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2:30pm Thursday 31st July 2008

A LOWER Gornal councillor said he is “over the moon” after council planners refused a mobile phone mast proposed for the village.

Mobile phone company O2 had submitted plans to Dudley Council proposing to build a 12.5m pole and radio base station in the middle of the Abbey Road roundabout - just a few a hundred yards away from another mast.

Following protests from residents, businesses and councillors, the mast was refused as it would be “unduly prominent and visible within its surroundings.”

Planners also turned down the application as it would cause traffic chaos on the road when it was being installed and maintained.

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http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/local/3561040.Joy_at__no__to_mast/

Richard B. Schmitt, The Los Angeles Times: "Congress has been awash in corruption scandals, the latest being the indictment of long-serving Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, but prospects for legislation to make questionable practices like Stevens's alleged acceptance of gifts illegal in their own right appear grim. A year after a bipartisan group of senators proposed giving the Justice Department important new clout in pursuing official misconduct, the Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act is apparently blocked in Congress."

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Matt Apuzzo, The Associated Press: "President Bush's top advisers are not immune from Congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches. The House Judiciary Committee wants to question the president's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, and former legal counsel Harriet Miers, about the firing of nine US attorneys. But President Bush says they are immune from such subpoenas. They [Miers and Bolten] say Congress can't force them to testify or turn over documents. US District Judge John Bates disagreed, saying there's no legal basis for that argument and that Miers must appear before Congress. If she wants to refuse to testify, he said, she must do so in person."

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Peter S. Goodman, of The New York Times, reports: "The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million - the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago. The loss of pay has become a primary source of pain for millions of American families, reinforcing the downturn gripping the economy. Paychecks are shrinking just as home prices plunge and gas prices soar, furthering the austerity across the nation."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-hidden-toll-employment-cut-part-time



Mounting Job Losses Point to More Economic Troubles

Kevin G. Hall, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "Employers shed jobs in July for the seventh consecutive month and the national unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mounting-job-losses-point-more-economic-troubles



Automakers Race Time as Their Cash Runs Low

Bill Vlasic, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "The downturn in the American auto industry is rapidly becoming a full-blown fight for survival among Detroit's big automakers. In the latest sign of the deepening troubles."

http://www.truthout.org/article/automakers-race-time-their-cash-runs-low



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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write for Truthout: "Like the largesse he spread so bountifully to members of Congress and the White House staff - countless fancy meals, skybox tickets to basketball games and U2 concerts, golfing sprees in Scotland - Jack Abramoff is the gift that keeps on giving. The notorious lobbyist and his cohorts (including conservatives Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed) shook down Native American tribal councils and other clients for tens of millions of dollars, buying influence via a coalition of equally corrupt government officials and cronies dedicated to dismantling government by selling it off, making massive profits as they tore the principles of a representative democracy to shreds. A report earlier this summer from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform builds on an earlier committee investigation that detailed some 485 contacts between Abramoff and the Bush administration. According to the new report, 'Senior White House officials told the Committee that White House officials held Mr. Abramoff and members of his lobbying team in high regard and solicited recommendations from Mr. Abramoff and his colleagues on policy matters.'"

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ANGRY Heanor Road residents have accused mobile phone bosses of being sneaky after a phone mast was put up opposite their homes at 5am last week.
But they also reserved some of their anger for Erewash Borough Council who they said were naive and incompetent in allowing the installation to go ahead.

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By Kernan Andrews

An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant planning permission to Meteor to retain mobile phone masts on a house in Newcastle has been hailed as a “major victory for the Newcastle community” by Labour Cllr Billy Cameron.

ABP has refused to grant planning permission to Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd for retention of three antennae and one telecommunications dish at 16 Upper Newcastle.

The mast was erected by Meteor in November 2006, but according to Cllr Cameron, this was done without planning permission. Local residents brought it to his attention in August 2007 and the Labour man recognised that legislation forbids masts being erected on private dwellings or on a residential apartment complex.

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By Kevin Doyle

Thursday July 31 2008

IS this swimming pool "Ireland's biggest phone mast"?

Around 50 mobile phone and telecommunication devices on top of a Dublin swimming pool are a "serious health risk" and "an eyesore", it was claimed today.

The sheer quantity of masts at the Coolock pool is "shocking and scary", according to Fine Gael TD Terence Flanagan.

"The pool at the Northside Shopping Centre must be the largest phone mast in the country," he said.

According to Deputy Flanagan there is widespread concern in the area about "the massive cluster of mobile phone masts".

