http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/10768167.htm


Informant: Frank Gonzalez

Iraqi Elections: Full Coverage
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1808.shtml


Informant: Hopedance


$200 million a day on war in Iraq, and unable to offer social security...

David Diggins

Premierminister Manmohan Singh hat das indische Gesundheitsministerium aufgefordert, Risiken durch die Nutzung von Mobiltelefonen zu untersuchen. In einem Brief an den Premierminister hat der Parlamentsabgeordnete Murli Deora seinen Befürchtungen zu Gesundheitsrisiken durch Mobiltelefone Ausdruck verliehen. Er wies daraufhin, dass Forscher in aller Welt sich mit gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Mobiltelefonen beschäftigen. „Die aufgestellte Palette an Gesundheitsrisiken ist bisher alarmierend und beängstigend“, sagte Deora, „diese drohende Gefahr zwingt die Regierung, dringend in der Gesetzgebung aktiv zu werden.“. Laut Deora sollte es gesetzlich vorgeschrieben sein, dass die Mobilfunkunternehmen Forschung betreiben.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/


Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 27.01.2005


Omega siehe dazu auch:

PM to initiate study on cellphone health hazards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495838/

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, January 23, 2005|04:31 IST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will ask the Health Ministry to study the possible health hazards of the usage of cellphones.

Congress MP Murli Deora, who met the Prime Minister on Saturday in this connection, said Singh shared his concern and would ask the Health Ministry to study any health hazards related to the usage of cellphones and ways to deal with it.

Deora, on whose PIL the Supreme Court ordered a ban on public smoking, has urged the Centre to initiate a legislation in this regard.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Deora raised concerns over the health hazards that may be associated with cellphone usage. The medical research fraternity around the world is concerned about health hazards from mobile phones, he said.

"The range of health hazards identified by the researchers till now is alarmingly scary and mind-boggling," he said. "This impending threat renders it imperative for the Government to initiate urgent legislation," he added.

Deora said the legislation should make it mandatory for all cellphone companies to undertake research to "unambiguously establish that cellphone usage does not expose users to health hazards".

© HT Media Ltd. 2004

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1210512,0008.htm



Indischer Premierminister fordert Studien über Mobilfunkrisiken
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495844/

Wie der designierte US-Justizminister Gonzales war auch der designierte US-Heimatschutzminister Certoff aktiv daran beteiligt, das Recht aufzuweichen und Folter zu ermöglichen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19346/1.html

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Chemtrails/Pece.html

All the evidence anybody who's brain is in their head and not in a jar
would ever need: http://images.google.com/images?q=chemtrails


From The Webfairy

http://www.stevequayle.com/C2C.index.dead.scientist.html


Informant: Friends



Another scientist murdered. Anna
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_021405_watertreatmentdeath.html

What you know WILL kill you
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/468874/

Chronology of Dead Scientists
http://www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/dead.scientists.chron.html
Informant: Sylviane

Dead Scientists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/592793/

Did 22 SDI Researchers really ALL Commit Suicide?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/510479/

List of Murdered Scientists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/564955/

In Memory: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442522/

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=601497


Informant: NHNE

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=25827


From NHNE

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/116499/index.php

CoopRadio.org: Leuren Moret Updates on Depleted Uranium/Electromagnatic Harassment

"DU-The horror of Depleted Uranium is not limited to Iraq - it may well be at our doorsteps. EMF- Various sources of electro-magnetic frequencies are being used on those who oppose the US govt and the New World Order and issues that stand in the way of the goals that the govt/NWO wish to achieve.

Monday January 31, 2005 - Noon-1 PM Pacific Time"
COOP RADIO – CFRO – 102.7 FM Vancouver, B.C.
LISTEN ONLINE TO COOP RADIO: http://www.coopradio.org/

GUEST: Leuren Moret - Expert Witness at the International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan At Tokyo. She is an independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She is on the organizing committee of the World Committee on Radiation Risk, an organization of independent radiation specialists, including members of the Radiation Committee in the EU parliament, the European Committee on Radiation Risk. She is an environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley. Ms. Moret earned her BS in geology at U.C. Davis in 1968 and her MA in Near Eastern studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. She has completed all but her dissertation for a PhD in the geosciences at U.C. Davis. She has traveled and conducted scientific research in 42 countries. She wrote a scientific report on depleted uranium for the United Nations sub commission investigating the illegality of depleted uranium munitions. Marian Falk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and retired insider at the Livermore Lab, who is an expert on radioactive fallout and rainout, has trained her on radiation issues.

BIO: http://www.zi-activism.net/downloads/nonZi/leurenbio.htm

HOST: Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

NEWS STORY: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/116499/index.php

SIGN OUR U.N. PETITION TO BAN WEAPONS AND WARFARE IN SPACE
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563

Campaign for Cooperation in Space
http://www.peaceinspace.org


Informant: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space

EDITOR'S COMMENT:

Here's one more report that warns global temperatures due to global warming are approaching dangerous levels. This report was commissioned by the World Wildlife Federation. Two other reports, produced by two other groups, were also made public this past week.

The first report was produced by a collaboration of experts at Oxford and Reading universities, The Open University, London School of Economics, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory:

NEW REPORT: EARTH HEATING UP TWICE AS FAST AS THOUGHT (1/26/2005):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8754


From NHNE

The Irish EHS issue as it appertains to masts and cellphones has got some terrific print exposure today (Sunday, January 30, 2005). Its coverage in the popular tabloid--THE IRISH PEOPLE--is so good I'm sending the entire in attachments:

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/page_1.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/page_4_part_1.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/page_4_part_2.jpg
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/page_5.jpg

Then THE SUNDAY TIMES has also given some helpful coverage to the issue with accompanying photgraphs of Dr. Elizabeth Cullen, IERVN (Irish Electromagentic Radiation Victims Network) member Helen McCrory and longtime Irish antimast activist and EHS sufferer, Enda Dalton. I'll transcribe the article below.

Best, Imelda, Cork



THE SUNDAY TIMES. January 30, 2005, page 13

"ONE IN 20 PEOPLE 'MAY HAVE A MOBILE PHONE ILLNESS'

[by] Richard Oakley

Up to 5% of the population may be suffering ill health as a result of radiation from mobile phones and masts, according to a group of Irish doctors fighting for official acceptance of the problem.

The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA) is urging the government to adopt a cautious approach to the technology, and to ensure that people who claim to have related ilnesses are monitored. In a study to be released this week, the doctors will say they have identified 16 people whom they believe have been adversely affected by radiation. The medical report concludes that 'seemingly sensitive individuals' suffer 'devastating effects' from exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

According to the IDEA's co-founders Philip Michael and Elizabeth Cullen, more people are reporting severe health effects linked to radiation. The suvey outlines symptoms that include fatigue, confusion, tingling, temperature changes, dizziness and difficulty sleeping. It estimates that between 1% and 5% of the population could be sensitive to radiation and experience illness as a result. The IDEA says further research is necessary. It wants special screens for the 16 people in the study, to see if their conditions improve when radiation is blocked.

The association's claims will be strongly refuted by the industry and government. The Department of Communications said recently that there was no valid scienetific research to suggest that the use of mobile phones could be bad for children. Their comments followed advice by a leading British expert that their use by preteens sould be limited. The government has also said that tests on mobile-phone base stations in the country found that none exceeded internationally recognised guidelines on radiation levels. Mobile-phone operators also dismiss claims that radiation from masts or phones could be harmful. Vodafone said: "There is no evidence of any impact on human health when exposure levels are below internationally recognised guidelines."

Omega this is not true. There is very much evidence of impact from that radiation on human and animal health. See under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Despite these reassurances there are growing numbers of people reporting symptoms, like Dubliners Helen McCrory of Clontarf and Enda Dalton of Raheny. McCrory blames nearby mobile phone masts for her illness and said she can't leave her house because "masts are everywhere now". "I can't sleep, my head pounds, my skin burns and I get a painful pumping sensation from head to toe. It has got so bad that I feel suicidal," she said.

