Street closings for the pomp and partying that will accompany tomorrow's inauguration have prompted nonprofit groups to engage in a different kind of inaugural planning: how to care for the homeless in the downtown area where traffic will be blocked off.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19125-2005Jan18.html


From Information Clearing House

George Bush's inauguration as US president tomorrow is a thoroughly imperial event, scripted down to the last detail.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1393623,00.html
http://snipurl.com/c55d


From Information Clearing House

The Bush boom will end soon - and how it ends will define his second term in office:

The President's speech tomorrow will be full of big themes - but one will be missing: the world of economics...

http://snipurl.com/c559


From Information Clearing House

Nobel Peace Prize nominee: Bush re-election may end the human race:

"The Bush administration have been able to con the American people with their extremely brilliant propaganda and brainwashing, with the help of the media ... they consistently lie."

http://207.44.245.159/article7759.htm

The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year.

http://207.44.245.159/article7751.htm

The first British soldier has come forward to urge mass refusal among the ranks to serve in Iraq, saying he would rather go to prison than accept a call-up to war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1393625,00.html
http://snipurl.com/c54y

From Information Clearing House

ABNORMAL WEATHER / GLOBAL WARMING / CLIMATE CHANGE / NEW ICE AGE

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&u=/nm/20050118/hl_nm/disasters_cities_dc_1&printer=1


Informant: Di

HLV Tipp:

Die hochkarätige Besetzung der Referenten verspricht eine interessante Tagung, für Messtechniker, Baubiologen, Juristen, Ärzte, Journalisten, Behördenvertreter, Politiker und natürlich auch für Mobilfunkkritiker.

Bitte rechtzeitig anmelden!!!

Alfred Tittmann


4. EMV-Tagung des VDB

ElektroMagnetische Verträglichkeit

I. Mobilfunk – Mensch und Technik

UMTS

Digitaler Rundfunk: DAB, DVB, DxB, DVB-H, DRM

Gesundheitliche Wirkungen von EMF

II. Störfelder der Stromversorgung

Reduzierung von Magnetfeldern

Funktechnik für die Gebäudeinstallation

Baubiologische Elektroinstallation

14.–15. April 2005 in Attendorn

Energieversorgung & Mobilfunk


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Tagungsort:

Stadthalle Attendorn,
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Tagungsleitung und Moderation:
Dr.-Ing. Martin H. Virnich (VDB)
E-Mail: virnich.martin@t-online.de

Veranstalter:
Berufsverband Deutscher Baubiologen VDB e.V.
in Kooperation mit der Stadt Attendorn
sowie dem Fachverband Elektro- und Informationstechnische Handwerke NRW

Der VDB ist ein unabhängiges Netzwerk von baubiologischen Sachverständigen:

Ingenieuren, Technikern, Chemikern, Biologen ...

Wesentliches Merkmal seiner Tätigkeit ist die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit im Verbund mit Umweltmedizinern, Juristen und Bausachverständigen.

Die Stadt Attendorn sowie der Fachverband Elektro- und Informationstechnische Handwerke NRW beteiligen sich als Kooperationspartner an der 4. EMVTagung und fördern den interdisziplinären fachlichen Austausch zu aktuellen Fragestellungen.

4. EMV-Tagung des VDB – Energieversorgung & Mobilfunk

Donnerstag 14. April 10:30 bis 18:00 Uhr

I. Mobilfunk - Mensch und Technik
Alfons Stumpf, Bürgermeister der Stadt Attendorn und Uwe Münzenberg, VDB

Begrüßung und Einführung in die Tagung

Dr.-Ing. Mathias Pauli,
IRT – Institut für Rundfunktechnik, München

Digitale terrestrische Rundfunk- und Fernsehdienste:
DAB, DVB-T, DxB, DVB-H
Technische Eigenschaften der Systeme
Auswirkungen auf die Hochfrequenz-Immissionen
Konvergenz von Rundfunk und Mobilfunk (DxB, DVB-H)

Einführungsplan

Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Jürgen Winking, Deutsche Welle
DRM – „Digital Radio Mondial“ auf Lang-,
Mittel- und Kurzwelle
Digitaler Rundfunk weltweit in den AM-Bereichen
Vergleich der Sendeleistungen analog (AM/Amplitudenmoduliert) und digital

Dr. Karsten Menzel, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG
UHS – Ultra-High-Sites für UMTS

Ein neues Konzept für UMTS-Basisstationen an sehr hohen Standorten mit reduzierter Standort-Anzahl

Dipl.-Verwaltungswirt (FH) Wolfgang Hilleke, Amt für Bürgerservice /Wirtschaftsförderung der Stadt Attendorn

Die Umsetzung des Attendorner Mobilfunkversorgungskonzeptes für UMTS
UMTS-Standortplanung in der Praxis
Kommunikationsprozess mit den Netzbetreibern

Prof. em. der Humboldt-Universität (Charité) Berlin,
Prof. Dr. med. Karl Hecht
Gesundheitliche Wirkungen von EMF aus der Sicht der ehemaligen GUS-Staaten

Dr. med. univ. Gerd Oberfeld, Land Salzburg – Umweltmedizin Das Mikrowellen-Syndrom: Epidemiologische Untersuchungen zu Mobilfunk-Basisstationen
Neue Analyse der Spanischen Studie (La Ñora)
Empfehlungen zur Vorgehensweise bei Feldstudien


Freitag 15. April 9:00 bis 16:30 Uhr

II. Störfelder der Stromversorgung

Rolf Meurer, Fachverband Elektro- und Informationstechnische Handwerke NRW und Uwe Münzenberg, VDB

Begrüßung und Einführung in den Tag

Martin Schauer (VDB)

EMV-Probleme von elektrischen Anlagen in Gebäuden
Die Elektroinstallation als Verursacher von magnetischen Wechselfeldern
Erdungs- und Magnetfeldproblematik von großflächigen Abschirmungen

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Rolf Mennekes, ESTEC Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung
niederfrequenter magnetischer Wechselfelder
Hochpermeable Werkstoffe zur Abschirmung
Nutzung von Wirbelströmen zur Reduzierung
Aktive und passive Kompensationsmaßnahmen

Erwin Schmitt, TEHALIT GmbH
Abschirmwirkung von Kabelkanälen
Abschirmung elektrischer Wechselfelder (50 Hz)
Abschirmung magnetischer Wechselfelder (50 Hz)
Abschirmung von Datenleitungen

Dipl.-Ing. Werner Petritz, PEHA GmbH & Co. KG
Batterielose Funktechnik für die Gebäudeinstallation
Schalten und Steuern per Funk
Emissionsbetrachtungen der verwendeten Funksignale

Dr.-Ing. Martin H. Virnich (VDB)

Abnahmemessung für baubiologische Elektroinstallationen
Welches Messverfahren ist das richtige?

Urs Hafner, Elektro Hafner AG

Praktische Beispiele realisierter Projekte mit baubiologischen Elektroinstallationen
Einschätzung des Marktpotentials und Akquisition
Pojektierung, Realisierung und Dokumentation

Tagungsbegleitende Ausstellung: Messgeräte und Produkte zur Feldreduzierung


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Datum, Unterschrift

elektrosmognews vom 18-01-05

Pilotstudie der Grazer TU beweist: Handymasten können Schlafstörungen verursachen - nun wird österreichweit geforscht.

