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Umweltinstitut München e.V. - Newsletter vom 31. Oktober 2007

Themen: - Online-Protestaktion zum Gentechnikgesetz: Umweltinstitut München antwortet der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion - Fragen und Antworten zu Agro-Kraftstoffen ("Biosprit")

Am 8. November soll das Gentechnikgesetz erstmals im Bundestag beraten werden, nachts zwischen 3.50 Uhr und 4.20 Uhr! Offenbar versucht die Regierung, das Gesetz bei Nacht und Nebel voran zu treiben. An die Teilnehmer unserer Protestaktion gegen eine Aushöhlung des Gentechnikgesetzes versendet die CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion gleichlautende Antwortschreiben. Darin bedient sie sich einer Reihe falscher und irreführender Argumente. Zahlreiche Teilnehmer der Protestaktion haben uns gebeten, das Schreiben zu beantworten. Die Antwort des Umweltinstitut München finden Sie auf unserer Aktionsseite unter http://www.umweltinstitut.org/gentechnik/antwort-an-cdu-529.html Falls Sie sich noch nicht an der Protestaktion beteiligt haben, besteht dort noch die Möglichkeit, vorformulierte Protest-Mails an die Bundestagsfraktionen von SPD und CDU/CSU zu senden. Machen Sie sich für gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittel stark! http://www.umweltinstitut.org/genprotest



Mogelpackung "Biosprit"

Kann mit so genanntem "Biosprit" die Abhängigkeit vom Erdöl verringert, der Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen reduziert und das Weltklima gerettet werden? Nachdem der Einsatz von Benzin oder Diesel aus Raps, Mais oder anderen Pflanzen bislang unkritisch gefordert und gefördert wurde, zeigen sich jetzt die Schattenseiten. Die Rodung von Regenwäldern für Monokulturen von Soja, Zuckerrohr und Ölpalmen, die als Sprit-Pflanzen genutzt werden, ist schon jetzt weitverbreitete Realität. Artensterben, massiver Pestizideinsatz, Wasserverknappung und Bodenerosion sind die Folge. Der Treibhauseffekt wird durch die Agro-Kraftstoffe zudem keineswegs gestoppt. Brandrodung, Trockenlegung von Sümpfen und industrieller Anbau sorgen im Gegenteil dafür, dass Emissionen in wichtigen Erzeugerländern rasant steigen. Informationen über Agro-Kraftstoffe finden Sie jetzt hier: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/agrosprit

Infobrief 2 des Umweltinstituts (PDF, 4 Seiten A4) - Öko-GAU: Mogelpackung "Biosprit" - Geheime Genpflanzen? - "München strahlt": Ergebnisse einer Mobilfunk-Messaktion - E-Smog: Europäische Umweltagentur warnt - WLAN: Bundesregierung warnt - Korrekt bestrahlen: Die Genderprofis vom Strahlenschutz http://www.umweltinstitut.org/download/infobrief_umweltinstitut02.pdf



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Michael Schwartz, writing for TomDispath.com, says: "Why is occupying Iraq so 'vital' to those 'national security interests' of ours? None of this makes sense if you don't have the patience to drill a little beneath the surface and into the past; if you don't take into account that, as former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz once put it, Iraq 'floats on a sea of oil'; and if you don't consider the decades-long US campaign to control, in some fashion, Middle East energy reservoirs. If not, then you can't understand the incredible tenaciousness with which George W. Bush and his top officials have pursued their Iraqi dreams or why - now that those dreams are clearly so many nightmares - even the Democrats can't give up the ghost."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107F.shtml



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Kimberly Hefling, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Mary Gallagher did not get a knock at the door from a military chaplain with news of her Marine husband's death in a faraway place. Instead, the Iraq war veteran committed suicide eight months after returning home. She is left wondering why."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107A.shtml



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Support for our Fight for Freedom 1807-2007 campaign has been fantastic so far. Over 40,000 people have now signed the Declaration calling for measures to address slavery past and present.

