Mittwoch, 25. April 2007

Endzeitstimmung am Aktienmarkt: Exzesse an der Börse werden zum Regelfall

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25659

Neokonservative stellen sich hinter Bush

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25660

AFRICA ABANDONED (AGAIN)

Despite the promises made at the 2005 G8 meeting, aid to Africa has actually dropped since last year. Following the pattern of previous G8 summits, the bold promises made by world leaders under the media's spotlight seem to have been quietly abandoned once the TV cameras were turned off.

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2929

Philosopher Gene Sage is aghast at the 'speed mania' culture of electronic technology in the United States

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2907

BIG CONTRACTS FOR BIG OIL

After a 35 year wait, American and British oil corporations are on the verge of securing control of Iraq's vast oil reserves. Becca Fisher reveals how the unholy alliance of Big Oil, government and the IMF is getting closer to its goal of reconstructing the Iraqi state to gain secure oil supplies.

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2912



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The "American Way" of Ecology

Herve Kempf reviews progress the US has made on the climate change front and suggests the biggest hurdle in the way forward.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507G.shtml



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Bush Blames the Troops

Robert Scheer writes: "Blame it on the military, but make it look like you're supporting the troops. That's been the convenient gambit of failed emperors throughout history as they witnessed their empires decline. Not surprisingly then, it's become the standard rhetorical trick employed by President Bush in shirking responsibility for the Iraq debacle of his making."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507F.shtml



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Climate Change and the Courts

In the first high court decision on global warming, the Supreme Court has ruled that it is the job of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases emitted from cars. This landmark ruling in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA has set a new precedent that will allow a plethora of global warming litigation cases to move forward. This decision will directly influence a current court case in which automakers are trying to block a California law that requires new cars and trucks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent by 2012 and 30 percent by 2016. This law has been adopted by ten other states, and if successfully implemented, would drastically transform the environmental standards of the auto industry. These court cases are an example of how litigation that attempts to force governments and corporations to act to combat global warming is gaining momentum.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507D.shtml

UN: Baghdad "Surge" Has Failed

Sectarian violence continues to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital, despite the coalition's new Baghdad security plan, the UN said today. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) also said that for the first time since it began issuing quarterly reports on the human rights situation in Iraq, the latest report (1/1-3/31) did not contain overall mortality figures from Iraq's Ministry of Health because it refused to release them.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507C.shtml



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Four Million Displaced as Civil War Deepens Iraqi Refugee Crisis

The unfolding civil war and inter-sectarian violence in Iraq is deepening a humanitarian crisis of refugees, a Congressional Research Service report has found. An estimated four million refugees have been displaced, or 13 percent of the Iraqi population.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507B.shtml



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Gonzales Aide Monica Goodling Gets Immunity

A House committee voted Wednesday to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, a key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during the firings of eight US attorneys. She had refused to testify, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. The 32-6 vote by the House Judiciary Committee surpassed the two-thirds majority required to grant a witness immunity from prosecution. A separate vote to authorize a subpoena for Goodling passed by voice vote.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507A.shtml



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Kritik an Thierse: "Demokratie verbessern statt Wähler beschimpfen"

Die Initiative "Mehr Demokratie" kritisiert die Äußerungen des Bundestagsvizepräsidenten Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) zur Beteiligung an der Kommunalwahl in Sachsen-Anhalt am vergangenen Sonntag. "Statt die Wähler zu schelten, sollte die Politik dafür sorgen, dass die Beteiligung an politischen Entscheidungen für die Bürger wieder attraktiver wird", sagte Daniel Schily, Landesgeschäftsführer von Mehr Demokratie, am 25. April in Köln.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15833

Neskovic fordert Steinmeier zum Rücktritt auf

Im Fall des langjährigen Guantanamo-Häftlings Murat Kurnaz bleibt der Vertreter der Linksfraktion in BND-Untersuchungsausschuss, Wolfgang Neskovic, bei seinen schweren Vorwürfen gegen die damalige rot-grüne Bundesregierung. "Da ist Rechtsbruch begangen worden", sagte Neskovic am Mittwoch in Berlin. Die Hauptverantwortung dafür trage als damaliger Kanzleramtschef der heutige Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), der aus seiner Sicht ein "Rechtsstaatsversager" sei und zurücktreten sollte.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15824



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Tell Barrick to Stop Mining on Sacred Grounds

http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/barrick

Bundesregierung gibt heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen zu

Bundesverfassungsschutz und Bundesnachrichtendienst praktizieren offenbar bereits seit zwei Jahren geheime Online-Durchsuchungen. Das gab das Kanzleramt am Mittwoch nach Aussagen von Teilnehmern im Innenausschuss des Bundestags zu. Vertreter der Opposition reagierten mit Empörung und warfen der Bundesregierung Rechtsbruch vor. Unions-Politiker sprachen dagegen von der Notwendigkeit der Ermittlungsmaßnahmen. Nach dem Bericht des Kanzleramts spähen die Geheimdienste seit Juni 2005 verdächtige Computer aus. Sie stützen sich dabei auf eine Dienstvorschrift des damaligen Bundesinnenministers Otto Schily (SPD). Der Bundesgerichtshof hatte heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen durch Ermittlungsbehörden im Februar für unzulässig erklärt, weil es an einer Rechtsgrundlage fehle. Der CSU-Politiker Hans-Peter Uhl forderte, gegebenenfalls das Grundgesetz zu ändern.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15820

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

26. April 2007

Skandal ersten Ranges

Zu der jetzt bekannt gewordenen Tatsache, dass Geheimdienste bereits seit zwei Jahren Online-Durchsuchungen durchführen erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die Geheimdienste haben Tatsachen geschaffen, während die Politik noch über die Rechtsgrundlage von Online-Durchsuchungen debattiert. Entweder hat Innenminister Schäuble seinen Geheimdienst nicht in Griff oder er duldet solche offensichtlichen Rechtsverletzungen. Beides wäre ein Skandal. Die illegale Praxis der Online-Durchsuchungen muss sofort beendet und die widerrechtlich erfassten Daten vernichtet werden. Der jetzt bekannt gewordene Fakt macht deutlich: Der Kampf gegen den Terror wird missbraucht für eine allumfassenden Überwachung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen sich Polizei und Geheimdienste erst mühsam den Zugriff auf persönliche Daten erstreiten mussten. Jeder und jede stehen unter Generalverdacht, niemand kann mehr nachvollziehen, von wem und warum persönliche Daten gespeichert oder weitergegeben werden. Die Linkspartei.PDS bleibt bei ihrer Forderung: Der Schutz von Bürgerrechten muss Priorität haben. Die Trennung von polizeilicher und geheimdienstlicher Arbeit darf nicht beseitigt werden. Die Geheimdienste müssen stärker kontrolliert werden und alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger das Recht haben, über persönliche Daten zu bestimmen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35615



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RESTORE OUR RIGHTS

JOIN THE CALL TO RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=FnbpSI_XQ-ofrRX0VGXUQA..
http://tinyurl.com/yokvn9



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Dr. Ernest Sternglass: We are really, really killing our own

http://tinyurl.com/395m9s

Irak: Zusammenbruch von Recht und Ordnung

UN-Organisation kritisiert irakische Regierung scharf und warnt, dass sich auch die humanitäre Situation schnell weiter verschlechtert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25149/1.html

Phone mast plans thrown out

By Deborah Linton

PLANS to install two mobile phone masts have been thrown-out by planners.

Service provider, T-Mobile, applied to Bolton Council to erect a 12.3 metre-high mast on land in Market Street, Little Lever. The firm also sought permission to install a 12 metre mast on a grass verge opposite McDonalds, in Chorley Old Road, Bolton.

