http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14482_America.html


Informant: Skinny



The death of the Bill of Rights in America, part 2

by David R. Hoffman

Pravda [Russia]

10/28/04

Throughout American history the courts have frequently endorsed unconstitutional laws. But these same courts are normally the first to recognize when these laws have exceeded their original intent. This is why, in recent months, courts have held that certain provisions of the 'Patriot Act' violate the Bill of Rights. But given the intransigence of John Ashcroft"s 'Justice' Department, these rulings may do little more than revive the COINTELPRO ideology of doing covertly and illegally what cannot be done overtly and legally. "

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14506_America.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Artikel aus der SZ vom 22.10.2004
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/tipps_fuer_den_kampf_gegen_handymasten.jpg

I often spend time thinking about the actions I take each day, and wonder which of these have the most measurable impact on the environment. I suspect you do too. The more I think about it, the more I feel that our transportation choices - biking versus driving, hybrids versus conventional cars - are significant. How we get from point A to point B can have a real impact on our planet.

You can make a real difference today by urging Ford, a major manufacturer of SUVs, to improve the fuel economy of its SUVs with hybrid technology: http://www.care2.com/go/z/18150

Ford has recently begun production on the first hybrid gasoline-electric SUV - the Escape Hybrid. This is a good first step, but Ford can - and must - do more to improve the fuel efficiency of its SUVs. What Ford can and should do is clean up its best-selling Ford Explorer with this existing hybrid technology.

Help us convince Ford to do good for the planet by signing this petition today: http://www.care2.com/go/z/18150

How do our transportation choices affect our wildlife and environment? As we continue to consume oil, politicians and oil industry executives will push harder to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge; air pollution will increase; and global warming may accelerate. The time for cleaner cars is now.

For the good of the environment, our climate, and our health, we need to increase the fuel economy of America's cars and trucks. Please join us in telling Ford's Chairman and CEO, William Ford, that he is on the right track with the Escape Hybrid, and that by improving the conventional Explorer; he can help make Ford the leading company providing genuine SUV choices to American drivers.

Please sign this petition today: http://www.care2.com/go/z/18150

Thank you for helping our planet today!

- Rebecca
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team
http://www.care2.com/go/z/rebecca

P.S. After signing this petition, have some fun and pledge your vote for November 2: http://www.care2.com/go/z/18153

Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election? Asks Journalist Lynn Landes

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041022/phf016_1.html?printer=1


Informant: Anna Webb

"There are a number of existing problems that pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the 2004 general election in the United States"...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4566037,00.html

Americans have seen the reality and the results of interrogation techniques the CIA has propagated and practiced for nearly half a century. The US public can join the international community in repudiating a practice that, more than any other, represents a denial of democracy...

http://207.44.245.159/article7109.htm

The U.S.-led invasion has resulted in the loss of an average of 2 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil from world markets. That is a significant number with huge consequences for economies around the globe.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-10-05-iraqi-oil_x.htm
http://snipurl.com/9zxe

Ted Lang: Defeat the Press!: The State Silences Dissent:

It is already widely known that the Bush administration has ordered the American press not to take photographs of the caskets of military dead being returned home. Additionally, military operations in Iraq that are videotaped for newsreel presentation must be cleared by the military.

http://207.44.245.159/article7115.htm

Kim Griffith voted on Thursday— over and over and over. She's among the people in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties who say they have had trouble with early voting equipment.

http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/246845elex10-22-04.htm


From Information Clearing House

President Bush has words with the Almighty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1332876,00.html


From Information Clearing House

White House insider report "October Surprise" imminent

http://207.44.245.159/article7113.htm

http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/deception10.html


Informant: Truth Seeker

Meldung über Tod von Chemtrail-Insider "Deep Shield"

Siehe hier: http://www.holmestead.ca/chemtrails/shieldproject.html

Angeblich Selbstmord...

