From the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros…

Carrie Dann


Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(775) 468-0230
Fax: (775) 468-0237
http://www.wsdp.org



-----Original Message-----
From: International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros [mailto:ispmb@lakotanetwork.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:44 PM
To: Carrie Dann
Subject: RE: ACTION ALERT:


Dear Friends of Wild Horses,

We have just gotten word that a bill is being introduced into Congress (it is in the House Resources Committee now) for reinstating the protections previously afforded to America's wild horses and burros. This BILL will stop the proposed slaughter of more than 8,000 wild horses!

WE NEED YOU TO ACT IMMEDIATELY BY:

· Write and e-mail and phone your Representative and Senators and ask that they SUPPORT HR 297 presented by the Honorable Rep Nick J. Rahall (D-WV). Please ask them to bring the bill to the floor of the Congress.

· Let Representative Rahall know how thrilled you are that he has taken action to save America's icon, the wild horses and burros.

· Let them know that wild horses and burros are the great symbol of our country and represent the freedom we so cherish. Let them know you want them protected from slaughter FOREVER.

· We need letters and e-mails to go out immediately.

· We are asking that you pass this on to as many people as possible to write.


http://www.congress.org

Sample letter:

Dear Honorable (Senator/ Representative):

We are asking for your help today to restore to the rightful place the position that wild horses hold as the great American symbol of freedom that our country so cherishes. Would you please support Representative Rahall's bill HR 297 that is to be introduced into the 109th Congress from the House Resources Committee.

This bill will stop the slaughter of over 8,000 wild horses in our country and restore the protections afforded to wild horses and burros that they have deserved over the past 34 years. By voting for this bill it also will restore the public's confidence in our Congress by assuring that it operates under the principals of "for the people and by the people"

As you know, the support for wild horses crosses all political, cultural, and social lines. This is why we are asking that you support this bill. When the rider #142 was surreptitiously added to the appropriations bill last November, it was done without the will and support of the American people.

We trust that you will rectify this terrible injustice done to our "last living symbol of the West," our wild horses and burros.


Sincerely,



January 25, 2005

WILD HORSE SLAUGHTER PROHIBITION MUST BE REINSTATED

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Wild horses roaming across our public lands, a symbol of the American West, would no longer be doomed to certain slaughter under legislation introduced today by U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV). Rahall is the Ranking Democrat on the House Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over wild horse policy on federal lands.

"Very few icons of the West remain, and wild horses are certainly a symbol of the frontier era and our nation’s spirit. To allow them to be slaughtered without exhausting all other options, such as adoption, is an affront to our history," declared Rahall.

Rahall’s legislation addresses a provision inserted in a must-pass appropriations bill last year that allows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service to essentially turn a blind eye to individuals or corporations who buy these animals with the clear intention of cruelly slaughtering them for profit. The Rahall legislation would restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros.

"It has been illegal for the past 33 years to sell or transfer wild horses and burros for processing into commercial products because many Americans abhor the thought. They would be aghast to know that these animals now can and will be slaughtered so their meat can be offered on menus in France, Belgium and Japan," stated Rahall.

The current slaughter policy does not acknowledge the fact that humane alternatives exist and federal agencies have the authority to carry out such actions as adoption, sterilization, relocation, and placement with qualified individuals and organizations.

"To suggest that an acceptable solution to a federal agency’s management dilemma is commercial slaughter is an irresponsible approach to our public lands and the wildlife that roam them," said Rahall.

The federal government has a mediocre record in enforcing wild horse and burro protection laws. But instead of addressing these long-term and widespread management problems, the recent change is simply a quick and dirty fix. Under the guise of "managing" these living symbols of the American West, the agency is now permitted to allow the slaughter of animals that they had been previously charged with their protection."A public outcry has again begun across the United States over the change in law that now allows this disgraceful deed. We need to act before it is too late for thousands of these animals," concluded Rahall.


Karen A. Sussman
President, ISPMB
PO Box 55
Lantry, SD 57636
Tel: 605.964.6866
Cell: 605.365.6991
Saving America's Wild Horses & Burros since 1960

http://www.ispmb.org

Hier eine sehr interessante Pressemeldung

Viele Grüße

Ulrich Weiner


Hauptressort: News, Analyse

26.1.2005:

52 Forschungsprojekte zur Wirkung von Handystrahlung bis 2006 - auch Nachhaltige Unternehmen betroffen

Die Wirkung von Handystrahlung soll in Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2006 mit Hilfe von 52 Forschungsprojekten untersucht werden. Das erklärte laut einem Bericht der Pressestelle des Deutschen Bundestages die rot-grüne Bundesregierung in einem Bericht an das Parlament (15/4604).

Auch Nachhaltige Unternehmen wären von negativen Ergebnissen der Untersuchungen massiv betroffen. Dazu zählen beispielsweise der finnische Hersteller von Mobiltelefonen oder der britische Netzbetreiber Vodafone.

Bisher nachgewiesene gesundheitsrelevante Wirkungen elektromagnetischer Felder beruhten auf der Gewebeerwärmung, die bei der Aufnahme elektromagnetischer Energie in Organismen entstehe, hieß es in dem Bericht. Nach wie vor "unbeantwortet" sei dagegen die Frage nach anderen Wirkungsmechanismen so genannter hochfrequenter Felder, "die nicht auf eine Erwärmung zurückgeführt werden können und unterhalb der gesetzlichen Grenzwerte liegen".

Omega: dass die Pulsung von Handystrahlung Auswirkungen hat und dass bei einer derartigen Modulation andere Wirkungen entstehen als rein thermische, ist weder eine Hypothese noch eine reine Behauptung, das ist offiziell vergessenes Wissen, über das kein Wissenschaftler Ende der 90iger mehr offiziell reden durfte, falls er weiterhin Geld bekommen wollte, siehe weiter: „Der Grenzwert ist auf einem Auge blind, lahm dazu“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/461053/ Jetzt tut man, als ob dies ganz etwas Neues, Überraschendes ist, dass erst noch erforscht werden muss.

Mit dem Abschluss der Forschungsvorhaben wird laut der Meldung bis zum Jahr 2006 gerechnet. Zusammen mit Ergebnissen der in verschiedenen Bundesländern laufenden Forschungsprogramme solle dann eine neue Bewertung eventueller gesundheitlicher Auswirkungen durch elektromagnetische Felder möglich sein.

Die Forschungsprojekte werden den Angaben zufolge vom Bundesumweltministerium mit insgesamt 8,5 Millionen Euro unterstützt. Weitere 8,5 Millionen sind laut Bericht durch die Netzbetreiber selbstverpflichtend hinzugekommen. Vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung werde ein Volumen von 7 Millionen Euro zur Förderung strahlungsmindernder Technologien beim Mobilfunksendesystemen bereitgestellt und vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit stehen für Forschungsarbeiten im Zusammenhang mit technischen Regulierungsfragen beim Aufbau der so genannten UMTS-Netze laut Bericht insgesamt 5 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung.

Omega: ein großer Optimist muss man sein, wenn man glaubt, dass bei diesen, von den Netzbetreibern mit finanzierten Forschungen, etwas Negatives für die Mobilfunkbetreiber herauskommen darf und wird. Die Mobilfunkbetreiber werden sich doch wohl den Ast nicht absägen, auf dem sie sitzen. Eine solche, nicht neutrale Forschung ist nutz- und sinnlos und verschlingt nur überflüssiges Geld, das man in Zeiten knapper Kassen sinnvoller anlegen könnte.


Copyright ECOreporter.de

Geschäftsführer hat gekündigt: Bundesdruckerei zahlte möglicherweise Honorar ohne Gegenleistung an Volmer-Firma (27.01.05)

Die Consultingfirma Synthesis des früheren Staatsministers im Auswärtigen Amt, Ludger Volmer (Grüne), hat von der Bundesdruckerei möglicherweise branchenunübliche Honorare erhalten. "Solche Zahlungen sind unlogisch und in der Höhe unverständlich", sagte ein hochrangiger Ex-Manager der Druckerei der in Berlin erscheinenden Tageszeitung "Die Welt". Nach Auskunft des früheren leitenden Angestellten sei auch keine adäquate Gegenleistung erkennbar. Die Synthesis habe vergangenes Jahr 387 000 Euro Umsatz gemacht. Dieser habe fast ausschließlich auf den Geschäftsbeziehungen zur Bundesdruckerei International Services (BIS) beruht, die für das Ausland zuständig ist. Die BIS will Volmer bei der Auftragsanbahnung in Südafrika, Vietnam und Afghanistan unterstützt haben.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.jpberlin.de/www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10286



Visa-Affäre
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/521715/

Britain's parliament has just enacted a new law that allows the government to arrest any U.K. citizen for any reason. Under the terms of these new "Control Orders," those arrested can be held for as long as the government sees fit. Here's how it started and what it means to YOU...

http://weholdthesetruths.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=210


Informant: truthforall2000

FYI.

Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(775) 468-0230
Fax: (775) 468-0237
http://www.wsdp.org


From: Northwatch <northwatch@onlink.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:10:29 -0500
Subject: [northwatch_mines] MineNews: Blockade remains in place in Kashechewan

Blockade remains in place in Kashechewan

by Teviah Moro

Local News - Wednesday, January 26, 2005 @ 07:00

Demanding an apology from the OPP, members of the Kashechewan First Nation continued to blockade a winter road passing through their community

Tuesday, throwing a wrench in the plans for De Beers' diamond-mine operations.

Members of the Cree First Nation set up the blockade on the winter road used by De Beers Canada to access a future diamond site 90 km west of Attawapiskat when patrolling OPP officers began informing local users of the the road about Highway Traffic Act regulations.

"Our rights as native people have been violated," said Deputy Chief Rebecca Friday. "We demand an apology from the OPP."

Protesters are denying access to OPP officers and De Beers Canada employees but are allowing all other motorists to drive through the blockade, now entering its second week.

In a news release, Kashechewan community leaders and Stan Louttit, Grand Chief of the Mushkegowuk Council, said members of the First Nation using the road to reach trap lines and wood were told by OPP they could no longer use the winter road.

Though no one has been charged, some people using the road were stopped by officers and told to use another route, the news release says.

The Highway Traffic Act says motorists must have driver's licences, automobile insurance and registration.

As many as 80 per cent of the people living in Kashechewan, located 180 kilometres north of Moosonee, don't have driver's licences.

Sgt. Mario Royer of the OPP's Moosonee detachment said he doesn't know when the blockade will end but that officers are respecting the wishes of the First Nation.

"We're not attending the roadblock location. We turn around prior to the blockade."

Royer said officers continue to patrol the road to maintain public safety.

The long stretches of lonely highway can be dangerous for motorists with temperatures dipping down below -40 C, he said.

The OPP came across motorists in a broken down vehicle during one patrol, Royer said.

"They were many miles away from the nearest community."

Louttit said resolve on the winter-road issue in Kashechewan is strong.


Northwatch
Box 282, North Bay P1B 8H2
tel 705 497 0373 fax 476 7060
northwatch@onlink.net
http://www.northwatch.org


Informant: Carrie Dann

"What these ovens do to food is not good. Apparently the radiation turns proteins into a substance that is not recognised by the body......its amazing how little research has been done into microwaved food and its effects on human health."

Sarah Benson


Radiation Ovens: The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485972/

Microwave Oven Radiations Hazards & Standards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/325594/

Radiation Ovens: The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/325588/

Nuked In Your Kitchen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/305336/

Do You Microwave Your Food ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/290594/

The Effects of Microwave Apparatus on Food and Humans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/290590/

Microwave ovens cause cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283088/

Still 'Cooking' With Microwaves?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/209635/

Microwave Madness
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1825144/

Microwave–ovens cause cancer after all
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189666/

Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/192056/

Microwaves are a hazard to life
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189655/

Microwaving kills health benefits
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491434/

Microwaving: Dangers to Your Food and You?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491436/

MICROWAVE DANGERS: How unseen frequencies can harm your health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491437/

Microwave Oven Radiations Hazards & Standards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491421/

Would you stick your head in a microwave oven?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1604071/

Man turns the Earth into a Microwave–Oven
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189645/

Microwaved Water: See What It Does To Plants
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2963447/

Microwaves: Microwaving-Dangers To Your Food and You?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4645306/

Microwaved Water
http://omega-news.livejournal.com/216498.html

Microwave oven info
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491151/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwave
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Mikrowellen/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Hertel

Original: http://tinyurl.com/482my

Omega siehe auch unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_aktionen.html


Wissens- und Erfahrungs-Transport an Unwissende

Ein Verein lebt von den Aktivitäten seiner Mitglieder. Selbst ein guter Vorstand kann nur Lenker eines möglichen Erfolges sein. Ein passives Mitgliederverhalten bedeutet für die Idee und den Fortbestand eines Vereins langsames Siechtum und letztlich die Auflösung des Vereins. Eine inaktive Basis überfordert einen Vereins-Vorstand.

Nur die Politik kann eine Kehrtwende in der schon leidigen sich inzwischen endlos im Kreise drehenden Mobilfunk- Diskussion bewirken.

Die Nachweise hochrangiger Wissenschaftler über die gesundheitsschädigende Wirkung der Strahlen ist inzwischen hinreichend dokumentiert. Die Leidensgeschichten zig-tausender Menschen sind ein Nachweis für die Richtigkeit der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Die Politik muss dies endlich zur Kenntnis nehmen und handeln!

Raucherschäden kann man auf dem Röntgen- Bild klar erkennen, Mobilfunk- Schäden spielen sich auf einer anderen Ebene ab ! Wer hier so lange warten will, wie man trotz den Erkenntnissen der Raucher- Forschung gewartet hat, der muss damit rechnen, in wenigen Jahren bereits ein Heer von jüngeren DEMENZ-KRANKEN zu haben. Krankenkosten und weitere Auswirkungen werden schnell rapide steigen, da wir ALLE ungewollt von dem bienenwabenen energetischen Funknetz betroffen sind !

Da die Presse schweigt, müssen MOBILFUNK- GESCHÄDIGTE und alle die das Wissen um die Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks haben, endlich an einem Strang ziehen !

Wir m ü s s e n das vorhandene Wissen an Unwissende transportieren ! Es müssen mehr Menschen informiert werden. Es kann nicht angehen, dass kaum ein Bürger über die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks Bescheid weiß ! Insbesondere bei Ärzten- und sämtlichen weiteren Heilberufen müssen die Erkenntnisse in Form einer INFO- Broschüre bekannt gemacht werden.

Der noch gesunde sowie auch der bereits erkrankte Bürger muss den Mut haben, mit dem Arzt seines Vertrauens über seine vermuteten Beschwerden durch den Mobilfunk zu reden, es geht letztendlich um seine eigene Gesundheit !

Ärzte tragen in der Gesellschaft eine besondere Verantwortung für die Gesundheit ihrer Patienten. Es kann nicht angehen, dass sie ihre Behandlungsmethoden aus dem 18.Jahrhundert beibehalten, während ihre Patienten mit Krankheiten durch Energieschäden des 3. Jahrtausends kämpfen, die jeglicher medikamentösen Behandlung trotzen !

Sämtliche Mobilfunk- Vereinsvorstände müssen ihre Mitglieder zum tätigen „Wissenstransport“ auffordern, indem sich der Einzelne z. B. verpflichtet, täglich zumindest 5 MOBILFUNK-FLYER z. B. in Supermärkten oder an parkende Autos unter die Scheibenwischer zu klemmen. Jeder Informierte muss aktiv werden und sei es nur mit dieser minimalen Tätigkeit, da unsere Presse über Mobilfunk- Erkenntnisse schweigt !

Das Anliegen der Mobilfunk- Geschädigten verhallt leider bisher ungehört, weil die Masse der Mobilfunk-Kritiker inaktiv darauf wartet, dass der Vorstand des Vereines Ergebnisse erreicht !

Kleinvieh macht auch Mist und was für einen !