Wer Nachts durchs klingeln seines Handys im Schlaf gestört wird ist selbst schuld. Handymasten dagegen kann man nicht ausschalten- und auch sie können für Schlafstörungen sorgen. Das ist zumindest das Ergebnis einer weltweit einzigartigen Pilotstudie der Grazer Technischen Universität. Mehr unter http://www.grazerwoche.at

Diese Meldung ereichte uns per Fax aus Österreich.

Besonders interessant ist die Meldung gerade deshalb, weil das Interview mit keinem geringeren als Prof. Dr. Norbert Leitgeb gemacht wurde. Dieser gehört nun nicht gerade zu den kritischen Wissenschaftlern, er ist eher den Verharmlosern zuzuordnen. Es ist also schon eine kleine Sensation wenn Herr Prof. Dr. Leitgeb dieses Eingeständnis macht, war er doch in der Vergangenheit immer einer derjenigen, die die Ansicht vertraten, unter den jetzigen Grenzwerten könne nichts passieren und nun dieses. Wahrlich erstaunlich!

Omega sehr interessant ist auch, dass Prof. Dr. Norbert Leitgeb weiterhin Mitglied der kürzlich neu berufenen Strahlenschutzkommission (SSK) bleibt: http://www.bmu.de/de/800/js/presse/2005/pm010/ Hoffen wir, dass er die Ergebnisse seiner eigenen Studien mit in die Kommission einbringt und dass die SSK jetzt endlich ihrer Aufgabe nachkommt nämlich die Bevölkerung wirksam vor den Strahlen des gepulsten Mobilfunks schützt. Bisher ist sie dieser Aufgabe im Hinblick auf den gepulsten Mobilfunk in keinster Weise nachgekommen.

Aber bitte lesen Sie die Meldung der Grazer Woche selbst und bilden Sie sich Ihre eigene Meinung: http://www.grazerwoche.at


Weitergeleitete Nachricht

M.f.G.

Alfred Tittmann
c/o HESSISCHER LANDESVERBAND MOBILFUNKSENDERFREIE WOHNGEBIETE e.V.

dazu auch:

Studie: Handymast stört Schlaf

Pilotstudie der Grazer TU beweist: Handymasten können Schlafstörungen verursachen – nun wird österreichweit geforscht.
Wer nachts durchs Klingeln seines Handys im Schlaf gestört wird, ist selbst schuld. Handymasten dagegen kann man nicht ausschalten – und auch sie können für Schlafstörungen sorgen. Das ist zumindest das Ergebnis einer weltweit einzigartigen Pilotstudie der Grazer Technischen Universität, welche nun mit der Unterstützung des Lebens- und des Wirtschaftsministeriums österreichweit weitergeführt wird.

Durchgeführt wird die Studie über die Auswirkungen des sogenannten Elektrosmog bzw. dessen Einwirken auf unsere Gesundheit vom „Institut für Krankenhaustechnik“ der TU, dessen Leiter Norbert Leitgeb ist. Der Schlaf der Testpersonen – bei der Pilotstudie waren es neun Probanden, nun werden 20 Personen gesucht, wird dabei zwölf Nächte lang genauestens untersucht. Sechs Tage davon schlafen die Probanden hinter einem Schirm, der jegliche Elektrostrahlen abschirmt. Das Einzigartige daran – und das erregte mittlerweile auch die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO: Die Testpersonen schlafen zu Hause und nicht wie bei ähnlichen bisherigen Untersuchungen im Schlaflabor.

Hilfe für geplagte Menschen

Sollte die österreichweite Studie dasselbe Ergebnis wie die Pilotstudie in Graz ergeben, könnte das weit reichende Folgen haben. Leitgeb: „Wir haben feststellen können, dass jene Personen, die abends besonders elektrosensitiv waren, in der Nacht auch schlecht geschlafen haben. Das könnte also der Nachweis sein, dass Handymasten etc. sich tatsächlich negativ auf das Wohlbefinden vieler Menschen auswirkt.“ Gelingt es, das nun zu bestätigen, so könnte weltweite Beachtung der Grazer Studie die Folge sein. Die WHO hat nämlich erst kürzlich festgestellt, dass bislang noch kein kausaler Zusammenhang zwischen dem Einwirken von Elektrosmog und Krankheiten nachgewiesen werden konnte.

Omega siehe hierzu „Letter to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework” unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

Und die TU könnte möglicherweise noch gute Geschäfte als Begleiterscheinung der Studie machen. Es gibt zwar schon strahlenabweisende Schirme zu kaufen – doch keiner schirmt elektrische Strahlen so gut ab wie jener der TU.

Dieter Demmelmair


Marianne Hafeneder am 19.1 2005 um 17:51:50

Mein Kommentar:

Endlich wird Elektrosensibilität von einem "Industrieforscher" anerkannt. Die Menschen haben das Grundrecht, von der Wissenschaft ehrlich, fair und aufrichtig behandelt zu werden.


Marion Dupuis am 19.1 2005 um 13:57:53

Mein Kommentar:

Bei uns in Frankreich beklagen sich unendlich viel Anrainer von Mobilfunkmasten an Schlafstörungen (und dann auch noch von vielem anderen mehr), ziemlich einige unter ihnen werden dann mit der Zeit depressiv. Bravo, dass wenigstens bei Euch genauere Untersuchungen über diese Frage vorgenommen werden, - wir warten mit großem Interesse auf die Ergebnisse. Marion Dupuis, Annecy, Frankreich
Stier am 19.1 2005 um 9:59:37

Mein Kommentar:

Dies soll Leitgeb wirklich zugegeben haben???? Ich kann’s nicht glauben. Hat ihm die Industrie kein Geld mehr gegeben??? Der wird doch nicht vom Saulus zum Paulus???

© 2004 Grazer WOCHE created by promberger.net

http://www.grazerwoche.at/?cat=etacarinae&file=EEpVZkZZApYtNZdhkY.inc.php

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Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Please forward: There is misinformation about the inaug. parade route--you CAN take protest signs anywhere along inaugural route (see quotes from official statements from D.C. officials on this. below) but the group "Turn Your Back on Bush"and others have assumed that you can't because of the policy of shunting protesters to far away protest areas when Bush shows up around the country.

However, the inaugural parade route is different because it was decided in a court case years ago that people must be allowed to carry any signs they want--as long as they conform to safety rules--no bigger than 3' by 20' paper, cardboard, cloth, and no backing or sticks http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/press/GPA01-05.pdf.

See http://www.stolenelection2004.com/demos.html for full listing of local and national counter inaugural and post inaugural protests and events.

Not taking protest signs on the parade route --as "Turn Your Back" suggests-- would weaken the protest presence because until Bush rides by--hours after they get there-- there will not be anything distinguishing these people as protesters--they will look like supporters until they turn their backs. And I hope when they finally do their action that they are noticed (since not everyone will be in front). They should know they can turn their backs and have protest signs.

These quotes are from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43134-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_topnews

Kevin Sheridan, a spokesman for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, said the parade will be open to Americans of all political stripes. "The inauguration will celebrate all of the freedoms that make our democracy great, the First Amendment included," he said.
Jim Mackin, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the agency respects the right of the public to demonstrate and "does not prohibit the presence of signs or props based on their content, only those items made of materials or of a size that could be used potentially in a threatening or harmful manner."

