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Steven Rosenfeld reports for AlterNet: "In 2004, Republicans used a Jim Crow-era tactic to target the voter registrations of a half-million likely Democratic voters -- often minorities -- for Election Day challenges in nine states, a national voting rights group has charged in a new report." Also, Greg Gordon reports for McClatchy Newspapers: "Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707D.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+election
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Scott Ritter writes for Truthdig.com: "While the antiwar movement focuses its limited resources on trying to leverage real congressional opposition to the war in Iraq, which simply will not happen before the 2008 election, the Bush administration and its Democratic opponents will outflank the antiwar movement on the issue of Iran, pushing forward an aggressive agenda in the face of light or nonexistent opposition. Of the two problems (the reality of Iraq, the potential of Iran), Iran is by far the more important."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

Truthout's Jason Leopold writes: "Recently, I sat down with attorney Jon Eisenberg who sued George W. Bush, the National Security Administration (NSA), and other federal agencies, on behalf of two Washington DC-based lawyers who allege their telephone calls were illegally monitored by the NSA in March 2004. The lawyers, Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, appear to be the only American citizens who say they have hard evidence that proves the government spied on them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707A.shtml



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

"Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton, top Democrats." This is the title of a much under-reported news story, which appeared in The Examiner on September 24th. The Examiner opens the story by saying, "President Bush is quietly providing back-channel advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so she can effectively prosecute the war in Iraq if elected president.".........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin402.htm



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUSbRng1yw

Are these guys trying to tell us something?

Paul Raymond Doyon
MAT (TESOL), MA Advanced Japanese Studies, BA Psychology


"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

raum-und-zeit.com

Schüler in Offenburg sollen ab dem kommenden Schuljahr in den Schulmensen mit dem Fingerabdruck zahlen. An acht Ganztagsschulen werden 5 000 Schüler erfasst, damit sie ihr Essen o...

http://www.nachrichten.diagnose-funk.ch/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea299b70f6f901



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"Ultimately I think what this software might be able to do is simply recognize suspicious behavior and alert our operations people and, at times, our crime detections specialists as to what it sees."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039278


From Information Clearing House



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

"The consequences of this episode should not be underestimated and the adjustment process is likely to be protracted. Credit conditions may not normalise soon, and some of the practices that have developed in the structured credit markets will have to change."

http://snipurl.com/1rbvx



The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning

Massive levels of debt underlying the world economic system are about to unwind in a profound and persistent way.

http://snipurl.com/1rbvz


From Information Clearing House

Telling the truth is more important than the polished and rehearsed answers to please the majority of Democrat and middle-of-the-line people in the audience.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3777


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Gravel

General John Abizaid, the longest serving CentCom commander in history, says we can live with a nuclear Iran. "I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear...Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well."

http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/abizaid-comes-o.html


From Information Clearing House

As the truth about our country's policy becomes clearer and clearer, can we summon the courage to address it from a moral perspective? The Germans left it up to the churches; the churches collaborated.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern09272007.html


From Information Clearing House



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The revelation is contained in a previously unpublished transcript of talks between President George W Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in February 2003 at the US leader's Texas ranch.

http://snipurl.com/1rbvd


From Information Clearing House

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Report Says Hussein Was Open to Exile Before 2003 Invasion

Karen DeYoung and Michael Abramowitz report for The Washington Post: "Less than a month before the US invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction, according to a report of a Feb. 22, 2003, meeting between President Bush and his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper yesterday." Also, Ernesto Ekaizer reports for El Pais Spain that "During a long conversation with then Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar, held Saturday February 22, 2003 at the Crawford, Texas Ranch, Bush made clear that the moment had arrived to remove Saddam. 'Two weeks remain. In two weeks, we will be militarily ready. We will be in Baghdad by the end of March,' he said to Aznar."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707B.shtml



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A U.S. soldier testified Thursday that he was ordered to shoot an unarmed Iraqi man, then his sergeant, from North Carolina, laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the man convulsed on the ground.

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=273417


From Information Clearing House

By Doug Casey

We've had the longest expansion - and the strongest expansion - in the world history. But we're at the end of a 25-year boom. It's gone on more than a full generation now. And I'll tell you how it's going to end: It's going to end with a depression, and not just a depression; not just another Great Depression; it's going to be the Greater Depression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18466.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression

By Jeremy Seabrook

The substitution of wealth for freedom in modern society is, perhaps, the greatest impoverishment of all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18467.htm

By Charles Sullivan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18468.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Sullivan

Mitte Februar 2003 sprachen US-Präsident Bush und der damalige spanische Regierungschef ihr Vorgehen in Sachen Saddam Hussein ab - El Pais hat ein Protokoll des Gesprächs veröffentlicht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26282/1.html

Mit dem Urteil könnten die nach dem 11.9. von der US-Regierung durchgesetzten heimlichen Überwachungs- und Durchsuchungsmaßnahmen eingedämmt und ein wichtiger Teil des Rechtsstaates wieder zurückerobert werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26284/1.html



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Wednesday September 26 2007

RESIDENTS IN Fethard are calling on the local GAA Club to pull its ties with O2 and to support the removal of the company's mobile phone at St. Mogue's.