Dalton claims he has suffered from radiation since 1985 and has installed a screened room in his house to get relief. "There are loads of people like me who are sensitive to radiation and our symptoms are real. We need the entire system shut down until a thorough investigation is carried out. We know the radiation is below recommended guidelines, but these guidelines are not correct because we still suffer," he said.

John Ryan, a farmer in Tipperary, claims he has suffered illness since allowing a Vodafone mast to be installed on his land. He has offered to return the money he received to have the mast taken down but Vodafone wants him to pay extra. The mast has been shown to adhere to safe radiation levels but Ryan is adamant that it gives him headaches and dizzy spells. Vodafone does not accept that the mast is reponsible for Ryan's symptoms."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2309645.stm


Churches cash in on phone boom
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495347/

Cross used as antenna
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/463128/

Hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/220635/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429390/

Homeowners paid to hide phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495350/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/03/nmob03.xml&amp


Churches cash in on phone boom
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495347/

Cross used as antenna
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/463128/

Hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/220635/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429390/

Shell to reveal hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495351/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$OXEG0VJPICCD5QFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2000/11/30/nspire30.xml


Cross used as antenna
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/463128/

Hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/220635/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429390/

Homeowners paid to hide phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495350/

Shell to reveal hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495351/

The local paper in Oxford (Oxford Times) has run a big story this w/e about a proposal from QS4 acting for Vodaphone and O2 to put a hidden mast inside a church tower in N. Oxford. The story only came to light because they need planning permission because the church is a listed building. It says in the report that Lincoln college recently put a mast disguised as a tree up in their sports ground, first we had heard of that. If they don't need planning permission then low level masts can be stuck up anywhere. Frighteneing.

Chris Gretton for QS4 was quoted as saying 'If it is a case of the mast not going in the OCMS building (church), then it will be built somewhere in the vicinity. It is possible the masts will take the form of street works - horrible monopoles on the roadside. You will need more of them and they will have to be more highly powered because they are working at ground level.'

What nasty threatening toads these people are.


Ann Furtado

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Hi Ann

A couple of points - in addition to Yasmin's suggestion make your church aware of the reasons a church in Edinburgh refused Vodafone permission to erect a 3g mast on the church - St. Martin's Vestry, Dairy Road. Edinburgh

Vodafone offered the church over £100.000 over 15 years but the church said that because a number of residents made it clear they feared the health effects the church wasn't prepared to agree a course of action which would make people feel unsafe in their own homes. The church said they existed to help promote the well being of the community and area in which they are set and in which they witness to the Gospel. The wellbeing of the community was their main focus.

I experienced the same situation in my own community. Hutchison wanted to put a mast on our village Grade 1 listed church. The church eventually refused them permission because the community was against the mast. So Hutchison said well it has to go somewhere so if the church won't have it we will put it as a street lamp solution nearby, that nearby happened to be outside my back bedroom window about 15 meters from my house. Everyone was so outraged by their attitude that we ran a huge campaign and I complained about them absolutely everywhere including the DTI and got organisations like Corporate Watch writing about them. We got rid of them and they eventually got permission 800 meters away in a field 200 meters from the nearest house so give them as good as they give you - they are a disgrace.


Sian


From Mast Network



Concern over church phone masts : Fury as vicar claims mast 'a gift from God'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545252/

Churches cash in on phone boom
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495347/

Cell towers now hide in plain sight
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558733/

Cross used as antenna
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/463128/

Hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/220635/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429390/

Homeowners paid to hide phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495350/

Shell to reveal hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495351/

The saga began with this entry in Hansard during the debate on mobile phone masts.

Lord Bassam of Brighton: My Lords, there will of course be some revision of the guidance, because the planning policy guidance process is turning into a different form of planning guidance. There have been recent reviews of PPG8 and I understand that it is widely understood. The problem is that local residents sometimes do not like what they hear; one has to be realistic about that. The noble Baroness makes a point about the number of appeals. It is certainly true that there was a large increase in appeals and in the quantity of written representations on planning applications. Thankfully, that appears to have peaked and may well now be tailing off, but it is of course open to local political activists to stir up such issues. It is in their interests to do so; one can well understand that.

I then sent the following letter to all Members of the House of Lords on the 8th December 2004:

Letter to all members of the House of Lords
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/432715/


I finally received ONE reply from Rt Hon Jeff Rooker dated 26th January 2005, as follows:

Thank you for your letter addressed to all members of the House of Lords regarding Lord Bassam's comments during the debate on mobile phone masts. You will appreciate that it would be inappropriate for the Government to comment on an individual case. Nonetheless, it may be helpful if I set out the planning position in general terms. I apologise for the delay in replying.

As you will be aware, the regulations (Statutory Instruments 2001/2718 and 2001/2719) for communication developments can be found at http://www.hmso.gov.uk . The revised Planning Policy Guidance Note on Telecommunications (PPPG*) and Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Development can be found on http://www.odpm.gov.uk .

The Government takes very seriously public concern about the possibility of health effects associated with telecommunications systems. Our advice is based on the Stewart Report on recommending a precautionary approach to the development of this technology and made proposals for further research.

For base stations Stewart concluded that: "the balance of evidence indicated that there is no general risk to health of people living near base stations on the basis that exposures are expected to be small fractions of the guidelines."

The Government accepted the precautionary approach and has therefore introduced new measures to ensure that people's exposures from base stations meet the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). These guidelines are five times tougher than they have been for the public and include TETRA and 3G base stations.

Another recommendation of the Stewart Report was the auditing of emissions from base stations. In an ongoing audit, OFCOM (formerly the Radiocommunications Agency) has measured exposures around nearly 400 base stations to date http://www.ofcom.org.uk . TETRA base stations are also now being measured. In all cases exposures have been below, and mostly thousands of times below, the guidelines.

The Stewart report had already noted that "for base station emissions, exposures of the general public will be to the whole body but normally at levels many times less those from handsets."

The Stewart recommendation for further research has been followed up through the new Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) program ( http://www.mthr.org ) that is jointly funded by both the Government and industry. The research is aimed mainly at the areas identified in the Stewart Report and those proposed in a report on TETRA by the National Radiological Protection Board's independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR). The process will ensure that Government and the public are kept up to date with new research findings.

Stewart also recommended that the issue was reviewed again after 3 years and in January the NRPB's Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation published their report "Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields". AGNIR has examined recent experimental and epidemiological evidence for health effects due to exposure to radiofrequency (RF) transmissions, including those associated with mobile telephone handsets and base stations. They also conclude "Exposure levels from living near of mobile base stations are extremely low and the overall evidence indicates that they are unlikely to pose a risk to health".

You raise the issue of potential health concerns about the TETRA system. Following a request to the NRPB by the Home Office, the issue of possible health effects caused by signals from TETRA base stations was comprehensively addressed in a report by NRPB@S independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR), chaired by Sir Richard Doll. The report on "Possible Health Effects from Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) was published in 2002 in the Documents of the NRPB (Volume 12 No2 2001) and is also available on the NRPB website http://www.nrpb.org . The report noted the signals from TETRA base stations, like their mobile phone counterparts, are not pulsed. There is, therefore, no reason to believe that signals from TETRA base stations should be treated differently from other base stations. The AGNIR report also found that exposures of the public to signals from TETRA base stations are small fractions of the international guidelines.

TETRA technologies are also included within the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) program set by the Government 2001 ( http://www.mthr.org.uk ). An associated program, specifically on TETRA, is being funded by the Home Office
http://www.homeoffice.go.uk .

The Government has welcomed the timely review undertaken by the national Radiological Protection Board which was published on 11 January.

The report made many recommendations about mobile phones and health, including two related to planning procedures. We are studying the recommendations and will respond fully once we have considered them fully.

I can assure you that the Government is keeping the whole area of mobile phone technology under review in the light of further research.


Jeff Rooker
Personally signed


THIS IS MY REPLY TO THIS LETTER

The Rt. Hon. Jeff Rooker

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH

30th January 2005


Dear Sir,

I thank you for being the only one to have the courteous to reply to my letter of the 8th December 2004 to all members of the House of Lords.

My objection was that Lord Bassam of Brighton referred to mast campaigners as "local political activists" because we object to mast applications and take the trouble to research, in order to help residents to present evidence which fits planning criteria.

