Every step you take, every move you make
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:56
25
Feb
2005
Stop the U.S. Attack on Global Women's Rights
While women around the world are battling for their lives and their rights, New York City is heating up for the ten year review of the Beijing Platform for Action on the Status of Women. The Beijing Platform is the strongest and most complete international document on women’s rights.
Not surprisingly, the Bush administration plans to undermine the Beijing Platform, displaying its usual contempt for international law and women’s rights. They want to chip away at the Beijing Platform, and are trying to get other countries to let them do it.
Just yesterday, U.S. representatives to the U.N. unveiled offensive and retrogressive language on abortion rights to include in the U.N.’s official comment on the Beijing Platform ten-year review. Almost every other country involved in the Beijing Platform review is trying to mobilize opposition to the U.S.’s proposed language, but ***American women also need to act now! ***
FAX OR EMAIL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.N. TODAY! Tell them to stop attacking global women’s rights!
Today, right now, you can tell the U.S. to stop attacking women's rights. Send a fax or email to Mark Lagon and Carl Fox, the main negotiators for the United States. Tell them that you oppose the U.S. amendment on abortion, and that you want to see the U.S. support and implement the Beijing Platform for Action!
FAX OR EMAIL:
Dr. Mark Lagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs
Email: lagonmp@state.gov Fax: 202-647-7385
Mr. Carl Fox, Adviser for Social Affairs, United States Mission to the UN
Email: foxcb@state.gov Fax: 212-415-4341
Get sample text online at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_Letter.shtml
MARCH 5 – 8: JOIN US OUTSIDE THE UN OR IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!
Join us next week to continue to stand up to U.S. While the Bush administration continues its attempts to undermine international women’s rights at the U.N., we will honor International Women's Day and show our solidarity with women everywhere, joining with women from Ramallah to Stockholm, from Nairobi to Lima, in celebrating the Global Week of Action for Women's Rights and demanding an end to war, poverty and discrimination.
In New York City, there are plans for several vibrant, loud and festive days to amplify women's voices for peace and justice and take a stand against the Bush Administration's lies and unending wars. Come to New York City to take action and to build the women's anti-war movement--or organize for women's rights in your own community! Details about the events below are at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml
MARCH 5-8, 2005 EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
SATURDAY, MARCH 5: CODEPINK CONVERGENCE
4-6 p.m., Crobar, 530 W. 28th St. (Chelsea) between 10th and 11th Aves.
Gather with CODEPINK activists from all over the country for a meet and greet, and get detailed information about the week's actions and volunteer opportunities. RSVP: racheltanya@hotmail.com
SUNDAY, MARCH 6: CODEPINK ACTIVIST TRAINING CAMP
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Barnard College at 117th St. and Broadway
Join powerful female activists for a day of interactive training that will include workshops about creative protest, media outreach, non-violence, diversity, and youth activism. $10-25 sliding scale (your generous contribution makes more scholarships available) For more information, a schedule, and to register, go to: http://codepink.kintera.org/training
SUNDAY, MARCH 6: WOMEN'S WRITES: SLAMMING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT!
7:30-9:30 p.m., Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College
CODEPINK and Sacred Slam http://www.sacredslam.com join together for an evening of poetic performances that honor the female journey. Bear witness to and challenge the ideas of "sexism," "equality," and "feminism" through the work of featured artists including Magdalena Gomez, Morley, Queen GodIs, Ellen O'Grady, and more! $10-12, No one turned away for lack of funds.
MONDAY, MARCH 7: DEMAND WOMEN'S RIGHTS EVERYWHERE!
Attend events at the UN, and participate in actions and events throughout New York City that are being organized by CODEPINK and other women’s groups.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8: “WOMEN DEMAND PEACE AND EQUALITY” MARCH AND RALLY!
1-3 p.m. Meet at the N.Y. Public Library, corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave.
Join us for an International Women's Day March and Rally! Stand in solidarity with the women of New York and the world against war and militarism, and in support of women's rights! Meet at the NY Public Library at the corner of 42nd street and 5th Ave and march to the UN at 46th St. and 1st Ave. Rally at 2 p.m. at the U.N., sponsored by a coalition of NYC women’s and progressive groups.
Sign up online at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml to let us know you're coming so we can keep you up to date on all the details. And please let us know if you need housing or if you're available to volunteer.
CAN'T MAKE IT TO NEW YORK?
There are lots of ways to take action for women's rights internationally from wherever you are:
*Sign the National Women's Studies Association's petition http://ase.tufts.edu/womenstudies/newsa/beijing%2010%20petition/index.html in support of the Beijing Platform for Action and urging the US government to reaffirm it. The petition is written to target academics and students, but is open to anyone.
*Spread the word! Too few women know about the Beijing +10 Review, the Beijing Platform for Action, and international law on women’s rights. Educate yourself http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml#background and then educate other women in your community: write editorials in your local papers; forward emails about Beijing +10 to listservs you're on. Make sure this review can't happen in silence!
*Organize an International Women's Day event in your community! It can be as simple as a 'women for peace' vigil or as complex as a march and rally through your town. It can be a celebration of women's art and power, or it can be a meeting with your city council to talk about the need for women's programs. Bring women's issues to the table in your community. Bring International Women's Day home!
For women's rights everywhere,
Andrea, Ariel, Claire, Dana, Emily, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae, Tiffany
http://www.codepinkalert.org February 25, 2005
Not surprisingly, the Bush administration plans to undermine the Beijing Platform, displaying its usual contempt for international law and women’s rights. They want to chip away at the Beijing Platform, and are trying to get other countries to let them do it.
Just yesterday, U.S. representatives to the U.N. unveiled offensive and retrogressive language on abortion rights to include in the U.N.’s official comment on the Beijing Platform ten-year review. Almost every other country involved in the Beijing Platform review is trying to mobilize opposition to the U.S.’s proposed language, but ***American women also need to act now! ***
FAX OR EMAIL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.N. TODAY! Tell them to stop attacking global women’s rights!
Today, right now, you can tell the U.S. to stop attacking women's rights. Send a fax or email to Mark Lagon and Carl Fox, the main negotiators for the United States. Tell them that you oppose the U.S. amendment on abortion, and that you want to see the U.S. support and implement the Beijing Platform for Action!
FAX OR EMAIL:
Dr. Mark Lagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs
Email: lagonmp@state.gov Fax: 202-647-7385
Mr. Carl Fox, Adviser for Social Affairs, United States Mission to the UN
Email: foxcb@state.gov Fax: 212-415-4341
Get sample text online at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_Letter.shtml
MARCH 5 – 8: JOIN US OUTSIDE THE UN OR IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!
Join us next week to continue to stand up to U.S. While the Bush administration continues its attempts to undermine international women’s rights at the U.N., we will honor International Women's Day and show our solidarity with women everywhere, joining with women from Ramallah to Stockholm, from Nairobi to Lima, in celebrating the Global Week of Action for Women's Rights and demanding an end to war, poverty and discrimination.
In New York City, there are plans for several vibrant, loud and festive days to amplify women's voices for peace and justice and take a stand against the Bush Administration's lies and unending wars. Come to New York City to take action and to build the women's anti-war movement--or organize for women's rights in your own community! Details about the events below are at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml
MARCH 5-8, 2005 EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
SATURDAY, MARCH 5: CODEPINK CONVERGENCE
4-6 p.m., Crobar, 530 W. 28th St. (Chelsea) between 10th and 11th Aves.
Gather with CODEPINK activists from all over the country for a meet and greet, and get detailed information about the week's actions and volunteer opportunities. RSVP: racheltanya@hotmail.com
SUNDAY, MARCH 6: CODEPINK ACTIVIST TRAINING CAMP
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Barnard College at 117th St. and Broadway
Join powerful female activists for a day of interactive training that will include workshops about creative protest, media outreach, non-violence, diversity, and youth activism. $10-25 sliding scale (your generous contribution makes more scholarships available) For more information, a schedule, and to register, go to: http://codepink.kintera.org/training
SUNDAY, MARCH 6: WOMEN'S WRITES: SLAMMING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT!
7:30-9:30 p.m., Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College
CODEPINK and Sacred Slam http://www.sacredslam.com join together for an evening of poetic performances that honor the female journey. Bear witness to and challenge the ideas of "sexism," "equality," and "feminism" through the work of featured artists including Magdalena Gomez, Morley, Queen GodIs, Ellen O'Grady, and more! $10-12, No one turned away for lack of funds.
MONDAY, MARCH 7: DEMAND WOMEN'S RIGHTS EVERYWHERE!
Attend events at the UN, and participate in actions and events throughout New York City that are being organized by CODEPINK and other women’s groups.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8: “WOMEN DEMAND PEACE AND EQUALITY” MARCH AND RALLY!
1-3 p.m. Meet at the N.Y. Public Library, corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave.
Join us for an International Women's Day March and Rally! Stand in solidarity with the women of New York and the world against war and militarism, and in support of women's rights! Meet at the NY Public Library at the corner of 42nd street and 5th Ave and march to the UN at 46th St. and 1st Ave. Rally at 2 p.m. at the U.N., sponsored by a coalition of NYC women’s and progressive groups.
Sign up online at
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml to let us know you're coming so we can keep you up to date on all the details. And please let us know if you need housing or if you're available to volunteer.
CAN'T MAKE IT TO NEW YORK?
There are lots of ways to take action for women's rights internationally from wherever you are:
*Sign the National Women's Studies Association's petition http://ase.tufts.edu/womenstudies/newsa/beijing%2010%20petition/index.html in support of the Beijing Platform for Action and urging the US government to reaffirm it. The petition is written to target academics and students, but is open to anyone.
*Spread the word! Too few women know about the Beijing +10 Review, the Beijing Platform for Action, and international law on women’s rights. Educate yourself http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_March_8th.shtml#background and then educate other women in your community: write editorials in your local papers; forward emails about Beijing +10 to listservs you're on. Make sure this review can't happen in silence!
*Organize an International Women's Day event in your community! It can be as simple as a 'women for peace' vigil or as complex as a march and rally through your town. It can be a celebration of women's art and power, or it can be a meeting with your city council to talk about the need for women's programs. Bring women's issues to the table in your community. Bring International Women's Day home!
For women's rights everywhere,
Andrea, Ariel, Claire, Dana, Emily, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae, Tiffany
http://www.codepinkalert.org February 25, 2005
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:48
Unter der Sendeantenne strahlt es nicht
...oder so gut wie nicht
Behauptung:
Unter der Sendeantenne strahlt es nicht, oder so gut wie nicht. Die Strahlung gehe von der Antenne weg wie eine Pizza.
Richtig ist:
Unter der Antenne ist eine erhebliche Strahlung. Mit der Behauptung der Betreiber sollen wohl diejenigen getäuscht werden, bei denen die Betreiber eine Antenne montieren wollen.
Eine weitere Argumentation der Betreiber ist: „Unter der Antenne strahlt es nicht. Wenn Sie sich die Antenne nicht montieren lassen, dann macht es der Nachbar. Dieser erhält dann das Geld, und Sie werden dann bestrahlt." Unter der Antenne haben wir aufgrund der sog. Nebenzipfel und wegen der Nähe zur Antenne jedoch eine sehr hohe Abstrahlung.
http://www.esmog-augsburg.de/richtigstellungen.htm
Behauptung:
Unter der Sendeantenne strahlt es nicht, oder so gut wie nicht. Die Strahlung gehe von der Antenne weg wie eine Pizza.
Richtig ist:
Unter der Antenne ist eine erhebliche Strahlung. Mit der Behauptung der Betreiber sollen wohl diejenigen getäuscht werden, bei denen die Betreiber eine Antenne montieren wollen.
Eine weitere Argumentation der Betreiber ist: „Unter der Antenne strahlt es nicht. Wenn Sie sich die Antenne nicht montieren lassen, dann macht es der Nachbar. Dieser erhält dann das Geld, und Sie werden dann bestrahlt." Unter der Antenne haben wir aufgrund der sog. Nebenzipfel und wegen der Nähe zur Antenne jedoch eine sehr hohe Abstrahlung.
http://www.esmog-augsburg.de/richtigstellungen.htm
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:36
Vioxx vote was rigged
Please forward to others who may benefit
The New York Times has just published an explosive piece of news describing how the Vioxx vote of the FDA panel was rigged with ten members who have financial ties to Pfizer, Merck and other drug manufacturers. These financial ties were NOT disclosed before the meetings took place, and it was only the investigative efforts of the NY Times that brought this to light.
This is a must-read article on FDA corruption:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/politics/25fda.html
I'll be writing a full essay on this, to be published late next week. It turns out that if the FDA hadn't stacked the panel with drug company lackeys, they vote would have produced the opposite outcome and Vioxx would now be banned.
How corrupt can this agency get? And when will there be an outcry for criminal investigation of this outrageous drug racket?
Remember, folks: as many as 60,000 Americans have been killed by just one of these COX-2 inhibitor drugs. We're supposed to be fighting terrorism in this country, but what about the FDA's assault on the public that has killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War? The FDA is apparently far more dangerous than all the terrorists combined...
My own article on the FDA decision, published earlier this week, is at: http://www.newstarget.com/004728.html
Also: I've posted an MP3 audio file of the interview with Dr. Sidney Wolfe with DemocracyNow.com. Feel free to download this, it's an eye-opening interview with the top FDA critic at Public Citizen:
http://www.newstarget.com/audio/SidneyWolfeVioxx.mp3
(Courtesy of DemocracyNow.org)
- Mike
The New York Times has just published an explosive piece of news describing how the Vioxx vote of the FDA panel was rigged with ten members who have financial ties to Pfizer, Merck and other drug manufacturers. These financial ties were NOT disclosed before the meetings took place, and it was only the investigative efforts of the NY Times that brought this to light.
This is a must-read article on FDA corruption:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/politics/25fda.html
I'll be writing a full essay on this, to be published late next week. It turns out that if the FDA hadn't stacked the panel with drug company lackeys, they vote would have produced the opposite outcome and Vioxx would now be banned.
How corrupt can this agency get? And when will there be an outcry for criminal investigation of this outrageous drug racket?
Remember, folks: as many as 60,000 Americans have been killed by just one of these COX-2 inhibitor drugs. We're supposed to be fighting terrorism in this country, but what about the FDA's assault on the public that has killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War? The FDA is apparently far more dangerous than all the terrorists combined...
My own article on the FDA decision, published earlier this week, is at: http://www.newstarget.com/004728.html
Also: I've posted an MP3 audio file of the interview with Dr. Sidney Wolfe with DemocracyNow.com. Feel free to download this, it's an eye-opening interview with the top FDA critic at Public Citizen:
http://www.newstarget.com/audio/SidneyWolfeVioxx.mp3
(Courtesy of DemocracyNow.org)
- Mike
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:23
Children and RFID Systems
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:12
Warning from the markets - Dollar Losing Favor As World’s Reserve Currency
If George W. Bush were half the capitalist he claims he is, he would listen to what the markets are telling him.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/02/24/opinion/eddollar.html
http://tinyurl.com/3wwhv
Signs Grow Of Dollar Losing Favor As World’s Reserve Currency:
For years, central banks around the world have held most of their foreign currency reserves in U.S. dollars. Now, there are signs that central banks are shifting away from dollar assets and into other currencies, such as euros.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/2/A490AE39-7C94-4193-8648-AAC6EC3C9B9D.html
http://tinyurl.com/7yog3
From Information Clearing House
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/02/24/opinion/eddollar.html
http://tinyurl.com/3wwhv
Signs Grow Of Dollar Losing Favor As World’s Reserve Currency:
For years, central banks around the world have held most of their foreign currency reserves in U.S. dollars. Now, there are signs that central banks are shifting away from dollar assets and into other currencies, such as euros.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/2/A490AE39-7C94-4193-8648-AAC6EC3C9B9D.html
http://tinyurl.com/7yog3
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:10
Lost in Europe
Sidney Blumenthal
The president doesn't seem to realize it, but the Europeans still don't buy his neocon vision -- and they've backed him into a corner on Iran.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1425020,00.html
From Information Clearing House
The president doesn't seem to realize it, but the Europeans still don't buy his neocon vision -- and they've backed him into a corner on Iran.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1425020,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:07
Professor criticizes U.S. foreign policy
Stephen Zunes agrees with President Bush that democracy in Iran would be a good thing. He just finds it ironic that the country had a democratic government until 1953, when a CIA-led coup ousted it.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_2584361
From Information Clearing House
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_2584361
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:05
The Real Threat Coming from Iran
Iran is proposing to develop something far more threatening to Bush interests than nuclear capability, WMD's, or even terrorists. Iran has been planning to set up an international oil exchange denominated in the Euro currency.
