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5:50pm Wednesday 13th August 2008

By Anna Brett

FRUSTRATED residents, who have fought “every single” application to put transmitters on a water tower, are now gearing up to oppose an appeal.

Home owners in Conies Road, Halstead, have a water tower “virtually in their back gardens”, upon which owner Anglian Water has put several transmitters.

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EMR Policy Institute (EMRPI) and IBEW Oppose Alltel / Verizon Wireless (VZW) Merger on Worker Safety Grounds

Last update: 1:25 p.m. EDT Aug. 13, 2008

MARSHFIELD, VT, Aug 13, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- EMRPI has filed formal opposition at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Alltel / VWZ merger. EMRPI's Petition to Deny asserts that FCC has not addressed the impact of long-term exposure to RF radiation (RFR) on human health as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

All mobile carriers have a non-transferable FCC license requirement to protect workers from RFR harm regardless of employment category. Unlike workers who install and repair mobile phone antennas and are required to be trained and alerted to dangerous RFR levels, third-party workers are left ignorant and defenseless in the wireless workplace. It is possible and likely that job site workers would be in a direct line with the antennas' RF beams and be exposed to RFR at levels 200 times stronger than holding a cell phone to their heads.

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Cancer cluster school test doubts
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ISIS Press Release 13/08/08

Prof. Peter Saunders reviews Stan Cox. Sick Planet. Pluto Press, London, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7453-2741-9 £45.00. , ISBN
978-0-7453-2740-2, £14.99 (paperback) pp219.

Familiar territory with a new slant

There are currently many books on the harm that is being done to our health and to our environment. Most of them cover much the same ground: chemicals, agribusiness, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and so on. This is no bad thing; every author manages to find some new information or put a new slant on things. There is also no shortage of new outrages coming to light, as regular readers of SiS will know.

In Sick Planet, Stan Cox covers a lot of familiar territory and highlights points that others have missed. His targets include disease mongering (the practice of convincing people that they are suffering from some ailment that requires a drug), the marketing of unnecessary food products such as bottled water, the pollution caused by overuse of fertilisers, the hazards of fluoropolymer chemicals such as Teflon, and more.

Because he has spent substantial time in India, he is able to describe some of what has been happening there. The dangers to health caused by the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries are given wide coverage in the popular media; but we are not told about the serious damage being done in the Patancheru area of India where so many of the world’s bulk drugs and intermediate compounds are made. There, sickness rates are more than double the national average, and good farmland is uncultivated because the groundwater has become unfit even for irrigation.

As Cox will convince you if you do not already know, much of what is happening to our planet is due to human ignorance and greed, expressed through the agency of big corporations and with the connivance of governments. Of course ignorance and greed are common human failings, and this might lead us to conclude that there is little we can do to save ourselves. Cox disagrees, and this makes him go beyond what most other writers on the subject have done.

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http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WTPIS.php

Steve Weissman, Truthout: "During the hottest days of the Cold War, Gen. Thomas Power headed the Strategic Air Command, whose nuclear-armed B-52s were meant to deter the Soviet Union. General Power, like many of the Air Force brass at the time, believed that nuclear war with the Soviets was inevitable. He thought the United States would do better to fight that war sooner rather than later and believed we could emerge victorious. 'At the end of the war,' he argued in 1960, 'if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win!' Listening to John McCain talk about Iraq and Iran, I keep thinking of Power. Counter-insurgency and nuclear obliteration are poles apart, I know. But McCain's insistence on 'winning in Iraq,' remaining there 'until Iraq is secure,' and 'bomb-bomb-bombing Iran' reveal the same mindset that made General Power so dangerous."

http://www.truthout.org/article/warrior-john-mccain-far-more-dangerous-than-bush



Watchdog Seeks Federal Investigation of McCain Donations

Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "A political watchdog group called for investigations Monday to determine whether fundraisers for John McCain's presidential campaign arranged illegal 'straw' donations - contributions from people who did not spend their own money. Campaign Money Watch urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to probe the activities of Florida defense contractor Harry Sargeant III, who is credited with raising more than $500,000 for the campaign. It also questioned $57,000 in donations from an office manager for the oil giant, the Hess Corp., and her husband, a railroad foreman."

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By Morwenna Blake

RESIDENTS are expected to be out in force on Thursday to protest against plans for a new 40ft mobile phone mast planned for Laverstock.

Vodafone want permission to put the mast on land owned by Salisbury District Council at Cow Lane, within 100m of homes and close to both Chafyn Grove and Godolphin schools.