Park Service officials have said allegations that they are restricting access to the parade route are false. The public and demonstrators will be allowed onto open areas of the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk, officials said.


Take care,
Cheryl Guttman

by CrooksandLiars.com

Sen. Barbara Boxer holds Condoleezza Rice's feet to the fire over the disastrous decision to invade Iraq. Watch the heated exchange.

http://movies.ziaspace.com/CondiBoxer.wmv


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

by Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Bush is using Social Security's own employees to push the "crisis" myth.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003404

by David Corn, TomPaine.com Exclusive

Last week's WMD news showed how the right-wing spin machine prevents the public from hearing the truth about Iraq.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_fog_of_phony_war.php

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805F.shtml


"Beyond Vietnam"

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Audio file:
http://vodreal.stanford.edu/mlkpp/vietnam/5b01.ram


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11935420%255E3462,00.html


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-8/110562535060751.xml

State to delay logging project
Thursday, January 13, 2005
By SANDRA E. CONSTANTINE
sconstantine@repub.com

GRANBY - State Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Katherine Abbott announced yesterday her department will delay a controversial logging project planned for 63 acres of the Mount Holyoke Range State Park in Granby until it completes additional consultation and planning in concert with the public.

"The forest management goals of the project are fundamentally sound and in time it should proceed," Abbott stated in a press release. "But an open public process on the means to reach these goals before proceeding is essential. Delaying the majority of the harvesting implementation is warranted to address issues and concerns that have arisen."

The 63-acre timber sale within the 4,000-acre state park in Amherst, will be delayed for one to two years by extending the present timber harvesting contract.

One of the opponents to the cutting plan, James Seltzer of the preservation group Save the Mountain, said he was "thrilled" to get the news.

"The public was really outraged the state was going in logging in an area that has so much hiking and biking. The state listened to our concerns," Seltzer said. "What more can we want from government then to listen to its citizens and include us in its planning process? This is how democracy should work."

State Chief Forester James DiMaio held several meetings in the area with people concerned about the project at which Seltzer and other opponents of the cutting were in attendance.

However, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation will proceed with road erosion control, parking area improvements, and establishment of a small timber harvesting demonstration area, according to the release. Forestry officials have said the cutting is needed for the health of the woods to provide more room for healthy trees and prevent disease and insect infestation.

"Our original plan was to leave numerous very large, high quality, white pine trees and begin regeneration of a future forest by removing the smaller, lower quality trees which were competing for nutrients, sunlight and moisture," Abbott said. "A number of trees have already died and the live crowns on many trees show signs of stress from competing trees."

The department plans to do the following at the site off Batchelor Street:

About two to four acres will be harvested according to the original plan as a demonstration area.

Harvested material on the site will be removed.

The road and road erosion control measures will be completed. Weather permitting, water bars will be installed along the road and skid trails, and both will be temporarily closed.

The parking area will be graded, improved, and lined with large rocks to prohibit unauthorized uses in the area.

The department will work with user groups and neighbors to leave additional trees along the trails and road system and will reassess the tree marking procedures adjacent to wetlands and riparian areas, which may reduce cutting in those areas.


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

Beim zweiten Treffen fand sich neben den rund 20 Interessierten auch ein Spitzel nebst angeblicher Gattin ein. Vermutlich hatte er vor, sich als Doppelagent anbieten zu wollen, denn er outete sich, dass er von der Deutschen Funkturm GmbH sei. Die spontane Frage, ob er denn Herr Schwarz sei, kam so überraschend, dass er dies zugab. Die Dreistigkeit der Mobilfunkbetreiber ist kaum zu überbieten – sie stellt sogar die Atomkraftbetreiber in den Schatten.

Herr Dipl. Ing. Uni Gerhard Schwarz, übrigens der Leiter für den Vertrieb, für die Region um Nürnberg zuständig, versuchte mit einer Märchenstunde die Mitglieder einzuwickeln. Da wurden doch tatsächlich Mobilfunk Antennen mit Fernsehern verglichen und gesundheitlich Betroffene als Simulanten hingestellt. Das Einwickeln gelang ihm nur soweit, dass das Treffen platzte und auf einen anderen Termin vertagt werden musste. Sein Pech: mit dem Aushorchen wurde leider nichts......

Aus diesem Grunde finden in Zukunft die Treffen nichtöffentlich statt. Wer Interesse an aktiver Mitarbeit in der Gruppe hat, melde sich direkt an Karin Zieg, Tel: 0951-9230388. Achtung: Wir passen auf!

Die Deutsche Funkturm GmbH hat wegen 7 Mobilfunkantennen, also einer Basisstation, auf dem Gebäude der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in der Feldkirchenstrasse 21, angefragt.


Omega wir machen nochmals auf das 1. Bamberger Mobilfunksymposium am Samstag, 29. Januar 2005 in der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Markushaus, Markusplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg, aufmerksam und bitten um rege Teilnahme. Siehe: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/457381/

http://www.cultnews.com/archives/000794.html


Informant: NHNE

by staff

The Nation

01/18/05

A triumphant George W. Bush ... will inaugurate his second term on January 20. Festooned with gospel imagery, his address will rededicate this nation to waging the 'war on terror' and championing democracy abroad, and call for building a new 'ownership society' at home. ...

Bush starts this second term blind to the consequences of the havoc he has wrought and misleading the very voters who returned him to office.

... Meanwhile, Bush's failures have increased Americans' kitchen-table concerns: good jobs leaving, replaced by jobs with lower wages and fewer benefits; a broken healthcare system, with millions unable to afford adequate care ... a retreat on clean air and water.

Now Bush promises to make things worse." [editor's note: Though permeated with the usual doctrinaire leftism that characterizes "The Nation," this actually touches on SOME of the real problems with the imperialists in power. - SAT]

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050131&s=editors


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Kaye Grogan

Frontiers of Freedom

01/18/05

Thursday President Bush will be sworn into office for his second term. But why does the formal, pompous occasion have to cost around $40 million? The astronomical projected cost is ridiculous.

Why can't the president just take the oath of office in the house chambers and be done with it? Just think how much less the bill would be, chauffeuring him there in his bullet-proof limo, and escorting him into the chamber. Well, there's this little thing called tradition. You know -- parades, balls, concerts, and tons of secret service personnel, and police officers on duty looking for would-be assassins or car bombers...

http://tinyurl.com/6vr5k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Reed Brody

International Herald Tribune

01/18/05

The conviction of Specialist Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is a first step toward accountability for the detainee abuse scandal, but it must not be the end of the process.

Each passing day brings new evidence that the mistreatment of Muslim prisoners -- far from being an isolated incident at Abu Ghraib -- was widespread in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... This pattern of abuse across three countries did not result from the acts of individual soldiers such as Graner who broke the rules. It resulted from decisions made by the Bush administration to bend, ignore or cast rules aside...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/18/opinion/edbrody.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Emil Guillermo

San Francisco Chronicle

01/18/05

If international politics were like one big game of Texas hold'em, then this can be said about U.S. Iraq policy: President Bush didn't have a hand. But he sure bet on it like he held the best cards in the hole -- two aces, A-A, pocket rockets. Bush sent a few rockets and U.S. troops to fight his war. But now his hand has been exposed. And he had nothing. Just a costly flop of a war. What did we lose? Not chips. At last count, nearly 1,400 U.S. military personnel have been killed; another 10,000 have come home wounded. Bush's justification for war -- that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- was just a stone-cold bluff. ... Last week, with a whimper ... officials announced that the search for the elusive WMD is officially over. You'll recall Bush said Saddam Hussein had them, gosh durn it, and he acted as if Saddam did...

http://tinyurl.com/5hee7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jarret Wollstein

International Society for Individual Liberty

01/17/05

December 7th, anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, now has a another reason to be called 'a day that will live in infamy.' On December 7, 2004, Congress passed a new 3003-page 'national security' act, dubbed Patriot II. Like the first Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Patriot II gives the government tremendous new powers to spy upon, control and imprison ordinary Americans like you.