But Bolton Council's planning and highways committee refused the proposals last week. Councillors said the first set of plans were out-of-keeping with the area.

Cllr Mary Woodward said: "The main issue is where this thing is going, in a very busy area, behind a bus shelter. There are at least three other telephone masts in Little Lever. The mast is designed to look like a lamp post but then again how many lamp posts do we need?"

Opposing the plans, one resident said: "This is a major footfall in Little Lever. It's the wrong place."

Cllr Roger Hayes suggested that T-Mobile look into scrapping the Chorley Old Road plans and sharing a 45 ft mast that is to be installed by O2, at the junction of Moss Bank Way and Captain's Clough Road, in Smithills.

Cllr Barbara Ronson said: "I'm worried about the visual amenity on that grass verge. It would be quite striking as it comes into view."

Defending the plans, Martin Dale, on behalf of T-Mobile, had told the committee: "This is visually acceptable within the street-scene. We are creating a replica telegraph pole. Refusal cannot be justified on the basis of concerns about health."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1355143.0.phone_mast_plans_thrown_out.php

Honeybeeworld ...EMF exposures?

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/honeybeeworld_emf_exposures.htm

I believe this study (Lubeck 2005) re oscillating current during sleep improving memory will help support EMF/EMR concerns regarding "disappearing bees."

The study is very long, so I have copied only small portions below. Access info: http://www.natureprotocols.com/2006/11/09/oscillating_current_stimulatio.php

There are 31 references/studies re various relevant subjects (re humans).

I am not familiar with the Helsinki Declaration but can't help wonder how much of what was done regarding "human studies" -- "EMF RAPID Studies" -- that may be in violation of the Declaration!!! It makes me sick to my stomach when I recall the "intimidating individual" that came around with her black briefcase, making it clear to us that we needed to participate in her very involved series of questions (during time of EMF RAPID Studies).

This "unpleasant encounter" (think she came back more than once) never involved sharing any information to the effect there was any reason whatsoever to consider possible adverse health effects regarding our house being only 50 ft. from two high voltage lines. I do remember reporting a long list of symptoms (this occurred before I had any knowledge of benefits re taking vitamins and supplements and especially "melatonin) and I do know there is specific reference to homes within 50 ft. of high voltage lines in the EMF RAPID Conclusions.

I do not recall any questions being asked about any sort of electrical or telephone equipment being close to our beds. The fact that the American Cancer Society sent the "USA Today article" (1993) recommending appliances be moved away from beds, indicates the whole EMF RAPID Study may have "completely missed-the-boat" and that the omission of such relevant questions may have been intentional.

Had these issues been properly addressed and the public "informed," perhaps even the bees would still be able to find their way home? Take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127
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Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (4-25-07)


All truth goes through three stages: first it is ridiculed: then it is violently opposed: finally it is accepted as self evident. - Schopenhauer

"No substance is a poison by itself. It is the dose that makes a substance a poison..." Paracelsus (1493-1541)



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Climate: Time Is Short

Ted Glick writes: "Despite the tremendous upsurge in consciousness about - and activism on - the climate crisis over the past year and a half in the USA, those greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up.... Each year that passes without action to seriously reduce carbon emissions is one more year that we are rolling the dice for ourselves, our children, and future generations. We need to do more.... I'm prepared for a long fast. I'm ready to get arrested again. Is there anyone else who feels the same?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507N.shtml



Climate: Time Is Short, Part Two

Ted Glick writes: "We are in a planetary emergency, pure and simple. It's time for the climate movement in the United States - a movement that has grown tremendously in the last year - to act accordingly. We need to follow up and increase the pressure on Congress. Republicans and Democrats alike need to feel the heat of an aroused citizenry demanding immediate action to dramatically reduce emissions, enact a moratorium on any new coal plants and provide serious money, such as $25 billion annually, for energy conservation, efficiencies, and clean and safe renewables."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050807K.shtml



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Another GOP Aide Snared in Abramoff Probe

Former Congressional aide Mark Zachares pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an influence-peddling scandal that has touched the White House, Interior Department and Congressional Republicans. Mark Zachares was the eleventh person to be convicted in the Justice Department probe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507M.shtml



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Kucinich Officially Moves to Impeach Cheney

Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. Kucinich outlined three charges against Cheney: that he "manipulated the intelligence process ... by fabricating the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" to justify the war in Iraq; that he deceived citizens and Congress "about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda" to justify the war; and that he has "openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the United States' proven capability to carry out such threats."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507L.shtml



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Congress Poised to Issue Numerous Subpoenas

Today, three Congressional committees will consider subpoenas for half a dozen officials from the White House and the departments of Justice and State. On the list is former presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr., Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Justice Department liaison to the White House Monica Goodling, a key figure in the controversial firing of eight US attorneys.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507J.shtml



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MAY 3RD: A NEW PLAN FOR IRAQ!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/?cl=8033463

Phone mast will stay after ‘Pull it down’ move fails

By Paul Keaveny

A GOVERNMENT planning inspector has quashed a move by Bolton Council to force a telecommunications giant to remove a 47ft mobile phone mast.

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

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

A mix-up led to T-Mobile believing it had been granted permission to install the equipment so it erected the mast.

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 against the decision and a hearing was held in front of government inspector Paul Taylor. In his formal ruling, Mr Taylor quashed the council's enforcement notice.

A council spokesman said: "It was unfortunate that the inspector did not agree with the council's evidence on this matter. We were of the view that the mobile phone mast blocked the pavement on Crompton Way in a fashion that might have affected users of the footway and highway.

"The council will continue to deal with the many applications from mobile phone operators in a way that best protects the communities of Bolton."

Cllr Nick Peel, chairman of the planning and highways committee at Bolton Council said: "We try to encourage the companies to erect masts to the minimum height and where possible to mast-share."

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

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

James Bevis, who represents T-Mobile, said: "Pedestrians would stand close to the kerb and the mast would not obstruct the view."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

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Battling for Mobile Phone Mast Controls

http://www.libdems.org.uk/campaigns/mobile-phone-mast-controls.16633.html

Killing dolphins and killing people

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

04/24/07

I was going to write about the killing of dolphins in Japan. Porpoises and dolphins are aquatic mammals of the suborder Odontoceti. (There are also fish called dolphins, which are entirely different animals.) Mammalian dolphins belong to the family Delphinidae, and porpoises belong to the family Phocoenidae. Both are highly intelligent social mammals. They like human beings and seldom harm people who swim with them. I was going to deplore the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Fishermen in Japan are killing dolphins and small whales. These intelligent social beings hear the screaming of other dolphins as they get butchered in shallow coves. One wonders how the Japanese people could be so cruel as to allow this atrocity. It is done with the approval of the Japanese government. … That’s what I was going to write about, and then came the massacre at Virginia Tech...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002730.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Articles of Impeachment Against Vice President Richard Cheney

http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=1412



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Senatorial wisdom on Gonzales

The American Spectator
by Quin Hillyer

04/25/07

Lance the boil, Mr. President. So says, in effect, a knowledgeable U.S. senator who is usually friendly to the Bush administration. The boil is at the U.S. Department of Justice. The department has become painfully dysfunctional. One of the hardest things for a good leader to do is to relieve from a position of power somebody who is not only a decent person but a personal friend, somebody who has done nothing unethical, but who just isn’t up to the task. Unfortunately, that is what needs to be done in the case of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11343


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Neither conservative nor progressive

LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

04/25/07

I once heard a leading Republican intellectual, a respected figure with lots of books on everyone’s shelves, express profound regret when the Soviet Union was falling apart. The problem, from this person’s perspective, is that this led to disorder, and order — meaning control even by the Soviet state — is the fundamental conservative value. That about sums it up. Even Communism is to be tolerated so long as it keeps away what they dread more than death: people within their rights doing whatever they want. At the end of the Cold War, many conservatives panicked that there would be no more great causes into which the state could enlist itself. There were about 10 years of books that sought to demonize someone, somewhere, in the hope of creating a new enemy. Maybe it would be China. Maybe it would be the culture war. Maybe it should be drugs. At last, from their point of view, 9-11 presented the opportunity they needed, and thus began the newest unwinnable war in the tradition of LBJ: The War on Terror...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/our-kind-central-planning.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Control-freakery at the FCC

Disloyal Opposition
by J.D. Tuccille

04/24/07

The federal government is apparently preparing to break out its blue pencils. Specifically, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to expand its power and launch a political jihad against violent television programming. … the FCC wants to dramatically extend its power beyond its traditional dominion over the ‘public’ airwaves to programming carried over completely private cables and satellite links...

