Freitag, 1. Mai 2009

Human Rights in the Dust

Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch.com: "These days, it's virtually impossible to escape the world of torture the Bush administration constructed. Whether we like it or not, almost every day we learn ever more about the full range of its shameful policies, about who the culprits were, and just which crimes they might be prosecuted for. But in the morass of memos, testimony, op-eds, punditry, whistle-blowing, documents, and who knows what else, with all the blaming, evasion, and denial going on, somehow we've overlooked the most significant victim of all. One casualty of the Bush torture policies -- certainly, at least equal in damage to those who were tortured and the country whose laws were twisted and perverted in the process -- has been human rights itself. And no one even seems to notice."

http://www.truthout.org/050109D



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Torture: An Author and a Resister

Ann Wright, Truthout: "Bybee authorized ten 'enhanced interrogation techniques' to encourage Abu Zubaydah to disclose 'crucial information regarding terrorist networks in the United States or in Saudi Arabia and information regarding plans to conduct attacks within the United States or against US interests overseas.' The torture techniques authorized were (1) attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap, (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress position, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a confinement box and (10) waterboarding."

http://www.truthout.org/050109A



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Poole residents gear up for fight over phone mast

7:10pm Friday 1st May 2009

By Jim Durkin

ANGRY neighbours have vowed to fight communication giant Vodafone in what is shaping up to be the battle of the Balston Road phone mast.

Shocked Poole mum Melanie Brown is leading the charge after learning the mast could be sited just five metres from her three-year-old daughter’s bedroom.

“I am very concerned that in ten years time we will begin to see the effects of these masts on our children,” she said.

Read More...

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4337433.Poole_residents_gear_up_for_fight_over_phone_mast/

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I have added my comments to this in their support.

Adrienne.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4337433.Poole_residents_gear_up_for_fight_over_phone_mast/?loginattempt=yes


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Metals and more: crossroads between allergy, inflammation and disease

Konstanz (Konsil) 15.5. 18:30 Dr. U. Volz/ Dr. J. Mutter: Amalgam

Valencia 29.5. MELISA-Kongress siehe Anhang

Joachim Mutter

Metals and more: crossroads between allergy, inflammation and disease Metals and more: crossroads between allergy, inflammation and disease omeganews


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Plan for a mobile mast near school

Published Date: 01 May 2009

By Alexa Copeland

DESPITE opposition from parents and residents, a mobile phone mast may still be placed near a Bridlington primary school.

Vodaphone first revealed its plans to place a mobile phone base station on the grass verge in front of Martongate Primary School last September.

Angry residents and parents opposed the move due to fears over the possible negative side effects caused to youngsters' health by radiation emitted from the mast.

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http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/Plan-for-a-mobile-mast.5216614.jp



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Mobile giant goes on with mast bid

Friday, May 01, 2009, 09:20

CAMPAIGNERS have launched a second battle to stop a phone mast being erected close to a nursery.

Telefonica O2's proposal to build a 49ft mast in Weston Coyney has already been rejected by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, but the firm has appealed the decision and still wants to build the mock telegraph pole, with three integrated antennas and equipment cabinet, at the corner of Park Hall Road and Weston Road.

The matter is currently awaiting a ruling from a planning inspector, who is unlikely to make his site visit before May 6.

Last time, hundreds of people objected to the proposed site directly opposite St Andrew's Church, which houses St Andrews and St Peters Pre-school.

And ward councillor Michael Coleman says he has already received many complaints about the appeal.

Read More...
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Mobile-giant-goes-mast-bid/article-953463-detail/article.html

A Racist Recession?

Acton Institute
by Anthony B. Bradley

04/29/09

Looking at the latest unemployment numbers, conspiracy theorists might postulate that our current economic crisis has a racial dimension, tilting against blacks and especially black males. The latest seasonally adjusted U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment numbers reveal that blacks have an unemployment rate of 13.3 percent compared to 7.9 percent for whites. For black men over nineteen years of age, the data are even worse: 15.4 percent compared to 8 percent for white males. These gaps represent a terrible cost in lost potential, and require action on multiple fronts. Critical to progress on this problem are a reform of welfare policies in tandem with a renewal of an ethic of educational achievement...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Stop your gadget greed from fueling tragedy in Congo