Patriot II has another ominous similarity to Patriot I: Almost no one in Congress had seen a copy of the final bill before it was enacted...

http://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/patriot-ii-assault.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

01/19/05

So now we have the ultimate irony: the U.S. government wants to create terrorist groups in the name of the 'war on terrorism.' Just as the 'War on Poverty' created more poverty, and the 'War on Drugs' created more drug users and enriched drug dealers, so our commanding officers in the War on Terrorism (in U.S. government parlance they call it the Global War on Terrorism, or GWOT) are now yearning to be in the business of creating more terrorism. Rummy wants to ride with the 'bad boys,' but he doesn't want the American people -- the taxpayers -- to know about it...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4474


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

01/19/05

...Here we have the whole of the Republican reality in one massive space: big government working with big business to enlarge the state and its spending at the expense of everyone else...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/gop-future.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]

01/19/05

In an echo of President George W Bush's 'axis of evil,' Condoleezza Rice today named Cuba, Burma, Belarus and Zimbabwe as 'outposts of tyranny' requiring close US attention. Early in Bush's first term, he listed Iraq, Iran and North Korea as part of an 'axis of evil' in the post-September 11 era -- the United States later invaded Iraq, ousting longtime dictator Saddam Hussein. 'To be sure, in our world there remain outposts of tyranny and America stands with oppressed people on every continent ... in Cuba, and Burma, and North Korea, and Iran, and Belarus, and Zimbabwe,' Rice told a Senate committee considering her nomination to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state...

http://tinyurl.com/4se92


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Military officials and mental health providers predict that up to 30 percent of returning soldiers will require psychiatric services -- a number not seen since the end of the Vietnam War." Stephen Robinson, a 20-year Army veteran who is now executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, an advocacy group, said: "I know for a fact that the military health care system is ill prepared to deal with the psychological impact of war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2693

Revisionist history: Original rationale for invasion was groundless

Here's the bottom line, according to the Register-Guard Editorial Board: "At some point, Bush may run out of justifications for what increasingly appears to be an unjustifiable war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2692

Is the U.S. government establishing a set of concentration camps to house enemy prisoners of war for the rest of their lives? According to Cathryn J. Prince, "This proposed policy is unpardonable not only because it robs potentially innocent people of the chance to stand before justice; it potentially robs America of its right to call itself a just nation."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2689


Terror detainees and America's gulag
Christian Science Monitor
by Cathryn J. Prince

01/18/05

The Defense Department's proposal could very well be a lost chapter out of George Orwell's timeless novel '1984': potential lifetime sentences for the hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody at a prison yet to be built outside the US, and thus beyond the reach of its constitutional protections on due process. In keeping with the Orwellian overtones for the suggested prison, the Bush administration has even drummed up a name: Camp 6. The name echoes the novel's notorious Room 101, where prisoners suffered punishment in the form of their worst fears. But, alas, this is not fiction. This is the new reality as envisioned in this second term of President Bush...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0118/p09s01-coop.html


Gulag Americans

by Marina Malenic

The American Spectator

02/24/05

For more than a decade, researchers have investigated sightings of Americans in Soviet camps. The 90-page report is the fifth in a series of updates. A separate internal Pentagon document concludes that 'there is a high probability' that American citizens and U.S. prisoners of war died in the camps. Russian inaction has made the effort to confirm such information 'a distinctly unilateral U.S. pursuit,' according to a written introduction to the report. And it speaks to a more general attitude of willful ignorance of a system which, between 1929 and the death of Soviet Communism, saw millions upon millions pass through its nightmarish bureaucracy...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7805


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

1/18/2005
consortium news
By Robert Parry

“Don’t take on the Bushes” is becoming an unwritten rule in American journalism. Reporters can make mistakes in covering other politicians and suffer little or no consequence, but a false step when doing a critical piece on the Bushes is a career killer.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118121938844

Ray Beckerman

Report by Bob Drake of the Clermont County recount team. He read the following letter to the Board of Elections on Thursday, December 16, 2004. "Clermont County used optical scan sheets, many of which were altered with stickers to cover a third party candidate vote (and at least one vote for Kerry), and modified to cast a vote for Bush. There were many other irregularities as well, and most are detailed in the letter below (e.g., Ralph Nader's name being present on the ballot). We still have not received answers to any of our questions."

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118002145865

1/18/2005
Ray Beckerman

On Election Day, the Ohio Democratic Party had brought a case in federal court due to the long lines in Franklin and Knox Counties. http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/docs/ohio/041102LongLineTROmotion.pdf and http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/docs/ohio/041102LongLinecomplaint.pdf

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118120341338

1/18/2005
NY Times Op-ED

The November election may feel like ancient history, but it is still going on in North Carolina. The state has been unable to swear in an agriculture commissioner because a single malfunctioning electronic voting machine lost more ballots than the number of votes that separate the two candidates. The State Board of Elections, the candidates and the public are sharply divided on how to proceed. The mess North Carolina finds itself in is a cautionary tale about the perils of relying on electronic voting that does not produce a paper record.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118135314469

Help America Recount Fund

A civil lawsuit, filed on behalf of eight New Mexico residents Friday claims that the certified results of the 2004 New Mexico general election demonstrate that voting machines used in the election malfunctioned seriously enough to affect the outcome of election races, including the race for President.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118161838639

Kerry Alleges Voters Were 'Suppressed'- Links Poll Issues to King's Struggle
1/18/2005
Boston Globe
by Scott S. Greenberger

In his first high-profile address since conceding the presidential election, Senator John F. Kerry used Boston's annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial breakfast yesterday to decry what he called the suppression of thousands of would-be voters last November.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050118165413178

I know this sounds pathetic, but I am always terribly nervous about putting things out. Still I have to bite the bullet. This is my contribution, for discussion, alteration or dismissal!

Jenny


MOBILE PHONE GIANTS PANIC AFTER DAMNING GOVERNMENT REPORT ON HEALTH RISKS.

Sir William Stewart, the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor and head of the NRPB, recommends that children under 8 should be banned from using mobiles, and that 9 to 14 year olds should only use them in emergencies. He is concerned that since his original Report in 2000, scientific research from around the world shows evidence of potential risk from radiation from mobile phones and masts well below current ICNIRP guidelines. This must not be ignored. He recommends new planning laws to protect the health and safety of the public, and adds that masts should not be placed near schools.

Judging by the article in theTelegraph (Jan 16th) in response to Sir William Stewart’s devastating report on health risks from mobile phones and masts, the Telecom companies seem to have lost the plot!

