Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid.

The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it?

Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this:
http://tinyurl.com/3uqus

The Iraq war is a new kind of hell, with more survivors - but more maimed, shattered limbs - than ever.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/pain.html


From Information Clearing House

Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,1406480,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/6osyq


From Information Clearing House

At first glance, the Web pages appear to be independent news sites. The sites are run by U.S. military troops trained in "information warfare," a specialty that can include battlefield deception.

http://207.44.245.159/article7981.htm

This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/06/922316.html
http://tinyurl.com/5bzwj


From Information Clearing House

"He says he's got one of his artificial legs, and when he gets the next one he'll be able to run again." "Did he mention his hand?" No."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002172302_soundbites06.html
http://tinyurl.com/5ne56


From Information Clearing House

A military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "a mistake", the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has warned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4240261.stm


From Information Clearing House

ITALIAN police are investigating allegations that American intelligence agents kidnapped an Islamic militant in Milan and transported him to Egypt, where he was tortured.

http://207.44.245.159/article7985.htm

by Sheila Samples

Most Americans seem hesitant to question Bush's grand scheme to fight terror by creating even more terror with his "doctrine" of assassination and collateral damage. Only a few have dared to approach him with even a tentative suggestion that perhaps the public deserves an explanation for the heinous torture, abuse and even murder of those unfortunate enough to be scooped up and detained in prisons such as Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. And, sadly, nobody seems to notice the growing daily death toll of American citizens in Iraq.

http://207.44.245.159/article7983.htm

Martin Mubanga went on holiday to Zambia, but ended up spending 33 months in Guantanamo Bay.

By David Rose

He comes back with a mop and dips it in the pool of urine. Then he starts covering me with my own waste, like he's using a big paintbrush, working methodically, beginning with my feet and ankles and working his way up my legs. All the while he's racially abusing me, cussing me: "Oh, the poor little negro, the poor little nigger." He seemed to think it was funny.'

http://207.44.245.159/article7980.htm

How would YOU like to influence a piece of congressional legislation? Doesn't that sound like fun? That's what The People's Email Network is all about. So let's just do it! This week the Congress will try to fast track proposals to restrict class action lawsuits to federal court, even where existing state remedies might be more effective. Unless you raise your voice now this thing is going to be rammed through in a matter of days. What do you think Congress should do?

Here is an easy one-click forms you can use make your voice heard. It automatically looks up your senators and house representative and sends them your personal message all at the same time:

http://www.usalone.com/class_action.htm

Do you want our representatives in Washington to stand up for you more often? We must back them up with our vocal support if we expect them to fight for us on this or any issue. The People's Email Network encourages you to speak out and keep speaking out, regardless of your political position, until our representatives truly hear you.

And now you can have your own custom Issue Action Center featuring any issue of interest to you for you for no charge. It's an amazingly small block of HTML code you can drop into any web page anywhere for an instant dynamic action menu effect. And we will set up a corresponding issue action page on The People's Email Network for you too. Pursue your own policy initiative! See the code in action at

http://www.usalone.com/action_center.html

Please forward this message and post these links everywhere you can to everyone you know.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050202/NEWS01/502020378/1056


Informant: NHNE

05.02.2005

Wenige Wochen nach der verheerenden Überflutungskatastrophe werden Ausmaß der Zerstörung und Langzeitfolgen immer deutlicher erkennbar: Zum Wiederaufbau wird höchstwahrscheinlich enorm viel Regenwald zerstört werden müssen.

http://www.pro-regenwald.de/index2.php?p=new_tsu2.php

Notice the last paragraph. Prices are going to go up. Anna

Central Bank Warns US Over Massive Deficit

Associated Press

London — Some of the world's major central bankers warned the United States on Friday that the international community could be running out of patience with the massive U.S. budget and trade deficits that is pushing the dollar lower and increasing the cost of their exports in America.

But U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said before the official opening of the Group of Seven finance ministers meeting that factors, including the weaker dollar and tougher budget discipline in Congress, may finally start to restrain the growth of the trade gap.

America's own campaign to push China to untie its currency from the dollar as quickly as possible appeared to make little headway.

European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said at a conference of business leaders and government officials that it was unacceptable for developed countries to run long-term current account deficits.