Tim Boughton, of nearby Bourne Avenue, has been gathering support for a campaign against the proposal and the district council has received 47 letters of objection.

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A CONTROVERSIAL mobile phone mast looks set to stay outside a school - despite a bid to have it moved to an alternative site.

Forest Heath District Council admitted that it made a slip-up which allowed phone company 02 to put up the mast in Exning Road, Newmarket, outside Newmarket College and the town's new swimming pool.

But after a public outcry, including a petition from students at the college, the council promised to work with 02 to find an alternative site.

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Hochkonjunktur für Propagandalügen
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Robert Parry, of Consortium News: "It's touching how American neoconservatives who have no regard for international law when they want to invade some troublesome country have developed a sudden reverence for national sovereignty. Apparently, context is everything. So, the United States attacking Grenada or Nicaragua or Panama or Iraq or Serbia is justified even if the reasons sometimes don't hold water or don't hold up before the United Nations, The Hague or other institutions of international law."

http://www.truthout.org/article/neocons-now-love-international-law



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Elizabeth Olson, of International Herald Tribune: "Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor whose provision of private security in Iraq has been under scrutiny, and its affiliated companies may have improperly obtained more than $100 million in contracts meant for small businesses, according to federal auditors."

http://www.truthout.org/article/auditors-question-blackwater-contracts



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Bush Plan Takes Scientists Out of Decision Making On Endangered Species Status
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/12/10952/

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): Hundreds of Species Endangered by Bush Administration Proposal
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0812-07.htm

Don’t Weaken the Endangered Species Act
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Save the Endangered Species Act
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Nach den vorausschauenden Wirtschaftsindikatoren der OECD dürfte Euro-Europa realwirtschaftlich wesentlich schwerer von der globalen Finanzkrise betroffen sein als deren Verursacher, die USA.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28516/1.html



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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet: "The first large block of voters to be disenfranchised in 2008 are the wounded warriors from recent wars and homeless veterans living at hundreds of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities across the country, according to veterans and voting rights activists."

http://www.truthout.org/article/first-2008-disenfranchised-voters-injured-and-homeless-veterans



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Andrew Tilghman, TPM Muckraker: "Today private military contractors supporting the U.S. occupation in Iraq far outnumber U.S. troops inside the country. All together, these non-uniformed workers have cost nearly $100 billion, accounting for roughly 20 percent of the total U.S. budget for the five-year war."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraq-contractors-outnumber-troops



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More borrowers with good credit are defaulting on their home loans, and that's going to make it even harder for the staggering housing market to recover.

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US central bank auctions funds

The move marks the Reserve's latest attempt to shore up the nation's struggling banking system, as the fallout from the US's mortgage crisis continues.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/200881215369736616.html


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OPEC members formed a working group to study the dollar's effect on oil prices and to "investigate the possibility of a currency basket" as a means of offsetting declining dollar-based reserves.

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Military sources note that the arrival of the three new American flotillas will raise to five the number of US strike forces in Middle East waters - an unprecedented build-up since the crisis erupted over Iran's nuclear program.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5499



Persian Gulf blockade 'a matter of time'

Khathor commented, "The closure of the strait of Hormuz is something that is going to happen and will happen many times... it might happen very soon with this issue but either way, it will repeat again in the future."

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Iran warns against 'surprise attack'

Iran's Defense Minister Mohammad-Najjar has warned that its response to a surprise enemy attack would be a greater surprise for the aggressor.

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Freedom's Phoenix
by Sherwood Ross

08/11/08

The Hunt and Halliburton deals offer vivid proof that ‘crony capitalism,’ not the free market brand, is being practiced divvying up Iraq’s oil resources and the other spoils of war. This has long been Bush’s modus vivendi. The Wall Street Journal once noted his Harken Energy Co. acquired exclusive offshore drilling rights from Bahrain in 1990 even though it had never drilled a single well. How did Harken get it? Well, Bush’s father at the time occupied the White House...

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Andrew Bacevich of TomDispatch: "Valor does not offer the measure of an army's greatness, nor does fortitude, nor durability, nor technological sophistication. A great army is one that accomplishes its assigned mission. Since George W. Bush inaugurated his global war on terror, the armed forces of the United States have failed to meet that standard."

