26
Nov
2004

Unsittlicher, ökonomisch falscher Kapitalismus

Aus dem Vortrag von Heiner Geißler in einer Hauptversammlung

...ist es mir eine besondere Freude, Ihnen jetzt das Statement von Dr. Geißler zur Kenntnis bringen zu dürfen. Und ich schreibe diesen Beitrag nachdrücklich allen ins Stammbuch, die vorhin bei Vorstand und Befürwortern der Abspaltung so zustimmungsfreudig applaudiert haben:

"Unter Berufung auf angebliche Gesetze des Marktes reden die ökonomischen und wissenschaftlichen Eliten einer anarchischen Wirtschaftsordnung, die über Leichen geht, das Wort.

100 Millionen von Arbeitslosigkeit bedrohte Menschen in Europa und den USA und 3 Milliarden Arme, die zusammen ein geringeres Einkommen haben als die 400 reichsten Familien der Erde, klagen an: die Adepten einer Shareholder-Value-Ökonomie, die keine Werte kennt jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage, Spekulanten begünstigt und langfristige Investoren behindert. ... Die Arbeiter in den Industriestaaten und ihre Gewerkschaften, die angesichts der Massenarbeitslosigkeit mit dem Rücken an der Wand stehen, fühlen sich anonymen Mächten ausgeliefert, die von Menschen beherrscht werden, deren Gier nach Geld ihre Hirne zerfrisst.

Die Menschen leben und arbeiten in einer globalisierten Ökonomie, die eine Welt der Anarchie ist - ohne Regeln, ohne Gesetze, ohne soziale Übereinkünfte, eine Welt, in der Unternehmen, Großbanken und der ganze "private Sektor" unreguliert agieren können.

Wo bleibt der Aufschrei gegen ein Wirtschaftssystem, in dem große Konzerne gesunde kleinere Firmen mit Inventar und Menschen aufkaufen, als wären es Sklavenschiffe aus dem 18.Jahrhundert, sie dann zum Zwecke der Marktbereinigung oder zur Steigerung der Kapitalrendite und des Börsenwertes dichtmachen und damit die wirtschaftliche Existenz von Tausenden mitsamt ihren Familien vernichten? Den Menschen zeigt sich die hässliche Fratze eines unsittlichen und auch ökonomisch falschen Kapitalismus, wenn der Börsenwert und die Managergehälter - an den Aktienkurs gekoppelt - umso höher steigen, je mehr Menschen wegrationalisiert werden..."

Soweit das Statement des ehemaligen CDU-Generalsekretärs Dr. Heiner Geißler.

http://f24.parsimony.net/forum56725/messages/30818.htm Volltext


Nachricht von Gerd Zesar




"Die globalisierte Ökonomie ist eine Welt der Anarchie - ohne Regeln"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/508738/

Seehofer will mit aller Kraft gegen neoliberale Strömungen kämpfen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/508722/

Siemens bezahlte Vorsitzende des Forschungsausschusses
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/462540/

Sozialabbau
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Sozialabbau/

The Generals Speak

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6593163?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1100666488500&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872


Informant: ItalysBadBoy

Big Brother steckt im Handy

Neue Technologie analysiert das Verhalten von Mobiltelefon-Besitzern...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18897/1.html

Momentum builds for an Oil Free Coast in BC

http://tinyurl.com/45h8k

Signs of the Times

http://tinyurl.com/5vb25

Pause im Konsumrausch : Kauf-Nix-Tag 2004

Verbrauchermacht: Pause im Konsumrausch - 27.11. wird der Kauf-Nix-Tag 2004 (26.11.04)

Am Samstag wird zum dreizehnten Mal der internationale Kauf-Nix-Tag gefeiert. Der Kauf-Nix-Tag, englisch Buy-Nothing-Day, ist ein weltweiter Aktionstag für bewussten Konsum und ein Protest gegen umweltschädliche und unmenschliche Herstellungsbedingungen. In Deutschland unterstützen der Verein Narra e.V. und die Konsumnetz-AG des globalisierungskritischen Netzwerks Attac den Kauf-Nix-Tag. "Wir wollen auf die Widersprüche der Konsumgesellschaft aufmerksam machen, in der die Armut zunimmt und gleichzeitig 17 Milliarden Dollar für Tiernahrung ausgegeben werden", sagte Oliver Voss von Narra.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9849

Neues deutsches Gentechnikgesetz richtungsweisend für Europa

Gentechnik: Neues deutsches Gentechnikgesetz richtungsweisend für Europa (26.11.04)

Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) hat Rot-Grün für den heute im Bundestag verabschiedeten Teil des Gentechnikgesetzes gelobt. Gegen massive Widerstände aus Industrie, Opposition und Teilen der SPD sei es gelungen, im Gesetz das Verursacherprinzip zu verankern. So müssten bei Verunreinigungen von gentechnikfreien Feldern diejenigen haften, die gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen anbauten. Außerdem seien die Gentech-Nutzer künftig verantwortlich, Maßnahmen gegen die Verunreinigung gentechfreier Produkte zu ergreifen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9854


Gentechnik: Gen-Mais mit 20 Meter Abstand kein Problem mehr? (25.11.04)

Ob Gen-Mais neben herkömmlichen Maissorten angebaut werden kann, ohne den herkömmlichen Mais gentechnisch zu verunreinigen, bejaht das Land Sachen-Anhalt. Seit Mai 2004 wurden auf insgesamt 28 geheim gehaltenen Feldern in sieben Bundesländern Genmais angebaut. Die wissenschaftliche Auswertung ergab, dass der Schwellenwert bei Mais von 0,9 Prozent bei bisher sechs untersuchten Feldern nicht überschritten wurde, wenn eine Pufferzone von 20 Metern um den Gen-Mais eingehalten würde.

Während Hermann Onko Aikens, Staatssekretär des Umweltministeriums Sachsen-Anhalts mit den Worten "Wir brauchen Mut zur Veränderung." für die Gentechnik warb, kritisiert der Umweltverband greenpeace die Blauäugigkeit des Anbaus. "Es ist längst bekannt, das in den USA und in Kanada die Trennung von genmanipulierten und gentechnikfreien Pflanzen auf dem Acker, bei der Ernte und bei der Verarbeitung nicht funktioniert, " so Christoph Then von dem Verein.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9833

Voter Fraud Update

http://tinyurl.com/6barw

Report on US human Rights Violations, Voting Fraud

http://tinyurl.com/553w9

What you didn't know about the dollar & Iraq

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=31327


Informant: Andy Thames

Feeding the World or the Corporations?

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FTWOCG.php

The burden of the wounded

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK25Ak03.html


Informant: Andrea Ball

Fundamental Flaws Put Our Voting System at Risk

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112604K.shtml

Asia Faces Living Nightmare From Climate Change

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28300/story.htm

Human/Animal Hybrids Reported

http://www.WantToKnow.info/humananimalhybrids


Informant: WantToKnow.info

No child left unmedicated

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is under way, and pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. Like most liberal big-spending ideas, this one was slipped into the law under cover of soft semantics. Its genesis was the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health created by President George W. Bush in 2002. The commission recommends "routine and comprehensive" testing and mental health screening for every child in the United States, including preschoolers. The president has instructed 25 federal agencies to develop a plan to implement the commission's recommendations. The commission proposes using electronic medical records for mental health interrogation of both children and adults for mental illnesses in school and during routine physical exams. The commission also recommends integrating electronic health records and personal health information systems. It recommends "linkage" of these mental examinations with "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." That means prescribing more expensive patented antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs. Illinois became the first state to jump on board. By near-unanimous votes in 2003, the General Assembly passed the $10 million Illinois Children's Mental Health Act creating a Children's Mental Health Partnership, which is expected to become a model for other states.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/november2004/241104nochild.htm
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20041123.shtml


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 25th, 2004

"Smart Dust" May Soon Be Watching You

Big Brother on every building, door and window ledge. It's a project first dreamed up by the military to get information from the battlefield. They call it "Smart Dust" and it may soon make it possible to keep track of anything, anywhere, including you. They are the world's smallest wireless sensors. And at about the size of a wristwatch, the contain a battery powered microphone, an accelerometer, as well as temperature and humidity sensors, according to Sam Godwin, Vice President of Crossbow. Scatter them 250 feet apart and they will form their own wireless network similar to a spider's web. A Smart Dust coated world may still be a few years away. But it's possible f or an invention that could save us from pipeline accidents and keep our children safe, to also put Big Brother on every building, door and window ledge.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/smart_dust_watching_you.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 25th, 2004

'Arrest Without Evidence' Planned By Government

The Government is planning a change in the law to allow police to arrest suspects without evidence, it was claimed today. The Law Society said it believed the new powers would be included in the Bill which will create the new British FBI. It warned that the cumulative effect of the Government's clampdown on crime and terrorism would be a step towards a police state. Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's chief executive, said: "The Government is in serious danger of overstating the threat to public order and national security and bringing in draconian new laws, which will take away centuries of hard won rights. "If the Bill to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) includes the power to arrest someone without evidence, then solicitors could not support it.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/no_evidence_arrests_planned.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 25th, 2004

ANGRY IN AMERICA

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/25/ldt.01.html


Informant: CHEROKEE

Adult Cancer in Sweden

A study published by the British Medical Association in November (Tondel 2004) shows an unexpected increase in adult cancers in Sweden after Chernobyl.

