun auch das Berufungsgericht in Washington D.C. dem im US-Militärgefängnis in Mannheim eingesperrten Agustín Aguayo die Anerkennung als Kriegsdienstverweigerer verweigert. Anfang März soll gegen ihn ein Strafverfahren durchgeführt werden. Wegen des Vorwurfs der "Desertion zur Vermeidung eines gefährlichen Einsatzes" und des "Verpassens der Verlegung der Einheit" drohen ihm bis zu sieben Jahren Haft…“ Artikel von Endy Hagen und Rudi Friedrich im Online-Flyer der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung Nr. 84 vom 28.02.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10596


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007



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

„Obwohl die Hardliner in der US-Regierung schon lange auf einen bewaffneten Angriff gegen den Iran hinarbeiten, werden die Kriegstrommeln seit Anfang des Jahres immer unüberhörbarer. Die Anzeichen mehren sich, dass sich Washington tatsächlich auf einen Angriff vorbereitet, wie jüngste Maßnahmen überdeutlich machen…“ Artikel von Jürgen Wagner als IMI-Standpunkt 2007/014 vom 26.2.07 http://www.imi-online.de/2007.php3?id=1506


Kein Blut für Öl! Aktion gegen Iran-Krieg - am 3. März in Köln

Artikel von Hildegard Miensopust im Online-Flyer der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung Nr. 84 vom 28.02.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10592


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

Eine einheitliche Servicenummer soll für Arbeitssuchende den Kontakt zum nächsten regionalen Callcenter ermöglichen

„In den meisten Arbeits- und Sozialagenturen ist es nicht mehr möglich, ohne Termin zu einem Sachbearbeiter zu gelangen. Doch diese Termine sind spärlich gesät und da die Sachbearbeiter mit einer Vielzahl von Kunden (wie es im Servicebereich nun heißt) stets beschäftigt sind, übernimmt die Terminvereinbarung eine zentrale Stelle. Weitergehende Auskünfte, die nur der Sachbearbeiter leisten kann, sind schwer zu erhalten – meist ist mehr als eine Nachricht auf dem Anrufbeantworter des Sachbearbeiters nicht möglich, um in direkten Kontakt mit seinem "Casemanager" zu treten. Erreicht man diesen doch einmal direkt, lassen Akten- und Informationssuche den Anruf nicht selten zur halbstündigen Angelegenheit werden. Diese Problematik dürfte sich auch durch die ab März geltende einheitliche Rufnummer der Bundesagentur für Arbeit nicht lösen lassen, die Nummer schafft letztendlich mehr neue Probleme für die Arbeitssuchenden…“ Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) in telepolis vom 28.02.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24684/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

ARD und ZDF kassieren Arme ab. ARD und ZDF treiben von Langzeitarbeitslosen hunderte Millionen Euro Rundfunkgebühren ein, obwohl diese nicht zahlen müssten. Kritiker sprechen von Abzocke.

„Nach Berechnungen der Frankfurter Rundschau kassieren die öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten etwa 560 Millionen Euro jährlich von Hartz-IV-Empfängern, die eigentlich gar nicht bezahlen müssten. Heinrich Alt, Vorstandsmitglied der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, beziffert die Gesamtsumme sogar auf rund 700 Millionen Euro…“ Artikel von Pitt von Bebenburg in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 28.02.2007 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/?sid=787a2b222b2b000cb5b1a398258c2ba4&em_cnt=1084253

Siehe dazu auch:

Rundfunkgebühren: Opfer des Verfahrens

Artikel von Pitt von Bebenburg in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 28.02.2007 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/hintergrund/?em_cnt=1084176


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

13 Täuschungsmodule

Artikel von Antonín Dick in junge Welt vom 21.02.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-21/001.php


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

Privatisierungslehrstück

Ver.di zeigt Muskeln: Telekom-Beschäftigte demonstrieren heute in Bonn gegen Zerschlagung des Konzerns. Mehr als 60000 Angestellte von Ausgliederung bedroht. Artikel von Daniel Behruzi in der jungen Welt vom 28.02.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-28/021.php


Telekom: Kampfbereite Beschäftigte in Bonn

„Ich wäre auch noch viel weiter gefahren, um hier zu demonstrieren“, meinte ein Kollege der aus München angereist war. Der Telekomvorstand hatte vor der Demonstration angekündigt, 55.000 Beschäftigte in eine neue Servicegesellschaft auszugliedern. Sie sollen bis zu sechs Stunden pro Woche länger arbeiten und weniger Geld bekommen. Auch aus Halle, Leipzig, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Berlin, Suhl und anderen Städten waren die Telekombeschäftigten zum Teil in der Nacht aufgebrochen, um am Mittwoch vor der Telekomzentrale in Bonn zu protestieren. Darunter auch Männer und Frauen vom CallCenter VCS die bereits von der Telekom an die Walter-Telemedien-Gruppe verkauft worden sind…“ Artikel von Georg Kümmel, Köln in sozialismus.info vom 01.03.2007 http://www.sozialismus.info/?sid=1994