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http://www.herald.ie/national-news/health-fears-over-phone-masts-at-pool-1444009.html

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

Time is short, but even at this late date, it would be a simple matter to impeach the president on some issues. As several of Friday’s witnesses pointed out, President Bush has essentially dared Congress to act, admitting that he openly violated the FISA law — a felony, and openly admitting that he has refused to enact laws passed by the Congress, claiming a power — unitary executive authority — not even mentioned in the Constitution. He has openly admitted to having known about, and approved, ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ devised by his subordinates — techniques like waterboarding which clearly violate the Geneva Conventions and US law. No hearings would be required to establish these high crimes and misdemeanors. They could simply be voted on by an Impeachment Committee and sent to the full House for a vote. Even if there were no time for a Senate trial, the simple act of impeaching the president for one or more abuses of power would serve notice on future presidents that future such abuses would not be tolerated. Failure to do so, and allowing this administration to leave office unimpeached, would send the opposite message: that Congress is no longer a co-equal branch of government, but is merely a consultative body, at best, and that a president is in effect a dictator...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07302008.html


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Charlotte Observer

07/30/08

President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official and government documents. Executive Order 12333, which lays out the responsibilities of each of the 16 agencies, maintains the decades-old prohibitions on assassination and using unwitting human subjects for scientific experiments, according to a power point briefing given to Congress that was reviewed by The Associated Press...

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Spying in defense of liberty

Crosscut Seattle
by Knute Berger

07/30/08

Barry Goldwater famously said that “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” But I suspect even the late Arizona senator and 1964 GOP presidential candidate might be creeped out if he knew about the privatization of Big Brother. Is it OK for private groups to infiltrate domestic citizen’s groups? Is spying in defense of liberty a virtue or a vice?A recent revelation is in a new story from Mother Jones that reveals that a leading gun control advocate, Mary McFate, is apparently the same person as Mary Lou Sapone, “a self-described ‘research consultant,’ who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.” She was active in anti-gun groups...

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Mit dem Abschwung drohen weitere Kreditausfälle und weitere Bankenzusammenbrüche.

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He said the U.S. Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates 200 basis points by the end of 2009 as a result.

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America's house price time bomb

With the American housing market in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Bush is authorising new legislation to pave the way for massive new government intervention designed to slow the slide.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7529277.stm



Property economist warns of 25-year slump

Bearish analyst Capital Economics said house prices would fall 35% over the next three years and provided the market was stabile, prices would not reach 2007 levels until 2036.

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Consumer confidence plunges near historical low: ABC

American consumers' confidence plummeted in the latest week, with only 10 percent of respondents in a recent poll having a positive view on the economic outlook, a report showed on Tuesday.

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By Robert Scheer

Both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist not only the big-dollar contributions but, more frighteningly, the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the financial industry deregulations at the heart of this meltdown.

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By Bennet Kelley

The Iraqi's have rejected this invitation to be an American colony as "arrogant" and an affront to their sovereignty, but the White House is playing hardball and recently cost the Iraqi's $5 billion by blocking the transfer of certain Iraqi currency reserves out of the declining dollar.

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Defeated in Iraq?

By Mike Whitney

Look for it at the pawn shops, the homeless shelters, and the growing number of empty sub-divisions.

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By Eric Margolis

It is unfortunate that Obama has adopted President George Bush's misleading terminology, "war on terror," to describe the conflict between the United States and anti-American groups in the Muslim world. Like many Americans, he and his foreign policy advisors are sorely misinformed about the reality of Afghanistan.

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The Associated Press: "A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday. Derek Mueller, a researcher at Trent University, was careful not to blame global warming, but said the event was consistent with the theory that the current Arctic climate isn't rebuilding ice sheets."

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Bill Moyers Journal: On Friday, Bill Moyers Journal revisits the Abramoff scandal and "examines the web of relationships, secret deals and political manipulation that expose the use and abuse of power in American politics. In this update of a report that aired in 2006, Moyers and his colleagues untangle e-mails, reports, interviews and facts on the record to reveal an astonishing pattern of criminal and political chicanery."

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Rory Carroll, The Guardian UK: "The global food and fuel crisis has hit Haiti harder than perhaps any other country, pushing a population mired in extreme poverty towards starvation and revolt. Hunger burns are called 'swallowing Clorox,' a brand of bleach. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization predicts Haiti's food import bill will leap 80 percent this year, the fastest in the world."

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Interview with Dennis Kucinich (Iimpeachment)
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Laurie Kellman, of The Associated Press: "A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart publicly pursued possible punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds. Voting along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broke the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats."

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Ira Chernus for TomDispatch.com: "Pundits and activists who oppose the war in Iraq generally assume that the issue has to work against McCain because they treat American politics as if it were a college classroom full of rational truth-seekers. The reality is much more like a theatrical spectacle. Symbolism and the emotion it evokes -- not facts and logic -- rule the day."

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Paul Richter and Julian E. Barnes for The Los Angeles Times: "Bush administration officials reassured Israel's defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington has begun softening its position toward Tehran."

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Obama: If sanctions fail Israel will attack Iran

While visiting Israel, US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was under the impression that Israel is planning a military attack if sanctions against Iran fail.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3575590,00.html



Propaganda, presstitute and war pimp alert: U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.

Audio

Kenneth Timmerman, author of "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran," reveals that Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127015



Nonaligned countries back Iran's nuclear program

More than 100 nonaligned nations backed Iran's right to peaceful uses of nuclear power on Wednesday, an endorsement sought by Tehran in its standoff with the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

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Israel mulls military option for Iran " nukes"

Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program, even if it can't destroy it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_striking_iran



Egypt warns Israel of war on Iran

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit says an Israeli attack on Iran may cause heavy losses for Tel Aviv and the region as a whole.