It appears that this is what Lord Balsam calls "stirring up issues concerned with planning appeals."

I can only say that there would not be objections to mast planning applications, resulting in many appeals, if there was no anecdotal evidence of ill health in areas where these masts are up and running; if there was no visual environmental aspect with these eyesores: if the phone companies fully observed the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone network Development; and if phone companies did not try to breach all ethic and moral codes, which a majority of residents adhere to.

It may be inconvenient to your government that ordinary people want to object to phone mast applications, but then what other recourse do people have when the elected government ignores their plight?

I do not believe any government should run the UK which does not truly serve the people who elected it into power.

As Lord Balsam has not replied to my letter, I can have no respect for a man who tars everyone with the same brush, to suit his frame of mind, without looking into the truth of what sort of people work towards planning appeals and for what reasons.

Please inform him that planning appeals have only decreased because planning applications for masts 15m and under only need prior notification.

I can assure him that the current rush to cover the UK with 3G masts has caused great concern and anger amongst residents of the UK and that Mast Sanity is now issuing health survey forms, in areas where 3G is up and running, for an independent of Mast Sanity Health Survey. Mast Sanity also gives advice and support frequently on mast planning applications and prior notifications across the UK. The strength of opposition from members of the public is surprising us daily.

If this present government takes very seriously public concern about the possibility of health effects associated with telecommunications systems, why does it choose to ignore the pockets of ill health around mast sites across the UK; why has consideration of health/perceived health aspects been "buried" in planning systems; and why are there no ' independent of government and phone companies' health surveys?

If you are quoting Sir William Stewart and his report in 2000, why did this government ignore his recommendations then, which he reiterated this month in his further report?

ICNIPR guidelines are based on the thermal (heating) effects and good research abroad, which this government ignores states that the biological effects cause symptoms of ill health and ill health. So really ICNIPR is irrelevant.

OFCOM may have measured exposures around nearly 400 base stations to date and also an unmentioned number of TETRA base stations, but what is the relevance of measuring the exposure of one mast when some cities are so densely populated with these masts?

In reference to the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MYTHR), and also the TETRA program for serving police officers, I am not alone in having a problem with both of these.

If the government wanted an investigation into drug running, it would not choose people who had financial or other interests connected with this trafficking to do so.

My argument, therefore, is how can either of these health research programs be unbiased when they are funded by the government or phone companies?

If this government sincerely wants to tackle this huge problem of health effects from these masts it should arrange for independent research into all microwave radiation and instruct its scientists to search out a safer alternative to use for telecommunication technology.

At the very least it should remove restrictions to "health and perception of.." in planning considerations and all masts should come under full planning law, with the removal of those mast in clusters around residential areas. There should be an exclusion zone around schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly, and other sensitive sites; 3G and TETRA should be researched for biological effects.

That is what will solve the problems that campaigners and UK residents seek to change. This is what the electorate wants. Ignore them at your peril!


Yours sincerely

Mrs S L Lawrence


Message from Mast Network


Letter and attachment to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Not+welcome%2C+Mr.+Bush%21&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

Bush in Europa unerwünscht
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Not+welcome+Mr.+Bush&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

Fotos von der Demo gegen Bush in Mainz vom 23.02.2005:
http://www.gruene-linke.de/050223_bush-demo/index.html

Anlässlich des Besuchs des US-Präsidenten George W. Bush in Deutschland wird es nicht nur in Mainz, wo Bush Station macht, Massenproteste geben, sondern auch in vielen anderen Orten der Bundesrepublik und in anderen europäischen Ländern. "Not Welcome, Mr. Bush!", ist der Aufruf überschrieben, auf den sich die Friedensbewegung geeinigt hat.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5890.php



Aktionen zum Bush-Besuch, Bitte um Beteiligung

An Initiativen und Interessierte aus der Friedens-, Eine Welt-, Umwelt-, Menschenrechts- und globalisierungskritischen Bewegung, an Kirchengemeinden, Unigruppen, Gewerkschaften und Parteien

Abs.: Netzwerk Friedenskooperative
Römerstr. 88
53111 Bonn
Tel. 0228/692904
Fax: 0228/692906
eMail: friekoop@bonn.comlink.org
http://www.friedenskooperative.de
Förderverein Frieden e.V.


Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,
liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Wir möchten auf die Aktivitäten zum Bush-Besuch im Februar 2005 aufmerksam machen und um Unterstützung und Beteiligung bitten.

Während seiner Europareise wird US-Präsident Bush am Mi., 23. Februar 2005 auch in Deutschland sein. Geplant ist ein Treffen mit Kanzler Schröder in Mainz und vorraussichtlich ein Truppenbesuch in Wiesbaden. Am Vortag kommt Bush zu NATO und EU nach Brüssel, am 24. Februar trifft er den russischen Präsidenten Putin in Bratislava/Slowakei. Für Montag und Dienstag werden auch Protestveranstaltungen in Brüssel geplant.

Unter dem Motto "Not welcome, Mr. Bush! Für eine friedliche und soziale Welt!" wird aufgerufen, am Dienstag, dem 22. und Mittwoch, dem 23. Februar 2005 an vielen Orten und mit vielfältigen Aktionen zu demonstrieren und am 23. Februar nach Mainz zu kommen. Natürlich sind das "ungünstige" Demonstrationstermine, aber es ist sicher unverzichtbar, dass wir uns am transatlantischen Dialog "von unten" beteiligen.

Über die bisher geplanten Aktionen informieren wir unter

http://www.friedenskooperative.de/bush2005.htm

Weitere geplante Aktionen bitten wir, dort in die Datenbank der Friedenskooperative online einzutragen. Oder sendet einfach eine kleine Mail mit den Details an uns.

Kundgebung/Demonstrationen in Mainz:
Dienstag, 22.2.05
17:30 Uhr
Versammlung mit Rahmenprogramm in der Mainzer Innenstadt

Mittwoch, 23.2.05
5 vor 12
Auftaktkundgebung in der Mainzer Innenstadt/ vorauss. Markt
14:00 Uhr
Wir holen Euch ab (Zwischenkundgebung am Mainzer Hauptbahnhof)
15:30 Uhr
Abschlusskundgebung in der Innenstadt


Trägerkreis Not welcome, Mr. Bush in Mainz:
Infotelefon: 0 61 31 / 90 52 63
eMail: info@notwelcomebush.de
http://www.notwelcomebush.de

Infos z.B. zu den nächsten Vorbereitungstreffen sind auf der Website abrufbar.

Schwerpunkte der Demonstrationen werden die Kritik an der völkerrechtswidrigen Kriegspolitik der USA im Irak und die wankelmütige bis unterstützende Haltung der Bundesregierung und die zunehmende Militarisierung Europas sein. „Um die drängenden Probleme der Menschen global friedlich lösen zu können, braucht die Welt keine Kriegsallianzen und keine US-Alleingänge, sondern solidarische Zusammenarbeit“, heißt es im Aufruf.

Der Aufruf ist auf den genannten Webseiten abrufbar. Unterstützung/Unterschrift bitte per Nachricht an das Aktionsbündnis (s.o.). Gruppen/Organisationen sollten mindestens 50,- EUR. zu den Organisationskosten beitragen. Beim nächsten Treffen am 31. Januar wird auch ein engerer Veranstalterkreis bestimmt (dessen Mitgliedsorganisationen sich personell wie finanziell sich besonders stark engagieren müssen).

