World-News

Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Helene Cooper, writing in Sunday's New York Times, said that "For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep General Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world. On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart spectacularly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Musharraf

The New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes: "When President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and Election Day he and Dick Cheney, cheered on by the mob of neocon dead-enders, are going to bomb Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407C.shtml



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

In The San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Likosk and Michael Shtender-Auerbach write: "The headlines that Yahoo had handed over Chinese journalist and democratic activist Shi Tao's e-mails and IP address to China's secret police dominated the news last year. This sent a panic through an industry usually praised for its social responsibility and unaccustomed to external scrutiny. Congress called in the general counsels of four of our leading high tech firms - Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo - to account for their collaboration with the Chinese government. In the course of events, it became clear that the problem in the high-tech sector was not isolated but endemic."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407A.shtml

The Army Times' Rick Maze reports that "six percent of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, according to preliminary data released Friday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407Y.shtml



We Owe Our Veterans Health Care

Truthout contributor Eric Haas writes: "Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that 'We owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible.' That debt is still unpaid."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407E.shtml



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

Gesichter der Armut

Das globale Phänomen der neuen Armut trifft besonders auch das wiedervereinigte Deutschland. Mit Armut verbunden ist häufig Obdachlosigkeit.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26429/1.html



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

Die Aktion "Überwach!" wehrt sich auf originelle Weise gegen den Überwachungsstaat.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26542/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachungsstaat

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/e46f6ac509152b68?hl=en



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

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

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

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kucinich_says_he_will_force_House_1102.html


Informant: ranger116



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

Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict Resolution: ”The Meaning of Cultural Conflict” Prof. Dr. Hassan Hanafi has been professor for philosophy in Kairo since 1967, also he was visiting professor at different universities all over the world. Hanafi works as a counselor of the InterActionCouncil, a union of 26 former heads of state, who created the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682500ms72

Ein Kinofilm fordert zur Energiewende auf

Die Erdölvorräte der Erde gehen zur Neige, und immer häufiger werden um die schwindenden Ressourcen kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen geführt. Durch den steigenden Energieverbrauch rast die Welt auf eine existenzielle Krise zu.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682476ms72



Kohle macht krank

Schon auf ihrem letzten Parteitag musste die mächtige kommunistische Partei Chinas eingestehen, dass ihre Kohlepolitik Millionen Chinesen krank macht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682486ms72



CO2-Gehalt im Meer beeinflusst das Klima

Könnte die atmosphärische CO2-Konzentration drastischer ansteigen als bisher angenommen? Neue ETH-Publikation im Fachmagazin "Nature".

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682488ms72

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=115065



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

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=115060



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

Die Kontroverse um den Sparlampen-Elektrosmog schlägt Wellen. Bundesämter, Energiesparverbände, WWF und Greenpeace propagieren sie, ignorieren aber den Elektrosmog-Aspekt. Glühlampen sollen in der Schweiz ab 2012 verboten werden. Die Sparlampen-Befürworter stützen sich auf einen Messbericht von G. Dürrenberger (Forschungsstiftung Mobilkommunikation an der ETH) und G. Klaus (Messfirma Maxwave AG). Dieser Bericht beruht auf Messungen, die für die hochfrequenten elektrischen Felder der Sparlampen 100-mal tiefere Werte (!) angeben, als man sie mit der korrekten Messmethode nach TCO erhält, und behauptet dann, der TCO-Richtwert für Bildschirmarbeitsplätze nach TCO sei "eingehalten". Aber mit TCO vergleichen darf man nur, wenn man auch nach TCO-Spezifikationen misst! - Der für den K-Tipp ausgearbeitete Messbericht mit TCO-konformen Messwerten, die um das 10- bis 40-fache über dem TCO-Richtwert von 1 V/m liegen, ist einsehbar unter http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org/Strom_im_Haushalt.505.0.html#3782 .