- 1600 - Bürger- Initiativen mal 50 Mitglieder = 80 000 Menschen
- 80 000 Menschen x rund 350 Tage im Jahr = 28.000.000 Tage
- 28 000 000 Tage mal 5 INFO - Prospekte täglich = 140 000 000 !

Innerhalb eines Jahres hätte man bei kleinstem Aufwand 140 Millionen Informationen transportiert ! Keine Zeitung hat eine solche Auflage !

Jeder von uns weiß, ein Schneeball kann eine Lawine auslösen !

Der Einzelne von uns ist der Schneeball, 140 Millionen INFO´S sind die Lawine, die sich noch multipliziert durch deren Weiterverbreitung innerhalb der Familie und des Bekanntenkreises des neu Informierten !

Fangen wir mit unserer Arbeit heute an, die Vordenker haben bereits das Nötige getan, morgen ist es für viele von uns vielleicht bereits zu spät ! Ohne Aktionen werden keine Reaktionen folgen !

Wir können unsere gesundheitlichen Beschwerden weiter vorbringen und jammern, über Geräte-Schäden berichten, neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse bestaunen.

Die Mobilfunk-Industrie lacht sich darüber nur ins Fäustchen, sie schweigt grinsend über solche „unglaublichen Schäden“ und hält Strahlengeschädigte für psychisch gestörte Jammerlappen und Spinner !

Hier kann nur eine Wende zum Besseren stattfinden, wenn JEDER etwas unternimmt und sich JEDER nicht nur auf den NÄCHSTEN verlässt, der natürlich auch nichts tut. Daher reagieren weder die Politik noch die Mobilfunk- Betreiber ! Teure wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen wandern in den Papierkorb und verschwinden in der Versenkung um dann in Vergessenheit zu geraten.

Vorbildliche Beispiele für Menschen, die den Wert ihres möglichen Einflusses unterschätzen:

Dänische Bürger haben mit Protesten erster Güte gegen eine machtvolle Atomkraftwerk-Lobby im eigenen Land den Aufbau der Atomkraftwerke verhindert. Sie haben ebenfalls einen „TEURO“ verhindert der uns Deutschen sowie auch den Franzosen das Geld dauerhaft entwertet hat und der das Sparbuch künftig weiter plündern wird !

Dänische Bürger haben erreicht, dass offene Kompostierungsanlagen in ganz Dänemark geschlossen wurden, da die Bürger im Umkreis schwer erkrankten. Solche Anlagen werden bei uns im „so-genannten fortschrittlichen Deutschland“ noch immer betrieben zum Leid der betroffenen Bürger. Inzwischen sind diese offenen Kompostierungs- Anlagen lt. EU-Recht im nächsten Jahr verboten !

Unsere ostdeutschen Bürger haben bewundernswert g e w a l t l o s eine politische Wende gegen eine Weltmacht vollziehen können.

Da wird es doch allen deutschen Bürgern gemeinsam gelingen, einer gerechten Sache auch zum verdienten Erfolg zu verhelfen !

Wenn uns unser Anliegen ernst ist, müssen wir ALLE heute und nicht erst morgen gemeinsam handeln !

Paul Henry-Spaak
( Belgischer Politiker 1899 – 1972 )
„Die Dummheit ist die sonderbarste aller Krankheiten.
Der Kranke leidet niemals unter ihr, aber die Anderen !“


Dieter keim <> Ilbenstadt

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=4201&m=7529


Informant: Susan

Mobile phones no threat to people's health, Oireachtas told

I'm sending you this report published in yesterday's IRISH EXAMINER of last Tuesday's meeting between Irish Department of Communication's representatives and the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, chaired by Deputy Noel O'Flynn.

Torbjorn Lindblom of FEB forwarded the Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee--Deputy Noel O'Flynn--a most helpful up-to-date bibliography (Professor Olle Johansson's) and other leads to research that supports adverse bioeffects from cellphones. I am sending you this bibliography for posting (with Olle's permission) as it could be a great help for all others who wish to make similar submissions:

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

A few words about Deputy Noel O'Flynn http://www.noeloflynn.ie and his previous involvement with Irish government sponsored investigations into mast health issues: In the late 1990's he served on a nineteen member joint committee on this issue. The full published proceedings of the committee, "Joint Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport Report on Non-Ionizing Microwave Radiation Emissions from Communications Masts" (Publ. in late 1998, publication number PN6439) can be purchased from [Irish] Government Publications Postal Trade Section, 4-5 Harcourt Road, Dublin 2. Tel: + 1 6613111-ext. 4040/4045; Fax: + 1-4752760 or through any bookseller. Among the recommendations on health issues made by the Joint Committee, in this 1998 report are these:

" 9.16 The Department of [Irish] Health and Children should set up a panel of medical experts from which individuals, who consider their health is affected by masts, may select three to carry out medical examinations on payment by the individual of an appropriate fee. This fee will be refunded to the individual in a case where the medical experts agree that health problems are attributable to masts.

9.17 The Department of Health and Children should include a statement in its forthcoming national environmental action plan setting out clearly the up-to-date position in relation to microwave radiation and human health.

9.18 The Department of Health and Children should supply the Director of Telecommunications Regulation with the latest public informaiton in relation to health risks for inclusion in her annual report." (Page 19)

Last night, looking again through this report, I noted Deputy Noel O'Flynn concern for the cellphone health issue even back then in 1998. At one meeting he posed these questions to Dr. Tom McManus who was at that time Chief Technical Adviser, Department of Public Enterprise.

"Dr. McManus: Negative effects were reported in Crossmaglen, which health authorities on both sides of the Border [N. Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] could not prove.

Deputy O'Flynn: I was interested in the last answer because I intended to mention that. How serious are the Department of Public Enterprise and the Department of Health and Children taking the risk to personal health from hand held mobile 'phones. I read about the Australian experiments and my first Parliamentary Question related to the dangers of mobile 'phones. How conclusive were those tests? The Australians said that radiation was transmitted by mobile 'phones to the rats in the experiment. Has Dr. McManus followed the US case in which a surgeon died, allegedly as a result of the use of a mobile 'phone, radiation from which caused a brain tumour? His family is taking a test case in the US courts. What medical tests have we carried out to ascertain whether mobile 'phones are injurious to health? Have we established an expert group to examine, investigate, evaluate and come to conclusions about the danger of mobile phones?" (page 28)


Best, Imelda, Cork



IRISH EXAMINER, Wednesday, 26.01.2005. Page 4

"Mobile phones no threat to people's health, Oireachtas told"

[by] Juno McEnroe

There is no concern about Irish people's health from mobile phones, an Oireachtas committee was told yesterday.

Department of Communications chief technical advisor Bob Hanna told the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources that initial test results from 400 mobile phone bases nationwide indicated levels of radiation were acceptable, but more research was needed. Meetings were being held with department of health and environmental officials to keep them up to date.

However, Labour TD Tommy Broughan highlighted that no planning permission was needed for phone masts, even though studies were necessary.

Mr Hanna said all guidelines were in practice with international groups such as the World Health Organisation and EU research. Out of 25,000 studies, only eight suggested adverse effects on mobile phone users' health and, in a worse case scenario, this meant that one person would die from cancer every 10 years in Ireland, he said. He was also aware of studies which claimed benign tumours close to the brain and DNA skin tissue damage were side effects from the technology. These were not conclusive though, he stressed. It was not possible to replicate these tests in Ireland, and furthermore the country had no medical facilities for such studies, the Oireachtas committee heard.

At present, all phone groups verified their levels, which were checked by the Communications Regulator. The heating effect is the only known effect to tissue which agitates molecules, like food in a microwave. However, a mobile phone user would need to use a handset for 24 hours a day to feel adverse effects. "If anything was proven, it would change our position overnight," Mr Hanna concluded.

Omega: the statement from Mr Hanna is plain and simple not true. There are a lot of studies which suggest adverse effects on mobile phone users' health. See:

http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/olle_johansson_list_of_authorities.pdf


The committee yesterday also heard from the Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA), which is expected to present the first Irish 'snapshot' study on electromagnetic sensitivity in Sligo over the next week.

IDEA member Dr Elizabeth Cullen said mobile phone effects was a growing issue. "We know smoking was harmful for many years, but the ban only came in last year." It was at least necessary to discourage young children using handsets", she said.

The Oireachtas Committee is expected to make a number of recommendations on further mobile phone research."


Mobile Phones Trigger Symptoms
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/487618/

PROBE INTO MOBILE PHONE DANGERS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482922/

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050126-045615-4690r


Informant: kevcross5

by Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D. BlackCommentator.com

On how Bush's plan for Social Security would plunge more elderly blacks into poverty.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003493

by Marcellus Andrews, TomPaine.com Exclusive

Republicans want to turn black people into a cudgel to smash the legacy of the New Deal.

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

Darfur: Never again?

As the world prepares to commemorate Holocaust Day, crimes against humanity are still being committed in Darfur while diplomats bicker...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=604617


From Information Clearing House

Neoconservatives’ endeavors to create a market economy version of Islam – bereft of its basic tenets - got a boost recently when Reverend James Schall, Professor of government at Georgetown University and a Jesuit priest, vigorously defended their efforts.

http://www.amperspective.com/html/revered_schall.html


From Information Clearing House

Robert Scheer: 1600 Pennsylvania Meets Madison Ave.:

President Bush's inaugural speech was radical, if not downright bizarre, in its insistence that the United States can and will deliver freedom to Earth's more than 6 billion human residents. "If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House," said Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center.

http://207.44.245.159/article7842.htm

Despite Bush's endless hypocritical assertions about how we have brought freedom to Iraq, the truth is that almost all of the people in that country who have managed to survive the military attacks, have lost loved ones and had their lives ruined.

http://207.44.245.159/article7848.htm

Report: Faulty poll will not bring peace or US withdrawal:
http://207.44.245.159/article7841.htm

Pepe Escobar

The administration of George W Bush, has introduced to the world the concept of election at gunpoint. The guinea pig: Iraq, on January 30. The rules: candidates must be anonymous (otherwise they will be killed). Voters cannot go out and vote (otherwise they may be killed). Even if they wanted to vote, they wouldn't know where, because the location of the polling stations will be known only the night before the election.

http://207.44.245.159/article7847.htm

Former Sergeant Major Richard Jackson allegedly told the soldiers that it was policy at Camp Bread Basket near Basra to punish Iraqi thieves.

http://207.44.245.159/article7846.htm

They strap the three to boards that pivot head-down into a trough of swill and excrement keep them there until they are gagging and wild with panic of drowning lever them briefly up to air down again. Torture yet?

http://207.44.245.159/article7837.htm

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and other Democrats assailed President Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq Tuesday and declared they would oppose Condoleezza Rice's nomination as secretary of state as a principal architect of a failed policy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20050125/ap_on_go_co/senate_rice
http://tinyurl.com/4eekh


From Information Clearing House

"I don't like impugning anyone's integrity, but I really don't like being lied to," Dayton said in opposing Rice's nomination on the Senate floor. "Repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally."

http://207.44.245.159/article7835.htm

U.S. officials no longer believe this weekend's election will finish off the rebellion, whose disparate factions unite in hating the Americans.

http://207.44.245.159/article7843.htm

Dr. Teresa Whitehurst: Making Tolerance a Sin; Intolerance a Virtue
http://207.44.245.159/article7845.htm

Into history’s cauldron have American troops been sent to wage war and decimate cities, lands and lives.

By Manuel Valenzuela

It is time we say enough is enough, that the American people refuse to sit idly while a few miscreants destroy our nation and our world. It is time to show the world what we once were, and are capable of once again becoming. It is time we make our government accountable. It is time to end the madness of this illegal and immoral war.

http://207.44.245.159/article7831.htm

Gases Could Raise Temperatures 11 Degrees - Study
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29214/story.htm

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Alarm at new climate warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210629.stm


Informant: Harlan Girard

The Pentagon, edging into foreign spy operations traditionally handled by the CIA, will soon begin using its own special intelligence teams to work with US military forces in world trouble spots, senior defense and military officials said on Monday. The officials told reporters that a new Strategic Support Branch under the Defense Intelligence Agency was a change sparked by 2001 attacks on America and not an attempt by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to grab authority over intelligence operations.

The Pentagon detailed the program after the Washington Post on Sunday revealed its existence, sparking charges from some Washington critics that Rumsfeld was trying to circumvent the CIA and may even have avoided necessary congressional oversight. Some Democrats called for congressional hearings.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/FlashNewsStory.aspx?FlashOID=23266


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 27th, 2005

The new US foreign-policy emphasis delineated in President George W Bush's inauguration speech and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings concurrently have drawn praise and alarm by Asian politicians and pundits already concerned by the administration's perceived unilateralist tendencies. The conflicting messages of activism and restraint have led to confusion over the extent to which the US will pursue a more activist policy to undermine or unseat oppressive regimes. White House counselor Daniel Bartlett commented that the speech was meant to "crystallize the debate [to] say what are our ideals", whereas another official described it as "a bit of an acceleration, a raising of the priority".

But it's the acceleration that's worrying Asia. In any case, attention has been refocused on North Korea, not just raising hopes for new diplomatic initiatives but also increasing trepidation over potential ratcheting up of peninsular tensions. President Bush's forthcoming State of the Union address will be dissected for clues on future US policy directions in Asia.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GA26Dg01.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 27th, 2005

PRESIDENT BUSH’S pledge to spread freedom to the darkest corners of the Earth has been greeted with scepticism at home and hostility abroad. The day after he vowed to work towards ending tyranny, analysts questioned how his rhetoric meshed with the realities of US economic and military interests. In its pursuit of the War on Terror, the US depends economically, logistically or politically on at least six countries that could fall into the category of “oppressors”: Russia, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. “The US is closing its eyes towards dictators who serve its own interests, but attacks those that damage it”.

Abdul Hussein Shaaban, an Iraqi analyst, said. Mr Bush opened his second term with a striking adjustment of US foreign policy, placing the spread of human freedoms and democracy at its core. It was the latest evolution of the “Bush doctrine” that emerged after the September 11 attacks when he warned nations they were “with us or against us” in the War on Terror. But it was the first time Mr Bush had argued that the spread of democracy was “vital” to American interests without linking it specifically to the War on Terror.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/will_bush_still_do_business_with_oppressive_regimes.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 27th, 2005

It's already used as the ID of choice throughout most of the United States.To write a check, open a video-store account, or board a plane, you must flash your driver's license. And now that small card tucked in your wallet is about to get more sophisticated. A piece of the new National Intelligence Reform Act signed into law last week requires national standards for state licenses. It's another ripple from 9/11, when seven of the hijackers used fake driver's licenses to board the planes. The standards, to be hammered out over the next 18 months by state and federal officials along with technology specialists and "interested parties," are raising concerns among privacy experts who see the move as the first step down the road to a national ID or centralized information on individuals.

It's a development - described by one congresswoman as "radioactive " - that has long been opposed by privacy advocates in the public and government alike.