Der Aufruf kann bei uns auch "online" unterzeichnet werden. Auch das DIN A2-Plakat kann beim Netzwerk Friedenskooperative bestellt werden, das Formular dazu siehe:
http://www.friedenskooperative.de/cgi-bin/bush2005.pl

Schon vorher: München
"Transatlantischer Dialog von unten" bzw. Antikriegsdemonstrationen finden übrigens auch schon vorher (10.-12. Februar) anlässlich der "Sicherheitskonferenz" in München statt. Informationen zu den dort geplanten Diskussionsveranstaltungen/Konferenzen und Demonstrationen siehe unter:
http://www.dfg-vk.de/sicherheitskonferenz/index.htm und
http://www.muenchner-friedensbuendnis.de

Für freuen uns über Dein/Ihr Engagement und Unterstützung

Mit friedlichen und herzlichen Grüßen
aus dem Büro des Netzwerk Friedenskooperative,
Kristian Golla und Mani Stenner

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"Wer schweigt stimmt zu!" - Attac-Erklärung zum Bush-Besuch

Am 23. Februar 2005 (Mittwoch) wird George W. Bush im Rahmen seiner Europareise auch die Stadt Mainz besuchen. Diesen Besuch nehmen wir zum Anlass gegen die unheilvolle und zum Teil verbrecherische Politik von George W. Bush zu protestieren und rufen alle demokratischen und gewaltfreien Kräfte auf, sich hieran zu beteiligen.

Die Politik von George W. Bush in den USA und weltweit steht wie kaum eine andere für neoliberale Globalisierung und Raubtierkapitalismus. Vom völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg über die offizielle Außerkraftsetzung des Rechtsstaats bis zur Beschneidung von Bürgerrechten und Schaffung sozialer Ungleichheit fehlt kaum etwas in der Liste seiner Verbrechen.

Die Begriffe von "Freiheit" und "Demokratie" werden von George W. Bush infam missbraucht, um tatsächlich die Errungenschaften der Aufklärung und des Humanismus mit Füßen zu treten und zu beseitigen.

Diese Person gehört nicht in das "Goldene Buch" der Stadt Mainz sondern vor Gericht!

George W. Bush und seine Administration kennen keinerlei Skrupel, wenn es darum geht, die Interessen der Konzerne an ungestörter Kapitalverwertung weltweit mit wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Gewalt abzusichern. So wird der verschärfte Standortwettbewerb der Staaten immer heftiger buchstäblich auf Kosten des Lebens von Menschen ausgetragen. Auch die europäischen Staaten sind und waren daran nicht erst im Irakkrieg beteiligt. Zuletzt 1999 in Jugoslawien haben sie bewiesen, dass auch sie auf Uno und Völkerrecht pfeifen, wenn sie es für opportun halten. Gerhard Schröder errang sich damals das Verdienst, der erste echte deutsche Kriegskanzler seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg zu sein. Auch dagegen richtet sich unser Protest.

Attac wird dieser Politik gewaltfrei die Stirn bieten und unterstützt die Aktionstage am 22./ 23.02.05 und den Aufruf "Not welcome, Mr. Bush!"

Wer schweigt stimmt zu!

Attac Deutschland, Koordinierungskreis

-- Angelika Shams * Mitglied im Attac-Bundeskoordinierungskreis Egertstraße 12 * 75365 Calw-Stammheim * email: shams@attac.de Fon: 07051 / 935 675 * 0179 / 513 41 59 * Fax: 07051 / 935 677

http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=11


Wir brauchen dringend noch Leute, die sich am 23.02 bei der Bush Demo als Ordnerinnen und Ordner melden. Bitte alle zentral bei mir melden haugr@gmx.de . Vielen Dank! Treffpunkt: 23.02: ab 11h Kaiserstr. Mainz (ca. 200m vom Hbf) an der Demobühne. http://www.notwelcomebush.de/

Roman Haug

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Präsident Bush in Deutschland nicht willkommen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/520913/

Not welcome, Mr. Bush
http://www.attac.at/1166.html

Iran - Kriegsvorbereitungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/517125/

Kein Krieg!
Sonderseite mit Reportagen, Reden, Zitaten, Analysen,...
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/index.html

Mainz wird seins
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535987/

Ein weiterer Grund Bush gebührend zu empfangen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/533395/

Demonstration zum Bush-Besuch - Termine zum Bush-Besuch
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/496994/

Infos zu den Bussen nach Mainz gibt es unter:
http://www.bushinmainz.de/logistik.html

Stop The Escalation - Let’s show Bush he’s NOT welcome
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/506603/

Bush Not Welcome In Europe (pictures)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536096/

Die Nutzung der Atomkraft ist keine Voraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche Klimaschutzpolitik. Stattdessen sind Effizienzsteigerungen bei der Energieumwandlung und der Energienutzung, sparsamer Umgang mit Energie in allen Bereichen und der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien wichtige Bausteine, die Anforderungen des Klimaschutzes zu erfüllen. Dies betont die Bundesregierung in ihrer Antwort auf eine Grosse Anfrage der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion, die sich nach den Konsequenzen des Ausstiegs aus der Atomenergie für Wirtschaft und Umwelt erkundigt hatte.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5877.php

Dass die Schlagzeile "Dioxin in Eiern" in der letzten Woche ein reines Medienthema war, wurde am Rande der Internationalen Grünen Woche in Berlin klar. Die Vorsitzende des Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbandes (vzbv), Prof. Dr. Edda Mueller, betonte auf einer Pressekonferenz, sie hätte keinerlei Rückmeldung von vermehrten Anfragen aus den Verbraucherzentralen der Länder erhalten.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5914.php

Die Gegenveranstaltung zum Weltwirtschaftsforum hat mit Demonstrationen begonnen. Der Protest mit 200.000 Teilnehmern richtete sich vor allem gegen die US-Politik im Irak. Es war die bisher größte globalisierungskritische Kundgebung in Brasilien. Daran nahmen unter anderem Sozialisten, Gewerkschafter, afrobrasilianische Trommler und Kirchenvertreter aus der ganzen Welt teil. Eröffnet wurde das Forum durch ein Friedensritual brasilianischer Indianer.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5920.php

Hintergründe zu den sozialen und ökologischen Folgen des Welthandels.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5883.php

Die moralische Qualität einer Gesellschaft zeigt sich gerade im Umgang mit den Tieren. Der Theologe und Philosoph Prof. Dr. Franz-Theo Gottwald belegt diese Tatsache jetzt mit seinem Buch "Geschöpfe wie wir". Der Vorstand der Schweisfurth-Stiftung für ökologische Agrar-Kultur in München will damit Christen und christlich Denkende zum dringend erforderlichen Umdenken und einer Abkehr von Massentierhaltung, Futterimporten sowie Überschussproduktionen zu Lasten der Nutztiere anregen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Buchtipps/5925.php

Eine gesellschaftliche "Entwicklung", die ökologische Grenzen und Umweltschutz missachtet, kann nur zu unabsehbaren Zerstörungen führen - von Vandana Shiva

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-eineWelt/5878.php

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1445049

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COMMENTARY: Project for a new anti-American century
Written by Jay Ruskin
Saturday, 29 January 2005

To the peoples of the world, George W. Bush's second inaugural address seemed ludicrous for one simple reason: except in the area of military bullying, "the U.S. today is a follower rather than a leader," as Michael Lind demonstrates in Thursday's Financial Times (UK) by reviewing recent developments in matters economic, diplomatic, humanitarian, political, technological, institutional... -- Michael Lind is "a former Republican who voted for George Bush in 1988. He is a former editor of National Review and protégé of William F. Buckley Jr. And probably the 'highest ranking' defector from the conservative movement," as Jim Blair put it in reviewing Lind's Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America (Free Press, 1996)....

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2175/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=58218&d=29&m=1&y=2005
http://tinyurl.com/5rao3


From Information Clearing House

McWilliams carries the scars of battle and three years of service in Iraq, but he came away from the experience with something more -- a bill from the Defense Department for more than $3,000 and 30 days to pay it.

http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/15670
http://tinyurl.com/3krjx


From Information Clearing House

One third of this new force are Ex-Iraqi security troops who had been given special honors and decorations by Saddam Hussen.

http://207.44.245.159/article7904.htm

Robert Fisk in Baghdad

America has insisted on these elections - which will produce a largely Shia parliament representing Iraq's largest religious community - because they are supposed to provide an exit strategy for embattled US forces, but they seem set to change the geopolitical map of the Arab world in ways the Americans could never have imagined. For George Bush and Tony Blair this is the law of unintended consequences writ large.

http://207.44.245.159/article7908.htm

Leider haben aktuelle Messwerte erneue radioaktive Quellen ausfindig gemacht, deren Entwicklung noch aussteht. Insofern besteht nicht nur in der Krisenregion, sondern auch in anderen Gegenden der Erde eine akute Tsunami- und Verstrahlungsgefahr. Eine Kettenreaktion bisher nicht vorstellbaren Ausmaßes kann zumindestens nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Insofern muß man leider sogar die Helfer in den Notstandsgebieten vor erneuten Überschwemmungen warnen.

http://www.verbraucherselbstschutz.de/home.jsp?node_id=2005003154207016100

EIne NACHSORGE wird genau so notwendig wie die dringende Entstrahlung land- und gärtnerisch bewirtschafteter Gebiete, da sonst Ernteausfälle in Größenordnungen entstehen.

