Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007

Rep. Maxine Waters Speaks Out for Impeachment

By David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/22324


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maxine+Waters
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Iraq War General: "Mr. President, You Did Not Listen"

The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in Iraq. The ad begins with a clip of President George Bush saying, "I have always said that I will listen to the requests of our commanders on the ground." Batiste then appears, saying, "Mr. President, you did not listen."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907A.shtml



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Bitte fordern Sie: Keine Kahlschlag-Energie in Uelzen !

Urwaldrodung für Palmölplantagen auf Borneo

Die letzten Regenwälder Südostasiens sind die einzige Heimat der Orang-Utans. Diese Wälder werden rasend schnell für Tropenholz und Ölpalmplantagen abgeholzt. Jetzt wird der Bedarf an Palmöl gigantisch ausgeweitet, weil Palmöl immer häufiger in deutschen Kraftwerken verbrannt wird. Uelzen ist ein Beispiel, dort erzeugt ein Blockheizkraftwerk aus billigem Palmöl Strom und Wärme. Damit macht sich Uelzen zum Komplizen der Regenwaldvernichter. Protestieren Sie noch heute dagegen! (Start: 09.05.2007)

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=164

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



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

Online-Petition - Demonstration für Zugang zu lebensnotwendigen Medikamenten

http://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/go.php?nl=2007052533

U.S. Carrier Armada Aims At Iran

by Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com

Bush hopes the largest carrier fleet since the Iraq War began will force Iranian concessions.

http://ga3.org/ct/7p20pgF1tXGq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+Klare

A World Of Katrinas

by Desmond Tutu, Black Agenda Report

Climatic events can undo decades of development for the world's poor.
http://ga3.org/ct/Ip20pgF1tXHZ/

Students to Pelosi: immediate withdrawal from Iraq

http://tinyurl.com/2khjhh


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news



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

Action Alert: Send a Text for Healthy Water

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/GRN/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=591

GRN's Earth Month Partner, Aveda Salons, is supporting our work for healthy water here in the Gulf region, and they are working throughout the globe. You can participate by sending a text message to the United Nations asking them to make clean water a basic human right. Visit this webpage http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/GRN/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=591 for more information.

TEST-Schnurlostelefone: endlich strahlungsarme Geräte?

HLV INFO 45/AT

9-05-2007

Betr. Meine Info über Herrn Hans Bello vom 1.05.2007 an Familie Ernst

TEST - Schnurlostelefone - endlich strahlungsarme Geräte

ÖKO-TEST Ausgabe Nr. 05/ Mai 2007.

Auf Seite 114-117 werden fünf neue Geräte getestet:

2 mit befriedigend und 4 mit ausreichend.

Der Test stellt keine Entwarnung dar - es wird auch für diejenigen, die strahlungsfrei telefonieren wollen, ausdrücklich darauf hingewiesen, "daß ohne Funkstrahlung nur über ein kabelgebundenes Telefon telefoniert werden kann."

Die jetzt getesteten Geräte haben lediglich den Vorteil, dass die Basisstation, wenn das Gerät darin liegt, abschaltet. Die jetzige Lösung wird auch als "beileibe keine Großtat" und lediglich als "kleiner Beitrag zur Verringerung der Strahlungswerte´" bewertet.

Die Basisstationen strahlen aber immer, wenn die Gerät herausgenommen wurden, je nach Fabrikat zwischen 9300 - 25400 Mikrowatt/qm im Abstand von 1 m, also weiterhin viel zu hoch, weil biologische Wirkungen nicht auszuschließen sind.

Damit liegen sie auch im Leistungsbereich wie all die anderen ohne Abschaltung!!!

Im Bericht heißt es auch u.a., das die jetzigen Ausführungen eine erste Verbesserung darstellen, den gedankenlosen Umgang mit dieser Technik erlauben sie jedoch nicht.

Weiterhin wird auch empfohlen, daß DECT- Telefone mit Abschaltfunktion nicht in Wohn- und Schlafbereiche gehören. Je größer der Abstand, desto geringer die Exposition. Unproblematisch wird die Technik allerdings mit der Abschaltung auch nicht - liegt das Mobilteil nicht in der Station sondern irgenwo in der Wohnung, dann geht die Basis wieder auf Dauersendung, um den Kontakt zum Hörer aufrecht zu halten.

Auch wenn nicht telefoniert wird, werden wir dann unnötiger elektromagnetischer Strahlung ausgesetzt.


Herr Dr. Martin H. Virnich schreibt hierzu:

Ich verfolge die Entwicklung der "LR" bzw. "ECO-Mode" DECT-Telefone seit über einem Jahr und habe einen Beitrag dazu auf der Internetseite des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Baubiologen VDB e.V. eingestellt, der auch eine regelmäßig aktualisierte Telefonliste enthält:

http://www.baubiologie.net/Veroeffentlichungen/Elektrosmog.shtml --> Schnurlostelefone --> DECT "light" - Die ersten DECT-Schnurlostelefone mit Sendepause.

Ich füge Ihnen die aktuelle Version hiermit im Anhang bei.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/vdb_dect_light_0704.pdf


Dr.-Ing. Martin H. Virnich
Ingenieurbüro für Baubiologie und Umweltmesstechnik
Dürerstraße 36
D-41063 Mönchengladbach
Tel.: 02161 - 89 65 74
Fax: 02161 - 89 87 53
Email: virnich.martin @t-online.de
VDB - Berufsverband Deutscher Baubiologen VDB e.V.