What several analysts question is why this standardizing IDs makes us more secure?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/250105nationalid.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 27th, 2005

Imagine a world in which every 'citizen' has a microchip ID under the skin so he and she can be tracked anywhere -- connected to a global satellite system. Science fiction dystopia on Planet Earth? A really bad joke? No, not if Verichip and ORBCOMM have their way. Here is the brazen announcement by the brazen serpents themselves -- in their own words. "ORBCOMM, a global satellite telecommunications company, today announced that it has executed an agreement with VeriChip(TM) Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ:ADSX), to be its provider of satellite and telecommunication services for applications to be developed for use with the world's first implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip, also called VeriChip(TM). Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will also work together to develop and market new military, security, and healthcare applications for use in the United States and around the world. VeriChip(TM) Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Digital.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=74&contentid=1796


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - January 27th, 2005

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74646;show_parent=1


Impeach him

by Anthony Gregory

LewRockwell.Com

03/08/05

For the Iraq war alone, George W. Bush should be impeached. It won't happen, of course. The Republican legislators so concerned about presidential honesty as it concerned a stained dress back in the late 1990s seem to care nothing of the distortions, deceptions and lies of the Bush administration that have led to and obscured much more heinous stains -- bloodstains -- upon the clothing of 1,500 dead American troops, thousands more wounded, not to mention tens of thousands of dead and maimed Iraqis...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory66.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Uniting Against the Hegemon

Michael Lind on how we became the world's dispensable nation:
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/lind-ft.html

Address From the Throne

Translated into plain English by James Ostrowski:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski70.html

by Robert Bryce

Slate

01/25/05

President Bush has a simple policy about energy: produce more of it. The former oilman has packed his administration with veterans of the oil and coal industries. And for most of the first Bush term, his energy policy and his foreign policy were joined at the hip. Since the Bush administration believed that controlling the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf was critically important to the American economy, the invasion of Iraq seemed to serve both the president's energy goals and his foreign policy ones. But a curious transformation is occurring in Washington, D.C., a split of foreign policy and energy policy: Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green...

http://www.slate.com/id/2112608/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/reynolds/reynolds2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

AntiWar.Com

01/27/05

The unwillingness to ever reconsider our policy of foreign intervention, despite obvious failures and shortcomings over the last 50 years, has brought great harm to our country and our liberty.

Historically, financial realities are the ultimate check on nations bent on empire. Economic laws ultimately prevail over bad judgment. But tragically, the greater the wealth of a country, the longer the flawed policy lasts. We'll probably not be any different...

http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=4607


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



A Big Mistake

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD

Video and Transcript:

"Our ill-advised presence in the Middle East and our decade-long bombing of Iraq served only to incite the suicidal attacks of 9/11. "

http://207.44.245.159/article7903.htm

by John G. Tarsikes, Jr.

Sierra Times

01/26/05

I started this just making a comment on the Associated Press story about [two boys] arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung. Then I got worried. These grade schoolers were charged with felony 'making a written threat,' and taken from school in handcuffs. Kids. No gallows, no knives, just those insidious art supplies. Have people really changed to the point they suddenly learned to commit 'thought crimes?' If so, this is positive proof of a new species. Or is it just the Orwellian thought police surfacing twenty years too late? Anybody fifty or above should remember learning to play 'hangman' in class, or illustrating book reports on WWII books with bloody battle scenes. ... Nobody thought that was a felony...

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/01/26/tarsikes01262005.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

LewRockwell.Com

01/27/05

The problem with Gallagher and Williams is not that they were paid to say what they believed. It is what they believe, namely that the person of George W. Bush will restore the family and that the person of George W. Bush will make sure that no child is left behind. These are the views of totalitarians, not advocates of a free society. If you are going to sell your soul to the state, and try to fob off state control and war as the essence of freedom, it makes sense to at least have something to show for it...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/shills.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Thomas L. Knapp

Knappster

01/26/05

Can the 109th Congress, which in its composition tilts even more heavily toward Bush's party than the 108th, be expected to strap on some testicles and stand up for America? Offhand, it doesn't seem likely. But it's just barely possible. The butcher's bill in Iraq adds up to about $4.6 billion, and around 60 American lives, each month. The latter statistic provides an incentive to action. The former statistic provides a means ..."

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/01/war-partys-achilles-heel.html

Guardian [UK]

01/27/05

While anti-terrorism police were yesterday interviewing the four Britons released from Guantánamo Bay further details emerged of the alleged treatment of the men by their US captors. The US lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, who saw his client, Moazzam Begg, in Guantánamo Bay this month, said the captive had alleged persistent beatings, death threats and psychological torture first at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, then at the Cuba base. The Pentagon is investigating the abuse and torture allegations after concerns about treatment of prisoners were raised by the FBI...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1399409,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Richmond Times-Dispatch

01/27/05

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday the United States must do more to address other nations' concerns if it expects support for its policies. He cited global warming as a prime example. 'If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too,' he said at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a gathering of 2,500 political and business leaders...

http://tinyurl.com/68x5z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Nachdem gestern einige Nachrichtensendungen von einer bis zu 11 ° K ansteigenden Durchschnittstemperatur in den kommenden 100 Jahren sprachen, hier ein Hintergrund dieser Meldung.

Daraus erkennt man, dass die Situation wesentlich dringlicher und fataler ist, als erwartet.

10 Jahre ist ein Zeitraum, den jeder überschauen kann, 100 Jahre ist ein Zeitraum, wo sich fast alle denken, dass sie da nicht mehr dabei sein werden.

Wir sind mittendrin!


Deutschlandfunk Kurzmeldung:
http://www.dlf.de

25.1.2005

Umwelt


Es bleiben zehn Jahre, um die Klimakatastrophe abzuwenden.

Ein Internationales Forscherteam befürchtet, die Klimaerwärmung könnte bereits in zehn Jahren nicht mehr umkehrbar sein. Als kritische Marke sehen die Forscher eine Kohlendioxid-Konzentration an, die die durchschnittliche Welttemperatur um mehr als zwei Grad Celsius ansteigen lässt (verglichen mit 1750 - also der Zeit vor der industriellen Revolution.) Die kritische Kohlendioxid-Konzentration sei in rund zehn Jahren erreicht, so die Forscher. Die Folge seien lange Dürreperioden, Missernten, ein Anstieg des Meeresspiegels und ein weit verbreitetes Waldsterben. Die Klimaforscher rufen die Industriestaaten dazu auf, bis 2025 ein Viertel ihrer Elektrizität aus erneuerbaren Energien zu gewinnen.


Nachricht von Bernd Schreiner

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Studie: Zehn Jahre bis zur Klimakatastrophe

Etwas mehr als zehn Jahre stehen zur Rettung vor der Klimakatastrophe noch zur Verfügung. Zu diesem Urteil kommen die Experten der International Climate Change Taskforce in einem nun veröffentlichten Bericht.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5898.php

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Weltumspannende Computer-Simulationen: Dramatische Erderwärmung befürchtet

Durchschnittstemperaturen könnten um 11 Grad steigen. Internetprojekt soll Menschen sensibler machen für die Belange des Klimaschutzes.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5915.php

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Umweltschutz stagniert

Vor einem Stillstand in der Umweltpolitik bis zur nächsten Bundestagswahl warnen der Deutsche Naturschutzring (DNR), der BUND und der Naturschutzbund (NABU). Es sei ein Armutszeugnis, dass sich die Regierungsparteien SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im Umweltsektor lediglich auf eine bessere Wärmedämmung von Gebäuden verständigen könnten. Für den Klimaschutz sei das nicht ausreichend. Auch der Fortschrittsbericht der Bundesregierung zur nationalen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie enthalte kaum noch konkrete Aussagen für mehr Umwelt- und Naturschutz.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5882.php

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Gases Could Raise Temperatures 11 Degrees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490526/

Klimaerwärmung und Umweltkatastrophen nicht durch Industrieabgase?!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453705/

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Klimaerwärmung und Umweltkatastrophen nicht durch Industrieabgase?!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453705/

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Aktionen bei der AWO, Caritas… Gegen 1-Euro-Job-Anbieter
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/berichte/awo.html

Besuch bei der Caritas. Berlin: Demo gegen Ausnutzung von Ein-Euro-Jobbern durch Wohlfahrtsverbände. Bericht von Hannes Heine in junge Welt vom 18.01.2005: http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-18/018.php

Aus dem Text: "…Gegen Mittag formierte sich am Rosenthaler Platz ein kleiner Protestzug, der sich über die Torstraße zur Caritas-Filiale in der Chausseestraße bewegte. Die Demonstranten forderten von dem katholischen Wohlfahrtsriesen, auf Ein-Euro-Jobs zu verzichten. Die überraschten Mitarbeiter konnten die Begehung der unangekündigten Besucher nicht verhindern. (…) Die Initiative aus Erwerbslosen und Besuchern des globalisierungskritischen Filmfestivals "globale05", warf dem Deutschen Caritasverband vor, vom "Verarmungsprogramm Hartz IV" zu profitieren. (…) Die soziale Verantwortung der Caritas lasse sich nicht mit der Ausnutzung billiger Arbeitskräfte vereinbaren, so die Aktivisten…."


Hartz IV und der neue Arbeitsdienst
Einschätzung der Antifa-AG der Uni Hannover
http://antifa.unihannover.tripod.com/zwangsarbeit.html


Same procedure as every year?!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/460050/

1-Euro-Jobs müssen nicht sein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/441840/

Nikolausaktion
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/432133/

Hartz IV - ALG II - Ein-Euro-Jobs - Zwangsarbeit - Verfolgungsbetreuung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/425357/

Aktion Agenturschluss ("AgenturSchluss") - Aktion "Hartz-Schluss"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/425353/

Erfahrungsbericht einer 1-Euro-Jobberin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/407883/

Verfolgungsbetreuung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369654/

7 Millionen ohne Existenz sichernde Arbeit - das ist eine Schande
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/500576/

(Dumping)Tarifverträge zu Leiharbeit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/500604/

Berichte von Aktionen und Protesten 2004
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/berichte/2004.html

NeueWut: Vereinzelter Protest oder neue soziale Bewegung?

Dokumentarische Langzeitbeobachtung über soziale Proteste in Deutschland. Alle Infos zum Dokumentarfilm von Martin Keßler (90 Minuten) auf der Film-Homepage: http://www.neuewut.de/


"Ehrengäste lädt man ein und behandelt sie auch entsprechend…"

Offene Mail von Hans-Günther Osterkamp an Hans-Wilhelm Müller, Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Agentur für Arbeit in Wilhelmshaven:
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/offenerbrief_osterkamp.html


Warm-Up. Aktionstag am Samstag, den 18.12.04

"Das 'Ende der Bescheidenheit' hat am vergangen Samstag ein Warm-Up zur Vorbereitung der Demonstration in das Arbeitsamt Wedding am 3.1. veranstaltet. Es fanden zwei Aktionen statt: Am frühen Nachmittag demonstrierten AktivistInnen durch das Kaufhaus Wertheim am Kürfürstendamm und wiesen auf die immer schlechter werdenen Arbeitsverhältnisse hin. Am Abend gingen die Überflüssigen in das Nobelrestaurant Borchardt essen und bedienten sich an den servierten Menüs und Getränke, um sich so ihren Teil am gesellschaftlich produzierten Reichtum zu sichern!..." Siehe Berichte mit Fotos und Video: http://www.unbescheiden.tk/

Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 17

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/montagsdemo.html

Die gescheiterte Strategie der "Montagsdemonstrationen"

Über Ursachen, Konsequenzen und zukünftige Notwendigkeiten. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag von "ADO_2005" (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/montag_scheitern.pdf

Aus dem montäglichen Aufbegehren wurde keine Volksbewegung

Die Arbeitsmarktreform Hartz IV trieb vor allem in Ostdeutschland zahlreiche Menschen auf die Straße - doch bald ebbten in den Städten die Proteste ab. Artikel von Thomas Maron in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 03.01.2005:
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/nachrichten/?sid=905d86b516ceaa3a6782abf3326fd80b&cnt=612812

Exemplarischer Lernprozeß - Es ging um mehr als "Hartz IV".

Verlaufsformen und Perspektiven der Montagsdemos. Welche Bewußtseinsprozesse wurden da in Bewegung gesetzt? Artikel von Harald Werner in junge Welt vom 29.11.2004: http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/11-29/004.php

Aktionen und Proteste 2005
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2005.html

"SPD soll am 14. Februar Rechenschaft ablegen"

Bundesweiter Aktionstag beschlossen. Montagsdemonstranten wollen vor die SPD-Büros ziehen. Ein Gespräch mit Thomas Rudolph aus dem Organisationskomitee des Aktionsbündnisses Soziale Gerechtigkeit Leipzig-Nordsachsen. Interview von Peter Wolter in junge Welt vom 25.01.2005:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-25/020.php

Aus dem Text: "…Viele der Initiativen, die sich diesem Aufruf anschließen, wollen für ihre Städte Bilanzen erarbeiten, aus denen hervorgeht, was die Kürzung der Sozialleistungen und des Arbeitslosengeldes für die Menschen wirklich bedeutet. Der 14. Februar ist ein Montag - wir haben uns darauf geeinigt, daß sich an diesem Tag die Montagsdemonstrationen die lokalen SPD-Büros zum Ziel nehmen. In den Landeshauptstädten wird das wohl die jeweilige SPD-Zentrale sein, in den kleineren Orten das Büro des Unterbezirks. Wir in Leipzig werden die SPD vorher dazu auffordern, daß sich ein Abgeordneter oder ein Parteifunktionär in aller Öffentlichkeit zur Diskussion stellt…."

Die Montagsdemonstrationen gegen Hartz IV und Agenda 2010 werden fortgesetzt: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473230/


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/protestformen.html

Links-Partei gründen oder Widerstand organisieren?
Diskussionsbeitrag von Dieter Wegner vom September 2004
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/protestwegner.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 17

Passend zum neuen Special ein neuer Hip-Hop: Holger Burner slamt gegen Agenda, Hartz + Babylon als mp3-Datei bei LaborB
http://www.laborb.org/UnserStandard.mp3

Wir danken dem Künstler für den Text:
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/unserstandard.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 17

Mut zur Wut: Statt Hartz IV und 1-€-Jobs jetzt für 10-€-Jobs und ein vergleichbares Grundeinkommen streiten und mit einem 1-€-Job-Streik, Lidl-Besetzungen und einer Belagerung der Tarifverhandlungen im öffentlichen Dienst kombinieren!

Diskussionsvorlage von Peter Grottian zur Sitzung der Montagsdemonstrations-Aktionsbündnisse am 22.01. 2005 von 11 – 16 Uhr im Gewerkschaftshaus Leipzig.

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/persp-grottian.html
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/perspektiven05.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 17

Mag Wompel spricht über den Krieg der Regierung nach innen...

Auszug:

...Das zweite, was ebenfalls wichtig ist zum Verstehen der aktuellen Angriffe - wie gesagt, es sind nicht die ersten, das darf nicht vergessen werden - seit den 70er Jahren wurden die Lohnersatzleistungen für Arbeitslose und Sozialhilfeempfänger nach und nach gekürzt, aber unbemerkt. Ich erinnere zum Beispiel, das ist mein Lieblingsbeispiel, an das 50-Punkte-Programm der Kohlregierung, noch kurz vor ihrem Ausscheiden aus dem Amt. Vielen von euch ist das 50-Punkte Sparprogramm wahrscheinlich nur bekannt, weil es damals zu großen spontanen Arbeitsniederlegungen kam, weil einer dieser Punkte die Kürzung der Lohnfortzahlung beinhaltete. Und das ist eine sehr symbolische Errungenschaft der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung. Es gab spontanen Aufstand. Von den verbleibenden 49 Punkten bezogen sich zirka 45 auf zunehmende verschlechterte Zumutbarkeiten für Langzeitarbeitslose, auf Kürzungen, auf Schikanen und Sanktionen gegenüber Erwerbslosen, auf Kürzung der Altersabsicherung für Erwerbslose und so weiter. Dagegen gab es keinen Proteststurm.

Damit sind wir beim zweiten Fehler der Gewerkschaftsbewegung – ihre sehr begrenzte Klientel, nämlich die Noch-Beschäftigten, und mittlerweile wissen wir, noch nicht da alle, sondern die Stammbelegschaften, die Facharbeiter, nicht die Prekären, nicht die Menschen mit befristeten Arbeitsverträgen, schon gar nicht Erwerbslose oder MigrantInnen. Das ist der zweite Fehler.