Großdemonstration gegen Stellenabbau und Lohndrückerei bei der Telekom

„Am 28. Februar demonstrierten in Bonn rund 13.000 Beschäftigte der Deutschen Telekom AG gegen die Vernichtung ihrer Arbeitsplätze und gegen die Senkung ihrer Einkommen. Dort trat zugleich der Telekom-Aufsichtsrat zusammen, um unter anderem über die "Auslagerungspläne" des Vorstandes für T-Service und Call-Center zu beraten. Dagegen leistet die Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft Widerstand. Bei der Kundgebung sprachen die Vorsitzenden von ver.di und DGB, Frank Bsirske und Michael Sommer, sowie das zuständige ver.di-Bundesvorstandsmitglied Lothar Schröder…“ Sonderseite von ver.di zur Demo http://tk-it.verdi.de/news/demo_in_bonn


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

http://hpd-online.de/node/1276

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Freiheit statt Angst - Demo gegen Sicherheits- und Überwachungswahn. Aufruf zur Demo in Frankfurt (Main) am Samstag, den 14. April ab 15 Uhr

„Bürgerrechtler rufen zu einer bundesweiten Demonstration gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Staat und Wirtschaft auf. Am Samstag, den 14. April 2007 werden besorgte Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Frankfurt am Main unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst" auf die Straße gehen. Treffpunkt ist der Hauptbahnhof um 15 Uhr. Der Protestmarsch durch die Stadt wird mit einer Kundgebung vor der Paulskirche enden…“ Pressemitteilung vom 14.03.2007 beim Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=77

Für weitere Infos siehe die Demo-Homepage: http://www.Freiheit-statt-Angst.de


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2007



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

The German mcs network sent me an item on a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of toxic injury and the dangers of chemicals in general.

http://www.mcsbeaconofhope.com/


Regards,
Dorothee

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5846/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman

A six-nation alliance of big polluters, drawing in China, Japan, the US and India, was not the answer to the search for a wider post-Kyoto pact to combat global warming, Britain's top climate diplomat said on Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022807EC.shtml

A panel of scientists has given the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change, and is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophe.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022807EA.shtml

A weekend of confusion among Democratic senators over possible action on Iraq was capped off by an announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada that the Senate would wait on any Iraq-related legislation. "Iraq is going to be there ... it's just a question of when we get back to it," Reid said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022807R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

Exclusive By Helen Thomas

A PROPOSED mobile phone mast near a Hilperton primary school has angered governors, parents and residents.

T Mobile wants to build the mast near the junction of Ashton Road and Hilperton Road, which is only about 100metres from The Mead Primary School.

Chairman of the governors Peter Smith said: "I was horrified to learn of this proposal. "I cannot believe an organisation such as T Mobile would consider it to be reasonable to locate a mast adjacent to a school when they should have learned from experience elsewhere in the country it's not socially acceptable.

"I think we'll look back in years to come and question our sanity if we allow this to happen."

He arranged an extraordinary meeting for governors on Wednesday night to discuss the school's options and said he had already been inundated with letters from concerned parents and governors.

Meanwhile, local residents have started a petition against the mast and had gathered almost 100 signatures by Tuesday.

T Mobile has not yet submitted an application for the mast but pre-application guidelines suggest it should inform those living in the area.

Stuart Wellman, of Ardent Property and Planning, which is acting as agents for T Mobile, said the company put up notices on telegraph poles and wrote to the district council as well as the school.

However, the school was on half-term last week and Mr Smith said he only learned of the plans through district council leader Sarah Content.

District councillor Ernie Clark, who is also chairman of Hilperton Parish Council, said he had started a campaign to inform residents because he believes T Mobile's consultation was inadequate.

"There is no footpath near the notices and no one really looks at notices on poles," he said.

"I sent out a couple of hundred leaflets and have had quite a response already.

"The real concern is there is no real proof that radio waves that come from these things aren't in the long term. We don't know the long term side effects.

"I can't believe this is the best site they can find. There must be a better location out there."

Mr Wellman said the company had considered other locations but considered the Hilperton site the most suitable. He said: "The mast looks like a replica lamppost. It is 12m tall and does not cause visual intrusion," adding that the mast is low powered and would emit 347 times below the maximum permitted levels of radio exposure.