Der K-Tipp-Artikel steht auf http://www.diagnose-funk.org/technik/033ea299970ae8001/033ea299da085ff01.html


Peter Schlegel



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

Lisa W. Foderaro, The New York Times, writes: "The last time Bobbi Plautz welcomed home her husband, Travis, from Iraq, he was a changed person. He listened to different kinds of music and craved different kinds of food. He stayed up all night and wrestled with nightmares."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110307F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lisa+W.+Foderaro

Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times, writes: "Republican donors are pumping new life into a proposed ballot initiative, considered all but dead by Democrats a month ago, that would alter the way electoral votes are apportioned in California to the benefit of Republican presidential candidates."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110307B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=apportion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Steinhauer

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26541/1.html

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Gegner der Vorratsdatenspeicherung rufen Bundestagsabgeordnete auf, die Zustimmung zu verweigern

„In Berlin fand heute eine Pressekonferenz von Gegnern der Vorratsdatenspeicherung statt, die an die Bundestagsabgeordneten von SPD und Union appellierten, die Zustimmung zum aktuellen Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zu verweigern. Dieser soll voraussichtlich am Freitag nächster Woche in den Bundestag eingebracht werden und sieht die verdachtsunabhängige, sechsmonatige Speicherung sämtlicher Telekommunikationsverbindungsdaten aller Bürger in Deutschland vor. Die Pressekonferenz bildet zugleich den Auftakt zu dem, am 6. November stattfindenden, bundesweiten Aktionstag gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. An diesem Tag werden in über 40 deutschen Städten Protestaktionen stattfinden…“ Pressemitteilung zur Pressekonferenz des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung am 2. November 07 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/156/55/lang,de/

Siehe auch: Endspurt/Übersicht der bundesweiten Demonstrationen am 6.11.07 https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Endspurt/%C3%9Cbersicht_der_bundesweiten_Demonstrationen


Aus: LabourNet, 5. November 2007



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/f013017f40c656f2?hl=en

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Einladung zum: Luxemburger Appell

In Richtung eines internationalen Verbots von Quecksilber in Amalgam-Zahnfüllungen

Das zahnmedizinische Amalgam stellt den zweit größten Anteil des weltweiten Quecksilberbestands dar. Quecksilber ist zell-toxisch, neuro- toxisch, immun- toxisch und birgt eine Gefahr für die Fertilität und für die embryonale und fötale Entwicklung. Die wissenschaftlichen Studien, die diese Aussagen dokumentieren, erklären und belegen werden am 10. November auf einem internationalen Kongress in Luxemburg vorgestellt. Die Organisatoren, AKUT asbl / Luxemburg in Zusammenarbeit mit der Europäischen Akademie für Umweltmedizin können Dank der Teilnahme von internationalen, hochkarätigen Wissenschaftlern und Forschern ein unvergleichliches Tagesprogramm ankündigen.

Obwohl die Gemeinschaftsstrategie des Europäischen Parlaments in Bezug auf Quecksilber u.a. in einer Reduzierung der Quecksilberemissionen besteht, ruft der Luxemburger Appell zu einem schnellmöglichem Verbot von Quecksilber in Dentalmaterialien auf..

Ab dem 10. November 2007 kann der Luxemburger Appell „Grenzen-los“ unterstützt und unterschrieben werden.

Veranstaltungsort: Parc-Hotel, route d’Echternach, L-1453 Luxemburg

Programm und Referenten bei: http://www.akut.lu

Registrierung / Anmeldung: (erforderlich) bei http://www.akut.lu oder

AKUT asbl
137, rue de Mühlenbach
L-2168 Luxembourg
Tel.: (+352) 22 33 75
Fax: (+352) 22 28 73
Email: info @akut.lu

Luxembourg Appeal:

Towards an international ban of mercury in Dental Amalgam

Patronage: Minister of Health Luxembourg Mars Di Bartolomeo

November 10th 2007 in Luxembourg

Program (Simultaneous translation: French – English/ English – French)

09.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome Opening: Minister of Health Luxembourg
Mars Di Bartolomeo