Kommen wir zu dem dritten, der hat nämlich vieles von diesem Sozialabbau ermöglicht – das ist die Leistungsorientierung. Diese Leistungsorientierung hat ermöglicht, daß der Sozialstaat, wie bereits gesagt, seit den 70er Jahren nach und nach abgebröckelt ist, daß er aber schon damals - und das ist mir sehr wichtig, daß wir das nicht vergessen - schon damals repressiven Charakter hatte. Auf Grund dieser Leistungsorientierung (wer was leistet, hat Fürsorge verdient, hat unsere Solidarität verdient, wer etwas nicht leistet, und damals hieß es noch, wer erwerbslos ist, ist selber schuld, der hat keinen „Luxus“ verdient) wurde der repressive Sozialstaat, und das war er schon damals, hingenommen. Das sind aber in diesem Falle nicht nur Gewerkschaftsspitzen, das ist leider die Mehrheit der Belegschaften bis heute, die sich gerne abgrenzt von Langzeitarbeitslosen oder gar Sozialhilfeempfängern...

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/persp-wompel.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 17

Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by A Cult"
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/26/1450204


Informant: Friends

http://www.ntu.org/main/press_printable.php?PressID=604&org_name=NTUF


Informant: Foxhallgtown

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1390318,00.html


Informant: Walter Lippmann

From: "Planet Bytes" Planet_Bytes@adidam.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: Wangari, Trees, Peace and Prosperity

forwarded by Tony Smith of the Fauna Foundation, Canada,
http://www.faunafoundation.org/


What Do Trees Have To Do With Peace?

Thirty years ago, in the country of Kenya, 90% of the forest had been chopped down. Without trees to hold the topsoil in place, the land became like a desert.

When the women and girls would go in search of firewood in order to prepare the meals, they would have to spend hours and hours looking for what few branches remained.

A woman named Wangari watched all of this happening. She decided that there must be a way to take better care of the land and take better care of the women and girls.

So she planted a tree. And then she planted another. She wanted to plant thousands of trees, but she realized that it would take a very long time if she was the only one doing it. So she taught the women who were looking for firewood to plant trees, and they were paid a small amount for each sapling they grew.

Soon she organized women all over the country to plant trees, and a movement took hold. It was called the Green Belt Movement, and with each passing year, more and more trees covered the land.

But something else was happening as the women planted those trees. Something else besides those trees was taking root. The women began to have confidence in themselves. They began to see that they could make a difference. They began to see that they were capable of many things, and that they were equal to the men. They began to recognize that they were deserving of being treated with respect and dignity.

Changes like these were threatening to some. The president of the country didn't like any of this. So police were sent to intimidate and beat Wangari for planting trees, and for planting ideas of equality and democracy in people's heads, especially in women's. She was accused of "subversion" and arrested many times.

Once, while Wangari was trying to plant trees, she was clubbed by guards hired by developers who wanted the lands cleared. She was hospitalized with head injuries. But she survived, and it only made her realize that she was on the right path.

For almost thirty years, she was threatened physically, and she was often made fun of in the press. But she didn't flinch. She only had to look in the eyes of her three children, and in the eyes of the thousands of women and girls who were blossoming right along with the trees, and she found the strength to continue.

And that is how it came to be that 30 million trees have been planted in Africa, one tree at a time. The landscapes--both the external one of the land and the internal one of the people--have been transformed.

In 2002, the people of Kenya held a democratic election, and the president who opposed Wangari and her Green Belt Movement is no longer in office. And Wangari is now Kenya's Assistant Minister for the Environment.

She is 65 years old, and this year she planted one more tree in celebration and thanksgiving for being given a very great honor:

Wangari Maathai has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African woman to receive this award.

After she was notified, she gave a speech entitled, "What Do Trees Have To Do With Peace?" She pointed out how most wars are fought over limited natural resources, such as oil, land, coal or diamonds. She called for an end to corporate greed, and for leaders to build more just societies. She added:

"Our recent experience in Kenya gives hope to all who have been struggling for a better future. It shows it is possible to bring about positive change, and still do it peacefully. All it takes is courage and perseverance, and a belief that positive change is possible. That is why the slogan for our campaign was 'It is Possible!'"

"On behalf of all African women, I want to express my profound appreciation for this honour, which will serve to encourage women in Kenya, in Africa, and around the world to raise their voices and not to be deterred."

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children. I call on those around the world to celebrate by planting a tree wherever you are."

As she received the Nobel Peace Prize this week in Oslo, she invited us all to get involved:

"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own."


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Informant: Friends


Citizen’s Oath
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488822/

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=107502


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501241288.html


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501210613.html


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Panhandle%20Forests


Deane T. Rimerman

by SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
.c The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Despite protests by the governor and environmentalists, the federal government decided to open nearly all of New Mexico's vast Otero Mesa for exploratory drilling but vowed that the oil and gas industry won't have a "free-for-all.''

The decision Monday by the Bureau of Land Management permanently protects about 124,000 acres of the roughly 2 million-acre mesa, one of North America's largest remaining pieces of Chihuahuan desert grassland.

Gov. Bill Richardson and environmentalists, including the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Denver-based Earthjustice, promised a court battle.

"The state is going to fight this with everything we've got,'' Richardson said.

The opponents argue the plan fails to consider the effect on groundwater and grassland at the mesa, extending about 40 miles north of the Texas-New Mexico line.

Richardson - who once called the mesa "sacred'' and wanted to set aside 640,000 acres as a national conservation area - accused the federal government of ignoring its policy of working with states on major land management decisions.

"By failing to compromise, the federal government might have taken two steps backward, tying this issue up for years,'' the Democratic governor said.

In 1998, a test well indicated enough natural gas reserves to justify a pipeline, and a rush on drilling permits began, prompting the BLM, which owns the land, to revise the area's 1986 management plan. There have been thousands of public comments and two formal protests by the governor's office.

The plan allows for only 1,589 acres of surface disturbance from well pads, roads and pipelines. At most, there will be 141 exploratory wells drilled and no more than 84 producing wells.

"It's very methodical, very strategic,'' said Linda Rundell, director of the BLM in New Mexico. "It's not going to be a wide-open free for all.''

Rather than having the gas and oil industry nominate lease areas, she said, the agency will carefully choose which parcels to lease. It will lease only small blocks, and then assess the environmental impact on those areas before leasing more.

Rundell said the plan is one of the most restrictive ever developed by the BLM and that it was designed to prevent a spiderweb of roads and pipelines from destroying the fragile grasslands, dotted with cholla cactus and yucca and grazed by antelope.

"I know that it was a big concern for the governor, ranchers and environmentalists,'' she said. "They have looked at how development was done in other areas and they didn't want to see it happen like that on Otero Mesa.''

The Bush administration has pushed for increased development on public lands across the country - notably in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - and the Otero Mesa became a lightning rod during last year's presidential campaign.

Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and New Mexico Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons applauded the plan, saying the BLM balanced the need to protect the environment with the need to develop new sources of oil and gas.

Lyons said the plan could create 500 jobs and bring millions of dollars to Otero and Sierra counties over the next 20 years.

Stephen Capra of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance acknowledged there were novel parts to the BLM plan, but declared: "The protection the BLM is talking about, it's window dressing.''

"These are some of the last unfragmented desert grasslands anywhere in the world and they're just essential to protection of numerous desert species, from the pronghorn antelope to the endangered Aplomado falcon,'' said Mike Harris, an attorney with Denver-based Earthjustice.


On the Net:

Bureau of Land Management: http://www.nm.blm.gov
Earthjustice: http://www.earthjustice.org
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: http://www.nmwild.org


Informant: SIUHIN

MSNBC Vote Fraud Video (Must See)

Scroll down to 3rd video segment at:
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm


Informant: Friends

From the Northern Territory News, February 27, 2005;

Major earthquake tipped

by Milanda Rout

27jan05

AUSTRALIA could be hit by an earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale because the plate we are on is breaking up, research has found.

Scientists from Melbourne University have discovered that the Indo- Australian plate is under considerable stress from its neighbouring plates in Indonesia and Asia.

The energy generated from the connection points between plates at Sumatra and Java are transferring back into our plate, causing immense tectonic stress. "This stress can produce earthquakes up to magnitude seven about every 30 years," said Prof Michael Sandiford, from the university's School of Earth Sciences.

"And magnitude seven is a big earthquake, considering the Newcastle earthquake was a 5.6."

Prof Sandiford said Australia was considered fairly stable because we did not sit on the border of plates, as did Indonesia, Japan or California.

The report appears in the journal Geology today.


Informant: cobra_1122

I, too, have butted heads with my brother - who has two young sons - who told me that he had too much to do and would leave this action to people 'who have nothing better to do'. For me, this is just a cop-out - for people who live in a 'me' world.

Now I am involved in my community - a rural and agricultural place of beauty - where someone is trying to put a landfill. If we just did nothing - thinking it's up to those 'who have nothing better to do' - the landfill would be a done deal. So we are fighting hard, having gone so far as to create a not-for-profit group with the State.

So no fight is too small. It just takes a desire to preserve our way of life. And gatherings of people at government agencies work, too. I know, because I have been involved with that kind of participation as well ...

Yes, Mother Earth is sending us warnings. I have heard that the weather this coming summer may be even worse than last summer. I also just heard of a new animal, called a nimbria (sic), poised to enter South Carolina from North Carolina and Georgia. It is a 20 pound rodent with a nose similar to a beaver. It is a marsh animal and is wreaking havoc on the beaver population. It has about 6 babies twice a year. It is not an animal indigenous to anywhere I know of. Why is it here? To me, this is another sign from Mother Earth.

Please urge everyone you know to take action ...


Tiger


Informant: MessiahTwain


Citizen’s Oath
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488822/

Here is a passage about DU in a longer essay by Stephan Smith
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1217-28.htm

"Four of my aunts and uncles are doctors in the main Hospitals in both Baghdad and Mosul. From contact with them, I can only imagine what it does to a doctor's heart to try to heal, knowingly in vain, a people who now may have become the first victims of irreparable, long-term geno-contamination in human history: Already at the Conference on Nuclear Arms in Hamburg, Oct. 2003, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, Prof. of Science at the University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, reported the US had dropped the equivalent of 250,000 times the radioactive nuclear waste dropped on Nagasaki in Iraq. Different from Nagasaki, however, the contamination in Iraq is widespread, dispersed over entire regions of the country, bullets, strewn casings, armor, fragments, shrapnel...all containing radioactive waste."


Informant: David Diggins

Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(775) 468-0230
Fax: (775) 468-0237
http://www.wsdp.org


-----Original Message-----
From: ENDAUM-CCT endaum@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:28 PM

Please Forward to your lists as you see fit.

£eetsoh Dooda, K’ad!

January 26, 2005

To Our Friends and Supporters:

Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) issues this urgent CALL TO ACTION for support of the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act (DNRPA), Legislation No. 0886-04, currently pending final action before the Navajo Nation Council’s Winter 2005 Session.

PLEASE COME TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN WINDOW ROCK, CAPITAL OF THE NAVAJO NATION, ON THURSDAY JANUARY 27 AND FRIDAY JANUARY 28 TO PARTICIPATE IN A HISTORIC EXPRESSION OF SOVEREIGNTY BY THE NAVAJO NATION. Based in part on the Fundamental Laws of the Diné and drafted for compliance with federal law, DNRPA would be the first Navajo law to prohibit open pit and underground uranium mining and place a 25-year moratorium on uranium processing, including in situ leach or solution mining.

Bring signs supporting immediate passage of the bill. We will have copies of the legislation and information handouts at the Council Chambers. Expect to spend Thursday and ALL DAY Friday waiting for the legislation to reach the floor. When convenient, speak to your Council Delegate about the urgent need to pass DNRPA, this session. The Spring Session in April may be too late.

Be respectful of Council delegates, staff and other Navajo citizens who may be at the Council Chambers. Be proud of supporting this historic legislation. ENDAUM believes that it responds to the vast majority of our people who have said repeatedly and loudly they do not want new uranium mining.

We have written responses to the claims and allegations of the Eastern Navajo Allottees Association in last Saturday’s Gallup Independent. They are not just false and inaccurate, but malicious in tone. ENDAUM will not engage in tactics like those. We will stick to the facts and by guided by our Diné teachings.

Call 505-786-5209 or 505-409-9670 for information. Please leave messages if we don’t answer immediately. We will call you back as soon as possible.


Lynnea Smith, Project Specialist
ENDAUM
Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining
P.O. Box 150 Crownpoint, New Mexico 87313
Phone Number: (505) 786-5209
Fax Number: (505) 786-7275
http://www.endaum.org


Informant: Carrie Dann

You may already be aware of the risk to public health that is caused by mercury contamination in the environment. Mercury contamination can cause a variety of toxic effects in adults, and even more severe consequences in still-developing children.

How do we become exposed to mercury? The greatest single source of human contamination, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is the fish we eat. Fish contaminated by mercury can be found today in every ocean in the world -- and at our seafood counters. The US Food and Drug Administration and the EPA have advised women of child-bearing age and children against eating certain types of fish -- including albacore tuna.

But how do the fish get contaminated in the first place?

There are several sources of mercury pollution that contaminates the fish we eat. Probably the best known are coal-fired power plants. But there is another major contributor to this contamination problem -- one that you probably have never even heard of.

Today, Oceana is releasing a groundbreaking new report: "Poison Plants: Chlorine Factories Are a Major Global Source of Mercury." In it, we detail how one tiny subset of industry -- chlorine factories using an outdated production method known as "mercury-cell" chlorine production -- could be nearly as big a cause of mercury contamination as all the power plants in the United States put together.

* Read "Poison Plants": http://www.oceana.org/mercury/report.html

90% of American chlorine production is mercury-free; only 9 mercury-cell chlorine plants remain in operation in the U.S. today. But these nine plants, on average, each released five times as much mercury into the atmosphere in 2002 as did the average power plant -- and when you factor in so-called "lost mercury" and "fugitive emissions", which go unmonitored, releases from these nine plants may be as high as those from all power plants across the U.S.

In seven of the eight states where they operate, these plants are the number one source of mercury in that state!

If the U.S. government followed the existing laws instead of weakening existing regulations, mercury-cell chlorine production could be a thing of the past. However, they're not doing that -- so we have decided to step up to the plate.

We've set up a section of our Web site at http://www.oceana.org/mercury to host this important report, give you ways to take action on this issue, and help you learn more. And we've set up a post on our blog, the Oceana Network, where you can discuss "Poison Plants" with Oceana staff and other Wavemakers around the world.

* Discuss "Poison Plants" on the Oceana Network:
http://community.oceana.org/displaystory/2005/1/26/105938/024

We're mobilizing for safe seafood and healthy families. Read the report and stop by the Web site to learn what you can do to help!

Thanks for your time -- remember, if you have questions I'm always at wavemaker@oceana.org

For the oceans,

Jason Lefkowitz
Manager, E-Activism
Oceana

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1399585,00.html


Informant: NHNE

In december a debate started up about the cell tower in Blue Mountain, just east of Vancouver BC. They had a week to get their data together but they had no idea local battles had gone on for years before this and did not know the contacts to call.

For any cellular issues in Canada, check out EMF Canada:
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/

From: media@soaw.org
January 26, 2005

SOA Watch Update
Trial Log #3 – from Columbus, GA
January 26, 2005

AT TRIALS’ END, ELEVEN PEACEMAKERS ARE HEADED TO FEDERAL PRISON

Judge Faircloth sentenced six more of the “SOA 14” yesterday and today, bringing to 11 the total number of activists ordered to serve prison terms of three to six months and to pay fines of up to $500. Each of the defendants was on trial for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience calling for the closure of the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC).

The two high school students in the group were given deferred sentences, and another defendant was sentenced to one year of probation with a $1,000 fine.

The fourteen people that were on trial before Judge G. Mallon Faircloth this week range in age from 16 to 79. The group includes a chaplain, a farmworker, a Maryknoll nun, a Steelworker, two retirees and several students. They were all arrested on Sunday, November 21 for “crossing the line” onto Fort Benning, Georgia to call for the closure of SOA/ WHINSEC, a combat training facility for Latin American security personnel.