Hiring Process Was Bypassed for Prosecutor

When he was counsel to a House subcommittee in 2005, Jay Apperson resigned after writing a letter to a federal judge in his boss's name. As an assistant US attorney in Virginia in the 1990s, he infuriated fellow prosecutors when he facetiously suggested a White History Month to complement Black History Month. Yet when Apperson was looking for a job recently, four senior Justice Department officials urged Jeffrey Taylor, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, to hire him without the usual vetting process. Taylor did.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907N.shtml

Powell Resignation Spurs New Doubts About US Public Diplomacy

The departure of Dina Habib Powell, one of the few Bush administration appointees with "some 'native' familiarity" of the Middle East - coupled with the release of a new survey revealing growing doubts among Americans about their country's reputation in the rest of the world - is triggering yet another round of criticism of US public diplomacy efforts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907L.shtml



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

Guard Faces Shortages in Dealing With Natural Disasters

With much of its equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Guard is facing profound shortages in responding to natural disasters, particularly as it gets ready for hurricane season, which begins June 1.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907K.shtml

Pelosi Threatens to Sue Bush Over Iraq Bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted Iraq war spending bill compromise.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907J.shtml



House War Bill Conditions Funding on Benchmarks

A House Democratic proposal was introduced yesterday that would give President Bush half of the money he has requested for the war effort, with a vote in July on whether to approve the rest, which will hinge on progress in meeting political benchmarks that Iraq has thus far found difficult to achieve.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907B.shtml



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Protections and Faraday Cage - Protections et Cage de Faraday

http://tinyurl.com/2xvb88

Protections et Cage de Faraday
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/ProtectionsEmfCem.php#1

Someone hears me?

Attached is a translated interview with me to the magazine "Alternative Life", on the WHO & other things that are impossible to insert into the mainstream media.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/someone_hears_me.doc

Iris Atzmon.

Electric Cabaret

There's a great anti mobile article in this months Ecologist with a chance to email comments:

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=685

Gary

US RESPONSE TO DISPLACEMENT REMAINS INADEQUATE

The problem of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced Iraqis is a humanitarian crisis, writes Kristele Young of Refugees International, and 'The US must show the world that it is taking this matter seriously and willing to set a positive example for the international community’s efforts in the region.'

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3061.shtml

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Iraq: U.S. response to displacement remains inadequate

Syria hosts more than one million Iraqis, and Jordan more than 700,000. The burden posed by these large numbers of people is enormous. Hospitals and schools are overcrowded, and prices for food, oil and rent have increased dramatically since 2004.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/219053/117883038676.htm


From Information Clearing House

A SMALL WAR GUARANTEED TO DAMAGE A SUPERPOWER

by Patrick Cockburn

In Iraq, writes the intrepid Patrick Cockburn, 'Stability will not return until the occupation has ended. The Iraqi government, penned into the Green Zone, has become tainted in the eyes of Iraqis by reliance on a foreign power. Much of what has gone wrong has more to do with the US than Iraq. The weaknesses of its government and army have been exposed. Iraq has joined the list of small wars that inflict extraordinary damage on their occupiers.'

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3064.shtml

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Superpower Undone By Small War

by Patrick Cockburn, TomDispatch

A careful lack of planning, and an obtuse ideology, enabled the Bush administration to thoroughly destabilize Iraq.

http://ga3.org/ct/sd20pgF1bmTy/



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Corn Ethanol is Not the Answer

Don't be fooled by the wrong biofuel.

Stand up to a misguided Senate bill today!
http://tinyurl.com/3xolnl



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Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2075288,00.html


Informant: binstock

Mobilfunkanlagen in Deutschland extreme Energiefresser

http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2049380&section=Mobile

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Neue Studie von Prof. J. Lutz: „Mobilfunkanlagen in Deutschland extreme Energiefresser“

Eine Studie der Technischen Universität Chemnitz kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Mobilfunknetze in Deutschland extreme Energiefresser sind. Der Fortschritt in Sachen Klimaschutz bei der Energieerzeugung durch Solarenergie werde vom zunehmenden Ausbau der Netze komplett aufgezehrt, erklärte Josef Lutz, Professor für Leistungselektronik und elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit, heute in Chemnitz gegenüber de.internet.com. Der Studie liegen Angaben des Mobilfunkbetreibers O2 zugrunde. Demnach verbraucht eine Sendeanlage bis zu 2 Kilowatt. Im Normalbetrieb, den die Chemnitzer Stadtwerke maßen, waren es 1,3 Kilowatt!

Lesen Sie hier die komplette Meldung
http://www.der-mast-muss-weg.de/pdf/studien/LutzEnergiefresser.pdf


Aus: Kurzmittteilung Nr.7 der Bürgerinitiative gegen den Mobilfunkmast Bismarckstr.57, Stuttgart



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The imperial overreach

http://tinyurl.com/2vr49j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Conservative assault on America’s families

Tom Paine
by Beth Shulman

05/08/07

Conservatism historically has seen government as a problem to overcome, an albatross. President Reagan stated it succinctly when he said, ‘we need to get government off our backs.’ Conservatives usually justify this negative view of government in the name of freedom. They conflate freedom with unregulated markets, anti-unionism, low taxes and a rabid individualism. Without so-called government interference, people would be free to make their own choices. But what has this restricted view of government and the notion of freedom it embraces meant for America’s families today? In one word: disaster. The ‘you are on your own’ notion of government and freedom has meant that American families must live with stagnant wages at a time of high profits and productivity without a way to get ahead no matter how hard they try...

http://tinyurl.com/2rwvjd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Beth+Shulman

Unconstitutional legislation threatens freedoms

Hawaii Reporter
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

05/07/07

Last week, the House of Representatives acted with disdain for the Constitution and individual liberty by passing HR 1592, a bill creating new federal programs to combat so-called ‘hate crimes.’ The legislation defines a hate crime as an act of violence committed against an individual because of the victim’s race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Federal hate crime laws violate the Tenth Amendment’s limitations on federal power. Hate crime laws may also violate the First Amendment guaranteed freedom of speech and religion by criminalizing speech federal bureaucrats define as ‘hateful’...

http://tinyurl.com/39g5rw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The rising antiwar tide in the GOP

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/09/07

The realization that the neocons are doing to the Republican Party what they’re doing to the U.S. military — driving it into the ground — is now widespread in GOP circles. In an appearance on Fox News this past Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio stated, ‘By the time we get to September or October, members are going to want to know how well this is working, and if it isn’t, what’s Plan B.’ Trent Lott agrees. Rep. James Walsh, an upstate New York Republican facing pressure from his constituents to disavow the president’s position on the war, issued an open letter in which he stated that, if the ’surge’ isn’t successful by autumn, ‘we should be prepared to begin withdrawing our soldiers.’ Republicans facing problematic reelection prospects, such as Minnesota’s Norm Coleman, are giving the ’surge’ and the ‘Petraeus is our savior’ strategy a second look: ‘There is a sense and a reality that there is a lot we have to see by September,’ says Sen. Coleman, and it doesn’t take special powers to hear the anxious undertone...