Unable to argue the real science, the best they can do is call on the services of shrinks and the likes of sociologist Adam Burgess, to subtly imply that Sir William Stewart is psychologically ill equipped for his job. It is hard to ignore the contempt in Burgess' voice. Though he doesn't say so outright, the feeling one gets is that the British public are mentally unhinged if they take seriously, the precautionary approach that Sir William advises. “It’s all inconsequential,” the ubiquitous Dr Burgess states. But perhaps, as he does his many interviews, he is really killing two birds with one stone, spinning some outrageous propaganda for the telecom companies, whilst at the same time grabbing his 15 minutes of fame in order to hype his rather silly book. And why not – we all have to earn a living – though some of us would balk at his ‘throw caution to the wind’ attitude with regard to the health and safety of children.

In a phone-in with Dr Burgess, I said that advocating such an approach was appallingly irresponsible. All he could do was laugh. When it comes down to the real argument, people like this simply aren’t up to the job. However, why should we be pointing out their failings? The national organisation Mast Sanity is now gaining an unstoppable momentum, so it is very much to our advantage to have people like Dr Burgess batting for the other side.

Robert Matthews’ article in the Telegraph was a transparent and appalling piece of telecom propaganda, with not a shred of scientific evidence to prop up its arguments. To quote Roger Coghill (a ‘real’ scientist and expert in this field).

“I cannot believe that any responsible journalist would expose themselves to the ridicule of the scientific community with the kind of patent ignorance displayed in the Telegraph article. There has been persistent evidence of health hazard from studies way back to three or so decades ago. The Chinese nation (some 1.3 billion) takes those studies seriously by regulating far lower limits than ICNIRP. I presume this article was simply some industry plant, since it is far beneath any serious scientific attention. Roger Coghill MA (Cantab) C Biol MI Biol MA (Environ Mgt).”

Roger Coghill’s assumption that Matthews’ article was ‘simply some industry plant’, was no idle comment. It is surely too much of a coincidence that the Executive Director of the Daily Telegraph is non other than John Allwood, the former CEO of Orange. In the light of that knowledge, readers must judge for themselves the credibility and motives of the article.

The Industry’s desperate attempt to silence or discredit everyone who dares to suggest there are risks, reveals the enormity of the problem. If the technology isn’t safe, billions will have to be spent making it safe. No self respecting global giant would be prepared to sacrifice profits just to protect public safety. So, when a bomb shell like the Stewart Report hits the media headlines, damage limitation (the art of spin and lies) goes into overdrive.

However, it is truly shocking that anyone should advocate such dangerous nonsense as ignoring the precautionary principle with regard to children. In my opinion, it borders on the criminal to send out a message which could have such serious consequences. Of course we all hope that the worst case scenario doesn’t happen. But we can’t guarantee that it won’t, anymore than we can guarantee that it will. Right now the evidence of harm to health is mounting alarmingly. The least we can do for the sake of the next generation, is guard against the possibility – and those who say this is the action of fools and fanatics, have obviously not learned the lessons of history. Or perhaps it has nothing to do with ignorance – and everything to do with greed, self interest and an utter lack of morality.

Jennifer Godschall Johnson – Mast Sanity


Fields of Influence - Mobile phones "the largest human biologic experiment"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473121/

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74468;show_parent=1
http://www.conspiracynewsnet.com/shadow.html

ANTI-WAR.US is dedicated to the free distribution of anti-war graphic material.

As creative individuals trained in methods of mass communication, we can make a real difference by providing clear anti-war messages.

All materials on this site are created voluntarily and distributed free to activists around the world.

http://www.anti-war.us/gallery/index.php


Informant: ItalysBadBoy

The Campaign Against Dietary Supplements

Bill Sardi on the regulatory-pharmaceutical complex:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi34.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=602312

New Photos Reveal 'Britain's Abu Ghraib'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905W.shtml


Shocking New Photos Provide Evidence of British Torture of Iraqi Prisoners of War

The photographs in the article below are graphic, yet they provide strong evidence of severe torture of Iraqi Prisoners of War at the hands of British soldiers. As the "coalition" leader for the occupation of Iraq, the U.S. sent the world and the U.K. a terrible example of what not to do with the horrors of Abu Ghraib.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2690

Please ask Boxer to ammend it so it includes "protection of civil liberties".

Here is a link to send comments to Sen. Barbara Boxer:

http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm

Here's why:

Sadly, her list of options includes fascism.

• Fully funding the No Child Left Behind education law (ROTC access to children)
• Increasing resources for homeland security
• Expanding the COPS Program -- to put more police officers on the
streets


Her current list of options is here:
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/survey.cfm

There is a 'write-in' box for 3rd option, but her java script software is broken.

Here is a list of your choices:

• Preserving Social Security and Medicare
• Protecting a woman's right to choose
• Making health care more affordable for families
• Ensuring that polluters -- not taxpayers -- pay for toxic waste cleanups
• Enacting a Patient's Bill of Rights for those enrolled in HMOs
• Fully funding the No Child Left Behind education law
• Ensuring veterans have adequate health care
• Increasing resources for homeland security
• Increasing the minimum wage
• Passing a comprehensive transportation bill -- to create jobs and
improve transportation
• Ensuring that America’s judges represent mainstream American view
• Providing a tax cut for the cost of college
• Preserving more of America’s wild and natural places
• Passing a Violence Against Children Act
• Expanding the COPS Program -- to put more police officers on the
streets
• Reducing our national debt
• Passing an effective National Energy Policy


Informant: Scott Munson

Rep. Ron Paul : Conscription – The Terrible Price of War:

The ultimate cost of war is almost always the loss of liberty. True defensive wars and revolutionary wars against tyrants may preserve or establish a free society, as did our war against the British. But these wars are rare. Most wars are unnecessary, dangerous, and cause senseless suffering with little being gained. - The current war in which we find ourselves clearly qualifies as one of those unnecessary and dangerous wars.

http://207.44.245.159/article7728.htm

Experts say up to 30% may need psychiatric care...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/17/MNG24ARHTU1.DTL
http://snipurl.com/c44t


From Information Clearing House

"According to the Geneva Conventions and The Hague, the occupying force has no authority to change the laws of the occupied country.''

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/611/611p17.htm


From Information Clearing House

The US media is disciplined by corporate America into promoting the Republican cause...

http://207.44.245.159/article7736.htm

Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found in Iraq, it is time for an accounting.

http://207.44.245.159/article7731.htm

Clearly, Ms. Rice was shown to be a liar and an immoral person — not caring about those who have been killed in this war, this war that was clearly built on lies.

http://207.44.245.159/icle7747.htm

We must stop the next Middle East war before it starts:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7147.htm

From a strategic point of view, it is hard to imagine how President Bush could even be contemplating another half-baked military adventure.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=57711&d=18&m=1&y=2005
http://snipurl.com/c44k


From Information Clearing House

It is a constant drumbeat and will become more so over the next few months: Iran has nukes, or is feverishly working to develop nukes (no easy task), and will ultimately nuke Israel and Europe.

http://207.44.245.159/article7741.htm


From Information Clearing House

Hardliners in Pentagon ready to neutralise 'nuclear threat' posed by Tehran...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1392750,00.html


From Information Clearing House

When I Came Home is a documentary which follows the lives and struggles of several homeless veterans, including those who have recently returned home from the war in Iraq. The film examines the factors which led over 150,000 Vietnam veterans from the battlefield to the street and asks the question: Will what happened to Vietnam veterans happen to a new generation of soldiers? Watch it online now.

http://207.44.245.159/article7692.htm

COMMENTS NEEDED TO OPPOSE NEW FOREST PLANNING RULES

As an early Christmas present, the Bush administration released new rules for managing national forests. These new rules eliminate the most fundamental wildlife protections, open up millions of acres of national forests including old growth, roadless areas and sensitive wildlife habitat to harmful activities, disregards science and shuts the public out of meaningful input.