A preliminary examination shows:-

1) The 849 extra cancers registered in 9 post-accident years 1988 and 1996 (a 30% increase in incidence) are at least 125 times the incidence predicted by ICRP on the basis of Caesium doses. This minimum figure is on the conservative assumption that the effect is transient and that there will be no excess after 1996. This is very unlikely. If the effect is representative of the distribution of risks throughout life, and in this case the increase is more than 600 times greater than expected. If, as the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority is now saying (BBC 2004), “Most cancer cases don’t develop until 20, 30 or 50 years later” (compare with the lifetime follow-up of Hiroshima survivors, which shows a consistent upward trend) the excess will worsen and the implied error in ICRP’s modelling will be greater than 600. We can see 600 as the central estimate. (We will shortly add a page to www.llrc.org to show the calculation of these figures. Note that SRPA has previously estimated that in 50 years around 300 people in Sweden would be affected by the Chernobyl fallout [BBC 2004])

2) The dose response trend calculated by Tondel on the basis of the various level of Caesium deposition is biphasic, not linear. In other words it does not conform with the ICRP dogma that dose and effect are always strictly proportional or "linear". The Tondel study does not show twice as much dose causing twice as much cancer. Many observations show non-linear relationships like this - see, for example, the summaries of papers from the Chernobyl affected territories on http://www.llrc.org/chernobyl.htm.

3) The 30% increase conforms with predictions made by Chris Busby in "Wings of Death" (Busby 1996) on the basis of cancer data in Wales and England following weapons test fallout.


Further comment:
The doses given by Tondel et al. are calculated from Caesium fallout. This may mean nothing since Caesium is a gamma emitter which means that its energy deposition (in the form of ionisations) is spatially well distributed in tissue. It is, moreover, soluble and does not form particles. Its health effects are therefore likely to conform with the external irradiation models.

However, it is well known that north Sweden received a large amount of fallout in the form of Uranium fuel particles. With diameters of less than a few millionths of a metre such particles are highly mobile in the environment and they can be inhaled or swallowed. Once embedded in body tissue they deliver their energy so locally that the few cells immediately next to them are irradiated at very high energies while the rest of the body gets no dose at all. This makes nonsense of the concept of "average dose" – another establishment dogma.

Childhood leukaemia after Chernobyl – more evidence falsifying Cerrie.

Infant leukaemia increases after Chernobyl, according to the Cerrie Majority Report, did not feed through into incidence beyond the first year of life. We have now obtained data from the whole of Wales and Scotland which shows that this is wrong. Plotting incidence in children up to the age of 9 shows that the cohort born in 1986 – 88 has roughly 50% greater risk of leukaemia compared to the pre-accident period. We are preparing a paper for publication.


References

BBC News on-line 21st Nov ‘04 see Chernobyl ‘caused Sweden cancers’

Busby 1996 "Wings of Death: Nuclear Pollution and Human Health" Green Audit, Aberystwyth 1995 ISBN: 1-897761-03-1

Martin Tondel, Peter Hjalmarsson, Lennart Hardell, Göran Carlsson and Olav Axelson Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004;58:1011-1016 "Increase of regional total cancer incidence in north Sweden due to the Chernobyl accident?" Abstract at http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/58/12/1011


Richard Bramhall
Low Level Radiation Campaign
bramhall@llrc.org
The Knoll, Montpellier Park
Llandrindod Wells,
Powys LD1 5LW U.K.
+44(0)1597 824771
07887 942043

Arbeitnehmer ziehen den Kürzeren

Löhne steigen langsamer als die Gewinne der Unternehmen / DGB-Institut kritisiert Steuerpolitik

"Die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland wird immer schiefer - nicht zuletzt durch staatliche Politik. Folgen sind steigende Armut und stagnierender Konsum. Zu dem Ergebnis kommt das DGB-Institut WSI…."

Artikel von Roland Bunzenthal in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 25.11.2004

http://www.fr-aktuell.de/fr_home/startseite/?sid=5473574fe3cb8d44eb4f3d52ced6c967&cnt=595177


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 19, Eintrag 18

Über die langfristig irreparablen Folgen des deutschen Sozialdumpings

Über Gesundheit spricht niemand mehr

Der Arbeitszeitforscher Eckart Hildebrandt über die langfristig
irreparablen Folgen des deutschen Sozialdumpings. Interview von
Andreas Kahler in Freitag vom 12.11.2004

http://www.freitag.de/2004/47/04470501.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 19, Eintrag 18

Falluja: The 21st Century Guernica

A November 14 Reuters reporter wrote that residents told him that "U.S. bombardments hit a clinic inside the Sunni Muslim city, killing doctors, nurses and patients." The U.S. military denied the reports. Such stories did not make headlines. Civilian casualties in aggressive U.S. wars don’t sell media space.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2456

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Bombing The Sick And Dying

by MILES SCHUMAN

While the North American news media have focused on the military triumph of US Marines in Falluja, little attention has been paid to reports that US armed forces killed scores of patients in an attack on a Falluja health center and have deprived civilians of medical care, food and water.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7369.htm

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This is our Guernica

Ruined, cordoned Falluja is emerging as the decade's monument to brutality

Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail

Refugees told one of us that civilians carrying white flags were gunned down by American soldiers. Corpses were tied to US tanks and paraded around like trophies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8673.htm

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Brutal Reality of War: Dead-Check in Falluja
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/415479/

Bring Them Home Before They Kill Again - The Horrors of Fallujah
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405678/

Iraq: Urgent action needed to prevent war crimes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412999/

A Time To Break the Democrats’ Silence on Falluja and the Escalation of the War in Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409068/

PDA Statement on Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408709/

Read more under:
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Falluja

Ohio Update: More voting questions raised

Several new voting concerns surfaced yesterday as lawyers combed totals from the Nov. 2 presidential election. An Akron man filed a complaint with the Summit County Board of Elections saying he "witnessed election judges telling potential voters that they could cast a provisional ballot at any table or precinct and if they did so, it would be counted."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2452

Army National Guard Fails Short of Recruiting Goal by 30 Percent

The U.S. military again failed to meet recruiting goals. To make up for the serious shortage, the U.S. began a "back door" draft: Soldiers can't leave the military, even after their enlistment contracts end. U.S. deaths in Iraq reached 109 for November, and 1,230 since the war began. An additional 9,000 are wounded, and 15,000 more are injured or ill, many of them from the National Guard or Reserve. Young men and women are voting with their feet against the Iraq War by not enlisting or re-enlisting, and this means a full-scale draft looms on the horizon.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2451

DO WE WANT A TETRA MAST FOR XMAS?

Who would be daft enough to stick a guinea pig in a microwave oven and expect it to pay for the privilege? No one, you would have thought, but think again!

What is the technology used for the new communication system, called Airwave Tetra, rolled out for the 51 police forces across the UK? Microwave transmission!

Is this system tried and tested on humans? No! The police forces and also, indirectly, the general public are the guinea pigs for the next 15 years, but only the police forces get a health survey of sorts…but not directly for health issues, which I understand are discouraged.

Who is to pay for this? The government? No! MM02 Airwave? No! Who then?

We, the general public, of course, through the police quota of the council tax.

As I understand it, we will be paying for it for fifteen years and the cost is predicted to go up from original figures quoted.

Already police forces are declaring they have not got enough money to provide for the present services and the tetra roll-out is not yet complete! Can we afford to pay for this tetra system and, more importantly, should we be subjected to it, since it is untested and untried on humans?

In view of all this, do we really need a tetra mast in any local area this Xmas?

If you think not, take a look at the http://www.mastsanity.org website or write to your MP.

Sandi Lawrence


From: Mast Network

Von wo unser Papier kommt : "Melde Totalschaden!"

Hintergrund: Von wo unser Papier kommt: "Melde Totalschaden!"
(25.11.2004)

Papier aus Indonesien liegt auch in deutschen Verkaufsregalen.
Dafür wird der Wald zerstört. Besonders schlimm hat es Sumatra
getroffen - ein Beschreibung von der Front.

http://www.pro-regenwald.de/index2.php?p=new_suma.php

Volksbegehren: 'Aus Liebe zum Wald'

Volksbegehren: 'Aus Liebe zum Wald' braucht jede Stimme (25.11.2004)

Bis zum 29.11. (Montag) können (und sollten) sich in Bayern gemeldete BürgerInnen zugunsten der einheimischen Wälder gegen die geplante Forstreform eintragen. Pro REGENWALD gibt Argumentationshilfe ...

http://www.pro-regenwald.de/index2.php?p=new_vobe.php

Immigrant Right To Vote

http://tinyurl.com/6uaau

Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html


Informant: Heidi Chesney

Jackson plans rally with ministers to call for election investigation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1022252&mesg_id=1022252
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2614285


Informant: Heidi Chesney

Radiation : Anatomy of a Cover-up

Following publication of the Minority and Majority reports of CERRIE (UK Government Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters) the Low Level Radiation Campaign has begun to explain the shortcomings of the Majority report. We start with its ridiculous account of a four way split over leukaemia diagnosed in babies born during the two years after Chernobyl. A statistically significant increase was widely reported. Some members thought it didn't happen at all, some thought it did happen but could be interpreted to show that no more babies got leukaemia than they would expect on the basis of the radiation doses, some thought it was worse than that, but the Majority Report doesn't say how much worse nor why. And we said it's between 150 and 800 times worse than expected, demonstrating that conventional risk estimates are wrong. Confused? – you should be. Go to http://www.llrc.org and Click on "Anatomy of a Cover-up" to see how a Committee can tell lies in the defence of a powerful vested interest. Don't expect logic or science – it's all about power.

Later today:- Adult cancer in Sweden after Chernobyl (this one is nothing to do with CERRIE – it's just topical).

A recent paper (cited below) reveals that cancer in north Sweden increased by 30% over 9 years after Chernobyl. Later today (Friday 26th November) we will send an email circular with a preliminary analysis. This early rise in cancer shows that conventional modelling underestimates risk by at least a factor of 125.

(Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004;58:1011-1016 "Increase of regional total cancer incidence in north Sweden due to the Chernobyl accident?" Tondel et al.)


