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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

04/05/07

As was true over much of the nation last autumn, dissatisfied Minnesota voters tossed out Republicans. Unfortunately, that was a step out of the frying pan into the fire. Voters didn’t like what they were getting, but it hasn’t taken long for them to discover that what they got in exchange is no better, perhaps worse. Nothing about the war has changed, and government spending is going even higher. … Election after election, the voters turn out one party in favor of their only other choice, only to have to do it again next election. The Democratic and Republican parties have locked this nation into a two-party system to the point that neither of them feels responsible to the voters...

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/04/we-vote-things-get-worse.html



We vote, things get worse

Chicago Sun-Times

04/06/07

An international global warming conference approved a report Friday warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind — from increased hunger to the extinction of species — unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress. Agreement came after an all-night session during which key sections were deleted from the draft and scientists angrily confronted government negotiators who they feared were watering down their findings. … It is the second of four reports from the IPCC this year; the first report in February laid out the scientific case for how global warming is happening. This second report is the ’so what’ report, explaining what the effects of global warming will be...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/330601,warm040607.article


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/

Leonardo DiCaprio probes the water crisis and reminds us that "access to clean water is a basic human right."

Souce: http://ga3.org/ct/-p20pgF1RXQV/

Recesspool
http://ga3.org/ct/-d20pgF1RXQK/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recess+appointments

By Saiqa Chaudhari

A GOVERNMENT planning inspector is to rule whether a 47ft mobile phone mast in Crompton Way poses a risk to pedestrians and vehicles and should be pulled down.

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile erected the mast on the footpath next to the Shell petrol station and in front of Tonge Cricket Club last year.

The mast is designed to provide coverage to Crompton, Bradshaw, Hall i' th' Wood and areas around Tonge Moor.

A mix-up in dates by the Bolton Council led to T-Mobile believing it had been granted permission to install the equipment.

But the council refused to give retrospective permission and ordered the company to pull down the mast as well as remove three equipment cabinets, claiming they were a potential hazard.

T-Mobile appealed the decision and yesterday, a day-long hearing was held in front of government inspector Paul Taylor, who heard arguments from the council and T-Mobile.

Graeme Mitchell, Bolton's group planning officer, said: "The mast obstructs the view of people crossing the road at that point, and the vehicles would not get a good view of them."

Council officers said the risk would be heightened as m ore people visited the cricket club and would try to cross the road to the pub and supermarket.

The council also argued the equipment narrowed the path and prevented pedestrians passing each other safely.

Ian Calderbank, principal engineer for Bolton's highways department, said: "A person pushing a buggie would find it difficult to pass if there was another pedestrian. It is likely it would cause one of the pedestrians to step in the carriageway to pass."

The concerns were dismissed by by T-Mobile and James Bevis, representing the company, said: "Pedestrians would stand close to the kerb and the mast would not obstruct the view.

"The road is wide and vehicles would not be close to the kerb as they drove by. Pedestrians could walk down to the crossing on the road."

He also pointed to other street furniture on the highway which also obstruct views, such as trees.

Fellow representative for the company, Robert Linnell added: "No-one would launch themselves in the road without first looking around."

Mr Bevis added: "The width provided between the mast and the cabinet was adequate to allow people to pass each other.

"The footpath is lightly used. There is ample visibility for pedestrians to see if someone is approaching in a wheelchair, so they can slow down and let them pass."

He also said the cricket club would not attract huge crowds like the famous ground The Oval.

A decision on the mast is expected in three weeks.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1313754.0.inspector_hears_mast_argument.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6045/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2422640.ece


Informant: NHNE

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17969692/


Informant: ranger116

Reversing the 22nd Amendment of two term limit.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/04/05/008.html


Informant: ranger116

The Justice Department is refusing to release hundreds of pages of additional documents related to the firings of eight US attorneys, setting up a fresh clash with Capitol Hill in a controversy that continues to threaten Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's hold on his position.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607H.shtml



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

Tehran's liberation on Wednesday, April 4, of fifteen British sailors has "nothing to do" with the liberation twenty-four hours earlier of an Iranian diplomat who mysteriously disappeared two months ago in Iraq. Neither does it have anything to do with the announcement a few hours later in Tehran that five other Iranian "diplomats," captured by the American Army January 11 in Iraq, will receive a visit by an adviser from their Iraq embassy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607G.shtml

Poll

Most Americans have little or no confidence in the information they receive from the military or the media about the situation in Iraq, according to a poll released Thursday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607F.shtml

Chomsky weighs in on the continued escalation in the Middle East: "Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush's announcement of a 'surge' in Iraq came despite the firm opposition to any such move of Americans and the even stronger opposition of the (thoroughly irrelevant) Iraqis. It was accompanied by ominous official leaks and statements about how Iranian intervention in Iraq was aimed at disrupting our mission to gain victory, an aim which is (by definition) noble."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

Newly released documents confirm that a Pentagon unit knowingly cooked up intelligence claiming a direct link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in order to win support for a preemptive strike against the country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6048/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/science/earth/06cnd-climate.html


Informant: NHNE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040600291.html


Informant: binstock

Subprime loans have led to one million American families losing their homes in the past decade, a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending has found. As interest rates have climbed and the housing market has slumped, delinquent loans have soared, and home repossessions have grown.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607O.shtml