# West Wiltshire District Council has received notifcation T Mobile also intend to put up a mast about a mile from Trowle Common, Trowbridge on land owned by Wessex Water.

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Die niederländische Initiative wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl ("Wir vertrauen Wahlcomputern nicht") hat mit Hilfe des dortigen Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes skandalöse Praktiken des Monopolherstellers der Software der auch in Deutschland verwendeten NEDAP-Wahlcomputer aufgedeckt.

Die Software zum Betrieb der Wahlcomputer und zur Berechnung der Wahlergebnisse ("Integriertes Wahlsystem") wird von einer Drei-Mann-Firma, die dem Holländer Jan Groenendaal gehört, hergestellt und gewartet. Die Firma programmiert im Auftrag von NEDAP auch die Software der in Deutschland verwendeten NEDAP-Wahlcomputer. Der deutsche Vetreiber, HSG Wahlsysteme, nimmt lediglich kleinere Anpassungen und die Eindeutschung vor. Die Monopolstellung der Firma von Groenendaal wirkt sich also auch direkt auf den in Deutschland ohnehin umstrittenen Wahlcomputer-Einsatz aus.

Angesichts der immer massiver werdenden Fragen nach der Überprüfbarkeit und Manipulationssicherheit von Wahlcomputern sieht Groenendaal nun offenbar seine Felle davonschwimmen. Er hat, wie durch befreite Dokumente belegt wird [1] [3], offenbar versucht die holländische Wahlbehörde zu erpressen, seine Mini-Firma aufzukaufen, da er "dringend in den Ruhestand" möchte. Andernfalls hat er unverhohlen damit gedroht, alle Aktivitäten einzustellen, die für die in den Niederlanden anstehenden Wahlen notwendig sind. Damit wäre die Durchführung der Provinzwahlen am 7. März gefährdet. Laut dem holländischen Innerministerium habe man die Drohung jedoch nicht ernst genommen und arbeite schon 20 Jahre "zur vollsten Zufriendenheit" mit ihm zusammen.

In den Niederlanden berät derzeit eine unabhängige Kommission nach den von der der Initiative wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl aufgedeckten Manipulationsmöglichkeiten und Sicherheitsproblemen von Wahlcomputern die Zukunft des Wahlverfahrens und den Ablauf der Wahlen.

Herr Groenendaal tat sich schon in der Vergangenheit mit gewagten Sprüchen hervor. Er behauptete, dass man auf NEDAP-Wahlcomputern nicht Schach spielen könne. Kurze Zeit nach dieser vollmundigen Behauptung konnte jedoch live im Fernsehen gezeigt werden, wie der Wahlcomputer problemlos Schach spielte [4]. Anstatt nun seine Niederlage einzugestehen und sich auf's Altenteil zurückzuziehen, forderte er, wie in den befreiten Dokumenten belegt wird, Rop Gonggrijp, den Gründer der Initiative wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl, als "Gesellschaftsfeind und Terroristen" ins Gefängnis zu stecken. Sollte Gonggrijp Mitglied der holländischen unabhängigen Kommission für das zukünftige Wahlverfahren werden, drohte Groenendaal mit der sofortigen Einstellung aller Arbeiten an der Wahlsoftware.

Angesichts der nun aufgedeckten massiven Mängel an geistiger Klarheit und Demokratieverständnis des Besitzers der Monopol-Software, mit deren Hilfe auch in Deutschland in 52 Städten und Gemeinden in 6 Bundesländern gewählt wird, fordert der Chaos Computer Club die sofortige Rücknahme der Betriebsgenehmigung für NEDAP-Wahlcomputer. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie das Bundesinnenministerium überhaupt die Entstehung einer derartigen Situation dulden konnte. Offenbar hat sich bisher niemand dafür interessiert, wie die Software für die Wahlcomputer zustande kommt und welche Erpressungsmöglichkeiten und systemischen Risiken dabei billigend in Kauf genommen werden.

In den Niederlanden ist die Rolle von Groenendaals Firma derzeit Gegenstand intensiver parlamentarischer Fragen [5]. Der Chaos Computer Club fordert die Abgeordneten des Bundestages auf, dem Krisenherd Wahlcomputer mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen und aktiv für die Rücknahme der Betriebsgenehmigung einzutreten.


[1] http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English/Mail_Groenendaal
[2] http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English/Groenendaal
[3] http://nrc.nl/redactie/doc/070228_stemcomputers.pdf
[4] http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/NedapChess
[5] http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English/Questions_in_parliament



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