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Die Ulmer Ärzteinitiative weist schon seit Jahren darauf hin, dass in der Umgebung von Atomkraftwerken Kleinkinder vermehrt an Krebs und Missbildungen erkranken. Dies wird jetzt durch eine neue US-studie bestätigt...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/politik/033ea2996e0e0fe05/033ea299770d77801.html

„Sage niemand, die Provinz sei harmlos. Einer der einflussreichsten Fürsprecher einer Militarisierung der deutschen und europäischen Außenpolitik ist im westfälischen Gütersloh zuhause. Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung unterstützt im Kampf um den globalen Einfluss den Aufbau der "Supermacht Europa" und deren militärischer Aufrüstung, womöglich auch mit Atomwaffen…“ Artikel von Jörn Hagenloch in telepolis vom 26.07.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25765/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Juli 2007



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Thirty-Three Years Later: A Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/26/2782/



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DIe steigenden Ozonkonzentrationen am Boden schädigen die Pflanzen und mindern nicht nur die Ernten, sondern auch die Aufnahme von CO2.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/93320

Wild horse round up to begin in days: your help needed!
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/arizona/alert_070725.htm

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"Exxon could again post the biggest profit in corporate history as lower oil prices, higher gasoline prices fuel refining bonanza .... Exxon (Charts, Fortune 500), which actually refines more barrels of oil than it pumps, could see over $11 billion in earnings, which would be the biggest quarterly profit in corporate history," reports Steve Hargreaves for CNNMoney.com.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607N.shtml



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Audio and Transcript

Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage joins us to talk about his new book, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Savage charts the ways the Bush administration has circumvented laws and expanded presidential authority.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18553.htm

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Defying the Imperial Presidency

"Congress must not capitulate in the White House's attempt to rob it of its constitutional powers," writes The New York Times. "It is not too late for President Bush to spare the country the trauma, and himself the disgrace, of this particular constitutional showdown. There is a simple way out. He should direct Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten to provide Congress with the information to which it is entitled."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607L.shtml



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Jason Leopold reports for Truthout on a DOJ memo which emerged on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, revealing comprehensive White House access to multiple areas of the Justice Department's operations and information.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607J.shtml



Documents Contradict Gonzales's Testimony

"Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales," writes Lara Jakes Jordan for The Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607K.shtml



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TOGETHER in protest: West Didsbury residents are furious after Orange erected a phone mast in the village

NEIGHBOURS who created their own picturesque retreat in the heart of West Didsbury were horrified to discover it has been ripped up to make way for a phone mast.

Furious residents have hit out at mobile phone giant Orange after it dug up a Lime Tree and removed a bench next to the grounds of Withington Community Hospital.

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http://www.infowars.net/articles/july2007/250707NAU.htm


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http://www.keine-lobbyisten-in-ministerien.de/index.php/Hauptseite

Lobbyisten-Liste enthüllt Einfluss in Ministerien
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,496720,00.html

Wirtschaftsvertreter arbeiten in Ministerien, Umweltverbände bleiben außen vor. Quelle 1: Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=2513 / Punkt 1 Quelle 2: LobbyControl-Datenbank http://www.keine-lobbyisten-in-ministerien.de

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Sponsoring-Bericht: Politik bekam 80 Millionen Euro Spenden von Unternehmen

Die 14 Bundesministerien und übrigen obersten Bundesbehörden haben in den vergangenen zwei Jahren über 80 Millionen Euro an Geld- und Sachspenden von Unternehmen angenommen, rund 25 Millionen mehr als in den zwei Jahren zuvor. Das berichtet die "Bild"-Zeitung unter Berufung auf den noch unveröffentlichten, über 80 Seiten starken Sponsoring-Bericht des Bundesinnenministeriums. Am großzügigsten wurde danach das Gesundheitsministerium mit 49,7 Millionen Euro bedacht.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16399

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Lobbyisten in den Ministerien
http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/2007/07/aktion-sommerpause-in-den-medien/