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

The Office of Special Counsel has launched an investigation into General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan, probing concerns she may have violated a ban against conducting partisan political activity at government expense by participating in a meeting featuring a presentation by a White House political aide on GOP election strategy. This meeting may be part of a larger pattern and practice of violating the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act prohibits government resources - including employees' time or space in a government building - from being used for partisan politics.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607N.shtml



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The Pentagon will call up 12,000 National Guard soldiers for service in Iraq to fill gaps in the overworked army. The National Guard is a volunteer militia, but they will receive an involuntary call-up to report for duty in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607M.shtml

Tell the EPA: 'You Have Your Orders!'
http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7148

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Send an Email: Tell the EPA to Fight Global Warming
http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/tell_EPA_actnow/

University of California Santa Cruz student Robert Zabala joined the Marine Corps thinking it would be a "place where he could find security" after the death of his grandmother in 2003. But when he began boot camp in June
2003, Zabala said he had an ethical awakening that would not allow him to kill other people. He was particularly appalled by the boot camp's attempts to desensitize the recruits to violence. Zabala sued and on Mar. 29, a federal judge in Northern California overruled the military justice system, ordering the Marine Corps to discharge Zabala as a conscientious objector within 15 days.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2977.shtml



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by Fiona McGarry

More than 50 residents of Foxford are fighting a bid by a mobile phone company to build a 30-metre mast in the Clossaghroe area.

This is the second attempt by O2 to erect the mast. The first application, made in November, was ruled invalid because planners found the site notice was “very high up on a telephone pole” and not readable from the public road. Planners also told the company the mast seemed to go against the County Development Plan.

As with O2’s initial application, its second approach to planners has generated huge local resistance. Fifty-two people calling themselves “the residents of Clossaghroe and the surrounding townlands” have lodged another detailed objection against the mast.

The letter, which is signed by John Sheridan and 52 others, objects to the mast, saying it would be “visually obtrusive in every way in a beautiful rural setting and not fitting with the surrounding area in any way”. The objection also notes that there several homes and young families in the area, and points out that Department of the Environment guidelines advise against masts within 500 metres of residences.

The presence of a number of other telecommunications masts in the same area outside Foxford is also noted by objectors, who ask which will be the next company seeking to erect a mast in their area. “It is appalling to have to accept such decisions against our will, when there are many local families having planning permission difficulties in this area,” the objectors have told planners.

Objectors have also drawn attention to a letter sent by Mayo County Council to O2 on foot of its first application for the 30-metre mast. While planners advised the company that their application seemed to contravene the County Development Plan, and said that a revised plan should be submitted; objectors claim the current project is identical to the first one.

Additional concerns relate to the proximity of the mast site to the scenic Foxford Way, a popular walking trail that passes through Clossaghroe. “We ask you what kind of message would be given to the visiting tourists that use this walk. If they approach Clossaghroe, they are to be faced with the sight of a fenced compound and a 30-metre tower in a beautiful scenic area. The message would not be a positive one. Especially at a time when the Government is investing approximately €20 million in attracting hill-walkers to this country,” the objection says.

The deadline for public submissions on the mast has now closed and planners are expected to make a decision or seek further information on the project by April 15.

© Mayo Advertiser Ltd,2007

http://www.mayoadvertiser.com/index.php?aid=1608

Snowmobile use of Yellowstone National Park would nearly triple under the latest Bush Administration proposal for winter use of the park.

Despite repeated and conclusive studies that show that even lower numbers of snowmobiles add to air and noise pollution and disturb wildlife in the park, the administration is proposing to triple those impacts.

We can stop this nonsensical proposal.

Click here to take action:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/yellowstone_winter_use/



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Beekeeper James Doan first began finding empty hives last fall. Entire bee colonies seemed to have up and vanished, leaving their honey behind. Noting the unusually wet fall in Hamlin, New York, he blamed the weather. Unable to forage in the rain, the bees probably starved, he reasoned. But when deserted hives began appearing daily, "we knew it was something different," he says.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040507ED.shtml

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Threat to agriculture as mystery killer wipes out honeybee hives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2054914,00.html


Informant: binstock

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Keepers fear mystery bee illness
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nbee13.xml


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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A Western drought that began in 1999 has continued after the respite of a couple of wet years that now feel like a cruel tease. But this time people in the driest states are not just scanning the skies and hoping for rescue. Preparing for worst-case outcomes, the seven states that draw water from the Colorado River - Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico in the upper basin and California, Arizona and Nevada in the lower basin - and the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the river, are considering plans that lay out what to do if the river cannot meet the demand for water. Some experts predict that prospect will occur in about five years.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040507EC.shtml

"The real dilemma of coping [with] peak oil, for a while at least, is really quite simple," says Tom Whipple. "If the government should lay out the full ramifications of peaking in hopes of rallying the people to make preparations, the most immediate consequence is likely to be serious economic setback triggered by an unambiguous announcement itself. The alternative is to remain silent."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040507EB.shtml



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"There is a book, you know, how to lose your marriage in 30 days?" Emad Eldin Adib, an Egyptian media tycoon tells NOW. "The Bush administration should write a book: how to lose your allies in the Middle East in 30 months."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507U.shtml

