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The Supreme Court, for once, resists the conservative impulse to ignore environmental law.

http://ga3.org/ct/S120pgF1oXRC/

See and act on all current Execution Alerts at http://www.ncadp.org/execution_alerts.html

April 11: James Lee Clark, TX http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7133

April 24: James Filiaggi, OH http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7135

April 26: Ryan Dickson, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7136

Die große Koalition hat ein neues, angebliches Streitthema begonnen. So stoßen die "Pläne" von Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) zur Verschärfung der Sicherheitsgesetze stoßen beim Kooalitionspartner SPD auf Widerspruch. Schäuble hatte vorgeschlagen, die Fingerabdrücke, die künftig auf einem Chip auf den Reisepässen gespeichert werden, bei den Meldeämtern zu sammeln. Klaus Uwe Benneter, Rechts- und Innenpolitiker der SPD, nannte die Vorschläge Schäubles einen billigen Versuch, sich politisch zu profilieren. Sebastian Edathy (SPD), Vorsitzender des Innenausschusses, nannte die Pläne Schäubles eine Bedrohung für die Balance zwischen Innerer Sicherheit und Bürgerrechten. Der Unions-Fraktionsvorsitzende Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) warf den Kritikern vor, total verschiedene Sachverhalte total durcheinander zu schmeißen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15688



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

Among the many striking features of the US attorney scandal is the dearth of firsthand prosecutorial and trial experience of the Justice Department officials most involved in the selection and firing of eight prosecutors. The lack of experience contrasts dramatically with that of the US attorneys who were asked to resign last year for what the Justice Department characterized as underperformance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307C.shtml



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

Rep. Henry Waxman has expanded his probe into alleged White House interference on behalf of BHP Billiton at the Environmental Protection Agency, and asked the company to turn over all letters and memos between it, the White House and the EPA.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307A.shtml

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Congress Probes Claims White House Pressured EPA on LNG Port

Representative Henry Waxman has expanded his probe into alleged White House interference on behalf of BHP Billiton at the Environmental Protection Agency, and asked the company to turn over all letters and memos between it, the White House and EPA.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040407EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman

Von den jährlich 125 Millionen Tonnen Kunststoff, die wir produzieren, landet ein beträchtlicher Teil im Meer

Gefahr für Tier und Mensch

Von den jährlich 125 Millionen Tonnen Kunststoff, die wir produzieren, landet ein beträchtlicher Teil im Meer. Forscher arbeiten nun an einem Plastik, das sich in Salzwasser auflöst.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24983/1.html

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Plastik-Müll im Meer gefährdet Millionen

Simultan durchgeführte Studien ergaben: Riesige Mengen an Plastik-Müll befinden sich in unseren Weltmeeren!

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681284ms40

Die Gründe für die Weigerung der Bush-Regierung, Obergrenzen für die Emission von Treibhausgasen bei Autos festzulegen, wurde mit einer wichtigen Entscheidung entkräftet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25000/1.html

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/20848


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6029/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

HLV INFO 36/AT

3-01-2007

Sehr geehrter Herr Tittmann,

anbei sende ich Ihnen mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung Einladung und Flyer zur Ausstellung sowie den Vorträgen im Landratsamt des Odenwaldkreises unter dem Titel "Felder-Wellen-Strahlen".


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Stefanie Striller


Felder – Wellen – Strahlen

Das natürliche Strahlungsklima der Erde und die Bedeutung technischer elektromagnetischer Emissionen für die Gesundheit.

Ausstellungen und Vorträge 7. Mai – 3. Juni 2007

im Landratsamt des Odenwaldkreises Michelstädterstr. 12 - 64711 Erbach - siehe gesondertes Programm –


Liebe Freunde der Bewegung,

wer immer es sich einrichten kann, sollte zu dieser Veranstaltung kommen und Freunde und Bekannte mitbringen. Viel Mühe und Kosten stecken in dieser Veranstaltung, positive Ergebnisse sollen dies belohnen! Auch wenn Insidern die Veranstaltung nicht immer Neues bringt, stärkt doch solidarische Teilnahme die Bewegung. Immerhin konnten hier ein staatliches Gesundheitsamt und ein Landrat zu einer Vorsorge-Informationsveranstaltung gewonnen werden und dies auf hohem Niveau!

Bürger von mindestens fünf Landkreisen werden hier an zentralem Ort sachlich unabhängig und kritisch informiert. Berufsgruppen, wie Handwerker, Ärzte und Lehrer werden gezielt eingeladen.

Ein erfolgreicher Verlauf mit breiter Publikumswirkung muss die Kreispolitiker in ihrer Entscheidung zu dieser vorbildlichen Veranstaltung bestätigen, die Bürger mit Nachdruck auf die Inhalte hinweisen und den Bestrebungen zu einer ernsthaften Gesundheitsvorsorge bei Elektrosmog weiterhelfen auf dem Weg zu einer Technik in Verantwortung und Achtung vor dem Leben.

Die Erde und unsere Kinder haben es verdient!


Ihre/ Eure Lebenslandschaft e.V.
Postfach 1106
64701 Erbach
Tel.: 06062-1445


(s. hierzu Anlage Einladungsflyer)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/vorlage_flyer.pdf

Termine:

Montag, 7. Mai 2007 um 19.00 Uhr im Sitzungssaal des Landratsamtes

Referent:

Dr. Hartmut Voigt, Hannover

Felder-Wellen-Strahlen

Die Physik der natürlichen und technischen energetischen Vernetzung des Lebens.


Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 um 16.00 Uhr im Sitzungssaal des Landratsamtes

Referent:

Dr. Ing. Dietrich Moldan, Iphofen

Innenwelt und Umwelt –

Bautechnische Möglichkeiten eines elektrosmog geschützten Raumklima und ihr Verhältnis zu Erdmagnetfeld, Luft und Licht.


Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 um 19.00 Uhr im Sitzungssaal des Landratsamtes

Referent:

Dr. med. univ. Gerd Oberfeld, Salzburg

Das natürliche Strahlungsklima der Erde und die Bedeutung technischer elektromagnetischer Emissionen für die Gesundheit.

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elektrosmog
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Elektrosmog

HLV INFO 36/AT

3-01-2007

Hessen Fernsehen

Hessenschau am 2-04-2007 – 19.30 – 20.00 Uhr

In der gestrigen Hessenschau wurde in einem 2:55 Min. -Beitrag über die nachfolgende Schlafstudie berichtet:

Seit einigen Tagen stehen 60 Ober-Werber unter wissenschaftlicher Aufsicht. Forscher wollen ihr Schlafverhalten erforschen. Denn Ober-Werbe ist ein ganz besonderer Ort. Die Gemeinde liegt in einem Funkloch, hier gibt es keine Handystrahlung.

s. Videolink: http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/video_archiv5300.jsp?rubrik=5300&r=3&y=2007&t=20070402
http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/video_archiv5300.jsp?rubrik=5300&r=3&y=2007&t=20070402&key=standard_document_30258962&mediakey=fs/hessenschau/20070402_schlaf&type=v&jm=4&jmpage=1

Dabei handelt es sich um ein Programm des BFS, welches in einer PM am 13.02.2006 veröffentlicht wurde.

Auszug der PM v. 13.02.06: “Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) lässt die Schlafqualität unter Einfluss der Mobilfunkstrahlung untersuchen. Forscher der Berliner Charité sollen im Rahmen des Deutschen Mobilfunk Forschungsprogramms herausfinden, ob psychologische und physiologische Effekte des Mobilfunks unter häuslichen Bedingungen feststellbar sind.

An sechs Standorten in Deutschland, die noch ausgesucht werden müssen, wird eine mobile Basisstation aufgestellt. Untersucht werden insgesamt
300 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Studie, die im Umkreis von 500 Metern um die mobile Basisstation wohnen. So kann festgestellt werden, ob unter Mobilfunkexposition im Schlaf z. B. die Gehirnströme (EEG) beeinflusst werden.“

Zu berücksichtigen gilt auch bei dieser Studie, dass keine Langzeitexposition zu Grunde liegt und somit der Faktor Zeit für athermische, biologische Prozesse keine Berücksichtigung findet.