Each defendant opted to self-report to prison and will now wait for a letter from the Bureau of Prisons notifying them of the date when and prison to which they must report. Past defendants have received notice from the BoP anywhere from six to twelve weeks after their trials.

These defendants will spend the next months spreading the word about the School of the Americas by doing media outreach, speaking to churches, synagogues and peace and justice organizations in their communities and lobbying their Members of Congress.

Many are already making their plans to be in DC on February 21-22 for the SOA Watch Legislative Action Days. One of the most important ways that you can support the SOA 14 is to join them in DC! Meet with your Member of Congress, tell them about these peacemakers headed to prison and ask them to support legislation to close the SOA/ WHINSEC.

To read more about this year’s defendants and how you can support them, visit http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=322



THE 14 SOA/ WHINSEC DEFENDANTS:

2 sentenced to six months in prison with fines up to $500
2 sentenced to four months in prison with a $500 fine
7 sentenced to three months in prison with fines up to $500
1 sentenced to one year of probation and a $1,000 fine
2 given six-month deferred sentences

Robert Nash Chantal, 52, Americus, GA – 3 months; $500 fine

Liz Deligio, 28, Chicago, IL – 3 months in prison; $500 fine

Brian DeRouen, 27, Fairfield, CA, student in Dayton, OH – 4 months in prison; $500 fine

Meagan Doty, 22, St. Louis, MO, student in Dayton, OH – 3 months in prison, $500 fine

Ronald Durham, 24, Chicago, IL – 3 months in prison; $500 fine

Alice Gerard, 48, Buffalo, NY – 6 months in prison; $500 fine

Tom MacLean, 79, Ashfield, MA – 3 months in federal medical facility

Sr. Lil Mattingly, 63, Maryknoll, NY – 6 months in prison

Elizabeth Nadeau, 27, Minneapolis, MN – 3 months in prison; $500 fine

Mike Ring, 65, Wall, NJ – 1 year of probation; $1,000 fine

Dan Schwankl, 31, Siler City, NC – 3 months in prison; $500 fine

Aaron Shuman, 32, Oakland, CA – 4 months in prison; $500 fine

Two minors – 6 month deferred sentences



Peace, No War
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
Not in our Name! And another world is possible!


Informant: SIUHIN

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0126-32.htm


Informant: NHNE

ECOP-marine - Investigative reporting into the murky waters of East-African sea-fisheries (CL 2004) - please distribute widely

Kenya: Man-made Marine Disaster to worsen?

The battle for fish, shrimps, octopus, squid and lobster escalates in the Western Indian Ocean. Consumers must wake up. Malindi/Kenya - 26. 01. 2005 wtn - While the most recent Tsunami has spared the coastal areas of Kenya and the tidal waves nowhere reached above the high-water mark, the threat to the coastal ecosystems continues to come from within.

Please read the full text at: http://www.ecop.info/e-news/e-news-05-01-1.htm

We thought you would be interested in George Soros's latest article, "The New Bush Doctrine": http://georgesoros.c.topica.com/maac7f9abdGadcgAh9TeafpOqb/

President George W. Bush's second inaugural address set forth an ambitious vision of the role of the United States in advancing the cause of freedom worldwide, fueling worldwide speculation over the course of American foreign policy during the next four years. The ideas expressed in Bush's speech thus deserve serious consideration.

"[I]t is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture," Bush declared, "with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."

There is a bow to diplomacy in the assurance that fulfilling this mission "is not primarily the task of arms, though we will defend our friends and ourselves by force of arms when necessary." Similarly, Bush recognizes that outsiders cannot force liberty on people. Instead, "Freedom by its nature must be chosen and defended by citizens and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities."

Click here to read the full article on GeorgeSoros.com:
http://georgesoros.c.topica.com/maac7f9abdGadcgAh9TeafpOqb/

GeorgeSoros.com

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/597/1/70/


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

The Antiwar Movement and the Iraqi Elections

Election Under Occupation

The media theater called the Iraqi election is under way. U.S. television anchor people are broadcasting live from Baghdad, breathlessly describing the preparations for Sunday's display of so-called democracy.

It is important to emphasive the circumstances under which this election is being held. More than 150,000 U.S. troops occupy the country, patrolling the streets with guns trained on Iraqi civilians. Iraq is under a state of emergency, with expanded police powers and a curfew.

This is and election at gunpoint, which will be supervised by U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte. Negroponte built an impressive resume as a brutal enforcer of U.S. policy through murder, rape, and torture. Negroponte served as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985; a period during which Honduras was the launching pad from which the Reagan administration conducted its violent attacks on the people of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The U.S-backed atrocities, which were condemned by the International World Court in the Hague, included kidnappings, rape, torture and killing of suspected dissidents. Reports from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Honduras alleged that Negroponte oversaw the expansion of U.S training camp and military base on Honduran territory, where the U.S. trained Contra terrorists, and where the military secretly detained, tortured and executed Honduran suspected dissidents.

This is the person the Bush Administration would have us believe is going to bring democracy to Iraq.

Assisting him will be two US-funded organizations with long records of manipulating overseas elections on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). These groups, both of which are tied to covert plans to install US-favored regimes overseas, are among organizations that have been given more than $80 million for political activities in Iraq.

Both organizations work closely with the National Endowment for Democracy and the U.S. Agency for International Development, long used by the CIA for covert operations abroad. They were, for example, involved in orchestrating the failed coup and recall referendum in Venezuela in an attempt to remove the democratically elected and popular President Hugo Chavez.

This election is being conducted at gunpoint, administered by a war criminal, and stage-managed by CIA front companies. To pretend that this has anything to do with democracy is outrageous. The Iraqi people recognize this --among expatriates, 90 percent haven't even bothered to register to vote on Sunday.

What, then is the purpose of the phony election? It is actually directed at the U.S. public, which is growing increasingly disillusioned with the war. The sole intent of the election is to provide legitimacy for the occupation, to marginalize the resistance movement, and create an illusion of progress. The election, like the phony transfer of power, will change nothing on the ground in Iraq. On January 31, the day after the election, more than 150,000 U.S. troops will still occupy Iraq, the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib will still be full of Iraqi prisoners, and CIA employee Iyad Allawi will still be the U.S.-appointed dictator.

The Iraqi People Have Already Voted -- Against the Occupation

The Iraqi people have already expressed their will; they are overwhelmingly opposed to the occupation of their country. The majority of Iraqi people want the U.S. troops to leave and do not believe that the U.S. and Britain should be involved in holding elections in Iraq, according to several polls.

Many have already cast their ballot against colonial occupation by joining the nationwide uprising. The intelligence chief for the puppet regime in Iraq, General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, admitted that the resistance now numbers more than 200,000.

The resistance is made up of many difference forces, with different ideologies and goals. They are united by the determination to free their country from U.S. occupation.

The right of people to resist occupation by arms is a basic right recognized under international law and the Geneva Convention. The people of Iraq have a right to fight back against the occupation of their country, the torture of their people, and the bombing of their cities. They also have a right to expect the solidarity of all who oppose the criminal war. It is not the role of the antiwar movement to debate the ideology or tactics of the resistance; it is our job to stand in solidarity with them and do everything possible to assist them by working to end the occupation of their country.

What Next for the Antiwar Movement?

The phony elections will not silence the Iraqi resistance. It is important to remember that in the months since the last time the U.S. attempted to put an "Iraqi face" on the occupation, with the phony transfer of power and appointment of Iyad Allawi as puppet dictator, the resistance has spread and become more sophisticated and more entrenched.

As the resistance grows, we in the U.S. have an obligation not to be deterred by false elections or talk of "timetables." We must stand with the people of Iraq and take up their demand: the immediate, unconditional, and complete withdrawal of all U.S. occupation forces.

We must organize a united struggle to end the occupation. This is now more important than ever before. George W. Bush made it clear in his inauguration sermon that he intends to wage continual, global war. We must meet his call to war with renewed determination and unity.

The global antiwar movement has called for massive protests on the weekend of March 19-20. In the U.S., the Troops Out Now Coalition is organizing local and regional demonstrations to demand an end to the occupation, including a massive regional convergence on Central Park on March 19. The International Action Center, part of the Troops Out Now Coalition, calls upon all progressive and antiwar organizations to join us in the streets on March 19 & 20 to demand: "Troops Out Now!"

March 19
Troops Out Now!
March on Central Park in NYC!
Regional Demonstrations Across the U.S. & Worldwide


The International Action Center
http://www.iacenter.org
iacenter@iacenter.org

#116 WILD NORTHWEST, January 26, 2005
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====

Protect Imperiled Forests and Wildlife
Preserve the nation's leading green building standards: They work!

The US construction industry consumes vast quantities of wood, often from endangered forests, watersheds, or the habitat of critically endangered species like mountain caribou. Fortunately, the US Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) encourages builders to use wood from more environmentally benign sources, like forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Today, LEED standards are the largest single driver of FSC-certified wood use in the US.

Unfortunately, the Green Building Council is now under heavy pressure by the timber industry's American Forest & Paper Association to promote wood from forests logged under the association's Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and its Canadian industry counterpart. Because the SFI allows and certifies unsustainable practices such as large-scale clearcutting and logging of old-growth forests, this change would make LEED standards misleading and less able to protect the world's forests.

Please show your support for strong building standards that protect our forests and wildlife. Comments are needed by February 1.

Send a message through the US Green Building Council site, https://www.usgbc.org/LEED/Drafts/drafts_main.asp. (You may have to register first. From submit comments at the bottom of the page, choose Materials & Resources; then choose MR c6 Renewable Materials to comment. Technical difficulties? Send comments directly to nc@committees.usgbc.org .)

Please urge the US Green Building Council to:

1) Only give credit and recognition to wood from forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and other systems that provide equal or greater protection to sensitive, non-renewable forest resources and forests.

2) Not give credit or recognize wood certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), or other industry-dominated logging standards. The SFI allows and certifies non-renewable practices such as logging rates that exceed forest growth rates; the logging of old growth and endangered forests; and the elimination of biodiversity through conversion of diverse natural forests to monocultural tree farms.

For more information, visit http://www.dontbuysfi.com.

The FSC is an independent, non-profit, non-government organization whose mission is to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. For more on the Forest Stewardship Council, go to http://www.fsc.org/en/

Please reply to this email to let us know that you took action. And thank you for helping keep Northwest forests wild!

Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24

Your Suspicions Were Correct:
http://www.tcsn.net/jackie/voter_fraud.htm


Informant: adtome2004

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012505_personal_data.shtml


Informant: Friends

As reported on Democracy Now!

The second of inauguration of George W Bush Thursday was met by thousands of protesters who took to the streets of Washington DC amid unprecedented levels of security to oppose the policies of the Bush administration - but you wouldn't have known it by watching the corporate media.

The major cable news networks showed footage of the presidential inauguration on the Capitol, the motorcade through Pennsylvania Avenue and President Bush and the first lady getting out of their heavily-armored Cadillac to walk the last block to the White House. In the evening, news anchors reported from glamorous events as they followed the president and his wife to nine inaugural balls.

This past weekend, the organization MediaMatters issued a report criticizing the major cable news networks for ridiculing the protesters at the inauguration and for downplaying their numbers. It is estimated over 10,000 protesters took to the streets of Washington.

At one point Fox News reported only a few dozen people showed up at a large rally organized by the ANSWER coalition. On the next day the New York Times reported thousands of protesters had shown up in the area where ANSWER receive a protest permit CNN host Wolf Blitzer described the protesters as "angry, angry people" and he also explicitly tried to downplay the protesters significance.

On air he said, "We don't want to make too much of the protesters, because we don't know how many there were. Certainly, the nature of this business, the nature of television, we could over-exaggerate based on the images, and they might just be a tiny, tiny overall number."

And Fox News host Brit Hume said the fact that protests were occurring "isn't very important." In addition, MediaMatters also tracked the degree that Republican and conservative guests and commentators outnumbered Democrats and progressives. On Fox, the ratio was 17 to 6 on FOX. It was 13 to 2 on MSNBC and 10 to 1 on CNN.

On Democracy Now we continue our coverage of inauguration 2005 by bringing you the voices of dissent not aired in the corporate media. During the official inauguration proceedings Thursday, a number of protesters managed to disrupt President Bush during his address. We caught up with two of them after they were removed from the Capitol by security officials.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/1542206


Informant: John Murphy

I need your help to persuade California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be a savior, not a terminator, of California's and America's last wild forests.

The governor campaigned on protecting forests but has acquiesced as the Bush administration prepares to strip 58 million acres (4.4 million in California alone) of pristine, unroaded forests of their protection against roadbuilding, logging and drilling.

Governor Schwarzenegger says he wants to capture "the center" of American politics by being a champion of the environment. And he has indeed shown leadership on popular state laws that will combat global warming and protect marine life.

But apparently he hasn't registered how much Americans care for their national forests.

The governor's inaction has made it easier for President Bush to advance his appalling plan for terminating our last wild forests and throwing them open to greed-driven timber and energy corporations.

It's time that Governor Schwarzenegger heard from hundreds of thousands of people in all 50 states who want to save our last wild forests. Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp right now and send a message telling the governor to speak for the bipartisan majority by publicly opposing President Bush's plan.

If influential officials like the governor let him, the president will eliminate the hugely popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects unspoiled national forest lands from coast to coast.

From California's Sierra Nevada to the Appalachian Trail, from Alaska's Tongass to the Rocky Mountains, this historic measure protects some of America's greatest sanctuaries for wildlife and people so that their timeless beauty will remain untouched forever.

The Bush administration is trying to open the floodgates to massive timber and energy sales that would send an armada of bulldozers, chainsaws and gas rigs into these last untrammeled forests.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp right now and tell Governor Schwarzenegger to stand up for California's and all of America's national forests.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12063396%255E30417,00.html


Informant: NHNE

Posted on Tue, Jan. 25, 2005

Bill would restrict human microchips

JOE KAFKA

Associated Press

PIERRE, S.D. - Legislation introduced Tuesday in the South Dakota House would make it illegal to require people to accept implanted microchips that can be used to identify them.

Rep. Tom Hackl, R-Hoven, is the prime sponsor of HB1114. The bill would restrict the use of radio frequency identification technology in humans.

The microchips, which are the size of rice grains, are being widely used to track business inventories and supplies. They also are being used to track livestock and even let pet owners identify runaway animals.

Radio frequency technology is being used in a limited basis in humans, too. At least 160 people who work for the Mexican attorney general had the chips implanted in their arms last year to gain access to secure areas of the office.

People also have had the chips implanted to relay their medical information to hospital workers in cases of emergency. Scanning devices can download a chip's serial number, which is then used to access a person's health records.

The chips cannot be easily removed because they are housed in glass capsules that are designed to break if tampered with.

"Do we want to put something so permanent into a person?" asked Hackl. "I think it would be an acute case of privacy down the road."

While HB1114 would bar someone from requiring a radio frequency chip to be implanted in another person, the measure contains no penalty.

The legislation was assigned to the House State Affairs Committee but is not yet scheduled for a hearing.


Informant: Mark Marks

Thursday, December 30, 2004; Page VA10

I read the article in Fairfax Extra by Karl Polzer ["Schools Are No Place for Cell Towers," Nov. 18] and the rebuttal ["Cell Phone Antennas No Threat to Schools," Dec. 2] by John Walls, vice president of public affairs for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.

"While the wireless industry appreciates the concerns of some parents in this instance, they can be assured that no one's health, particularly their children's, would be subjected to any unnecessary risks. The possibility of negative health effects on people in close proximity to cell phone towers has been exhaustively researched by the world's leading health organizations, and all of them have reached the same conclusion: Observing prescribed standards of power emission, such facilities do not pose any threat to human health."

