World-News

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/19/155625/229


Informant: Corey



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The House Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday that Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Chairwoman Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., would seek the authority to subpoena White House adviser Karl Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007I.shtml



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BBC Video Report

Pessimism 'growing in Iraq'Iraqis have little confidence in their own government and the US-led coalition forces, a major survey has shown.

http://snipurl.com/1dfhg



Iraqis increasingly pessimistic

Fewer than one in five Iraqis has confidence in U.S.-led coalition troops and they are evenly split on whether they have confidence in Iraq's government, according to a poll published Monday.

http://snipurl.com/1dfhi



From Information Clearing House



Kick out the occupation and sectarian gangs from Iraq:

We are commemorating the 4th year of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. This war that brought us nothing but carnage, poverty, and more than two million displaced people. This is Bush's promised democracy to Iraqis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17353.htm

Impeachments of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales, followed by felony indictments and trials are imperative if the rule of law in the United States is to be preserved.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17350.htm



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By Robert Fisk

As the West looks anxiously at Iraq and Afghanistan, dangerous cracks are opening up in Lebanon ­ and the White House is determined to prop up Fouad Siniora's government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17352.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

By Ghali Hassan

A recent cover story in the Time magazine (March, 2007, Europe and Asia) by Bobby Ghosh, "Why They Hate Each Other", aimed at removing the Occupation as the generator of violence against the Iraqi people, and portrays the violence as "Iraqis killing Iraqis". This media distortion obfuscates the U.S. monopoly on terrorism and allows the U.S. to use Iraq as a laboratory for terror at the expense of the Iraqi people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17359.htm



Muslims Mute on Terrorism? Excuse Me?

By Dr. Khaled Batarfi

Yes, we have our hate speakers and fear merchants, but they are mostly in caves and prisons, hunted and doomed. Yours, however, are members of legislative bodies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17360.htm

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/188264271


From Pam F.



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Protect Polar Bears From Trophy Hunters
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=474&aid=7998&msource=DR070304001&tr=y&auid=2469506

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Help Save Polar Bears: Deadline is April 9th
http://ga3.org/campaign/polar_bears_threatened/



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http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gesund/armuthorn.html


Aus: LabourNet, 20. März 2007

Claiming that the release of detailed information on oil and gas pipelines could aid terrorists or troublemakers, pipeline companies in Washington state are appealing a judge's order that they disclose to the public specifics about their potentially explosive lines. Meanwhile, the companies are asking the Legislature to change the Washington Public Records Act to allow the information to be kept secret - while simultaneously claiming in court that the law already shields the records from disclosure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007P.shtml

A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to either play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007O.shtml



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Police arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and New York City on Monday as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=March+17

The Senate is poised to pass legislation today stripping President Bush's authority to appoint interim US attorneys. Aides in both camps said neither party sees an advantage in slow-walking the US attorneys bill and predicted it will pass the Senate with a bulk of lawmakers in both parties supporting it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007L.shtml

US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted in the perjury conviction of a vice presidential aide. The chart was drawn up to identify US attorneys who should be removed. Two prosecutors who received the same ranking as Fitzgerald were later fired.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007K.shtml



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by Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus

In the name of stability, the U.S. is wrecking what stability exists on the fragile continent.

http://ga3.org/ct/Ap20pgF1XRPY/

Unmuddying The Waters

by Jon Devine, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/M120pgF1XRPT/

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Achim Schmillen

03/14/07

Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably not, but your Internet service provider might — especially if a proposal currently popular in Washington becomes law. In September, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales called for a law to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to store customer information for one to two years...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05822.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

03/19/07

The Bush administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce picked an awkward moment for their latest assault on financial and consumer-protection regulation. At the very moment that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was meeting with Wall Street bigwigs in a high-profile confab this week to call for weakening the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other investor and consumer protections, the stock market was tanking. Why is the market so nervous? Mainly thanks to the latest bitter fruit of financial deregulation: the collapsing $1.3 trillion ’subprime’ mortgage business, which now accounts for one mortgage in three. Here is a textbook case of why financial institutions need to be regulated, to protect both consumers and the solvency of the larger economy...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12584


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

03/19/07

Four years isn’t a long time but, in the context of the Iraq war, can seem like an eternity. Was it only four years ago that we sat and watched TV images of American tanks hurtling across Iraqi desert sands? The prevailing mood in this country, then, was a mixture of gung ho and unsure. This, many thought, was going to be the mother of all reality shows — 21st-century warfare in real time, the world’s mightiest military, fly-swatting a bratty country. That was then, and here we are now, in the war’s fifth year — past statue-toppling and museum-looting; past ‘Mission Accomplished,’ ‘Stuff happens’ and ‘Bring it on!’; past purple fingers, elections and constitutions; past car bombs, IEDs, beheadings and torturing; past talks of partition and is-it-or-isn’t-it-civil-war debates...

http://tinyurl.com/2j78jy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/19/07

The Bush administration, desperate for justifications to buy a little more time with the American people for its failed adventure in Iraq, markets the idea that if the United States rapidly withdraws from Iraq, the ‘terrorists will follow us home.’ A closer examination of this assertion — like the rest of the administration’s fear mongering — demonstrates it is baseless. U.S. State Department statistics show that historically, North America has had the lowest incidence of terrorism worldwide. The American public’s shocked reaction to the catastrophic 9/11 attacks was due, in part, to the infrequency of past terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. After the unique events of 9/11, terrorism in North America has resumed its historical modest trajectory. North America has been a relative safe haven from terrorism for several reasons...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1944


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Guy Smiley
Slate
by Fred Kaplan