Quelle: http://ecolog.twoday.net/stories/374816/

100 Facts and 1 Opinion
by Judd Legum, The Nation

The non-arguable case against the Bush administration. Read only if you subscribe to a fact-based reality.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=facts

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002414

Please pass this on!

Protect our Last Wild Forests
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=12465

The comment period ends November 15, 2004.

There is less than one month left to speak out in support of protecting our beautiful, pristine national forests from destructive road-building, logging and drilling.

We need your help to make sure the Bush administration does not repeal the excellent Roadless Rule that keeps our forests safe - please submit your comments now before it's too late!

On July 12, 2004 the Bush administration proposed a repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, despite having promised to uphold it. As soon as the administration's plan takes effect, 58.5 million acres of our national forests will be at risk of permanent destruction by road-building, logging and drilling.

We need your help to let the administration know that the public wants to keep our national forests protected from corporate special interests. The Bush administration needs to hear from you -click here to send your comments to Forest Service Chief Bosworth now!

Your comments really do make a difference. You can help stop this senseless destruction of our national forests, but you have to act now! The comment period ends November 15, 2004.

We've set an ambitious goal of sending more than 1 million comments in order to send a clear, powerful message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our national forests.

To help us reach this goal, please forward this message to your friends as soon as you've submitted your comments.

Thanks for your help!
Katelyn Sabochik
Online Campaign Manager
info@saveourenvironment.org

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Pass It On:

The Forests Are Scared...by Defenders Of Wildlife...by the Bush administration's plans to open America's last wild roadless forests to logging. Watch the "Monster Slash" video for an entertaining take on the plans: http://www.monsterslash.com/index.html

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

http://geocities.com/newageinternational/Depopulation1.html


Informant: big brother

by Media Lens

Media Indifferent as UNICEF Reports Worsening Catastrophe

UNICEF estimates that some indications showed improvement in Iraqi child mortality between 1999 and 2002 - the death rate dropped to 125 in 2002 (from 130 in 1999). However, this trend has reversed under the occupation and child mortality is actually worsening as compared to 2002 levels. UNICEF's Roger Wright added: “Since the war more children in Iraq are malnourished, fewer children are protected from immunizable diseases and there has been an increase in the incidence of diarrhoeal disease.”....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/MediaLens1022.htm

by William H. Thornton

Iraq as Prelude: The Making of an Anti-American Century

An in-depth essay excerpted from William Thornton's forthcoming book, New World Empire: Islamism, Terrorism and the Making of Neoglobalism: Whatever else one may think of him, G. W. Bush must be credited with extraordinary sales skills. Like a real estate agent who manages to sell inaccessible lots in a swamp, G. W. has managed to keep his ratings up while selling America a quagmire. Even as his administration ignored the real perils of Saudi Wahhabism (or actively camouflaged them, as Michael Moore would have it), it miscast Saddam as the mother of global terrorism. The decision to invade Iraq was put beyond debate by Saddam’s mythic stockpile of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Thomas Powers dubs this “the least ambiguous case of misreading of secret intelligence information in American history.” “Misreading” is too generous a word for it, given the pressure the White House applied to the intelligence community to extract desired results. The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of October 1, 2002 more than met those desires, and a week later Congress voted for war. The question is how much the administration’s slant on Iraq was inspired by ideological prepossessions as opposed to economic calculation....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Thornton1022.htm

by Elizabeth Schulte

Skull vs. Bones

The man who occupies the White House next January will be among the richest 1 percent of Americans, the pampered child of a wealthy family. He’ll have lifelong connections to the political and corporate world. He’ll be a graduate of exclusive Yale University, and proud member of the even more exclusive Skull and Bones, a bizarre secret society at Yale. Though he talks about bipartisanship, he’s a veteran fixture of a two-party system that upholds the political status quo. We don’t know whether George W. Bush or John Kerry will win on November 2--or if, for that matter, the election will be too close to call again and won’t be decided until weeks later. But we know all this about the next occupant of the White House because these things are true of both Bush and Kerry. Jeffrey St. Clair is coeditor with Alexander Cockburn of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch, and the author of numerous books, including the essay collection Dime’s Worth of Difference with Cockburn, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me. His recent articles for the CounterPunch Web site have revealed the sordid history of both major candidates. Here, St. Clair talks to Socialist Worker’s Elizabeth Schulte about the election between Skull and Bones....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Schulte1022.htm

Have you heard the Telstra's latest news?