Ich bedauere, Ihnen keine bessere Nachricht zukommen zu lassen.

Dr. Harald Grünert

MILITARY HAS TOO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SAYS NEW REPORT

http://www.sgr.org.uk/press/SITL_19jan05.htm


Informant: Harlan Girard

After Seymour M. Hersh's revelation that "[t]he [George W. Bush] Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer" (Seymour M. Hersh, "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret," The New Yorker, January 24, 2005), more frightening news. Two newspapers on the left and right ends of the political mainstream report that the US Air Force is flying its combat planes into Iran's airspace, "templating" Iran's air defense positions, and daring Teheran to shoot US planes down -- an act that simultaneously prepares for the next war, serves as a provocation, seeks to create a pretext for war (if the planes are shot down), and (if nothing else) escalates its ongoing psychological warfare against Teheran. -- Full Text:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/provoking-iran.html

Yoshie


From ufpj-news

Actually according to the European station there have been about 75 or more 5+ quakes at Nicobar in the past 4 days:
http://www.emsc-csem.org/cgi-bin/QDM_all.sh?1

'Unheard Of' Seismic Events Continues In Quake Areas
http://www.rense.com/general62/quakes.htm


Informant: Anna Webb

IntelliTrack Adds Support for Wireless Devices from American Microsystems Ltd.

[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Jan 28 4:00 AM

Hunt Valley, MD (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- IntelliTrack Inc., the leading manufacturer of affordable bar code tracking software, announced today that its entire product line now supports the American Microsystems Ltd. (AML) Wireless (RF) Terminal, model M7100. IntelliTrack software uses bar codes and RFID tags to track physical assets and inventory in offices, schools, state and federal...

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=RFID+TAGS/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=7/SIG=1326npcb0/EXP=1107107801/*-http%3A//news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20050128/bs_prweb/prweb202674_1


Informant: Mark Marks

[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Jan 28 3:00 AM

(PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- The most significant application will be in the supply chain and logistics sector, where RFID will be used to drive increased efficiencies from producer to retailer. In the retail market success for RFID will come from niche applications such as the library sector, and within mass transportation.

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=RFID+TAGS/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=5/SIG=132ustc7s/EXP=1107107801/*-http%3A//news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20050128/bs_prweb/prweb201911_1


Informant: Mark Marks

Mission accomplished
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493544/

MOBILE & CORDLESS PHONES: MICROWAVE MADNESS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488067/

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

Structural and kinetic effects of mobile phone microwaves on acetylcholinesterase activity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486568/

Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485504/

'I have to switch the mains off to get to sleep'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485492/

Putting Cell Phone Antennas Near Schools Is Too Risky
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489469/

Persuade your District Council to inspect masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486562/

Broadband on powerlines coming to Australia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486954/

Solar storms could disrupt mobile telephones, television
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488115/

Electromagnetic weapons "tests" in Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488784/

Scalar EM Weapons Testing in West Australia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489858/

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

Omega-News Collection 29. January 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/494574/

Outcry Over Creation of GM Smallpox Virus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486853/

Countdown to global catastrophe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485485/

'Our land is changing - soon yours will too'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485735/

Global Warming Approaching Point of No Return
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486992/

Earth Heating Up Twice As Fast As Thought
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489543/

Scientist reveals a melting Alaska
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488106/

Antarctic wildlife on the edge of disaster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485733/

Man-made Marine Disaster to worsen?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489827/

Environmental groups complains old-growth not being protected
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489987/

Support the People of Haida Gwaii
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486494/

How transnational water corporations are commodifying the earth’s water for profit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488790/

OIL FIRMS FUND CAMPAIGN TO DENY CLIMATE CHANGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489873/

Andaman quakes leave seismologists worried
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493484/

Study confirms decline in Great Lakes levels
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488875/

Poison Plants: Chlorine Factories Are a Major Global Source of Mercury
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489887/

Stop the field Trials with transgenic Pines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488975/

GM Cotton Fiascos Around the World
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489481/

U.S. Brushes Aside N.M. Drilling Protests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489978/

Mabira Forest Endangered
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489994/

Rivers Threatened By Plunder of Key Forest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490000/

Logging State Parks in Maine?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490003/

Protect Imperiled Forests and Wildlife
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489591/

Stop Timber Industry Greenwashing - Protection of The Ancient Redwood Forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493496/

Global Warming Is 'Twice As Bad As Previously Thought'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493972/

Hopi prophecy pointed to this climate change
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/494073/

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490888/

What Do Trees Have To Do With Peace?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490010/

Tell it to Governor Schwarzenegger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489548/

The Fake Carnivore Debate, R.I.P.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489905/

The End Of Civil Rights: What The U.K.'s New Control Orders Mean For YOU
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491225/

Free trade and the future of furniture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493396/

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

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

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

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next

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

Mission accomplished
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/493544/

MOBILE & CORDLESS PHONES: MICROWAVE MADNESS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488067/

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

Structural and kinetic effects of mobile phone microwaves on acetylcholinesterase activity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486568/

Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485504/

'I have to switch the mains off to get to sleep'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485492/

Putting Cell Phone Antennas Near Schools Is Too Risky
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489469/

Persuade your District Council to inspect masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486562/

Broadband on powerlines coming to Australia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/486954/

Solar storms could disrupt mobile telephones, television
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488115/

Electromagnetic weapons "tests" in Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488784/

Scalar EM Weapons Testing in West Australia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/489858/

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

Das US-Heimatschutzministerium will zur besseren Kontrolle der Landesgrenzen bei einreisenden Ausländern die Reisedokumente mit RFID-Chips ausstatten, die angeblich gegen Missbrauch geschützt sind...

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19342/1.html

Torture Still Routine in Iraqi Jails, Report Says
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050125/ts_nm/iraq_rights_dc


Informant: Harlan Girard

Possibly, private industries and fascists interested in taking complete control of the government

What I've seen happen during and since 9/11 makes it plain that the fascists are not "interested in taking" complete control of government, they ARE in control. All that's going on now is the incremental introduction of absolute dictatorship in small doses to avoid an uprising.

You should listen to first-person accounts of encounters with police since the faked "terrorist" event of 9/11 here:

http://www.raven1.net/patriotradio.htm

You will be stunned and will see that what I say above is true.