Christian Science Monitor
by Sheryl Crow & John Prendergast

04/30/09

Your cellphone purchases might be fueling the world’s worst sexual violence. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a place most of us will never go, and the war there is affecting people most of us will never meet. But the link between our demand for electronic products and mass human suffering is incredibly direct. It is stunning that we as consumers have been completely unaware of the complex chain of events tying widespread sexual violence in Congo to the minerals that help power our cellphones, laptops, mp3 players, video games, and digital cameras. Thankfully, there is an alternative: Companies and consumers alike must use our buying power to bring this deadly war fueled by ‘conflict minerals’ to an end...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0430/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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America’s necessary dark night of the soul

Salon
by Gary Kamiya

05/01/09

Those opposed to reopening the book on the Bush years argue that doing so would tear the country apart. They’re right — but they forget that the country is already torn apart. The gulf between Democrats and Republicans has never been wider. The Republican Party, the home of those who still defend the Bush years, has become a reactionary and increasingly marginal movement that is in fealty to crude demagogues like Rush Limbaugh and whose hysterical denunciations of Obama sound more and more unhinged. What this means is that those Americans who would be truly outraged by an investigation are already outraged. It could not make them any angrier or more bitter than they already are. And even if it did, how much difference would that make? The GOP base already regards Democrats as terrorist-coddling communists. Are they going to all join militias?

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Do conservatives understand torture?

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

04/30/09

The current conservative line on the forms of torture used by the Bush administration — from waterboarding to stress positions that produce ‘muscle fatigue’ that manages not to rise to the level of ’severe pain’ — leads to an obvious question. Why don’t we do more of it? According to the right, this kind of physical and psychological torment doesn’t meet the standard for illegal torture. And according to the right, it’s also highly effective at producing information. And a legal, highly effective method of acquiring information from prisoners or captives sounds like a useful thing indeed. It seems to me that people who genuinely believe this stuff — those who, like moral cretin and Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers ‘American heroes’ and make light of waterboarding by calling it ‘dunking’ — ought to believe in making its use widespread. And yet somehow, I don’t hear the calls...

http://tinyurl.com/cgcs6t



Torture and treason

Common Dreams
by Robert Koehler

04/30/09

The question of the moment is now, no longer: Is torture un-American? It is: Are we, as a nation, bigger than our transgressions? Can we establish a commission or an investigation with a moral force greater than the trust that has been debased? Can we face up to what has been done in our name, establish accountability and find a way to atone and change?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/30-6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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When the Obama backlash comes

Intellectual Conservative
by Jeff Lukens

04/29/09

Public opinion can be very fickle. Barack Obama rode a positive wave of opinion all the way to the White House. The public welcomed him into office in that same spirit of hope in which he ran. Since the inauguration, however, the President is showing he has different plans than the ones he spoke about during the campaign. It should come as no surprise when the public turns on him just as easily as he has turned on them...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Monopoly money

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

04/30/09

The bank was once considered a warehouse where people could keep their gold or other precious metal for a fee. The paper receipts they were given by the bank began to circulate in the economy as a paper substitute for the gold money itself. This tempted the bank to issue more receipts as loans than it actually had in its vaults. Sometimes, the people lost trust in the bank and a ‘bank run’ would ensue where everyone would try to get their gold back, and only a few could. The Federal Reserve System was set up to protect these fraudulent banks from bank runs. Even today, when the Federal Reserve paper dollar is money, banks have just one-tenth of their total deposits in paper and coin for people to withdraw. Money is ‘created’ by the Federal Reserve Board more by computer entries than by the printing press, and each additional dollar it creates makes each existing dollar slightly less valuable...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3229


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bush-era memos claim to vindicate Abu Ghraib soldiers?

CNN

04/30/09

Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and forced nudity did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to the Bush-era memos on the tactics released by the Obama administration April 16th. A Senate report declassified last week says senior Bush administration officials authorized the aggressive interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists, despite concerns from military psychologists and attorneys...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Wie die Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit die Black Blocs inszeniert, um Demonstrationen zu verbieten

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Hyperinflationary Depression Ahead

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Government Motors: Only the Beginning

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Bring Back the 10th Amendment

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REPORTER KNOCKS BACK 'PHONE MAST PLAN

Published Date: 30 April 2009

OPPONENTS of a mobile 'phone mast on Carlogie Road, Carnoustie, are rejoicing that Vodafone's appeal against refusal has been rejected.