According to Libby Lyons, Telstra "is at the early stage of assessing a new product that is in the international market" - easy to use handsets for preschoolers. "It is just another product we are assessing", she said. The preschooler can only call 3-4 pre-programmed numbers! Parents and 'authorities" were asked for comments - not one expressed concern with EMR. And not one question from the journos to Libby Lyons (this glib blonde young thing) re the health effects - apparently the only concern is the debt and who would pay for it!? All Charles Britton of the Australian Consumers Association apparently had to say was "prepaid is certainly the way to go - they can't get into financial difficulties - you can't give a 5 year old a credit card."

It was on tonight's Channel 10 news and A Current Affair. http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/

Anne


Informant: Don Maisch

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Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Children's use of Mobile Phones needed urgent Attention
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/349736/

Children and cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295280/

Mobile Phones and Brain Damage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/346178/

CHILDREN & MOBILE PHONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/258953/

Children and Cell Phones: Is there a health risk ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295277/

Teens in mobile phone danger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295252/

Brain tumours: the silent killer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/235398/

What Cell Phones Can Do To Youngster's Brain In 2 Minutes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/187307/

"Phone killed our daughter" ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/202834/

New generation embraces mobiles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284498/

Are you and your children guinea pigs?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/

Physics and Biology of Mobile Telephony
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/291385/

The invisible disease
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/328268/

Cell Towers and Health Risks to School Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/355820/

EXTREME EMF RADIATION LEVELS THREATEN CHILDREN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305889/

Sir William Stewart's advice (IEGMP) to the telecommunications to stop targeting children for cellphone sales looks like being a cry in the wilderness. Now we see the Telcos spin doctors creating front groups that appear to be concerned about the protection of children but are really about promoting children's cell phone use by stealth.

Enter "Childnet International", a non-profit organisation and registered "charity"working with others to "help make the Internet a great and safe place for children". http://www.childnet-int.org/default.aspx

One of the mission statements of "Childnet International" is revealing:

"Childnet believes that it is only by working actively with other partners in all sectors that the interests of children will be promoted in international communications."

And also from the website:

"Childnet's trustees come from a wide range of backgrounds including, telecoms industry, child protection, international development, finance, computer software and web design, education and marketing"

The Trustees:

The Chariman of the board of Trustees is Mike Conway, who also is an executive for an "international telecommunications company". A Google search turns up that a Mike Conway is a director of telecommunications products at NCR.

Stephen Hingston is a financial director of a "non-profit education and mission organisation". Stephen is also an expert in "international development issues".

Alice Swann the only doctor on the trust is an expert in the investigation of child sexual abuse.

Tom Bick runs his own computer software business

Sarah Foster works for OMF International as a Web and communications manager. A Google search for OMF International turns up that the only OMF International I could find is a worldwide fundamentalist Christian group who's mission is to "glorify God by the urgent evangelisation of East Asia's millions"!!!

[The fact that many of the Asians that they do convert become targets for Islamic extremists and end up dead does not seem to be a problem for OMF. As long as they die as Christians they gain eternal life in heaven whereas all those unconverted Muslim heathens are destined for Hell anyway! ]

Barry Taylor is a Director of Marketing for an educational IT supplier.

Vaughn Armstrong is a senior marketing executive.

The real agenda for Childnet International is clearly stated in its fact sheet at:
http://www.childnet-int.org/downloads/CMPAAA_A4.pdf

"Children & Mobile Phones: An Agenda for Action"

To quote in part: "This document seeks to set out and promote principles which will significantly contribute to promoting positive use of this technology by children and young people. . . The challenge is to ensure that the positive aspects for children far outweigh the potential negatives."

As to be expected, any possibility of harm form prolonged exposure to microwaves from cell phone use is nowhere to be found on the Childnet web site - no point scaring away the customers.

So have a look at http://www.childnet-int.org/default.aspx and if anyone would like to comment directly to Childnet about their "agenda" you can send a message to Stephen Carrick-Davies at the Childnet office via info@childnet-int.org

Don Maisch


Don,

You quoted the following from the Childnet website about cellphone use by children... "The challenge is to ensure that the positive aspects for children far outweigh the potential negatives." Most folks on your list would normally say that they agree with that statement, except that the "potential negatives", according to Childnet, don't appear to include negative health consequences, like neurological disorders, brain tumours and other side effects not listed on the product. Although they pointed out some legitimate concerns, they just happened to leave out the most important negative. But hey, that's marketing.

The second part of that sentence that the site didn't quote in the headline said "and that those who stand to benefit most are empowered to do so." They are attributing this to empowering children, but what they really are saying that they are empowering industry, after all they are "those who stand to benefit most."

It reminds me of the common industry tactic, creating a great sounding group name, using some convenient interpretation of facts, and still getting the industry's message across subtly. It's like making up a name like "Citizens Advocating Green Environments" "CAGE " pawning itself off as an independent concerned citizens group when it's really a shill for whatever vested interest group is willing to put up the money.

Oh well, tobacco targets kids. Why should we expect this industry to be any different.

Milt

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Cellphone industry hides behind "charitable organisation" status to violate NRPB mobile phone report recommendations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501036/

Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Children's use of Mobile Phones needed urgent Attention
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/349736/

Children and cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295280/

Mobile Phones and Brain Damage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/346178/

CHILDREN & MOBILE PHONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/258953/

Children and Cell Phones: Is there a health risk ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295277/

Teens in mobile phone danger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295252/

Brain tumours: the silent killer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/235398/

What Cell Phones Can Do To Youngster's Brain In 2 Minutes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/187307/

"Phone killed our daughter" ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/202834/

New generation embraces mobiles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284498/

Are you and your children guinea pigs?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/

Physics and Biology of Mobile Telephony
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/291385/

The invisible disease
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/328268/

Cell Towers and Health Risks to School Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/355820/

EXTREME EMF RADIATION LEVELS THREATEN CHILDREN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305889/

The article below provides new information the voter registration scandal involving Sproul & Associates in Nevada and Oregon has spread to Pennsylvania. "An ostensibly nonpartisan voter registration drive in Western Pennsylvania has triggered accusations that workers were cheated out of wages and given instructions to avoid adding anyone to the voter rolls who might support the Democratic presidential nominee."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2267

http://www.mindfully.org/Heritage/2003/Civilization-Collapse-EndJun03.htm


Informant: Daniel VanArsdale

http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pub253.cfm


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.mcknight.org/hotissues/farmbill_1.aspx


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996550

Radiation risks 'need updating'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3758824.stm


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The House of Commons switchboard was today inundated with phone calls from anti war campaigners. In a campaign to stop the further deployment of British troops in Iraq, Stop the War Coalition organised thousands of UK voters to call up their MPs and demand that the British Government withdraw troops immediately.

Speaking on the huge success of the campaign today Lindsey German the Convenor of STW said, ‘ In less than five hours today, the House of Commons has been inundated with telephone calls from people demanding of their MPs that the troops be withdrawn. Over 70% of the people in the UK want troops to be withdrawn, and the MP’s are just getting a fraction of the anger that is felt by the people of this country. The sooner Tony Blair and his New Labour Government realise the level of opposition to his policy of keeping the troops in Iraq the sooner lives of ordinary Iraqis and British service personnel will be saved.’


ENDS


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http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Informant: Andrea Ball