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10935


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

Homeland Security: a costly mess

AlterNet
by Cindy Williams

05/09/07

In January 2003, the Bush administration drew 22 disparate agencies and some 170,000 employees into a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Proponents of the reorganization hoped a single department under a single cabinet secretary would foster unity of effort across a substantial portion of the federal activities related to domestic security. A key tool would be the department’s budget. With all the agencies beholden to him for their money, the secretary could promote and reward much-needed integration across the department. He could wield the budget tool to expand high priority activities, eliminate or defer the less important or redundant ones, and reallocate the workforce to fill gaps in high-risk areas. A look at budgets since the department was established reflects little in the way of realignment, however. Department funding rose by more than 40 percent between 2003 and 2007, but there has been only minimal reallocation of budgets from areas of lower risk or priority to functions the department says are more important...

http://www.alternet.org/story/51571/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cindy+Williams

It’s not just about fired attorneys anymore

Christian Science Monitor

05/09/07

Pundits for weeks have been predicting his resignation is imminent, and lawmakers from both parties have called on him to quit. But so far Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has defied critics — and shows no signs of packing his bags. The clamor over the firings of eight US attorneys may yet force Mr. Gonzales out. Members of Congress will have another chance to publicly press for his ouster at his scheduled appearance Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee. But even if Gonzales leaves, uproar about management at the Department of Justice is unlikely to subside. A steady stream of revelations — from allegations about partisan hiring in the Civil Rights Division to possible White House involvement in the US attorney dismissals –- has seen to that. ‘Congress now is sufficiently concerned that, even were he to resign, I don’t think it would change things very much,’ says Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0509/p02s01-usju.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Don't let radiation run riot

Two items in Brighton's local press.

First one is Sarah's letter which appears in this months Brighton "Whistler" newsletter, and which also appeared in the Sussex Argus and Kemptown rag a few weeks back:

"I was very surprised to read in The Argus 3/3/07 that the new eco flagship Brighton library has installed DECT (digital cordless) phones on every floor. People seem not to realise that the base unit of these phones emits microwave radiation all the time whether or not one is on a call. Both DECT and Wifi use the same technology as mobile phone masts. The intensity inside the library will be the same or higher than from a phone mast outside. There is evidence coming to light that these systems are less than safe. The frequency is the same as used in a microwave oven. The Times recently covered the fact that schools which are also installing Wifi are having to dismantle it at the request of parents and teachers who experience serious adverse health effects. Librarians in the USA are resigning over this issue. There is a lot of research into the effects and many people made ill from exposure to the radiation emitted by these systems as highlighted on the Richard and Judy show. It is possible to cable in computers for internet access. Wifi is not necessary. Info can be found from http://www.mastsanity.org" .


Second one in todays Sussex Argus readers letters from a "Graham Chainey" headed "Don't let radiation run riot". Extracts:

"A growing number of people - up to three per cent of the population already - suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which can be a highly disabling condition"

"Surrounded by gadgets and equipment in our homes and offices, we live amid an invisible but all-pervasive electrosmog. No one knows what this may do to us in the long term"

"In recent years we have been bombarded with mobile phone radiation. Every company apparently has to have its own network of masts"

"And now this fad for wi-fi. Schools have rushed to instal the system, so convenient for internet access. Whole cities are installing it, so people can use their laptops wherever they go."

"I believe if the radiation from these systems was made visible, they would all be banned."

"I would beg those considering city wide wi-fi to think again"

Send letters to letters@theargus.co.uk . When none of the letters sent by MS members were published several weeks ago, the editor told me they were too technical and to keep them short.

Gary
Brighton



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

Bush Takes Big Oil Back to the Beach

Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico, MMSLast week, officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration announced plans to allow Big Oil to drill in tens of millions of acres of environmentally sensitive waters off the coasts of Virginia, Florida, and Alaska, including Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay, an area closed to drilling after the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill.

These waters are home to imperiled whales, sea otters and other wildlife that could be devastated by drilling. Congress has just 60 days to object to this awful plan, so please urge your Senators and Representative to oppose harmful new drilling right now.

Take Action red
http://tinyurl.com/39x8mz



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Bighorns on the Edge

http://www.defenders.org/defendersmag/issues/spring07/bighorn.html

DIE BETREUUNGSFALLE: WENN DER HELFER ZUM FEIND WIRD

Der Fernsehtipp vom W-F-Z:

Das Erste | Mittwoch, 16.05.07 | 23:15 Uhr
DIE BETREUUNGSFALLE SWR | Länge: 45 Minuten http://programm.daserste.de/detail1.asp?id=X000352113&sdatlo=16.05.07&sender=1&dpointer=33&anzahl=42&ziel=33