Angus Council threw out the initial application on September 2.

The telecommunications giant was adamant that its application site, near the junction with Newton Road, was the correct one.

However, whilst the Scottish Ministers' Reporter, Janet McNair, accepted that Vodafone wished to improve its service, she said that it is impossible to conclude with certainty that a more visually satisfactory alternative site is not available.

Miss McNair continued: "Street lighting columns, overhead power lines, signs, and a bus shelter are already part of the streetscape of this part of Carlogie Road, which is the main approach into Carnoustie from the A92.

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http://www.guideandgazette.co.uk/news/REPORTER-KNOCKS-BACK-39PHONE-MAST.5223605.jp

Occupying Hearts and Minds

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "One of the definitions of the word 'occupation' is: the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force. Throughout history, areas or countries occupied by military force have always resisted, and this resistance has caused the occupier to devise more suitable methods of subduing the population of the area being occupied."

http://www.truthout.org/043009R



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WHO to Stop Using Term 'Swine Flu' to Protect Pigs

DigitalJournal.com - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

By Joan Firstenberg

The "swine flu" is not only sickening people, it is putting pigs at risk of their lives. Now, world health officials say they're giving ...

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271816

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How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded

Al Giordano, Narco News: "US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the 'swine flu' outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5."

http://www.truthout.org/043009S



Don't Let Insurance Company Greed Block Swine Flu Response

John Nichols, The Nation: "Anyone who has had much experience with America's health care system knows that nurses are the essential players in making things work. So as the swine flu outbreak evolves into a genuine public health emergency - with cases being discovered in more states and the announcement by President Obama of the first death in the US - it is time to consult the nation's nurses."

http://www.truthout.org/043009HA

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Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend

Guardian [UK]
by Simon Jenkins

04/30/08

We have gone demented. Two Britons are or were (not very) ill from flu. ‘This could really explode,’ intones a reporter for BBC News. ‘London warned: it’s here,’ cries the Evening Standard. Fear is said to be spreading ‘like a Mexican wave.’ It ‘could affect’ three-quarters of a million Britons. It ‘could cost’ three trillion dollars. The ‘danger,’ according to the radio, is that workers who are not ill will be ‘worried’ (perhaps by the reporter) and fail to turn up at power stations and hospitals. Appropriately panicked, on Monday ministers plunged into their Cobra bunker beneath Whitehall to prepare for the worst. Had Tony Blair been about they would have worn germ warfare suits. British government is barking mad...

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Swine Flu Hysteria Spreads Faster Than Actual Virus

Why are governments acting as if armageddon is around the corner when swine flu has claimed just one victim all week?

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, May 1, 2009

Despite the fact that swine flu has claimed just one victim all week, a kill rate multiple times lower than the common flu, governments of the world are acting as if armageddon is right around the corner.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/swine-flu-hysteria-spreads-faster-than-actual-virus.html

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Paying the Price for Cheap Meat

By Johann Hari

Modern factory farms have created a 'perfect storm' environment for powerful viruses.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22533.htm



The Corporation

Video

This is an extraordinary film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12998.htm



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Donnerstag, 30. April 2009

Le rapport BioInitiative, ou l'apparence de sérieux scientifique

AFIS science - France

Pour l'association Robin des toits, le rapport BioInitiative apporte « les preuves scientifiques définitives des dangers pour la santé de la téléphonie ...

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Torture, State Secrets and Spanish Prosecution

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Top Senate Democrat: Bankers 'Own' the US Congress

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Climate Chaos Predicted by CO2 Study

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/30-3

Air Pollution Endangers Lives of Six in 10 Americans
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DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu Quarantines

Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.

By Declan McCullagh

A Defense Department planning document summarizing the military's contingency plan says the Pentagon is prepared to assist in "quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic" and aiding in "efforts to restore and maintain order."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22524.htm



Swine Flu?

