Bitte in alle Netze !

ECOTERRA Intl. ( http://www.ecoterra.org.uk ) unterstützt diese Aktion:

Millionen deutsche Schweine müssen jedes Jahr umziehen nach Italien und Spanien ­ eine Reise von mehr als 30 Stunden, ohne Platz, Klimaanlage und vernünftige Pausen. Um im sonnigen Süden fettgemästet oder geschlachtet zu werden. Und als Scheiben roher Schinken wieder zurückgeschickt zu werden nach Deutschland.

Solche Schweinereien lassen wir uns nicht mehr gefallen! Auch Rinder und Schafe sollen nicht länger als 6 Stunden (oder 400 Kilometer) durch Europa kutschiert werden. Die gerade gegründete Europäische Grüne Partei braucht hierfür Ihre Unterschrift! Bitte Vordruck in der Anlage (ist virusfrei) verwenden.

Vordruck siehe unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/keine_schweinereien_mehr.doc


Sehr geehrter Herr Fischler,

Der Entwurf der Europäischen Verfassung gibt Europäischen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern das Recht um mit 1 Million Unterschriften ein Thema auf die Europäische Tagesordnung zu setzen. Dem möchten wir vorausgreifen und Sie hiermit bitten, Schluß zu machen mit unnötig langen Tiertransporten. Wir fragen Sie, ein Gesetz auszuarbeiten das Tiertransporte auf 6 Stunden und 400 Kilometer beschränkt und die Kontrolle dieser Bestimmungen garantiert.

ECOTERRA Intl.
For Natural Life on Earth!

und/and

STOP LUGGING AROUND OUR PIGS!

Pls distribute wide and far !

1.000.000 signatures needed of EU citizens to force the EU to take the initiative for new legislation

ECOTERRA Intl. ( http:www.ecoterra.org.uk ) supports this campaign:

STOP LUGGING AROUND OUR PIGS!

Tightly packed together millions of pigs yearly undergo the more than 30 hours¹ trip from Northern Europe to Spain and Italy. To be fattened or slaughtered upon arrival. And brought back to the North in slices raw ham.

European citizens don't take it anymore that their pigs, cows and sheep are victims of abuse. The future European constitution gives them the right to transform their anger in severe rules: with one million signatures they will be able force the EU to take the initiative for new legislation. Green parties all over Europe support them wholeheartedly by collecting signatures.

Please see and use the (virus free) form:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/stop_lugging_around_our_pigs.doc


Dear Mr. Fischler,

Anticipating on my constitutional right* to put a subject on the European agenda together with 1 million co-Europeans, I ask you to put an end to the unnecessary lugging around of animals and therefore to prepare a law that reduces transport of livestock to 6 hours and 400 kilometers and guarantees a waterproof control of the observance of the rules.

ECOTERRA Intl.
For Natural Life on Earth!

May 06, 2004

The nation's top 50 polluting power plants are owned by corporations that are tightly allied with the Bush Administration both as major campaign contributors and in conducting pollution policymaking, according to a new study released yesterday. Conducted by two nonprofit, nonpartisan groups--the Environmental Integrity Project and Public Citizen--the study utilized data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

Ranking the polluters based on their emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, the report finds that sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide pollution actually increased from 2002-2003, thereby expanding risks of asthma attacks and lung ailments.

According to the report, America's Dirtiest Power Plants: Plugged into the Bush Administration, the firms cited in the study, along with their trade associations, met at least 17 times with Vice President Cheney's energy task force.

The report found that since 1999, the 30 largest utility companies owning the majority of the 89 dirtiest power plants in the study have contributed $6.6 million to the Bush presidential campaigns and the Republican National Committee. The 30 companies also hired at least 16 lobbying or law firms that have raised at least $3.4 million more for the Bush campaigns.

"It is no coincidence that a wholesale assault on the Clean Air Act is taking place today," said Eric Schaeffer, who founded EIP after resigning in early 2002 from his post as director of EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, in protest of the administration's rollback of environmental protections. "This is a well-connected industry that is absolutely intent on preserving its 'right' to foul the air regardless of the consequences to the American people."