Richard Bramhall
Low Level Radiation Campaign
bramhall@llrc.org
The Knoll, Montpellier Park
Llandrindod Wells,
Powys LD1 5LW U.K.
+44(0)1597 824771
07887 942043

Canadians getting ready to "welcome" Bush

http://tinyurl.com/6fk49

Refuse to Surrender Your Freedom

http://tinyurl.com/66g7j

Thugs, Racketeers Counting America's Votes

http://www.madcowprod.com/11242004.html


Informant: civl ecco

Election Day Terror Drills

http://tinyurl.com/5ujs4

A Native Brother, Greywolf, Needs Your Help

Please pass this to Everyone you know
Pass it to All Yahoo-MSN and AOL groups
Including Pow Wows.com.

Many of us know or have read the help that this American Indian Man tries to do for All Native Americans and has helped many through his American-Indian-Injustice group. Although he hasn't talked about his own problems. He himself needs the help of others.

In March of 2003 Thomas Atkins (Greywolf) a U.S.Army Veteren of the Chickahominy and Mattaponi Tribes injured his left back and shoulder moving a 200-600lb wall with a manual crane on his job with Winchester Homes Inc. located in Baltimore and Bethesda Maryland. Winchester Homes is a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Lumber Corporation of Seattle Washington (one of the largest lumber companies in the world) and the insurer of Winchester Homes Employees.

After the company doctors gave him some Tylenol and a heat compress, Thomas was still in pain and was told to go back to work under light duty for a few days. He even told his supervisors he was still in pain, only to be told that if he took too many sick days he could be terminated. So rather then cause his family any monetary hardship he continued to work through the pain with the help of 4 Ibuprofen tablets every 6 hours.

Then in November of 2003, Thomas hurt the same left side of his back and shoulder again and his neck while stacking the smaller walls he was building. Again his employer took him to the company doctors. Thomas was given some stronger pain medication with 6 therapy sessions and returned back to work on light duty for a few days. He informed his supervisors again that he was still in pain. He was again told that if he took too many sick days he could be terminated. But Thomas worked through the pain to support his family. In fact, it was common knowledge amongst Thomas' co-workers, that if you needed any Ibuprofen for pain to just go see him cause he always had the Motrin.

Then came the final blow. In February of 2004, Thomas was again injured. This time while nailing some cross-braces, he hit his thumb. This is something that carpenters do every once in awhile. It's the nature of swinging a hammer everyday as a profession. Thomas lost his thumb nail, chipped off the tip of his bone and required stitches. Only a few days after this incident, still with stitches and seeing the company doctors almost everyday to change his dressing. Thomas was called into the bosses office and terminated for supposedly being un-safe. Even though he had been a first aide First Responder for the company and a member of the Safety Committe. This from an employer that Thomas worked for three years, a year of which in severe pain. This after being told by his supervisor on a regular basis to turn down his pow wow music, while others were allowed to play their heavy metal and rap. This from a company who's supervisors allowed Thomas to be verbally assaulted by employees who were friendly with the bosses and when Thomas took up for himself. He was told, "Your Indian; You shouldn't let them get you angry, that's not the way of your people".

A company who has had several accidents over the last four years in which many were terminated almost immediately or right after they were cleared by the company doctors. If you were a worker hired through a Temp Agency you were never brought back if you received even the slightest injury. Now Winchester Homes Inc. of Baltimore Maryland and Weyerhaeuser Corporation have kept this case delayed at Maryland Workers Compensation for 10 months and is attempting to say that Thomas Atkins' injuries were pre-existing. Even though Thomas has never hurt his back, shoulder or neck before. This is a severe injustice to a Native Brother who was only trying to take care of his family by working for what he thought was a reputable company and is still in constant pain.

Thomas goes to bed at 10pm just about every night. He wakes up at around 2 or 3 am because the constant aches & pains wake him up. He has good days when the Ibuprofen actually works & they are few and far between. But they are over-shadowed by the bad days when sitting for an hour is too long or standing for 5 minutes is too much.

This can not stand. I am going to advise everyone I know to never buy a Weyehaeuser Product, buy a Winchester Home or give either company their business in any form. I ask everyone contact these companies and boycott them until they learn the proper way to treat their hard working employees. Especially their Native employees who have endured enough already and give Thomas Atkins the Compensation He so Truely Deserves. I implure you all to write to these people. Letting them know this is not right the way this man is being treated.

Thomas was a dedicated and loyal employee of Winchester Homes and Weyerhaeuser. Now he's a man about to lose everything he's worked for because they don't want to do the right thing.

Sincerly,
Helen Runningwater
A Choctaw Wife & Mother

I have sent this letter to the following places. Please do what I have done. This man needs your help.

Winchester Homes & Weyerhaeuser Company Officers:
steven.rogel@weyerhaeuser.com richard.hanson@weyerhaeuser.com
ernesta.ballard@weyerhaeuser.com lee.alford@weyerhaeuser.com
edward.rogel@weyerhaeuser.com larry.burrows@whihomes.com
larry.freiert@whihomes.com tom.bourke@whihomes.com
andy.warren@whihomes.com corporate@wri-online.com
dcmetro@wri-online.com

Government Officials: governor@state.md.us carme_amedori@house.state.md.us
curt_anderson@house.state.md.us john_astle@senate.state.md.us
kumar_barne@house.state.md.us michael_busch@house.state.md.us jon_cardin@house.state.md.us john_wood@house.state.md.us david_brinkly@house.state.md.us brian_frosh@senate.state.md.us verna_jones@senate.state.md.us ida_ruben@senate.state.md.us paul_stull@house.state.md.us
governor@state.wa.us sreed@secstate.wa.gov

Media Sources: mike.adams@baltsun.com trif.alatzas@baltsun.com kevin.cowherd@baltsun.com eileen.canzian@baltsun.com abramowitz@washpost.com barkinr@washpost.com
benningv@washpost.com blumenfeld@washpost.com
brennerr@washpost.com btimes@btimes.com pmilton@patuxent.com skelly@patuxent.com dmiller@patuxent.com jimlee@lcniofmd.com carriem@lcniofmd.com wjzme@comcast.net berry@wmar.com newsroom@wmar.com weinstein@wmar.com esullivan@citypaper.com editor@baltimoreguide.com newsroom@baltimoreguide.com eericson@citypaper.com aditkoff@citypaper.com info@ap.org
letters@nypost.com lwilliams@tri-cityherald.com krobertson@tri-cityherald.com
mfancher@seattletimes.com dboardman@seattletimes.com redhead@drtel.net
dbundy@ndonline.com national@latimes.com nationalnews@herald.com grayp@wjz.com bending@wjz.com sam@okit.com editor@indiancountry.com sobonews@baltimoreguide.com

25
Nov
2004

"Stolen Election" Flyer for Posting around

(excerpt)

http://freepress.org/eforum/viewtopic.php?t=53

Stolen Election Flyer for posting around town
Here's a flyer for posting around town,
http://img8.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img8&image=bush-stole-it.png

Leave a stack at a coffee shop, maybe those folks in the drive-thru coffee places will post it in their window.

Prints good in black and white.

We've got to be the media, we can't wait for the mainstream press to start picking this up- we've got to get the word out- now. If everyone knows about the stolen election, then we won't let the next attack turn into more.

Also, seeing as how Thanksgiving is a huge travel weekend, there is no better time to take the day off work, make some banners and FreewayBlog

Be the Change = Stop your own Status Quo
Boycott all Entertainment
- make your own infotainment to pass the word on to others
- now is the time.

Carpe Deim


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

"Stolen Election" Flyer for Posting around

(excerpt)

http://freepress.org/eforum/viewtopic.php?t=53

Stolen Election Flyer for posting around town
Here's a flyer for posting around town,
http://img8.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img8&image=bush-stole-it.png

Leave a stack at a coffee shop, maybe those folks in the drive-thru coffee places will post it in their window.

Prints good in black and white.

We've got to be the media, we can't wait for the mainstream press to start picking this up- we've got to get the word out- now. If everyone knows about the stolen election, then we won't let the next attack turn into more.

Also, seeing as how Thanksgiving is a huge travel weekend, there is no better time to take the day off work, make some banners and FreewayBlog

Be the Change = Stop your own Status Quo
Boycott all Entertainment
- make your own infotainment to pass the word on to others
- now is the time.

Carpe Deim


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Greenwashing as "corporate responsibility"

http://tinyurl.com/53bel


In Message "Greenwashing as "corporate responsibility" it was mentioned that the UK carrier O2 got an award for its "corporate responsibility policy".

Flush with that so-called "award" O2 is now going after an even bigger award. - Becoming an essential provider for government services by helping to create the "mobile government".

What's next on O2's Christmas wish list for Santa? How about legislation requiring all UK citizens who collect government benefits to have a mobile phone so that they can communicate with their "mobile' government? Or how about a special "welcome to the world" phone contract attached to all birth certificates - complete with a mobile phone shaped dummy so that the toddlers get use to handling the phone?

I can imagine O2's department of spin doctors working overtime, much like Santa's little band of elves, dreaming up all this stuff!

Note below that The mobile government conference, exhibition and seminar sessions are planned to take place on Tuesday 8th March 2005 at the QEII Conference Centre, London.

Wouldn't it be interesting if all the UK anti-mast organisations had a mass rally at the QEII Conference Centre on the same day - with speakers giving another perspective on the mobile revolution.

Don Maisch


http://govnet.co.uk/mobilegov/index.htm

"The high levels of mobile phone penetration mean it is vital to think about [mobiles] as a delivery mechanism for government services" e-Government Unit Spokesperson, 'Government Goes Mobile', BBC Online.

Mobile Government promises to play a major part in the electronic delivery of government services. However, its potential is above and beyond that of the 2005 government online targets. There are opportunities for mobile government to have a bearing on every single service delivered by the public sector: from parking to health, and in every single way: from how public sector staff do their jobs to direct public interaction with government.

The UK is well set for a mobile government revolution. We have one of the highest levels of mobile handset penetration - the necessary basic ingredient to encourage the m-citizen alongside the e-citizen.