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STAFF and parents at St John's School in Bromsgrove say they are appalled at plans to erect yet another three mobile phone masts nearby.

If the plans go ahead there will be a total of 19 masts on the top of the Perryfields telephone exchange in Hanover Street.

Headteacher Wendy Taylor has called on parents to object and together with chairman of the school's governors Rev Nigel Marns, will be protesting to the agents Ian Hewitt Associates.

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30 July 2008

HIGH Street traders are furious that a 10m high 'big blot on the landscape' could be put in a busy shopping area.

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In The Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman reports: "In a roundtable Tuesday, Adm. William 'Fox' Fallon, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East ousted for dissenting from the Bush administration's bellicose posture toward Iran, gave a rare public elaboration of his view of multilateral cooperation for security in the region. In one of his first public appearances after his abrupt departure as head of U.S. Central Command, Fallon said at the National Press Club that Gulf countries 'clearly recognize that the U.S. plays a strong leadership role,' and desire that to continue. Further, they ask the U.S. 'to be active' in the region -- though part of being active, he said, included the advice 'don't start a war' with Iran."

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Christian Science Monitor
by staff

07/30/08

On one issue –- who’d be tougher on Al Qaeda -– John McCain and Barack Obama are one-upping each other in rhetoric. It’s a risky dynamic and may be giving a green light to the current president. Just before President Bush met Pakistan’s new prime minister Monday, the US conducted an attack on Al Qaeda -– inside Pakistan. The unilateral airstrike by an unmanned drone allegedly killed Al Qaeda’s leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, Abu Khabab al-Masri. The result may be difficult to argue against but this US violation of Pakistani sovereignty was criticized by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and perhaps most Pakistanis who cherish their recent return to full democracy...

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09:04 - 30 July 2008

YOU reported (July 23) that a St Ives football club turned down an approach from a mobile phone company to erect a mast on one of its floodlights.

A while ago, a mobile phone company also asked All Saints' Church in Hartford if it could install a mast within its tower in exchange for a substantial annual fee.

The parochial church council consulted widely with people living in the area. Some of those consulted voiced concerns regarding health issues, although the PCC had confidence in the scientific evidence that there was no health threat. Recently, another request has been made to use the tower and the financial offer has been increased.

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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)

EDITORIAL
29 July 2008
Posted to the web 29 July 2008

Citi Fm, an Accra based radio station reported yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stopped Zain mobile phone Company from erecting a mast at Mangoase, a suburb of Sekondi, since they did not have the permit to do so.

The radio station also quoted the EPA as having ordered other mobile telephone companies who had sited their masts in the area to apply for permit.

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Part 1

Heidi Stevenson, Natural News: "You might think you have the right to vote. You might think your vote counts. You might think that there's a problem here or there, but that they're the exceptions. You might think that the 2000 presidential election was an aberration, in which the US Supreme Court violated ethical and court precedents to crown the election loser, countering the will of the people. You might think it can't possibly be an ongoing problem. You might be very sadly mistaken."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-systematic-destruction-voting-rights-america-part-1



Part 2: Lack of Transparency

Heidi Stevenson, Truthout: "It is not enough to have the right to vote. The people also need to know that their votes are counted in an open and fair manner. Without that transparency, there is no way to be sure that an election was fair or that one's vote mattered. The result of that lack is a people who have no faith in their government, who cannot trust that members of the legislature or any administration position truly respond to them. There can be no assumption that the government is supported by its citizens."

http://www.truthout.org/article/voting-rights-destruction-part-2-lack-transparency



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Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post: "I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation's great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the US government. But that's precisely what he did.

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Richard Simon, The Los Angeles Times: "As voters steam over gas prices, Republican Congressional candidates are bracing for a gusher of ads from now until election day attacking their ties to oil companies."

http://www.truthout.org/article/campaign-ads-attack-gop-candidates-oil-industry-ties



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The U.K. oil major posted a net profit of $9.47 billion for the three months ended June 30, or 49.8 cents a share, up from $7.38 billion, or 38.2 cents a share, a year earlier.

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Rising Oil Prices Swell Profits at Exxon and Shell
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Rising Oil Prices Power Enormous Exxon Profits

Tom Bergin and Michael Erman, Reuters: "Exxon Mobil Corporation broke its own record for the highest quarterly profit for a US company on Thursday, joining other major oil companies in posting stronger earnings on the back of sky-high oil prices."

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The security and intelligence agencies were "mixed up in wrongdoing" in cooperating with the US in the unlawful treatment of a UK resident now held in Guantánamo Bay, the high court heard yesterday.

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Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and its affiliates may have misrepresented their size to win more than $100 million in government contracts set aside for small businesses, federal auditors said Monday.

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by Chuck Baldwin

Yesterday, the Politico quoted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as saying, "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet." She was responding, of course, to pressure that she and her fellow Democrats are experiencing to suspend a congressional ban on offshore oil drilling in the face of skyrocketing energy prices. It would be really wonderful, however, if the liberal congresswoman could get as energized about saving our once great republic........

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