"The industrialized world as a whole is in deficit, there is a current account deficit, and there is no offsetting of the U.S. current account deficit by the other industrialized countries," Mr. Trichet said.

"That of course means that we are structurally asking the rest of the world to finance us. ... It doesn't seem to me that this is an acceptable and sustainable long-term feature of the present functioning of the global economy."

The U.S. deficits are expected to be a significant item of discussion during talks Saturday among the ministers from the G7 nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.

The Washington administration has pledged to halve the budget deficit by 2009, but also intends to argue that trade partners concerned about the deficits should be speeding up their own growth and relying less on exports to America.

The U.S. deficits have been a drag on the dollar, putting European and Asian manufacturers who want a slice of the key U.S. consumer market at a disadvantage. The euro rose from about $1.20 (U.S.) in September to a high of $1.3667 at the end of December, and the dollar tumbled from about 111 yen in September to 102 yen toward the end of the year.

While Washington insists it has a "strong dollar" policy, many analysts believe the U.S. government is content to see the dollar fall because it makes U.S. exports cheaper.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the trade and budget deficits and the purchase of large U.S. dollar reserves by Asian countries were combining to cause "global imbalances."

Mr. Greenspan said a weaker dollar should narrow the deficit by making foreign goods more expensive to American consumers and U.S. exports cheaper for foreigners. One of the reasons that has not happened, he said, is that foreign companies have been willing to take a hit on their profit margins rather than raise prices in the U.S. market.

But Mr. Greenspan said there were indications that companies have reached a point where they are no longer willing to absorb the impact of the weaker dollar and will start boosting the price of their goods in America.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050204.wg70204/BNStory/Front/

Peace - Anna

"Nordsee wird Südsee" titelte die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" am 1. Februar 2005 und beschrieb die Erwärmung des Wassers in der Nordsee seit 1962. Danach hat sich die Nordsee in den letzten 42 Jahren um ein Grad erwärmt. Wissenschaftler des Bremerhavener Alfred-Wegener-Instituts beschrieben den tiefgreifenden ökologischen Wandel in der Zeitschrift Helgoland Marine Research. Die Forscher benennen den globalen Klimawandel als Ursache.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5942.php

Der Evolutionsbiologe, Harvard-Professor und Begründer der Soziobiologie, Edward Wilson, ist seit Jahren schon der Meinung, dass jeden Tag etwa 150 Tier- und Pflanzenarten durch Ausrotten aussterben. Jetzt hat der Professor mit seinen umstrittenen Thesen erneut für Aufsehen gesorgt. Bei einer UNESCO-Konferenz in Paris sagte Edward Wilson voraus, dass bis zum Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts nicht einmal die Hälfte aller heute existierenden Tier- und Pflanzenarten überleben werden, wenn die Menschen damit fortfahren, Organismen und Lebensräume zu zerstören, z.B. durch den Klimawandel.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5934.php

Im englischen Exeter ging die internationale Klimaschutzkonferenz mit über 200 Wissenschaftlern zu Ende. Der Klimaforscher Bill Hare stellte dabei einen möglichen Zeitplan für den Verlauf der Klimakatastrophe im 21. Jahrhundert vor. Wann also sind wo die Folgen des Klimawandels spürbar?

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5959.php

Human-Rights-Watch-Jahresbericht: Menschenrechte in der Krise

USA, Russland, China und der Sudan: Die Lage der Menschenrechte ist nach dem Jahresbericht von Human Rights Watch alles andere als rosig. Regierungen hätten im vergangenen Jahr mit ihrem Verhalten wichtige Grundlagen der internationalen Menschenrechtsnormen ins Wanken gebracht.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-Surftipp/5885.php

SUNSPOTS: Something's coming. Witness this photo taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on February 5th:

http://tinyurl.com/626w7

Magnetic loops of hot-glowing gas surging above the sun's eastern limb are a telltale sign of sunspots just around the bend. Are they big ones? We'll find out in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns them toward Earth.