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/007485.html
From Information Clearing House
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/007485.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:04
Now Syria is at the top of the bad guys' league table
Neocon pressure for regime change in Damascus is building up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1424833,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1424833,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:01
Australia: former leading intelligence official exposes government lies
Like all regimes involved in criminal activity, systematic lying is now the modus operandi of the Howard government.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bart-f25.shtml
From Information Clearing House
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bart-f25.shtml
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 23:00
Dominance and Its Dilemmas
Noam Chomsky
The Bush administration’s Imperial Grand Strategy
http://207.44.245.159/article8162.htm
The Bush administration’s Imperial Grand Strategy
http://207.44.245.159/article8162.htm
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:58
Bush's 'priceless' war
The war and ongoing resistance could cost the United States between US$461 billion and $646 billion by 2015:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB25Ak01.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB25Ak01.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:57
US Army pays Halliburton big bonus
The US Army has awarded defence contractor Halliburton more than $9 million in bonuses for some of its work supporting the military in Kuwait and Afghanistan.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1C74716-CF50-4F46-90A7-B8F06235A5A1.htm
http://tinyurl.com/624pe
From Information Clearing House
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1C74716-CF50-4F46-90A7-B8F06235A5A1.htm
http://tinyurl.com/624pe
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:56
Marine Suicides Rise Dramatically
The suicide rate for U.S. Marines rose a dramatic 29 percent in the past year:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/25/84626.shtml
From Information Clearing House
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/25/84626.shtml
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:54
Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction
An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy.
http://tinyurl.com/57q2b
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/57q2b
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:53
'Two people were beaten to death'
Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg tells C4 news what he saw:
http://www.channel4.com/news/2005/02/week_4/24_begg3.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.channel4.com/news/2005/02/week_4/24_begg3.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:52
Iraq to be a Vietnam
Iraq to be a Vietnam: retired general:
Major General Alan Stretton said the Government would eventually bow to public pressure and withdraw the troops, leaving behind a bloody
mess.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12356131-29277,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Major General Alan Stretton said the Government would eventually bow to public pressure and withdraw the troops, leaving behind a bloody
mess.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12356131-29277,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:51
Operation Hollywood
"You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die."
The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon.
Weekend Movie: Watch it online now! : Real Video
http://207.44.245.159/article8163.htm
The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon.
Weekend Movie: Watch it online now! : Real Video
http://207.44.245.159/article8163.htm
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:48
Jeder Zweite vom Handy abhängig
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:34
Cell tower neighbors suing over alleged health problems
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:27
Brazilian police grab man in another brutal murder
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:08
Bush in Mainz: Reportage vom Ausnahmezustand
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19537/1.html
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-02-23T175428Z_01_L2347198_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-BUSH-GERMANY-PROTEST-DC.XML
Der Polizeistaat macht mobil
Bericht aus dem jetzt wieder Bush-freien Mainz von Peter Balluff, Gewerkschaftssekretär bei ver.di in Mainz vom 23. Februar 2005.
http://www.labournet.de/krieg/balluff.html
Aus dem Text: "…Die Stadt ist wie ausgestorben, das öffentliche Leben ist zum Erliegen gekommen, die Mehrzahl der Geschäfte sind geschlossen, Schaufenster sind mit Bretter gesichert, außer in den Großkonzernen, dort werden die Arbeitnehmer/innen teilweise mit "Abmahnungen" zur Arbeitsaufnahme gezwungen, im Tiefflug kreist mit ohrenbetäubendem Lärm ein Helikopter permanent über die Innenstadt, die Bürger gehorchen und bleiben in ihren Wohnungen bei verriegelten Fenstern und Türen. Die Stimmung ist beängstigend und bedrückend, eine Geisterstadt, der Staat hat nur vergessen, den Notstand auszurufen, de facto sind aber auch ohne Verkündung alle Rechte außer Kraft gesetzt…"
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 1
"Not welcome Mr. Bush": Anti-Bush Demo in Mainz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/539914/
"Dann kommen die Jungs, wo man nur die Augen sieht"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/567441/
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-02-23T175428Z_01_L2347198_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-BUSH-GERMANY-PROTEST-DC.XML
Der Polizeistaat macht mobil
Bericht aus dem jetzt wieder Bush-freien Mainz von Peter Balluff, Gewerkschaftssekretär bei ver.di in Mainz vom 23. Februar 2005.
http://www.labournet.de/krieg/balluff.html
Aus dem Text: "…Die Stadt ist wie ausgestorben, das öffentliche Leben ist zum Erliegen gekommen, die Mehrzahl der Geschäfte sind geschlossen, Schaufenster sind mit Bretter gesichert, außer in den Großkonzernen, dort werden die Arbeitnehmer/innen teilweise mit "Abmahnungen" zur Arbeitsaufnahme gezwungen, im Tiefflug kreist mit ohrenbetäubendem Lärm ein Helikopter permanent über die Innenstadt, die Bürger gehorchen und bleiben in ihren Wohnungen bei verriegelten Fenstern und Türen. Die Stimmung ist beängstigend und bedrückend, eine Geisterstadt, der Staat hat nur vergessen, den Notstand auszurufen, de facto sind aber auch ohne Verkündung alle Rechte außer Kraft gesetzt…"
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 1
"Not welcome Mr. Bush": Anti-Bush Demo in Mainz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/539914/
"Dann kommen die Jungs, wo man nur die Augen sieht"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/567441/
Starmail - 25. Feb, 22:05
Kerry/Edwards File More Ohio Election Motions
Starmail - 25. Feb, 19:53
"Selbsternannter Herr auf Erden": Bundestag drängt auf "rasche" Ratifizierung von Anti-Folter-Protokoll
25.02.05
Deutschland soll nach dem Willen des Bundestages rasch das internationale Zusatzprotokoll zur UN-Anti-Folter-Konvention ratifizieren. Dies "hätte innen- wie außenpolitisch eine starke Signalwirkung", heißt es in einem Koalitionsantrag, den das Parlament am Donnerstag bei Enthaltung der Oppositionsfraktionen von CDU/CSU und FDP verabschiedete. Der Vorstoß von FDP und PDS, die UN-Anti-Folter-Konvention unverzüglich zu ratifizieren, wurde von SPD und Grünen jedoch abgelehnt. Ziel des Ende 2002 von der UN-Generalversammlung angenommenen Protokolls ist es, den präventiven Schutz vor Folter oder erniedrigender Behandlung zu verbessern. Dazu werden die Mitgliedsstaaten zur Einrichtung unabhängiger Gremien verpflichtet, die beispielsweise Gefängnisse, Polizeiwachen, Abschiebezentren und psychiatrische Anstalten, aber auch Alten- und Pflegeheime sowie geschlossene Heime für Kinder und Jugendliche inspizieren. Amnesty international kritisierte, dass die deutsche Länderkommission " lediglich mit vier ehrenamtlich tätigen Experten" besetzt werde. Sie sei "nicht mehr als ein Feigenblatt".
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10540
Deutschland soll nach dem Willen des Bundestages rasch das internationale Zusatzprotokoll zur UN-Anti-Folter-Konvention ratifizieren. Dies "hätte innen- wie außenpolitisch eine starke Signalwirkung", heißt es in einem Koalitionsantrag, den das Parlament am Donnerstag bei Enthaltung der Oppositionsfraktionen von CDU/CSU und FDP verabschiedete. Der Vorstoß von FDP und PDS, die UN-Anti-Folter-Konvention unverzüglich zu ratifizieren, wurde von SPD und Grünen jedoch abgelehnt. Ziel des Ende 2002 von der UN-Generalversammlung angenommenen Protokolls ist es, den präventiven Schutz vor Folter oder erniedrigender Behandlung zu verbessern. Dazu werden die Mitgliedsstaaten zur Einrichtung unabhängiger Gremien verpflichtet, die beispielsweise Gefängnisse, Polizeiwachen, Abschiebezentren und psychiatrische Anstalten, aber auch Alten- und Pflegeheime sowie geschlossene Heime für Kinder und Jugendliche inspizieren. Amnesty international kritisierte, dass die deutsche Länderkommission " lediglich mit vier ehrenamtlich tätigen Experten" besetzt werde. Sie sei "nicht mehr als ein Feigenblatt".
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10540
Starmail - 25. Feb, 19:37
FDP-Politiker Max Stadler mahnt Grundrecht der Versammlungsfreiheit nicht anzutasten
"Keine Kleinigkeit": FDP-Politiker mahnt Grundrecht der Versammlungsfreiheit nicht anzutasten (25.02.05)
Während sich die Regierungskoalition und die Opposition in der Frage der geplanten Verschärfung des Versammlungsrechts aufeinander zubewegen, wendet sich die FDP gegen eine Verschärfung des Versammlungsrechts. FDP-Innenpolitiker Max Stadler sagte, eine Einschränkung des Demonstrationsrechts sei "keine Kleinigkeit", sondern "von größter Bedeutung für die Demokratie". Er halte auch nichts davon, wenn die Bundesländer eigene Gesetze zur Verschärfung erließen, sagte Stadler. Das geltende Recht reiche aus, um den geplanten Aufmarsch der rechtsextremistischen NPD am 8. Mai durch das Brandenburger Tor und am Holocaust-Mahnmal in Berlin zu verbieten, sagte Stadler am Freitag im Deutschlandradio Berlin. Die FDP sei "sehr zuversichtlich", dass die Sachverständigen-Anhörung am 7. März zeigen werde, dass eine Rechtsverschärfung überflüssig ist. Die Innenexperten von Koalition und Union hatten sich am vergangenen Dienstag auf einen eng gestrickten Zeitplan zur Einschränkung der Versammlungs- und Meinungsfreiheit verständigt. In öffentlichen Verlautbarungen wird die geplante Verschärfung des Strafgesetzbuches fast ausschließlich mit dem Ziel begründet, rechtsextremistische Aufmärsche zu verhindern. Kein Diskussionsthema ist die geplante Bestimmung, wonach generell das "Leugnen" von geschichtlich als "gesichert anerkannten" Völkermorden - beispielsweise das "Leugnen des Völkermords im ehemaligen Jugoslawien" - unter Strafe gestellt werden soll.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10535
Während sich die Regierungskoalition und die Opposition in der Frage der geplanten Verschärfung des Versammlungsrechts aufeinander zubewegen, wendet sich die FDP gegen eine Verschärfung des Versammlungsrechts. FDP-Innenpolitiker Max Stadler sagte, eine Einschränkung des Demonstrationsrechts sei "keine Kleinigkeit", sondern "von größter Bedeutung für die Demokratie". Er halte auch nichts davon, wenn die Bundesländer eigene Gesetze zur Verschärfung erließen, sagte Stadler. Das geltende Recht reiche aus, um den geplanten Aufmarsch der rechtsextremistischen NPD am 8. Mai durch das Brandenburger Tor und am Holocaust-Mahnmal in Berlin zu verbieten, sagte Stadler am Freitag im Deutschlandradio Berlin. Die FDP sei "sehr zuversichtlich", dass die Sachverständigen-Anhörung am 7. März zeigen werde, dass eine Rechtsverschärfung überflüssig ist. Die Innenexperten von Koalition und Union hatten sich am vergangenen Dienstag auf einen eng gestrickten Zeitplan zur Einschränkung der Versammlungs- und Meinungsfreiheit verständigt. In öffentlichen Verlautbarungen wird die geplante Verschärfung des Strafgesetzbuches fast ausschließlich mit dem Ziel begründet, rechtsextremistische Aufmärsche zu verhindern. Kein Diskussionsthema ist die geplante Bestimmung, wonach generell das "Leugnen" von geschichtlich als "gesichert anerkannten" Völkermorden - beispielsweise das "Leugnen des Völkermords im ehemaligen Jugoslawien" - unter Strafe gestellt werden soll.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10535
Starmail - 25. Feb, 19:35
Army contract for Feinstein's husband
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL
Informant: Milo
Informant: Milo
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:30
American hatred of Muslims exposed by hundreds of criminal cases
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:28
'I Saw Americans Kill Terror Suspects'
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:26
Visa mit RFID
Visa mit RFID - wedeln Sie einfach mit Ihrem guten Namen
http://www.silicon.de/cpo/news-storenet/detail.php?nr=19374
http://www.silicon.de/cpo/news-storenet/detail.php?nr=19374
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:20
MP backs anti-mast campaigners
by Saxon East
Streatham MP and Government planning minister Keith Hill has swung his political muscle behind a residents' campaign to stop a giant mobile phone mast being built next to a much-loved park.
Mr Hill has rallied behind more than 400 Streatham protesters who have signed a petition against T-Mobile's plans for the 11m mast near the entrance of Hillside Gardens in Streatham.
Streatham householders fear the mast, with dish and two antennae, would ruin the appearance of the park, and are worried it could pose a long-term health risk to young children at a nearby playclub.
However, T-Mobile has stressed the mast is safe as it complies with radiation limit guidelines from the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radio Protection (ICNIRP).
Mr Hill has steered away from the controversial health arguments, and instead has written to Lambeth Council's planning department, saying: "I too oppose the placing of the mast, largely because it is in a conservation area. I have asked to be included in further correspondence on the matter."
But Nick McRae, chairman of the Friends of Hillside Gardens Park, went further by citing the Government-appointed committee recommendations of Sir William Stewart, who urged caution against mobile phone technologies.
Mr McRae said: "We should not take risks with vulnerable children, with phones and masts. That is something that the mobile phone company ought to take more notice of."
Because of residents' strong protests, it is rumoured the pre-consultation plans will move the mast further away, towards the Palace Road end of Streatham.
A council spokeswoman said the town hall had not received an official planning application, but it would follow the normal process if and when it arrived.
A T-mobile spokesman said: "We have submitted a planning application to the local planning authority and we await their decision. The site complies with all planning and ICNIRP guidelines."
12:30pm today
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.574034.0.mp_backs_antimast_campaigners.php
From Mast Network
Streatham MP and Government planning minister Keith Hill has swung his political muscle behind a residents' campaign to stop a giant mobile phone mast being built next to a much-loved park.
Mr Hill has rallied behind more than 400 Streatham protesters who have signed a petition against T-Mobile's plans for the 11m mast near the entrance of Hillside Gardens in Streatham.
Streatham householders fear the mast, with dish and two antennae, would ruin the appearance of the park, and are worried it could pose a long-term health risk to young children at a nearby playclub.
However, T-Mobile has stressed the mast is safe as it complies with radiation limit guidelines from the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radio Protection (ICNIRP).
Mr Hill has steered away from the controversial health arguments, and instead has written to Lambeth Council's planning department, saying: "I too oppose the placing of the mast, largely because it is in a conservation area. I have asked to be included in further correspondence on the matter."
But Nick McRae, chairman of the Friends of Hillside Gardens Park, went further by citing the Government-appointed committee recommendations of Sir William Stewart, who urged caution against mobile phone technologies.
Mr McRae said: "We should not take risks with vulnerable children, with phones and masts. That is something that the mobile phone company ought to take more notice of."
Because of residents' strong protests, it is rumoured the pre-consultation plans will move the mast further away, towards the Palace Road end of Streatham.
A council spokeswoman said the town hall had not received an official planning application, but it would follow the normal process if and when it arrived.
A T-mobile spokesman said: "We have submitted a planning application to the local planning authority and we await their decision. The site complies with all planning and ICNIRP guidelines."
12:30pm today
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.574034.0.mp_backs_antimast_campaigners.php
From Mast Network
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:12
Nuclear Terror at Home
Peace and Justice News from IRC
http://www.irc-online.org
February 25, 2005
Nuclear Terror at Home
by Noam Chomsky
If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don' think they’d put very high odds on survival--another generation or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that we’ve come along this far.