This statement is blatantly false. His reference is to a fact sheet on the World Health Organization Web site that was last revised in 2000 and is now out of date. Even in 2000 the health effects were not "exhaustively researched," and indeed there is much disagreement about what is considered safe. That is why radio frequency guidelines worldwide range more than six orders of magnitude! Since biological effects associated with radio frequency radiation are likely to be the same in Austria, Italy, China, Hungary, Switzerland and Russia, why do these countries have much lower guidelines than the United States?

Recent studies show that people who live within 300 meters of mobile phone base stations have a number of symptoms that are now referred to as electrical hyper- sensitivity and were originally called radio wave illness. These include fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, difficulty concentrating, depression, memory loss, visual and hearing disruptions, irritability, skin problems and dizziness. Symptoms are particularly severe for those within 10 meters (30 feet) of a cell phone mast.

Electrical hypersensitivity is a very real phenomenon and is classified as a disability in Sweden. The World Health Organization organized a workshop in October in Prague on electrical hypersensitivity.

Guidelines for radio frequency exposure in the United States and Canada are based on thermal effects. There is now considerable evidence that non-thermal effects exist below existing guidelines and that these may be "associated with adverse health effects," according to the Royal Society of Canada.

These studies tell me that we should be careful with the placement of mobile phone base stations. If in doubt, do not place these base stations near schools and homes and places where people spend considerable time. The adverse biological effects and eventual lawsuits are simply not worth the price of this shortsighted thinking.

Magda Havas
Associate Professor
Environmental and Resource Studies Program
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35421-2004Dec29.html

With respect to negative health effects on people living in close proximity to cell phone towers, there are three different epidemiological studies, including our recent study.

All of them found statistically significant relationships between exposure to radiation and health effects. The findings are from 2002 and 2004. It is important to note that cell phone antennas emit microwave radiation all the time and may act as a chronic stressor at low exposure levels. Two of the studies did measurements in subjects' bedrooms and found significant increases in stress-related symptoms as well as neurological symptoms above exposures to 0.005 microwatts per centimeter squared. This is roughly 500,000 times slower than U.S. exposure standards for cell tower radiation. The main symptoms reported by our study were depression, fatigue, sleep disorders and concentration difficulty. These symptoms were related to exposure levels, not distance from the antennas.

Concerning cellular phones, recent research from a project called EU-Reflex, or European Union Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards From Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure Using Sensitive In Vitro Methods, shows that cells exposed to cell phone radiation exhibit chromosomal damage well below the exposure guidelines of the World Health Organization. Also, a new study by Swedish researchers confirms previous findings that long-term exposure to cellular phones increases the risk for acoustic neuroma, a benign type of brain tumor.

Exposure guidelines proposed by the World Health Organization are based only on short-term effects and are not designed to protect the public from long-term effects and non-thermal effects.

There is increasing evidence showing that microwave radiation is a threat to well-being and health. Schools and all other places where humans, and especially children, stay for long periods should have safe exposure levels. Before an antenna is mounted, it is possible to calculate the theoretical exposure. It should be noted that under the antennas there can be higher exposure levels because the side lobes of radiation touch ground in close proximity to the radiation source.

In order to reduce the health risks from cell towers significantly, the public health department of Salzburg in Austria recommends exposure levels not exceeding 0.001 microwatts per centimeter squared outside and 0.0001 microwatts per centimeter squared inside buildings. The basis of this recommendation is the empirical evidence that is backed by all three epidemiological cell tower studies.

Because children's bodies are developing and research is not complete on the health effects of microwave radiation, greater caution should be taken in siting cell towers near places where children spend considerable amounts of time. As a general rule, cell towers should not be placed near schools.

Gerd Oberfeld, MD
Public Health Officer for Environmental Medicine
Province of Salzburg, Austria

On Nov. 18 and Dec. 2, Fairfax Extra published guest columns discussing both sides of a debate about the Fairfax County School Board's commercial venture to build cell phone towers at schools. The columns prompted the following letters from two researchers on radio frequency radiation.

© 2004 The Washington Post Company

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35421-2004Dec29_2.html


Informant: Robert Riedlinger

Die gelegentlich grotesken Züge der Terrorhysterie in den USA:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19316/1.html

http://tinyurl.com/78mqy

We are launching a boycott campaign against Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, for its involvement in item-level RFID tagging trials. These trials, involving tens of thousands of British shoppers, set an unacceptable example for the retail industry.

I appeared on BBC's Newsnight program to announce the boycott to millions of UK consumers last night. (Streaming video of this announcement will be available online today only; see details below.) Tesco is taking the boycott seriously and issued a statement to the BBC acknowledging the trials, while attempting to downplay their importance.

If you are a Tesco shopper, please join the boycott. Stop by your local store this week and tell the manager that you intend to shop elsewhere until they stop putting RFID tags on consumer products. If you cannot avoid shopping at Tesco, we ask that you purchase only strictly necessary items there.

Next, please refer friends, family members and colleagues to our informational website, http://www.BoycottTesco.com, and ask them to join you. If you have a website or blog, please print a mention of the boycott and post a link to the new site.

The boycott will remain in effect until Tesco assures us that no products on their shelves have been RFID tagged. The only way to stop the escalation of RFID on consumer products is to send a strong economic message to Tesco that consumers won't stand for it.

In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN


VIEW THE BBC SEGMENT ONLINE (AVAILABLE UNTIL TONIGHT ONLY)

Tuesday's Newsnight program will be available for replay today until 10:30 PM London time/5:30 PM New York time at the Newsnight website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/newsnight/newsnight.ram.

Real Player users can scroll forward to the 30:44 time stamp to view the Tesco RFID segment.


OUR PRESS RELEASE

January 26, 2005

CASPIAN ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE TESCO BOYCOTT ON BBC TELEVISION

Consumers react to UK retailer's planned expansion of item-level RFID

CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) has launched a worldwide boycott of Tesco in response to the retailer's escalating use of RFID on consumer products. CASPIAN Founder and Director Katherine Albrecht made the announcement to millions of viewers watching BBC Newsnight, the popular UK news program, on Tuesday. Tesco is the world's third largest retailer, with over 2,300 stores across Europe and Asia.

RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, a controversial technology that hooks miniature antennas up to tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance. The technology raises privacy concerns because RFID tagged items can be monitored invisibly right through items consumers normally consider private, like clothing, purses, backpacks and wallets.

During the BBC segment, Albrecht outlined CASPIAN member objections to Tesco's expansion of its item-level RFID tagging trials, saying they "would involve potentially hundreds of thousands more shoppers....it essentially means that more people will be taking home items containing [RFID] spychips." She concluded, "that's simply unacceptable."

Newsnight correspondent Paul Mason said Tesco was taking the announcement of the boycott "seriously," and read a prepared statement from the retailer that was intended to assure consumers that the store did not have plans to track products after purchase.

Mason concluded that "all the big names in this [RFID] industry will be watching this battle very intently."

Tuesday's Newsnight program will be available for replay until Wednesday evening at the Newsnight website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/newsnight/newsnight.ram. Real Player users can scroll forward to the 30:44 time stamp to view the Tesco RFID segment.

CASPIAN has launched http://www.boycottTesco.com in conjunction with its boycott announcement. The site details Tesco's RFID involvement, including its past misconduct with the controversial Gillette RFID "smart shelf."

Albrecht vows to maintain the boycott until Tesco complies with the moratorium on item-level RFID tagging of consumer goods as outlined in a position statement endorsed by CASPIAN and over 40 of the world's leading privacy and civil liberties organizations. (See Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products at
http://www.spychips.com/jointrfid_position_paper.html)

"We believe Tesco's decision to pursue item-level RFID tagging is irresponsible," Albrecht added. "We're calling on consumers to boycott the chain until the practice is stopped. If people must shop at Tesco, we are asking them to reduce their purchases. After all, as Tesco says, 'every little helps.'"



Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a grass-roots consumer group fighting retail surveillance schemes since 1999. With thousands of members in all 50 U.S. states and over 30 countries worldwide, CASPIAN seeks to educate consumers about marketing strategies that invade their privacy and to encourage privacy-conscious shopping habits across the retail spectrum.

For more information, see:
http://www.spychips.com and http://www.nocards.org

http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hdZO0IEmZM0Nzt0uoO0EL

Even as matters go from bad to worse in Iraq, the Bush administration appears to have begun military operations in an additional ten countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Most prominent among these countries is Iran, where the stated goal appears to be identifying targets related to Iran’s nuclear program that could be subject to a preemptive attack.

Click here to take action!
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hdZO0IEmZM0Nzt0uoO0EL

According to an explosive article by renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, President Bush has signed a series of executive orders and Presidential findings authorizing the Pentagon to send in reconnaissance teams into a number of countries to prepare for military action without any congressional oversight. Underlying the mission in Iran appears to be the prediction that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to regime change, throwing out the fundamentalist mullahs who largely control the country. The only analysts who share this view also incorrectly predicted that our troops occupying Iraq would be greeted with flowers rather than an insurgency.

Tell President Bush to rescind his executive orders authorizing Rumsfeld to send troops into countries with which we are not at war.

Click here to take action!
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hdZO0IEmZM0Nzt0uoO0EL

Please forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about this important campaign!

Primary Sources: Byrd Is The Word

by Sen. Robert Byrd and Sen. Edward Kennedy

...and Kennedy, too. Read the bluntly critical speeches both senators made challenging Condoleezza Rice's nomination.

http://www.tompaine.com/action/#003470

Inauguration Week proved to be a very productive time for the Peace Movement thanks to AFSC's volunteers and supporters. As approval for the Iraq War continues to fall, it seems that we have reached a turning point.

First, thank you to everyone who signed the Iraq Peace Petition calling for a withdrawal of U.S. troops. Last Friday, we were able to deliver more than 13,000 signatures to the President.

Given the rate that signatures are being added, we know that we have only hit the tip of an iceberg of opposition to the war. So we're extending the life of the petition and will make further signature deliveries through the spring. Please sign the petition now or, if you've already signed, please ask more of your friends and family to do so.

Click here to visit the Iraq Peace Petition:
http://ga3.org/campaign/iraq_peace/wwwundu4a5n3ti8

On Martin Luther King Day, we launched our Wage Peace bracelet. The blue bracelet is a practical way to make the pro-peace majority more visible. To date we have distributed more than 4,000 online and at the Eyes Wide Open exhibit. Proceeds benefit our work to end the war.

Click here to get your bracelet:
http://ga3.org/ct/z7A7S5F1Hm_z/bracelet/

A special thanks is also due to the hundreds of you who called the White House switchboard on the morning after the inauguration to ask the President to "Wake up and end the war" on the first day of his second term.

During inauguration week, AFSC's Eyes Wide Open exhibit made stops at the Washington National Cathedral and the National City Christian Church. At the National Cathedral, the boots were the centerpiece of an interfaith service for Martin Luther King Day that included a moving speech by AFSC Board Chair Paul Lacey.

Click here to read Paul's speech and see exhibit photos:
http://ga3.org/ct/S1A7S5F1Hm_L/eyes-dc

Media outlets from across the country covered the exhibit over the course of the week, reaching millions of people. This would not have been possible without the more than 100 local volunteers who unloaded and reloaded the Eyes Wide Open truck, lovingly arranged boots, and guided people through the exhibit. Thank you!

Eyes Wide Open will be at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis from January 28-31 and in Little Rock from February 1-3. If you're nearby, please visit the exhibit and/or volunteer. If you have friends or family in the area, please forward the information.

See the Eyes Wide Open web site for more dates, locations and local contacts: http://ga3.org/ct/zpA7S5F1Hm_S/eyes/

Stay tuned for more information about how we can work together to end the Iraq war. A supplemental appropriation bill to fund the war will be introduced very soon and we'll be asking you to get in touch with your Congressional delegation. On the weekend of March 19-20 there will be events across the nation to mark the second anniversary of the war.

The momentum to end the war is building. Working together, we can bring the troops home and give Iraq back to the Iraqi people.

Peace,

Peter Lems
AFSC Iraq staff

http://tinyurl.com/3vb9f

GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393916/

by Zbignew Zingh

Just as the American empire was crowned as the world's one and only super power, the energy that sustains that power sputtered and started to give out. Regardless whether oil production has already peaked or whether it peaks in one year or two, petroleum's high energy return on the energy invested to produce it is a thing of the past. So, too, are all hydrocarbon empires. Whatever oil remains to be pumped out of the earth will be very expensive to produce, and the resulting economic toll will be charged to us all (as has already happened) as inflation. It will be passed on to us in the degradation of our schools; the hollowing out of our health care system; the malnutrition of our retirement plans, our legal system, our transportation systems, our libraries, and our environment....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Zingh0126.htm

by Lynn Landes

Something's got to give. Another election is just around the corner. What's it going to be? Another opportunity to document election “irregularities” and computer “glitches”? Another chance to analyze mysterious exit polls? Another exercise in frustration? Another charade. Democrats will need a mighty good reason to go back to the polls. Many believe that our elections are rigged. And they have good reason. Republicans own the voting machine companies that count 80% of the votes. Congress and the courts are unlikely to change that. And the Democratic leadership has hardly made it an issue. So, let's do something different. We'll go to Plan B. We'll organize our own “Parallel Elections”....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Landes0126.htm

by Rosa Faiz

If, as betrayed by the announced plans of the fanatics dreaming up Another American Century, Afghanistan and Iraq are the antechambers of hell on earth in the Middle East, the “Iranian Campaign” would constitute the inner-chambers. Weapons of Mass Destruction present or not, speedily coming up next on the agenda for another century of barbarity: when (not if) and how to militarily attack Iran, a nation at peace with its neighbors, and most of the rest of the world. No apologies for belaboring the point that Iran is also a nation that has already been subjugated to premeditated US aggression, in a 1953 CIA-conducted coup that overthrew our democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh; an aggression that completely changed the course of our modern history, for the worse. More, the invasion of our country by Iraq in 1980 was completely and actively supported militarily, financially and logistically by the successive Carter and Reagan administrations. And now the Americans are back for more mass murder and mayhem in our country....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Faiz0126.htm

by John Chuckman

A writer at The NY Times counted 27 references to freedom in Bush's inaugural speech. The speech contained not one reference to his ugly war in Iraq, but for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis the only freedom established by Bush's invasion was their freedom to miserable deaths or future lives as cripples. Bush promised he would bring freedom to the world's dark corners. It is worth noting that none of the world's people asked Bush to assume such a task, and every poll of those living outside the United States shows Washington now widely regarded as one of the world's darkest corners, a source of fear itself rather than freedom from fear....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Chuckman0126.htm

The Pharisee’s Fire Sermon: Terror, Perpetual War, and the Holy Empire in Bush’s Second Inaugural Speech

by Lila Rajiva

Not having had a chance to listen to the inaugural speech, I read it in transcript and was struck like everyone else by those ominous, symmetrical allusions to fire in it. . . . In Bush’s religio-political theater, fire isn’t a damp metaphoric squib but a powerful symbol, the leitmotif of the soaring neo-conservative soundtrack -- fire consuming the twin towers, fire as inspiration, and then fire as “freedom” crackling over the globe, warming its friends and incinerating its enemies. This isn’t vague bombast. The meanings are precise and meant to resonate with deep-rooted themes in American culture....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Rajiva0126.htm

CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1106565247742&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968342212737

OTTAWA — Water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have dropped by 80 centimetres since the 1800s — and will continue to drop with major environmental costs unless remedial action is taken, says a study released today. "Georgian Bay wetlands are the most ecologically diverse, significant and pristine found anywhere on the Great Lakes," she said in a teleconference today.

People living around the Great Lakes have seen the unpleasant results of low water levels in the last decade, said Tim Eder of the U.S. National Wildlife Association. Water levels of the "middle" Great Lakes have declined because of dredging, gravel-mining and shoreline alteration over the last 140 years, says the report commissioned by the Georgian Bay Association, a citizens group.

Activists are calling for a moratorium on further dredging, research aimed at finding corrective measures and firm rejection of proposals to expand the St. Lawrence canal to accommodate larger ships. "Without implementation of compensation measures, this drop represents an irreversible decline in the long-term average lake level," says the study.