Inwieweit diese Arbeiten unter dem Einfluss der Mobifunklobbyisten stehen, kann nur einer spekulativen Betrachtung unterzogen werden. Wer gestern Abend den Filmbeitrag “Wir sind drin“ im WDR Fernsehen 22.30 – 23.15 Uhr gesehen hat, kann nur mit gesunder Skepsis der jetzigen Aktion gegenüberstehen. Im gestrigen Beitrag ging es um den Lobbyismus und die Verzahnung der Wirtschaft mit der Politik bis hin zu nachweislichen Fakten, dass viele Industrievertreter im Reichstag ihre Büros unterhalten und auch von ihren Industrieauftrag- gebern für deren Interessenwahrnehmung bezahlt werden.

U.a. kritisierte der bekannte Verwaltungsjurist Prof. Hans Herbert von Arnim die derzeitige Einflussnahme der Privatwirtschaft in die Politik. Das ist eine ganz neue Form der Verzahnung, er bezeichnete sie als gefährliche Entwicklung und sagte auch, dass dies eine Form der Korruption sei!

Weiter ging aus dem Bericht hervor, dass die Bundesregierung im Dezember 2006 bestätigt habe, dass ca. 120 Leiharbeiter aus der Industrie in Ministerien arbeiten würden. Dabei handelt es sich um Interessenvertreter namhafter Industriefirmen, Banken, Versicherungen bis hin zu Wirtschaftsverbänden. Bei der lfd. Bandaufzählung erschienen auch Siemens, Telekom....und Fraport.

Fraport, welche ebenfalls ein Büro im Bundesgebäude unterhält, galt übrigens im Bericht als Beispiel der Bankrotterklärung der Interessenverfilzung.

Die Anforderung einer Videokopie beim WDR Sender ist sehr zu empfehlen.


HLV-Redaktion

Alfred Tittmann

Presseerklärung des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie vom 2.4.07 http://www.labournet.de/krieg/iran/kgd.html


Deutscher Flankenschutz

„»Tornados« nach Afghanistan: Marine- und Luftwaffeneinheiten der Bundeswehr erleichtern eine US-Aggression gegen Iran – wie schon bei den Kriegen gegen Irak 1991 und 2003…“ Artikel von David Noack in junge Welt vom 03.04.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/04-03/040.php


Iran: Das nächste Vietnam?

Artikel von Behrooz Abdolvand und Nima Feyzi Shandi in Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Heft 4/2007 http://www.blaetter.de/artikel.php?pr=2530


Aus: LabourNet, 3. April 2007

http://www.thisisgwent.co.uk/display.var.1304386.0.0.php

Nice little discussion going on at the end of this story if anyone wants to join in!


John E

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Residents Halt Phone Mast in S. Wales


ARGUS COMMENT: Mobile phone mast

This is developing into a nice little protest/story if anyone would like
to add their comments.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/swanews/display.var.1307462.0.0.php


Regards,

John E

By having Murdoch host her fundraiser, Hillary Clinton seems to be signaling to Murdoch that while Democratic Party activists have mobilized in recent years against media conglomeration and policies that favor and subsidize media giants, those are not concerns of hers.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0510-20.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murdoch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen

The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was said to have again rejected a Pentagon request to expand U.S. training rights in Turkey.

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/april/01_04_3.html


From Information Clearing House

US warplanes have violated Iranian airspace in the southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan, Al-Alam Arabic language news satellite channel quoted a local military chief as saying on Sunday. "Two aircraft trespassed into Iranian airspace northwest of [the southwestern].

http://snipurl.com/1ewrd


From Information Clearing House

How can you be certain which side of a boundary you are when that boundary has never been drawn?

http://snipurl.com/1ewrb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Craig+Murray

By David Wilson

Far from being the "greatest generation", Lilly exposes the ugly underbelly of the US army's behaviour in Europe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17463.htm

By Glenn Greenwald

Leading GOP presidential candidates believe in the power of imprisoning American citizens with no charges or review.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17464.htm



American Mugabe

By David Michael Green

If Americans could get beyond their training, beyond Rove's marketing campaign, and beyond the psychological horrors of first degree cognitive dissonance, what they'd see is a president who - like Mugabe in Zimbabwe - came to town to fill his pockets, and just as fast as he could.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17467.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

By Eric Margolis

Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq? If your answer was Saddam Hussein's cousin, the notorious "Chemical Ali" -- aka Ali Hassan al-Majid -- you're wrong.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17461.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Margolis

The White House dismissed on Sunday a possible US Senate compromise to allow testimony by officials over the firing of federal prosecutors, which has embroiled President Bush's administration in controversy and led to calls for his attorney general to quit. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) said an agreement was possible under which White House aides such as Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove could testify without being under oath.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arlen+Specter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Schumer

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement presented to a British court. In the affidavit, Hicks said he was slapped, kicked, punched and spat on after being arrested by coalition forces in the Central Asian country in 2001.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307N.shtml



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

The Pentagon said on Monday it will send another 9,000 US troops to Iraq, with about half of them returning to combat ahead of schedule, in order to maintain troop levels in its new security crackdown through at least August. Two of the affected Army units, totaling about 4,500 troops, will return to combat short of their promised year at home, reflecting the strain placed on US forces by commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Dozens of interviews with current and former intelligence officials and policymakers in the United States, Britain, France and Italy show that the Bush administration disregarded key information available at the time showing that the Iraq-Niger claim was highly questionable.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307L.shtml

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How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War

Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uraniu.
http://snipurl.com/1f0ye


From Information Clearing House

Dean Baker Weighs in on the battle between big media and the Internet: "It is important to recognize that this lawsuit is not just a battle between two huge companies (YouTube is now owned by Google). The purpose of the DCMA was to bottle up the web, giving major media companies like Viacom a mechanism to enforce their copyrights in a new medium. Now they have decided that the DCMA didn't go far enough. They want the state to enforce their copyrights in a way that will strangle a distribution system that has already allowed hundreds of millions of people located all around the world to see tens of millions of video clips."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

William Rivers Pitt on Congress's surprisingly effective tactics on Iraq: "It took a while for the truth of what happened in all this to sink in, for the real muscle behind this withdrawal legislation to show itself. The fact of the matter is plain: The only people in America not talking about leaving Iraq are the ones in the White House and Pentagon because they never intended to leave in the first place and want no part of any exit plan, no matter how bloody and awful it gets over there. Therefore, no withdrawal plan can be effected in a tactical sense until the Bush administration is forced into abandoning its stay-forever pipe dreams."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Chernobyl

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Chernobyl may have killed 1000 British babies - UN accused of ignoring 500,000 Chernobyl deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1735858/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0403/p04s01-usec.html


Informant: binstock

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Risks of Rising Oil Nationalism

It's hard to shed a tear for Big Oil. The top five publicly-traded companies racked up a record $119.5 billion profit last year - roughly the size of Ireland's economy. Yet these corporations are steadily losing ground to a surging group of nationally run companies - a trend that could come back to hurt oil-consuming nations such as the United States, some experts say.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307E.shtml



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

http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/04/hour_late_for_ancient_forests.asp

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/earth/03clim.html?ex=1176264000&en=e80c3dce4b3bd056&ei=5070&emc=eta1


Informant: binstock

Fox News
by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

04/01/07

It’s now obvious that Hillary Clinton’s negatives are rising among American voters. A Harris Interactive survey says that a majority will not vote for her, and a Gallup poll this week finds her favorability among Democratic primary voters dropping from 82 percent in January, to 74 percent in March. By itself, this slippage would not be fatal. But it begs the key question: Why is Hillary dropping? Usually a candidate only falls in the polls when she is attacked by her rivals, or is the object of a major scandal. Yet, Obama and Edwards are treating her with kid gloves — avoiding even the most gentile of criticisms. So noteworthy are their all-positive campaigns, that when Obama’s fund-raiser, David Geffen, knocked Bill for his pardons, it became the central campaign event in January. And, for once in her life, Hillary is not currently on the griddle for any scandal. There are no daily exposes of her financial or Bill’s marital misconduct. Nobody is hitting Hillary. The real bad news for her campaign is that Hillary is losing support -— not due to any attacks on her, but because people are watching her wage her positive campaign, and are concluding that they just don’t like her. It is Hillary’s own campaign appearances that are driving up her negatives!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262541,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Cato Institute
by Steve H. Hanke

