World-News

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,495673,00.html

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Weiter Streit um Nebeneinkünfte-Veröffentlichung
http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/2007/07/weiter-streit-um-nebeneinkunfte-veroffentlichung/



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Gary

We appealed it because it is was going to be installed trackside. The track is only a gardens length to the one side of Wyvern Close and it was my opinion that these houses would be saturated with high power microwaves. One of our neighbours from that side of the road has just had a baby and her nursery would have been only about 20m from this mast. The poor kid would have been sleeping in high powered microwaves.

Our MP John Penrose is already concerned about Masts so you can imagine his surprise when we let him know that four were being erected in Weston and they don't need planning. He was quick on the case and worked well with our councillor (they are both tory!) and together with a persistent local newspaper reporter managed to get Network Rail's ear. Mr Penrose campaigned Network Rail and they agreed to consult with our planners who told them it was irresponsible to mount it so close to dwellings. The mast has now been moved about 500m further down the track in a coach park. We will of course still have an increase in Microwaves but as the most is 500m away I feel more comfortable about the power level.

Newspaper references

RAILWAY RELOCATE MAST
http://tinyurl.com/3a7xy5

NETWORK RAIL PROMISES MAST CONSULTATION
http://tinyurl.com/3dnbdr

NETWORK RAIL PLANS FIVE MASTS AT TRACKSIDE
http://tinyurl.com/3y3zcl

Radio masts 'safe'
http://tinyurl.com/2nk265

MP's bid for right to blast the masts
http://tinyurl.com/2s88a2


Regards
Dave

http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/060/1606057.pdf



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Victory! Ethiopia releases 38 Prisoners of Conscience
http://tinyurl.com/2eyjyl

Der Bund Naturschutz (BN) erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen den Betrieb des bayerischen Atomkraftwerks Gundremmingen bei Ulm. "Tricksen und Vertuschen" sei "die bevorzugte Kommunikationsform" auch in Bayern. Zentrale Probleme des Reaktorbetriebs seien bis heute nicht aufgeklärt, kritisiert der Vorsitzende des Bund Naturschutz, Hubert Weiger. "Nie aufgeklärt wurde eine massive Häufung missgebildeter Kinder in den Landkreisen östlich von Gundremmingen." Deren Auftreten sei zeitlich mit dem Betrieb des Reaktors Gundremmingen A zusammen gefallen. Die Bayerische Staatsregierung hätte eine Studie veröffentlicht, "wonach es sich um tausende registrierter Fälle handelte, über den langjährigen Durchschnitt hinaus".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16362



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"In an overwhelming majority of 17 to 4, and in defiance of a threatened veto by President Bush, the US Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to expand child health care using a large increase in tobacco tax. Most of the Republicans on the Committee joined the Democrats to vote in favour of the bill," reports Medical News Today.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+veto

"In a coordinated public relations offensive, the White House is using reliably friendly pundits - amazingly, they still exist - to put out the word that President Bush is as upbeat and confident as ever," writes Paul Krugman in the The New York Times. "It might even be true. What I don't understand is why we're supposed to consider Mr. Bush's continuing confidence a good thing."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007E.shtml



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

"Top Senate Democrats expect GOP to face rising public pressure to withdraw troops," write Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray of The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007D.shtml



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"Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine US attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege," write Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007B.shtml



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Keith Olbermann lambastes President Bush for choosing Hilary Clinton as a scapegoat for the quagmire in Iraq on his nightly MSNBC Countdown.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007A.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0720-06.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/20/2648/



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http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2785477.ece

S.O.S.: Pacific islanders battle to save what is left of their country from rising seas
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2773149.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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The coming rise in ocean levels will reshape our shores and our lives
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4072745/



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Mike Allen reports for The Politico, "Bush held a long, casual session with nine influential conservative columnists last Friday. The meeting - peppered with mutual compliments - has produced a torrent of laudatory coverage from formerly friendly commentators who had turned skeptical and even hostile on some issues.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007P.shtml

Roxana Tiron reports for The Hill, "A watchdog organization is calling attention to what it deems the government's failure to properly vet the companies to which it awards hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007O.shtml