03/19/07

What a dispirited, dispiriting speech President George W. Bush delivered this morning to mark the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. One could argue that it would have been dishonest to deliver any other sort of speech, for few things are more dispiriting than this war, which has now gone on for a quarter-year longer than America’s involvement in World War II. Yes, the war in Iraq is a very different war, but one would have thought — certainly we were told — it would be a lot shorter. And President Bush made it very clear that this war is not nearly over...

http://www.slate.com/id/2162159/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

03/19/07

On Saturday March 17th, Appeal to Reason co-founder Liam Madden and a number of other Iraq vets stood on the stage near the Pentagon and called for people to move from protest to resistance. Madden’s call echoed similar suggestions that have been coming up more frequently among movement activists. In fact, some groups have already begun this move, occupying legislator’s offices and insisting that they do more than say they are against the war while they vote to continue funding it. In Washington state, activists with the Port Militarization Resistance have attempted to block shipments of Stryker vehicles and other supplies on their way to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the ports of Olympia and Tacoma. On March 16th, Christian antiwar activists participated in a sit-in across from the White House to protest the war. These instances are but a few examples of how the momentum of the movement can be pushed forward...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03192007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tacoma
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AntiWar.Com
by Pat Buchanan

03/20/07

If George W. Bush launches a preemptive war on Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility for that war. For it was Pelosi who quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on Iran. Pelosi’s capitulation came in the Appropriations Committee. What went down, and why?

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10701


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
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LewRockwell.Com
by James Bovard

03/20/07

Alberto Gonzales will soon be ejected from the Justice Department. Bush’s Attorney General has been caught in too many flagrant lies and abuses. The real question is whether Gonzo’s fall will signal the beginning of the end of the Bush reign. Gonzo’s fall will be widely seen as a result of shenanigans and deceits involving the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys. The White House and top Justice Department officials seem to have colluded to deep-six attorneys who threatened Republican congressmen or appointees. The pending congressional testimony by Gonzo’s former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, could create new problems for the White House. But Bush is probably in much greater danger from the derailing [of] a Justice Department investigation into Gonzo’s possibly criminality...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard42.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/16/07

Throughout the many years of the Cold War, conservatives maintained that it was necessary to have an enormous military and military-industrial complex to protect us from the Soviet communists who were threatening to conquer the United States and the Western world. Throughout those years, one glaring fact stands out: At no time did conservatives ever claim that Islamo-fascism was a threat that required a massive military machine. The threat was always communism, especially Soviet communism...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0703f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The proliferation of government watch lists is a troubling development in the "war on terrorism." The challenges of such lists include differences of opinion on who's actually a security threat, consolidating information across agencies by making the computer systems communicate the with one another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17356.htm

Accounts of a Feb. 28 "literary luncheon" at the White House suggest that President George W. Bush's reading tastes -- until now a remarkably good predictor of his policy views -- are moving ever rightward, even apocalyptic, despite his administration's recent suggestions that it is more disposed to engage Washington's foes, even in the Middle East.

http://ipsnews.net/wap/news.asp?idnews=36955


From Information Clearing House



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

Very few Americans believe Iran represents a danger for their country, according to a poll by New York Times and CBS News. Only 10 per cent of respondents think Iran is a threat to the United States that requires military action now, down 11 points since mid-February.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15093


From Information Clearing House

The forces are in place to conduct a strike right now. The US has moved an additional carrier group, has deployed additional missile defense assets, has deployed an additional mine sweeping ship to the gulf. The US is in the process of adding oil to a strategic petroleum reserve. All of these are the steps that would be taken if one were going to conduct a strike in Iran.

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=78014



US mulling missile base in Bulgaria, Romania to deter Iran: report

The United States plans to station the defensive missiles in the Black Sea coast and the Rodopi mountains, South Bulgaria, the daily quoted a high-ranking US diplomat as saying.

http://english.people.com.cn/200310/13/eng20031013_125881.shtml



5,000 U.S. Troops To Be Deployed In Bulgaria, Romania

The U.S. military plans to deploy some 5,000 troops in Bulgaria and Romania next year as part of a plan to create new, more flexible bases in Eastern Europe.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/41560200-3be5-4d8f-a3c0-237fd4f8555b.html


From Information Clearing House

The Iran-US standoff at the present time has a shocking resemblance to the run-up to the US led invasion of Iraq.

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1230.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17351.htm



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http://www.denverpost.com/healthcare/ci_5476832

Informant: binstock

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An interesting Quote in an Alzheimer's Disease Forum

This article may date back to last year, but Alzheimer's Groups don't often acknowledge a link to EMFs, so I draw your attention to it, since it is a personal case, with an e-mail address.

Martin

http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/214102241/m/8041028251

(see specifically Joanne C. Mueller's note):-

Hi: Certainly we caregivers and Alzheimers' sufferers need to remain hopeful. In order to spare those of you who have already read my other rather lengthy posts, I am going to skip most of my history -- reasons why I have been researching EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation) for over a decade.

You will notice that "DRUGS" are the main theme in most if not all articles re new scientific discoveries.

Scientists don't dare do the studies that show "cause" due to toxic, EMF pollution. They lose their funding and/or don't receive funds in the first place.

Dr. George Carlo's "docu-drama," The Boiling Frog Syndrome" will be released to theatres some time in 2007 (health problems due to cell phone useage). Dr. Carlo worked for the cell phone industry and was even threatened for sharing the truth. He stopped speaking out but is once again trying to educate the public.

I am saddened to note that even the Alzheimers site does not include precautionary info re chronic, prolonged exposures of EMF/EMR!

Studies many years ago linked Alzheimers with women working in the sewing industry. Any electrical device puts out a magnetic field and in the case of a sewing machine, levels can be 4.0 milligauss or more in the typical location for one's head while sewing.