"This is very significant with potentially extensive socio-economic and environmental implications." Mary Muter of the association, which raised $200,000 to pay for the study, said wetlands around the area are drying up with devastating effects for wildlife.

The study attributes the continuing decline in water levels to erosion in the St. Clair River, at the bottom of Lake Huron. The river is compared to the drain of a bath tub — when the drain is larger, the water drains faster. Ironically, one factor in the deepening of the St. Clair is shoreline protection built by property owners upstream to prevent erosion of their waterfronts.

This reduces the supply of sand that is carried to the river and that would help keep it shallow. "Low water levels are serious problem for people and wildlife. When water levels go down, impacts include shorelines that dry up and expose mud flats instead of beach fronts.

"Ships must carry lighter loads. Recreational boaters found that docks . . . were high and dry. Countless boaters ran aground."

The International Joint Commission which manages Canada-U.S. boundary waters is studying the report, said a spokesman.


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012605A.shtml

Pentagon Files Reveal More Allegations of Abuse in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012605B.shtml

I do solemnly pledge that I will faithfully execute the office of citizen of the United States, and that I will, to the best of my ability, help create a truly democratic world by

(1) going beyond mainstream corporate news media to seek out information about important political, economic, and social issues;

(2) engaging fellow citizens, including those who disagree with me, in serious discussion and debate about those issues;

(3) committing as much time, energy, and money as possible to help build grassroots political organizations that can pressure politicians to put the interests of people over profit and power; and

(4) connecting these efforts to global political and social movements fighting the U.S. empire abroad, where it does the most intense damage. And I will continue to resist corporate control of the world, resist militarism, resist the roll-back of civil rights, and resist illegitimate authority in all its forms.

Courtesy of Robert Jensen, activist and professor at UT Austin, and meant for citizens and residents of anywhere in the world.


Source: http://www.codepinkalert.org

January 25, 2005

On January 20th, 2005, during Bush’s presidential inauguration, tens of thousands of people took to the streets, across the country and the globe, with a collective message of peace and resistance to the Bush administration’s detrimental foreign and domestic policies. In Washington DC, CODEPINK activists, coming from Arizona, Washington, Hawaii, Florida, New York, Ohio, and all over the country, bared freezing temperatures and snow storms to peacefully counter the Bush administration and let them and the world know that as long as there is injustice, we will continue to resist and speak out.

And speak out we did!

As Bush gave his inaugural address in front of the U.S. Capitol, eight CODEPINK activists, including CODEPINK founders Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, and Diane Wilson, stood up on their chairs in the VIP section and shouted bring the troops home!The women also raised banners reading No War, Out of Iraq Now, and Bush Mandate: Troops Home Now. While these brave women made a splash on the inside, thousands took part in actions in the street. CODEPINK protested outside inaugural balls, reminding Bush supporters that while they sip champagne, soldiers are dying in an illegal, abhorrent and expensive war that they themselves launched. We helped organize an inspirational women’s rally and march, complete with a New Orleans style jazz band. And we even managed to hang our signature “pink slip” banner out the window of a downtown DC building a block from the White House, with a message of “Bring the Troops Home” for parade goers and protesters alike.

For pictures and articles on CODEPINK actions, go to:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_J20.shtml

CODEPINK wasn’t the only group that was active and visible in DC. DAWN (DC Anti-War Network) organized a massive, coffin lined, anti-war march. The ANSWER Coalition fought and won for their right to hold bleachers along the parade route, which were filled with 10,000 anti-war protestors. The parade was also lined with demonstrators who participated in “Turn Your Back on Bush” as his motorcade drove by. Over the week-end National Organization for Women organized a large pro-choice rally at the Supreme Court, in honor of the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, and Progressive Democrats of America held a three day summit which CODEPINK participated in.

We left DC feeling energized and full of great ideas from CODEPINK meetings, the PDA conference, and all the wonderful interactions we had with activists from across the country. Many groups began talking about a possible joint campaign to get governors to call back their states’ National Guard troops. More on that and other ideas coming soon!

Remember, George Bush’s inauguration wasn’t the only one that happened on January 20. That day also saw the inauguration of the second term of the peace and justice movement. We made sure that Bush supporters weren’t able to forget that the war and killing in Iraq didn’t stop because of the U.S. presidential inauguration, and neither did the activism of the peace movement! As part of the launch of CODEPINK’s second term, we took a “citizen’s oath” that we plan to uphold in the coming years. We’ll leave you with that, urging you to do the same and pass it on to friends and family.

Citizen’s Oath*

"I do solemnly pledge that I will faithfully execute the office of citizen of the United States, and that I will, to the best of my ability, help create a truly democratic world by (1) going beyond mainstream corporate news media to seek out information about important political, economic, and social issues; (2) engaging fellow citizens, including those who disagree with me, in serious discussion and debate about those issues; (3) committing as much time, energy, and money as possible to help build grassroots political organizations that can pressure politicians to put the interests of people over profit and power; and (4) connecting these efforts to global political and social movements fighting the U.S. empire abroad, where it does the most intense damage. And I will continue to resist corporate control of the world, resist militarism, resist the roll-back of civil rights, and resist illegitimate authority in all its forms."

In peace,
Andrea, Carol, Claire, Dana, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Tiffany, and everyone who made our J20 actions possible http://www.codepinkalert.org


*Courtesy of Robert Jensen, activist and professor at UT Austin, and meant for citizens and residents of anywhere in the world!


Coronation farce deepens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/469496/

JIM CROW RETURNS TO THE VOTING BOOTH
DOES AMERICA HAVE APARTHEID VOTE-COUNTING SYSTEM?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Greg Palast

The inaugural confetti has been swept away and with it, the last quarrel over who really won the presidential election.

But there is still unfinished business that can't be swept away. After taking his oath, the president called for a "concerted effort to promote democracy." The president should begin with the United States.

More than 133,000 votes remain uncounted in Ohio, more than George W. Bush's supposed margin of victory. In New Mexico, the uncounted vote totals at least three times the president's plurality -- and so on in other states.

The challenge to the vote count is over, but the matter of how the United States counts votes, or fails to count them, remains.

The ballots left uncounted, and that will never be counted, are so-called spoiled or rejected ballots -- votes cast by citizens, but never tallied. This is the dark little secret of U.S. democracy: Nationwide, in our presidential elections, about 2 million votes are cast and never counted, most spoiled because they cannot be read by the tallying machines.

Not everyone's vote spoils equally. Cleveland State University Professor Mark Salling analyzed ballots thrown into Ohio's electoral garbage can. Salling found that, "overwhelmingly," the voided votes come from African American precincts.

This racial bend in vote spoilage is not unique to Ohio. A U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation concluded that, of nearly 180,000 votes discarded in Florida in the 2000 election as unreadable, a shocking 54 percent were cast by black voters, though they make up only a tenth of the electorate. In Florida, an African American is 900 percent more likely to have his or her vote invalidated than a white voter. In New Mexico, a Hispanic voter is 500 percent more likely than a white voter to have her or his ballot lost to spoilage.

Unfortunately, Florida and New Mexico are typical. Nationwide data gathered by Harvard Law School Civil Rights Project indicate that, of the 2 million ballots spoiled in a typical presidential election, about half are cast by minority voters.

The problem is that some officials are quite happy with the outcome of elections in which minority votes just don't count. They count on the "no-count."

Before last November's election, the American Civil Liberties Union sued five states for continuing to use punch-card machines, those notorious generators of "hanging" chads and "pregnant" chads that disproportionately disenfranchise black voters.

Four of those states settled with the ACLU by adopting simple fixes to protect voters. One state, notably, refused: Ohio, which forced 75 percent of its voters to use punch-card machines. In minority and low-income areas, these old machines on average spoil an unacceptable 8 percent of the votes cast on them. In high-income white districts, spoilage is typically 1 percent.

In Ohio, the decision to keep the vote-destroying machines in place in African American districts was made by the state's Republican attorney general, Jim Petro, and its secretary of state, Kenneth Blackwell. Blackwell, not incidentally, co-chaired the Bush-Cheney re-election committee. The election in Ohio was fundamentally flawed, a fact compounded by the widespread use of electronic voting machines susceptible to manipulation and hacking.

This election saw an explosion in a new category of uncounted, ballots: rejected provisional ballots. In Ohio alone, more than 35,000 of these votes were never tallied. Once again, the provisional ballots were cast overwhelmingly in African American precincts.

Why so many? In November, for the first time since the era of the Night Riders, one major political party launched a program of mass challenges of voters on Election Day. Paid Republican operatives, working from lists prepared by the party, fingered tens of thousands of voters in Ohio, Florida and elsewhere, questioning their right to a ballot.

One of these secret "caging lists" was obtained by BBC Television from inside Republican campaign headquarters in Florida. Every one of the voters on those sheets resided in African American neighborhoods, excepting a few in precincts of elderly Jewish voters.

These lists helped Republican poll workers challenge voters on the basis of an alleged change of address. An analysis of one roster showed that several of those facing challenge were African American soldiers whose address changed because they were shipped overseas.

Challenged voters were shunted to "provisional ballots," which, in Ohio and elsewhere, were not counted on the flimsiest of technicalities.

Who won the presidential race? Given the millions of ballots spoiled and provisional ballots rejected, the unfolding mystery of the exit polls and widespread use of electronic voting machines, we will never know whether John Kerry or George W. Bush received the most votes in Ohio and other swing states

But we can name the election's big winner: Jim Crow.

Last Thursday, the president said, "Our country must abandon all the habits of racism."

From benign neglect of the voting machinery to malign intent in challenging minority voters en masse, the United States is turning that ill habit into an electoral strategy.

In 1965, Congress gave us the Voting Rights Act, promising all people the right to cast a vote. It is now time to making counting that vote a right, not just casting it, before Jim Crow rides again in the next election.


Rev. Jackson is founder of Rainbow Coalition/ People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH). Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, investigated the election for BBC Television.

Conservatives Mean It

Paul Craig Roberts on their plans for world dominion:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts92.html

The Napoleon of DC

Steven LaTulippe on dreams of world conquest:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe42.html

http://www.mercola.com/2004/mar/20/cancer_rates.htm

Omega a reason more:

Childhood brain cancer and EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/375650/

Children and cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295280/

Children and Cell Phones: Is there a health risk ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295277/

Branchenreport von ver.di Fachbereich Handel, Bereich Branchenpolitik, erstellt durch Dr. B. Warich (Berlin) vom 11. Januar 2005 (pdf):
http://www.verdi.de/handel/einzelhandel/branchendaten/branchendaten/branchenreport_einzelhandel-prognose_2004


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 16

Mittwoch beginnt Weltwirtschaftsforum. Public-Eye-Awards für globale Sauereien

"In Davos treffen sich abseits des WEF auch Kritiker der vorherrschenden Wirtschaftstendenzen. Matthias Herfeldt ist einer der Koordinatoren von "Public Eye on Davos". Er kommt aus der Bewegung "Erklärung von Bern". Interview von René Heilig in ND 25.01.05 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=66402&IDC=2

WEF gehört die Stadt. Am Samstag stand die Schweizer Hauptstadt ganz im Zeichen der Proteste gegen das Welt-Economic-Forum

"Wer am Samstag nichtsahnend durch die Berner Innenstadt spazierte, kam aus dem Staunen nicht heraus. An einer Ecke beteten junge Leute im Mönchskostüm als Kapitalisten und Polizisten verkleidete Menschen an, woanders liefen Leute mit kleinen Radios herum, die die neuesten Informationen von verschiedenen Aktionen in der ganzen Schweiz bekannt gaben. Auffällig verkleidete Straßenkehrer fegten die Plätze von Bern. "Wir fegen jeden Proteste gegen das Wef von der Straße", hieß es auf großen Schildern, die an den Besen festgemacht waren. "WEF gehört die Stadt", hieß es auf bunten Luftballons. Andere waren etwas frecher mit der Parole "WEF zum Platzen bringen"…." Artikel von Peter Nowak in telepolis vom 24.01.2005:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19302/1.html

Übersicht Aktionen gegen das WEF vom 20.01.2005 bei indymedia
http://de.indymedia.org/2005/01/104565.shtml


Public Eye Awards für unverantwortliches Konzernverhalten. Übergabe in Davos parallel zur Eröffnung des Weltwirtschaftsforums /BAYER-Konzern nominiert

"Am morgigen Mittwoch werden in Davos erstmals die Public Eye Awards für unverantwortliches Konzernverhalten vergeben. Der Preis wird in den Kategorien Menschenrechte, Umwelt, Arbeitsrechte und Steuern vergeben. Nominiert sind rund zwanzig Konzerne, die sozial und ökologisch verantwortliches Verhalten vermissen lassen. Die Verleihung findet zeitgleich zur Eröffnung des Weltwirtschaftsforums in Davos statt…" Presseerklärung der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG) vom 25. Januar 2005
http://www.cbgnetwork.org/Ubersicht/Presseinfos/Presseinfos_2005/Pi-Public_Eye_Awards/pi-public_eye_awards.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 16

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/


Informant: Sylviane

Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung am 14.01.2005

Funk-Lochmühle erregt Bissigkeit der Netzbetreiber

Rückzugsgebiet Talsperre für elektrosensible Urlauber

E r l e b a c h. Im Funkloch Urlaub machen - Was ist daran erstrebenswert? Na gut, die Lochmühle an der Talsperre Kriebstein ist schon ein idyllisches Fleckchen. Dass dort Mobiltelefone aller Netze Funkstille haben, könnte für einige „Elektrosensibelchen“ von Bedeutung sein.

Kein harmloses Problem: Laut Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO gibt es in Deutschland etwa 10 Millionen Menschen mit Symptomen von Elektrofühligkeit. Wie der Augsburger Ulrich Weiner. Bei einem Besuch in Mittweida vor einem Dreivierteljahr brachte er mit Kopfschmerz und Ohrensausen seine Messgeräte in Anschlag, um mit dem Wohnwagen ins funkstille Örtchen an der Talsperre zu flüchten.

Pension soll entstehen

Der 27-Jährige Kommunikationselektroniker, Fachrichtung Funktechnik, mag die idyllische Lochmühle, will sie zur Pension, Ausflugsziel und Tagungsort für ein elektrosensibles Klientel ausbauen.

Verkaufsgespräche mit dem Zweckverband Kriebsteintalsperre laufen. Am Mittwoch stellte Weiner das Projekt Funk-Lochmühle detailliert vor, und zwar vor Vertretern des Zweckverbandes wie den Bürgermeistern von Mittweida und Kriebstein sowie den Wirtschaftsförderern des Landkreises Mittweida. Ebenfalls in der Runde: Vertreter der Funknetzbetreiber D1, D2, E Plus und O2. Mittweidas Bürgermeister Matthias Damm, seines Zeichens Zweckverbandsvorsitzender, charakterisierte deren Auftreten mit einem Wort: “Arrogant.“ Neben Damm bewertet auch dessen Amtsbruder Thieme aus Kriebethal das Vorhaben Funklochmühle gegenüber der DAZ aus Sicht der Tourismusförderung als interessant. Doch halten sich beide zu den technischen Belangen in puncto Funkwellen bedeckt.

Der Fachmann ein rotes Tuch

Die Funknetzbetreiber dagegen gingen voll in Contra-Haltung. Dabei hatte Weiner eine Kleinigkeit erbeten: Ob sie ihm auch künftig Funkwellenfreiheit für die drei Hektar Lochmühlen-Areal und von einem bisschen mehr des größtenteils unbewohnten Geländes an der Talsperre zusichern könnten. Weiner kann sich die Bissigkeit erklären: „Wenn das Beispiel Schule macht, befürchten die Netzbetreiber ähnliche Forderungen von anderer Seite.“

Seit zwölf Jahren selbst im Funkkommunikationsgeschäft tätig, stellte sich bei Weiner vor fünf Jahren die Elektrosensibilität ein. Bei Bürgerinitiativen und Verbänden ist er eine angesagte Adresse. „Als Mobilfunktechniker mit den Messgeräten der Mobilfunktechniker messe ich die Strahlungen von Anlagen der Mobilfunktechniker. Mich kann man nicht als unwissenden Eiferer abstempeln.“ Mit der Funklochmühle meint er es ernst. Es bedeutet für ihn die berufliche Umorientierung, weil ihn seine bisherige Tätigkeit krank machte.

