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The New York Times editors say, "Mr. Bush, we fear, isn't looking for the truth, only for ways to confound the public, scare Democrats into dropping their demands for a sound exit strategy, and prolong the war until he leaves office. At times, General Petraeus gives the disturbing impression that he, too, is more focused on the political game in Washington than the unfolding disaster in Iraq. That serves neither American nor Iraqi interests."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090907D.shtml



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

The New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes: "It will be all 9/11 all the time this week, as the White House yet again synchronizes its drumbeating for the Iraq war with the anniversary of an attack that had nothing to do with Iraq. Ignore that fog and focus instead on another date whose anniversary passed yesterday without notice: September 8, 2002. What happened on that Sunday five years ago is the Rosetta Stone for the administration's latest scam."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090907C.shtml



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

Agence France-Presse reports on the massive demonstration against the war in Iraq and President Bush during his weekend trip to Australia.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090907B.shtml

There is still time to call or fax your US Representative. The vote will probably be tomorrow, or more likely on Monday.

Two main groups are opposing and stalling HR811 right now -

1. activists who are insisting on a DRE ban - and the NY Times has joined them in calling for a DRE ban, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/opinion/06thu1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

and the other extreme

2. The National Association of Counties (NaCO) who is representing election officials who want no changes at all, to keep their DREs with paper rolls forever, despite all the evidence recently from New Jersey that DRE paper rolls do not accurately record votes, and who do not want elections subjected to independent scrutiny or any changes which would take effect in 2008.

Here are NaCO's concerns in their words:

* Multibillion-dollar unfunded mandate
* Preempts state laws allowing a reel-to-reel paper trail
* Requires many counties to replace their equipment twice - once in 2008 and again in 2012
* Requires parallel voting systems - new electronic systems that don't yet exist along with sufficient pre-printed paper ballots for all voters
* Imposes cumbersome and untested audit process
* Prohibits recounts using any automated equipment
* Prevents the use of vote centers and early voting unless county officials print thousands of different ballot styles in multiple languages for each location
* Ignores EAC standards and voting system certification

Some people are working on a response to NaCO's positions. (some of what NaCO objects to should be reason enough to support the bill, and some of their statements are flatly wrong or illogical). If you want to help with the response, please contact me.

Unfortunately, both groups opposing the current form of HR811 could have the effect of putting our 2008 elections in danger by causing HR811 not to pass.

HR811's audits are sufficient (3%, 5%, or 10%) to give candidates 98% to 99% certainty, on average, that all US House and Senate races and the US Presidential races are decided accurately by voters. (See "Federal Election Audits – Which is Best?" June 2007 http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/ComparisonFederalElectionAuditProposals.pdf) It is not possible for federal legislation to make requirements for non-Federal races.

While anyone who has sufficiently studied the issue wants to eliminate DREs, it is unnecessary for HR811 to ban them outright because just by imposing reasonable requirements we all want for elections, DREs must go the way of the dinosaurs.

HR811 would provide incentive, funding, requirements, and opportunity that would encourage the elimination of flawed electronic-ballot DREs before November 2008 in virtually every jurisdiction using paperless DREs.

Without HR811 many other jurisdictions, will be using paperless DREs in the 2008 election.

States that use PAPERLESS DREs and need HR811 to pass now include:

DE, GA, LA, MD, SC, TN (entirely paperless DREs for voting on election day) and some counties in AR (3 counties), CO, DC, FL, IN, IA, KY, KS, MS (2 counties), NJ, PA, TX, WI (1 county).

The following states use DRE voting machines which are incapable of having printers added and would need to be entirely replaced by 2008: GA, MD, VA, DE, TN, and KY - and so are prime candidates for immediately replacing their DREs by November 2008 with more economical, reliable, auditable, less vulnerable paper ballot optical scan systems.

If HR811 does not pass and elections are inaccurate in these states, then the office of the U.S. President and the control of the US Congress could be decided incorrectly in 2008; and the fate of the U.S. and the world put at risk.

HR811's election audits would result in roughly an average 98% probability that the smallest amount of vote miscount that could wrongly alter an election outcome is detected in all US Senate and House races. See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/ComparisonFederalElectionAuditProposals.pdf

So enemies of HR811 are:

- stepping up their distortions about the bill now, or

- trying to add poison pills to the bill which would be likely to make the bill fail to pass; or cause its 2008 implementation to be gutted.

It is critically important therefore, if you have not already done so, for you to call or fax your US Representative now and ask

"Vote "YES" on HR811 and vote "NO" on the unfunded mandate amendment.

Find your Rep's contact info at http://www.house.gov or call (202) 224-3121 (the House of Representatives' general number) directly.

NOTE: YOU MUST CALL OR FAX. No other communication will reach your Representative in time.

PLEASE DONATE - WE NEED FUNDS URGENTLY

We only received about $100 total in response to our request for donations. While that is very appreciated, it is not enough. There is a huge amount of work to be done yet to finish deriving and explaining the mathematics and procedures for conducting valid election audits. NEDA did not get funded by PEW to finish its work in this area, so we need your help. Please donate to the National Election Data Archive. We urgently need to raise sufficient funds to hire an additional staff person to keep up with the growing work-load. NEDA could accomplish a lot more if there were sufficient donations to pay just one person's salary. (Our financials are available here for your review: http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/financial/FinancialStmts2004-2006.pdf) Please donate whatever amount you can by credit card, PayPal, or by mailing a check. Even $5 or $10/month would be a big help. Please donate. We need your on-going help. Thank you. See http://electionarchive.org/fairelection/donate.html



Thank you.

Sincerely,

Kathy Dopp Executive Director, National Election Data Archive http://electionarchive.org
P.O. Box 682556 Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657


"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph" Haile Selassie

Please forward this widely. Thank you. MORE INFO

Electronic Frontier Foundation "Crunch Time for E-Voting Reform" http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005421.php

Verified Voting's "How Long Does it Take to Change Voting Systems" http://electionmathematics.org/em-voting-systems/VotingSystemChange.pdf

NEDA's easy-to-read, accurate analysis of HR811 http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Analysis-HR811-Aug2007.pdf

The most recent text of HR811 http://verifiedvoting.org/downloads/MANAG_01A_xml4.pdf

See how much money your state has left of HAVA funding on pp. 8 and 9 in the US Election Assistance report http://www.eac.gov/docs/Congressional%20Report%20Public%20Release%20Final.pdf



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=HR811
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp

Agence France-Presse reports that David Walker, the head of the Government Accountability Office, has called into question the accuracy of a Pentagon report that states "US military statistics ... show a huge dip in sectarian violence in Iraq under the current troop surge strategy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090907Y.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
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Dänische Forscher: Eisschmelze in der Arktis dramatisch beschleunigt

Das Eis in der Arktis schmilzt nach neuen dänischen Messungen noch erheblich schneller als befürchtet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682195ms63



Die Alpen sind in akuter Gefahr

Klimawandel schon heute sichtbar. Der globale Klimawandel wirkt sich in den Alpen besonders drastisch aus.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682201ms63



Die Wüstenbildung bedroht Milliarden Menschen und den Weltfrieden

UNO-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon befürchtet, dass in den nächsten Jahrzehnten ein Drittel der Weltbevölkerung von der Wüstenbildung bedroht sei, über zwei Milliarden Menschen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682211ms63



UN: Jeden Monat stirbt eine Nutztier-Rasse aus

Mehr als ein Fünftel der Nutztier-Rassen sind nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen weltweit bedroht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682210ms63



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

Tokio erneut mit weltweiten Protesten konfrontiert. PRO WILDLIFE hat eine erneute Protestaktion gestartet: „Die Delfine werden nach stundenlangen Treibjagden mit Handharpunen, Stöcken und Messern abgeschlachtet. Einige Arten, wie der Blau-weiße Delfin, sind inzwischen in Japan fast ausgerottet“, berichtet Dr. Sandra Altherr von PRO WILDLIFE.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682194ms63

In diesen Tagen hat Ministerpräsident Howard zusammen mit George W. Bush zu einer Klimakonferenz nach Sydney eingeladen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682186ms63

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/149.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

Friday's report on the job market in August - showing the first monthly drop in four years - raised concerns that the recession afflicting the housing sector may be spilling over into the wider economy. The much weaker-than expected employment report puts added pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its next scheduled meeting Sept. 18.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20626839/



Feds start bailing as housing takes on more water

We're seeing two major developments on the housing and mortgage fronts, and I want to make sure you know about them - and what they mean.

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/issues/MaM697_1.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage

Top official tells WND of changes, follows directive expanding presidential powers.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56245


From Information Clearing House



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

Why does the word "hypocrisy" seem inadequate to describe the pretzel logic of the neo-conservatives? Why do the people of the United States remain inert as the madness at the top claims the authority to hemorrhage its execution of Iraq into a nuclear war on Iran?

http://www.counterpunch.org/brooks09072007.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Marketers both in the White House and among their supporters outside are rolling out their newest product, a public relations blitz urging a U.S. military adventure in Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/3xeoqb


From Information Clearing House

For Western publics this is a sanitised war. Iraq is too dangerous for news teams to record properly the daily shootings, bombings and executions.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2402969.ece


From Information Clearing House

At what point does Canada become a toy country?
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Harris_Michael/2007/09/07/4476222.html


From Information Clearing House

Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Friday it plans to cut 10,000 to 12,000 jobs to cope with weak housing demand, rising foreclosures and tightening credit markets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0723369820070907


From Information Clearing House



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The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining

Whether in 24 hours or 24 days or at some point before the end of his term, we should predict Bush will send the bombers on their way to Teheran to destroy the usual targets--power stations and kindred civilian infrastructure, hospitals, maybe a few bomb shelters crammed with women and children.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09082007.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alexander+Cockburn

United Nations atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran and the U.S. to give inspectors a chance to reduce tensions over the Islamic Republic's nuclear work.

http://tinyurl.com/27qfuu


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei
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Marie Colvin and Sarah Baxter

AMERICAN forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2413200.ece


From Information Clearing House

An independent US government auditor on Friday cast doubt on US military statistics expected to show a huge dip in sectarian violence in Iraq under the current troop surge strategy.

http://tinyurl.com/22dgyc


From Information Clearing House



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

The US military brought a new weapon into the fight in Iraq, announcing the Army's first-ever use of a drone aircraft to kill "enemy fighters" in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/yoqbgx


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

Greenspan's own words are the most powerful indictment against him. They show that he played a central role in our impending disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18335.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greenspan
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Democracy Now! Audio and Transcript

ACLU Head Anthony Romero on Civilian Killings in Iraq, Domestic Spying, Torture, John Walker Lindh and More.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18332.htm



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

Interview with Mikey Weinstein

Last month, the Pentagon pulled the plug on a plan to dispatch so-called "freedom packages" to U.S. troops in Iraq that included Bibles, proselytising materials in English and Arabic, and an apocalyptic computer game in which "soldiers for Christ" battle satanic "Global Community Peacekeepers".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18334.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mikey+Weinstein

From NBC's Ken Strickland and Mike Viqueira

It's clear now that Democratic leaders on both sides of the Capitol are moving towards dropping their insistence on a end date deadline for completing troop withdrawal from Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18331.htm



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

Interview With Mohamed El Baradei

United Nations chief weapons inspector Mohamed ElBaradei spoke to SPIEGEL about Iran's last chance to convince the world of the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, his problems with the US government and his fear of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18330.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=El+Baradei

By Robert Fisk

What is it about graven images? Why are we humanoids so prone to destroy our own faces, smash our own human history, erase the memory of language? I've covered the rape of Bosnian and Serb and Croatian culture in ex-Yugoslavia - the deliberate demolition of churches, libraries, graveyards, even the wonderful Ottoman Mostar Bridge - and I've heard the excuses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18340.htm



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

By Jim Kirwan

Today there are 190 nations in the world and we have 130 military bases on this planet in other nations: If we do not have a WAR department, why do we need so many bases? We call the military-the Department of Defense-yet how can this be considered a Defensive department - when so many of our bases are still located in 130 other countries?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18343.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Kirwan

Video

Scott Ritter argues that the antiwar movement in the U.S. should look to military strategists like Sun Tzu and John Boyd to help it end the Iraq War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18341.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

By Dr. Crockett Grabbe and Lenny Charles

On September 11th the whole world watched as jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center. These heinous crimes were labeled as acts of war. However, scientific principles show much more happened that day than we were told.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18344.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

By Angie Riedel

It's become the government's mantra that it cannot protect us unless it breaks the law at will, without oversight, and without our knowledge or consent. It's been openly stated that unless our basic rights are fully yielded to the government, further terrorist attacks will come, and because of our failure to yield what literally defines us, those attacks will be our own fault.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18338.htm

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Will Derivatives Wipe Out Some Currencies?

By Chris Laird

Sep 6 2007 10:26AM
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Laird/sep062007.html


Informant: Messiah Twain

According to The Associated Press, "Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 - and the entire population gone from Alaska - because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=arctic
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Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer reported in a segment aired on ABC News Nightline Thursday evening that former Justice Department official Jack Goldsmith "says he found the legal basis for the country's most important counterterrorism policies, including those for the CIA's interrogation techniques, to be deeply flawed and sloppily reasoned" when he started his job as head of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel in the fall of 2003.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807C.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Ross

In The Guardian UK, Naomi Klein says, "What [is] happening in Iraq and New Orleans was not a post-September 11 invention. Rather, these bold experiments in crisis exploitation were the culmination of three decades of strict adherence to the shock doctrine."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807A.shtml

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THE SHOCK DOCTRINE - Have you heard of "Year Zero." It's essentially the idea of a totally fresh start. But it has shown up in grotesquely twisted form referring to the creation a harsh free-market economic mechanism in a society that would otherwise reject it, but has been damaged or destroyed by natural disaster or military attack? The more destruction, the easier the makeover.

http://www.nhne.org/news/NewsArticlesArchive/tabid/400/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3647/The-Shock-Doctrine.aspx

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The end of the world as we know it
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2169201,00.html

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Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine

In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard, bestselling author and investigative journalist Naomi Klein discusses the catastrophic failures that have ensued from the free-market reforms that have spread throughout the world over the past few decades. Klein explains that the rise in "disaster capitalism" is also leading to an increase in worldwide violence that will only get worse. She refers to the issue as "The Shock Doctrine," which is also the title of her groundbreaking new book.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807J.shtml

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One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/02-7



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Mit dem Verweis auf angeblich geplante Terroranschläge sollen im Schnellverfahren neue Gesetze geschaffen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26154/1.html



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

David M. Herszenhorn reports in Saturday's edition of The New York Times that "leading Democrats in the House and the Senate maneuvered Friday to portray" a report about the status of the Iraq war General David Petraeus is scheduled to discuss before Congress Monday as wholly unreliable because the Bush administration has cherry-picked the data to support its "political objectives."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807Y.shtml



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

Sunday, September 9, 2007; Page N02

It's hard to imagine life without cellphones, BlackBerrys and WiFi. But some people believe the technology that makes modern life so convenient may be hazardous to our health.

Mobile communications devices, along with microwave ovens, power lines, cellphone towers and wireless base stations, generate electromagnetic fields, a form of low-frequency radiation. EMFs have been studied as a possible factor in conditions from cancer to cognitive damage, particularly in teenagers and children, who have thinner skulls and still-developing brains.

Read More...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602457.html



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Juliet Eilperin for The Washington Post reports that a Congressional investigative report to be released this week says the federal government needs to do a better job addressing how climate change is transforming the hundreds of millions of acres under its watch.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/090707EC.shtml

David Leonhardt and Jeremy W. Peters write in The New York Times: "The economy shed 4,000 jobs between July and August.... It was the first employment decline since 2003, when the job market was still struggling to emerge from a long slump in the wake of the 2001 recession."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090707T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Leonhardt

Ray McGovern writes for Truthout, "Indeed, over the past several weeks, the president has been punctuating virtually every other public sentence with 'General Petraeus' or 'David.' It is as though Bush is expecting what might be called a 'Petraeus ex machina' to extricate himself from the deep hole Cheney and he have dug together."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090707R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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08 September 2007

COUNCILLORS who refused permission for a mobile phone mast at Greenock Cricket Club were warned they could be on a sticky wicket.

Read More...
http://www.inverclydenow.com/news-detail2.asp?ID=640

Take Action!

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=204
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=202

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/09/07/01751.html


Informant: a_cascadian

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Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070907_was_a_covert_attempt.htm


From CAMPAIGN



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Visit this group

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/25/coming.home.wounded/index.html


Informant: Cal



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

A PHONE mast proposed for the Pickardstown area of Tramore has been given the planning ‘thumbs up’ - despite objections from local residents.

An Bord Plean·la has given the ‘green light’ to Meteor to provide the 21 metre mast despite the residents in Drumcannon, Ballinatin and Ballykinsella expressing fears about radiation and the visual impact on the area.

Read More...
http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=26610&cat=news

http://tinyurl.com/32rs99

Mobile phone calls on planes within months
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/09/08/et-mobile108.xml

ISIS Press Release 08/09/07

The proposed changes make the regulatory regime even more permissive. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

This article was submitted to the USDA on behalf of ISIS. Please circulate widely to your policy-makers

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has proposed changes to regulations on Introduction of Organisms and Products Altered or Produced Through Genetic Engineering, available for public comment before 11 September 2007 at: http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main.

APHIS is seeking public comment on its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) presenting alternatives in a series of questions. The questions and our answers are given below.

Question 1: Should APHIS continue to regulate GE [genetically engineered] organisms solely on the basis of potential risks as plant pests, or should they also be regulated based on other potential risks such as those for noxious weeds and biological control organisms?

Answer: APHIS should more realistically take into account the risk of transgenic contamination of crops and weedy relatives of the crops. The detrimental economic impact of transgenic contamination as well as the toxic potential, especially of pharmaceutical products or transgenic biopolymers, must be evaluated. Crops modified with genes to enhance energy production may genetically contaminate food crops. Finally, transgenic contamination should be treated as any other environmental pollution. APHIS should take into account the strong evidence that transgenic contamination is unavoidable [1] (GM Contamination At 21 km and Farther. No Co-Existence Possible, SiS 35)

Question 2: Should a new system of risk-based permit categories be designed to deal with new products and new concerns?

Answer: It is imperative that crops such as food crops modified to produce pharmaceutical proteins or crops destined for energy production should be evaluated by criteria that are different from those of food crops in recognition that the transgenes pose unique dangers to health. The same applies to...

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDAderegGMOs.php

Or read other articles on Genetic Engineering Regulation http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GE-regulation.php



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http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3567635


Informant: Kev Hall



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

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece


Informant: Kev Hall

The editors of The New York Times write: "Electronic voting has been an abysmal failure. Computer experts have done study after study showing that electronic voting machines, which are often shoddily made, can easily be hacked. With little effort, vote totals can be changed and elections stolen. In many recent elections, voters have complained of 'vote flipping,' in which touch-screen machines took votes cast for one candidate and gave them to an opponent."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090707M.shtml



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