PREVENTION is vitally important and one way to help do that is to make sure electrical items are kept at least 4 ft. away from the head of one's bed. I don't know what one does about extensive sewing machine use.

There have been Workers' Comp cases re health problems and on-the-job electrical exposure. This is not something that is mysterious and unknown as researchers, government and industry would like you to believe.

The 2002 EMF California Report links brain cancer, Leukemia, Lou Gehrig's Disease and miscarriage to levels as low as 4.0 milligauss.

The 1999 EMF RAPID Conclusions name low level EMF's as Class 2B carcinogens.

The National Library of Congress website identifies EMF's as "toxic...."

"AGEING" (of the cells) is what happens when a person sleeps every night exposed to even low levels of EMF/EMR.

I have previously mentioned my grandsons' rare immune (an "ageing of their cells" -- they were infant/toddler ages) that predisposed them to Leukemia, etc. and that they "got well" after we moved their beds away from walls opposite electric meters.

AMYLOID was identified in one of my guinea pigs who had been exposed to
(inside) bedroom wall in our house opposite where the electric meter is mounted (outside). The University Vet who did the necropsy identified the particular amyloid as "reactive."

Obviously drugs are still necessary to try and reverse the ravages of Alzheimers (continuing to rise at alarming rates) BUT, it is more than possible any such medications once released to the public, might only be effective a short time and/or actually worsen a victim's situation IF persons aren't warned about sleeping close to electrical items, the need to check for improper wiring and correction of grounding problems, etc.

Don't give up on prayer, hope or positive thinking but do what you can to help your loved one regardless of their stage and also to help yourself prevent every health problem all the way from poor sleep to cancer!!! Joanne


Joanne C. Mueller, Guinea Pigs R Us, 731 - 123rd Ave. N.W., Minneapolis, MN 55448 USA...Phone: 763-755-6114 ..Email: jcmpelican@aol.com


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Mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung senden wir Ihnen folgende Pressemitteilung der ödp München:

Rede des ödp-Landesvorsitzenden zum politischen Aschermittwoch jetzt zum Anhören und Download im Internet - Suttner äußert sich zu Klimafragen

Die vollständige Rede des bayerischen Landesvorsitzenden, Bernhard Suttner, ist nun im Internet unter http://www.oedp-muenchen.de als Audiodatei verfügbar.

Sie kann auch als CD bei der Geschäftstelle des Stadtverbandes München gegen eine Schutzgebühr von 5,- € angefordert (Tel. 45247415 bzw. E-Mail info @oedp-muenchen.de) oder direkt in der Geschäftstelle Brienner Str. 46/V (bitte vorher anrufen) abgeholt werden.

Suttners Aschermittwochsrede ist auch zum Nachlesen im Internet unter
http://www.oedp-bayern.de/themen/texte/aschermittwoch-2007.html


Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46
D-80333 München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/55 06 99 86
E-Mail presse @oedp-muenchen.de
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Veranstaltungshinweise:

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu unseren kostenfreien Vorträgen. Immer in den Räumen der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung: Brienner Str. 46, U2/U8 Königsplatz und U1/U7 Stiglmaierplatz.

Do., 12. April 2007, 19.30 Uhr
"Pflanzenöl als Dieselersatz – schon heute eine marktreife Alternative!"
Referent: Markus Hollemann, http://www.ajuvo.com

Do., 10. Mai 2007, 19.30 Uhr
"Impfen, Pro und Contra - die individuelle Impfentscheidung"
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Do., 14. Juni 2007, 19.30 Uhr

„Aktiver Nichtraucherschutz – was ist in München und Deutschland möglich?“
Referent: Axel Napolitano, Pro Rauchfrei
Do., 12. Juli 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Meereskraftwerke – eine Energiequelle der Zukunft. Technische Möglichkeiten und aktuelle Projekte"
Referent: Dr.-Ing. Wilfried Knapp, TU München
Do., 9. Aug. 2006, 19.30 Uhr

"Wer bezahlt eigentlich mal Ihre Rente und unsere Staatsschulden?“
Referent: Martin Schmidt-Bredow, Zeitbank für München
Do., 13. Sept. 2006, 19.30 Uhr

"Krieg um's Öl oder Frieden durch Erneuerbare Energien"
Referent: Ulrich Haushofer, Stb., Gehrlicher Solar
Do., 11. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Gentechnik, Functional Food und Politik – die Globalisierung des Brotzeittellers"
Referent: Thomas Semonsky, ganzheitlicher Ernährungsberater
Do., 25. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"In Würde altern – für eine gute ambulante Pflege und streng kontrollierte Altenheime!"
Referentin: Johanna Schildbach-Halser, Nachbarschaftshilfe Rosenheim, ödp-Bezirksrätin
Do., 08. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Vorwärts in die Steinzeit? Wie die Industriegesellschaft sich selbst zerstört“
Referent: Martin Kraus, M.A., Philosoph
Do., 22. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

Film: "Lacoma und der Konzern (ein energiepolitisches Gesellschaftsspiel) – Auswirkungen des Braunkohletagebaus für Mensch und Umwelt"
Do., 13. Dez. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Der Global Marshall Plan – Initiative für eine weltweite Ökosoziale Marktwirtschaft"
Referent: Frithjof Finkbeiner, Global Marshall Plan Initiative

ödp – Profil
In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil - weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3202.html



Senator predicts Gonzales will be forced out within a week
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16930979.htm


Informant: ranger116



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The Republican Party's unwillingness to advance a genuine conservative has left millions of grassroots Republicans on the verge of leaving the GOP. For example, a poll at the recent CPAC meeting found the "overwhelming majority of conservatives displeased with the leadership of the Republican Party, and most conservatives scowl at the thought of having to vote for Rudoph Giuliani, John McCain, or Mitt Romney."......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin356.htm



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http://www.glrc.org/story.php3?story_id=3364


Informant: binstock

Barely a week seems to pass without the Bush administration getting caught hiding, censoring, or denying global warming science. Last week the Center for Biological Diversity and former Clinton official Debora Williams obtained an internal administration order prohibiting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists from talking about polar bears, sea ice, or global warming.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/polar-bear-03-07-2007.html

Congressmen Jay Inslee (D-WA), Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Brad Miller (D-NC) have demanded the administration withdraw the policy and explain its actions to Congress. Check out the media coverage at the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/306820_bears09.html?source=mypi San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/09/MNGBQOIBMG1.DTL
and the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901986.html



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Poll
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0319-04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0319-03.htm



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BFC SPECIAL ALERT!
* Spring into Action for Wild Buffalo!