04/02/07

In late February Alan Greenspan warned of the possibility of a recession. The next day the markets took a dive. Since then anxiety has set in and market volatility has increased. Even Panglossian brokerage houses have warned that if a recession occurs, house prices could tumble 10% this year and the stock market could decline by 30%. We must, of course, add to this noise some nasty facts about subprime lending, which constituted as much as 20% of U.S. mortgage lending in 2006. And that’s not all: Another 13% of mortgage lending was to borrowers with only slightly better credit than subprime. There’s a tendency for these borrowers, and their lenders, to live in a delusional world in which an inability to service the debt is papered over with refinancings and creative repayment schedules...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8166


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage+lending

Salon
by US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)

03/31/07

As Congress debates the war in Iraq, the congressional debate over Somalia 14 years ago has some surprising parallels. Without question, Somalia in 1993 differs in many ways from Iraq in 2007, from the scope of the mission to the reason for that mission in the first place. What hasn’t changed, however, is Congress’ constitutional power to end a military mission, and its ability to use that power without endangering the safety of our brave troops. That is exactly what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and I propose to do with legislation we will introduce when the Senate reconvenes next week. Our bill would require the president to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq in 120 days, with redeployment to be completed by March 31, 2008. After March, funding for the war in Iraq would be cut off, with three narrow exceptions — targeted counterterrorism operations, protection of U.S. personnel and infrastructure, and training and equipping Iraqi forces. In other words, the current military mission in Iraq would be effectively ended...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/02/feingold_reid/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Foreign Policy
by Elizabeth Holtzman

03/07

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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=The+case+against+George+W.+Bush
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elizabeth+Holtzman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp04022007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Keep out of sailors row, Iran tells Bush

IRAN overnight urged US President George W. Bush to keep out of its row with Britain over 15 sailors it detained for allegedly entering Iranian waters illegally.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21488286-38201,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/02/07

While Pentagon officials are celebrating the terrorism conviction of David Hicks in Guantanamo’s military-tribunal system, the process by which Hicks was convicted and sentenced only confirms that the Pentagon’s ‘judicial’ system is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. After all, most everyone knew that Hicks, who has been held at Guantanamo for more than five years without a trial, never stood a chance of acquittal, but who ever thought that politics would play the determining role in what purports to be a system of justice?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

Canadian Broadcast Company

03/30/07

An unpublished federal report appears to undermine the belief that commercially available ethanol-blended fuel produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline. Many Canadians believe filling up with ethanol-blended gasoline reduces the emission of greenhouse gases that damage the environment. Advertising sponsored by the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association encourages the idea, telling Canadians renewable fuels are ‘good for the environment,’ and even some provincial governments, including Manitoba and Saskatchewan, say the fuel ‘burns cleaner’ than gasoline. The federal Conservative government committed $2 billion in incentives for ethanol, made from wheat and corn, and biodiesel in last week’s budget. But based on Ottawa’s own research, critics say the investment is based more on myth than hard science...

http://tinyurl.com/264k4x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

04/02/07

For just the second time since the war began, the Army is sending large units back to Iraq without giving them at least a year at home, defense officials said Monday. The move signaled how stretched the U.S. fighting force has become. A combat brigade from New York and a Texas headquarters unit will return to Iraq this summer in order to maintain through August the military buildup President Bush announced earlier this year...

http://tinyurl.com/2ga39c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Johnson City Press

04/02/07

The Supreme Court rebuked the Bush administration Monday for its inaction on global warming in a decision that could lead to more fuel-efficient cars as early as next year. The court, in a 5-4 ruling in its first case on climate change, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under the landmark environment law, and the ‘laundry list’ of reasons it has given for declining to do so are insufficient, the court said...

http://tinyurl.com/2mysp6



Supreme Court rules new hearing on clean air

Fox News

04/02/07

The Supreme Court gave a boost Monday to a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing utilities to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants. In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled against Duke Energy Corp. in a lawsuit brought by the Clinton administration, part of a massive enforcement effort targeting more than a dozen utilities. Most companies settled with the government, but several Clinton-era cases involving more than two dozen power plants in the South and the Midwest are still pending. The remaining suits demand fines for past pollution that if levied in full would run into billions of dollars. The justices ruled that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., overstepped its authority by implicitly invalidating 1980 Environmental Protection Agency regulations, interpreting them in a way that favored Duke. The case now returns to the lower courts...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263304,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Philadelphia Inquirer

04/02/07

As of Monday, April 2, 2007, at least 3,256 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,621 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers...

http://tinyurl.com/224kh7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hartford Courant

04/02/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement. Reid’s new strategy faces an uphill battle because many of his colleagues see yanking funds as a dangerous last resort. The proposal increases the stakes on the debate and marks a new era for the Democratic leadership once reluctant to talk about Congress’ power of the purse...

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Dozens of popular fish types, including grouper and barracuda, live near reefs. They accumulate the toxic chemical in their bodies from eating smaller fish that graze on the poisonous algae. When oceans are warmed by the greenhouse effect and fouled by toxic runoff, coral reefs are damaged and poison algae thrives, scientists say. "Worldwide, we have a much bigger problem with toxins from algae in seafood than we had 20 or 30 years ago," said Donald M. Anderson, director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207HA.shtml

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Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top one percent of Americans - those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 - receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows. The top ten percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207LA.shtml



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Conservationists say the future the country's largest national forest could be undercut by flawed assumptions about the economics of turning trees into logwood.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207ED.shtml

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Authorities in Ottawa announced last week a sharp reduction in the numbers of pups that hunters will be allowed to kill this spring in a first official acknowledgment of the impact the melting ice is having on the seal population. Conservationists, however, are demanding that the harvest be cancelled. Even though public uproar, notably in Britain and Europe, over the seal slaughter is likely to be more intense than ever before, the government is expected in the next several days to announce a start-date for the annual culling.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207EC.shtml



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Few issues are hotter in the Capitol this year than global warming. Lawmakers have introduced more than 60 bills on the topic, and no wonder. Polls show widespread support among California voters for tackling climate change.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207EB.shtml

A federal judge on Friday overturned Bush administration regulations for national forests that critics said expedited logging and energy exploration, weakened wildlife protection, and shut the public out of forest planning.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040207EA.shtml

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Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month. Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207T.shtml

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Cheney at BYU

by Deanna Spingola

The White House targeted officials at Brigham Young University (BYU) in January to offer Dick Cheney’s speaking services at their Commencement exercises on April 26, 2007. I seriously question Cheney’s prerogative and motives in his offer to BYU, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Is this an attempt to clean-up his image, mix politics with religion, gain a silent endorsement for war-mongering actions, or wage a struggle for his own political survival or to discretely discredit Professor Steven Jones who retired early from BYU......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna70.htm

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Cheney is target of rare protest at Brigham Young
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/324450,CST-NWS-byu03.article


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Mobile phone giant T-Mobile has launched a bid to install a telephone mast more than 38ft high at a shopping centre in Rugeley.

The company have lodged a planning application with the district council in a bid to get the mast installed at the Fernwood Shopping Centre on Green Lane.

Opponents say it will overlook Western Springs Primary School and should be refused for health reasons.

T-Mobile submitted their plan to the council on March 19 and a decision is likely to be made in the next six weeks.

Under plans the mast, to be 11.7 metres, or 38ft 4in, tall, will be on the car park at Fernwood Shopping Centre.

The installation will involve one monopole supporting three antennae in a shroud with equipment cabinets at ground level and other ancillary apparatus.

Local councillor Mick Grocott, who also sits on the district council’s ruling cabinet, said that he had already been contacted by a number of people worried about the proposal.

Councillor Grocott said: “A lot of local people have come to me about it. A lot of them don’t want something that big in a place like that.

“Some people are worried that until its proven these masts are safe in terms of the radiation from mobile phones then these kinds of masts shouldn’t be put in towns.”

He added: “In my opinion I do think this mast is in the wrong location.

“It is not very far from a primary school and I’m sure there are better sites nearby where it could go.”

Councillor Grocott, who pledged to take his concerns to planning officers at the district council, said: “In my opinion I think it is obtrusive and Fernwood Shopping Centre has its own problems without something like this.

“I don’t think putting a mobile phone mast in the car park will help much at all.”

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

We are almost ready to lose our national identity, our culture, our standard of living, and even our military superiority. Our education system is in the toilet. Our manufacturing jobs have almost vanished, our nation is being systematically merged into a "North American Community," and James Dobson's focus seems to be merely that our future president is a man who "openly talks about his faith?" Obviously, James Dobson just doesn't get it.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin360.htm



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By Andrew Ffrench

Residents opposing plans for a mobile phone mast near their homes in north Oxford have won their battle after demonstrating outside the city council's planning office.

