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http://www.omega-news.info/killing_pests_with_radio_waves.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=radio+waves

Imagine a world where everything is fitted with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) spychip, containing a unique ID for each product to differentiate it from others, and allowing it to be tracked in real time. It sounds far-fetched, but that is exactly what RFID companies like Accenture and the Auto-ID labs at MIT have been trying to do since 1999.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907C.shtml

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Take Appropriate RFID Precautions
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3490615/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spychip
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/wolves_in_peril

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Keep Wolves Protected in the Northern Rockies

From Adriana

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/485330943



Delisting Of Wolves In Oregon
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/776425164



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

Polling data released this month confirms what GOP officials are picking up anecdotally: swing voters are swinging away from Republicans at high velocity. Most alarming to GOP strategists is a new survey by the non partisan Pew Research Center that found 50 percent of those interviewed consider themselves a Democrat or leaning that way; only 35 percent tilt Republican.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907D.shtml



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

Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to start withdrawing troops from "the civil war in Iraq," dealing a rare, sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907A.shtml

Global warming-denier James Inhofe cues up another juvenile performance.
http://ga3.org/ct/7120pgF1mmQf/

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

Military contractor Mitchell Wade bribed jailed congressman Duke Cunningham. Was the White House a co-conspirator?

http://ga3.org/ct/7p20pgF1mmQt/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mitchell+Wade
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cunningham
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Corn

by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, TomPaine.com

Are 15 British Marines enough to make a war? A tit-for-tat contest with the Iranians is a foolish and reckless game.

http://ga3.org/ct/7720pgF1mmQ5/

by David Sirota, TomPaine.com

Corporate lobbies prove they'll say anything to excuse antidemocratic behavior.
http://ga3.org/ct/7d20pgF1mmQv/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Sirota

A guilty plea by Australian David Hicks to terrorism charges should not be seen as legitimizing US military tribunals taking place at Guantanamo Bay, human rights groups said today.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks
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With both houses of Congress now firmly on record in favor of withdrawing from Iraq, President Bush vowed Wednesday not to negotiate a timetable with Democrats, and a confrontation appeared inevitable as each side prepared to blame the other for delays in providing money for the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawing+from+Iraq

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endured blunt criticism Tuesday from federal prosecutors who questioned the firings of eight US attorneys, complained that the dismissals had undermined morale and expressed broader grievances about his leadership, according to people briefed on the discussion.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907K.shtml



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

The common thread in the thousands of pages of documents released by the Department of Justice in conjunction with a Congressional probe into the US attorney dismissals is that top officials in the DOJ who worked behind the scenes believed that they were doing something improper in selectively dismissing the attorneys and acted with a clear intent to deceive lawmakers if any questions into reasons for the firings arose.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907J.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/washington/29environ.html


Informant: binstock

Statesville Record & Landmark

03/29/07

President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress lurched toward a veto showdown over Iraq on Wednesday, the commander in chief demanding a replenishment of war funding with no strings and Speaker Nancy Pelosi counseling him, ‘Calm down with the threats.’ Bush said imposition of a ’specific and random date of withdrawal would be disastrous’ for U.S. troops in Iraq and he predicted that lawmakers would take the blame if the money ran short...

http://tinyurl.com/2zrxg5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.counterpunch.org/everest03282007.html


Informant: Duane Roberts

By Chris Kearney

Mobile phone company Vodafone plans to appeal against a decision to block an application for a new mast in Oxford.

More than 1,200 people signed a petition organised by Marston resident Michael Haines against the proposal.

Vodafone wanted to put up a 33ft mast disguised as a telegraph pole in Jack Straw's Lane, near St Michael and All Angels Church.

But Oxford City Council turned down the scheme last week because of its design and location.

Vodafone spokesman Rob Matthews said the firm was disappointed as it believed a new mast would improve 3G coverage in the area.

He said: "We have reviewed our options for providing coverage to our customers in the area and have concluded the proposal in Jack Straw's Lane will have the least impact.

"Vodafone does not take the decision to appeal lightly, but we feel that this is the best option for providing optimum coverage for our customers."

Vodafone claimed it had written to residents, detailing the proposal and inviting comments, but had received no reaction.

The firm appealed against a decision to block plans for a mast in Jack Straw's Lane in 2005. It also lost the appeal.

Mr Haines said: "I managed to get 1,200 signatures from residents around Marston, and I think that the council should take notice of that.

"We feel that this mast is being forced on us and we don't want it - not to mention the possible health risks to those that live near it."

City council spokesman Louisa Dean said: "The officers made the decision to refuse permission due to the style of the mast. It would not have fitted in with the surrounding area.

"In addition we feel the applicant had given us insufficient evidence on the unsuitability of alternative sites."

Marston city councillor Mary Clarkson said: "The annoying thing about all this is that there is already existing planning permission in place for a mobile phone mast on top of St Michael's Church.

"It's not for Vodafone, but the company that applied for permission hasn't utilised it."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.1293366.0.mobile_mast_bid_refusal_sparks_appeal.php

Überflüssige in München: Freie Fahrt für Alle

„dienstagabend 27.3. im herzen münchens: 7 überflüssige dringen sanft in u- und s-bahnen ein. ihre botschaft: über 80.000 münchnerInnen können sich dank hartz IV, sozialgeld & co. keine monatstickets mehr leisten. ..isoliert zuhause im offenen strafvollzug…“ Bericht von „ueberfluess-ich“ vom 28.03.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/03/172052.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 29. März 2007

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Düsseldorf: kleine Aktion der Überflüssigen

„Einige Überflüssige besuchten gestern das Center der Arbeitsagentur in Düsseldorf und warben für die Beteiligung an sozialen Kämpfen und dem Protest gegen den G8-Gipfel….“ Bericht mit Bildern vom 25.05.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/178457.shtml

Siehe darin auch:

Flugblatt Vorderseite (pdf) http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2007/05//178460.pdf

Flugblatt Rückseite (pdf) http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2007/05//178461.pdf


Das Problem der Exklusion. Ausgegrenzte, Entbehrliche, Überflüssige

So der Titel des von Heinz Bude und Andreas Willisch herausgegebenen Buches (394 Seiten. Gebunden, € 35,00 (inkl. 7% MWSt.), ISBN 978-3-936096-69-9, Erschienen im September 2006 bei Hamburger Edition). Siehe dazu

Informationen beim Verlag http://www.his-online.de/cms.asp?IDN=232&H='62'&T=0&Plugin=10&HE=10&HEP=978%2D3%2D936096%2D69%2D9

Inhaltsverzeichnis und Vorwort der Herausgeber (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/exklusion.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Mai 2007

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überflüssige in münchen: gegen ver_A_rsche !

„montag 27.8., 9:30 uhr: die überflüssigen entern die arbeitsagentur münchen. mission aufklärung: gegen die immer dreisteren lügen der offiziellen arbeitslosenstatistik eine aktive gegendarstellung ...und zwar vor ort ... und zwar rechtzeitig vor der nächsten märchenstunde der bundesagentur am 30. august. zutaten: 12 überflüssige, 1 grosstransparent, 3 posters, hunderte aufklärungsflyers. und: wut auf eine verhöhnende "aufschwungs"-propaganda, mundgerecht vom kapital serviert zur virtuellen sättigung von immer mehr armen schluckern. schluckauf! ver_A_rscht!...“ Bericht mit Bildern von „überflüss-ich“ vom 29.08.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/08/192663.shtml

Siehe dazu auch:

pinocchios märchen: das märchen vom aufschwung für alle. Das Flugblatt zur Aktion (pdf) http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2007/08//192665.pdf

ihre b.a. & die zukunft der lügen: Wie geht es weiter mit den Erfolgszahlen am Arbeitsmarkt?