PLEASE CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE TUESDAY, MARCH 20!


Dear Buffalo Friends,

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 20, BFC's Josh Osher and Darrell Geist will present testimony to the House Subcommittee for National Parks, Forests and Public Lands at the Oversight Hearing on Yellowstone National Park Bison.

BFC will demonstrate that the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) is failing the last population of wild bison in the U.S., the Yellowstone herd, which currently numbers fewer than 3,600 animals. The IBMP, signed in 2000, is a state-federal agency plan responsible for the harassment, capture, slaughter and quarantine of wild Yellowstone buffalo. Since the IBMP's inception, 1,912 Yellowstone bison have been killed by Yellowstone and Montana. The hearing will begin at 10 AM (est) and can be viewed live by going to: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=36.

We have waited a very long time for an opportunity like this. Tomorrow's hearing marks an amazing chapter in the buffalo's story and they need your help to make it as powerful as possible.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION! Call the House Parks Subcommittee & your House Representative on Tuesday!

1) If you live in the home district of one of the Subcommittee members please contact her/him on behalf of the last wild buffalo because it is especially critical that they hear from you! Urge them to do whatever it takes to stop the harassment and slaughter of the wild Yellowstone bison. Contact information for each member of the House subcommittee is listed below or here at this link: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newcommittee.cgi?site=ctc&lang=&commcode=hresources_parks

2) Don't see your Representative listed? Use the following contact info to get your message to the subcommittee membership: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, 1333 Longworth House Office Building, Phone: (202) 226-7736, Fax: (202) 226-2301
Email: parks.subcommittee@mail.house.gov (Entire Committee)

3) If your House representative is not on the Subcommittee, please contact them anyway and urge them to take a leadership role in protecting the Yellowstone bison, the United State's last continuously wild herd (use link below).

4) Please contact your Senators and urge them to hold a similar hearing in the Senate (use link below).

Urge the Subcommittee (and all of Congress) to provide clear direction to our National Forests and Parks that wild bison belong, and are our top priority on public lands and ask them to fund the purchase of wildlife conservation easements including winter range and corridors for bison to migrate through private lands in the Yellowstone area. BFC will be visiting with Congressional offices over the next two weeks and your calls will make a huge difference! To contact non-Subcommittee members as well as your Senators use this link (scroll down to the bottom of the page): http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS & PUBLIC LANDS:

*Majority Membership:
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) [Chairman], 202-225-2435, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), 202-225-3611, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), 202-225-2726, neil.abercrombie@mail.house.gov
Donna M. Christensen (D-VI), 202-225-1790, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Rush Holt (D-NJ), 202-225-5801, http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml
Dan Boren (D-OK), 202-225-2701, http://www.house.gov/boren/emailsignup.shtml
John P. Sarbanes (D-MD), 202-225-4016, http://sarbanes.house.gov/IMA/issue_subscribe.shtml
Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR), 202-225-6416, N/A
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY), 202-225-6335, http://www.house.gov/hinchey/contact/zipauth.shtml
Ron Kind (D-WI), 202-225-5506, http://www.house.gov/kind/contact.shtml
Lois Capps (D-CA), 202-225-3601, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Jay Inslee (D-WA), 202-225-6311, http://www.house.gov/inslee/contact/email.html
Mark Udall (D-CO), 202-225-2161, http://markudall.house.gov/HoR/CO02/Contact+Mark/Contact+Mark.htm
Stephanie Herseth (D-SD), 202-225-2801, stephanie.herseth@mail.house.gov
Heath Shuler (D-NC), 202-225-6401, http://www.house.gov/writerep/

*Minority Membership:
Rob Bishop (R-UT) [Ranking Member], 202-225-0453, http://www.house.gov/robbishop/contact/
John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), 202-225-5435, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Christopher Cannon (R-UT), 202-225-7751, http://chriscannon.house.gov/email.htm
Tom Tancredo (R-CO), 202-225-7882, http://tancredo.house.gov/contact/contact_contacttom.shtml
Jeff Flake (R-AZ), 202-225-2635, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Rick Renzi (R-AZ), 202-225-2315, http://www.house.gov/renzi/email.shtml
Steve Pearce (R-NM), 202-225-2365, http://www.house.gov/formpearce/emailtemplate.htm
Henry E. Brown, Jr. (R-SC), 202-225-3176, http://brown.house.gov/writebrown/
Louie Gohmert (R-TX), 202-225-3035, http://gohmert.house.gov/contact_louie.htm
Tom Cole (R-OK), 202-225-6165, http://www.house.gov/cole/contact.htm
Dean Heller (R-NV), 202-225-6155, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Bill Sali (R-ID), 202-225-6611, http://sali.house.gov/contactform/
Doug Lamborn (R-CO), 202-225-4422, http://www.house.gov/writerep/

MORE INFORMATION: Also invited to testify are representatives from the National Park Service, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, the Humane Society of the United States, Montana Stockgrowers Association, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, National Parks Conservation Association, and Utah State University. An eclectic crew, to say the least. We will make BFC's testimony available to you as soon as possible.