The study ranked the top 50 polluters for each of the three emissions (mercury, SO2, CO2). Because several companies were in the top 50 for more than one pollutant, the list totaled 89 power plants. Of those 89, some 47 have either been sued or placed under investigation by the EPA for violating the Clean Air Act's New Source Review requirement, under which plants that upgrade or expand must add expensive new clean technology.

Last August the EPA stirred a huge controversy by relaxing requirements for New Source Review, exempting many plants from the law's pollution control requirements. A federal court stayed the new rules, but as the report notes, "The result of the administration's policy, coupled with the program's current status in legal limbo, is that many of these companies have either had the cases against them undermined or simply dropped by the Bush Adminstration."

The study lists five former executives or lobbyists for the electric utility industry who have been placed in important regulatory posts in the Bush administration. One is assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, another is counsel to that office, and a third is deputy administrator of EPA. A fourth is now in charge of all government lawsuits against coal-fired power plants, and the fifth helped write national energy policy as assistant secretary at the Department of Energy.

The full report is available at

http://www.environmentalintegrity.org


Source: http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000112.php

Omega-News Collection 4. May 04
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/209745/

U.S. report lists 'egregious acts' against Iraq prisoners
http://www.fox11az.com/news/other/stories/KMSB_20040504_prison_cnnbp.18bd76424.html

Troops have been abusing Iraqis for a year: Amnesty
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/04/1083635134533.html

Iraqis are disgusted but not surprised at PoW abuse
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=517631

U.S. Accused Of Torture In Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4160.htm

US turns to torture to crack prisoners of war
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/26/1040511135568.html

Iraqi Detainees Claim Abuse by British and U.S. Troops
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3419.htm

Who's Responsible?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5453

U.S. accused of human rights violations in Fallujah
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/03/iraq040503

From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004: War Crimes in Perspective
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=5446

US Crimes and Iraqi Resistance
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6141.htm

The Truth About Depleted Uranium Weaponry
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6143.htm

Patriotic Acts of Abuse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6142.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Torture commonplace, say inmates' families
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1208408,00.html

Torturing Iraq in an unnecessary war
http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=2467

Imperial shame for America at Abu Ghraib
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0405a.asp

Let the wall of silence fall
http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley05032004.html

What is the deal with US soldiers?
http://tinyurl.com/yvnge

The status quo ante
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/status-quo-ante.html

Black walls, barricades and tombs
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/herman/herman18.html

We'll set you free -- even if it kills you
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/05/04

Mutiny in Iraq
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=klein

How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/04/chalabi/

Looking for the exit
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040502-103052-6463r.htm

Draft reinstatement a bad idea
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118869,00.html

Who let the dogs out?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE04Ak03.html

Jailed Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, says US Army
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1209681,00.html

Army discloses 20 active probes of Iraq prisoner cases
http://ap.dodgeglobe.com/stories/20040504/2128592.shtml

The mystery of Abu Ghraib
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2477

It's not a job ... it's an adventure
http://fredoneverything.net/Torture.shtml

America's dirty secret
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney05042004.html

US military's bad-guy dragnet -- a terrible way to win a war
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0505/p09s02-coop.html

Senators say they were kept in dark about abuse
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/04/congress.abuse/

Pentagon to keep 135,000 troops in Iraq through 2005
http://ap.dodgeglobe.com/stories/20040504/2128589.shtml

Deja vu Vietnam
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1914

High tide of empire?
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_05_10/buchanan.html

Which American?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/ryn1.html

Empty promises
http://www.libertyforall.net/2004/may9/promises.html

Returning to peace and freedom
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/05/05


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The UN Must Demand a "Truth Commission" for the United States
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Fitrakis0504.htm

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Wendland0504.htm

Robbing "Defeat" to Pay "Appall"
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Kurth0504.htm

Heartland Morality, American Politics
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Stephens0504.htm

Torture and Civilian Deaths in Three Counterinsurgencies
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Marina0504.htm

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Without Reservation
http://www.militaryweek.com/kk042604.shtml

Informant: kevcross5

WWF Conservation Action Network
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/whats_your_score.html

I have great news for you from our Stop Cruise Pollution campaign!