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/04/control-freakery-at-fcc.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cheney, Reid spar over Iraq policy

Cañon City Daily Record

04/25/07

Vice President Dick Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry Reid on Tuesday of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home — a charge Reid dismissed as President Bush’s ‘attack dog’ lashing out. The particularly harsh exchange came just hours after Bush said he would veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress, which includes a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/35jzfg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Canadian Gitmo detainee charged

CNN

04/24/07

The U.S. military has charged a 20-year-old Canadian held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a suspected terrorist with murder and other crimes, the Pentagon announced. Omar Ahmed Khadr, captured by U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he was 15, was formally charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism and spying, according to the Pentagon’s announcement on Tuesday...

http://tinyurl.com/2exzax


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Iraq demands put squeeze on Air Force, chief says

CNN

04/24/07

The Pentagon’s bolstering of its ground forces in Baghdad by borrowing money and people from its sister services is further straining a stretched Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley said Tuesday. The result, Moseley said, is people being assigned to jobs they weren’t trained for. He cited Air Force airmen being used to guard prisoners and serve as drivers and cited one instance in which a female Air Force surgeon was assigned typing chores...

http://tinyurl.com/2xot3z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ramsey Clark: "The winds of impeachment are sweeping the country"

Statement by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General: “The winds of impeachment are sweeping the country.”

The following is a press release sent to the national and international media by ImpeachBush.org. The second half of the press release includes a statement from Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General.

A nationwide grassroots movement to impeach George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other high officials was launched on January 18, 2003. Ramsey Clark called for the impeachment of President that day when he addressed a crowd estimated to be nearly a half million strong on the Mall in Washington D.C., in what the Washington Post described as the largest anti-war protest since the end of the Vietnam War.

As President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actively deceiving the country with false propaganda aimed at justifying an unprovoked war of aggression, Mr. Clark on January 18 announced the formation of the VoteToImpeach.org and ImpeachBush.org web sites. He stated that the active preparation for the launch of a war of aggression against Iraq constituted an impeachable offense. He asked people to join an on-line referendum.

As of today, nearly 900,000 people have voted for impeachment with ImpeachBush.org web site.

The impeachment movement that Mr. Clark started has evolved into one of the most dynamic grassroots movements in recent U.S. history.

On April 23, 2007 the Vermont State Senate voted in support of the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. One week earlier, elected officials in Vermont said the impeachment resolution didn’t stand a chance. Then their offices were flooded with emails, faxes, and phone calls, and the tide turned.

Scores of cities around the country have witnessed impeachment resolutions carry in the City Council.

On April 28, impeachment actions will be taking place from New York City to San Francisco and every place in between.

Polls taken by Zogby have indicated that 52% of the American people support the impeachment of Bush if he lied to Congress about the reasons for going to war in Iraq.

The ImpeachBush.org movement has placed full page newspaper ads in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and many other newspapers. When President Bush speaks at the Coast Guard Graduation on May 23 in New London, Ct. there will be a large crowd of protesters calling for his impeachment. When Dick Cheney speaks three days later at the West Point Graduation Ceremony he will be met too by a big crowd calling for his impeachment along with that of President Bush.

Today as the rumblings for impeachment are starting to reverberate inside the House of Representatives, the only place where Articles for Impeachment can set the impeachment process into motion, Ramsey Clark issued the following statement.

Ramsey Clark's statement to the media

“We have seen that Congress can be moved. The Bush Administration is reeling from its own wrongdoing. The horror its war of aggression has wreaked on the people of Iraq and thousands of U.S. service members must trouble the sleep of every sentient American. The Surge is only adding to the death and destruction.

“All over the country supporters of impeachment are intensifying their efforts. Our focus must be on Congress, and the priorities of full troop withdrawal and the impeachment of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other culpable officials within the Administration.

“In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have sent letters or called their elected representatives in Congress. On the statewide and local level people have been demanding local officials take a stand. Large scale pro-Impeachment demonstrations took place on March 17 at the Pentagon and in more than 1,000 other protests marking the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

“The crimes committed by President Bush and Vice President Cheney are numerous. The Bush Administration’s war of aggression, its assault on human dignity at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, demeaning the Geneva Conventions and Habeas Corpus, invading the privacy of any American it chooses, corrupting the rule of law in the Department of Justice and others.

“President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be held accountable as it is proscribed in the Constitution, Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office or impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

“The authors of the Constitution were serious about impeachment and intended that the carefully prescribed procedures and principles of impeachment written into the text be faithfully executed. We, the growing impeachment movement that is sweeping this country from one end to the other, will make the members of the House of Representatives become as serious and courageous about impeachment as the Founding Fathers were.”



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Save Black Bears in Alaska

A message from Vida

PET/America: Save Black Bears in Alaska

The Department of Fish and Game is Alaska wants to hunt 900-1400 Black Bears to their deaths by any means necessary, including sows and cubs.

This program is to be part of the heavily criticised aerial wolf-kill program, part of which has already been declared illegal by the courts.

The Department says the hunt is necessary to protect Moose numbers, however there have been questions raised about the science behind their estimates, why such a large number of bears need to be killed, the "anything goes" methodology of the hunt wherein fair chase and usual hunting ethics don’t even apply, and even the plan's practicality - Department officials have themselves admitted that the plan is unlikely to work, and at least one major hunting group has said that they do not support it. The public certainly don’t. So why go ahead with it?

We are asking that the Department reconsider this plan. To sign the petition, please go to the following link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/966036999

The hunt is due to begin on July 1, we need your signatures now!!

Thank you!!

Grace



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Medicaid Programs "Severely Challenged"

State Medicaid programs, which provide health care to millions of poor people, vary widely in their eligibility criteria, the scope and quality of care, and the amount they reimburse physicians providing it, according to an independent assessment.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042407HA.shtml



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What established authorities teach Americans about global trade is wrong, disastrously wrong for the United States

The Establishment Rethinks Globalization

The church of global free trade, which rules American politics with infallible pretensions, may have finally met its Martin Luther. An unlikely dissenter has come forward with a revised understanding of globalization that argues for thorough reformation. This man knows the global trading system from the inside because he is a respected veteran of multinational business. His ideas contain an explosive message: that what established authorities teach Americans about global trade is simply wrong - disastrously wrong for the United States.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042407LA.shtml

Yellowstone Delisting Beginning of End for Grizzly

"On March 29, 2007, the Department of the Interior removed federal protection for Yellowstone's grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On April 29 this delisting will take effect. Only a challenge in federal court can stop this final ruling. I believe this decision will mark the beginning of the end of the grizzly in the contiguous states," says Doug Peacock.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042407EC.shtml



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Miers Weighed Yang's Firing, Senator Feinstein Says

Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers discussed firing ex-US Attorney Debra Yang, who was leading an investigation into lucrative ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-California) and a lobbying firm before she left her government post voluntarily last fall, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) charged in a hearing last week.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407T.shtml



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War Causes Air Force Chief Master Sergeant to Change Course

Jeff Slocum is a 41-year-old chief master sergeant in the United States Air Force. He's spent the last 21 years in the military and has been stationed in Europe, Korea, Honduras and the Middle East. He's now an engineer at Pope Air Force Base near Fayetteville, North Carolina. He loves his work, has enormous faith in the military and believes in serving his country. Until recently, he planned to spend his entire life in military service. But the events in Iraq have forced Slocum to question the viability of that plan and ultimately to change his life course. "First and foremost, we should never have gone into Iraq," says Slocum.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407S.shtml

The Coca-Cola Company Invests Money in Cleaning its Image

http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/rmr/rmr/?q=en/node/22283


Informant: Pol DHuyvetter



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Coca-Cola

Antennes Relais, les Ecologistes de Wallonie déposent une proposition de décret à 0,6V/m

RTC-Be : Antennes Relais, les Ecologistes de Wallonie déposent une proposition de décret à 0,6V/m (vidéo).

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/06Vm.php#1

An island made by global warming

The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2480994.ece


From Information Clearing House

Lieberman: Patience With Iran Wearing Thin

Sen. Joe Lieberman said the United States would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and warned that America was losing patience with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/24/95704.shtml?s=ic


From Information Clearing House



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

Inside Iraq: Broken Dreams

Video Report

Jasim Al-Azzawi looks at the high hopes and broken dreams of Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/1hzar


From Information Clearing House

Murtha: 'Surge has failed"

Video

"There's going to be redeployment," Murtha insisted. "It's just a matter of when."
http://snipurl.com/1hzan


From Information Clearing House



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

Congress panel backs Iraq pullout

A Democrat-led congressional panel has approved a war-funding bill that sets a tentative March 31, 2008 deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq despite a promised veto by the president.

http://snipurl.com/1hzam


From Information Clearing House

Economic Armageddon Is Coming

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

The British military establishment's most prestigious think tank sees what too few over-consuming Americans are willing to anticipate. Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds for global economic conflict.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17587.htm



Stocksplosion

By Jim Kunstler

We've entered a euphoric phase of financial arbitrage capitalism with extreme Ponzi overtones, a pyramid scheme of revolving credit rackets and percentage spread plays completely abstracted from any reality of fruitful activity. The reason we don't even call "money" by its former name anymore is precisely because we realize at some semi-conscious level that "liquidity" is not really money.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17586.htm



Existing U.S. home sales tumble in March; consumer confidence slides in April

Sales of existing homes plunged in March by the largest amount in nearly two decades. And consumer confidence in April crumbled to its lowest level since August.

http://www.680news.com/news/business/article.jsp?content=b042491A


From Information Clearing House



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

Housing Bubble Boondoggle: "Is it too late to get out"?

By Mike Whitney

Details of the meltdown are being downplayed in the media to prevent panic-selling among the public. But the Fed knows what's going on. In fact, the Federal Reserve and the five other federal agencies that regulate banks issued this statement just last week.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17585.htm



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We Just Marched In (So We Can Just March Out)

Hon. Ron Paul Of Texas
Before the U.S. House of Representatives

Why the dilemma? The American people have spoken, and continue to speak out, against this war. So why not end it? How do we end it? Why not exactly the way we went in? We just marched in, and we can just march out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17588.htm



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The War Goes Ever On

By Paul Craig Roberts

What Bush has demonstrated to Muslims is that American democracy is unresponsive to citizens and voters. Bush has demonstrated to the world that the US government is controlled by a small oligopoly of vested interests, the public be damned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17584.htm



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

Kucinich Announces Impeachment Charges Against Vice President Cheney

By Michael Roston

"The weight of the lies used to lead us into war has grown heavier with each death. Now is the time for Congress to examine the actions that led us into this war, just as we must work to bring the troops home. This resolution is a very serious matter, and I will urge the Committee on Judiciary to investigate and carefully consider this resolution."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17590.htm



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Keep our rice GMO Free!

http://write-a-letter.greenpeace.org/156

Muslims Believe US Seeks to Undermine Islam

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0424-01.htm

Selling Anxiety

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/729/

Selling Out to K Street Is "A Lot of Fun!"

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/728/



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

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands is the definition of tyranny

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/708/

Cheney Is Wrong About Me, Wrong About War

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/716/



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

Press Fury at Baghdad Wall

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/724/

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Work on Baghdad wall continues despite premier's opposition

The construction of a three-mile wall around a Sunni neighbourhood in Baghdad continued Monday, the military spokesman for the Iraqi government said, despite Premier Nuri al-Maliki's opposition to the plan.

http://snipurl.com/1hzaj


From Information Clearing House

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When In Doubt, Build A Wall
http://ga3.org/ct/n120pgF1_XYi/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+wall

'Green Nobel' Winners Noted for Fighting Extractive Industries, Defending Wildlife

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/714/

Global Campaign to End Gun Trade Ramps Up

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/711/

Tillman's Brother Blasts Military

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/731/

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Ranger Alleges Cover-Up in Tillman Case

An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when he died by friendly fire said Tuesday he was told by a higher-up to conceal that information from Tillman's family. "I was ordered not to tell them," US Army Specialist Bryan O'Neal told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407R.shtml



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

Bill Moyers: "Buying the War"

BUYING THE WAR: Watch the Show
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html


Informant: BeeFree

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Bill Moyers' "Buying the War" Exposes the Media's Failure to do Their Job.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/730/

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Bill Moyers on Journalism and Democracy

Bill Moyers is launching a new weekly series on PBS starting Friday night. But his latest documentary titled, "Buying the War" (about the media-supported build-up to the war in Iraq), airs tonight, April 25, on PBS. We spoke with Mr. Moyers about the media's coverage of the war and the health of journalism and democracy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507H.shtml

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On Journalism And Democracy

by Bill Moyers, The Christian Century

Our government has taken leave of reality and the media won't say as much.
http://ga3.org/ct/h720pgF1_XYn/

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Bill Moyers Interviews Jon Stewart

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers begins his weekly series, "Bill Moyers Journal," with an interview with Jon Stewart, anchor of the award-winning "The Daily Show," about why so many persons get their news and analysis from his fake news show.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607U.shtml



Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War"

"Buying the War," a documentary film from Bill Moyers, examines the media's coverage in the lead-up to the war as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy. And four years after the invasion, Mr. Moyers wonders what has changed? Truthout provides the full documentary and a transcript of the program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042707H.shtml

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VIDEO: Bill Moyers PBS special -- 'Buying the War'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6136/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Bill Moyers: Buying the War: Transcript and Videos
http://news2ulinks.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html#5818028748837340173


Informant: Bob Banner



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Office of Special Counsel to Investigate Rove

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/717/



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FDA Wants to Eliminate Natural Health Care

by Tom DeWeese

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has launched another sneak-attack, trying to regulate your health freedom into oblivion. Through FDA’s unholy partnerships with Big Pharma and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an offshoot of the UN), we are very close to losing alternative health care in America. This is a crisis, and needs your immediate action......

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom81.htm

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U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse

by Byron Richards, CCN

The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is being done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter – an illegal agreement set up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of the campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada and Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron23.htm



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Dienstag, 24. April 2007

Impeachment Is Now On the Table

http://tinyurl.com/33ajgp



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The Lost War

Serge Truffaut observes how ongoing American policies in Iraq compound the errors of the past.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Serge+Truffaut

Bush Flunks Diplomacy 101

http://www.slate.com/id/2164831/


Informant: Kev Hall

FBI Investigates GOP Congressman Tom Feeney's Ties to Abramoff

The FBI has asked US Representative Tom Feeney for information about his dealings with Jack Abramoff as part of its ongoing investigation into the lobbyist convicted of defrauding clients.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407N.shtml



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Security Breakdown at the White House?

