Hannover – Auch Niedersachsens SPD-Fraktionschef Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) hatte geschäftliche Beziehungen zum VW-Konzern.

Nach seinem Ausscheiden als Ministerpräsident und VW-Aufsichtsrat wurde Gabriel Oppositionsführer im Landtag und im Nebenjob geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Firma „CoNeS Gbr“ in Halle/ Saale.

Dieses Unternehmen, an dem Gabriel bis September 2004 beteiligt war, erhielt einen Beratervertrag von VW für „Europäische Industriepolitik“. Auftragsvolumen laut „Focus“: mehr als 100 000 Euro.

Gabriel zu BILD: „Ich habe und hatte keinen Vertrag mit VW, sondern das Unternehmen an dem ich mit 25 % beteiligt war.“ (hjv)



Ex-Ministerpräsident Gabriel (SPD)
Noch eine Nebentätigkeit aufgetaucht

Von D. HOEREN und D. SCHLÜTER

Hannover – Niedersachsens Ex-Ministerpräsident Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) kommt wegen Nebentätigkeiten immer mehr unter Druck.

Gestern mußte der Ex-VW-Aufsichtsrat auf einer Pressekonferenz einräumen, daß er an der Firma „CoNeS Gbr“ beteiligt war, die rund 100 000 Euro Honorar von VW kassierte (BILD berichtete). Gabriel: „Das stimmt. Und daran ist auch nichts Illegales.“

Landtagspräsident Gansäuer (CDU) bestätigte aber nur, daß Gabriel „nicht gegen die Verhaltensregeln“ verstoßen habe.

Jetzt kommt heraus: Der SPD-Fraktionschef war bis zum 31. Dezember 2004 auch noch an der „Strunz & Friends Marketing GbR“ (Halle) beteiligt. Namensgeber: Ex-Fußballnationalspieler und heutiger VfL-Wolfsburg-Manager Thomas Strunz.

„Die Firma haben wir im Herbst 2003 gegründet“, bestätigt Miteigentümer Lutz Lehmann BILD.

Angeblich war dieser Nebenjob Gabriels ebenfalls beim Landtagspräsidenten angemeldet. Doch davon findet sich weder im Landtagshandbuch noch auf der Internetseite des Parlaments ein Wort.

Gabriels Teilhaber und Ex-RTL-Sportchef Ulli Potofski zu BILD: „Wir wollten Gabriels gute Beziehungen nutzen und zusammen Sportler und Pop-Musiker vermarkten.“ Gabriel war zeitweise Pop-Beauftragter der SPD.

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/02/05/sigmar__gabriel/sigmar__gabriel.html

© 2005 Bild.T-Online.de

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Wofür?: Volkswagen zahlte Firma von ehemaligem Ministerpräsidenten 100.000 Euro (07.02.05)

Der Automobilkonzern "Volkswagen" hat der Firma des ehemaligen niedersächsischen Ministerpräsidenten Sigmar Gabriel 100.000 Euro bezahlt. Die beträchtliche Summe floss auf Basis eines Beratervertrages zwischen Volkswagen und Gabriels erst Mitte 2003 gegründeten Firma CoNeS. Bei dem Vertrag sei es um eine Analyse zum Thema "Entwicklung der europäischen Industriepolitik" gegangen, sagte der derzeitige niedersächsische SPD-Fraktionschef. Gabriel muss nun nach Auffassung von CDU-Fraktionschef David McAllister erklären, warum eine kleine unbekannte Firma in Halle einen 100.000-Euro-Auftrag von VW erhalte.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.jpberlin.de/www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10386

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Geld für gute Worte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/518442/

"Die gekaufte Republik": Volkswagen AG stellte Lebensgefährtin von Ministerpräsident Gabriel ein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/510384/

Was unsere Abgeordneten noch nebenbei verdienen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/506384/

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

Post von Wagner
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/506368/

Lieber Arbeitslosen-Minister Clement,

4 Millionen, 5 Millionen, 6 Millionen Arbeitslose – wie viele wirklich? Ich glaube Ihnen und Ihrer Agentur für Arbeit keine Zahl.

Sie reden über 1 Million Menschen plus oder minus. Ich denke, Sie sind verrückt geworden. Interessieren Sie sich überhaupt für diese Menschen? Menschen sind nicht nur Geburtsdaten und Adressen.

In unserem Land gehen zur Zeit die Stromabschneider herum. Es sind Angestellte der öffentlichen Hand.

Sie kappen die Elektrizität, weil viele Arbeitslose den Strom nicht mehr bezahlen können. Es leben zur Zeit Tausende von Deutschen ohne Licht und Wärme.

Wissen Sie, lieber Minister Clement, wieviel Deutsche heute frieren?

Herzlichst

Ihr F. J. Wagner

02.02.2005

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/02/03/wagner/wagner,templateId=renderKomplett.html



Lieber Arbeitslosen-Minister Clement, Teil 2,

ich bin nicht jeden Tag ein guter Kolumnist. Ich habe gestern in meinem Brief an Sie nicht den ganzen Wirklichkeits-Betrug begriffen.

Sie wußten immer, daß die Arbeitslosenzahlen nicht stimmen. Warum haben Sie uns angelogen? Lügen, das weiß ich, ist nicht Ihr Hobby. Gehe ich richtig in der Annahme, daß Sie logen wie ein Arzt bei einem Krebspatienten?

Die Ärmlichkeit Deutschlands ist überall sichtbar, aber Sie logen sie klein.

Die Menschen mit Plastiktüten. Die Menschen in der Höhle der U-Bahn. Die Menschen, die Flöte spielen. Die Menschen, die wie Hunde leben. Die Menschen mit blassen, müden, alten Gesichtern.

Die Arbeitslosen sind heute die größte soziologische Gruppe. Es ist die Armee der Armen.

Herr Minister, Sie haben versagt – ab in die Arbeitslosigkeit.

Herzlichst

Ihr F. J. Wagner

03.02.2005

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/02/04/wagner/wagner,templateId=renderKomplett.html

Jetzt können Sie Franz Josef Wagner auch eine E-mail schreiben: fjwagner@bild.de


Copyright 2005 Bild.T-Online


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

Paul's Unstoppable Will Turns Wasteland into Forest
http://www.weboflove.org/050205willpoweryieldsforests


Informant: Fred Burks

WHO comment on Draft EMF Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/497913/

Top public health official of Russia: Mobile phones cause child cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501729/

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

Irish mast cum cellphone health issue hots up further
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495427/

IDEA Position on Electro-Magnetic Radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502478/

The saga of Lord Bassam of Brighton
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495309/

Hidden Church masts - A church in Edinburgh refused Vodafone permission to erect a 3g mast on the church
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495328/

Cellphone industry hides behind "charitable organisation" status to violate NRPB mobile phone report recommendations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501036/

Letter to the WHO from the V WSF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501745/

Report on 2004 WHO EHS conference
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504989/

Citizens can be targeted individually by Micro Wave Towers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504983/

Biological Effects Of Electromagnetic Waves And Their Mechanism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505027/

Hands free
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505564/

Phone mast workers 'threatened'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505284/

Mobile-using drivers 'age 50 years'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501317/

HAARP project in La Figaro
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504758/

Omega-News Collection 5. February 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505573/

'Unheard Of' Seismic Events Continues In Quake Areas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/494877/

GLOBAL WARMING REMAINS WORLD'S BIGGEST THREAT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495501/

Global Warming: Scientists Reveal Timetable
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504766/

Pressure Grows For Bush To Deal With Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495496/

Loggers Going Into Old Growth Reserve
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495867/

Old Growth Going Down
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504774/

Weyerhaeuser: skinning a burn patient
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505475/

Australia: Styx and stones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505488/

Whale Stranding in N.C. Followed Navy Sonar Use
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501018/

Sell the Whales
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505503/

Geese die in droves in Keizer; experts baffled
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505506/

Defend The Filibuster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/496974/

AMERICANS ARE TRYING TO DISCREDIT ME, CLAIMS CHIEF SCIENTIST
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495504/

Save Taku River Salmon from the Tulsequah mine
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504980/

Special Caribou and Grizzly Bear Action Alert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505527/

Consequences of Genetically Engineered Milk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/496521/

WARNING TO AMERICA AND THE WORLD
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505004/

