World-News

"When my co-counsel and I first visited Omar Khadr, our client in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he was a gangly, somewhat awkward and shy, but friendly 18-year-old whose voice was changing. That was in November 2004, a few months after the Supreme Court had ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that detainees at Guantanamo had a right to have access to lawyers and to the US courts," writes Rick Wilson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707C.shtml



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"On Monday, the US Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, produced what some are calling its most important environmental ruling in a generation, telling the EPA that unless it determines that global warming causes no harm, it must begin regulating CO2 emissions," says Kelpie Wilson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707A.shtml



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

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,grossbild-840753-475947,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,475947,00.html


Informant: Tom

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25539



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

Jetzt ist es amtlich: Ärmere Länder werden vom Klimawandel besonders hart getroffen. IPCC legt weiteren Teilbericht vor und Regierungen versuchen in letzter Minute, ihm ins Handwerk zu pfuschen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25034/1.html



Klima plant 30er-Jahre-Revival

Forscher haben Szenarien der Folgen des Klimawandels durchgerechnet und sagen dem Südwesten der USA eine große Dürre voraus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25028/1.html



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

Nach 20 Jahren ununterbrochenem Wachstums des Fremdkapitalanteils könnte nun das "Deleveraging' begonnen haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25033/1.html

From the poles to the tropics, the earth's climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration, the world's leading scientific panel on climate change said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707Z.shtml

Here's an article on the link of radar and Ewing's sarkoma, a rare bone cancer. The article was published 6 April 2007 in Cape Cod Times.

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/gettingto6.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Cop Radar site re Alzheimers, Parkinsons, etc.

RF radiation has been linked to biochemical effects, immunological effects, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, cancer, cataracts, EEG effects and behavioral changes, to name a few. Studies from the old Soviet military suggest that some frequencies and modulations cause behavioral changes in humans. In 1990 the U.S. military was reported to be planning microwave radiation experiments on animals to study behavioral effects.

http://copradar.com/preview/chapt8/ch8d1.html

Also see National Technical Information Service (NTIS) publication number PB95-261350 titled Occupational Exposure of Police Officers to Microwave Radiation from Traffic Radar Devices (available on the Internet -- see Web Links page http://copradar.com/preview/linksto.html#addinfo ).


Informant: Joanne Mueller

Christian Science Monitor
by Pat M. Holt

04/05/07

Poor President Bush. He was only trying to defeat terrorists and spread democracy, and here he is up to his neck in Democrats and bad news. The Army has shamefully neglected wounded veterans. Many soldiers in Iraq who have not been either killed or wounded have had their tours extended. They are fighting with equipment that is ready for retirement or soon will be. When the president sent more troops, some of them minimally trained, in a surge to end the violence, the violence continued. The Justice Department fired eight US attorneys and can’t get its stories straight about why. Did the initiative originate in Justice or from the White House?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+M.+Holt

NewsWithViews.com
by Tom DeWeese

04/03/07

Which do you choose? A way of life where you are the master of your destiny, or one where virtually all decisions are made for you by one ruling body or another? It’s the classic struggle facing every human on earth. Freedom or control. Truth be known, there are many who actually choose control. It makes for a well-ordered society with few surprises...

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom80.htm



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Strike the Root
by Barry Tudor

04/05/07

I submit that the United States we call home has long ago become an authoritarian form of government. According to Wikipedia, democracies rarely exhibit much authoritarian behavior, except in transition to/from authoritarian states or when martial law is imposed (during war, for example). Many (if not most) citizens of authoritarian states do not perceive their state as authoritarian until late in its development. … Consider the Merriam-Webster New Collegiate Dictionary definition of authoritarian: 1. of, or relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority. 2. of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or elite not constitutionally responsible to the people. An elite, not constitutionally responsible to the people. So I have a benchmark to go by. We do have a Constitution, and a Bill of Rights. Our leaders are oft described as elite. Let me see …

http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/tudor/tudor4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Military Times

