http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

(excerpt)

Several months ago I sent pictures of 3G antennas that had been erected near residents in the city Tel Aviv. The residents are going to fight in the court, and now they are going to deal with a second lawsuit: they had a quarrel with the owner of the house who receives money for the antennas on the roof. During their fight, the owner told them angrily: "I will cause you cancer!" (it doesn't matter that he is already doing it), "I will file a suit against you" (the owner, against the irradiated citizens). It's serious, they took a second lawyer.

The residents had an interesting episode when they called to someone from the Env. ministry to measure the radiation. Since they had received an extensive explanation about frequencies that they are exposed to (it was found with an analyzer), they were interested to know how exactly the ministry representative was measuring the radiation. He admitted that he was measuring a frequency that does not exist there, but he had a "good" excuse: he said that if he wanted to measure another frequency, he would have had to give the device for calibration. So what's easier than just trying to fool the citizens. Needless to say, they will invite someone else to measure.

The Einstein school parents came to a parliment meeting today, and yelled at the health ministry, the army representatives, and everybody that was there and is involved in the huge army antennas near the school. Two parents yelled while the government people just looked at them with empty looks. The parents told them to cut it out, all the stories they try sell them that there's no radiation, they called them see how you send your children to such a school near antennas, you wouldn't do it and you sit here telling us stories. They said that the army did not buy the land, and they endanger the children just for money, while living from the taxes that the parents pay them.

Also, they brought their small children who are also worried from all that they see around them and one small girl said that there are so many antennas there, that it's "really too much" (she's about 8 years old).

A new cancer cluster was published yesterday in the national newspaper. In a town near an army base, 12 people have cancer, all of them lately, all of them near the antennas. At first they didn't talk about it, because they didn't want to prevent tourism to the town, but now they feel they can't take it anymore and call the government to investigate. The Environment ministry said that measurements in the town showed there was "no exceeding radiation".
(The Cancer Hits Metula by Eithan Glickman Yediot Ahronot 1.11.2004)

Iris Atzmon

Ein Gespräch mit John Sayles über die Präsidentschaftswahl, Medien und Gesellschaft in den USA und seinen neuen Film "Silver City"...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/kino/18701/1.html

Eine Gruppe will auf eine Spur bei einer Wahl im September gekommen sein, die zeigt, wie einfach eine Manipulation sein könnte - und fordert auf, alle Wahlcomputer vom Netz zu nehmen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/18715/1.html

http://www.michaelmoore.com/takeaction/vote/wheretovote.php


Informant: Mubarak Sophia

http://tinyurl.com/5wsct


Informant: di

Chomsky: "Bei Wiederwahl Bushs droht nukleare Katastrophe"
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/interview_dlf/313636/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wisepeople/message/1445

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list.

The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.

Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.

The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.

Now let's review the justification for any actions taken...

Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:...

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.


Informant: hotmail1429

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Deborah's G. Reid note: Someone has told me that Martial Law has been in effect in the U.S.A. since some time in the 1930s. However, an expansion of it to put into effect the executive orders listed below would result in much harm and death to many more citizens than is already being allowed and even caused by our government officials' ways of running the society. Governments have committed genocides in the past and are doing so now also. However, the intentional deaths are not being acknowledged as genocides.

One variety of unacknowledged genocide is the abortions of millions of unwanted unborn children. I came across some related websites recently with much gory details, even telling of children surviving the abortion procedure to be born alive but murdered shortly thereafter. Some such children, while still breathing, have been packed into ice to be shipped to laboratories and some such children, while alive, have been dropped into meat grinders to be processed to be lab cultures. Even convicted murderers that receive the death penalty aren't put to death in such brutal ways.

No doubt, most of these unwanted children are not aborted because the birth will make the mother so sick that she dies, especially in countries where C-section deliveries are available. While some abortions are done after the female became pregnant through rape, rapes could be reduced drastically if only the government would get serious about adequate imprisonments for rapists. The motivation for many abortions resulting from consensual relationships is that the father or mother, or both of them, have decided that the unborn child is unwanted because they do not want to be responsible at that time in their lives or made a decision of the child being unaffordable. It would be good for people in the decision making stage prior to abortion to have access to read the websites about abortion that I came across such as http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC061.HTM

I doubt doctors are telling people that the unborn children have a nervous system and feel agonizing pain while being brutally put to death. Public schools teach sex education. They ought to teach about the gory brutal details of abortion too starting in the seventh grade. Such education would, no doubt, result in preventions of some pregnancies and preventions of some abortions too.

With all of the extreme changes in the U.S.A. government since the 9/11 attacks plus our more powerful government officials' dislike of the Social Security and Medicare programs along with the "baby boomer" generation of Americans getting closer to the age to qualify for those programs, our government officials may decide that the aging Americans are not affordable. They may decide that genocide at concentration camps is the way to reduce the increasing expenses of Social Security and Medicare. Since many government officials' consciences have become so callous as to approve of unborn children and even some children that survive the abortion procedure being murdered, they could easily become just as callous towards the very lives of the aging population too. They may decide that the aging population are unaffordable. However, the same government officials are eager to run up the national debt by trillions of dollars as a result of unnecessary wars.

It may be that public exposure that our government officials have set up fenced in locations that could be used for concentration camps to many people may work towards stopping them from being put into use. It would be a good idea to talk to everyone you come into contact with about how the Real I.D. law that just passed could result in citizens being vulnerable to be put into concentration camps and not come out alive. It would be good to tell any people you talk to about these matters to spread the word because that is our best hope for preventing the use of concentration camps from becoming reality.)

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062

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FEMA - The Secret Government
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/326259/

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http://www.issuesandalibis.org/campsd.html
http://jameswickstrom.com/news_links/FEMA_Consentration_camps.htm
http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/fema/Fema_2.html


Informant: DitziSis


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=+FEMA+CONCENTRATION+CAMPS
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=FEMA+CONCENTRATION+CAMPS&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17568?email


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The War Comes Home: Vets find acceptance, help from their fellows

The article below describes what really happens to some veterans returning home from war. This is what Americans need to see: not only are there serious physical wounds from war, but there are also significant and lasting mental scars from war.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2344

Under Fire: Haunted by Memories of War, A Soldier Battles The Army

The article describes the battles Army First Lieutenant Jullian Philip Goodrum wages each day since his return from the Iraq War. Goodrum is fighting the emotional trauma of war. And when he sought medical care, Army Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Stevens confirms, "I acknowledge that he was turned away." Then, when Goodrum sought civilian care, the Army filed charges against Goodrum for not following Army rules. Goodrum's plight reveals how far some soldiers must go to obtain the care they earned fighting the war in Iraq. This raises the questions: Why aren't charges brought against Stevens for refusing to provide medical care to Goodrum? Where is the accountability?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2343

Sean Huze was a true believer in the reasons for the Iraq war. He talks to AlterNet about his loss of moral certainty, the gift of wisdom and "regime change" at home.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2341

In a well-written and non-partisan letter to the editor, Dan Shea reminds Americans to vote on Tuesday. And he asks us to remember our fallen soldiers like his brother, Marine Major Kevin Shea, who was killed in action in Iraq on September 14, 2004, when we do vote. Every vote is important, and veterans have fought for our right to vote. Veterans for Common Sense urges you to exercise your right to vote on Tuesday, November 2nd. Our Nation is strong because we are free.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2340

Als Sprecher der Bürgerinitiative gegen Elektrosmog Halle bekam ich wegen einer Anfrage an die Stadt Halle (Saale) bezüglich Mobilfunkantennen in reinen Wohngebieten eine Strafgebühr von 50,- € aufgebrummt, um mich mundtot zu machen (siehe Schreiben):
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/schreiben_bauordnung.pdf

Hier die Antwort der Stadt Halle auf meine Bitte zur Verlinkung der Homepage der "Bürgerinitiative gegen Elektrosmog Halle" auf: http://www.halle.de unter der Rubrik ---> Bürger&Kommune ---> Natur und Umwelt ---> Elektrosmog http://www.halle.de/index.asp?MenuID=2568


Herzliche Grüße aus Halle

Helmut Gobsch
Sprecher der Bürgerinitiative gegen Elektrosmog Halle

P.S. Das private Halleforum (http://www.halleforum.de) wird aber auf http://www.halle.de verlinkt (Abhängigkeit und inoffizielles Sprachrohr der Stadt Halle (Saale)!)

