World-News

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/japan_emf_problem.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/japan_emf_problem2.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=BioInitiative
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organisation
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=leukaemia

Scot J. Paltrow reports for The Wall Street Journal: "Whoever succeeds Alberto Gonzales as attorney general will face a long list of challenges at the Justice Department, from unfilled senior positions to sagging morale. One of the most pressing, according to dozens of current and former federal prosecutors, is a budget squeeze at U.S. attorneys' offices that has led to declines in crime prosecutions and delays in major investigations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scot+J.+Paltrow

The editors of The New York Times write, "A new report from Congress’s investigative arm provides a powerful fresh dose of nonpartisan realism about Iraq as President Bush tries to spin people into thinking that significant - or at least sufficient - progress is being made."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107C.shtml

Eric Lichtblau reports for The New York Times: "The 'state secrets' privilege, allowing the government to shut down litigation on national security grounds, was once rarely used. The Bush administration has turned to it more than 30 times in terrorism-related cases, seeking to end public discussion of cases like the claims of an FBI whistle-blower and the abduction of a German terrorism suspect."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107B.shtml

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US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3543/



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Eric Schmitt and James Glanz report for The New York Times, "An American-owned company operating from Kuwait paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to American contracting officers in efforts to win more than $11 million in contracts, the government says in court documents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107A.shtml



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http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NineNineInsider
http://www.zealllc.com/2001/monster.htm
http://www.goldensextant.com


Informant: Millennium Twain

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3527/


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.counterpunch.org/gibbs08312007.html


Informant: John Stroebel



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Gibbs

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/310807_analysts_dismiss.htm



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Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "Future historians will, without doubt, see Katrina as a turning point. The question is whether it will be seen as the moment when America remembered the importance of good government, or the moment when neglect and obliviousness to the needs of others became the new American way."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107M.shtml



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

Rob Woollard reports for Agence France-Presse, "A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107K.shtml



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

The Associated Press reports that Representative Henry Waxman, a Democratic House leader, has asked presidential counsel Fred Fielding to turn over a report first requested three months ago about the White House's "lost" email.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails
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By Jack Davidson

A PHONE mast has been granted planning permission despite a pensioner's claim that the land it will be built on belongs to her.

Hilda Forsyth, 76, says she has deeds proving the verge of grass outside her home on Picker-sleigh Road, Malvern, is legally hers.

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http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/malvnewsroundup/display.var.1656038.0.land_challenge_to_mast_scheme.php

Dear Ethan,

My son is now starting his senior school and he wants to get a mobile phone. I wasn’t sure he really needed one, but then it got me thinking whether I really needed one, too. I must admit I sometimes find it very convenient but is it ethical to own a mobile phone?

Tony Eriksson
Stockholm

Dear Tony,

Your child needs a mobile phone like he needs a hole in the head, which is exactly what he’ll have if he keeps frying his brains with one of those things. There is nothing natural about holding something to your head that transmits the same stuff they use for cooking food in microwave ovens. Dreadful though microwave ovens are (another column, I fear), at least they try to keep all the radiation in a box. With mobile phones, it’s next to your head. In fact, it’s all around us with those huge transmitters that are a threat to life and a blot on the landscape.

Read More...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3773/

Intellectual Conservative
by Justin Soutar

08/30/07

For a number of years now, respected pundits have lauded the American two-party political system as an excellent balance between the dictatorship of a one-party system and the instability of a multi-party system. Yet the two-party system has caused our country great harm. The Republican and Democratic parties have divided the American people over fundamental moral values, they have failed to rectify longstanding national problems, and their existence chiefly benefits special interest groups, politicians, and mega-corporate executives. Most unfortunately of all, however, the two-party setup does not represent the people of the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/3xfahy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Justin+Soutar

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

08/29/07

President George W. Bush’s behavior gets more baffling every day. Most leaders in his predicament would be recalibrating their rhetoric, seeking to alter expectations, so that the inevitable drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq won’t appear to be a defeat. Instead, Bush is doing the opposite. Twice this past week, he has appeared before his most bedrock base (the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars), promised to give his commanders whatever they need for victory, and lambasted Congress for so much as contemplating withdrawal, a step, he warned, that would imperil civilization and free peoples everywhere. He is willfully ignoring two facts. First, almost nobody in a position of power or much influence is advocating a complete withdrawal from Iraq. Second, a partial withdrawal is certain to take place in the next nine months, and this has nothing to do with Congress. This has been noted time and time again, but apparently it bears repeating: The U.S. Army and Marines are simply running out of combat troops...