Eleanor


Informant: susan

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-01-21/cols_ventura.html


Informant: Anna Webb

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GREENVSGREEN-01-17-05&cat=AN


Informant: Anna Webb

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/hoping-for-proper-election-for-proper.html


Informant: Yoshie Furuhashi

From ufpj-news

Tension in the Imperial Republic

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the homeland security state:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt41.html

Bill Bonner on the insanity of crowds:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner73.html

Harry Browne on why you should be too:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne30.html

http://de.news.yahoo.com/050129/295/4e5y6.html
http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&num=30&hl=de&client=google&ncl=http://de.news.yahoo.com/050129/295/4e5y6.html

Torture Scandal Explodes: Chertoff Advised CIA on Torture Methods of Prisoners

Confirmation in Jeopardy? Michael Chertoff, who has been picked by President Bush to be the homeland security secretary, advised the Central Intelligence Agency on the legality of coercive interrogation methods on terror suspects under the federal anti-torture statute, current and former administration officials said this week."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2761

Breaking News: Republicans Call for Military Draft - Influential PNAC Behind Move

Using the slick and misleading euphemism, "to take the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps," the neo-conservative Republicans who brought the world the failing Iraq War now want a full-scale military draft soon to raise 25,000 troops a year. The "back door draft" may turn into the "front door draft."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2758

According to the Associated Press, "Two live hand grenades were found in the luggage of a soldier returning from Iraq on Thursday." This raises disturbing questions, including "why" and "how" the live grenades made it from Iraq to a commercial airliner here in the U.S.. And what if the deadly grenades exploded on the plane, causing a crash?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2756

Insult to injury: Some wounded soldiers back from Iraq are having to pay for meals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Veterans' groups say it's another symptom of fighting a costly war on the cheap. One Iraq War veteran still on active duty told Salon reporter Mark Benjamin, "You know they treat us like shit up here" at Walter Reed.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2754

Another Major Scandal: When Alberto Gonzales was a Texas Supreme Court justice, he received more than $500,000 dollars in campaign contributions, some of the case came from companies that had cases before his court. However, Gonzales did not recuse himself from the cases, even though there was an obvious appearance of conflict of interest. These payoffs to judges are called ''prejudgment premiums."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2753

A societywide draft would also make it more difficult for politicians to commit troops to battle without popular approval. "The folks making the decisions are committing other people's lives to a war effort that they're not making any sacrifices for," says Charles Sheehan-Miles, who fought in the first Gulf War and now serves as director of Veterans for Common Sense.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2759

Congress Declares War on Veterans, Merges Senate Subcommittees:

The Senate declared war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans groups, and veterans, according to Congressional Quarterly. The Senate plans to merge VA spending with DoD spending, sending message that VA's budget must be slashed to pay for DoD weapons systems and war, and that one day VA may merge with DoD. In other words, Republican Senators and Congressmen want to take away healthcare from disabled veterans to pay for Star Wars missile defense and the failing Iraq War.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2755

The coalition of the willing, which turned into the coalition of the bribed, is now the coalition of the departing,. Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, and other nations retreat from Iraq as the war becomes worse and casualties rise. The Bush Administration lacks international leadership and respect, thus leaving the U.S. more isolated and vulnerable.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2751

The Albert Einstein Institution offers:

We are thrilled to inform you that we have added over 50 new translations in 24 different languages to the Albert Einstein Institution web site in the last month!!!

For years, many of these translations were available only in book form. Now, we have scanned them and placed them on our web site for free download. Although we have not evaluated all of these translations—and therefore cannot vouch for some of their quality—we wanted to make them available to people interested in our work.Please look at the bottom of this email to see the list of new translations. To find out more, visit:

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations.php3?orgid=88&typeID=6&action=printContentItem&itemID=35

Or, visit our home page: http://www.aeinstein.org , click on publications, and then click on translations.

Thank you for your interest in the work of the Albert Einstein Institution.


List of new translations:

Arabic -- Nonviolent Struggle: An Efficient Technique of Political Action

Arabic -- The Intifada and Nonviolent Struggle

Arabic -- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle

Burmese (Burma) -- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle

Burmese -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Burmese -- Which Way to Freedom

Chin (Burma) -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Chinese -- Civilian-Based Defense

Dutch -- Civilian-Based Defense: Deterrence and Defense by Citizens

Dutch -- Civilian-based defense: An Option for Western Europe

Dutch -- Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal

Dutch -- Power and Struggle: Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Action

Dutch -- The Political Equivalent of War-Civilian Defense

Dutch -- The Problem of Political Technique in Radical Politics

Dutch -- What is Required to Uproot Oppression

Estonian -- Civilian-Based Defense

Estonian -- Self-Reliant Defense Without Bankruptcy or War

French -- Civilian-Based Defense

French -- Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal

German -- The Political Equivalent of War--Civilian Defense

Hebrew -- Civilian-Based Defense

Hebrew -- Considering Policy Options and Consequences for Israel Facing the Intifada

Hebrew -- Israel vs. Intifada: Policy Options and Their Consequences

Hebrew -- Nonviolent Resistance

Indonesian -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Italian -- Making Europe Unconquerable

Italian -- Nonviolent Struggle: A Means Towards Justice, Freedom, and Peace

Italian -- The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 vols.)

Japanese -- Mass Resistance Without Weapons: Its Military-Strategic Approach

Japanese -- Toward the Objective of Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Possibility

Jing Paw (Burma) -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Karen (Burma) -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Korean -- Civilian-Based Defense

Latvian -- Civilian-Based Defense

Latvian -- Self-Reliant Defense Without Bankruptcy or War

Lithuanian -- Civilian-Based Defense

Lithuanian -- Self-Reliant Defense Without Bankruptcy or War

Macedonian -- Self-Reliant Defense Without Bankruptcy or War

Mon (Burma) -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Norwegian -- Tyranny Could Not Quell Them

Portuguese -- Power, Struggle, and Defense

Russian -- Civilian-Based Defense

Russian -- Nonviolent Struggle: A Better Means of Resolving Acute Political and Ethical Conflicts?

Russian -- The 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

Russian -- The Historical Significance of the Growth of Nonviolent Struggle in the Late 20th Century

Serbian -- From Dictatorship to Democracy

Spanish -- Nonviolent Political Struggle

Spanish -- The Relevance of Gandhi in the Modern World

Spanish -- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle

Thai -- Against the Coup: Fundamentals of Effective Defense

Thai -- Power and Nonviolent Strategy



Albert Einstein was deeply concerned about war, oppression, dictatorship, genocide, and nuclear weapons. He was willing to explore new approaches to confronting these problems of political violence, although he was not always happy with the choices available to him. At various times he was a war resister, a supporter of the war against the Nazi system, and an advocate of world government. In his later life, he became enormously impressed with the potential of nonviolent struggle. In 1950, he remarked on a United Nations radio broadcast that, "On the whole, I believe that Gandhi held the most enlightened views of all the political men in our time...."

Today, the Albert Einstein Institution continues work on that aspect of Einstein's thought, examining the potential of nonviolent struggle to resolve the continuing problems of political violence.

Vernetzungsinitiative der Gewerkschaftslinken: 6. bundesweites Treffen der Gewerkschaftslinken am 14./15. Januar 2005 in Stuttgart

Der Erpressungsspirale entgegentreten:
Position der PDS AG betrieb & gewerkschaft zu den Entwicklungen in
den Gewerkschaften (pdf):
http://www.labournet.de/GewLinke/vers/kongress7/pds.pdf

Linke im Zugzwang:
Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Situation in der BRD verlangt nach Alternativen. In Stuttgart versuchten mehr als 300 Gewerkschaftslinke, solche zu finden. Kolumne von Mag Wompel in junge Welt vom 22.01.2005.
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-22/016.php

und auf der Kongress-Seite einige Bilder der Konferenz - wir danken Evrensel:
http://www.labournet.de/GewLinke/vers/kongress7/index.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 18

President George Bush has ordered U.S. Air Force places to fly into Iran's airspace. There can be no other conclusion than Bush and neo-conservatives are laying the groundwork for another pre-emptive unilateral war in the Middle East at a time when our military faces increasing casualties in Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2749

Alberto Gonzales, the chief legal architect of the Bush administration's once unthinkable torture policies, is poised to become the attorney general of the United States. We urge you to call your Senators immediately and ask them to speak out against torture by opposing the Gonzales nomination.

During CODEPINK’s visits to Iraq, we heard first-hand testimony from Iraqis who were tortured by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. We know that these abuses are far more widespread and systematic than most Americans are aware of, and that they are happening in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as well as Iraq.

Alberto Gonzales’ infamous torture memo paved the way to the systematic abuse of detainees, a practice that is happening in our name! Please tell your Senators that tough questions are not enough. We need to send a message to the Bush Administration and the world that the American people do not condone torture under any circumstances!

CALL: Capitol Switchboard, (202) 224-3121.
Ask for your Senator's office.

For more information on Gonzales, visit these websites:
Peace Action: http://www.peace-action.org
Center for Constitutional Rights: http://www.ccr-ny.org

Address Bush’s Sorry State of the Union on February 2

The fact that a man who endorses the use of torture may become the attorney general of the United States is just one sign of the sorry state of the union. Another sign is the ongoing violence in Iraq, which this week resulted in the deaths of more soldiers in one day than in any other during our invasion and occupation of Iraq. The sham elections of January 30 will likely exacerbate the violence.