04/04/07

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase. A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and ‘avoid using colloquialisms.’ The ‘global war on terror,’ a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the ‘long war,’ which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years...

http://tinyurl.com/3c94ow


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

04/05/07

The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran ended with a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended. … The seizure of the sailors and marines was the latest episode in a series of tit-for-tat confrontations between the US and Iran which began when the US tried to seize senior Iranian intelligence officials on an official visit to Arbil on January 11. The raid failed and only succeeded in detaining five Iranian officials at the liaison office, which has now been officially recognized as a consular office...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick04052007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=15+British
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Truthout
by Stephen F. Rohde

04/04/07

Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful and inspiring speech at Riverside Church in New York City which has become known as Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. One year to the day before he would be assassinated, Dr. King declared that he could no longer confine his energies to the domestic struggle for civil rights. Instead, his deep religious faith compelled him to denounce the war in Vietnam, both because it was wrong and because of what it was doing to America and the rest of the world. He declared: ‘A time comes when silence is betrayal.’ Today, our country is engaged in another immoral foreign war, which must be denounced with the same courage and conviction that Dr. King exhibited. Today, silence about the war in Iraq is betrayal...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407M.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+F.+Rohde

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

04/03/07

The SEC wants you exactly where you are; a working ‘John’ who makes a day’s wages for two days’ work, worrying about whether your 401K will be enough, and whether the corporation you spent your life working for will go through down-sizing, or worse, ‘bankruptcy,’ and thus default on your retirement benefits. It is ugly, but it is the reality faced by most Americans today. Government carefully couches the text in terms both esoteric and bland, designed to firmly close the door on your real participation in the wealth produced by America. This happens in ways you never even imagined, all the while simulating a system they proclaim to be for your protection...

http://tinyurl.com/2cn7nh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melinda+Pillsbury-Foster

04/05/07

An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, despite being considered terrorists by the United States, continues to receive protection from the American military in the face of Iraqi pressure to leave the country. It’s a paradox possible only because the United States considers the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, a source of valuable intelligence on Iran...

http://tinyurl.com/2d6msd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6049/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Iraqis surviving violence are not so sure they can also survive disease. "Iraq was known to be the best in healthcare in the region," Dr. Iyad Muhammad from Ramadi General Hospital told IPS. "Best doctors, hospitals, nurses and cheapest medicines. The situation now is the opposite."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607HA.shtml

The tumult in the sub-prime mortgage sector has hit some of the industry's employees as hard as its borrowers. Nationwide, job losses in the category that includes mortgage lending, real estate and construction climbed 346 percent in the first quarter, to 21,245 from 4,764 in the same period last year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607LA.shtml



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

Democrats called for an investigation Thursday into whether President Bush acted illegally in appointing Sam Fox ambassador to Belgium. A day earlier, Bush named Republican fund-raiser Fox to the post as a recess appointment - a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed his nomination.

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

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Bush gets down & dirty with Fox nomination

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

04/08/07

George Bush was not about to let Sam Fox lose out on becoming ambassador to Brussels just because he gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry. Call him loyal or stubborn, but clearly the president was very grateful for Fox’s assistance. So after the White House withdrew the Fox nomination when it became clear than Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations committee were lining up against it, the president did not tell Missouri’s largest Republican donor to go home and unpack. Instead, Bush simply waited for the senators to leave town, and has now resubmitted Fox’s name to serve out this Congress as a recess appointment...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264850,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ambassador+to+Belgium
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' top aide, who refused to testify before Congress about her role in the politically charged firing of eight US attorneys, abruptly quit her job Friday.