A number of reporters on the Wall Street Journal, reports Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times, have "... publicly denounced Mr. Murdoch as someone who has molded journalism to serve his business and political interests; and Editor & Publisher reports, "Dow Jones' Dieter Von Holtzbrinck has resigned from the board in protest of Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the company."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007N.shtml



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"Overhauling voting systems before next year's presidential election had once been a top Democratic priority, primarily to allow greater accountability and be certain that all votes registered on computerized touch-screen systems were counted. But state and local elections officials told Congress they could not make the changes in time for the balloting in November 2008, particularly in light of the extra workload involved in preparing for next year's much-earlier presidential primary season," reports Christopher Drew of The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007M.shtml



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Robert Schmidt reports for Bloomberg: "House Democrats, escalating a battle with the White House, took the first step in seeking to hold Bush's chief of staff in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena requesting documents on the firing of eight US prosecutors. Voting 7-3 along party lines, a House Judiciary subcommittee approved a resolution rejecting executive privilege claims made by Joshua Bolten in refusing to turn over emails and memos on the firings."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007J.shtml



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FreedomWorks
by Joyce Krawiec

07/19/07

Social Security and Medicare are rapidly going broke. That’s not my opinion. It’s the expert opinions of the Board of Trustees of Social Security and Medicare, the Comptroller General of the United States and chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States. This is an issue that is not being talked about by the presidential candidates as much as it should be...

http://tinyurl.com/37aty8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joyce+Krawiec

http://starmail.piranho.de/iran_stop_the_next_war_now.htm



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Umweltinstitut München e.V. - Newsletter vom 20. Juli 2007

Thema: - Die Störfälle in den deutschen AKWs

Die Pannenserie in den deutschen Atomkraftwerken Krümmel und Brunsbüttel hat der Atomlobby stark zugesetzt. Dumm für sie, dass genau in dieser Zeit auch noch ein Erdbeben in Japan das weltgrößte AKW beschädigt.

Das Umweltinstitut München hat die Störfälle samt den Vertuschungen, den Falschangaben und den Dreistigkeiten der Atombefürworter mit Presseerklärungen kritisch begleitet:

Am 5. Juli forderte das Umweltinstitut, dass das AKW Krümmel nicht mehr ans Netz darf, weil der Betreiber Vattenfall in unverantwortlicher Weise das tatsächliche Ausmaß zu verschleiern versuchte. Da Vattenfall nicht nur für die Pannen-AKWs Krümmel und Brunsbüttel verantwortlich ist, sondern auch für den bauähnlichen Skandalreaktor Forsmark in Schweden, ist es höchste Zeit, dem Betreiber die Betriebsgenehmigungen für seine Atomkraftwerke zu entziehen. Die Störfälle sollten als Chance genutzt werden, um endlich eine echte Energiewende einzuläuten.

http://umweltinstitut.org/pressemitteilungen/2007/akw-krummel-475.html

Kurz darauf wurde bekannt, dass auch in Brunsbüttel das Ausmaß des Störfalls heruntergespielt wurde. Nach dem Brand hatte sich zunehmend Wasserstoff gesammelt, was an den Beinahe GAU im Jahr 2001 erinnerte. Damals hatte eine Wasserstoffexplosion in Brunsbüttel eine Rohrleitung auf einer Länge von mehreren Metern zerfetzt. Wir wiesen darauf hin, dass das bayerische AKW Isar 1 bauähnlich dem Brunsbütteler ist und es nur eine Frage der Zeit sei, dass auch hier Probleme auftauchen. Die Forderung nach Laufzeitverlängerungen von alten, maroden Atommeilern muss vom Tisch.

http://umweltinstitut.org/pressemitteilungen/2007/11_07_2007-475.html

Schließlich kritisierten wir die Dreistigkeiten verschiedener Politiker und der Atomlobby, die inmitten dieser Pannen und Vertuschungen die Atomkraft weiter vorantreiben wollen und sogar bei der Sicherheit Abstriche inkauf nehmen. Dass in der obersten Etage von Vattenfall Köpfe rollten ist zwar zu begrüßen - hier hat es keinesfalls die falschen erwischt -, aber damit ist das Grundproblem der Atomenergieerzeugung nicht gelöst: Sie ist hoch riskant, ist nicht beherrschbar und muss deshalb beendet werden.

