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Harold Meyerson writes, "Of all the absurdities attending our unending war in Iraq, the greatest is this: We are fighting to defend that which is not there."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson

Furious that Congressional Democratic leaders did not fight harder to pass a supplemental spending bill with a timeline to end the war in Iraq and tougher benchmarks, liberal online activists have ripped party leaders and threatened to halt contributions to Democratic lawmakers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=supplemental+spending+bill

As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation

Barbara Ehrenreich writes: "Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. According to a just-reported study by Carola Frydman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Raven E. Saks at the Federal Reserve, 30 to 40 years ago, the CEOs of major companies earned 80 percent more, on average, than the third-highest-paid executives. By the early part of the twenty-first century, however, the gap between the CEO and the third-in-command had ballooned up to 260 percent."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Ehrenreich

Robert Parry writes, "It's an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) fordert eine Regulierung von Hedge-Fonds und Private-Equity-Gesellschaften. Von ihnen gehe unmittelbare Gefahr für Arbeitsplätze aus, sagte Sommer am 30. Mai in Berlin. Bei den Private-Equity-Firmen will der DGB vor allem das "Ausschlachten" von Firmen verhindern. Hiervon sei rund jedes vierte Unternehmen betroffen, in dem solche Gesellschaften engagiert seien. Nötig seien daher etwa gesetzliche Beschränkungen bei der Kreditfinanzierung von Unternehmenskäufen, bei kreditfinanzierten Sonderausschüttungen sowie Einschränkungen bei steuerlichen Verlustrechnungen. Denkbar sei auch, die Stimmrechte an die Haltedauer der Aktien zu knüpfen, um Unternehmen vor aggressiven Investorenstrategien zu schützen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16034



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HLV INFO 55/AT

30-05-2007

Obwohl BBC einen Rückzieher gemacht hat und das Panoramaprogramm der Panikmache und Fehlinformation bezichtigt, hat die Sendung (eine Aufzeichnung liegt mir vor) seine fantastische Wirkung nicht verfehlt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4120000/newsid_4124500/4124514.stm?bw=b&mp=m

In Folge der Sendung schnellten in London die IT-Aufträge schnurlose Systeme zu deinstallieren und dafür Kabelgebundene Systeme zu installieren auf 40% aller Aufträge in die Höhe. Das gab es noch nie.

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003268.html

Pers. Bemerkung: Dieses konsequente Verhalten kann ein Indiz dafür sein, dass schon viele Londoner Symptome des Mikrowellensyndroms (Hochfrequenzkranheit, Mikrowellenneurose) haben.


Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Phys. Volker Schorpp
Alte Rathausstr.9
D-76467 Bietigheim
Tel.0049-7245-86164
PULS-SCHLAG e.V. Karlsruhe
http://www.puls-schlag.org


----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:59 PM
Subject: Panorama Programme's Impact on Wireless Industry

Hi, Even though the BBC is retracting and accusing the Panorama programme of scaremongering and misinformation, the impact of the programme has been phantastic! Look a this article on the IT contractor website. It actually says that last week, following the programme, 40% of all service calls were to take wireless out and cable systems up! This has never happened before!

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003268.html

Andrea



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Schorpp
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HLV INFO 55/AT

30-05-2007

Volker Hartenstein, MdL a.D. 28-05-07


Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. König,

nach einer vierteljährlichen Wartezeit auf eine Antwort von Ihnen erlaube ich mir, Sie zu erinnern. Da meine Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Diskussion um Schädigungsmechanismen von Hochfrequenzstrahlung und um die Festlegung von Grenzwerten (nur thermische oder auch athermische Wirkung von Hochfrequenzstrahlung) von Interesse sind, bitte ich zum zweiten Mal um "baldige" Antwort.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt


Von: Lucia und Hans Schmidt
Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 19:14
An: BfS (ePost@bfs.de)
Betreff: Fragen im Zusammenhang mit dem Bericht von Dr. Ruzicka zur Überlagerung von EMF durch Rauschfelder

Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. König,

im Anhang finden Sie einen Bericht von Dr. Ruzicka aus dem Bereich Elektrobiologie, den ich Ihnen nicht vorenthalten möchte. Dr. Ruzicka frägt nach der biologischen Relevanz von Störfeldern, wenn Zellen oder im Tierexperiment ohne diese Störfelder durch EMF (von ELF über 50/60 Hz bis zu Hochfrequenzfeldern) bestrahlt werden und Schädigungen zeigen. Er führt eine große Anzahl von Studien mit Tier- und Zellexperimenten an, die belegen, dass diese EMF zu Zellschädigungen und Gedächtnisstörungen bei Ratten verursachen. Diese Effekte konnten bei fast allen betrachteten Studien durch ein Störfeld ("Rauschen") rückgängig gemacht werden.

In diesem Zusammenhang bitte ich um Beantwortung folgender Fragen:

1) Sind dem BfS die angeführten Studien bekannt?

2) Wie beurteilt das BfS die Versuchsanordnung dieser Studien, d.h. den Befund, dass diese EMF zu einer Schädigung von Zellen und Gedächtnisleistung bei Tieren führen?

3) Wie beurteilt das BfS die weitere Versuchsanordnung, dass diese Schädigungen durch elektromagnetische "Rausch"-felder rückgängig gemacht werden konnten?

4) Sieht das BfS Handlungsbedarf für Revision der Grenzwerte im Bereich EMF (Nieder- und Hochfrequenz) bei diesen Befunden, die doch recht eindeutig auf Zellschädigungen und Störung der Gedächtnisleistung bei Ratten hinweisen?

Für eine baldige Antwort bedanke ich mich im Voraus und verbleibe

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt
Gebhardtstr. 2d
D-82515 Wolfratshausen



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Informant: Corey

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread283547/pg1


Informant: Corey

Ein aktueller Artikel vom K-Tipp, zum Thema „WLAN: Vorsicht im Klassenzimmer“ finden Sie am Anfang der Homepage-Seite „Aktuelles/Wichtiges“, hier anklicken: http://www.mobilfunk-erlenbach.ch/aktuelles.html
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/downloads/ktippnr.1023.mai2007.pdf


Freundliche Grüße

i. V. http://www.mobilfunk-erlenbach.ch



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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=14894


Informant: Corey

Bush is expected to nominate Robert Zoellick - a former government official with close links to corporate America - to take over as head of the controversy-stricken World Bank. He is currently the head of investment bank Goldman Sachs and previously served on the board of Enron, the world's largest oil company.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007N.shtml



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In new court filings, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has finally resolved one of the most disputed issues at the core of the long-running CIA leak controversy: Valerie Plame Wilson, he asserts, was a "covert" CIA officer. Fitzgerald cites Wilson's covert status as part of his argument, advanced in two strongly worded memos filed in recent days, that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, should be sentenced for up to three years in prison.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007M.shtml



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A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007L.shtml



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

Kelpie Wilson writes, "Once again, in what has become an annual rite, Japan, Iceland and Norway will try, at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission this week, to overturn the international ban on hunting whales, while a global coalition of whale lovers urges governments to stand firm against the move."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007K.shtml



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Jason Leopold interviews former US attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, one of eight US attorneys fired in December for reasons that appear to have been motivated by partisan politics. Iglesias says he believes a "smoking gun" exists that will lead directly to Karl Rove and blow the scandal wide open.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007J.shtml



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Poverty Scavengers

by Danny Glover and Nicole Lee, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/sd20pgF1PRYx/

Rigging The Marketplace Of Ideas

by Rick Perlstein, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/s720pgF1PRY3/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rick+Perlstein

A Deeping Gate woman will discover her destiny on 12 July, after two years of anxiety and worry.

The High Court will decide that day whether she can stay in her home of eight years, or whether she will be forced to sell up and move away from her friends and the village life she loves.

Because of a rare medical complaint, Pam Harris needs to spend seventeen hours hooked up to a machine every other day, just to stay alive.

If an 80-foot mobile phone mast is built near her home, that machinery will stop working and she could die. But that is exactly what mobile phone giant 3G wants to do.

Peterborough City Council rejected the application to build the mast at Mumby’s Yard on Suttons Lane, but that was overturned by Planning Inspectors. Now it is all down to the High Court.

Ludicrously, British law says that Pam’s medical condition can not be used in evidence. Solicitors will therefore argue that there were flaws in the Planning Inspectors’ methods.

Generous neighbours in Deeping Gate have raised an incredible £16,000 to help Pam fight her battle and keep the eyesore from being built.

They are now inviting anyone with an interest to attend one final public meeting to highlight her plight.

The meeting will be in Northborough Village Hall at 8pm on Wednesday, 13 June and they hope to have a guest speaker.

Deeping Mast Action Group coordinator Tony Wheatcroft said: “We are nearly there and support is valued more than ever!

“People’s generosity has already raised more than £16,000 and has given our campaign momentum and direction.

“Now we’re on the finishing straight.”

Pam Harris was first diagnosed with electromagnetic sensitivity in 1983 and is believed to be one of just 17 sufferers in the country.

She is also allergic to wheat and gluten products. If she briefly passes a phone mast in her car, her blood pressure levels alter dramatically and her heart skips a beat.

She and husband Johnny have had to spend thousands of pounds converting their house to accommodate the specialist equipment.

Tony Wheatcroft is available on 01778 344916 or 07710 090056.

May 2007 - Peterborough UK Community Website

http://www.peterborough.net/news/articles/phonemast100.asp

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Pam's hopes for mast hearing
http://www.stamfordtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2921561



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Dear Buffalo Friends,

We have great news to report: YOU STOPPED THE PLANNED SLAUGHTER OF THE BUFFALO!!!!

This afternoon, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and Yellowstone National Park held a joint press conference in Helena, Montana, to announce that they WILL NOT SLAUGHTER any wild buffalo that remain in Montana come Monday! All those buffalo babies, their moms, and their families will live on!

This is a major victory for wild buffalo and their advocates worldwide! THANK YOU!

While the larger issue is far from being resolved, we should all take a deep breath and give thanks for this incredible news that we all helped make happen. The power, prayers, energy, spirit, love, and ACTION of all the people who care about the buffalo made this happen!

Here are the buffalo you helped save: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/photos/bisonphotos0607maycalves.html

The word from Montana and Yellowstone is this: any wild buffalo found in Montana come Monday would be transported (captured and hauled in trailers) into Yellowstone National Park. They would be taken north, to Stephens Creek, and let go. This transport could be very hard on the buffalo, especially the small calves, so we are hopeful that it will not have to occur at all.

The long-term solution for wild buffalo is year-round HABITAT! Yesterday approximately 200 buffalo were forcefully pushed out of Montana (off of our National Forest lands), back into Yellowstone National Park. The agents used horsemen and a helicopter to conduct this operation. Today, the same thing happened, with about 50 buffalo (moms, babies, families) being pushed off of Horse Butte, deep into Yellowstone. Sadly, the buffalo were pushed extremely hard - especially by the helicopter - and they were shot with orange paint balls by the agents on horseback. It almost looked like a re-enactment from the shameful buffalo hunts of the 1800s. You can see footage from yesterday at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.

During today's operation, a baby buffalo collapsed from exhaustion and possible injury. BFC patrols stayed with this little calf and its mom until they were able to be strong enough to resume their trek to catch up with their family members who had been chased out of Montana. They made it!

This great victory is not without its shadow, as wild buffalo should be allowed to roam freely in Montana, especially on our public lands. We will keep fighting for the buffalo until they are wild and free. But we will celebrate that these buffalo will not be sent to slaughter and that is because you made it happen! Thank you all so much! You flooded them with calls, emails, faxes and IT WORKED! The governor and Yellowstone made the right decision.

ACTION NEEDED: Please take the time to call and say THANK YOU to Governor Brian Schweitzer and Yellowstone Superintendent Suzanne Lewis for choosing to let these buffalo live. Encourage them to work to acquire year-round habitat for wild buffalo in Montana!

* Governor Brian Schweitzer: 406-444-3111
* Yellowstone Superintendent Suzanne Lewis: 307-344-2002

From the bottom of our hearts and for all the wild buffalo ~ THANK YOU!!

LET THE BUFFALO ROAM! ~Buffalo Field Campaign


Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

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SAVE THE HERD ~ SPREAD THE WORD!! Please pass this alert on to everyone you know! Thank you!!

Montana intends to capture and slaughter wild buffalo, starting this week. Please take a moment to read this alert and contact the three decision-makers listed below, demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter approximately 300 wild buffalo, including little calves, their moms, and families.

The Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) has set up a bison trap near the West Yellowstone airport, on state land and they intend to begin capturing approximately 300 wild buffalo - including tiny newborn babies and their whole families - starting Thursday.

Click here to see photos of the beautiful buffalo babies and their families that are slated for execution: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/photos/bisonphotos0607maycalves.html

At an "emergency" Board of Livestock meeting in the Governor's office Tuesday, the decision was made by Montana's acting state veterinarian Jeanne Rankin: the agents will capture and ship all the buffalo to slaughter without testing for brucellosis exposure. Little buffalo calves between one month to a week old will be captured, separated from their moms, and join their family members at the slaughterhouse.

Yellowstone Superintendent Suzanne Lewis was asked at the meeting Tuesday if capturing and transporting the buffalo deeper into Yellowstone would be feasible. While (ironically) the DOL said it is feasible, Suzanne Lewis shot down this option. Apparently Suzanne Lewis would rather forfeit the lives of America's last wild buffalo. She said, "it has never been a policy of the Interagency Bison Management Plan to haul bison into the Park." In other words, she's attempting to wash her hands of this atrocity, handing the fate of these buffalo over to Montana, who intend to haul them all to slaughter.

These buffalo are being charged with the "crime" of trying to live wild and free; in other words, they didn't "stick in the Park" (as if they were velcro) and they are not "responding to hazing" (as if they should behave as cattle). The decision to trap and slaughter comes hot on the heels of brucellosis being discovered in a Montana cattle herd, far to the north and east of Yellowstone, far from any migration route of wild buffalo, far from Yellowstone National Park. There are no cattle currently in the West Yellowstone area and the majority of the bison to be captured and slaughtered pose NO risk of bacteria transmission. Because the bacteria can only be transmitted through contaminated reproductive materials, bison bulls, yearlings, non-pregnant females, calves, and mothers with calves CANNOT transmit the bacteria. Bison are not to blame. Wild bison have never transmitted the livestock disease brucellosis to cattle, and this incident is not their fault either. But the cattle industry wants to blame someone, and as always, they set their sights on wildlife.

These agencies are correctly concerned about the black eye they will receive for committing this act against the nation's last wild buffalo, and with your help, they will get it.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO: PLEASE CONTACT these three decision-makers TODAY demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter the buffalo who are trying to live wild and free! Contact each by phone, fax, and email and let's not let them forget that the world is watching!

* MONTANA GOVERNOR BRIAN SCHWEITZER: Demand that Schweitzer keep his campaign promise to provide tolerance for bison in Montana.
(406) 444-3111 (phone)
(406) 444-5529 (fax) governor@mt.gov (email)

* MONTANA ACTING STATE VET JEANNE RANKIN: Urge her to withdraw her decision to slaughter Yellowstone bison calves and family groups. Remind her you are boycotting beef and your friends are joining you!
(406) 444-1895 (phone)
(800) 523-3162 (phone)
(406) 444-1929 (fax) jrankin@mt.gov (email)

* YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK SUPERINTENDENT SUZANNE LEWIS: Ask her if it's really worth the lives of 300 wild buffalo, including newborn calves, to have Montana ship them to slaughter rather than deeper into the Park.
(307) 344-2002 (phone)
(307) 344-2005 (fax) suzanne_lewis@nps.gov OR yell_superintendent@nps.gov (email) It's crucial that we flood these offices today! Capture could begin as soon as Thursday, with transport to slaughter beginning Friday. Read BFC's press release from Tuesday at: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/052907.html


Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

BOYCOTT BEEF! It's what's killing wild buffalo.

Speak Out! Contact politicians and involved agencies today: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

Write a Letter to the Editor of key newspapers: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/lte.html

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State to capture, kill 300 bison http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2007/05/30/news/10bison.txt http://buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/052907.html

Press Release- 5/29/07

Department of Livestock to Capture and Slaughter Yellowstone Bison

Exclusive BFC Video & Photos Available Upon Request

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Contact: Dan Brister 406-646-0070

WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA. Montana Department of Livestock agents are currently erecting a bison trap near the West Yellowstone Airport, located just outside the western boundary of Yellowstone National Park. According to statements made by the agents and the Montana governor's office, the state plans to capture and slaughter any bison in Montana starting as soon as tomorrow.

According to Bill Queen of the Hebgen Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest, Forest Service lands and airport lands near the trap site will be closed to the public. However, members of the media and the public will be allowed to view operations from a nearby hillside.

There are approximately 250 bison grazing on National Forest lands in the area near the Madison River and Hebgen Reservoir. While the purported reason for the bison slaughter is to protect Montana's livestock industry from the European livestock disease brucellosis, at no time of the year do cattle occupy these public lands. There has never been a documented brucellosis transmission from wild bison to livestock.

"Governor Schweitzer campaigned on promises of providing greater tolerance for bison in Montana," said Dan Brister of the wild bison advocacy group Buffalo Field Campaign, "yet he bends to the irrational will of the Stockgrowers whenever they demand more dead bison. Since Governor Schweitzer has been in office, 1,177 Yellowstone bison have been killed."

Brucellosis has been receiving great attention in the state since last week when seven members of a Bridger, MT cattle herd tested positive for antibodies to the disease. Because Yellowstone bison never came anywhere near these cattle, it is certain that they are not the source of infection and likely that cattle are responsible for the transmission.

Wild bison are native to Montana yet ecologically extinct everywhere outside of Yellowstone National Park. Bison management currently falls under authority of the Montana Department of Livestock, an agency which manages them as a nuisance animal. Wild bison are never allowed in the state without being subject to harassment, slaughter, or shooting.

Buffalo Field Campaign calls on the state to provide year-round habitat for wild bison and allow bison to restore a viable population on public lands in Montana.

American Bison once spanned the continent, numbering between 30 and 50 million. The Yellowstone bison are America's only continuously wild, genetically unique herd, numbering fewer than 4,000 animals, less than .01 percent of their former population.

1,912 bison have been killed since 2000 under the Interagency Bison Management Plan. Last winter Federal and State agencies killed or authorized the killing of more than 1,010 bison. Since September of 2006 two bison have been captured and sent to slaughter by Montana Department of Livestock agents and hunters killed 58.

Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is the only group working in the field, every day, to stop the slaughter of the wild Yellowstone buffalo. Volunteers defend the buffalo and their native habitat and advocate for their lasting protection.

For more information, video clips and photos visit: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

View Slideshow of the Yellowstone Bison Sentenced to Slaughter http://buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/photos/bisonphotos0607maycalves.html


Informant: binstock

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WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Dear Buffalo Friends,

Your calls, emails and faxes to decision-makers are making a difference! The buffalo are not going to be killed tomorrow. The agencies are responding to you and have made the decision to give the buffalo a reprieve until Monday.

Now is the time to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!

The decision buys the buffalo a little time, so we need to keep the pressure on and let everyone we know know what is happening and encourage them to take action for the buffalo. It is making a difference. There is still time to save these buffalo from Montana's death sentence.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

* Share this link with your friends, colleagues, web sites, email lists, any and everyone you can think of: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/springslaughter.html. This page contains the BFC Emergency Alert with decision-maker contacts, a beautiful photo gallery of the baby buffalo and their families who are in danger now, recent video footage of the buffalo moms and babies, and a BFC press release.

* The Great Falls Tribune is currently holding an online poll in which they ask, "Do you agree with the decision to slaughter 300 bison and their calves?" Please cast your vote today! http://www.greatfallstribune.com

We will have more information to share in tomorrow's Update from the Field http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/update0607/053107.html . Thank you for being a friend to the last wild buffalo. Stay strong and KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!

Roam Free,

Buffalo Field Campaign
Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org



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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0530/p02s01-wogi.html


Informant: binstock

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Gary M. Galles

05/29/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid triggered a flurry of partisan attacks and counterattacks with his statement that ‘this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.’ Perhaps most striking about his assertion that we ought to abandon rather than escalate a war that cannot be won is how inconsistently it is applied. There are a host of government sponsored domestic ‘wars’ to which that same argument applies, yet they get escalated rather than ended...

http://www.mises.org/story/2561


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Anthony Wile

05/29/07

Western elites are giving everything they have to the task of whipping up war hysteria in the United States and abroad. As presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) (and the 9-11 report itself) has pointed out, the violent foreign policy that America has pursued, especially as regards the Middle East, is yielding bitter fruit. The enemies the United States has assiduously cultivated over the last half century and more will haunt the country — and probably the West itself — for years to come. Of course if the leadership in the United States changes drastically, then the enmity that the West has earned will probably diminish. This could well happen as the Internet reveals more and more about how the elite’s most vicious racket actually operates...

http://tinyurl.com/3bxe8u



War is a racket

Liberty For All
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3241


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Lawmakers Have As Much As $196 Million Invested In "Defense" Companies

By The Associated Press

Members of the U.S.Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19672.htm

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War is a racket
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/624.html
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/635.html



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WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan

05/30/07

So the questions come. Where is the Congress, which alone has the power to take us to war? Why are the Democratic candidates parroting the ‘all-options-are-on-the-table!’ mantra, when as ex-Sen. Mike Gravel noted in the first Democratic debate, this means George W. Bush is authorized to attack Iran. Why does Congress not enact the resolution Nancy Pelosi pulled down, which declares that nothing in present law authorizes President Bush to launch a pre-emptive strike or preventive war on Iran — and before launching any such attack, he must get prior approval from both houses of Congress?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55922


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pre-emptive+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventive+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decider
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan

Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

05/29/07

There is hardly any part of our lives that isn’t touched by government lies. In fact, our very liberty has been taken through lie after lie. And the vote has meant absolutely nothing in stopping the advance of government tyranny over the people of this country. If it isn’t the federal government removing or diminishing rights, it is the State governments...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=681


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coercion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ed+Lewis

Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

05/29/07

Last week’s column was aimed at Republicans; this week, Democrats. These are not the expected topics for a libertarian/market-anarchist site. As I pointed out last week, making progress towards a more free and compassionate world will require that many more people begin to consider and to reject the evils of coercion. We need more than just a small group to support elimination of the use of force and violence to run society. We’ve had a small group and it hasn’t been enough. What we need, clearly, is a large group of people who overtly support both love and freedom, and who understand that love and freedom require each other. If we want to stop not only the current war but the entire, ongoing push for endless war and other aggression, then we need love and freedom to go mainstream. In short, we need outreach. You can help by forwarding this column to your Democrat friends (and by sending last week’s column to your Republican friends)...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport20.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Republicans can save America
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3755152/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glen+Allport

By Richard Bean

A new phone mast erected at the heart of a community has stunned local residents.

Councillors have been besieged by complaints over the height, design and location of the O2 structure in Winstanley.

Coun Rona Winkworth, who lives near the mast, says scores of neighbours have complained.

She is demanding that Metro director of development Martin Kimber comes to view the site on Tan House Drive, behind The Poacher pub, so he can grasp the impact of the mast.

The mast has been put up next to shops and between two primary schools, St Aidan's and Winstanley County Primary.

Coun Winkworth believes there will be even more furore when other residents, who have not yet recognised it as a phone mast, realise what it is. Many are not aware as it looks very different to older masts.

She said: "I don't think the scale of this thing, by our village green, was properly represented on maps that went before the committee.

"I think it looks absolutely dreadful for Winstanley."

Coun Winstanley said residents were concerned about the possible effects to children at the schools.

Community activist Con Reardon, who lives in nearby Chiltern Drive, said the Government has started a three-year study into possible health effects from masts, and claims O2 should have been banned from erecting this one until that had been concluded.

He said: "How many more mobile phone masts are going to be located in and around Winstanley, which is already the most densely populated area of Wigan?

"This one has been sited right alongside our village green, our shopping centre, between our two schools, and right in the middle of hundreds of houses, who will be under the signal beaming in and out of these masts.

"Who knows what effect these signals have on our health?"

An 02 spokesman said that health concerns remained paramount and added: "All our base stations comply with international guidelines, typically by a factor of 100 times or more where the public have access.

Exposure from mobile handsets is higher, but well below international guidelines and with a significant safety margin.

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/science.html

"We are reassured by all available current research and international bodies, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), are clear that there is no convincing evidence that mobile technology poses a risk to health.

Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/ and
"Competing interests, conflicts of interest: Who's funding WHO?"under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3347390/

"We also support current research programmes with data and funding."
He added that 02 also draws on strict codes of practice and expert advice to formulate policy and to guidelines.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.wiganonline.co.uk/wigan-news?articleid=2913858

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The monster mast

It was a mast,
It was a monster mast,
It was a mast,
They upped it really fast
It was a mast,
It was a monster mast,
It gave a blast
And health concerns came last.

It was a mast
It was a monster mast,
It was a mast,
The harm it caused was vast
It was a mast
It was a monster mast
It was a mast
But this is not the past...

Gary



The monster mast

We don't need no radiation
We don't get no planning control
No microwaves across the classroom
Government leave our kids alone

Hey Government, leave our kids alone

All in all you know we'll fight the masts 'til they fall
All in all you know we want no Wi-fi at all

Sarah



Here another Pink Floyd themed one

You'd better make you face up in your favourite wire net
with your elcotrosmog proof jacket and your tin foil hat.
With a knowledge of the truth and the dangers set
They might laugh at your claims but they'll find out yet.
When they're diagnosed with cancer they'll remember you.
Trying to save them from this menace when you knew the truth
they'd better run...
they'd better run like hell...


Simon


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Zweifelhaftes Heilrezept. Ein verbindlicher Mindestlohn ist mittlerweile vom Tisch - ein Kombilohn soll darüber hinweg trösten. Artikel von Berthold Paetz in Freitag vom 25.5.07 http://www.freitag.de/2007/21/07210502.php


Lohndumping durch Leiharbeit. Die Branche boomt und verzeichnet Zuwächse – auch auf Kosten des Staatssäckels

„»Gleicher Lohn für gleiche Arbeit« hieß 2003 das Motto der rot-grünen Bundesregierung und der Gewerkschaften. Durch Tarifverträge sollten Leiharbeiter davor geschützt werden, weniger zu verdienen als die Stammbeschäftigten…“ Artikel von Haidy Damm im ND vom 25.05.07 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=110182&IDC=42


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Mai 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lohndumping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mindestlohn

»Viele steigern sich in ein Durchhaltesyndrom«

Leistungsdruck und Konkurrenzkämpfe am Arbeitsplatz führen immer häufiger zu Depressionen. Ein Gespräch von Jan Eisner in junge Welt vom 29.05.2007 mit Wolfgang Hien, Lehrbeauftragter der Universität Bremen für Public Health und Autor der Zeitschrift Gute Arbeit. http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/05-29/038.php


Arbeitsunfälle bald neu versichert

„Ministerium will Leistungen bei Berufskrankheiten verändern. Gewerkschaften kritisieren, dass viele Betroffene weniger Geld erhalten sollen. Außerdem droht eine Verjährungsfrist von zehn Jahren. Den Arbeitgebern geht die Reform nicht weit genug…“ Artikel von Lars Klaassen in der taz vom 30.5.2007 http://taz.de/dx/2007/05/30/a0055.1/text

Siehe dazu auch:

DGB zur Reform der Unfallversicherung: Prävention statt Leistungskürzung

„Zur Kritik der BDA an der Reform der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung erklärte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach am Dienstag: "Die Reform der Unfallversicherung darf kein Kürzungsgesetz werden. Die von der BDA beklagte angebliche Überversorgung ist pure Stimmungsmache, um weitere Entlastungen für Arbeitgeber zu erreichen und die Risiken von Arbeits- oder Wegeunfällen auf die Beschäftigten abzuwälzen. Es sind vielmehr die Arbeitgeber aufgefordert, die betriebliche Prävention auszubauen, um Arbeitsunfälle und arbeitsbedingte Erkrankungen zu vermeiden…“ DGB-Pressemitteilung vom 29.05.2007 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=2991


Gesundheit trotz(t) Arbeit > Arbeit macht krank - arbeitsbedingte Erkrankungen

Japaner arbeiten sich immer öfter zu Tode. Im vergangenen Jahr haben sich in Japan erneut mehr Arbeitnehmer zu Tode geschuftet als im Jahr zuvor.

„Der Tod durch Überarbeitung hat in Japan einen Namen: Karoshi. Zwischen März 2006 und März 2007 sind auf dem Inselreich 355 Berufstätige durch Überarbeitung schwer erkrankt oder gestorben. Das sind 7,6 Prozent mehr als in der Vorjahresperiode, wie das japanische Gesundheitsministerium mitteilt…“ Artikel von Claude Weill vom 17.5.07 bei 20minuten.ch http://www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/14845942


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Mai 2007

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Noch ’ne Schippe drauf. Druck durch »Freiheit«: Neue Managementmethoden erhöhen gesundheitliche Belastungen für Beschäftigte

Artikel von Marcus Schwarzbach in junge Welt vom 16.06.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/06-16/029.php

Aus dem Text: „… Ein großer Teil der deutschen Unternehmen führt seine Beschäftigten über Zielvorgaben oder -vereinbarungen. Der Vorgesetzte gibt die Ziele vor, indem wiederum Anforderungen der höheren Ebenen nach unten »heruntergebrochen« werden. In der Folge arbeiten Beschäftigte unter ständigem Zeitdruck. Zentrales Erfolgskriterium sind oft wirtschaftliche Kennzahlen. Es könne zwar theoretisch zu mehr Zufriedenheit führen, wenn das Management den Beschäftigten bei der Umsetzung freie Hand läßt, betonen die Wissenschaftler. Doch in der Praxis stand in den untersuchten Betrieben nicht genug Personal und Zeit zur Verfügung, um die vorgegebenen Ziele zu erreichen…“


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Juni 2009

Finanzmarktkapitalismus: Gewerkschaften und Sozialdemokratie im schrecklichen Dilemma gefangen - oder auch eine Aufforderung an Europa das Sozialmodell im Kontext von Corporate Governance neu und umfassender zu begreifen

„Ein paar Gedanken angeregt durch einen kleinen Aufsatz von John W. Cioffi und Martin Höpner über "Das Parteipolitische Paradox des Finanzmarktkapitalismus" (in : PVS - Politische Vierteljahresschrift - ,September 2006, Heft 3,S.419 ff.) oder auch ein kleiner Überblick über die aktuelle Literatur (siehe den Schluß) zum Finanzmarktkapitalismus - einer aktuellen "Variation" des Kapitalismus mit Präferenzen im angelsächsischen Raum…“ Artikel von Volker Bahl http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/finanz/bahl.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Mai 2007

US Army Captain Wendy Bernard, in the middle of a one-year deployment in Iraq, came home for two weeks' leave in the summer of 2004 to find that her year-old daughter, Clark, wouldn't speak to her after six months of separation. Extended deployments and abbreviated family leaves are among the difficulties probed by a May 11 Congressional report by the Joint Economic Committee concerning the difficulties of deployed mothers - who typically are young parents with lower incomes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052907WB.shtml

"In an attempt to rush a deal through, the US Senate has begun to debate the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunities and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - the so-called comprehensive immigration reform. This is another clear example of how rhetoric, labels and partisanship are getting in the way of common sense. I guess in today's American politics, common sense is not all that common," says Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

According to Newsweek, President Bush's role "has remained shadowy throughout the controversy over the eavesdropping program. But there are strong suggestions that he was an active presence. On the night after [former AG John] Ashcroft's operation, as Ashcroft lay groggy in his bed, his wife, Janet, took a phone call. It was Andy Card, asking if he could come over with [Alberto] Gonzales [now attorney general] to speak to Ashcroft. Mrs. Ashcroft said no, her husband was too sick for visitors. The phone rang again, and this time Mrs. Ashcroft acquiesced to a visit from the White House officials. Who was the second caller - one with enough power to persuade Mrs. Ashcroft to relent? The former Ashcroft aide who described this scene would not say, but senior DOJ officials had little doubt who it was - the president."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Card
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ

Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates combined. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to rival OPEC and supply the United States for a century.

http://snipurl.com/1mmxd


From Information Clearing House



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

New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action
http://snipurl.com/1mmx7



An Extraordinary Violation of International Law

Some say lack of due process in kidnappings and detention at secret prisons amounts to war crimes.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/MilitaryAid/report.aspx?aid=855


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons

The war in Iraq, which President George W. Bush said was necessary to combat Islamic extremism, is beginning to export guerilla fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.

http://version2.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=935&ccid=11


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is among several presidential candidates who didn't read a 2002 intelligence report on Iraq before voting for war. Members of Congress had to read the report in a secure location but The Washington Post said in 2004 only six senators registered and read it before the vote authorizing the invasion.

http://snipurl.com/1mmve


From Information Clearing House



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

Worse than the worst
http://snipurl.com/1mmv7



Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria

Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba's daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer before classes.

http://snipurl.com/1mmv9


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees

By William L. Anderson
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17791.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+L.+Anderson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson

By Stephen Soldz

Psychologists were central to the development of the abusive interrogation paradigm developed at Guantanamo and migrated to Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17790.htm



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

By Evelyn Pringle

This country is now paying a heavy price for Bush's lack of military experience, and his taunting invitation of "bring it on," that has resulted in a never ending stream of challengers traveling to Iraq to teach our loudmouth President a lesson.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17789.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Evelyn+Pringle

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

'Good-bye America: Casey did indeed die for nothing'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6233/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Let's Keep Fighting for Cindy Sheehan
http://tinyurl.com/2nxtue

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"Why Casey Died For Nothing"

By Cindy Sheehan

This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17787.htm

Click:

Die Sorgen des Herrn Schäuble

Selenz` Kommentar 29. Mai 2007

Minister Schäuble ist in großer Sorge. Der Mann kann einem leid tun. Seine Mitarbeiter von den Sicherheitsdiensten halten ihn stets auf dem Laufenden. Von morgens bis tief in die Nacht. Er blickt von einem Abgrund in den nächsten. Das hinterlässt Spuren. Kurz vor dem G-8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm sehen seine Dienste und er die Republik in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert. Der Minister schreitet besorgt zur Tat. Bereits bei Vorgänger Schily hatten die Dienste ganze Arbeit geleistet. Aus einem RAF-Anwalt machten sie binnen Kurzem einen veritablen Polit-Rambo. Schily wollte sogar vollbesetzte zivile Flugzeuge zum Abschuss freigeben. Zur Abwehr von Terrorangriffen - versteht sich. Dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ging das eindeutig zu weit. Eine wehrhafte Demokratie darf sich in der Tat nicht von ihren Feinden überrumpeln lassen. Sie sollte ihre Bürger jedoch schützen und nicht schikanieren und schon gar nicht vorsätzlich töten.

Insbesondere die deutsche Geschichte liefert besorgten Politikern Anschauungsmaterial und Vorbilder aller Art. Und zwar in Hülle und Fülle. Dies zeigen aktuell einige kühne Griffe des Innenministers in die historische Gruselkiste. Ein eigens für den Gipfel errichteter anti-demonstrativer Schutzwall schirmt nicht nur das Tagungshotel ab. Die gesamte Gegend um den Tagungsort wird gleichzeitig weiträumig befriedet. Zur Zeit allerdings noch ohne Wachtürme und Selbstschussanlagen. Kein Demonstrationslärm soll das milde Rauschen der Ostseewellen übertönen. Die Proteste gegen diesen Schutzwall seien durchsichtig, meint der Minister. Herr Schäuble bezeichnet sie gar als „hysterisch“. Während er das sagt, greift der Minister tiefer und tiefer in die Stasi-Kiste. Er bereichert das gesamtdeutsche Polizei-Instrumentarium um so wunderbare Errungenschaften wie die Schnüffel-Probe. Damit soll es fürderhin möglich sein, Täter nach einer Demo an Hand ihrer Rückstellprobe zu überführen. Schnüffelnd! Wenn das kein Fortschritt ist? Von der Stasi lernen, heißt eben auch für Minister Schäuble siegen lernen. Neuerdings sollen geschredderte Stasi-Akten per Computer wieder lesbar gemacht werden. Da lässt sich sicher noch mehr in Erfahrung bringen. Aus der Praxis einer exzellent organisierten Bürgerüberwachung. Und wenn man schon mal so richtig in Schwung ist, kann man es auch mit dem Briefgeheimnis halten, wie es einst die Stasi tat. Deren Motto: Vertrauen ist gut - Kontrolle ist besser. Die Globalisierung ist eh nicht aufzuhalten. Herr Schäuble nutzt sie auf seine Weise.

In Sachsen sind derweil die Erfolge der Globalisierung unübersehbar. Darin verwickelt heimische Prominenz und die italienischen Mafia. Deren vertrauensvolle Zusammenarbeit mit Größen aus Politik und Justiz soll bis Anfang der 90er Jahre zurückreichen. Es geht um Organisierte Kriminalität und mafiöse Strukturen in Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig und Plauen. Die Themen: Mord, Erpressung, Bestechung und mehr. „Wenn man sich mit diesem Komplex beschäftigen muss, ist man angewidert von dem, was man liest“, so Sachsens Innenminister Buttolo.

Der Verfassungsschutz kennt die kriminellen Politiker und Beamten seit Jahren. Sammelte Tausende Dokumente mit belastendem Material. Enthüllungsautor Jürgen Roth machte das Thema öffentlich. Die Frage derzeit: Durfte der Verfassungsschutz das Material sammeln? Darf man kriminelle Politiker, Staatsanwälte und Richter ausforschen, ohne sie vorab darüber zu informieren? Mit der Aufklärung hat man es mithin nicht sonderlich eilig. Man stelle sich vor, der Bürger erführe, Staatsanwalt X und Richter Y hätten kriminelle Taten begangen. Taten, die zudem lange bekannt sind. Beim Bürger könnte glatt der Verdacht aufkommen, die Feinde des Rechtsstaates stünden bereits innen. Der Staat wäre demnach stärker bedroht von denen, die ihn schützen sollen als von den „üblichen Verdächtigen“? Dies könnte das Vertrauen der Bürger in Justiz und Verwaltung nachhaltig erschüttern. Doch wo kämen wir hin, wenn nun auch deutsche Richter und Beamte sich der gesetzlichen Verfolgung kriminellen Tuns zu stellen hätten. Auch da hat man von der Stasi gelernt. Die Stasi schredderte bekanntlich belastende Akten - soweit man sie nicht verbrannte. Derartige Schutzmaßnahmen sind jetzt auch in Sachsen geplant. So kann der Bürger weiter ruhig schlafen. Für Herrn Schäuble eine Sorge weniger. Hat der Minister nicht Recht, wenn er trotzig behauptet: „Wir sind kein Land, in dem Geisteskranke unterwegs sind!“?

Peine, den 29. Mai 2007
gez. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Selenz
http://www.hans-joachim-selenz.de/
http://www.politik-poker.de/index.php


Nachricht von Dr. Angelika Schrodt

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

30. Mai 2007

Wer Sympathie äußert, muss Deeskalation betreiben

Bundesinnenminister Schäuble hat offenbar seine Sympathie für friedliche Proteste gegen den G8-Gipfel entdeckt. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping (MdB):

Bundesinnenminister Schäuble versucht eine Woche vor Beginn des G8-Gipfels die Wandlung vom Saulus zum Paulus. Nachdem er durch rigide polizeistaatliche Maßnahmen versucht hat, Globalisierungskritiker einzuschüchtern und zu kriminalisieren, lädt er jetzt förmlich zu friedlichen Protesten gegen den Gipfel ein. Rechtzeitig hat er jedoch dafür gesorgt, dass den G8-Chefs der Anblick von Demonstranten erspart bleibt. Der 12 Kilometer lange und 2,50 Meter hohe Zaun, der den Charakter einer Mauer hat, wird die Chefs der G8 vor unliebsamen Begegnungen mit der Öffentlichkeit schützen. Was hätte man mit diesen 12,5 Millionen Euro für Afrika erreichen können, für die dringendsten Probleme sowie die HIV- und AIDS-Bekämpfung, die Kanzlerin Merkel voranbringen möchte. Der Zaun macht das Legitimitätsproblem der G8-Regierungschefs sichtbar. Insgesamt repräsentieren sie nur 13 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung. Die Beschlüsse aber, die sie treffen, betreffen am Ende rund 6 Milliarden Menschen, also die gesamte Weltbevölkerung. Insofern stellen die G8 auch eine kalte Entmachtung der UNO dar. Der Zaun von Heiligendamm ist eine deutliche Abgrenzung der Reichen dieser Welt gegen die Armen, der Globalisierungsgewinner gegen die Globalisierungsverlierer. Ich sage ganz klar: Die Gefahr für die Demokratie beim G8-Gipfel geht nicht von Demonstranten aus, sondern von der Bundesregierung, die im Vorfeld versucht hat, das Grundrecht auf Demonstration nach Gutdünken einzuschränken. Wenn es der Bundesinnenminister ernst meint mit seinem Verständnis für friedliche Demonstrationen, dann sollte er schleunigst seine Strategie wechseln und die Sicherheitskräfte auf Deeskalation einschwören. Wir werden uns an den Protesten und an den Veranstaltungen der Globalisierungskritiker des G8-Gipfels beteiligen und bereits am Samstag, dem 2. Juni, zur Großdemonstration in Rostock das erste Mal erleben, wie glaubwürdig die Sympathiebekundungen von Bundesinnenminister Schäuble sind.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35787

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Bundesregierung sperrt Journalisten von G-8-Gipfel aus
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,485984,00.html

G8-Repressionen
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/56866

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

01. Juni 2007

Bärendienst für die Demokratie

Zu der Nichtzulassung von 20 Journalisten zur Berichterstattung über den G8-Gipfel und zum Demonstrationsverbot im Umfeld des Tagungsortes erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die jüngsten Entscheidungen des Bundespresseamtes und des Oberverwaltungsgerichtes sind Ausdruck der Sicherheitshysterie im Umfeld des G8-Gipfels. Sie reihen sich nahtlos ein in die rigide Sicherheitsdoktrin von Bundesinnenminister Schäuble. Mit der seit Wochen anhaltenden willkürlichen Einschränkung von Grundrechten wird der Demokratie ein Bärendienst erwiesen. Alle Maßnahmen haben nur ein Ziel, die geplanten friedlichen Proteste am Rande des G8-Gipfels im Vorfeld zu diskreditieren und zu kriminalisieren, um Gipfelgegner und Globalisierungskritikerinnen und -kritiker einzuschüchtern. Die Einschränkung der Pressefreiheit ist dabei das Tüpfelchen auf dem i. Die Methode ist nicht neu, kritische Journalisten werden so abgestraft. Man grenzt sie von Informationen aus, um eine Berichterstattung zu verhindern - eine subtile Form der Zensur. Das Recht auf Protest und die Pressefreiheit sind ein hohes Gut der Demokratie. Es reicht nicht aus, dass Bundeskanzlerin Merkel in anderen Ländern auf entsprechende Defizite hinweist, sie muss im eigenen Land dafür sorgen, dass die Demokratie nicht durch übereifrige Sicherheitsfanatiker beschädigt wird. Noch hat sie die Chance dazu.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35837

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

01. Juni 2007

G8-Infopunkt mit Information und Diskussion zum Gipfel

Unter dem Motto "Wie rennt man gegen einen Zaun?" wurde heute im Pavillon auf dem Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin ein G8-Infopunkt der Anrainer Volksbühne, Kino Babylon und Karl-Liebknecht-Haus eröffnet. Hier werden im unmittelbaren Vorfeld und der Zeit des G8-Gipfels Informationen und Gespräche rund um die Gipfelproteste angeboten.

Kurz vor ihrer Abreise zur Großdemonstration nach Rostock sagte die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping zur Eröffnung des Infopunktes: "Auf der Agenda des diesjährigen Gipfels stehen brennende Themen unserer Zeit, wie Klimawandel und Armut in Afrika. Die bisherige Politik der G8 hat diese Probleme nicht gelöst, sondern immer noch verschärft. Wir wollen nicht nur vor Ort gegen die Politik dieses Clubs der Reichen und Mächtigen protestieren sondern auch über die soziale und politische Auswirkungen informieren. Hier auf dem Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, wo Kunst und Politik zusammenkommen, ist ein guter Ort, sich gegen Armut, Klimakatastrophe und Krieg zu engagieren und über Alternativen zu diskutieren." Im Infopunkt kann man die Fernsehberichte über den G8-Gipfel und die Proteste verfolgen, es werden Dokumentarfilme früheren Gipfelprotesten gezeigt, es gibt Flyer, Flugblätter und anderes Informationsmaterial. Geöffnet ist der Pavillon am Samstag, 2. Juni, sowie von Montag, 4.Juni, bis Freitag, 8.Juni, jeweils von 12 bis 20 Uhr. Während in Heiligendamm der G8-Gipfel stattfindet, streiten am 7. Juni in der Volksbühne die belgische Politiktheoretikerin Chantal Mouffe, der Soziologe Ulrich Beck, Sven Giegold (attac), Jan Huwald von der Piratenpartei und Katja Kipping von der Linkspartei.PDS um Gesellschaftsentwürfe und neue Strategien der globalen Politik. Kurz vor dem G8-Gipfel publiziert der Suhrkamp Verlag unter dem Titel "Und jetzt?" Texte zur Globalisierung und deren langen, dunklen Schatten wie Arbeitslosigkeit, Lohndumping, Verarmung und Ausgrenzung ganzer Bevölkerungsteile. Anlehnend an die 11. Feuerbachthese von Karl Marx, dass es darauf ankomme, die Welt zu verändern, nicht nur zu interpretieren, geht es darum, die Diskussion erneut in Gang zu setzen und der Ohnmacht und postpolitischen Resignation zu entkommen. Die Podiumsdiskussion ist eine Veranstaltung des Suhrkamp Verlages und der Volksbühne und findet am Donnerstag, dem 7. Juni, um 21 Uhr im Sternfoyer statt.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35842

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Polizei stellt wegen G8-Gipfel Kinderfahrräder sicher

Die Polizei möchte offenbar die Mobilität von Gegnern des G8-Gipfels erschweren. So beschwerten sich Gipfelkritiker am Freitag über die Beschlagnahmung ihrer Fahrräder. Auf dem Weg in die Camps seien Fahrzeuge durchsucht und vor allem ältere Räder eingezogen, da sie nicht eindeutig ihren Besitzern zugeordnet werden konnten. Die Polizei habe die Aktion mit dem "begründeten Verdacht, dass bundesweit gestohlene Fahrräder nach Heiligendamm verbracht werden sollen", erklärt. Selbst Kinderfahrräder seien konfisziert worden, sagte eine Sprecherin der Camp AG.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16046

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02. Juni 1967 - 2007: 40 Jahre Staatsrepressionen
http://www.schreibblog.eu/index.php?/archives/31-02.-Juni-1967-2007-40-Jahre-Staatsrepressionen.html

Gipfel der Scheinheiligkeit
http://tinyurl.com/yrsdwt



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heiligendamm

http://www.pr-inside.com/de/der-schnueffel-chip-visukom-r138359.htm
http://tinyurl.com/39v7wg

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/23088


From ufpj-news

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Conyers endorses national effort to impeach Bush, Cheney

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said Tuesday he supports a national effort calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but stopped short of pledging to take action to back it.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?s=6583653


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
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by Byron Richards

Buried within this legislation is an FDA sneak attack on dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are routinely targeted by the FDA as they offer true competition, both safe and effective, to drugs. The FDA acts as a police-force bully to help stamp out Big Pharma competition and keep Americans in the dark on natural ways to prevent and treat disease.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron32.htm



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

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23077


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

http://elequity.com/?p=793


Informant: Wilford Bates

Maureen Dowd writes: "Now the Bush administration finds itself at that same hour of shame. It knows the surge is not working. Iraq is in a civil war, with a gruesome bonus of terrorists mixed in. April was the worst month this year for the American military with 104 soldiers killed, and there have been about 90 killed thus far in May. The democracy's not jelling, as Iraqi lawmakers get ready to slouch off for a two-month vacation, leaving our kids to be blown up."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maureen+Dowd

Michael Winship writes: "As we marked Memorial Day this week, the Associated Press reported that: 'Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury US troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling - and expected to rise in coming months.' So many caskets, so many flags. Too many memorials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907D.shtml



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

After a contentious, three-month-long battle with the White House over Iraq, Congressional Democrats limped out of Washington on Friday with their sights trained on July for the next round - but anti-war activists are spoiling for a fight far sooner than that.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+funding+battle

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0529-08.htm

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Injustice 5, Justice 4

The editors of The New York Times write: "The Supreme Court struck a blow for discrimination this week by stripping a key civil rights law of much of its potency. The majority opinion, by Justice Samuel Alito, forced an unreasonable reading on the law, and tossed aside long-standing precedents to rule in favor of an Alabama employer that had underpaid a female employee for years. The ruling is the latest indication that a court which once proudly stood up for the disadvantaged is increasingly protective of the powerful."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053107B.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1504/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1509/



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1516/



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A Kenilworth woman has hit out at The Open Spaces Society for not supporting a previous fight against a mobile phone mast on Chase Lane in the town.

Louise Weetman of East Chase Farm says that the society was 'not interested' in their battle against a mast and says that residents of Crackley Lane are 'lucky' to have the support they do.

Plans for the HG3 mast were granted permission in December 2006 after perceived health risks could not justify the application being refused, according to Warwick District Council.

But at the time, Ms Weetman says that the small number of supporters fighting against the plans rendered their campaign futile in the eyes of planners.

She said: "We in Chase Lane are so few and had no such support therefore the application for a mast in our beautiful privately owned lane was approved.

"Ninety eight per cent of the residents did not want the mast in the location chosen in Chase Lane. To call these telephone companies a communication company is laughable the last thing they do is communicate with you.

"What is also amazing is that The Open Spaces Society were not interested in helping us with our campaign, now it effects their land they are willing to get involved.

"Kate Ashbrook, the site in Chase Lane is also an 'historic site where people enjoy quiet recreation. It will be an eyesore and will spoil the natural beauty of the area'.

"Where were you when we needed your support? Chase Lane residents put forward all the same arguments as those being put forward by the Crackley Lane residents.

"I wish Crackley Lane luck with their fight and if they win Chase Lane residents will feel vindicated that they were indeed victims of bully boy tactics by the telephone company, Kenilworth town councillors who approved and the planning officers simply because we were so few in numbers."

The Open Spaces Society announced its decision to join the campaign against the O2 mast which may be destined for Crackley Lane.

The society owns Parliament Piece in Kenilworth and is concerned that Warwick District Council has failed to so far consult the society as an adjoining landowner.

In 1999 the society leased the land to Warwick District Council under a 99-year lease, to manage for nature conservation, public recreation on foot, and as an important contribution to the landscape character of the area.

Protesters against the O2 mast on Crackley Lane turned out in force last week to demonstrate against the plans.

And on Wednesday, they joined together to submit a 400-signature petition to the district council. Neighbours in the locality are protesting about the proposed telephone mast that could be placed at the corner of Crackley Lane and Coventry Road.

The location would site the mast approximately 70m from nearby houses and about 70m from the tennis courts at Kenilworth Tennis Club. Protesters are asking district councilors to think about an alternative site.

Kenilworth town councillors are unanimous in their opposition Warwick District Council has yet to comment on this further.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2913059&sectionid=698

Die Kämpfe mit der sunnitischen Gruppe im Libanon zeigen, dass der Irak nun vom Ausbildungslager für islamistische Terroristen zu einem Exportland werden könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25378/1.html

A mobile phone giant behind a plan to construct a 28-metre mast has withdrawn the scheme.

Hutchison 3G UK Ltd submitted a plan to put up the tower in Gidding Road, Sawtry, near Peterborough, last month.

The company was seeking planning permission to site the temporary mast for a year.

However, officials from Hutchison 3G have now informed planning chiefs at Huntingdonshire District Council that they no longer want the application to be considered.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2908814

Convinced that rules aimed at slowing climate change are inevitable, coal-fired power generators are reexamining construction plans, fund managers are raising billions of dollars to invest in projects to combat climate change, insurance firms are devising new products, and at least one utility has inserted a novel global-warming provision into its contract.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907P.shtml

"President Bush's detour in Iraq off the multilateral track adhered to throughout the Cold War years has caused a deep drop in American prestige abroad, requiring extensive repair by his successor, regardless of which party wins in 2008," writes Jules Witcover.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907O.shtml

"One of the basic rights that workers are supposed to enjoy, under both US law and international treaties to which we are a signatory, is the right of free association at the workplace, including the right to form a union. While workers do, in principle, have a right to form a union, this right has been largely undermined by management practices over the last quarter-century," write Dean Baker and Mary Beth Maxwell.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907L.shtml



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

US military leaders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that most of the broad political goals President Bush laid out early this year in his announcement of a troop build-up will not be met this summer, and are instead seeking ways to redefine success.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907K.shtml



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

Since last year, the military's embedding rules require that journalists obtain a signed consent from a wounded soldier before his or her image can be published. Images that put a face on the dead - that make them identifiable - are simply prohibited. Journalists say they are not allowed to cover the reality of war, and that "this has got little to do with the families or the soldiers, and everything to do with politics."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907J.shtml

http://action.freepress.net/ct/KdsrI1K1Na7a/

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250,000 Americans Urge the FCC: Use the Public Airwaves for the Public Good
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0604-09.htm



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

http://www.xonio.com/news/news_26578691.html

Kommentar:

Der Not gehorchend gibt es viele Versuche, sich vor der Mobilfunkbestrahlung zu schützen. Wir wissen darüber zu wenig, zumal es - neben der technisch genutzten Hertz'schen Strahlung (elektromagnetische Transversalwellen) einen Strahlungsanteil gibt, der sich leider nicht abschirmen lässt. Den Versuch dazu kann jeder selber machen: Man legt einfach das eingeschaltete Handy in den häuslichen Mikrowellenherd, schliesst die Tür (Mikrowelle nicht einschalten) und ruft das Handy an. Bekanntlich ist der Mikrowellenherd ein Faraday-Käfig, in den keine elektromagnetische Strahlung rein und keine raus kommt - sonst würde ja die Hausfrau verstrahlt und sonst hätte das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz gar keine Mikrowellenherde genehmigen dürfen.

Hier liegt übrigens ein weiteres verschwiegenes Problem: Das Bundsamt für Strahlenschutz hat sowohl die Mikrowellenherde als auch die Handys und ihre Basisstationen zugelassen hat. Was ist, wenn sich rumsprechen sollte, dass Handys im Mikrowellenherd klingeln? Verbieten sie dann die Mikrowellenherde oder doch lieber gleich die Mobiltelefone?

Aber wenn das Handy klingelt - probieren Sie es doch einfach mal aus - heisst das ja, dass die Mobilfunkstrahlung doch in den Faradayschen Käfig gelangt. Das gebietet die Logik und die Physik.

Also, wenn das Handy klingeln sollte, dann machen Sie sich klar, dass es einen Strahlungsanteil gibt, der ist nicht abschirmbar - weder durch gut gemeinte Metallfäden in Unterhosen noch durch einen technisch geprüften und für elektromagenische Wellen undurchdringlichen Faradaykäfig, auch nicht durch Metallwände usw. usw. Mehr dazu siehe http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/anzeige_11_02_06.pdf

Offensichtlich geht es bei der abzuwehrenden Gefährdung nicht um die abschirmbare elektromagnetische Strahlung, sondern um den auch immer vorhandenen Skalarwellenanteil. Aber: Skalarwellen lassen sich nicht abschirmen, sie tragen Energie, sind schneller als das Licht und werden nicht kleiner mit dem Abstandsquadrat. Skalarwellen sind nicht nur biologisch wirksam, sie werden - anders als der elektromagnetische Strahlungsanteil, von den Lebewesen genutzt: und zwar als Energiequelle und bei allen biologischen Kommunikationsvorgängen. Mehr dazu unter http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dr._Angelika_Schrodt#Skalarwellen

Technische Störfeuer in den biologischen Fenstern verwirken unsere Lebensgrundlagen, und zwar nicht nur die Spermienproduktion, sondern die Lebensgrundlage des gesamten Lebens auf unserem Planeten. Wann wird der lebensbejahende und fürsorgliche Teil der Menschheit diesem Treiben Einhalt gebieten? Es ist hoffentlich noch nicht zu spät dafür.

Dr. Angelika Schrodt

by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com

It is now clear what we must do to end the Iraq war and hold both political parties accountable.

http://ga3.org/ct/t120pgF1pzTA/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+L.+Borosage

kleinezeitung.at vom 16.05.2007

von Bettina Kuzmicki

Leibnitzer Elternvereine machen gegen Mobilfunksendeanlagen in Nähe von Schulen und Kindergärten mobil. Gemeinsame Plattform geplant...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea299370d06103

suedkurier.de vom 19.05.2007

von Michael Nadrelli

Mobilfunkstrahlen machen auf Dauer krank, behaupten Kritiker. Nun gibt es einen neuen Verdacht gegen die Handytechnik: Laut einer Untersuchung der ...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea299370cf9f02

Common Dreams
by Stephen Lendman

05/28/07

Because both days are related, they’re discussed together. The first, Memorial Day, is commemorated on the last Monday in May and was first observed in 1866 and called Decoration Day beginning in 1868. Usage of Memorial Day wasn’t common until after WW II and wasn’t the holiday’s official name until federal law called it that in 1967. The day is an occasion to honor the nation’s men and women who died in military service to the country. … Both holidays wouldn’t be needed in a nation dedicated to peace, but one committed to perpetual war for an unattainable peace dishonors its youth in life and disingenuously honors those who died in imperial wars for conquest and plunder...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/26/1467/



The paranoid and the dead

CounterPunch
by Col. Dan Smith

05/28/07

Every national holiday develops traditions that pass from generation to generation. Except for Armistice Day — now called Veterans Day — no holiday is observed with more melancholy than is Memorial Day. But this day, unlike, say, July Fourth, seems to have developed two traditions depending on whether or not the United States is at peace or the armed forces are in a hot war when the last weekend of May arrives...

http://www.counterpunch.org/smith05282007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=perpetual+war
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LewRockwell.Com
by Per Bylund

05/29/07

How come we as humans always tend to realize the real risk of horrors tomorrow, but not understanding the horrors that are already upon us? We are not at the brink of an Orwellian police state — it is already here. The wars on drugs, terrorism, poverty, and Iraq aren’t approaching failure — they have failed, and failed good. People say we should learn from history or we might relive its horrors — history tends to repeat itself because we don’t know about it or consider our collective experience of sufficient importance. There is truth to these words, but why do we think people could learn from history when most of us regularly fail to identify the nature of the now? If we cannot even see what we’re in the midst of, then how can we expect to learn from the experience of previous years — or even previous generations?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund19.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Alan Bock

05/26/07

Even as the United States and Iran seem to be moving toward direct talks over the security situation in Iraq, the symbiotic relationship between President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is flourishing in ways that seem to guarantee continued hostility. President Bush in his al-Qaeda dominated news conference Thursday, did not neglect to mention that the administration will push the United Nations to adopt expanded economic and political sanctions against Iran, while Ahmadinejad announced that Iran will ‘never retreat, even one step,’ from its program of nuclear enrichment. These two were made for each other, each providing a foil for the other’s preference to conduct international relations through posturing and grievance-mongering...

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=11030


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Liberty For All
by Kevin Tuma

05/28/07

An Open Letter to Ron Paul: Mr. Paul, you have served the cause of individual liberty superbly, and honorably, in your role as the last living statesman remaining in the United States Congress. You have recently gone on to score great rhetorical victories-and achieve much fame in the public eye-in the debates, where you have so adroitly told the world The Emperor Has No Clothes...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=679


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Tuma

Reason
by Steve Chapman

05/28/07

For some people, the key to happiness is low standards. If you never expect much out of life, you will rarely be disappointed, and you will be content with outcomes that others would find unbearable. It’s a formula that is working quite satisfactorily for President Bush and many congressional Republicans in the controversy over the U.S. attorney firings. Monica Goodling, who was an aide to Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales, agreed to appear before a House committee only after pleading her right against self-incrimination and then getting a grant of immunity. Here’s a good rule of thumb: Innocent people who are prepared to tell the truth don’t take the Fifth. Despite her efforts to defend herself and her boss, she painted a picture that should have been thoroughly demoralizing to those on the administration’s side, not to mention everyone else...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/120412.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goodling
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USA Today

05/28/07

The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The loss reflects a continued deterioration in the finances of Social Security and government retirement programs for civil servants and military personnel. The loss — equal to $11,434 per household — is more than Americans paid in income taxes in 2006...

http://tinyurl.com/2vc2tm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

„Drei Tage lang wurden aufgrund des Zuständigkeitsstreits zwischen Malta und Libyen illegale Einwanderer aus Afrika im Boot und dann festgeklammert an ein Netz herumgeschleppt, ohne sie an Bord zu lassen und sie mit Essen und Trinken zu versorgen Ein besonders dramatischer Vorfall beleuchtet den Umgang mit Menschen aus Afrika, die über das Mittelmeer in die Festung Europa gelangen wollen. An deren südlichen Meeresgrenzen mehren sich die Katastrophen und die Toten. Das Fischerboot Budafel aus Malta "rettete" am Mittwoch 27 afrikanische Schiffsbrüchige und zog die an die Käfige des Thunfischnetzes geklammerten Flüchtlinge drei Tage mit, ohne sie jedoch an Bord zu nehmen oder mit Wasser zu versorgen. Malta und Libyen, von wo die Flüchtlinge aus Ghana, Nigeria und Kamerun gestartet sind, weigerten sich, ihnen zu Hilfe zu kommen, und stritten um die Zuständigkeit. Nach drei Tagen wurden die Männer schließlich 60 Meilen vor der libyschen Küste von der italienischen Marine aufgenommen und in ein Auffanglager auf die Insel Lampedusa verbracht…“ Artikel von Florian Rötzer in telepolis vom 28.05.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25377/1.html


Festung EU > Frontex

Frontex als Schrittmacher der EU-Innenpolitik

Die Grenzschutztruppe mit den Soforteinsatzteams entzieht sich weitgehend der Kontrolle des EU-Parlaments. Artikel von Christoph Marischka in telepolis vom 25.05.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25359/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Mai 2007

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Fische sind wertvoller als Flüchtlinge

„Immer neue Dramen mit afrikanischen Bootsflüchtlingen vor Malta: Fischerboote lassen ertrinkende Flüchtlinge in ihren Netzen treiben, statt sie aufzunehmen, Regierungen streiten um Zuständigkeit. Schließlich sammelt ein Kriegsschiff Leichen ein…“ Artikel von Reiner Wandler in der taz vom 4.6.2007 http://www.taz.de/dx/2007/06/04/a0103.1/text


Still und heimlich. Abseits vom Medienrummel koordiniert die EU in Athen ihre Maßnahmen "zur Vermeidung unerwünschter Migration"

„Hinter geschlossenen Türen und weitgehend verschwiegen von der griechischen Presse fand von Mittwoch bis Freitag in Athen eine Tagung der Versammlung der Generaldirektoren und Leiter der Europäischen Migrationsbehörden. statt. Für Deutschland mit von der Partei, war Dr. Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz, Leiter des Referats für ökonomische Aspekte der Migration im Deutschen Bundesamt für Migration. Nicht vertreten am Tisch der europäischen Runde waren die Betroffenen. Die standen am Donnerstagnachmittag stattdessen zu Hunderten vor dem von Sondereinheiten der Polizei abgeschirmten Athener Nobelhotel Titania…“ Artikel von Heike Schrader in telepolis vom 02.06.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25413/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juni 2007

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Massensterben an den europäischen Außengrenzen: Rettungsplan für Flüchtlinge gefordert

Die Flüchtlingshilfsorganisation Pro Asyl fordert die am 12. Juni in Luxemburg tagenden EU-Innenminister auf, einen umfassenden "Rettungsplan für Flüchtlinge" zu beschließen. Um "das Massensterben an den europäischen Außengrenzen" zu beenden, fordert Pro Asyl "eine Rückbesinnung auf Grundwerte" und "die Wiederherstellung rechtsstaatlicher Prinzipien". "Momentan herrscht auf See das Gesetz des Dschungels. Flüchtlinge ertrinken - EU-Staaten schauen zu und diskutieren die jeweilige Nichtzuständigkeit für die Rettung", meint Karl Kopp von Pro Asyl.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16109



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From Rosemary R.



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Diskussion "Einkommen als Menschenrecht" im ZDF-Nachtstudio
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/28/0,4070,5515164-5,00.html



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. Mai 2007

Zum Vorhaben der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, das Kindergeld künftig nur noch bis zum 18. Lebensjahr zu zahlen, erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Rosemarie Hein:

Ist es Unverfrorenheit oder Ahnungslosigkeit, die Politiker aus dem konservativen Lager immer wieder zu solchen perfiden Umverteilungsvorschlägen greifen lässt? Während sie Besserverdienenden und großen Unternehmen immer neue Steuergeschenke zukommen lassen, sollen sich Kinder und Jugendliche quasi untereinander solidarisch verhalten. Den einen soll gegeben werden, was den anderen weggenommen wird. Wer solche Vorschläge macht, hat keine blasse Ahnung vom wirklichen Leben und den tatsächlichen Kosten für Schule und Ausbildung. Nicht nur, dass Ausbildung oder Studium die Auszubildenden und deren Eltern mehr kostet als durch das derzeitiges Kindergeld kompensiert wird, es gibt für die meisten Kosten überhaupt keine Ausgleichszahlungen. So gibt es vom 16. Lebensjahr an kein Geld mehr für Fahrtkosten, sind die Lehr- und Lernmittel in beträchtlichem Maße selbst zu tragen. Hinzu kommen verdeckte Studiengebühren wie zur Semesterrückmeldung, werden Studiengebühren in immer mehr Ländern eingeführt. Da ist der Verweis auf BaföG und Studienkredite einfach heuchlerisch, denn diese Gelder müssen zum Teil oder ganz zurückgezahlt werden, zumeist gerade in der Zeit, in der die Betroffenen laut Familienministerin eigentlich selbst Kinder bekommen sollten. Es wird Zeit, dass auch die Politiker von CDU und CSU sich mal wieder mit dem wirklichen Leben befassen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35744

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=196017


From Information Clearing House

THE mother of David Hicks's two children visited her former partner in prison yesterday and, along with their son and daughter, has refused to describe the South Australian as a terrorist.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21804344-601,00.html


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The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/pl_nm/un_rights_usa_dc_2



Bush administration removed and obfuscated human rights mechanisms - UN expert

Since September 11, Bush administration has removed or obfuscated mechanisms for the protection of rights enshrined in the US Constitution and international charters, according to UN Special Rapporteur.

http://pressesc.com/01180116454_Special_Rapporteur_US


From Information Clearing House



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The creation of the Defense Department Africa Command, has heightened concerns among African countries and in the U.S. government over the militarization of U.S. foreign policy, according to a newly released study by the Congressional Research Service.

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The United States is falsely accusing Tehran of supporting Iraqi militias in stoking violence in Iraq as a pretext for a military intervention in the Islamic republic, a leading British think-tank has said in a report.

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From Information Clearing House

The Innocent Bystander Fable teaches that every politician in America except the President of the United States has absolutely no power at all to stop or even slow down the escalation of the war in Iraq - an escalation that is expected to deploy "more than 200,000 [troops to Iraq] -- a record high number -- by the end of the year,"

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From Information Clearing House



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"We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/27/news/delta.php



U.S Army Destroys a Mosque

Video

How the U.S. Helps Build A Resistance Movement In Iraq:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=948_1180021171


From Information Clearing House

By Bill Noxid

We do not live in a Civilization, just the illusion of one. An illusion created by those who wish to enslave your mind, body, and soul. An illusion created to prevent you from seeing the chains around your ankles, the bag over your head, or the gag-ball in your mouth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17783.htm



Proxy Wars: Lebanon under fire

Video

Is Fatah-al-Islam (in reality) a creation of the "Welch Club". This club is named for its godfather David Welch - the current assistant to the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He is the "point man" for the Bush administration and is guided by Eliot Abrams.

http://snipurl.com/1mgxn

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Bush's New Middle East

By Mike Whitney

It's hard to know what Bush hopes to accomplish by backing the bloody siege of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, but one thing is certain; things are never as they seem. In an interview on Democracy Now last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh stated that, Fatah al-Islam---the group of Sunni extremists inside the camp--were getting material support from the Saudis, the Bush administration and members of the Lebanese political establishment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17788.htm



Lebanon Fatah Al-Islam

Video

Dr Fawaz Gerges joins a panel of experts as we unravel the web of Lebabon's political landscape.

http://snipurl.com/1mmvi


From Information Clearing House



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By Bobby Ghosh/Baghdad

The Shi'ite militias that forced Azhour Ali Mohammed from her home in Baghdad's al-Dolai district last month shot her husband Amer dead before her eyes and torched all her worldly possessions. And the fear that the killers may come back for her and her two little children prevented her from mourning her husband. "I could not hold a proper wake for him," says the young widow. "He deserved at least that."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17785.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8



Rep. Ron Paul interview on CNN Sunday Spotlight, May 27th, 2007 - May
27, 2007



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by Nancy Levant

EEVS also creates ANOTHER vast federal database to verify the work eligibility of ALL American citizen job applicants. The system would contain extraordinary personal information on everyone who seeks or holds a job, and all of it keyed to a new biometric Social Security number. When this bill passes (and it will), every time we apply for a job, the Department of Homeland Security will determine our eligibility to work in OUR nation. In the essence of FACT, NO ONE will be able to work in the u.S. without DHS approval. And, guess what.....

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by Beverly Eakman

It is average Americans, not “experts,” who must draw a line as to what they will tolerate. Until that happens, all the psychologists, medications, counseling services, and screening instruments in the world will not be enough to prevent the “mad” rampages that increasingly define our era......

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