http://www.slate.com/id/2173031/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Showdown over Iran

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/31/07

The propaganda campaign is already picking up, but this time the battle is going to be less one-sided. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the War Party had the field practically to themselves. Not a single major politician or political figure rose to question the ‘patriotic’ lies that flooded the airwaves and inundated readers of newspapers and blogs — not a one. This time, however, it is going to be different: the War Party may win, in the end, but they won’t triumph without a fight...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11534


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Showdown With Iran

"You will not find a single instance in which a country has inflicted harm on us and we have left it without a response. So if the United States makes such a mistake, they should know that we will definitely respond. And we don't make idle threats,"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/showdown/view/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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Thanks to overwhelming support from our activists, our ads demanding that Congress stop acting like sheep and start standing up for our rights ran in hometown newspapers of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid this week. We also have online ads running in numerous outlets.

Over the coming months, the ACLU will be ramping up our campaign to demand that Congress act immediately to restore the Constitution, creating a groundswell that will force a timid Congress to clean up the mess it made when it gave Bush sweeping new powers to spy on Americans and demanding that Members of Congress act now to disavow torture, restore habeas corpus, and shut down Guantánamo prison.

Our Don’t Fail Freedom petition — to be delivered on Constitution Day — will really bring the message home. Already, more than 40,000 people have added their voice to our message but to really have an impact we need 100,000 signers by September 17th.

Check out the ad http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=DGtyJo2RyBQamwvPpOU8_Q.. and sign a petition to Reid and Pelosi http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=TczRe5OKsgacdtLkWTBPwg.. .



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Informant: Valerie Fine



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31. August 2007

Wie jetzt bekannt wurde, sind die Pläne von Bundesinnenminister Schäuble zum online Ausspähen privater Computer weitreichender als bisher geahnt. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Schäuble scheint in seinem Überwachungswahn keine Grenzen mehr zu kennen. Unabhängig von der Frage, ob es technisch möglich ist, was sich der Bundesinnenminister wünscht, ist eines offenkundig: Er will offensichtlich sämtliche staatlichen Behörden in die Pflicht nehmen, bei der elektronischen Kommunikation die Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu überwachen und ihnen Trojaner in den Computer zu pflanzen. Das stellt den Rechtsstaat auf den Kopf, führt das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung ad absurdum und wird das ohnehin nicht besonders ausgeprägte Vertrauen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in staatliche Institutionen weiter beschädigen. Die Versicherungen des BKA-Chefs, es werde sich um rund zehn Fälle pro Jahr handeln, erscheinen schon fast lächerlich. Deutschland ist Weltmeister in der Telefonüberwachung, es wird auch Weltmeister in der online-Überwachung, wenn diese Pläne nicht vorher gestoppt werden. Wir bleiben bei unserer Forderung: keine online-Überwachung. Wir fordern die Abgeordneten des Bundestages auf, Schäuble auf seinem Weg in den totalen Schnüffelstaat zu stoppen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/schaeuble-stellt-rechtsstaat-auf-den-kopf/

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Chaos Computer Club veröffentlicht Entwurf des BKA-Gesetzes

Wie kürzlich bekannt wurde, ist die Online-Durchsuchung nur die Spitze des Eisbergs innerhalb des Planungen von Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble zur Ausweitung der Überwachung der Bevölkerung. Dem Chaos Computer Club liegt ein anonym zugespielter Entwurf des neuen BKA-Gesetzes vor. Darin ist u. a. vorgesehen, dass der Einsatz des Bundestrojaners auch ohne die Genehmigung eines Richters erfolgen soll, der normalerweise bei einem Grundrechtseingriff dieser Art obligatorisch ist. Durch die weitgehenden Befugnisse für die Ermittler entsteht der Eindruck, der Bundesinnenminister ignoriere die Vorgaben des Grundgesetzes vollständig.