„Die monatliche Märchenstunde der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) wird nun von 1-Euro-Jobbern durchgeführt (“Integration in den Arbeits-Markt”). Der BA-Pressesprecher (Pinocchio v. Münchhausen) wird durch einen Zufallszahlengenerator ersetzt. Die Statistik wird in die freien Künste integriert und untersteht direkt dem Aufschwungsministerium…“ Das Flugblatt zur Aktion (pdf) http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2007/08//192666.pdf

„IHR seid überflüssig“

„Der Aktionstag unter dem Motto „IHR seid überflüssig“ (Arbeitstitel) soll sich gegen die geschönten Arbeitsmarktzahlen sowie gegen die ‚Aufschwungs-Kampagne’ der Bundesregierung und der Arbeitsagentur richten und diese zu skandalisieren versuchen…“ Vorschlag / Aufruf des ABSP zum bundesweiten Aktionstag am 29. Oktober 2007 (pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2007/herbstaktion/IHRseidUeberfluessig.pdf

Siehe dazu auch:

Stoppt den sozialen Niedergang!

Aufruf für ein breites Bündniskonzept (pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2007/herbstaktion/Stoppt_sozialen_Niedergang.pdf


Aus arm ohne Arbeit wird arm mit Arbeit?

Idee für bundesweite Aktion (pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2007/herbstaktion/ArmmitArbeit.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 30. August 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überflüssige
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Prekarisierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8

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

ACTION PAGE: http://www.millionphonemarch.com/webb_iran_amendment.php

Don't let anyone ever tell us again our voices are not heard. Today the Senate REJECTED an attempt to strip the Iraq withdrawal time line from the current supplemental, just as you called for them to do. And in the remaining days of the week, before Congress takes a spring recess, there is one more urgent call we must make, to tell the Senate to pass an amendment being offered by new Senator James Webb to head off a NEW war with Iran without express congressional approval.

This amendment would not have been proposed if there were not a real, present and palpable danger that Bush will try to use the recess of Congress to open up a whole new barrel of war horrors. We are hearing more and more stories of preparations consistent with plans for an imminent major assault. Russian intelligence is reporting a continuation of the buildup of our forces on Iran's borders. And even as we speak the Navy is flexing their testosterone in a yet another show of "force" in the Persian gulf.

And to what end? To provoke some Gulf of Tonkin incident to be Bush's latest unjustified causa belli? The sheer clumsiness of the British wandering into DISPUTED waters and getting 15 of their people seized demonstrates how close we are to the situation blowing completely out of control. And we hear Blair warning about a "different phase", which can only mean descent into an even deeper circle of hell. One of their own former ambassadors has pointed out that the border between Iraq and Iran has NEVER been fixed on land, let alone at sea. And those are the waters our would be cowboy president is fishing for more trouble in.

The one thing we know for sure is that bombing Iran is the certain route to only one result, an even larger military confrontation we cannot win, with the added enormous peril of inflaming the situation in Iraq even more than it is now. The lunatic concept being pushed through the Pentagon by still unrepentant neocon hotshot theorists is that all we have to do is launch a bunch of cruise missiles and the Iranians will just fold up their tents. And our current president is just stupid, arrogant and desperate enough to buy it again, especially as the rest of his mid-East debacle comes crashing down around his ears and ours, and six years of despicable, deliberate lies finally start floating to the surface like a bumper crop of flotsam.

We are talking about people who are so utterly divorced from reality on the ground that they see good news in every new truck bombing. This very day on the Senate floor McCain argued that things really are getting better in Iraq, that the surge is working, and that there are neighborhoods in Baghdad outside of concrete fortifications where an American can just go for a leisurely stroll and window shop. But actual on the scene CNN British correspondent Michael Ware, who lives in mortal peril there every day to report what's really going on, says our own military commanders there find such statements laughably ludicrous.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.millionphonemarch.com/webb_iran_amendment.php

Only by sending a very strong message to the Senate right now, and pressuring them to make a public showing of opposition to Bush's insane, and not so secret, plans can we possibly constrain him from pulling an even bigger trigger, with consequences he has not bothered to consider. We're talking about the Plan A with no Plan B crowd. When asked what they would do if their surge did not work, like all previous identical surges in past, their only response was that is had to work.

Take heart that your many phone calls ARE working. They are the only reason we are finally getting some action out of our Congress, the first awakening of real backbone from our representatives. And it's all your doing. We have to not only keep it up, but magnify our efforts to get everyone who opposes Bush's wrong headed war policies to be their own personal citizen advocate, to lobby Congress with a phone AND a follow up email message right now. Please forward this message to everyone you know. And let it be so.

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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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. März 2007

Zur Entwicklung auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt im Monat März erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Es ist erfreulich, dass sich der Rückgang der Arbeitslosigkeit offensichtlich stabilisiert. Die Zahl der Arbeitslosen in Deutschland liegt jedoch nach wie vor stabil bei über 4 Millionen. 4,107 Millionen Arbeitslose sind und bleiben ein Skandal. Die Freude über gefundene Arbeit beim Einzelnen verdeckt nicht die Folgen der Regierungspolitik der vergangenen Jahre. Auf der einen Seite verweigert man sich auf der Regierungsbank hartnäckig Maßnahmen, die für weit mehr Beschäftigung sorgen könnten und so auch der steigenden Zahl der Langzeitarbeitslosen eine Aussicht auf Existenz sichernde Arbeit bieten würde. Die steigende Sockelarbeitslosigkeit und die nach wie vor doppelt so hohe Arbeitslosigkeit im Osten sind ein Alarmsignal. Auf der anderen Seite werden heute im Bundestag die von der Koalition geplanten Milliardenentlastungen für Unternehmen auf den Weg gebracht, die für bessere Chartplatzierungen an den Aktienbörsen Tausende Menschen auf die Straße setzen. Steuergeschenke an Konzerne und Kürzungen bei aktiver Beschäftigungspolitik, das ist die verkehrte Welt von Herrn Müntefering. Die Unterschriftensammlung der SPD für Mindestlohn ist offenbar ein schöner PR-Gag, aber mehr auch nicht. Ein weiteres Mal fordere ich die SPD auf, einen entsprechenden Antrag im Bundestag zur Abstimmung zu bringen. Es gibt im Bundestag eine Mehrheit für einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn. Offensichtlich kommt die SPD zunehmend mit ihrer derzeitigen politischen Rolle nicht klar - zum einen drückt sie unsoziale Gesetze wie Gesundheitsreform und Rente mit 67 gemeinsam gegen ihre eigene Wählerklientel mit dem Koalitionspartner durch, zum anderen versucht sie sich bei Mindestlohn und Raketenabwehrsystem als Opposition. Die heutige Ankündigung von CDU-Generalsekretär Pofalla, die CDU werde bei anstehenden Reformen nicht locker lassen, ist wohl mehr eine Drohung als ein Versprechen für die von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffenen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35426

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

28. März 2007

Zur Novelle des Aufenthaltsgesetzes erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die Integrationsgipfel der Kanzlerin nutzen gar nichts, wenn ihre Regierung gleichzeitig ein Aufenthaltsgesetz verabschiedet, das Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen immer noch eher als Bedrohung denn als Beitrag zu gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt und Bereicherung ansieht. Restriktionen gegen Frauen verhindern keine Zwangsehen, aber das Recht auf Familienzusammenführung. Die Bleiberechtsregelung ist völlig unzureichend. Eine dauerhafte sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung, wie sie als Voraussetzung für eine Verfestigung des Aufenthalts festgeschrieben wird, ist für sehr viele Erwerbstätige unabhängig vom Status so schwer zu bekommen wie ein Sechser im Lotto. Die EU-rechtlichen Vorgaben sind allenfalls in ihrem repressiven Teil umgesetzt, immer zulasten von Flüchtlingen und MigrantInnen. Dieses Aufenthaltsgesetz ist ein Desintegrationsgesetz. Deshalb fordere ich die Kanzlerin auf: Gehen Sie zurück auf Start, nehmen Sie Ihre Gipfel ernst und schaffen Sie ein modernes, EU-konformes Aufenthaltsgesetz, das auf Integration setzt.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35420

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Änderung des Zuwanderungsrechts beschlossen