A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend

By Simon Jenkins

Health scares enable media-hungry doctors, public health officials and drugs companies to benefit by manipulating fright.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22521.htm

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Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/30-12



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Torture Memos Expose Dark, Imperial Presidency

Spanish Court Opens Investigation of Guantánamo Torture Allegations

Allegations include sexual abuse and beating

By Giles Tremlett in Madrid and agencies

Judge Baltasar Garzón, an investigating magistrate at the National Court in Madrid, said he would investigate allegations made by four detainees who were held at the centre and later released without charges, according to a court document quoted by the Spanish press.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22519.htm



Torture Memos Expose Dark, Imperial Presidency

By Robert S. Becker

This was not a happy week for the torture lobby, nor its defenders, derailing months of charm offensive by Bush-Cheney legacy boosters. A wary President Obama backed off attempts to defuse the torture parade - fretting over divisive investigations and hard-to-win court convictions.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22520.htm



Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon: When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal

By Cenk Uygur

Condoleezza Rice was recently speaking at Stanford when students asked her an excellent question on waterboarding and torture. They have her answer on tape and it isn't pretty. Condi Rice absolutely pulls a Nixon.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22523.htm



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Anstieg der Zahl der Hartz IV-Empfänger

"Wären die Hartz IV-Beziehenden Banken, die Bundesregierung hätte sie bereits gerettet", sagte der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Linksfraktion, Ulrich Maurer, zu dem gegenüber dem Vormonat verdoppelten Anstieg der Zahl der Hartz IV-Bezieher. "Weil sie aber keine Lobby bei Frau Merkel haben, wie Herr Ackermann, werden sie nicht gehört."

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Mast protest at school

12:41pm Thursday 30th April 2009

By Denise Rigby

ANGRY parents and councillors have joined together to demand a mobile phone mast is pulled down.

The mast was put up in Kings Road in Chelmsford - close to the primary school - despite the council refusing it planning approval.

And now councillors for the Marconi ward in which it is situated say provider 02 has “steam rollered “ over the planning process.

Graham Pooley who represents Marconi ward said: “ The first application for a 12 and a half metre post was refused on appeal. The second one was for ten metres which was also refused.

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1. Mai: Den Menschen Arbeit und Leben in Würde garantieren

1. Mai Aufruf der Karawane http://thecaravan.org/node/1944


Die Arbeitnehmer warten. Aber die Gewerkschaften gehen nicht in Führung

Das Wochenthema zum 1. Mai 2009 in Freitag http://www.freitag.de/wochenthema/0918-gewerkschaften-sofortprogramm-arbeitskampf-wochenthema


1. Mai: Lasst mir eine Bratwurst

„Ein nostalgisches Schauspiel, das Jahr für Jahr neu demonstriert wird? Das täuschend echte Double des Ausnahmezustands? Warum es den Tag der ArbeiterInnen immer noch gibt - und warum wir ihn weiterhin brauchen…“ Artikel von Milo Rau in der WoZ vom 30. April 2009 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2009/nr18/kultur/17834.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. April 2009

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30. April 2009

Den Menschen Arbeit und Leben in Würde garantieren

Am 1. Mai, dem Tag der Arbeit – im Osten Europas als Kampf- und Feiertag der Werktätigen bekannt – begehen wir den 5. Jahrestag der größten Erweiterung in der Geschichte der Europäischen Union. Mit Polen, der Tschechischen Republik, der Slowakei, Ungarn, Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Slowenien traten 8 Mittel- und Osteuropäische Staaten sowie Malta und die Republik Zypern der Europäischen Union bei, 2007 folgten Bulgarien und Rumänien. Dazu erklärt der Europakandidat der LINKEN Helmut Scholz, Mitglied des Parteivorstandes und des Vorstandes der Europäischen Linken:

Der Jahrestag ist Anlass, Bilanz zu ziehen: Die EU-Kommission tat dies mit ihrem Bericht "Fünf Jahre EU-Erweiterung" und hob vor allem die "positiven wirtschaftlichen Effekte hervor. DIE LINKE hat den Erweiterungsprozess gewollt und stets aktiv und kritisch begleitet. Schon das Nein zum Maastrichter Vertrag der PDS gründete in einem Punkt auf die damals ungenügende Berücksichtigung der mittel- und osteuropäischen Dimension der EU-Perspektive. Wir freuen uns über die bisher erreichten Erfolge, sehen aber durchaus noch sehr viel Handlungsbedarf, weil die Politik in der EU und in den Mitgliedsländern nicht auf der Höhe der Zeit und den sozialen, politischen und ökologischen Herausforderungen agiert. Mit dem Beitritt der Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Staaten sind die Entwicklungsunterschiede in der EU zwischen den Staaten und innerhalb von Regionen nicht nur deutlicher sondern größer geworden. Die notwendige Solidarität zur Angleichung der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedingungen nach dem Beitritt, vor allem die materielle über die EU-Strukturfonds, war und ist noch immer mehr als halbherzig. Sie erhielten nur einen Teil der Hilfe, die die "alten" Mitgliedstaaten nach ihrem Beitritt erhielten, obwohl das wirtschaftliche und soziale Niveau weit niedriger ist. Mehr noch: Dies wurde genutzt, um die neuen Mitglieder in einen Dumpingwettlauf um ausländische Direktinvestitionen zu treiben und damit zugleich eine Veränderung der Standards in den alten Mitgliedsländern herbeizuführen. Teile ihrer Wirtschaft wurden zu verlängerten Werkbänken ausländischer Konzerne, andere wurden vernichtet aufgrund der ungeschützten Öffnung ihrer Märkte. Unter den Bedingungen der gegenwärtigen globalen Krise hat sich gezeigt, dass die weniger "leistungsfähigen" Staaten und Regionen am stärksten unter der Krise leiden. Dazu gehören viele "neue" Mitgliedstaaten. Betroffen sind v.a. die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, die lohnabhängig Beschäftigten, die in wachsendem Maße von prekärer Beschäftigung betroffen sind. Deshalb fordert DIE LINKE in ihrem Europawahlprogramm für die Menschen in diesen Staaten ein europäisches, solidarisch finanziertes, umfangreiches Investitionsprogramm in Bildung, Umwelt- und Klimaschutz, öffentliche Infrastruktur und Gesundheit sowie einen sozialen Schutzschirm für alle Beschäftigten, Erwerbslosen sowie Rentnerinnen und Rentner dieser Länder. Die EU-Regional- und Strukturpolitik muss mit ausreichenden finanziellen Mitteln ausgestattet werden. Dafür sind die Mittel für die Strukturfonds deutlich zu erhöhen - bereits im EU-Haushalt für 2010. Besondere Unterstützung gebührt den Grenzregionen. Die Erweiterung ist erst dann wirklich gelungen, wenn den Menschen in den "alten" und "neuen" Mitgliedsstaaten Arbeit und Leben in Würde garantiert werden. In diesem Sinne kann DIE LINKE einem Satz von EU-Kommissar Verheugen in seinem Fazit der Bilanz der 5jährigen Mitgliedschaft der mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten vollständig zustimmen: "…der Zugewinn an Frieden und Stabilität ist an Geld nicht aufzuwiegen."

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/den-menschen-arbeit-und-leben-in-wuerde-garantieren/

Siting those masts

Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:54

In Britain, mobile phone masts have gone up everywhere. By schools, near hospitals, even on top of church spires.

But where exactly should they go in Tenerife? That's the question currently being investigated and members of the public are to be asked to give their views over the next couple of months.

Read More...
http://www.tenerifenews.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11351:siting-those-masts-&catid=42:tenerife&Itemid=117

Next-up News Nr 940

Suomalaisen UMTS 3G matkapuhelinoperaattori Elisan mainos on pöyristyttävä.
http://www.next-up.org/divers/image_semaine1.php#1

Swine flu and the dramatisation of disease

Spiked
by Frank Furedi

04/28/09

There is nothing unusual about the outbreak of flu. Every year, thousands of people die from the flu, and, in normal conditions, society has learned to cope with the flu threat. From time to time, an outbreak of flu turns into a global pandemic, leading to a catastrophic loss of life. However, there is no evidence that the so-called swine flu, which has so far claimed a relatively small number of lives, will turn into a pandemic. Rather, what we are faced with is a health crisis that has been transformed into a moral drama...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6615/