"People, companies and governments need to understand how the mobile has re-shaped society for good" - Richard Brown, group public affairs director of O2.

The platform for successful mobile government is already in place. Suppliers in the market place have established relationships with the public in terms of mobile content and there is a space for applications of mobile government. Coupling this with other applications such as digital pens, the Blackberry and positioning systems - all of which can facilitate and improve the quality of services delivered - the mobile government age is surely upon us.

With this in mind, GovNet Events are proud to present this timely strategy event for central & local government departments, the wider public sector and public sector suppliers, providing a programme that will examine the potential for mobile government and showcase successful applications currently making a difference in central and local government departments all over the UK and Europe. The morning sessions will concentrate on mobile applications facilitating efficient public sector working. The afternoon sessions will look at how citizens can interact more closely with government through mobile technology.

Key senior figures from organisations at the centre of mobile government implementation will report on their experiences to develop services that benefit both their staff and the citizen, whilst remaining secure.

Over 300 key decision makers will join 20 speakers and 20 exhibitors for this high profile and prestigious event. The conference, exhibition and seminar sessions take place on Tuesday 8th March 2005 at the QEII Conference Centre, London.

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The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/

The unbridled alliance of science and industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297097/

How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350582/

Workshop on Biological Effects of EMF, Kos, Greece
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363969/

U.S. Double Standard Prompts UN Tactical Twists

The United States, which traditionally castigates human rights violators before the United Nations each year, has rarely or ever been formally condemned by the world body for its own transgressions of civil liberties.

http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26381


From Information Clearing House

Guardsmen Say They're Facing Iraq Ill-Trained

Members of a California Army National Guard battalion preparing for deployment to Iraq said this week that they were under strict lockdown and being treated like prisoners rather than soldiers

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=28&u=/latimests/20041125/ts_latimes/guardsmensaytheyrefacingiraqilltrained
http://snipurl.com/awb0


From Information Clearing House

20,802 US Soldiers Heavily Wounded

The official number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq that was announced by the US DOD (department of defense) is 8458 in Iraq and 423 in Afghanistan. The US military hospital in Germany reports that 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in "Operations Iraqi Freedom" (occupying Iraq) and "Enduring Freedom" (occupying Afghanistan).

http://207.44.245.159/article7367.htm

Kerry campaign blew it on fraud investigation

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/24/143638/04


Informant: Heidi Chesney

Vote Fraud Demos All Around The Country

This is really exciting--there are going to be vote fraud demos all around the country starting this weekend until the 18th (so far).

In addition, If anyone is either interested in going to Ohio to volunteer for the recount if transportation is subsidized or has frequent flyer miles that they would donate, let me know. Also please don't forget to check out the updated action alerts page: the latest Ohio action is really urgent (and keep checking for updates) http://stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html .

Saturday, November 27th, Protest Rally, NYC
Where: NYC: Times Square, south side of island at 44th
between Broadway and 7th Ave.
When: Saturday, November 27 at 1:00 (I'd like
volunteers to start arriving around 12:30 to make sure we're set up).
http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/bbballot-invitation.htm

Please RSVP and Need volunteers to help design the flyers, make signs, and help with PR (there is some possibility I might do this again next week on the 4th. Let me know if you would be interested in that) contact :alexisact@yahoo.com

Saturday, November 27th, Protest Rally, Kansas City, MO.
1:00 p.m. 47th & Main, Mill Creek Park by Fountain.
No Stolen Elections. Bring signs. Distribute flyers after rally. (Contact kc4kerry@yahoogroups.com)

Monday, November 29th, Demonstration, San Francisco, CA.
11:00 a.m. : 900 Front St. KGO TV.
12:00 noon : 1700 Montgomery St. Sen. Boxer's office.
(Contact dan@redefeatbush.com ,
Cheryl Lilienstein, Donald Goldmacher, 650-856-0624, 510-527-1761,
lilienstein@earthlink.net,
dongolmacher@sbcglobal.net)

Thursday, December 2nd, No Stolen Elections KC Meeting, Kansas City, MO
7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Location to be announced.
(Contact kc4kerry@yahoogroups.com)

Saturday, December 4th, Rally, Columbus, OH.
1:00 p.m. High & Broad Sts., Ohio Statehouse.
(Contact http://www.caseohio.org)

Saturday, December 4th, Protest Rally, Kansas City, MO.
1:00 p.m. 47th & Main, Mill Creek Park by Fountain.
No Stolen Elections. Bring signs. Distribute flyers after rally.
(Contact kc4kerry@yahoogroups.com)

Saturday, December 18th Protest, New York, NY.
2:00 p.m. Washington Square Park, Manhattan.
(Contact prez@nownyc.org)

Ray Beckerman
http://www.fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com

And don't forget to do urgent actions to facilitate recounts (which could possibly lead to overturning the election!) and investigate fraud on this page-- thanks, Cheryl
http://stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html .


Take care,
Cheryl Guttman

Tell the Senate torture is not an American value

Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote
United States Army (Retired)

I am writing you today to ask you to join me in opposing the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States, by signing a letter which will be delivered by Veterans for Common Sense to the United States Senate in the coming weeks.

When I served as Commander of the 42d Military Police Group in Germany from July '83 - July '85, I was responsible for executing the group's wartime mission, should the need arise, of collecting and controlling all enemy prisoners of war taken in theatre operations. Inherent in that responsibility was the absolute requirement that the Group, its leaders and its soldiers adhere strictly to the Geneva Convention in safeguarding the rights of American Forces' prisoners of war and in insuring that prisoners were treated humanely and appropriately in all instances.

Sadly, since September 11, 2001, those priorities have been overridden by some people in the administration who believe that in order to fight terrorism, we have to abandon our standards and honor. We have seen an administration work to abandon our international agreements. We have seen an administration twist legal logic in order to redefine torture and try to make it acceptable. And, sadly, we have seen the deaths in custody of prisoners held by U.S. forces.

One of the first responsibilities our forces bear under the Geneva Conventions is the protection of prisoners of war. These rules not only protect enemy prisoners of war, but protect our own troops when they are captured on the battlefield, and provide an international legal framework for punishing those who violate those rules.

The key author of the quasi-legal arguments to define torture and re-classify prisoners of war was White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales. Why do we oppose his nomination?

Mr. Gonzales believes that parts of the Geneva Conventions are "obsolete" and "quant." According to a January 2002 memo to President George Bush, Mr. Gonzales argued, over the objections of Secretary of State Colin Powell, that the United States should not adhere to its requirements under the Geneva conventions because it wasn't practical.

Gonzales approved a Justice Department document which twisted reality by redefining the meaning of the word torture.

Under Gonzales's tenure as White House Counsel, American citizens have been held without trial; without counsel; without the basic Constitutional protections that both the President, and military veterans, swore to defend, in their oaths of office.

According to the news media, Gonzales nomination is expected to sail through the Senate, with only token questioning. We can change that, by making clear our expectation that Gonzales be strongly questioned in his confirmation hearings and that ultimately his candidacy should be rejected.

You can join us, by signing our letter to the U.S. Senate, which will be delivered when confirmation hearings begin to members of the Judiciary Committee, and to the full Senate before his nomination comes up for a vote.

Please join us in telling the Senate that torture is not an American value.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/campaigns/attygen.cfm

Thank you for your support for our work. Together we can make a difference, and a better future for our country.

Sincerely,

Evelyn P. Foote
Brigadier General, United States Army, Retired.

PETITION TETRA MAST PITTENWEEM PRIMARY SCHOOL

This was sent to me via email coord for our information. Maybe he needs plannig info from one of you?? I have all his details.

Sandi


Douglas Sinclair, CBE, Chief Executive,
Fife Council
Fife House
North Street
GLENROTHES
Fife KY7 5LT

18 November 2004

Dear Mr. Sinclair,

PETITION ­ TETRA MAST ­ PITTENWEEM PRIMARY SCHOOL

I refer to my previous correspondence with Mr. Jim Birrell, Development Manager (Development & Regeneration) regarding the above, copies of which you should have received.

Twice now I have requested information from Mr. Birrell about complaint procedures so that I may pursue a complaint regarding the Council¹s act of discrimination against the citizens of Pittenweem as expressed in the above petition.

I also wish to pursue a complaint about the misinformation promulgated by various Council officers regarding the assertion that as a planning authority the Council is not able to legitimately concern itself with possible health effects when dealing with planning applications to erect TETRA masts.

There is much to question about the Council¹s assessment of its own role as being 'restricted' in relation to possible health risks associated with TETRA masts, balanced against its duty of care towards the citizens of Fife, especially towards our children and our elderly population.

There are also serious issues concerning the way in which Fife Council¹s mechanisms for 'decision making' have undermined and eroded some very fundamental democratic principles, so it would seem. Initially the wishes of many communities were reflected in their local councillors decisions to refuse planning permission for the erection of TETRA masts. Those wishes were then thwarted by a central Fife committee, the Environment & Development Committee, which took control and approved those planning applications, contrary to the wishes of the communities and their elected representatives.

As I have received no information from Mr. Birrell about the Council¹s complaint procedures regarding the above, I would be grateful for some clear guidance on how I may use whatever complaint procedures are in place.

I feel you should know that there are many of us in and around Pittenweem who remain deeply unhappy about the Council¹s role in siting a TETRA mast so close to peoples¹ homes and to the Primary School. Judging from the response we had from local residents and visitors to the petition referred to above, the concern is shared by an overwhelming majority of Fife citizens.