Global Extinction?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505024/

State of the Environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502321/

Mysterious Siberian Blast Coincides With Antarctica Ice Sheet Collapse Report
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504796/

Antarctic threat to sea level
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/503333/

Warming Could Produce 16ft Rise in Sea Levels
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/503342/

Earth's weather and climate becoming increasingly harsh
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504485/

Sickening Solar Flares
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504514/

Russian Military Movements towards Protected Areas Beginning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504683/

Humanity cannot live without nature, but nature can live without humanity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501197/

Tilt and Wobble of the Earth's Axis
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504793/

"Western Medicine:" The World Has Suffered Enough...
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/503004/

IRAQI ORDER 81
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502698/

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/

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

WHO comment on Draft EMF Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/497913/

Top public health official of Russia: Mobile phones cause child cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501729/

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

Irish mast cum cellphone health issue hots up further
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495427/

IDEA Position on Electro-Magnetic Radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502478/

The saga of Lord Bassam of Brighton
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495309/

Hidden Church masts - A church in Edinburgh refused Vodafone permission to erect a 3g mast on the church
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495328/

Cellphone industry hides behind "charitable organisation" status to violate NRPB mobile phone report recommendations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501036/

Letter to the WHO from the V WSF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501745/

Report on 2004 WHO EHS conference
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504989/

Citizens can be targeted individually by Micro Wave Towers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504983/

Biological Effects Of Electromagnetic Waves And Their Mechanism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505027/

Hands free
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505564/

Phone mast workers 'threatened'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/505284/

Mobile-using drivers 'age 50 years'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/501317/

HAARP project in "Le Figaro"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504758/

Hands free, with air-acoustic tubes, not wires:

I fully expect Challis' response would be as mine; I am sure he is quite well aware that phones really do cause problems, and if asked would say, keep the length of calls down. (Could he say otherwise?) He would advise the use of hands free as precaution, but not because it will save you from certain harm. But advise it, he certainly would; he's been over this long ago. Even Colin Blakemore was named in 1999 as a scientist who was cutting back on use of his mobile:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/288245.stm

Preventing wired earpieces from conducting RF into the ear is only common sense, after the study demonstrating this effect, and using air-tubes is even more common sense. There's no "opinion" about it, and he would certainly not advise against using them. The Stewart update advises on them and recommends evaluation of shielding and field-altering devices for efficacy. Challis is chair of MTHR and is bound to support Bill Stewart on both counts.

But we are a long way from Challis or the like admitting proof of damage to health. It is interesting that in the King's study into validating people's reports that use of mobile phones cause headaches, nausea, fatigue etc., that their volunteer subjects were able without hesitation to confirm when the test device was on or not. But the (millimetre?!)leap from "affecting the brain" to "being harmful" is a surprisingly hard one to take, when your feet have been nailed to the floor.

http://www.tetrawatch.net/science/wirelessworld.php

See the link at the end to China. Imagine how the UK industry would take it if phones automatically cut out after so many minutes, or so much per day? How on earth would you sell 3G, video etc. on the back of that? They'd never get their £32 billion back, let alone pay for the new spectrum auction. Note too, how keen WHO, in its draft framework for precaution, is to ensure there is no retrospective blame:

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/reports/en/precautionary_framework_october2004.pdf

And here's another Brownie-point for our super-protective mobile phones for kids:

Today my daughter, in a very highly respected High School, brought home a letter regarding changed policy on mobile phones. No, not to protect their health in the light of the Jan 2005 "Stewart update". Could the Headmistress care about that? No, she wanted to "celebrate" these marvels of technology and how they made their daughters so much safer. The problem is actually phones being used in class to bully and intimidate, and worse, camera phones being used to take subversive images that subsequently find themselves on the Internet (and presumably MSN messenger groups) to further "bully and intimidate". The policy now is that all mobile calls are to be made in the school office under supervision. Why not just use the school telephone?! Surely this is the answer to the smart-arse who suggested masts near schools were a good idea because kids' phone that keep them so safe would receive stronger signals!!

Andy

From Mast Network

MoveOn.org Refutes RNC's False Claims: 'The President is Continuing a Campaign of Deception'

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0204-06.htm

by Greg Szymanski | americanfreepress.net | Jan 29, 2005

Complete article: http://dailydraftdispatch.org/05_02/04_rangel.html

Within a matter of weeks, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), plans to try and re-institute the military draft, saying the present voluntary system places an unfair burden of war among lower- and middle-class Americans while giving the rich a free ride from military service.

Rangel’s statements are unpopular among most lawmakers and government watchdog groups. But they came on one of the bloodiest days of the Iraq war with over 35 Marines killed, bringing the total military casualties to more than 1,400 with over 10,000 injured or maimed.

Although the liberal Democrat has been an outspoken critic of President Bush’s war policies, he said this week “the burden of war should be shared among all social groups,” including the children of the wealthy and privileged.

“Sometime soon Rep. Rangel is preparing to reintroduce legislation to reinstitute the military draft since he strongly feels everyone should share the burden of war,” said Emile Milne, Rangel’s press representative and legislative director Wednesday from his Washington office. “He is essentially reintroducing legislation that failed to gain support last session. However, this time around, I think, it has a better chance of passing.”

To Chomsky & Rangel: Now is the Wrong Time to Advance the Draft

by Tom Kertes | draftfreedom.org | Jan 18, 2005

Complete article: http://dailydraftdispatch.org/05_02/01_moral.html

Part of the problem we face in defining and using the draft issue to advance our cause is that we're uncertain over what the principled position on the draft is. Noam Chomsky and Charles Rangel have raised the complexity of draft opposition in their own ways. Chomsky by repeating his opposition to an "all-voluntary" army on the grounds that a citizen's army will better reflect the will of the people over the will of the few. Rangel brings up the injustice of a "volunteer" army made up more Americans of color and more working class citizens than it would under a fair draft. Both Chomsky and Rangel's concerns point to the fact that the US military is a mercenary force. As such, it poses more of a risk to republican government than would a drafted-military, since the soldiers in the current force are economically dependent on following orders. Soldiers who face poverty if ousted from the army are hard pressed to stand against army command.


Even Homer Nods: Chomsky and Conscription

by JACOB LEVICH | CounterPunch | February 4, 2005 | People

Against the Draft

complete text: http://dailydraftdispatch.org/05_02/04_respond.html

Noam Chomsky is so rarely wrong about anything that it feels impertinent to correct him. But his recent remarks on the draft, printed in CounterPunch (Feb. 2) [link], are in need of scrutiny, especially since they might give false comfort to people who rightly worry that a revival of conscription is in the cards.

Chomsky says the US is unlikely to reinstate the draft because of "the Vietnam experience," which was "the first time in the history of European imperialism [sic; he must have meant to include North America] that an imperial power tried to fight a colonial war with a citizens' army." He continues: "I mean the British didn't do it, and the French had the Foreign Legion in colonial wars, civilians are just no good at it. Colonial wars are too brutal and vicious and murderous. You just can't take kids off the street and have them fight that kind of war. You need trained killers, like the French Foreign Legion."

Chomsky has been saying this a lot lately, and consequently the notion that conscripts can't fight dirty wars has taken its place among the Top Ten left-of-center myths about the draft, right alongside "the draft is fairer to the poor and minorities" and (don't laugh) "the Establishment wouldn't support wars of aggression if they thought their children might get drafted." Because Chomsky is usually so reliable, a lot of good people seem to be swallowing his argument uncritically, which is why it calls for correction.


Tom Kertes

Project Lead
http://draftfreedom.org
http://DailyDraftDispatch.org

From ufpj-news

On ABC News this evening it was mentioned that Pres. Bush has gone on record as telling the stations preparing to air MoveOn.org's commercial on his Social Security plan, to remove it immediately.

Click here to view the advertisement.
https://www.moveon.org/donatec4/socialsecurity.html#

Peace - Anna


"Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life." —George W. Bush, Annandale, Va, Aug. 9, 2004

Bodies of water don't appear to be the cause

CRYSTAL BOLNER

Statesman Journal

February 2, 2005

KEIZER -- Geese are literally falling from the sky in and around Keizer, and wildlife experts don't know why.