http://umweltinstitut.org/pressemitteilungen/2007/19_07_2007-475.html


Christina Hacker
Vorstand
Umweltinstitut München e.V.
Landwehrstr. 64 a
80336 München
http://www.umweltinstitut.org
ch @umweltinstitut.org



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The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

07/20/07

The recent defeat of the amnesty bill in the Senate came after outraged Americans made it clear to the political elite that they would not tolerate this legislation, which would further erode our national sovereignty. Similarly, polls increasingly show the unpopularity of the Iraq war, as well as of the Congress that seems incapable of ending it. Because some people who vocally oppose amnesty are supportive of the war, the ideological connection between support of the war and amnesty is often masked. If there is a single word explaining the reasons why we continue to fight unpopular wars and see legislation like the amnesty bill nearly become law, that word is ‘globalism’...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002878.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/20/07

The media has been rife with declarations that the cold war is back, and the spy-jinks we’re being told about — the Brits apparently planted a recording device inside a rock, and positioned it on a Russian street to unknown purposes — are like something out of a John Le Carre novel. Le Carre, you’ll remember, writes of multi-layered conspiracies, like those Russian wooden dolls that contain several smaller dolls within, and this model is pretty much what we’re looking at when it comes to the Litvinenko affair. The Russians, for their part, have their own convoluted tale to tell, with Lugovoi accusing the Brits of running an extensive spy network within Russia, and at least one other person coming forward to confirm that, yes, they were recruited by the Brits to spy on the Motherland. What’s important to realize, however, is that, whatever the credibility or motives behind these charges and counter-charges, the very real geo-political consequences of this row are becoming increasingly serious — and dangerous...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11320


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan

07/20/07

Responding to the call of Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1095, the Christian knights of the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land. In 1099, Jerusalem was captured. As their port in Palestine, the Crusaders settled on Acre on the Mediterranean. There they built the great castle that was overrun by Saladin in 1187, but retaken by Richard the Lion-Hearted in 1191. Acre became the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the stronghold of the Crusader state, which fell to the Mameluks in a bloody siege in 1291. The Christians left behind were massacred. The ruins of Acre are now a tourist attraction. Any who have visited this last outpost of Christendom in the Holy Land before Gen. Allenby marched into Jerusalem in 1917 cannot — on reading of the massive U.S. embassy rising in Baghdad — but think of Acre...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56768


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

07/15/07

If there has ever been a decisive lesson to be learned about making a nation strong, it is that lesson of America … welcome the immigrants and give them the opportunity to succeed. No matter where they come from … no matter how poor, no matter how uneducated, no matter how alien to our way of life … they have come here and improved our society. It’s a lesson we’ve almost lost. For a nation built by immigrants to turn around and become restrictive against future immigrants is an insult to our own ancestors. It is simply un-American. It is a lost opportunity for all of us...

http://tinyurl.com/yqasg9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith

Arizona Republic

07/19/07

Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of Anglos, and Hispanics are locked up at nearly double the Anglo rate, according to a study released Wednesday by a criminal justice policy group. The report by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank, found that states in the Midwest and Northeast have the greatest Black-to-Anglo disparity in incarceration. Iowa had the widest disparity in the nation, imprisoning Blacks at more than 13 times the rate of Anglos. Such figures ‘reflect a failure of social and economic interventions to address crime effectively,’ as well as racial bias in the justice system, said Marc Mauer, the Sentencing Project’s executive director...

http://tinyurl.com/yupxfj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Santa Cruz Sentinel