It's official: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has heard your calls for them to clean up their sewage-treatment act. And they are doing something about it.

To put it simply -- WE WON!

In a letter to Oceana (PDF format) http://ga0.org/ct/Y115Yjd17Bpr/ Royal Caribbean Chairman and CEO Richard Fain has committed the company to do the following:

* Install advanced wastewater treatment (AWT) systems on every ship in their fleet -- just as Oceana has been calling on Royal Caribbean to do -- as their ships come in for their scheduled drydocking, which means their whole fleet will have them by 2008.
* Select AWT systems whose treated discharges meet the stringent standards of the state of Alaska -- the same standards which Oceana has been calling on Royal Caribbean to meet.
* Have a third party monitor the performance of the AWT systems, and make the results of that monitoring public.

It is very gratifying to see Royal Caribbean make this decision. As you know, we have been urging them for almost a year now to start down this road, so it's great to see them beginning the journey.

And you have been instrumental in making that happen. Almost 90,000 people have signed our cruise pollution pledge, vowing not to cruise with Royal Caribbean until they committed to stop dumping inadequately treated sewage. In communities across North America -- in Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Vancouver, and many more -- you turned out to show your support.

http://www.stopcruisepollution.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&pageID=974

Now, your voices have been heard. Royal Caribbean has started to clean up its act. It's an exciting day for us all, and a turning point for the oceans!

WHAT COMES NEXT

In recognition of Royal Caribbean's commitment, we're suspending our campaign against them. However, Royal Caribbean is just one company. Cruise pollution is still a major threat to our oceans, which is why we're supporting the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004 -- a bill currently before Congress that would go a long way towards stopping the problem of cruise pollution across the entire industry.

You acted, and you got Royal Caribbean's attention. Now we're asking you to do the same for Congress. Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004 -- they need to hear from you how important this is!

* TAKE ACTION: Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004
http://ga0.org/campaign/cleancruiseact/7iwdixzhjem7wn

Want to share the good news? You can use our Tell-A-Friend feature to invite your friends to join the community that made this victory possible:

* TELL A FRIEND: Pass on the good news!
http://ga0.org/wavemaker/join-forward.html?domain=wavemaker&r=gd15Yjd1pB8p

And we're also opening a thread over on our community site, The Oceana Network, for you to discuss this news with your fellow activists:

* GET CONNECTED: Discuss the Royal Caribbean decision on The Oceana Network http://ga0.org/ct/Rp15Yjd17Bp4/

This is a major step forward for everyone who cares about the future of the oceans, and it couldn't have happened without you. Thanks for your continuing commitment, and congratulations!

For the oceans,

Andy Sharpless
CEO
Oceana

Tell your friends about this important victory, and the need to support the Clean Cruise Act!
Tell-a-friend! http://ga0.org/join-forward.html?domain=wavemaker&r=gd15Yjd1pB8p

Leading Fortune 500 Companies, Coke, Pepsi, Walmart, Kraft General Foods, etc. filed against for knowingly poisoning the public with aspartame

SACRAMENTO, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2004--ASPARTAME LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC. Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).

Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California.

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.

Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.

Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system.

Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval.

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the market.

In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" ( http://www.russellblaylockmd.com ) wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina).

All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).

In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.

Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.

Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial.

If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice League for an interview, please call or fax us at 208-246-1171.

Roberta Bellon, Public Relations

NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
2205 Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022
Redding, Ca 96002
Phone: 208-246-1171
California: 530-248-3483
Cell Phone: 208-890-0034
E-mail: info@nationaljusticeleague.com

FOR INFORMATION ON ASPARTAME:
http://www.dorway.com
http://www.wnho.net

You can also contact Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 USA 770-242-2599

This release is issued by courtesy of:WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (for further information on this Breaking News and History of Aspartame)
http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm

Contact Information
Betty Martini

MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL
http://www.wnho.net, http://www.dorway.com

World Natural Health Organization


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

AFP
May 2, 2004

http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040502030651.y5wzzm8d.html

KRASNOYARSK, Russia - Illegal logging and controversial business plans have ecologists raising the alarm in Siberia's scenic Krasnoyarsk region, Russia's prime forestry area and vital to a country struggling under massive air pollution.