About 150 Canada geese were found dead Friday at a private pond off Wheatland Road owned by Morse Bros. rock products in rural Marion County. Thirty or so other dead birds were discovered three months ago near Staats Lake, a private lake in Keizer.

State wildlife officials visited both sites to investigate. The officials suspect that the birds may have died from something they ate, because it doesn't appear that anything in the pond or lake killed the birds.

"Reports of one bird here or one over there is not cause for alarm," said Will High, a wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "But when you have 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 of them all of a sudden die in one day, well, that's just not normal."

Peace - Anna

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1741


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The Constitution? Forget about it. Only about half of America's high school students think newspapers should be allowed to publish freely, without government approval of their stories. And a third say the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment go "too far."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2777

A federal judge today rejected an attempt by the CIA to indefinitely delay the processing and release of critical documents pertaining to the torture or abuse of detainees held by the United States government. The ruling relates to a FOIA request filed more than a year ago by the ACLU and supported by Veterans for Common Sense.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2781

In the commentary below printed in the Los Angeles Times, Jesselyn Radack makes very strong charges against Michael Chertoff, the nominee for Secretary of the Department Homeland Security.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2780

Mr. Gonzales has come to represent the administration's role in paving the way for the abuse and torture of prisoners by American soldiers and intelligence agents. Giving him the nation's top legal post is a terrible signal to send the rest of the world, and to American citizens concerned with human rights.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2779

„Zeit heilt alle Wunden“, so nicht im Falle von Mobilfunk, dessen ungeahnte Auswirkungen noch in den „Sternen“ stehen. Überall sprießen Mobilfunkantennen auf den Dächern. Für Städte, Kommunen und Privatbesitzer, die ihre Dächer zur Verfügung stellen, ist dies wie Weihnachten, es klingelt in der Kasse, und zwar für viele Jahre, je nachdem wie lange sie die Verträge mit den jeweiligen Betreibern abschließen. Riskieren wir einfach, dass Menschen sich unwohl fühlen und erkranken können bis hin zu Krebs. Ein Zurück wird es so schnell nicht mehr geben. Die Verträge sind meist so formuliert, dass man sie nur aufheben kann, wenn Menschen erkranken und beweisen können, dass ihre Erkrankung durch die 24-stündige gepulste Mobilfunkstrahlung eingetreten ist!

Die deutschen Grenzwerte werden eingehalten. Diese beziehen sich auf die thermischen Werte, d. h. unterhalb dieser Grenzwerte tritt keine Erhöhung der Körpertemperatur ein. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass Mobilfunkstrahlung keine nicht-thermischen Auswirkungen hat, die gänzlich unberücksichtigt bleiben! Auf diese wird in einer Vielzahl von internationalen Studien hingewiesen, und viele Ärzte bestätigen eine Zunahme bestimmter Erkrankungen u.a. Krebs im Umfeld von Mobilfunk. Nun, aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen wird all dies von Betreiberseite abgeschmettert und bei unseren Politikern findet es auch keine Beachtung! Ein Zeichen, wie wenig die Gesundheit heute noch wert ist. Nichts ist sie wert! Denn nur mit der Krankheit lässt sich gutes Geld verdienen! Ganze Unternehmenswerte (Aktienkurse!) hängen von unseren Krankheiten ab.

Also bleibt in der heutigen Zeit nur der Appell an die Vernunft eines jeden Einzelnen, selbst Vorsorge zu treffen, um sich vor zu viel Elektrosmog zu schützen. Und zwar so lange, bis eine Kommunikations-Technologie eingeführt wird, die vorher so getestet wurde, dass sie jedwede Gefahren für die Gesundheit ausschließt! Wie britische Wissenschaftler vom National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) Eltern verstärkt empfehlen, sollen Kinder unter acht Jahren überhaupt keine Handys bekommen, weil ein größerer Teil ihres Gehirns durch die geringere Größe ihrer Köpfe direkt durch die Handystrahlung beeinflusst wird. Man schaue sich doch einmal in Kinderkreisen um! Allen anderen wird empfohlen, Handygespräche kurz zu halten.

Ein Phänomen, was den meisten Menschen aber nicht bewusst ist bzw. sie nicht wahrhaben wollen, die schnurlosen DECT-Telefone funktionieren auf der gleichen Basis wie eine Mobilfunkantenne. Das heißt, 24-Stunden lang sucht die Basisstation in der eigenen Wohnung/im eigenen Haus/durch Wände zu Nachbarn durch gepulste Strahlung nach dem Telefonapparat. Die Strahlung dieser Basisstation ist aufgrund der direkten Nähe zum Menschen weitaus höher als fast jede Strahlung einer Mobilfunkantenne auf dem Dach!

Man kann es halten wie man will, kein Leid ist schlimmer, als das, was man sich selbst zufügt! Und Bequemlichkeit und finanzielle Vorteile obsiegen immer wieder gegenüber der eigenen Vernunft!


Marianne Kirst


Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Riedlinger
To: Milt Bowling
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: Emailing: 4230663

THESE PEOPLE HAVE GUTS!!!
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4230663.stm

Phone mast workers 'threatened'

Construction workers building a new mobile phone mast in Leicester are refusing to go to work because they are being harassed and intimidated.

Workers fitting the 15-metre receiver on Bonney Road in New Parks have called in police because they claim they are being threatened by protestors.

The mast for O2 has already been approved by the city council.

Residents have started a petition against the mast, but say they have not intimidated workers.

They have been threatening the contractors by standing there saying there is no way they will allow this site to be built

Angela Johnson, O2 spokeswoman

The mast is being built on a traffic island close to two schools.

Spokesperson for O2, Angela Johnson, said: "Our work has been disrupted by a small number of irresponsible people who have damaged our meter cabinet on three occasions by kicking it in and by intimidating our contractors.

"They have been threatening the contractors by standing there saying there is no way they will allow this site to be built."

Residents claim the first they heard about the 15-metre high structure was when construction started.

The city council say 11 houses, which overlook the site, were sent letters about the application for the mast in July and no objections were raised, although some residents have since complained to them.

Leicestershire Police said they were called to a disturbance at the site but no protestors were present when they arrived.

A policeman said they will continue to monitor the situation. Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4230663.stm

Published: 2005/02/03 06:34:14 GMT

© BBC MMV


-------Original Message-------

From: milt bowling
Date: 02/05/05 02:16:07
To: Robert Riedlinger

The woman from O2 calls the concerned citizens "irresponsible"? Is that the pot calling the kettle black or what?! When the police show up, the criminals at O2 should be arrested, not the protesters.

Milt



Here in Israel we also have an interesting case of pot calling the kettle black:

The environment ministry declared that there are going to be erected 18,000 more antennas for the 3G. One honest PM decided to fight this and is writing and talking to other PMs trying to convince them that Israel doesn't need the 3G and its antennas, he wants to cancell the 3G, because it's only unecessary functions like pictures etc and danger to health to erect so many antennas. So he published in the newspaper that he is trying to prevent the 18,000 new antennas (of them many have been already erected. Every day 12 new antennas are erected). And then, no less- the cellular companies went to the ethics committee in the parliament and released this: "To our amazement, PM Roman Bronfman distributed false information with no factual basis, according to which the companies are going to erect 18,000 transmission sites to receive the 3G services. The cellular companies think that the PM chose the easy way, without checking the facts, in order to create titles for himself" the cellular companies demand of him to apologize to them and to explain to the public why he chose to base himself on false data and release disinformation to the press. This is after the env. ministry had published several times in reports and newspapers and TV that it's no less than 18,000. And I would believe our ministry, because its working so close with the industry !....