Integration fördern

„Das Bundeskabinett hat ein Gesetz zur Änderung des Zuwanderungsrechts auf den Weg gebracht. Es setzt elf asyl- und ausländerrechtliche Richtlinien der EU in nationales Recht um. Zudem erweitert es die Voraussetzungen für einen Ehegattennachzug und ergänzt das bestehende Bleiberecht für langjährig geduldete Ausländerinnen und Ausländer….“ Pressemitteilung der Bundesregierung vom Mi, 28.03.2007 http://www.bundesregierung.de/nn_1264/Content/DE/Artikel/2007/03/2007-03-28-eu-asyl-ausl_C3_A4nderrichtlinien.html

Gesetzentwurf zur Reform des Zuwanderungsrechts (pdf, 1,4 MB) http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Artikel/2007/03/Anlagen/2007-03-28-reform-des-zuwanderungsrechts-gesetzentwurf,property=publicationFile.pdf

Heute im Bundeskabinett: Das große Antiausländerpaket alias "Gesetz zur Umsetzung aufenthalts- und asylrechtlicher Richtlinien der Europäischen Union". PRO ASYL: Mehr Haft, weniger Rechtsschutz, mehr Ausgrenzung „Getarnt als Gesetzentwurf zur Umsetzung aufenthalts- und asylrechtlicher Richtlinien der Europäischen Union geht heute ein ganzes Paket mit ausländerrechtlichen Verschärfungen ins Bundeskabinett. PRO ASYL kritisiert den Inhalt dieses Antiausländerpakets als repressiv und vom Geist der Abschottung geprägt. Das Resultat ist absehbar: Mehr Haft, weniger Rechtsschutz, mehr Ausgrenzung. Wenn dieser Entwurf Gesetz wird, werden Tausende zusätzlicher Haftplätze entstehen. Denn Asylsuchende, die in einen anderen EU-Staat überstellt werden sollen, weil dieser zuständig ist, werden keine Chance mehr haben, gegen diese Abschiebung Rechtsmittel im Eilverfahren einzulegen. Sie werden in der Regel in Zurückweisungshaft genommen…“ Pressemitteilung von Pro Asyl vom 28. März 2007 http://www.proasyl.de/de/archiv/presseerklaerungen/presse-detail/news////heute_im_bundeskabinett_das_grosse_antiauslaenderpaket_alias_gesetz_zur_umsetzung_aufenthalts_und_a/back/64/pS/1175095338/chash/1a6fa40498/index.html


Buntenbach: Neues Bleiberecht schafft keine Integration

„"Die Neuregelung zum Bleiberecht ist keine Lösung zur besseren Integration, sondern eine Altfallregelung, von der nur wenige werden profitieren können. Die zweijährige Bewährungsfrist birgt vor allem die Gefahr, dass die geduldeten Ausländer in jeden noch so miesen Job gedrängt werden und sich im Zweifel ausbeuten lassen müssen, um der Abschiebung zu entkommen. Gleichzeitig wird ihnen der nötige Bewegungsspielraum genommen, indem sie in den einzelnen Bundesländern weiter auf Sachleistungen und Sammelunterkünfte verwiesen werden können…“ DGB-Pressemitteilung vom 28.03.2007 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=2948


Aus: LabourNet, 29. März 2007

The Army's new acting surgeon general said Tuesday she is concerned about long-term morale because the military lacks money to hire enough nurses and mental health specialists to treat thousands of troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032807HA.shtml

Scaring the Pants off Men

"Last week saw Al Gore's triumphant return to Capitol Hill - the once-ridiculed candidate now acknowledged as a visionary and treated with long-overdue respect. But the most remarkable moment of Gore’s hours of testimony in both houses may have been one in which he wasn't even involved. It shined a light on both the changed atmosphere in Washington today, and the fear and loathing that that change is bringing on," says Paul Waldman.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032807WB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Gore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Waldman

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering limiting the ability of federal wildlife protection agencies to intervene on behalf of endangered species that may be harmed by federal actions. The proposed regulatory changes would also increase the role of state governments in administering some of the species protections that are now the responsibility of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032807EB.shtml

Thousands of harp seal pups are assumed dead in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence due to the lack of ice floes, which mother seals require to give birth and nurse their pups successfully. Experts with IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) have been carrying out daily surveillance flights over the region. They report that the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is the annual birthing ground of hundreds of thousands of harp seals, is essentially devoid of both ice and seals.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032807EA.shtml

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Lack of Ice Kills Thousands of Seals but Cull Will Continue
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/30/197/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=harp+seal+pups

Even as the head of the General Services Administration prepares to address allegations of improper conduct at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday, new information about her actions continues to emerge.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=General+Services+Administration

Senator Charles Schumer finds it "hard to believe" that embattled US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can continue in office for much longer. At the same time, Mr. Schumer believes that the practical consequences for the Republican Party resulting from Mr. Gonzales' actions - the culling of eight US Attorneys - will be lasting.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoenas
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A Senate panel wants to know if the Patriot Act needs to be revised to keep the FBI from illegally or improperly gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/ap_on_go_co/fbi_patriot_act_4


From Information Clearing House



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

"Kurdish and American sources say the United States has been supporting guerilla raids against Iran, channeling the money through organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/1356250


From Information Clearing House

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray is now challenging the legitimacy of the map just published by the British government in the current dispute with Iran over those 15 captured British sailors and marines.

http://barrylando.com/?p=136


From Information Clearing House

Video Lecture

In his provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17435.htm



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

Video Lecture

Retired CIA agent, Scheuer argues that the greatest danger for Americans confronting the radical Islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of US leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17434.htm

http://ga0.org/campaign/navymm1



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=undersea+warfare

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/28/150/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/28/135/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/28/138/



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By Jonathan Bunn

RESIDENTS could be in line for a compensation payout after a council blunder led to a phone mast being erected close to their homes.

Despite initial denials, the council has admitted it missed a deadline to refuse mobile phone giant O2 permission to put up the mast in Markhouse Road, Walthamstow.

Epping Forest Council recently paid a total of £2,500 to ten residents in Waltham Abbey when it made the same mistake, but larger amounts have been awarded elsewhere.

In 2003 the Local Government Ombudsman ordered Swindon Council to pay seven families between £10,000 and £20,000 to compensate them for the decrease in value of their homes when an administration error meant a mast was installed nearby.

O2 was within its rights to erect the 15 foot mast in Markhouse Road and insist it will not be taken down.

A letter from the council apologising to residents has been delayed, suggesting the council is treading carefully with the possibility of legal action and a costly payout looming.

Residents were shocked when the mast appeared overnight just before Christmas and initially planned to seek an injunction preventing it being switched on. The plan was ditched, however, when it emerged there was no time to pursue the action.

Tony Alvaranga, 42, who can see the mast from his home in Samantha Close, said: "There was a commitment by the planning office to write to residents who had objected to the mast application - that commitment has not been met.

"I believe a first letter was withdrawn at the eleventh hour and another one was going to be sent, but until Monday we had not received it.

A council spokesman confirmed a letter of apology will be sent to residents and said the authority was currently assessing the implications of its mistake.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1292552.mostviewed.council_blame_for_mast_error.php

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The 'Swindon' case is the leader (attached).

The potential for recompense via the court also exists although, to my knowledge, this has not yet been tested. The Bardsey case in the Court of Appeal (Feb 2005) refers. This concerned an application for prior approval and the LPA’s failure to notify any decision to the operator within the 56-day deadline - hence approval being deemed. In their findings, the three judges (one on whom had sat on the Harrogate case’) declared that the failure to notify was an effective an effective disenfranchisement of the claimant’s right to have her concerns on health and devaluation of her property taken into account and that, consequently, her Article 6.1 rights under the Human Rights Act to a fair hearing had been breached. As stated by Lord Justice Waller, "It seems to me clear that Dr Nunn's Article 6 rights were here infringed. She and others affected had the right to make representations to the LPA on the effects on health and on the appearance of the mast as it affected them and the value of their homes. In this instance she was deprived of her right under Article 6 to such a determination”. And Lord Justice Laws, "At paragraph 22 my Lord concludes that Dr Nunn was deprived of her right under ECHR Article 6 to a determination of her claims relating to health, the appearance of T-Mobile's mast and its effect on the value of her home and the homes of others. If I may say so I think that is entirely right.........”. Dr Nunn had the right to expect an effective decision by the LPA and thereafter the opportunity to present her objections in the event of an appeal. The incompetence of the LPA denied these rights.