Rich countries bent on power and profit have mercilessly "plundered and sacked" Africa and other poor regions and exported to them the "cynicism of a world without God," Pope Benedict writes in his first book. The Pope also condemns drug trafficking and sexual tourism, saying they are signs of a world brimming with "people who are empty" yet living among abundant material goods.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507T.shtml

17ème Chambre du Tribunal Correctionnel de Paris: Procès de SFR contre Annie Lobé (Jurisprudence): "Les gens meurent sous les antennes"

http://www.next-up.org/pages/Justice.php#1



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Annie+Lob%C3%A9

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0319483120070403


Informant: ranger116

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/331/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Rothschild

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/338/

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Debtor Nation

by Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org

The media has consistently ignored the enormity of America's personal debt burden.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/06/debtor_nation.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Danny+Schechter

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/327/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/329/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/332/



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

Soft real estate markets hurt worker mobility as relocation gets more costly - financially and emotionally.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0402/p13s01-wmgn.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Mr. Chertoff insisted that America required additional information, including e-mail addresses and credit card details, to vet European passengers.

http://snipurl.com/1fcwv



The 9/11 Mystery Plane

On September 11 2001, as the eyes of the nation were focused on the gruesome events at the World Trade Center, the networks interrupted their coverage in New York with a breaking story from Washington. A large plane had just been sighted over the White House.

http://rense.com/general76/missing.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Air Force Fighter Pilot and Instructor Comes Out for 9/11 Truth
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/020407_b_Pilot.htm

Another AF Officer Blasts Government 911 Coverup
http://www.rense.com/general76/another.htm

O'Donnell Pledges Allegiance To 9/11 Truth
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/020407pledgesallegiance.htm


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher

Video
http://snipurl.com/1fcws


From Information Clearing House



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Bush renominated Dudley on Jan. 9, but with Democrats in control in the 110th Congress, the nomination was virtually certain to fail in the Senate.

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002484899.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bypass+congress
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The escalating controversy over the Bush administration's dismissal of eight federal prosecutors has ensnared the high-ranking Justice Department official who brought charges against two pro-Israel advocates for allegedly leaking classified information.

http://snipurl.com/1fcwo


From Information Clearing House



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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to be seeking to avoid testifying before a committee hearing concerning the intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and other matters, according to a report in today's Washington Post.

http://snipurl.com/1fcwn


From Information Clearing House



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The Howard Government has been prepared to break Australian laws in order to further its objects, secure in the knowledge that while it retains power, it is immune from the operation of the law.

http://snipurl.com/1fcwi



Hicks gag meaningless, says Ruddock

A PLEA deal condition that prevents David Hicks speaking to the media for 12 months would not be enforceable in Australia, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.

http://snipurl.com/1fcwl


From Information Clearing House



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

Holmes said it was time for politicians and concerned leaders to stop playing "protracted games with each other, with little or no thought to the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens, whom the international community meanwhile keeps alive".

http://snipurl.com/1fcwh


From Information Clearing House

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UN Should Protect Against Genocide: Large Numbers Open to Intervention in Darfur
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0405-01.htm



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

The United States is planning to attack Iran's nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities by the end of this month, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times reported Wednesday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/05/content_5937874.htm



Iran ready to defend itself from possible U.S. attack - speaker

The last few days have seen reports in Russian and foreign media that the U.S. has scheduled an operation, codenamed Bite, against Iran for 4:00 a.m. local time April 6. The operation, should it materialize, would deliver air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over a 12-hour period.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070405/63182392.html



Russia says no grounds for US military strike on Iran

Russian-American consultations do not "create an impression that Washington is planning to attack Iran tomorrow," Ria Novosti quoted deputy foreign minister Alexander Losyukov as saying.

http://snipurl.com/1fcw1



Russia deems Iran's defense system strong enough to resist U.S. attack

Iran has a strong air defense potential to resist possible U.S. air strikes, a senior Russian military official told a news conference on Thursday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/06/content_5940144.htm


From Information Clearing House

Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began. We withheld the interview until now so it would not jeopardise their safety.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1259413,00.html



US secretary of defense says Iranian "detainees" will not be released

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the United States was not planning to release the five Iranians arrested in January in a raid on the Iranian consulate's office in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3385173,00.html



The US can learn from this example of mutual respect

The outcome of the crisis between Iran and Britain provides a lesson on how to deal with the wider international standoff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2050168,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The UK has spent £165m on hiring private security companies in Iraq in the past four years - the equivalent to around a quarter of the entire Iraq aid budget, it has emerged. A further £43m has been spent on private guards in Afghanistan since 2004.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2048009,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Americans have always accepted a certain level of economic inequality as the inevitable consequence of an open capitalist society where some people through their own efforts do better than others. The presumption is that there is fairness in the marketplace and economic system. What a quaint, outdated belief.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17489.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joel+S.+Hirschhorn

Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.- - I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

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Time to break the silence

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

04/02/08

Since 1865, when it was founded by Northern abolitionists, The Nation has always believed in the liberating power of truth, of conviction, of conscience, and of fighting for causes lost and found. And like our founders, the magazine has an abiding belief that there is no force so potent in politics as a moral issue. One of the great moral figures of our country’s history, Martin Luther King Jr. was a correspondent for The Nation — traveling the South in the early 1960s and filing annual dispatches for the magazine on the state of civil rights. In 1967, Dr. King traveled to Los Angeles … to give the speech that would align the armies of the Civil Rights Movement with the rapidly expanding national protest against the Vietnam War. It was at this gathering, before an overflow crowd at the Beverly Hills Hilton on February 25, that Dr. King first came out, courageously, eloquently and unequivocally , against the war. Two months later, on April 4th, King delivered his famous antiwar sermon at Riverside Church in New York City...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=305672