Read BFC's press release from Monday, March 19, 2007: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/031907.html

THANK YOU for taking action for the last wild buffalo! Your "endless pressure, endlessly applied" is paying off!

Save the herd... spread the word!


BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN (BFC)
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 (phone)
406-646-0071 (fax)
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field, every day, in defense of the last wild buffalo.

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Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC)
http://tinyurl.com/kppo5

Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field 3/29/07
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/update0607/032907.html

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Cowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughter
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/04/14/339.aspx


Informant: smileycoyote



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"Not since the Great Depression has the American worker faced such a bleak future. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, incomes for the lowest income quintile have declined during the past decade and the gap between the rich and the poor grows bigger each year. In essence, the rich are getting richer - and the poor are getting poorer. It's high time for a change," says Jay Richards.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907LB.shtml



Capitol Hill Holds Hearing on Black Male Unemployment

The black male unemployment rate is unacceptably high and it is time for the federal government to do something about it. That was the conclusion of a March 5 hearing held by the Joint Economic Committee, a bicameral, bipartisan committee of US representatives and senators who are charged with studying the nation's economy and making recommendations to the government for changes, if necessary.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907LA.shtml

Global warming over the past quarter-century has led to a fall in the yield of some of the most important food crops in the world, according to one of the first scientific studies of how climate change has affected cereal crops. Rising temperatures between 1981 and 2002 caused a loss in production of wheat, corn and barley that amounted in effect to some 40 million tons a year.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EA.shtml



Sustainable Living: Scientists Have Plan to Fight Warming

"What if I told you that we already have everything we need to resolve the crisis of global warming, except action? Would you believe me? How about believing two Princeton University economists?" asks Shawn Dell Joyce.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EB.shtml



Statistical Analysis Debunks Climate Change Naysayers

Despite the fact that the hundreds of scientists and reviewers on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced February 2nd in Paris that global warming is "very likely" caused by human activity, governments and other policy-makers may still justify inaction because of naysayers like Danish weather scientist Henrik Svensmark, who maintains that global climate change can be attributed to the proportion of cosmic rays in our atmosphere.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EC.shtml



Investors to Press US Congress on Global Warming

Joining a rising corporate chorus itching to sink money into clean energy projects, big investors will press the US Congress to pass laws attempting to tackle global warming. The dozens of investors include Merrill Lynch, The Capital Group, and the California Public Employees Retirement System, the largest US pension fund, said a source at Ceres, a Boston-based coalition of investors and environmentalists.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907ED.shtml

Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for US troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere, senior US military and government officials acknowledge. More troubling, the officials say, is that it will take years for the Army and Marine Corps to recover.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907T.shtml

In his examination of framing and language, Joe Brewer looks at the use of framing in discourse regarding global warming: "William J. Broad's article, 'From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype,' in the science section already ranks as one of the most popular articles of the day. This article is filled with misuses and abuses of language designed to undermine the credibility of Al Gore as a messenger for global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907F.shtml



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The past year of dizzying violence in Iraq has produced thousands of Iraqis like Ms. Rashid - sad-eyed seekers caught in an endless loop of inquiry and disappointment. Burdened by grief without end or answers, they face a set of horrors as varied and fractured as Iraq itself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907E.shtml

Less than three months since they took control of Capitol Hill, Democrats in both chambers have cranked the powerful Congressional oversight machinery into overdrive.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907B.shtml

When asked on Meet the Press Sunday morning if he "had any evidence that a US attorney was removed and that removal jeopardized an ongoing investigation," Senator Schumer said he does, and that the evidence is "becoming more and more overwhelming."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907A.shtml



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Der SPD-Abgeordnete Ottmar Schreiner fordert eine politische Kehrtwende seiner Partei. "Es muss etwas passieren, denn die Unzufriedenheit innerhalb der Partei wird immer größer", sagte der Bundestagsabgeordnete der "Hamburger Morgenpost am Sonntag". "Nach der Gesundheitsreform und der Rente mit 67 jetzt auch noch eine massive Absenkung der Unternehmensbesteuerung,­ das hält die SPD nicht aus", fürchtet der SPD-Politiker.

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Der WWF klagt vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) in Luxemburg gegen "die anhaltende Überfischung" des Kabeljaus durch die EU-Flotte. Die am 19. März eingereichte Klage zielt auf den Rat der Europäischen Union, der nach Ansicht des WWF mit den im Dezember 2006 beschlossenen Fangquoten gegen europäisches Umweltrecht verstößt. "Wir ziehen jetzt die juristische Notbremse gegen das andauernde Versagen der Fischereipolitik", so WWF-Sprecherin Karoline Schacht.

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By Gerran Grimshaw

RESIDENTS angered by a mobile phone company's refusal to take down a controversial mast staged a protest outside the firm's York store on Saturday.

Ever since the Orange mast was put up in Sheriff Hutton in October 2005, villagers have been campaigning to have it taken down.

Now the company has ended negotiations with the village's mast protest group, and has said the mast will be turned on in the near future.

The angry residents vowed to take their protest to the front door of the Orange Shop, in Coney Street, York.

Linda Murphy, from the mast protest group, said the group had proof that Orange had offered to take down the 15-metre structure if Ryedale District Council paid the £60,000 costs.

Mrs Murphy, who lives only 85 metres from the mast and has two young children, said: "Since Christmas, we've been negotiating with Orange to see if the village as a whole is willing to raise the money to pay for the mast to be taken down.

"But we had a letter from them last week saying they have no intention of negotiating further, and said they will now turn the mast on. They said any damage to it would be considered criminal damage."

