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Shropshire Star - Telford, England, UK

Campaigners fighting plans for a mobile phone mast in Telford are hoping to grill representatives from Telford & Wrekin Council and phone giant
Vodafone. ...

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/09/11/meeting-on-mast-plans/

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The Press, York - York, North Yorkshire, UK

By Jennifer Bell

UNHAPPY residents are getting ready to petition in
protest against plans to put up a mobile phone mast near to their homes. ...

http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/3665646.Residents_to_launch_petition_against_pub_flagpole_plan/

10:07am Thursday 11th September 2008

By Gazette Reporter

THE controversy over the Orange mobile telephone mast at Sheriff Hutton is likely to surface again this week when a report on emissions comes under scrutiny at a meeting of the parish council.

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http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/3664607.Tests_carried_out_on_phone_mast_emissions/

Sep 11 2008 by Richard Evans, North Wales Weekly News

RESIDENTS turned out to protest against two phone masts proposed in Old Colwyn.

Health fears have followed mobile phone giant Vodafone’s plans to put up a mast at Tan Llwyfan at Penmaenhead near the site of the old Hotel 70 Degrees. A second mast is proposed on Abergele Road opposite the Aldi supermarket.

Both masts are proposed to be put on footpaths and are in residential areas, prompting fears about the dangers of microwaves.

Residents made their stand this week after they received a letter from the communications company as part of a consultation process which must take place before any planning application is considered.

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The Sickening Praise for 'The Daily Show'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/10-0

Evil: It's the New Good!
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The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
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A STAFF REPORTER

Rajarhat-Gopalpur Municipality has lodged a police complaint against a mobile service provider for erecting a signal tower off VIP Road without its permission.

The municipality said the unauthorised cellphone tower was exposing residents of the locality to harmful “electromagnetic emissions”.

“We are also trying to identify illegal towers in other parts of the municipal area,” municipality chairman Tapas Chatterjee said.

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Charles Savage, The New York Times: "As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal - including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct."

http://www.truthout.org/article/wide-ranging-ethics-scandal-emerges-interior-dept



Santa Barbara City Council Says No to Offshore Drilling

Steve Chawkins, The Los Angeles Times: "With offshore oil drilling emerging as a hot issue in the presidential campaign, the [Santa Barbara] City Council Tuesday night reaffirmed its opposition to drilling along the coastline where a 1969 spill gave rise to the Environmental Protection Agency and the modern environmental movement."

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Thursday, September 11, 2008, 07:30

PARLIAMENTARY Chief Whip Geoff Hoon was urged to help change the law when he visited Eastwood families locked in a battle over a phone mast.

T-Mobile put up the 72ft temporary mast in December on land at the end of two gardens in Chewton Street – without telling the residents.

It said it did not need permission as it was using "emergency powers" because the signal from an existing smaller mast was blocked by a new housing development.

But when the six-month emergency period ended the mast remained in place – and Broxtowe Borough Council then served an enforcement notice, ordering the company to remove it or submit a planning application within 28 days.

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An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy.

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From Information Clearing House

US demands Russia leave

In a sign of growing impatience, the Bush administration is accusing Russia of trying to find excuses to keep thousands of troops in Georgia.

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Czech govt. agrees terms for U.S. forces at missile radar base

The government of the Czech Republic has approved the treaty that will govern the deployment of U.S. military personnel at the radar station for its missile defense shield, the Czech defense minister said Wednesday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080910/116689135.html



Russia threatens to target US missile shield sites: reports

Russia could point missiles at strategic US targets in central Europe, including planned American missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, a senior Russian general said Wednesday.

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U.S. warplanes to patrol Baltic airspace from October

The U.S. Air Force will patrol the airspace over the Baltic states from October, the Latvian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. A group of U.S. F-16 fighter jets will replace the current German planes on a rotation basis.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080910/116687115.html



Russian strategic bombers land in Venezuela

The Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, variable-geometry heavy bomber, designed to strike strategic targets with nuclear and conventional weapons deep in continental theatres of operation.