It follows that if an LPA fails to take health fully into account (and, indeed, property devaluation) then it runs the risk of a claim in the County Court from every affected resident.

See further definition on the Planning Sanity website.

David


Compensation for phone mast blunder

Families living near a mobile phone mast have been awarded £117,000 in compensation.

Seven families will get between £10,000 and £20,000 depending on their proximity to the 20ft telecoms mast in Swindon.

Swindon Borough Council was ordered to pay the compensation after its planners failed to object to the One2One mast within the necessary 28 days due to an administration error.

The award is thought to the first of its kind.

Local Government Ombudsman Jerry White found the council guilty of maladministration causing injustice and has ordered the payment of compensation for the loss in value of the homes affected.

But most families said they would much rather the mast was removed.

This was our ideal home, but from our back garden and my daughter's bedroom all you can see is this mast

Melanie Hall, resident

Melanie Hall, one of six residents to bring the complaint against the council, said: "It should not have gone ahead in the first place, it's a residential area.

"This was our ideal home, but from our back garden and my daughter's bedroom all you can see is this mast.

"The compensation doesn't mean much to us really, ideally we wanted the mast to come down."

A spokeswoman said Swindon Borough Council had apologised to the families for the error - which was caused by the application being put on the wrong pile of paperwork.

This delay meant One2One - now named T-mobile - could put the mast up even though planners had objected.

Council chief executive Simon Birch said: "The council has accepted the ombudsman's findings in full and has offered affected householders compensation.

"The council has introduced new procedures for dealing with future applications for telecommunications development to prevent this maladministration happening again."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3041309.stm

Published: 2003/05/19 16:22:57 GMT

© BBC MMIV


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.wihe.waw.pl/index_an.htm

This organisation is involved with research on EMFs, RF and microwave health effects.

I have already distributed information about one of their studies which showed significant harm to the health of a large number of military personel who had been exposed to RF many years earlier.

They may be helpful with other research.

Martin Weatherall

nlnews @archant.co.uk
28 March 2007

ACTORS Neil Morissey, Joe McGann and Cliff Parisi are pictured (left to right) with Lynne Featherstone MP

THE fight isn't over yet - that is the message from TV stars, residents and Lynne Featherstone MP to a mobile phone company wanting to erect a mast outside their homes.

Residents of five roads in Stroud Green - including actors Neil Morissey, Joe McGann and Cliff Parisi - have united and won the backing of the Hornsey and Wood Green MP against Hutchison 3G's plans to install a 13.5 metre-tall mobile phone mast on a covered reservoir in Mount View Road.

Although Hutchison 3G recently won its appeal to overturn Haringey Council's rejection of the mast and base station, residents remain against it.

At a demonstration by the proposed site on Sunday, residents from Mount View Road, Womersley Road, Ferme Park Road, Ossian Road and Mount Pleasant Villas were joined by Ms Featherstone to show their solidarity.

Robin Derham, co-ordinator of the Mount View and Womersley Roads Neighbourhood Group, said: "These masts are being foisted on communities against their wishes, and the 'precautionary approach' to their location - advocated in the Stewart Report - is simply not being observed.

"The whole process appears to be weighted against us, and the only chance of overturning the decision is by judicial review, which can be a cripplingly expensive gamble.

"Ordinary people should not have to suffer the burden of costs to defend the air around them."

A 250-signature petition has been gathered against the mast, which would sit in a conservation area if built, just 20 metres from the nearest homes and 200 metres from St Peter In Chains RC Primary School.

Ms Featherstone added: "Until we are 100 per cent certain of the effects on people's health, I fully support a precautionary approach. Masts should not be built within feet of people's bedrooms as will be the case here. The mast will also spoil one of Haringey's best views over the city.

"The fact that residents are being forced to launch an expensive court action shows yet again how unfair our planning system is for the people who will be most affected by new developments. It is a real case of David versus Goliath and developers cannot be allowed to get away with this."

As the mast has already been given Government approval through the planning inspector, it could be erected at any time.

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional Limited. All rights reserved.

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Der Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte Alexander Dix beklagt eine zunehmende Überwachungstendenz in Deutschland. Dix warnte vor einer "Überwachungs- und Präventionsgesellschaft", die Wirklichkeit werden könnte, falls nicht energisch gegengesteuert werde. Zugleich rügte er am Mittwoch bei der Vorstellung seines Jahresberichts 2006 zahlreiche Verstöße gegen Datenschutzbestimmungen auf Landes-, Bundes- und EU-Ebene.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15641

David Corn writes: "In that note to Joshua Bolten, President Bush's chief of staff, Waxman requested information about a $140,000 contract the White House awarded in July 2002 to MZM, Inc. This was Mitchell Wade's company. What's intriguing about the contract Wade received from the White House is that its amount equals the exact price Wade paid in August 2002 to buy the Duke-Stir, the yacht Republican Representative Randy 'Duke' Cunningham lived (and partied) on in Washington. This raises the intriguing possibility that Wade that summer needed money to buy Cunningham the yacht and - presto - a White House contract materialized."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807F.shtml



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Last week, a convoy of approximately 20 veterans riding in converted school buses left Fayetteville, North Carolina. They were sponsored by Veterans for Peace, armed with literature and headed for New Orleans, where they are spending this week rebuilding houses in the Ninth Ward. On the way, the group stopped at military bases throughout the South. Their goal? To pass out copies of the Appeal for Redress, GI rights information and copies of the videos "Ground Truth" and "Sir! No Sir!"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807B.shtml



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Matt Renner reports that a Congressional probe into the dismissals of eight US attorneys last year has raised new questions about the role that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff played in the 2003 demotion of Frederick Black, the former US attorney in Guam. At issue is whether a report compiled by the Department of Justice’s inspector general took into account the fact that White House officials had been using email accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee before concluding that Black was not demoted for political reasons.

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Datenerfassung ohne Identifizierung

Ein Bericht der Royal Academy of Engineering warnt vor der Überwachungsgesellschaft und fordert die Entwicklung von Datenschutztechniken, die in Produkte und Dienste integriert werden müssen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24955/1.html

http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1327

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RFID and the End of Privacy
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President Bush again misframes the Iraq war debate. It's about the bases, not "funds for our troops."

http://ga3.org/ct/Ad20pgF1uzpZ/

by Barbara Burt and Jonah Goldman, TomPaine.com

U.S. attorney scandal? Just one battle in the Republican campaign to disenfranchise traditionally Democratic voters.

http://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1uzPq/



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by Isaiah J. Poole, TomPaine.com

In an Enron ruling, conservative judges close a door to defrauded investors.
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http://www.streiflicht-online.de/Bertelsmann.pdf
http://www.meinepolitik.de/netzwerk.htm
http://www.meinepolitik.de/gliedppp.htm
http://www.meinepolitik.de/gesamtte.htm

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Schattenkabinett aus Gütersloh

„Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung wurde 1977 von Reinhard Mohn gegründet. Heute ist sie der mit Abstand einflussreichste Politikberater im Land. Und da sie offiziell als „gemeinnützig“ agiert auch gleich ganz oder teilweise von Steuerzahlungen befreit. Das ist kein unbedeutendes, sondern wichtiges Detail, denn während es bspw. in den USA untersagt ist, dass eine steuerbegünstigte Stiftung mehr als 20 Prozent der Anteile eines Unternehmens hält, hält die Bertelsmann-Stiftung bereits 76 Prozent der Anteile der Bertelsmann AG, einem der bedeutendsten Medien- und Dienstleistungsriesen weltweit – und spart somit – ganz im Sinne ihres Stifters – einen Großteil der Steuern für die jährlich etwa 18 Milliarden Euro Bertelsmann'schen Konzernumsatz ein. Das uneingeschränkte Stimmrecht in Sachen des Konzerns liegt dabei nicht etwa bei der Stiftung, sondern bei den Mitgliedern der Familie Mohn, die ebenso in der Stiftung selbst themensetzend und tonangebend sind…“ Artikel von Jens Wernicke vom Mai 2007 http://www.labournet.de/branchen/medien-it/bertelsmann/wernicke.html


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Mai 2007

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Schattenkabinett aus Gütersloh

Das Rezept der allgegenwärtigen gemeinnützigen Stiftung ist stets das Gleiche: Die Gesellschaft soll wie ein Unternehmen geführt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25406/1.html

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Wie der Bertelsmann-Konzern sein «Netzwerk der Macht» errichtet
http://linkszeitung.de/content/view/117034/42/



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by Brenda Carney

Residents from Cloonlyon held a demonstration outside the offices of Galway County Council on Monday in protest against a proposal to build an 02 phone mast in the area.