The world has come extremely close to total destruction just in recent years from nuclear war. New Mexico plays an important role in this. There’s case after case where a nuclear war was prevented almost by a miracle. And the threat is increasing as a consequence of policies that the administration is very consciously pursuing.
Noam Chomsky is the author of Hegemony or Survival. (Purchase online at: http://www.irc-online.org/content/books/chomsky.hegemony.php ) He has been an IRC board member for 15 years and a steadfast supporter of IRC s mission and programs.
See complete new IRC paper online at:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/chomsky/0502nuclear.php
With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/pdf/0502nuclear.pdf
Read what Chomsky wrote about IRC in support of our 25th anniversary and why you should generously support IRC, as he does.
http://www.irc-online.org/content/25th/chomsky.04.php
Also see what he had to say about Iraq Elections at our 25th Anniversary Celebration:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/chomsky/2005chomsky-iraq.php
http://www.irc-online.org
February 25, 2005
Nuclear Terror at Home
by Noam Chomsky
If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don' think they’d put very high odds on survival--another generation or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that we’ve come along this far.
The world has come extremely close to total destruction just in recent years from nuclear war. New Mexico plays an important role in this. There’s case after case where a nuclear war was prevented almost by a miracle. And the threat is increasing as a consequence of policies that the administration is very consciously pursuing.
Noam Chomsky is the author of Hegemony or Survival. (Purchase online at: http://www.irc-online.org/content/books/chomsky.hegemony.php ) He has been an IRC board member for 15 years and a steadfast supporter of IRC s mission and programs.
See complete new IRC paper online at:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/chomsky/0502nuclear.php
With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/pdf/0502nuclear.pdf
Read what Chomsky wrote about IRC in support of our 25th anniversary and why you should generously support IRC, as he does.
http://www.irc-online.org/content/25th/chomsky.04.php
Also see what he had to say about Iraq Elections at our 25th Anniversary Celebration:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/chomsky/2005chomsky-iraq.php
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:10
The Saga of Terri Schiavo
***Alert***((((((((EXPLOSIVE INFO))))))))))Please forward everywhere
NO WONDER THE PERPETRATORS ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=78030;show_parent=1
Last night on the Alex Merklinger show...The usual three hour program was 30 minutes>>> Click here: Welcome To Mysteries Of The Mind
http://mysteriesofthemind.com/...It will be a couple days before it appears in the archives.
It was the most explosive show for such a short time I have ever heard...It was about Terri Schiavo, which I will go into in a moment.
It was also about Gannongate...Alex is searching his archives for the show in which the exposure of the prostitution, pedophiles horror our children have been kidnapped and enslaved into...and those at the top, and I mean the top, are...Oh my "God" I can't even find words to explain it enough for those not familiar with this factual prostitution ring.
So many details...Like the plane that crashed when evidence in the form of pictures surfaced...Pictures of the guilty well known evil beings running our country.
The show in which you must hear is Alex interviewing the Mother of Johnny Gosh...Noreen Gosh...His own Father gave Johnny over to the thugs when he was little...He has disappeared, himself, conveniently...He's probably dead.
It's a deep journey of the most heinous and horrible truth to what is and has been happening.
Alex and Noreen believe Ganon is Johnny...I forwarded a picture of Gannon to Alex last night and he sent back a message today saying Noreen thinks it's Johnny.
Alex called on his show for all the patriots to please begin research to prove this connection.
About Terri...I've had a couple of threats to back off...
Alex added something I didn't know...Terri's husband is a nurse working in law enforcement...I knew he was supposed to have become a nurse out of compassion for his wife but not that he worked in the law enforcement arena...That explains why we are so puzzled as to how he escaped blame for what he did to Terri.
I only want to add here for those that might not know that a couple years ago they removed the tube and starved Terri for six days...Imagine...
Bush ordered the tube to be put back...
Oh and there is video where they were discussing the removal of the tube just before they did it and Terri became frantic...I'll have to look for that and send it...It may have already posted here...I didn't watch it and don't want to.
Please make those calls, guys...and sign that petition...even though the time is here for the decision...
Click here: Center for Reclaiming America
http://www.cfra.info/213/petition.asp?RID=5807681
Here are your contact numbers:
Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Senate President Tom Lee
Tallahassee: (850) 487-5072
District Office: (813) 744-8683
E-mail: lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov
Speaker of the House Allan G. Bense
Tallahassee: (850) 488-1450
District Office: (850) 914-6300
E-mail: speaker@myfloridahouse.gov
Also...
Call President Bush and ask him to personally intervene:
President George W. Bush
(202) 456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov
I just ran across the medical report...I need to find it and send it out...He did it and he could get away with it...When I spoke with Dr. Gary Cass's assistant at The Center For Reclaiming America...(The people behind saving Terri)...She told me the medical records are now sealed.
Here it is>>>
LifeSiteNews.com
Spousal Abuse in Terri Schiavo Case
Thu Feb 24, 2005 23:00
64.140.158.27
Monday October 27, 2003
State-Funded Agency to Probe Claim of Spousal Abuse in Terri Schiavo Case
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03102701.html
Bone scan and injuries indicate severe trauma and strangulation http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_bonescan.htm
TAMPA BAY, October 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Florida State Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, has decided to launch an investigation into the spousal abuse claims of the parents of Terri Schiavo. The severely disabled Florida woman whose life was spared by an executive order by Governor Jeb Bush to halt her court-ordered starvation, has, according to experts, sustained injuries consistent with abuse.
Michael Schiavo, Terri's estranged husband, who has been in a long- fought court battle with Terri's parents to end her life, fuelled suspicions of abuse when he sought and was granted a court order that Terri's remains would be cremated immediately following her death. Terri's parents, the Schindlers, were requesting an autopsy.
Other factors pointing to abuse include:
- Testimony of nurses who looked after Terri indicated that Michael was verbally abusive to Terri and may have attempted to kill her by insulin injection and attempts to induce pneumonia by turning the thermostat in her room to 64 degrees.
- Michael Baden, one of the most acclaimed forensic experts in North America, in an interview on Fox News National Television broadcast Saturday said Terri's bone scan indicates that Terri's injuries are not consistent with the suggested explanation of a heart attack or potassium imbalance. He said they are consistent with severe trauma possibly caused by a beating and would warrant an immediate investigation.
- Dr. William Hammesfahr, Nobel prize nominee and neurologist, testified that Terri's neck injuries are consistent with only one type of injury: that of strangulation.
Commenting on the case, Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said, "It would come as no surprise to me that she had been abused previous to her disability, knowing that since1993 she has received continuous abuse by being denied basic medical care, visitation of loved ones, religious visits, and any form of rehabilitation."
Schadenberg warned however that the practice of euthanasia by withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from people who are not otherwise dying is common both in the United States and Canada. He pointed out that the argumentation around the case is not addressing the central point that nutrition and hydration should not be considered medical treatment. He noted that a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision wrongly allowed nutrition and hydration to be considered medical treatment.
In response to the six-day denial of food and fluids to Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the National Right to Life Committee is calling on state legislatures throughout the nation to move to protect people with disabilities from being denied food and fluids. The organization has issued a "Model Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act."
See the NRLC model legislation for States:
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/modelstatelaw.html
See the Chicago Tribune coverage and the Fox interview:
http://www.terrisfight.org/chitrib.html
http://www.terrisfight.org/baden.html
Terri's supporters have also asked pro-lifers to encourage AARP to
intervene to save Terri's life and not against it: flaarp@aarp.org
See also
Media 'getting it wrong' on Terri Schiavo story
Press erroneously report she's 'comatose,' doctors also dispute
vegetative-state ruling
** People who are aware of the truth are calling in to radio and television stations insisting that they correct the misinformation. For example, Toronto News radio station 680 was reporting last week that Shiavo was in a persistive vegetative state. LifeSite called to say that that was not correct. The news room immediately acknowledged the error and corrected it. This would not have happened had no one called.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI...
NUCLEAR IMAGING - MAY 7, 1991 - Theresa Marie Schiavo
Thu Feb 24, 2005 22:44
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=76510;title=APFN
UPDATE 02/23/05 Judge extends stay on removal of Florida woman's feeding tubea surprise move the state's social welfare agency asked for an indefinite delay to investigate potential abuse of the severely brain-damaged woman.
For years the Schindlers have repeatedly suggested that their son-in- law strangled their daughter the night she collapsed.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_stay.htm
Theresa Marie Schiavo's Bone Scan
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_bonescan.htm
SCHIAVO JUDGE TV COMMERCIAL VIOLATES STATE LAW
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/terri_violate.htm
Informant: Marsha
Key dates in the life of Terri Schiavo
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76542;show_parent=1
Terri Schiavo and the Soul of America
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76545;show_parent=1
NO WONDER THE PERPETRATORS ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=78030;show_parent=1
Last night on the Alex Merklinger show...The usual three hour program was 30 minutes>>> Click here: Welcome To Mysteries Of The Mind
http://mysteriesofthemind.com/...It will be a couple days before it appears in the archives.
It was the most explosive show for such a short time I have ever heard...It was about Terri Schiavo, which I will go into in a moment.
It was also about Gannongate...Alex is searching his archives for the show in which the exposure of the prostitution, pedophiles horror our children have been kidnapped and enslaved into...and those at the top, and I mean the top, are...Oh my "God" I can't even find words to explain it enough for those not familiar with this factual prostitution ring.
So many details...Like the plane that crashed when evidence in the form of pictures surfaced...Pictures of the guilty well known evil beings running our country.
The show in which you must hear is Alex interviewing the Mother of Johnny Gosh...Noreen Gosh...His own Father gave Johnny over to the thugs when he was little...He has disappeared, himself, conveniently...He's probably dead.
It's a deep journey of the most heinous and horrible truth to what is and has been happening.
Alex and Noreen believe Ganon is Johnny...I forwarded a picture of Gannon to Alex last night and he sent back a message today saying Noreen thinks it's Johnny.
Alex called on his show for all the patriots to please begin research to prove this connection.
About Terri...I've had a couple of threats to back off...
Alex added something I didn't know...Terri's husband is a nurse working in law enforcement...I knew he was supposed to have become a nurse out of compassion for his wife but not that he worked in the law enforcement arena...That explains why we are so puzzled as to how he escaped blame for what he did to Terri.
I only want to add here for those that might not know that a couple years ago they removed the tube and starved Terri for six days...Imagine...
Bush ordered the tube to be put back...
Oh and there is video where they were discussing the removal of the tube just before they did it and Terri became frantic...I'll have to look for that and send it...It may have already posted here...I didn't watch it and don't want to.
Please make those calls, guys...and sign that petition...even though the time is here for the decision...
Click here: Center for Reclaiming America
http://www.cfra.info/213/petition.asp?RID=5807681
Here are your contact numbers:
Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Senate President Tom Lee
Tallahassee: (850) 487-5072
District Office: (813) 744-8683
E-mail: lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov
Speaker of the House Allan G. Bense
Tallahassee: (850) 488-1450
District Office: (850) 914-6300
E-mail: speaker@myfloridahouse.gov
Also...
Call President Bush and ask him to personally intervene:
President George W. Bush
(202) 456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov
I just ran across the medical report...I need to find it and send it out...He did it and he could get away with it...When I spoke with Dr. Gary Cass's assistant at The Center For Reclaiming America...(The people behind saving Terri)...She told me the medical records are now sealed.
Here it is>>>
LifeSiteNews.com
Spousal Abuse in Terri Schiavo Case
Thu Feb 24, 2005 23:00
64.140.158.27
Monday October 27, 2003
State-Funded Agency to Probe Claim of Spousal Abuse in Terri Schiavo Case
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03102701.html
Bone scan and injuries indicate severe trauma and strangulation http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_bonescan.htm
TAMPA BAY, October 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Florida State Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, has decided to launch an investigation into the spousal abuse claims of the parents of Terri Schiavo. The severely disabled Florida woman whose life was spared by an executive order by Governor Jeb Bush to halt her court-ordered starvation, has, according to experts, sustained injuries consistent with abuse.
Michael Schiavo, Terri's estranged husband, who has been in a long- fought court battle with Terri's parents to end her life, fuelled suspicions of abuse when he sought and was granted a court order that Terri's remains would be cremated immediately following her death. Terri's parents, the Schindlers, were requesting an autopsy.
Other factors pointing to abuse include:
- Testimony of nurses who looked after Terri indicated that Michael was verbally abusive to Terri and may have attempted to kill her by insulin injection and attempts to induce pneumonia by turning the thermostat in her room to 64 degrees.
- Michael Baden, one of the most acclaimed forensic experts in North America, in an interview on Fox News National Television broadcast Saturday said Terri's bone scan indicates that Terri's injuries are not consistent with the suggested explanation of a heart attack or potassium imbalance. He said they are consistent with severe trauma possibly caused by a beating and would warrant an immediate investigation.
- Dr. William Hammesfahr, Nobel prize nominee and neurologist, testified that Terri's neck injuries are consistent with only one type of injury: that of strangulation.
Commenting on the case, Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said, "It would come as no surprise to me that she had been abused previous to her disability, knowing that since1993 she has received continuous abuse by being denied basic medical care, visitation of loved ones, religious visits, and any form of rehabilitation."
Schadenberg warned however that the practice of euthanasia by withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from people who are not otherwise dying is common both in the United States and Canada. He pointed out that the argumentation around the case is not addressing the central point that nutrition and hydration should not be considered medical treatment. He noted that a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision wrongly allowed nutrition and hydration to be considered medical treatment.
In response to the six-day denial of food and fluids to Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the National Right to Life Committee is calling on state legislatures throughout the nation to move to protect people with disabilities from being denied food and fluids. The organization has issued a "Model Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act."
See the NRLC model legislation for States:
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/modelstatelaw.html
See the Chicago Tribune coverage and the Fox interview:
http://www.terrisfight.org/chitrib.html
http://www.terrisfight.org/baden.html
Terri's supporters have also asked pro-lifers to encourage AARP to
intervene to save Terri's life and not against it: flaarp@aarp.org
See also
Media 'getting it wrong' on Terri Schiavo story
Press erroneously report she's 'comatose,' doctors also dispute
vegetative-state ruling
** People who are aware of the truth are calling in to radio and television stations insisting that they correct the misinformation. For example, Toronto News radio station 680 was reporting last week that Shiavo was in a persistive vegetative state. LifeSite called to say that that was not correct. The news room immediately acknowledged the error and corrected it. This would not have happened had no one called.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI...
NUCLEAR IMAGING - MAY 7, 1991 - Theresa Marie Schiavo
Thu Feb 24, 2005 22:44
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=76510;title=APFN
UPDATE 02/23/05 Judge extends stay on removal of Florida woman's feeding tubea surprise move the state's social welfare agency asked for an indefinite delay to investigate potential abuse of the severely brain-damaged woman.
For years the Schindlers have repeatedly suggested that their son-in- law strangled their daughter the night she collapsed.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_stay.htm
Theresa Marie Schiavo's Bone Scan
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_bonescan.htm
SCHIAVO JUDGE TV COMMERCIAL VIOLATES STATE LAW
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/terri_violate.htm
Informant: Marsha
Key dates in the life of Terri Schiavo
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76542;show_parent=1
Terri Schiavo and the Soul of America
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76545;show_parent=1
Starmail - 25. Feb, 18:06
Drilling In ANWR Is Bush Obsession
Pass It On: Drilling In ANWR Is Bush Obsession
by an anonymous Bush adviser
"If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them. No oil company really cares about ANWR."
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton
"If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them. No oil company really cares about ANWR."
—an anonymous Bush adviser, on how drilling in the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a Bush administration obsession not shared by the oil companies themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/politics/21refuge.html?
by an anonymous Bush adviser
"If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them. No oil company really cares about ANWR."
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton
"If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them. No oil company really cares about ANWR."
—an anonymous Bush adviser, on how drilling in the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a Bush administration obsession not shared by the oil companies themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/politics/21refuge.html?