Iris Atzmon

President's vow to target Tehran and Damascus in push for peace and democracy causes anger and fear in region...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1405522,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4atrf


From Information Clearing House

Church Folks for a Better America, today offered prayers seeking forgiveness for the US government's complicity in torture and for confirming a man who contributed to such an inconsistent policy.

http://tinyurl.com/5ccxo


A tortured defense:

Gonzales believes that its not torture unless the "mistreatment caused the kind of pain associated with "organ failure, impairment of bodily functions or even death"

http://207.44.245.159/article7972.htm


Torturers' Tales:

A new book about the defendents at the Nuremberg Trials has chilling resonance to discussions of prisoner abuse today.

http://207.44.245.159/article7975.htm


From Information Clearing House

The forgotten casualties of the war: Haunted by his experiences as an army medic in Iraq, David McGough couldn't cope with life after his tour of duty. Yet it took two failed suicide attempts before he was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

http://207.44.245.159/article7973.htm

The Iraq War currently costs American taxpayers $1.5 billion a week. With 1,438 US fatalities and calls for withdrawal surfacing, the Bush Administration wants an additional $80 billion to maintain the occupation.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=2168


From Information Clearing House

Bush talked of a now "free and sovereign Iraq" — although that probably comes as a surprise to the overwhelming majority of Iraqis who want the U.S. occupiers, who are building permanent bases there, out.

http://207.44.245.159/article7971.htm

Mainstream media and western pundits sold the elections as the ‘road toward democracy’. The opposite is true. The purpose of the elections was to persuade the outside world, particularly the US citizens, to support the occupation and US foreign policy.

http://207.44.245.159/article7970.htm

Large vote turnout boosts aspirations of religious coalition

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/02/MNGMUB49GN1.DTL&type=printable
http://tinyurl.com/6qw9c


From Information Clearing House

What has happened to the principle that American democracy should be accessible and transparent?

By Charles Lewis

Investigators found that nearly every one of the 10 largest contracts awarded for work in Iraq and Afghanistan went to companies employing former high-ranking government officials...

http://207.44.245.159/article7967.htm

http://www.nature.com/uidfinder/10.1038/nature03243


Informant: Anna Webb

http://www.totalitaer.de/Waffen/englelectmagfieldlife.htm


Informant: Susan

Currently the oxygen content in the atmosphere on world average is 20.9%. This is a pet inquiry of mine and a friend who is an environmental technician in the tropics. What we are finding out the oxygen levels are not being published. We will always see the CO2 content but never the oxygen content. Indications from ice boring and is depending on which research; the oxygen content either 100 years ago or 400 years ago was 38%. The percent level where animals begin to degrade is 13% and under 6% we can not live. Oxygen content for many regions vary between 12% to 18%. Certain cities the content levels can be dangerously low. From a very reliable resource two days ago stated, areas in Japan the oxygen level was 6%.

It's difficult to imagine but we're running out of air to breathe. The areas in the world where the oxygen contents are under 13% must be having a severe effect on peoples health and child development.

I believe the hazard guess is probably accurate. But the oceans are dying..... we are seeing more and more dead zones and fish dying off in schools, especially in the tropics.


cobra

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1022596,00.html


Informant: kevcross5

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1025.htm


Informant: Ozzy bin Oswald

A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American Enterprise Institute.

Audio and transcript
http://207.44.245.159/article7962.htm

Apocalypse Soon:

Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map...

http://207.44.245.159/article3716.htm



The end of days: a self-fulfilling prophecy:

The Last Days theme has also become a major motor in US foreign policy. Just as in Reformation Europe, the Christian right believes we need to sort out the world before the Last Days arrive.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1401181,00.html


From Information Clearing House

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

http://207.44.245.159/article7960.htm

Australia, once the land of the "fair go", has collaborated with Guantanamo more closely than any other western government and is guilty of human rights abuses of its own.

http://207.44.245.159/article7964.htm

I wanted to point out some facts, some realities that Bush had better face—for the sake of our country, before he makes even more of a mess of things in the world and at home.

http://www.todaysalternativenews.com/index.php?event=link,150&values[0]=&values[1]=2212
http://tinyurl.com/5gesm


From Information Clearing House

Bush's State of the Union

Billions for Endless War and Empire--
Cuts in Healthcare, Education, and Social Security

George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, masked in talk of "freedom" and "democracy," was an outline of a brutal agenda of endless war, global empire, and the destruction of what remains of basic social services.

The war against working people

Bush said, "First, we must be good stewards of this economy, and renew the great institutions on which millions of our fellow citizens rely." He followed this with his promise to reduce or eliminate "more than 150 government programs."

These cuts are part of the neocon agenda to roll back every gain made by working people in this country. In a period of growing unemployment and rising cost of living, the Bush agenda is to slash spending for education, housing, and healthcare, as it is asking for yet another $80 billion to finance the war against the people of Iraq.

More than $150 billion has been spent on the war; meanwhile hospitals are being shut down, schools are overcrowded, jobs are disappearing and state and local budgets are facing enormous deficits. Under the Bush Administration, there is simply no money available to meet human needs.

These cuts come at a time when working people are watching their loved ones die in Iraq in increasing numbers. The more than 1400 soldiers who have died are not the children of Wall Street executives and neocon warmongers; they are the children of the inner cities and poor communities, forced into military service by the poverty draft.

Bush then outlined his plan to privatize the Social Security System, justifying it with the outright fabrication that the system is facing bankruptcy. The truth is that Social Security is not in deficit, not now and not for at least the next forty years. The trust fund will have a surplus next year of $1.8 trillion. In 2011 when the baby boomer generation will start retiring in large numbers, the surplus will be $3.2 trillion. These surpluses, plus future payroll-tax revenue, are sufficient to maintain the current level of benefits through 2042, according to the Social Security fund's very conservative actuaries.

The hype about Social Security "going broke" is a myth being created by the Wall Street profiteers behind the Bush Administration who want to destroy the public's confidence in Social Security. This is a sales pitch to convince the public to spend over $2 trillion to create a separate system to divert Social Security funds into the stock market--including giving nearly $1 trillion to the Wall Street firms to manage the new individual accounts. This plan, while benefiting private investment firms, would force cuts in benefits and result in raising the retirement age, both of which Bush admitted were "on the table." Furthermore, it would place the retirement benefits of millions of people at risk, subject to the fluctuations of a volatile and uncertain stock market.

Increased Repression

Bush said, "We will pass along to our children all the freedoms we enjoy, and chief among them is freedom from fear." Yet all he is selling is fear and repression.

He promised to fight for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage--part of a fundamentalist hate campaign to deny basic human rights to members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgendered community.

Bush also promised to continue his war against people of color by "taking on gang life," conservative code words for increased racial profiling and police brutality.

In all of his talk of freedom and democracy, he did not once mention the Patriot Act, which undermines every single right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Nor did he disavow his Administration's policy of illegal detentions and torture.

Iraq: Permanent Occupation

Bush hailed the phony election in Iraq as a triumph for democracy. To put this election, held under occupation, in perspective, it is helpful to remember another election, also held under occupation, 38 years ago:

On September 4, 1967, the New York Times carried the headline, "U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote: Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror."

The article said, "United State officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election...The hope here is that the new government will be able to maneuver with a confidence and legitimacy long lacking in South Vietnamese politics. That hope could have been dashed either by a small turnout, indicating widespread scorn or a lack of interest in constitutional development, or by the Vietcong's disruption of the balloting."

At the time the election took place, the U.S. had hundreds of thousands of troops in Vietnam. The U.S. was carpet bombing, dropping napalm, and assassinating activists as part of its infamous Operation Phoenix. Yet it was able to organize a phony election and convince the media to report that the election was a turning point in the effort to legitimize the war.

This attempt to legitimize the war and occupation of Vietnam was an abject failure. The election was followed by the Tet offensive, a massive popular uprising against occupation forces. The war lasted another 7 ½ years, with most of the 50,000 U.S. casualties coming after the election.

Today, the Bush Administration is bringing "democracy" to Iraq with bombs, bullets, depleted uranium weapons, and the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib. More than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. Fallujah, a historic city, has been destroyed.

This election will only result in greater frustration and anger from the Iraqi people. Whatever the actual size of the turnout was, the overriding expectation of those who voted was that the election would lead to an end to the occupation of their country. When they realize that the Bush has no plans to end the occupation, this frustration will fuel an already widespread resistance.

But Bush said, "We will not set an artificial timetable for leaving Iraq," because the Administration plans are for permanent occupation. The neocon cabal surrounding Bush has long planned a permanent military occupation of the region, to control the supply of oil and to use as a base to launch offensive operations against other nations, like Syria and Iran. The Pentagon is constructing 14 permanent military bases--Bush will not set a timetable because he has no intention of ending the occupation ever. U.S. corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel, which have already made billions in profits, plan to solidify their grip on the Iraqi economy, particularly its vast oil reserves.