WENN DER HELFER ZUM FEIND WIRD

Film von Dörte Schipper und Gregor Petersen

Wegen einer Behinderung hatte Herr P. sein Leben lang zu Hause bei seiner Mutter gelebt, die hatte alles für ihn geregelt. Doch nach dem Tod der alten Dame war plötzlich alles anders. Rudolf P. kam alleine nicht klar, erst recht nicht mit dem beträchtlichen Vermögen, das ihm seine Mutter hinterlassen hatte. Darum entschied das örtliche Amtgericht, dem mittlerweile 64-Jährigen einen Rechtsanwalt als Betreuer zur Seite zu stellen. Im juristischen Alltag ein ganz normaler Vorgang. Für Rudolf P. hatte die Entscheidung freilich dramatische Folgen. Denn innerhalb kurzer Zeit schwand sein Vermögen, 140.000 Euro, auf rätselhafte Weise. Inzwischen ist Herr P. völlig mittellos, lebt nur von einer kargen Rente. Der Betreuer musste sich zwar - wegen Untreue - vor Gericht verantworten; doch das Geld von Herrn P. bleibt bis heute verschwunden. Vom Betreuer regelrecht ausgeplündert - immer wieder machen solche Fälle Schlagzeilen. Wer es als amtlich bestellter Helfer darauf anlegt, kann seinen "Schützling" nur allzu leicht ausnehmen. Denn der oder die Betroffene ist in allen Lebensbelangen vom Betreuer abhängig. Ist erst einmal eine "Rundum-Vollmacht" vom Amtsrichter ausgesprochen, kann der Betreuer über das Vermögen, die Gesundheitsversorgung und den Aufenthaltsort seines Schützlings bestimmen. Ein Leichtes, da auch mal fremdes Geld in die eigene Tasche verschwinden zu lassen. Und die betreute Person so von der Außenwelt abzuschotten, dass Hilfe von Dritten nur schwer möglich ist. Mehr und mehr Menschen werden in Deutschland gesetzlich betreut. Anlass für Dörte Schipper und Gregor Petersen, den Betreuungsdschungel unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Ihr Ergebnis: düstere Aussichten in einer immer älter werdenden Gesellschaft...


Nachricht vom Werner Fuss Zentrum

Volksschule Obervellach "entstrahlt"

http://kaernten.orf.at/stories/191540/

Railway mast on track

By Gordon McCully

MAST: Coun Mark Perks at the site of the proposed railway mast in Euxton

A railway communications mast is to be built in Euxton as part of a scheme to improve train safety.

Plans for the mast, to be sited close to Euxton junction, have been given a cautious welcome by a Chorley county councillor.

Cou Mark Perks, who represents Chorley north, said: "My normal objection to masts has been overridden by the need for improved safety on our local rail network.

"It is a critically important development for the safety of the railway."

Network Rail is investing £1.2bn to build the first national system of direct train driver to signaller communication which involves a railway specific version of the wireless global mobile communications system.

Coun Perks added: "Network Rail have acknowledged they are aware the appearance of a new, tall structure, no matter how carefully designed, can cause for concern for people living nearby.

"Although they are not obliged to obtain planning permission, they do work closely with local planning authorities. I think the most non controversial site has been chosen."

Network Rail public affairs spokesman Simon Brooks, said: "As part of the infrastructure enabling this system, railway communications masts have to be built.

"There might unfortunately be an impact on people who live alongside the railway, as it will not be possible in every case to ensure that masts can be wholly hidden from view."

He confirmed that the masts operate well within the UK safety and international emission guidelines.

Network Rail will write to all residents living within about 100 metres of the site. Residents with concerns can contact the national helpline on 08457 14141.

Plans for a phone mast in Euxton Lane, Euxton, have been rejected by Chorley Borough Council.

Hutchinson 3G submitted plans in February to build a mast on land south of the Bolton Wanderers training ground but planning officers, acting under delegated powers, have objected to the siting and design of the plans.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.chorleycitizen.co.uk/display.var.1384623.0.railway_mast_on_track.php

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Network Rail
http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=21

Spread of Disease Tied to US Combat Deployments

A parasitic disease rarely seen in United States, but common in the Middle East, has infected an estimated 2,500 US troops in the last four years because of massive deployments to remote combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, military officials said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050807HB.shtml

Driest Year on Record: Flora and Fauna Are Feeling It

Around this time each year, thousands make the pilgrimage to the Antelope Valley to see California poppies shining in the fields around Anne Aldrich's Lancaster home. But not in 2007, as Southern California is poised to experience its driest year on record.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050807EC.shtml

Do Climate Change Experts Agree, Yet?

Marilyn Berlin Snell writes: "Sierra [magazine] invited a handful of luminaries to a daylong roundtable in San Francisco. Their job would be to come up with a practical agenda for the next Congress that would stabilize the climate. It was a tall order, addressed to busy people. Yet their response was immediate, gracious and affirmative. There is urgency in the air."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050807EA.shtml

Pentagon Tells 35,000: Prepare to Deploy in Fall

The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers and Marines to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed.

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



Army Announces Who's Going Next to Iraq

Ten brigade combat teams will begin deploying to Iraq in August as part of the next rotation of forces. The confirmation followed a Defense Department announcement made Tuesday morning and it affects about 35,000 soldiers. This is the first big announcement of brigade combat team rotations since Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced on April 11 that active Army units in the Central Command area of responsibility will serve up to 15 months in theater and 12 months at home.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907M.shtml

A Crusade and a Holy War in the US Military

An Orthodox Jew and former petty officer in the US Navy said his civil rights were violated after a chaplain and officials at a Veterans Administration hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, tried to convert him to Christianity while he was under the VA's care.

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



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

The Asian Destruction Bank?

When one of Asia’s leading institutions says it’s serious about funding the solutions to climate change that makes us happy. But when we discover that this commitment goes no further than a glossy brochure, we can't let that pass.

http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/the-asian-destruction-bank

Groups Slam Japan's Waste Colonialism

Environmental and civil society groups from around the globe today blasted the Japanese government for what they view as Japan's sinister plot to establish waste colonies in Asia by liberalizing trade in toxic wastes via bilateral trade and investment treaties.

http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/groups-slam-japan-s-waste-colo

Iraqi oil law ‘likely to end as a predictable fiasco’

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6162/


Informant: jensenmk

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Phiser Trolling: New Form of Identity Theft

by Jon Christian Ryter

It is the responsibility of every Internet browser to provider the Internet users who use their service with a secure, relatively hacker-free surfing platform. With the world's cyberthugs preying on the affluent and the stupid, the information superhighway has replaced the corner liquor store as the preferred crime scene. First, it's almost risk free and the opportunity for profit is limitless......