She said the council said it could not justify spending so much on one community.

"The mast was put up because Ryedale District Council was too slow stopping it," Mrs Murphy said. "We've been left to pick up the pieces as a community."

She said residents were concerned about the potential long-term health effects of having the mast so close to people.

An Orange spokesman said: "While Orange has secured all necessary consents, direct action by a limited number of residents has to date prevented the completion of works to allow the site to operate.

"In seeking to respond to local concern, Orange met directly with representatives of the district council, where the authority discussed a variety of issues - including funding a search of alternative solutions.

"Having conducted a review of siting options without recourse to public funds, Orange maintains that the base station is located suitably when set against national planning guidance.

"As such, it is Orange's intention to take forward plans to connect power to the long established site and provide network coverage to the local area.

"Orange remains committed to liaising with local stakeholders where appropriate."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

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Handys können Krebs auslösen
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Informant: Corey

„1,4 Millionen Mitarbeiter beschäftigen die deutschen Kirchen – Pfarrer, Küster, Pflege- und Reinigungskräfte, aber auch Bankangestellte. Für sie gilt in Sachen Mitbestimmung seit Weimar ein Sonderrecht. Von allgemeinen Trends des Arbeitslebens sind aber auch sie betroffen. So wollen auch konfessionelle Betriebe den zunehmenden Kostendruck seitens des Bundes und der Kassen durch Lohnsenkungen kompensieren. Mittlerweile haben sie unzählige Subunternehmen gegründet, um »preiswerte« Beschäftigte quasi an sich selbst zu verleihen…“ Artikel von Stefan Konrad im Neues Deutschland vom 16.03.2007 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=106671&IDC=42


Aus: LabourNet, 19. März 2007

Anthony Arnove looks at the numbing numbers four years into the war and puts them next to the better known - and equally numbing - numbers in Darfur, comparing the response in US progressive circles to both tragedies. Looking at what the US attack on Iraq has unleashed, and at widespread appeals for US military intervention in Sudan, Arnove notes: "The focus on Darfur serves to legitimize the idea of US intervention at the very moment when the carnage that such intervention causes is all too visible and is being widely repudiated around the globe."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2954.shtml

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Billboarding the Iraqi Disaster

Anthony Arnove begins his exploration of the conditions in Iraq four years after the US invasion this way: "As you read this, we're four years from the moment the Bush administration launched its shock-and-awe assault on Iraq, beginning 48 months of remarkable, non-stop destruction of that country ... and still counting. It's an important moment for taking stock of Operation Iraqi Freedom."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907C.shtml



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View the first three episodes of Hometown Baghdad, a documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. See what life is like in a war zone.

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Pelosi opts for what is politically easy to do on climate change. It's time to raise the bar.
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by Lúcia Ortiz and David Waskow, TomPaine.com

An ethanol pact between Bush and Lula da Silva may not be in the best interests of the U.S. or Brazil.

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by Philip Mattera, TomPaine.com

For workers and their communities, private equity firms aren't the white knights they pretend to be.

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Forsaking Our Morality

by C. Welton Gaddy, TomPaine.com
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Why Conservatives Can't Govern

by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com
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Die Korruptionsvorwürfe gegen Hessens Ministerpräsidenten Roland Koch erhärten sich. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, den Freien Wählern, eine Wählergemeinschaft in Hessen, im April 2006 angeboten zu haben, die Wahlkampfkosten für die Kommunalwahl 2006 rückwirkend zu erstatten, wenn diese sich bereit erklärten, nicht zur Landtagswahl 2008 anzutreten.

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Nachdem in den letzten Wochen bereits die ursprünglich mal ambitionierten Klimaschutz-Ziele der EU-Kommission unter dem Einfluss der Autolobby schrittweise zurückgefahren wurden, wurde auf der gestrigen Tagung der EU-Wirtschafts- und Energieminister damit begonnen, den nächsten Teil des im Januar vorgestellten Energie-Pakets den Interessen der Energielobby anzupassen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=391

Der NRW-Landtagsabgeordnete und frühere Angestellte des Bayer-Konzern Karl Kress scheint sich auch im Ruhestand seinem alten Arbeitgeber Bayer höchst verbunden zu fühlen. Er befürwortet die umstrittene Verbrennung von australischem Giftmüll in Anlagen des Bayer- Konzerns und den Bau einer Kohlenmonoxid-Pipeline von Dormagen nach Uerdingen, gegen den der Kreis wegen hoher Risiken für die Anwohner Klage einreichen will.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=396

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

19. März 2007

Am 20. März 2003 begann der völkerrechtswidrige Krieg der USA und ihrer "Koalition der Willigen" gegen den Irak. Dazu erklärt der außenpolitische Sprecher des Parteivorstandes Wolfgang Gehrcke:

Der Beginn des Irak-Krieges basierte auf Gewalt, Lügen und Bruch des Völkerrechts. Millionen Menschen in aller Welt haben gegen diesen Krieg demonstriert, Hunderttausende auch in Deutschland. Sie alle hatten mit ihrem Nein zum Krieg Recht. Der US-Krieg gegen den Irak hat Terrorismus nicht bekämpft, sondern verstärkt. Er hat die Verbreitung von Massenvernichtungswaffen nicht eingedämmt, sondern befördert. Und er trägt nicht zur Demokratisierung bei, sondern die Demokratie auch in den Krieg führenden Ländern wird eingeschränkt. Die Befürchtungen der Linken haben sich bestätigt. Deutschland ist tiefer in den Krieg verstrickt, als es die Bundesregierung zugegeben hat. Das Urteil des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts im Falle des Majors Pfaff hat eindeutig festgehalten, dass auch die rot-grüne Bundesregierung sich völkerrechtswidrig verhalten hat. Ohne dass der deutsche Luftraum genutzt und die US-Stützpunkte in Deutschland zu Drehscheiben des Krieges gemacht worden wären, wäre es der Bush-Administration sehr schwer gefallen, diesen Krieg zu führen. Vier Jahre Irak-Krieg und die Drohung eines neuen Krieges gegen Iran machen es unumgänglich, dass die US-Militärflüge über Deutschland ohne konkrete Genehmigung im Einzelfall eingestellt und die Verträge über die US-Stützpunkte aufgekündigt werden. Ohne den Abzug der US-Truppen aus dem Irak wird es keine Stabilisierung im Lande geben. Auch das ist eine Konsequenz des Krieges.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35356

By Clare Semke
Health re3porter

Residents and pupils from Portsmouth High School protest outside St Judes Church

A CHURCH stands accused of endangering the health of hundreds of pupils in a bid to make money.

Parents and residents are protesting at plans for a G3 mobile phone antenna at St Jude's Church, Kent Road, Southsea.

The church will rake in thousands of pounds a year if the controversial proposal is approved.

But St Jude's is just yards from a residential area and Portsmouth High School and parents fear the long-term health of over 200 of its youngest pupils will be at risk.

Mary Williams, whose six-year-old daughter Eleanor is a pupil at the school, said: 'Although the jury's out on whether any damage is caused by these phone masts there is no evidence to prove these things are safe. Why take a risk with our children's health for the profit of the multi-billion pound telecommunications industry?

'Fifty years from now I don't want my daughter getting ill because the church wants some money.'

Portsmouth High School is to write to church bosses to air their concerns.

Senior school head Jenny Clough said: 'Steps should be taken to ensure my girls' health is maintained. Over 200 girls aged between three and 11 are less than 75 metres away from the proposed site.

Parochial Church Council vice-chairman Richard Portlock would not reveal exactly how much the church stood to make from the deal but said it was less than 10 per cent of it's annual budget of £100,000.

'We are required to take into account all relevant factors when making our decision and we will endeavour to do so.'

The Parochial Church Council was discussing plans behind closed doors today.

Last Updated: 19 March 2007

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

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Informant: NHNE



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After a 10-year study in and around the Bay of Bengal, oceanographers say the sea is rising at 3.14 millimeters per year in the Sunderbans, against a global average of 2 mm, threatening low-lying areas of India and Bangladesh. "At least 15 islands have been affected, but erosion is widespread in other islands as well," said Sugato Hazra, an oceanographer at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907P.shtml

A "media and research" company called eSapience has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the California investment firm C.V. Starr & Co., helmed by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Not the typical public relations firm, eSapience, run by conservative, free-market academics, buys and manipulates influence at the very highest levels of academic and intellectual circles. The suit brings to light the extremes to which a group of right-wingers have taken the phrase "marketplace of ideas," and exposes the lengths to which some will go to buy intellectual influence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907M.shtml

Peace demonstrators are ready for at least a thousand candlelight vigils around the US today and are demanding an end to the war in Iraq four years after it began. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people marched in New York's streets Sunday, braving near-freezing temperatures in a second day of national rallies marking the fourth anniversary of the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907K.shtml



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The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he intends to subpoena White House officials involved in ousting federal prosecutors and is dismissing anything short of their testimony in public. The White House is expected to announce early this week whether it will agree to let political strategist Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, and other officials testify, or will seek to assert executive privilege in preventing their appearances.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907J.shtml



Leahy Subpoenas: "Tired of Getting Half-Truths"

Yesterday on ABC's "This Week," Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) called on key White House officials such as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify under oath. This comes after the Senate Judiciary Committee authorized Senator Leahy to issue subpoenas to eleven current and former Department of Justice officials.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907R.shtml



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Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk
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Messergebnisse lagen klar unter Grenzwerten
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Welchen Wert haben Grenzwerte beim Mobilfunk?
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Strahlung unterm Grenzwert
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Going, going, gone

The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

The over-under on the Alberto Gonzales resignation is now a matter of days. But whatever it is, take the under. He’s done. He may not make it through the weekend, as more damaging e-mails continue to emerge showing both the administration’s arrogance in removing U.S. attorneys and its deceit in covering up its reasons for the firings. The demise of Gonzales may signal the final unraveling of the Bush White House, because at the heart of this particular scandal are two commodities most prized by this administration: loyalty to the president and a ruthless expediency in the service of political goals. Together, these two have made the Bush White House both successful and fearsome. But based on what we have seen so far, Gonzales’ chief offenses may turn out to be these exact characteristics...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12566


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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LewRockwell.Com
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

03/16/07

I have written before about the critical need for Congress to reassert its authority over foreign policy, and for the American people to recognize that the Constitution makes no distinction between domestic and foreign matters. Policy is policy, and it must be made by the legislature and not the executive. But what policy is best? How should we deal with the rest of the world in a way that best advances proper national interests, while not threatening our freedoms at home? I believe our founding fathers had it right when they argued for peace and commerce between nations, and against entangling political and military alliances. In other words, noninterventionism. Noninterventionism is not isolationism. Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations. It does not mean that we isolate ourselves; on the contrary, our founders advocated open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul375.html


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Here's an excellent mps on aspartame: http://theisleoflight.com/TalkShows/DrJanetHull.mp3

D.