The fajita flu

TCS Daily
by Dr. Henry I. Miller

04/29/09

Unfortunately, conditions in many countries are conducive to the emergence of new viruses — especially flu, which mutates rapidly and inventively. Intensive animal husbandry procedures that place poultry and swine in close proximity to humans, combined with unsanitary conditions, poverty, and grossly inadequate public health infrastructure of all kinds ­ all of which exist in Mexico, as well as much of Asia and Africa ­ make it unlikely that a pandemic can be prevented or contained at the source. The rapid and constant movement of goods and people around the world makes early containment virtually impossible. We saw this with the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in 2003, when within a matter of weeks, the disease spread rapidly from southern China to infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world, killing about 800; and in the current outbreak, in which New York City high-school students apparently brought the swine flu virus back from Mexico and infected their classmates...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=042909A


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pandemic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frank+Furedi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Henry+I.+Miller

What if instead of the Nuremberg Trials there was only a Truth Commission?

Common Dreams
by Jeremy Scahill

04/29/09

Thank goodness we have a president who opposes ‘even the blandest form of investigation’ — how uncouth such savagery would prove to be. While the elite Washington press corp[s] works hard to make sure things don’t get too uncomfortable at the wine and cheese cocktail parties, some liberal journalists are also making the case against a special prosecutor (or at least the immediate appointment of one)...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/29


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nuremberg+Trial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Truth+Commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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Summerfield fights proposed T-Mobile tower

Neighbors say Tigard Church of God site is too close to houses

By Barbara Sherman

The Regal Courier, Apr 30, 2009

TOWER OF POWER – T-Mobile planning consultant Steve Gerber (right) discusses a proposal to build a cell tower in the southeast corner of the Tigard Church of God property on 98th Avenue.

A cell tower won't be constructed in their neighborhood if some Summerfield residents have their say.

A small but vocal group of neighbors attended a meeting April 7 at Tigard Church of God, located at 15670 S.W. 98th Ave., where the tower is proposed to be built.

Read More...
http://www.theregalcourier.com/news/story.php?story_id=124104821859662700



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=church+mast

As good as their word

The Nation
by Nicholas von Hoffman

04/28/09

The ructions in the world of finance have given us a chance to see the big-time CEOs up close at the Congressional witness table. It’s not a pretty sight. Almost without exception they appear to lack charm, warmth or wisdom, confining themselves to biz-speak cliches. As the public faces of the largest and once richest institutions in finance and banking, they are a sorry lot. The latest to appear is Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis. Documents released by New York State law enforcement authorities seemed to show that Lewis did not give the bank’s stockholders accurate information on the financial condition of Merrill Lynch before taking a vote on whether to buy the floundering brokerage house. Lewis claims that Bush’s last secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, told him to keep his mouth shut when Lewis said he was thinking of reneging on the commitment to buy Merrill Lynch...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090511/howl2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Treasury
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Leahy invites Bybee to testify on torture memos

Washington Post

04/29/09

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy today invited federal judge Jay S. Bybee to testify about his role in preparing two Justice Department memos that allowed interrogators to engage in simulated drowning and slamming prisoners against a wall. … Bybee is one of three Bush OLC lawyers under investigation by Justice Department ethics watchdogs. The department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is examining whether Bybee, John C. Yoo and Steven G. Bradbury followed professional standards when they drafted memos underpinning interrogation techniques that critics liken to torture. The ethics watchdogs have the power to make recommendations to state legal disciplinary boards...

http://tinyurl.com/cvohat


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
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The IMF Invoice: Red Flag

Serge Truffaut, Le Devoir: "While the stock market is in complete remission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has composed a paper likely to freeze much ardor. In fact, contrary to what had been forecast at the beginning of the year, the economic contraction is proving deeper, the recession, longer. In short, the worst is not behind us."

http://www.truthout.org/042909G



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IMF
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Telekom soll Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung beachten

Die Deutsche Telekom braucht nach Auffassung des Dachverbandes der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre "dringend ein Frühwarnsystem zur Erkennung und Bekämpfung von Missständen. Wegen der Verwicklung in die Rasterfahndung des Bundeskriminalamts und Bespitzelung von Journalisten, Gewerkschaftern und Aufsichtsräten" fordert die Organisation Aktionäre der Telekom auf, Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat der Telekom bei der Hauptversammlung am Donnerstag nicht zu entlasten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19652



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Telekom
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Next-up News Nr 938