While the new rules eliminate many protections outright, there is still an opportunity to comment on the rule for adopting or changing forest management plans. Forest plans are the long-term "blue prints" that govern how public forests and grasslands are managed. These plans identify how much logging, oil and gas drilling, mining, road building, grazing and motorized recreation will take place and where.

Forest plans are analogous to a county general plan, which lays out what development will take place. After the long-term plan is approved, projects to carry out the plan are then implemented over time.

TAKE ACTION: COMMENTS NEEDED BY MARCH 7, 2005

The administration is accepting comments on only one portion of the new rules: it proposes to exempt forest management plans from environmental review and public input under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The rest of the rule changes are final as of January 5, 2005. The proposed rule would no longer require an analysis of the environmental impacts of a forest plan, revisions or amendments, including any analysis of alternatives that may be less impactful or public review of the proposed plans. Click here for detailed analysis of rule changes
http://www.americanlands.org/documents/1105739275_NFMA_FINALREGS.pdf>http://www.americanlands.org/documents/1105739275_NFMA_FINALREGS.pdf

Please send a letter urging the Bush administration to abandon its proposed rule change and make the following points:

[You/your group] strongly opposes the January 5, 2005 proposed rule change that would exempt forest management plans, revisions or amendments from environmental review and meaningful public input under the National Environmental Policy Act. The proposed new rule would:

Hide from the public adequate information to evaluate the environmental consequences of forest plans and disregards the best available science in favor of commercial interests;

Make it easier for timber, oil, gas, mining and motorized recreation corporations to profit from the use of public forests while eliminating the need for forest managers to assess potentially harmful impacts on water, wildlife, recreational use, old growth and roadless areas;

Worsen the assault on wildlife. Without environmental analysis of a forest plan or changes to a plan, the impacts to wildlife will not be understood. The new regulations have already abolished the requirements to maintain viable populations of species and to monitor those populations. Adopting this new proposal effectively removes all enforceable requirements to analyze and monitor wildlife health, both at the forest plan and at the project level; and

Call for environmental analysis to be done only at the project level. But the Bush administration has already exempted many types of logging projects from environmental review under NEPA mostly through the misnamed "Healthy Forest Initiative" in effect eliminating all environmental review and opportunity for public comment.

Additionally, the proposed rule would eliminate studying or disclosing the cumulative impact of management activities across the national forest, which is usually done at the planning stage.

Send your comments to:

USDA Content Analysis Team
Attention: Planning CE
P.O. Box 22777
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
Fax: 801.517.1015


Randi Spivak
American Lands Alliance
Executive Director
726th 7th Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202.547.9029
Fax: 202.547.9213
randispivak@americanlands.org

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html


Informant: Andy Thames

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/project-seal-tsunami-bomb-papers.html


Informant: MessiahTwain

The following is taken from today's edition of the New York Times:

At Least 34 Whales Dead, Beached in N.C.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 17, 2005


Filed at 11:27 a.m. ET

MANTEO, N.C. (AP) -- Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 34 of the marine mammals beached themselves and either died or had to be euthanized.

Dozens of whales beached themselves early Saturday along a five-mile stretch of coastline near Oregon Inlet, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Twenty-four pilot whales died, and another seven were euthanized because they were suffering, the National Park Service reported.

A single minke whale was found dead in Corolla, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Two pygmy sperm whales turned up Sunday morning near Buxton -- one already dead, and one so sick that it also had to be euthanized, NOAA Fisheries biologist Barbie Byrd said.

"We're hoping that this is all of them,'' she said.


Informant: Millennium Twain


News results for BEACHED WHALES
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74447;show_parent=1

ELF and beached whales and dolphins
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/472964/

"Transparenz sinnlos": Wirtschaftsminister Müller soll Energiepolitik für E.ON gemacht haben (18.01.05)

Die Offenlegung von Zahlungen der Wirtschaft an Politiker tragen nach Auffassung der atomkritischen Ärzteorganisation IPPNW "nicht im mindesten dazu bei, dass eine von Industrieinteressen unabhängige Politik möglich ist." Das beweise der Fall des ehemaligen Bundeswirtschaftsministers und E.ON-Managers Werner Müller. Die "Berliner Zeitung" berichtet in ihrer heutigen Ausgabe über den Wechsel von Müller zwischen Atomwirtschaft und Bundesregierung. Müller weise zu Recht darauf hin, dass er kein Geheimnis daraus gemacht hat, vor seiner Berufung ins Ministeramt 25 Jahre als Manager in der Energiewirtschaft tätig gewesen zu sein, meint die IPPNW. "Müller war 1998 vom Energie- und Atomkonzern E.ON in die Bundesregierung geschickt worden. Dieser ungeheuerliche Vorgang war für die Öffentlichkeit völlig transparent", sagte ein Sprecher der Ärzteorganisation. "In der Bundesregierung hat Müller ungeniert die Interessen seines Konzerns und seiner Branche vertreten. Müller setzte mit dem so genannten Atomkonsens den langjährigen Weiterbetrieb der deutschen Atomkraftwerke durch, torpedierte das Erneuerbare Energiegesetz und ließ durch seinen Staatssekretär eine Ministererlaubnis zugunsten einer Tochtergesellschaft von E.ON erteilen."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.jpberlin.de/www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10205


Bundestag beschäftigt sich mit E.ON-Zahlungen an Ex-Minister Werner Müller
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486423/

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

Part One: American Military Defeat in Falluja II
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2696

Part Two: American Military Defeat in Falluja II
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2700


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

http://tinyurl.com/725lm

Source: http://www.truthout.org/fyi

Sarg in Handy-Form: Ausgefallene Bestattung in den Niederlanden

18. Januar 2005 13:28

Handy-Liebe bis ins Grab: Wer ohne Mobiltelefon nicht sein kann, muss in den Niederlanden selbst im Tod nicht darauf verzichten.

Quasselstrippen können dort auch in einem Sarg in Handy-Form zur ewigen Ruhe gebettet werden.

http://www.xonio.com/news/news_13139264.html?tid1=7400&tid2=0 (Auszug)

Omega wie sinnig! Nomen est omen? (Übs.: Ist der Name ein Vorzeichen?)

...doch der amerikanische Präsident darf es nicht wissen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19260/1.html

Die Warnung der britischen Strahlenschutzkommission (siehe Meldung vom 13.01.05) ist in Dänemark stark beachtet worden. Viele Zeitungen, TV- und Radio-Stationen verbreiteten die Meldung: Kleine Kinder sollten besser keine Handys benutzen. Bemerkenswerter Weise haben jetzt sogar die Danish Cancer Society und das Health Council die Empfehlung herausgegeben, Kindern unter zehn Jahren keine Handys zu überlassen, berichtet Sianette Kwee aus Dänemark. Derartiges hätten beide Organisationen zuvor nie gemacht. Die Empfehlung ist an die Einschränkung gebunden, die besondere Schadwirkung von Handys auf Heranwachsende sei noch nicht untersucht worden, die Forschungsanstrengungen konzentrierten sich bislang nur auf Erwachsene. Frühestens in drei bis vier Jahren könnten erste Studien an Kindern Ergebnisse liefern - bis dahin sei vorsorglich Vorsicht angeraten. Pikant: Die Vorlage des REFLEX-Abschlussberichts vor wenigen Wochen hat in allen Medien regen Widerhall gefunden, besonders die Ergebnisse über DNS-Doppelstrangbrüche. Nur die beiden oben genannten Organisationen schwiegen sich beharrlich aus. Des Rätsels Lösung: Vor einem Jahr griffen sie das REFLEX-Projekt hart an und stellten die wissenschaftliche Qualität seiner Arbeiten in Frage (18.01.05-Kwee/-ll).