Auch die Pflicht der Behörde, nach dem Ende von Überwachungsmaßnahmen die betroffenen Bürger zu benachrichtigen, wird durch den Gesetzentwurf weiter eingeschränkt. Wie es heute schon bei Telefon- und Internetüberwachung gängige Praxis ist, wird der Ausspionierte also in Zukunft von der Online-Durchsuchung nur in seltenen Ausnahmefällen Kenntnis erlangen. Dies widerspricht den rechtsstaatlichen Vorgaben des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. [2]

Das BKA soll zudem personenbezogene Daten auch aus den Datenbeständen von Unternehmen erheben, speichern und verstärkt auf die erkennungsdienstliche Behandlung zurückgreifen dürfen. Für Ermittlungen ist der praktisch unregulierte Einsatz von Observationen auch mit Hilfe technischer Mittel vorgesehen. Dies beinhaltet die akustische und optische Überwachung der Betroffenen sowie den Einsatz von V-Leuten und verdeckten Ermittlern auch innerhalb von Wohnungen. Zu diesem Zwecke sollen Mitarbeiter des BKA auch Urkunden (wie z. B. E-Mails anderer Behörden zur Übertragung von Trojanern) verändern und fälschen dürfen. Ebenso wird das Recht eingeräumt, die Anfertigung von Lichtbildern und Tonaufnahmen in Wohnungen Unbeteiligter vorzunehmen, sofern sich ein Betroffener dort aufhält. Diese Maßnahmen werden auch den absolut geschützten Kernbereich privater Lebensgestaltung betreffen. Eine Unterbrechung von Aufnahmen, die intime Details eines Menschen offenbaren würden, kann in Einzelfällen sogar unterbleiben.

Wenn das BKA-Gesetz in der vorliegenden Fassung verabschiedet wird, entsteht de facto eine Geheimpolizei, wie sie in Deutschland zuletzt in der DDR existierte. Angesichts der sich häufenden Berichte über privaten und behördlichen Mißbrauch von Überwachungsbefugnissen warnt der Chaos Computer Club davor, dem Gesetz auch nur teilweise zuzustimmen. Das Trennungsgebot von Polizei und Geheimdiensten darf nicht weiter ausgehölt werden.

Passend hierzu vermeldet die Berliner Zeitung vom Freitag eines der zahlreichen Probleme behördlicher Überwachungsbefugnisse in der Praxis. Durch die Ausweitung der technischen Möglichkeiten und die weitgehende Automatisierung, die auf eine menschliche Überprüfung verzichtet, steigt das Missbrauchspotential drastisch an. [3]

Der CCC übergibt der Öffentlichkeit das Dokument gerne zur Ansicht. [1]

[1] https://www.ccc.de/lobbying/papers/terrorlaws/20070711-BKATERROR.pdf
Der Entwurf des BKA-Gesetzes in der Version vom 11.07.2007 (6,5 MB, PDF)

[2] BVerfGE 109, 279 (363 ff.)

[3] http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/tagesthema/682376.html Beamter unter Verdacht

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Online-Pläne weitergehend als bekannt
http://www.netzeitung.de/deutschland/725830.html

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Phishing für die Sicherheit?

Das Bundesinnenministerium will nicht von seiner Idee lassen, online auf Rechnern zu schnüffeln - die Reaktionen sind entsprechend.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26092/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Online-Durchsuchung
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Matthew Shaer for The Christian Science Monitor reports on "Mangrove Man" Abdoulaye Diame, who is on a crusade in his native Senegal to save the plant that is crucial to curbing floods.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/083007EA.shtml

The Associated Press reports that "the Justice Department said Thursday it is investigating whether resigning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied or otherwise misled Congress last month in sworn testimony about the Bush administration's domestic terrorist spying program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
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In June 2003, during the US-led occupation of Iraq, Gen. Janis Karpinski was given command of the 800th Military Police Brigade, putting her in charge of the fifteen detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces, including Abu Ghraib. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard recently sat down with Karpinski to get her side of the story of how the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib was allowed to happen.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007R.shtml



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The assessment is expected to make it more difficult for the United States to rally support for a new round of sanctions against Tehran.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070830-0842-nuclear-iran.html