Grenelle des antennes relais François FILLON : "La Lettre de Mission, la Confusion"
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/GrenelleEtCem.php#2

US Exports Fall By 30%

The US economy continued to contract in the first quarter of 2009, led by the biggest fall in exports for 40 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8024839.stm



U.S. Economy Shrank at 6.1% Rate in First Quarter

The 6.1% drop was much bigger than Wall Street expected and hardly different than a 6.3% plunge in the fourth quarter, when the recession that began in December 2007 deepened.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124100763955368325.html?mod=googlenews_wsj



U.S. Home Prices Continued to Decline in February

Phoenix has achieved the unwelcome distinction of becoming the first major American city where home prices have fallen by half since the middle of the decade, according to data released Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/business/economy/29econ.html?em



Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Declined

Compared with a month earlier, home prices fell 2.2 percent in February, after a 2.8 percent decline in January, today's report showed.

http://snipurl.com/h0rnf


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
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US 'losing control' in Afghanistan

Richard Armitage, a former US deputy secretary of state, has told Al Jazeera that the conflict in Afghanistan may be "spinning out of control".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/200942903158769529.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
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Preparation for Swine or Avian Flu

http://lewrockwell.com/spl/preparing-for-flu.html

WHO, SWINE FLUE NOW PHASE 5, PANDEMIC
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/f4b3938e75da5e84?hl=en

Flu Outbreak - In Lies We Trust
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/bba9b9cf96493d39?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=avian+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pandemic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Campbell

When Government Replaces God and Family

http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/smith-christine1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christine+Smith

What Americans Are Willing To Give Up

http://lewrockwell.com/spl/what-americans-will-give-up.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lauren+Sherman

Fiscal and Monetary Policy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff295.html



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Timothy Geithner, 'bailout king'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8569/


Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geithner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout

Urge the Senate to protect sharks

http://takeaction.oceana.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25204

End Finning — Save the Sharks!
https://secure2.convio.net/toc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=558



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

Mountaintop removal coal mining action

http://climategroundzero.org/tro-petition/


Informant: MoJo



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mountaintop
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coal+mining

Industrielobbyisten machen wider besseren Wissens Stimmung gegen Klimaschutz

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30224/1.html

Höchste Eisenbahn für den Klimaschutz
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30233/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lobbyist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz

Pathologische Computerspieler

Nach der Studie eines US-Psychologen sollen 8,5 Prozent der Kinder und Jugendlichen süchtig nach Computerspielen sein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30223/1.html

Afghanistan: Die USA beabsichtigen erneut einen Krieg gegen das Opiumgeschäft

Neue Jagd in den Mohnfeldern
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30228/1.html



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

India to cut off 30 million mobile phones

India is to disconnect more than 30 million Chinese-made mobile phones amid concerns that the devices could be used by terrorists.

Read More...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5113710/India-to-cut-off-30-million-mobile-phones.html

US Torture and Consequences?

Bill Moyers Journal: "New debate has emerged from the release of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel memos approving extreme measures of interrogation under the Bush administration. But, as the president acknowledges 'a dark and painful chapter,' how should he respond to allegations of torture? Bill Moyers sits down with Bruce Fein, former deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the American Freedom Agenda, and Mark Danner, who has been reporting on the US treatment and interrogation of detainees for the New York Review of Books."

http://www.truthout.org/042909U



Spanish Judge Opens Probe Into Guantanamo Torture

Agence France-Presse: "A Spanish judge on Wednesday opened an investigation into an alleged 'systematic programme' of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp, following accusations by four former prisoners."

http://www.truthout.org/042909T



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
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Schweinegrippe Hysterie

impf-report Newsletter

Unabhängiger Nachrichtendienst rund ums Impfen
Von Eltern für Eltern

Sonderausgabe 30. Apr. 2009

Diskussionsforum zur Schweinegrippe

(ht) Noch nie ist eine mediale Seuchenwelle derart plötzlich über unseren Köpfen zusammengeschlagen wie die derzeitige Schweinegrippe-Hysterie.

Die langjährigen Leser des impf-report Newsletters unter Ihnen werden sicher schon vermuten, dass es sich wieder einmal nur um ein Hoax handelt, d. h. um die Verbreitung einer Falschmeldung, die nichts weiter beabsichtigt als zu irritieren, zu verunsichern und zu verängstigen.