With an estimated deficit of $427 billion dollars, women's rights at the mercy of right-wing conservative judges lining up to take over the U.S. Supreme Court, and absolutely no exit strategy for the tragedy in Iraq, it’s time to speak up!

There's only one thing left to do: gather your friends, family and neighbors and have a get together like only CODEPINK women can have. Head to a local bar or get comfy on your favorite spot on the couch. Make a night of commiserating, laughing, and making plans to take action.

We have some great ideas to get you started:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/Local_CODEPINKs_Local_Home.shtml#cal

Bring the troops home NOW,
Andrea, Carol, Claire, Dana, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Tiffany
January 28, 2005 http://www.codepinkalert.org

http://www.speakcampaigns.org.uk/


Informant: Ima Vegan

Hopi prophecy pointed to this climate change
abstracted from John C. Mohawk, Ph.D.

Beginning about 70 years ago, some traditional Hopi formulated a message to the rest of the world that there was a rising danger that humankind's lack of spiritual attention to the world was going to lead to disaster. The form this disaster would take was that there would be violent storms and all kinds of disruption that would eventually threaten human beings around the world. It had happened before, they said, and all signs, including ancient prophecies, are that it will happen again. The individual who emerged as spokesperson for this was Thomas Banyacya. A very interesting element to the message was that proof of their message was to be found in the American's own libraries and scientific papers.

There is every evidence that this is happening, just as the traditional Hopi predicted, and the major leadership of the world is not acting in an effective way to meet the threat. This August, the Bush administration finally issued a statement acknowledging that human activity may be contributing to global warming. If you think that radical Islamic terrorism is scary, wait until you see global warming.

Scientists are certain that greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have a history of altering global climate patterns, a history that goes back perhaps at least 900 million years. A dramatic but widely-held theory is that 600 million years ago the earth was an ice ball trapped in a glacial period and that it escaped this seemingly permanent condition when volcanoes released enough CO2 into the atmosphere to create a greenhouse effect which warmed things up to perhaps an average temperature of 120 F, causing hundreds of thousands of years of rain which trapped the CO2 and put it back in the earth. Eventually the earth stabilized. That was when the dramatic proliferation of life forms, including multi-cellular animals, appeared. There is pretty good evidence to support this theory. The ice may have been a kilometer thick. Greenhouse gases do cause climate change.

The earth is getting warmer and its average temperature has risen about one degree Fahrenheit since 1830 - at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The last 20 years have been the warmest in 12,000 years and the warming trend is worldwide. People who study tree rings find evidence that in the last 20 years there has been an unprecedented rate of change in the climate and among the best evidence for the effect of this change is that glaciers, worldwide, are receding and disappearing. There are glaciers in the Central Andes. Even there, glaciers have been retreating dramatically. Some are retreating at the rate of almost 100 feet per year. 40 percent of the ice has disappeared in some places. In others, numerous glaciers have already disappeared. For thousands of years, glaciers have maintained a record of what has happened over the centuries. Scientists collect ice cores from the tropics and the polar regions. They contain the history of climate going back to a half million years. Ice cores record that CO2 never got higher than 300 parts per million. Today, we find 360 ppm, strong (even irrefutable) evidence that humans are contributing to dramatic changes in the composition of the atmosphere. Scientists know there is a threshold beyond which dramatic and irreversible and unpredictable climate change will be triggered.

The impact of the climate change we have already can be seen in Alaska. In just 30 years, Alaska's temperature has risen an average of five degrees and glaciers there are melting. Since 1995 some have receded 10 to 20 feet a year. And the rate of change may be accelerating. Climatologists are alarmed. Soon there may be no glaciers in Glacier National Park. Fossil fuels are changing the chemistry of the atmosphere. It is the northern areas that will experience this warming first. In Alaska, the first thing is the meltingof the permafrost. This thawing is spreading. Already telephone poles are leaning and the ground is opening up in places, leaving holes in the land. The Alaska pipeline was built on the permafrost, but there was no planning for the possibility the permafrost might melt and the pipeline is threatened.

But the most devastating short-term impact may be from the unexpected. There are 120 million acres of forest in Alaska, and these forests are beginning to die on tens of millions of acres. The destruction has been rapid and devastating and trees on three million acres have already been killed by insect infestation. Some species which threaten forests thrive in warmer weather, like the spruce bark beetle, which eats the bark. These beetles arrived with the onset of warmer weather and in some places there are so many beetles that people have been forced to abandoned their homes and cabins. In southern Alaska, more trees have died in a few years than in the previous 70 years. !!!

In East Africa it rained excessively in traditionally arid lands and this led to extensive flooding which overwhelmed the water management systems. One result was a cholera epidemic from contaminated water. The mosquito population exploded and a malaria epidemic ensued in places in Kenya where mosquitoes were previously rare or unknown. People blamed El Nino, but global warming probably had a hand in the disasters. The problems didn't end there. As the earth heats up, the land dries up. Moisture is released through evaporation into the atmosphere, making it available for weather events. Thus there is flooding, record rainfalls and sometimes storms stronger than previously. While one place is experiencing flooding, other places experience drought. California is flooded, while Indonesia experiences drought. It is just as the Hopi warned.

The natural climate system can change rapidly. If it happened rapidly in the past, it could happen NOW! Global temperature records are being broken. It seems inevitable that we will reach four times the CO2 levels in the atmosphere from a century ago and maybe soon. Of [The emissions last for 50 years in the Atmosphere!] By the time we can [politically] 'prove' beyond a doubt that human activity is causing thewarming, it will be far [FAR] too late to do anything about it. American[and European] politicians, who compete among themselves selling visions of wishful thinking from everything from the economy to terrorism have not performed well in facing this threat. Earlier this year a movie, ''The Day After Tomorrow'', dramatized (and action-adventurized) SUDDEN global freezing (an after effect of warming), but even if the climate changes are much less dramatic [taking months rather than days or weeks] than depicted in this movie, the question arises: what about the day after the day after tomorrow? The U.S. government does see climate change as a national security threat, but it's actually much greater than that. It is a threat to species survival. [And European bankers.]

[Our survival, and the survival of millions of other fellow traveling species on planet Earth ...]


Informant: MessiahTwain

Numerous Congress Members May Have Received Illegal Congressional Pay in 2003-2004:

Many current or former Senators and Representatives appear to have taken illegal Congressional salary payments during the current Congress, prior to the October recess...

http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=71


From Information Clearing House

You wouldn't know it from reading the newspapers, but Sen. Barbara Boxer served her country valiantly last week. In her grilling of Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, Boxer finally named the elephant in the hearing room, which is more than the war itself. It's the lies that got us there.

http://207.44.245.159/article7894.htm

Some wounded soldiers back from Iraq are having to pay for meals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Veterans' groups say it's another symptom of fighting a costly war on the cheap.

http://207.44.245.159/article7890.htm

They witnessed soldiers blown to bits and mourned the loss of others who killed themselves when they returned home -- often excluded from the government's official body count.

http://207.44.245.159/article7895.htm

Bush will not admit that his troops are too exhausted to sustain his vengeful global missions...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1399444,00.html
http://snipurl.com/ccja


From Information Clearing House

The ashes of Auschwitz are still falling on the innocents being murdered today.

By Chris Floyd

Even the strongest democracy can be subverted by leaders bent on deception and aggression. Even the strongest democracy can give rise to a ruthless, corporate-driven war machine, to secret prisons, secret armies, torture regimens and mass slaughter.

http://207.44.245.159/article7896.htm

Everyone we know has been worried sick over what the new Bush administration is going to do to America's environment and what they have in mind for each of us. Mr. Bush and his religious right congressional followers believe that is is immoral to tax the rich to help the poor. They believe the middle class and those living in poverty have exploited corporations and the wealthy with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid--so they want to "privatize" these programs and leave the most vulnerable Americans even more vulnerable. They believe the poor and middle class have exploited corporations with unnecessary lawsuits for injuries. So Mr. Bush's agenda is to cap how much money a physically injured person can collect from those found guilty of having inflicted the injury.