The mystery 'spot could be an old friend: giant sunspot 720. Last month, while it was facing Earth, sunspot 720 unleashed five X-class solar flares. One of those blasts sparked bright auroras over Europe

http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01jan05_page5.htm

and an intense proton storm on the Moon:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27jan_solarflares.htm


Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/


Informant: V

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A Winged-disc, "seizing the middle"

by Burak Eldem
http://www.burakeldem.com/en/

(Exerpt): Marduk, Nibiru or an unusual, sophisticated "celestial system" is probably getting closer to our Sun, in the direction of southern celestial pole, well below the Ecliptic plane. No need to look for a "red planet" in distant places beyond Pluto. It already began effecting our Sun since the early 2000's: The supposedly 11-years sunspot cycles are disturbed, some previously unknown source is bombarding the southern hemisphere with mysterious energy surges, the earth's magnetic power is in decline and the climate patterns are being radically changed. I believe, Marduk as ancients call it or "the unknown celestial system" will appear soon (probably just before the year 2010) in southern skies. This is why super powers of the global finance-capital oligarchy feel very uncomfortable and have been running a very aggressive strategy to keep the power in their hands since late 2001. Their time is running up and all their ambition is to control the world with all the energy sources before the chaotic days arrive.

http://planetxinbound.com/winged_disc_.htm


Informant: Di

This is one of the biggest issues for which I 'work' and have opened countless eyes to the skies. It is really good to hear from Michael Irving again, and if you are not aware of these killers in our skies, start looking up. Peace, MsBlue


Michael. Stop-Chemtrails.com



This is Michael Irving of
http://www.stop-chemtrails.com and
http://www.world-action.org

I am in SW Texas. I am looking to connect with like-minded people in the USA. I have been hit by some sort of harassment for, so far, 51 months, and this caused me to go bankrupt at the end of 2003. I have systematically worked on the chemtrail issue since mid 2000. Quite a few people will know me in the USA, however I have lost contact with many people since my personal situation became very difficult in the British Isles at the close of 2003 - mainly due to losing my internet connection, but also due to the feeling I needed to keep a low profile for a while.

If you live in or around Texas and feel you would like to connect with me, please send an email to: michael(AT)world-action.org

I would also be interested to hear from anyone in the USA.

For the past ten months I have read, from internet cafes, just about every post at Chemtrailtrackingusa. Of all the things on the internet, this group is what I felt I had to stay in contact with. I think you are continuing to do really good work here.

Below is something which I wrote yesterday. Please pass it on to friends and contacts.

Thank you.

Good wishes to old and new friends.

Michael Irving

E-mail: michael(AT)world-action.org
http://www.stop-chemtrails.com
http://www.world-action.org
For inspiration: http://www.celtic-island.com



ONE ISSUE To Change The World ---

Please circulate this idea. Please send this idea to friends and contacts, and ask those friends and contacts to send this idea to
other people.

--- Knowing the exact nature of a problem, is often most of the way to solving that problem ---


STOPPING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX

(The Military-Industrial-Complex is also commonly known as `The New World Order'. The M.I.C., or N.W.O., is the power-consortium both President Eisenhower and President Kennedy warned us about.)

How To Break The Deadlock Of Controlled World Media And Controlled World News

We take ONE ISSUE and break it into the world news by weight of effort. i.e. a large number of people concentrating on this one issue.

We get this ONE ISSUE to the point where the only place it is not being discussed is by the world's controlled media and by controlled countries' administrations.

At this point lesser-controlled main media will start to cover this ONE ISSUE.

Probably what will happen next is that even the world's most controlled media, and most controlled governments, will have to cover this ONE ISSUE.

THE PROBLEM

Much of the world is controlled by the Military-Industrial-Complex (M.I.C.).

Most of the world's main media is controlled by the M.I.C.

The M.I.C. is military in nature, has many departments, has advanced technology for global mind-influencing (global chemtrail spraying, HAARP, etc.), and - being militarial and industrial - has PLANNED STRATEGIES for any takeover of its power.

The success of the M.I.C.'s plans depends primarily on secrecy of its true intentions and by keeping the main body of the world's populace distracted from realizing exactly what it is doing to the world.

Whenever a breakthrough is likely in the world's understanding of what the M.I.C. is doing, the M.I.C. immediately undertakes pre- planned strategies and actions to divert the world's attention AWAY from this information:

A -- Individuals leading the distribution of this information are systematically targeted by:
[a] Limitation of the distribution of their information.
[b] Discreditation as reliable sources / people.
[c] Mind-influencing in their sleep, and at all times of the day, to divert their activities away from developing and distributing the dangerous information.
[d] Promotion of other sources / people to take over the threatening information to reduce it's impact, and/or to confuse the meaning of the information.
Etc.

B -- The information itself (if it is not totally controlled and distorted by the M.I.C) is treated in this way:
[a] It is totally ignored by all the world's media controlled by the M.I.C.
[b] The world's media will be told to ridicule or confuse the information.
[c] The world's media will be organized to create and favour diversionary news stories.
[d] Conflicting news stories will, if necessary, be created by the M.I.C. Even if this involves great loss of life.
Etc.

C - The world's population will be distracted and mind-influenced by: [a] Advanced, covert technology (utilizing Chemtrails, HARRP, ELF, etc.) can programme the world's populace while asleep to ignore the new information.
[b] The same technology will be used to programme the world's populace, while asleep, to become interested in other, non- threatening world news.
[c] The control of world media, and the boring nature of nearly all media in the world, will be used to imply to people that `there is nothing serious to worry about', and, 'it's just the same old chaotic and restless and violent world, which no-one can do anything about'. [d] For a long time, and in many ways, we have all been taught: `The world is the way it is, and there's nothing we can do to change it'.
[e] It seems as if we have somehow been taught that if there is anything serious to worry about, the TV or radio or newspaper will alert us to it. That is why it has been so important for the Military- Industrial-Complex to acquire strategic management of all the world's main media.

TO PUT IT SIMPLY:

Individuals distributing the dangerous information will be targeted with mind-influencing, etc.

Less committed and less intelligent people will be encouraged to handle the information.

The world's main media will be instructed to totally ignore the information, if the information has not been `defused' by various means.

Alternative, distracting world news events will be favoured by the controlled media.

If necessary, dramatic world news stories will be created by task forces who will stop at nothing to create a distracting world event.

THE TACTIC -- We Need To Pick A Tactic To Get Around This Situation

Our problem is that on any one issue, we are few, and are disorganized.

The Military Industrial Complex, however, although not huge in numbers, is organized. The M.I.C. has detailed plans for any threat to its power-base.

We need to turn our weaknesses into our strengths. And we need to turn the M.I.C.'s strengths, into its weaknesses.

The M.I.C. is not huge. WE are huge. But we are not united.

The M.I.C. has tried and tested plans for forestalling and stopping any information release in the world which will seriously awaken and alert the world's populace. We need to circumvent and negate the plans the M.I.C. uses to divert the world away from important information.

We can do this by choosing ONE ISSUE of great importance, and giving this one issue ALL we have got. We must get many people worldwide to begin to concentrate their efforts into alerting everyone to the importance of this issue.

We must not give up until we have won. We will have won when the world is alerted to the importance of this one issue. At that time the world will start to take action on every level.

When the world begins to take serious and united action against one major issue, it will begin to take serious and united action against all the other major issues. We just need to get united, become alert, and get into action.

ONE ISSUE -- The One Great Issue To Wake The World

This writer's recommendation for the one great issue for all of us to unite behind, is the worldwide spraying of chemicals - and according to some sources, pathogens - often referred to as `Chemtrails'. This global operation has been underway for many years, but began to be really serious around the year 2000.

Millions of people are dying or dead from this covert operation. The whole world is sick, to varying degrees, because of this operation.

It seems to be mentioned, in detail, in the Book of Revelation; shortly before the description of the uniting of the whole world to stop those who are destroying the world. Native American traditional warnings (especially the Hopi of Arizona) seem to reference the very great danger to the whole world of this operation.

I think this is THE issue.

A second reason for this being the ONE ISSUE for us all to go for, is because it appears that the single most significant cause of people's inability to be focused and determined in their lives over the past several years is that the chemicals in the spray - barium and aluminium - are having a very bad effect on people's mental abilities and on their physical abilities. People are finding it hard to concentrate, and they don't have the stamina to do very much because of the adverse qualities of the ingredients of the spray.

It is almost as if the Military-Industrial-Complex do not want us to think clearly, or to feel healthy and energetic, while the M.I.C. pushes forward its most sweeping, world changes.

We are finding it hard to make good change happen in the world because of the unhealthy characteristics of the Chemtrails, and, Chemtrails is the most important thing we should be changing.

For these two, vitally important reasons, logic seems to say it is `Chemtrails' which is the single most important information we should awaken the world to.

The worldwide, deliberate spraying of seriously toxic elements, and according to many sources, pathogens.. CHEMTRAILS.

This is the one issue to awaken the world.

It's the only choice we have.
And it's the choice we have to take.
So, spread the word, and let's get going.

Please circulate this idea. Please send this idea to friends and contacts, and ask those friends and contacts to send this idea to other people.


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

http://cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=2866&from_page=../index.cfm


Informant: kevcross5

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/


Informant: kevcross5

by Joan Chittister, OSB

National Catholic Reporter

February 3, 2005

... Isn't it possible that the very asking of the question betrays a tendency in this society at this period to make God responsible for a great deal of human misery that we ourselves have the means, if not to eliminate, certainly to mitigate. Is the problem, perhaps, that we know we have the physical ability but lack the political will to concentrate on development so we blame God for destruction? ...

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/fw020305.htm


copyright Virginia Metze

Sometimes, if not always, a little history helps understanding

On the U.N. Security Council, competing national interests and economic stakes in Iraq chilled willingness to scrutinize the program.

by Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

February 3, 2005

UNITED NATIONS — It was the summer of 1990, and Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard had just stormed into oil-rich Kuwait. The U.N. Security Council, hoping to induce Iraq to withdraw and disarm, responded by imposing sanctions.

Nearly 15 years, two wars and a regime change later, those sanctions and the multibillion-dollar "oil-for-food" program that followed them still shadow the United Nations. Eight investigations are underway in Washington and New York into how Hussein subverted and the U.N. mismanaged a program that was meant to deny the Iraqi dictator funds for weapons but instead buoyed his regime. ...

Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/5sdqd


copyright Virginia Metze

The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election...

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012


copyright Virginia Metze

As you may have heard, Bush is coming to Brussels from February 20 until 22. The civil society is preparing protest actions those days. One of these actions takes place on Sunday February 20. It’s a cultural / activist action, organised by the BRussells Tribunal (see details underneath). We want the world community to speak up against the devastating policies of this neocon government.

If you have a message for Bush, please let us know. It can be a statement, a poem, a cartoon, anything you want to say to him in the language you prefer (English, French, Dutch, Spanish…). We’ll read these messages for the audience in Brussels.

Let’s show Bush he’s NOT welcome.

In solidarity.

The BRussells Tribunal organising committee



Chers amis, chères amies,

Bush vient à Bruxelles du 20 à 22 février. La société civile est en train de préparer des action pour protester contre cette visite. Une de ces actions, le 20 février, sera organisé par le BRussells Tribunal. Ce sera une action culturelle/activiste. Nous souhaitons exprimer par là notre inquiétude concernant le rôle négatif joué par les Etats-Unis au sein de la communauté internationale sur le plan de la paix et des droits humains.

Si vous avez un message pour Bush, faites nous savoir. Un poème, un texte, déclaration, cartoon, toute forme d’expression est accepté. Nous voulons communiquer ces messages à notre public Belge le 20 février.

Montrez que Bush n’est PAS le bienvenu.


En solidarité.

Le comité du BRussells Tribunal.

[English underneath, En Francais ci-dessous / please forward this appeal widely; veuillez envoyer cet appel à tout le monde]

Beste allemaal,

Bush komt van 20 tot 22 februari naar België. De vredesbeweging is volop bezig met het organiseren van de straatprotesten van maandag 21 en dinsdag 22 februari (zie http://www.bushwanted.org ) Maar dat zou betekenen dat het op zondag, wanneer Bush aankomt, stil zou zijn. Het BRussells tribunal vond dat dit niet kon. We hoeven u niet te overtuigen van het belang van de actie: de milieubeweging, de vredesbeweging en de mensenrechtenorganisaties hebben voor één keer de handen in elkaar geslagen. Ze vinden het beleid van Bush unaniem catastrofaal. Daarom zetten we in samenwerking met de Beursschouwburg en de vredesbeweging de volgende actie op:

Vanaf 15.30 u: Protest sit in op de trappen van de Beurs van Brussel met spandoeken, scanderen van weloverwogen slogans.

16.00u: Speeches (o.a.ceen vredesactivist uit de VS: John Catalinotto). Dit alles in samenwerking met de vredesbeweging.

16.30u: idealiter een hippe formatie die een straatconcert brengt, doet een mobiel concert op de trappen van de Beurs.

17.00u: In optocht met die hippe formatie ofte ouderwetse fanfare naar het beurscafé, en vooral de rode binnenstraat, alwaar een schare zangers, artiesten, dichters en intellectuelen een korte interventie doen: een song, een flard tekst, een gedicht, een statement, kortom: een free podium in de binnenstraat van de beurs om het straatprotest van de komende dagen te 'openen'.

Daarom deze mail, die in alle windrichtingen zal rondgaan om de juiste artiesten, intellectuelen en dies meer op te roepen. prof. em. Jaap Kruithof, prof. Eric Corijn en prof. Jean Bricmont hebben al toegezegd. En we verwachten ook dat veel schrijvers en artiesten meedoen.

Alle reacties op action@brusselstribunal.org. De contactpersoon en coördinator bij de Beursschouwburg is Frederik Lamote ( free_lamote@hotmail.com
0472/44.72.48)

Wij hopen op je aanwezigheid en medewerking. Al was het maar door deze mail naar een aantal goed gekozen mensen door te sturen. Laten we Bush een 'warm' onthaal bereiden van luidruchtig artistiek en doortimmerd intellectueel protest. Als opstap naar en 'onze' bijdrage aan de straatacties van maandag en dinsdag.

Afspraak op zondag 20 februari vanaf 15.30 uur op de trappen van de beurs of vanaf 17 uur in de beurschouwburg.

Voor het BRussells Tribunal,

Lieven De Cauter (KULeuven/RITS)
Dirk Adriaensens (SOS-Irak)
Patrick Deboosere (VUB)


Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Bush visite la Belgique du 20 au 22 février. Le mouvement pacifiste organise plusieurs actions le 21 et le 22 février. (voir: http://www.bushwanted.org ). Mais dimanche, le jour de l’arrivée de Bush, il n’y a encore rien de prévu. C’est pourqoui le Brussels Tribunal organise en collaboration avec le Beursschouwburg et le mouvement de paix l’action suivante:

A partir de 15.30: protestation ‘sit in’ sur les escaliers de la bourse avec banderoles et en scandant des slogans bien choisis.

16.00: Speeches (e.a. John Catalinotto, un pacifiste des Etats Unies) en collaboration avec le mouvement de paix.

16.30: un concert de rue sur les escaliers de la bourse

17.00: Les manifestants se rendent en cortège au Beursschouwburg accompagnés d’une fanfare. Des chanteurs, des artistes, des poëtes et des intellectuels acceuillent les manifestants dans la rue intérieure du Beursschouwburg, avec une chanson, un poème, des points de vues. Bref, on fait un free podium. Ceci introduit les actions de protestations des jours suivant.

Ce mail vous invite à propager cette action partout et à mobiliser des artistes et des intellectuelles. Quelques personalités ont déjà promis leur présence (Prof. Eric Corijn, Prof Jean Bricmont) .

Vos réactions sont le bienvenue à action@brusselstribunal.org, où toutes les communications seront coördineés.

Frederik Lamote coördonera les actions au Beursschouwburg (free_lamote@hotmail.com, 0472/44.72.48).

Nous comptons sur votre présence et votre participation.

Nous préparerons Bush un accueil ‘chaleureux’ avec une protestation intellectuelle et artistique.

Rendez-vous le 20 février à 15.30 sur les escaliers de la bourse où à 17.00 au Beurschouwburg.

Merci de votre collaboration et de votre présence


Pour le BRussells Tribunal,

Lieven De Cauter (KULeuven/RITS)
Dirk Adriaensens (SOS-Irak)
Patrick Deboosere (VUB)

[English]


Dear all,

Bush is coming to Brussel between sunday February 20th and tuesday 22. The peace movement, the environmental movement and the humanrightsorganisation are for once joining forces to 'stop Bush' (see http://www.bushwanted.org) . But they are concentrating their street actions on monday and tuesday. So it would be silent when he arrives. The BRussells Tribunal thought that this was not decent.

So we are organising, in collaboration with the peace movement a sit in on the steps of the Stochange (3.30 pm) and a protest marathon from 5 pm onwards in the Beursschouwburg.

We are looking for artists, poets, singers, intellectuals to bring a short intervention (song, poem, text) to let the whole world know we do not agree with the Bush policies.

Especially American citizens residing in Belgium are welcome, for it is not our intention to make it into an anti-American event. On the contrary: we support the American people in its suffering under and its resistance against the Bush-regime.

All reactions to: action@brusselstribunal.org. Contactpersoon for the Beursschouwburg is Frederiek Lamote ( free_lamote@hotmail.com / 0472/44.72.48). Updates on the action: see http://www.brusselstribunal.org

You can help by forwarding this mail to the right people and to all your friends. See you on sunday February 20th, 3.30 pm at the steps of the Stock Exchange, 5 pm at the Beursschouwburg (rue Antoine Orts).

For the BRussells Tribunal,

Lieven De Cauter
Dirk Adriaensens
Patrick Deboosere



Bush in Europa unerwünscht - Not Welcome, Mr. Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495034/

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

How would you like to be TORTURED For Knowing the Truth and teaching it?

http://www.freedomdomain.com/freemen.html


Informant: Andy Thames

The Secret History of America
http://www.freedomdomain.com/Catalog/catalog.htm


Informant: Andy Thames

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/02/1719864.php

Informant: ecoradio

Sozialraub
http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/sozialraub/index.html



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

Bis zu 5% der Bevölkerung können unter gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen aufgrund der Strahlung von Mobilfunkgeräten oder Masten leiden, behauptet eine Gruppe von irischen Ärzten. Die „Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association IDEA“ drängt die Regierung, bei dieser Technologie das Vorsorgeprinzip anzuwenden.

In einer Studie, die diese Woche veröffentlicht wird, heißt es, dass die Ärzte 16 Personen identifiziert haben, von denen sie glauben, dass diese durch Strahlung beeinträchtigt sind. Symptome sind Erschöpfung, Verwirrtheit, Klingeln im Ohr, Temperaturschwankungen, Schwindel und Schlafschwierigkeiten. In der Studie wird geschätzt, dass zwischen 1 und 5% der Bevölkerung sensibel auf Strahlung reagieren könnten und deshalb krank werden.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
http://www.ideaireland.org/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 03.02.2005



Omega siehe auch:

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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2211/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

New bill would put Homeland Security above the law

H.R. 418 Introduced - allows Secretary of Homeland Security to Suspend Any and all Laws.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=HR+418&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

http://thomas.loc.gov/ >>> Search HR 418


Feb 4th, 2005

On January 26, 2005, Rep. Sensenbrenner introduced the REAL ID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418):
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=REAL+ID+Act+of+2005+&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

In the name of homeland security, it includes a number of items changing immigration laws, use of drivers' licenses, etc.

But -- most overlooked -- is Section 102 of this bill. It would empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend any and all laws; at this time, limited to ensure the "expeditious" construction of a set of barriers and roads south of San Diego, to keep illegal immigrants out.

It also would prohibit ANY judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to suspend any law.

ON EDIT: While the law the bill references mentions barriers and roads "near San Diego," it does not appear to be (technically speaking) limited to that area -- but to any barriers or roads "in the vicinity of the United States border."

Today the Border;

Tommorrow - Anywhere in America

The text of Section 102 is below:

SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.

Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:

`(c) Waiver-

`(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.

`(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction--

`(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or

`(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.'.

What does this mean?

What laws might the Secretary of Homeland Security suspend?

It's an incredible usurpation of the rule of law.

A cabinet secretary is given the right to suspend any and all laws. And guess what?

The courts are prohibited from reviewing his decision! Perfect! So the Secretary can abuse his "authority" all he wants.

No review. No nothing.

Let me repeat the language:

"the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion"

Again:

"the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion"

Got it?

The bill may be going to the House floor next week.

http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1054072.htm


Informant: John Johnson

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15479.shtml


Informant: Davey Garland

http://www.umf.net/umf/library/1haarp.htm


Informant: Scott Munson

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