Current and former employees of the White House Security Office have reported to Chairman Waxman that there was a systemic failure at the White House to follow procedures for protecting classified information. According to the security officers, the White House regularly ignored security breaches, prevented security inspections of the West Wing and condoned mismanagement of the White House Security Office.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407M.shtml



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Special Counsel to Probe Karl Rove's Political Activities

Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities. But the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into White House political operations headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407J.shtml



Rove Investigator Himself Under Investigation

A federal investigation into the political activities of Karl Rove, was announced late Tuesday, is being headed by a Bush appointee who is currently the target of an internal White House probe - calling into question the integrity of the administration's efforts to conduct an independent review of Rove's work as White House political adviser.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407U.shtml



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Privatizing And Profiteering

by Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

The student loan scandal illustrates the failure inherent in privatization schemes.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12715


From TomPaine.com



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The evidence of GOP tampering in the 2004 Ohio vote count is beyond a reasonable doubt

The GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad

Exposed by Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press
http://ga3.org/ct/Gd20pgF1SRTo/



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Messkampagnen, wissenschaftliche Hinweise, Nachweise und viel Diskussionen

HLV INFO 40/AT

24-04-2007

Handys und die dafür nötigen Sendemaste bedingen sich. Wo viele Handynutzer sind, benötigt man auch Masten, und diese sind am Billigsten in bereits bewohnten Gebieten zu errichten.

Das ist der einfache und klare Grund warum Sendeanlagen gerade in ländlichen Gegenden völlig unnötige Anwohnerbelastung erzeugen. Vom GSM Prinzip her würden auch 60 km Abstand gehen (so waren mal die Konzeptionsbedingungen für GSM).

Und aller Orts wird vom TüV und den Betreiberverbänden Messkampagnen organisiert, die nachweisen sollen dass man 99 und mehr Prozent unter den geltenden Grenzwerten agiert.

Schön, doch ebenso schlecht, denn wir Anwohner wissen, dass wir raus sehen müssen, raus in die Realität und da erleben wir hier im Dorf dass sich die Krebs- Todesrate im Umkreis von rund 150 m um den Sender bald an die 2 % der Gesamtdorfbevölkerung annähert, dass in Steinbach Hallenberg zigfache Brustkrebsrate bei Frauen festgestellt wurde, wie auch in vielen anderen Gemeinden diese Ereignisse konzentriert um die Standorte und den exponieten Bereichen auftreten. Bei Werten millionenfach unter dem Merkelschen Grenzwert.

Doch handelt irgendwer? verantwortlich?

No!

Denn unter den Grenzwerten herrscht Narrenfreiheit, und auch wenn es der EU Vorsorgerichtline widerspricht, Handy über alles!

... mal schauen, wie lange wir uns diese Ignoranz vor der Realität noch leisten können, nur mit dem Hinweis, dass wir halt noch kein wissenschaftlich nachgewiesenen Modell der Schädigung kennen ...


Bernd Schreiner, Dipl-Ing(FH)
freier Architekt, Baubiologe IBN
Landesverband Thüringen
http://www.buerger-gegen-esmog.de

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Kyrill, GSM und UKW
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3237486/

Messpraxis bei Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/351965/

Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

Welchen Wert haben Grenzwerte beim Mobilfunk?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1005975/

Strahlenmessungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/326599/

Die Grenzwerte der 26. BImSchV gelten nur für Kurzeitexposition, sind also für Dauereinwirkung nicht anwendbar
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3646854/



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Sea life at risk as acid levels rise in oceans

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003678459_acidocean24m.html


Informant: binstock

Dispelling the Wireless Myths

Having got a little fed up of techie blogs and ignorant respondents on wireless (WiFi, base stations, you name it) communication being harmless for a number of incorrect reasons, I've had a bit of a rant that you may be interested in.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20070424_wifi_myths.asp

Best Regards, - Graham Philips Powerwatch UK



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Requiem for the Honeybee

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/requiemForTheHoneybee.php

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Give Bees a Chance

All we are saying,
Is give bees a chance -
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7819

(artjar)


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Give Bees a Chance: Ban Genetically Engineered Crops

http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01375_give_bees_chance.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5050.cfm



Bees amidst organics versus bees amidst toxins and GMOs

The first article is dated 2003 and is remarkably prophetic.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/02/synthetic_honey_and_gmo_bees.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/12/10/_why_genetically_modifying_gm_food_products_are_a_no_no.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2007/05/08/no_organic_bee_losses_bees_immune_systems_damaged.htm


Informant: binstock



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Klimaretter Atomkraft?

Umweltinstitut München e.V. – Newsletter vom 24. April 2007

Der Ölpreis steigt, Russland dreht den Gashahn zu oder eine neue Klimastudie wird vorgelegt: Reflexartig wird der Ruf nach Atomkraft laut. Die Atomlobby wittert Morgenluft und will der Atomenergie als vermeintlichem Klimaretter zur Renaissance verhelfen. Dabei sind auch 21 Jahre nach Tschernobyl die Folgen des GAUs noch allgegenwärtig. Sicherheitsprobleme und Endlagerfragen sind nach wie vor ungelöst. Und zudem blockiert die Atomtechnik klimafreundliche Energien. http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/allg/press/f-20070419.htm

Klimaretter Atomkraft?
http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/all/m443.htm

Messergebnisse: Radioaktivität in Lebensmitteln und Waldprodukten http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/all/m26.htm


Hans Ulrich-Raithel, Dipl.- Ing. (FH)
Vorstand
Umweltinstitut München e.V. Landwehrstr. 64 a
80336 München
http://www.umweltinstitut.org
hu@umweltinstitut.org

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Zum 21. Tschernobyl-Jahrestag (26. April 2007) erklärt das Aktionsbündnis "Atomausstieg selber machen" am 25.4.2007:

Atomstromers Wunschträume durchkreuzen!

RWE, Vattenfall, E.ON und EnBW wollen den von ihnen mit der Bundesregierung ausgehandelten Atomkonsens kippen und europaweit neue Atomkraftwerke bauen - Aktionsbündnis "Atomausstieg-selber-machen" ruft zum Wechsel zu Ökostromanbietern auf.

Berlin, 25. April 2007: Aus Anlass des 21. Jahrestages der Reaktorkatastrophe von Tschernobyl ruft das Aktionsbündnis "Atomausstieg-selber-machen" alle privaten Haushalte und Gewerbetreibende, Unternehmen und Kirchen, öffentliche Verwaltungen und die von den vier Atomkonzernen unabhängigen Stadtwerke auf, ihre Vertragsbeziehungen mit RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall und EnBW aufzukündigen und ihren Strom künftig von Ökostromanbietern zu beziehen.

Es gebe kein besseres Datum als diesen Jahrestag, den Wechsel zu einem Ökostromanbieter in die Tat umzusetzen, erklärte das Bündnis aus Umweltverbänden, Verbraucherschutzorganisationen und Anti-AKW-Initiativen. Weitere gute Gründe dafür seien die Pläne der Stromkonzerne, die ältesten Reaktoren länger laufen zu lassen und sich europaweit künftig verstärkt an Atomprojekten beteiligen zu wollen.