10.15 Critical evaluation of Dental Amalgam in Dental Practice. 200 Disastrous Years
Dr. Graeme Munro-Hall

10.45 “Spéciation” of cell toxicity from mercury in dental amalgam

Prof. André Picot

11.15 Immunologic effects of mercury and other dental metals: from allergy to autoimmunity
Prof. Vera Stejskal

11.45 Mercury, risk factor for embryo and fetus
Dr. Massimo Montinari

12.15 Lunch

13.45 Amalgams and mercury toxicity
Prof. Boyd E. Haley

14.15 Criticism on dental amalgam: Methodological failures in official studies about dental amalgam
Dr. med. Joachim Mutter

14.45 Why patients-organizations request a mercury dental-amalgam banning
Jean Huss

15.15 Coffee break

15.45 Panel discussion
16.30 Resolution

Signature of the Luxembourg Appeal against mercury in dental amalgam

Launch of the international petition

Registration

Download the registration form English / Français and send it by mail, or by Fax: +(352) 22 28 73 to AKUT asbl

Or Register online

No registration fees.

Conference venue

Parc-Hotel
Route d'Echternach
L-1453 Luxembourg
Téléphone: +(352) 43 56 43 0 Fax +(352) 43 69 03 http://www.parc-hotel.lu

Hotel rooms / Accommodation

Special price at Parc-Hotel for conference participants, 75 € single room, 95 € double room http://www.parc-hotel.lu

(Bookings on your own)

More available hotels: http://www.lcto.lu/html_en/accomodation_restauration/index.html


Speakers / Experts

MUNRO-HALL Graeme, Dr
International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Wick-End-Farm

Stagsden, UNITED KINGDOM

PICOT André, Prof., Toxico chimiste

Directeur honoraire de Recherche CNRS,

Unité de Prévention du Risque Chimique;

Professeur d´université

Expert à l’Union Européene pour les produits chimiques en milieu du travail, 1994-2006

Président de l’Assosication de Toxicologie – Chimie ATC
Chevreuse, FRANCE

STEJSKAL Vera, Prof.

Associate Professor of Immunology at

University of Stockholm and First Medical Faculty,

Charles University, Prague;
Danderyd, SWEDEN

MONTINARI Massimo, Dr.

Directeur medical de l’Höpital policlinique de Bari Reparto Mobile di Bari

Mobile di Bari, Distaccamento di Taranto – Segretaria Scientifica, Ufficio Santario

Bari, ITALY

HALEY Boyd E., Prof.

Professor of Chemistry-Biochemistry, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, USA

MUTTER Joachim, Dr. med.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology at the University Medical Center
Freiburg, GERMANY

HUSS Jean
President of AKUT asbl,
Member of Parliament Luxembourg and Health Committee,
Member of the Council of Europe – Report for better prevention of environmental linked diseases.
Esch-sur-Alzette, LUXEMBOURG

Organisation:

AKUT asbl
137, rue de Mühlenbach
L-2168 Luxembourg
Tel.: +352 22 33 75
Fax: +352 22 28 73
E-Mail: info @akut.lu
Web: http://www.akut.lu

EUROPEAN ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

Juliuspromenade 54
D - 97070 Würzburg
Tel.: +49 (0)9313534830
Fax: +49 (0)931 573131
E-mail: europaem @europaem.de
Web: http://www.europaem.org


Nachricht von Pesché Jeannot



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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_zQQjtmwE


Informant: gotemf

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6789/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

09:45 - 03 November 2007

A Mobile phone mast could be built in a rural town if councillors give the scheme the green light.