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Russia's Venezuela gambit a test for US

Russia's decision to send warships to the Caribbean is not just a riposte to US navy manoeuvres in the Black Sea, but a sign of Moscow's determination to contest American influence, say analysts.

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On visit to Poland, Lavrov calls U.S. shield a threat to Russia

"We cannot fail to see the risks emerging as a result of U.S. strategic forces coming close to our borders".

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If George Bush's recent speech is anything to go by, Iraq has been a success. Does anyone in their right mind believe him?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/georgebush.iraq


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20728.htm

Reflections on 9-11

By Cindy Sheehan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20730.htm



Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?

By David Ray Griffin

Much of America's foreign policy since 9/11 has been based on the assumption that it was attacked by Muslims on that day. - Is it conceivable that this assumption might be false? Insofar as Americans and Canadians would say "No," they would express their belief that this assumption is not merely an "assumption" but is instead based on strong evidence. When actually examined, however, the proffered evidence turns out to be remarkably weak. I will illustrate this point by means of 16 questions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20722.htm



9/11 and the Great American Decline

By Glen Ford

In its convulsive "response" to 9/11 - the worldwide "War on Terror" - the United States seized the opportunity to put in motion planetary aggressions that already existed in the blueprints of the neo-con's Project for a New American Century (PNAC). In effect, Washington was claiming revenge as the motive for crimes that it had long been planning to commit. Precise causality for the specific events of 9/11 becomes near-irrelevant, submerged in the much larger aggression that was conceived long before the towers fell.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20725.htm



9/11 The Falling Man

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The Crazy Legacy of 9/11
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9/11 Plus Seven
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By Paul Craig Roberts

The US is dependent on foreigners to finance its $600 billion annual government budget deficit and its $800 billion annual trade deficit. The US government relies on foreigners to recycle their $800 billion trade surplus dollars to buy US Treasury bonds and mortgage debt.

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The Editor
Simcoe Reformer
50 Gilbertson Drive
Simcoe (Norfolk County)
Ontario
N3Y 4L2

Dear Editor

I have just been reading the article entitled 'Norfolk wants escape clause in tower contract'. It seems very strange that Norfolk Council should need to add such a clause or even think about renewing the contract. The council have already been provided with a huge amount of information which proves that microwave radiation is highly dangerous, that it causes cancer and many different adverse health effects, yet. they are still willing to allow Bell Mobility to expose the community to great danger.

I am surprised that they don't allow the contract, collect the money and put up a sign saying to the nearby residents - 'We don't give a d... whether you get ill, develop cancer or die. We have the money, we have pleased the corporate giant and you can go to h...'.

Not only was Norfolk Council educated on the dangers and health effects of microwave radiation in their own council chambers, but the process was even televised throughout the community. There is a clear record of council's special knowledge about the dangers of microwave radiation.

Norfolk Council have already shown that they are not interested in the health and welfare of the citizens of Simcoe, with the shameful actions they took by allowing the Rogers cell phone antennas to stay on the Simcoe water tower. They have also shown that they are not fit to represent the health and safety interests of their own constituents.

I dare Norfolk Council to provide the same information about the adverse health effects of microwave radiation, that they were provided with previously, to the citizens of Port Dover and let them make their own decision as to whether the contract is renewed.


Martin Weatherall
RR3, Bright, Ontario
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Fabien Deglise, Le Devoir: "A foul time for thinkers. Major scientific data distributed on the sly, legal suits designed to silence critical minds, troublesome bureaucrats fired, muzzling of scientific researchers in politically incorrect venues, publicized condemnation of intellectuals who don't toe the party line ..."

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Dave Mann, The Texas Observer: "It sometimes feels as though George W. Bush has been president forever. Everyone from the voters to the media to even Bush himself seems long past ready for his administration to end. With the presidential campaign in full swing, Bush has receded as far from public view as a president conceivably can-save for frolicking with America’s Olympic beach volleyball players."