US Downplays IAEA Report On Iran Nuclear Cooperation

The U.S. downplayed the importance of an International Atomic Energy Agency report Thursday that detailed significant progress from Iran with its nuclear probe.

http://tinyurl.com/2sx87y



A hidden menace in Bush's words on Iran

The George W Bush administration has seemingly taken advantage of the Congressional recess to escalate tensions with Iran.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH31Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan's plan to challenge Representative Nancy Pelosi for her Congressional seat in November 2008 has elicited cries of praise and dismay across the progressive political spectrum.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/kvh_sheehan


From Information Clearing House

Click:



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Prime minister rebuts U.S. senators, French official; says U.S. troop surge is not responsible for improved security.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_6748376



Propaganda about the surge

Audio

MP3: Dahr Jamail, unembedded independent journalist, discusses the absolute humanitarian catastrophe that the U.S. has created in Iraq, the fact that all the propaganda about the surge is "working," is a bunch of lies, Dahr measures the fate of Nouri al-Malaki's government in the face of the proposed Allawi coup.

http://dissentradio.com/charles/2007-08-22dahrjamail.mp3



U.S. report finds Iraq failing on goals

The White House on Thursday played down a congressional report showing Iraq had achieved few of the political and security goals set by Washington, saying the standards were too high to meet.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30248200.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

By Army National Guard Spc. Eleonai "Eli" Israel

Two months ago, I took a stand that changed my life forever. As a Soldier, a JVB Protective Service Agent, and a Sniper with the Army who had been in Iraq for a year (running over 250 combat missions), I refused to continue to be a part of the occupation. I regret nothing. This is my story.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18279.htm

By Jacob G. Hornberger

The 9/11 attacks brought to the surface a dilemma that everyone, especially libertarians, must now confront: whether to choose a pro-empire, pro-intervention foreign policy or a free society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18276.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
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By Arianna Huffington

As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating the Allawi Coup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18277.htm



Behind Allawi's Bid for Power

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Over time, CIA officials pushed Allawi as a more acceptable and reliable potential successor to Saddam than Ahmed Chalabi, a rival Iraqi exile (and Allawi relative) whose ambitions to succeed Saddam were heavily promoted by neoconservative intellectuals and civilian Pentagon aides to former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18281.htm



Some see 'coup' as Iraq's best hope

In the lobbies of luxury hotels and the apartments of exiles, an assortment of Iraqi politicians has been spending the summer vacation plotting a new Iraqi coup.

http://tinyurl.com/24u64w


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
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By Chris Floyd

It is now obvious that one impetus behind the "surge" was to accelerate the "ethnic cleansing" of Iraq. Given the manifest failure to establish a strong central government to serve as a client state, the conquerors now find it easier to deal with separate ethnic enclaves, which can police themselves, shake out their own internal conflicts (however bloodily) and thus establish some kind of solid leadership that can cut deals and guarantee investments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18278.htm



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VODAFONE has this week moved to clear up confusion surrounding the erection of two large phone masts on Harmonstown Road.

A local resident contacted Northside People to voice his concerns over the erection of the two masts beside an existing mast on Brookwood House, which he initially believed might have been placed there without proper planning permission.

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http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2993&Itemid=49

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of this once-great country believed there was a controlling cabal that was crafting America's servitude. With the assistance of Heaven, they decided to fight those forces. Pastors fought with fiery sermons from the pulpit; newsmen fought with the power of the pen; statesmen fought in the halls of congress; and merchants fought with the sacrifice of their material gain. Together, they lifted Lady Liberty to her feet and defeated the powers of darkness. It took the global elite a long time to recover, but they have reemerged with a vengeance. They are now......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin395.htm



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ulGiPp0LQ

Source: http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=113250



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwT-r91kGCU


Informant: Cal

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Political Mind Control?