07/19/07

Iraq is a nation gripped by fear and struggling to meet security and political goals by September, U.S. officials said Thursday from Baghdad, dashing hopes in Congress that the country might turn a corner this summer. One general said not to expect a solid judgment on the U.S. troop buildup until November. ‘If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq — on the streets, in the countryside, in the neighborhoods and at the national level — that word would be ‘fear,” Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

http://tinyurl.com/2ejq4p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

07/19/07

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales came under new questioning Thursday about President Bush’s wiretapping program and the administration response to congressional subpoenas. In a closed-door session, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes said members were especially interested in the reasons behind Gonzales’ controversial 2004 visit to the hospital bedside of John Ashcroft, reportedly to pressure the ailing attorney general to endorse Bush’s surveillance program. Ashcroft, said to have been barely conscious at the time, refused...

http://tinyurl.com/2ct8zl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Informant: Corey



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoD
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/19/21721/0567


Informant: Elaine Nichols



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As the United States and its allies in the United Nations plan to push for stiffer economic sanctions on Iran over its refusal to halt its nuclear program, an Iran sanctions bill making its way through Congress includes several key measures that may threaten US diplomacy toward Tehran and split key allies on the issue, including Russia.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG20Ak04.html


From Information Clearing House

Video Interview
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18042.htm

Click:

Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2782514.ece


From Information Clearing House



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"The point is, that there is no military victory here," he said in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19324644.htm


From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi government said Wednesday that Turkish artillery and warplanes bombarded areas of northern Iraq and urged Turkey to stop military operations and resort to dialogue, according to news agencies.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16804&sectionid=351020204


From Information Clearing House

The US refused to provide a helicopter to evacuate the wounded man after being told he was Australian.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22097426-5007133,00.html


From Information Clearing House

David Milliband, British foreign secretary, confirmed in an interview with the Financial times, 8th July, that there is no evidence of Iranian complicity in instability in Iraq or attacks on British troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18041.htm



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

The Democrats certainly don't contest Bush's Middle East foreign policy, they embrace it. Just last week the Senate voted 97-0 in favor of moving toward war with Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18039.htm



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

By Paul Craig Roberts

This is a wake-up call that we are about to have another 9/11-WMD experience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18037.htm



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The arrogance of this White House is unprecedented. Richard Nixon was a bully, but at least when he was caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, he had the decency and character to resign.However, we must admit that this White House does not have a monopoly on arrogance. It has spread like a cancer throughout the federal government and has even infected many in state and local government. If you doubt that, just ask any plumber, electrician, or general contractor what it's like to deal with their local code enforcement, planning and zoning, or licensing and permitting bureaucrats.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin383.htm



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http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/24891


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

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70 House Members Vow to Block Continued Iraq Funding

The Politico reports, "Seventy House members, nearly all liberal Democrats, vowed today that they would not support any more funding for Iraq military operations unless tied to a complete withdrawal of combat troops."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007K.shtml

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Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey: Bi-Partisan Group of 70 House Members Put President Bush on Notice Over Upcoming Iraq Appropriations

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0720-05.htm

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Liberals Vow to Block Continued Iraq Funding

Seventy House members, nearly all liberal Democrats, vowed today that they would not support any more funding for Iraq military operations unless tied to a complete withdrawal of combat troops.

http://tinyurl.com/39kayf


From Information Clearing House



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John Vidal for The Guardian UK writes about the environmental devastation being wrought on China and asks if China is really the one to blame for the cheap goods that they are producing for Western countries.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071907LB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal

Reuters reports that China's demand for shark fins is raising concerns about their possible extinction within a generation.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071907EC.shtml



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

The Los Angeles Times writes about the Michigan Democrat who is at the center of a damaging split among Congressional Democrats on energy policy and global warming. The paper says Representative John D. Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is playing politics with the auto industry by his side.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071907EB.shtml

Ray McGovern writes in Truthout about Bush's stubborn stance that the war in Iraq and the struggle against terrorism are on the "right course." McGovern turns to historians to shed light on the current predicament.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907U.shtml



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

A CBS News/New York Times poll found that a majority of Americans think Congress should not continue to fund the war unless a timetable for withdrawal is put in place.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907T.shtml



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

Spencer S. Hsu for The Washington Post reports that "The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf Coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems that may be linked to elevated levels of formaldehyde gas released in FEMA-provided trailers, lawmakers said today."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907S.shtml

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FEMA keeps selling toxic trailers despite report

MSNBC

07/23/07

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will keep selling and donating surplus disaster-relief trailers despite concerns that they may have unhealthy levels of formaldehyde, the agency said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs plan to test the air quality in the trailers...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19919244/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Informant: NHNE

By Julian Robinson

A PUBLIC meeting will take place today as residents step up their bid to stop a mobile phone mast being built on their doorsteps.