Yours sincerely,

Adam Alexander
East Neuk Campaign Against Tetra

Cc Cllr. Anne McGovern, Leader of the Administration
Cllr. Mike Scott-Hayward
Cllr. Elizabeth Riches
Cllr. Mike Rumney, Chair, Environment & Development Committee
Sir Menzies Campbell, M.P.
Pittenweem Primary School Board
Pittenweem Community Council


From: Mast Network

Beware Monsanto’s "Vistive Soybeans"

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BMVS.php

Omega-News Collection 25. November 2004

STOP STATE MENTAL SCREENING/DATABASES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412359/

SOS - Scheduled to be deported back to Iran
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414205/

Top Air Polluters in United States
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/411014/

Half of Brazil's Amazon Jungle Occupied
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414160/

Outgoing Congress Whacks Away Wilderness Protections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/415555/

Stop the Killing at HLS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/413237/

The Science of Abrupt Climate Change
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/415140/

One Planet Living' community
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412366/

Congress Funds Psychological Tests for Kids
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414726/

Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/415143/

Take back the Constitutional Governement legally - Restore our Republic by STANDING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/410146/

56% of soldiers who served in Gulf War now have medical problems
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409421/

News Gathering Is Illegal Under New Patriot Act ll
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408946/

Can the Economy Survive the Attacks?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409429/

America's Declining `Superpower' Status
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409552/

Congress Says No to New Nuclear Weapons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/415568/

Bush wants strong dollar, pledges to cut budget deficit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/410124/

The avalanche is coming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/410116/

Economic `Armageddon' predicted
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414719/

US starts planning the war on Iran
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/410798/

Situation of Democracy and Human Rights in the United States of America
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/410890/

The Consequences of Surrendering Liberty to Government Security
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414062/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Pilot Voices Potential Cause For Florida Hurricanes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/411035/

New mobile phone link to cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412375/

Appeal won in Oxted
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408725/

The danger of chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409463/

Biological effects of EMFs still in search of a mechanism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/411385/

Biological effects of electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/411427/

In the last 20 years, since the the introduction of mobile phones, the incidence of brain cancers has gone up by 40%
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414029/

Fighting the battle on all fronts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/411431/

Message about Tetra from Cumbria
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409501/

The Masts Crusaders
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412346/

International Pressure Group
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/413995/

TETRA REFUSED
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414625/

Optus ordered by Land & Envt Court to turn off mobile phone tower
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/413118/

HOUSTON SCHOOLKIDS TAGGED AND TRACKED LIKE INVENTORY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409497/

VERICHIP - Coming to a store (or arm) near you
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/413219/

Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/412456/

PAIN RAY GOING AIRBORNE
http://tinyurl.com/67ctw

Of Mice, Men and In-Between
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409475/

GM firms finally give up on planting in Britain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/413231/

EU-Rat drängt das Parlament bei Biometriepässen zur Eile

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53654

Congress Says No to New Nuclear Weapons

http://tinyurl.com/3re28

Outgoing Congress Whacks Away Wilderness Protections

WASHINGTON -- November 22 --

In its final action, the 108th Congress nullified the effects of three recent court rulings extending key wilderness protections to wildlife refuge, national park and forest lands, according to Wilderness Watch and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Through unrelated provisions inserted in the $388 billion omnibus bill, Congressional leaders cut back wilderness safeguards in Alaska, Idaho and the Georgia seacoast.

Ironically, 2004 marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act. In last week's lame duck session, Congress, for the first time, stripped wilderness protection from federal lands. And, for only the second time in 40 years, it suspended restrictions on motorized access to an existing wilderness. The three anti-wilderness riders affected -

· Cumberland Island, which lies off Georgia's southeast coast, is the largest undeveloped barrier island on the eastern seaboard. The island provides shelter for over 300 species of birds and nesting sites for sea turtles, including the threatened loggerhead sea turtle. The entire island was designated as the Cumberland Island National Seashore in 1972. Ten years later Congress designated 8,800 acres of the heart of the Island's north end as the Cumberland Island Wilderness. The rider breaks up the contiguous wilderness into tiny pieces, approves roads cutting through the remaining wilderness and authorizes motorized tours by park concessionaires. The rider renders moot an 11th Circuit ruling won earlier this year by Wilderness Watch and PEER;

· Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Wildernesses represent 90% of all refuge wilderness in the U.S. Last year, the 9th Circuit ruled that commercial aquaculture activities are prohibited within national wildlife refuge wilderness in Alaska. A rider sponsored by Alaska Senator Ted Stevens will make commercial aquaculture allowable in all refuge wildernesses in Alaska; and

· Wild Salmon River, which flows through the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho, the largest contiguous wilderness in the lower 48. The U.S. Forest Service allowed seven commercial outfitters over the years to set up temporary outfitter camps along the congressionally designated Wild Salmon River. The outfitters gradually turned those temporary camps into permanent structures (cabins and lodges with glass windows, doors, covered porches, septic systems, etc) for their clientele. The Wild & Scenic Rivers Act prohibits permanent structures within a Wild River corridor. When a new Forest Supervisor told the outfitters the camps must go, four complied, removing all developments from their campsites. Three, however, refused to dismantle their structures. Wilderness Watch then sued and won a district ruling that the lodges were illegal and had to be removed within 5 years. This rider authorizes the lodges to remain.

"Forty years ago the American people made a covenant with future generations to protect the few remaining remnants of the original wild America," stated George Nickas, executive director of Wilderness Watch. "This Congress broke that promise. That they could do so with such impunity is a sad testament to the short-sighted greed and lack of integrity that are the hallmarks of the current leadership in Washington."

In the one instance where it acted to extend wilderness protection, the lame duck Congress also created exceptions for use of motorized recreation, an anathema to wilderness. Thus, in designating wilderness at Apostle Island National Lakeshore in Wisconsin, Congress continued to allow "the use of motors on the lake waters, including snowmobiles."

"These latest Congressional actions cavalierly cast aside four decades of national wilderness policy for the benefit of a tiny handful of well-connected constituents," commented PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, pointing to Greyfield Inn, the private corporation that had run motorized tours through Cumberland Island wilderness areas for its guests, as the sole beneficiary of one rider. "Unfortunately, the current Congressional leadership appears quite willing to sell out the Wilderness Act to the highest bidder."

See the 11th Circuit decision on Cumberland Island
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200315346.pdf

Read the resignation statement of one of the Park Service's top wilderness officials and learn about actions by the Park Service to

Block implementation of the Wilderness Act
http://www.peer.org/press/426.html

Wilderness Watch is based in Missoula, Montana. Founded in 1989, it is the only national organization dedicated solely to the protection and proper stewardship of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Wilderness Watch has an active chapter in Atlanta, Georgia and Fairbanks, Alaska. http://www.wildernesswatch.org/

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national organization that promotes environmental ethics and government accountability. PEER works on behalf of agency resource professionals to effect fundamental change in the way their agencies conduct the public's business. http://www.peer.org/

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1122-11.htm


Informant: Teresa Binstock

No changes in final Warren Co. vote count

E-mails released Monday show lockdown pre-planned - November 16, 2004 (OH) Warren County finished its vote count Monday without any results changing... Warren County has drawn national attention for its election night problems, from three-hour-plus lines at the polls to locking down the administration building during the vote count because of terrorism [?!?] concerns [so that the results could be manipulated]. Federal and local homeland security officials say they didn't know of an increased threat in Warren County. County Commissioner Pat South has said the decision to lock the doors election night was made during an Oct. 28 closed-door meeting (the Thursday before Election Day). But in e-mailed memos dated Oct. 25 and Oct. 26 - released Monday after an Enquirer public records request - other county officials were already detailing the security measures, down to the wording of signs that would be posted on the locked doors.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160355/1056
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news%EF%BF%BD

Informant: ranger116

Group Finds Problems With Voting Machines

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-electronic-voting-maryland,0,2158419,print.story


Informant: lynnzy

Fundamental flaws put our voting system at risk

According to Ralph Neas and the Election Protection monitors, "The notion that the 2004 presidential election ran "smoothly" is a myth. In fact, the system is flawed, and significant barriers to the ballot box remain, especially for minorities and the poor. Particularly in urban districts with too few voting stations, lines were up to 10 hours long. These excessive bottlenecks disenfranchised untold thousands who could not afford to wait that long and had to return to their jobs or children before reaching the voting booth."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2444

Brutal Reality of War : Dead-Check in Falluja

A reporter writes about how he witnessed "a cold-blooded execution" during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This news article raises disturbing questions about the horror of the U.S. occupation as well as self-censorship among reporters.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2440


Medics Testify to Fallujah's Horrors

Here's an article that wasn't printed during the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003: The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by a rocket, it took hours for him to regain his composure. Nothing in his training as a Navy medical corpsman had prepared him for the sight of the dead Marine brought in September to the military field hospital outside Fallujah. "I walked around in shock," said Ramirez, 26, of San Antonio, a Navy petty officer third class attached to Bravo Surgical Company.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2443

Wyoming: 106% Turnout of Registered Voters - more news items

http://tinyurl.com/3neex

Abwehransprüche gegen den Betrieb von Mobilfunkanlagen

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/abwehransprueche_gegen_den_betrieb_von_mobilfunkanlagen.pdf

von Prof. Dr. Klaus Kniep, Heilbronn
in "Wohnungswirtschaft und Mietrecht 11/2004" S. 654-655


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Prof.+Kniep

Buy Nothing Day 2004 - don't participate in the farce

http://doublethinkdouble.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

BND 2004

Does the mall rush on "black Friday" make you sick? Join in on Buy Nothing Day and don't participate. Sponsored by Adbusters (my own personal oasis during pangs of helpless cynicism and seething anger), it's a simple reaction to the mindless mentality that "I must shop 'till I drop" this Nov. 26. Fill your belly on Thursday, empty your wallet on Friday - why? Resist the bovine vapidity of traffic jams, long lines, and the beep-beep-beep of barcode scanners. Go hiking, sit inside and take shots, make a diorama - do anything but spend money this Friday.