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

The New York Times writes, "We would have been hard pressed to think of a more sadly suitable coda to the Bush administration's mishandling of the Abu Ghraib nightmare than Tuesday's verdict in the court-martial of the only officer to be tried for the abuse, sexual assault and torture of prisoners that occurred there in 2003."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007G.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/25/8524/

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History Will Not Absolve Us

By Nat Hentoff

Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18280.htm



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Die nach eigenen Angaben unabhängige und politische Projektplattform "Politika Berlin" kritisiert die Medienberichterstattung im Mai und Juni zum vergangenen G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm. Die mediale Berichterstattung sei von der Gewalt und der Sicherheitssituation vor Ort geprägt gewesen. Berichte über politische Inhalte, die Debatte um die globalen Herausforderungen und Lösungsvorschläge hätten hingegen nur eine untergeordnete Rolle gespielt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16484



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/30/3510/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/30/3500



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/30/3518



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

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2757204,00.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12442



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Aug 30 2007

by Emma Cruces, Formby Times

A WOMAN who has spent hundreds screening her home from radiation, claims a phone mast is making her ill.

Jo Greenwood-Bostock, 54, came forward as Sefton’s councillors produced a report claiming many residents living near masts are experiencing identical symptoms.

Jo was initially unconcerned when she watched workmen erecting the mast 500 metres from her home in 2004.

The Ince Blundell grandmother, who has lived near Orrell Hill Wood for 30 years, only started worrying when symptoms of tinnitus, severe headaches and insomnia began.

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A 20-METRE phone mast could dominate the skyline of one of Winchester's most densely populated areas, residents fear.

People living in Fairfield and Cranworth Roads in Fulflood say the Vodafone tower plan in Andover Road could ruin the visual beauty of the city, as well as affect their health.

James Read, who lives in Fairfield Road, said of the proposal for Hunts Frozen Foods, near to the railway station: "The huge mast is unsuited to the centre of Winchester, supposedly the number one city in which to live in the UK.

"It would be in a visually-devastating central Winchester site, with unknown health risks."

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http://tinyurl.com/2fvp5x

30 August 2007

EDITORIAL - heraldnews@archant.co.uk

AN ATTEMPT to erect another mobile phone mast in Bishop's Stortford has been met with fierce opposition.

The planning application by telecoms company O2 has sparked a petition by nearby residents who are confused over the proposed height of the new tower.

Eve and Terry Pearson of Marguerite Way, Bishop's Stortford, campaigned against the 12.5m mast planned near their home by the roundabout on Great Hadham Road, after receiving a letter from East Herts Council back in May.

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http://tinyurl.com/27yxzz

30 August 2007

The proposed telecommunications mast will replace one of the floodlight pylons at the sports centre

A DECISION on whether to grant planning permission for a mobile phone mast close to two schools has been deferred.

At a meeting last week, North Hertfordshire District Council's planning control committee delayed deciding whether mobile phone company O2 should be allowed to erect a 15.6m high telecommunications mast with a floodlight attachment on land at Sports Centre, Whitethorn Lane in Letchworth GC.

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„Das Bundeskriminalamt hat offenbar einen Computer-Trojaner fertiggestellt, der beliebige Rechner aus der Ferne durchsuchen kann. Das geht aus jetzt enthüllten Schreiben des Innenministeriums hervor. Der Bundes-Trojaner soll sogar Mobilgeräte ausspionieren können…“ Artikel von Konrad Lischka in Spiegel online vom 28. August 2007 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,502542,00.html


BKA-Chef Ziercke: "Maximal zehn Online-Durchsuchungen im Jahr"

Innenminister Schäuble will die Computer von Terrorverdächtigen unbedingt per Online-Durchsuchung filzen können. Rückendeckung bekommt er jetzt vom BKA-Chef - mit einer seltsamen Begründung. Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 29.08.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3m4/deutschland/artikel/415/130190/


Bundestrojaner: Von wegen unschädlich

Das Bundesinnenministerium meint, der eigene Trojaner manipuliere nicht und werde auch nicht entdeckt. Constanze Kurz vom Chaos Computer Club widerspricht. Interview von Mirjam Hauck in sueddeutsche.de vom 29.8.07 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt2m8/computer/artikel/520/130294/


Aus: LabourNet, 30. August 2007

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Datenschutz wird wieder Thema

Schäuble und der Bundestrojaner mobilisieren die Überwachungsgegner.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26082/1.html

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Datenschutzbeauftragter warnt vor Einsatz von "Bundestrojanern"

Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar wendet sich gegen Pläne des Bundesinnenministeriums, mit Hilfe gefälschter Behörden-E-Mails Späh-Software auf Computern zu installieren. Diese so genanten Bundestrojaner dürfe es auch in Ausnahmefällen nicht geben, sagte Schaar dem "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". Er betonte: "Die Polizei darf sich nicht als Jugendamt Köln ausgeben, um eine Ermittlungssoftware auf dem Computer des Betroffenen aufzuspielen. Das ist auf gar keinen Fall zulässig."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16490



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„Marburg. Ein Hartz-IV-Empfänger wirft dem Kreisjobcenter vor, ihm ein illegales Stellenangebot gemacht zu haben. Der Kreis weist den Vorwurf zurück (…) „Ich hätte mich auf das Angebot gar nicht bewerben dürfen.“ Es sei illegal, denn solche Arbeiten müssten von Innungs-Betrieben ausgeführt werden, sagte der 53-Jährige der OP. Zudem, so Karl. T., sei dies keine Vollzeitstelle, sondern allenfalls ein Arbeitsauftrag. Das sieht man auch bei der Kreishandwerkerschaft so. Karl T. sollte das Material einkaufen, die Installationen planen und ausführen. „Das ist dann eine unberechtigte Handwerksausübung, ich will nicht sagen: Schwarzarbeit“, erklärt Lothar Kaiser, Geschäftsführer der Kreishandwerkerschaft. „Das kann und darf nicht sein, zumal es sich zudem um ein sogenanntes gefahrgeneigtes Handwerk handelt.““ Artikel von Uwe Badouin in der Oberhessischen Presse vom 21.08.2007 http://www.op-marburg.de/op/home.news/article.op.jsp?id=20070821.662077


Aus: LabourNet, 30. August 2007

Christian Science Monitor
by Andy Zelleke

08/29/07

In the age of terror, Americans are painfully aware of the vulnerabilities that come from living in a free and open society. But what about the vulnerabilities arising out of our fixed, four-year presidential terms? Poor judgment and incompetence by a chief executive can bring a major corporation to its knees in short order. That’s why boards reserve the right to fire CEOs at a moment’s notice. So why do America’s CEOs enjoy a free ride for four years, when so much more is at stake? This is a question worth debating openly...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wired
by Ryan Singel

08/29/07

The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation’s telecom infrastructure than observers suspected...

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap?currentPage=all


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
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http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=DCSNet&btnG=Google+Search
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Singel

Times Online [UK]
by Frances Elliott

08/27/07

The database, containing the address, medical and school details of all under-18s, could be used to harm the children whom it is intended to protect….The security fears are fuelled further by the admission that information about the children of celebrities and politicians is likely to be excluded from the system...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2332307.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

American Prospect
by Adele M. Stan

08/29/07

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was deeply involved in both of the scandals that may yet yield contempt of Congress citation for members of the executive branch. But will Congress step up to defend the Constitution and issue those citations? …. What is truly surprising about Gonzales’s resignation is its implication that congressional scrutiny of his role in some of the executive branch’s most unsavory actions could somehow have consequences for the administration as a whole — as if Congress actually had its act together in the oversight department. I want so badly to embrace this idea, but I dare not, for fear of yet another fallen hope...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=defending_the_constitution_after_gonzales


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Washington Post's Anne E. Kornblut and Michael D. Shear report: "One of the foremost experts on politics in the Granite State thinks she has found the next critical constituency: military moms."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907WA.shtml



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Jeanne Sahadi, CNNMoney.com, says: "The average CEO of a large US company made roughly $10.8 million last year, or 364 times that of US full-time and part-time workers, who made an average of $29,544, according to a joint analysis released Wednesday by the liberal Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907LA.shtml

John Vidal, The Guardian UK, writes: "The era of 'agrofuels' has arrived, and the scale of the changes it is already forcing on farming and markets around the world is immense. But the surge in demand for agrofuels such as ethanol is hitting the poor and the environment the hardest."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907EA.shtml