Communications giant O2 wants to put the 12.5m mast on the corner of Redhill and Winchester Road in Bassett, Southampton, but homeowners are concerned about its possible health impact and have enlisted the help of MP Sandra Gidley.

Read More...
http://www.thisishampshire.net/display.var.1559109.0.dont_put_your_phone_mast_on_our_doorstep.php

http://tinyurl.com/2vagfg

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Plame Suit Dismissed by Controversial GOP Loyalist

Truthout's Jason Leopold and Matt Renner report that a US District Court judge has dismissed the civil lawsuit made by CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson, against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and other senior officials in the Bush administration. The ruling agrees with the White House's assertion of executive privilege on a wide-range of controversial legal challenges by third parties.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907R.shtml



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Informant: Ed Ward, MD

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070719/69254298.html


Informant: Kev Hall

by Bruce MacDougall

ISLANDERS are intensifying their campaign against plans to build 50 new telecoms masts.

Environment minister David De Lisle accepts a petition against plans for more than 50 Airtel Guernsey masts from campaign organiser Stephanie Nickolls. (Picture by Sophie Bourge, 0462156)


A petition signed by around 1,200 people was delivered to Environment minister David De Lisle outside Frossard House yesterday.

Stephanie Nickolls, who is leading the fight, was supported by dozens of campaigners as she handed it over.

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http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=002445

A CAMPAIGNER is using the internet to wage war on communications giants hoping to install new mobile phone masts in the town.

Colin Buchanan has set up a blog crammed with newspaper articles and the latest scientific research into health risks associated with living near the masts.

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http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/?module=displaystory&story_id=1042&format=html

Im Streit um eine schnellere Abschaltung alter Atomkraftwerke legt Umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) den Verbrauchern nahe, auf Atomstrom zu verzichten. Sollten die Energieversorger gefährliche Altmeiler nicht dauerhaft vom Netz nehmen, könnten die Stromkunden "ihre Macht nutzen", sagte Gabriel im Berliner "Tagesspiegel". "Jeder hat natürlich die Möglichkeit, durch den Wechsel zu einem Ökostromanbieter den Atomausstieg selbst zu vollziehen. Je mehr Kunden zu Anbietern wechseln, die auf Atomkraft verzichten und den Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien beziehen, desto besser." Als besonders risikoträchtige Meiler nannte der Minister Biblis A, Brunsbüttel und Neckarwestheim 1.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16353

Im Südwest-Atlantik verenden nach Darstellung der Umweltstiftung WWF jährlich rund sieben Millionen Haie und Rochen als ungewollter Beifang der kommerziellen Langleinen-Fischerei auf Tunfisch, Schwertfisch und Seehecht. Laut WWF sollen schätzungsweise 5,5 Millionen Blauhaie und 1,1 Millionen der auf der Roten Liste als gefährdet eingestuften Kurzflossen-Makos qualvoll ums Leben kommen. Die von großen Fangschiffen ausgebrachten und bis zu 100 Kilometer langen Kunststoffseile mit tausenden Haken würden auch für 34.000 Seevögel wie den Albatross und über 4000 Meeresschildkröten zur Todesfalle, heißt es in einem Bericht der Umweltstiftung.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16359

Just in case anyone is interested:

http://tinyurl.com/32deag

Sometimes we have to fight at the distinctly unsexy level of common or garden planning policy and legislation rather than pontificate on the 'higher' ideology which, from much that I read, appears to dictate that health concerns have primacy. Sooner or later, our time will come, but in the meantime we must accept reality.

