UKUSA Security Agreements(1948)-ECHELON SYSTEM
http://tinyurl.com/6869r

Das Böse kann überall lauern: Die Verhinderung von Terroranschlägen kann in Panikmache umschlagen, also mit dem Ziel von Terroristen konvergieren...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/auf/18122/1.html

Hartz IV: CDU kritisiert Ein-Euro-Jobs

20.08.04

Im Zuge der "Hartz IV"-Reformen wird weiter kontrovers über die so genannten Ein-Euro-Jobs diskutiert. CDU-Chefin Angela Merkel kritisierte am Freitag, mit dem Aufbau eines "ineffizienten zweiten Arbeitsmarktes" sei den Langzeitarbeitslosen nicht gedient. Der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Städte- und Gemeindebundes, Gerd Landsberg, warnte vor einer Gefährdung des ersten Arbeitsmarktes durch zu viele solcher Jobs. SPD-Fraktionsvize Michael Müller mahnte, man müsse auch die "soziale und humane Ebene" der Jobangebote sehen. Karl von Löwenstein, Geschäftsfüphrer der Malteser Hilfsdienst GmbH, bewertet die Möglichkeit, Langzeitarbeitslosen sogenannte Ein-Euro-Jobs anzubieten als 'grundsätzlich positiv'...

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9136

Fair Use Statement

Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 4, 2004

The Preventable Cancer Epidemic

Cancer has become such an epidemic that 41% of Canadian males and nearly 38% of Canadian females will develop some form of the disease, and 27% of males and 23% of females will die from it.

While the medical profession and cancer research institutions attribute most of the cancer increase to genetic and lifestyle factors, the authors of a new CCPA study assert that carcinogens in our air, water, food, and workplaces are significant causes of cancer.

Economist Robert Chernomas and researcher Lissa Donner draw from reputable studies and findings to conclude that many cancers could be prevented if the cancer-causing chemicals were removed from our environment. They note that in 2001, Canadian industries admitted releasing 18,455,237 kilograms of known carcinogens into our air, soil, and water. "Such industries have been called 'merchants of death' for putting profits ahead of human health"--but they have been aided and abetted by a lax regulatory and enforcement system that allows such deadly pollution to continue.

The authors are critical of the main objective of the fight against cancer, which is to find treatments or cures rather than promoting preventive measures. "Industries have argued that for every carcinogen there is a safe level of exposure. But our guiding principle should be that the safest exposure is no exposure."

Chernomas and Donner argue that the war on cancer can be won, but that the social, economic and political changes that are needed will require collective action by the environmental, occupational health and nutrition movements. Acting together, they can "stem the tide of cancer that is sweeping across Canada."

For more information contact Kerri-Anne Finn at 613-563-1341 x306. http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/rtk031204a.htm


Posted by
Deborah Elaine Barrie
4 Catherine Street
Smiths Falls, On
Canada
K7A 3Z8
(613)284-8259
deborahbarrie@hotmail.com
http://www.noccawood.ca

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0819-13.htm


Informant: kevcross5

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

HF ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (HAARP)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306257/

THE EUROPEAN PETITION AGAINST ABUSES OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS IS BEING STUDIED RIGHT NOW
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308031/

Mandatory Psychiatric Screening of School-Aged Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306953/

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306977/

Bush Psychiatric Screening of US Population Opposed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306989/

Everything and Everyone is Connected
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307398/

Londoners to be Fluoridated
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307112/

Fluoride - The Greatest Fraud of the Twentieth Century
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307117/

The devil in their diet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307131/

Appalachia Is Paying Price for White House Rule Change
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305909/

North Pole Shows Ice Melting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307127/

Wilderness Under Attack
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307975/

Say "No" to Jumbo Proposed Glacier Resort
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307988/

Oregon Old Growth Falling
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307994/

Holding The Bush Administration Accountable
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307078/

In hot pursuit of polluters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307972/

Attorneys General sue polluters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307792/

Mapuche Indians Find Strong Government Opposition to Land Claims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306287/

Trinity County Bans GE Crops and Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306254/

Europe 'must adapt on climate'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307098/

The People First — Corporations Second Challenge
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306267/

The nanny psychology
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307745/

Increase in state databases 'a threat to civil liberties'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307121/

The 'War on Terror' Distorts America's Military Moves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308057/

Crying wolf in the war on terror
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307766/

The new Caesars
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306995/

Evolving empire
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307756/

High Crimes and Misdemeanors
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307929/

Civil Resistance and the Prevention of State Crimes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308012/

Isn't this a democracy?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307770/

Million Worker March
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306340/

REPORT SHOWS BUSH IGNORING CHEMICAL SECURITY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306268/

In Bush Grazing Decision, Politics, Secrecy Win Again
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307947/

US wants to build network of friendly militias to combat terrorism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305905/

We Found the Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307059/

The Wanna-Be State
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306324/

Another Perle Stooge
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306330/

Retiring GOP congressman breaks ranks on Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307019/

The Military Death Toll While Enforcing the Occupation of Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307910/

Anti-GOP group publishes RNC delegate list
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307707/

How Dick Cheney Got Away With $35 Million
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307904/

Bush's Dubious Terror Alerts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307908/

Reshaping Washington's global footprint
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308016/

How Far Will Bush Go? Part II
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307136/

People Should Have Been Fired
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307010/

Reporters Get Death Threats from Police
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306044/

More US forces tied to Abu Ghraib abuse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307021/

Guantanamo Detainees expected to claim torture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307029/

Abu Ghraib doctors knew of torture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307697/

Spy on Your Neighbor for the Homeland
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307620/

Wiretapping the Web
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307628/

Messages Can Be Forever
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307634/

New CIA Director Wants Power to Spy On, Arrest, U.S. Citizens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307646/

Secrets of Porter Goss: CIA, Fraud & Patriot Act
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307655/

Border buffoonery
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307799/

The Politics Of Bullying
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308037/

US general's 'Satan' speeches broke rules
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307664/

Bush's Catholic Scandal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308044/

Fifth Cavalry or Fifth Column?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307899/

Where have all the big ideas gone?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307775/

Only true believers need apply
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/307961/

Joe Feuerherd

Friday 10:08 AM

Deal Hudson "surrendered" his tenure at Fordham University in 1994 after "exchanging sexual favors" with a female undergrad. Ten years later, he was the go-to man for George W. Bush in his effort to woo Catholic voters. This investigation by the National Catholic Reporter into the fall and resurrection of Hudson's career triggered another fall. Tough sandbox...

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#001521
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn081904.htm

Dear Signatories and Supporters,

THE EUROPEAN PETITION AGAINST ABUSES OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS IS BEING STUDIED RIGHT NOW.

Please find enclosed the transcription of the reply by the European Parliament which gives an indication of the next steps and the names of the various Committees that received the petition.


I have the honour to inform you that the "Committee on Petitions" examined your petition and judged that the questions raised are admissible according to European Parliament Regulations, since the subject of the petition comes within the European Union's fields of activity. The Committee has therefore started the examination of your petition and decided to invite the European Commission to give its opinion on the various aspects of the problem. It will pursue the examination of your petition as soon as it has collected sufficient relevant information.

Moreover your petition will be passed on to the parliamentary committee of foreign affairs, human rights, public safety and defence politics and to the committee on civil liberties. I will let you know the results of the action taken.

Yours sincerely;
Nino Gemelli
President of the Committee on Petitions


Many thanks to all of you for signing (currently 160) and for your support, which made it possible to send this strong signal to the European Deputies. This first investigation is the direct result of this action. And it is not over yet, now we hope that measures will be taken in order to avoid and stop these criminal wrongdoings.

This e-mail is being sent to those, who have typed their e-mail address on the electronic form. Sorry if you have received this information twice but please pass it on to people you know who might have signed or might be interested but have no e-mail.

Looking forward to the next message to you, which will be sent on reception of the decisions of the parliamentary Commissions;

Best regards.

http://www.petition1168-2003.fr.vu

Administrative organisation: CAPT
F-95103 ARGENTEUIL Cedex

With the support of :
IG Mikrowellenterror.de

Les barbares sont soumis à des hommes. Les peuples civilisés obéissent à des lois. Thucydide.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Liebe Unterzeichner,

DIE EUROPÄISCHE PETITION GEGEN DEN MISSBRAUCHSRISIKEN VON STRAHLUNGSWAFFEN WIRD ZUR ZEIT UNTERSUCHT

Es folgt der Inhalt der Antwort des Europäischen Parlaments, mit Angabe der verschiedenen Ausschüsse, denen die Petition zugeschickt worden ist.


Wir freuen uns Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass der Petitionsausschuß Ihre Petition untersucht und sich entschlossen hat die aufgeworfenen Fragen für gültig und gemäß der Verordnung des europäischen Parlaments zu erklären, da der Gegenstand dieser Fragen, dem Tätigkeitsbereich der Europäischen Union entspricht.

Der Ausschuss hat folglich mit der Prüfung Ihrer Petition begonnen und hat bei dieser Gelegenheit beschlossen, die Europäische Kommission dazu einzuladen, Stellung zu den verschiedenen Aspekten der Probleme zu nehmen. Die Prüfung ihrer Petition wird sobald der Ausschuss über die nötigen Informationen verfügt fortgesetzt.

Ihre Petition wird darüber hinaus den Ausschüssen für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, für Menschenrechte, für gemeinsame Sicherheit und Verteidigungspolitik und für öffentliche Freiheiten übermittelt.

Ich werde es nicht versäumen, Sie über jegliche Weiterentwicklung / Folgen Ihrer Petition auf dem Laufenden zu halten.

Nino Gemelli
Präsident des Kommissionsausschuss


Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterschriften (160 zur Zeit) und Unterstützung. Dadurch konnte den Abgeordneten dieses starke Signal vermittelt werden, der folglich diese erste Untersuchung ermöglichte. Und es geht weiter, nun hoffen wir auf Maßnahmen, um diese kriminellen Taten zu vermeiden und zu stoppen.

Diese Nachricht wird den Unterzeichnern, die Ihre E-mail Adresse auf das Formular eingetragen haben, zugeschickt. Bitte leiten Sie diese Information weiter an denen die unterzeichnet oder Interesse hätten, aber keine E-mail Adresse angegeben haben. (Bitte nicht beachten falls schon andersseitig erhalten.)