Handy-Wellenfreiheit in der Funklochmühle, so sieht es auch Dr. Katharina Sparrer vom Tourismusverband Sächsisches Burgen- und Heideland, könnte für den Gesundheitstourismus durchaus ein Marketing-Argument sein. Sie unterstützt das Projekt.

Steffi Robak


Bald an der Talsperre: Urlaub im Funkloch
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488575/

Handy-Irrsinn: Bayer will strahlenfreies Kriebstein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488677/

Aktuelles aus der Funklochmühle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433570/

Wie geht es weiter mit dem Mobilfunk in Bamberg? Stadt will sensible Bereiche schützen

Nach dem Moratorium der Kompromiss: Die Stadt will im Konflikt zwischen den Interessen der zahlreichen Bamberger Anti-Mobilfunkinitiativen und denen der Mobilfunkbetreiber künftig zwischen geschützten und ungeschützten Bereichen unterscheiden.

WEITER: http://tinyurl.com/4pkd7


Nachricht von elektrosmognews

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/bayer_will_strahlenfreies_kriebstein.doc


Aktuelles aus der Funklochmühle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433570/

http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc612.html

Informant: SIUHIN

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/urlaub_im_funkloch.doc


Aktuelles aus der Funklochmühle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433570/

by Andrew Young

Strike the Root

01/25/05

Many parents try to discourage violence by shielding their children from violent video games and movies. However, they indoctrinate their children with patriotism, which is far more likely to lead to violent behavior; it motivates young men to enthusiastically kill other young men they would befriend under different circumstances. At best, patriotism provokes blind support for politicians who start wars. At worst, it encourages participation in organized killing...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/young-an/young-an4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

01/26/05

On Jan. 17, the Cryptome Web site posted a remarkable document that affords us a glimpse inside the secret war now taking place all around us. I refer, of course, to the war on terrorism, which, we've all been informed, will be a 'generational' struggle, the outcome of which is uncertain -- and, what's more, its history is fated to remain in the shadows until long after it's all over. But the Cryptome document -- consisting of 'morning brief' reports issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) covering sporadic episodes from Sept. 26, 2003 to Jan. 16, 2004 -- gives us access to the raw unvarnished truth. It also permits entry, albeit briefly, into a strange twilit world, where that barely noticeable shadow over there in the corner could be as insignificant as it seems -- or could turn into a deadly menace...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4581


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Doug Bandow

The American Spectator

01/26/05

President Bush may look forward to liberating foreign lands, but the majority of Americans believe that his chief priority should be dealing with Iraq. How long we stay there ultimately must be decided based on American, not Iraqi, interests. One reason the U.S. military is badly stretched is that Washington continues to maintain garrisons around the globe. Traditional commitments in Asia and Europe have been supplemented by sporadic intervention elsewhere, including the ongoing presence in Iraq. America should defend foreign nations and base troops overseas based on its interests, not those of other countries. U.S. deployments should advance Americans' security, not other people's desires...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7686


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jeremy Brecher

Common Dreams

01/25/05

It's time for all Americans to face our responsibility to halt Bush administration war crimes. It's time to give our support to those who are refusing to participate in those crimes. It's time for a new 'Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority.' I for one will say right now that I support those who refuse illegal orders to participate in this illegal war. I know there are many who will join me. To Alberto Gonzales, I would like to say that I encourage all Americans, military and civilian, to disobey orders based on your memos justifying torture. I say it's their legal right, indeed their legal and moral duty, to disobey such illegal orders...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-31.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Pat Buchanan

WorldNetDaily

01/26/05

Where Woodrow Wilson was going to make the world safe for democracy, George W. Bush is going him one better. President Bush is going to make the whole world democratic. As he declared in his Inaugural Address, our 'great objective' is 'ending tyranny' on earth. And how does the president propose to achieve it?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42557


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Destroying Social Security does nothing to advance individual freedom.

by Matthew Yglesias

The American Prospect

01/25/05

"[A]s the president's case that Social Security is in crisis continues to crumble, conservatives are busy ginning up new reasons to phase the program out and replace it with a system of mandatory investments in private stock funds. As George Will put it on January 20 in The Washington Post, the really important reasons for destroying the most successful program in American history are 'philosophic.' It's all about choice. All about freedom.

... My friend Will Wilkinson ... now a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, ground zero for privatization, recently recommended Daniel Shapiro's old Cato paper 'The Moral Case for Social Security Privatization,' which argues that privatizing social security is all about 'maximizing individual choice and liberty...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9104


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Richard Gwyn

Toronto Star [Canada]

01/25/05

In his inauguration speech last week, Bush told the world what he intends to do during his last term. Essentially, he intends to make the world like the U.S. Or, more exactly, like Bush's version of the U.S. After all, outside critics, while applauding his use of the word 'freedom' and its synonym 'liberty' 41 times in a brief speech, might wonder how much freedom and liberty there is to the unknowns incarcerated without trial in Guantanamo, or was to the prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail, or to the Americans shorn of civil liberties by Bush's Patriot Act. This is the boldest, most visionary and most ambitious, but also the most hubristic and vainglorious foreign policy program ever enunciated by an American president. Even World War I leader Woodrow Wilson only wanted to remake Europe..

http://tinyurl.com/5ndsw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Sydney H. Schanberg


Village Voice

01/25/05

In the new America, images rule. Positive images. That's because reality is annoying. So in Washington now, the images are of Oz. President Bush, in his invisible bell jar, has just been inaugurated for the second time -- $40 million worth of fat-cat parties and banquets and balls. In Baghdad, there are explosions -- not celebratory thank-you fireworks, just explosions. And then bodies in the streets. But in the new America, we're not supposed to publish pictures of the bodies of the American dead in the streets -- only the Iraqis. The president and his image makers say that showing American corpses is disrespectful. He has barred even the taking of photos of American coffins -- too upsetting. Reality only gets in the way...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0504,schanberg,60421,6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Robert L. Johnson

Strike the Root

01/25/05

George W. Bush likes to surround himself with patriotic trappings. He's big on talking, to the best of his very limited ability, about God, country, and values. He enjoys playing dress-up as various icons of Americana, like a fighter pilot or a cowboy. But behind this empty facade of being an American patriot, I believe, is treason. Treason to America and her people...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/johnson/johnson4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Thomas L. Knapp

Knappster

01/25/05

Commentators on all sides held on to the hope (or, in some cases, trudged forward through a haze of dread) late last year that George W. Bush's second term would begin with the announcement of a timely withdrawal from Iraq and the swing back toward an at least nominally sane foreign policy. No such luck, it seems -- if the events of the last few weeks are indicative of Bush's second-term agenda, expectations of a Thermidor for the Republican Surrealists were premature indeed. Their Robespierre isn't finished. As a matter of fact, he's just getting started...

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/01/false-spring-in-dc.html

Las Vegas Review-Journal

01/25/05

The White House will project that this year's federal deficit will hit $427 billion, a senior administration official said Tuesday, a record amount partly driven by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The official, among three who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the estimate was a conservative one that assumed some higher spending than other analysts use. Last February, the White House projected that the 2004 shortfall would hit $521 billion, only to see it come in at $412 billion. The official said the figure represented progress because it would be smaller than last year's record $412 billion shortfall when compared to the size of the growing U.S. economy. That ratio is a key measure of the deficit's potency...

http://tinyurl.com/6z67x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Alberto Gonzales' support of torture has a tremendous impact on our troops, according to a letter signed by 12 retired generals. They wrote that Gonzalea has "Fostered greater animosity toward the United States; Undermined our intelligence-gathering efforts; and Added to the risks facing our troops serving around the world." There is still time -- Veterans for Common Sense urges you to contact your U.S. Senator now and oppose the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as the next U.S. Attorney General.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2738

1/23/05 - UPI (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050123-072909-2717r

A group of whistleblowers and Sept. 11 relatives, alarmed by what they say are increasingly aggressive administration efforts to suppress public discussion of problems inside the nation's security and intelligence agencies, said they will launch a campaign this week in support of fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.


From WantToKnow.info

In den letzten Wochen häufen sich die Fälle der publik gewordenen - und kontrovers diskutierten - Nebeneinkünfte von Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages. Im Folgenden sollen die prominentesten Fälle der aktuellen Debatte kurz zusammen gefasst werden:

http://www.campact.de/deutsch/Nebeneink%FCnfte%20offen%20legen/Infos/Kritisierte%20F%E4lle/page.html


43.068,- Euro steuerfrei - gleiches Recht für alle - wie ein Bürger gegen die Aufwandspauschale der Politiker zu Felde zieht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493081/

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

Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/

Lobbyismus entschärfen - Nebeneinkommen offen legen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488263/

Lobbyismus entschärfen – Nebeneinkünfte veröffentlichen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/516946/

Campact-Newsletter 02/05

Mittwoch, der 25. Januar 2005
es schreibt: Günter Metzges

Begleitet von großer Medienresonanz ist die neue Campact-Kampagne "Lobbyismus entschärfen: Nebeneinkünfte offen legen!" gestartet. Über 30 Journalisten besuchten die Pressekonferenz, ARD, RTL und ntv waren mit Fernsehteams vor Ort, die großen Agenturen sowie spiegel-online, yahoo und heise.de berichteten ausführlich und dem Deutschlandfunk war der Start der Kampagne der zweite Nachrichtenplatz wert (siehe http://www.campact.de/pressespiegel). Ein großer Erfolg für unsere junge Organisation. Doch der brachte auch ein „Problem“ mit sich: es griffen so viele Menschen in kürzester Zeit auf unsere Webseite zu, dass sie nur sehr langsam arbeitete und verschiedene Module nicht funktionierten. Wir haben seitdem die Technik verbessert, so dass die Webseite in Zukunft auch bei großen Zugriffszahlen zuverlässig läuft.

Alle, die deshalb die Petition und die E-Mail an ihre Wahlkreisabgeordneten nicht abschicken konnten, bitten wir doch dies unter http://www.campact.de/offenlegen möglichst gleich jetzt nachzuholen.

Politische Situation - es kommt Bewegung ins Spiel

Am vorletzten Wochenende glaubte die rot-grüne Fraktionsspitze noch den öffentlichen Unmut über die Skandale durch eine Verschärfung des Strafmaßes für ohne Gegenleistung erhaltene Nebeneinkünfte besänftigen zu können. Zunehmender öffentlicher Druck setzt die Koalition aber unter Zugzwang. Jetzt kristallisiert sich nach Angaben von SPD-Fraktionsgeschäftsführer Wilhelm Schmidt eine Kompromiss heraus: Nebeneinkünfte sollen im Internet nach Einkommensgruppen gestaffelt veröffentlicht werden. Je nachdem wie detailliert die Gruppen voneinander unterschieden werden, käme dieser Vorschlag unserer Forderung nach einer Offenlegung aller Gehälter und Nebeneinkünfte recht nahe. Ein Erfolg für unsere Kampagne wird greifbar (siehe http://www.campact.de/logbuch ).

Doch noch ist bei weitem nicht alles in trockenen Tüchern.

In den Reihen der Koalition wie der Opposition gibt es weiter Widerstand gegen eine Offenlegung. Entscheidend wird es sein, den öffentlichen Druck in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen so hoch zu halten, dass sich die Politik nicht aus der Verantwortung stehlen kann.

Dafür sind wir auf Ihre Unterstützung angewiesen:

- Unterschreiben Sie – falls noch nicht geschehen – die Sammelpetition an den Bundestag und fordern Sie Ihre Wahlkreisabgeordneten auf, sich für die Offenlegung von Nebeneinkünften einzusetzen:
http://www.campact.de/offenlegen (die Module sollten jetzt einwandfrei funktionieren! Wenn dennoch Probleme auftauchen, bitte eine kurze Mail an webmaster@campact.de. Die bisher aufgetretenen Probleme bitten wir zu entschuldigen).

- Schicken Sie Freunden und Bekannten eine E-Mail und fordern Sie sie auf, an den Aktionen teilzunehmen. Einen E-Mail-Text zum Weiterleiten haben wir für sie am Ende vorbereitet.

- Helfen Sie uns die Kampagne im Internet noch bekannter zu machen. Platzieren Sie einen Banner auf der eigenen Webseite, beschicken Sie Newletter und E-Mail-Listen, weisen Sie in Diskussionsforen auf die Kampagne hin, fragen Sie bei Webmastern nach, ob Sie auf die Kampagne verweisen können. Entsprechende Texte und Banner halten wir für Sie unter www.campact.de/publish bereit.

Günter Metzges



E-Mail-Text zum Versenden an Freunde und Bekannte:

Liebe/r

mit dieser E-Mail möchte ich Dich/Sie auf die Kampagne des Online-Bürgernetzwerk Campact für einen Offenlegung von Nebeneinkünften von Abgeordneten hinweisen. Wähler müssen wissen, welche Abgeordneten wirklich ihre Belange und welche in erster Linie die Interessen einzelner Unternehmen vertreten. Auf der Webseite http://www.campact.de kannst/können Du/Sie eine Sammelpetition an den Bundestag unterschreiben und per E-Mail Deinen/Ihren Wahlkreisabgeordneten auffordern, sich aktiv für eine Offenlegungspflicht für Nebeneinkünfte einzusetzen. Die Aktion wird von Transparency International unterstützt. Weitere Infos: http://www.campact.de/.


Lobbyismus entschärfen – Nebeneinkünfte veröffentlichen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/516946/

Das Who ist Who - Kritisierte und Debatierte Fälle von Nebeneinkünften
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488351/

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

Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/24/gop_eyes_plan_to_secure_benefit_cuts/


Informant: DitziSis

All day today, January 25, experts from Amnesty International, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and Center for Policy Alternatives will be answering questions about efforts in the states to halt the death penalty.

Don't miss this opportunity to ask an expert about death penalty legislation and policies today at http://www.movingideas.org/chat/linkchat.php.

You can also learn more about the death penalty and read answers from the panelists at http://www.movingideas.org/chat/deathpenalty.php.

Featured Panelists:

David Elliot, Communications Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=4&url=http://www.ncadp.org/

Bernie Horn, Policy Director, Center for Policy Alternatives
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=5&url=http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5468501&url_num=6&url=http://www.stateaction.org/

Kristin Houle, Program Associate, Amnesty International USA
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=6&url=http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5468501&url_num=7&url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/

I hope you will join us for this powerful discussion about state opposition to the death penalty!


Diana Onken

Strategy Director, Moving Ideas



Online Chat: Opposition to the Death Penalty

Read the transcript from the Moving Ideas and Amnesty International online chat about opposition to the death penalty in the states.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=6053513&url_num=4&url=http://www.movingideas.org/chat/deathpenalty.php

Solar storms could disrupt mobile telephones, television: scientists
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/britainsciencesun


Informant: Susan

Extreme weather reports from various areas - from one of my groups

....Anna

Begin forwarded message:


I live in the center of Brazil. In Mato Grosso do Sul. This time of the year is of rains and it is going to March. It is the time of the full of the Pantanal (Swampland). Area where many wild animal live with cattle farms. It happens that it is raining direct, without stopping this whole month. In other areas of the south of Brazil where the climate was cold, it is making 42 degrees C. the area is of drought where there was never before. For the first time we had a hurricane in Brazil and this year there was another similar storm.

The climate is completely crazy here also.

Mauro

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/6075300p-5966353c.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock