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Riverbend - Baghdad Burning

Audio - Everyone, Americans and British especially, should hear this account of Baghdad under occupation.

A dramatised, searing, first-hand account of life in occupied Baghdad following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and drawn from the real life internet blog of a young Iraqi woman, known only for security reasons as Riverbend.

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Scheer reflects on the progress in Iraq since the fall of Saddam: "Yep, you did it, George - mission impossible accomplished. Unbelievably, four years of a bungled occupation have managed to make Saddam Hussein’s tyranny look good in comparison with 'liberated Iraq.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107F.shtml



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Terror detainees once held in the CIA's secret prisons were kept and questioned under highly abusive conditions, the International Committee of the Red Cross says in a confidential report based on interviews with high-value terror suspects.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107E.shtml



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A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser Karl Rove, and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107B.shtml



Senator Feinstein Questions Another Attorney's Departure

Senator Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday she wants answers about the departure of former US Attorney Debra Yang in Los Angeles, who resigned last October before the Justice Department's dismissal of eight other US attorneys sparked controversy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107C.shtml



David C. Iglesias: Why I Was Fired

"With this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department email messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107D.shtml



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Houseproud mum develops allergy to microwave ovens
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The cost of post-9/11 U.S. military operations has now reached $510 billion, according to an updated estimate from the Congressional Research Service.

See "The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11," updated March 14, 2007:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

Call your members of Congress now toll free at 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/funded_withdrawal.php

Usually when we contact our members of Congress our great challenge is to get policy hostile Republicans to understand that even in THEIR districts we have enough people opposing them to threaten their reelection. But we certainly expect our OWN representatives to listen to us. So why is it that STILL some of our most progressive House members are not fully behind Barbara Lee's amendment for a fully funded withdrawal of our troops from the hopeless sandpit in Iraq. You would be astounded by the names of some of your own representatives who have not yet committed to taking a real stand to end this war.

Is it any wonder that the popularity of Congress has dropped almost 10 points in the last month, back down to 28%. The American people elected a Democratic majority in both houses to take ACTION, not to just wring their hands and pass the buck of responsibility. The essence of exercising power is to take responsibility. When pushed, Bush will say, "So, I'm responsible, whatcha gonna do?" Yet, on the most drop dead critical issue of our time, the Democratic so-called leadership seems to be resigned to casting token votes of limp protest, quiet whimpers of timid discomfort, with no actual force of law.

Oh sure, it's all very well to take pot shots at lying attorney generals and call for resignations. It's perfectly fine to issue subpoenas and demand testimony under oath from self-evident liars, to root out corruption and everything else, and even to grandstand while doing so, assuming they manage to stick to their guns in doing that. All those things must be done too. But NONE of those things require any actual bravery, just a majority in Congress.

Are our Democratic bigwigs only capable of setting up some kind of "We told you so" for 2008, without actually risking responsibility for real policy change? Are they triangulating their bets just in case the situation in Iraq happens to take a miraculous turn for the better, in defiance of all evidence on the ground and past experience of the same failing, rehashed strategy. Are they so petrified of being blamed for losing a war, which was ALREADY a strategic debacle the moment Bush decided to invade Iraq, that they will do nothing of substance about it. And are they so frightened of taking charge that they will meekly submit even to a gross and insane expansion into Iran, just to avoid being seen as insufficiently blood thirsty.

The difference between the supplemental war appropriation and some other bill to stop the war is that this is a measure that the president NEEDS from Congress. This is not a bill he can veto and count on having enough remaining rubber-stampers to scuttle an override. This may in fact be the ONLY meaningful chance we will have in the next two years to keep from inheriting the military policy disaster in Iraq, to embrace for our very own shame. The American people will not forgive the Democrats for caving in again, when they gave us enough power to stop the war for the very PURPOSE of exercising that power.

The last poll we've seen shows that MORE than 90% of Democrats (and even a quarter of self-identified Republicans) OPPOSE dragging on a continuation of the Iraq war. Where are the 90% of Democratic House members who will represent their constituencies. Where are they? Where are 90% of Democratic members of Congress who will take a stand right NOW to STOP this immoral horror. And where are the 90% of Democratic presidential candidates who will do more than say their patience is wearing "thin," about four years too late.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/funded_withdrawal.php

What kind of backroom conspiracy is in place to allow votes on non binding resolutions, but NOT on amendments which would actually DO something. Why has Nancy Pelosi taken all options of any actual consequence off the table? Of course the president will veto anything that even suggests a check or a balance. What kind of phony activism is it to avoid a confrontation, where one is absolutely unavoidable and inevitable, and without which the outrages will just continue to grow more outrageous? That is all the more reason why we must put forth the strongest position possible.

Wasn't this demonstrated yet again today with the president adamantly refusing to let any aide be questioned under oath and on the record about their stacking of the deck in the justice department? Hear the words of old Nixon hand, and new Bush stonewall master, Fred Fielding telling Congress to run along and play like nice little children, refusing to negociate about anything more than informal and constrictive bull sessions.

"Such interviews would be private and conducted without the need for an oath, transcript, subsequent testimony, or the subsequent issuance of subpoenas . . . We trust and believe that the accommodations we offer here, in addition to what the Justice Department has provided, should satisfy the committee's interests."

Who do they think they are talking down to? Many of our senators and representatives are themselves experienced and seasoned prosecuting attorney generals from their own states. What disrepect for the prerogative of Congress! Isn't it perfectly obvious that they are counting on having enough crony judges in place to abort any credible investigation, in the case of a subpoena showdown? Are we the only ones who are reminded of IDENTICAL conditions imposed on the 9/11 commission about the testimony of Bush and Cheney, and what chumps the commissioners were at that time to submit to such a charade of an investigation?

Let us also remember that Alberto Gonzales is the same attorney general who, when the scandal of the NSA wiretapping first broke, stated that the White House was willing to listen to the "suggestions" of Congress. Suggestions?!?! Hello . . . Congress passes LAWS, the laws of the land. What we have here is a contempt for Congress, and their Constitution role, so endemic that nothing can possibly heal the body politic but a stone cold confrontation.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/funded_withdrawal.php

And the best and most important place to start is by demanding that any new Iraq appropriation be DEDICATED for the mission of getting our armed forces out of the Iraq civil war, where they are the primary obstacle to achieving the political settlement, which is the only possible solution. Please call your members of Congress and tell them this is the moment. This is the time. Do it now.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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David Hicks is an Australian citizen who has been detained by U.S. forces at Gitmo for over five years. Only this week he faced a military tribunal for the first time. Amnesty International Australia has built a replica http://www.bringhickshome.com/ of the prison cell he spends his life in. Peter Murphy has created a virtual model http://www.mediavr.com/hicks.htm you can visit from your computer.

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by Robert J. Miller, TomPaine.com

In one blow, Bush ignores treaties with Native Americans and the need for universal health care.

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by Devin Helfrich, TomPaine.com

To end nuclear proliferation, the administration says it needs new nukes. Make sense?
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Bush to Congress: Drop dead

Mother Jones
by Brian Beutler

06/19/07

Though they’ve been used by American presidents for about 200 years, signing statements — edicts issued by the president to declare his intent to construe a provision within a law differently than Congress does — are constitutionally questionable. But George W. Bush’s use of them far exceeds his predecessors’, and he has consistently used them to flout the will of the legislative branch. Though the GAO report makes no claims about the legitimacy of Bush’s statements or of the use of statements in general, it indicates that, in practice, the statements have the effect of nullifying the law in question in about 30 percent of cases...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/06/bush_to_congress.html



Executive Orders

Liberty For All
by Jessi Winchester

Ever wonder why more and more prisons are being built but so many stand empty? Current presidential executive orders certainly make it clear. Under a ‘national emergency,’ these prisons would become concentration camps for American citizens run by F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency Management Agency]. The FEMA website is quite candid about the fact that for the past 15 years presidential executive orders authorize the agency to exercise powers akin to Nazi Germany’s should a ‘national emergency’ be declared... (written 08/02; posted 06/19/07)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=715


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In These Times
by Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

03/20/07

An indispensable operating principle of any viable democracy is that the judicial branch of government function free from interference by the executive or the legislature. The other hallmarks of democracy — regular elections, freedom of speech and press, written laws and administrative procedures, etc. — are all hobbled, if not nullified, if judges and other judicial system officers are subject to coercion, whether direct or oblique, by external forces. Over the past decade, the focus of those defending an independent judiciary has been to publicly defend judges from the intemperate attacks of the likes of the deposed House Majority Leader, Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas). … Less strident but more insidious than Delay’s brand of bluster, the Bush administration and its supporters, with their bizarre and dangerous notions of an imperial presidency and unitary executive, have been stacking the federal bench with judges who they believe will genuflect to their will...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

03/20/07

Because government actions are forced upon all of us, we are left with no alternative but to suffer the increased cost. In an uncontrolled market … a free market … we would have a wide variety of products at differing prices. We would have, for example, inexpensive automobiles, less expensive food, and truly affordable housing. Versions of all those items would still be available at higher, more expensive, levels for those who could afford them, but we would each have the choice of trading a bit of safety for lower prices. Such was the America we once had, an America that made it possible for poor immigrants arriving here to not only survive, but, through frugality and hard work, work their up the economic scale...

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CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

03/20/07

Four years after the US and British troops invaded Iraq the country is drenched in blood and its people full of fear. Iraqis often have a look of half-suppressed panic in their eyes as they tell how violent death had touched them and their families again and again...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick03202007.html


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Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

03/20/07

The United States today denies love and freedom so deeply that its leaders justify torture and order its use. Our government violates the principles of love and freedom in nearly everything it does, from aggressive wars that have left hundreds of thousands dead, to a ‘war on poverty’ that has caused millions of children to grow up without their fathers (else momma would lose benefits). The U.S. expresses its coercive, corrupt, and phony ‘compassion’ by means of a ‘war on drugs’ that has put millions in prison over the years (mostly for using a safe herb) and created vast and violent criminal empires; the reach of this particular policy has stretched across the globe, wreaking violence and corruption in Columbia, Afghanistan, and many other nations. America has overthrown elected foreign governments (mostly for corporate gain), installed and supported vile dictators, and taught the secret police agencies of those dictators how to torture dissidents and otherwise repress dissent...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport10.html


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/21/07

Every word the War Party rattled off before the invasion — the reasons for the invasion, the ‘evidence’ of WMD, the alleged connection between the Iraqi regime and 9/11 — was either a lie or a half-truth intended to obscure the full truth. Hitchens was one of the main disseminators of these lies, yet he has the temerity to stand there and tell us he’s not sorry. He and his pal Ahmed Chalabi belong to the legion of ‘heroes in error’: they’re proud of their deceit. It has proved, after all, the key to their postwar success. … For the War Party, the world is a better place now that the U.S. has invaded Iraq and occupied it for four years: we have the ’surge’ to look forward to — and now the glad tidings of yet another war, an even bigger and ‘better’ one, with Iran. As far as Hitchens and his fellow neocons are concerned, happy days are here again...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10705


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

03/20/07

Speaking from the White House Tuesday, President Bush reiterated his support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the midst of the scandal over whether the firings of at least seven U.S. attorneys were politically motivated. ‘I am confident he acted appropriately,’ Bush said. ‘I regret that it turned into a public spectacle.’ ‘There is no indication [after reviewing the matter] that anyone did anything improper,’ the president said while vowing to fight congressional demands that the White House allow top political adviser Karl Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to be interviewed under oath...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

03/20/07

The White House sent a message to Congress on Monday that President Bush will veto a war funding bill if it requires the removal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2008. ‘This legislation would substitute the mandates of Congress for the considered judgment of our military commanders,’ a White House policy statement said of the $124 billion appropriations bill for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

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By Mairead O’Shea

Pat Hannon, Chairman of the Ballygar residents group addresses a public meeting in the town where plans by O2 for the erection of a mast are being opposed. The residents of Cloonlyon and Ballygar have vowed to fight plans by O2 to erect a mobile phone mast in the area. Almost two hundred people turned out at a public meeting in Ballygar last Thursday night to voice their concerns over a proposal to erect a 36m mast in Cloonlyon village.

O2 Communications Ireland applied to Galway County Council on February 20th for planning permission to erect a 36m antennae at Cloonlyon, Ballygar.

Mr Pat Hannon, chairman of the local residents group, explained that people had serious concerns over possible health effects, the devaluation of property and the obtrusive nature of the proposed mast.

“We have serious concerns on the grounds of possible health risks to humans and livestock. We heard from a farmer from County Tipperary at the meeting who experienced such health effects. The proposed mast is also in an area of local scenic beauty as at is on a walkway in the woods, which is regularly used by the people of the area. At 130 feet we feel that the mast will be enormous and we also fear that it will devalue property in the area,” said Mr Hannon.

The chairman went on to point out that three mobile phone antennae were already located on a mast on Mount Mary, which was only 3.5km from Cloonlyon. “I can’t understand why O2 can’t co-locate with the existing mast on Mount Mary. It’s only 3.5km from Cloonlyon and it covers an area from Glenamaddy to Athleague,” said Mr Hannon.

TDs and local councillors offered their support to the residents in their fight against 02.

The speakers at the meeting included Mr Con Colbert, Secretary of the Irish Doctors Environmental Association.

Mr Colbert referred to the guidelines issued by the World Health Organisation on permissible levels of radiation as “thousands of times higher in Ireland and the UK than in the US and Australia”.

The local residents are this week preparing individual and group objections to the O2 proposal. They have a further two weeks to lodge an objection with Galway County Council. Mr Hannon pointed out that plans were also underway to hold a public protest on the issue outside the offices of Galway County Council in the coming weeks. He said that residents would fight the O2 proposal and if necessary appeal the decision to An Bord Pleanala.

© Roscommon Herald, 2007.

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"The New York Times quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): 'Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct,' and Senator Reid is correct. This is not a partisan issue; this is a democracy issue. It is time for all Americans of good conscience and morality to stand up, bring as much pressure as possible to bear and let their elected representatives know that America belongs to 'We The People.' The pardon President Bush wants to grant Libby is not his to give," writes Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III.

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James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, under sharp questioning by a federal panel for his outspoken views on global warming, stood by his view today that the Bush administration's information policies smacked of Nazi Germany.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107N.shtml

"In addition to borrowing from the world's poorest countries, Bush & Co. are secretly confiscating your hard-earned dollars to support their out-of-control spending habits," writes John F. Ince.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107M.shtml

President Bush and Congress clashed Tuesday over an inquiry into the firing of federal prosecutors and appeared headed toward a constitutional showdown over demands from Capitol Hill for internal White House documents and testimony from top advisers to the president.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107J.shtml



Attorney Scandal Without Precedent: CRS Report Reveals Audacity of Dismissals

The December firings by the Bush administration stand in even more stark contrast with the firings that took place in previous administrations when the grounds for the departures are examined. The innovative philosophy of the current Bush administration with respect to the service of US attorneys is worthy of the attention it is now receiving. Those eight forced resignations threaten the very basis of our justice system — to quote the words written above the pillars on the west front of the Supreme Court, "Equal Justice Under Law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107K.shtml



What People Really Need

"In nasty and bumbling comments made at the White House yesterday, President Bush declared that 'people just need to hear the truth' about the firing of eight United States attorneys. That's right. Unfortunately, the deal Mr. Bush offered Congress to make White House officials available for 'interviews' did not come close to meeting that standard," writes the New York Times.

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VIDEO
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The U.S. housing market, long considered vulnerable by many economists, is now on the verge of suffering a serious collapse in many regions. Commodities guru and hedge fund manager Jim Rogers warns that real estate in expensive bubble areas will drop 40 or 50%.

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Asian countries need to prepare for a possible sharp fall in the dollar and should allow their currencies to appreciate collectively if that happens, a senior Asian Development Bank official said Tuesday.

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From Information Clearing House

If William Wilberforce were alive today and he travelled to different parts of the world - not just in Africa, but also in large parts of Asia, the Middle East, South America and even parts of Europe - he would find children living in conditions and circumstances which Wilberforce would understand and which I am sure he would describe as slavery

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Robert Lady, the former CIA chief in Milan, has gone into hiding. He is the subject of an extradition order from Italian authorities for the role he played in the kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan. Washington is seeking to derail the trial -- perhaps because Condoleezza Rice may have given the operation the green light.

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David Hicks, has alleged in a court document filed here that during nearly five years in American custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations, and that as a result he "cooperated" with his interrogators.

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For US troops from 9th Cavalry Regiment bumping around the dangerous streets of Baghdad in Humvees after dark on Monday, news that their deployment in Iraq could be extended fell like a hammer blow.

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Has he no shame? Bush: 'Iraq withdrawal may spark 9/11 repeat'

President George W Bush used the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war yesterday to warn that US withdrawal would unleash a "contagion of violence" that could spark a repeat of the September 11 attacks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17364.htm



Blood and Pork: Funding more than war

Nearly half of the 21 billion that House Democrats added to President Bush's request for emergency war funding would go to nonmilitary spending and to pork projects.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17362.htm



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Tony Blair's successor will have no option but to accept defeat and pursue a course of damage limitation.

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Most Britons say Iraq invasion a mistake

Fifty-five percent of respondents said they felt the war in Iraq has made Britain less safe, and only 5 percent said it left them feeling safer, according to the British Broadcasting Corp. poll commissioned to mark the invasion's fourth anniversary.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Britain_Iraq_Poll.html


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Former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was the third of Saddam's top aides to be hanged since the ex-president was executed in December after a trial in a US-backed Iraqi tribunal that was criticised by human rights groups as unfair.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/03/21/d70321012915.htm



The regrets of the man who brought down Saddam

Kadhim al-Jubouri spoke of his joy at being the leader of the crowd that toppled the statue in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Now, he is filled with nothing but regret.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2037219,00.html



Iraq: A country drenched in blood

Four years to the day after US and British troops invaded Iraq, its people are full of fear. Iraqis often have a look of half-suppressed panic in their eyes as they tell how violent death has touched them again and again.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2374380.ece



Andrew J. Bacevich: What's an Iraqi Life Worth?

In Iraq, lives differ in value -- and so do deaths. In this disparity lies an important reason why the United States has botched this war.

http://snipurl.com/1djiz


From Information Clearing House



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A Documentary from Adam Curtis (BBC) - The Trap (2007)

Curtis is best known for his 2004 series The Power of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics of Fear. This detailed how neocons in the US talked up the threat of radical Islamism to justify their "war on terror". The Trap is even more ambitious in scope. Like The Power Of Nightmares, it uses archive footage and interviews to explore the history and political impact of an idea - in this case the model of "individual freedom" that underlies neoliberal economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17371.htm



What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Part II "The Lonely Robot"

A Documentary from Adam Curtis

"The Lonely Robot" is the second in a series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares.

Click to view
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What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Part 3 - We Will Force You to be Free

Adam Curtis (BBC Video)

Curtis is best known for his 2004 series The Power of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics of Fear. This detailed how neocons in the US talked
up the threat of radical Islamism to justify their "war on terror".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17443.htm



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By Bob Cesca

If there can exist a civil authority which is charged with the duty of tapping our phones, reading our mail, tracking the content of our internet activity and then disappearing us based on "evidence" found in these illegal searches and seizures -- AND a large percentage of Americans support this -- then why can't their be an American legal penalty against war crimes?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17367.htm

Interview with Reese Erlich

Secretly, U.S. intelligence services are also sponsoring armed attacks within Iran. I discovered the U.S. and Israeli support for PJAK in Kurdistan and from so-called former MEK members.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17369.htm

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Stacy Malkan writes: "It's a sad irony of modern living that the health care industry - the largest single industrial sector in the US economy, and one that generates two million tons of waste per year - adds to the toxic load in a polluted environment that is, in turn, making people sick."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032007HA.shtml

Dozens of institutional investors managing a combined $4 trillion in assets have signed a statement urging Congress to pass strict laws to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement calls for federal legislation that would reduce heat-trapping emissions of carbon dioxide by 60 to 90 percent by 2050, compared with 1990 levels.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032007EC.shtml



Are Big Enviro Groups "Holding Back" Anti-Warming Movement?

The heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals for stabilizing the planet's rising temperatures, but some environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid. Their criticism reveals a rift between two approaches: preserving the American way of life at the expense of quicker solutions, or changing the structure of US society to counter an unprecedented threat.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032007EB.shtml

When former Vice President Al Gore testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday about the dangers of global warming, committees in both chambers expect huge turnouts. "We're seeing extremely strong interest in all quarters," a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032007EA.shtml



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Republicans and Democrats sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it could lose its broad power to collect telephone, email and financial records to hunt terrorists after revelations of widespread abuses of the authority were detailed in a recent internal investigation.

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

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Watchdog Calls FBI Abuses Inexcusable

The FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority in illegally gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while hunting terrorists, the Justice Department's chief inspector said Tuesday.

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From Information Clearing House



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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush administration's ability to unilaterally fill US attorney vacancies. The vote was a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight federal prosecutors.

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

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Senate Votes to End Gonzales' Power

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush administration's ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight federal prosecutors.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=nation_world&id=5134606


From Information Clearing House



New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was "extremely upset" that his deputy told Congress last month that a federal prosecutor had been fired for no reason, according to e-mail released Monday by the Justice Department.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17366.htm



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The White House offered Tuesday to make political strategist Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers available for interviews but not testimony under oath before Congressional committees investigating the firing of eight federal prosecutors.

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



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aargauerzeitung.ch vom 08.03.2007

Die Aargauer Regierung hat die Bewilligung für eine neue Kommunikationsanlage in Rudolfstetten aufgehoben. Den Entscheid begründet die Regierung mit umweltschutzre...

http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=2&rub=100004718&nrub=0&sda=1&Artikel_ID=101507265


Nachricht von diagnose-funk

Der Bundesrat beantwortete am 16.03.2007 das Postulat von Nationalrätin Evi Allemann Nr. 04.3594, welches sich mit den Gesundheitsrisiken und der Datensicherheit von drahtlosen Netzwerken, wie Bluetooth,WLAN...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/00000097f40c6132a/033ea298f90fc5d01.html

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2036598,00.html


Informant: NHNE

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From ufpj-news



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100+ Organizations, Activists Tell Congress - It Is Time to Enact a Fee on the Carbon Content of Fuels as Part of the Mix of Strategies For Addressing Climate Change

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Petition gegen Handy-Sender

21.03.2007

Schauensteiner fordern neuen Standort für vier Mobilfunk-Anlagen

Sehr emotional ist im Berliner Bundestags-Abgeordnetenhaus ein Gespräch in Sachen Mobilfunk verlaufen. Die SPD-Abgeordnete Petra Ernstberger hatte bereits zum zweiten Mal Vertreter der Schauensteiner Bürgerinitiative (BI) gegen Mobilfunk eingeladen. Werner Hohenberger überreichte eine Petition an den Bundestag.

Lesen Sie den ausführlichen Artikel in unserer Zeitung
http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=1102103

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Berlin: Petition gegen Handy-Sender übergeben

Die Frankenpost informiert in ihrer Online-Ausgabe vom 11.4.2007 über die Eingabe einer Petition der Schauensteiner Bürgerinitiative an den Deutschen Bundestag. Danach sei das Gespräch in Sachen Mobilfunk im Berliner Bundestags-Abgeordnetenhaus sehr emotional verlaufen. Die SPD-Abgeordnete Petra Ernstberger hatte bereits zum zweiten Mal Vertreter der Schauensteiner Bürgerinitiative (BI) gegen Mobilfunk eingeladen. Michael Müller, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Bundesumweltministerium, nahm die Petition entgegen und will diese an die SPD-Abgeordnete Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller vom Petitionsausschuss weiterleiten.

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=1110849


Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 12.04.2007
Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.



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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.

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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.

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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



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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
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Help Save Polar Bears: Deadline is April 9th
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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



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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
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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


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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


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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...

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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


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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/


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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


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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


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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


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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...

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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



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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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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


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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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
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de


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"
Referentin: Brigitte Maurer, Heilpraktikerin und Homöopathin
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



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

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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http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0319-24.htm



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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bison+Update

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2007/phone-mast-decision-19-03-07.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Burnham-On-Sea

"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