LobbyControl-Datenbank: s. http://www.keine-lobbyisten-in-ministerien.de

LobbyControl-Newsletter, Extra vom 30.7.2007

Offenbar haben wir mit der Vorstellung unserer Datenbank “Lobbyisten in den Ministerien” und der Aktion “Lobbyisten in die Sommerpause” einen Nerv getroffen - die Medien berichteten an prominenter Stelle. Bei Spiegel-online gehörte der Beitrag über unsere Datenbank gestern zu den drei von Lesern am häufigsten empfohlenen Artikeln. Die FR wählte das Thema für die Seite Drei als “Thema des Tages”; Süddeutsche (nur Printausgabe), taz und Neues Deutschland berichteten ausführlich. Weitere Berichte gibt es auf heise.de und telepolis.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,496720,00.html
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?em_cnt=1180244
http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=start&art=2381&id=wirtschaft-artikel&cHash=939a7a0951
http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=113515&IDC=3
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93467
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25828/1.html

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Weitere Hinweise zur Lobbydebatte in der EU http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=579

+ ... Deutschland hinkt hinterher.

Auch in Deutschland ist die Debatte um die Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in den Ministerien noch nicht beendet. Zur Zeit wird ein Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie in der Regierung beraten, allerdings soll die Praxis der Leihbeamten nicht ganz beendet werden. Wir machen weiter Druck, dieser demokratieschädlichen Praxis ganz den Riegel vorzuschieben. Mehr dazu in den nächsten Wochen. Wir halten Sie auf dem Laufenden.

Aktuelles zu Lobbyisten in Ministerien http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=576

Lobbyisten raus aus Ministerien!
http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/lobbyisten-raus-aus-ministerien/



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Mercury - the winged poisoner

What of the long establishment / govt. declarations of safety ?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/06/mercury-in-your-teeth-you-need-to-watch-this-video.aspx

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Maternal amalgam dental fillings as the source of mercury exposure in developing fetus and newborn

Palkovicova L, Ursinyova M, Masanova V, Yu Z, Hertz-Picciotto I. Department of Environmental Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2007 Sep 12

Dental amalgam is a mercury-based filling containing approximately
50% of metallic mercury (Hg(0)). Human placenta does not represent a real barrier to the transport of Hg(0); hence, fetal exposure occurs as a result of maternal exposure to Hg, with possible subsequent neurodevelopmental disabilities in infants. This study represents a substudy of the international NIH-funded project "Early Childhood Development and polychlorinated biphenyls Exposure in Slovakia". The main aim of this analysis was to assess the relationship between maternal dental amalgam fillings and exposure of the developing fetus to Hg. The study subjects were mother-child pairs (N=99). Questionnaires were administered after delivery, and chemical analyses of Hg were performed in the samples of maternal and cord blood using atomic absorption spectrometry with amalgamation technique. The median values of Hg concentrations were 0.63 mug/l (range 0.14-2.9 mug/l) and 0.80 mug/l (range 0.15-2.54 mug/l) for maternal and cord blood, respectively. None of the cord blood Hg concentrations reached the level considered to be hazardous for neurodevelopmental effects in children exposed to Hg in utero (EPA reference dose for Hg of 5.8 mug/l in cord blood). A strong positive correlation between maternal and cord blood Hg levels was found (rho=0.79; P<0.001). Levels of Hg in the cord blood were significantly associated with the number of maternal amalgam fillings (rho=0.46, P<0.001) and with the number of years since the last filling (rho=-0.37, P<0.001); these associations remained significant after adjustment for maternal age and education.

Dental amalgam fillings in girls and women of reproductive age should be used with caution, to avoid increased prenatal Hg exposure.

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, 12 September 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.jes.7500606.

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AlterNet
by Rebecca Solnit

07/25/07

Nuclear power proponents like to picture a bunch of clean plants humming away like beehives across the landscape. Yet when it comes to the mining of uranium, which mostly takes place on indigenous lands from northern Canada to central Australia, you need to picture fossil-fuel-intensive carbon-emitting vehicles, and lots of them — big disgusting diesel-belching ones. But that’s the least of it. The Navajo are fighting right now to prevent uranium mining from resuming on their land, which was severely contaminated by the postwar uranium boom of the 1940s and 1950s. The miners got lung cancer. The children in the area got birth defects and a 1,500 percent increase in ovarian and testicular cancer. And the slag heaps and contaminated pools that were left behind will be radioactive for millennia...