Endless War

In addition to the continued occupation of Iraq, Bush listed new targets for U.S. aggression. Using the now-familiar and discredited accusation of possessing weapons of mass destruction, Bush made it clear that the people of Iran, Syria, and North Korea will suffer the same fate as the people of Iraq if he has his way.

He swore that we must "confront regimes that continue to harbor terrorists and pursue weapons of mass murder." This same justification, proven to be an outright lie, was used for the war against Iraq. In Bush language, this means the intent to attack any country, anywhere, if it serves the interests of U.S. corporate Empire.

The U.S. government, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” Its death squads are at work in Colombia. The city of Miami is a base for terrorist attacks against the people of Cuba. The U.S. maintains the world’s largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction: illegal chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

March 19: Troops Out Now!

Bush concluded his speech with a quote from Franklin Roosevelt: "Each age is a dream that is dying or one that is coming to birth." In reality, the dream of the Bush Administration is a nightmare for working people everywhere--a dream of global empire, permanent war, and the destruction of all social programs.

Those who have other dreams must continue to mobilize to stop the Bush Administration. On the weekend of March 19, the second anniversary of the beginning of Bush's campaign of shock and awe against the people of Iraq, the global antiwar movement will be in the streets to demand an end to the occupation.

The Troops Out Now Coalition, of which the International Action Center is a member, supports the calls for actions throughout the world. In New York City, tens of thousands will march and converge on Central Park, in a massive, united regional demonstration to demand the immediate, complete, and unconditional withdrawal of all occupation troops from Iraq. The anti-war movement will demand money for jobs, education and healthcare, not for war and occupation. Activists are coming from all over the eastern U.S. to march against endless war, repression, and corporate greed.

Bush has outlined a plan of attack against working people everywhere--now is the time for us to respond with a renewed level of commitment and unity. We need your help to make March 19 a success.

How you can help:

1) Endorse the March 19 Demonstration in Central Park
http://troopsoutnow.org/endorse

2) Organize transportation from your area--contact us at
transportation@troopsoutnow.org to post your information on the website.

3) Help get the word out--download leaflets from http://troopsoutnow.org.



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
mail: iacenter@iacenter.org

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


Informant: Marc Martin

Know what the Micro Wave Towers do and citizens can be targeted individually by them.

The seventh day Adventist Church which is located within 500 feet of my property line wanted to add more Sprint antennas to the existing ones. The church is located across from a high school. The neighbours and myself went to City hall and contested and we won. The Church lost $1.200 per month from Sprint Company as rent had the antennas been installed without protest from the neighbourhood.


Romy

Date: February 2, 2005 2:56:58 PM EST
To: no2us_bases-discussion@lists.ilps-news.com, info-bureau@lists.ilps-news.com

In a bid for neo-colonial legitimacy in Vietnam, US imperialism made much of electoral democracy bolstering their puppet Saigon regime in 1967. But their arrogant claims were literally blown away less than 6 months later with the massive Tet Offensive by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSVN), sometimes referred to as the VietCong.

If history is a guide, the story of the imperial project in Iraq is not close to victory, but closer to embarrassing and humiliating defeat.


This article from the New York Times in 1967:

U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote :

Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror

by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times
(9/4/1967: p. 2)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here.

Pending more detailed reports, neither the State Department nor the White House would comment on the balloting or the victory of the military candidates, Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, who was running for president, and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, the candidate for vice president.

A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.

The purpose of the voting was to give legitimacy to the Saigon Government, which has been founded only on coups and power plays since November, 1963, when President Ngo Dinh Deim was overthrown by a military junta.

Few members of that junta are still around, most having been ousted or exiled in subsequent shifts of power.

Significance Not Diminished

The fact that the backing of the electorate has gone to the generals who have been ruling South Vietnam for the last two years does not, in the Administration's view, diminish the significance of the constitutional step that has been taken.

The hope here is that the new government will be able to maneuver with a confidence and legitimacy long lacking in South Vietnamese politics. That hope could have been dashed either by a small turnout, indicating widespread scorn or a lack of interest in constitutional development, or by the Vietcong's disruption of the balloting.

American officials had hoped for an 80 per cent turnout. That was the figure in the election in September for the Constituent Assembly. Seventy-eight per cent of the registered voters went to the polls in elections for local officials last spring.

Before the results of the presidential election started to come in, the American officials warned that the turnout might be less than 80 per cent because the polling place would be open for two or three hours less than in the election a year ago. The turnout of 83 per cent was a welcome surprise. The turnout in the 1964 United States Presidential election was 62 per cent.

Captured documents and interrogations indicated in the last week a serious concern among Vietcong leaders that a major effort would be required to render the election meaningless. This effort has not succeeded, judging from the reports from Saigon.

NYT. 9/4/1967: p. 2.


Informant: Dave Pugh

From ufpj-news

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index676.htm


Informant: CHEROKEE

Signs of the Times #1321
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/z03.htm


During the last week of January [2005], observers all over the world noted a visually obvious wobble in the Earth. [and from another source] El Paso, Jan 22-23 Six hours and a 45 degree shift in the Moon.

Apparently, the wobble is taking place from 22:00 to 24:00. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 23: It looks as if the earths rotation stalled for a while on. Sunday evening whilst Alt continued to decrease. Did it tip at this point whilst being held in position? [and from another source] Mississippi, Jan 25: The moon Friday and Saturday night stood still directly overhead for an hour. Last night (Sunday) it slowed but kept moving. [and from another source] Arkansas, Jan 25-26: On Jan 24, 2005, first light was around 5:30 AM and on Jan 26, 2005 first light was around 6:30 AM. I would say the wobble is getting worse. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 27: This morning Sigma Octantis appeared ten degrees left of a terrestrial target suggesting Earth´s South Pole axis was moved to the right away from the rising Sun. [and from another source] New York, Jan 27: I was staring at the night sky straight at the moon. I could swear that I saw the moon quickly shift to the left and back to its original position. My heart skipped a beat. [and from another source] Italy, Jan 23: I have scientific evidence of the tilt and wobble of the Earth's axis. I cut a slice of one spot in the images of Big Bear each hour. I put them in the exact position and we can see that the line from a spot and next is not linear. As the scope has a linear movement this line is the wobble of the axis. In the other side I take the same spot in different day from SOHO and an Earth observer. We can see that the angle is different by 6 degree. SOHO is correct. [Note: SOHO is not the Earth, and is not wobbling! Earth is wobbling.]


Informant: Anastacia Cook

04.02.05

Zwei Wirbelstürme innerhalb von fünf Tagen haben im Süden Madagaskars riesige Schäden angerichtet. Am 24. Januar fegte "Ernest" mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 100 km pro Stunde und Windstößen von 250 km pro Stunde über die Provinz Toliara im Süden der afrikanischen Insel und sorgte dafür, dass der Niederschlag um über 500 Prozent anstieg. Am 29. Januar führte Wirbelsturm "Felapi" zu dreitätigem Dauerregen und weiteren Überschwemmungen. Nach Angaben der "Madagascar Tribune" sind in der Provinz Toliara mehr als 11 000 Menschen obdachlos, mindestens 17 ums Leben gekommen, 139 gelten als verschwunden. Das Welternährungsprogramm der Vereinten Nationen schätzt, dass 5285 Menschen massiv betroffen sind.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.jpberlin.de/www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10374

by Joshua Holland, Flytrap

It's dangerous when your foreign policymakers believe their own propaganda. Good policy can't flow from shoddy analysis, and that's what we're looking at in Iran.

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

by Adrian Hamilton, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A British columnist decries the exploitation of Iraqis' desire for self-determination:
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003623

by Jack Shafer, Slate

What George W. Bush has learned from Kim Jong-il:
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003625

An article about the american HAARP project today in La Figaro...
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20050203.FIG0378.html

I will give more details from the article, because I see it tells of quite an interesting discovery: the discovery was published in the last issue of Nature journal- they created stains of light with radio waves, in the first time. In the past this kind of artificial light was made with chemicals (aluminium, barium, trimethyle) but never with radio waves.

The article explains that it's been known that electrons that are accelerated by earth magnetic fields, provoke aurora borealis when they re-enter in the atmosphere in the polar regions. These electrons hit from time to time the atoms in the atmosphere, excite them and take one or several electrons from them. when they are getting "calm" and return to the state of balance, the atoms emit rays of light - green or more rarely red.