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

A Year to the day before his assassination, King gave this speech at the Riverside Church in New York.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1281&thisview=item



Jackson recalls Martin Luther King's last moments

Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyle on Martin Luther King Jr. and the moment he was shot.
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1276&thisview=item

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Forty Years Later, Still Far From the Mountaintop

Isaiah J. Poole writes for The Campaign for America's Future: "This is the Dr. King that the nation tends not to commemorate when we honor his birthday in January, the man who 40 years ago this week was at the side of workers fighting for fair wages and preparing to take his case for economic justice to Washington. Since that battle, his message has too often been scrubbed clean of anything that would hold the nation accountable for making racial equality an economic fact of life."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408K.shtml



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Democratic Blood Money

By Joshua Frank

Here's a brief rundown of the Feinstein family's blatant war profiteering.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17485.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Frank

Analysis by Lucy Komisar

The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist -- it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17488.htm

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Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI Bank
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/326/

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Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden

Investigations link the Bush family and Osama bin Laden. When the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal began to break in the late 1980s, the Bush Sr. administration did what it could to sit on it. But evidence about BCCI's broader links exist in numerous US and international investigations. Inter Press Service suggests that Congress take another look at the BCCI-Osama-Saddam-Saudi-Bush connection.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607L.shtml

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The evidence is there

AlterNet
by Lucy Komisar

04/05/07

Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush’s statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Critics dismissed that as an invention. They were wrong. There was a link, but not the one Bush was selling. The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist — it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/50156/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A218431


Informant: smileycoyote

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4492.cfm


Informant: smileycoyote



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

http://mondediplo.com/2007/04/04iraq


Informant: Mitchel Cohen

From ufpj-news

Die US-Behörden haben zuletzt immer behauptet, dass die Gefangenen auf Guantánamo angemessen und würdevoll behandelt würden. Nach Darstellung der Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty international "entsprechen diese Aussagen nicht den Wahrheit". In einem Bericht "über die aktuellen Haftbedingungen im US-Gefangenenlager Guantánamo" behauptet die Organisation, rund 80 Prozent der etwa 385 Gefangenen würden in Einzelhaft fast ohne Kontakt zur Außenwelt gehalten. "In die stählernen Zellen, in denen die Gefangenen etwa 22 Stunden am Tag verbringen, dringt weder Tageslicht noch frische Luft. Künstliches Licht brennt 24 Stunden, die Insassen werden ständig beobachtet. Ausgang findet stets ohne Kontakt zu anderen Menschen und oft nachts statt, so dass die Gefangenen tagelang kein Sonnenlicht sehen", schreibt die Organisation.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15695



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

Einer Studie der britischen Wissenschaftler-Gruppe "Oxford Research Group" zufolge soll die Atomenergie schon heute bis zu einem Drittel so viel Kohlendioxid (CO2) emittieren wie Gaskraftwerke. Und weil im Uranbergbau wegen des rückläufigen Urangehalts im Erz immer mehr fossile Energie eingesetzt werden müssten, werde die Atomenergie ab dem Jahr 2050 ebenso klimaschädlich sein wie fossile Gaskraftwerke, heißt es in der vom März veröffentlichten Untersuchung. "Damit ist die Legende von der klimafreundlichen Atomenergie endgültig vorbei", meint die Vorsitzende der atomkritischen Ärzteorganisation IPPNW, Angelika Claußen. "Selbst wenn die Atomenergie nur ihren geringen Beitrag von weniger als 3 Prozent zur weltweiten Energieversorgung beibehält, trägt sie immer stärker zur CO2-Belastung der Erdatmosphäre bei."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15700



Die Reichweite der Kohle wird angeblich deutlich überschätzt:
183 Millionen statt 24 Milliarden Tonnen Steinkohle

Ungeachtet der großen Risiken für das Klima soll der Anteil der Kohle an der Energieversorgung vermutlich deutlich ausgeweitet werden. Dieser Weg könnte nach Auffassung der Energy Watch Group, einem Zusammenschluss von Energieforschern und Wirtschaftsexperten, in eine Sackgasse führen. Nach Darstellung der Gruppierung sind die internationalen Statistiken über die Kohlereserven vielfach "veraltet". Eine aktuelle und transparente Datenerhebung sei "dringend notwendig". Möglicherweise werde schon im Jahr 2025 das "Fördermaximum" erreicht.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15711

Blinded and disabled on the fifty-fourth day of the war in Iraq, Sam Ross returned home to a rousing parade that outdid anything his small, depressed Appalachian town had ever seen. "Sam's parade put Dunbar on the map," his grandfather said. That was then. Now, Mr. Ross, 24, faces charges of attempted homicide, assault and arson in the burning of a family trailer in February.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507H.shtml

A liberal-leaning coalition formed to prod lawmakers on withdrawal from Iraq is kicking off an advertising and grassroots campaign aimed more at forcing Republicans to break from President Bush than gaining support for the contentious war supplemental.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507E.shtml



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

Little Rock's interim US Attorney J. Timothy Griffin - already at the center of a firestorm over whether the White House has put politics ahead of prosecutorial integrity - made claims about his experience as an Army lawyer that have been put in doubt by military records.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507D.shtml



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

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1606888,00.html


Informant: NHNE

The proposed ban on incandescent bulbs is a disaster, not only for ES suffers but also for people with light sensitivity arising from a number of other health conditions including lupus, ME, porphyria, XP, types of eczema etc.

Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for the South East Region, is the prime mover pushing for a total ban on incandescent bulbs at EU level. However, we've been lobbying her and we think she might be about to accept there must be exemptions.

This would be a major step forward.

If you live in South East - she is one of your 10 MEPs under the PR system.

Please write to her at:

Caroline Lucas MEP - UK Office Suite 58, The Hop Exchange
24 Southwark Street London SE1 1TY UK
Tel: ++44 (0)20 7407 6281
Fax: ++44 (0)20 7234 0183
Email: carolinelucas@greenmeps.org.uk

Brussels Office Caroline Lucas MEP European Parliament ASP-8G103 Rue Wiertz B-1047 Brussels Belgium
Tel: ++32 (0)2 2845153
Fax: ++32 (0)2 2849153
Email: clucas@europarl.eu.int

As one of her constituents you may even have voted for her - if so tell her, and how disappointed you are.

Tell her that a ban will inflict pain, suffering and total social exclusion on sick and disabled people.

I attach SPECTRUM's letter and a briefing to the UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin, which also mentions a new highly efficient incandescent bulb under development by GE and due to be marketed from 2010.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/caroline_lucas_mep_220307.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/all_party_briefing.doc

If you don't live in the South East, you can still write to Caroline Lucas to protest at her stance on incandescent bulbs.

You can also easily e-mail all other MEPs through this site: http://www.writetothem.com

And, also if you are still feeling feisty, try some EU Commissioners for Employment, Health and Consumer Protection.

Mr Markos Kyprianou
Commissioner for Health
EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Health and Consumer Protection
B-1049 BRUSSELS

Mrs Meglena Kuneva
Commissioner for Consumer Protection
EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Health and Consumer Protection
B-1049 BRUSSELS

Vladimir SPIDLA
Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
European Commission,
Rue de la Loi 200,
1040 Brussels.

Thank you - we can win this one if we make enough fuss.

Please forward this to others who might write.


Ruth Calder

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EDM 1316 - Phasing out the sale of incandescent lightbulbs

Great news!

Thanks to Bruce George MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin, and the Group's assistant Katherine Clifford, we now have the following EDM:

EDM no. 1316

PHASING OUT THE SALE OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS

Mr Bruce George

That this House notes that the Government's proposals to phase out the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2011 is likely to have serious consequences for the health and quality of life of people with light sensitivity conditions unless exemptions are made; recognises that people with such conditions can suffer severe and debilitating reactions to non-incandescent lighting; further notes that a ban on incandescent light bulbs would prevent people with light sensitivity conditions from using electrical lighting in their own homes, and would restrict their movements to places where electrical lighting is not in use, thus leading to social exclusion; and calls on the Government to ensure that suitable incandescent bulbs remain available for purchase and use by or for people with light sensitivity conditions.

This EDM remains open until 26th July. We now have to lobby MPs to get as many of them to sign it as possible, if only a few sign it, the Government will not take it seriously and the hard work getting it will be lost.

So please write to your MP explaining about the lightbulb issue and asking them to sign EDM 1316.

Please feature this request on websites and newsletters, alongside the e-petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/righttolight/

(NB: MPs who are also Government Ministers cannot sign EDMs)

Thankyou very much.

Kind regards

Ruth

Gegen den Widerstand der Republikaner dringt der von Demokraten beherrschte Streitkräfteausschuss des Repräsentantenhauses auf ein Ende der vereinfachenden Slogans der Bush-Regierung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25019/1.html

Die Osterbotschaft aus Iran wird am grundsätzlichen Konfrontationskurs der USA gegenüber dem Land nichts ändern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25021/1.html

by Eric Stoner, TomPaine.com

Four decades ago, Dr. King gave a political speech that is more timely than ever.

http://ga3.org/ct/Kp20pgF1PRRd/



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

by Bill Scher, TomPaine.com

A new study says what drug lobbyists won't: Giving Medicare price-negotiating power benefits everyone.

http://ga3.org/ct/K720pgF1PRRe/



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

The Bush administration has begun to step up its efforts to build a controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe. The move, coming ahead of a major NATO meeting on the project this month, could escalate a simmering diplomatic issue into a significant international dispute, depending on Moscow's reaction and the administration's next moves in its effort to base ten interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar center in the Czech Republic, both formerly part of the Soviet Bloc.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+defense+system

Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement. Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were "pushing people to the edge." It called for the facility to be closed and for plans for "unfair" military commission trials to be abandoned.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+commission+trials

Jason Leopold reports: "Last week, Justice Department documents turned over to a Congressional committee investigating circumstances behind the selective firing of seven US attorneys revealed that some Bush administration officials have primarily used email accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to conduct official White House business. This appears to be a violation of the Presidential Records Act."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Presidential+Records+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0435660920070404


Informant: binstock

Kanadas Robbenjagd hat begonnen

Fordern Sie den EU-Kommissar für Umwelt auf, ein Einfuhrverbot von Robbenprodukten in die EU zu erlassen!