Does this mean you can't buy anything this Christmas? Certainly not. Do you have to recycle trash to give to your friends instead of making thoughtful purchases? Not exactly. Does it mean you make a conscious decision to depart from the consumer binge that plagues the Friday after Thanksgiving for no discernable reason? Absolutely. This effort is more about breaking the consumer binge routine that blankets this time of year, and for some people, gives them the false sense that "the shit you buy" will "fill the void." Adbusters takes "black Friday" as indicative of this consumer halfwittery, and makes a concerted effort to disrupt it through boycotting and other more proactive methods: http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/

Sincerely,

Daniel P. Welch
For interesting commentary in 20 languages visit danielpwelch.com
Check out Danny's latest articles:
We Are Here http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/dpwelch22.htm
It's the Policies, Stupid: http://danielpwelch.com/0411itps.htm
Arma-geddon Sick of You: http://danielpwelch.com/0411asoy.htm


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens. - - Alistair Farrugia

"The core of our American democracy is the right to vote. Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter. And I think what we're encountering is a pivotal moment in our democracy where all of that is being called into question." - -Kevin Shelley, CA Sec. of State


Informant: DitziSis

RISE Against Bush - SHINE For A Peaceful Tomorrow

***please forward widely***

(excerpt)

A Call for Anti-War Actions in Washington, DC, January 20, 2005

Every morning, the sun rises up, penetrating and overcoming the darkness of night. What once was dark becomes bright, changed by the force of the sun’s rays.

Our world is in darkness tonight, plagued with war, poverty, environmental destruction, and attacks on many of the liberties that so many of us hold dear. The darkness over our world has grown yet darker with the election of George W. Bush to another 4 years in office.

In the dark of the night, we need only wait for the sun. However, in the dark of our world, we cannot wait. If we are to see a new dawn, we must take action now. The DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) calls on the people of the world to RISE Against Bush and SHINE For A Peaceful Tomorrow.

We RISE

· Against the needless slaughter in and occupation of Iraq;

· Against the assault on civil liberties, as represented by such acts as the Patriot Act and the immoral detaining of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay;

· Against U.S. overthrow of Aristide in Haiti;

· Against U.S. attempts to overthrow any other democratically elected leader, including Hugo Chavez in Venezuela;

· Against any U.S. military action in Iran.

We SHINE

· For a world that embraces peaceful dialogue instead of war;

· For a world where we respect the liberty of all beings;

· For a world that looks out for all those who are now oppressed, including the poor, women, racial minorities, workers, the disabled, as well as the earth and its creatures;

· For a world that embraces social justice;

· For democracy and the autonomy of all people to have a full say in how they are governed;

· For each other.

The Call

DAWN calls for people all over the nation and world to converge on Washington, DC, on the day of George W. Bush’s Inauguration, January 20, 2005, for peaceful anti-war actions.

While DAWN is coordinating with many groups for a day of actions, DAWN calls additionally for these specific actions:

1. A permitted nonviolent anti-war rally followed by a march to Bush’s inaugural parade route.

2. A nonviolent civil disobedience die-in, following the rally, in memorial to the dead at the hands of Bush and his Administration.

DAWN also calls for organizations, affinity groups, and individuals to partner with us in organizing these two actions.

Next Steps

If you or your group or organization wants to endorse DAWN’s call to action, please send an e-mail to info@dawndc.net. Write also if you wish to collaborate in the planning or offer financial donations or other material support.

Find out more information about DAWN’s and other groups’ actions at http://www.counter-inaugural.org, by participating in the DC Cluster Spokescouncil meetings (refer to website), or by participating in DAWN’s weekly meetings. Check our website, http://www.dawndc.net for more details. Housing boards, events boards, working group information, and (soon) ride boards can be found at http://www.counter-inaugural.org. We will post updates of our actions, as they become available, to that website.

The new dawn begins with our rising up. It will take a lot of light to break through such darkness, but we can do it. We have no other choice. Join us on J20!


Informant: jsmacdonald

Erste Basisinformationen zur Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende

Durchführungshinweise der BA zum SGB II

Das SGB II wird drastische Folgen für viele davon Betroffene mit sich bringen, die Verpflichtung zur Annahme jeder Arbeit, das restriktive Fallmanagement und harte Sanktionen werden die Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende zu einem "Drangsalierungssystem" für die Betroffenen machen. Tacheles veröffentlicht nun Details
http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2004/ALG_II_Durchfuehrungshinweise_Inhalt.html


Die halbe Wahrheit zum Arbeitslosengeld II oder Was die Bundesregierung bei ihren "Ersten Basisinformationen zur Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende" unterschlägt. Artikel von Ulrich Stascheit (Arbeitslosenprojekt TuWas, Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main) als pdf-Datei bei der Arbeitsnehmerkammer
http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/05_soziales/sgb_ii/2004_10_00_stascheit.pdf


Viele ALG-II-Bescheide falsch. Bremen: Arbeitsloseninitinative "Solidarische Hilfe e.V." informiert über gravierende und kaum überprüfbare Fehler zu Lasten der Leistungsbezieher. In den ersten zwei Wochen nach der Zustellung der Bescheide über Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) sind bei der Solidarischen Hilfe in Bremen zahlreiche Bescheide auf ihre Richtigkeit überprüft worden. Das Ergebnis: 70 Prozent enthalten zum Teil gravierende Fehler zu Lasten der Leistungsbezieher. Die Solidarische Hilfe rät allen Empfängern von ALG II ihren Bescheid überprüfen zu lassen. Artikel von Herbert Thomsen, Solidarische Hilfe e. V., in junge Welt vom
23.11.2004

http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/11-23/017.php

Aus dem Text: "…Aus den Bescheiden kann niemand die Bereinigung seines Einkommens nachvollziehen. Es wird lediglich ein Geldbetrag genannt. Wie dieser errechnet wurde, bleibt allein das Geheimnis der BfA. Damit werden Leistungsbezieher zu hilflosen Almosenempfängern degradiert…."


Hartz IV für Jugendliche

So lautet der Titel der neuen "Soli" der DGB Jugend, in der es um die Auswirkungen der Hartz -IV-Gesetze auf Jugendliche zwischen 15 und 25 Jahren geht.

1) Download (PDF-Dokument, 140 KB)
http://www.dgb-jugend.de/mediabig/4341A.pdf

2) html-Version zum Sofort-Lesen
http://www.dgb-jugend.de/UNIQ109955995007896596/doc101090A.html

3) kostenlos Bestellen zum Weiterverteilen
http://www.dgb-jugend.de/UNIQ109955995007896596/doc69320A.html

e) Hartz4 und MigrantInnen - Auswirkungen auf einen irregulären Arbeitsmarkt. Hausarbeit von Ralf Fischinger vom 15.10.2004 (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/fischinger.pdf

Minijobs helfen Arbeitslosen kaum

"Die Einführung der Minijobs Anfang 2003 hat nach einer wissenschaftlichen Analyse bisher das Ziel verfehlt, Arbeitslosen den Einstieg in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt zu ermöglichen. Ein wesentliches Ziel der Hartz-Kommission werde damit nicht erreicht.

Nach der Studie des Rheinisch-Westfälischen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI Essen) im Auftrag der Minijobzentrale trat oft sogar das Gegenteil ein: Sozialversicherungspflichtige Jobs wurden in großer Zahl in Minijobs umgewandelt, so das RWI…." Artikel von Maike Rademaker und Timo Pache in FTD vom 23.11.2004

http://www.ftd.de/pw/de/1100939998794.html?nv=cpm


Mini-Job und Sozialversicherung. Wenn die Abzüge fehlen

Minijobber streichen bis zu 400 Euro monatlich brutto für netto ein. Doch dafür gehen sie bei Krankengeld, Pflegeversicherung und Rente so gut wie leer aus. Es sei denn, aus dem Mini- wird ein Midi-Job.

Artikel von Rolf Winkel in der SZ vom 17.11.2004
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/jobkarriere/erfolggeld/artikel/161/43118/

Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 19, Eintrag 17

House Members ready to contest Election if one Senator will join

(excerpt)

THIS IS BIG: House members ready to contest election if 1 Senator will join

From: Ron Harold
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:06 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_forums

THIS IS BIG: House members ready to contest election if one (1)
Senator will join in

This is from an email sent out by Congressional Candidate Mike Byron. Apparently, the House Dems are ready to contest the election if one Senator will join in.

SO PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND ASK THEM TO CONTEST THE ELECTION.

Also, please keep this kicked.

Last week I requested that Cong. Bob Filner join in with other members of Congress in requesting an investigation by the General Accounting Office of apparent voting irregularities and discrepancies arising from the Nov. 2nd election. In agreeing to take this action, I received the below reply from his Campaign Manager Frank Salazar on the Congressman's behalf. Note this excerpt (quoting Cong. Barbara Lee) from that reply:

"One senator and one House Representative are required to contest an election result prior to inauguration."

But, certainly, the more Congresspeople the merrier. The questions remains, however, which, if any, Senator will stand up for democracy? Will it be Barbara Boxer, the so-called 3rd-most vote getter in the 2004 election? Or will we have another terrible scene like the one from Fahrenheit 911 where not one Senator will contest?"

Perhaps WE should be asking Sen Boxer to be that Senator. Particularly if clear evidence of voting misconduct in Ohio, Florida, or any other states arises. There is already, sufficient evidence of massive interference with the Ohio election
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/89 ... to meet this standard. Also Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org has uncovered significant physical evidence of vote stealing in Florida (see http://www.blackboxvoting.org for details).


Informant: Elvis Oner

How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush

http://blog.democrats.com/node/850 Monday, November 22 2004 @ 11:41 AM

Contributed by: admin

Bob Fitrakis

Following four community public hearings in Ohio about election irregularities and voter suppression – two in the capitol, Columbus, and one each in Cincinnati and Cleveland – a clear pattern and practice of voter disenfranchisement is emerging.

In order to understand the extent of the voter suppression in the inner city of Columbus and Franklin County, overwhelmingly Democratic wards, start with the phrase: “Machines Placed By Close Of Polls” on the last page of the county’s 17-page voting machine allocation report.

This phrase at the end of the spreadsheet may be the key in unraveling a deliberate and unprecedented plan to repress African American and poor central city voters. In statistics, when you see a bizarre definition or measurement, it sends up red flags. Why doesn’t the Franklin County Board of Elections have a number for “Machines Placed By Opening Of Polls”?

It now appears that the Franklin County BOE placed scores of machines too late in the day to alleviate the long lines of voters who gathered to vote before work and at lunchtime.

To better understand what the BOE did on Election Day, consider the following analogy. The near east side of Columbus needs four buses to move the population to the downtown business district. Each bus will move 100 people. At the start of the business day at 6:30am, there are only two buses running and another one with a dead battery. After a few hours, the third bus is put into use. Finally, towards the close of the work day at 6pm, a fourth bus is deployed. The Central Ohio Transit Authority then reports it had four buses operating by the end of the business day. What matters is not how many buses, or voting machines, were operating at the end of the day, but rather how many were there to service the people during the morning and noon rush hours.

Questions remain as to where these machines were placed and who had access to them during the day.

Pacifica reporter Evan Davis reported that a county purchasing official who was on the line with Ward Moving and Storage Company, documented only 2,741 voting machines delivered through the November 2 election day. The county’s own documents reveal that they had 2,866 “Machines Available” on Election Day. This would mean that amid the two to seven hour waits in the inner city of Columbus, at least 125 machines remained unused on Election Day. Ward holds the exclusive three-year contract to deliver voting machines in Franklin County.

If the BOE only had 2,741 placed initially, this would explain the long lines in Columbus and voters leaving the polls during the morning voting rush. According to the Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE), in the city of Columbus, where voters waited in the heavily Democratic wards between 2-7 hours to cast the vast majority of their votes for John Kerry, voter turnout was 52.7%. In the affluent white suburbs of Columbus, with far more voting machines available, the turnout figure was 76.15%.

By contrast, 66.31% of registered voters went to the polls in Cincinnati and turnout was 76.82% in the suburbs. In Cincinnati, where more voting machines were available, the difference between the city and suburbs was only 10.5% compared to 23.45% in the Columbus area. Cincinnati and Columbus have similar demographics.

The Franklin County Board of Elections reported that 68 voting machines were never placed on Election Day. In addition, Franklin County BOE Director Matt Damschroder admitted on Friday, November 19, that 77 machines malfunctioned on Election Day.

Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy criticized Damschroder for calling the elections “well-funded and well-planned and that problems could not have been averted, . . .” according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Damschroder, the former Executive Director of the Franklin County Republican Party, told the Franklin County Commissioners, “From our perspective, this election was a success.”

Despite an increased registration of more than 167,253 new voters, Damschroder admits he ran the election with a “fixed and exhausted” pool of voting machines, the Dispatch reported. Kilroy pointed out that Damschroder and Franklin County election officials told her “We’re fine, we’re fine” and never requested additional money over the initial allocation.

The Washington Post reported “: Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Control’s ELECTronic 1242, an older-style touchscreen voting system.” Franklin County’s voting machine allocation report shows that Damschroder deployed his Danaher (formerly Shooptronics) voting machines, which have been in use since 1992, in a formula that favored Bush over Kerry.

In precinct 55-B on Columbus’ near east side, there were 1,338 registered voters and, according to Franklin County Board of Elections estimates, 956 active voters who had voted in the last two federal elections. Despite voter registration being up 17%, and by the BOE’s own guidelines the polling place requiring ten machines (one per 100 voters), the polling site had only three machines, one less than for the 2000 elections.

The Election Protection Coalition that visited the voting site between 7:30-8:30 a.m. documented a dozen people leaving the polls, six to go to work and six who were either elderly or handicapped. But things were worse in other areas of Columbus.

In precinct 1-B where there were 1,620 registered voters, a 27% increase in voter registration, the precinct had five voting machines in 2000 and only three in 2004. Where did they go? Out to Republican enclaves like Canal Winchester, where two machines were added since 2000, for a total of five to service 1,255 registered voters? Or were they re-routed to Dublin 2-G where 1,656 registered voters apparently needed six machines, twice the number of Columbus’ 1-B?

Nearby in Dublin precinct 3-C, 910 registered voters were allocated four voting machines. No doubt machines were shifted from precincts like Columbus 44-G with 1,620 voters and registration up 25%, which lost one machine from the 2000 elections to 2004.

In Cleveland, where a public hearing was held on Saturday, November 20, there was a different pattern of voting irregularities. These include heavily Democratic wards with abnormally low reported rates of voter turnout, three under 20%. In Precinct 6-C where Kerry beat Bush 45 votes to one, allegedly only 7.1% of the registered voters cast ballots. In precinct 13-D where Kerry received 83.8% of the vote, only 13.05% reportedly voted. In precinct 13-F where Kerry received 97.5%, the turnout was reported to be only 19.6%.

One explanation comes from Irma Olmedo, who provided the Free Press with a written statement of her activities in the heavily Hispanic ward 13, which contained the three low voter turnout precincts. “Ohio does not have bilingual ballots and this disenfranchises many Latino voters who are not totally fluent in English . . . there were 13 poll workers at the school and none knew Spanish. Some could not even find the names of the people on the list because they couldn’t understand well when people said their names. . . . Some people put their punch card ballots in backwards when they voted and discovered that they couldn’t punch out the holes. They had not read the instructions which were in English, that they had to turn the card around in order to vote,” Olmedo stated.

Olmedo translated at precinct 13-O, where 90% of the votes were for Kerry and only 53 votes were counted. The turnout of 21% was due to the lack of Spanish instructions and the misspelling of names: “I noticed that one named Nieves was misspelled as Nieues and the pollworkers were not able to find his name, these people were told to complete a provisional ballot because their names were not on the list.”

In Cuyahoga County, according to the Secretary of State’s website there are 24,788 provisional ballots, most of them from the city of Cleveland, not its surrounding suburbs. Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell served as Co-Chair of the Bush/Cheney Ohio reelection committee.

There also seems to be an abnormally high vote count for third party candidates who received less than one-half of one percent of the statewide vote total combined. For example, in precinct 4-F, the right-wing Constitutional Law candidate Peroutka received 215 votes to Bush’s 21 and Kerry’s 290. In this precinct, Kerry received 55% of the vote where Gore received 91% of the vote in the year 200. These numbers suggest that Kerry’s votes were inadvertently or intentionally shifted to Peroutka.

In Cincinnati, sworn testimony was taken on vote buying, the lack of machines in African American neighborhoods and the deliberate destruction of new voter registration cards by a private company hired to process the forms.

Exit polls on Election Day from both the polling firm Zogby International and CNN projected John Kerry winning the state of Ohio. University of Pennsylvania Professor Steven Freeman calculated the odds that the exit polls in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania all being wrong are 250,000,000 to one. Pollster John Zogby, President of Zogby International, is quoted as telling the Inter Press Service of Stockholm that “something is definitely wrong.” Zogby commented that he was concerned about the discrepancy between the exit polls and the official vote tallies stating “We’re talking about the free world here.”

The Alliance for Democracy-Ohio is preparing a lawsuit challenging the outcome of Ohio’s election results due to the massive voting irregularities that have emerged in sworn testimony and affidavits.

Bob Fitrakis has a Ph.D in Political Science and a J.D. He is a lawyer working with the Alliance for Democracy-Ohio and the Editor of the Columbus Free Press. Reporting in this article also came from Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D and Joe Knapp http://copperas.com/fcelection/wardbubble.jpg . For additional documentation, visit

http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/900
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041122114146296
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html


Informant: Elvis Oner

Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003

http://www.rense.com/general59/brief.htm


Informant: di

The Science of Abrupt Climate Change

Introduction

In the debate on climate change, we are used to hearing about climate changes on the scale of hundreds or even thousands of years. But since the early 1990s, a radical shift in the scientific understanding of Earth's climate history has occurred. We now know that that major regional and global climate shifts as recently as 8200 years ago have occurred in just a few decades or even a single year. If an abrupt climate change of similar magnitude happened today, it would have severe consequences for humans and natural ecosystems. Although scientists consider an abrupt climate change unlikely in the next 100 years, they concede that their understanding of the phenomena is so incomplete that such a change could be triggered at any time by natural processes or by human-caused global warming.

The National Academy of Sciences--the board of scientists established by Congress in 1863 to advise the federal government on scientific matters--compiled a comprehensive report in 2002 entitled, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. The 244-page report, which contains over 500 references, was written by a team of 59 of the top researchers in climate, and represents the most authoritative source of information about abrupt climate change available. Unless noted otherwise, all of the material that follows was taken from this report.

http://www.wunderground.com/education/abruptclimate.asp


Informant: di

The President's New Freedom Initiative

Attempt to dump mental screening fails
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40384

Doctors Group Opposes Mandatory Mental Health Tests for Kids
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/11/140125.shtml

APA and Media Suppress Coverage of Bush Mental Health Testing Plan
http://snipurl.com/au51

Bush plans to screen whole U.S. population for mental illness
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078

New Freedom Initiative A Progress Report: Table of Contents
http://snipurl.com/au5g

The New Freedom Initiative (US): Ready To Be Tested?
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/07/16/the_new_freedom_initiative_us.htm

USATODAY.com
No on Mandatory Mental Health Testing For Children
http://snipurl.com/au54

HR 5006 Bill Summary & Status
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR05006:

H.R. 5006 and Rep. Paul
http://www.ceopa.org/H.R.5006andRep.Paul.html

1. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 (Reported in House)[H.R.5006.RH]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:1:./temp/~c1083qDXaG::

2. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.5006.EH]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:2:./temp/~c1083qDXaG::

3. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 (Received in Senate from House)[H.R.5006.RDS]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:3:./temp/~c1083qDXaG::


Informant: Andrea Ball

Poverty USA : A Hand up, not a Hand out

http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm


Informant: Friends

AN IATROGENIC SCANDAL

(excerpt)

MEDICAL MURDER

Our ongoing research will continue to quantify the iatrogenic (caused by the Medical Profession)morbidity, mortality, and financial loss in outpatient clinics,transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home care, private practitioners offices, as well as hospitals, due to:

X-ray exposures: mammography, fluoroscopy, CT scans.