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University of California Students and Alumni to Hunger Strike to Demand Nuclear Weapons Lab Severance

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0508-02.htm

Bush Nominee for Product Safety Agency Was Top Lobbyist for Industry Group

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0508-09.htm

How Many "Free Trade" Senators Can Pharma Turn Into Corporate Protectionists?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/08/1055/



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Our Dysfunctional Democracy

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/08/1050/



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When Property's On The Line, Response To Dissent Turns Lethal

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/08/1054/



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New Fears Over Additives in Children's Food

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US Hospitals Charge Uninsured More

Study Says
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/08/1058/

Comprehensive analysis of the 2008 Iraq war funding request for $145 billion

Have you ever wondered how to respond to the argument that the safety and well being of U.S. troops in Iraq would be further endangered if Congress cuts off war spending?

Voices for Creative Nonviolence is pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive analysis of President Bush's and the military's request for another $145 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008 (Fiscal Year 2008).

Please consider hand delivering and/or mailing this analysis directly to your representatives and senators. Visit http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ for contact information. You may also want to send it to the editorial board of your local paper.

You can read "Iraq and Afghanistan Supplemental Spending 2008" on-line or download it from the Voices website in both Word and PDF formats here:

http://vcnv.org/iraq-and-afghanistan-supplemental-spending-2008

In this comprehensive analysis, you'll find such tidbits as:

* The military is budgeting to maintain essentially the same number of troops in Iraq throughout Fiscal Year 2008.

* An examination of Theater Maintenance versus Reset--and the fact that each is, for the most part, designed to prepare equipment for use by troops that are about to be deployed to Iraq rather than for those currently in Iraq.

* The fact that the Pentagon's procurement process for buying new weapons, ammunition and vehicles is a process of up to three years. This means that the money appropriated today by Congress will not result in these new items being in the hands of soldiers for another 1 to 3 years down the road.

* The fact that May 2008 is the earliest that any ammunition being purchased with these procurement funds will be delivered to the Army. The next earliest is October 2008. Most forms of ammunition won't be delivered to the Army until sometime in 2009 or later.

* Examples of the production schedules for Bradley vehicles, Stryker combat vehicles, installation of armor on vehicles, etc. that shows that items approved for purchase today won't be delivered to the Army for at least one year and often up to three years into the future.

To read and download this resource visit: http://vcnv.org/iraq-and-afghanistan-supplemental-spending-2008


--Voices for Creative Nonviolence
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Beres again beats Iran war drum in name of ‘anticipatory self-defense’

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6165/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

VIDEO DIARY: LIBERATED?

Four years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Hometown Baghdad's Adel, Ausama and Saif consider claims of liberation. 'Some people ask, do you feel liberated?' Ausama asks. 'How can you even ask me this?'

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3051.shtml

IRAQ OIL LAW: IN WHOSE INTEREST?

'The architects of a new Iraq oil law aim to privatize Iraq's oil and open the doors for American companies to sign long term contracts controlling Iraq's oil resources and infrastructure,' writes Raed Jarrar, who explains that such an arrangement runs counter to recent US legislation and is not in the interest of the Iraqi people.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3053.shtml



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Tenet-Bush Pre-9/11 "Small Talk"

Robert Parry writes, "In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of US history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack, only to have the conversation descend into meaningless small talk."

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



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Bush's Top Security Chiefs Leaving in Droves

Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term administration, nearly two years before Bush's time ends.

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

Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007

Where Does the Politicization of Justice End?

Keith Olbermann says: "It was at first a disturbing story about political servitude violating the sanctity of the offices of federal prosecutors. Then it was a story about employees in those offices being hired only if they were political adherents, something that rang of the old Soviet Politburo. But the Alberto Gonzales/US Attorney Firings scandal has now reshaped itself - like some governmental Andromeda Strain - into what looks like an attempt to deprive Democrats of the right to vote."

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



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Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran

The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.

http://snipurl.com/1judc



Cheney to seek help on Iraq, Iran

The US vice president, will be the senior-most official from Washington to visit Riyadh since King Abdullah railed against the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of Iraq.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20611


From Information Clearing House



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Chevron seen settling case on Iraq oil

Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/08/business/08chevron.php


From Information Clearing House



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Kucinich Reveals Dem Funding Bill Includes Privatization of Iraq Oil & Carte Blanche to Invade Iran

Dennis Kucinich revealed that the Democrats in Congress had made some secret concessions to the Republicans in the initial Bill to continue funding the Iraq War that was vetoed, and in a subsequent version that is currently being negotiated. They include: http://snipurl.com/1jud8


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Pentagon identifies 35,000 more troops for Iraq

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the decision was not related to the military's so-called "surge." But the replacement forces offer generals the flexibility to maintain heightened troop levels through 2007.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08466611.htm


From Information Clearing House



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"I am Only A Child"

Video

13 year old Severm Suzuki, plead for the future of her generation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17665.htm

AIPAC on Trial

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17660.htm



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When We Forget To Remember

By Sheila Samples

Surely Americans must know that a crisis without precedent is underway in this country. The first target in the Straussian neocon's war of terror was the Constitution and, by extension, the American people. We are hurtling headlong into tyranny.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17663.htm



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"I Have Lost Everything"

Source: IRIN

Asif Muhammad, a 32-year-old engineer, says he is desperately looking for help for his child who is suffering from cancer. A widower since his wife was killed a year ago in a Baghdad explosion, he is trying to survive and take care of his only child, seven-year-old daughter Maysoon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17661.htm

A few reminders: Iraq is not our country

A Few Reminders

By Charley Reese

A few reminders: Iraq is not our country. Our invasion and occupation are illegal, being in violation of both international law and our own traditions. We were lied into war. We are still being lied to. Both the Bush administration and the Democrats intend to maintain American troops in Iraq indefinitely.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17662.htm



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Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook

Video

The Guantanamo Guidebook reconstructs the regime at the US's Cuban base. For 48 hours, seven volunteers are subjected to interrogation techniques known to be used in the camp, ranging from harassment and abuse to sensory deprivation - with shocking results.

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Massiv tierquälerische Richtlinie für Masthühner

Mehr oder weniger Schutz für "Masthühner"?

Widersprüchlicher könnte die Bewertung des Beschlusses der EU-Agrarminister über eine Richtlinie für Mindestvorschriften zum Schutz von "Masthühnern" nicht sein. Der deutsche Bundesminister für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, Horst Seehofer, sprach von einem großen Erfolg für die tiergerechtere Haltung von Masthühnern. "Ich freue mich besonders über diese Einigung. Sie zeigt, dass in allen europäischen Mitgliedstaaten der große Wille besteht, beim Tierschutz voranzukommen. Dies entspricht ganz klar dem, was die Verbraucher europaweit wollen", so Seehofer. Ganz anders lautet der Kommentar des Bundesverbandes Menschen für Tierrechte: In deutschen Ställen dürften dadurch "Enge und Tierquälerei noch verstärkt werden". Anstelle von bislang rund 25 dürften künftig etwa 30 Hühner auf einem Quadratmeter gehalten werden. Der Verband wirft der Regierung vor, diese "massiv tierquälerische Richtlinie" unter deutscher Ratspräsidentschaft zum Abschluss gebracht zu haben.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15898



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Monopolrenditen ohne Medikamente

Genpatente behindern nicht nur die Entwicklung von Arzneimitteln, sondern auch von Diagnosemethoden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25233/1.html

Die Moral der US-Soldaten im irakischen Feindesland

Nach einer Pentagon-Bericht sagt mehr als die Hälfte der befragten US-Soldaten, dass irakische Zivilisten nicht mit Respekt behandelt werden müssen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25235/1.html

Liquid Coal is Not the Answer

http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/150/

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL

Should Vice President Cheney be impeached? Consider the evidence and then vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, and it will also send your personal message to Congress at the very same time.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

You can vote yes. Or you can vote no. But we cannot remain silent.

In his appearance on Meet The Press yesterday, George Tenet AGAIN confirmed that the purpose of the now infamous "slam dunk" meeting was to assess if they could SELL the war without just cause in Iraq to the American public. In his book, Tenet confesses that he was NOT being asked at the time to vouch for the quality of the intelligence. They never cared whether there was any actual support for their arguments, only whether they could get away with bum rushing the rest of us. So, what Tenet MEANT by the words "slam dunk" was they were sure they would be able to stuff their cooked intelligence down our throats.

This is incredibly damning stuff. In his book Tenet has unleashed the intelligence community equivalent of "If I Helped Them Do It". They were not having a policy debate about the strength of the case against Iraq. They were having a sales meeting of con men to plot how far they could go in cheating the American people out of our lives and the contents of our treasury. And they had already decided to go all the way. "Slam dunk" was not an intelligence assessment, it was a SALES PROJECTION of their fraudulent product.

Of course, anyone who's been honestly and fairly paying attention has known at least since the exposure of the Downing Street Minutes that we were misled into the Iraq quagmire, by an executive branch that could not be bothered with either the actual facts or a serious policy debate about them. They were determined to "fix the facts around the policy", and that's exactly what they did, as we only learned far too long after the fact. And Tenet is yet another primary percipient witness to confirm the heavy hands of the vice president in leaning on CIA analysts to deliver the intelligence he had specifically ordered.

You remember how Cheney has always argued that the president shouldn't have to produce for Congress (or anyone else) records relating to White House deliberations, because according to him that's the only way he can get frank, confidential advice. Executive privilege is their incessant mantra. So how is it that details of the "slam dunk" incident were LEAKED from a meeting attended only by those in the innermost of circles? Tenet was STUNNED that the White House should betray his confidence, especially for the sickeningly cheap purpose of trying to lay all blame on him, when he was just going along for the ride.

Apparently that's what so galled Tenet enough for him to spill the beans on his own complicity (beside an O.J. size book advance). Dick Cheney, in its typical coward's fashion, was trying in the media to hang their entire wrong-headed strategic debacle around Tenet's neck, like a medal of blundering incompetence to go with his medal of freedom. "Tenet told us it was a slam dunk," Cheney shot back on TV when challenged on their decision to attack Iraq, as the five time military deferment king again tried to duck public responsibility.

Dick Cheney has a long history of planting leaks of information and then trying to use them as supporting evidence for his own purpose. In the run up to the Iraq War he would leak stories to the New York Times which were then slavishly published verbatim. Remember how his chief of staff Scooter Libby would spoon feed them to Judith Miller. Then Cheney would get on the Sunday talk shows quoting those same stories, pointing to them as credible confirming sources. We also now know he was the mastermind behind the exposure of Valerie Plame, permanently crippling one of our best REAL intelligence assets, because he was afraid he husband would blow the cover off their phony war. And there are even strong suggestions that contacts from his office were directly involved in the forgery of the Niger documents themselves, which were at the heart of the flimsy casus belli.

As courageously drafted by Dennis Kucinich in H.Res. 333, the first and most central ground stated for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney was that he led the charge in fabricating a case for invasion of Iraq, based on phony weapons of mass destruction. Now almost as if it were timed to coincide with that initiative, former CIA head George Tenet reveals they was NO hard evidence for war, but that Cheney just kept exaggerating the threat anyway. And even now Tenet offers nothing more compelling than a Ouija board or Miss Cleo to back even his assessment up. This is without question the most momentous issue of our time, and whether you agree that Cheney should be impeached, or not, your voice is needed to speak out now, and tell Congress what they should do about it.