The two discoverers understand that their radio pulses amplified the natural aurora borealis.

The reproduction and the exact study of this phenomenon must help the scientists to understand better the ways of the aurora borealis creation.


Iris Atzmon


Omega see also many articles about HAARP and links under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/HAARP/

Freitag,04.02.2005, 18:51 Uhr

Barmstedter Zeitung

Geistergeräusche im Moorweggebiet?

Von Anuschka Unger

Wedel. Es ist kein lauter Ton und doch geht er an die Nerven. Langsam dringt das unaufhörliche dröhnen in den Kopf, anhaltend, irritierend. Heizkörper und Elektrogeräte auszustellen bringt keine Linderung, denn der tiefe Ton hält an. Dauerhaft. Dröhnend. Nervtötend. Was schon in vielen anderen Städten beklagt wurde, scheint nun auch in Wedel Einzug zu halten: „Es brummt“, stellte Ratsmitglied Horst Bastian jüngst während einer Bauausschuss-Sitzung unumwunden fest. „Und keiner weiß, warum.“

Der Christdemokrat lebt mit seiner Frau in der Heinestraße. Seit einigen Monaten leidet das Paar - sowie einige Nachbarn, die in oberen Stockwerken wohnen - unter einem Niedrigfrequenz-Geräusch, dessen Ursprung sie trotz intensiver Nachforschungen nicht lokalisieren können. „Erst hatten wir das Kraftwerk im Verdacht“, erläuterte Bastian im Tageblatt-Gespräch. Schließlich ähnelte das Geräusch vor allem auf Grund seiner Stetigkeit einer Art Generator. Eine scheinbar logische Vermutung, die sich jedoch nicht bestätigte. „Das Seltsamste ist jedoch, dass der Ton während der Weihnachts- und Sylvesterfeiertage weg war“, erklärte Bastian. Und auch in diesen Tagen könnten er und seine Nachbarn sich über ruhige Nächte freuen, eine Brummton-Pause ist eingekehrt. Dass der nervige Ton allerdings wie üblich bald wieder zu hören sein wird, davon ist der Christdemokrat überzeugt.

Allein stehen Bastian und seine Nachbarn mit der Brummton-Belästigung nicht da. Auch aus Haseldorf kamen bereits Beschwerden über unergründliche Geräusche, die an den Nerven zehren. Und nicht nur das: Vor einigen Jahren gründete sich, wie in einigen anderen Ländern auch, eine Interessengemeinschaft zur Aufklärung des Brummtons, die sich für Betroffene einsetzt und über solche und ähnliche Phänomene informiert. Auf einer Brummton-Karte können Interessierte unter anderem auf http://www.brummen.de sehen, welche Gebiete von solchen Nervton-Attacken heimgesucht werden. Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg - die Liste der Städte und Gemeinden, in denen Menschen unabhängig von einander über seltsame, nicht zu lokalisierende Geräusche klagen, ist lang.

„Es ist nur gut, dass ich als Politiker das Problem im Ausschuss vortragen und die Verwaltung beauftragen konnte, für Wedel einmal Nachforschungen anzustellen“, betonte Bastian. Eine Aufforderung, der Gerhard Seggelke von der Leitstelle Umweltschutz auch sofort nachging. Klare Ergebnisse konnte er gestern Nachmittag dem Tageblatt zwar nicht verkünden, allerdings habe er mit der Gemeinde Haseldorf, den Geräusch-Betroffenen, dem Städtischen Umweltamt sowie der Verwaltung des Kreises Pinneberg Kontakt aufgenommen.

http://www.barmstedter-zeitung.de/fr_rechts.php?aid=20382&kat=5&dir=/Homepage/news

http://207.44.245.159/article7965.htm


Informant: Friends

Anlässlich des Bush-Besuches in Mainz laden eine Reihe von Veranstaltern aus dem Raum der Evangelischen Kirche zu einem Vortrag von Prof. Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz am *16. Februar um 19.30 Uhr* in die Mainzer ESG ein.

Nur so viel: Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz ist ein ausgezeichneter Kenner der amerikanischen Szene und hat sich intensiv mit dem Zusammenhang von Fundamentalismus und Politik beschäftigt, also mit Sicherheit eine lohnende Veranstaltung.

Pfr. Dr. Thomas Posern
Referent für Ökumenische Sozialethik




Vortrag und Diskussion mit Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz

George W. Bush bezeichnet sich als "wiedergeborener" Christ. Er fühlt sich zu Großem berufen und will die Welt vom Bösen befreien. Woher kommt dieses Sendungsbewusstsein? Wohin führen Bushs Visionen und der vermeintlich göttliche Auftrag?

Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz war Auslandspfarrer in Oxford, Exekutivsekretär beim Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen in Genf und Hochschullehrer für ökumenische Theologie in Costa Rica. Von 1979 bis 1988 war er Direktor der Nordelbischen Evangelischen Akademie. Seit 1996 lebt er als Publizist in Bremen. 2003 erschien sein Buch In göttlicher Mission. Politik im Namen des Herren – Warum George W. Bush die Welt erlösen will.

Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 um 19.30 Uhr
Mainz, Evangelische Studentengemeinde (ESG)
Am Gonsenheimer Spieß 1 (an der Saarstr. gegenüber Uni-Hauptgebäude, neben der KHG-Kirche)
(Bushaltestelle "Universität", Parkplätze am Stadion)

Veranstalter:

Evangelische Studierendengemeinde Mainz (ESG)
Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung e.V.
Pax Christi Mainz
Gossner-Haus Mainz

http://tinyurl.com/43of7

This is a good compilation of global Earth events. I verified the incident in Connecticut with one of the members on another group. It's true. This does not include the anomalous weather in Hawaii with 7 sighted waterspouts - between 4-10 inch record rainfall on Maui and Kauai, and 2 inch rainfall on Oahu. FYI - Anna

Despite internal warnings about “serious hazards” to visitors and staff, Yellowstone National Park is expanding a program using 105 mm artillery rounds to clear a remote mountain road during winter months, according to an agency memo released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

http://www.peer.org/press/563.html

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453405.0868055555.html


Informant: NHNE

http://www.techcentralstation.com/020205A.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Britain implicated in oil-for-food scandal, damning report says
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=607603

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index20.htm


Informant: Valerie Fine

by Robert Kuttner

The American Prospect

02/03/05

The United States has spent nearly $200 billion dollars and lost more than 1,400 American lives so that Iraqis could attempt representative government. If, by some miracle, the result is a democratic and pro-western Iraq, President Bush can claim Mission Accomplished, for real. But a great deal must still break right before that banner can be unfolded. One risk is endless insurgency and prolonged occupation. Another is that Iraqis will indeed elect a popular government, but not one that we like, or that likes us. A recent New Yorker magazine profile of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi referred to him as Saddam Lite. This would not be the first time that the United States installed a friendly strongman with democratic trappings, only to have the enterprise backfire utterly...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9142


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mike Whitney

CounterPunch

02/03/05

As expected, the peerless leader articulated a wish-list of freebies for big business and 'thin gruel' for the rabble. For every bone tossed to corporate America, there was a belt-tightening program for the masses. And, then, this bombshell: 'Four years of debate is enough! I urge Congress to pass legislation that makes America more secure and less dependent on foreign energy.' What lunacy? Less dependent?!? Didn't we just spend $300 billion invading Iraq? What was that all about? The irony was lost on the doting Congress who rose in a tsunami of praise ... The cameras scanned the exuberant audience; honing in on the bulbous, florid visages of overfed vulgarians cheering away at their political frat-party. Sometimes, it's hard to believe that there's an unbroken chain of succession from Jefferson and Adams to this dismal cast of pedestrians...

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney02032005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

02/03/05

The State of the Union was, in many ways, a reiteration of the president's second inaugural address: the look on that chimpy little face as he repeated 'the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world' was at once self-satisfied and defiant, as if he were telling Peggy Noonan, Mark Helprin, and all the other conservative skeptics to stuff it. Laced with explicit threats, pumped up with hubris, shameless in its exploitation of the American war dead, this speech was a warning to us all -- get ready for more wars, more death, more neocon lies in the service of a foreign policy founded on madness...