Aktuell würden sich RWE und E.ON für Beteiligungen am Bau neuer AKW in Rumänien und England interessieren. Sicherheitsbedenken würden dabei ignoriert. So sei geplant, im rumänischen Cernavoda in einer erdbebengefährdeten Region Reaktoren eines kanadischen Typs zu errichten, die in Kanada nicht mehr genehmigungsfähig seien. E.ON wolle außerdem neue AKW in Bulgarien, Finnland und Tschechien betreiben. Im bulgarischen Belene sei die Errichtung eines russischen Reaktors geplant, für den es nur unzureichende Sicherheitsabschätzungen gebe.
2006 hätten sich die Commerzbank, die Deutsche Bank und die HypoVereinsbank, die an einer Finanzierung interessiert gewesen seien, wegen breiter Proteste von diesem Projekt zurückgezogen. E.ON aber halte daran fest. Gegen neue AKW in Rumänien und Bulgarien gebe es vor Ort und in anderen europäischen Staaten bereits Proteste. Vattenfall wiederum betreibe über seinen Mutterkonzern zehn Atomreaktoren in Schweden. Erst im letzten Jahr habe das AKW in Forsmark wegen schwerwiegender Bedienungsfehler und verheerender Defizite im Sicherheitsmanagement traurige Berühmtheit erlangt. Aufgrund dieser Mängel sei eine ursprünglich geplante Kapazitätserweiterung für Forsmark auf Eis gelegt worden. Und der französische Staatskonzern EDF, Hauptaktionär bei EnBW, wolle in Flamanville in der Normandie den ersten Europäischen Druckwasserreaktor (EPR) errichten.

"Die Stromriesen wollen noch mehr Geld in ihre Kassen spülen, alles weitere interessiert sie nicht. Dafür kündigen die Konzernchefs Klaus Rauscher von Vattenfall, Ulf Bernotat von E.ON, Harry Roels von RWE und Utz Claassen von EnBW den Atomkonses skrupellos auf und träumen von neuen AKW in Europa", erklärte ein Sprecher des Aktionsbündnisses "Atomausstieg-selber-machen".

"Hierzulande ist niemand gezwungen, Atomstrom zu kaufen", heißt es in einer Erklärung des Aktionsbündnisses. "Machen Sie Atomstrom, egal ob aus Deutschland oder den Nachbarländern, zu einer immer schwerer verkäuflichen Ware. Machen Sie es wie immer mehr Bürger in Deutschland: Wechseln Sie noch heute zu Ökostrom-Versorgern, die Elektrizität ausschließlich aus den erneuerbaren Energien Sonne, Wind, Wasser und Biomasse und hocheffizienter Energieumwandlung bereitstellen. Sie werden sehen: Es kostet sie fünf Minuten und wenig Geld. In immer größer werdenden Regionen liegen die Strompreise für Ökostrom inzwischen sogar unterhalb des konventionellen Strompreises aus Kohle und Atomkraft."

Mehr Informationen zum Stromwechsel innerhalb von fünf Minuten finden Sie im Internet unter: http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/ und unter der kostenfreien Ökostrom-Hotline: 0800 762 68 52 (werktags 9:00 - 17:00)

Ein Hintergrundpapier über die Auslandsgeschäfte der deutschen Atomstromkonzerne unter: http://www.bund.net/lab/reddot2/pdf/AuslandsplaeneEVU_042007.pdf

Für Rückfragen:

Thorben Becker, Leiter Energiepolitik beim BUND,
Tel. 030-27586-421 bzw.
Regine Richter von urgewald, Tel. 030-44339169

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Öko-Institut Darmstadt: Atomstrom schützt das Klima nicht

Die Meinung, Atomstrom schneide in der Klimabilanz gut ab, ist nach Darstellung des Darmstädter Öko- Instituts falsch.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683487ms97



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

Independent of UK Writes Scare Piece on Wi-Fi

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007580.html

From Andrea: I sent this comment:

Glenn, you claim that good science should be based on the simple idea to test, reproduce and isolate factors. If we were to adhere to this reductionist and fragmentising view, we would never be able to solve the problem of environmentally induced systemic illnesses.

Illnesses such as Autism, MS, ME or indeed Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or Electrohypersensitivity cannot be fully understood by reducing them to such a one dimensional level. You have to look at possible genetic pre-conditions, metabolic pathways, diet and a variety of environmental factors, electromagnetic fields being one of these. It is the industries selling products likely to be environmental triggers for systemic disease, which stand to benefit from your reductionist and fragmented science model. What you call “anti electronic signal industry” is an ever growing group of concerned individuals, none of them working for money or profit, trying to raise awareness of the fact that we are engaging in the largest uncontrolled epidemiological experiment ever.

With regards to signal strength, you certainly know that 10 feet from a wireless computer, you are exposed to around 0.06 µW/cm2. There are studies which have found microwave effects on human EEC and behaviour at levels as low as 0.0000000027 µW/cm2 (Bise, 1978). Lastly, to counter your dismissive mention of Russian studies, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in 1997, the German Telecommunications Authority commissioned a review of the body of Russian studies (dating from 1960-1996, not 1920 - 1950), which came to the following conclusion: “EMFs can be considered as a ‘silent distressor’, the bio-active effect of EMFs is dependent on a variety of different factors and the pathogenic effect only shows after years of exposure. With regard to the symptoms, there are similarities to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”(Hecht and Balzer, 1997). Get off your high horse and check the facts yourself!



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Etablierte Erkenntnisse ignoriert

Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing referierte über Mobilfunk in Stapel
http://www.rotenburger-rundschau.de/index.php?menu=13000&dataid=52804



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebrecht+von+Klitzing
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Datenschutz ist keine Schönwetterveranstaltung

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

24. April 2007

Zum Tätigkeitsbericht des Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Der Datenschutzbeauftragte legt den Finger in die Wunde: Die Bundesregierung hat auf dem Gebiet des Datenschutzes jämmerlich versagt. Das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger ist durch die zunehmende Zahl von Maßnahmen zur staatlichen Überwachung erheblich gefährdet und durchlöchert worden. Wer meint, Sicherheit vor Verbrechen durch den Abbau an Grund- und Freiheitsrechten organisieren zu müssen, wird selbst zum Sicherheitsrisiko für die Demokratie. Datenschutz ist keine Schönwetterveranstaltung, sondern unveräußerlich für den Schutz der individuellen Rechte und der Privatsphäre. Deshalb brauchen wir eine Modernisierung des Datenschutzrechts, die gesetzliche Regelung des Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzes, strikte Regelungen zum Beispiel für Genomanalysen und Genscreenings und klare Vorgaben, die die Datensammelwut privater Unternehmen über ihre Kundinnen und Kunden eingrenzen, vor allem über das Internet. Der Bericht des Datenschutzbeauftragten sollte für die Regierung Anlass sein, über ihr Sicherheitsverständnis nachzudenken. Wir brauchen einen ständigen Datenschutz-Check vor allem der Sicherheitsgesetz-Vorschläge, die der Bundesinnenminister beinahe im Tagesrhythmus unterbreitet. Online-Durchsuchungen von Computern könnten beispielsweise bei einem solchen Check nicht bestehen. Und es ist unredlich, wenn die SPD sich einerseits für die Verhinderung die Vorratsspeicherung von Fingerabdrücken in Pässen feiert, andererseits aber ein verdachtsunabhängiges Speichern von Telefonaten, Mails und SMS mit trägt.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35609



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T-Mobile mast gets go-ahead

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=631892007

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


Informant: binstock

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Deserted Beehives, Starving Young Stun Scientists

"The bees were gone," David Hackenberg says. "The honey was still there. There are young brood (eggs) still in the hive. Bees just don't do that." On that November night last year in the Florida field where he wintered his bees, Hackenberg found 400 hives empty. Another 30 hives were "disappearing, dwindling or whatever you want to call it," and their bees were "full of a fungus nobody's ever seen before."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050207EC.shtml

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Global warming blamed for lost colonies

Sharon Tiffin/News staff May 02 2007 http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?cat=23&paper=23&id=974348


Informant: binstock




http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
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Lobby Planet Brüssel: Einblick in den Brüsseler Lobbydschungel

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/lobby-planet-bruessel/

Wi-fi? Why worry?

Here's a link to Bill Thompson's website: http://www.andfinally.com/.

E-mail him direct via the address there.

Frank



And mine...

Since when did the BBC start receiving bribes from the wireless industry? How can Bill Thompson be allowed to peddle such outrageous lies in his article ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6583815.stm ) such as "There is no evidence that electromagnetic radiation at radio frequencies, where the energy levels are too low to dislodge electrons and affect molecular bonding, can cause health effects except by heating tissues." Where do I begin with the hundreds of studies that Mr Thompson claims simply do not exist? Did he bother to attend Dr George Carlo's presentation in Westminster inn February when Dr Carlo, the man who ran the US cell phone industries' own health research program in the 1990's describes the mechanism by which cells and DNA are damaged by microwave signals from mobile phones, masts, Wi-Fi and related devices? A mechanism, Mr Thompson may want to realise, that has nothing to do with heating. He seems to be quoting the pseudo science that the mobile phone industry has been promoting since the early 1990's that has been proven to be based on false assumptions. I sincerely hope the BBC send someone more competent than Mr Thompson to do some real research into this very important issue and publish a complete retraction of his nonsense, together with an honest explanation of what really happens when a cell membrane detects signals from a wireless system.

Simon



I've done mine:-

This item entitled "Wi-fi? Why worry?" is the most opinionated baseless and biased piece of reporting I have seen so far on the BBC website.

The parts stating "Unfortunately the science says he is wrong, and his students are suffering as a result." and "Cellphones heat the brain and could cause problems. Wi-fi doesn't, and it is safe." can not be substantiated, are conjecture and belittle a serious topic.

THIS ARTICLE SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN FORTHWITH and Bill Thompson should be reprimanded for such baseless and biased statements. It does not deserve to be present on the BBC site where people may actually believe it and think that the BBC endorses such statements.

The last part "My daughter is sitting here as I write, her new wireless laptop beside her, and I'm a lot more worried about the damage she would do if she dropped it on her foot than I am about the impact of the low power radio waves it emits." is sick! It reminded me immediately of John Gummer feeding the beef burger to his child at the height of the BSE / mad cow crisis.

Martin



Please forward Is there no end to the BBC's bias? Can any MP's raise the issue in the House of Commons? The BBC reporting is now at odds with the reporting from the serious broadsheets.

Sarah



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Carlo

A dangerous game of “chicken” for Democrats

Boston Globe
by Doug Schoen

04/23/07

Democrats and Republicans in Washington are headed toward a showdown. At issue is how to provide an additional $100 billion in supplemental funding to support American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Congressional Democrats are intent on passing legislation that will include a requirement — or at least a call — to bring the troops home next year. President Bush insists he will accept no such provision, even if it means vetoing legislation that would provide badly needed money for the troops in the field. The American people, he maintains, will fault Democrats if that happens. In short, the politicians in Washington are playing a high stakes game of chicken — one whose outcome will change the balance of power and have a profound effect on the 2008 presidential elections...

http://tinyurl.com/32uvse


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=%24100+billion

For the defense

National Review
by Fred Thompson

04/23/07

Republicans have struggled in recent years, because they have strayed from basic principles. Federalism is one of those principles. It is something we all give lip service to and then proceed to ignore when it serves our purposes. During my eight years in the Senate, I tried to adhere to this principle. For me it was a lodestar. Not only was it what our Founding Fathers created — a federal government with limited, enumerated powers with respect for other levels of government, it also provided a basis for a proper analysis of most issues: ‘Is this something government should be doing? If so, at what level of government?

http://tinyurl.com/2uobre


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Thompson

Morality and illiberal democracy

Free Market News Network
by Tibor R. Machan

04/23/07

In a totalitarian state everything counts as the public realm; in a free country there are strict limits. In most existing countries today it’s somewhere in between. Democratic decisions impact taxation, government regulation, international diplomacy, education and health policies, and whatever else the government is involved in. The idea of limiting the public realm has gone out of fashion and was never taken very seriously except by some few political theorists and even fewer politicians, let alone bureaucrats. Once in power, there is a very strong temptation to expand the reach of the power one has. People who get chummy with government tend not to like it when its powers are limited-they have agendas and such limitations could impede their efforts to carry them out. And in democracies the politicians’ constituency often urges government to expand its power so as to provide the voters with various benefits — ones, however, that have to be obtained by confiscating other people’s resources, including their labor. In short, democracy often tilts quite powerfully against morality...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/117/7369/democracy.asp?nid=7369&wid=117


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan

Absurd analogies won’t stop terrorism

AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

04/24/07

Michael Chertoff, President Bush’s secretary of Homeland Security, desperately tried to refute Zbigniew Brzezinski’s cogent charge that the administration has hyped the ‘war on terror’ to promote a ‘culture of fear,’ in a recent Washington Post opinion piece. In addition to shamefully smearing Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s former national security adviser, by associating him with the fringe opinion that the administration plotted the 9/11 terrorist acts, Chertoff also declared, ‘Al-Qaeda and its ilk have a world vision that is comparable to that of historical totalitarian ideologues but adapted to the 21st-century global network.’ This rhetoric makes it seem as if al-Qaeda is more dangerous than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. When comparisons are made to these villainous titans, we should be suspicious...

http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=10864


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brzezinski
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The future of the dollar, entitlements and the US economy

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein

04/24/07

Interview with US Representative (and GOP presidential nomination contender) Ron Paul (R-TX): “JW: What do you see as the solution to our mounting entitlement obligations, now estimated at as much as $65 trillion? That is, what do we do about more and more people retiring, and fewer and fewer left working to pay into Social Security and Medicare to pay their mounting bills? RP: That’s the question of the age. Politicians aren’t very likely to solve it responsibly by cutting benefits and raising taxes to bring it into balance. Nor will they go to a system where people assume responsibility for themselves. So I would say it’s going to end badly...

http://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/07-ron-paul-interview.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jarret+Wollstein

Pressure grows on Wolfowitz

Guardian [UK]

04/23/07

The pressure on Paul Wolfowitz was ratcheted up further today after a group of former World Bank executives called for his resignation. Forty-two senior ex-staffers signed an open letter that warned that Mr Wolfowitz ‘can no longer be an effective leader’ of the bank. … Mr Wolfowitz has been under growing pressure since it emerged over a week ago that he had overruled bank staff in 2005 to demand a 46% pay increase and a promotion for Ms Riza when she was moved outside the bank to avoid rules forbidding partners from working together...

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2063724,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Pressure Increases on Wolfowitz to Go

A group of top former World Bank executives has urged Paul Wolfowitz to resign, as the bank's watchdog warned that his actions were undermining the ability of the institution to carry out development work. The 42 senior executives wrote a letter to the Financial Times, published on Monday, advising Wolfowitz to give up the presidency for the good of the bank following a controversy over the promotion of his girlfriend.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407O.shtml



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

Researchers call for study on WiFi health effects

Fox News

04/23/07

It’s convenient and widely available but a growing group of researchers warn that WiFi may be hazardous to your health. William Stewart, the head of Britain’s Health Protection Agency, is worried that wireless Internet access may pose a health threat — particularly to children — and is privately calling for a study of the hazards of WiFi, the Independent reports. Researchers believe that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the phones, cell-phone towers and WiFi masts are contributing to an ‘electric smog’ that could pose a future health risk. The researchers say this smog of electromagnetic radiation is 1 billion times stronger than the natural fields in which living cells have developed over the last 3.8 billion years. Children may be more vulnerable as their skulls are thinner and their nervous systems are still developing, not to mention that they’ll be exposed to more radiation over their lifetime...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267829,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

US cities unite to battle emissions

Arizona Republic

04/23/07

Hundreds of U.S. cities are taking a stand against global warming by pledging to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions beyond what the federal government is willing to commit. From metropolitan hubs like New York and Los Angeles to fast-growing cities such as Las Vegas, more than 450 city leaders throughout the 50 states have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Buckeye, Flagstaff and Tucson are the only Arizona cities to sign the agreement. In Tucson’s case, the agreement builds on work the city has been doing for a decade to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. For fast-growing Buckeye, it’s a chance to think green as the city expands...

http://tinyurl.com/2z87kl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Katrina contracts blantantly illegal

Wichita Falls Times Record News

04/23/07

FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste — and possibly violated federal law — by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say. The new report by the Homeland Security Department’s office of inspector general, set to be released later this week, examines the propriety of 36 trailer contracts designated for small and local businesses in the stricken Gulf Coast region following the 2005 storm. It found a haphazard competitive bidding process in which the winning contract prices were both unreasonably low and high. Moreover, FEMA did not take adequate legal steps to ensure that companies were small and locally operated, resulting in a questionable contract award to a large firm with ties to the Republican Party...

http://tinyurl.com/25qu49


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

US Army’s computer game recruiting plan takes fire

Yahoo! News

04/21/07

Anti-recruitment groups are slamming a US Army deal to sponsor a computer war game channel, charging that real war is no game. In June, the Army is set to sponsor a channel at the Global Gaming League website, a popular spot for Internet computer game lovers. ‘It is part of this campaign for the last 20 years to invade youth culture with militarism,’ Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities co-founder Rick Jahnkow told AFP. … Play at the channel will be free, but agreeing to ‘additional contact from the Army’ comes with signing up as a player. The Army’s investment, estimated at two million dollars, is aimed at finding potential soldiers among gamers in the cherished recruiting age range of 17 to 24...

http://tinyurl.com/2865up


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bush Poised to Veto Long-Sought Labor Reform

"One of the most important bills for working Americans of the last 10 years is likely to go down in defeat, even though Democrats control Congress," says Joshua Holland. "The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is an anti-union-busting measure that would restore the right to form unions, a right working people have enjoyed mostly on paper since the 'Reagan revolution' stacked the deck against workers trying to organize. The House passed the bill last month, but it's widely expected to be defeated in the Senate, and if it does survive, it will almost certainly fall to George Bush's veto pen."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042307LA.shtml



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Acting Now to Save Life on Earth

E.O. Wilson writes: "Except for giant meteorite strikes or other such catastrophes, Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption that could push half of Earth's species to extinction in this century. Humanity must make a decision, and make it right now: Conserve Earth's natural heritage, or let future generations adjust to a biologically impoverished world."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042307EC.shtml



Hard Choices, Sacrifices Ahead on Global Warming

"It's Earth Day today, and the great green stampede just keeps getting bigger. Everyone wants to fight global warming, save the planet and feel good while doing it. But there's something missing from much of the clamor for action: a recognition that sacrifices and hard choices lie ahead if the United States and other major emitters are going to seriously reduce the amount of carbon dioxide spewing into the atmosphere," says Frank Davies.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042307EA.shtml



Climate Change Disaster Strikes Australia

Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042307EB.shtml

Pentagon May Be Shorting Troop Benefits

An injured soldier's disability should be determined by Veterans Affairs officials - and not the Pentagon - because the Army might be shortchanging troops, a presidential commission was told on Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307T.shtml

Rep. Rohrabacher Typifies Why Many Dislike America

"I hope its your family members that [sic] die," said US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to American citizens who questioned the Bush administration's unlawful extraordinary rendition policies. Congressional hearings provide a deep insight into the inner spirit of our elected representatives - and sometimes the insight is not pretty," says Ann Wright.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extraordinary+rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Wright

Corn ethanol: higher food prices and more water pollution

Corn ethanol: higher food prices

Some people are warning there are hidden costs to the drive for ethanol. The demand for corn-based ethanol for fuel has pushed the price of corn close to the highest price it's been in 10 years. Great Lakes Radio Consortium, Michigan.

23 April 2007

http://www.glrc.org/story.php3?story_id=3401


Corn ethanol: more water pollution

Corn needs a lot more nitrogen fertilizer than other crops. And when it rains, nitrogen moves quickly from the fields to the waterways, especially when grass strips don't filter the runoff. Great Lakes Radio Consortium, Michigan.

23 April 2007

http://www.glrc.org/story.php3?story_id=3402


Informant: binstock



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

U.S. dollar drops against euro as ECB rate hike likely

The United States currency also tumbled to its weakest level against the British pound in 26 years as investors bet the Federal Reserve will cut borrowing costs later this year while the European Central Bank and Bank of England raise rates.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/23/content_6014609.htm


From Information Clearing House

Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You

Whether it's $50 to fill up your Prius or $130 for the Ford Expedition, $4-a-gallon gasoline is coming to a pump near you.

http://snipurl.com/1hqve


From Information Clearing House

Bush's Terror War in Somalia Rages On

http://snipurl.com/1hqun

U.S. support key to Ethiopia's invasion
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-07-ethiopia_x.htm?POE=click-refer



Africa's secret: the men, women and children 'vanished' in the war on terror

Fleeing war-torn Somalia, the refugees trapped and missing without rights.
http://snipurl.com/1hquv



Somalia burns - but does anyone care?

The carnage and suffering in Somalia may be the worst in more than a decade -- but you'd hardly know it from your nightly news.

http://snipurl.com/1i5aa



Massacre in Mogadishu-war crime made in the USA

The brutal military siege against the Somali capital of Mogadishu constitutes a war crime for which the US government bears the principal responsibility.

http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/5492


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
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Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent

Video

How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populace.

http://snipurl.com/1hqtx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=manufacturing+consent
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Impeaching Cheney: Step One

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will introduce articles of impeachment against Cheney. Kucinich's decision to go after Cheney is not just Constitutionally appropriate, it is politically smart.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070423/cm_thenation/1189256



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

Bush, Congress and the Media

http://www.counterpunch.org/landau04232007.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saul+Landau

Winning the war for Iraq's dead

Lancet Iraq mortality study author Gilbert Burnham interviewed by New Scientist.
http://snipurl.com/1hqt1


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gilbert+Burnham

USA: Cornering the Market on Morality

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17579.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Miller

War and the Police State

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17578.htm

Who Grieves For Them?

By Mary Pitt

They fly home under cover of night and then are treated as baggage on commercial flights until they are taken to their home town. Their family, friends, and neighbors turn out for their funeral with none taking notice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17581.htm

Begutachtungsverfahren "TKG": Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Österreich in "Begutachtung"

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100003848



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

Urge your Representative to protect wild horses from slaughter

http://ga0.org/campaign/rahallamend



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=horse+slaughter

New Commerce Dept Policy Won't Protect Scientists

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0423-02.htm

U.S. has Moral, National Security Imperatives to Provide Development Assistance to Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0423-04.htm

Congressman Kucinich Will Hold Press Conference to Announce Introduction of Articles of Impeachment Relating To Vice President Richard Cheney

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0423-05.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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Inside The Mind of The Media

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/23/699/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Milazzo

Life Is Hanging By A Thread

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/23/684/

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

They Call This The News?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/23/692/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jerry+Lanson

Levin Gives Cheney Reason To Smirk

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/23/693/



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