Tenet was neither the victim of a bad rap, nor the unwitting excuse for invasion. Instead he was a willing co-conspirator, happy enough to play along with the war fever and collect his ill-gotten medal of freedom. But the criminal kingpin of the whole sordid affair was none other than Richard B. Cheney. And that truth can no longer be hidden by even this most secretive of administrations. What will it take for Congress to impeach him and put him on trial in the Senate for highest of all high crimes, launching a war of immoral and unjustifiable aggression, that has cost more Americans their lives than died on 9/11 (and upwards of a million Iraqis), based on NOTHING but deliberate and calculated lies?

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

What it will take.. . . and all that is required . . . is your voice, and the voices of your friends, neighbors and acquaintances. VOTE now in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll and send your personal messages to Congress at the same time. In a little over a week we have had over 30,000 submissions already. We need everyone who has ever submitted an action page to cast their vote in this one. There's no reason why we can't present Congress with a million votes or more on this. We're GOING to do it. And when we do, impeachment hearings WILL become a reality on Capitol Hill.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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Take Action: We need your help to save the Endangered Forests of the globe

http://forestethics.org/article.php?list=type&type=12

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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Conservative Assault On America's Families

by Beth Shulman, TomPaine.com

Words such as "freedom" hardly mask policies that are family-unfriendly.
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Food Safety Concerns Grow as Imports to US Surge

"Our food inspection system in America is broken and collapsing further all the time," says Representative Rosa De Lauro (D-Connecticut). She and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) in February reintroduced the Safe Food Act, calling for a single food safety agency and standardized procedures to govern American food safety. More than 130 countries ship food to the United States, yet the FDA is able to inspect only 0.7 percent of all imported food products.

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



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Critic Says Levee Repairs Show Signs of Flaws

Some of the most celebrated levee repairs by the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina are already showing signs of serious flaws. Robert Bea, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, said he encountered several areas of concern during a tour in March.

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



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Infant Mortality in Iraq Soars as Young Pay the Price for War

Two wars and a decade of sanctions have led to a huge rise in the mortality rate among young children in Iraq, making statistics that were once the envy of the Arab world now comparable with those of sub-Saharan Africa. A new report shows that in the years since 1990, Iraq has seen its child mortality rate soar by 125 percent, the highest increase of any country in the world.

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

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Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for war

Figures collated by the charity show that in 1990 Iraq's mortality rate for under-fives was 50 per 1,000 live births. In 2005 it was 125.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2521681.ece


From Information Clearing House

Oil and social gains: WHY U.S. IS TARGETING IRAN

May 12 Forum : Stopping the War Against Iran
http://stopwaroniranblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-12-forum-stopping-war-against-iran.html

Oil and social gains: WHY U.S. IS TARGETING IRAN
http://stopwaroniranblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/oil-and-social-gains-why-us-is.html

http://stopwaroniranblog.blogspot.com/



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Bush war policy comes crashing down

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/04/07

It’s been a rough several weeks for President Bush and the war party. Observe some recent headlines: ‘Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy’ — The McClatchy Newspaper story pointed out, ‘Military planners have abandoned the idea that training Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0705a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The decider commands everything but English

Austin American-Statesman
by Eugene Robinson

05/07/07

Is George W. Bush even trying to make sense anymore? On Wednesday, speaking to the Associated General Contractors of America, Bush gave himself a new nickname. Responding to a question from the audience, he asked rhetorically whether ‘the Congress or the commanders’ should decide how many U.S. troops are needed in Iraq. ‘And as you know,’ he went on, ‘my position is clear — I’m the Commander Guy.’ … The Commander Guy’s rationale for sending more U.S. troops to fight and die in Iraq is as elusive as his reason for starting the war in the first place. He says his goal is victory, but he can’t explain coherently what victory would look like, much less how to get there...

http://tinyurl.com/2c39s6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Time for Iraqi self-determination

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/07/07

The Bush administration and Congress have put too much faith in governments — the U.S. as well as the Iraqi — to remedy the chaos in Iraq. To keep the pressure on the administration for eventual U.S. troop withdrawals, the Democrats have already begun to blame the Iraqi government for not meeting benchmarks for progress and are threatening to include them in legislation. Some congressional Republicans, sensing another electoral disaster in 2008, are beginning to mimic such Democratic arguments. Although the time is not yet ripe for a congressionally required schedule for troop withdrawal to override a presidential veto, the time for blaming the Iraqis and attempting to impose benchmarks will soon arrive...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1964



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The road to compassion and freedom

Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

05/07/07

For decades now, thousands of people have worked to interest others in freedom and to help them understand what freedom is and why it is important. By now, we can no longer avoid the truth: this pro-freedom movement has failed. America is nearing a tipping point, where the formal institutions and rules designed to protect human rights no longer function effectively. History makes the danger of this situation very clear...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport17.html



The ethics of land and liberty

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

05/08/07

The ethics of liberty must include the ethics of land and rent. The possession of the materials from land is sufficient for market efficiency, since land rent is a surplus not needed to put land to its best use. The ethics of land and liberty are that a person is a complete self-owner and that one may possess natural resources but not their natural rent, which belongs to humanity in equal shares. The payment of rent can be accomplished with bottom-up multilevel governance. Title holders pay the land rental to their local community, which then sends part of it to the next higher level, and so on to the global level, and then the global association distributes the natural rent in equal per-person shares back down the governing tiers. Ethics, governance, and economics are thus interrelated and can be unified in one system...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002750.html



America: The victim is not the guilty one

Liberty For All
by George Squyres

Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a foreign policy when our country was but a newbie, that was quite different from what we have today. His outlook was ‘Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.’ The latter part may seem isolationist, but the first part proclaims otherwise... (written 02/03; posted 05/04/07)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=642


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Weitere Entwicklung: Gegen-Armut-2007

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EMERGENCY ACTION: Don't Let The House Dismiss The FL-24 Congressional Election Challenge

Everyone has heard about the dramatically suspicious results in the Jennings congressional race in FL-13, but did you know that there were massive parallel shenanigans going on in FL-24 as well? And yet we got a tip late today that tomorrow the House Administration committee is secretly, and without public notice, preparing to dismiss their own inquiry into this other still NOT conceded race run by Clint Curtis, the famous voting software rigging whistle blower.

Since the election, dedicated volunteers have spent massive hours painstakingly collecting affidavits from citizens block by block in the district that constitute direct proof that the results in FL-24 are also not only beyond credulity, they are patently fraudulent. There is a still LIVE challenge to this election the Florida state courts, JUST AS in the Jennings case. So why is the House administration even considering refusal to hear this evidence, where it may even constitute evidence of a broader statewide conspiracy, and give additional weight to the Jennings FL-13 challenge as well?

Because of the shortness of time this will be primarily a PHONE action. Please locate the member of the House Administration committee closest to you from the list below and call them first thing in the morning. Distance being equal you may find the Democrat more receptive. Tell them that even if you are not in their particular district, they are the closest House member to represent you on this committee. And ask them to give the evidence in the FL-24 ALSO the fair and just congressional hearing it deserves.

You can call toll free at 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803 and ask for your choice of House member below, in particular the CHIEF OF STAFF listed, or you can use their direct dial phone/fax numbers.

MORE EVIDENTIARY INFORMATION IS BELOW THIS COMMITTEE MEMEBER LISTING SECTION

CA-3 Dan Lungren (R) ph: (202) 225-5716, fax: (202) 226-1298 Chief of Staff: Victor Arnold-Bik email: victor.arnold-bik.house.gov

CA-16 Zoe Lofgren (D) ph: (202) 225-3072, fax: (202) 225-3336 Chief of Staff: Stacey Leavandosky email: stacey.leavandosky.house.gov

CA-22 Kevin McCarthy (R) ph: (202) 225-2915, fax: (202) 225-2908 Chief of Staff: James Min email: james.min.house.gov

CA-53 Susan A. Davis (D) ph: (202) 225-2040, fax: (202) 225-2948 Chief of Staff: Lisa Sherman email: lisa.sherman.house.gov

MA-8 Michael Capuano (D) ph: (202) 225-5111, fax: (202) 225-9322 Chief of Staff: Robert Primus email: robert.primus.house.gov

MI-3 Vernon Ehlers (R), Ranking Member ph: (202) 225-3831, fax: (202) 225-5144 Chief of Staff: Bill McBride email: bill.mcbride.house.gov

PA-1 Robert A. Brady (D), Chair ph: (202) 225-4731, fax: (202) 225-0088 Chief of Staff: Stan White email: stan.white.house.gov

TX-20 Charles A. Gonzalez (D) ph: (202) 225-3236, fax: (202) 225-1915 Chief of Staff: Kevin Kimble email: kevin.kimble.house.gov

THE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE'S POSSIBLE BOGUS REASONS FOR DISMISSING THE CLINT CURTIS CONTEST (talking points if you get challenged on the phone):

* [Not enough evidence.] What we did not have is mainstream media coverage. What we do have is hard evidence that there is a discrepancy between the official count and the affidavits that were gathered from actual voters.
* [Sworn affidavits not good enough.] In the past, it was exit polls that were considered not good enough because they did not connect the vote with the voter. Our system does exactly that. It is like having a paper ballots to count except even better. It is signed. Affidavits and eye witness testimony are the corner stone of our legal system.
* [Your signature not good enough.] If the committee is not willing to accept what every court in the country requires as evidence, what level of proof are you willing to accept?
* [Source code unknown.] If the committee requires the errors in the code to be found, we must be allowed access to the code and the machines. We are aware of hundreds of experts willing to independently examine and blueprint those proprietary systems should that opportunity become available.

DETAILED BASIS OF THE CONTEST:

The Congressional Contest filed by Clint Curtis is a Contest where the results of the election can be proven. Unlike Christine Jennings, whose loss was caused by 18,000 missing votes that unfortunately can never be found, Clint Curtis for Congress Campaign has found and tabulated data from actual voters that conclusively proves that Mr Curtis received more votes than the official results recorded.

The reason Mr Curtis did not concede is that although there was an apparent 16% loss, this loss did not reflect the Zogby Poll taken just weeks before the election that showed us within 2% points nor by the polling conducted by the online vote verification tool www.VoteNow2006.net. The Zogby Poll also revealed that Curtis was leading among likely voters who describe themselves as Independents by a full 11 points. The opponents lead was just 45% to 43%, with one in ten (10%) undecided.

The so called wide margin of 16 points in Mr Curtis' race is the exact reason it possible to find where the count was not accurate. If the results were closer like a 51/49 split or 369 votes as in the Jennings race, it would have been nearly impossible to determine whether or not the official results were accurate. Every voter would have to be contacted to find the few votes that may not have been recorded accurately.

On virtually every block walked by volunteers, the results have shown that more votes were cast for Clint Curtis than officially recorded. Walking for Democracy, the volunteers gathered sworn affidavits signed by the voters in District 24 as to how they voted for Governor, Congress and Amendment Three. The Governor's race and Amendment Three were control questions. The results from that data confirm the official results, while the data in this Congressional race is shown to be inaccurate.

For example in Precinct 66 in Seminole County (highlighted below), official results showed that Mr Curtis received 57% of the Democratic and Independent vote. According to the affidavits gathered however, he received over 80% of that vote. In each of the precincts that have been walked, he has received from 6%- 22% more Democratic and Independent votes than the official results.

This simple method of determining how voters actually cast their ballot, can be independently verified. Congress can mandate a non-partisan group of volunteers or pay personnel to gather affidavits from District 24 voters. The cost is minimal and results easily obtainable. Congress owes it to the American people to determine once and for all whether or not the electronic voting machines counted accurately. This is not about partisan politics. This is about our Democracy.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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