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4702


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times

02/03/05

Germany's trade union federation has warned that unemployed people can legally be asked to seek work in brothels under new welfare reforms introduced on Jan. 1 aimed at cutting mass joblessness. The reforms, the toughest package of cuts introduced by any German government since World War II, state that people out of work for more than 12 months must take on any type of work or face cuts in their benefits.

Prostitution is legal in Germany and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's center-left government gave prostitutes employment protection rights in 2002. Prostitutes are now eligible for social welfare benefits...

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050202-112808-5860r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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German Government Forces Prostitution!

George Washington gave the timeless warning "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and fear[some] master". Opposition to government force is a central and consistent theme of libertarian ideology.

In this link below, see how the German government went from the ridiculous individual-freedom-robbing policy of outlawing prostitution to, in effect, FORCING some women to partcipate in it! You almost have to laugh at the ineptitude and audacity of government bureaucrats!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42615


Frank Gonzalez
Florida Licensed Mortgage Broker
Miami, FL
cell 786-287-7491
voteliberty@earthlink.net

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If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504098/

In the end, there weren't enough senators willing to block the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales to become the next Attorney General. However, Veterans for Common Sense applauds the senators who demanded answers about the pro-torture policy of the current administration.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2774

If Gonzales is confirmed, which appears likely, the Bush administration is likely to claim that Congress has given a firm mandate for its interrogation policies, just as President Bush said his re-election victory in November was a new mandate for his policies on Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2771

Radiowellen des Senders Wachenbrunn in der Umgebung spürbar

Wenn der Backofen plötzlich russisch spricht

http://www.freies-wort.de/nachrichten/archiv/resyart.phtm?id=738769

Nicht nur Herzschrittmacher können von den Sendemasten in Wachenbrunn gestört werden, auch der Tagesablauf von Familien kann durcheinander geraten, wenn der Herd nur dann kochen möchte, wenn der Sender nicht mit voller Leistung strahlt. - FOTO: ari

VON JENS WENZEL

Elektromagnetische Strahlen – so genannter Elektrosmog – sorgen beim geplanten Bau von Handy-Funkmasten für heftige Gegenwehr der Bürger. Doch andere Sender sind schon viel länger aktiv. Bei Familie B.* in Vachdorf (Kreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen) wäre das Weihnachtsessen in diesem Jahr beinahe ausgefallen. Das hochmoderne Kochfeld mit seinen Sensorschaltern verweigerte einfach den Dienst. Kaputt war das Gerät nicht, wie der Monteur bestätigte.

Kochen war noch möglich, aber nur von abends 19 Uhr bis morgens 7 Uhr. „Als hätten wir Gespenster im Haus, einfach unheimlich“, sagt Frau B. ironisch. Der gewitzte Servicetechniker fand schließlich eine provisorische Hilfe: Aluminiumfolie als zusätzliche Ummantelung der Kabel.

Auf die mögliche Ursache der Störung war Familie B. recht schnell gestoßen. Es konnte nur am nahe gelegenen Sender Wachenbrunn (Kreis Hildburghausen) liegen. Schließlich waren bereits die Telefone der Familie vor ein paar Jahren entstört worden, um die russischen Stimmen aus den Gesprächen heraus zu bekommen. In Wachenbrunn wird auf der Frequenz 1323 Kilohertz die „Stimme Russlands“ ausgestrahlt – ein russisches Radioprogramm auf Mittelwelle, das zeitweise auch in deutscher Sprache sendet. Die Programmzeiten – 7 bis 19 Uhr mit voller Sendeleistung, 19 bis 23 Uhr reduziert – passten genau zum aufgetretenen Fehler am Kochfeld.

Was solche technischen Auswirkungen hat, kann für die Gesundheit der Menschen nicht unbedenklich sein, meint Sabine Rodeck von der Bürgerinitiative Wachenbrunn. Gesundheitliche Störungen seien bereits in der Region zu beobachten: Häufige Krebserkrankungen, Konzentrationsschwächen, Schlafstörungen. „In der ersten Zeit nach der Errichtung des Senders waren es nur die technischen Störungen, die wir bemerkt haben. Inzwischen fällt auf, dass viele der damaligen Arbeiter und Angestellten in den Sendeanlagen heute das selbe Schicksal der Wachenbrunner Bürger teilen oder geteilt haben.“

Mit verschiedenen Eingaben und Unterschriftensammlungen hat sich die seit 1998 existierende Bürgerinitiative bereits an Ministerien, Landratsämter und Behörden im Freistaat gewandt. Doch meist lautet die Auskunft von dort nur: „Die Grenzwerte für die Strahlung werden eingehalten.“

Solche Erklärungen seien wenig befriedigend, urteilt auch der Verein „Bürgerwelle“ – der Dachverband von Bürgerinitiativen gegen Elektrosmog. Die Arbeit dieses Verbandes richtet sich zwar in erster Linie gegen die Gefahren aus Mobilfunknetzen – doch die Strahlung eines starken Radiosenders dürfte vergleichbar, wenn nicht sogar gefährlicher sein. Denn Handys senden heutzutage gepulst, geben ihre Strahlung sozusagen portionsweise ab. Radiosender sind dagegen dauernd auf Sendung.

Zwar wird immer wieder betont, dass es keine wissenschaftlichen Beweise für die Schädlichkeit der Handy-Strahlen gebe, doch inzwischen mehren sich die kritischen Stimmen: „Die nüchterne Bewertung des Erkenntnisstandes zeigt, dass wissenschaftliche Hinweise auf mögliche Risiken tatsächlich bestehen. Ein ‚Nicht-Sehen-Wollen‘ beziehungsweise das ‚Wegdiskutieren‘ dieser Erkenntnisse mag kurzfristig vielleicht helfen – langfristig wird es nicht zur Akzeptanz der technischen Infrastruktur beitragen“, warnt kein geringerer als Wolfram König, der Präsident des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz.

Omega siehe dazu auch „Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Radiowellen... (2/3): Wenn der Backofen... weiter unter:
http://www.freies-wort.de/nachrichten/resyart.phtm?id=738803&PHPSESSID=c7d17639f5525796b5088645b1bef281

und

Radiowellen... (3/3): Wenn der Backofen... weiter unter:

http://www.freies-wort.de/nachrichten/resyart.phtm?id=738804&PHPSESSID=c7d17639f5525796b5088645b1bef281


Nachricht vom Landesverband Thüringen “Bürger gegen Elektrosmog“
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Bernd Schreiner

"Gegen den Trend: Perspektiven eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens nach Hartz IV"

Text des Vortrags von Katrin Mohr auf dem Workshop "Chancen eines Grundeinkommens nach Hartz IV" beim 2. Treffen des deutschen Netzwerks Grundeinkommen am 11./12.12.2004 in Berlin (pdf):
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/mohr.pdf


Grundeinkommen - demokratisches Bürgerrecht für wirkliche Freiheit

Text der Rede von Prof. Dr. Franz Segbers, Diakonie in Hessen und Nassau, Referent für Ethik, gehalten in der Katharinenkirche/Frankfurt am 16.12.2004 (pdf):

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/segbers.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Unzitat des Tages:

"Ich käme mit 345 Euro über die Runden"

Klaus Brandner, wirtschafts- und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Sprecher der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion und seit 1988 Geschäftsführer und 1. Bevollmächtigter der IG Metall Gütersloh, im Interview von Ralf Wurzbacher in Junge Welt vom 17.01.2005: "SPD-Politiker findet "Hartz IV" voll in Ordnung. Eventuell kleinere Nachbesserungen - mehr aber nicht. Ein Gespräch mit Klaus Brandner."

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-17/020.php

Schnüffelbogen in NRW. Münster: ALG-II-Antragsteller sollte Zusatzformular zu seinen Wohn- und Lebensverhältnissen ausfüllen. Datenschützer bezweifelt Rechtmäßigkeit des Vordrucks. Artikel von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 25.01.2005. Darin dokumentiert: Zusätzlicher Fragebogen "Niederschrift zu den Wohn- und Lebensverhältnissen":
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-25/012.php

Aus dem Text: "… So ein Formular hatte er noch nie gesehen. Nirgendwo gab es einen Vermerk, wofür die Angaben nützlich sein könnten, oder einen Hinweis auf Rechtsvorschriften. Die Fragen hingegen sind sehr detailliert: "Können Sie gelegentlich, zum Beispiel wenn Sie Besuch empfangen, auch die Räume Ihres Mitbewohners nutzen?" lautet eine der Fragen. Könnten "gelegentlich" auch Gegenstände des Mitbewohners genutzt werden? Habe man sich "in einer Notlage" schon mal gegenseitig unterstützt?..."