The O2 mobile phone mast at St. Mogue's GAA pitch is still in place, despite an enforcement order being placed on O2 Communications by Wexford County Council.

Residents in the area are now hoping that Wexford County Council will refuse planning permission for the retention of the O2 mast on the basis that 41 personal objections have been submitted to the council and 500 signatures were submitted to the Committee of St. Mogue's GAA Club.

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http://www.newrossstandard.ie/news/fethard-residents-call-for-removal-of-phone-mast-1090521.html

Glenn W. Smith, of the Rockridge Institute, asks: "if those in US House or Senate inclined to sustain a presidential veto of a bill that will provide basic health care to more than 3 million additional American children, ask yourselves this question: Are you willing to explain your decision to a schoolroom of fragile young children who cannot afford treatment for whooping cough or measles, leukemia or juvenile diabetes? Are you willing to explain this to them, human to human? The US House voted overwhelmingly for an expanded children's health care program (SCHIP), 265-159. President George W. Bush has said he will veto any expansion of the program, and supporters fear they will fall short of votes necessary to override Bush's veto."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707O.shtml



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John M. Broder and James Risen, of The New York Times, report "the American security contractor Blackwater USA has been involved in a far higher rate of shootings while guarding American diplomats in Iraq than other security firms providing similar services to the State Department, according to Bush administration officials and industry officials. Blackwater is now the focus of investigations in both Baghdad and Washington over a Sept. 16 shooting in which at least 11 Iraqis were killed. Beyond that episode, the company has been involved in cases in which its personnel fired weapons while guarding State Department officials in Iraq at least twice as often per convoy mission as security guards working for other American security firms, the officials said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+M.+Broder
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Beth Fouhy, of The Associated Press, reports: "the leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all US combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013. 'I think it's hard to project four years from now,' said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state. 'It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting,' added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. 'I cannot make that commitment,' said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707M.shtml



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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/270907_offered_exile.htm



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Anträge zum 2. ver.di-Bundeskongress im Block B. Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik – ver.di für 3. Arbeitsmarkt?

„Existenzsichernde Arbeit und öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung statt Workfare!“

Antrag B 11 des Bundeserwerbslosenausschusses http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=11

Aus dem Text: „…ver.di fordert die Umwandlung der Arbeitsgelegenheiten in der Mehraufwandsvariante (so genannten 1-Euro-Jobs) in existenzsichernde, sozialversicherte, arbeitsrechtlich geschützte, tariflich vergütete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Die Mittel, die für die "1-Euro-Jobs" aufgewendet werden, sollen zur Finanzierung von öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungsverhältnissen am sogen. 3. Arbeitsmarkt verwendet werden. Dabei soll die Eingliederung in den regulären Arbeitsmarkt (so genannten 1. Arbeitsmarkt) lediglich ein mögliches, aber kein grundsätzlich erforderliches Ziel sein…“ Heikel ist dabei der Umstand, dass Erwerbslose diesen Antrag einbringen, während die Auswirkungen dieses als Einverständnis anzusehenden Antrags in der Hauptsache Millionen von Beschäftigten treffen würden. Denn die noch dieses Jahr in Kraft tretenden neuen SGB Gesetzesänderungen basieren auf dem Gutachten der „Arbeitsgruppe Arbeitsmarkt“. Dieses sieht neben der Einführung verschärfter Sanktion für ALG II Bezieher, Regelsatzkürzung, Einschränkungen der Anrechnung vom Zuverdienst, einen flächendeckenden undifferenzierten Mindestlohns von ca. 4,50 Euro vor, der darüber hinaus an tarifliche bzw. ortsübliche Bezahlung angepasst würde. Die Einführung eines Mindestlohns von 4,50 € über den 3. AM würde damit die 7,50 € Forderung der Gewerkschaften unterlaufen. In keinem der Nachbarländer gibt es 2 Sorten von Mindestlohn

In ähnliche, die Hartz-Gesetze lediglich besänftigende Richtung, weisen übrigens auch die Anträge

Arbeitsmarkt bleibt große Herausforderung. Antrag B 1 vom Bundesvorstand http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=1

Für eine bessere Existenzsicherung und eine bessere Grundsicherung. Antrag B 36 vom Bundeserwerbslosenausschuss http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=36

Die Empfehlung der Antragskommission lautet: „Annahme“ Dadurch erledigt sind folgende Anträge B 012, B 013, B 014, B 015, B 016, B 017, B 018, B 019, B 020, B 021, B 022, B 023, B 024, B 025, B 026, B 027, B 033 (Ziffer 2).

Als erledigt gelten die Formulierungen des Antragsblocks gegen
1-Euro-Jobs. Dazu gehören u.a.:

Anträge gegen 1-Euro-Jobs

Weg mit 1-Euro-Jobs. Antrag B 12 der Bundesfachbereichskonferenz 12 http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=12

Abschaffung der "1-Euro-Jobs" (Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit MAE gemäß § 16 Absatz 3 SGB II). Antrag B 13 der Landesbezirkskonferenz Baden-Württemberg http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=13

1-Euro-Jobs sind zu verbieten. Antrag B 16 der Landesbezirkskonferenz Bayern http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antrag.html?cat=B&sort=16

und viele weitere ähnlich lautende Anträge, einzusehen im Block B. Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antraege.html?cat=B

Die Problematik: Der Antrag B 011 - im Namen der Personengruppe Erwerbslose! - enthält dabei eine bedingungslose Zustimmung zur Einführung des 3. Arbeitsmarktes, dem Anträge zur Ablehnung der 1 € Jobs nachgegliedert sind. Mit der Zustimmung zu Antrag B 011 (ebenso der Anträge B 001 und B 036) würden die Delegierten des Bundeskongresses die Weiterführung von Hartz IV in verschärften Formen bestätigen. Die bislang erfolgten und noch kommenden Zusatzgesetze zur Entwürdigung, Entrechtung und Enteignung aller Hatz IV Betroffenen bleiben beim 3. AM bestehen, wobei eine Ausweitung von Sanktionen vorgesehen ist. Beim Bundeserwerbslosenkongress vom 21.-23.Februar wurde diesbezüglicher Antrag von ca. 2/3 der Delegierten abgelehnt und zur Überarbeitung dem BEA übergeben….

Daher gibt es den Aufruf, Protestschreiben an alle Bundeskongress-VertreterInnen und wegen der Dringlichkeit auch an Frank Bsirske zu richten. Denn ob die Delegierten des Bundeskongresses wollen oder nicht, sie müssen die Anträge vorbringen:

Frank Bsirske: frank.bsirske@verdi.de
Belinda Brechbilder: brechbilder@gmx.de
Ulla Pingel: ulla.pingel@gmx.de
Bitte unbedingt Kopie an: Anne Eberle: a.eberle@dokom.net

Eine heftige Debatte zu diesem Antrag gibt es im Forum „Schluss mit den Reformen gegen uns !!!“ http://www.sozialbetrug.org/thread.php?threadid=8620

Siehe dazu auch:

Arbeitsmarkt auf dem Vormarsch?

Die beiden Bundesminister Franz Müntefering und Wolfgang Tiefensee haben dem Kabinett am 27. Juni 2007 die Eckpunkte für ein „Bundesprogramm zur Förderung von zusätzlichen Arbeitsplätzen, die in Regionen mit besonders hoher und verfestigter Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch Kommunen geschaffen werden“ (sog. „Bundesprogramm Kommunal Kombi“) vorgestellt. Siehe dazu:

Entwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch – Verbesserung der Beschäftigungschancen von Menschen mit Vermittlungshemmnissen (pdf) http://www.lag-arbeit-hessen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Finanzierung_JobPerspektive_0707.pdf

Kabinettsbeschluss vom 14.06.07 zu einem 2. Änderungsgesetz im SGB II
("Beschäftigungszuschuss für Ü25")(pdf) http://www.lag-arbeit-hessen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BMAS_formulierungshilfe-sgbII-zweites-gesetz_0607.pdf

Chancen und Grenzen Alternativer Beschäftigungsformen im Bereich des SGB II

Powerpoint-Präsentation von Kay Senius, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, beim
77. Deutscher Fürsorgetag 3.-5. Mai 2006 in Düsseldorf

bearbeitet von No Job FM zum Zwecke der Enttarnung (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/amarkt/sgb2.pdf

In der Originalfassung (ppt) http://www.lag-arbeit-hessen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BA_Senius_3.Arbeitsmarkt_0506.ppt

3. Arbeitsmarkt

Hintergründe von Anna Fleischer mit Auszügen aus dem Gutachten der „Arbeitsgruppe Arbeitsmarkt“ und aus der Stellungnahme des Deutscher Vereins für öffentliche und private Fürsorge (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/amarkt/amarkt3.pdf

Dokumente zur Diskussion um einen "3. Arbeitsmarkt" bei LAG Arbeit in Hessen e.V. http://www.lag-arbeit-hessen.de/index.php?id=121

»Das sind irreguläre Zwangsarbeiten«. Landesparteitag: Hamburger Linkspartei diskutiert über Alternativen zu Ein-Euro-Jobs.

„Auf dem am Wochenende stattfindenden Landesparteitag der Hamburger Linken drohen heftige Kontroversen. Umstritten ist eine Passage aus dem Entwurf zum Wahlprogramm nach der Die Linke für den Ausbau eines neuen und öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektors eintreten will. Sie nennen das die Fortsetzung »schmutziger Geschäfte« mit Erwerbslosen. Warum?..“ Ein Gespräch von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 27.9.07 mit Thomas Meese http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/09-27/032.php


Aus: LabourNet, 27. September 2007

By Rob Devey

A FIGHT against a 40ft phone mast installed despite being refused planning permission will tomorrow be stepped up as Bolton Council serve an enforcement notice.

The council will post the notice to T-Mobile requring the firm to remove the mast from the Market Street precinct in Little Lever within 28 days.

It was put up on Sunday despite a decision by the council's planning committee in April to reject the application.

The council's move comes after company agents refused to remove the mast voluntarily.

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http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.1717429.0.council_to_serve_notice_in_mast_row.php

Sep 26 2007

By Mark Mudie


A BITTER dispute between battle-hardened anti-mast campaigners and phone giant O2 shows no sign of letting up.

About 50 Meadvale residents attended showdown talks with James Stevenson, community liaison officer for O2, on Wednesday last week, over the company's persistent efforts to install a phone mast in the area.

But according to residents the meeting served only to exacerbate existing tensions.

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http://tinyurl.com/2gl3nx

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1216114/Wer_Bombe_eingibt_soll_ueberwacht_werden.html



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Rebirth of Reason
by Tibor R. Machan

09/26/07

When I first arrived on these shores, back in 1956, the idea that America is a free country had at least some rhetorical currency, backed by frequent enough association between the country’s founding documents and the desirability and undesirability of various public policies. Just as Abraham Lincoln, so many others who addressed what kind of laws the country ought to have tended still to invoke the authority of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and ideas from the Founders and Framers. Not that it was all hunky dory with the country then or, indeed, before. But the prevalence of ideas of basic rights — the kind that marked out one’s personal, private dominion — and liberty — of the negative sort, freedom from intrusions by others, including governments — was in plenty of evidence in public discussions, debates in Congress and so forth. Today there seems no one — other than the lone Texas Representative Ron Paul — on the political scene who is concerned with the freedom of American citizens...

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Machan/What_Free_Country.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.takimag.com/site/article/wake_me_at_armageddon


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson

09/26/07

Last November, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, ‘The American people spoke with their votes and they spoke for change and they spoke in support of a new direction for all Americans … nowhere was the call for a new direction more clear from the American people than in the war in Iraq.’ Pelosi, who would become speaker of the House as the Democrats regained the majority in both the House and the Senate, continued, ‘We know that “stay the course” is not working. It has not made our country safer, it has not honored our commitment to our troops, and it has not brought stability to the region. We must not continue on this catastrophic path . . . The American people with their votes yesterday placed their trust in the Democrats. We will honor that trust. We will not disappoint … Democrats are ready to lead. We’re prepared to govern’...

http://tinyurl.com/2rvgps


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Frontiers of Freedom

by T. Hickey

09/26/07

The United States was founded on core principles, such as liberty, personal privacy, and equality, which ensure that individuals are free to make their most intimate decisions without governmental interference and discrimination. One of the more private and personal decisions individuals make relates to when and for what goods and services he or she will spend his or her money...

http://tinyurl.com/2hn4b8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor

09/27/07

Whatever happens over the next 16 months, President Bush will leave office having presided over one of the fastest accumulations of government debt in the history of the United States. During his time in office, federal debt held by the public -– Washington’s equivalent of a credit-card balance -– will have increased by more than 50 percent, to about $5.5 trillion. Uncle Sam will be paying interest on that sum for years to come. Much of that borrowed money paid for military expenses after the 9/11 attacks -– spending unanticipated when Mr. Bush took office. Measured against the size of the US economy, the public debt isn’t far outside historical norms...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0927/p01s02-usec.html



The shaking tower of debt

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thorsten Polleit

09/26/07

The repercussions of the turmoil in the US subprime mortgage market are increasingly being felt around the world. What was initially thought to be a problem confined to a US credit market segment has increasingly transformed itself into an erosion of investor confidence in credit quality in general and, in some countries, concerns about the reliability of the banking sector...

http://www.mises.org/story/2716


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

0926/07

A federal court on Wednesday struck down two provisions of the Patriot Act dealing with searches and intelligence gathering, saying they violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures with regard to criminal prosecutions. ‘It is critical that we, as a democratic nation, pay close attention to traditional Fourth Amendment principles,’ wrote Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in her 44-page decision...

http://tinyurl.com/2yozc8



Two Patriot Act provisions ruled unlawful

Associated Press

09/26/07

Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment...

http://tinyurl.com/yohyk2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

Susan Jo Keller, of The New York Times, reports: "a federal judge in Oregon ruled Wednesday that crucial parts of the USA Patriot Act were not constitutional because they allowed federal surveillance and searches of Americans without demonstrating probable cause. 'For over 200 years, this nation has adhered to the rule of law - with unparalleled success,' Judge Aiken's opinion said in finding violations of the Fourth Amendment prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure. 'A shift to a nation based on extraconstitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill advised.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707K.shtml



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Johnson City Press

09/26/07

President Bush and Congress are headed toward another showdown on war spending, this time sparring over nearly $190 billion the Pentagon says is needed to keep combat in Iraq afloat for another year. Sen. Robert Byrd, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, vowed Wednesday not to ‘rubber stamp’ the request and said it was time to put Bush’s policies in check...

http://tinyurl.com/2w3wza


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34057/135/


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Christopher Doering of Reuters reports: "The US Food and Drug Administration ignored hundreds of proposals that could have improved the safety of food imported into the United States, former FDA officials told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092607HA.shtml



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An excerpt from Robert Reich's new book "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life" (Alfred A. Knopf) says, "The awkward truth is that most of us are two minds: As consumers and investors we want the great deals. As citizens we don't like many of the social consequences that flow from them. The system of democratic capitalism in the Not Quite Golden Age struck a very different balance. Then, as consumers and investors we didn't do nearly as well; as citizens we fared better."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092607LB.shtml



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This Friday on PBS NOW, get a bird's-eye view of life for "Iraq war veteran Michael Zacchea, a Marine lieutenant colonel who trained Iraqi troops and led them in the battle of Fallujah. Haunted by the violence he saw there, Zacchea and other soldiers diagnosed with PTSD now face what could be a lifelong struggle to leave the horrors of war behind and reclaim their once-peaceful lives."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607U.shtml



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

The Associated Press reports: "A former state legislator's conviction for taking bribes from an oil services firm has wider implications: the FBI is investigating whether Ted Stevens, the US Senate's longest-serving Republican, also received illegal gifts from the same company."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607T.shtml



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76-22 and so it begins? Senate opens door to war with Iran
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27183


Informant: Bob Banner



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

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

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Examining the FDA’s HPV Vaccine Records
http://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/2008/JWReportFDAhpvVaccineRecords.pdf

Gardasil maiming, killing girls
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20080911.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Gardacil vaccine warning
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/302.html

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Eighteen Deaths Linked to Gardasil Vaccine, Report Claims

by NWV News

A recent publication by a conservative watchdog group has rekindled media interest in a controversial anti-virus vaccine and sent Big Pharma and federal health agency officials into damage control mode. In a 25-page special report released June 30, Judicial Watch -- a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization that promotes “transparency and accountability in government” – presents evidence based on government documents that in the two years since being licensed by the........

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news57.htm



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http://www.anationdeceived.org/category/hatchell/

IMMEDIATE ACTION: Please voice your impeachment opinion (for or against) by calling House Speaker Pelosi’s office at 202-225-0100 or call the toll-free capitol switchboard and ask for Pelosi’s office: (800) 828-0498 - (800) 459-1887 - (800) 614-2803 IMPEACHMENT POLL LINKS MSNBC | National Cheney |MoveOn.org |VoteToImpeachBush.org

“Please text message “IMPEACH” to 30644 if you are for impeachment and text message “KEEP” to 30644 if you are against impeachment.

http://www.anationdeceived.org/2007/09/


Informant: Cal

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Pelosi admitting we will never leave Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZL8-XQsgiA


Informant: Bob Banner



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

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--lieberman-iran0926sep26,0,6941186.story


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZsMUn44ds&NR=1


Informant: David Diggins

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ee_1190476904


Informant: Cal

Congressman Dennis Kucinich http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0926-13.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dennis+Kucinich

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/26/4128/



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by Vaclav Havel, International Herald-Tribune
http://ga3.org/ct/Q120pgF1GXVs/

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Scher

EU-Justizkommissar Franco Frattini plant, europaweit Internet-Suchmaschinen und Provider zu verpflichten, bestimmte vermeintlich "gefährliche" Wörter wie "Bombe", "töten", "Völkermord" oder "Terrorismus" und den Zugang zu den entsprechenden Internetseiten sperren zu lassen. Konkrete Vorschläge will der Kommissar im November vorlegen. Nach Auffassung des medienpolitischen Sprechers der Linksfraktion, Lothar Bisky, verstoßen die Pläne "zur weiteren Zensur des Internets" sowohl gegen die Meinungsfreiheit als auch gegen das Recht auf Information.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16668

Reuters reports, "Medical experts and US senators accused the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday of failing to take seriously illnesses suffered by U.S. 1991 Gulf War veterans and doing too little to help them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607H.shtml

Sudarsan Raghavan and Thomas E. Ricks report for The Washington Post, "A confrontation between the US military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to US military and government officials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sudarsan+Raghavan
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Truthout's Kelpie Wilson writes: "More than 80 heads of state met at the UN on Monday to discuss the launch of post-Kyoto climate negotiations. Although this was the most high-level UN meeting yet held on the global climate emergency, President Bush refused to attend. He did, however, assent to an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to attend a private dinner afterward.... While Bush was eating his dinner with Ban ki-Moon, a half-dozen American climate change activists continued a weeks-long fast to protest American inaction on climate, 'so that others might eat.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

William Rivers Pitt writes for Truthout: "The willful collusion between CBS management and the Bush administration, offered by Rather to frame his accusations, illuminate an insidious, grotesque, and altogether deadly alignment of circumstances hiding in plain sight before the entire American populace. An explanation for why the legitimate fears and anxious uncertainties of the people are never soothed or clarified by mainstream news outlets like CBS, but are instead methodically aggravated and intentionally amplified by those outlets, begins to take shape in light of Rather's inside-view revelations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Rather
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

Everything about the case of the so-called Toronto 18 is shrouded in mystery. Evidence raised in court, either at bail hearings or the preliminary hearing, is covered by a publication ban. But this hasn't prevented the public from knowing allegations against 14 adults and four juveniles that are so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable.

http://www.thestar.com/article/260191



US 'refuses to hand over agents'

US authorities have told Germany they will not hand over 13 suspected CIA agents sought over the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen in 2003, an official said.

http://snipurl.com/1ra1g


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Soldiers Create Military Base on Iraq-Iran Border to Halt Alledged Weapons Smuggling From Iran.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3649942


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq's government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25440506


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

The Emir of Qatar has said Iraq can no longer remain the responsibility of just one country and called for a strengthening of the United Nations' role there, in a speech that has been seen as a rare public criticism of US policy in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1ra14



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

HUD Demolitions Draw Noose Tighter Around New Orleans

By Bill Quigley

Odessa Lewis is 62 years old. When I saw her last week, she was crying because she is being evicted. A long-time resident of the Lafitte public housing apartments, since Katrina she has been locked out of her apartment and forced to live in a 240 square foot FEMA trailer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18457.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
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By Stephen Lendman

What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. It has the highest homicide rate of all western nations and a passion for owning guns, yet the two seem oddly unconnected.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18462.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

By Agence France Presse

US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18459.htm

By Matthew Rothschild

At his speech to the UN, Bush had the audacity to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights several times, despite the fact that he's been violating it over and over again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18461.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Rothschild

By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Ironically, Bush's "war on terror" has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing US civil liberty and turning an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18460.htm



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

Keith Olbermann

The changes that were made last month to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were apparently made under false pretenses -- Congresswoman Jane Harman on that, in a moment. First. The Bush administration is tonight fighting to make those changes permanent... seemingly by scaring the Democratic majority into compliance. Hey, it has worked before.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18458.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jane+Harman
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By Daniel Ellsberg

If there's another 9/11 under this regime ... it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18456.htm

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YES "A Coup has Occurred" & "The Answer is Blow'in in the Wind"

By Jim Kirwan

The war cannot be won militarily, yet the congressional stalemate cannot continue either--because with every hour that passes people are unnecessarily dying for no other reason than the inconvenience to a few self-interested politicians and a thoroughly disgusted public that can see no end in sight to this nightmare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18473.htm



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http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/96580



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Thomas Ferraro reports for Reuters: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy blasted [spy chief] McConnell for suggesting some members of the Democratic-led Congress fail to appreciate the threat of attack. Leahy also criticized McConnell for telling Congress earlier this month that open debate about US surveillance endangered lives."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607O.shtml



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Ryan J. Foley reports for The Associated Press: "Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He said he will do so during a protest scheduled for Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607L.shtml

The Associated Press reports that Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a letter about the muzzling of State Department officials in inquiries involving Blackwater USA and Iraq's government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607K.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
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Matt Renner reports for Truthout, "Peter Keisler, the acting US attorney general, covered up evidence of alleged widespread contracting fraud in Iraq by preventing whistleblowers' complaints from being investigated, according to a prominent fraud attorney."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607J.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opbur265389917sep26,0,1260270,full.story


Informant: John Burroughs

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Common Dreams
by Akbar Ganji

09/25/07

The people of Iran are experiencing difficult times both internationally and domestically. Internationally, they face the threat of a military attack from the US and the imposition of extensive sanctions by the UN Security Council. Domestically, a despotic state has — through constant and organized repression — imprisoned them in a life-and-death situation. Far from helping the development of democracy, US policy over the past fifty years has consistently been to the detriment of the proponents of freedom and democracy in Iran...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/24/4080/



Iran reformist warns democracy at stake

Rocky Mountain News

09/26/07

One of Iran’s top reform politicians said Wednesday that demonizing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - such as in this week’s Columbia University forum - only strengthens hard-liners’ hand as Iranians rally around their otherwise unpopular leader. Even more damaging would be a military strike against Iran, which Mohsen Mirdamadi said would set back democracy a decade or more...

http://tinyurl.com/26tybg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Akbar+Ganji

The American Conservative
by Gregory Cochran

09/24/07

Politicians, for the most part, have accepted statements about withdrawal requiring anywhere from one to two years. They want to be ‘responsible’ — that’ll be the day. Some may have calculated that slow withdrawal might better disguise defeat and thus be more politically palatable, but I don’t think many are that Machiavellian. I think instead that, with a few honorable exceptions, they’re profoundly ignorant of war and thus have to blindly accept anything the professional military says. That ignorance is, of course, one of the reasons we got into this mess in the first place. That goes double for columnists: in pundit-land, a military expert is someone who thinks that the phalanx is cutting-edge technology. The bottom line is that we can get troops and war-fighting equipment out of Iraq rapidly and relatively safely, certainly in less than six months, probably in three...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_09_24/cover.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Slate
by John Dickerson

09/25/07

Clinton has consolidated her lead in the polls — she’s up by 17 points nationally and has big leads in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, and Florida. The new recognition that she’s pulling away may make this debate more interesting than the 384 that came before it, because the also-rans may decide they have to direct their fire on the front-runner, as trailing Democrats did when Howard Dean opened up a lead in the 2004 campaign. Of course, attacking is risky: Rick Lazio torpedoed his 2000 Senate campaign when he attacked Clinton and came off looking like a cheap thug. Iowa voters, in particular, tend to frown on uppercut politics. And Clinton is a tougher, more skilled, and more disciplined politician than any of her opponents. But she is not invincible...

http://www.slate.com/id/2174678/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
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Salon
by Walter Shapiro

09/26/07

It is time to face the blunt truth: This Congress, despite its nominal Democratic majorities, is not going to hasten the end of the Iraq war. This is not defeatism on the home front nor is it a rant against the accommodationist tactics of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Rather, this inescapable conclusion is based on the coin of the realm on Capitol Hill — the stark arithmetic of head counts...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/09/26/congress_v_iraq/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
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http://tinyurl.com/2w6v3n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber

Yahoo! News

09/25/07

About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly. They were among about 400 protesters opposing the Bush administration’s war in Iraq and its incarceration in Guantanamo Bay of more than 300 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many in the crowd wore orange jumpsuits in solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees. Police took the arrested demonstrators into custody … after they knelt on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch, said they were trying to serve an ‘arrest warrant’ on Bush for ‘high crimes against humanity.’ Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/bush_protest


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
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Writing for The New Republic, Jerry Coyne and Hopi E. Hoekstra state: "After the Great Dying, as the end-Permian extinction is called, Earth's biodiversity didn't bounce back for more than ten million years. Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all of which severely pruned life's diversity. Scientists agree that we're now in the midst of a sixth such episode. This new one, however, is different - and, in many ways, much worse. For, unlike earlier extinctions, this one results from the work of a single species, Homo sapiens."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092507EC.shtml



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

The Associated Press reports: "The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0925-08.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0925-07.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/25/4085



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/25/4099/

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How the White House Worked to Scuttle California's Climate Law

The San Francisco Chronicle's Zachary Coile reports: "President Bush's transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to emails obtained by Congress."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092507EA.shtml

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/de36c27eca7035dc



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/25/4098/

Click:

Nach über zwei Jahren Dauerprotest der Bürgerinitiative UMTS-Mast Hofherrnweiler ist es nun endlich soweit. Der Mobilfunk-Mast in der Weilerstraße ist vom Dach. Heute wurde der letzte Teil abmontiert und die Anwohnen können wieder aufatmen.

Angefangen hatte alles im April 2005, als plötzlich ein UMTS-Mast von o2 mitten in der Ortschaft stand.

Sofort regte sich erbitterter Widerstand in Form von Versammlungen, einer eigenen Homepage, Plakataktionen und vielen anderen Aktivitäten. Die rechtliche Lage wurde sondiert und die Bürgerinitiative UMTS-Mast Hofherrnweiler suchte die offene Diskussion mit der Stadt und dem Betreiber o2. Hier stieß man auf taube Ohren, denn alles hatte seine offizielle Ordnung, denn die Bestimmungen waren eingehalten - der Bürgerwille wurde ignoriert.

Welche Aktionen alle unternommen wurden, welche letztendlich zur Demontage der UMTS-Sendeanlage geführt haben, kann man auf der BI-Homepage http://www.umts-mast.de sehen.

"Wir haben immer fest daran geglaubt, diesen Masten weg zu bekommen." So der Initiator der Bürgerinitiative Wolfgang Dambacher. Doch ohne fundierte rechtliche Unterstützung wäre dies nicht möglich gewesen. Die BI hat einen Rechtsanwalt beauftragt, welcher die entsprechenden Schritte eingeleitet hat und die BI bei den vielen Anhörungen bestens vertreten hat.

Der Bürgerinitiative ist nicht bekannt, dass sich Bewohner von Hofherrnweiler offen für die Versorgung mit UMTS-Technologie ausgesprochen haben. Weder hat o2 seine Mobilfunklizenz verloren (50% von Deutschland muss versorgt werden), noch hat Hofherrnweiler den Anschluss an die Welt verpasst sondern seine Lebensqualität behalten.

Die Bürger von Hofherrnweiler freuen sich über Ihren Erfolg und hoffen, das noch viele Sendeanlagen fallen werden.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Aalen

BI UMTS-Mast Hofherrnweiler
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The population bomb has burst, the climate and biosphere are in tatters, and tyrannical, militaristic governments rule; yet there remains a path to global ecological sustainability

Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
September 26, 2007

The Earth is a living organism, which some call Gaia. Humanity is taking apart Gaia's life support systems in an orgy of procreation and consumption. Only radical social change and profound spiritual transformation can save us now.

Radical is not a dirty word. It means markedly new opinions and actions far beyond the norm, often is response to dilemmas that stymie conventional wisdom. Many times in Western history radical political ideas expanded human dignity and opportunity.

In this era of resource gluttony, tyranny and militarism, and post population bomb explosion; the Earth and her humanity are crying out for radical social and ecological change. From one billion to over 6.5 billion people in just over 125 years. Dying oceans, an end to ancient forests, water scarcity, unknown toxins interacting, over-consumption amongst grotesque inequity, and climate processes disintegrating -- all are the face of a dying Earth as humans eat, and shit on, their home.

How can humanity lighten its load upon, and restore, the biosphere's ecological systems; even as plagued by war, injustice, poverty, disease and ignorance?

This is the question of all remaining time, and I welcome all comprehensive, sufficient policy prescriptions. However, I am highly skeptical regarding the ability of liberal democratic capitalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Chinese market communism; nor any other existing religious, political or economic traditions' ability to equitably and justly feed 9 billion people on a failing Planet.

Sometimes radicalism and revolutionary thinking are the only way forward when liberal and conservative status quo responses have failed society and the Earth. Clearly this is now the case as over-population and inequitable over-consumption well beyond the carrying capacity of the Earth threaten the very biological basis of being. Radical political ecologism is the way forward.

Life, biological being, and ecological systems' very existences are threatened. Wanton death and suffering loom. Where to go to escape China's tyranny and America's imperialism, and their combined militaristic and ecocidal drain upon Gaia? Where to go into exile from a collapsing Earth? When and how will the liquidation of life end? Can we end it? How?

These are not my governments. I and my brethren are Earth citizens. This is not my economy. We imperfectly seek to live in a manner that the entire world could enjoy forever. These are not my wars upon the Earth and the poor. Tyrannical and imperialistic governments do not speak for me. This is not my ecological science, demonstrating plodding incautious caution in the face of global ecological collapse. Nor is this my environmental movement, with allegiance to what is in vogue and stylish half-measures rather than a commitment to sufficient truths.

I am repulsed by all their Gods and prophets of war and oppression. In all my life I have really only learned one unique thing: The Earth is Truth. Truth is God. Thus the Earth is God.

What do I mean by this simplistic, transitive statement of my youth? In all my early soul-searching and truth-seeking, the only demonstrably objective truth I could find is my and your utter dependence upon the Earth. We need water, air, land and other elements of good habitat to live. Thus the Earth is Truth.

God has been and is many things to many people, and I strongly suspect we are all pursuing alternative ways to the spirit(s) in the sky and Earth. Yet the idea that this spirit is best exemplified by what is truthful continues to resonate with me as I grow older. The truth found in a beautiful blooming spring flower, a laughing child and an intricate ecosystem is God.

And as every pre-algebra student knows, this leads us to the tautology that the Earth is God. There are many ways to this place of transcendent truth beauty -- philosophical, scientific and ecological intuitions are all equally valid paths to Gaia.

So what shall we do with this knowledge? If the Earth is truly God, which could be called Gaia, then she and all of her lively components are worthy of awe filled worship; and of unflinching, devotional protection at all costs.

Saving the Earth will require embracing Gaia spiritually, and pursuit of radical change on her behalf. We are called back to the land even as we engage the Earth destroying global growth machine. Certainly ending coal use, protecting ancient forests and flying less are worthy and necessary rituals of Gaia worship.


Dr. Barry is founder and President of Ecological Internet; provider of the largest, most used environmental portals on the Internet including the Climate Ark at http://www.climateark.org/ and http://EcoEarth.Info/ . Earth Meanders is a series of ecological essays that are written in his personal capacity. This essay may be reprinted granted it is properly credited to Dr. Barry and with a link to Earth Meanders. Emailed responses are public record and will be posted on the web site unless otherwise requested.



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by Alan Stang

As I write, the Canadian dollar is at par with our own, which hasn’t happened for more than thirty years. The Saudis for the first time are refusing to follow the Fed’s Bernanke down the chute and Communist-occupied China, which Washington created, is threatening to destroy the dollar by dumping it. The Euro, which started out as an experiment, now stands at an unbelievable $1.40, trending higher. The bond market could collapse. Talk about a possible collapse of the dollar is in the air, and.....

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The Canadian government is trying to block observation of the seal hunt, and we have very little time to stop it. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is proposing unconstitutional changes to the Marine Mammal Regulations -- amendments that would effectively block all independent observation of the commercial seal hunt.

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