Starmail - 25. Feb, 17:56
Inching Past Poverty
Wonky But Worth It: Inching Past Poverty
by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Social Security keeps 13 million senior citizens nationwide out of poverty -- barely. Any cuts could push them back down.
http://tompaine.com/action/#003873
by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Social Security keeps 13 million senior citizens nationwide out of poverty -- barely. Any cuts could push them back down.
http://tompaine.com/action/#003873
Starmail - 25. Feb, 17:52
For The Sake Of Our Children
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Earthlight
The biggest threat to our children, our environment and our markets is George W. Bush.
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003884
The biggest threat to our children, our environment and our markets is George W. Bush.
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003884
Starmail - 25. Feb, 17:50
Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/micro_waves_effects_on_wildlife_animals.pdf
EMF Exposure - Animal Studies
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/animals.htm
Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf
Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540740/
Lack of nesting seagulls
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2069748/
Radio-tracking associated with ‘dramatic shift’ in water vole sex ratio
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549254/
Invisible Poisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/756341/
EMF Exposure - Animal Studies
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/animals.htm
Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf
Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540740/
Lack of nesting seagulls
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2069748/
Radio-tracking associated with ‘dramatic shift’ in water vole sex ratio
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549254/
Invisible Poisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/756341/
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:33
Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
by Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
25 February 2005
It has hardly been noticed, but it is another sinister warning sign of a world going badly wrong. Populations of some of Britain's most attractive woodland birds are plummeting at a rate that threatens them with extinction, and nobody knows why.
Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation.
In its scale and its range, the phenomenon is one of the most ominous events in the natural history of Britain over the past half-century. Perversely, the decline comes at a time when Britain is planting more woodlands than ever, and forest management has never been more sympathetic to wildlife conservation.
About a dozen species of small birds that have flitted through our woodlands for thousands of years are suddenly in serious trouble. This may be associated with climate change, linked to the damage that excess deer numbers are doing to the undergrowth in woodlands, or in some cases, linked to trouble for birds on migration routes to and from Africa.
The endangered species are less familiar than common garden visitors such as robins and blackbirds, which is perhaps why their disappearance has taken longer to register. But now a study, appearing next month, makes the picture clear for the first time.
It shows that five of the species - the spotted flycatcher, the lesser spotted woodpecker, the lesser whitethroat, the lesser redpoll and the tree pipit - plunged by more than three-quarters between 1966 and 1999, and continues to decline.
The population of the spotted flycatcher fell by no less than 85 per cent, and that of the lesser spotted woodpecker by 81 per cent. Another five species - the willow tit, the marsh tit, the woodcock, the dunnock or hedge sparrow and the willow warbler - fell by between half and three-quarters, and two more species, the songthrush and the bullfinch, fell by nearly a half.
Yet another group, for which there are no reliable numerical figures, is nevertheless known to have fallen significantly in either numbers or in range, or in both. These include the long-eared owl, the hawfinch and the nightingale.
In southern England, where the situation is worst, some of these species have virtually disappeared. "These birds are falling off the radar in a quite catastrophic way and we have no real idea why," said Graham Appleton of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Britain's leading bird research organisation. Three of its researchers, Rob Fuller, David Noble and Des Vanhinsbergh, produced the study with Ken Smith, a researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The most puzzling and perhaps most worrying aspect of the woodland bird decline, apart from its remarkable scale, is that there is no obvious single cause, as there has been with the dramatic and well-known decline over the past 30 years of British birds on farmland.
Species of the fields such as the skylark, the grey partridge, the corn bunting and the turtle dove have also dropped enormously in numbers, but the reason is well-known, the range of new agricultural practices that came in with the intensive farming revolution.
Turning these declines around by more wildlife-friendly farming methods is now official government policy, and may well eventually succeed.
But the difficulty with addressing the woodland bird decline is that there is no obvious simple reason for it, and thus no obvious simple solution.
In their study, which will be published in the March edition of the journal British Birds, the researchers offer seven possible causes which may be behind the declines. They are:
* Pressures on migrant birds during migration, or on their wintering grounds in Africa;
* Climate change in Britain itself, especially changes in the timing of the emergence of insects used as food, and the drying-out of woodlands;
* Reduction in the actual numbers of insects and other invertebrates;
* Impacts of land use on woodland edges and on habitats outside woodland;
* Reduced management of lowland woodland;
* Intensified habitat modification by deer, which eat the woodland bushes, shrubs and grasses, and stop regeneration of trees, reducing nesting areas and insect populations;
* New pressure on nests and young birds from predators, such as grey squirrels, members of the crow family, and great spotted woodpeckers.
But at present, these possibilities are speculative, and the true causes of an enormous change in Britain's natural environment remain a mystery.
©2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=614558
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I have been battling with the NRPB for years and the pigeon racing orgs about the problems with birds from masts. I can always tell when the output on my local mast is up because the birds diappear. I have filled in numerous online surveys from the RSPB about birds in the garden. I made a hoohaha last two years about bats - we used to have a big colony here which totally disappeared when the mast were erected. Since then we have had a couple of odd ones. However since other masts have been put up (and I believe that my house is now in a hot spot) I haven't heard any for a while. The sparrow population has also gone down AGAIN since other masts have been put in the area.. I believe, watching the birds, that in a very small way there is an evolutionary change but it is too small. The most noticable thing is in the size of the birds - small chicks growing very quickly to large birds. Robins also seem to be 'immune' but I am talking about one family only as opposed to a lot 4yrs ago.
regards
sue fergusson
--------
It does seem odd that the bird associations haven't taken up the concept that the EMF environment is one birds are sensitive to. We've noticed it! I've saved your observations into a growing document of similar bits and pieces on non-human observations. I feel fairly convinced that the changing planetary magnetic field, coupled with military specials and regular communications, are really screwing a lot of the environment up. Some deliberate, but most quite unknowingly.
Andy
--------
Last Summer a large petition and many objection letters were raised because of my concern for the wildlife of Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve once a TETRA mast was installed alongside the area.
In the minutes of the harbour advisory board meeting of September 8th 2004, the following comment is lodged.
"A number of conservation organisations had been contacted in order toascertain if they had planned to carry out research on this topic, each of which had advised that the issue had been given low priority as it was extremely difficult to ascertain the reasons for changes in behaviour short term".
I had given all organisations a blow by blow account of the behaviour of the three orphaned thrush fledglings that had adopted our garden as a feeding ground and had become so tame that they tapped on the window for raisins and walked into the house if the door was left open. In July 2004 my area was hit by tetra testing emisions at high power, and swaths of the area were totally without any birds except for seagulls, pigeons and magpies, for 3 days.
Only two of our little thrushes ever returned to our garden, and this took over a week. They were very wary and nervous, would not come near us, their feathers were in poor condition and they mostly sat under bushes in a dejected way.
It has taken four or five months for these thrushes to trust us enough to stay put while we put out food. But they never tapped on the window or came into the house again.
During that period last summer we found several dead birds in the area.
I think it is time these wildlife organisations left their desks and joined the real world!
Sandi
--------
I have a friend who lives in Hampstead Norreys near Newbury. She used to exercise a horse and her route frequently took her near the M4 (on adjacent track). This horse was perfect in traffic, never took any notice of cars, the nearby busy road etc. Then a mast was erected near the motoway and he became very badly behaved, shied, tried to run away if she ever took him down there. She tried writing to the council and to the BHS (British Horse Society) but they were not interested. (Can give you more precise details if you want them) However, horses are very sensitive (hearing and otherwise) and it might be worth trying to find out if other riders have problems with newly erected masts.
Cheers, Ann
--------
The 7 horses with the same liver complaint were in the Kent area. They were special horses used for displays etc (a team of 12?) For this reason, they did not roam freely in the fields and were given specialist care. A tetra mast was put up on a neighbour's land 300 yards from their stables and after 4 months 7 of the horses contracted some sort of liver disorder which left the vet puzzled and unable to treat.
In Kent, 12 special horses for displays etc were not let out in the fields and had special care. 7 of the 12 contracted a liver disease and the vet could not treat or diagnose it. There was a TETRA mast in the neighbouring field. The owner of the horses was seeking help with this from Mast Sanity.
Sandi
--------
It was me who started the horse thing! I promised Andy fuller details, the story is:
A friend who lives near East Ilsley/Newbury used to exercise a horse for someone. She used to daily cross a bridge over the A34 where there was already one mast in existence - the infamous mast disguised as a tree. The horse was always absolutely fine about traffic etc until two more masts were put up on the other side of the bridge then he became quite unmanageable, leapt about, refused to cross the bridge etc. My friend thought about it and the fact that, if you put metal in a microwave you can hear the waves pinging about, and she concluded that microwaves were probably bouncing off vehicles on the road and he could hear it and was upset because of it. Anyway, she had to give up using the crossing and although she wrote to the council and BHS, she got short shrift.
A side issue to this is that she happened to know an elderly woman who lived on the hillside in a relatively isolated house close to the three masts. This woman began to suffer cancerous patches on her scalp, the cancer spread and she died within a short period. The horse has also since died, he was found dead in his field and the owners were surprised because he was just turned 20 which is quite young for a horse with a relatively easy life. You could say this is all something and nothing but I do wonder whether there are other horse owners with problems and one just doesn't hear about it in the rush to live our glorious mobile-enhanced life (gosh, I feel depressed about it all this morning!)
Cheers Ann
--------
I can relate the story of two such cases. Two farms, surrounded by masts, have experienced the problem of cancers in their animals. Over the last couple of years the one farm have lost 3 dogs and a racehorse to cancer (the cancer in the horse started in the eye and spread, I think to other parts) and the neighbouring farm lost their horse to cancer of the rectum last year.
Elsewhere in the village we have lost dogs who "go off their legs" - one household lost both of their dogs to cancers (one ended up with a cancer which was almost the size of the rest of his body!).
Sylvia
-------
A friend asked me to forward this.
Gary
This maybe of interest - I have 3 horses and in their field is a huge electricity pylon. The grass immediately under the pylon is yellow and sparse compared to the grass elsewhere. Also the horses will never walk under it!!!
Makes you wonder
Peace Be
jx
From Mast Network
--------
Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/
Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540756/
Radio tracking collar disturbs water vole breeding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4302051.stm
Invisible Poisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/756341/
One day we'll all know - Let's hope it isn't too late
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444685/
25 February 2005
It has hardly been noticed, but it is another sinister warning sign of a world going badly wrong. Populations of some of Britain's most attractive woodland birds are plummeting at a rate that threatens them with extinction, and nobody knows why.
Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation.
In its scale and its range, the phenomenon is one of the most ominous events in the natural history of Britain over the past half-century. Perversely, the decline comes at a time when Britain is planting more woodlands than ever, and forest management has never been more sympathetic to wildlife conservation.
About a dozen species of small birds that have flitted through our woodlands for thousands of years are suddenly in serious trouble. This may be associated with climate change, linked to the damage that excess deer numbers are doing to the undergrowth in woodlands, or in some cases, linked to trouble for birds on migration routes to and from Africa.
The endangered species are less familiar than common garden visitors such as robins and blackbirds, which is perhaps why their disappearance has taken longer to register. But now a study, appearing next month, makes the picture clear for the first time.
It shows that five of the species - the spotted flycatcher, the lesser spotted woodpecker, the lesser whitethroat, the lesser redpoll and the tree pipit - plunged by more than three-quarters between 1966 and 1999, and continues to decline.
The population of the spotted flycatcher fell by no less than 85 per cent, and that of the lesser spotted woodpecker by 81 per cent. Another five species - the willow tit, the marsh tit, the woodcock, the dunnock or hedge sparrow and the willow warbler - fell by between half and three-quarters, and two more species, the songthrush and the bullfinch, fell by nearly a half.
Yet another group, for which there are no reliable numerical figures, is nevertheless known to have fallen significantly in either numbers or in range, or in both. These include the long-eared owl, the hawfinch and the nightingale.
In southern England, where the situation is worst, some of these species have virtually disappeared. "These birds are falling off the radar in a quite catastrophic way and we have no real idea why," said Graham Appleton of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Britain's leading bird research organisation. Three of its researchers, Rob Fuller, David Noble and Des Vanhinsbergh, produced the study with Ken Smith, a researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The most puzzling and perhaps most worrying aspect of the woodland bird decline, apart from its remarkable scale, is that there is no obvious single cause, as there has been with the dramatic and well-known decline over the past 30 years of British birds on farmland.
Species of the fields such as the skylark, the grey partridge, the corn bunting and the turtle dove have also dropped enormously in numbers, but the reason is well-known, the range of new agricultural practices that came in with the intensive farming revolution.
Turning these declines around by more wildlife-friendly farming methods is now official government policy, and may well eventually succeed.
But the difficulty with addressing the woodland bird decline is that there is no obvious simple reason for it, and thus no obvious simple solution.
In their study, which will be published in the March edition of the journal British Birds, the researchers offer seven possible causes which may be behind the declines. They are:
* Pressures on migrant birds during migration, or on their wintering grounds in Africa;
* Climate change in Britain itself, especially changes in the timing of the emergence of insects used as food, and the drying-out of woodlands;
* Reduction in the actual numbers of insects and other invertebrates;
* Impacts of land use on woodland edges and on habitats outside woodland;
* Reduced management of lowland woodland;
* Intensified habitat modification by deer, which eat the woodland bushes, shrubs and grasses, and stop regeneration of trees, reducing nesting areas and insect populations;
* New pressure on nests and young birds from predators, such as grey squirrels, members of the crow family, and great spotted woodpeckers.
But at present, these possibilities are speculative, and the true causes of an enormous change in Britain's natural environment remain a mystery.
©2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=614558
--------
I have been battling with the NRPB for years and the pigeon racing orgs about the problems with birds from masts. I can always tell when the output on my local mast is up because the birds diappear. I have filled in numerous online surveys from the RSPB about birds in the garden. I made a hoohaha last two years about bats - we used to have a big colony here which totally disappeared when the mast were erected. Since then we have had a couple of odd ones. However since other masts have been put up (and I believe that my house is now in a hot spot) I haven't heard any for a while. The sparrow population has also gone down AGAIN since other masts have been put in the area.. I believe, watching the birds, that in a very small way there is an evolutionary change but it is too small. The most noticable thing is in the size of the birds - small chicks growing very quickly to large birds. Robins also seem to be 'immune' but I am talking about one family only as opposed to a lot 4yrs ago.
regards
sue fergusson
--------
It does seem odd that the bird associations haven't taken up the concept that the EMF environment is one birds are sensitive to. We've noticed it! I've saved your observations into a growing document of similar bits and pieces on non-human observations. I feel fairly convinced that the changing planetary magnetic field, coupled with military specials and regular communications, are really screwing a lot of the environment up. Some deliberate, but most quite unknowingly.
Andy
--------
Last Summer a large petition and many objection letters were raised because of my concern for the wildlife of Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve once a TETRA mast was installed alongside the area.
In the minutes of the harbour advisory board meeting of September 8th 2004, the following comment is lodged.
"A number of conservation organisations had been contacted in order toascertain if they had planned to carry out research on this topic, each of which had advised that the issue had been given low priority as it was extremely difficult to ascertain the reasons for changes in behaviour short term".
I had given all organisations a blow by blow account of the behaviour of the three orphaned thrush fledglings that had adopted our garden as a feeding ground and had become so tame that they tapped on the window for raisins and walked into the house if the door was left open. In July 2004 my area was hit by tetra testing emisions at high power, and swaths of the area were totally without any birds except for seagulls, pigeons and magpies, for 3 days.
Only two of our little thrushes ever returned to our garden, and this took over a week. They were very wary and nervous, would not come near us, their feathers were in poor condition and they mostly sat under bushes in a dejected way.
It has taken four or five months for these thrushes to trust us enough to stay put while we put out food. But they never tapped on the window or came into the house again.
During that period last summer we found several dead birds in the area.
I think it is time these wildlife organisations left their desks and joined the real world!
Sandi
--------
I have a friend who lives in Hampstead Norreys near Newbury. She used to exercise a horse and her route frequently took her near the M4 (on adjacent track). This horse was perfect in traffic, never took any notice of cars, the nearby busy road etc. Then a mast was erected near the motoway and he became very badly behaved, shied, tried to run away if she ever took him down there. She tried writing to the council and to the BHS (British Horse Society) but they were not interested. (Can give you more precise details if you want them) However, horses are very sensitive (hearing and otherwise) and it might be worth trying to find out if other riders have problems with newly erected masts.
Cheers, Ann
--------
The 7 horses with the same liver complaint were in the Kent area. They were special horses used for displays etc (a team of 12?) For this reason, they did not roam freely in the fields and were given specialist care. A tetra mast was put up on a neighbour's land 300 yards from their stables and after 4 months 7 of the horses contracted some sort of liver disorder which left the vet puzzled and unable to treat.
In Kent, 12 special horses for displays etc were not let out in the fields and had special care. 7 of the 12 contracted a liver disease and the vet could not treat or diagnose it. There was a TETRA mast in the neighbouring field. The owner of the horses was seeking help with this from Mast Sanity.
Sandi
--------
It was me who started the horse thing! I promised Andy fuller details, the story is:
A friend who lives near East Ilsley/Newbury used to exercise a horse for someone. She used to daily cross a bridge over the A34 where there was already one mast in existence - the infamous mast disguised as a tree. The horse was always absolutely fine about traffic etc until two more masts were put up on the other side of the bridge then he became quite unmanageable, leapt about, refused to cross the bridge etc. My friend thought about it and the fact that, if you put metal in a microwave you can hear the waves pinging about, and she concluded that microwaves were probably bouncing off vehicles on the road and he could hear it and was upset because of it. Anyway, she had to give up using the crossing and although she wrote to the council and BHS, she got short shrift.
A side issue to this is that she happened to know an elderly woman who lived on the hillside in a relatively isolated house close to the three masts. This woman began to suffer cancerous patches on her scalp, the cancer spread and she died within a short period. The horse has also since died, he was found dead in his field and the owners were surprised because he was just turned 20 which is quite young for a horse with a relatively easy life. You could say this is all something and nothing but I do wonder whether there are other horse owners with problems and one just doesn't hear about it in the rush to live our glorious mobile-enhanced life (gosh, I feel depressed about it all this morning!)
Cheers Ann
--------
I can relate the story of two such cases. Two farms, surrounded by masts, have experienced the problem of cancers in their animals. Over the last couple of years the one farm have lost 3 dogs and a racehorse to cancer (the cancer in the horse started in the eye and spread, I think to other parts) and the neighbouring farm lost their horse to cancer of the rectum last year.
Elsewhere in the village we have lost dogs who "go off their legs" - one household lost both of their dogs to cancers (one ended up with a cancer which was almost the size of the rest of his body!).
Sylvia
-------
A friend asked me to forward this.
Gary
This maybe of interest - I have 3 horses and in their field is a huge electricity pylon. The grass immediately under the pylon is yellow and sparse compared to the grass elsewhere. Also the horses will never walk under it!!!
Makes you wonder
Peace Be
jx
From Mast Network
--------
Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/
Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540756/
Radio tracking collar disturbs water vole breeding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4302051.stm
Invisible Poisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/756341/
One day we'll all know - Let's hope it isn't too late
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444685/
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:22
New phone masts cannot be banned, says government
by Colleen McDonnell
Attempts by Richmond upon Thames Council to ban new phone masts are being frustrated by government guidelines, the council leader said this week.
Cllr Tony Arbour, who represents Hampton Wick ward, opposes a proposed ten metre high mast at the junction of Normansfield Avenue and Upper Teddington Road, near Hampton Wick Infant School, on the grounds that it would be a health risk.
But he said the government's planning department promptly sent back a warning to the council: local authorities cannot put blanket bans on phone masts.
Following Cllr Arbour's declaration to local residents, expressing the council's opposition, the government department wrote: "Local authorities should not implement their own precautionary policies, e,g by way of imposing a ban or moratorium on new telecommunications develop-ment or insisting on minimum distances between new telecommunications develop-ment and existing development."
Cllr Arbour said: "It is sad that we are prevented from taking action which will safeguard the interests of the residents whom we represent. Nevertheless every application for a new mast will be subject to the strongest scrutiny. I am sorry that our members of Parliament have failed to persuade the government that Richmond and other councils should be able to act in the interests of their residents."
The government's firm stance is based on guidelines for local authorities in Planning Policy Guidance 8 (PPG 8), last revised in 2001.
The government statement said the planning system is not the place for deciding health and safety and that if a proposed mobile phone mast meets emission level guidelines local planners should not consider further health aspects when deciding the application.
There are already three phone masts located close by, along a small section of Kingston Road. Hampton Wick Infant school is within one fifth of a mile and St John the Baptist school within a quarter mile of the proposed mast. Hampton Wick residents and parents of children at the two schools are worried because questions still exist regarding the impact of mobile phone masts.
MP for Twickenham, Vincent Cable, who is currently supporting residents in their battle against the Ashley Road phone mast in Hampton, will soon receive a petition from residents protesting the proposed mast on Normansfield Avenue. He said: "We can expect a large number of new masts. The companies are trying to get as many up as possible in order to plug the holes in their network and to get permission before pressures grow for tighter planning rules on masts. Under existing rules it is difficult to stop masts on any other than purely planning considerations; but residents should keep up the pressure on the council and the government."
Included in the planning department's statement was a parliamentary exchange in which Yvette Cooper, the public health minister, said the 'precautionary approach' recommended by the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones' report in 2000 has provided the basis for government policy.
She said: "The group's report did not recommend a ban on the construction of mobile phone masts near schools or any other site. What the report did do was make some specific recommendations for precautionary action for the use of mobile technology."
Sir William Stewart of the National Radiological Protection Board published a new study in January warning that if mobile phones do damage health, then children will inevitably be at greatest risk. His report also called for a review of the planning of base stations. According to an article published by the BBC, Sir William has also said he does not favour mobile phone masts being situated near schools.
3:12pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
Attempts by Richmond upon Thames Council to ban new phone masts are being frustrated by government guidelines, the council leader said this week.
Cllr Tony Arbour, who represents Hampton Wick ward, opposes a proposed ten metre high mast at the junction of Normansfield Avenue and Upper Teddington Road, near Hampton Wick Infant School, on the grounds that it would be a health risk.
But he said the government's planning department promptly sent back a warning to the council: local authorities cannot put blanket bans on phone masts.
Following Cllr Arbour's declaration to local residents, expressing the council's opposition, the government department wrote: "Local authorities should not implement their own precautionary policies, e,g by way of imposing a ban or moratorium on new telecommunications develop-ment or insisting on minimum distances between new telecommunications develop-ment and existing development."
Cllr Arbour said: "It is sad that we are prevented from taking action which will safeguard the interests of the residents whom we represent. Nevertheless every application for a new mast will be subject to the strongest scrutiny. I am sorry that our members of Parliament have failed to persuade the government that Richmond and other councils should be able to act in the interests of their residents."
The government's firm stance is based on guidelines for local authorities in Planning Policy Guidance 8 (PPG 8), last revised in 2001.
The government statement said the planning system is not the place for deciding health and safety and that if a proposed mobile phone mast meets emission level guidelines local planners should not consider further health aspects when deciding the application.
There are already three phone masts located close by, along a small section of Kingston Road. Hampton Wick Infant school is within one fifth of a mile and St John the Baptist school within a quarter mile of the proposed mast. Hampton Wick residents and parents of children at the two schools are worried because questions still exist regarding the impact of mobile phone masts.
MP for Twickenham, Vincent Cable, who is currently supporting residents in their battle against the Ashley Road phone mast in Hampton, will soon receive a petition from residents protesting the proposed mast on Normansfield Avenue. He said: "We can expect a large number of new masts. The companies are trying to get as many up as possible in order to plug the holes in their network and to get permission before pressures grow for tighter planning rules on masts. Under existing rules it is difficult to stop masts on any other than purely planning considerations; but residents should keep up the pressure on the council and the government."
Included in the planning department's statement was a parliamentary exchange in which Yvette Cooper, the public health minister, said the 'precautionary approach' recommended by the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones' report in 2000 has provided the basis for government policy.
She said: "The group's report did not recommend a ban on the construction of mobile phone masts near schools or any other site. What the report did do was make some specific recommendations for precautionary action for the use of mobile technology."
Sir William Stewart of the National Radiological Protection Board published a new study in January warning that if mobile phones do damage health, then children will inevitably be at greatest risk. His report also called for a review of the planning of base stations. According to an article published by the BBC, Sir William has also said he does not favour mobile phone masts being situated near schools.
3:12pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:18
Campaign against phone mast gathers pace
by Lawrence Marzouk
A campaign is gathering pace against a mobile phone mast to be erected next to an Edgware school.
Residents, representatives of the Holland House School, Broadhurst Avenue, Edgware, and local Tory councillor Brian Gordon have attacked plans to install three antennae at Mowbray House, Edgware.
Stephen Bernstein, Holland House's chair of the board of governors, commented: "We are very concerned at the decision: the Mowbray building is a stone throw away from the school."
Mr Gordon added: "I very much share these concerns and I am in the process of making a direct approach to Vodafone to persuade them to change their plans for this site."
Encouraging news came this week as Barnet Council rejected a bid to install a 10m monopole in East End Road, East Finchley, near the junction with Windermere Avenue.
Sue Liu, of Pavilion Mews, Finchley, fought the East Finchley installation purely on the basis of planning regulations, despite her concerns that new 3G masts could cause danger to health and put children at nearby schools at risk.
She said: "You have to know to oppose these things on planning reasons.
"I'm worried about the health reasons, but you have to trawl the UDP Unitary Development Plan and look for things to apply to your area."
4:59pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
A campaign is gathering pace against a mobile phone mast to be erected next to an Edgware school.
Residents, representatives of the Holland House School, Broadhurst Avenue, Edgware, and local Tory councillor Brian Gordon have attacked plans to install three antennae at Mowbray House, Edgware.
Stephen Bernstein, Holland House's chair of the board of governors, commented: "We are very concerned at the decision: the Mowbray building is a stone throw away from the school."
Mr Gordon added: "I very much share these concerns and I am in the process of making a direct approach to Vodafone to persuade them to change their plans for this site."
Encouraging news came this week as Barnet Council rejected a bid to install a 10m monopole in East End Road, East Finchley, near the junction with Windermere Avenue.
Sue Liu, of Pavilion Mews, Finchley, fought the East Finchley installation purely on the basis of planning regulations, despite her concerns that new 3G masts could cause danger to health and put children at nearby schools at risk.
She said: "You have to know to oppose these things on planning reasons.
"I'm worried about the health reasons, but you have to trawl the UDP Unitary Development Plan and look for things to apply to your area."
4:59pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:14
School applications hit by mast plan
by Colleen McDonnell
APPLICATIONS to attend Hampton Junior School are being withdrawn by parents who fear the mobile phone mast located 10 metres away from the playground may be approved for yet another upgrade. Recognised as one of the best primary schools in the borough, the school is now facing a growing number of parents so strongly opposed to the 23-metre 3G Vodafone mast that they no long wish their send their children to school there.
Local parents and residents, Catriona Nason and Cassandra Wilcox, have set up Hampton Parents Against Ashley Road Phone Mast, to get the mast removed.
Dr Vincent Cable, MP, will be speaking at the group's next meeting on Wednesday evening at the school. He will be explaining some of the legislative background and discussing other instances of contested masts in the local area.
Mrs Wilcox said: "Hampton Junior School is one of the best in the borough. It is unacceptable that parents like myself are forced to choose between their children's health and education. The mast must be moved. We demand that Richmond council and the LEA work with Vodafone to find an alternative site.
"I want to ensure that the lives of our children and future generations are not endangered by mobile phone masts. I deplore the way this government and local planning authorities are ignoring the valid fears of the people they purport to serve."
The mast was first installed in 1994 and moved to its current position in 1997. The mast was later upgraded to a higher strength for 3G technology.
Mrs Nason, chair of Hampton Junior School Association said: "The school is by far the best Junior School in the borough and we have decided to take our children there due to its excellent reputation, results and atmosphere. My children love the school and the teachers. The mast should be re-sited to ensure parents never have to make such a decision."
The next public meeting will be on Wednesday, March 2 at 8pm at Hampton Junior School. All are welcome. The campaign website www.mast-campaign.com will be online in the first week of March.
3:17pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
APPLICATIONS to attend Hampton Junior School are being withdrawn by parents who fear the mobile phone mast located 10 metres away from the playground may be approved for yet another upgrade. Recognised as one of the best primary schools in the borough, the school is now facing a growing number of parents so strongly opposed to the 23-metre 3G Vodafone mast that they no long wish their send their children to school there.
Local parents and residents, Catriona Nason and Cassandra Wilcox, have set up Hampton Parents Against Ashley Road Phone Mast, to get the mast removed.
Dr Vincent Cable, MP, will be speaking at the group's next meeting on Wednesday evening at the school. He will be explaining some of the legislative background and discussing other instances of contested masts in the local area.
Mrs Wilcox said: "Hampton Junior School is one of the best in the borough. It is unacceptable that parents like myself are forced to choose between their children's health and education. The mast must be moved. We demand that Richmond council and the LEA work with Vodafone to find an alternative site.
"I want to ensure that the lives of our children and future generations are not endangered by mobile phone masts. I deplore the way this government and local planning authorities are ignoring the valid fears of the people they purport to serve."
The mast was first installed in 1994 and moved to its current position in 1997. The mast was later upgraded to a higher strength for 3G technology.
Mrs Nason, chair of Hampton Junior School Association said: "The school is by far the best Junior School in the borough and we have decided to take our children there due to its excellent reputation, results and atmosphere. My children love the school and the teachers. The mast should be re-sited to ensure parents never have to make such a decision."
The next public meeting will be on Wednesday, March 2 at 8pm at Hampton Junior School. All are welcome. The campaign website www.mast-campaign.com will be online in the first week of March.
3:17pm Thursday 24th February 2005
From Mast Network
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:11
Gannongate: It's Worse Than You Think
Starmail - 25. Feb, 15:08
„Einstiegsdroge“ Handy bei Jugendlichen
Der Anteil an jungen Schuldnern erhöht sich seit Jahren ständig. Hier liegen für Niederreiter die Ursachen vor allem im nie oder nur lückenhaft gelernten Umgang mit Geld und Finanzprodukten. Zudem sind die jungen Erwachsenen die bevorzugte Zielgruppe der Werbestrategen unserer Konsumgesellschaft. Das Handy gilt als „Einstiegsdroge“ in eine Schuldnerkarriere; auch wenn diese Schulden meist noch von den Eltern beglichen werden. Außerdem muss zwischen „Jugendlichen“ und Volljährigen unterschieden werden. Jugendliche bis 18 Jahren sind nicht volljährig und daher auch nicht Vertragspartner der Handy-Betreiber. Vertragspartner ist zumeist ein Elternteil und haftet damit für die Kosten. Schulden durch die Handy-Nutzung hat daher zwischenzeitig auch (fast) jeder Schuldner, zumeist auch bei mehreren Anbietern. Durchschnittlich betragen diese Schulden pro Anbieter 1.150 Euro.
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/lkorr-meldung?nachrid=33898 (Auszug)
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/lkorr-meldung?nachrid=33898 (Auszug)
Starmail - 25. Feb, 14:27
Strahlende Welt
Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg
BwWoche 21. Februar 2005 / Nr. 6
http://www.bwheute.de/
Sie sind unsichtbar, aber nicht harmlos
Elektromagnetische Wellen machen Menschen krank:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/strahlende_welt.pdf
Eigentlich müsste ja mit jedem Handy auch ein Flugblatt, Beipackzettel, Warnhinweis oder was auch immer, mitverkauft werden, in dem auf die Risiken der gepulsten Hochfrequenzstrahlung hingewiesen wird. Bei den Zigaretten war so was ja auch nicht die Idee von Philipp Morris, wir können also hier von Seiten Nokias und Konsorten nichts erwarten. aber auch Gesundheitsministerium und Bundessamt für Strahlenschutz schweigen und verstecken sich hinter ihren Grenzwerten. Der Bund hätte nämlich n’ Problem, wenn er n’ Rückzieher machen wollte (UMTS-Lizenzen) muss es hier erst noch EU-Vorschriften geben? Dann dauert der ganze Zirkus ja noch länger.