"From Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, the taiga stretches without limit. Does it have an end? When you are on the top of a mountain, you see mountains all around... And all is covered by a dense forest. It gives you shivers," Anton Chekhov wrote in the 1890s.

But the famed writer's days are past, and now the sight is different -- criminal logging and arson gnaw at the sea of trees.

"In Russia, up to 30 percent of tree logging is illegal. Depending on the region, the wood then goes to Scandinavian countries or China," said Yevgeny Shvarts of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

"They do it quickly, a team of five or six people take a big truck, cut a large area and send the wood to China. It makes a good profit," lamented Galina Kuzmina, deputy head of Krasnoyarsk's forest protection center.

In addition, 2,000 fires last year alone -- most of them due to arson -- and the Siberian bombyx parasite has devastated entire swaths of the region's forest, she said.

But the government's new forestry code, which is still being drafted and allows the regions to privatise forest zones, is what troubles Russian ecologists most.

The Russian forest is currently almost entirely managed by the "leskhozes," local forestry administrations, which hand out licences to the lumberjacks and their firms.

"After the privatisation experience of the 1990s, public opinion will not stand for privatisation of forests," Shvarts fumed.

Environmentalists also fear that the new code would bar millions of Russians from the forests, who make their living by collecting cedar kernels, mushrooms and berries.

"They say here that Russal," the giant Krasnoyarsk-based aluminum producer, "is ready to buy up the region's entire forest," Kuznina said.

The government in turn hopes to encourage the creation of wood refining factories and paper and cellulose plants.

Russia, 70 percent of whose massive territory is covered by forests, nets 4.5 billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) annually from wood exports, but could profit more if it could refine wood at home rather than ship the raw material to be treated abroad.

The region's governor Alexander Khloponin has ambitious plans to chop down 49 million cubic meters (1715 million cubic feet) of wood annually where only five million cubic meters are now harvested.

"This would require important forestry territories and big investors who would build roads and replant forests as needed, like they do in Finland," he noted.

The governor hopes to attract enough capital to set up a cellulose factory, which would profit from the region's low energy prices.

However, he said he thought privatisation plans were too hasty, arguing that the industry could pass into the private sector only after the state set up efficient control systems -- which could take up to 15 years.


Informant: NHNE

Der Rat verlangte gestern eine dritte Abstimmung im EU-Parlament über die Frage, ob europäisches Recht einfach so gebrochen werden kann. Sehr schön und geradewegs erz/demokratisch. Wie oft soll noch abgestimmt werden?

quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3


Neuer Schlagabtausch im EU-Parlament
Parlament mit klarer Mehrheit gegen erneuten Antrag auf Unterzeichnung des Passagierdaten-Abkommens mit den USA | Rat droht, EU-Parlament zu übergehen | Entscheidung des EuGH soll nicht abgewartet werden

Das Europaparlament hat einen weiteren Vorstoß des Rats, das Abkommen zur Weitergabe von Passagierdaten an die USA, erneut abzustimmen, am Dienstag mit 343 zu 301 Stimmen bei 18 Enthaltungen abgelehnt.

Mit Verweis auf die Geschäftsordnung lehnte das Parlament es ab, sich erneut mit derselben Angelegenheit zu befassen, über die es bereits zwei Abstimmungen mit mehrheitlicher Ablehnung gegeben hatte.

"Die Mehrheit des Parlaments hat gezeigt, dass wir uns vom Rat nicht wie Marionetten behandeln lassen und so lange abstimmen, bis das Ergebnis genehm ist" sagte die Abgeordnete Mercedes Echerer nach der Abstimmung zur futurezone.

Man werde nicht mehr hinnehmen, dass lange erkämpfte, europäische Bürgerrechte wie Datenschutz auf dem Altar der transatlantischen Beziehungen geopfert würden.

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