Bis bald, mit einer neuen Mitteilung sobald die Entscheidungen der parlamentarischen Ausschüsse gefallen sind;

Herzliche Grüße

http://www.petition1168-2003.fr.vu

Administrative organisation: CAPT
F-95103 ARGENTEUIL Cedex

With the support of :
IG Mikrowellenterror.de

Les barbares sont soumis à des hommes. Les peuples civilisés obéissent à des lois. Thucydide.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH20Aa01.html


Informant: kevcross5

by Francis A. Boyle

Beginning with the Reagan/Bush administrations' ascent to power in January of 1981, the United has demonstrated little if any respect for international law, international organizations, and human rights, let alone appreciation of the requirements for maintaining international peace and security. Instead there has been a comprehensive assault upon the integrity of the international legal order. The Reagan administration's foreign policy represented a deviation from basic rules of international deportment and civilized behavior that the United States government had pioneered in promoting for the world community. In many instances elements of the Reagan foreign policy constituted criminal activity under well-recognized principles of both international law and U.S. domestic law, specifically the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles.

Among the responses to the Reagan administration's attack upon the international and domestic legal orders, was an upsurge in civil resistance activities protesting against U.S. international policies that grossly violated international law and human rights. These citizen protests led to numerous arrests and prosecutions by federal, state, and local governmental authorities all over the country. Soon thereafter, this author began to give advice, counsel and assistance to individuals and groups who had engaged in acts of civil resistance directed against several aspects of the U.S. government's foreign policy: the Nuclear Freeze Movement, the Sanctuary Movement, Greenpeace International, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Plowshares Movement, the Pledge of Resistance Campaign, and Gulf War resisters, among others. I also participated in the defense of individuals who engaged in civil resistance protesting against the U.S. government's policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence, Central America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East, etc. who were independent of formal movements.

In addition, I have also helped defend active duty members of United States armed forces who were persecuted and prosecuted because of their acts of conscience and principle. For example, in the fall of 1990, I served as Counsel for the successful defense of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jeff Paterson, the first military resister to Bush Sr.'s Gulf War.

Then I represented U.S.M.C. Lance Corporal David Mihaila in a successful effort to obtain his discharge from the Marine Corps as a Conscientious Objector during Gulf War I. Corporal Mihaila was the Clerk of the Court for the Paterson court-martial proceedings and according to him was motivated to apply for CO status as a result of my oral argument for Corporal Paterson.

In 1991 I served as Counsel for the defense of Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, who was court-martialed by the U.S. Army in part because of her refusal to administer experimental vaccines to soldiers destined to fight in Gulf War I.

Later, I served as Counsel for the defense of U.S. Army Captain Lawrence Rockwood, who was court-martialed for his heroic efforts to stop torture in Haiti after the Clinton administration had illegally invaded that country in 1994. Most recently, in 2004 I served as Counsel for the defense of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, the first military resister to the current Iraq War.

Upon their incarcerations, both Capt. Dr. Huet-Vaughn and Staff Sgt. Mejia were quickly designated as Prisoners of Conscience by Amnesty International. Many Americans are unaware of the existence of American Prisoners of Conscience or Political Prisoners in our own prisons in the United State.

In fact, there are many. Both Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn and Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia are America's equivalent to Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Wei Jingsheng, Aung San Suu Kyi, and others who became powerful symbols of the resistance to injustice.

They are the archetypal American Heroes whom we should be bringing into our schools and teaching our children to emulate, not the wholesale purveyors of violence and bloodshed adulated by the U.S. government and the media.

One generation ago the peoples of the world asked themselves: Where were the "good" Germans? Well, there were some good Germans. The Lutheran theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only the most prominent exemplar of someone who led a life of principled opposition to the Nazi-terror state even unto death.

Today the peoples of the world are likewise asking themselves: Where are the "good" Americans who are prepared to stand up for principle in the face of state terror carried out on a world scale? Well, there are some good Americans. Some of them face arrest and jail for protesting against United States targeting of civilians with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) whose power for human extermination far exceeds even the wildest fantasies of Hitler and the Nazis. Others for protesting against illegal U.S. military interventions around the world since September 11, 2001.

As my friend and colleague former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark once said: "Our jails are filling up with saints!"

This book both subjects U.S. foreign policy to scrutiny from the perspective of international law and human rights, as well as telling their stories of protest against inhumanity and injustice.

This book comes at a critical time in the history of the United States of America as a constitutional Republic with a commitment to the rule of law and human rights, both at home and abroad. In international legal terms, the Bush Jr. administration should be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles because of its formulation and undertaking of wars of aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that are legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany.

As a consequence, American citizens possesses the basic right under international law and United States domestic law, including the American Constitution, to engage in acts of civil resistance in order to prevent, impede, thwart, or terminate ongoing criminal activities perpetrated by U.S. government officials in their conduct of foreign affairs policies and military operations purported to relate to defense and counter-terrorism.

This same right of civil resistance extends pari passu to all citizens of the world community of states. Everyone around the world has both the right and the duty under international law to resist ongoing criminal activities perpetrated by the Bush Jr. administration and its foreign accomplices in allied governments. If not so restrained, the Bush Jr. administration could very well precipitate a Third World War.

The time for preventive action is now. Civil resistance is the way to go. People power can overcome power politics. Popular movements have succeeded in toppling tyrannical, dictatorial and authoritarian regimes throughout former Communist countries in Eastern Europe, as well as in Asia, and most recently in Latin America. It is time once again to exercise People Power in the United States of America.

Despite the best efforts by the Bush Jr. Leaguers to the contrary, we American Citizens still have our First Amendment Rights: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom to Petition our Government for the Redress of these massive Grievances, Civil Resistance, etc.

We are going to have to start vigorously exercising all of our First Amendment Rights right now. We must use them or else, as the saying goes, we will lose them. We must act not only for the good of the Peoples of Southwest Asia, but for our future, that of our children, that of our nation as a democratic society committed to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. This book will give the reader the intellectual tools necessary to battle the international and domestic legal nihilism of the Bush Jr. administration; the Ashcroft Police State; America's Nuclear and Hydrocarbon Empires; and the U.S. Power Elite before they run completely amok all over the world as well as here at home. The Nazis had their "homeland" too.

The Athenians lost their democracy. The Romans lost their Republic. And if we Americans do not act now we could lose our Republic. The United States of America is not immune to the laws of history!

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)

http://www.ecosystem.org/action/index.html?MessageTemplateID=1
http://www.ecosystem.org/act/103.html


Informant: Earth First! Media

#107 WILD NORTHWEST, August 2, 2004
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

Keeping the Northwest Wild

Stop a Massive Resort in the Heart of British Columbia's Grizzly Bear Wildlands

Just say "no" to Jumbo proposed Glacier Resort
http://www.ecosystem.org/act/107.html

For 13 years the heart of BC grizzly bear habitat in the Kootenay region of southeast B.C. has been threatened by a proposed new four season resort development, called the Jumbo Glacier Resort. And for 13 years thousands of local residents and public officials, scientists, First Nations, and local heli-ski operators have protected essential grizzly bear habitat by staving off this massive boondoggle. But the developers haven't let up and the proposal still stands. At the close of the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) public comment period, thousands of Canadians opposed Jumbo. On August 3, the EAO submits their review of public comment and technical issues to BC Ministers, who will make a decision on the proposal by September 17, 2004.

Your voice is needed now to add to the burden of weight against this loony proposal. British Columbia counts on American tourists to spend their dollars on recreation in BC, and American opinions make a difference. Let the BC government know that you strongly oppose and will not patronize this130,000 acre required by this resort-- of main grizzly bear habitat and travel corridor adjoining the Purcell Wilderness and Banff National Park. Jumbo Creek Valley has superb wilderness and wildlife qualities that will be lost forever if this resort is built.

Write the BC government now to put this proposal where the overwhelming majority of the locals want it: in the scrap heap of bad ideas.

Send your letter of opposition straight to Premier Campbell and Ministers now though an easy fax system. Go to:
http://www.jumbowild.com/takeaction .

For more information, go to
http://www.jumbowild.com/Downloads/4G&M_9Mar04.pdf or
http://www.wildcanada.net .

Please let us know that you took action. And thank you for lending your voice to protect the grizzly bear!

Joe Scott, International Conservation Director (360) 671-9950 x 11
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay #201
Bellingham WA 98225
(360) 671-8429 fax
jscott@ecosystem.org
http://www.ecosystem.org


"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." Oliver Wendell Holmes


Informant: Earth First! Media

http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0819/p15s02-sten.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0819/p16s01-sten.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1285936,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/167387.html


Informant: Tim White

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082004G.shtml
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=140350


Informant: Teresa Binstock

No matter who falls
Broken
By the wayside
No matter who flees
From the fray
No matter who
Loses interest
Or Faith
Or Hope
No matter who laughs
At my efforts
No matter who mocks me
Or spits upon me
No matter what barbs
Are flung at me
In disregard for what I believe
No matter how slim the chance
No matter how high the mountain
No matter how mighty the enemy
I WILL NEVER SURRENDER
And while I yet breathe
And think
And stand
And hope
While I live
Tyranny is not safe
As long as ONE MIND
ONE HEART
ONE FREE MAN
Still lives
The dawn will come
No matter how dark the night
No matter how long the road
No matter how heavy the chains
If free men live
To cast them off
The dawn will still come
As long as I live...
I will never surrender

Lee Miracle
Michigan Militia
http://michiganmilitia.com/


From Harry Mobley

Below is the indictment written by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Join us on Thursday, August, 26 in New York to hear the reading of the indictment and presentation of evidence from expert witnesses, eyewitnesses, GI resisters, and representatives from international sessions of the World Tribunal on Iraq.

Thursday, August 26
3-9 pm
Marin Luther King Auditorium
65th & Amsterdam, NYC

INDICTMENT

This Criminal Indictment Charges George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Tommy Franks, and his successors as Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, George J. Tenet, L. Paul Bremer, III, John Negroponte and others to be named with Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other criminal acts in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, the Constitution of the United States and Laws Made in Pursuance Thereof.

The Crimes Charged are:

1. Waging a War of Aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq and the rights of its people, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries among the people of Iraq, most civilians, from military violence and thousands of U.S. G.I's. War of aggression is defined as "the Supreme international crime" in the Nuremberg Judgment.

2. Authorizing, encouraging and condoning the use of excessive force, in terrorem, tactics called "Shock and Awe", targeting defenseless civilians and, civilians facilities and indiscriminate bombing and assaults.

3. Authorizing and ordering the use of illegal weapons including super bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium enhanced bombs, missiles, shells and bullets and threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

4. Authorizing, ordering, concealing and condoning assassinations, summary executions, murders, disappearances, kidnappings and torture.

5. Authorizing, financing, utilizing and condoning illegal violence, use of force and torture by highly paid paramilitary civilian forces operating anonymously and not accountable to U.S. supervisors for their acts, who kill, coerce, control and contain the Iraqi population.

6. Authorizing, ordering and condoning the systematic destruction of economic, social, cultural, medical, educational, governmental and diplomatic resources, properties and facilities throughout Iraq.