Last month, home owners demonstrated outside the office, in St Ebbe's, after T-Mobile notified the council it planned to put the 30ft mast outside the Five Mile Drive playing fields, in Cutteslowe.

The Summertown Stars football club, which uses the recreation ground for Oxford Mail Boys League games, also protested against the plans.

Now the city council has backed residents in their fight to persuade T-Mobile to seek an alternative location.

Alan Glanville, of Five Mile Drive, who helped to co-ordinate the campaign, said: "I'm delighted that the council is going to ask T-Mobile to seek a different location.

‘Not every group takes their fight right to the doors of the planning office’
Campaigner Alan Glanville

"Not every group takes their fight right to the doors of the planning office and I'm sure that made the council sit up and take note.

"T-Mobile appear to have dismissed alternative industrial sites out of hand and they need to go away and look at this more thoroughly. Of course, they could appeal against the council's decision, but we hope that doesn't happen."

On Thursday, at the north area committee, councillors will be told that officers are refusing T-Mobile's application for prior approval for the 9.7m monopole on a number of grounds.

According to council officers, the mast is considered to be "unacceptable and inappropriate" for the tree-lined residential street.

They added that insufficient consideration has been given to alternative sites, and that "public health concerns" should be considered.

Jean Fooks, North Oxford city councillor, said: "There was a great deal of concern about this application from residents and T-Mobile is being advised to find a different site."

No-one from T-Mobile was available for comment, but planning consultant Richard Nash told the council earlier that the mast was needed to improve 3G mobile phone coverage.

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http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.1303267.0.residents_win_mast_fight.php

The animals are kept in huge battery cages similar to the ones for laying hens. While battery cages for hens are already illegal in some European countries, so far cages for rabbits are not even questioned.

FOUR PAWS is starting an international campaign to end the suffering of rabbits. This is an appeal to the public, the industry and politicians to act now and end the suffering in rabbit farms in Europe and worldwide.

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Mobile phone mast scuppered by £200 Citizen Epidemiology survey

Local Council votes Orange out three times; Orange not to appeal.

Orange has withdrawn its application to install a mobile phone transmitter in the tower of St. Michael's church in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. This unexpected development comes immediately after Green Audit (LLRC's scientific advisers) began a local health survey.

LLRC funds health questionnaire

Dr. Chris Busby of Green Audit said "We set out to discover the baseline of health before the microwave transmissions could begin. We intended to do a follow-up survey after the mast went into operation."

The Low Level Radiation Campaign felt that this was an opportunity for sound epidemiology. Since the study population would be identical to the control, the only difference would be the microwave exposure. This approach would provide reliable data on the effects.

Funded by LLRC, Green Audit designed a questionnaire and distributed it to a sample of houses in the area. We have used this method to monitor the effects of radioactive contamination in other parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In Aberystwyth the initial survey was to be followed up a few weeks after the mast began transmitting at full power. Green Audit also planned to measure local field intensities.

Background

Local opposition to the transmitter was strong because St. Michael's church, where it was to be sited, is in a residential area and close to Castle Park, a popular children's playground and tourist attraction. There is evidence that living near such transmission antennae causes a range of health effects, from leukaemia and lymphoma to neurological symptoms like sleep disturbances, headaches, and depression. A paper outlining the scientific issues was sent to the local council (Ceredigion District Council) in September last year. The Council rejected the application three times.

Surprise rejection

The last rejection was a surprise development because it was expected that the applicants (Orange and the Rector of St. Michael's, Reverend Stuart Bell whose church was in line to receive annual payments of £5000) would thereafter appeal to the Welsh Assembly Government in Cardiff. The Health Protection Agency would have advised that there was no measurable health threat, Orange would have won the appeal, and costs in the region of £30,000 – 35,000 would have been awarded against Ceredigion District Council. But it looks as if Councillors had the courage to stand up to these bullying tactics.

Surprise retreat

Immediately following the commencement of the health survey, the Council has written to Green Audit to say that Orange and the Rector are not appealing; they have withdrawn the application.

Precedent

This could be a useful precedent. LLRC does not usually address non-ionising radiation but this looks like a case where just a whiff of good epidemiology, independent of industry funding and reviewers' bias and backed up by the implicit threat that (as usual) we would go straight to the press and the internet to release the results, has been enough to overcome the bad science that characterises radiation risk.

Chris Busby's recently published Wolves of Water, (which LLRC calls a Science Wars Combat Manual) has information about how and where we have used questionnaire surveys, like the Aberystwyth Orange study. (see http://www.llrc.org/wings/subtopic/wolves.htm )

The paper which Chris Busby and Roger Coghill sent to Ceredigion Councillors in September 2006 is on the LLRC website http://www.llrc.org scroll down to the Mobile phones button on the left and follow the links.

Background information on the Aberystwyth application from a September 2006 Cambrian News report — http://www.aberystwyth-today.co.uk/today/options/news/newsdetail.cfm?id=132925&hididarch=archive

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By ALISON BELLAMY

RESIDENTS have launched a campaign to stop the extension of an already huge mobile phone mast blighting their view.

More than 100 people living near the Yorkshire Amateurs Football Club, Chapel Allerton, have sent letters of complaint to Leeds City Council, to say they do not want the 17.5 metre mast to go any higher.

But mobile phone provider O2 Airwaves has applied to extend the mast to 20 metres, which it says will improve the existing network purely for emergency services.

And the company believes its plan is likely to go ahead, as it is vital that emergency services have a clear network.

The cash-strapped football club has in previous years made money from having the masts in the ground, yet today said the latest development had nothing to do with them.

Today David Packham, secretary of the Bracken Edge Ground Company, which owns the club, said: "The new application could not be blamed on the club or owners, because, as far as I understand, it is the mobile phone company which had applied to improve its signal and technology with a larger mast."

But fears for health of local residents and well as players at the Roxholme Road club, has caused locals to object.

Resident Jill Harland, 32, said: "We are concerned about the appearance of a 20m mast. It would be very close to houses and people would see it on a daily basis. It would also spoil views from Gledhow Valley Woods.

"We successfully fought a plan for another mast two years ago and now we have to do it all again."

Chapel Allerton Labour Councillor Mohammed Rafique (Lab, Chapel Allerton) is backing them. He said: "In their latest bid O2 Airwaves want to replace and extend the height of the 17.5m high mast at the nearby Yorkshire Amateur's football Ground to 20m while adding six antennaes and two dishes."

He said that two years ago a campaign by local residents had played an important part in the council turning down O2's application to erect another 25-foot high mast at the site.

The council and Planning Inspectorate cited the damaging impact the mast would have on the aesthetic quality of the area as the main reason to refuse the application.

He added: "Who is to say that if this application is successful O2 might decide they want to enlarge it again in the future?"

Ray Weldon, of O2 Airwaves, said: "The extension is just to improve the resilience of the existing network. It is purely for emergency service use such as police, fire and ambulance and is in the interests of public safety. It is not to expand the network."

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Nach Auffassung der Naturschutzorganisation Pro Wildlife sind Delfine und Wale zunehmend durch den Lärm in den Ozeanen bedroht. "Unsere Kritik richtet sich unter anderem gegen den Einsatz von Militär-Sonar. Dieser kann so laut wie ein startender Düsenjet werden und den Tod von Delfinen und Walen verursachen", meint Sandra Altherr von Pro Wildlife. In den USA hätten in der vergangenen Woche Umweltverbände eine Klage gegen die Sonarversuche der US-Marine in delfinreichen Gewässern eingereicht. Seit 2003 seien diese Sonar-Einsätze verboten. Doch Anfang des Jahres habe das Pentagon das Verbot für zwei Jahre wieder aufgehoben.

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BASF: Erdgas-Förderung soll letzte Wale Deutschlands gefährden

Die Naturschutzorganisation Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) warnt vor einer Gefährdung der letzten Wale Deutschlands durch die Erdgas-Förderung in der Nordsee. So seien am 2. April in den amtlichen Mitteilungen des Nautischen Warndienstes in Hamburg die ersten Sperrungen im Naturschutzgebiet Entenschnabel veröffentlicht worden. Dies bedeute, dass sich das Schiff Ocean Explorer, das im Auftrag der BASF Tochtergesellschaft Wintershall in der Nordsee nach Erdgas suche, mit seinen "gefährlichen Aktivitäten" begonnen habe. "Von heute an bis in den Herbst werden Tag für Tag, 24 Stunden lang, alle 8 Sekunden Luftkanonen (Airguns) das Meeresschutzgebiet und große Teile der Nordsee verlärmen und vermutlich alle Wale aus ihrem Lebensraum großflächig vertreiben", kritisieren die Naturschützer.