Residents from Ballygar say the visual impact of the 36-metre phone mast will be incredible.

Cloonlyon resident Majella Grogan said the mast would be 210 metres from her back door. British guidelines stipulated that a phone mast should be at least 500 metres away from a dwelling, she claimed.

"It's too near our house and it's too big," said Ms Grogan. "No conclusive research by an independent body has gone into looking at the effects of having a phone mast so close by. Any studies done before have been funded by telecommunications companies," she claimed.

However, a spokesperson for 02 said that 02 endeavoured to minimise the environmental impact and visibility of its mobile infrastructures. 02 also complied with all Irish and EU health and safety legislation and all relevant industry health and safety standards. Health and safety issues were of prime importance to 02 Ireland, which was conscious of its responsibility to customers and the general public, they said.

02 Ireland said its nationwide network of base stations "adhere to the strictest of standards set by the International Commission for Non-ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and supported by the World Health Organisation.

"The communications regulator, ComReg, also audits 02 base stations to ensure full compliance with international standards and guidelines. Independent analysis from ComReg has shown that 02 sites operate thousands of times below safety standards set by the ICNIRP."

Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/ and
"Competing interests, conflicts of interest: Who's funding WHO?"under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3347390/

Galway County Councillor Tom Reilly gave his full backing to the protestors, saying he fully supported the plight to have the mast relocated. He called on Galway County Council not to grant permission on the basis of the submissions made by the Cloonlyon group.

"02 should think seriously about health not money. There is a serious visual impact on this community," said the councillor.

A petition with over 850 signatures was handed into the council and a decision is expected to be made in relation to either granting or refusing permission to 02 in the coming weeks.

http://www.galwayindependent.com/news/10995.html



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By Richard Harris

Amanda Hodgson and Terry Smith stand by the existing mobile phone in Melrosegate

HEALTH fears have been raised over plans for a second telephone mast in a York street.

Mobile phone company 3 has applied to erect the 12.5m high mast in Melrosegate, Heworth, near St Aelred's RC Church.

The first mast, which belongs to T Mobile, was installed in November 2005 and one resident has said that another mast in the street would be "beyond a joke".

Amanda Hodgson, who lives on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Melrosegate, objected about the first mast but to no avail.

She said: "Even though we said we didn't want it they still put it up. Now they have said they want a second one on the corner by the church. It's directly opposite our house and we're concerned about it. Firstly it's right outside where all the kids are and it's even closer to the children in the houses."

Mrs Hodgson admitted there was no evidence that phone masts are dangerous to people's health, but said that situation may well have changed in ten years, by which time the damage would have been done.
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Omega: phone masts are dangerous to people's health. See under:
http://tinyurl.com/32fhhe

In addition to the health fears she says the mast would be "aesthetically disgusting" and, although she has no plans to sell her home, would affect house prices in the street.

Mrs Hodgson is being supported by local hairdresser Terry Smith, who is a council candidate for the Conservatives at the next election.

He said: "I would like to see evidence that they are safe and I feel that local residents are right to express their concerns about this mast."

A spokesman for 3 said: "In reply to concerns voiced by residents, the proposal is for a slimline pole type antenna base station with a small transmission dish that will blend with the existing street furniture. Health concerns can be addressed by a recent World Health Organisation fact sheetconcluding that there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stationscause adverse health effects."

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

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1290015.0.fury_over_plan_for_second_mobile_phone_mast_in_york_street.php

States that commit acts of torture should be forced to pay for victims' rehabilitation, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6501541.stm


From Information Clearing House



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Saudi King Abdullah, whose country is a close US ally, on Wednesday slammed the “illegitimate foreign occupation” of Iraq in an opening speech to the annual Arab summit in Riyadh.

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From Information Clearing House

Despite Tony Blair’s adamant denial that the 15 British sailors and marines captured by the Iranians were intruding in Iranian waters, Commodore Nick Lambert, who headed the naval task force, was by no means as categorical.

http://barrylando.com/?p=135


From Information Clearing House

Retired general paints grim picture of Iraq

An influential retired Army general has released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David Petraeus and 16 other senior U.S. commanders.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usgen285148209mar28,0,3363150.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print


From Information Clearing House

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General McCaffrey Says US Military in "Strategic Peril"

An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David H. Petraeus, and 16 other senior US commanders. "The population is in despair," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote in an eight-page document compiled in his capacity as a professor at West Point. "Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate." McCaffrey says that the US military is in "strategic peril."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807C.shtml

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US Armed Forces are in a position of strategic peril
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6002/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The White House senselessly risks a new Cold War.

By Anatol Lieven

As if the U.S. did not have enough on its plate, the latest strongly anti-American statements of President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials suggest the possibility of a new Cold War with Russia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17431.htm



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By Richard Horton

With more than 650,000 civilians dead in Iraq, our government must take responsibility for its lies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17429.htm



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The House Administration (full committee) is planning to markup Rep. Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 (HR.
811) on Thursday, March 29 th at 10am. Any letters in support (no!) of or opposition (yes!) to this bill should be addressed to House Administration and faxed to them today or tomorrow so they can be inserted in the Record. The fax numbers for the committee are listed below. The letters can be the same letters you have been sending to your Congressional delegation, simply readdressed to Chairwoman Millender-McDonald and Ranking Member Ehlers.

Members of the Committee on House Administration

Democrats – Fax Number 202-225-7664 Republicans – Fax Number – 202-225-9957

Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, CA-37, Chairwoman
Rep. Robert A. Brady, D PA-1st
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D CA-16th
Rep. Mike Capuano, D MA-8
Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D TX-20
Rep. Susan Davis, D CA-53
Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R MI-3,
Ranking Member
Rep. Dan Lungren, R CA-3
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R CA-22

Please fax both the Democratic and Republican House Admin. Cmte a short statement or here is the letter I drafted, which you may borrow and revise if you would like.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Dear House Administration Committee Members:

I write this letter in opposition to the passage of HR811 or HR1381. Problems with HR811 and HR1381 which would need amending include:

1. Unreasonable Time Frames for Software Disclosure & Text Verification Technology Implementation: If voting system software were fully publicly disclosed (with no exemption for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software), voting equipment would be more secure, reliable, have longer life cycles, and be less costly. However, HR811 and HR1381 allocate:

* Insufficient time to develop standards and testing procedures, to develop new voting systems, and to purchase and implement new voting systems for text verification for voters with disabilities.

* Insufficient time to develop standards and testing procedures, develop new verification and testing infrastructure, purchase and implement new voting systems with publicly disclosed software

2. Insufficient Budgets:

* Budget for nationwide audits with 99% minimum success rates would be approximately $8 Million per federal election (for HR811/HR1381 audits with their 10% success rates cost would be $14 Million/election)

* Budget to immediately replace all in-auditable Paperless DRE machines with 44,000 optical scanners and 67,000 ballot marking devices (BMDs) for voters with disabilities and alternate language requirements would be $555 Million (HR811/HR1381 costs to replace all DREs without durable paper that protects ballot privacy with 74,000 optical scanners and 124,000 BMDs would be $990 Million)

* HR811/HR1381 budgets nothing for the ongoing infrastructure and technical manpower that would be required to verify that the publicly disclosed software is the same as that actually used during elections.