Apropos länger dauern: wenn die Leut’ immer Studienergebnisse anzweifeln und "Beweise" fordern, sag ich "die Beweise werden schon noch geboren, nur is’ es dann reichlich spät" aber wie auch immer, das Problembewusstsein ist zumindest in unserer Region äußerst miserabel. Ich werde beim Flyerverteilen immer fast feindselig angeguckt, grade auch von Jugendlichen.
MfG
Eckardt Giese
Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4972
Thema Mobilfunk nur von einigen wenigen "Übertrainierten" besetzt?
Die Zeiten, in den das Thema Mobilfunk nur von einigen wenigen "Übertrainierten" besetzt war, scheinen allmählich vorbei. Nun hat auch die bwWoche (ehemals Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg) in einem ganzseitigen Artikel sich mit dem Thema befasst: "Strahlende Welt: sie sind unsichtbar, aber nicht harmlos" aufgehängt an einem Fallbeispiel, wird über Symptome (einschl. Wertverlust der Immobilien), Entstehung der Felder, Grenzwerte und die jüngste Anfrage der Grünen im Landtag informiert. Außerdem werden in einem separaten Abschnitt kurz die Begriffe "elektrisches Feld, magnetisches Feld, statisches Feld, Wechselfeld " erklärt.
Unser Gemeinderat scheint jedoch zunächst überhaupt nicht gewillt, sich mit der Problematik zu beschäftigen, manche scheinen sogar "beratungsresistent" und ziehen sich hinter irgendwelche Bauvorschriften und "Verwaltungseinheit" zurück. Dies wird jedoch angesichts der Schlagworte "Hörnervtumor, Gehirntumor, genetische Veränderung usw." der Sache nicht gerecht.
Wie kann man erreichen, dass der Aspekt der Gesundheitsvorsorge hier im Vordergrund steht, und dem Gemeinderat/bürgermeister mehr Einfluss auf die Baumaßnamen zukommt? Mir scheint bei unserem Gemeinderat ein Informationsdefizit vorzuliegen.
Was die örtlichen Schulen mit dem "Elternbrief" der hier vor einiger Zeit angeboten wurde, gemacht haben, kann ich nicht sagen.
Eckardt Giese
Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4967
BwWoche 21. Februar 2005 / Nr. 6
http://www.bwheute.de/
Sie sind unsichtbar, aber nicht harmlos
Elektromagnetische Wellen machen Menschen krank:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/strahlende_welt.pdf
Eigentlich müsste ja mit jedem Handy auch ein Flugblatt, Beipackzettel, Warnhinweis oder was auch immer, mitverkauft werden, in dem auf die Risiken der gepulsten Hochfrequenzstrahlung hingewiesen wird. Bei den Zigaretten war so was ja auch nicht die Idee von Philipp Morris, wir können also hier von Seiten Nokias und Konsorten nichts erwarten. aber auch Gesundheitsministerium und Bundessamt für Strahlenschutz schweigen und verstecken sich hinter ihren Grenzwerten. Der Bund hätte nämlich n’ Problem, wenn er n’ Rückzieher machen wollte (UMTS-Lizenzen) muss es hier erst noch EU-Vorschriften geben? Dann dauert der ganze Zirkus ja noch länger.
Apropos länger dauern: wenn die Leut’ immer Studienergebnisse anzweifeln und "Beweise" fordern, sag ich "die Beweise werden schon noch geboren, nur is’ es dann reichlich spät" aber wie auch immer, das Problembewusstsein ist zumindest in unserer Region äußerst miserabel. Ich werde beim Flyerverteilen immer fast feindselig angeguckt, grade auch von Jugendlichen.
MfG
Eckardt Giese
Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4972
Thema Mobilfunk nur von einigen wenigen "Übertrainierten" besetzt?
Die Zeiten, in den das Thema Mobilfunk nur von einigen wenigen "Übertrainierten" besetzt war, scheinen allmählich vorbei. Nun hat auch die bwWoche (ehemals Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg) in einem ganzseitigen Artikel sich mit dem Thema befasst: "Strahlende Welt: sie sind unsichtbar, aber nicht harmlos" aufgehängt an einem Fallbeispiel, wird über Symptome (einschl. Wertverlust der Immobilien), Entstehung der Felder, Grenzwerte und die jüngste Anfrage der Grünen im Landtag informiert. Außerdem werden in einem separaten Abschnitt kurz die Begriffe "elektrisches Feld, magnetisches Feld, statisches Feld, Wechselfeld " erklärt.
Unser Gemeinderat scheint jedoch zunächst überhaupt nicht gewillt, sich mit der Problematik zu beschäftigen, manche scheinen sogar "beratungsresistent" und ziehen sich hinter irgendwelche Bauvorschriften und "Verwaltungseinheit" zurück. Dies wird jedoch angesichts der Schlagworte "Hörnervtumor, Gehirntumor, genetische Veränderung usw." der Sache nicht gerecht.
Wie kann man erreichen, dass der Aspekt der Gesundheitsvorsorge hier im Vordergrund steht, und dem Gemeinderat/bürgermeister mehr Einfluss auf die Baumaßnamen zukommt? Mir scheint bei unserem Gemeinderat ein Informationsdefizit vorzuliegen.
Was die örtlichen Schulen mit dem "Elternbrief" der hier vor einiger Zeit angeboten wurde, gemacht haben, kann ich nicht sagen.
Eckardt Giese
Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4967
Starmail - 25. Feb, 09:48
"Not welcome Mr. Bush": Anti-Bush Demo in Mainz
http://www.notwelcomebush.de
http://www.attac.de/uni-bochum/CMS/index.php
http://www.attac.de/uni-bochum/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=45
http://www.gruene-linke.de/050223_bush-demo/index.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerrit/sets/134112/
In den letzten Tagen bin ich öfter gefragt worden, was denn nun die Motivation von Attac sei, sich am Bündnis "Not welcome Mr. Bush!" zu beteiligen bzw. was unser spezifischer Beitrag hierbei sei. Diese Frage ist mittlerweile gar nicht mehr so einfach zu beantworten, da die Globalisierungskritik, so wie wir sie betreiben, erfreulicherweise bereits in der Friedensbewegung 'angekommen' ist und dort eigenständig weiterentwickelt wird. Ich möchte dies gerne an vier von sechs bisher unter http://www.notwelcomebush.de veröffentlichten Reden (meine nicht mitgerechnet) zeigen und damit auch Appetit auf eine genauere Lektüre insbesondere des Beitrags von Markus Pflüger machen, von dem wir mit Sicherheit einiges lernen können.
Am knackigsten (diese Rede gefällt mir persönlich am besten) baut Michael Wilk vom AKU Wiesbaden http://www.aku-wiesbaden.de/ueberuns.htm die Globalisierungskritik in seinen Beitrag ein:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=122
Gregor Böckermann von der Initiative Ordensleute für den Frieden thematisiert im zweiten Teil seines kurzen eingängigen Beitrags, überschrieben mit "Kapital braucht Krieg", die tödlichen Auswirkungen der "Verselbständigung und Globalisierung der Finanzströme" und fordert die Einführung der Tobin-Steuer:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=131
Jürgen Grässlin (Bundessprecher DFG-VK) stellt Bushs Achse des Bösen die "wahre Achse des Bösen" gegenüber: "Die 'wahre Achse des Bösen' reicht vom Hunger über die Armut, die fehlende Bildung bis hin zur unzureichenden medikamentösen Versorgung für Millionen von Menschen in aller Welt. (...) Zudem trägt die hemmungslose Wirtschafts- und Umweltverschmutzungspolitik der USA massiv dazu bei, dass die Klimakatastrophe wahrscheinlicher wird, dass verstärkt Kriege um Rohstoffe wie Erdöl und Wasser geführt werden, dass riesige Landstriche unbewohnbar und noch mehr Menschen zu Flüchtlingen gemacht werden."
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=132
Markus Pflüger (AGF Trier / DFG-VK / IMI), widmet sich hauptsächlich dem 'Flugzeugträger Rheinland-Pfalz' ("Ramstein und Spangdahlem sind zudem keine beliebigen US-Militärbasen. Der Flugzeugträger Rheinland-Pfalz ist DAS Zentrum des US-Nachschubs und der Vorbereitung des Irakkriegs in Europa. Ramstein war und ist zusammen mit Spangdahlem Nadelöhr und Nabel der US-Kriege der letzten Jahre. Sie gehören als die zwei größten Kriegsflughäfen Europas zum Eckpfeiler der aggressiven Politik, wie sie im Nationalen Sicherheitskonzept der Bush-Regierung formuliert ist. Ramstein ist logistische Drehscheibe für die Besatzung im Irak"), der deutschen Mittäterschaft am Irakkrieg und der EU-Militarisierung. Als Schluss seiner langen Rede kritisiert er "das kapitalistische Verwertungssystem, in das diese Kriegspolitik eingebettet ist, (...) die neoliberale Globalisierung mit Multis, Privatisierung und Freihandelsverträgen zulasten der Armen und Ausgebeuteten. Hier fängt z.B. es an mit Ein-Euro-Jobs und Studiengebühren. In anderen Ländern sind es knallharte Ausbeutungsfabriken und Kriege niederer Intensität. Von Puebla bis Panama, von Genua bis München zeigt dieses System in dem wir leben seine hässliche Fratze":
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=128
Unser 'spezifischer Beitrag' kann meiner Meinung nach daher eigentlich nur darin bestehen, ein, zwei etwas spezialwissenmäßig eher entlegene, aber aktuelle Beispiele aufzuführen, die die aufgeführten allgemeinen Beschreibungen gewissermaßen skandalisierend bebildern:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=126
-- Angelika Shams * Mitglied im Attac-Bundeskoordinierungskreis Egertstraße 12 * 75365 Calw-Stammheim * email: shams@attac.de Fon: 07051 / 935 675 * 0179 / 513 41 59 * Fax: 07051 / 935 677
Bush in Mainz: Reportage vom Ausnahmezustand
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541311/
http://www.attac.de/uni-bochum/CMS/index.php
http://www.attac.de/uni-bochum/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=45
http://www.gruene-linke.de/050223_bush-demo/index.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerrit/sets/134112/
In den letzten Tagen bin ich öfter gefragt worden, was denn nun die Motivation von Attac sei, sich am Bündnis "Not welcome Mr. Bush!" zu beteiligen bzw. was unser spezifischer Beitrag hierbei sei. Diese Frage ist mittlerweile gar nicht mehr so einfach zu beantworten, da die Globalisierungskritik, so wie wir sie betreiben, erfreulicherweise bereits in der Friedensbewegung 'angekommen' ist und dort eigenständig weiterentwickelt wird. Ich möchte dies gerne an vier von sechs bisher unter http://www.notwelcomebush.de veröffentlichten Reden (meine nicht mitgerechnet) zeigen und damit auch Appetit auf eine genauere Lektüre insbesondere des Beitrags von Markus Pflüger machen, von dem wir mit Sicherheit einiges lernen können.
Am knackigsten (diese Rede gefällt mir persönlich am besten) baut Michael Wilk vom AKU Wiesbaden http://www.aku-wiesbaden.de/ueberuns.htm die Globalisierungskritik in seinen Beitrag ein:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=122
Gregor Böckermann von der Initiative Ordensleute für den Frieden thematisiert im zweiten Teil seines kurzen eingängigen Beitrags, überschrieben mit "Kapital braucht Krieg", die tödlichen Auswirkungen der "Verselbständigung und Globalisierung der Finanzströme" und fordert die Einführung der Tobin-Steuer:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=131
Jürgen Grässlin (Bundessprecher DFG-VK) stellt Bushs Achse des Bösen die "wahre Achse des Bösen" gegenüber: "Die 'wahre Achse des Bösen' reicht vom Hunger über die Armut, die fehlende Bildung bis hin zur unzureichenden medikamentösen Versorgung für Millionen von Menschen in aller Welt. (...) Zudem trägt die hemmungslose Wirtschafts- und Umweltverschmutzungspolitik der USA massiv dazu bei, dass die Klimakatastrophe wahrscheinlicher wird, dass verstärkt Kriege um Rohstoffe wie Erdöl und Wasser geführt werden, dass riesige Landstriche unbewohnbar und noch mehr Menschen zu Flüchtlingen gemacht werden."
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=132
Markus Pflüger (AGF Trier / DFG-VK / IMI), widmet sich hauptsächlich dem 'Flugzeugträger Rheinland-Pfalz' ("Ramstein und Spangdahlem sind zudem keine beliebigen US-Militärbasen. Der Flugzeugträger Rheinland-Pfalz ist DAS Zentrum des US-Nachschubs und der Vorbereitung des Irakkriegs in Europa. Ramstein war und ist zusammen mit Spangdahlem Nadelöhr und Nabel der US-Kriege der letzten Jahre. Sie gehören als die zwei größten Kriegsflughäfen Europas zum Eckpfeiler der aggressiven Politik, wie sie im Nationalen Sicherheitskonzept der Bush-Regierung formuliert ist. Ramstein ist logistische Drehscheibe für die Besatzung im Irak"), der deutschen Mittäterschaft am Irakkrieg und der EU-Militarisierung. Als Schluss seiner langen Rede kritisiert er "das kapitalistische Verwertungssystem, in das diese Kriegspolitik eingebettet ist, (...) die neoliberale Globalisierung mit Multis, Privatisierung und Freihandelsverträgen zulasten der Armen und Ausgebeuteten. Hier fängt z.B. es an mit Ein-Euro-Jobs und Studiengebühren. In anderen Ländern sind es knallharte Ausbeutungsfabriken und Kriege niederer Intensität. Von Puebla bis Panama, von Genua bis München zeigt dieses System in dem wir leben seine hässliche Fratze":
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=128
Unser 'spezifischer Beitrag' kann meiner Meinung nach daher eigentlich nur darin bestehen, ein, zwei etwas spezialwissenmäßig eher entlegene, aber aktuelle Beispiele aufzuführen, die die aufgeführten allgemeinen Beschreibungen gewissermaßen skandalisierend bebildern:
http://www.notwelcomebush.de/index.php?menuid=37&reporeid=126
-- Angelika Shams * Mitglied im Attac-Bundeskoordinierungskreis Egertstraße 12 * 75365 Calw-Stammheim * email: shams@attac.de Fon: 07051 / 935 675 * 0179 / 513 41 59 * Fax: 07051 / 935 677
Bush in Mainz: Reportage vom Ausnahmezustand
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541311/
Starmail - 25. Feb, 08:25
24
Feb
2005
Brits, Yanks, Asleep as Ancient Liberties Fade
Law after draconian law, has been placed on the statutory books in both countries that rip the revered “Rights of Englishmen,” the cherished U.S. Constitution, and the hallowed Bill of Rights to shreds.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13354
Blair limits damage after terror rebellion :
The prime minister moved quickly today to defend his home arrests bill following last night's rebellion by more than 30 Labour MPs, saying he "rejected completely" that it was a fundamental attack on long-standing civil liberties.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,1424303,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13354
Blair limits damage after terror rebellion :
The prime minister moved quickly today to defend his home arrests bill following last night's rebellion by more than 30 Labour MPs, saying he "rejected completely" that it was a fundamental attack on long-standing civil liberties.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,1424303,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:24
Pentagon seeks new anti-terror operation
The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10977106.htm
http://tinyurl.com/69ku2
From Information Clearing House
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10977106.htm
http://tinyurl.com/69ku2
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:15
Guard facing troop shortage for Iraq in 2006
The Army National Guard will run short of troops for Iraq in 2006 unless the situation there improves or the 24-month limit on callups is changed, its top general said Wednesday.
http://tinyurl.com/42avk
From Information Clearing House
http://tinyurl.com/42avk
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:14
Churches attack Iraq troop plan
A Christian alliance has savaged the Government's decision to send more troops to Iraq as "scandalous", saying the Prime Minister had broken trust with the Australian people.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh53.html
From Information Clearing House
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh53.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:13
War Crimes
Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured...