"Wenn sich herausstellt, dass Robben auf grausame Art gejagt werden, dann werden wir ein Einfuhrverbot in Betracht ziehen", so Dimas.

Bitte schreiben Sie an die EU-Kommissaren Stavros Dimas und Peter Mandelson und fordern Sie ein sofortiges europaweites Einfuhrverbot. Man muss nicht erst eine Studie in Auftrag geben um zu wissen, dass die Robbenjagd grausam ist. 42% der Tiere werden lebend gehäutet.

http://www.peta.de/aktionsaufrufe/protestieren_sie_bei_der_eukommission.1052.html

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M7253424510612138243812565



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=private+contractors

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/apr/science/rc_sustain.html


Informant: binstock

Truthdig
by Robert Scheer

04/03/07

Onward Bush’s soldiers, torture as ye may, but do it in Guantanamo, and not in the USA. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the habeas corpus plea of a Canadian national, captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old, because the possible deprivation of his human rights was not conducted on ‘U.S. soil.’ The court, with three judges dissenting, cited a law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress last year that the fate of Guantanamo prisoners will be determined by secret military tribunals outside the purview of U.S. courts...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/leave_your_morals_at_the_border/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+military+tribunals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

AlterNet
by Kelpie Wilson

04/05/07

Everywhere the conventional wisdom is that Americans will never give up their big cars, big houses, air conditioning set at 65 degrees on hot summer afternoons and incandescent light bulbs blazing throughout the house. This is the American way of life, and the idea that it cannot last seems to drive some people into hysterical fits. Don’t just do something, panic! Al Gore and the greenies want to send us back to the 1970s! … With all the attention now on what are admittedly going to be the great challenges and sacrifices that lie ahead, I feel it incumbent to serve as an ambassador for the American low-energy lifestyle. It’s really not so bad, folks...

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50075/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

Bush bypasses Senate to name ambassador

New York Post

04/04/07

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town on spring break, prompted angry rebukes from Democrats, who said Bush’s action may even be illegal...

http://tinyurl.com/ynrklo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush Bypasses Senate to Name GOP Fundraiser as Ambassador

Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as US ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination. The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town on spring break, prompted angry rebukes from Democrats who said Bush's action may even be illegal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507K.shtml

Artikel von Elvira Högemann in Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online: Nr. 89 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10709


Die Aktionen:

Kriege beenden - Spart endlich an der Rüstung! Dokumentation: Ostermarschaufrufe aus Landshut (Bayern), Hamburg, München und Augsburg http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2007/aufrufe2.html


"Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr beenden" - "Für Frieden und Völkerfreundschaft" Dokumentation: Ostermarschaufrufe aus Baden-Württemberg, Nürnberg und Ulm http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/Ostermarsch2007/aufrufe.html


Das Programm des Ostermarsch Rhein Ruhr 2007 http://www.ostermarsch-ruhr.de/
und für alle Städte in der BRD: Ostermarsch.Info http://www.ostermarsch.info/


Aus: LabourNet, 5. April 2007

Antiterrordatei hoch 2?

Wolfgang Schäuble: „Fingerabdrücke auch bei Passämtern hinterlegen“

Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) denkt an eine Ergänzung des Grundgesetzes, um den Sicherheitsbehörden den heimlichen Zugriff auf Computern zu erlauben. Dies sagte er im Interview mit dem Handelsblatt vom 4. April 2007
http://tinyurl.com/32tbkj



Datenschützer alarmiert. Proteste gegen Schäubles Schnüffelgesetze

„Die Pläne des Innenministers, die Sicherheitsgesetze zu verschärfen, stoßen auf heftigen Widerstand. Der Datenschutzbeauftragte des Bundes warnt bereits vor der "Aufhebung der Privatsphäre aller Bürger"…“ Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 02.04.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3l3/deutschland/artikel/368/108260/


Kritik von Datenschützern ist für Bundesinnenminister Schäuble "naiv"

Artikel in Telepolis vom 05.04.2007 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87894


Die Herrschaftsmaschine

„Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble will die Rechtsordnung dieses Landes verteidigen, indem er sie abschafft. Dabei sind Bürgerrechte kein lästiger Bremsklotz, sondern der Kern der deutschen Rechtsordnung…“ Kommentar von Burkhard Hirsch in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 04.04.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3l1/deutschland/artikel/774/108666/


Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz

Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte schützt private Nutzung des Internets

„Eine Schulangestellte in Großbritannien hat mit Erfolg in Straßburg gegen die Überwachung ihres dienstlichen Internet-Anschlusses und Telefons auf private Nutzung geklagt. Die Überwachung durch den Schulleiter sei ein Verstoß gegen die Achtung des Privatlebens…“ Meldung in heise news vom 03.04.2007 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87819


Aus: LabourNet, 5. April 2007

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Trüben Traumata die Urteilsfähigkeit des Ministers?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25046/1.html

Retraumatisierung und Hypervigilanzsymptome
Interview mit Dr. Markos Maragkos zu Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25042/1.html

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"Mit der Abrissbirne sollen unsere Grundrechte kaputt geschlagen werden"

Der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Jörg Tauss und medienpolitische Sprecher seiner Fraktion kritisiert die Sicherheitspolitik von Bundesinnenminister Schäuble scharf und warnt vor einem schnellen Eintritt in den Überwachungsstaat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25051/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Antiterrordatei
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zugriff+auf+Computer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=%C3%9Cberwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sch%C3%A4uble

Suggested "Lucky 13" Amendments to Current Election Reform Proposals To Increase Support from Election Integrity Groups and Election Officials

April 5, 2007

Election Officials seem to have four main objections to current election reform proposals:

1. Unreasonable Time Frames

2. Insufficient Funding

3. Wrongly Strengthens the US Election Assistance Commission

4. Insufficient Flexibility for States

Election Integrity Activists seem to have similar objections to current election reform proposals:

1. Insufficient, yet Administratively Burdensome, Manual Audits

2. Loopholes in Manual Audits

3. Wrongly Strengthens the US Election Assistance Commission

4. Insufficient Public Access to Election Records Necessary for Citizen Oversight Over Elections

Congress will get greater support from both election integrity groups and election officials if it makes these "lucky thirteen" amendments to current election reform proposals which would ensure public oversight of elections, adequate manual audits to ensure accurate election outcomes, sufficient funding, reasonable time frames, and flexibility.

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/AmendHR811.pdf

If you agree with me, please print and fax, or email this "Suggested Amendments to Election Reform Proposals" to House and Senate Members:

http://senate.gov
http://www.house.gov

And especially inform the House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules Committee

http://cha.house.gov/about/default.htm
http://rules.senate.gov/members/

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp

By Rachel Wareing

Parents have lost their fight to stop a mobile phone mast being built near their children's school.

T-Mobile have been given the green light to build a 15-metre high mast on the Rivervale Cars showroom in Victoria Road, Portslade.

Parents and children from St Mary's Primary School in Church Road protested outside Hove Town Hall before the city council's planning committee met this afternoon.

A petition with 185 signatures was handed to the committee, who also received letters of objection from 13 homes in the area.

But councillors rejected their arguments and voted to grant permission for the mast.

T-Mobile had told the council aerial was needed to boost phone 2G and 3G reception in Portslade.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1309182.0.council_allows_phone_mast_near_school.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mast+near+school

- La maladie de PARKINSON (le dossier) :
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=nouvellesdumonde44#1

- Avant-propos:
- Miracle attribué à l’intercession de Jean-Paul II en cours d’authentification par l’Eglise Catholique (vidéo).

- La maladie de Parkinson est une affection dégénérative du cerveau (le dossier).

- Parkinson, électrostimulation du cerveau: « le Cerveau rebranché » de Roland Cros (film documentaire).

- Comprendre les mécanismes de la maladie de Parkinson.
- Reportage sur les principes de mobilité concernant la maladie de Parkinson (vidéo).

- Le Dauphiné: Parkinson, briser le tabou.

"Two years ago in my book, 'The Long Emergency,' I wrote that our nation was sleepwalking into an era of unprecedented hardship and disorder - largely due to the end of reliably cheap and abundant oil. We're still blindly following that path into a dangerous future, lost in dark raptures of infotainment, diverted by inane preoccupations with sex and celebrity, made frantic by incessant motoring. The coming age of energy scarcity will change everything about how we live in this country," says James Howard Kunstler.

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Howard+Kunstler

President Bush, acknowledging that humans are at least partly responsible for global warming, said Tuesday that he took "very seriously" the Supreme Court's ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution. But he attached two conditions that appeared likely to retard EPA regulation of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat at the Earth's surface.

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



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

http://action.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=613&s_einterest=C3C4



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=polar+bears

http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=107773&IDC=2
http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/
http://www.norden-gegen-g8.info/

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G8-Sicherheitskonzept: Polizei verabredet Reisesperren in Flurgesprächen

Pressemitteilung der Gipfelsoli Infogruppe vom 4. April 2007 http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Presse/1180.html

Siehe dazu:

die Broschüre "Kavala-Report" für bundesdeutsche Bereitschaftspolizisten (pdf) http://gipfelsoli.org/rcms_repos/Tools/krawalla_korpsgeist_1.pdf


Know your enemy! Infos zur „Sicherheitsarchitektur“ und Strategien dagegen

Broschüre zusammengetragen von Rote Hilfe Greifswald und Gipfelsoli Infogruppe vom April 2007 (pdf). Sie beschäftigt sich sehr ausführlich zur ‘Sicherheitsarchitektur’ von Länder- und Bundespolizei, BKA, Bundeswehr und Strategien dagegen. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/rcms_repos/Tools/know_your_enemy_2.2.pdf


»Die Behörden inszenieren eine Gewaltdebatte«

Beim G-8-Gipfel will das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie der Polizei auf die Finger schauen. Ein Gespräch mit Martin Singe vom Sekretariat des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie in Köln hat sich an vielen Demonstrationsbeobachtungen beteiligt. Interview von Markus Bernhardt in junge Welt vom 04.04.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/04-04/028.php