3. Audits are Ineffective, Administratively Burdensome, and Costly

* When tested against actual 2002 and 2004 election results, the HR811/HR1381 election audits have minimum success rates of 10% but cost up to 94% more and are more administratively burdensome than a
99% success rate audit.

4. Strengthens the role of the US Election Assistance Commission
(EAC): HR811 and HR1381 consolidate and strengthen power in the executive branch of government in an agency that is currently run by former board members of The Election Center. The Election Center was co-founded by Doug Lewis, a used computer vendor and Doug Wilkey, the current EAC Director, in order to bring election officials together with suppliers of election products. The current executive director Wilkey and the current chair of the EAC, Davidson, were board members of The Election Center, and became NASED officers when The Election Center incubated NASED; and now they control the EAC. Wilkey, Lewis, and Davidson were largely responsible for the control, selection and oversight of the voting machine test labs and the certification of voting machines; and have resisted measures to subject election results to independent scrutiny. According to GAO reports, the EAC has not accomplished any of the functions it was assigned by Congress. It would be dangerous to our form of government to cede so much power over elections to the federal executive branch.

5. HR811 does not provide for meaningful Citizen Oversight over elections via access to election records, and HR1381 does not budget for the equipment that is needed by election officials to make election records publicly available. (up to $30 Million to provide special scanners to each jurisdiction that could easily scan all election records to make electronic and paper copies)

6. HR811 permits network connections to election management systems, allowing remote manipulation of election results. Network connections are unnecessary for either upgrading systems or for uploading election results. These tasks can be accomplished using removable write-once physical media.

7. HR811 has a loophole that allows states which declare "recounts" to avoid having their election results subjected to any independent audits, despite the facts that

* most state recount procedures are not independent; and

* many state "recount" procedures involve merely rerunning electronic tallies and involve no manual audits; and

* many state "recount" procedures involve manual audits that are insufficient; and

* some states "recounts" involve manual audits but do not compare the manual counts with the electronic tallies used on the central tabulator, which are kept secret from the public and even from candidates.

Instead of passing HR811 or HR1381, we recommend splitting current election reform legislation into several separate bills which each address fewer topics and which have more reasonable time frames, enforceable requirements, provisions for citizen oversight, respects states' rights and allows states more flexibility, provides sufficient funding to cover its requirements, and is more cost-efficient and effective than current election reform proposals, as outlined in this "One-Page Concept Proposal for Federal Election Reform Legislation" available online here:

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/EI-FedLegProposal-v2.pdf

Dozens of persons contributed to writing the "One-Page Concept Proposal for Federal Election Reform Legislation" over many months of discussion, after dedicating themselves for years to bringing verifiable integrity to U.S. elections. Recent revisions were based on input from state and county election officials including Bruce Funk, former (23 year) chief election official of Emery County, Utah; and revisions were made by Nancy Tobi, Co-founder and Chair of Democracy for New Hampshire; by Bev Harris, Director of Black Box Voting; and by Phil Fry, Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE), Ohio.

Any help that you can be in getting this election reform legislation sponsored in time for independent verification of election integrity to be in effect by November 2008 would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Kathy Dopp



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"A rational immigration policy should end trade and investment policies abroad that produce poverty and displace people. In the US, immigration policy should emphasize rights and equality, and protect all families and communities - of immigrants and native-born alike. Using immigration raids instead as a pressure tactic to get Congress to approve guest worker programs is not a legitimate use of enforcement. It undermines the family and community values for which this country stands," writes David Bacon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807M.shtml



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American warplanes screamed off two aircraft carriers Tuesday as the Navy staged its largest show of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, launching a mammoth exercise meant as a message to the Iranians.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807L.shtml

An FBI agent was warned to keep quiet about the dismissal of a US attorney after he told a newspaper her firing would hurt the agency's ongoing investigations, and speculated politics were involved.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807K.shtml



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Congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing down on their rebuke of the Iraq war, insisting that President Bush will have to accept some sort of legislative timetable in exchange for the billions of dollars needed to fund the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807J.shtml

Nearly a million displaced people in Iraq's increasingly volatile southern provinces are in urgent need of food, medicines and municipal services, local officials and NGOs say. Aid workers have called on international humanitarian organizations and the central government to provide more assistance to the growing numbers of displaced in the south of the country.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2971.shtml

AlterNet
by Arianna Huffington

03/27/07

There is a subject being forgotten in the 2008 Democratic race for the White House. While all the major candidates are vying for the black and Latino vote, they are completely ignoring one of the most pressing issues affecting those constituencies: the failed ‘war on drugs’ — a war that has morphed into a war on people of color...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/49782/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

03/27/07

The open secret about the Iraq occupation is that the Democrats could end it in a matter of months if they chose to, as Feingold, Kucinich and one or two others have made absolutely clear. Instead, and please let us state the critical fact accurately, the Democrats have chosen to fund the continuation of the Iraq occupation for the indefinite future...

http://tinyurl.com/yrglr8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Gary Kamiya

03/27/07

Democrats should give two cheers for George W. Bush. He and his political mastermind, Karl Rove, dreamed of achieving a permanent Republican majority. Instead, his disastrous presidency has dealt a devastating blow to the GOP, one from which it may not recover for many years. That’s the inescapable import of a major study of American voters’ values and attitudes by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, released March 22. The study finds that voters have turned dramatically away from the GOP since Bush took office. Iraq, of course, is the single biggest reason for this...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/03/27/pew/



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CounterPunch
by Monica Benderman

The Veterans For Peace were well received in Hinesville. Soldiers and their families continue to speak of the event and the information they received about the Appeal for Redress. The community of Hinesville understands the need, but they also understand the need for so much more. My husband went to prison as a result of his public protest of this war and the lack of support the soldiers were receiving. He spent over a year in prison yet continued to speak of the need for a legal remedy for soldiers to have the right to speak about their concerns regarding this war. The Appeal for Redress does just that. We hope many will support it so that soldiers do not have to face what my husband faced simply for telling the truth.”

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

From Adriana R.

URGENT!!!! - ACT QUICKLY!!!!!!! Make haste. In just a few days China will be conducting a mass murder of all pet dogs. Please sign both petitions. Let your voice be heard. These animals can not speak for themselves. We must be their voices. Please sign and forward far and wide. We have just a short time to try to help save the lives of these innocent pet dogs.

* China's Champaign to Kill All Pet Dogs
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/440348024

* Protest China's Barbaric Killing Of Pet Dogs
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/665021184

http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/mar2007/bw20070328_446453.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page


Informant: binstock



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DAN GRIMMER
28 March 2007 09:23

Families, pensioners and bikers who fought a campaign to stop a mobile phone mast from being installed near their homes are celebrating after the plans were rejected by Norwich City Council.

T-Mobile had submitted plans to build the mast in Aylsham Road next to popular bikers' pub the King Edward VII pub.

But the mast would also have been near homes, sheltered housing at Edmund Bacon Court and the Royal British Legion's branch headquarters, and just across the road from the Aylsham Road Motor Company which is being turned into flats by the end of the year. More than 600 people signed a petition against the mast.

A spokesman for T-Mobile had said the mast was needed to provide a quality service and would comply with stringent guidelines.

But Norwich City Council's planners, acting under delegated authority, decided to reject the mast - to the delight of the campaigners.

Vicki Smith, 34, landlord of the King Edward VII pub, who had said the mast would be out of keeping with the area and would endanger the safety of motorists and bikers trying to leave pub's car park, was delighted with the outcome.

She said: "I am really pleased. We have had tremendous support and I would like to thank everyone for getting involved in the campaign."

Steve Morphew, Norwich City Council leader, said: "It was a really good campaign, where all parts of the community came together."

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

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Dan Grimmer on 01603 772375 or email dan.grimmer @archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Demand that Articles of Impeachment be introduced!

(excerpt) March 17, 2007 has come and gone. Despite two days of cold torrential rain followed by snow and cutting arctic winds, tens of thousands of people passionately committed to right the grievous wrongs of the Bush Administration, marched on the Pentagon to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the impeachment of President Bush and other U.S. officials chiefly responsible for U.S. crimes of the past six years. Five days later, the House of Representatives by the narrow margin of 218 to 212 voted to compel withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by September 2008.