Mr. Bush's agenda is possible because most of the evangelical and Pentecostal churches support whatever he wants. And many Roman Catholics have also granted their support. We thought it was time to expose the facts to American churchgoers.

The Yurica Report has published and updated a unique report titled "The Bloodguilty Churches." It is a carefully researched work (190 endnotes). It reveals the following:

The Bible prohibits: deregulation; vote rigging; privatization of Social Security; tax cuts for the wealthy; invading Iraq; oppressing the Hispanics who cross our borders; cutting Medicaid services; cutting Medicare services; hurting the environment; failing to answer all the questions from the 9/11 families; Tort Reform; torture; lying to congress; bribes; tampering with the justice system; appointing prejudiced nominees to the bench; tipping the scales of justice to favor big corporations.

If you haven't already read The Bloodguilty Churches By Katherine Yurica, this is the URL: http://www.yuricareport.com/Religion/TheBloodGuiltyChurches.html


The Yurica Report did something else: we prepared a Congressional Handbook in a PDF file by excerpting portions of The Bloodguilty Churches so that our readers could send the link to members of congress to inform them what the biblical position is on Mr. Bush's specific agenda items. This is a PDF file with 494 kb. The URL is:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Congress/CongressionalHandbook.pdf



NEW: The Madness of George W. Bush

A reflection of our collective psychosis: Bush's sickness is our own

By Paul Levy

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Bush%27sBody/TheMadnessOfGeorgeWBush.html


Katherine Yurica
Publisher

From: "TrueMajority" <alerts@truemajority.org>

Alberto Gonzales Supported Torture and Won't Answer Senators' Questions

Tell Your Senator That America Can Find a Better Attorney General

Alberto Gonzales duly renounced torture during his Senate confirmation hearings. But, excuse me, this does not erase his frightening record of supporting torture! As the top White House attorney, he opined that our country should not be bound by laws or agreements such as the Geneva Conventions that prohibit torture. This opened the door to the Abu Ghraib disaster.

As if this weren't enough, Gonzales refused under intense questioning to explain his role in the development of the Bush administration's policies on interrogation and torture. That is why yesterday, even under immense pressure from the president and Senate leadership, eight members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted against recommending Gonzales to the full Senate—just two votes shy of an outright rejection.

Our country can surely find an attorney general whose record is not fundamentally at odds with our values of decency and compassion—and who's willing to answer basic questions about his record.

If you'd like to send a message (text below) to your senators urging them to oppose the Gonzales nomination, and you're a TrueMajority member, just click "reply" and "send" in your e-mail program. If this was forwarded to you or you'd like to customize the message to your senators, click here:

http://truemajority.kintera.org/gonzales-no

Click here for more information on the Gonzales nomination: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/

Yours for an attorney general we can trust,

Darcy Scott Martin
TrueMajority Washington Liaison

Here's the message that we will send to your senators:

Dear Senator:

I'm sure you and I agree on the qualities we'd like to see in our nation's attorney general: honesty, compassion, decency, and respect for the rule of law.

Unfortunately, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, seems to lack these basic qualities. First, you have to question the compassion and decency—not to mention the respect for the rule of law—of anyone who would ever argue that our nation should allow torture. As you know, this is what Gonzales did as the White House's top attorney.

Then, later, during his Senate confirmation hearings, Gonzales brought his honesty into question by refusing to explain his role in the development of the Bush administration's disastrous policies on interrogation and torture.

Our great country deserves a great attorney general, and Alberto Gonzales does not fit the bill. Please vote against him.

Sincerely,
(We'll put your name and address here.)


Informant: Martin Greenhut

IT has begun, Sylviane! The two super powers, the UK and the US, wind into parallel territory! Not pretty for either country!


Behind The Rhetoric: Return Of Internment Camps In Britain

London Telegraph | January 27 2005

We have, of course, been here before. Charles Clarke will not be the first Home Secretary to restrict the movement and association of British citizens: in 1940, Sir John Anderson made orders for the detention of no fewer than 1,428 people - some in internment camps.

One of these was Jack Perlzweig, who was apparently suspected of involvement in commercial fraud, of contact with suspected enemy agents and of being the son of a rabbi. I say "apparently" because all he was told at the time was that the Home Secretary believed he was a "person of hostile associations": these "charges" emerged later.

Mr Perlzweig was taken to Brixton Prison in May 1940, and remained there until his release in January 1942. Before then, under his assumed name of Robert Liversidge, he challenged his detention in a case that reached the House of Lords. Liversidge v Anderson is famous for the dissenting speech of Lord Atkin, attacking his fellow judges for being "more executive-minded than the executive".

Lord Bingham, who tells the full story in The Business of Judging (OUP), says we can be "proud that even in that most extreme national emergency, there was one voice, eloquent and courageous, which asserted … the priceless gift, subject only to constraints by law established, of individual freedom".

Now, of course, individual freedom is to be further constrained, as a direct result - it could be argued - of the judgment delivered by Lord Bingham and his fellow law lords last month. If they had not found that a law allowing detention only of suspected foreign terrorists discriminated against the home-grown variety, it would not have been necessary for Mr Clarke to announce yesterday that his new control orders would apply to suspected terrorists regardless of nationality.

But terrorism is not the fault of Lord Bingham. What worried the senior law lord was a finding by Siac, the anti-terrorist court, that the threat to Britain was not confined to the foreign nationals currently detained in Belmarsh prison.

"There was," he said, "evidence before Siac that 'upwards of a thousand individuals from the UK are estimated … to have attended training camps in Afghanistan in the last five years' … and that 'the backgrounds of those detained show the high level of involvement of British citizens.' "

So, should we be relieved that the Government is taking powers to "control" suspected British terrorists against whom there is not enough evidence for a criminal prosecution?

Mr Clarke has promised that the controls used will be proportionate to the threat that he believes each individual poses. Tagging and curfews may be used; people may be banned from communicating with named individuals, or with the outside world through the internet and other technology. "At the top end, control orders would include a requirement to remain at their premises."

Liberty, the human rights group, said that such restrictions were legitimate only so long as a criminal trial was in prospect. "Adherence to the rule of law should not be a game of cat and mouse," said Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty's director. "The Government should not swap one human rights opt-out for another."

Even though house arrest must be better than Belmarsh, it may still breach the right to liberty under Article 5 of the Human Rights Convention, as the Home Secretary implicitly acknowledged when he said there might have to be a fresh derogation from, or suspension of, Article 5.

The right to liberty may be suspended only if there is a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation", and then only "to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation". A majority of the law lords agreed that the current emergency meets that test.

In fact, some of Mr Clarke's "control orders" may not require any suspension of human rights at all. The Human Rights Court in Strasbourg has held that a curfew, or an order preventing an individual from leaving a particular area, is not a deprivation of liberty. On the other hand, it is a breach of Article 5 to confine people to their homes or other premises - even if they are not formal prisons.

David Pannick, QC, added yesterday that it would be difficult to challenge the new laws under Article 6 - which protects the right to a fair trial - as the courts take the view that an order made to protect the public is not a criminal charge under this part of the convention.

Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the Government's proposals is that it will be up to the Home Secretary, and not a court, to decide whether to impose a control order - and which controls to impose in each case. There will be an appeal to Siac, but the controlled person is not likely to be told what information the Home Secretary has on him. That will presumably be disclosed only to the Special Advocate - if there are still any lawyers prepared to take on this controversial, behind-the-scenes role.

Ultimately, it all depends on whether we can trust the Home Secretary of the day. If Mr Clarke and his successors exercise their new powers sensibly, imposing controls that are no greater than necessary while protecting us from an undoubted terrorist threat, we should be grateful to the law lords for forcing the Government to replace ineffective and discriminatory controls with bespoke orders that are less repressive than confinement in Belmarsh.

If not, we can only hope that Siac - and, ultimately, the law lords - prove a greater bastion of our freedom than, with the honourable exception of Lord Atkin, they did more than 60 years ago in Liversidge v Anderson.



Blair Defends House Arrest Plan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4211127.stm


Informant: Laurel