7. Authorizing, ordering and condoning acts designed to divide the Iraqi population to cause internal conflict and violence among major segments of the society, ethnic, religious, political and economic, in order to weaken and exhaust the population and bring all segments under the control of a new surrogate government submissive to U.S. command.

8. Authorizing, imposing and maintaining a violent, criminal military occupation over Iraq which kills defenseless Iraqi's daily and fans the flames of anti-U.S. anger worldwide.

9. Defying and incapacitating the peace making capacity and role of the United Nations by unilateral actions to undermine its potential effectiveness while continuing to coerce and use the U.N. to pursue U.S. policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and coercing and enticing other nations to support U.S. policies and actions in violation of international law in the U.N. Security Council and against Iraq and other nations.

10. Engaging in systematic acts to undermine and destroy international laws and treaties designed to prevent and control war, weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction; limit participants in military service; protect the environment; prevent the economic exploitation of poor nations; and engaging systematic acts to obstruct justice by the evisceration of the International Criminal Court and manipulation or defiance of other international judicial and regulatory bodies that might seek to hold the U.S. accountable to international law and the will of the majority of the people of the international community.

11. Manifesting their continuing commitment to world domination by ordering, directing and condoning violent regime change in Haiti in March 2004 to replace the independent, elected democratic President Jean Bertrand Aristide with a U.S. selected and controlled neo Duvalierist surrogate causing growing violence, hundreds of deaths and further impoverishment of the Haitian people.

12. Threatening the sovereignty and independence of nations, and acting to change regimes that refuse to yield to U.S. demands for economic subservience and political control for U.S. corporate and government interests, including most prominently Cuba, Iran, a divided Korea, the Philippines, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela; and supporting Israel's illegal occupation, brutalization and expanding settlement of Palestine in defiance of the United Nations, international law and world opinion; all of which adds to international anger and violence against the United States and its citizens.

13. Destroying the sovereignty, right to self determination, cultural integrity and control of its own resources of Iraq and its peoples by imposing an interim government headed by a long time C.I.A. asset who directed violence against Iraqi civilians for the U.S. in the 1990's; and manipulating procedures for the imposition of a new Constitution drafted by and installation of a new government chosen through controlled electoral processes and subservient to the will and command of the U.S. government.

14. Usurping the war powers delegated in the constitution to the Congress to pursue wars of aggression and other unlawful military actions; and attempting to pack the federal courts with judges committed to ideologies in conflict with the Constitution of the United States to achieve judicial decisions supporting those ideologies.

15. Systematically weakening fundamental human rights globally and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution within the U.S. enabling U.S. forces to unlawfully seize individuals in 100 countries, including U.S. citizens and arrest thousands of aliens in the U.S. and hold them, transport them, torture many, deny all access to courts to determine the legality of such seizures, arrest and treatment.

16. Making Guantanamo [U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay?] a symbol of U.S. power to imprison and abuse persons on the soil of a foreign sovereign nation, Cuba, against its will and to publicize U.S. contempt for human rights by displaying its power to arbitrarily seize, confine and abuse persons without revealing who they are, any charges against them, or what their future may be, placing U.S. power above all laws, international and national, and beyond the reach of all courts, including those of the U.S.

17. Giving economic preferences to favored corporations and business interests to extract enormous profits in both war and peace sectors of the economy from impoverished Iraq and U.S. taxpayers.

18. Systematically utilizing, controlling, directing, manipulating, misinforming and restricting press and media coverage and deliberately presenting false and misleading reports to obtain support for U.S. military and political and actions; and to deprive the American people of knowledge essential to develop an informed opinion , which is essential to democratic processes and elections.

19. All for the purpose of dominating, controlling, and exploiting Iraq and other non compliant nations by military force and economic coercion.

In addition to full accountability for the foregoing crimes and full reparation to victims, the offenses constitute "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States requiring the removal from office of all the participating civil Officers of the United States upon impeachment for and conviction for their acts.

Dated: August 5, 2004
Ramsey Clark

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From International Action Center

http://www.foebud.org/rfid/news_item.2004-07-29.3345533036/de
http://www.foebud.org/rfid/

20.08.2004

Wieder Vorreiter in der EU: Hartz IV - Arbeitslose als Sicherheitskräfte in den Irak

Tobias Pflüger, Europaabgeordneter, Mitglied im Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten, (parteilos über PDS-Liste) zur Anwerbung von Arbeitslosen als Sicherheitskräfte für den Flughafen Mosul (Nordirak):

Deutschland gerät immer weiter in den Sumpf des Irak-Krieges. Jetzt vermittelt die Bundesagentur für Arbeit zur Flughafenüberwachung in Mosul (Nordirak) "geprüfte Sicherheitsdienstleistungsfachkräfte" für "Patrouillendienste, Personenkontrolle, Objektbewachung". In Anzeigen der "Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung" wird im Anforderungsprofil "Englisch zur Verständigung am Arbeitsplatz, Waffenkunde erwünscht.

Nur Bewerber bis 45 Jahre körperlich fit" genannt. Der parteilose Europaabgeordnete Tobias Pflüger, für die Linksfraktion (GUE/NGL) Mitglied im Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten und im Unterausschuss Sicherheit und Verteidigung des Europäischen Parlaments erklärte dazu: "Es scheint als ob die Bundesregierung jetzt alles daran setzt, dass Deutschland sich immer stärker am Irak-Krieg beteiligt."

Pflüger stellte fest: "Hatte Schröder immer erklärt, keine Bundeswehrsoldaten in den Irak entsenden zu wollen, fördert jetzt offensichtlich die "Bundesagentur für Arbeit" die 'Privatisierung' der deutschen Irak-Kriegsbeteilung". Damit übernimmt Deutschland wieder einmal - nach der Ausbildung irakischer Sicherheitskräfte - eine Vorreiterrolle bei den EU-Mitgliedstaaten, die sich früher nicht direkt am Irak-Krieg beteiligt hatten: Angesichts der Debatte um Hartz IV, mit dem gewollten Zwang jede Arbeit anzunehmen, wirkt dieses Engagement der Bundesagentur doppelt zynisch.

Pflüger dazu: "Was passiert eigentlich, wenn es Tote gibt? Die Bundesregierung scheint alles tun zu wollen, um die Arbeitslosen loszuwerden." Die Inserate verheißen denn auch ein "überdurchschnittliches Gehalt ... und Lebensversicherung". Nähere Auskünfte können bei Frau Nikolay von der "Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung" eingeholt werden (Tel: 0049 228 713 1075).

Pressemitteilungen der PDS
URL:
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=22859
Datum: 20.08.2004
© www.sozialisten.de

by Cathy Young

Hawaii Reporter

08/19/04

In this brave new world of global terrorism, the issue of reliable border control has acquired a new urgency. Yet there are also well-founded concerns that in the effort to keep out malefactors we will sacrifice so many of our liberties and alienate so many people around the world that the terrorists, to use a well-worn phrase, will indeed have won. The debate on safety vs. privacy, particularly in airline travel, has been raging for years, ever since the airports first installed metal detectors and luggage screening...

http://tinyurl.com/437aw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Robert Levy

Fox News

08/19/04

Eight state attorneys general have joined together to sue the nation's five largest public utilities. The goal: to force a 3 percent annual reduction in carbon dioxide emissions over the coming decade. The problem, however, is that none of the utilities are located in any of the eight states, and that the AG's have neither the authority nor the responsibility to act in the broader national interest -- as they are claiming to do. In fact, the party with that authority and responsibility -- the U.S. government -- has enacted federal statutes that preempt state laws. ...

Today, Congress is considering another bill, introduced by Sens. John McCain [R-AZ] and Joseph Lieberman [D-CT], that would cap CO2 emissions. The public interest is best served when federal and state regulation is complementary, not duplicative or conflicting...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129378,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ted Halstead

New America Foundation

08/15/04

Each era in American history is defined by a couple of big ideas: the Homestead Act, the GI Bill, Social Security, the Marshall Plan or the race to space. Such major social or economic innovations are usually advanced by our political leaders in response to national turning points. Few would disagree that the United States has reached another
historical juncture. Where, then, have all the big -- and good -- ideas gone? ...

So here are seven big ideas for improving our national condition, each of which defies the conventional political spectrum and could be ripe for the picking by either party: * Every baby a trust-fund baby. * Universal coverage for universal responsibility. * Tax consumption, not work. * End all farm subsidies. * Family-friendly workplaces. * A race to energy independence. * Building a global middle class." [Editor's Note: read the whole article to see beyond the "headlines" - ST]

http://tinyurl.com/6mhkn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Sidney Blumenthal

Salon

08/19/04

Before attending a rally to hear Vice President Dick Cheney, citizens in New Mexico were required to sign a political loyalty oath approved by the Republican National Committee. 'I, (full name) ... do herby (sic) endorse George W. Bush for reelection of the United States.'

The form noted: 'In signing the above endorsement you are consenting to use and release of your name by Bush-Cheney as an endorser of President Bush.' Around the country, Bush is campaigning at events billed as 'Ask President Bush.' Only supporters are allowed entrance. Talking points are distributed to questioners.

In Traverse City, Mich., a 55-year-old social studies teacher who wore a small Kerry sticker on her blouse had her ticket torn up at the door...

[subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/08/19/ask_bush/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Andrew Cohen

TruthOut

08/16/04

'Never mind,' the feds now say to Yaser Esam Hamdi, the alleged enemy combatant whose case was decided in June by the U.S. Supreme Court. Never mind that we threw you into the brig and then fought like wildcats to deprive you of fundamental constitutional rights. Never mind that we told federal judges that you were a dangerous enemy of the United States. Now, it seems, the government is negotiating with Hamdi's attorneys for his release from confinement.

According to reports, Hamdi would renounce his U.S. citizenship, move to Saudi Arabia and accept some travel restrictions, as well as some monitoring by Saudi officials, in exchange for his freedom. In addition, he may have to agree not to file a civil rights lawsuit against the federal government...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081804X.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Amy Goodman

Democracy Now

08/17/04

Interview with Chalmers Johnson: "I've spent a fair amount of time traveling in Indonesia. It's the world's largest Islamic country. ... Four or five years ago, 80% of the population were pro-American. It was one of the easiest places on earth to visit. Now 80% of the public distrusts the United States and is sympathetic to al Qaeda. T-shirts with pictures of Osama bin Laden are common on any kid in Jakarta today. Only George Bush could have brought about such a disastrous outcome."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/1354236


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Bob Smith

No Force, No Fraud

The Nanny Psychology, part 1
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/08/19


The Nanny Psychology, part 2

08/20/04

The nanny attitude has become synonymous with the way many of us think about our government. We elect individuals and then come to think of them as capable of controlling everything, making decisions about what is right and wrong, good and bad for us, and providing us with security.

The direct result of such sloppy thinking and careless compliance can only be an ever-expanding government, higher taxes, and more intrusion into every aspect of private life, until we are left with the ugly choice of becoming dull, obedient slaves, or having to dredge up our last gasp of individuality and force ourselves to revolt...

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/08/20


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Local 10 News

08/18/04

Deputies are defending their actions a day after using a Taser gun on a man who had evacuated during Hurricane Charley. Lee County [FL] sheriff's deputies said they used the Taser gun to get the man under control after he refused to stop and turn around at a roadblock. The man was trying to get back over a bridge to his home on Fort Myers Beach. Deputies said when he ignored their orders to stop, they shot him with the Taser gun, pulled him from his minivan, and arrested him. The incident was partially caught on home video.

A crowd formed around the scene and voices can be heard on tape yelling, 'Leave him alone,' 'That is so wrong,' and 'Come on, man, he's frustrated.' The man had three children in the vehicle with him. Many in the crowd felt for the man who hadn't seen his home in days...

http://www.local10.com/news/3664352/detail.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Talon News

08/19/04

The Washington, DC chapter of the leftist Independent Media Center has published a partial list of delegates to the Republican National Convention on its web site. The list includes names, home addresses, and telephone numbers as well as the hotel of each delegate for the New York convention. The IMC says that its objective is to 'supply anti-RNC groups with data on the delegates to use in whatever way they see fit.' The group also aims to 'facilitate making local connections,' ....

The IMC lists numerous grievances against the Republican Party, key among them a terrifying increase in racism against Arabs and Muslims in the United States, claims of civil liberties infringements due to the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, and 'an accelerated continuation of the war against the poor and the oppressed...

http://tinyurl.com/3pq5t


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Lancet: Abu Ghraib doctors knew of torture

Guardian [UK]

08/20/04

Army doctors at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad falsified medical records to cover up torture and human rights abuses perpetrated on Iraqi detainees, the British medical journal the Lancet reported today. It called for a full inquiry into reform of the military health system to address the failure of army medical staff to live up to their code of ethics and a professional obligation to care for their patients. ...

The journal published an article by Steven Miles, a professor of bioethics at the University of Minnesota, saying that American army doctors and nurses had been fully aware of torture and degrading treatment at Abu Ghraib, but did not blow the whistle before an official inquiry began in January."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1287158,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2A213519
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/29049.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/534201.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1062095.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K32364519
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=309018
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=0AB51767-AFCE-49AE-BAA4E89A306C17F5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1284632,00.html


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

A United States army general violated Pentagon rules with speeches in which he described the war on terror as a Christian battle against Satan, and he should be punished, according to an inspector-general's report revealed today. The Department of Defense's watchdog agency said Lieutenant General William Boykin, a top-ranking intelligence officer, used official data in some of the 23 religious-oriented speeches he gave after January 2002 which should have been cleared by the Pentagon. Boykin sparked a firestorm last October after giving speeches while in uniform in which he referred to the war on terror as a battle with Satan and said America had been targeted "because we're a Christian nation".

Boykin was obliged to clear the speeches, given "the sensitive nature of his remarks concerning US policy and the likelihood that he would be perceived by his audiences as a DOD spokesman based on his official position and his appearance in uniform", the report said.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/19/1092877131893.html?oneclick=true


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

There are sinister implications in the fact that various provisions of the so-called Patriot II Act are being surreptitiously slipped into other legislation. Attorney General John Ashcroft has admitted as much, saying that it will be used to expand law enforcement powers “upon the passage of all provisions of Patriot II.” This would lead one to believe that they’re going to try to break it up and slip it in.

Otherwise he would have said, “upon the passage of the act,” not “all provisions.” That gives you some clue as to what the Bushonian strategy is with the bill. Ashcroft then went on to say that he would sign a so-called ‘Blanket Letter of National Security Findings,’ which would make the issuance of secret arrest warrants possible and eliminate the need for law enforcement to request individual letters from the Department of Justice or relevant agencies regarding actions against groups or individuals.

There are currently six bills pending in Congress that would take provisions from Patriot Act II -- HR-3179, the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003; HR-3037, Anti-Terrorism Tools Enhancement Act of 2003; HR2934 and S1604, Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2003; HR3040 and S1606, Pre-trial Detention and Lifetime Supervision of Terrorists Act of 2003.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=1476


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.

The legislation, introduced by Goss on June 16 and touted as an “intelligence reform” bill, would substantially restructure the U.S. intelligence community by giving the director of Central Intelligence (DCI) broad new powers to oversee its various components scattered throughout the government.

But in language that until now has not gotten any public attention, the Goss bill would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter—if not overturn—a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States. The language contained in the Goss bill has alarmed civil-liberties advocates. It also today prompted one former top CIA official to describe it as a potentially “dramatic” change in the guidelines that have governed U.S. intelligence operations for more than a half century.

“This language on its face would have allowed President Nixon to authorize the CIA to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters,” Jeffrey H. Smith, who served as general counsel of the CIA between 1995 and 1996, told NEWSWEEK. “I can’t imagine what Porter had in mind.”...

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5040.shtml


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

Short Electronic Notes May Not Fade into Obscurity

I'm surprised that it's just dawning on people that text messages sent via wirelessly enabled PDAs, pagers and, of course, mobile phones can be retrieved and read by third parties. At some point, people have to get over the idea that what they do electronically — e-mail, text messaging, surfing Web pages — is ephemeral. Those ones and zeros may occupy very little physical space, but they are eminently retrievable and could dog you for decades. I'm not just talking about messages, either.

Your voting record on something as silly as American Idol is likely stored on a server somewhere. So, what if you start using the mobile phone to weigh in on something more important, like your opinion about the upcoming presidential election? You may suddenly be pigeonholed as a Democrat or Republican supporter.

I'm sure nothing short of some sort of apocalyptic event will ever stop people from text messaging. So instead we'll be left to look to a new generation for the first SMS message archivists. Think about it. Somewhere, right now, a future senator or even president is messaging her boyfriend about a trip to the mall and worries over a new pimple. If these messages have some longevity or can be retrieved at any point in the future, then they can be added to the presidential library in the area marked "Early Electronic Transmissions."

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/email_longevity_pcmag_040817.html


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

A literal reading of electronic eavesdropping laws—coupled with a new FCC proposal—may make it easier for Washington to watch you online:

We've been told since the dawn of the Internet that the e-mail we send and receive on company time is fair game for our employers to monitor. Many took for granted, though, that e-mail sent from private accounts was just that: private. How naive. As if hacking worries weren't enough, two recent legal developments have raised further fears among Web privacy advocates in the United States. In one case, the Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 last week to prohibit businesses from offering broadband or Internet phone service unless they provide Uncle Sam with backdoors for wiretapping access. And in a separate decision last month, a federal appeals court decided that e-mail and other electronic communications are not protected under a strict reading of wiretap laws.

Taken together, these decisions may make it both legally and technologically easier to wiretap Internet communications, some legal experts told NEWSWEEK. “All the trends are toward easier to tap,” says Kevin Bankston, an attorney at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation...

http://www.infowars.com/print/bb/wiretapping_the_web.htm


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

Tattletale Society Explodes: Spy on Your Neighbor for the Homeland

Just like in 1984, citizens are encouraged to spy on their neighbors to seek out terrorist activities and protect the homeland. We see multiple articles every day that report citizen tattletale squads being recruited by the government. If you read deeper into the articles, in many cases they say that the citizens are there to fight terror and crime. Homeland Security says their putting up cameras to fight terror and crime. All this creates is an atmosphere where people are arrested for little or no reason. Your neighbor (hopped up on Prozac) who is spying on you looking for terrorism instead smells marijuana and calls the police...

http://www.infowars.com/print/bb/spy_state.htm


From Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 20, 2004

Schließung amerikanischer Stützpunkte in Deutschland begrüßt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306038/

Protestaktion für Indianervölker
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306280/

Europa muss sich an das durch die globale Erwärmung verändernde Klima anpassen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306259/

Kein Beschäftigungswunder durch Minijobs in Sicht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306042/

Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau gefordert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306035/

Keine Patente auf Leben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/306032/

Kinder von Straftätern sollen vom Kindergartenalter ab erfasst und überwacht werden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305185/

Das FBI schüchtert politische Aktivisten ein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305182/

Durchsichtiges Spiel mit den Terrorwarnungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303186/

Italian hunting season petition
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/302986/

TK-Überwachungsverordnung belastet Branche massiv
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/302664/

Ende der Naturzerstörung im ukrainischen Donaudelta gefordert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/302425/

Nicht ganz Amerika ist verrückt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/302208/

Europas Postämter sollen Daten über Absender und Adressaten vor Versand an US-Behörden liefern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/301930/

Ein schwarzer Tag für die Menschenrechte in Großbritannien
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/301523/

Gericht untersagt Tierversuch unter Hinweis auf Staatsziel Tierschutz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/299078/

Stierkampf schadet dem Image
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/299051/

U-Boot-Detektor stört Wale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/300162/

Worüber das Volk abstimmen darf, sollte es selbst entscheiden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/299048/

Die Angst vor dem eigenen Volk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/301020/

Die bittere Wahrheit über das süße Aspartam
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/299269/

Die neue Schnüffel-Ordnung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/301034/

Telekommunikations-Überwachungsverordnung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/300883/

Der überwachungsindustrielle Komplex
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/300336/

US-Bürgerrechtler beklagen industriellen Überwachungskomplex
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/300071/

Breitbandüberwachung in USA legal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297660

EU: 3 Jahre Datenspeicherpflicht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/298625/

Datenschützer gegen Ausweitung der DNA-Analyse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/298092/

Earth Meanders
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/
By Dr. Glen Barry
August 19, 2004

The global environmental crisis requires holistic approaches, based upon the revelation that all of the Earth's life is sacred and connected. All environmental ills that threaten the Earth and her life are illustrative of the same issue - too many people, consuming too much, while having lost touch with their oneness with the Earth. The Earth and her water, forests, air and oceans have been afforded little worth and are treated as little more than expendable trash dumps.

Environmentalists are doing valuable work on single issues such as climate change, forest and water conservation, and toxics. There are good reasons to focus on more scoped and manageable issues in isolation. Solutions are easier and less intrusive, lending themselves to reformist policies that do not threaten the status quo.

However, it is highly unlikely that any single major environmental issue facing the world will ever be solved without progress on all the others.

Forests will not be sustained if climate change is not addressed. Soils will continue to be eroded and water diminished as long as forests and wetlands are lost.

Recent flooding in Asia and Haiti illustrates comprehensive collapse of ecological systems in whole. There climate change brought intense rainfall, water run-off was exacerbated by poor land management, and great human suffering and further ecological decline resulted. Numerous studies have recently shown that air pollution is global, i.e. America receives Asia's pollution, while itself polluting Europe.

The global ecological whole - which I like to refer to as Gaia - is a tightly coupled system composed of ecological sub-systems that cycle nutrients and energy. This finally honed ecological apparatus of immense complexity makes life possible. Thus photosynthesizers release oxygen while consuming carbon dioxide, and animals do the reverse, completing the cycle. Oceans and terrestrial ecosystems effect and are effected by climate. Water is the life blood of all life.

Failure of any one ecological system reverberates through the whole. The realization that forests are connected to the well being of virtually every other ecological system, and vice versa, has turned this forest conservationist into a global ecological sustainability crusader.

Forests, climate, water and oceans - and the Earth in total - will only be sustained if there is more emphasis upon the big picture and the interactions between these issues.

Humanity cannot continue to procreate and consume as if the Earth does not matter. The Earth does matter - other species and emergent ecosystem processes make humanity and our society possible. There are real physical and biological limits to the Earth's capacity to provide sustenance and maintain a habitable environment for humans. Increasing numbers of people are being faced with this reality as their water supplies falter, climatic patterns fade, land becomes desert, and oceans are made lifeless.

Humanity and all that we have been able to achieve has been by and of the Earth. Wal-Mart parking lots do not sustain us - the wind, water and trees do. Any suggestion that the Earth's intricate ecosystem services can or should be engineered is misguided foolishness. The Earth is a tightly honed system perfected for one purpose - to provide for all her life.

Why tinker with the perfection found in a seed? All the Earth requires in return for making our lives possible is an acknowledgement of our oneness with her, and that we not dismantle the ecological machinery whereby the Earth is maintained, regulated and restored. This seems reasonable.

The Human Nation

It may be easier to accept that we are all connected to the natural world than to accept we - all of humanity - are deeply dependent upon each other. As ecological, political, social and technological trends converge, the idea of nation-states has become antiquated. For globalization to be sustainable, desirable and successful the concept of the human nation must be embraced.

I am a strange messenger to be delivering the message that the fate of all humans is linked. I do not much like people, and have spent much of my life feeling depressed and alienated. Yet my experiences have led me to conclude that what happens to a poor child in Bangladesh is intimately bound with my and my Planet's fate.

In the globalized world there is no such thing as another country's problem. How much longer can the luxurious over-developed world expect billions to peacefully suffer a fate of acute human need and desperation?

It is greedy and evil for American and other mega-polluters to demand that peasants in China limit their carbon emissions before Americans work to reduce their much larger impact.

An expenditure of some 40 billion dollars a year would provide basic health services, clean water, and primary education to everyone in the World. This is some 1/10 of what the United States alone spends on its militaristic solutions to world conflict. Might does not make right, and security in a globalized world will not come solely from the barrel of a gun.

Liberal democracy and market economies need not be synonymous with militarism, Earth devouring industrialism, nor continuation of massive economic inequities and other social injustices.

We are one human nation. For the Earth to have a future we can not afford to think otherwise.

Life Journeys

Realizing that everything and everyone is connected, and thus sacred, has been a long journey for me. I first caught a glimpse of this in my young adulthood spent in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea. I was faced with, and tried to make sense of, the evil of huge logging concessions of ancient rainforests to make cardboard boxes and toilet paper while local peoples continued to live in abject material poverty.

During this time, I crudely sought to synthesize what I was learning of life's meaning with spirituality and ecology. I wrote that given "Truth is God" in the Ghandian tradition, and that I was coming to realize that "Earth is Truth", then it must be that "Earth is God".

These first attempts to enunciate the ecological intuition that all life is connected and their sum - Gaia - is holy, met with a wide range of responses. These ranged from appearances on public radio, to speaking events; to derision, ridicule and incomprehensive by naïve and consumerist relatives.

I love the Earth and all her life very much. It is this love that restores me constantly. Never, ever let the laughter of the consuming heathens thwart your deep emotional attachment to Mother Earth. As goes the Earth will go us all.


Earth Meanders is a series of personal essays that places questions of environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues. Past writings can be found at

http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/blog/archives/cat_earth_meanders.htm

Permission is granted to reprint this essay provided it is properly credited.

http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/08/13/a0061.nf/text


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=552022


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

Well, this is amazing, just check this photos from NOAA. Currently, the webcam at the north pole shows the ice melting, comparing photos from august with those from april for example.

Well, if you go to the parental directory of the photos on http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np_weatherdata.html you just see that the cameras are relaly almost near 90º latitude! And the temperatures there are just beginning to be positive!So surprinsingly amazing!

Maybe some major weather changes may be well underway this next months, if they aren't now!

Popp

Directory of images:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/

24 June
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0624-1643.jpg

4 th July
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0704-0820.jpg

8 July
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0708-1610.jpg

15 July

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0715-0001.jpg

26 July

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0726-0730.jpg

4 August

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0804-0711.jpg

13 August

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0813-1451.jpg

18 August

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2004/images/noaa1-2004-0818-2240.jpg


Informant: Anna Webb

Please forward widely!

NY ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545

GET UPDATES ON THE LAWSUIT + MORE AT OUR MEETING TONIGHT
Wednesday, August 18 at 6:30PM
Washington Square Methodist Church
135 W. 4th St., between 6th Ave. and Washington Square Park


Rallying in Central Park is a right, not a privilege! United for Peace and Justice filed a lawsuit today in New York State Supreme Court over New York City's denial of the use of Central Park for a rally on August 29, after our legal, permitted march past Madison Square Garden. We are seeking a court order to allow the rally to proceed.

The lawsuit ­ UFPJ vs. New York City Mayor Bloomberg, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the City of New York ­ asserts that Central Park has traditionally served as a forum for free expression, and that by denying us its use, New York City is violating our Constitutional rights to free assembly. To learn more about the lawsuit and get updates on other aspects of the organizing for August 29, please come to our final citywide mobilizing meeting at 6:30PM tonight, August 18, at Washington Square Methodist Church, 135 West 4th Street.

The filing of this lawsuit means that we probably will not know the final destination for our march until the very last minute. (Our assembly time and location remain unchanged: Gather at 10:00AM at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, for a march beginning at noon.)

We’ve faced this situation before: It was just days before our massive February 15, 2003 antiwar protest that we were able to announce the details for our event. Then, too, Mayor Bloomberg hoped that the uncertainty would keep people away, but he failed miserably: Hundreds of thousands of you showed up for one of the largest protests in New York City’s history.

The best way for us to counter the City’s efforts to stifle our protest is to do everything we can in these next ten days to ensure the largest, broadest possible turnout on August 29, when we will march past the site of the Republican Convention to call for an end to the divisive and destructive policies of the Bush Administration.

Make sure all your family members, friends, and coworkers know that our legal, permitted march is going forward, no matter what happens in court.

Make sure they know that ­ whatever the tabloids and the TV news might say ­ we are committed to a peaceful protest, one that kids, seniors, immigrants, and people with disabilities can attend, and that we will march in a spirit of nonviolence.

Make sure they tell their friends about the protest, and that they join us at 10:00AM on Sunday, August at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, to send a message so loud it cannot be ignored: We’re sick of the lies, sick of the greed, sickened by the war and the hate, and we want a change.

In solidarity,
United for Peace and Justice


AUGUST 29, THE WORLD SAYS NO TO THE BUSH AGENDA!
Massive Protest at the Republican National Convention, New York City
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/rnc
* Assemble at 10:00AM, Seventh Avenue @ 14th Street
* March steps off at noon


Informant: Martin Greenhut

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=950022004


Informant: foxhall69gtown

http://www.johnston-independent.com/fluoride.html


Informant: Romy


The Effects Of Fluoride On The Thyroid Gland
http://www.rense.com/general57/FLUR.HTM

Informant: Nilbux

Fluoridation: No Benefit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/328030/

Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass
fluoridation; fluoride policy is a public fraud
http://www.NewsTarget.com/001807.html

Informant: NewsTarget Insider

http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/Fluoride/Fluoride60.html


Informant: Romy

http://www.unknownnews.net/040817a-lf.html


Informant: Romy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3570602.stm


Informant: NHNE

Okay. Read this material. If you read nothng else. Read this. Read it deep. Read it until it scares you to the bones. I should. It should rock your boat and tip it over. If it doesn't you're going to be in hot water anyway. So, get brave and jump in.

Jade and Luthien

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dominionism
http://homepage.mac.com/akitzmil/iblog/C826490882/
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html
http://www.gainesvillehumanists.org/apocalypse.htm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/12/p/06_bad.html
http://www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/george.html

Okay. Read this material. If you read nothng else. Read this. Read it deep. Read it until it scares you to the bones. I should. It should rock your boat and tip it over. If it doesn't you're going to be in hot water anyway. So, get brave and jump in:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dominionism
http://homepage.mac.com/akitzmil/iblog/C826490882/
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html
http://www.gainesvillehumanists.org/apocalypse.htm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/12/p/06_bad.html
http://www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/george.html

From Jade and Luthien

I just signed a petition telling Bush to clean it up. It's kind of funny that his clean air proposal is title "Clear Skies", yet does little to reduce pollution but helps his corporate polluting friends.

I'm sure you're not surprised that Bush has the worst environmental record in our lifetime, threatening our health, cutting our trees, dirtying our water, and polluting the truth. I know I can't take another 4 years of Bush - and neither can our environment.

Join me. Sign the petition. And then tell YOUR friends!
http://www.lcv.org/petitions/petition.cfm?action=87&petitionID=4

You can also view your card here
http://www.lcv.org/Team/TeamList.cfm?c=21

Click here to send your own postcard!
http://www.lcv.org/team/tell.cfm?action=86


Informant: Mary Riley

Naturzerstörung in Südostasien: Unkontrollierter Holzhandel gefährdet tropische Sumpf-Wälder

19.08.04

Der unkontrollierte Handel mit dem in Asien, Europa und Nordamerika beliebten Tropenholz Ramin bedroht die letzten Sumpf-Wälder in Südostasien. In Indonesien zerstört illegaler Raubbau den Lebensraum der vom Aussterben bedrohten Orang Utans. Laut einer Studie, die der WWF am Donnerstag vorstellt, klafft eine große Lücke zwischen den gemeldeten Ausfuhrmengen der wichtigsten Raminexporteure Indonesien, Malaysia und Singapur und den Importzahlen der Empfängerstaaten...

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9126

Der Umstand, dass Brüssel Deutschland derzeit den Gentech-Anbau aufzwingen möchte, verleiht der Messe einen besonderen Stellenwert. Hier unsere Pressemitteilung:

http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/allg/press/f-20040812.htm

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/weapons_map.htm

We Found the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nuclear Bomber and Missile Bases

1. Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, LA

Barksdale AFB is home to the 8th Air Force, which includes three heavy bomb wings.

* 50 B61-7 gravity bombs
* 90 B83 gravity bombs
* 300 W80-1 Air Launched Cruise Missiles
* 100 W80-1 Advanced Cruise Missiles1

2. F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, WY

The 90th Space Wing, stationed at F.E. Warren AFB maintains the largest combat ready Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force in the world. The base stretches over a 12,600 square mile area in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.

* 150 Minuteman III ICBMs
* 255 W62 Minuteman III warheads
* 50 Peacekeeper Missiles
* 525 W87 MX (Peacekeeper) warheads1

3. Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, NM

The Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex at Kirtland AFB has the largest number of nuclear warheads deployed in a single location in the United States.

* 85 B61-7 gravity bombs
* 600 B61-3, -4, and -10 gravity bombs
* 365 W80-1 Air Launched Cruise Missiles
* 450 W56 Minuteman II warheads
* 60 W78 Minuteman III warheads
* 550 W69 Short-Range Attack Missiles
* 400 W84 Ground Launched Cruise Missile warheads1

4. Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, MT

Malmstrom AFB is home to the 341st Space Wing. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and missile alert facilities are dispersed over the largest missile complex in the Western Hemisphere.

* 150 W62 Minuteman III warheads
* 400 W78 Minuteman III warheads
* 200 Minuteman III ICBMs1

5. Minot Air Force Base, Minot, ND

Minot AFB is home to the 5th Bomb Wing and the 91st Space Wing.

* 50 B61-7 gravity bombs
* 90 B83 gravity bombs
* 100 W80-1 Air Launched Cruise Missiles
* 300 W80-1 Advanced Cruise Missiles
* 455 W78 Minuteman III warheads
* 150 Minuteman III ICBMs1

6. Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV

Nellis AFB is home to the largest air combat training mission in the world. Nellis is one of two main Air Force nuclear weapons general depots in the U.S. (The other is Kirtland AFB in NM.)

* 175 B61-7 gravity bombs
* 600 B61-3, -4, and -10 gravity bombs
* 575 W80-1 Air Launched Cruise Missiles1

7. Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE

Offutt Air Force Base is home to the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). STRATCOM is the command and control center for strategic forces and controls military space operations, computer network operations, information operations, strategic warning and intelligence assessments as well as global strategic planning. STRATCOM aims to "Establish and provide full-spectrum global strike."4

8. Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, MO

Whiteman AFB is home to the B-2 Spirit "Stealth" Bomber.

* 200 B61-7 gravity bombs
* 50 B61-11 gravity bombs
* 300 B83 gravity bombs1

Nuclear Submarine Bases

9. Bangor Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, WA

The U.S. Submarine Base at Bangor, WA serves the Navy as a homeport for the Trident Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile System. The base is also home to Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific. The nuclear warheads are unloaded at Indian Island at the mouth of the straits before reaching Bangor Naval Submarine Base.

* 1,600 W76 Trident I warheads
* 160 W80-0 Sea Launched Cruise Missiles1

10. Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, GA

The Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, GA is the East Coast homeport for the Ohio-class fleet ballistic missile submarine and the one naval base in the Atlantic fleet that supports the Trident II (D-5) missile. The base is also home to Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, the production site for D-5 Trident ballistic missiles.

* 1,600 W76 Trident I warheads
* 400 W88 Trident II warheads
* 160 W80-0 Sea Launched Cruise Missiles1

Energy Department Facilities3

11. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a large, multi-discipline scientific laboratory. The laboratory's mission includes designing new nuclear weapons.

12. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a large, multi-discipline scientific laboratory. The laboratory's mission includes designing new nuclear weapons.

13. Nevada Test Site, Mercury, NV

Despite a nuclear test moratorium, which has been in place since 1992, the National Nuclear Security Administration still maintains the Nevada Test Site, where over 900 tests were conducted between 1951 and 1992.

14. Oak Ridge Reservation (Y-12 Area Office), Oak Ridge, TN

The Y-12 National Security Complex was formerly known as the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. Programs at Y-12 include manufacturing and reworking nuclear weapon components, dismantling nuclear weapon components returned from the national arsenal, and serving as a storehouse of special nuclear materials.

15. Pantex Plant, Amarillo, TX

Pantex Plant is the U.S. nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.

16. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Sandia National Laboratory designs all non-nuclear components for the nation's nuclear weapons.

17. Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC

The Savannah River Site unloads and processes tritium from weapon components and ships the material to other Energy Department sites.

U.S. Chemical Weapons Sites2

18. Aberdeen Proving Ground and Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen, MD

19. Anniston Army Depot, Anniston, AL

20. Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Newport, IN

21. Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, AR

22. Pueblo Army Depot, Pueblo, CO

23. Lexington Bluegrass Army Depot, Richmond, KY

On June 13, 2003, the Army awarded a contract for the destruction of the 524 tons of chemical warfare agents and associated munitions stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot.

24. Tooele Army Depot, Tooele, UT

The South Area of the Tooele Army Depot has been realigned with the Chemical and Biological Defense Command and is now called the Deseret Chemical Depot (DCD). The primary mission of the DCD is storage of a large percentage of the United States stockpile of chemical munitions (more than 40 percent of the nation's chemical weapons).

25. Umatilla Army Depot, Umatilla, OR

There are no current sites in the U.S. with biological weapons.

Sources:

1. Schwartz, Stephen. "Bombs in the Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions."
Compiled by Brookings Institution, August 2002.
http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/BASESIZE.HTM

2. "Locations of U.S. Chemical Weapons Stockpile Sites."
Chemical Weapons Working Group. http://www.cwwg.org

3. National Nuclear Security Administration.
http://www.nnsa.doe.gov

4. U.S. Strategic Command. http://www.stratcom.af.mil

More on Nuclear Weapons
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/issue.php?issue_id=2

FCNL, 245 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20002-5795 USA, phone: (202) 547-6000 fax: (202) 547-6019 email: fcnl@fcnl.org . In the U.S. (800) 630-1330

http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/hopi1.html
http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi_prophecy.htm


Informant: Italys Bad Boy

Los Angeles Times

08/18/04

Four detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base who will face U.S. military commission proceedings next week are expected to claim that the government obtained confessions and other evidence through coercive techniques, including torture, Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday. Defense attorneys are expected to cite statements by recently released detainees who have said they were physically abused and stripped of their clothing while being held at the detention facility in Cuba, commission officials said...

[registration required, or use login "news-digests/news-digests"]

http://tinyurl.com/483ds


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

08/18/04

A new U.S. Army report clears top U.S. military brass in Iraq of abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison but implicates 20 or more intelligence troops in the scandal, defense officials said Wednesday.

The investigation report, expected to be sent to Congress next week, recommends discipline against the military intelligence troops ranging from administrative reduction in rank and loss of pay to further investigation that could lead to military trials, one of the officials told Reuters...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5750626/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

08/18/04

Breaking ranks with his party and reversing his earlier stance, a senior retiring Republican lawmaker said Wednesday the military strike against Iraq was 'a mistake,' and he blasted a 'massive failure' of intelligence before the war. The unexpected four-page statement came from Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska, who until earlier this month was the vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee -- a panel that reviewed much of the evidence the administration cited before going to war...

http://tinyurl.com/66wwc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wie schon häufiger berichtet, sehen sich US-Amerikaner durch die schleichende Einführung einer Ausweispflicht in ihren Freiheitsrechten gefährdet. Sie sehen es als ihr verfassungsmäßiges Recht an, landesweit reisen zu können, ohne einen Ausweis vorzeigen zu müssen. Dieses Recht wird aber zunehmend ausgehöhlt. Etwa durch die Einführung einer Ausweispflicht für Flugreisende (vgl.: "Gilmore kämpft gegen Ausweispflicht"), oder durch das inzwischen vom Supreme Court Nevadas bestätigte Recht von Polizisten, bei Straßenkontrollen sofort eine Identifizierung verlangen zu dürfen - und bei Verweigerung eine Verhaftung durchzuführen (vgl.: "Auskunftspflicht gegenüber US-Polizei").

Überhaupt könnte der Widerstand der US-Bürger gegen die Ausweispflicht und allgemein gegen die Einführung eines einheitlichen Ausweise sich schon bald als obsolet erweisen. Der technische Fortschritt und der Preisverfall bei modernen Technologien helfen den Strafverfolgern, die rechtlichen Probleme elegant zu umschiffen.

In Minnesota wird beispielsweise in verschiedenen Polizeiabteilungen ein Gerät der Firma Identix getestet, das in Zukunft das polizeiliche Verlangen nach einem Ausweispapier vollauf befriedigen könnte: Ein kleines, biometrisches Gerät kann den Fingerabdruck einer Person erkennen und per Mobilfunk mit den Inhalten einer Datenbank vergleichen. Das Nennen des Namens oder gar das Vorzeigen eines amtlichen Dokumentes wird dadurch vollkommen überflüssig. Der "Ausweis" ist dann eine Akte in einer Datenbank, die per Fingerdruck abgerufen wird.

Laut einer AP-Meldung scheinen die ersten Praxisergebnisse in Minnesota die Anschaffung der Geräte zu rechtfertigen. Eine 25 Jahre alte Frau, die Baby-Zusatznahrung bei sich trug, "das nicht gekauft worden war", konnte mit dem Gerät als amtsbekannte Ladendiebin identifiziert und verhaftet werden. Sie wurde wegen Falschaussage angeklagt, weil sie den Polizisten falsche Namen genannt hatte. Der Diebstahl fiel dagegen unter den Tisch.

Von Fällen dieser Art wird man wohl bald häufiger hören, denn die von eingangs 14.500 Dollar auf inzwischen nur noch 4.500 Dollar gesunkenen Anschaffungspreise der Geräte stellen kaum mehr ein Hindernis dar. Das Gleiche gilt für die zunehmend flächendeckende Verbreitung von Mobilfunk.

Dass dies keine Spekulationen sind, zeigt ein Blick in die Pressemitteilungen von Identix. Dort findet man Hinweise, dass auch Behörden auf Bundesebene wie das US-Verteidigungsministerium und das US-Ministerium für Heimatschutz reges Interesse an den Identix-Geräten zeigen. Und Identix ist nur einer von vielen Herstellern.

So wie es sich also darstellt, werden die US-Bürger auch in Zukunft auf ihrem verfassungsmäßigen Recht beharren können, keinen Ausweis zu benötigen. Das Thema hat sich in einer Weise erübrigt, wie es sich die Väter der Verfassung noch nicht vorstellen konnten.

http://www.intern.de/news/5925.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://www.insightmag.com/news/703179.html


Informant: littlebrit1961

by Gary Hart

Former Senator Gary Hart warns Americans of the Bush administration's empire by stealth...

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#001498
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/19/american_empire/index_np.html

I am forwarding MindFreedom's programme of activism against President Bush's proposal to screen for mental illnesses the entire US population. The British Medical Journal

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458

(among many other online publications) highlights how dangerous an assault this could be on people's basic rights. Indeed, anyone who has just completed reading your 14.08.2004 bulletin with its first two postings on "non-lethal" mindcontrol weaponry (including MW induced hearing-voices phenomena) could easily imagine this scenario: large swathes of the US population hostile to the present administration being "prepared" for a successful entry into the mentally ill category. All it would take is deploying some of that military technology that covertly manipulates the minds and emotions of targeted victims.

Best, Imelda, Cork

From: Swftl@aol.com
Subject: {Slick-D}
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:01:18 EDT

Does your child shrink from strangers? Speak at inappropriate times? Seem easily distracted? If so, they may soon face government-ordered, forced medication.

In April 2002, President Bush passed an Executive Order that established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to conduct a "comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system." One of the initiative's major objectives is to identify and treat mental illness in school children because "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed," leading to "young children [being] expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviors and emotional disorders."

Says the commission, "Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviors and emotional disorders." The committee's solution? Nationwide mental health testing for all children and the prescription of "specific medications for specific conditions" should a kid's psychological wellness not be up to par.

Unfortunately, the American Psychiatric Association's idea of "specific conditions" could include everything from acting shy ("avoidant personality disorder") to bragging ("narcissistic personality disorder").

As Governor's State University psychologist Helen Timpone recently wrote in an Illinois Leader editorial, "Attempting to screen children for possible mental health challenges would be mind-boggling." The occasion for Timpone's warning: last week, Illinois jumped the gun and followed the commission's suggestion by implementing comprehensive mental health screenings for children between the ages of 0-18, called the Children's Mental Health Act, signed into law last spring.

Public forums on the Act held this summer were mobbed by parents concerned at the prospect of being forced to medicate their children should the kids be deemed "abnormal" by mental health tests. "Evaluating mental conditions is not based on scientific evidence, it's subjective," said Larry Trainor, father of four and a member of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, speaking to the Illinois Leader. "What if they find a student has a math disorder, a reading disorder? Would that... cause the parents to put their children with a drug?"

A concern that may have some validity: in a May 2003 press release by the Committee on Education and the Workforce, Katherine Bryson, a State Legislator from Utah, warns that "school personnel faced with children who often have not been properly taught to read, who may be coming to school on a breakfast of sugar or no breakfast at all, who could be affected by lead, mercury or other toxic substances... are assessing them in the classroom as having a ˜learning disorder' or [ADHD]. From here, parents are being coerced into drugging their child with threats of the child's expulsion or charges of medical neglect by Child Protective Services against the parents."

"Parents are losing their right to choose," says Bryson. "They are being told that ADHD is a ˜neurobiological' disorder when even the Surgeon General's 1999 report on mental health cannot confirm this. They are being denied access to tutoring or additional educational services for the sake of a 'quick fix'
drug like Ritalin that some studies say is more potent than cocaine."

A recent CNN report stated that already an estimated 6 million American children take Ritalin every day--up 500% from 1990. That doesn't even include other stimulants or antidepressants. Should mandatory mental screening spread nationwide, we may well see an unprecedented, epidemic jolt of ADHD and depression that (of course) will have to be "treated accordingly".

Which is, if not in the best interest of our children, at least in someone's best interest. Pennsylvania government worker Allen Jones revealed in May that officials controlling the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), a psychological screening initiative held up as a model for President Bush's New Freedom plan, had received cash and perks from drug companies whose products the program prescribes.

Jones told the British Medical Journal and the New York Times that a "political/pharmaceutical alliance," is "poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive, patented medications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects, and to force private insurers to pick up the tab." He was subsequently fired from his position.

News of a tie between big drug companies and the government doesn't come as much of a surprise--after all, the pharmaceutical industry has one of the most powerful lobbies in the U.S. Pharmaceutical firms have contributed a combined
$764,274 to President Bush's 2004 election campaign--more than five times what they've given to the Kerry coffers. And George Bush Sr. sat on the board of directors for drug giant Eli Lilly whose CEO was recently appointed to the Homeland Security Council.

Aside from wrong diagnoses, another concern is the stigmatization of children who have been identified as having problems. Once diagnosed, the label "mental disorder" could easily remain in a child's records throughout its school years... and maybe beyond.

Some Illinois parents have vowed to challenge their children's health screens in court, or to even leave the state if the program goes ahead. "This is just one more step in the state separating the parent from the child," Larry Witherspoon, a concerned father, told newswithviews.com. "Good-bye, Nazi Illinois."

Faced with such opposition, the State has backpedaled somewhat from its original plan to require schools to conduct psychological evaluations. "We realized that we weren't as explicit as we need to be," told Barbara Shaw, chair of a task force hammering out the program's details, the Suburban Chicago News. "The screenings that we are discussing are voluntary. We would encourage that screenings happen, but we won't require it."

Skeptics have a different view: Karen Hayes, associate director of Concerned Women for America of Illinois, a public policy women's organization, says, "They kept telling us at the hearing that it was voluntary. But the minute you put those health standards into learning standards, you've ceased to make them voluntary."

On June 22, 2004 the House Appropriations Committee doled out $20 million for 'State Incentive Transformation Grants' to begin implementing the New Freedom Initiative nationwide. The Bill passed the Labor HHS Appropriations Committee on July 14, but hasn't been voted on by the House or the Senate yet.

If you feel you should do something about it, call upon your state representatives to vote against the bill--and for the Child Medication Safety Act, which would prohibit schools from bullying parents into medicating their kids as a condition for attending school.


Informant: Kathy

DR. WHITAKER'S HEALTH UPDATE FOR August 19, 2004

HELP SPREAD THE WORD

If you have young children or grandchildren, the information I'm going to share should scare you. It should make you angry. But above all it should make you want to stand up and protect them from what I consider a very dangerous threat: mandatory psychiatric screening of each and every school-aged child.

That's right. The plans are in motion to screen every schoolchild for ADHD, depression, social anxiety disorder, and behavior problems. In fact, it's already in effect in Illinois, Texas, and New Jersey.

A Disturbing Trend in Our Schools

In April 2002, President Bush created the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Its objective was to enhance mental health services to those in need. But it has taken a diabolical twist. The commission has concluded that there is a need to search for mental disorders, especially in children, and to do this, they plan mandatory mental health screening for everyone, starting with preschoolers.

According to the Commission's 2003 report, "Quality screening and early intervention should occur in readily accessible, low-stigma settings, such as primary health care facilities and schools."

It is irrational to think that you need to screen 52 million schoolchildren to find those who need help. The ones who really need help are obvious.

But it gets worse. The report goes on to say, "the extent, severity, and far-reaching consequences make it imperative that our Nation adopt a comprehensive, systemic approach to improving the mental health status of children." That means drugging them!

52 Million Potential Customers

The New Freedom Commission's proposed treatment programs are based on the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). TMAP, which was first used in Texas in 1996 and has since expanded to other states, is a set of very specific medication recommendations, virtually all of them the newest, most expensive, psychotropic drugs available.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this sinister scheme has been masterminded by the pharmaceutical companies, who stand to gain billions of dollars by pushing expensive drugs on our children.

According to Allen Jones, an inspector who worked in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, many of these companies contribute large sums of money to political parties and to people in key decision-making roles. When he blew the whistle on this, he was promptly sacked.

Trolling for Patients

If you want to see just how biased and ridiculous these screening procedures are, visit some of the drug companies' websites and look at their questionnaires. Whether they are trying to weed out depression, social anxiety disorder, ADHD, or other psychological maladies, the types of questions they ask are equally absurd.

I took one test, entitled the Zung Assessment Tool, at the Prozac website. You respond to 20 phrases with one of the following: not often, sometimes, often, or all the time. Phrases include, "I feel downhearted, blue, and sad." "I have trouble sleeping through the night." "I eat as much as I used to." "I have trouble with constipation." "My mind is as clear as it used to be." "I am more irritable than usual." "I find it easy to make decisions." (As you see, some of these questions are confusing, if not irrational.)

I selected "sometimes" for every phrase, as a normal, healthy person would. My score was 50, and I was advised to show this test to my doctor and "ask him or her to evaluate you for depression."

Folks, sometimes feeling irritable, unable to sleep, etc., are hardly indicative of a serious mental malfunction. Feeling out of sorts from time to time is a normal part of being human. Yet according to this test, I may be a candidate for an antidepressant.

Drugging of Children Is Evil

Widespread psychiatric screening of our children isn't only unnecessary, it's evil.

Children are not miniature adults. Childhood is filled with dreams, vivid imagination, and rollercoaster rides of emotion that we as grownups only vaguely recall. The totality of these experiences is essential in order for children to become fully developed adults.

Psychotropic drugs prevent children from truly experiencing childhood. The drugged child is not real. He doesn't grow into and out of various life stages, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Psychiatric drugs prevent normal development.

The pharmaceutical drug lords, lusting for the billions of dollars that massive psychiatric screening and treatment will add to their coffers, will destroy the essence of your child.

Think back on your childhood. Remember your experiences. Now ask yourself, would you be better off today if five or six years of your childhood had been spent in a drugged-out state?

In my opinion, psychotropic drugs are even worse than some illegal ones. Children are drugged simply because some harebrained test designed by a pharmaceutical company says they should be drugged. Neither the child nor the parent has any say at all in the matter.

What Can You Do?

Here's what you can do about it. First of all, refuse to sign those consent forms when they come home from your child's school - if they can't test them, they can't drug them. Next, take a moment to write your congressional representatives and voice your concerns. You can locate them at http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/. Also, email Laura Bush at first.lady@whitehouse.gov . Ask her how she'd like to have her daughters screened and drugged without her or their consent. We need to get mothers involved.

Finally, don't just say no to drugs. Say no to psychiatric screening.

Julian Whitaker, M.D.


Informant: arkmayebway

"Get on the bus" for the Million Worker March, Oct. 17, 2004, Washington, D.C.!

The struggle of working people and the struggle against the war are the same struggle! Bring the troops home now! End the occupation of Iraq! Organize a local “AntiWar 4 the Million Worker March" committee now!

Dear Activists and Organizers,

This fall in Washington, D.C., you will have a timely and historic opportunity to unite the anti-war movement with an unprecedented and vitally necessary mass march of working people speaking for themselves. This is a rare opportunity that serious anti-war activists can't afford to pass up.

Some of the strongest voices and most active groups in the labor movement, together with the active support and participation of organizations representing every progressive movement and cause, will be “getting on the bus to D.C. on Sunday, October 17, for the MILLION WORKER MARCH. A sea of workers from every industry, from every union and every place where workers want a union, from every part of the country, will be streaming into the capital to demand things like jobs, a living wage and workers' rights.

They will also express their anger over the senseless dying that is going on every day in Iraq and elsewhere, and their desire that it end now. Why? Because it is working families who bear the burden, it is their loved ones who are sent off to fight and die--and it is their, our, the workers' money that is stolen to pay for war and occupation.

What makes the Million Worker March unique is that the event?s principal organizers want to make the anti-war movement?s demand to “End the Occupation of Iraq, and Bring the Troops Home Now central to the march's message and the goals.

START A LOCAL “ANTI-WAR 4 THE MILLION WORKER MARCH" COMMITTEE RIGHT NOW!

We are asking anti-war activists to set up local “Anti-war 4 the Million Worker March committees. Start meeting, planning, and reserving buses to go to Washington on October 17. Anti-war coalitions and groups need to let us know ASAP if their group can be listed as an “Anti-war 4 Million Worker March committee in their locality or region.

We encourage activists to form committees in their unions, schools, work places, churches and communities. It is our hope that “Anti-war 4 MWM" committees will complement the labor union and community-based organizing that is going on across the country for Oct. 17.

We urge you to start now, before the Republican National Convention protests in NYC. Please get back to us so that we can send you information and resources that will be helpful to your organizing.

YOU CAN HELP

* Add your name, title and endorsement as a signer to this urgent call.

* Set up an Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March committee

* Send this email to your friends, co-workers, and neighbors.

* Commit to sending a bus from your city, town or region.

CONTACT US AT
AntiWar4theMillionWorkerMarch@action-mail.org
39 W. 14th Street #206
NYC, NY 10011
phone (212) 633.633.6646

The call for a Million Worker March came from one of the most well-known labor organizations in the country, famous for its long history of militancy, boldness and courage in defense of working people—Local 10 of the International Longshore Workers Union in San Francisco. Over the past few months this call has rolled across the country, picking up the support of scores of labor unions, labor activists and leaders including:

The Coalition Of Black Trade Unionists; Bill Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME; the National Education Association; Transportation Workers Union Local 100 (NY); AFSCME District Council 1707 (NY); South Carolina AFL-CIO; Farm Labor Organizing Committee; AFSCME District Council 92 (MD); D.C. Labor Against The War; International ANSWER; actor Danny Glover; American Indian Movement; ILWU Local 34; Troy and Albany Labor Council (NY); National Immigration Solidarity Network; New York City Labor Against the War; Global Women?s Strike; Teamsters Black Caucus; comedian Dick Gregory; Myra Shone and Ralph Schoenman, Taking Aim, Pacifica; National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 3825; Howard Wallace, co-founder, Pride at Work; Jim Houghton, Director, Harlem Fight Back; Justice 4 Homeless, SF; United Steel Workers of America Local 8751; International Action Center; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; Howard Zinn, historian; Noam Chomsky, linguist;AFSCME Local 95, Local 205, Local 215,Local 389,Loca167,Local 1881, Local 1930; ILWU Entire West Coast division; CUE Local 3; and many more.

Working people are coming to Washington, D.C. on Oct. 17 because whether their concern is about jobs, or decent wages, or layoffs, or union busting, or the battle to protect our pensions and Social Security and to make health care a universal right instead of a privilege for the wealthy--with all we face, we had better raise our own voices and act in our own interests instead of relying on the next president, whoever that will be.

And most important, the time for us to speak in our own voice is not after people vote in November, but before. The Million Worker March on Oct. 17 is about the people telling the president, the candidates, the politicians and the corporate elite who are the real power behind the election campaigns and the politicians to “Shut up! and listen to us for a change.

Let?s make sure that after many of us march in NYC against the Republican convention, Nov. 2 isn?t the only important date this fall. We urge all of you to work to make the Oct. 17 Million Worker March in D.C. the next major event for the entire anti-war movement. If we rise to this challenge, we will put the next president and Congress on notice that we will accept no excuses for prolonging the occupation of Iraq and wasting lives and precious resources that should go toward satisfying people?s needs like housing and schools. Moreover, we will have helped to forge a critical alliance between the grass roots of the labor movement and the anti-war movement that would represent a whole new level of unity, potential and power.

Does this sound like something worth working for? Does this sound like something you?ve been waiting for? You can help make it happen.

In solidarity,
Clarence Thomas, Co-Chair, Million Workers March Organizing Committee, ILWU Local 10
Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME, Co-chair, NYC Labor Against the War
Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer, Local 808 IBT, President National Teamsters Black Caucus
Ralph Shoenman, Communications Coordinator, Million Worker March
Larry Holmes, International Action Center, Steering Committee ANSWER
Sharon Black, Washington/Baltimore Coordinator, Million Worker March
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

Get on the bus:

* To bring the troops home now!* For money & for jobs not war!* For a living wage!* Against layoffs, union busting, & for workers? rights!* For the rights of immigrant workers!* Because young people need jobs not jails!* To end the occupation of iraq!* To defend civil rights! * Because working people need to speak in their own voice!

Get On The Bus Oct. 17 For The Million Worker March

In the midst of sprawling tree farms on their ancestral lands, the Mapuche Indians are fighting the Chilean government to reclaim land they say was given away through false land titles to international timber companies who have damaged the environment and threatened the Mapuche way of life.

"We are a people who have been defrauded, who have exhausted every legal means of attaining redress, and we have the right to recover what was stolen from us, even if that means incorporating violence within our struggle," Jose Huenchunao, a Mapuche leader, told the New York Times.

The Chilean government, rather than negotiate, has arrested 18 Mapuche Indians on charges stemming from a Pinochet era anti-terrorism law. They will face trial soon.

"From the moment the Chilean state annexed Mapuche territory, and used violence to do so, the rule of law has never existed south of the Bío Bío [river]," Aucán Huilcamín, a leader of the Council of All Lands, told the New York Times. "The state refuses to recognize that we are a people with rights that were in force even before Chile existed as a nation and which remain in force today."

Sources:
"Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests", New York Times (web), August 11, 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/international/americas/11chile.html

Die internationale Arbeitsorganisation ILO will die Rechte von Indianern und anderen Waldvölkern verbessern. In Deutschland verhindert Wirtschaftsminister Clement bisher eine Ratifizierung des internationalen Vertrags durch die Bundesregierung.

Bitte helfen Sie und protestieren Sie bei Minister Clement per E-Mail!

Die Shuar und Ashuar, die zu den ältesten Indianervölkern Ecuadors gehören, bitten die Welt um Hilfe. Ihr traditionelles Stammesgebiet, intakter Regenwald, wird vom texanischen Ölkonzern Burlington bedroht.

Bitte beteiligen Sie sich an unserer Protestmail-Aktion gegen Burlington!

Unter http://www.regenwald.org finden sie zu beiden Aktionen, weitere Infos und jeweils einen Musterbrief.

Bitte leiten sie diesen Aufruf auch an Freunde und Bekannte weiter.

Herzlichen Dank!

Reinhard Behrend
Rettet den Regenwald e. V.

18.08.2004

Mit jedem Detail wird deutlicher - Hartz IV ist asozial

Zu den bekannt gewordenen weiteren Details von Hartz IV, nach denen ältere Langzeitarbeitslose, die die so genannte 58er-Regelung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit angenommen haben, statt bisheriger Arbeitslosenhilfe bis zu Rente nur noch Arbeitslosengeld II bekommen sollen, und nach denen Erben aus dem eventuellen Vermögen der ALG II-Empfänger Rückzahlungen an den Staat leisten sollen, erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Rolf Kutzmutz:

Die Liste der Hartz IV-Opfer wird immer länger. 393 000 ältere Arbeitslose, die die so genannte 58er-Regelung unterzeichnet haben, sollen nach der Einführung von Hartz IV ab Januar 2005 mit dem Arbeitslosengeld II zum Teil erheblich weniger Geld bekommen. Den Betroffenen war ursprünglich für den Verzicht auf weitere Vermittlungsbemühungen der Arbeitsagentur Arbeitslosengeld und Arbeitslosenhilfe ohne Abschläge bis zur Rente zugesichert worden.

Die Arbeitsagentur hat in Übereinstimmung mit der Bundesregierung durch die 58er-Regelung die Arbeitslosenstatistik geschönt. Erwerblose, die 58 Jahre und älter sind und die Vereinbarung unterschreiben, werden nicht mehr als arbeitslos gezählt. Nachdem die Betroffenen also erst aus der Arbeitslosenstatistik herauskomplimentiert worden sind, werden sie nun in die Armut gestürzt. Dieser massive Vertrauensbruch kann nicht hingenommen werden. Die PDS fordert die Weiterzahlung der Arbeitslosenhilfe in voller Höhe für 393000 Erwerbslose, die von der 58er-Regelung Gebrauch machen.

Ein besonderer Hohn ist die Regelung, dass Erben von verstorbenen Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern aus eventuellem Vermögen der Verstorbenen das Arbeitslosengeld II an den Staat zurückzahlen sollen. Die angebliche soziale Grundsicherung ist also doch nur ein Almosen. Man erhält es nicht, weil man der Solidarität der Gesellschaft bedarf, sondern quasi als Kredit. Wann immer es geht, holt sich der Staat das Geld zurück. Die Altersvorsorge- und Vermögensfreibeträge entpuppen sich als Geldbeschaffungsmaßnahmen für den Staat. Wenn der Betroffene stirbt, greift der Staat zu. Zum Schmerz über den Verlust haben die Hinterbliebenen noch den Fiskus am Hacken. Makabrer geht es nicht.

Je näher man hinsieht, umso mehr wird der zutiefst asoziale Charakter von Hartz IV deutlich. Deshalb muss Hartz IV gestoppt werden.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=22678

Ein Bericht der Europäischen Umweltagentur warnt, dass die Erwärmung in Europa schneller als im weltweiten Durchschnitt verläuft...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/lis/18148/1.html

http://www.viewzone.com/haarp.exec.html


Informant: littlebrit1961

Trinity County supervisors voted 3-1 to ban the production of GE crops and animals in the county, stating it would protect the local economy and environment. Trinity County, California, is the second county in the nation to support such a ban.

Broad support among farmers, businesses, teachers, social workers and professionals living in the county allowed the supervisors to bypass a referendum on the ballot.

"Because little opposition to the measure surfaced, supervisors decided to forego an election, and approved the measure outright," said Drew Franklin a natural foods store owner and local activist.

Trinity's ban reflects a growing movement across the United States, particularly in California, to phase-out genetic engineering and to defend local agriculture, biodiversity and human health, reports the Organic Consumers Association.

Marin, Butte, Humboldt and San Luis Obispo counties are next to vote on GE bans on the November ballot.

Sources:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/trinity-county.cfm
http://www.calgefree.org/news/Trinitybans.shtml