The bill itself is terribly inadequate and has no chance of becoming law over George Bush's veto. But before the mid-term elections in 2006 and for several months thereafter, the House did not have the will to seek, or pass even so weak a bill. Hundreds of demonstrations, large and small, all over the country calling for impeachment, nearly 900,000 Votes To Impeach at ImpeachBush.org, and the sheer undeniable pity of Congress's failure to assert its constitutional powers have taken us this far.

The passion of the marchers on the Pentagon representing hundreds of united organizations and tens of thousands of individuals was palpable and contributed significantly to the turning point we have reached. Action now can hold the Congressional votes calling for withdrawal and add many more in support of a much earlier and complete withdraw, and for impeachment.

We must press on with renewed energy, commitment, unity and focus to Bring Our Troops Home Now, to proceed to impeachment and to bring about a desperately needed social agenda that is good for children everywhere.

We have seen that the Congress can be moved. Chance, which, as Herman Melville said in Moby Dick, has with necessity and free will "the last featuring blow at events," is with us. The Bush Administration is reeling from its own wrongdoing. The horror its war of aggression has wreaked on the people of Iraq must trouble the sleep of every sentient American. The Surge is only adding to the death and destruction. The tide is turning in Afghanistan because human nature resists foreign occupation. Pakistan is rebelling because human nature resists foreign-supported military dictatorship. Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and many others nations are resisting because nations, like people, were not born to be forced.

The Bush Administration's assault on human dignity at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, demeaning the Geneva Conventions and Habeas Corpus; invading the privacy of any American it chooses; corrupting the rule of law in the Department of Justice, in politicizing prosecutions; the four key resignations including a Presidential appointee in the Department of Justice within a month (with potentially more to come); and the criminal convictions of high civil officers, Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior -- these reveal a need for affirmative action for peace and processing impeachment.

We must try now to achieve a fundamental shift toward peace, justice and freedom including the end of poverty, which can be done despite the policies of the Bush Administration, which have enriched the rich while spreading poverty.

Our focus must be on Congress, and the priorities of withdrawal from Iraq and impeachment now.

Everyone should write his or her own Representative, Senators and Congressional leadership. Tell them the vote for partial withdrawal, in a year and a half prolongs crime, spreads suffering and creates more enemies for the U.S. everywhere.

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=QsCCzQpbNFmV6jeOI_gn8g..

Urge votes for complete withdrawal, reparation and impeachment now by clicking on this link.

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=avLN916TakMwreJbA1rGHw..

Identify House members and Senators in your state who may vote for withdrawal or impeachment and organize constituents to persuade them to do so.

In addition to individual action, everyone should consider the feasibility of organizing or joining groups within their own neighborhood, town, city, county and state and reach out to others and enlist as many as possible to demand troop withdrawal and impeachment.

Woodrow Wilson once observed that the highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

Having watched Iranians organize and take to the streets without violence to force the flight of a seemingly all powerful Shah in the late 1970's and the heroic people of the Philippines drive Marcos from power in 1986 with their voices, bodies and votes, I believe the power to prevail is in the people. The questions is one of will, commitment and perseverance.

In the coming weeks we will be engaged in a full mobilization using a variety of ways to build this movement. The impeachment movement will carry out a massive letter writing to Congress, newspaper ads, local and regional demonstrations, city council resolutions, and people's impeachment hearings. With your continued support we can make this happen.

Ramsey Clark
March 27, 2007


The legal basis for impeachment
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr005=9alkr6ytn1.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=5054&news_iv_ctrl=1061



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The consumer confidence report followed Monday's unexpected fall in U.S. new-home sales data, which underscored concerns the housing sector has yet to stabilize.

http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=usDollarRpt&storyID=2007-03-27T163433Z_01_N27439048_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-FOREX-UPDATE-8.XML


From Information Clearing House



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http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/rumsfeld-deserted-his-post-on-morning.html


From Information Clearing House



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Impeachment Threat Is Real

Growing Scandals And Abuses Force Impeachment Into Discussion
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/opinion/main2612221.shtml



The Case Against George W. Bush

With prominent Republican Senators speaking out against a scandal-plagued White House, talk of impeachment has moved from the margins to the mainstream. That may seem politically far-fetched, but in fact, there is a strong case to be made.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3759


From Information Clearing House



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Any normal Australian, facing a system weighted so heavily against them and broken by five years of unimaginable privation, is likely to have signed a document that would get them out of Guantanamo – regardless of their guilt or innocence.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20070327-David-Hicks-guilt-by-incarceration.html



Hick's father says plea was part of deal

Terry Hicks, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Tuesday he believed his son had pleaded guilty as part of a bargain with prosecutors that would get him out of the Guantanamo prison: "It's a way to get home, and he's told us he just wants to get home."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/guilty-plea-to-get-out-hicks-dad/2007/03/27/1174761469740.html


From Information Clearing House



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Iran is pressuring its oil customers to start paying in currencies other than U.S. dollars and many have begun to comply, oil executives here say.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/27/business/euros.php


From Information Clearing House

Moscow urges the United States to avoid escalating tensions around Iran over its nuclear program as it could lead to a "clash of civilizations," the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070327/62693395.html


From Information Clearing House



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Russia's Foreign Ministry Tuesday sharply criticized the U.S. for what it called over-reliance on force and warned Washington against military action against Iran.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20070327\ACQDJON200703270958DOWJONESDJONLINE000376.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na


From Information Clearing House

Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070327/62697703.html


From Information Clearing House



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The U.S. Navy today began its largest demonstration of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by a pair of aircraft carriers and backed by warplanes flying simulated attack maneuvers off the coast of Iran.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4664203.html


From Information Clearing House

"We have informed the Iranian brothers ... that we are not party to its conflict with the United States and will not allow our territories to be used for any military, security or spy activities against it."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27163479.htm


From Information Clearing House

Many adults in the United States believe their country should not become involved in a military conflict with Iran, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. 50 per cent of respondents are opposed to bombing Iran if it is proven that the Islamic country is helping the Shiites in Iraq.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15185


From Information Clearing House

The policy of divide and rule is as old as the Roman empire – a constant guide to the Christian West and implemented ruthlessly during its colonial onslaught on the rest of the world.

http://www.boloji.com/analysis2/0198.htm


From Information Clearing House

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From Information Clearing House

"Eight of the kids already fell on the ground. The guys kept shooting, they just wanted to make sure everyone was dead."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21452353,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By David Michael Green

This top official in the Justice Department, who serves as its liaison to the White House, is now refusing to answer any congressional questions about the US attorneys scandal. You know, the one in which George and Dick and Karl and Alberto have been hiring and firing federal prosecutors based on their willingness to politicize the legal system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17428.htm



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By Sheila Samples

Blackwater is in place to become this nation's shadow police force and is its current shadow army. Go back to the "dry run" of Katrina and take a look at the heavily armed force that laid seige to New Orleans, that sped through the streets rounding up hurricane victims, packing them into a "detention" arena where they were forced to stay for days without food or water or assistance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17424.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts

The 9/11 attack has been used to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to plan an attack on Iran, to curtail constitutional protections and civil liberties in the US, to radically expand US military budgets and the power of the executive, and to enrich entrenched vested interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17422.htm



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Washington Post

It no doubt surprised most Americans to learn that between 2003 and 2005, the FBI issued more than 140,000 specific demands under this provision -- demands issued without a showing of probable cause or prior judicial approval -- to obtain potentially sensitive information about U.S. citizens and residents. It did not, however, come as any surprise to me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17426.htm

More than a half-million tons of hazardous waste annually could escape federal environmental regulations under a new proposal from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032707EB.shtml



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Despite President Bush's unwavering public support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the White House is doing little privately to lobby Republican senators to get behind the embattled Justice Department chief, according to senior Senate sources. In fact, Senate Republicans said Monday that the administration essentially has been absent when it comes to courting defenders for the attorney general, who has been under fire for the controversial dismissal of eight US attorneys.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032707T.shtml



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Bush administration officials throughout the government have engaged in White House-directed efforts to stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research that casts the White House or its policies in a bad light, says a new report that purports to be the most comprehensive assessment to date of the subject.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032707R.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/033007ED.shtml

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Low-energy bulb disposal warning

There's a short piece on the front cover of Today's Daily Telegraph (Sat 5th) which quotes someone as saying that up to 340,000 people in the UK could suffer from Eczema and skin cancer from the new energy saving bulbs.