http://www.alternet.org/environment/57530/


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from Reason to Freedom
by Michelle

07/25/07

My brother joined the Army in 1970 along with many of the older brothers and boyfriends in our neighborhood. Many of us too young to go protested the war at the University of Houston campus and Milby Park because we felt that the government lied us into war. We saw firsthand how many of them died and were wounded; we saw our mothers worry if they were the next family to get a visit from the Army guys whose job it was to deliver the worst news a mom can get. We protested even though the same moms and dads supported the war as did everyone’s teachers, coaches and other adults. We were called dirty hippies, told to leave our country of birth, called treasonous and commie pinko trash. Pretty much what I still get called today when we protest yet another senseless war...

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Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

07/24/07

So, I was thinking about the fact that the Dems insist there’s nothing they can do without a two-thirds majority. There are two problems with that sort of talk: 1) Even if they can’t over-ride a veto, they could still just refuse to pass a spending bill for Iraq, NSA spying, and other obscenities. And if a few Democrats refused to go along and tried to vote with the Republicans to get a majority on a spending bill, I’m sure that between filibusters and the procedural powers of the House and Senate majority leaders and committee chairs, Reid and Pelosi could find a way to fix this. If they really wanted to, and if they were prepared to take some risks for the sake of the Republic...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/07/24/6844


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CounterPunch
by Ray McGovern

07/25/07

What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the “noble cause” for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was “worth it.”Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours...

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07252007.html


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Asia Times
by Beverly Darling

07/25/07

Even enormously egotistical Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson expressed regrets for their follies. But “regret” and “remorse” do not seem to be words in the Bush family vocabulary. Their nation and its people are poorer for it...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG26Ak01.html


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Seattle Times

07/25/07

Rep. Don Young is facing criminal investigation, a federal law enforcement official confirmed today, making Young the second member of Alaska’s three-person congressional delegation under scrutiny. Separately, Sen. Ted Stevens has acknowledged he has been told by authorities to preserve records of a house remodeling project involving VECO Corp., the Anchorage-based oil field service company...

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USA Today

07/25/07

The House Judiciary committee on Wednesday voted to recommend that two White House aides be charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with an investigation of the firing of nine U.S. prosecutors. White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former legal counselor Harriet Miers were named for declining to appear before the House Judiciary Committee or hand over documents, citing the White House claim to executive privilege...

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On Friday, July 27, NOW will ask, "Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004? Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?"

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Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press writes: "A leading Democratic House Iraq war critic said Wednesday he'll soon push legislation that would order US troop withdrawals to begin in two months and predicted that Republicans will swing behind it this time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507S.shtml



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John R. Wilke, The Wall Street Journal, reports: "A senior House Republican has come under criminal investigation in the Justice Department's widening inquiry into alleged influence-peddling and self-dealing in Congress."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507R.shtml



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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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Urge Congress to protect important habitat from destructive development
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Phone mast allergy 'in the mind'?
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EMF exposure causing problems
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Australia considers increasing its ELF exposure limits and to include new "precautionary measures"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4103377/

Child use of antidepressants up four-fold
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4100344/

Ritalin stunts growth of children; long-term risk to children's health unknown
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4100353/

How Exposure to Mobile Phone Base-station Signals can Adversely Affect Humans
http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/Dr%20Hyland%20Evidence.pdf

The trial of Australian national David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay was a charade that served to corrode the rule of law, Australia's top legal body has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6913374.stm


From Information Clearing House



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In a videotape that CNN characterized as having been "intercepted," excerpts of which appeared on an anti-terrorist Web site last week, a grayer bin Laden appears in fatigues against a mountainous backdrop.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/07/24/al_qaida/


From Information Clearing House



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Scott Horton Interviews Philip Giraldi

Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.

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"The future security environment is very uncertain, and some trends are not favorable," it said, pointing to North Korea and Iran as countries whose nuclear programs "underscore the importance of US security guarantees."

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From Information Clearing House

BBC Audio Documentary

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18074.htm

By Chalmers Johnson

The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. Naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its "suspects" to be interrogated, abused, and tortured.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18071.htm



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By Frank J. Ranelli

Why we as a nation, have been titrated, which is the gradual increasing of dosage, pressure, and propaganda, till the desired effect - an inured and compliant society - have willingly bequeathed away our autonomy of self-government, embraced the genesis of tyranny, and begin our seemingly inexorable march towards dictatorship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18073.htm



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Ernest Partridge

Bush's "National Continuity Policy, issued May 9, states, in effect, that in the event of a "catastrophic emergency," which might mean a terrorist attack or natural disaster, within "the homeland" or abroad, the President could, as a "unitary executive," seize near dictatorial powers. This means that another hurricane of Katrina size, or a Richter-7 earthquake, or even a massive civil disobedient protest, could trigger the onset of a Bush dictatorship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18072.htm



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By Eric Margolis

The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan. One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18070.htm



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By Gary Leupp

Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them "low-hanging fruit"--- as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18069.htm



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"After the wave of successes in 2004 voter registration drives by groups like ACORN, a half-dozen states passed severe laws that scared off voting activists - and now the Senate is weighing in," reports Steven Rosenfeld of AlterNet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507F.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0725-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0725-11.htm

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House Votes to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq

The Gavel reports: "Today, the House passed HR 2929, Banning Permanent US Bases in Iraq. This bill states that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing a permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507T.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2767/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2753/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2749



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2759



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ruth+Conniff

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2769/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2771/

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Two Bush Aides to Face Contempt Citations

"Heading toward a separation-of-powers showdown, House Democrats approved contempt-of-Congress citations against two White House aides who have refused to comply with subpoenas for information on the abrupt firings of federal prosecutors," reports Laurie Kellman for the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507A.shtml

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House Panel Finds Bush Aides In Contempt
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/13752184/detail.html


Informant: ranger116



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

http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2970061/



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

Laut "Dr. Doom" Marc Faber ist ein weltweiter Börsencrash unvermeidbar. Eine Blase nach der anderen werde platzen. Fragt sich nur: Wann?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25809/1.html

Jul 25 2007

Nev Wilson

AN OUTRAGED army of residents in Woodhatch is fast gaining numbers after a borough council blunder cast an unwanted shadow over their homes.

More than 100 householders living along Prices Lane and the surrounding streets have signed a petition to prevent the building of a phone mast at the end of their road - a battle they thought was long since won.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/36jxeg

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Incidentally, how many T-Mobile 56-day rule masts have gone up in the
last 9 months?

I have lost count.

The current T-Mobile approach appears to be as follows:-

1. Put in application
2. Pass brown envelope to Council Planning Officer
3. Wait for Planning Committee to reject mast
4. Wait for Officer in step 2 to send rejection letter after 56 days
5. Erect mast soon after

Brilliant! Saves all that delay and cost involved with an appeal.

M.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Scott Lindlaw reports for the Associated Press: "Congressional investigators told the White House on Tuesday that they intend to question several former Bush administration officials about their knowledge of Pat Tillman's death, escalating their inquiry into the high-profile friendly fire case ... Congressional investigators are interested in what White House staff members knew because Tillman's family and others believe officials at the highest levels of government hid facts to limit public-relations damage."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507P.shtml



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

Ann Scott Tyson reports for The Washington Post: "Mike Helms, 31, a civilian counterintelligence expert with the Army's 902nd Military Intelligence Group, had been sent to Iraq in 2004 to help fill a critical intelligence gap in the area known as the Sunni Triangle. While in Iraq, he lived with soldiers and ate military rations, took fire from mortar rounds and small arms, and clocked hundreds of miles manning a machine gun on the back of a Humvee. Nevertheless, his status as an Army civilian would leave him stranded in the aftermath of the June 16, 2004 attack, when the bomb hit his Humvee so hard it blew his M-60 off its turret. In the months that followed, Helms recalled, he was denied vital care for his wounds."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507O.shtml

The New York Times writes: "The American people have only one question left about Iraq: What is President Bush's plan for a timely and responsible exit? That is the essential precondition for salvaging broader American interests in the Middle East and for waging a more effective fight against al Qaeda in its base areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And it is exactly the question that Mr. Bush, his top generals and his diplomats so stubbornly and damagingly refuse to answer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exit+strategy

"Fort Lewis, Washington - Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month. The anger and hurt were immediate," reports William Yardley for The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507M.shtml

Brad Knickerbocker reports for The Christian Science Monitor: "Two different government entities are investigating decisions by Bush administration officials related to species recovery. In one, the US Interior Department is reviewing the scientific integrity of decisions under the law made by a political appointee, who recently resigned under fire. At the same time, Congress is investigating evidence that Vice President Dick Cheney interfered with decisions involving water in California and Oregon that resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of Klamath River salmon, some of which were listed as 'threatened' species."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endangered+species+act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Knickerbocker

Lara Jakes Jordan reports for the Associated Press, "Angry senators suggested a special prosecutor should investigate misconduct at the Justice Department, accusing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday of deceit on the prosecutor firings and President Bush's eavesdropping program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507K.shtml

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Gonzo on the Hill: a Comedic Tragedy

"Forget about the politicization of the Justice Department. Forget about the falling morale there. Forget about the rise in violent crime in some of our biggest cities. Forget about the events leading up to the US attorney scandal and the way he has handled the prosecutor purge since. Forget about the Department's role in allowing warrantless domestic surveillance. Forget about the contorted and contradictory accounts he's offered before in his own defense. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales deserves to be fired for his testimony Tuesday alone," writes Andrew Cohen for The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507B.shtml

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Senators question Gonzales’ honesty in blistering hearing

Frankfort Times

07/25/07

‘Sorry’ didn’t cut it Tuesday for senators furious with the Justice Department, ignoring Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ repeated apologies and promises to fix the problems. What had seemed to be a congressional inquiry on the wane flared up anew, and with gusto, as senators threatened to call for a special prosecutor in the controversy that has plagued the department for six months...

http://tinyurl.com/3ytl9r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Cohen

"House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush's chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the multiple firings of US attorneys," reports Amy Goldstein for The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507J.shtml



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

25. Juli 2007

Katja Kipping

Zur Halbjahresbilanz zur Umsetzung des Sozialgesetzbuches II erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping (MdB):

Laut dem Staatssekretär im Bundesarbeitsministerium, Rudolf Anzinger, ging die Zahl der BezieherInnen von Arbeitslosengeld II im ersten Halbjahr 2007 um zwölf Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum zurück. Er sagt nicht, wie viele Menschen, insbesondere auch junge Menschen, von den abschreckenden und repressiven Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung in den Graubereich jenseits des Leistungsbezuges ausgegrenzt worden sind: durch Sofortangebote von 1 € - Jobs, Sozialdetektive im Privatbereich und den täglichen zermürbenden Kampf mit den Ämtern. Deshalb auch kein Wort von der Bundesregierung zu der hohen Anzahl verdeckt Armer: Nach wissenschaftlichen Schätzungen beziehen ca. 30 Prozent der Berechtigten keine Leistungen nach Hartz IV. Diese Menschen einberechnet würde die Statistik ganz anders aussehen, nämlich entsprechend der Realität. Genauso wenig kann die Erfolgsstory "Job" als eine solche bezeichnet werden. Der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Deutschen Städtetages, Stephan Articus, verwies darauf, dass die Zahl der Erwerbstätigen, die ALG II beantragen, zunehme. Zur Realität gehört eben auch, dass über eine Million Erwerbstätiger ergänzend Hartz IV in Anspruch nehmen müssen, weil sie für einen Hungerlohn arbeiten müssen. Statt mit Statistiken Erfolge zu verbuchen, wäre es angebracht an der Realität orientierte politische Aktivitäten zu entfalten: für einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn, eine bedarfsorientierte repressionsfreie Grundsicherung und für sinnvolle, Existenz sichernde öffentlich geförderte Arbeit.

Quelle: http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/nicht-jeder-statistische-erfolg-ist-ein-erfolg-in-der-realitaet/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialdetektiv
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grundsicherung

http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=3771&language=1


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0724-06.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2730/


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melanie+Sloan

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2719

John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2736



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2739/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2734/



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

http://www.schaeuble-wegtreten.de/index.php



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

A CITY councillor has objected to an application for a mobile phone mast outside Napier University's Craiglockhart campus.

Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart councillor Gordon Buchan lodged his objection with the planning department on the grounds that the development would lead to the narrowing of a pavement.

Read More...
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1160892007

http://tinyurl.com/ytrlyb
Translation with SYSTRAN

Aufruhr im Tal der Funkstille
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,496209,00.html

Subprimes downgraded. Will Moody's downgrade America's debt next? Actually, that's already happening; our credit rating is collapsing with the dollar.

http://tinyurl.com/2mlx58


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=collapsing+dollar

Just six percent of those polled said they felt more safe, according to the Newspoll survey for GetUp, a political pressure group that claims nearly 190,000 members.

http://tinyurl.com/27vd8t


From Information Clearing House



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

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the US government for providing them with deficient medical and financial support.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22125631-401,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+veterans

The "threat of Iran" and the need to confront the regime has become a mainstream view in the US legislature, attracting support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG25Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khody+Akhavi

The draft, developed by Gen. David Petraeus' staff, lays out a series of security-related goals over two years, envisioning U.S. troops in the "war zone" through 2009.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24204445.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

By David Armstrong

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rule+the+world
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unilateralism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+superiority
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Armstrong

By Neil Mackay

A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm



The President's Real Goal In Iraq

By Jay Bookman

The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=regime+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+domination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neil+Mackay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bookman

http://de.indymedia.org/2007/07/188486.shtml


Nachricht von Dr. Angelika Schrodt

By Dave Lindorff

If Rosa Parks had lived two years longer, what happened today in the halls of Congress might have killed her. It certainly would have broken her heart.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18065.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_205160545.html

Go to site for video...


Mark G.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=church+mast

Marc Gunther for Fortune Magazine reports that America's rice farmers didn't want to grow a genetically engineered crop, and asks how it ended up in our food.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EC.shtml

A Japanese earthquake that has forced the closure of the world's biggest nuclear plant has highlighted the energy source's dangers, just when support was growing, reports Barbara Lewis and Peter Dinkloh for Reuters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+industry

Frank Davies reports in The San Jose Mercury News that although there is fervor to do something about global warming, the US Senate has yet to take action on key global warming bills.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EA.shtml



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

Dan Eggen and William Branigin report for The Washington Post on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's appearance today before Senate Judiciary Committee members, where he defended a dramatic nighttime visit to the hospital bed of his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, in March 2004.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft

http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/240707Schools.htm


Informant: shane_digital



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state

http://www.mdr.de/fakt/4696624.html



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

Papier der Arbeitsgruppe Grundeinkommen des Arbeitskreises Arbeitslosigkeit der IG Metall - Verwaltungsstelle Berlin vom April 2007

Die Tendenz, dass die Arbeitnehmer einen immer kleineren Teil des Volkseinkommens für sich in Anspruch nehmen können, ist leider statistisch verbürgt. Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts ist es der Gesellschaft nicht gelungen, die Arbeitslosigkeit in den Griff zu bekommen. Es ist nicht zu erwarten, dass alle Arbeitsfähigen und Arbeitswilligen einen Erwerbsarbeitsplatz erhalten, von dessen Einkommen sie leben können. Auch wird durch die Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivität die Tendenz verstärkt, dass in Zukunft immer weniger Arbeitsplätze zur Verfügung stehen werden. Darum ist es an der Zeit, dass in der Gesellschaft über andere Formen des Lebensunterhalts für die Menschen nachgedacht wird.

Dieses Nachdenken wollen wir mit dem Papier wieder anregen und damit an die Diskussion aus dem Projekt "fair teilen"anknüpfen. Es scheint an der Zeit, dass sich auch die Gewerkschaften in die Diskussion einbringen.... http://tinyurl.com/yox57l


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 6 - 30. Woche 2007



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

http://tinyurl.com/yvkr29



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

The language used by the Health Protection Agency to warn about the unknowns of wireless internet technology is being used by a council to press for a temporary WiFi blackout in schools.

Like the HPA, which is to probe into the technology next year, the committee of Haringey council urged a “precautionary approach” to WiFi, because of its potential risks to children and teachers.

Read More...
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003364.html



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