David

"The Bush administration, after publicly demanding that Musharraf rein in militants linked to al Qaida, on Wednesday threatened to launch attacks into Pakistani territory if it sees fit," reports Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907B.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0718-13.htm

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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2622/



Concerns Rise Over Vulnerability of U.S. Atomic Facilities to Earthquakes

After World's Largest Nuclear Plant Damaged by Japanese Quake
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0718-14.htm

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Accidents Dim Hopes for Green Nuclear Option

Brad Knickerbocker for The Christian Science Monitor on how the recent earthquake in Japan has raised concerns on the safety of nuclear energy as a cleaner alternative.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071907EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Knickerbocker

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2624/

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2628/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2630



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+Garton+Ash

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2625/



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Achtung: Hartz IV-Konto-Spionage durch Ämter

Konto- Spionage durch die Ämter bei Hartz IV- Empfängern ist die Realität! Eine Konto-Abfrage von Menschen die auf Sozialleistungen wie das Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, wird nun auch den Sozialbehörden eingeräumt. Bisher wurde eine Konto-Überprüfung durch den Zoll und die Polizei bei Schwerst kriminellen Delikten wie der Geldwäsche und der Steuerhinterziehung vollzogen. Doch das Unternehmenssteuergesetz macht dies nun auch bei Empfänger des Arbeitslosengeld II machbar.

Ein Verdacht auf einen sog. Leistungsmissbrauch soll zukünftig schon ausreichen, um Konten von Erwerbslosen zu durchleuchten. Nach einigen Zeitungsberichten werden die Konten sogar ohne Wissen der Betroffenen überprüft. Eine Auskunftspflicht besteht für die Arge nicht.

Die Bundesregierung, so die "Stuttgarter Zeitung" erwartet, dass die zuständigen Ämter die Überwachung von Bankkonten "rege nutzen werde". Ein Sprecher des Bundesministeriums für "Arbeit und Soziales" sagte gegenüber dem Blatt: "Das wird wahrscheinlich in Zukunft zu einem Anstieg der Gesamtzahl der Abfragen führen".

Erwerbslosen-initiativen kritisieren den Generalverdacht, unter denen Hartz IV Empfänger gestellt werden. Damit werden Sozialleistungsempfänger gleich gestellt mit Unternehmen, die im großen Umfang Steuerbetrug und Geldwäsche betreiben. "Allein die Tatsache auf Hartz IV angewiesen zu sein mache verdächtig", so Gritli Bertram von der Redaktion "gegen-hartz.de". Es wird erwartet, dass die Ämter im großen Umfang von der Überprüfung von Konten Gebrauch machen werde. Für die Ämter ist es nicht erforderlich nachzuweisen, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen keinen Erfolg hatten. Zuständige Jobcenter können formulieren, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen "keinen Erfolg versprechen".

Artikel:
http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e199720890a01.php


Ihre Gegen-hartz.de Redaktion
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Die Arbeitsagentur und ihre "Kundendaten"

Konto-Spionage

Konten von Hartz-IV-Empfängern sollen durchleuchtet werden

„Gemäß der Unternehmenssteuerreform sollen künftig auch Jobcenter und Arbeitsämter bei Verdacht auf Leistungsmissbrauch die Kontendaten von Hartz-IV-Empfängern abfragen dürfen. Die Bundesregierung geht davon aus, dass die neue Befugnis rege genutzt wird…“ Artikel von Stefan Krempl vom 19.07.2007 bei heise news http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93001


Hartz IV: Kontoabfrage möglich. Konto- Spionage durch die Ämter bei Hartz IV- Empfängern

„Eine Konto-Abfrage von Menschen die auf Sozialleistungen wie das Arbeitslosengeld II angewiesen sind, wird nun auch den Sozialbehörden eingeräumt. Bisher wurde eine Konto-Überprüfung durch den Zoll und die Polizei bei Schwerst kriminellen Delikten wie der Geldwäsche und der Steuerhinterziehung vollzogen. Doch das Unternehmenssteuergesetz macht dies nun auch bei Empfänger des Arbeitslosengeld II machbar. (…) Erwerbslosen-initiativen kritisieren den Generalverdacht, unter denen Hartz IV Empfänger gestellt werden. Damit werden Sozialleistungsempfänger gleich gestellt mit Unternehmen, die im großen Umfang Steuerbetrug und Geldwäsche betreiben. "Allein die Tatsache auf Hartz IV angewiesen zu sein mache verdächtig", so Gritli Bertram von der Redaktion "gegen-hartz.de". Es wird erwartet, dass die Ämter im großen Umfang von der Überprüfung von Konten Gebrauch machen werde. Für die Ämter ist es nicht erforderlich nachzuweisen, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen keinen Erfolg hatten. Zuständige Jobcenter können formulieren, dass vorige Auskunftsersuchen "keinen Erfolg versprechen".“ Bericht bei "gegen-hartz.de" vom 19.07.07 http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e199720890a01.php