Welchen Schwachsinn die Stadt Halle (Saale) auf ihrer Internetseite über Elektrosmog verbreitet, können Sie hier nachlesen:

http://www.halle.de/index.asp?MenuID=2568&SubPage=1 oder unter der Rubrik:

http://www.halle.de ---> Bürger&Kommune
Natur und Umwelt
Elektrosmog

Bitte die Stadt Halle über den Bürgerbriefkasten (Online-Formular) anschreiben. Erbitte häufigen Gebrauch zu machen !

Der Bürgerbriefkasten muss glühen !

Vielen Dank für Eure Unterstützung !

01.11.2004

Berlin - Der Schweizer Musiker DJ Bobo engagiert sich künftig für die Initiative "Schau hin!", die Kinder vor den Gefahren neuer Medien schützen will.

Der Künstler und Produzent will einen Song seines neuen Albums, das im Januar 2005 erscheint, der Initiative widmen. Er wolle durch sein Engagement auf die Risiken im Umgang etwa mit Internet oder Handy hinweisen, sagte DJ Bobo in Berlin. Er selbst will sein zweijähriges Kind bis zum sechsten Lebensjahr ohne Fernsehen erziehen. Die Medieninitiative "Schau hin! Was Deine Kinder machen" gibt Eltern und Lehrern "Nachhilfeunterricht" in Sachen Medien.

Bundesfamilienministerin Renate Schmidt (SPD) forderte, künftig die Hauptnachrichten am Abend so zu gestalten, dass auch Kinder sie sehen und verstehen können. Es sei zu hinterfragen, ob wirklich alle Bilder etwa von der Gewalt in den Krisenregionen der Welt gezeigt werden müssten.

Die Kampagne entstand aus dem Runden Tisch "Medien gegen Gewalt" von Bundesregierung und Medienschaffenden. "Schau hin!" wird von zahlreichen Prominenten und von ARD und ZDF unterstützt. (ar)

Kommentar Omega siehe unter:
http://www.djbobo.ch/front_content.php?idcatart=89&client=1&lang=1&PHPSESSID=7266d5cc42fe8ce5c811fa031aea2086
oder unter
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/dj_bobo_fuer_medieninitiative_schau_hin.html

Quelle: http://www.musikmarkt.de/content/news/news_2.php3?bid=11272&th=11272

Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim


Kinder und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

OCTOBER 28, 2004. Mandatory gene testing for newborn babies...states adopting laws...NY expands its program...from the AP dispatch below, it appears that parents have no choice in the matter...have a baby in a hospital, the test is done...

What about the science behind this coercive program?

It stinks. The word GENE has become a code symbol for "we know what we're doing, we're linking diseases to specific genes, we've done the studies..."

If you can find an old out-of-print book, NOT IN OUR GENES, grab it and read it. It details the fake science and the bald assumptions dressed up like empirical findings.

Remember the human genome project? It claimed to have identified the whole gene structure of humans. But the sheer number of genes it found was so low that it set researchers back on their heels. In other words, the bizarre dream of tying so many diseases and traits and behaviors to specific genes---one to one---was seen to be impossible. There were just too many functions to assign to the very low number of genes discovered.

But none of this has stopped the partnership of government and research. It's a gravy train, and the people involved have no intention of stepping off.

And it sounds good. The PR campaign has worked. "We thought it was all about germs, and it is, but at a much deeper level it's all about genes." "You must have good genes, you look so young." "These athletes have great genes." "Hey, beyond a certain point, life is all about what genes you have." "My brother never gets sick, no matter what. It's his genes." "We went to the genius sperm bank to conceive. We can afford it, and who would pass up a chance to have a high-IQ child?"

It's all leaked down into the culture, and people feel a bit smarter when they talk about genes to explain otherwise incomprehensible (to them) situations.

Of course, you can run all this back to the eugenics program in Nazi Germany, and before that, in America. "Let's create a better race." "Let's get rid of the useless eaters and their inferior gene pool." "Let's wipe out all those ugly people."

The current propaganda is given a more humane face. "All we want to do is cure diseases and save parents endless heartbreak."

Then there are the treatments. Many people hold the vague belief that, once you ID the offending gene that causes a disease, you insert a better version of that gene. This has not panned out. So the fall-back position is, you guessed it, drugs. "We can help manage the disease, now that we've discovered the genetic flaw..."

It's smoke and mirrors.

We've seen this technology in the area of genetically engineered foods. One of the many problems is, you end up creating a kind of monoculture of plants. The robust, diverse, cross-hatched, long-term coupling of plants in nature is short-circuited on behalf of seeds that, for example, contain genes that are supposed to rebuff a specific insect pest. When most of the plants of a given crop then become identical, a weakness develops. Immune to a particular pest, the new plants can't fight off others that were formely no problem.

Russian roulette with the future on the line.

Babies to be screened for 44 diseases--more than any other state

The Associated Press Updated: 8:12 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2004

ALBANY, N.Y. - Babies born in New York will be tested for 44 genetic diseases — more than any other state — under an expansion of the state's newborn screening program announced Wednesday.

Infants are currently screened for 11 inherited and sometimes life-threatening disorders including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and phenylketonuria.

Under the expanded program, the number of diseases tested in newborns would quadruple by 2005. Twenty diseases will be added by the end of this year and another 13 in 2005.

Early diagnosis and prompt treatment after birth can prevent mental retardation and other complications later on.

Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota test between 38 to 43 inherited diseases in newborns, according to the National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center.

States pressured to expand infant screening New York is among several states that use new technology called tandem mass spectrometry, which takes a single drop of blood to screen for at least 20 diseases.

Mandatory testing for genetic diseases in newborns varies greatly by state. Last month, a government advisory committee recommended that states test newborns for 30 rare, inherited diseases. Several states in recent months have moved to increase the number of newborn screenings. In August, Ohio mandated that babies be tested for 30 genetic disorders, up from 13.

End of AP article

JON RAPPOPORT http://www.nomorefakenews.com

Copyright 2003 Jon Rappoport All Rights Reserved


Informant: Biophilos

http://www.theecologist.co.uk/article.html?article=478


Informant: Iris Atzmon

Global Warming Has Arrived
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386757/

NO to the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) MICROCHIP tyranny
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385044/

ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WORK TO CONTROL YOU
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/stories/385067/

Chipping Away at Privacy Fears
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385108/

Police defend use of non-lethal weapons for crowd control
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385103/

EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385155/

EPA Plan to Study Pesticides' Effect on Kids Spurs Backlash Within Agency
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386740/

Europe Still Resisting GMOs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385873/

Secret Trials in GM-Free Australia Raise New Fears of Contamination
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385922/

4000 Scientists Confront Bush Administration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385883/

US army official slams Bush over Halliburton Iraq contracts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/385898/

Depleted Uranium Dust from US Bombs Worries Iraqis
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386753/

A day that will decide the fate of the world
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386662/

Vote Fraud Crisis
http://tinyurl.com/4l3kq

A QUICK GUIDE TO AVOIDING PROBLEMS AT THE POLLS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386703/

Republicans Pressed To Halt Voter-Suppression Efforts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386713/

1 Million Kerry Votes Already Stolen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386744/

Complaint Sheets in Hand, Army of Volunteers Watches Over Florida's Voting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386755/

Don't Forget to Vote Your Values on November 2nd
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386749/

The World Is Depending on Us to Defeat Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386759/

Time to Vote
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386768/

2004 Special Election Coverage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386734/

TO Election Day Blog
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386735/

Global Warming Has Arrived: Arctic Study
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1101-03.htm

Raise your voice

We have the right to remain silent. We have a responsibility to speak out. A healthy democracy requires engaged citizens. Engaged citizens participate by making their voices heard. Register your voice, go to the polls.

Vote your values. Vote for the forests.
Vote on November 2nd.

Electoral democracy happens only so often. Vote your values each day. Every dollar you spend is a vote cast in the marketplace. We can unleash the purchasing power of consumer democracy every day.

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=66246

November 1, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

INDYMEDIA NETWORK LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS COVERAGE

On the eve of what will be one of the most important elections in U.S. history, the Indymedia network announces the launch of a new and critical website for gathering the news and views of ordinary people across the country and around the world.

With its mission of publishing independent, on-the-ground reports from the people who experience the news most directly, http://www.indymedia.us will amplify the voices of those most impacted not only by the elections process, but also by the policies of either a Bush or Kerry administration.

"Indymedia has changed the face of journalism through its creative and comprehensive coverage from the front lines of struggles for social justicethrough out the world," says Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, the independent public radio and TV news hour. "With its vast network of unembedded journalists throughout the country indymedia.us will become a weapon in the fight for the truth about what happens on November 2nd and beyond."

The US IMC website centers around a syndicated wire of all featured articles published by participating local US-based IMCs. As with all Indymedia sites, the USIMC's open publishing newswire empowers people to become the media by posting their articles, photos, videos, and audio clips directly to the website's wire. But the US IMC's main function is to make the news that is published, culled and edited to local IMC sites relevant and accessible to a broader audience.

For breaking news reports, indymedia is also working with election monitors and equiping them with text messege emergency blast networks, call in centers and more.

"Indymedia is the only source that truly comes from the ground-up," says journalist and activist Rosa Clemente. "Young people all across the globe are learning how to be the story-tellers of their community. In a whole host of ways, Indymedia has access to reports that the corporate media and even most alternative media outlets do not."

There are currently 165 autonomous Independent Media Centers (IMC) around the world. Over 50 of them are in the United States.

Indymedia is a grassroots network committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice. It is dedicated to addressing issues that the mainstream media neglects and hopes to empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to available technologies and information.

Visit the site at: http://us.indymedia.org or http://indymedia.us

Contact imc-us@indymedia.org
imc-news mailing list
imc-news@lists.indymedia.org
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-news


John Johnson

If you vote on Tues. Bring you drivers lic. or legal id and utility bills with you to the polling place, just in case.

bye Gary

PS. This site predicts majority of electoral college vote to Kerry. http://www.electoral-vote.com/


News items. Voter Suppression

Republicans Pressed To Halt Voter-Suppression Efforts

10/29/2004

With political analysts agreeing that voter turnout, especially of minority and youth voters, will likely determine the outcome of next Tuesday's presidential election, civil and human rights groups are pressing the Republican National Committee (RNC) to call off plans aimed at discouraging people from casting ballots.

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/96983/1/


International Election Observers Visit Communities in Arizona

09/23/2004

US elections © Guardian Unlimited

In continuation of their effort to boost voter participation and confidence in the U.S. elections, international election observers will visit communities in Arizona this week. The observers who arrived in the country last week will investigate issues could compromise the integrity of the November elections such as voter disenfranchisement, security of electronic voting machines and influence of corporate and personal wealth on the political process.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2495.html


If you feel like someone is trying to interfere with your right to vote this election, call 866-OUR-VOTE, a special hotline run by the Election Protection Coalition ( http://www.ourvote.com/ ).

Further information about vote fraud is available from the eRiposte site and from dKosopedia's http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Voter_Registration_Fraud_Clearinghouse Voter Registration Fraud Clearinghouse.

Informant: Paul Lion

TrueMajority
http://www.truemajority.org

Before you go to the polls:

Find your correct polling place. Click here
http://www.mypollingplace.com . They are getting crushed with requests, so if you don't get through right away, try again later or just call your local Board of Elections.

To avoid confusion and save time, study the ballot. Check your local newspaper for a copy.

Find a form of identification to bring to the polls. Unless you are a first-time voter who registered by mail without sending identification, you have the right to vote without providing ID. However, to avoid hassles just bring ID anyway. A government-issued ID is best (such as a driver's license), but you can also bring a utility bill, paycheck stub, phone bill, or similar papers with your name on them. If your ID does not have a signature, bring two forms of identification.

Allow plenty of time to vote, preferably in the morning. There may be lines. Bring something to read. If the line is really long, consider getting a box of donuts or cookies to share to lighten the mood. Someone might be challenging voters just to slow things up in the hope that long lines will scare away voters. If this is happening, let folks in line know so it stiffens their resolve to stay and cast vote.

Learn your voting rights:

- Even if you are not on the voter list, federal law gives you the right to a "provisional ballot." Insist on one and vote. A regular ballot is preferable, so you should do whatever you can to get a regular ballot first, like going home and getting a second form of identification or going to the polling place where you are definitely on the voter list. But rather than be turned away, demand a provisional ballot.

-You have the right to vote if you are in line when the polls close. Stay in line until you vote.

-Find out if your employer will give you time off to vote, if necessary.

At the polls:

If you are confused about ANYTHING or feel you are being harassed, ask the official poll workers to help. Do not rely on fellow citizens for advice about the ballot, how the voting machines work, or why you are not on the rolls. If someone is challenging your right to vote, ask the poll workers to intervene.

If someone harasses you, don't cause a ruckus. Just ignore the harasser, report it to a poll worker, and let the voting process continue. What kinds of things might somebody try? Well, in the past people have insisted on more ID than is required or argued that someone is at the wrong polling place.

If something goes wrong, document it. Write down what happened, when, and descriptions of the people involved, including their names, if you can get them. If you have a camera or camera-phone, take pictures.

Report voting problems to an organization ready to respond to problems at the polls:

Common Cause: Call 1-866-MYVOTE1. This is a hotline you can call to report any voting problems.

1-866-OUR-VOTE. This hotline has been set up by a coalition of nonpartisan groups to deal with the most serious problems on Election Day. They have hundreds of lawyers standing by to immediately respond to the most egregious problems. 1-866-OUR-VOTE is the "911" of voter suppression hotlines. Please don't call unless your problem is serious enough that you have to talk to a lawyer immediately.

Contact the media. If something is going terribly wrong at a polling site and you have reported it to the folks above, you might want to then call local radio, television, and newspaper reporters. Often problems clear up quickly after a reporter arrives.


Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/4l3kq


Informant: Friends

by Jim Hightower

AlterNet

11/01/04

Today's Gooberhead is Rep. Candice Miller, a Michigan Republican who has written a bill that effectively will require all Americans to start carrying a national ID card. The idea of having to 'show your papers' has been an anathema to liberty-loving Americans since the founding of our nation, yet, ironically, so-called 'conservatives' like Miller are now demanding such autocracy...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20366/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by G. Henry M. Schuler

Tom Paine

11/01/04

George Bush never stops repeating that the world has been completely changed by the horrific attacks of 9/11. But his words are belied by his actions which demonstrate that the age-old mix of carrot and stick remains firmly entrenched in U.S. foreign policy. ... Sadly, the Bush White House has ignored all of [the] prerequisites in its use of carrots and sticks. Bush’s political advisor Karl Rove has spun both carrots and sticks into the web of campaign rhetoric that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney spout with increasing shrillness in the closing days of this campaign. The emphasis is, to be sure, on the pre-emptive use of muscular sticks in Iraq, but Rove recognizes that growing numbers of American voters know in their guts that it has been executed without attention to the prerequisites...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y69034DA9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1101-02.htm


Informant: Friends

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Act Now: Hands Off Journalists!

by ActForChange

Tell Florida election officials to stop impeding journalists from doing their job--reporting about the election.

http://www.tompaine.com/action/#002546

(... and check your own country too!) - thanks to heroay for the compilation

Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine -- a journal of humanist thought.

Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The article is titled 'Fascism Anyone?', by Lawrence Britt, and appears in Free Inquiry's Spring 2003 issue on page 20.

The 14 characteristics are:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need". The people tend to 'look the other way' or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military -- Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism -- The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or through sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined -- Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed -- Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -- Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -- Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses, and even forego civil liberties, in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections -- Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against (or even the assassination of) opposition candidates, the use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and the manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

[see http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm for complete text of article.]


From ECOTERRA Intl.

Why Are We In Iraq? Bush Family $$$ Signs

by Evelyn J. Pringle

After Dick Cheney's tenure at the Pentagon ended in 1993, he spent much of the next two years deciding whether to run for President. He formed a political-action committee, and crossed the country making speeches and raising money. (Contact Sport, The New Yorker, 2/16/04). Records from the FEC show that Cheney's PAC contributors included executives of the companies that have since won the largest contracts in Iraq. Among them were Thomas Cruikshank, Halliburton's CEO at the time; Stephen Bechtel, whose family's firm now has a contract in Iraq worth as much as $2.8 billion; and Duane Andrews, then senior VP of Science Applications International Corporation, which has won seven contracts in Iraq. However, while Cheney and his pals may well be the most blatant profiteers in Iraq, they are by no means the only ones involved in this grand war profiteering scheme commonly referred to as the "War on Terror." The #1 spot on the list belongs to the First Family....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Pringle1102.htm

by Kim Petersen

Kim Petersen on the one-sidedness of corporate (and often progressive) media depictions of the situation on the ground in Iraq, the marginalization of Iraqi perspectives, and the purposely ignored death toll of Iraqi civilians and US forces....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Petersen1102.htm

League of Pissed Off Voters
http://www.indyvoter.org/

Voting Tips
http://www.electionprotection2004.com/votetips.htm


Informant: Sunil/Dissident Voice

The article below contains critical information veterans should share with friends and family about knowing your rights as U.S. citizens on Election Day. Print out this article and take it with you to the polls on election day. E-mail it to your friends. If voters know what to expect and what to do, then the potential problems will be minimized and Election Day will flow smoothly.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2339

Today is the day WE the VOTERS can start taking back OUR Nation. I do express Go VOTE ; and in my earnest desires, vote for John Kerry.

I also want to remind you, do not count this as "the day" to relax your voting rights after you vote. This is only THE WARM-UP of voting to take back OUR Nation. Remember to exercise your voting rights in ALL elections. This is directed to your local and state elections. In replacing ALL Republicans in those elections, We the People will bring chaos to both political parties just as "they" have given us.

PLEASE...do not let your momentium decrease just because this election hopefully ends by tomorrow. In the interim, remember how George Bush got the office of president. It was BY A REPUBLICAN SUPREME COURT. This is why I ask you to replace all Republicans at all levels. In this action, the Republican Party will not become "extinct", but it will have profound effect on American politics.

Thank you for reading and I am in hopes that I have given you positive thought in taking OUR Nation back.

Lowell

Corruption in Iraq. This message has been received today.

Paul Krugman


One thing may change the November's election.

Coalition of corruption

Polish politics make private business on the war. The corruption range to the highest authorities.

Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka was earlier the Chief of International Coordination Council in Iraq. As the chief of the council, he supported a choice of Bank Millennium (in which he was a member of the supervisory board) to the consortium that would menage the Trade Bank of Iraq. Accidentally, the Prime Minister admitted (in Polish parliament) that he had known how the members of the commission had voted - nevertheless, he was not a member of the commission.

Another matter regards to the public tender that decided about a contract on equipment for Iraq's army. In consortium that won the first tender was "Ostrowski Arms" - the firm that had not a license on the trade of weapons and whole firm was consists of a few persons. What is interesting in this firm? The owner and the chief of the firm was Andrzej Ostrowski - a good acquaintance of President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Mr. Ostrowski had issued a book about the calendar of the choice of F-16 to Polish army. It was only one book wroted by him ...and President Kwasniewski wrote an introduction to this book. At present, Mr. Andrzej Ostrowski is the accused of a trade of weapons without a license.

After the journalist's investigation regards Ostrowski Arms the public tender in Iraq was cancel. What the tender was it? The firm without license on a trade of weapons is the one of winners. The firm with a few people staff, not famous in branch... However, good famous for Aleksander Kwasniewski.

I think you should confirm both events: the run of the choice of the consortium managing the Trade Bank of Iraq and the choice of the unknown firm without a license on weapons trade to the consortium that was expected to equip the Iraq's army.

The international corruption affair will range to the high Bush's administration and to the highest Polish authorities.

Enclosed please find more details, nevertheless, it is only in Polish:
http://www.polandsecurities.com/businessinIraq

Best Regards,

Jaroslaw Suplacz

Bauantrag einstimmig abgelehnt / Montag soll BI gegründet werden

Vom 30.10.2004

dal. DALBERG 1988 freuten sich die Dalberger noch, durch einen Fernseh-Umsetzer der Telekom und des Südwestfunks ein klares Bild auf die häusliche Mattscheibe zu bekommen. 18 Jahre danach ist die Freude nicht mehr so groß: E-Plus will einen Bauantrag auf Errichtung eines Mobilfunksenders an dem bestehenden Mast vom Gemeinderat abgesegnet haben.

Bereits vor der Zustimmung durch die Gemeinde und der Kreisverwaltung als Bauaufsichtsbehörde errichtete E-Plus die genehmigungspflichtige Anlage bis auf den Anschluss des Kabels baufertig. Ein sofortiger Baustopp der Anlage wurde verfügt.

Frank Ahlbrand sowie die Geo- und Elektrobiologen Andrea und Winfried Boerner versorgten die Mitglieder des Gemeinderats bereits vor der Sitzung mit Informationsmaterial. Darin war zu lesen, dass es wissenschaftliche Beweise für gesundheitliche Schäden durch Mobilfunkanlagen gebe.

Diese Auffassung teilt Peter Neitzke, Leiter des Umweltforschungsinstituts ECOLOG in Hannover: "Es gibt deutliche Hinweise, dass es gesundheitliche Störungen bei Bewohnern im Umkreis von Mobilfunk-Sendeanlagen gibt." Der renommierte Biophysiker hat weltweit alle wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen zu möglichen gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder auf den Menschen ausgewertet. "Die Symptome reichen von Kopfschmerzen über Schlafstörungen bis zu Depressionen. Der Verdacht besteht, dass elektromagnetische Strahlen auch bei der Krebs-Entstehung eine große Rolle spielen."

Im "Freiburger Appell" haben sich Ärzte und Umweltmediziner an die Verantwortlichen in Gesundheitswesen und Politik sowie an die Öffentlichkeit gewandt, um über Risiken und gesundheitliche Gefahren der digitalen gepulsten Mobilfunktechnik aufmerksam zu machen. Darin fordern sie neue gesundheitsverträgliche Kommunikationstechniken und eine deutliche Absenkung der zulässigen Grenzwerte der Strahlendosis in Deutschland.

Mit einem einstimmigen Beschluss des Rates unter Vorsitz von Ortsbürgermeister Karlheinz Leister, den Bauantrag für die Errichtung einer Mobilfunkanlage abzulehnen, hat die Gemeinde im Bürgerhaus deutlich gemacht, dass sie für Dalberg und die Nachbargemeinden eine gesundheitliche Gefährdung durch die hochfrequente Mobilfunk-Sendeanlage sieht. Der Rat ist aber bereit, mit E-Plus in Verhandlung zu treten, einen alternativen Standort zu suchen. Der in der Sitzung anwesende VG-Bürgermeister Wolfgang Ginz wird die Gemeinde aktiv unterstützen.

Am kommenden Montag (Allerheiligen), 1. November, um 19 Uhr, soll im Bürgerhaus eine Bürgerinitiative (BI) gegen den Sendemast in Ortsnähe gegründet werden. Zur Versammlung eingeladen sind alle Dalberger und Bürger aus Nachbargemeinden.

http://www.az-badkreuznach.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=1667124


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://www.hackemesser.de/caggiano.html
Englischer Text, Patent und Baupläne

Weitere Informationen
http://www.hackemesser.de


Nachricht von Gerd Zesar

http://dontbefooledbybush.tripod.com/


Informant: Jack Topel

Pass It On: Election Outrages

by The Center For American Progress

This election may go down in history for the number of dirty tricks and low-down schemes perpetrated against registered voters.

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

by Lynn Landes

Most people don't get it. Democrats don't get it. Even former President Jimmy Carter doesn't get it. During a recent National Public Radio interview with Terry Gross, Carter said that voting machines should produce paper ballots, just in case the election is "close" and a recount is needed. Recounts are triggered by close elections. But, stealing elections and avoiding recounts is duck soup for the dishonest among us. Keep in mind that both mechanical and computerized voting machines have a long history of vote fraud and irregularities. However, never before have so few entities dominated the tabulation of the vote. Today, two voting machine companies with strong and well-documented ties to the Republican Party will count 80% of all votes in the upcoming election. These two companies, ES&S and Diebold, manufacture, sell and service both touchscreens and computerized ballot scanners. A foreign-owned company, Sequoia, is the third largest voting machine company. This is not to say that the election will go against Democrat John Kerry. What it does mean is that election officials in America have privatized and outsourced the voting process....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Landes1101.htm

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports

Julie Newman is a conventional grain and canola farmer with 12 000 hectares in Newdegate, Western Australia; she also owns one of the largest seed grading factories in Western Australia, and has been a contract crop-sprayer for 20 years. Julie is just the sort of big farmers that would embrace GM crops, right? Wrong.

Defenders of the biotech industry in Australia have nicknamed her “the laughing assassin” for good reasons. She strikes terror into their very heart, for being both extremely well informed and articulate; and not afraid to challenge the industry's propaganda at every opportunity. But, she does it ever so pleasantly. “ I don't take the debate personally, I enjoy talking to people on both sides of the debate, and what I am asking for is not unreasonable.” She explains.

Julie is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Farmers, a coalition of both conventional and organic farmers opposed to the introduction of GM crops into Australia, a country that has the strictest control over agricultural imports, as I learned on my recent lecture tour, which took me first to Perth, where I met Julie, and then to Melbourne.

Julie's argument is implacable: not only is there no market for GM crops, the slightest contamination with non-GM seeds or pollen, and that's the end of the farmers' export to Europe. “Farmers do not approve of the existing principle of co-existence of GM and non-GM crops; they want principles that will ensure non-GM farmers are not affected, and are protected by legislation and compensated for economic loss”. She says.

The situation is exactly the same in Europe.

“How many farmers know that the principle of coexistence is that non- GM growers are to avoid GM contamination when it is impossible to do so? How many know that it will be the non- GM growers that will be liable for ‘false and misleading advertising' when we cannot deliver the non-GM product we have guaranteed?” Julie asks. And, it could make farmers liable for infringing the patents of companies like Monsanto as well.

So, when she uncovered secret trials of GM canola in Victoria, a state that has an official moratorium on the crop until 2008, she was on the warpath again.

The way she uncovered those secret trials was ingenious. She had aerial photographs taken of suspected sites, which she posted on the Network's website, asking farmers to come forward to identify the fields and to state whether they were GM trials. T wo GM trial plots were identified in Victoria. “We are still looking for another two .” She tells me.

“Just look at the bags around the canola plants!” She exclaimed when showing me the photograph, “They are supposed to prevent cross-pollination, but you can see that some of the plants are in flower and they have not been bagged.”

She raised an aspect of contamination that's new to me. Canola pollen or seed could contaminate wheat and other seeds harvested in adjacent fields. She would know, as she also operates a big seeds business, and there is no seed sorting in Australia, because that's too expensive.

“The key issue is that since the federal government approved GM crops, it is now up to the farmer to sign to guarantee the GM-free status of their produce and to accept liability if we are wrong in our signed declaration. If we experience economic loss, we are gearing up for a class action against Bayer Cropscience and Monsanto (if Monsanto grow future trials).” She says. “We are doing a letter drop to ensure farmers contact Bayer Cropscience to collect their trespassing plants if trials have caused contamination.”

Australia has remained GM-free despite the approval of GM canola by the federal government, because, contrary to the situation in the European Union, it is possible for state governments to establish GM- free zones . So far, all states have either imposed a ban or a moratorium or are considered unsuited for growing GM canola.

Jim Scott, Member for South Metropolitan Region of Western Australia, played the key role in getting Australia GM-free, by convincing his parliament to impose the first state-wide ban on GM crops. I met Scott for the first time last year when he was on a fact-finding mission in Britain. He wrote a comprehensive report afterwards that triggered the Western Australian ban on GM crops. He is very proud of that report, and is ready to offer it to anyone who asks ( jscott@mp.wa.gov.au ).


This article can be found on the I-SIS website at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/

One of the US Army's top procurement officers yesterday called the Bush administration's grant of multibillion-dollar contracts to oil services giant Halliburton "the worst case of contracting abuse she has ever seen".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=578210


From Information Clearing House

Scott Ritter: The war on Iraq has made moral cowards of us all

We all are moral cowards when it comes to Iraq. Our collective inability to summon the requisite shame and rage when confronted by an estimate of 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians in the prosecution of an illegal and unjust war not o­nly condemns us, but adds credibility to those who oppose us.

http://207.44.245.159/article7197.htm

Renate Künast setzt das umstrittene Gentechnikgesetz gegen Kritik aus SPD und Wissenschaft durch...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/leb/18700/1.html

Kinder-Leukämie in AKW-Nähe: Wissenschaftler verlassen Leukämie-Kommission wegen "Verschleierungspolitik" (01.11.04)

Über die Ursachen der Leukämieerkrankungen von Kindern in der Umgebung von Nuklearanlagen in Schleswig-Holstein gibt es neuen Streit. Mehrere Wissenschaftler der mit der Untersuchung beauftragten Fachkommission des Bundeslandes kündigten am Montag in Berlin ihren Rückzug aus dem Gremium an. Sie protestierten damit, wie es hieß, "gegen die Verschleierungspolitik der schleswig-holsteinischen Aufsichtsbehörde". Die Wissenschaftler argumentierten, dass "seit dem sprunghaften Anstieg der Erkrankungsfälle im Jahr 1990" in der betroffenen Region um das Atomkraftwerk Krümmel sowie weiterer Nuklearanlagen bei Geesthacht "die Zahl der Leukämieerkrankungen bis heute dreifach überhöht geblieben" sei. In ihrem Abschlussbericht, der der Nachrichtenagentur ddp vorliegt, sehen die Wissenschaftler "den Verdacht einer unzulässigen radioaktiven Kontamination der Umgebung bestätigt".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9637

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Hallo zusammen,

2 Artikel aus der Süddeutschen Zeitung.

Herzlichen Gruß

Klaus Böckner


Schleswig-Holstein

Atomperlen aus Geesthacht

Die "Atombombe in der Aktentasche": Forscher glauben, Ursache der Kinder-Tumore in der Gemeinde Geesthacht entdeckt zu haben.

Von Martin Urban

Völlig überraschend hat sich die Experten-Kommission aufgelöst, die seit 1992 die Ursache der häufig auftretenden Leukämie bei Kindern in der Umgebung von Geesthacht (Schleswig-Holstein) erforscht.

Der Vorsitzende Otmar Wassermann und fünf weitere wissenschaftliche Mitglieder der achtköpfigen Kommission erklärten am Montag in Berlin „unter Protest gegen die Verschleierungspolitik der schleswig-holsteinischen Aufsichtsbehörde“ ihren Rücktritt. Die Strahlenforscher glauben jetzt zu wissen, was seinerzeit passiert ist.

Die Suche nach dem Fingerabdruck

Sie haben jahrelang nach dem „Fingerabdruck“ eines mit der Freisetzung von Radioaktivität verbundenen Ereignisses gesucht – und sind auf sensationelle Weise fündig geworden. Sie identifizierten nach eigenen Angaben einen Mix aus Spalt- und Aktivierungsprodukten, Transuranen (Plutonium und Americium) sowie weiteren Kernbrennstoffen (angereichertes Uran und Thoriumderivate).

Die Analyse ergab, dass die Spur nicht nach Tschernobyl führt, wo sich im April 1986 die bisher größte Reaktorkatastrophe ereignet hat. Sie führt auch nicht ins Kernkraftwerk Krümmel, obwohl auch dort allerlei Unregelmäßigkeiten vorgekommen sein sollen. Dagegen wurden die Strahlenforscher bei der gleich nebenan liegenden GKSS fündig.

Art und Aufbau sogenannter Mikrosphären ließen auf die Herkunft „aus einer Hybridanlage, bei der Kernfusion und Kernspaltung vereint zur Energiefreisetzung benutzt werden sollten“, schließen. Im September 1986 sei eine Laboreinrichtung auf dem Gelände abgebrannt. Das Ereignis belege „den zeitlichen Zusammenhang zum Anstieg der Leukämieerkrankungen“.

"Atombombe in der Aktentasche"

Was war passiert? Damals – in Bonn regierte Helmut Kohl, in Schleswig Holstein Uwe Barschel – wurde die Idee einer „Atombombe in der Aktentasche“ diskutiert: Eine millimetergroße Perle aus Plutonium 239 genügt. Im Brennpunkt eines Ellipsoids, einer Eiform aus Keramik, angebracht, kann die Perle mittels eines Laserimpulses so hoch verdichtet werden, dass es zu einer Mini-Atombombenexplosion kommt.

Dabei werden Energien freigesetzt, die 500 bis 1000 Kilogramm TNT-Sprengstoff entsprechen. Solche Experimente, so das Münchner Kommissionsmitglied, der Strahlenmediziner Edmund Lengfelder, sind damals – vermutlich mit Wissen der Amerikaner – in der GKSS gemacht worden. Wenn das zuträfe, wäre es völkerrechtswidrig gewesen, was die Dementis wie die Behinderungen der Kommission durch die staatlichen Stellen erklären würde.

Radioaktive Perlen aus Thorium wurden auch für die Brennelemente des seinerzeit entwickelten Hochtemperaturreaktors benötigt. In Hanau habe man solche Perlen produziert, sagt Lengfelder. Bei einem dieser Experimente, so glaubt die Kommission, muss es im September 1986 zu einem Zwischenfall gekommen sein.

Die jetzt zurückgetretenen Forscher nennen die Erklärungen der Reaktoraufsicht „absurd“ und „aberwitzige Widerlegungsversuche“. Unterlagen, sagt die Feuerwehr heute, seien später bei einem Brand vernichtet worden, der radioaktive Müll soll auf die DDR-Giftmülldeponie Schönberg gekarrt worden sein.

(SZ vom 2.11.2004)
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/177/42135/



Geesthacht

Labor bestreitet verbotene Atom-Experimente

Behörden und Forscher in Schleswig-Holstein haben sich gegen Vorwürfe gewehrt, in den achtziger Jahren durch verbotene Atom-Experimente Menschen in der Elbmarsch verstrahlt zu haben. Auch die Staatsanwaltschaft Lübeck sieht keine Anzeichen für einen Störfall.

Von Christopher Schrader und Martin Urban

Am Montag waren sechs Wissenschaftler aus einer Kommission zurückgetreten, die Leukämiefälle in der Nähe des Kernkraftwerks Krümmel und des GKSS-Forschungszentrums in Geesthacht südöstlich von Hamburg untersuchen sollte.

Die Mitglieder um den ehemaligen Vorsitzenden Otmar Wassermann hatten ihren Ausstieg mit mangelnder Kooperation der Landesregierung in Kiel begründet. Als Ursache der seit 1989 aufgetretenen Häufung von Leukämie bei Kindern identifizierten sie „geheim gehaltene kerntechnische Sonderexperimente auf dem GKSS-Gelände“ und einen vertuschten Störfall im September 1986.

Das wurde von allen beteiligten Stellen energisch dementiert. „Es hat bei uns nie einen derartigen Störfall gegeben“, sagte der GKSS-Sprecher, Hans-Friedrich Christiansen; auch seien nie Experimente gemacht worden, von denen Wassermann gesprochen habe. Die Landesregierung in Kiel wies die Vorwürfe zurück: Sie nehme die Fälle von Leukämie „sehr ernst“, seit Gründung der Kommission 1992 seien 4,5 Millionen Euro in die Ursachenforschung investiert worden.

"Keine herausragenden Schwankungen"

Die Staatsanwaltschaft Lübeck hat keinerlei Anzeichen für einen Zwischenfall bei der GKSS. Sie hatte im Jahr 2001 nach einer Anzeige der Organisation IPPNW (Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung eines Atomkriegs) ein Ermittlungsverfahren eingeleitet.

Dabei seien die Protokolle der Instrumente geprüft worden, die auf dem Kernkraftwerk Krümmel die Radioaktivität messen, sagte Staatsanwalt Christian Braunwarth der Süddeutschen Zeitung. „Es gab da zwar einen Tag mit erhöhten Werten, aber er war im Verlauf der zeitlichen Schwankungen nicht herausragend.“

Geheime Experimente als Ursache der Leukämiefälle seien aus der Luft gegriffen, sagte Erich Wichmann vom GSF-Forschungszentrum in Neuherberg bei München. Er ist eines der verbliebenen Kommissions-Mitglieder in Schleswig-Holstein und zugleich Vorsitzender des gleichen Gremiums in Niedersachsen. „Die langjährige Arbeit beider Kommissionen hat keinerlei belastbare Hinweise ergeben, die eine solche, rein spekulative Aussage rechtfertigen könnten.“

Demgegenüber beharrte der Münchner Strahlenmediziner Edmund Lengfelder, einer der zurückgetretenen Wissenschaftler gegenüber der SZ auf seiner These: Die Kommission habe in der Umgebung von GKSS und Krümmel millimetergroße Keramikkügelchen gefunden, die Kernbrennstoffe enthielten. Sie könnten dazu verwendet worden sein, miniaturisierte Atombomben herzustellen. Die Kügelchen seien offenbar bei einem Brand 1986 freigesetzt und in der Landschaft verstreut worden.

Kügelchen und ihre Messungen

Handfeste Belege, dass die GKSS wirklich mit solchen Kügelchen experimentiert hat, fehlen Lengfelder jedoch. Zudem hat die offiziell von der Bundesregierung eingesetzte Strahlenschutzkommission schon im Februar 2003 die Messungen an den Kügelchen als „wissenschaftlich nicht nachvollziehbar“ bewertet.

Es gebe keine Hinweise, dass es sich um Kernbrennstoffpartikel handle. Überhaupt sei nicht zu belegen, dass in der Umgebung von GKSS und Krümel eine ungewöhnliche radioaktive Belastung vorliege.

Allerdings bleiben in der Diskussion über die Leukämiefälle viele ungeklärte Details. Das Unbehagen angesichts der fehlenden Erklärung kann Erich Wichmann von GSF-Forschungszentrum verstehen. Abhelfen kann er ihm nicht. Wichmanns niedersächsische Kommission wird in Kürze die Resultate ihrer eigenen Analysen veröffentlichen: Die Wissenschaftler haben keine Erklärung für die Leukämie-Häufung gefunden.

(SZ vom 3.11.2004)
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/259/42217/

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Kinder-Leukämie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388019/

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Childhood leukemia cluster?

I think the German orignial was published in Umwelt, Medizin, Gesellschaft (UMG). Ionising radiation and non-ionising radiation should not always be kept apart because the effect of both is the more or less the same. When I went to Drogheda to a place close to the Northern Irish border and thought there must be either a mobile phone mast or a nuclear power station in the vicinity. I was assured there were none. Only a year later a friend made me aware that that area is just across the Irish Sea from Sellafield, the British nuclear reprocessing plant. Now I know the area is contaiminated by radioactive particles. Drogheda has a large number of children with Down syndrome.

D.


Childhood Leukemia in the Vicinity of the Geesthacht Nuclear Establishments near Hamburg, Germany
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/9861/9861.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=childhood+leukemia
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Elbmarsch

Father Writes Newspaper About Son Killed in Action during Iraq War

Jon Wershow writes, "My son, Jeffrey Mattison Wershow, died in Bagdad, Iraq, on July 6, 2003. He proudly went to Iraq as a member of the Florida National Guard in which he enlisted after a three-year stint with the 82nd Airborne Division.... [However,] My son is dead because our president misled us into a war in the Middle East." The words of a grieving father writing about his son killed in action speaks truth to power.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2335

VCS Weekly Update: Torture Lawsuit; Iraq War Vets and Trauma

The government responded to a joint ACLU / Veterans for Common

Sense lawsuit this week by releasing 6,000 pages of documents related to prisoner abuse at abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. The documents were released after a year-long Freedom of Information Request was blocked and denied by government agencies, until the courts ordered them to produce the documents.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2333

by Ghita Schwarz

New York’s voters give Kerry a twenty-point lead over Bush, rendering the state irrelevant to the last days of the presidential campaign. But New York City’s unions are working hard to help nearby swing states give their electoral votes to the Democrat. With nightly phone banks to Maine and Florida and weekly bus caravans to Pennsylvania, New York’s often fractious labor groups have found common cause....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Schwarz1031.htm

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0328/tracy.php


Informant: billder

http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/kultur_und_medien/medien/?cnt=561806


Nachricht von Marianne Kirst

You see, the chips are for our safety and convenience. And they are completely voluntary, that is, until they become mandatory. And they save you from that evil plague that is just simply everywhere, identiy-theft, so they protect your privacy too, so get chipped today! Yes, the chips are something wonderful, like manna from Heaven. Keep repeating this over and over and over in your mind and you will become a believer too, and all your meaningless little insignificant fears will get "chipped" away, one chip-upgrade at a time.......blah, blah, blah..........

(Where do they get these people? From another planet or is it the pit of Hell?)

Microchipping Agenda Propaganda Update

Chipping Away at Privacy Fears

Technology does not in itself threaten privacy and may, in fact, help to protect it

Implanting a rice-sized VeriChip is a voluntary action, and the product is provided by a private company. As long as government is not forcing anyone to get the chips, claims of privacy violations are about as compelling as arguments that reality TV violates the privacy of its participants. This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a microchip that can be implanted in humans to provide access to medical records. Privacy regulation advocates were predictably horrified, but the chip does not create the privacy crisis some might imagine. Though RFID technology can save money, time and lives, when it comes to implanting it in grandma's arm to make sure doctors know exactly what to do when she shows up unconscious at the hospital, the "creepy factor" arises. Privacy regulation advocates argue that implanting chips in humans will bring about an Orwellian state, and some apocalyptic types see it as the "mark of the beast." While the issue is a rhetorical magnet, there are reasons why this private use of technology does not in itself threaten privacy and may, in fact, help to protect it in the long run.

First, no one is forcing people to get chipped. Implanting the rice-sized chip is a voluntary action, and the product is provided by a private company. As long as government is not forcing anyone to get the chips, claims of privacy violations are about as compelling as arguments that reality TV violates the privacy of its participants.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Chipping-Away-at-Privacy-Fears-37704.html

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HOT TECHNOLOGY GETS UNDER THE SKIN

The Other Side of the FDA VeriChip Approval

While looking around the newest VeriChip scandal – as pointed out by CASPIAN, when the company trumpeted its success with the FDA it somehow forgot to mention the caveats and warnings associated with its approval – I noticed something odd. As investor publications have reported, Digital Angel has sold its share in Applied Digital Solutions. To fit this into perspective, though, you need the relationship between the two companies. Applied Digital Solutions owns the intellectual property associated with the “grain of rice” sized VeriChip, which it would now like to plant under everyone's skin so it can own access to our medical information. Digital Angel has the manufacturing contract. Digital Angel, until recently, owned a sizeable chunk of Applied Digital Solutions. Applied Digital Solutions is the majority owner of Digital Angel. And Digital Angel sold its stake in ADS.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2EA315A9

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Applied Digital Shares Jump on Chip OK

Shares of Applied Digital Solutions Inc. and Digital Angel Corp. soared Wednesday morning on news the companies' VeriChip implantable radio frequency identification microchip for humans has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for medical use in the United States. Applied Digital shares rose 90 cents, or more than 42 percent, to $3.02 on the Nasdaq, while shares of South St. Paul, Minn.-based Digital Angel Corp. were up 46 cents, or 17 percent, at $3.17 on the American Stock Exchange. The companies' VeriChip is about the size of a grain of rice and implanted under the skin in a brief outpatient procedure. Each chip is programed with a unique 16-digit number which is retrieved by briefly passing a proprietary scanner over the insertion site, and can be linked to a variety of security, financial and emergency health information. Digital Angel is the manufacturer of VeriChip and has licensed the technology to Applied Digital's VeriChip Corp. unit for human applications. The FDA does not regulate VeriChip with regard to its security, financial, personal identification and safety applications.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2004/10/13/ap1588622.html

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How To Profit from Wireless Barcodes

With companies of all sizes vying for their share of the rapidly expanding RFID industry, there is currently not a complete dominance by any one company. Companies involved in RFID range from heavily diversified companies such as Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Texas Instruments and SAP to pure investment opportunities such as Zebra Technologies. Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, has become a popular buzzword in the high tech tracking industry and was recently thrust in the media spotlight with headlines that read: "FDA Approves RFID Microchip for Humans." Despite talk of privacy concerns and abusive government control, pundits appear to be more focused on the potential growth of this technology and the fact that many well known names have embraced this method of increasing profit margins.

Perhaps most notable is Applied Digital Solutions (Nasdaq: ADSX) , a tech play that saw highs of $179 during the bubble only to collapse to sub $2 levels post bubble. It is now waking up from its coma based on this recent news. Obviously it is still on the minds of many investors as indicated by a classic high-volume rally (to the tune of 10 million shares of daily volume).

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/How-To-Profit-from-Wireless-Barcodes-37456.html

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Hospital will tag its patients

Their location could then be tracked to within yards

People preparing to undergo surgery may worry about the risk of catching much-publicised infections such as MRSA or fret about medics carrying out the wrong operation. But one Birmingham surgeon - tired of continually chasing an inefficient paper trail of charts, checks and records - has come up with the world's first patient tagging system. David Morgan, a consultant ENT surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, believes using this tracking system will not only save time but also money, cutting the £350 million paid out in compensation by the NHS. Over the next three months, the plastic hospital wristbands patients wear throughout their stay will be replaced by the new matchbox-sized devices. The patient's location can then be tracked to within yards and their details fed to visual display units in theatres, anaesthetic rooms and waiting areas.

Mr Morgan, who has worked at the hospital since 1990, said: "There's always been concerns about matching the patient with the right treatment, such as people with similar names having the wrong operations.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z10D258A9

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Hospital Pioneers Patient Tagging

A British hospital is claiming a world first with the introduction of an electronic tagging system for patients.

People undergoing surgery at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham are piloting the process in which their movements are tracked by a wireless network and their records brought up on screens for use by staff at key points. The developers believe the system reduces the risk of human error and improves medical efficiency. David Morgan, a consultant ENT surgeon at the hospital who helped devise the process, said digital photos were taken of patients, who were tagged on arrival and the information synchronised with their electronic records.

He said their location could then be tracked to within yards and their details fed to visual display units in theatres, anaesthetic rooms and waiting areas.

The surgeon, who has worked at the hospital for 14 years, said he could make changes to the digital operating list while on his rounds using a pocket PC instead of working with typed copies.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3678544


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 1st, 2004

Police in Connecticut will continue using non-lethal weapons for crowd control, despite last week's death of a Boston college student fatally struck by a pepper spray-filled projectile during a rowdy Red Sox celebration. Since the incident, Boston police have temporarily stopped using the pellet guns and the Seattle Police Department in Washington has also called for a suspension of the weapons. West Hartford Police Chief James J. Strillacci said Thursday that banning non-lethal weapons is a step in the wrong direction. With the proper training, the weapons are designed to control unruly crowds and prevent injuries, he said.

"It sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to me," said Strillacci, president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association. "It's better than shooting somebody. If used properly, these devices can cause little injury to the person."

http://makeashorterlink.com/?N34D548A9

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Police wield deadly power

Is a burned car or smashed storefront worth Victoria Snelgrove's life? What would you do, if you found her dead on the ground?

That's the question Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young asked in "Ohio," a song about the killing 34 years ago of four young people by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University. Last week it was another innocent, 21-year-old Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove, who was dead on the ground. Why? If you're Boston Mayor Tom Menino, you could blame unruly crowds that flowed out of bars and into Kenmore Square after the Red Sox beat the Yankees. Or you could target the bar owners who served too much and too late in the evening. You could blame the hooligans and punks who got the crowd worked up, setting fire to a car and trashing street lights and storefronts. But roll back the tape and be honest. Boston police had their fingers on the triggers of these new high-tech gadgets they bought for the Democratic National Convention in July. Not the crowd, not the hooligans, not the bar owners. Police didn't get to use these new weapons in July, because the anticipated bedlam and huge crowds didn't show up for the Democrats. But last week police turned these lethal weapons on innocent revelers, hitting three in the head and killing one, Victoria Snelgrove, with a pepperball in the eye.

No one would dispute that being a cop trying to control a huge crowd of pumped up -- and in many cases, booze-fueled -- sports fans is stressful, unpredictable and dangerous. But is a burned car or smashed storefront worth Victoria Snelgrove's life?

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=81675

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Group Seeks Ban on 'Less-Lethal' Weapons

Civil rights advocates angry over the death of a student hit by a pepper-spray pellet are seeking at least a temporary ban on the Boston Police Department's use of so-called "less-lethal" weapons to control crowds.

The police commissioner last week created an independent commission to investigate the Oct. 21 death of Victoria Snelgrove and review weapons like the one believed to have caused the 21-year-old's death. Snelgrove was shot in the eye during a massive celebration outside Fenway Park after the Red Sox won the American League pennant. But critics who held a news conference Thursday said Boston police should stop using pepper-ball pellets, bean bag projectiles and rubber bullets until they expand training, ensure accountability and get the weapons independently tested. The belief that such weapons are less dangerous than conventional firearms has led police to use them "as a substitute for negotiation and communication in crowd control," said Gan Golan, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student and member of a nonprofit group called Save Our Civil Liberties. "This has seriously increased the potential for harm to the public, not decreased it," Golan said.

About 1,000 Boston residents so far have signed a petition that is to be presented to city officials on Nov. 15, advocates said. A companion petition has been signed by about 40 faculty from local colleges and universities.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G165117B9


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 1/7st, 2004



Red Sox Fan Victoria Snelgrove Killed by Policeman's 'Non-Lethal' Weapon
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/377678/

If you think all of this is somehow because of Bush and the Republicans and that the Democrats, the EU and the UN are here to save us, you are seriously out of touch with reality. This is a global totalitarian system, carried out by all collaborating globalist world leaders and their minions on both the Left and the Right. This New World Order was planned and engineered by the Illuminati, based on Hegelian pretexts such as Pearl Harbor and 9/11, which they have devised and carried out over the past hundred years and more. They actually control history and the future, if we let them. Any average person who goes along with the program is a victim of mind-control and needs help to wake up out of it.

The Global Police State agenda has been created using 9/11 as an excuse.

The Multilateral Totalitarian Agenda worldwide

The Totalitarian countries have quietly introduced RFID chips in their paper currencies: Canada's new new $20 bill, the new US $20 bill, and the new Euros all contain RFID chips; if you put them in the microwave for 3 seconds you can see the chips fry! US: Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act and now new totalitarian legislation under the guise of implementing the 9/11 Ommission's recommendations. A de-facto national ID card was passed that may include chips for fingerprint, and biometric data. Proposed measures also include the legalisation of rendering foreigners to be tortured, as was done to Arar Maher. UK: Prevention of Terrorism Acts and now the Civil Contingencies Bill, which contains many of the same provisions as Canada's C-7, including exempting interim orders from the Statutory Instruments Act. The EU has introduced measures for the Compulsory fingerprinting for all passports and UK and Germany want to have a third biometric, "iris scans", in addition to facial scans and fingerprints.

Canada: C-36, C-22, C-35, C-7 - see below.
http://www.911review.org/Wiki/MultilateralTotalitarianAgenda.shtml


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 1st, 2004

http://www.aumshanti.com/Petition/Micropuce.htm
http://www.no2id.net/content/join.html

ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA,SCIENTIFICA E GIURIDICA,
CONTRO GLI ABUSI MENTALI FISICI E TECNOLOGICI
A.I.S.J.C.A-.M.F.T.

Bio-engineered agents may bring the human herd down to ecologically sustainable levels before the development of "ethnic bombs." Environmental terrorists will use multi-drug resistant pathogens first. Ethnic bombs may be obsolete before deployment if population is brought down to a single digit percent of its current level. Some diversity might be appreciated after Satan's Bugs do their work and bring about a sparsely populated world.

3/04/03

SPECIAL REPORT: UNHOLY GRAIL (Part I): Do Gene Specific Bioweapons Exist?

FTW asked Public Affairs producer and investigative reporter Kellia Ramares to take a hard and thorough look through the scientific community to see if weapons that would harm only organisms possessing a specific gene characteristic actually existed. Since 9-11 the possibility of such weapons as a tool of war or an instrument of population reduction has remained an unspoken major question. What Ramares found will shock you. If they existed, these most devastating weapons would be classified above Top Secret. But what is provable is that there is a list of countries which have been pursuing them and that the technology has been perfected to the point where they are within reach. (Part II will be published on March 11).

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030403_genetic_p1.html
Read Now


3/11/03

SPECIAL REPORT: UNHOLY GRAIL (Part II): Do Gene Specific Bioweapons Exist?

In the conclusion of this unnerving series, Kellia Ramares reveals that gene-specific bioweapons may have already been used against the easiest targets of all. And she then takes a look at how the scientifc community is avoiding the issue along with the deeper ethical issues these weapons raise for all of mankind.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030403_genetic_p1.html
Read Now

Informant: Biophilos

Great little tune...
http://www.takinmycountryback.com/main.htm

Di

by George Phillies

Liberty For All

11/01/04

Big wars against small targets: Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, unleashing tanks, bombers, and poison gas against the soldiers of the Emperor Haile Selassie. The Ethiopians fought bravely, but were overwhelmed by modern technology, letting Mussolini parade his victories before the Italian people. Seventy years later, Neoconservatives launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq, whose army fought for a short while, letting Neoconservatives parade 'Mission Accomplished' before the American people...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2004/nov14/Against.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by L. Neil Smith

The Libertarian Enterprise

10/31/04

I vote as an act of self-defense. Collectivist oppression is my lifelong, mortal enemy, and I will fight it any way I can. I never agreed to abide by the outcome of any election (whatever the hell that means -- what does it mean, exactly?), especially when its results turn out to be very much the opposite of what I consider acceptable. I have never acknowledged any such condition on my vote and I never will...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2004/tle295-20041031-02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Kathryn A. Graham

The Libertarian Enterprise

10/31/04

Nearly ten years ago now, I started work on the first draft of a nightmarish science fiction novel about an America gone stark, raving mad with religious fanaticism. Since then, I have watched with mind-numbing terror -- as my own worst nightmare has become the literal truth. Whatever happens on this coming Tuesday, the outlook for my beloved country is not a happy one...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2004/tle295-20041031-04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mark Morford

San Francisco Chronicle

10/29/04

This is where it all comes down to your intuition and your intelligence and a sheer force of will, your ability to overcome the media-induced nausea and deeply inbred American political ennui and hoist yourself out of this election stupor and go to your polling place and punch the little card or push the little button, and then pray you don't live in a state where the GOP has rigged the touch screens or shredded all the Democratic voter registrations as you think, wow, world's foremost democracy and yet why does it feel like I'm voting in, like, Yugoslavia? Why does it feel that this election is so incredibly messy and loaded and rife with snakes and spit and hissing corruption? Weird. Sad. Telling...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?O4DA13AA9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jeannette Batz Cooperman

AlterNet

10/28/04

In a Tower of Babel where everyone speaks a different moral language, one needs vast patience to learn the nuances. It's easier to grab a phrasebook and make big gestures. Reach for people's deepest needs, allay their fears, repeat the same simple phrases so people can nod in eager agreement.It's especially helpful if you can state, categorically, that God is on your side...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/20328/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Paul Jacob

Town Hall

10/31/04

Perhaps, in the throes of this nasty season, we should change our country's slogan from 'The land of the free and the home of the brave' to 'Land of 10,000 lawyers.' But, of course, there are so many more lawyers than that. Don't get me wrong. My beef isn't with attorneys, but with the need to consult attorneys every time an American citizen would like to open his or her mouth to say something political. Or worse, a group of citizens band together to say something more effectively. How did this come about?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/pj20041031.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Et tu Pat?

by Matthew Barganier

AntiWar.Com

11/01/04

Perhaps Buchanan and Robert Novak are right, and the president plans a quick withdrawal from Iraq and a major change of course after the election. (More on that in a moment.) Still, the lasting lesson of a Bush victory for politicians and bureaucrats will be this: Not only can they lie the country into wars of aggression -- which they have known for years -- but they don't even have to cover their tracks. The American people succumbed to empire with their eyes wide open...

http://www.antiwar.com/barganier/?articleid=3878


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hawking to lead anti-war protest on election day
Independent [UK]

10/31/04

Stephen Hawking, Britain's most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election. Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict. The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000. ... The oldest protester in Trafalgar Square is likely to be a fellow scientist, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Sir Joseph Rotblat. In the 1940s, he resigned from his job developing the world's first atomic bomb on moral grounds. Sir Joseph, who will be 96 on Thursday, said: 'In this nuclear age, we simply cannot allow others to start military action unless everything else has ... been tried and has failed...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=577860


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Group Assists U.S. Citizens in Voting
October 31, 2004

A coalition of public-interest groups offers websites and a U.S. toll-free telephone hotline to report, track, and respond to U.S. election voting questions and problems. The "Election Incident Reporting System" (EIRS) http://verifiedvoting.org/eirs/ helps citizens to vote and have their votes counted as intended. EIRS and related helpful resources are available now and beyond November 2nd.

Voters can call a U.S. toll-free number 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683) to report voting irregularities or problems, request assistance, or ask for information. If needed, "rapid response" teams of trained attorneys and technologists will be dispatched.

There is also a "do-it-yourself" incident reporting form on the Web at http://voteproblem.org . This alternative is for those who want to report a voting issue, but may not want to talk to an operator, or may prefer the convenience of web reporting from anywhere anytime. Although these web reports may not come to the attention of anyone in time to help in this election, they will be included in the EIRS total documentation for the 2004 Elections.

Anyone can view selected details of incidents at
http://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation .
Interactive maps show incidents in the country by each state and county by problem type.

In addition to assisting voters in the 2004 elections, the EIRS is collecting data on 2004 election incidents that will be made available for scholars, policymakers, the press, and the public. EIRS founders believe the collected data may also be useful for post-election litigation and legislation. EIRS data is available at http://voteprotect.org now and will continue to be updated.

For reporting election irregularities, use the U.S. toll-free hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683), or the "do-it-yourself" form at http://voteproblem.org . To find and follow the reports use http://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation .

EIRS is sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The Verified Voting Foundation, and the Election Protection Coalition. The Election Protection Coalition represents more than 60 member organizations representing a combined membership of over three million Americans. More information about these organizations can be found at:

http://www.cpsr.org/
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
http://www.electionprotection2004.org/

Contact:
Erik Nilsson
Chair, Working Group on Voting Technology
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
erikn@cpsr.org
206.979.4832 (cell)



Informant: NHNE