Aus: LabourNet, 5. April 2007

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Antirepressionskonto

„Als Rote Hilfe ( http://www.rote-hilfe.de ) haben wir auch zu diesem G8-Gipfel ein bundesweites Antirepressionskonto geschaltet, auf dem schon jetzt Spenden für die anwaltliche Verteidigung von GipfelgegnerInnen gesammelt werden. Und Geld für das Antirepressionskonto wird reichlich benötigt: Die Rote Hilfe schätzt, daß allein für Prozeßbetreuung im Zusammenhang mit dem G8 mit einem größeren 5-stelligen Euro-Betrag zu rechnen ist. Wir rufen daher alle Spektren des G8-Protestes auf, sich an der Spendenkampagne für das Antirepressionskonto zu beteiligen!“ Für Spendeneinzahlungen innerhalb Deutschlands: Rote Hilfe e.V. Konto 191 100 462 BLZ 440 100 46 Postbank Dortmund Stichwort: "G8 Gipfel"

Siehe auch die kostenlose Rechtshilfebroschüre "Was tun wenns brennt" (pdf) http://www.rote-hilfe.de/content/download/1041/9912/file/wtwbaktuell1106.pdf

Unter http://www.rote-hilfe.de/topnews/g8_other_languages findet ihr diese Broschüre auch in englisch, spanisch, griechisch und italienisch (andere Sprachen werden in kürze folgen).


DGB-Jugend fährt nach Bützow

Der DGB-Bundesjugendausschuss hat in seiner Sitzung vom 27./28. März beschlossen, alle DGB-Jugend-Mitglieder dazu aufzurufen, während des G8-Gipfels im Camp Bützow zu übernachten. Weitere Infos unter http://www.g8-gute-nacht.de/cp/

Siehe auch die G8-Sonderseite der DGB-Jugend http://www.dgb-jugend.de/UNIQ117646131629050/doc1103679A.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. April 2007

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Repression und Widerstand zu G8

Bericht und Links zu G8-Protesten, EU-Gipfelsturm, Linker Mobilisierung, Repression und Verfahren nach §129a in Hamburg von „rastlose reporterin“ vom 18.04.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/04/173338.shtml


„Staatschefs der G8 in die Verantwortung nehmen“ und „Lobbyarbeit auf höchster Ebene“

Der DGB und die Gewerkschaften der G8-Länder wollen die Staats- und Regierungschefs in die Verantwortung nehmen für „Fehlentwicklungen und -steuerungen der Globalisierung“, erklärt Jürgen Eckl, Referatsleiter beim DGB-Bundesvorstand, in der am Montag (23.4.) erscheinenden Ausgabe des einblick. http://www.dgb.de/themen/themen_a_z/abisz_doks/g/g8_einblick0707_eckl.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 19. April 2007

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8. Mai 2008 Katja Kipping und Ulla Jelpke

Bürgerrechte nicht auf dem Altar der Terrorabwehr opfern

Vor einem Jahr, am 9. Mai 2007, stürmten Beamte des Bundeskriminalamtes in einer beispiellosen Aktion bundesweit rund 40 Wohnungen und Arbeitsplätze linker Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten sowie zahlreiche linke Treffpunkte und Projekte.

Der Vorwurf lautete auf Bildung einer terroristischen Vereinigung nach §129a StGB. Die Razzien sollten zur Einschüchterung der Protestbewegung gegen den G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm dienen. Der Bundesgerichtshof Karlsruhe stellte im Nachhinein fest, dass Generalbundesanwältin Monika Harms zu Unrecht die Terrorkeule des §129a geschwungen hatte. Auch im Falle der Verhaftung von vier Antimilitaristen in Berlin und Brandenburg im Juli wegen angeblicher Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung kritisierten die Bundesrichter die Ermittlungsbehörden, stellten deren Zuständigkeit in Frage und verneinten die Anwendbarkeit des §129a. "Für DIE LINKE gibt es daher nur eine Schlussfolgerung: All diese Paragraphen müssen sofort ersatzlos gestrichen werden", so die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping (MdB) und die Abgeordnete der Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE Ulla Jelpke. "In Wahrheit dienen die Paragraphen 129, 129a und b mit ihren weitreichenden Sondervollmachten für die Ermittler auf der einen und schwerwiegenden Grundrechtseinschränkungen für die Betroffenen auf der anderen Seite vor allem als Spitzel und Ausforschungsparagraphen gegen oppositionelle und linke Bewegungen aus dem In- und Ausland. Nur in rund 5 Prozent aller Fälle kommt es zu einer Anklage oder gar einer Verurteilung", sagt Ulla Jelpke. Und Katja Kipping führt weiter aus: "So lange die Gesinnungs- und Ausforschungsparagraphen §129 "kriminelle Vereinigung", §129a "terroristische Vereinigung" und §129b "ausländische terroristische Vereinigung" existieren, werden sie auch eingesetzt. Nachträgliche Rügen des BGH können das nicht verhindern. Bürgerrechte dürfen nicht auf dem Altar der Terrorabwehr geopfert werden, denn das kann nur allzu schnell zu einem Bumerang für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft werden."

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Secret American Prisons In Ethiopia

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.

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Dirty Secrets of the War on Terror

The men describe a Kafkaesque nightmare of secret transfer followed by torture at the hands of a foreign government or detention in secret prisons. They are not survivors of Latin America's "Dirty War," but of the United States' shadowy anti-terrorism tactics.

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US Interrogating Terror Suspects in Ethiopian Prisons

US agents hunting for al Qaeda militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from several countries held at prisons in Ethiopia, according to American officials who spoke to The Associated Press.

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The Secret War Against Iran

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