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Climate experts hit back after being accused of overstating the problem.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2368999.ece


From Information Clearing House

DAVID HICKS was left frightened and confused after being forcibly sedated at Guantanamo Bay last month and then told of new charges the prosecution wanted to bring against him, his US military defence lawyer, Major Michael Mori, has said.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/18/1174152882379.html



A man of extraordinary courage

Unknown News
by Robyn Shelly

04/09/07

Michael Mori was appointed Defense counsel for David Hicks in November 2003, some two years after Hicks had first been interned. … Michael Mori is indeed something of a modern day Atticus Finch. His passion for the law is apparent in his defense of his client, and his defense of the law itself, which was under attack from men who wished to subvert the accepted standards of legality for their own ends. Whatever one might think of Major Mori’s client (and I for one think he was fairly naive and foolish to end up in Afghanistan), there is no doubt that the lawyer in this case was not a military stooge; he was man who has a deep commitment and, indeed, love of his chosen profession. His integrity, honour and compassion were apparent as he spoke out against the inherent bias of the proposed military tribunal system. What cost this might bring to the Major in years to come is yet to be seen, but the vitriol shown by Colonel ‘Mo’ Davis, the chief US prosecutor, makes it hard to believe that Major Mori has not killed his own career in the process of defending Hicks...

http://www.unknownnews.org/MichaelMori.html


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Video

"In Dick Cheney's World, what he says is frequently more fiction than fact"
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Russia’s foreign minister harshly criticized what he called Washington’s unilateral foreign policy on Saturday, and said Moscow intended to counterbalance it with its increasing global clout.

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From Information Clearing House



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Residents of a Czech village have voted against hosting a US anti-missile radar station, fearing it will make the village a military target, amid a gathering of anti-war protesters in the nation's capital.

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From Information Clearing House

A series of anti-war demonstrations in countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain and Britain occured ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1dbzw



VIDEOS: March on the Pentagon

A portion of the march leaving from the Mall next to the Lincoln Memorial across the Memorial Bridge.

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/138323/index.php


From Information Clearing House

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Anti-war activists march on Pentagon

Washington Post

03/18/07

Thousands of demonstrators protesting the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq marched on the Pentagon yesterday, jeered along the way by large numbers of angry counter-protesters. Organizers billed the antiwar rally as marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 march on the Pentagon. At times, verbal clashes during the cold and blustery day demonstrated that the bitter divisions of four decades ago sparked by Vietnam are very much alive in the debate over Iraq...

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Moderate believers give cover to religious fanatics -- and are every bit as delusional.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17345.htm

The One Video Clip Explaining Everything Wrong With Iraq, The Media, And The Right

On Meet the Press, they expressed their commitment to "fair and balanced" debate by having on disgraced war supporter Richard Perle and indicted, deposed ex-congressman Tom DeLay against Admiral and Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak and Former Democratic Rep. Tom Andrews of Win Without War.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/03/the_one_video_c.html


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Both the Pentagon and the Iraqi government have gotten the message that Congress is losing patience with the war, said Gates.

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From Information Clearing House

Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Iraq say that malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq from 19 percent before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 percent four years later.

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From Information Clearing House

Video

The Panorama special called A Good Kicking investigates the torture of seven Iraqi civilians in 2003 while held in British custody in Basra. One man, a hotel receptionist called Baha Mousa, died and had 93 injuries on his body. soldier, who asked to have his identity protected, told Panorama: "What I saw in that cell wasn't interrogation. It wasn't detention. It was torture as far as I am concerned. It was brutal. It was barbaric."

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By Gethin Chamberlain

TONY Blair could face the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17347.htm

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=174804


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Informant: bdpoe

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:27:14 EDT
to: breakfasttv@bbc.co.uk
CC: chichesterj@parliament.uk

We are hearing today of yet another stabbing involving a teenager, which has sadly resulted in the loss of another young life. The BBC are asking for comments on what we can do to address this rapidly growing problem; experts will be wheeled in to approach the problem from every angle.

It is only a couple of weeks since we were told that many of the young people served with ASBO's are suffering from mental illness and have no comprehension of what is expected of them. Then just a couple of weeks before that we were told that British children are the "unhappiest" in Europe. We can see that borne out by the statistics on the number of young people dependant on antidepressant drugs and - alarmingly, the number of suicides in this age group.

I believe that we are ignoring one major factor in all of these "investigations". Our young people today are having to cope with the highest level of pulsed microwave radiation than any generation before them. They are possily being bombarded 24/7 from a growing plethora of wireless devices - many specifically for the use of children (as in the wireless networking in schools). They will be sitting all day in a level of emissions which would be unlawful in many other countries (many schools have mobile phone masts within the school grounds - or within metres of the perimeter). Many homes now have DECT or mobile phones, instead of a landline - and, of course, we are still witnessing the targetting of young people by the Mobile Phone Operators - despite official DOH advice (in their leaflet "Mobile Phones & Health) that children under 16 should only use these devices for emergency purposes.

My MP, Sir Patrick Cormack, obtained a supply of these leaflets for us when we wanted to distribute them in our village and had trouble accessing them - but they are now seven years old and a replacement is long overdue. There is much independent scientific evidence to warrant action. Expert Government advice has indicated that "we do not know what effect this relatively new technology will have on the developing brains and immune systems of our young people". Despite this, nothing is being done to highlight this risk - neither by the HPA nor any of the childrens' charities who are dedicated to protecting the welfare of this vulnerable group.

It is imperative that a precautionary priniciple is adopted when uncertain technology is introduced - otherwise we are doomed to continue to repeat the mistakes we have made in the past with tobacce, asbestos, thalidomide, BSE (to name but a few).

The BBC, like most other media sources, have firmly hitched their wagon to the wireless star - the preferred option of contact now appears to be text. We are being encouraged to watch the news on our mobile phones, and many of the reports from around the world are brought to our screens via mobile phone. However, I would hope that this "marriage" will not prevent a serious investigation into the growing likelihood of serious health risks of the widespread use of mobile technology.

Cllr Sylvia Wright
Essington

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Paediatricians warn against mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3448983/