Good the news is getting out and in plenty of time.

Haven't checked the other papers but imagine there is more coverage.

Maybe we could use this exposure (no pun int) to point up the health links from microwaves?

What never ceases to amaze me is how none of these reporters ever ask "If these devices can do this to God knows how many people, what are they doing to the rest of us?"

Gary


mastsanity.org wrote:

BBC, 5/1/08

Low-energy bulb disposal warning

Energy-saving light bulb

Low-energy bulbs contain a small amount of mercury...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7172662.stm



Low-energy bulbs 'worsen rashes'

2/1/08

Low-energy light bulb Energy saving bulbs could reduce carbon dioxide emissions The switch to energy-saving light bulbs may put thousands at risk of painful skin reactions, health charities warn...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7170246.stm



Low-energy bulbs 'cause migraine'

BBC

2/1/08

Low-energy bulbs

The lighting industry says that the latest bulbs do not flicker Energy-saving light bulbs could trigger migraines, say campaigners...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7167860.stm



Low-energy bulbs 'could cause skin cancer'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/05/eabulb105.xml



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New Bush Plan To Gut Endangered Species Act
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0327-01.htm

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BUSH PLAN TO GUT ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT EXPOSED

The Center for Biological Diversity and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have exposed a secret plan by the Bush administration plan to gut the Endangered Species Act from top to bottom. The leaked Bush plan made headlines across the country last including National Public Radio, MSNBC, ABC, and Reuters, prompting editorial denouncements by Newsday, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, and the Arizona Republic.

See the Center’s detailed analysis of how the draft plan would cripple the Endangered Species Act.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/esa-gutting-03-26-2007.html



BUSH APPOINTEE ROCKED BY ENDANGERED SPECIES SCANDAL

The Center for Biological Diversity’s campaign to have Julie MacDonald fired for abusing and overruling federal scientists trying to protect endangered species took a big step forward last week. The political appointee’s reign of terror over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will surely end in the wake of an Inspector General report concluding that the administration’s “attack dog” bullied federal scientists, altered scientific analyses, shared confidential government documents with industry lawyers and lobbyists, and even sent government documents to her internet fantasy role-playing partner.

The federal investigation was launched in response to complaints from anonymous federal biologists, an expose by the Washington Post, and calls by the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups to investigate and oust MacDonald. In response to the new report, the Washington Post has also called on MacDonald to resign.

For more information on MacDonald’s antics and the Center’s efforts to stop her, see Endangered Earth #373 (11-02-06), #377 (12-14-06), and #378 (12-22-06):

http://aphid.opus1.com/blog/EEO/2006/11/endangered-earth-online-373.html
http://aphid.opus1.com/blog/EEO/2006/12/endangered-earth-online-no-377.html
http://aphid.opus1.com/blog/EEO/2006/12/welcome-new-ringtone-members-welcome-to_22.html

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/105/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/113/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/118/



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More CO2 Will Shift Climate Zones

Global warming could remake the world's climate zones by 2100, with some polar and mountain climates disappearing altogether and formerly unknown ones emerging in the tropics. Such changes would endanger some plants and animals while providing new opportunities for others, said John Williams.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032707EA.shtml

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-won-war-on-terror.html


Informant: Useful I.



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

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,473539,00.html

Amnesty International bringt eigenes MF-Paket
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea298fc0f6260d

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Mobilfunk und Menschenrechte
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mobilfunk+und+Menschenrechte

Die amerikanische Mobilfunkindustrie auf der Anklagebank
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3495339/

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

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander H. Volger: Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen u.a.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/168670/

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

Gesundheitsrisiko Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1223449/

Ärzte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408385/

Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Handy-Verbot an Schulen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1677088/

by Greg Ciola

Since genetic engineering and biotechnology are now impacting our lives in so many ways, isn’t it time that it were examined from a biblical perspective? There is ample evidence from both the Bible and extra-biblical books that shows strong disapproval of genetic engineering...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ciola/greg4.htm



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The Senate defeated an attempt to erase an American troop withdrawal date from an Iraq spending bill this afternoon after an emotional debate about the powers of the presidency and Congress and the well-being of front-line soldiers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032707Z.shtml

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Be The Participatory DEMOCRACY That Brings Our Troops Home

Tell The Senate To Go FURTHER Than The House In Stopping the Iraq Occupation/War

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/troops_home_now.php

If there is any good news to come out of the House last week, it is that the headlines read that the Democrats are standing up to Bush, even though they still aren't doing so nearly sufficiently. And for his own part Bush painted himself further into the rapidly shrinking corner with an another angry veto threat. Barbara Lee, the sponsor of a TRUE "end the war" amendment was pragmatic afterwards, recognizing that she might have only gotten 100 votes for her measure, even if that vote had been allowed by Pelosi. Why? The answer is self-evident. They need to hear from MORE of us.

Now as debate shifts to the Senate the difference between how many votes we can get to support a proposed 120 day start for withdrawal, or not, is how many of us will pick up the phone right now, call our senators at one of these toll-free numbers, 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803, and then follow that up with a message in writing. Indeed, we could have had the Lee amendment passed already if only more of us were ringing those phones. Polls show that 90% of Democrats say they want the war to end. But it is not enough to only say it to pollsters. Are 90% or us calling on the phone? Why not? The call is free!

We made OUR calls last week. How about you? Are you calling all of your members of Congress on an ongoing basis, once a week as part of your regular activist routine, to tell them again, and again, that is time to end the horrific madness in Iraq? We know that Bush is not going to stop trying to use his bully pulpit to make a least one statement a week, to try to bully us all in the other direction. Where Harry Truman once said, "The buck stops here," Bush keeps demanding, "Just give me the war bucks."

We can't just hold our breaths waiting for our elected politicians to show "leadership". For the vast majority it's never going to happen without our voices continuously prodding them. In fact, we don't even need any leaders. All we need are REPRESENTATIVES, and we have enough of those right now, who will respond to their constituents' calls, and vote accordingly. But unless we ARE calling, and incessantly, we cannot expect the result to happen on its own.

The aspiring presidential candidates we hear talking on the stump so early, do they actually want to END the Iraq war, or do they just want to CAMPAIGN on ending the war? There's a pretty big difference. For truly, those who are senators have the power this very instant to end the war. They must stand up to Bush NOW, not just let him play defiantly loose cannon for another two years. But they aren't going to really do it without constant pressure from we the people.

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

And if matters were not urgent enough, while all this is going on there has already been a serious border incident with Iran. 15 British soldiers were captured by the Iranians, after venturing into a DISPUTED border area of open water. Leaving aside the issue of what they thought they were doing in known questionable waters, if they had been American soldiers the bombs might be raining down on Tehran right now, blowing the gates of hell entirely off their hinges in Iraq. We are that dangerously close to total Armageddon.

The wackos in Iran want war because they have evidence from Iraq that they no longer have anything to fear from American military power. The wackos in the White House want war because they are too high on the fumes of their own arrogant belligerence to know better. Only we the people can stop them by bombarding our representatives with our messages, by speaking out now to bring the troops home immediately, if not sooner.

Our military in Iraq has become nothing but a provocation, the greatest obstacle to achieving any kind of political settlement there, and the greatest threat to our own national security. Every day the risk grows of another incident that Bush will try to use as an excuse to unleash whatever dogs of war remain. That's what he wants, his deliberate plan, what he likely sees as his only remaining personal salvation, at the expense of own utter destruction as a country.

Please make your calls and send your emails today. Talk to all your friends and neighbors. Forward them this email. Encourage them to do the same. Our lives and our future depend on the number of messages we can generate every week from now on.

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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