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html
http://tinyurl.com/7y8b8
From Information Clearing House
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html
http://tinyurl.com/7y8b8
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:10
The Evolution of Revolution
Expelling the Demons of the Opiate
by Manuel Valenzuela
If you must believe in something, then believe in humanism, in compassion, in peace, love and togetherness. Believe in the Earth and the splendors of her surface. Believe in nature and in saving it from ourselves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8158.htm
by Manuel Valenzuela
If you must believe in something, then believe in humanism, in compassion, in peace, love and togetherness. Believe in the Earth and the splendors of her surface. Believe in nature and in saving it from ourselves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8158.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:05
No Tyrant Can Stand Forever
Least we forget the crimes, the pain, the death!
Bring These People To Justice Now!
6 Minute Video: Watch It Online Now - Windows Media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8159.htm
Bring These People To Justice Now!
6 Minute Video: Watch It Online Now - Windows Media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8159.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:04
Core Values
by Chris Floyd
Here, where there should be thunderous denunciations of the Bush regime's rape of American honor -- a litany of sins that includes aggressive war, the decimation of cities, vile acts of torture, kidnappings, "renditions," imprisonment without charges, indefinite detention, assassinations, war profiteering and the exaltation of presidential power above the reach of law -- there has been only silent acquiescence, or the rare, decorous, timorous murmur, or, increasingly, enthusiastic support.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8161.htm
Why are we welcoming this torturer?
Europe is tacitly condoning the Bush regime's appalling practices
Victoria Brittain
George Bush is this week having an extravagantly orchestrated series of meetings with Europe's leaders, designed to show a united front for the creation of democracy around the world. Tony Blair talks of our "shared values". No one mentions the word that makes this show a mockery: torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8157.htm
Here, where there should be thunderous denunciations of the Bush regime's rape of American honor -- a litany of sins that includes aggressive war, the decimation of cities, vile acts of torture, kidnappings, "renditions," imprisonment without charges, indefinite detention, assassinations, war profiteering and the exaltation of presidential power above the reach of law -- there has been only silent acquiescence, or the rare, decorous, timorous murmur, or, increasingly, enthusiastic support.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8161.htm
Why are we welcoming this torturer?
Europe is tacitly condoning the Bush regime's appalling practices
Victoria Brittain
George Bush is this week having an extravagantly orchestrated series of meetings with Europe's leaders, designed to show a united front for the creation of democracy around the world. Tony Blair talks of our "shared values". No one mentions the word that makes this show a mockery: torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8157.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 23:02
Weather Control
Saturday January 29th, 2005
Television weatherman Scott Stevens (weatherwars.info) believes our weather is being controlled by outside sources.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/01/
Informant: Inca
Television weatherman Scott Stevens (weatherwars.info) believes our weather is being controlled by outside sources.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/01/
Informant: Inca
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:55
HAARP Experiments
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:53
AMERICA'S PARALLEL WORLD
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:47
Why Are We Welcoming This Torturer?
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:43
Both Houses of Congress Get Involved in 'Gannon' Case
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:37
Bush's 'No Child' Law; 50-State Group Says It's Unconstitutional
Task Force Criticizes Bush's 'No Child' Law; 50-State Group Says It's Unconstitutional
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-09.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-09.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:36
The Germans Bush Wasn't Able to See
Empty Town: The Germans Bush Wasn't Able to See
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-06.htm
With a Hush and a Whisper, Bush Drops Town Hall Meeting with Germans
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-08.htm
German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist':
The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby Wie
http://tinyurl.com/5p4q7
From Information Clearing House
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-06.htm
With a Hush and a Whisper, Bush Drops Town Hall Meeting with Germans
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0224-08.htm
German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist':
The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby Wie
http://tinyurl.com/5p4q7
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:35
WE`VE ALL GONE MOBILE PHONE MAD
Nice little jaw blow for the telecom industry in yesterdays Argus newspaper (Sussex wide).
Gary..
WE`VE ALL GONE MOBILE PHONE MAD
I am appalled to read about the vast number of phone masts which are going to be erected, especially in residential areas and near schools. We have gone mobile phone mad. They are lethal - the increase in brain cancer will be enormous especially in young children and business people, who are never off them.
How did they manage before?
Mobile phones are good for emergencies only. Parents who buy them for their children are asking for trouble unless they teach their children when to use them.
Protests must go on - we did without mobile phones before and we can do so again -but, unless the medical world publicises the dangers very soon, there will be a great deal of heartache in many homes in future.`J. Adams, Matlock Road, Brighton
From Mast Network
Gary..
WE`VE ALL GONE MOBILE PHONE MAD
I am appalled to read about the vast number of phone masts which are going to be erected, especially in residential areas and near schools. We have gone mobile phone mad. They are lethal - the increase in brain cancer will be enormous especially in young children and business people, who are never off them.
How did they manage before?
Mobile phones are good for emergencies only. Parents who buy them for their children are asking for trouble unless they teach their children when to use them.
Protests must go on - we did without mobile phones before and we can do so again -but, unless the medical world publicises the dangers very soon, there will be a great deal of heartache in many homes in future.`J. Adams, Matlock Road, Brighton
From Mast Network
Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:32
Turn Your Back on Bush
It has been just over a month since over 5,000 of you lined the streets of Washington, DC and, through one unified action, delivered a message to Bush, the country, and the world. Over 50 million people heard about Turn Your Back on Bush; on TV, in newspapers, on the radio, and online, and our work together continues to make waves. Last week a group attending President Bush’s Social Security forum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire got national coverage when they took of their coats to reveal Turn Your Back on Bush t-shirts at the ticketed event. And in Europe many people have adopted this tactic, turning their backs on Bush during his European tour.
Check out our home page – http://www.TurnYourBackOnBush.org - for a link to the NPR story on Turn Your Back on Bush in New Hampshire, the Onion's front-page article about our action and to see Saturday Night Live's coverage of Turn Your Back on Bush.
For many of you, this was your first time participating in a political action. For others, it was another step on a long road of activism, organizing, and working for social change. It was the role of the Turn Your Back on Bush team to facilitate this action, to give you the tools and resources you needed to make it a success. We believe we were successful to that end, and from the countless phone calls and emails we have gotten since the Inauguration, we are confident that it was a success for you too.
And there is more to do! Turn Your Back on Bush is part of a growing movement of small groups taking on the Bush Administration's policies, and we’ll be using this list to pass on information about what we’re doing as well as actions and ideas that other groups are working on. We were just two people when we started – and if we learned anything from this experience it’s that we all have the power to make change.
We're reposting some of the resources we found most helpful in building this action on our website - non-violence training manuals and information on creating successful non-violent actions. We encourage you to use them and pass them on - you can find them at http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/nonviolence.html
We’ll be continuing to send out updates, and we’ll keep on adding media links and other important links to the website, and if you’ve got news you’d like to share with us, please send it to
info@turnyourbackonbush.org
Thanks,
The Turn Your Back on Bush Team
http://www.TurnYourBackonBush.org
P.S. We've developed a presentation about Turn Your Back on Bush which we've shown at several conferences in the last few weeks. It tells the story of how this action came about and we'd like to use it to inspire more people to use creative action to resist the Bush administration's polices. If you're interested in having one of us bring this presentation to your group, please let us know!
Check out our home page – http://www.TurnYourBackOnBush.org - for a link to the NPR story on Turn Your Back on Bush in New Hampshire, the Onion's front-page article about our action and to see Saturday Night Live's coverage of Turn Your Back on Bush.
For many of you, this was your first time participating in a political action. For others, it was another step on a long road of activism, organizing, and working for social change. It was the role of the Turn Your Back on Bush team to facilitate this action, to give you the tools and resources you needed to make it a success. We believe we were successful to that end, and from the countless phone calls and emails we have gotten since the Inauguration, we are confident that it was a success for you too.
And there is more to do! Turn Your Back on Bush is part of a growing movement of small groups taking on the Bush Administration's policies, and we’ll be using this list to pass on information about what we’re doing as well as actions and ideas that other groups are working on. We were just two people when we started – and if we learned anything from this experience it’s that we all have the power to make change.
We're reposting some of the resources we found most helpful in building this action on our website - non-violence training manuals and information on creating successful non-violent actions. We encourage you to use them and pass them on - you can find them at http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/nonviolence.html
We’ll be continuing to send out updates, and we’ll keep on adding media links and other important links to the website, and if you’ve got news you’d like to share with us, please send it to
info@turnyourbackonbush.org
Thanks,
The Turn Your Back on Bush Team
http://www.TurnYourBackonBush.org
P.S. We've developed a presentation about Turn Your Back on Bush which we've shown at several conferences in the last few weeks. It tells the story of how this action came about and we'd like to use it to inspire more people to use creative action to resist the Bush administration's polices. If you're interested in having one of us bring this presentation to your group, please let us know!
Starmail - 24. Feb, 19:53
Robert Kennedy Jr. blames the major TV networks for failing to focus on the Bush administration's atrocious environmental record
Pass It On: A Conversation With RFK, Jr.
by E&E TV's OnPoint Program
In this lively interview, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. blames the major TV networks for failing to focus on the Bush administration's atrocious environmental record:
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton
"I think the worst thing that can happen to the environment is if it becomes the province of a single political party."
Watch environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr.'s OnPoint interview about the politics of the environmental movement:
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=021705
by E&E TV's OnPoint Program
In this lively interview, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. blames the major TV networks for failing to focus on the Bush administration's atrocious environmental record:
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton
"I think the worst thing that can happen to the environment is if it becomes the province of a single political party."
Watch environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr.'s OnPoint interview about the politics of the environmental movement:
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=021705
Starmail - 24. Feb, 19:41
Even Cowboys Need Friends
by Philippe Sands, The Guardian
Bush and Blair's attempt to remake the international order will fail.
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003871
Bush and Blair's illegal war in Iraq has not made the world a safer place - only respect for international law can do that
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1423816,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/6x9g4
From Information Clearing House
Bush and Blair's attempt to remake the international order will fail.
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003871
Bush and Blair's illegal war in Iraq has not made the world a safer place - only respect for international law can do that
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1423816,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/6x9g4
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Feb, 19:38
Calling Congress To Account
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=7n5db5aab.4l8gm9n6.ti56a5aab.tiniiyn6.80374&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tompaine.com%2Farticles%2Fcalling_congress_to_account.php
by Ellen Miller
Tom Paine
02/24/05
Americans know all too well the corrupting influence of money on the political process. But combine rigidly ideological politicians with a party that has an iron lock on power in Washington and you've got the most corrupt Congress in recent memory. The right wing has control of the White House and both houses of Congress, eliminating the checks and balances on power that America's founders intended. ... The top 50 industry contributions added up to more than $600 million in the last election cycle alone. ... Barely a month after the swearing in of the 109th Congress, lawmakers paid off corporations with the passage of the class action bill -- which shields them from liability for negligence and curbs a citizen's right to sue. ... That's just a flavor of what the right-wing agenda has in store for this Congress...
http://tinyurl.com/7x7g5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Ellen Miller
Tom Paine
02/24/05
Americans know all too well the corrupting influence of money on the political process. But combine rigidly ideological politicians with a party that has an iron lock on power in Washington and you've got the most corrupt Congress in recent memory. The right wing has control of the White House and both houses of Congress, eliminating the checks and balances on power that America's founders intended. ... The top 50 industry contributions added up to more than $600 million in the last election cycle alone. ... Barely a month after the swearing in of the 109th Congress, lawmakers paid off corporations with the passage of the class action bill -- which shields them from liability for negligence and curbs a citizen's right to sue. ... That's just a flavor of what the right-wing agenda has in store for this Congress...
http://tinyurl.com/7x7g5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 24. Feb, 19:37
IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE
Starmail - 24. Feb, 19:34
Calls for the truth about mobile phone masts
Starmail - 24. Feb, 17:02
Mobilfunk macht senil ?
http://www.esmog-augsburg.de/info-aktuell-divers-3.htm
Mobilfunk macht senil ?
Quelle: BI Bad Dürkheim, 15.09.03
Eine neue Studie des schwedischen Professors Leif Salford dürfte der Mobilfunk-Industrie schwer im Magen liegen. Der Wissenschaftler hat möglicherweise Hinweise auf bisher unbeachtete gesundheitliche Folgen der mobiler Geräte. Es besteht seiner Meinung nach die Gefahr, dass eine ganze Generation frühzeitig senil wird.
Gemeint sind die heute jugendlichen Nutzer solcher Geräte, die angesichts immer neuer technologischer Entwicklungen in einem "Meer von Mikrowellen zu Ertrinken drohen". Bisher gibt es zwar keine Nachweise für eine - beispielsweise krebserregende - Auswirkung dieser Geräte. Doch Salford und seine Kollegen haben nach 15 Jahren eine neue Wirkungsform entdeckt.
Demnach macht die Bestrahlung die Barriere zwischen Blutbahnen und Hirn transparenter, so dass es zu einem Eindringen des Proteins Albumin kommen kann. Dieses Eindringen kann nach ihren neuesten Ergebnissen mit Schädigungen des Hirns in Verbindung gebracht werden. Langzeituntersuchungen stehen aber noch aus und es ist denkbar, dass die durch das Eiweiß geschädigten Neuronen sich selbst heilen.
Der Wissenschaftler sieht aber die Gefahr, dass die Neuronen dazu nicht in der Lage sind. Neuronen, die sonst eher bei Menschen über 60 Jahren Probleme verursachen, könnten dann unter dem Einfluss des Proteins schon bei 30jährigen zu Senilität führen.
Die freiwillige Bestrahlung des Gehirns mit Mikrowellen mobiler Telefone bezeichnet er daher als das größte human-biologische Experiment der Menschheit.
Ein Volk von Demenzkranken?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/679627/
The Independent: Mobiles 'make you senile'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248
Environmental Health Perspectives: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/6039/abstract.html
http://www.intern.de/news/4759.html
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega284.htm
Mobilfunk macht senil ?
Quelle: BI Bad Dürkheim, 15.09.03
Eine neue Studie des schwedischen Professors Leif Salford dürfte der Mobilfunk-Industrie schwer im Magen liegen. Der Wissenschaftler hat möglicherweise Hinweise auf bisher unbeachtete gesundheitliche Folgen der mobiler Geräte. Es besteht seiner Meinung nach die Gefahr, dass eine ganze Generation frühzeitig senil wird.
Gemeint sind die heute jugendlichen Nutzer solcher Geräte, die angesichts immer neuer technologischer Entwicklungen in einem "Meer von Mikrowellen zu Ertrinken drohen". Bisher gibt es zwar keine Nachweise für eine - beispielsweise krebserregende - Auswirkung dieser Geräte. Doch Salford und seine Kollegen haben nach 15 Jahren eine neue Wirkungsform entdeckt.
Demnach macht die Bestrahlung die Barriere zwischen Blutbahnen und Hirn transparenter, so dass es zu einem Eindringen des Proteins Albumin kommen kann. Dieses Eindringen kann nach ihren neuesten Ergebnissen mit Schädigungen des Hirns in Verbindung gebracht werden. Langzeituntersuchungen stehen aber noch aus und es ist denkbar, dass die durch das Eiweiß geschädigten Neuronen sich selbst heilen.
Der Wissenschaftler sieht aber die Gefahr, dass die Neuronen dazu nicht in der Lage sind. Neuronen, die sonst eher bei Menschen über 60 Jahren Probleme verursachen, könnten dann unter dem Einfluss des Proteins schon bei 30jährigen zu Senilität führen.
Die freiwillige Bestrahlung des Gehirns mit Mikrowellen mobiler Telefone bezeichnet er daher als das größte human-biologische Experiment der Menschheit.