Telecommunications company O2 has applied for planning permission to build the 30-metre high mast on Ermine Street, Broughton.Residents living close to the proposed mast have written letters objecting to the scheme due to visual impact, health and safety issues and devaluation of property issues.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2lfp46

The Washington Post's Dana Hedgpeth reports that "The Prince Group, the holding company that owns Blackwater Worldwide ... has assembled a roster of former spooks - high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA and defense intelligence - that mirrors the slate of former military officials who run Blackwater. Its chairman is Cofer Black, the former head of counterterrorism at CIA known for his leading role in many of the agency's more controversial programs, including the rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and the detention of some of them in secret prisons overseas."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110307Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal

http://www.care2.com/news/member/172225705/524915

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Twelve of the Weirdest Bugs I Bet You've Never Seen
http://tinyurl.com/25y6wr


Informant: Patricia Ormsby



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

ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/ November 2, 2007

TAKE ACTION New York City is one of the biggest rainforest destroyers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversity

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=nyc_rainforest

New York City's (NYC) Department of Parks and Recreation is one of America's largest destroyers of rainforests, reports New York based Rainforest Relief. Parks and other NYC and state agencies including the Department of Transportation (DOT) and NYC Transit use hundreds of thousands of board feet of tropical hardwoods per year. New York City's use of ancient forest timbers comes at great expense to the Earth's biodiversity, ecosystems, climate and prospects for achieving global ecological sustainability... Please support Rainforest Relief's and NY Climate Action Group's campaign demanding that Mayor Bloomberg end NYC's use of tropical hardwoods. In order to protect ancient forests, the people who live there, and global climate; NYC purchases of timbers derived from ancient forests must be stopped and an important precedent set that all industrial scaled ancient forest logging must end forever.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=nyc_rainforest

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/11/alert_bloomberg_we_love_new_yo.asp



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

Suzanne Goldenberg of The Guardian UK reports: "The US yesterday took a first step towards mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions, in direct defiance of the Bush administration's policy on climate change."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110207EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg

The Associated Press reports: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior intelligence officials will be subpoenaed to discuss their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in an espionage case."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207T.shtml

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Condoleezza Rice forced to testify in pro-Israel lobbyists' spy trial

The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and 14 other Bush administration officials will be compelled to testify in the espionage trial of pro-Israel lobbyists, a judge in Washington ruled yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2204654,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Devlin Barrett and Lara Jakes Jordan of The Associated Press report that "Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to define an interrogation technique that simulates drowning as torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schumer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feinstein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lara+Jakes+Jordan

American candidates in the primaries, despite the grandstanding among them, all hope that the Iran crisis is dealt with in one way or another and that they do not inherit the Iranian issue as it stands today. Some of them, such as Democrat Barack Obama, avoid providing a clear answer about what to do with Iran. Some, like Republican Rudy Giuliani, make fiery statements and surround themselves with neo-conservative advisors.

http://snipurl.com/1t2m6


From Information Clearing House



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

Thirty US senators wrote to President George W. Bush, warning he had no authority to launch military action against Iran, and expressing concern about the administration's "provocative" rhetoric.

http://snipurl.com/1t2m1



The Easy Way to Stop the Looming US Attack on Iran

Sen. James Webb (D-VA) and 29 other US Senators who oppose such a mad plan have done what? They've written a letter to the president telling him that he cannot attack Iran without express approval in advance from the Congress. A letter! Boy, that'll stop him. What's the matter with these people?

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11022007.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Webb
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

The retired general who served as George Bush's special envoy to deal with the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) today said the US has failed to keep its promises to Turkey to confront the Kurdish group.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,2204251,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6788/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

By Charles Sullivan

The storm clouds of World War Three are looming on the horizon. These are extraordinary times that demand something from every one of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18653.htm



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

By Paul Craig Roberts

When he departs the White House on 20 January, 2009, the current resident will bequeath to the American people and the next administration an interminable war in the Middle East and a depreciated currency. And that's the good news.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18654.htm



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

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

What adds intrigue to an understanding of the missing nukes, are the international events and war games taking place just after the "lost" nuclear weapons incident, not to mention the President's ongoing threats to attack Iran with nuclear weapons and Vice President Cheney's repeated warnings that a second large scale terrorist attack on America is under preparation, with the support of Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18655.htm



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

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10774


Informant: Gomez



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6787/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news