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Juli 2007

Seumas Milne reports for The Guardian UK, "Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organizations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907O.shtml



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

"Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters," reports the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907L.shtml



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

Common Dreams
by Caroline Arnold

07/18/07

This week our Senate is debating the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, designed to restore habeas corpus rights denied by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to some 12 million legal residents of the U.S. …. Too many Americans today are deeply insecure in their understanding of fundamental systems that affect their lives …. they’re not quite sure how we should fight terrorism, and they’re hazy about habeas corpus. But they experience real fear when they read about people being detained without knowing the charges against them. They wonder ‘What if I got arrested, but didn’t know what for?’ ‘What if my son was detained and I couldn’t find out what he had done or where he was?’ Then they wonder further: ‘How do I know that I won’t be next?’ ‘What should I do or not do to make sure someone doesn’t accuse me and have me arrested?’ We begin to see that the cancellation of habeas corpus was an artful move to make citizens more insecure, more distrustful of one another, and more fearful...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/18/2597/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Caroline+Arnold

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/18/07

If, as President Bush claims, Iraq is a sovereign country and its government represents the people, then why are American officials ordering the parliament to cancel its August vacation and insisting that the al-Maliki government meet certain ‘benchmarks?’ Is it sovereign or not? By what authority does the U.S. government dictate to it? Something just doesn’t add up here...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0707e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

Liberty For All
by Jonathan David Morris

07/18/07

It’s great to see so many Republicans jumping off the George W. Bush bandwagon. Now that it’s considered political suicide for the GOP to support its own president, maybe we’ll finally have a party in Washington with the guts to impeach him. I don’t care how crazy or drastic you think this sounds. I don’t care if it makes you cringe. There’s nothing extremist about it...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=761


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+David+Morris

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

07/18/07

A year and a half ago, passionate arguments broke out over reports about the National Security Agency’s ‘data-mining’ technologies. A couple of years earlier, the Pentagon attempted to fund a still-more intrusive program called the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network. (The latter effort failed, but the concept was almost certainly re-routed to the NSA or elsewhere.) Concerns were raised about privacy rights, the abuse of power, and the worth of such networks to begin with. Judging from the NIE (not just from these key passages but from its general assessment of a ‘persistent and evolving terrorist threat’), the debate over these vast surveillance systems will soon be renewed...

http://www.slate.com/id/2170643/fr/flyout


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=total+information+awareness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NSA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

07/19/07

One of the more memorable and revealing statements explaining the nature of the Bush administration buildup to the invasion of Iraq was offered in September 2002 by then White House chief of staff Andrew Card. ‘From a marketing point of view,’ he said, ‘you don’t introduce new products in August.’ Five years later, a period longer than the Civil War and World War II, the administration is preparing to present its case for continuing the surge in Iraq. But rather than waiting for September, when Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his report, the administration has moved up the marketing to July. The familiar props are rolled out, like the well-worn and peeling painted backdrop for a production of a traveling Victorian theatrical troupe, and members of the audience are expected to watch with rapt fascination, as though they had never seen this show before. The negative response to the preview does not alter the same old script...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

Tim Shipman of the Telegraph UK reports: "Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested that the war has made al Qaeda attacks on American soil more likely. Senator George Voinovich, a close ally of Mr. Bush, revealed that he warned Karl Rove - the president's chief political adviser - last week that Mr. Bush must devise a new plan for Iraq or he would vote with Democrats on Capitol Hill to withdraw troops."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907K.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Voinovich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawl

Jason Leopold's in-depth investigation for Truthout reveals how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907J.shtml



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

This Is London [UK]

07/18/07

Labour has drawn up secret ‘Big Brother’ plans to hand the details of routine journeys taken by millions of innocent motorists to the police, it has emerged. Officers will be able to trawl private information recorded by traffic cameras when investigating even the most minor crimes, according to papers made public by an astonishing Government blunder. Once the controversial national road-pricing scheme is under way, short journeys to the shops, work or to visit friends will all be logged. … The internal documents, released in error, reveal the planned laws have already caused a deep Cabinet rift and critics said they were further evidence of a ‘creeping surveillance state’...

http://tinyurl.com/2kenla


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Chattanooga Times Free Press

07/18/07

Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush’s adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before September. The 52-47 vote fell far short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation and marked the final act in an all-night session that Democrats engineered to dramatize their opposition to the war...

http://tinyurl.com/2syqmb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

USA Today

07/18/07

Over the past year, Iraqis heard several audio recordings by a mysterious terrorist leader named Omar al-Baghdadi singing the praises of the organization al-Qaeda in Iraq and urging his followers to attack U.S. troops. The whole thing was a sham, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Al-Baghdadi was actually a fictional character dreamed up by al-Qaeda in Iraq to bolster its local credibility because the group is largely run by non-Iraqis. The voice heard in the recordings belonged to an Iraqi actor, the military said...

http://tinyurl.com/3a7tho


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=whales
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Heather Boushey and Joshua Holland report for AlterNet on the contradictory stories of the American economy, where the stock market continues to boom, but at the same time Americans are told their government is unable to pay for a "robust social net."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071807LB.shtml



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

Reuters reports that Mexico, the likely cradle of corn cultivation, is planning to begin planting GMO corn as a response to their staple crop rising in price due to demand from the US for corn-based ethanol fuel.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071807EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMO+corn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
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"After a rare all-night debate whose outcome was never in doubt, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a vote on a Democratic measure to require US troops to withdraw from Iraq by next spring. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) responded by setting aside the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill 'temporarily,'" report Adam Graham-Silverman and Josh Rogin of Congressional Quarterly.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071807R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

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http://www.zeit.de/online/2007/29/interview-wallraff-callcenter



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Video

He's been dubbed 'the MP for Baghdad' and is a hero to the anti-war movement. But have George Galloway's actions provoked a smear campaign to destroy him?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WjtZxAVYPtQ


From Information Clearing House



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

A U.S. intelligence report that al-Qaida is regrouping in northwest Pakistan is unsubstantiated, Pakistan said Wednesday, and it asked Washington to provide it with "actionable intelligence."

http://www.thestate.com/372/story/121840.html


From Information Clearing House

The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate under Senate rules.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19797695/


From Information Clearing House



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

Video

The cost and consequence of U.S. foreign policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18033.htm

Are you angry? So what are you going to do about it?



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18035.htm

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How To Create An Angry American Part II

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How to create an angry American Part 2 gives a deeper and unheard insight that 911 and the Iraq war are not new ideas. Here we make the connection to the sinking of the Titanic and Federal Reserve. And last but not least The Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.truthzonetv.com/view_video.php?video_id=320


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
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Ship Of Fools

By Johann Hari

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth - and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's practically a holiday camp... The annual cruise organised by the 'National Review', mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18030.htm



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

By William Bowles

'Terror' is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. When 'we' slaughter hundreds, thousands of people, it is described as 'collateral damage', or a 'regrettable incident' or, 'we didn't intend to kill innocent civilians', no, they just became victims of an act of terror, but one executed by the state and thus it can never be regarded as an act of terror in the corporate media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18034.htm



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

Rorschach and Awe

By Katherine Eban

America's coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical "black site" operation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18031.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation+methods
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katherine+Eban

By Eric Margolis

As the White House now ponders an attack on Iran, we would do well to recall the famed words of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, `one more such victory and we are ruined.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18032.htm



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

Sign IDA's petition urging Congress to end cruel experiments on humankind's closest genetic relatives.

http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/feature_070718.html



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