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Kathy Kelly for Truthout: "About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny "headquarters" to ask what we thought about organizing a walk from Chicago to St. Paul, arriving just before the Republican National Convention. A dedicated group of volunteers joined Dan to plan a project, which, to me, is one of the best-organized efforts I've ever encountered, all aimed at voicing a witness against war, particularly in Wisconsin, where 3,500 National Guard troops are on alert for a call-up to combat duty, in Iraq, in 2009."

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Being a good neighbour has cost a charity £68,000.

Galloway's Society for the Blind has pulled out of a plan to erect a mobile phone mast after a barrage of complaints from residents living nearby.

The charity say the action will cost them £68,000 – and phone company O2 will still go ahead with their plans on a different site.

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Bertelsmann Stiftung: Deutsche Bevölkerung befürwortet weitere Reformen im Bildungssystem. Umbau des dreigliedrigen Schulsystems - Ausbau der Ganztagsschulen - Bessere Integration

„Fast die Hälfte der Deutschen hält das aktuelle Bildungssystem für ungerecht (45 Prozent der Befragten insgesamt; 48 Prozent der Eltern). In Ostdeutschland sagen sogar 60 Prozent der Befragten, dass sie das Bildungssystem für nicht gerecht halten. Besonders skeptisch äußern sich die Menschen in Deutschland zur Chancengleichheit: Drei Viertel der Bevölkerung und sogar 86 Prozent der Eltern sind der Ansicht, dass Jugendliche aus allen Schichten beziehungsweise aus allen Kulturkreisen nicht die gleichen beruflichen Chancen haben. Die Mehrheit der Befragten und fast 60 Prozent der Eltern meinen, dass alle Kinder eher faire Chancen hätten, wenn sie möglichst lange gemeinsam unterrichtet würden. (..) Drei Viertel der Bevölkerung (78 Prozent) und der Eltern (75 Prozent) plädieren dafür, dass das System der Ganztagsschulen ausgebaut werden soll. Von den Eltern der Gesamtschüler sind sogar 85 Prozent der Meinung, dass es mehr Ganztagsschulen geben soll, wie es die Gesamtschulen in der Regel bereits schon sind…“ Aus der Pressemeldung der Bertelsmann Stiftung vom 11.08.2008 http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A000F0A-3F18EEE7/bst/hs.xsl/nachrichten_89123.htm

Siehe auch

Integration durch Bildung - Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung in Deutschland (pdf) http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xbcr/SID-0A000F0A-3F18EEE7/bst/xcms_bst_dms_25183_25184_2.pdf

Anmerkung WL (Nachdenkseiten vom 12.8.08): „Vielleicht sollte die Bertelsmann Stiftung aus dieser Befragung auch für sich selbst und ihre bildungspolitischen Vorstellungen Konsequenzen ziehen. Wettbewerb und Konkurrenz als das beste und effizienteste Steuerungsinstrument auch für die Schulen bilden ja die Grundphilosophie der Stiftung. Dazu passt gar nicht, dass die Befragten ein Bildungssystem fordern, das sozial gerechter ist, mehr Chancengleichheit schafft, längeres gemeinsames lernen anbietet, mehr individuelle Förderung für sozial Schwache leistet und Schulen in benachteiligten Stadtviertel gegenüber anderen Schulen besser ausstattet. Solche bildungspolitischen Ziele lassen sich mit der ansonsten von Bertelsmann angestrebten Ökonomisierung von Bildung und Privatisierung von Bildungspolitik wohl kaum erreichen.“

Siehe dazu im LabourNet Germany Diskussion > Wipo > GATS, Privatisierung und Gegenkämpfe > Privatisierung und Widerstand: Bildung http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gats/bildung.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. August 2008



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Psychologists Vote on Referendum Against Participating in Bush Regime Detention Centers

By Stephen Soldz

Torture is not a nuanced issue. Vote No to torture. Vote YES on the referendum.
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By Timothy Gatto

As globalization becomes a way of life, we realize that each and every one of us is part of a larger whole. What happens on one side of the world directly affects our part of the world. There are those that remain oblivious to the fact that everything that happens in this much smaller world has a cause and effect. The American government is operating in a time warp that has not changed since the end of WWII.

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By Raymond G. Wilson

We need to think about the future of America. Shall we succeed through wartime force and nuclear threats to secure our vital interests in other nations? Or is there a better way to achieve the peace the world craves, the world peace that is possible? Who will lead the way?

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By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Millions have apparently forgotten the bitter lessons from the 2006 mid term election, when Democrats prevailed in congressional elections, formed a slight majority in both houses, and proceeded to do - nothing.

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We're in a Depression
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