Please renew your efforts, as the end of 2007 approaches, to get the Declaration as widely signed and supported as possible. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people signed petitions as part of the campaign to abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Today we are building a new mass movement against slavery, so please continue to collect signatures for the Declaration. You can forward the link to the Declaration http://www.antislavery.org/2007/actionsign.php to your friends, family and colleagues and encourage them to sign. You can also download extra copies of the Declaration to circulate here http://www.antislavery.org/2007/download/signthedeclarationdoc.doc .

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Dan Eggen reports for The Washington Post, "Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey told Senate Democrats yesterday that a kind of simulated drowning known as waterboarding is 'repugnant to me,' but he said he does not know whether the interrogation tactic violates US laws against torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107J.shtml



Leahy "Very Concerned" With Mukasey's Answer on Waterboarding

Alexander Bolton, reporting for The Hill, writes: "Michael Mukasey attempted to advance his stalled nomination for attorney general Tuesday by giving Congress a written statement discussing the legality of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Mukasey submitted a four-page legalistic discussion that did not give Democrats what they were demanding: a succinct statement on whether waterboarding is akin to torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107C.shtml



Leahy "Very Concerned" With Mukasey's Answer on Waterboarding

Alexander Bolton, reporting for The Hill, writes: "Michael Mukasey attempted to advance his stalled nomination for attorney general Tuesday by giving Congress a written statement discussing the legality of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Mukasey submitted a four-page legalistic discussion that did not give Democrats what they were demanding: a succinct statement on whether waterboarding is akin to torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107C.shtml



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By Gerran Grimshaw

CONTROVERSY over Selby's telecommunications mast rumbles on following a decision that will leave the district council with a much bigger share of the profits.

North Yorkshire Police and Selby District Council currently take profits from allowing third parties - such as mobile phone companies - to use the facility.

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09:00 - 31 October 2007

Parents say they will keep fighting to remove a mobile phone mast from outside a school.

The pledge comes after Notts County Council apparently ignored calls to remove the mast close to Lowe's Wong Junior and Infant Schools.

Campaigners have collected 1,600 names on a protest petition, which they have handed in to the county council. But the petition looks set to be thrown out at a full council meeting tomorrow.

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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L. Anderson

10/25/07

As the wildfires in California and elsewhere burn forests, homes, and businesses, and as a Katrina-sized evacuation continues, environmentalists and the media are making new claims: these disasters are the results of global warming. According to a recent ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast and new claims on CNN, global warming is causing these newest disasters, and if we wish to have fewer fires in the future, we need to ‘change our lifestyles’ now...

http://www.mises.org/story/2764


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff

10/31/07

There are only two ways to go in the Middle East: get out or get in deeper. Getting out is wiser. That will reduce the threats. Getting out requires that America reverse course. This course was set in 1787 but the ship of state didn’t set its full sails until 1898 and the Spanish-American War. Since then, the ship has become a Titanic speeding along as it heads for its iceberg. Changing course is the only way to avoid the collision and sinking of the ship. The alternative to getting out is to get in deeper, such as by attacking Iran and Syria. Bush, Cheney, and Rice have opted for this course. The U.S. Congress has for years taken an anti-Iran stance. What will be the result of getting in deeper? Under the best of circumstances, the U.S. will be involved in occupations that will last a very long time. The U.S. stayed for 50 years in the Philippines. It has been in Korea and other places around the world for 50-60 years and counting. Bush has said that the war on terror will take 100 years...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff184.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Bush administration continues to insist that it alone must decide whether a judge is allowed to hear a case that might harm national security. When Judge Harry Pregerson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, listened to Deputy Solicitor General Gregory Garre telling him that, he responded: "The bottom line here is the government declares something is a state secret, and that's the end of it. The king can do no wrong".

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071029/EDITORIAL07/110290003/1013/editorial


From Information Clearing House



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THE United States's willingness to resort to harsh interrogation techniques in its so-called war on terror undermined human rights and the international ban on torture, a United Nations spokesman says.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-accused-of-torture/2007/10/30/1193618879492.html


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In an interview in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, one of Rudy Giuliani's leading foreign policy advisers-- Norman Podhoretz --prattles on about we must bomb Iran. Talking about military strikes, including cruise missiles and "bunker busters", this neoncon man sounds delusional.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=246661



Israeli general suggests to use Azerbaijan's airbases in strike against Iran

Brigadier General Oded Tira observed, "President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure."

http://www.today.az/news/politics/34565.html


From Information Clearing House



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Democrats are debating whether to approve $50 billion to $70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, less than half of President Bush's $196 billion request but enough to keep the wars afloat for several more months.

http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.107424.html


From Information Clearing House



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The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command is paying reenlistment bonuses of up to $150,000 to Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs to keep them from fleeing the military to take high-paying jobs with private security contractors such as Blackwater USA.

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/special_forces_bonus/2007/10/28/44646.html


From Information Clearing House



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By George Monbiot

A powerful novel’s vision of a dystopian future shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18641.htm



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By Jon Ponder

Mukasey Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18639.htm



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By Abbas Edalat and Mehrnaz Shahabi

Condoleezza Rice's declaration of Iran's complicity in terrorism looks like another step on the White House's march to war.

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Warren Cornwall, The Seattle Times, says, "Seattle is one of the first major US cities to claim it has cut greenhouse-gas emissions enough to meet the targets of the international Kyoto treaty aimed at combating global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103007EB.shtml

Sinan Salaheddin of The Associated Press reports: "The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, a spokesman said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007S.shtml



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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. med. Joachim Mutter

Hier können Sie mich im Fernsehen sehen zu DECT und WLAN:
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Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) verteidigt die Aufnahme weiterer biometrischer Merkmale in den neuen elektronischen Reisepass. Es solle nicht mehr gelingen, mit gefälschten Reisedokumenten in den EU-Schengenraum einzureisen, sagte Schäuble am 30. Oktober in Berlin zur Umstellung auf das neue Passdokument. Ab Donnerstag, den 1. November, müssen Antragssteller eines Reisepasses zusätzlich zu einem Foto zwei Fingerabdrücke abgeben, die auf einem Funkchip gespeichert werden. Datenschützer und Computerexperten hatten unter anderem bemängelt, dass die sensiblen Daten auf dem Pass von Kriminellen missbraucht werden könnten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16868



Datenschützer und Opposition halten Pass mit Fingerabdruck für unnötig

Vor der offiziellen Einführung der Reisepässe mit gespeicherten Fingerabdrücken am 1. November haben Datenschützer und Oppositionspolitiker erneut schwere Bedenken angemeldet. Insbesondere die Sicherheit der sensiblen Daten auf dem "ePass" der zweiten Generation sei keine zehn Jahre gewährleistet. Kritisiert wurde am 31. Oktober auch, dass sich Antragssteller eines Reisepasses nun erkennungsdienstlich behandeln lassen müssten. Der Datenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar sagte, die Einführung des Fingerabdruckes sei aus seiner Sicht unnötig. Man frage sich, "was soll das Ganze?"

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16872

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Datenschutz wird zum Placebo

1. November 2007

Zu der seit heute geltenden neuen Reisepassverordnung erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die seit heute geltenden Bestimmungen sind Ausdruck eines Paradigmenwechsels in der Sicherheitspolitik des Landes. Den für einen Rechtsstaat zentralen Grundsatz der Unschuldsvermutung gibt es nicht mehr, jeder ist qua Geburt ein potentieller Täter. War die Abnahme von Fingerabdrücken früher eine Maßnahme, um Tatverdächtige zu identifizieren, wird diese Identifizierung heute auf alle Inhaber eines Reisepasses ausgedehnt und vielleicht morgen schon auf alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Entsprechende Vermutungen nach einem "Testlauf" liegen nahe. Dann ist es nur noch ein kleiner Schritt zu einer Zentraldatei für Fingerabdrücke der Bevölkerung oder konsequenter Weise gleich für den genetischen Fingerabdruck bei Geburt. Wer sich heute hinter den EU-Vorgaben für diesen Schritt verstecken will, sei daran erinnert, dass es der SPD-Innenminister Schily war, der erst den Anstoß für diese Verordnung gab. Der Umgang des Staates mit den persönlichen Daten seiner Bürgerinnen und Bürger wird immer ungenierter. Das Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung wird nach und nach ausgehöhlt. Datenschutz wird zum Placebo.

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From: Ralph Ryder
Date: Oct 24, 2007 3:43 PM
Subject: Monsanto

Burying the truth. For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed. Documents have been mysteriously lost, witnesses silenced, scientific data ignored. But the truth about Monsanto's PCB scandal is leaking out.

The Ecologist http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1099


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29/10/2007

Chances are you've already made at least one call on your mobile today - just like 40 million other users in the UK.

Mobile usage is immense, with half the world's population predicted to have one by the end of the decade.

But if new research is to be believed, we could be sitting on a health time-bomb.

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Sylvia

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The Associated Press reports: "A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, joined two top Senate Democrats in urging Mukasey to disclose his views."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102907M.shtml



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The Associated Press reports, "The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster."

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by Liliana Segura, AlterNet

Hollywood fiction can hardly match the harsh reality of Bush's rendition policy.

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Over the past 16 years, Grayson has litigated dozens of cases of contractor fraud. In many of these, he has found the Justice Department to be an ally in exposing wrongdoing. But in cases that involve the Iraq war, the D.O.J. has taken extraordinary steps to stand in his way. Behind its machinations, he believes, is a scandal of epic proportions -- one that may come to haunt the legacy of the Bush administration long after it is gone.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711


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Bill Moyers Journal takes an in-depth look at the heated talk of impeachment taking place across the country. Includes links to various impeachment Bush/Cheney movements around the country.

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Sue Pleming, reporting for Reuters, writes, "Facing staff shortages in Iraq, the US State Department announced on Friday that diplomats would have no choice but to accept one-year postings in the hostile environment or face losing their jobs."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102907B.shtml

Paul Krugman, writing for The New York Times, says: "In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to 'nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.' But that was then. Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president - including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination - have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102907A.shtml



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Beim Treffen mit EU-Vertretern hat Russlands Präsident Vladimir Putin den Konflikt um den geplanten US-Raketenschild mit der Kuba-Krise verglichen. Die Pläne der USA für eine Raketenabwehr in Europa würden eine Situation wie zu Zeiten der Kuba-Krise in den sechziger Jahren schaffen, so Putin. "Eine solche Bedrohung wird an unserer Grenze aufgebaut." "Ich will daran erinnern, wie sich die Beziehungen in einer ähnlichen Situation in der Mitte der sechziger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts entwickelt haben", sagte er. "Für uns ist die Situation technologisch sehr ähnlich." Die Kuba-Krise hatte die USA und die damalige Sowjetunion 1962 an den Rand eines Atomkrieges gebracht. US-Präsident George W. Bush hatte vor kurzem von einem Dritten Weltkrieg gesprochen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16855

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/29/4885/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/29/4877/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/29/4879



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http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=071029&i=546



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UN-Berichterstatter gibt Agrarsprit-Boom Mitschuld und fordert ein Moratorium sowie den Einsatz von Pflanzen, die nicht mit Nahrungsmitteln konkurrieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26503/1.html



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Relax und Ruhe!

USA: Die Aufmerksamkeit für den Irak hat beträchtlich nachgelassen. Indessen ist das Land auf dem Weg zum Warlord-Staat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26505/1.html

Lara Jakes Jordan reports for The Associated Press: "The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians.... The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine any effort to prosecute security contractors for their role in the incident that has infuriated the Iraqi government."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007K.shtml



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Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "The Bush administration hopes to push through two license-free arms sales treaties before the end of this Senate session. Both would eliminate much of the oversight that governs international weapons trades. The treaties, one with the United Kingdom and one with Australia, exemplify a growing trend of weakening restrictions on arms exports, even as fears of weapons proliferation intensify worldwide."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007J.shtml



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In other words, the country is by far the world's biggest debtor nation. A quarter century ago, the US was the world's largest creditor nation.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1029/p15s01-wmgn.html


From Information Clearing House

Britain's first Muslim Minister has decribed his disappointment after he was detained at a US airport, where his hand luggage was analysed for traces of explosive materials.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3107480.ece



The Wiretap This Time

EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/opinion/29terkel.html



Canadian protesters stranded

In these days of shock-and-awe travel, nobody can be sure whether a casual trip to Buffalo will end up in Syria - or as an all-expenses-paid tour of Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/271059


From Information Clearing House



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In Paris last week, Rumsfeld left a prestigious speaking event in haste, slipping out a side door to avoid the human rights lawyers and journalists waiting to confront him with criminal charges of torture. He reportedly avoided the confrontation by sneaking out a door that attached the conference venue to, of all places, the United States Embassy.

http://snipurl.com/1svfr



FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals

The report makes it absolutely clear that torture was ordered and planned in detail at the highest levels of the government-including the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Justice Department.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fbi-m23.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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By Chris Hedges

The government has closed seven Muslim charities in the United States and frozen their assets. Not one of them, or any person associated with them, has been found guilty of financing terrorism. They will remain shut. George W. Bush can tar any organization or individual, here or abroad, as being part of a terrorist conspiracy and by fiat render them powerless.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18637.htm



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Mohamed ElBaradei

By The Associated Press

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18636.htm

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IAEA sees "good" Iran cooperation ahead of talks

A senior U.N. nuclear agency official said cooperation with Iran was "good" ahead of talks on Monday about Tehran's disputed atomic work, after an Iranian warning that new U.S. sanctions could harm ties with the agency.

http://snipurl.com/1svf3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei
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The recent outpouring of support for the Jena Six has been called the beginning of the modern day civil rights movement. We spoke with James Rucker, co-founder of ColorofChange.org, about the events in Jena and his organization's work to halt black voter suppression, support Hurricane Katrina victims and keep the fire going in what has now been declared the 21st century civil rights movement.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102907J.shtml



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Mark Gruenberg of Press Associates, Inc., writes: "Saying the Bush adminstration's National Labor Relations Board 'has turned its back on workers precisely at the moment it should be invigorating the protections' of US labor law, the AFL-CIO filed a massive complaint against the Bush board with the International Labour Organization on October 25."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102907LA.shtml

Writing for AlterNet.org, Courtney Hull says, "When environmentalist author Bill McKibben spoke to a community of progressive philanthropists this past summer, he advised his audience, 'We do not have time to wait for change light bulb by light bulb, person by person, or even community by community. We need a movement, and we need it right now.' I then raised my hand, and asked him where he saw the most promising seeds of such a movement to lie, if at all. His first response, 'The youth movement.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102907EA.shtml



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igG4VJtEi5o
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=547


Informant: shane_digital

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6774/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Secret move to upgrade air base for Iran attack plans:

The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1792035.0.0.php


From Information Clearing House



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SARUM Road reservoir in Winchester, home to three telecom operators, may be getting a fourth tenant in the near future.

Mobile phone giant, Vodafone, is hoping to install antennae and satellite dishes in a mast share deal with O2, which already occupies a 20-metre mast on the site.

The Southern Water reservoir has been the subject of much protest in the past as the surrounding area is mainly residential with Sarum Road Hospital and Kings' School Boarding House close by.

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ISIS Press Release 30/10/07

Scientists find wastes from transgenic Bt corn impair growth of common aquatic insect and call on future risk assessment to include aquatic ecosystems previously overlooked. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

In 2006, 35 percent of the 33.1 million hectares of the corn planted in the United States was transgenic, modified to express the Bt toxin Cry1Ab from Bacillus thuringiensis. Bt corn is widely planted in the Midwestern US, often next to headwater streams. Yet, no environmental impact studies have been made of Bt crop by-products on stream insects such as caddisflies (trichopterans), which are common in streams, and closely related to the lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) targeted by the Cry1Ab protein in Bt corn.

As a group, the caddisflies have diverse feeding habbits. Some are filter- feeders, others scrape bioflims off submerged surfaces, and still others feed on detritus. All these caddisflies may consume Bt corn by-products.

A team of scientists led by Emma J. Rosi-Marshall at:Loyola University Chicago in Illinois have now carried out the first study on the fate of transgenic Bt corn wastes in headwater streams next to the fields and their impact on the caddisflies [1]

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

or read other articles on GM Maize here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GE-maize.php



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Condoleezza Rice erhöht den Druck: Neue Strafmaßnahmen gegen Iran verkündet. Zum ersten Mal richten sich US-Sanktionen gegen das Militär eines fremden Landes

Dokumentation beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Iran/sanktionen2.html


Iran-Politik: Angst vor dem Militärschlag

„Schärfere Sanktionen, martialische Rhetorik und gezielte Aufrüstung: Die USA nehmen Iran immer schärfer ins Visier. Die Bundesregierung zeigt sich besorgt - und warnt die Bush-Regierung vor einem Militärschlag…“ Artikel in Spiegel online vom 28. Oktober 2007 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,514015,00.html


Kriegsdrohung gegen Iran: "Es ist zwei Minuten vor zwölf"

AG Friedensforschung wendet sich neuerlich an das Außenministerium - Brief vom 26. Oktober 2007 im Wortlaut http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Iran/agf-brief.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Oktober 2007



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Anlässlich des 2. Grundeinkommens-Kongresses vom 05.10 bis 07.10.2007 in Basel fand am 06.10 eine Podiumsdiskussion unter dem Titel „Das bedingungslose existenzsichernde Grundeinkommen: Politische Perspektiven“ mit VertreterInnen von Erwerbslosengruppen aus der Schweiz, Österreich, Deutschland und Spanien statt. Am Ende der Diskussionsrunde wurde folgende Resolution einstimmig verabschiedet (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/kongress2reso.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Oktober 2007

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Existenzgeld Reloaded

„Ein Lied geht durch Europa. Ein Lied über ein Einkommen für alle, Mann, Frau oder Kind, egal ob man in dem Land, in dem man lebt und dieses Einkommen bezieht, auch geboren ist.“ So hieß es Ende der neunziger Jahre zusammenfassend in einem Resümee der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Sozialhilfeinitiativen (BAG SHI) zur Entwicklung der Idee eines Existenzgeldes. Mittlerweile kann von einem ganzen Orchester gesprochen werden, das mit unterschiedlichen Dirigenten und Solisten sowie dissonanten Notensetzungen durch Europa zieht. Kaum ein Tag ohne Berichterstattung oder Veranstaltung über das Für und Wider eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens, nach über zwanzig Jahren Dornröschenschlaf wird eine Idee wach geküsst. Allerdings nicht von einem, sondern von vielen Prinzen! In diesem Band versammeln sich Positionen aus dem Umfeld der BAG der Sozialhilfeinitiativen: Konzepte, Vorstellungen und Diskussionen von VertreterInnen der Betroffenen und engagierte WissenschaftlerInnen: Harald Rein, Hinrich Garms, Wolfram Otto, Robert Ulmer, Anne Allex, Andreas Geiger…“ So der Klappentext des von der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfe-Initiativen herausgegebenen Buches (ISBN 978-3-930830-96-1 – 2008 – 143 Seiten – 16 €). Siehe dazu

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Existenzgeld für alle! Warum wird das Konzept Existenzgeld überarbeitet?

Einleitung von Harald Rein (pdf) – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany! http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/reloaded.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Juli 2008



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