Ich bin jetzt den dritten Tag dabei, die Hintergründe zu recherchieren. Anders als bei der Blauzungenhysterie werde ich diesmal voraussichtlich in der Lage sein, relativ schnell zu reagieren und eine Printausgabe des impf-reports herauszubringen (voraussichtlicher Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai).

Es zeichnet sich bereits ab, dass das angebliche Schweinegrippevirus lange nicht so gefährlich ist, wie behauptet. Die Krankheitsverläufe bei den Patienten in den USA waren eher mild. Auch ein Zusammenhang mit den Erkrankungsfällen in Mexiko ist reine Hypothese. Die dortigen Todesfälle sind auch sehr gut mit dem Armutsfaktor zu erklären: Infektionskrankheiten verlaufen bei geschwächten Menschen ohne Zukunftsperspektive einfach stärker als bei wohlhabenden und gesunden Menschen.

Doch merkwürdig ist, dass in Mexiko hauptsächlich gesunde junge Erwachsene zwischen 20 und 40 Jahren betroffen zu sein scheinen. Hier haben wir eine Parallele zur sogenannten "Spanischen Grippe" von 1918. Wie ich im impf-report bereits ausführlich dargelegt habe
( http://www.impf-report.de/zeitschrift/bisherige/impf-report012.htm ) war die Spanische Grippe in den USA zunächst nur unter Soldaten aufgetreten, die sich in ihren Stützpunkten auf den Kampfeinsatz in Europa vorbereiteten. Den Ausbrüchen waren große Impfaktionen mindestens gegen Pocken und Typhus vorausgegangen, vermutlich gab es weitere experimentelle Impfungen. Die damalige "Seuche" war also zumindest in den USA eine reine Impffolge! Auffällig sind hier die Parallelen zum sogenannten Golfkriegs-Syndrom, von dem auch Soldaten betroffen waren, die noch gar nicht in den Einsatz gegangen waren.

Das wirft die Frage auf, ob nicht auch in Mexiko die Ursachen ganz woanders liegen, beispielsweise bei einer vorausgegangenen Impfaktion, bei einem bestimmten häufig verschriebenem Medikament oder einer zweifelhaften Medikamentenstudie am Menschen. Allgemeine Umweltfaktoren scheinen eher unwahrscheinlich, denn dann würde es ja in erster Linie die Kinder und die Alten treffen.

Die Vergangenheit hat gezeigt, dass Regierungen und Gesundheitsbehörden dazu neigen, solche Vorfälle zu bagatellisieren und wirtschaftlichen Interessen den Vorzug gegenüber den gesundheitlichen Interessen der Bevölkerung geben.

Es ist möglicherweise noch nicht einmal sicher, dass es in Mexiko wirklich mehr Todesfälle mit Atemwegserkrankungen gibt als gewöhnlich. Am 29. April schreibt Spiegel-online, dass es eigentlich nur 7 Todesfälle gewesen sein sollen und nicht über 100, wie behauptet.

Die ganze Seuchengeschichte steht und fällt wieder einmal mit der Glaubwürdigkeit der verwendeten Labortests. Und hier bestehen spätestens seit Beginn der AIDS-Kontroverse in den 80er Jahren ernste Zweifel.

Um die Möglichkeiten des Internets zur Informationssammlung und Gedankenaustausch besser zu nutzen, habe ich heute ein Diskussionsforum zu diesem Thema eingerichtet. Wenn Sie auf interessante Berichte und Informationen zum Thema stoßen, können Sie diese ab jetzt im Forum einbringen.

Ganz besonders würde ich mich über spanischsprechende Diskussionsteilnehmer freuen, die womöglich sogar noch direkte persönliche Kontakte nach Mexiko City haben, so dass auch originale mexikanische Quellen in unseren Meinungsbildungsprozess einfließen können.

Das Forum finden Sie unter

http://www.findefux.de/forum/list.php?121

Wahrscheinlich werde ich beim diesjährigen Stuttgarter Impfsymposium am 16. Mai bereits einige Hintergründe zur globalen Grippenseuchenhysterie präsentieren können.

Hans U. P. Tolzin



Neues von der Schweinegrippe
http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2009/05.htm

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