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Pressemitteilung des Sozialverband Deutschland e.V. (SoVD) vom 25.1.05 (pdf):

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/sovd58.pdf

"Ins Troisdorfer Frauenhaus flüchten Frauen aus ganz Deutschland vor häuslicher Gewalt. Bislang können sie vor Ort auch Sozialhilfe beantragen. Hartz IV hat solche Fälle allerdings nicht vorgesehen. Wenn Frauen in ein Frauenhaus fliehen, können sie bislang Sozialhilfe beantragen. Wenn am 1. Januar Sozial- und Arbeitslosenhilfe gemäß Hartz IV zum Arbeitslosengeld II zusammengelegt werden, ist mit diesem System Schluss. "Wir sind bei der Hartz-Gesetzgebung schlicht vergessen worden", klagt Monika Engin, Mitgeschäftsführerin im Frauenhaus Troisdorf…." Artikel von Dirk Eckert in der taz Köln vom 1.10.2004:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/10/01/a0058.nf/text


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Ein Monat Hartz IV - eine erste Bilanz. Erwerbslosenverbände weisen auf gravierende Mängel des neuen Leistungsrechts hin. "Einen Monat nach der Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II gibt es keinen Grund zur Schönfärberei. Die Koordinierungsstelle gewerkschaftlicher Arbeitslosengruppen (KOS), die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) und der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeverein Tacheles e.V. monieren, dass viele Problemlagen von offizieller Seite heruntergespielt werden. Die massiven, gesetzlich vorgegebenen Verschlechterungen für Erwerbslose würden durch zahlreiche Pannen bei der Umsetzung und eine rechtswidrige Leistungsgewährung zusätzlich verschärft. Vielfach seien existenzielle Notlagen für betroffene Erwerbslose die Folge..." Pressemitteilung zur gemeinsamen Bilanz von KOS, BAG-SHI und Tacheles nach einem Monat Hartz IV vom 01.02.2005:
http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/050201PM-Hartz-Bilanz

siehe dazu:

Anlage zur Pressemitteilung (pdf):
http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/050201Anlage-Hartz-Bilanz.pdf

sowie

Konkrete Beispiele für die rechtswidrige und fehlerhafte Leistungsgewährung von Tacheles e.V.:
http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2005/ALG_II_Bescheidfehler.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Wansleben oder Sri Lanka. Der Staat liefert die Zwangsarbeiter und erhält im Gegenzug eine Verwaltungsgebühr. Artikel von Hans Thie in Freitag vom 14.01.2005: http://www.freitag.de/2005/02/05020102.php

Und zur Erinnerung in diesen Zusammenhang:

Übereinkommen Nr. 29 der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) vom 28. Juni 1930 über Zwangs- oder Pflichtarbeit vom 1. Juni 1956 (BGBL. II 1956, 640 / in der BRD in Kraft getreten am 5. Juni 1957 (pdf, Auszug):
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/euro_ilo.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Rechtliche Maßstäbe für die Erbringung von Arbeitsgelegenheiten für Arbeitssuchende nach § 16 Abs. 3 SGB II. Artikel von Utz Krahmer und Helga Spindler aus dem Nachrichtendienst 1/2005 des Deutschen Vereins für Öffentliche und Private Fürsorge bei Tacheles:
http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2005/Arbeitsgelegenheiten.html

"Ein-Euro-Jobs in Bildungseinrichtungen". Pressemitteilung der GEW Niedersachsen vom 24. 1. 2005 (pdf):
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/euro_gewns.pdf

Aus dem Text: "…Einen Beitrag zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit und zur Schaffung regulärer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse leisten diese Maßnahmen nach Auffassung der GEW nicht. Die GEW Niedersachsen lehnt den Einsatz von Personal an Schulen und anderen Bildungseinrichtungen auf 1-Euro-Job-Basis entschieden ab. (…) Die GEW fordert die Personalräte auf, mit allen ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden rechtlichen Mitteln den Einsatz von Arbeitslosen auf 1-Euro-Job-Basis zu verhindern…."


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Ein Job wie jeder andere

Hartz IV macht's möglich: Die Vermittlung von langzeitarbeitslosen Frauen ins Rotlicht-Milieu. Rechtlich gibt es keine Untergrenze der Zumutbarkeit bei der Jobvermittlung. Arbeitsagenturen legen sich - noch - eine Selbstbeschränkung auf. Artikel von Kai von Appen in der taz Hamburg vom 18.12.2004:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/12/18/a0077.nf/textdruck

Aus dem Text: "…Seit 2002 ist der Beruf der Prostituierten legalisiert. Die Tätigkeit der Sexarbeiterin ist damit ein Job wie jeder andere. Also bestünde für die Agentur für Arbeit kein Grund, nach der neuen Hartz IV-Gesetzgebung nicht in den Bereich "sexueller Dienstleistungen" zu vermitteln. "Der Beruf gilt gesetzlich nicht mehr als sittenwidrig", erläutert Mechthild Garweg, Fachanwältin für Familien- und Sozialrecht, die in Qualifizierungsgesellschaften Leute auf die Erwerbslosigkeit vorbereitet. "Es gibt juristisch keinen Hinderungsgrund, in diesen Dienstleistungsbereich zu vermitteln."

Wenn eine Muslimin im Schlachthof Schweinefleisch verarbeiten, ein junger Mann sich als Nacktputzer und eine ehemalige Call-Center-Mitarbeiterin sich in der Telefonsexagentur verdingen müsse, "warum soll dann von einer erwachsene Frau nicht verlangt werden, ihr Einkommen durch kommerzielles Vögeln zu erzielen", fügt Garweg provozierend hinzu. "Strafrechtlich gibt es auch keine Barrieren, höchstens kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und moralische Hemmungen." Das muss nach interner Recherche unter Experten auch DGB-Sprecherin Falk eingestehen. "Es gibt tatsächlich keine Untergrenze bei der Zumutbarkeit", bestätigt sie, "da hat es der Gesetzgeber versäumt, Normen zu schaffen." Trotzdem setzt sie auf Einsicht. "Es herrscht hoffentlich Konsens, dass dies nicht durchsetzbar ist." Es gibt auch einen anderen Aspekt. "Bordelle und Prostituierte zahlen Arbeitslosen-, Kranken- und Sozialversicherung, dann haben sie auch ein Recht auf Vermittlung durch das Arbeitsamt", klagt Stephanie Klee vom Bundesverband sexueller Dienstleistungen bisher Versäumtes ein. Alles andere "ist eine Diskriminierung von Prostituierten"…."

Siehe dazu auch:

If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504098/


Und im LabourNet bereits vom Juli 2004: Hartz IV heiß auf billigen Sex - Ein Kommentar von Bjørn Jagnow:
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/jagnow.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4

Article by Clare Chapman in the Telegraph 30/01/2005):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=75278;show_parent=1


From: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4



Unemployed could be offered brothel work
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/504317/

Erste Umsetzung bestätigt Kritik an Hartz IV - ver.di fordert, dass die Betroffenen gehört werden. Presseerklärung von ver.di Leipzig-Nordsachsen zu Hartz IV vom 3.2.05:
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/verdileipz.pdf

Aus dem Text: "Der Bezirk Leipzig-Nordsachsen der Gewerkschaft ver.di macht sich für eine eigenständige Bilanz zur Einführung von Hartz IV stark. Die bisher bekannt gewordenen Auswirkungen auf die betroffenen Arbeitslosen bestätigen voll und ganz die Kritik an diesem Gesetzeswerk. Unverständlich ist deshalb die Äußerung des DGB-Vorsitzenden Michael Sommer auf dessen Pressekonferenz vergangene Woche in Berlin, dass sich die gewerkschaftlichen Versuche zur Verhinderung oder Veränderung der Hartz IV-Reform "erledigt" hätten…."


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 4