Link zur Danisch Cancer Society http://www.cancer.dk/

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Informationszentrum gegen Mobilfunk
Heidrun Schall
http://www.izgmf.de

Kirk Tofte on the Myths America Lives By:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/tofte6.html

Secret Wars Against 10 Countries

Seymour M. Hersh on neocon plans for mayhem.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact


From Lew Rockwell

Doug French on How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market, by Jim Rogers.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french26.html

Naked Aggression

Paul Craig Roberts on The New American Militarism:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts89.html

by Jennifer Van Bergen

CounterPunch

01/18/05

A preliminary draft of a soon-to-be published scholarly legal article written by a former military officer who currently presides in a U.S. federal court concludes that the Abu Ghraib prison abuses were the reasonably foreseeable results of a decision by President Bush to ignore the mandates of the Geneva Conventions relating to prisoners of war..

http://www.counterpunch.org/vanbergen01182005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ron Beatty

The Libertarian Enterprise

01/17/05

Politicians pay attention to only two things, money and votes. Let them know that you will be watching their actions, and will donate, and vote, accordingly. Now is the time for you to decide how much you are devoted to the concept of freedom and individual liberty and rights. You can stand on 'principle', and when you are enslaved or stuck in a gulag someplace, you can console yourself with that. Or you can live up to ideals you claim to believe in...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle302-20050116-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Tibor R. Machan

Tibor's Place on the Web

01/17/05

We have an ongoing tragedy afoot in our country. It has to do with the relationship between our political tradition and the dominant moral viewpoint. In the political realm everyone is supposed to have the unalienable right to, among other things, the pursuit of happiness. No, not to happiness but to pursuing it. None can have a right to happiness since happiness is something one needs to achieve in life -- it cannot be given or secured by government...

http://tinyurl.com/3vg9u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by David Boaz

Cato Institute

01/18/05

Advocates of an imperial presidency ask who comprehends the general will of the American people. Their answer: the one official elected by all the people -- the president of the United States. Unlike Congress, they believe, he represents the national interest, not just the parochial interests of states and vested interests. The voters have chosen the president, and Congress should carry out his Sun God-like 'mandate.' If Congress refuses to execute the general will, then presidents increasingly claim the power to rule by decree, through executive orders. Such an idea is poisonous. It would replace the constitutional safeguards against majoritarianism with a president virtually unconstrained in his ability to do good, as he sees it, for the people.

http://www.cato.org/dailys/01-18-05.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Radio Free Europe [Czech Republic]

01/18/05

U.S. President George W. Bush has said he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country is not more cooperative over its suspected nuclear weapons program. ... Iran denies it is trying to build nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is for energy purposes only. Bush's comments come after his administration denied it is sending special forces into Iran to carry out secret reconnaissance missions to identify potential nuclear and other targets...

http://tinyurl.com/7y6ya


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) US Democrat Senator Edward M. Kennedy said the bloody standoff between US occupation troops and Iraqi resistance proves that the occupation of the Arab country is the Vietnam of President George W. Bush, who continues justifying that aggression.

In an interview on CBS news, Kennedy said the situation in Iraq was a disaster and the result of blunder after blunder, another Vietnam. The senator called ridiculous Bush's latest claim that his re-election was a validation of going to war in Iraq.

Kennedy reminded that former Democrat President Lyndon Johnson easily won the 1964 elections during the Vietnam War, but didn"t seek re-election in 1968.

"Look what happened," Kennedy said. "Lyndon Johnson had to basically abdicate the presidency because of Vietnam. This is clearly George Bush"s Vietnam." Johnson is widely believed not to have sought re-election due to the drain on time, resources and his popularity resulting from failures in Vietnam.

Kennedy has been a consistent critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq and vocally opposed the resolution that gave the US president the green light to go into war in Iraq. The Democrat senator further added it was absolutely a mistake to go to war with Iraq, instead of following Osama bin Laden.

However, Kennedy stressed that Bush committed other mistakes after ordering the invasion of Iraq, including not having enough troops for post-war operations, disbanding the Iraqi army, having single source contracts to groups like the politically connected Halliburton and the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib.

The Democrat Senator believes that the US went into Iraq with no long-term plan, just a day-to-day planning session.

sus/ajs/et/mf


Informant: Walter Lippmann

by The Borowitz Report

Why not give control of the nation's Social Security program to an avid gambler and Bush friend? Heck -- it's no riskier than the stock market!

The former education secretary (and avid gambler) Bill Bennett was given control of the nation's Social Security program—at least according to humorist Andy Borowitz. Read the full story here:
http://borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1045&srch=


From TomPaine.com

by Chris Suellentrop, Slate

On the real agenda behind the White House push for Social Security privatization.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003392

by Dean Baker, Demos

On how the coming collapse of the housing market will hurt middle and low-income families.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/trouble_at_home_the_housing_bubble.php

Neutralizing the threat from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) at home [in the United States] should be a priority even with the deficit soaring. For $2 billion, Kentucky could be rid of more than a million pounds of mustard, sarin and VX gases. That's a drop compared to the $130 billion the United States has already wasted chasing WMD that Iraq did not have.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2688

The facts show the Bush Administration is wrong because there was no link between 9/11 and terrorists, and the Iraq War is a disaster. Now, according to a disturbing article in the New Yorker, the Bush Administration is planning an "Iranian campaign," claiming Iran is linked with terror. The election may have given the Bush Administration another large dose of lethal hubris, and Iran is the next target, even though the military is "broken," according to top generals.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2686

The Bush/Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee is spending $50 million to lavish the President and his "donor base" with gala parties in the next few days. The coronation was supposed to proceed on January 20th with Pennsylvania Avenue scrubbed clean of embarrassing signs calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. It has all been organized like a Hollywood set piece to shower "legitimacy" on a criminal administration.

Thanks to the incredible support of everyone in this movement, however, Bush (and the world media tracking his every inaugural movement on January 20) will be unable to miss the thousands of people at antiwar bleachers and along the parade route.

Because of the help provided by members of the impeachment movement, the beautiful (and large) black and yellow banners and signs reading "Guilty of War Crimes -- ImpeachBush.org" will be all over Pennsylvania Avenue.

To view of photo of the signs, click here:
http://www.pephost.org/images/content/pagebuilder/19049.jpg

At the antiwar bleachers and mass rally site on the inaugural parade route (at 4th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) we will be joined by Ramsey Clark, family members of soldiers in Iraq, Muslim-American family members whose loved ones were swept up in the Bush/Ashcroft mass arrests, and thousands of other Americans who through their presence and their spirit will make sure that the impeachment message resonates loud and clear through the Inaugural charade.