Indonesian Peatlands Seen Playing Key Climate Role

Sugita Katyal, Reuters, writes: "In recent years, experts say peat bogs have been stoking global warming through increasing greenhouse gas emissions because of massive deforestation and conversion into agricultural land and palm oil plantations, especially in Southeast Asia, which accounts for a huge chunk of the world's marshes."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
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http://www.anomalicresearch.com/optioncall.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truthquestonline/message/1658
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truthquestonline/message/1661


Informant: Lloyd Kinder

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MASSIVE WALL STREET PUT OPTIONS SIGNAL UPCOMING TERROR ATTACK
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4233944/

Staatliche Stellen werden erst aktiv, wenn es zu gravierenden Umwelteinwirkungen kommt. Umweltschützer fordern daher nicht nur, Chemikalien zu verbieten, die sich in Mensch und Umwelt anreichern, sondern auch die Veröffentlichung...
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/politik/000000988f07dab0b/033ea299990dab201.html



Lobbyisten führen Regie

Wenn es um die Belange der Energiewirtschaft geht, arbeiten Lobbyisten der Konzerne und die Politik in Berlin Hand in Hand. Man kennt sich, man versteht sich und wechselt auch gerne die Seiten...
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/politik/000000988f07dab0b/033ea299930969c01.html



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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4515534125267138757&hl=en

Source http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=113232

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This presidential administration will go down as having taken the most liberties with dirty tricks as any other administration in history. The fact that they can detain an "enemy combatant" and torture him to the point where he can't competently defend himself against some of the most serious charges in US history is pure cowardice.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5786/1/32/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
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The U.S. decision five years ago to torture detainees has infected a generation of terrorism cases where it might have once been possible to do justice -- but may not be anymore.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=is_justice_possible_after_torture



U.S. officer to receive reprimand in Abu Ghraib case

Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan faced a maximum punishment of five years in prison and dismissal from the Army, but a court-martial panel of 10 officers decided on the milder penalty, the Army said in a statement released on Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/ts_nm/iraq_usa_courtmartial_dc


From Information Clearing House

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Top down responsibility, bottom up accountability

Cleveland Plain Dealer
by Elizabeth Sullivan

08/30/07

The only Army officer to be court-martialed for Abu Ghraib abuses just got off with a tap on his oak leaf — a reprimand but no jail time. The shaky case against reserve Lt. Col. Steve Jordan did little credit to the military justice system. It also showed how readily the Pentagon dispensed with accountability, lessons learned and moral courage in the search for easy scapegoats for prisoner abuse...

http://tinyurl.com/2qwmws



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Russia is back as a global player, and it is no longer a starry-eyed admirer of the United States.

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/08/29/006.html


From Information Clearing House

While it has received scant coverage in the American and international media, the attack foreshadows more extensive US cross-border operations that have the potential to further destabilise Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's uncertain grip on power.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/paki-a29.shtml


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By Stephen Lendman

As Labor Day approaches, what better time to assess the state of working America. It's under assault and weakened by decades of eroding rights in the richest country in the world once regarded as a model democratic state. It's pure nonsense in a nation always dedicated to wealth and power, but don't try finding that discussed in the mainstream.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18273.htm

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The War on Working Americans: Parts I and II

Writing for OpEdNews, Stephen Lendman says, "As Labor Day approaches, what better time to assess the state of working America. It's under assault and weakened by decades of eroding rights in the richest country in the world, once regarded as a model democratic state. It's pure nonsense in a nation always dedicated to wealth and power, but don't try finding that discussed in the mainstream. Today it's truer than ever, making the struggle for equity and justice all the harder. That's what ordinary working people now face, making beating those odds formidable at the least."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907LB.shtml



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Chris Hedges

Video

Hedges challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18274.htm



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Audio Booklet

We the People cannot hide forever from responsibility and accountability for wrongs committed in the name of governments and corporations that we support. Whether those affected are our fellow Americans or people in foreign lands, failure to take responsibility will sooner or later come home to roost!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18271.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18270.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+C.+Uhler

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18272.htm



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By Pat Buchanan

As Americans anguish over how to extricate this country from Iraq without a disaster greater than what we now have, and without our friends suffering the fate of our friends in Cambodia and Vietnam, they had best brace themselves. This escalator is going up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18275.htm



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http://www.ewg.org/sites/mining_google/US/analysis.php


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6852.cfm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6667/


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