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



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Noam Chomsky

Video

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, MIT Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!David Goodman, reporter. Tackling subjects like corporate influence over government and the deceptions of political leaders.

http://snipurl.com/1fhc7


From Information Clearing House



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A senior European Union security official has warned the head of the EU delegation for Somalia and Kenya that military forces may have committed war crimes in occupied Somalia.

http://snipurl.com/1fhc3


From Information Clearing House



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

German prosecutors said Thursday they will make a new attempt to bring 13 CIA workers to justice for the abduction of a German-Lebanese citizen mistakenly suspected of terrorism.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbz


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khaled+el-Masri

The Department of State will not rule out paying a salary to Sam Fox, the major Swift Boat Veterans For Truth donor who was recess appointed as US Ambassador to Belgium by President George W. Bush yesterday.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbu


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ambassador+to+Belgium

The timing has fuelled speculation of a deal to free the British sailors and marines seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2050424,00.html


From Information Clearing House

ONE of the 15 freed hostages admitted Britain WAS gathering intelligence on Iran, a previously unbroadcast interview revealed last night.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbm



In His Own Words

Captain Chris Air of the Royal Marines revealed to Sky News that he and his colleagues had been gathering intelligence on the Iranians. Here follows the full transcript of that interview.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1259451,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Russian and foreign media have recently reported the U.S. could launch an operation, codenamed Bite, against Iran at 4:00 a.m. local time April 6. The operation was expected to deliver air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over a 12-hour period to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070406/63202367.html


From Information Clearing House

The United States would suffer losses if it attacked Iran but weight of numbers would ensure it eventually achieved air supremacy, Russian generals said on Thursday.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=107565


From Information Clearing House

War pimp alert

The Prime Minister directly linked the Tehran regime to killings of British soldiers in Iraq, accusing it of "backing, financing, arming terrorism".

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2426272.ece


From Information Clearing House

Congressional Democrats say their constituents are clamoring for something even the most liberal lawmakers promise they won't pursue: President Bush's impeachment.

http://snipurl.com/1fhba


From Information Clearing House



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I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1607243,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions lies of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3014241



Pentagon report says no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda

Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.

http://snipurl.com/1fhb5



Report outlines Pentagon effort to link Iraq, al Qaeda

Declassified memo shows how officials shaped intelligence
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17493.htm



No Saddam Al-Qaida Link: Full Pentagon Report

A PDF of the Pentagon inspector general report
http://snipurl.com/1fhb7



Pentagon Officer Created Phony Intel on Iraq/al-Qaeda Link

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


From Information Clearing House



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

Simon Basketter exposes how special British units in Iraq are run by the same man who commanded death squads in Northern Ireland.

http://snipurl.com/1fhb2


From Information Clearing House

By Pamela Schwartz

As taxpayers prepare to meet this year's April 16th tax deadline, they may want to consider that almost 40 cents of every tax dollar is spent on past and present military spending, according to a newly released publication by the National Priorities Project.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17496.htm

By John Nichols

Just imagine if one of the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination endorsed this radical agenda:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17492.htm



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By William Blum

Almost every individual or group not in love with US foreign policy, which Washington wants to stigmatize, is charged with being associated with, or being a member of, al Qaeda, as if there's a precise and meaningful distinction between people retaliating against American imperialism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17498.htm



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By Barry Lando

Citing one of the globe's great champions of human rights, " As President Bush has said, what every terrorist fears most is human freedom - societies where men and women make their own choices, answer to their own conscience and live by their hopes instead of their resentments."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17497.htm



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Thank you to those of you who took action on this last year. Unfortunately Idaho is still determined to de-list wolves. We need your help again.

Idaho Governor "Butch" Otter has said the state will seek to kill 75% of the wolf population; Idaho's official position (based on House Joint Memorial 5 which prefaces the Idaho wolf Management plan) calls for removing all wolves from Idaho "by any means necessary".

Your help is urgently needed!

Your comments are due May 9th and can be made electronically by emailing: NRMGrayWolf@fws.gov , include "RIN number 1018-AU58" in the subject line of the message. By mail to: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wolf Delisting, 555 Shepard Way, Helena MT 59601 or by fax to: (405) 449-5339

Talking Points: I oppose the Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal to delist of the gray wolf.

The Endangered Species Act requires that the gray wolf be fully recovered before it can be delisted, and that States like Wyoming and Idaho have responsible plans in place to manage wolf populations. The Fish & Wildlife Service should wait to propose delisting under the Endangered Species Act until all the factors that once led to wolf eradication are adequately addressed. Such plans must be in place in every state in the Northern Rockies region and are an essential part of the delisting process.

Today wolves are not ready to lose federal protection because:

- The Wyoming and Idaho plans will not protect wolves. Wolf management should not be turned over to states whose state plans do not provide sufficient protections to ensure wolf populations exist into the future.

- The FWS should not be including portions of adjacent states into the proposed area for delisting, especially where the adjacent states have asked not to be included. Washington State is just starting the development of its own wolf plan and does not want the FWS splitting off 1/3 of the state for differing levels of protection.

- Because wolves travel easily across state borders, protections in the Northern Rockies should not be lifted until all states (Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana) have wolf plans that can provide the continued protections wolves need to survive. The boundaries FWS drew for including parts of Oregon and Washington don't make sense for any potential wolf recovery in these states. The FWS has said the areas where federal protections would be lifted would be high conflict areas for wolves, but these are also the very areas wolves must travel through to recolonize elsewhere in the state.

- Robust wolf populations in Idaho and Wyoming are essential to return wolves to Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Utah, which are all part of the gray wolf's historic range.

- Wyoming would allow wolves to be shot on sight in most of the State, and the Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected Wyoming's management plan.

- Idaho Governor Butch Otter has said the state will seek to kill 75% of the wolf population; Idaho's official position (based on House Joint Memorial 5 which prefaces the Idaho wolf Management plan) calls for removing all wolves from Idaho "by any means necessary". It is not clear that current wolf populations are adequate to ensure recovery in the region. Human population growth, habitat development and disease present ongoing challenges to wolf recovery.

In the meantime, we can do more to help wolves and the people who are experiencing conflicts with them:

The Fish and Wildlife Service could and should do more to help resolve conflicts with livestock owners, using non-lethal methods where possible.

Before wolves can be delisted:

- Every state with wolf populations must have a credible plan in place to maintain healthy, sustainable wolf populations.

- The Fish and Wildlife Service must thoroughly examine how trends in habitat loss could increase human-caused mortality of wolves, and take steps to avoid any future harm to the wolves.

- The Fish and Wildlife Service must establish a science-based ecosystem approach to wolf recovery.

- There must be demonstrated wolf movement between the populations of Yellowstone, central Idaho and Glacier.

- There must be adequate funding in place to ensure that healthy wolf populations can be maintained; currently there are no guarantees of adequate funding.

This is your opportunity to save these animals! Don't let it, and the wolves, disappear!

Read a Lewiston Tribune article about the Spokane public hearing on March 8th http://www.landscouncil.org/news/wolf_supporters_say_they_don_t_trust_idaho.asp

To learn more visit http://wildwolves.homeip.net/IdahoWolves/ResistingDelisting1.html


Informant: smileycoyote



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-01.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-02.htm

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In a First, Security Council to Discuss Climate Change Threat

The UN Security Council will discuss potential threats to international security from climate change for the first time later this month.

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



Fear Over Diluted Climate Warnings

An authoritative international global warming conference lapsed into an unprecedented showdown between scientists and diplomats over authors' concerns that governments were watering down their warnings. Last-minute negotiations over language continued behind closed doors Friday, less than two hours before the scheduled release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in Brussels.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EA.shtml



Southwest May Get Even Hotter, Drier

Global warming will permanently change the climate of the American Southwest, making it so much hotter and drier that Dust Bowl-scale droughts will become common, a new climate report concludes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EB.shtml



Environmental Racism Still Major Problem

Twenty years after a landmark report documented environmental racism in the United States, new evidence shows that toxic waste is still being disproportionately dumped on communities of color.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EC.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-03.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/345/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/352/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/339/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/341/



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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/



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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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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



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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



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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



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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
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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

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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:
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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



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


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



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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/



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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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


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