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Lori Montgomery, The Washington Post: "Weak revenue growth and accelerated spending - including an economic stimulus package that returned billions to taxpayers - will drive the federal deficit to $407 billion in the fiscal year that ends this month, more than double last year's $161 billion, congressional budget analysts reported today."

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By Chris Carson

PLANS to site a 30ft high mobile phone mast on the approach to a woodland beauty spot in Bridport have angered both councillors and residents.

Vodafone wants to put up the timber pole with three antennae, along with an equipment cabinet, at Old Hospital Field, Park Road.

Town councillors this week lodged a formal objection, saying it would mar the approach to Allington Hill, a popular local walk.

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Bin Laden's aims with 9/11 and Bush's in Iraq

By John Pedler

Report expaining what bin Laden's aims were with 9/11, and what G W Bush and the Cheney neo-cons hoped to achieve with the invasion of Iraq. Ignorance about this is astounding - yet knowing this is essential to understanding how GW Bush's push for unipolarism and its failure lies at the root of both America's international and financial disasters.

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By James Petras

The world of competing imperial countries has created complex international organizations, which conflict, compete and collaborate. They operate on all levels, from the global to the cities and villages of the Third World. Imperialist powers enter and exploit through a chain of collaborator classes from the imperial center through international organizations to local ruling, economic and political classes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20714.htm



The Voice of War and Oil

By Rand Clifford

After years of America recruiting former Soviet Republics as client states, raking in vast profits from their militarization, and profiting on oil considerations, Russia has finally drawn the line.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20717.htm



American Socialism

US Is "More Communist than China": Jim Rogers

By CNBC.com

"This is madness, this is insanity, they have more than doubled the American national debt in one weekend for a bunch of crooks and incompetents. I'm not quite sure why I or anybody else should be paying for this," Rogers told "Squawk Box Europe."

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Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke Welcome You to the USSRA
(United Socialist State Republic of America)

By Nouriel Roubini

Socialism is indeed alive and well in America; but this is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street. A socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized with the US tax-payer being charged the bill of $300 billion.

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Republicans Born Again

By Eric Margolis

Palin's emergence simply confirms the final dumbing down and ruralization of the Republican Party, and its metamorphosis into a right wing politico-religious movement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20718.htm



Storm Troopers at the RNC

By Ray McGovern

Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota - a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20719.htm

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Sarah Palin: A big boon for Big Oil

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

09/09/08

Alaska once boasted genuine political mavericks like Democratic senators Ernest Gruening and Mike Gravel, but they long ago gave way to right-wing Republican pork-barrelers with close ties to the oil and gas industry, like Sen. Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young. Both championed the Alyeska Trans-Alaskan pipeline that connects Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s north coast to Valdez in the south, the source of countless spills over its 30-year history; both support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR); and both are longtime climate-change skeptics. … Palin has at times sought to separate herself from these political veterans on ethical grounds, though between 2003 and 2005 she served as a director of a 527 group organized by Stevens. (Both congressmen have been investigated — and Stevens is now under federal indictment — for dealings with Veco, an oil services company.) She has even won kudos for ‘taking on the oil companies’ over state control and state taxes on the industry. But when it comes to core energy policy, she is up to her neck in the same barrel of oil as her fellow Alaska Republicans...

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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press: "The McCain/Palin GOP is already in the process of stealing the Ohio vote, as was done in 2004. Among those at the center of the GOP strategy is Bush family computer operative Michael Connell, who programmed the key vote-counting mechanisms that were used to give George W. Bush his second term."

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Where Dissent Is Terrorism?
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More than 40 journalists arrested or detained at RNC

Editor & Publisher

09/10/08

More than 40 journalists were arrested or detained during last week’s Republican National Convention in St. Paul, according to a report today by The Minnesota Independent.In her story, Anna Pratt alphabetically lists 40-plus names — including Associated Press reporters, an AP photographer, a St. Paul Pioneer Press photographer, a New York Post freelance photographer, independent journalists, and college journalists...


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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Lawsuit Challenges Police and Secret Service Crackdown on Journalists Covering Protests at Republican National Convention

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Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Producers File Lawsuit Over RNC Arrests
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