Volunteers are now working round-the-clock in Washington DC. People in more than fifty cities are sacrificing by taking off time from work and school to board buses for the long ride to Washington DC in the middle of winter. Everyone involved should understand how essential their work and their contribution has been to this effort.

We can succeed because of the generous contributions of people who deeply believe that impeachment is a necessary step to protect the constitution and to hold high officials accountable for their criminal acts. Thanks to those who have contributed so far. But we need to raise many thousands of dollars more in the next three days to help cover all the expenses.

Please make a contribution now. For access to the online donation form and the secure server, where you can also get information to write a check, click here:
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=5ujDkS4Udrm72suC2Mm5YQ

-- All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org


Coronation farce deepens - These Companies gave Money for Bush's Innauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/469496/

Inaugural Protests in Many Cities
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483959/

January 20 Impeachment Reportback
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/487021/

Aus der Rubrik: Privacy Watch
Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005
von Christian Rentrop


Schottische Bar setzt RFID-Chips in den Arm seiner Stammgäste ein. Diese können sich dann bargeldlos besaufen. Die Rechnung liegt in der Datenbank der Kneipe und wird dem Kunden wie eine Kreditkarten-Rechnung zugestellt. Der Schritt zum Alkohol-Cyborg ist getan.

Der Bender-Effekt

Bender ist der Name eines Roboters aus einer Zeichentrickserie des Simpsons-Schöpfers Matt Groening. Er funktioniert mit Alkohol und muss sich ständig Longdrinks und Kurze reinpfeifen, um nicht in den Standby-Modus zu fallen. Irgendwie schottisch, diese Verhaltensweise. Entsprechend naheliegend ist es für die Betreiber des Clubs "Bar Soba" in Glasgow, Kneipen-Gäste in Cyborgs zu verwandeln.

Ein kleiner Chip im Arm macht den Stammgast zum menschlichen Wesen mit elektronischem Upgrade. In der Fernsehserie "Der 6-Millionen-Dollar-Mann" hatte Lee Majors durch so ein Cyborg-Upgrade diverse Superkräfte erhalten. Die RFID-Chips in den Armen der Kneipenbesucher sorgen zwar nicht für Superkräfte, können aber in Notsituationen trotzdem hilfreich sein. Zum Beispiel dann, wenn jemand volltrunken ohne Ausweis aufgefunden wird. Ein kleiner Scan durch die Polizei und die Stammkneipe ist bekannt. Dort kennt man dann sicher auch die Anschrift des Findelkindes.

Reiskörner im Arm

Der Chip im Arm hat in etwa die Größe eines Reiskorns. Er enthält eine persönliche Identifizierungsnummer sowie den Namen des Gastes. Betritt er die Bar, wird er gescannt und als "Anwesend" verbucht. Der Kellner kann also schon einmal die Lieblingsdrinks des Besuchers vorbereiten. Bis der die Theke erreicht hat, stehen sie bereits auf dem Tisch.

Die Chips wurden von den Kunden bisher begeistert aufgenommen, erlaubt der Chip im Arm doch den völligen Verzicht auf Geld, sei es in Form von Barem oder als Kreditkarte. Da macht die Strassenschlägerei nach Sperrstunde gleich doppelt soviel Spass, wenn man nicht abgezogen werden kann.

URL:
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=25647
Datum: 18.01.2005
© www.sozialisten.de


Das Unding "Hartz IV" und das Unwort "Humankapital"

Zur Kür des Wortes "Humankapital" zum Unwort des Jahres 2004 erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Rolf Kutzmutz:

Die Jury, die das Unwort des Jahres bestimmt, hatte es in diesem Jahr nicht leicht. Denn die meist genannten Vorschläge "Hartz IV" und "Ein-Euro-Job", die eine Kür zum Unwort des Jahres allemal verdient hätten, erfüllten nach ihrer Meinung die rein sprachlichen Voraussetzungen nicht. Beides, Hartz IV und Ein-Euro-Jobs, seien eher Undinge als Unwörter, so der Jury-Vorsitzende Horst Dieter Schlosser.

Mit der Kür des Wortes "Humankapital" zum Unwort des Jahres ist der Jury dennoch gelungen, die "primär ökonomische Bewertung aller denkbaren Lebensbezüge", wie sie sich auch in der Hartz-Gesetzgebung ausdrückt, deutlich und scharf zu kritisieren.

Wer Menschen einzig und allein zur ökonomisch interessanten Größe degradiert, führt die Gesellschaft ins soziale Nirwana. Unding und Unwort des Jahres 2004 stehen für eine Politik, die sich vom Sozialstaat des Grundgesetzes verabschiedet und Millionen Menschen eine menschenwürdige Teilhabe am Gemeinwesen verwehrt.


31. Januar ist Widerspruchstag
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483588/

Agenturschluss
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480922/

http://www.dailytidings.com/2005/0112/011205forum.shtml


Informant: Davey Garland

Military Ceremony for Louisiana National Guardsmen Killed in Iraq

Soldiers' families and National Guard defy Pentagon, allow media to film and photograph remains coming home in flag-draped coffins...

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/la/


Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Photo Gallery
warning: some of these pictures are graphic
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm


Informant: Friends

I had the following letter published in todays Argus newspaper (dist Sussex wide) as written below..

There is also an excellent anti TETRA letter pub'd written by Nigel Farage MEP (UKIP). Go to http://www.theargus.co.uk

Gary K, Brighton



Mobile phones are emphatically not safe

They have already killed a lot of people. They have been linked to brain tumours, migraine, headaches and numbness in the head and users often experience a burning sensation behind the ear.

There is mounting evidence that mobiles are frying people's brains. The fact that so many children and young people are now using them could result in an epidemic of brain disorders in the near future.

The technology is marvellous but the human frame is fragile and cannot stand the short wave radiation.

Samantha Miller, aged 17, died several years ago. Her parents are reported to have said "Our chatterbox daughter died of a brain tumour. We blame her mobile".

Research by Dr. Alan Preece at Bristol University has supported the claims of those who believe mobile phone radiation is not safe.

A study of volunteers showed the emissions heat up the brain and alter reaction times.

In another study, Dr.Preece used squid to demonstrate how human brains can be altered by electrical impulses. The squid changed colour when exposed to mobile phones, violently flashing through the spectrum, and also showed slower reaction times.

Simon Best, of mobile phone emission pressure group Powerwatch, said the Millers' story was becoming all too common.

"The amount of evidence that shows that mobile phone use is damaging is growing by the day" he said. "and as more and more people use their handsets for longer, we expect cases like this to grow rapidly".

A Finnish Study has shown that mobile phones damage brain neurons and allow toxic chemicals to leak into the brain.

A French study supports this showing that mobile phone radiation can weaken the brain's natural barrier to poisons.

I recommend reading Dr George Carlo's "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age" (2001). Carlo was appointed in 1993 by the US telecoms industry to allay the fears of mobile phone users through scientific research.

Carlo is a public health scientist, epidemiologist and lawyer, so no fly-by-night.

In June 1999 he stood up in public and instead announced his findings that mobile phones cause cancer and that no-one should hold one to their head. Ever.


From Mast Network


Fields of Influence - Mobile phones "the largest human biologic experiment"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473121/

Mobile Phones Break DNA & Scramble Genomes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/476242/

MOBILE PHONE GIANTS PANIC AFTER DAMNING GOVERNMENT REPORT ON HEALTH RISKS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/478771/