Overuse of antibiotics in all conditions.

Drugs that are carcinogenic: hormone replacement therapy (*seebelow), immunosuppressive drugs, prescription drugs.

Cancer chemotherapy: If it doesn¹t extend life, is it shortening life?

Surgery and surgical procedures.

Unnecessary surgery: Cesarean section, radical mastectomy, preventive mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, prostatectomy, cholecystectomies, cosmetic surgery, arthroscopy, etc.

Medical procedures and therapies.

Discredited, unnecessary, and unproven medical procedures and therapies.

Doctors themselves: when doctors go on strike, it appears the mortality rate goes down.

Missed diagnoses.

*Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the mid-1940's. In December 2000, a government scientific advisory panel recommended that synthetic estrogen be added to the nation's list of cancer-causing agents. HRT, either synthetic estrogen alone or combined with synthetic progesterone, is used by an estimated 13.5 to 16 million women in the U.S. The aborted Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) of 2002 showed that women taking synthetic estrogen combined with synthetic progesterone have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease and little evidence of osteoporosis reduction or prevention of dementia. WHI researchers, who usually never give recommendations, other than demanding more studies, are advising doctors to be very cautious about prescribing HRT to their patients.

Results of the "Million Women Study" on HRT and breast cancer in the U.K were published in the Lancet, August, 2003. Lead author, Professor Valerie Beral, Director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, is very open about the damage HRT has caused. She said, "We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, oestrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these."

However, we were not able to find the statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease due to HRT used by American women. The population of America is roughly six times that of the U.K. Therefore, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade.

CONCLUSION

When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to address its own urgent shortcomings. It's a failed system in need of immediate attention. What we have outlined in this paper are insupportable aspects of our contemporary medical system that need to be changed - beginning at its very foundations.

Informant: hermeticscience

To the Viktor Go the Spoils

by Mark Drolette

I was so heartened to read this quote about the presidential election from Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), as reported by Associated Press writer Natasha Lisova: “It is now apparent that a concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities.” Ha -- at last! Plainly spoken words from a U.S. Senator -- a Republican, no less -- about the highly suspicious goings-on concerning the election. And upon what evidence does Lugar base his charge? Well, for starters, how about the exit polls that showed the challenger heading the incumbent? And, according to Lisova, election overseers “said there were extensive indications of vote fraud, including people apparently voting multiple times and voters being forced to turn over absentee ballots to state employers.”

Unfortunately, Lugar wasn’t complaining about, nor was Lisova reporting on, the U.S. presidential election. They both were alluding instead to the voting concluded this past week to determine the president of Ukraine, and the good senator made his comments while in Kiev as George Bush’s “envoy.” It seems the U.S.-favored candidate who garnered large leads in the exit polls, Viktor Yuschenko, was allegedly bested in the actual balloting by Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych, a pol who both favors, and is favored by, Russia....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Drolette1125.htm

Zogby Vs. Mitofsky

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/


Informant: NHNE

The Secret Rulers of the World

Dictatorship: How You Can Still Stop it Here

(excerpt)

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." -- Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice

From An Eyewitness to the Making of a Dictatorship--How You Can Still Stop it Here

I grew up closely watching the making of an Arab dictatorship. This country gave me refuge from it. So, please accept my grateful advice on how to prevent it from happening here.

America is not a dictatorship. We have had a coup d'etat. The American government and media have been infiltrated and overthrown. But an overthrow of government does not create a dictatorship. It takes years and millions of people supporting the coup to create a dictatorship. A dictatorship is a society supporting a coup.

This coup on America is very similar to one I watched as a young person in an Arab country.

I grew up learning that it was not right to judge people by their religion. Most of us condemned those who talked about minorities as suspicious strangers. They were our neighbors and friends. Shame on you if you distrusted them!

But it was a religious minority who organized the coup on that Arab country.

The strange thing was that the coup leaders worshipped and lived as part of the majority. They had majority names and majority religious practices. But they were not really who they said they were. Their allegiance was to the conspiring minority to whom they secretly belonged.

They only outed themselves many years later, after their dictatorship was strong and well established. In the meantime, they needed millions of people to trust them and cooperate with them.

That Arab country moved from a simple coup to a dictatorship by continuing to trust and trust.

For years, most people refused to be "racist." They refused to even check whether their friends and neighbors were secretly part of the religious minority that engineered the coup. They just cooperated and trusted.

But trust had been broken, and to continue to trust would be self-destructive.

In America, trust has been broken, too. The Republic has been overthrown by groups harbored and supported by an ethnic-religious minority. They have abused trust and grabbed more than their fair share of power.

If we don't want America to become a dictatorship, then we have to stop trusting without checking. We have to hold that minority accountable and limit their access to power.

We also have to ask some people the question "Are you really who you say you are?" Ask it of every person of significant influence or power. We have to stop trusting as usual, and cooperating as usual.

Not all of those participating in the coup belong to that minority on the surface. You have to scratch the surface to find out who many of them really are.

An minority has just overthrown Congress, the White House and the media. A minority that has exploited our love of fairness. Are we going to just stand and watch?

The overthrow of the American Republic is a much bigger attack than 9/11.

"The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size." - Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.135

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund - quoted in "Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?," Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95


Informant: Andy Thames

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The Secret Rulers of the World
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/43a0d239ba456f5f?hl=en

WTO : Hände weg von unserer Nahrung

3. WTO-KINOSPOT

Zum Thema WTO und dem Gentechnik-Streitfall gibt es jetzt einen knackigen Kinospot, der für lokale Kinos kostenlos ausgeliehen werden kann. Er wurde im Rahmen der GENug WTO-Kampagne von Attac, BUND und BUNDjugend erstellt.

Unter http://www.genug-wto.de/kinospot.php kann der Spot angesehen werden; außerdem finden sich dort auch Informationen, wie der Spot ausgeliehen werden kann. Wir hoffen, dass dieser Film genau so weite Verbreitung findet wie der "Klassiker" zum GATS!

Viele Grüße aus Westhausen!

Bernd Schreiner

Krebs bei minimaler Strahlung

Lundquist: Krebs bei minimaler Strahlung
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/dindex-2274.htm

Säugetiere bereits bei 0,02 nW/cm² gefährdet
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/lundquist0403.htm

Laboratory study on humans shows bioeffects at/below picowatts/cm2
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284808/

Hautkrebs und Mobilfunk

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/414777/

Hautkrebsepidemie: Nord-Süd-Gefälle in Deutschland

Köln (dpa) - Dermatologen sehen eine Hautkrebsepidemie in Deutschland mit einem Nord-Süd-Gefälle. Der Hautkrebs sei unter allen Krebsarten die Erkrankung mit den deutlichsten Steigerungsraten, sagte Prof. Percy Lehmann am Mittwoch in Köln im Vorfeld eines dreitägigen Fachkongresses. Allein der bösartige schwarze Hautkrebs (malignes Melanom) werde inzwischen bei mehr als 11 400 Menschen im Jahr festgestellt. Fast 15 von 100 000 Frauen seien davon betroffen, bei den Männern seien es 13 von 100 000. Insgesamt habe sich die Zahl aller Hautkrebserkrankungen in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten versechsfacht, sagte Prof. Rudolf Stadler, der Vorsitzende der veranstaltenden Rheinisch-Westfälischen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft.

http://www.netdoktor.de/nachrichten/index.asp?y=2004&m=11&d=25&id=116546
(Auszug)

dazu

Signifikante biologische Wirkungen auf menschliche Hautfibroblasten (Bindegewebszellen) gefunden

Quelle: Oncology Research (Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung) 2002; 13(1):19-24, PubMed

Wissenschaftler der Fakultät für Humananatomie, Histologie und Gerichtsmedizin der Universität Florenz haben menschliche Hautfibroblasten (Bindegewebszellen) 1 Stunde lang der Strahlung der heutigen GSM-Mobilfunk-Technologie ausgesetzt. Im Ergebnis fanden sich danach Modifizierungen der Zellmorphologie und verschiedene genetische Veränderungen. Die Wissenschaftler hoben hervor, dass diese Ergebnisse zeigen, dass vom Mobilfunk ausgehende elektromagnetische Felder signifikante biologische Effekte auf menschliche Hautfibroblasten haben.

Eine erst im August 2002 veröffentlichte schwedische Studie (Hallberg & Johansson vom renommierten schwedischen Karolinska-Institut) hatte einen deutlichen statistischen Zusammenhang zwischen Hautkrebs und Radiosendern in der Umgebung ermittelt. Die Autoren der schwedischen Studie wiesen dabei darauf hin, dass selbst Leistungsflussdichten von 30 Mikrowatt/Quadratmeter nicht als sicher angesehen werden könnten. Diese werden noch in kilometerweitem Umfeld von Mobilfunk- sowie Rundfunk- und Fernsehsendern erreicht.

http://www.oekosmos.de/article/articleview/113/1/20/



Hautkrebs in der Nähe von Radiosendern deutlich erhöht
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/gesund/hautkrebs-durch-sender.htm
http://www.buerger-gegen-esmog.de/content/infocontent/informationen3.html
http://www.klimaforschung.net/hautkrebs.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/dindex-2391.htm

Schwarzer Hautkrebs: Radio- und Fernsehsender unter Verdacht
http://www.izgmf.de/Aktionen/Meldungen/Archiv_04/Hautkrebs/hautkrebs.html

Mobilfunk und Krebs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284796/



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