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Das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie warnt vor den Folgen der Festnahme von 15 britischen Soldaten durch den Iran. Gleichgültig, ob die Festnahme in iranischen oder irakischen Gewässern erfolgte, erhöhe sich dadurch die Gefahr eine Angriffskrieges gegen den Iran, fürchtet der friedenspolitische Sprecher des Komitees, Andreas Buro. "Der Iran ist von US-amerikanischen Militärbasen zu Land und zur See umzingelt. In Israel werden bereits Übungen für einen Angriff auf den Iran betrieben. Die kriegerische Rhetorik beider Nuklearmächte ist außerordentlich bedrohlich und gibt zu größter Sorge Anlass, dass ein weiterer Krieg in Nah- und Mittelost vom Zaun gebrochen werden könnte", so Buro.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15675

Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are "not getting the full picture" of what's going on in Iraq. He was accompanied by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters and two Apache gunships overhead." Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207C.shtml



A Salute for His Wounded, a Last Touch for His Dead

Unaware of a deep wound beneath his body armor, Sergeant Sebban, a 29-year-old medic, shook off the blast and staggered to his first-aid station to treat casualties, other soldiers recalled. "Let's get ready!" he shouted, one soldier said. Then he collapsed. He bled to death even before the evacuation helicopter arrived to carry him away, 17 minutes after the 6:00 PM attack.

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Sen. Ted Kennedy addressed a gathering organized by the Alliance for Justice. Kennedy spoke about the Bush administration's lack of respect for the rule of law. Following his remarks, a documentary film titled Quiet Revolution was screened. The film chronicles 30 years of Republican efforts to turn back the clock on civil liberties.

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In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a US government agency has the power under the clean air law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming. The ruling came in one of the most important environmental cases to reach the Supreme Court in decades. It marked the first high court decision in a case involving global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207A.shtml

Uganda will einen Teil seines größten Regenwald-Reservats abholzen, um Platz für eine Zuckerrohrplantage zu schaffen. Bedroht sind allein 312 Baumarten und fast 300 Vogelarten. Die Wälder sind außerdem ein natürlicher Luftfilter, sie speichern Millionen Tonnen CO2 und stabilisieren das feuchte Klima in Zentraluganda. Die Kahlschlag-Pläne müssen noch vom Parlament gebilligt werden. Auf unserer Webseite http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=154 finden Sie eine Unterschriftenaktion an die Abgeordeten und einen Protestbrief an die Mehta-Gruppe http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=155 , welche die Zuckerrohrindustrie in Uganda beherrscht und das Mabira Waldreservat abholzen will.

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Eine Investorengruppe will am Dillinger Saarhafen ein „Bio“-Kraftwerk bauen, das Soja- und Palmöl aus Übersee in Strom und Wärme verwandelt. Trotz anfänglicher Kritik an dem Vorhaben scheint der saarländische Umweltminister Stefan Mörsdorf nun gegenüber den Forderungen des saarländischen Wirtschaftsministers und der Industrie einzuknicken und das Kraftwerk zu genehmigen. Bitte protestieren Sie gegen die Pläne, die das Saarland zum Komplizen der Regenwaldabholzer und Klimakiller machen. Mehr Infos und einen Musterbrief finden Sie unter

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Während die britischen Gefangenen im Iran sich selbst und ihre Regierung bezichtigen, bekannte sich in Guantanamo der erste "feindliche Kämpfer" für schuldig und erhielt einige bemerkenswerte Auflagen.

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Teheran spielt mit den Gefangenen, die USA entsenden dritten Flugzeugträgerverband.

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France 3 Paris 01 04 2007 : Zusammenschluß für den Planeten (vidéo und Kommentare)

Concentración or el Planeta (video y comentarios).

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PressReviewRevuePresse.php#1

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4990

Find out how eating lower on the fish food chain is better for the environment and your health.

Source: http://ga3.org/ct/N120pgF1kmpg/

by Rob Richie and Ryan O'Donnell, TomPaine.com

Momentum is building toward making the Electoral College work as it should.
http://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1kmpv/

by Art Brodsky, TomPaine.com

We must challenge corporate media's stranglehold on technology and content.
http://ga3.org/ct/Mp20pgF1kmpt/



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Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping. Kerik's indictment could set the stage for a courtroom battle that would draw attention to Kerik's extensive business and political dealings with former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who personally recommended him to President Bush for the Cabinet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207O.shtml



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Robert Parry argues that one of the least endearing features of Washington's political/media hierarchy is its propensity for selective outrage, like what is now coming from George W. Bush about the "inexcusable behavior" of the Iranian government in holding 15 British sailors whom Bush has labeled "hostages." This is the same President Bush who often mocks the very idea that international law should apply to him; he's fond of the punch line: "International law? I better call my lawyer." But Bush becomes a pious defender of international law when it suits his geopolitical interests.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207M.shtml



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Paul Krugman has a theory about the Bush administration's abuses of power that are now, finally, coming to light. Ultimately, he believes, they were driven by rising income inequality.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207L.shtml



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Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened Congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues - such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders - with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207K.shtml

William Fisher reports on what could turn out to be an epic battle brewing in the US Senate. But unlike most of this chamber's epic battles, this one pits Republican against Republican. The battle is over the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007. The proposed legislation would repeal provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that stripped US civilian courts from jurisdiction to hear or consider applications for a writ of habeas corpus filed by aliens detained as enemy combatants.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207J.shtml



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Last fall California passed the world's first law limiting global warming pollution from electricity generation. The law prohibits new long-term investments in any baseload electricity power plants (those workhorse power plants that run around the clock) that emit more global warming pollution than an efficient natural gas power plant. A new conventional coal-fired power plant, for example, emits more than twice as much global warming pollution as a new natural gas plant.

In March, the California Energy Commission proposed regulations to implement and enforce the law for the state's municipal utilities, like the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. The proposed regulations are consistent with those already adopted by the California Public Utilities Commission for the state's investor-owned utilities (like Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison), in order to ensure that utilities across the state are held to the same standard. Nevertheless, the California Energy Commission faces continued pressure to weaken its proposed enforcement regulations.

The commission will consider the proposed regulations at its April 25th meeting, and is accepting public comments until that date.


== What to do ==

Send a message, before the April 25th meeting, urging the California Energy Commission to adopt the proposed global warming pollution performance standard regulations for municipal utilities.


== Contact information ==

You can send an official comment directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

California Energy Commission Docket No. 06-OIR-1
1516 9th Street, MS-4 Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-654-4354
Email: SB1368@energy.state.ca.us


== Sample letter ==

Subject: Docket No. 06-OIR-1-- Comments on proposed GHG emissions standard regulations

Dear Commissioners,

I strongly support the proposed "Regulations Establishing and Implementing a Greenhouse Gases Emission Performance Standard for Local Publicly Owned Utilities." These regulations would ensure that utilities are required to place their long-term investments in clean energy sources, thus helping California meet its global warming emissions reduction targets under the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) and avoiding the unnecessary exposure of Californians to hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs resulting from new investments in highly polluting energy sources.

We must protect all Californians equally from the financial and reliability risks of continued reliance on electricity sources that produce high amounts of global warming pollution. The California Public Utilities Commission has already adopted strong rules to implement and enforce SB 1368 for the state's investor-owned utilities, and the California Energy Commission is obligated to adopt consistent regulations for the state's local publicly owned utilities.

The proposed regulations provide for necessary state oversight to ensure compliance with the standard, while allowing the publicly owned utilities enough flexibility to continue purchasing the cleanest, most affordable power for their customers. In addition, the proposed regulations would ensure a consistent statewide standard for all California utilities. I strongly urge the commission to adopt the proposed regulations to implement and enforce SB 1368 for California's local publicly owned utilities.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

Lead ammunition is threatening to wipe out the last surviving California condors. After several public hearings, the California Fish and Game Commission is poised to vote this month on whether to ban this poisonous hunting ammunition in counties where condors live.

The California condor, North America's largest bird, is one of the most endangered animals on earth. Today there are 138 condors in the wild, 61 of which fly free in California. One of the leading causes of condor deaths is lead poisoning, which occurs when the birds accidentally ingest lead bullet fragments found in their prey. Lead poisoning has caused nine confirmed condor deaths since 1992 and has been implicated in the death or disappearance of at least 15 more condors. Other birds, such as golden and bald eagles, are also susceptible to lead contamination from ingesting lead fragments in ammunition.

The California Fish and Game Commission is considering changing its hunting regulations to ban lead ammunition in counties with condor populations. Such a ban would help protect these birds and others from lead contamination and bring them back from the brink of extinction.

The commission will vote on the ban at its April 12-13 meeting in Bodega Bay.


== What to do ==

Send a message, before April 12th, urging the California Fish and Game Commission to ban the use of lead ammunition in counties where condors live.


== Contact information ==

You can send an official comment directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

Doug Updike, Acting Chief, Wildlife Programs California Department of Fish and Game
1812 Ninth Street Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-445-4048
Email: dupdike@dfg.ca.gov


== Sample letter ==

Subject: Ban lead ammunition in condor habitat

Dear Acting Chief Updike,

I urge the California Fish and Game Commission to ban the use of lead ammunition for hunting activities in California hunting zones where condors are found.

Leading scientists have concluded that lead poisoning is a major obstacle to the recovery of the California condor. In addition to condors, other birds, such as golden and bald eagles, also are poisoned by ingesting lead shot and lead bullet fragments.

Alternatives to lead ammunition for many hunting activities are already widely available.

Please act now to protect the natural heritage of all Californians and save the California condor.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

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Informant: binstock

LobbyControl-Extra vom 2.4.2006

TV-Tipp: Lobbyisten im Zentrum der Macht

Heute abend läuft im WDR Fernsehen eine 45minütige Dokumentation über die Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in Ministerien. Der Film stammt von Sascha Adamek und Kim Otto aus der Monitor-Redaktion, die diesen Skandal in den letzten Monaten aufgedeckt hat - auf jeden Fall sehenswert!

Sendedaten: WDR3, 22.45 - 23.30 Uhr (und morgen um 10 Uhr)

Weitere Informationen auf der Webseite der Doku-Reihe "die story": http://www.wdr.de/tv/diestory/
http://tinyurl.com/2vv9bx

Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

03/30/07

In general, past administrations, Democratic and Republican, have chafed at the prospect of turning over their records, per the Presidential Records Act, says Bruce Montgomery, the director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s archives and an expert on presidential papers. ‘No president since Carter, who signed the Presidential Records Act into law, has looked kindly on that statute. Carter did not want the Presidential Records Act to apply to him. The Carter Justice Department saw it as a breach of the separation of powers.’ In 1985, a young lawyer working in the Reagan White House questioned the constitutionality of the law in a memo to his boss, White House counsel Fred Fielding, who is currently reprising that role in the Bush administration. That lawyer, John Glover Roberts Jr., who we know as Chief Justice Roberts, noted that the ‘existence of the Act serves to burden the full and frank exchange of advice.’ That advice, he argued, ‘is protected by the constitutionally based doctrine of executive privilege.’ He fretted, however, that it was too early to mount a constitutional challenge. That would have to wait until 2001, when, after the 12-year waiting period outlined in the law, the first batch of Reagan-era documents would be released...

http://tinyurl.com/3auftd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Slate
by Phillip Carter

03/31/07

The U.S. Army broke in the 1970s in the wake of the Vietnam War and the end of the draft. But if you ask officers who served during that period, few will recall the sounds of creaking planks, snapping beams, or rupturing buildings as the institution disintegrated. Instead, the crumbling occurred over time, becoming apparent only decades later. Today’s Army is stretched past its breaking point by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sounds of its collapse may be faint enough for policymakers in Washington to ignore, but they are there...

http://www.slate.com/id/2163107/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Liberty For All
by Danny Brooks

In my opinion, the most dangerous threat to the United States is not the threat from another country. After all, what country can compete with our military? It isn’t terrorist cells or weapons of mass distraction. It is political correctness. Those two words have been used to confuse, irritate, and placate Americans for years... (written 06/03; posted 03/30/07)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=587


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

03/31/07

Has the end of America’s war on Iraq been brought closer by the recent vote in the House of Representatives? On March 23, the full House voted 218 to 212 to set a timeline on the withdrawal of US troops, with September 1, 2008, as the putative date after which war funding might be restricted to withdrawal purposes only. It’s not exactly a stringent deadline. It only requires Bush to seek Congressional approval before extending the occupation and spending new funds to do so. … Although nothing of any significance actually happened on March 23, to read liberal commentators one would think we’d witnessed some profound upheaval, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi’s skillful uniting of the various Democratic factions. What she accomplished in practice was the neutering of the antiwar faction...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03312007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tennessean
by Rep. Lincoln Davis

04/01/07

There are many untruths emanating from Washington about the recently passed House budget. It almost seems like there is an attempt to rewrite history. First, the Republicans in Washington have zero credibility when it comes to the budget. Last year, when they were in complete control, they couldn’t pass a budget resolution or the appropriations process. The wheels completely fell off. They gave us the rainforest in Iowa, the Bridge to Nowhere, and, when handed a budget surplus in the hundreds of billions of dollars in 2000, it only took six years to squander it and saddle us with historic deficits and a ballooning debt. The record needs to be set straight. The newly passed budget ends the ‘borrow-and-spend’ era of the last several years with the reimplementation of pay-as-you-go rules...

http://tinyurl.com/2pfx2o


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Age [Australia]

04/01/07

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the US withdrawal from Vietnam, says the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible. He also said he sympathises with the troubles facing US President George Bush. ‘A ‘military victory’ in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,’ Kissinger told The Associated Press in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University. The faceless, ubiquitous nature of Iraq’s insurgency, as well as the religious divide between Shi’ite and Sunni rivals, makes negotiating peace more complex, he said...

http://tinyurl.com/2ogf56


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hartz IV: ALG II und Kinder/Jugendliche

Kampagne „Kinder brauchen Teddybären und Schulsachen!“

"Hartz IV - Förderung der Bildung durch Kürzungen"

Flugblatt des Rhein-Main-Bündnisses gegen Sozialabbau und Billiglöhne (pdf) http://www.rhein-main-buendnis.de/schulkosten-kindergeld.pdf


Ein Hartz für Kinder. Zur Senkung der Regelsätze für Schulkinder mit Einführung von Hartz IV

36-seitige Broschüre des Rhein-Main-Bündnisses gegen Sozialabbau und Billiglöhne (pdf) http://www.rhein-main-buendnis.de/broschuere-kinderregelsaetze.pdf


ARGE München kennt keine Grenzen mehr: Jetzt wird schon Hartz4-Kindern fiktives Einkommen vom Lebensbedarf abgezogen: Reichen 24 Euro für ein Kind zum Leben?

„Die ARGE München Mitte scheint gar keine Grenzen mehr zu kennen, Einsparungen an unfreiwilligen Hartz4-Empfängern vorzunehmen, jetzt sind die Kinder dran: Zwei Kindern in München wurden für April Kindesunterhalt als Einkommen abgezogen, welcher den Kindern noch nie gezahlt wurde…“ Artikel von Christiane Hoepner, München, vom 01.04.2007 beim Presseportal für Soziales und Politik http://www.elo-forum.net/hartz-iv/010-010401-213-154.html


Jugendarbeitslosigkeit: Jugendliche und Hartz IV - Was macht das Fördern?

Der Reader dokumentiert einen gemeinsam von Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und DGB Bundesvorstand durchgeführten Expertenworkshop am 20. November 2006 in Berlin. Veröffentlichung des DGB-Bundesvorstandes, Bereich Arbeitsmarktpolitik, vom Januar 2007, dokumentiert bei der Arbeitsnehmerkammer (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/01_aktuell/ticker/2007/2007_03_30_dgb_fes.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. April 2007

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Bündnisplattform: "Hartz IV - vorsätzliche Kürzungen bei Schulkindern!"

Die Bündnisplattform fordert höhere Regelleistungen für Kinder und deckt den Betrug um die Kürzung der Kinderregelleistungen auf. Schon jetzt wird die Bündnisplattform durch sehr viele Organisationen und Einzelpersonen unterstützt. Siehe dazu:

Die Homepage der Bündnisplattform: http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/

Bündnisplattform: Hartz IV - vorsätzliche Kürzungen bei Schulkindern! Schluss mit dem empörenden Zustand, Kinder für ihr Wachstum und ihren Schulbesuch zu bestrafen!

Aufruf als pdf-Datei http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2008/kuerzung_schulkinder/kuerzungen-bei-schulkindern-2008-07-14.pdf

und Aufruf unterzeichnen: http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/aufruf/eintrag.php


Kürzungen bei Hartz IV-Kindern finanzieren das höhere Kindergeld

„Die neu gründete Bündnisplattform «Kinderarmut durch Hartz IV» wirft Finanzminister Peer Steinbrück vor, seine im Haushaltsentwurf 2009 eingestellten Mittel für Familien mit Kindern in Höhe von einer Mrd. Euro würden zur Hälfte durch Einsparungen bei Hartz IV-Kindern gegenfinanziert. Mit Einführung von Hartz IV im Jahr 2005 sei Kindern und Jugendlichen ab sieben der Wachstumsbedarf aberkannt worden, und die Bundesregierung sei bis heute nicht bereit, diese Kürzung wieder zurück zu nehmen….“ Pressemitteilung der Bündnisplattform «Kinderarmut durch Hartz IV» vom 16.07.2008 http://www.kinderarmut-durch-hartz4.de/info-kinderarmut/presse/16-2008071581.html


Hartz IV: "Fördern" durch Kürzen. Zur Aberkennung des Wachstumsbedarfs von Schulkindern und Jugendlichen mit Einführung von Hartz IV

Broschüre zu den Hintergründen der Kinderregelleistungskürzungen nun auch online bei Tacheles (pdf) http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Dies%20und%20das/Hartz_IV_Foerdern_durch_KuerzenA5.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Juli 2008



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Plant trees, lots of them, we can never plant enough! First and foremost they will keep cool our environment! That is how we can control the global warming, replace the wood we consume with new trees, trees which need Co2 to live.

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A million trees? No, we need a billion
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/02/15/84419.html


Informant: Scott Munson

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IPCC Issues Second Report in Series on Climate Change.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681299ms40



Save the climate now!

The Global Marshall Plan: One Million Flyers in Germany for the Billion Tree Campaign. Students and teenagers invite all generations to plant one billion trees together.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681298ms40

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You can not only plant trees for as little as .50 cents each but also save rainforest at the same time!:) Shop where it matters & only where it matters. http://www.therainforestsite.com Visit The Rainforest Site and do a search on Save Monarch Butterfly Habitat. In one year I have planted 1000 trees and so can you! You can help by funding the planting of tree seedlings in the butterflies' overwintering area in Michoacán, Mexico, through the work of The Michoacán Reforestation Fund, winner of the 2002 Smithsonian Magazine/USTOA Conservation Award. This fine organization has worked with its Mexican partners to plant over 2 million trees since its founding in 1997 and is committed to restoring protective forest cover. As the trees grow, they serve as a climatic buffer that protects butterflies from harsh weather. And when sustainably harvested, the trees provide a renewable source of income for local residents. Choose to plant 50 Trees ($25.00) or 100 Trees ($50.00). https://shop.therainforestsite.com/store

Mari Enchanted

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Trees Across America: Help the Urban Forest
http://forestry.about.com/cs/employment/p/TAA_plant.htm

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Steve Nix

The good news is, millions of trees will be planted over the next year. The bad news is, many of those trees will not be planted correctly and then only given minimal care over time. I have prepared this eCourse so that you can prepare yourself for the best tree planting outcome possible. You are beginning a course that will broaden your understanding of a tree's needs a bit while giving you sound advice on how to select and plant the best one possible. Let's get started!

http://forestry.about.com/mbiopage.htm

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Why Are Trees Important?

Art Plotnik, urban tree expert and author, dedicates a portion of his book "The Urban Tree Book" to a tree's importance. Plotnik makes a great case-in-point for planting and maintaining trees in and around your home and explains why trees are also important to an urban community. Plotnik suggests eight reasons a tree is more than just beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

http://forestry.about.com/library/weekly/aa060400a.htm

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Where Do I Buy A Tree?

Buy Online!

High quality seedlings and saplings can be found at reasonable prices on the Internet. You just have to know where to look. Here are five of the best Internet sites available for purchasing trees.

http://forestry.about.com/cs/catalogs/a/best_seedling_s.htm



A USFS Nursery Directory

The United States Forest Service's RNGR Team maintains a list of plant material providers for the United States. It includes many tree nurseries. You can search for plant materials by state, product, or any keyword. The directory is managed completely online.

http://www.rngr.net/Applications/directory

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Discussions on Planting and Maintaining Trees

The Forestry Forum

Remember that tree planting help is just a click away at About's Forestry Forum. We have a large number of foresters and nurserymen ready to answer any question you might have. You will feel welcome in our forums. Take a look as a Guest. When you want to post, choose a login name and then become an active member.

http://forestry.about.com/mpboards.htm

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10 Best Trees You Should Plant

I've picked ten best trees readily available for planting in your yard. Although there are dozens of great trees from which to pick, I have taken some of the subjectivity out to give you reasonable choices. I am certain any one of these ten trees will earn itself a place of pride in your yard.

http://forestry.about.com/od/treeplanting/a/best_yard_tree.htm

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10 Trees You May Not Want to Plant

Planting the wrong tree in the wrong place is a guarantee for future tree removal. Tree removal is, at best, expensive to buy and can be very dangerous if you decide to do it yourself - plus it is back breaking work. A lot of trouble and anxiety can be avoided by planting the appropriate tree on your property to start with.

http://forestry.about.com/od/treeplanting/a/ten_bad_trees.htm

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Plant Hardiness Zones

It is extremely important that you plant your tree in a place where it will survive. Planting a tree outside of it's hardiness zone can waste you time, money and effort. Most nurseries suggest planting trees using a USDA hardiness zone as your guide. Check your tree for zone requirements and check this map for your particular planting zone.

http://forestry.about.com/b/a/007282.htm

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A Tree Planting Guide

This tree guide is probably my most visited site on tree planting. The guide is an overview on planting tree seedlings and saplings with guidelines on how they should be purchased, handled and planted. If you need to read just one thing listed on my eCourse, this is it.

http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeplanting/a/plant_guide.htm

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Ten Commandments for Seedling Survival!

Dr. William Carey, Auburn University Forestry Professor, outlines a ten point system to help improve forest tree seedling survival. These "commandments" specifically apply to wildland reforestation but will generally apply as well for urban tree planting.

http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeplanting/a/10com_seedling.htm

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Seven Ps For Healthy Trees!

Here are seven helps designed to keep your trees healthy. Follow this step-by-step prescription for preventing or minimizing tree damage caused by decay. Remember - prepare yourself, make a plan of action, provide protection, prevent tree damage, prune every year, provide nutrients and seek professional help.

http://forestry.about.com/library/rx/bl_rx_woundrx.htm

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Causes and Cures for Storm Damage

Hundreds of thousands of shade and street trees in the United States are storm damaged by wind, ice and lightning each year. Estimates of property value loss from tree storm damage can approach one billion dollars annually depending on how severe the weather is. This is a feature designed to help you quickly understand and prevent costly storm damage to trees.

http://forestry.about.com/od/adverseweather/i/storm_tree_dam.htm

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Tree Planting - Frequently Asked Quesions

Everyone has a question or two on planting tree. Here are those 10 basic questions asked by a new tree planter. I have done the research and found an answer to each one and include links for further review.

http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeplanting/f/

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Deforestation Effects Depend On Location

The effects of deforestation on climate depend on three things - location, location and location. Environmentalists concerned about global warming have long encouraged preservation of forests because they absorb carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041007EC.shtml

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Tree Planting a Practical, Effective Way to Remove CO2
http://www.care2.com/news/member/537645068/401104

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Reforestation May Be Fastest Way to Reverse Global Warming
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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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by Devvy Kidd

Michael Panzner is author of a book titled Financial Armageddon, which has a clear message no one wants to hear: "Unable to cope with the harsh new economic environment, growing numbers of Americans will end up on the streets - confused, homeless and hungry. With that, begging will increase to previously unseen levels. So too will a range of other social ills, especially when those who have lost hope seek solace in drugs or alcohol…Even once-model citizens will have little choice but to break the law to take care of themselves and their families." Panzner isn't blowing smoke, he's trying to warn unsuspecting Americans poised to lose everything......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd260.htm



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Dass sich der Staat für Recherchen und Informanten von Journalisten interessiert und dabei auch deren Kommunikation überprüft, ist nicht neu. Bekannt wurde etwa die Ermittlung von Telefonkontaktdaten eines Reporters der Dresdner Morgenpost, die Telefonüberwachung von Journalisten des Stern und des ZDF im Zusammenhang mit dem Entführungsfall Khaled el-Masri und die monatelange Analyse aller Verbindungsdaten der Wolfsburger Allgemeinen Zeitung.

Was Journalisten und allen Bürgern dieses Landes droht, wenn das verharmlosend "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" genannte Vorhaben der Regierung umgesetzt wird, beschreibt Patrick Breyer in der aktuellen Ausgabe des Medienmagazins 'Berliner Journalisten'.

http://www.berliner-journalisten.com/09/free/breyer.html
http://www.berliner-journalisten.com/aktuelles-heft.html


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Aus einer PM des Axel-Springer-Verlages vom 22. März 2007:

Der BamS-Chefreporter Guido Brandenburg wurde heute in einem von TV-Moderator Günther Jauch veranlassten Strafverfahren vor dem Amtsgericht Potsdam freigesprochen.

Brandenburg war von Jauch vorgeworfen worden, sich über sein Immobilienvermögen beim Grundbuchamt Potsdam durch verleumderische Angaben Informationen verschafft zu haben. Jauch hatte Strafanzeige gestellt, nachdem er zuvor von Behauptungen erfahren hatte, der Reporter hätte bei der Recherche von dem Verdacht der Vorteilsgewährung im Zusammenhang mit Grundstücksgeschäften Jauchs gesprochen.

Claus Strunz, Chefredakteur BamS: "Hier sollte in beispielloser Weise ein Journalist kriminalisiert werden, der sich bei seinen Recherchen völlig korrekt verhalten hat. Es ist gut für die Pressefreiheit in diesem Land, dass dieser Versuch gescheitert ist."

Pressekontakt:
Tobias Fröhlich
Tel: +49 (0) 30 25 91-7 76 20
tobias.froehlich @axelspringer.de


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Die deutschen Pläne zur elektronischen Totalüberwachung aller Bewohner des Landes (verharmlosend Vorratsdatenspeicherung betitelt) fußen auf einer entsprechenden Richtlinie der Europäischen Kommission. Diese hat gerade den Zugang zu Dokumenten abgelehnt, die die Gültigkeit der Richtlinie zur Vorratsspeicherung von Telekommunikationsdaten betreffen. Bürgerrechtler werten die Entscheidung als Ausdruck einer zunehmenden Nervosität der Brüsseler Behörde in Bezug auf eine laufende Klage gegen die Richtlinie.

Nach der Richtlinie vom März 2006 soll zur "verbesserten Strafverfolgung" unter anderem nachvollziehbar werden, wer mit wem in den letzten sechs Monaten per Telefon, Handy oder E-Mail in Verbindung gestanden hat.

Zwei Monate nach Beschluss der Richtlinie hat der Europäische Gerichtshof die Fluggastdatenübermittlung in die USA für unzulässig erklärt, weil die EG für die innere Sicherheit nicht zuständig ist. Unter Berufung auf dieses Urteil hat Irland im Juni 2006 Nichtigkeitsklage gegen die Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereicht. Eine Entscheidung des Gerichtshofs wird für nächstes Jahr erwartet.

Unter Berufung auf Informationsfreiheitsregelungen hat der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung, ein bundesweiter Zusammenschluss von Bürgerrechtlern, Datenschützern und Internet-Nutzern, von der EG-Kommission die Herausgabe von Dokumenten über die Gerichtsverfahren zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung und zur Fluggastdatenübermittlung verlangt. Die Dokumente sollen die Einschätzung vieler Rechtsexperten untermauern, dass die Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung nichtig ist und deswegen nicht umgesetzt werden darf.

Die Kommission hat die Anträge mit dem Argument abgelehnt, eine Offenlegung könne dem laufenden Gerichtsverfahren schaden und die "Verteidigungsrechte der Parteien unterminieren".

In Deutschland laufen Datenschutzbeauftragte gemeinsam mit Journalisten-, Medien-, Verbraucher- und Wirtschaftsverbänden Sturm gegen die Pläne der Bundesregierung, die Kommunikationsdatenspeicherung noch dieses Jahr umzusetzen. "Eine derart weitreichende Registrierung des Verhaltens der Menschen in Deutschland halten wir für inakzeptabel", heißt es in der Gemeinsamen Erklärung vom Januar. Die Verbände verlangen, die Pläne zumindest bis zur Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs über die Rechtmäßigkeit der Richtlinie auf Eis zu legen.

Die Bescheide der EG-Kommission im Wortlaut: http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/Irland-Bescheid.pdf , http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/EP-Bescheid.pdf .

Gemeinsame Erklärung der Verbände zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung: http://erklaerung.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de .

Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises vom 25.03.: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?/content/view/94/55/ .


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Sa., 14.04.2007, ab 15 Uhr, Frankfurt (Main), Hauptbahnhof.

Buergerrechtler rufen bundesweit zur Teilnahme an einer Demonstration gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Staat und Wirtschaft auf. Am Samstag, den 14. April 2007 werden besorgte Bürgerinnen und Buerger in Frankfurt am Main unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst" auf die Strasse gehen. Treffpunkt ist der Hauptbahnhof um 15 Uhr. Der Protestmarsch durch die Stadt wird mit einer Kundgebung vor der Paulskirche enden.

Die Forderungen:

1. Weniger Überwachung

- keine Totalprotokollierung von Telefon, Handy und Internet (Vorratsdatenspeicherung),
- keine geheime Durchsuchung von Computern,
- Stopp der Videoüberwachung des öffentlichen Raums, keine automatische Gesichtskontrolle,
- Stopp von Biometrie und RFID-Chips in Ausweisen und Pässen,
- keine Aufzeichnung des Flugreiseverkehrs,
- kein automatischer Kfz-Kennzeichenabgleich auf öffentlichen Strassen.

2. Bestehende Überwachungsgesetze auf den Prüfstand stellen

- unabhängige Überprüfung aller seit 1968 beschlossenen Überwachungsgesetze auf ihre Wirksamkeit und schädlichen Nebenwirkungen.

3. Stopp für neue Überwachungsgesetze

- Nach der inneren Aufrüstung der letzten Jahre fordern wir einen sofortigen Stopp neuer Gesetzesvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der inneren Sicherheit, wenn sie mit weiteren Grundrechtseingriffen verbunden sind.

Weitere Infos auf der Demo-Homepage
http://www.Freiheit-statt-Angst.de/


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Rundgang durch die überwachte Stadt

City Control
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv085.html

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

Bundesweite Demonstration gegen ausufernde Überwachung am Samstag, den 14.4. in Frankfurt

„Über 20 Bürgerrechtsorganisationen, politische Gruppen und Datenschutzvereinigungen rufen für Samstag, den 14. April unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst" zu einem Protestmarsch in Frankfurt am Main gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Staat und Wirtschaft auf. Die Organisationen sind sich einig, dass es höchste Zeit ist, vor dem Hintergrund permanenter Verschärfungen von Sicherheits- und Überwachungsgesetzen für die Bewahrung der Grundrechte der Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf die Straße zu gehen. Die Demonstration wendet sich unter anderem gegen die Vorratsspeicherung des Telekommunikationsverhaltens der gesamten Bevölkerung, gegen verdeckte Online-Durchsuchungen von Computern und gegen die neue Wunschliste von Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble…“ Pressemitteilung vom 10. April 2007: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?/content/view/98/55/

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Aus: LabourNet, 12. April 2007

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"Es ist nicht einfach, die Folgen zunehmender Überwachung zu bemerken"

Gespräch mit dem Juristen Patrick Beyer vom "Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung" über Hintergrund und Zweck der geplanten Demonstration "Freiheit statt Angst - gegen Sicherheits- und Überwachungswahn" am Samstag in Frankfurt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25066/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=%C3%9Cberwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsspeicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sch%C3%A4uble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Online-Durchsuchung

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/236/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/246/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/245/



This Was A Trial?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/235/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/30/60minutes/main2631210.shtml


Informant: NHNE

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The age of warming: segments from 60 Minutes
http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/54/the_age_of_warming


Informant: binstock

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/60minutes/printable2625305.shtml


Informant: NHNE