Ein Volk von Demenzkranken?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/679627/
The Independent: Mobiles 'make you senile'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248
Environmental Health Perspectives: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/6039/abstract.html
http://www.intern.de/news/4759.html
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega284.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 16:57
Mobiles 'make you senile'
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega284.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/omega286.htm
The Independent: Mobiles 'make you senile'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248
Environmental Health Perspectives: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/6039/abstract.html
http://www.intern.de/news/4759.html
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/omega286.htm
The Independent: Mobiles 'make you senile'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248
Environmental Health Perspectives: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/6039/abstract.html
http://www.intern.de/news/4759.html
Starmail - 24. Feb, 16:53
Bush Gets Stoned by World Media
Starmail - 24. Feb, 16:30
RFID-Tags im Büstenhalter
Starmail - 24. Feb, 16:29
Bush Team Readying Backdoor Route to Drill Arctic Refuge
Starmail - 24. Feb, 16:11
Protest as harassment
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:30
Of, by and for Big Business
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:27
World Council of Churches Asks the US and Other Governments to Ratify International Criminal Court Statue
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:24
Hungry Field Mice Knock Out Swedish Phone Network
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:19
Stop the sneak attack on the Arctic Refuge
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:16
Warm Oceans Eroding Antarctic Ice
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:07
500 Animals a Day are Killed by HLS
http://www.freetheanimals.homestead.com/closehls.html
****Cross Post Freely****
500 Animals a Day are Killed by HLS
BAKER HOME DEMO
W.A.R. Target
Huntingdon Life Sciences
Central Park West Update: On January 30, 2005, we reported that the New York Police Department had, after 21 months of peaceful legal protests, denied our application for a sound permit for the demonstrations that take place at the home of Andrew Baker, CEO of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Since then we have spent weekends at Central Park West talking to neighbors and distributing educational literature throughout the community. We are pleased to report that the overwhelming majority of Andrew and Susan Baker's neighbors support our mission and/or our right to be there giving voice to the suffering of countless thousands of animals in the labs of Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Consequently, and with the support of the community, we are resuming our regularly scheduled demonstrations. Beginning this Sunday, we will be holding our Sunday demonstrations every Sunday! We have found our educational outreach program so effective that we are planning on continuing our tabling efforts in addition to our Sunday demonstrations. Community outreach tables will be staffed on Saturdays and Sundays.
For a time, we will be operating without benefit of a sound permit. Central Park West is noisy and busy and our message must be heard over multiple lanes of heavy traffic. What we lack in sound amplification, we hope to gain in a larger number of activists shouting out so our message can be heard up on the 14th Floor of 279 Central Park West. Please join us so we can send a clear and loud message to the Bakers and to the NYPD.....
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED UNTIL THE KILLING STOPS AT HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES
Sunday, February 27, 2005 compassionate New Yorkers will gather at 279 Central Park West (W. 88th St.), the home of Andrew Baker, CEO of HLS, to protest the killing of innocent animals for product testing. Bring a loud voice and your passion to speak out for the animals held prisoner in HLS labs and breeding facilities. Right now there are over 70,000 animals in HLS labs including beagles, cats and kittens, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, rats and mice, etc.
HLS (Huntingdon Life Sciences) is one of the world's largest contract animal testing companies. Five undercover investigations have revealed the horrors hidden behind the closed doors of HLS, a company responsible for the torture and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of animals and death of 500 animals a day. Please join us in sending a message to one of the most reviled corporate executives in the USA, Andrew Baker.
WHEN: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:00 PM
WHERE: 279 Central Park West at 88th St.
Win Animal Rights
For more info contact: centcom@war-online.org or call:
646-267-9934
or visit the Win Animal Rights/WAR website at:
http://war-online.org
Ima Vegan
****Cross Post Freely****
500 Animals a Day are Killed by HLS
BAKER HOME DEMO
W.A.R. Target
Huntingdon Life Sciences
Central Park West Update: On January 30, 2005, we reported that the New York Police Department had, after 21 months of peaceful legal protests, denied our application for a sound permit for the demonstrations that take place at the home of Andrew Baker, CEO of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Since then we have spent weekends at Central Park West talking to neighbors and distributing educational literature throughout the community. We are pleased to report that the overwhelming majority of Andrew and Susan Baker's neighbors support our mission and/or our right to be there giving voice to the suffering of countless thousands of animals in the labs of Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Consequently, and with the support of the community, we are resuming our regularly scheduled demonstrations. Beginning this Sunday, we will be holding our Sunday demonstrations every Sunday! We have found our educational outreach program so effective that we are planning on continuing our tabling efforts in addition to our Sunday demonstrations. Community outreach tables will be staffed on Saturdays and Sundays.
For a time, we will be operating without benefit of a sound permit. Central Park West is noisy and busy and our message must be heard over multiple lanes of heavy traffic. What we lack in sound amplification, we hope to gain in a larger number of activists shouting out so our message can be heard up on the 14th Floor of 279 Central Park West. Please join us so we can send a clear and loud message to the Bakers and to the NYPD.....
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED UNTIL THE KILLING STOPS AT HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES
Sunday, February 27, 2005 compassionate New Yorkers will gather at 279 Central Park West (W. 88th St.), the home of Andrew Baker, CEO of HLS, to protest the killing of innocent animals for product testing. Bring a loud voice and your passion to speak out for the animals held prisoner in HLS labs and breeding facilities. Right now there are over 70,000 animals in HLS labs including beagles, cats and kittens, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, rats and mice, etc.
HLS (Huntingdon Life Sciences) is one of the world's largest contract animal testing companies. Five undercover investigations have revealed the horrors hidden behind the closed doors of HLS, a company responsible for the torture and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of animals and death of 500 animals a day. Please join us in sending a message to one of the most reviled corporate executives in the USA, Andrew Baker.
WHEN: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:00 PM
WHERE: 279 Central Park West at 88th St.
Win Animal Rights
For more info contact: centcom@war-online.org or call:
646-267-9934
or visit the Win Animal Rights/WAR website at:
http://war-online.org
Ima Vegan
Starmail - 24. Feb, 15:02
Iran Readies Defenses for Offensive U.S. Attack
Is there another unilateral war on the horizon? The article below describes how Iran is taking defensive action to protect themselves in the event of a U.S. or U.S.-Iraeli pre-emptive war.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2879
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2879
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:52
Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib
Torture Scandal Expands to America: Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib
Here's what happens when there is no accountability: "The Justice Department's inspector general has substantiated some of the prisoners' allegations [of torture and mistreatment] - and some incidents were captured on videotape. But the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any federal correction officer" at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park in New York.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2877
Here's what happens when there is no accountability: "The Justice Department's inspector general has substantiated some of the prisoners' allegations [of torture and mistreatment] - and some incidents were captured on videotape. But the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any federal correction officer" at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park in New York.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2877
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:50
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns Into Antiwar Activism
They call themselves Gold Star Families for Peace. Organized less than two months ago, it is part support group and part activist organization, with members united by grief and the belief that their loved ones died in a war that did not have to happen. They represent a small percentage of the families that have lost someone in Iraq -- 50 families out of more than 1,450.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2875
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2875
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:48
Schillys Vorschlag zum Versammlungsrecht weist in die falsche Richtung
Bürgerrechtsgruppen in Deutschland zeigen sich besorgt über den leichtfertigen Umgang mit elementaren Grundrechten. Gemeinsame Presseerklärung der Humanistischen Union und der Gustav Heinemann-Initiative vom 15.2.2005:
http://www.humanistische-union.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=214&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 15
http://www.humanistische-union.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=214&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 15
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:43
Abstimmungs-Ergebnisse vom 21.02.05 - Schein und Wirklichkeit
"Mit überwältigender Mehrheit haben die Spanier die EU-Verfassung angenommen", so berichteten Medien, "76 Prozent stimmten mit Ja!". - Aber die Wahlbeteiligung lag nur bei 42 Prozent!
Überwältigend war hier wohl eher die Selbsttäuschung, um nicht zu sagen die Einfalt bzw. mangelnde Verantwortlichkeit von Journalisten und Politikern, die derart oberflächlich denken und handeln. Denn in Wirklichkeit haben nur 32 Prozent der Wahlberechtigten für die Verfassung gestimmt. Das muß nun nicht heißen, daß zwei Drittel der Spanier gegen die Verfassung sind, es läßt lediglich auf den Zustand der Demokratiebereitschaft bzw. -fähigkeit schließen. Aber davon leben anscheinend Politiker und Journalisten recht gut.
Hier noch die üblichen Mißverhältnisse von Schein und Wirklichkeit bei der Darstellung unserer jüngsten Wahlergebnisse in Schleswig-Holstein. Die wahren Zahlen auf der Grundlage aller Wahlberechtigten, also auch der 33,4 Prozent Nichtwahlwilligen oder -fähigen, in Klammern die offiziellen, amtlichen Zahlen:
CDU 26,8 (40,2); SPD 25,8 (38,7); FDP 4,4 (6,6); Grüne 4,2 (6,2); SSW 2,4 (3,6); NPD 1,2 (1,9); Andere 1,8 (2,8) Nichtwähler 33,4 (0,0) Prozent.
Die ganzheitliche Berechnung gibt ein realistischeres Bild von den Verhältnissen der Anteile politischer Orientierungen in der gesamten Wählerschaft und eine gerechtere weil ehrlichere Bewertung.
Die Fragwürdigkeit der bisherigen traditionellen Auswertung der Ergebnisse wird bei der Vorstellung deutlich, daß nur noch ein einziger Bürger zur Wahl gehen würde. Die gewählte Partei erhielte dann 100 Prozent und könnte mit Recht die so gern von manchen Politikern benutzte Formulierung verwenden, "der" Wähler habe der Partei damit den Auftrag gegeben.
Demokratische Politik ist für alle da, auch für Politikverdrossene oder Bildungsschwache. Das Einbeziehen aller Wahlberechtigten in die Auswertung wäre wirklichkeitsnäher, verantwortlicher und ein Schritt zur Erneuerung der Demokratie.
Rudolf Kuhr, Bürger und Wähler
http://www.humanistische-aktion.de/wahlen.htm
Überwältigend war hier wohl eher die Selbsttäuschung, um nicht zu sagen die Einfalt bzw. mangelnde Verantwortlichkeit von Journalisten und Politikern, die derart oberflächlich denken und handeln. Denn in Wirklichkeit haben nur 32 Prozent der Wahlberechtigten für die Verfassung gestimmt. Das muß nun nicht heißen, daß zwei Drittel der Spanier gegen die Verfassung sind, es läßt lediglich auf den Zustand der Demokratiebereitschaft bzw. -fähigkeit schließen. Aber davon leben anscheinend Politiker und Journalisten recht gut.
Hier noch die üblichen Mißverhältnisse von Schein und Wirklichkeit bei der Darstellung unserer jüngsten Wahlergebnisse in Schleswig-Holstein. Die wahren Zahlen auf der Grundlage aller Wahlberechtigten, also auch der 33,4 Prozent Nichtwahlwilligen oder -fähigen, in Klammern die offiziellen, amtlichen Zahlen:
CDU 26,8 (40,2); SPD 25,8 (38,7); FDP 4,4 (6,6); Grüne 4,2 (6,2); SSW 2,4 (3,6); NPD 1,2 (1,9); Andere 1,8 (2,8) Nichtwähler 33,4 (0,0) Prozent.
Die ganzheitliche Berechnung gibt ein realistischeres Bild von den Verhältnissen der Anteile politischer Orientierungen in der gesamten Wählerschaft und eine gerechtere weil ehrlichere Bewertung.
Die Fragwürdigkeit der bisherigen traditionellen Auswertung der Ergebnisse wird bei der Vorstellung deutlich, daß nur noch ein einziger Bürger zur Wahl gehen würde. Die gewählte Partei erhielte dann 100 Prozent und könnte mit Recht die so gern von manchen Politikern benutzte Formulierung verwenden, "der" Wähler habe der Partei damit den Auftrag gegeben.
Demokratische Politik ist für alle da, auch für Politikverdrossene oder Bildungsschwache. Das Einbeziehen aller Wahlberechtigten in die Auswertung wäre wirklichkeitsnäher, verantwortlicher und ein Schritt zur Erneuerung der Demokratie.
Rudolf Kuhr, Bürger und Wähler
http://www.humanistische-aktion.de/wahlen.htm
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:40
Exposed - Corruption in Social Security Fight
You've probably never heard of Jim McCrery, but he just gained tremendous power over your future. He's President Bush's ally and is the man charged to push Social Security privatization through the House of Representatives. As the new House leader on Social Security, McCrery will make key decisions like... Whose Social Security benefits get cut and by how much? How much money will Wall Street make off the deal? Do we increase our national debt by $2 trillion to fund Bush's scheme?
There's something even more disturbing about McCrery's power over our Social Security. McCrery's accepted nearly $200,000 in campaign contributions from the very Wall Street firms that stand to benefit the most from privatization. It's hard to imagine how McCrery could possibly represent the people who depend on Social Security when he's in the back pocket of the Wall Street firms looking to unravel it.
With your help, we can break McCrery's conflict of interest and protect our Social Security. Please help us raise the $18,500 needed to launch a multi-media advertising expose on McCrery starting with powerful full-page ads in his two hometown newspapers - which will reach tens of thousands of his own voters and attract the national spotlight. Help us remind McCrery that he's been hired to work for Main Street NOT Wall Street.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Congressmen are entrusted to represent the interests of the people who elect them. When they forget who they're working for, we can -- and should -- remind them in a way that gets their attention!
Rep. Jim McCrery has a choice to make: push a Social Security privatization scam that delivers hundreds of billions in profits to Wall Street OR represent American people, who will face up to $152,000 in benefit cuts if privatization passes.
Let's put pressure on McCrery to make the right choice. Help us expose McCrery's conflict of interest to tens of thousands of his own voters and the American public -- and let him know that this spotlight will remain until he rises above his conflict and commits to defending our Social Security.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Corruption in Congress only survives when politicians are free to operate outside of the public's watch. The Campaign for America's Future is committed to shining a bright light into Congress' shadowy halls and back rooms -- to eliminate these breeding grounds for major corruption. Please help us stamp out McCrery's corruption on Social Security today.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ellen S. Miller, Deputy Director
Campaign for America's Future
P.S. Please let your friends and neighbors know about this campaign! Forward this message to them, post it on your favorite blog, and do what you can to help spread the word: the man at the center of the Social Security fight -- Congressman Jim McCrery -- needs a reminder that he's NOT working for Wall Street, he's working for us!
There's something even more disturbing about McCrery's power over our Social Security. McCrery's accepted nearly $200,000 in campaign contributions from the very Wall Street firms that stand to benefit the most from privatization. It's hard to imagine how McCrery could possibly represent the people who depend on Social Security when he's in the back pocket of the Wall Street firms looking to unravel it.
With your help, we can break McCrery's conflict of interest and protect our Social Security. Please help us raise the $18,500 needed to launch a multi-media advertising expose on McCrery starting with powerful full-page ads in his two hometown newspapers - which will reach tens of thousands of his own voters and attract the national spotlight. Help us remind McCrery that he's been hired to work for Main Street NOT Wall Street.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Congressmen are entrusted to represent the interests of the people who elect them. When they forget who they're working for, we can -- and should -- remind them in a way that gets their attention!
Rep. Jim McCrery has a choice to make: push a Social Security privatization scam that delivers hundreds of billions in profits to Wall Street OR represent American people, who will face up to $152,000 in benefit cuts if privatization passes.
Let's put pressure on McCrery to make the right choice. Help us expose McCrery's conflict of interest to tens of thousands of his own voters and the American public -- and let him know that this spotlight will remain until he rises above his conflict and commits to defending our Social Security.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Corruption in Congress only survives when politicians are free to operate outside of the public's watch. The Campaign for America's Future is committed to shining a bright light into Congress' shadowy halls and back rooms -- to eliminate these breeding grounds for major corruption. Please help us stamp out McCrery's corruption on Social Security today.
http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=79730
Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ellen S. Miller, Deputy Director
Campaign for America's Future
P.S. Please let your friends and neighbors know about this campaign! Forward this message to them, post it on your favorite blog, and do what you can to help spread the word: the man at the center of the Social Security fight -- Congressman Jim McCrery -- needs a reminder that he's NOT working for Wall Street, he's working for us!
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:25
The emissions damage health
What is the matter with the WHO? Why do they take no notice of the Russians? The NRPB are the same - their chosen rate of emissions exceeds the Russian recommendations 228 times Russians 2µW/cm2 NRPB 450µW/cm2
The Russians have been warning America since the 50s that the emissions damage health, as they had found symptoms amongst people working with electromagnetic frequencies. I cannot understand the protecive agencies not listening.
Gill Lyden
From Mast Network
Letter to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/
Petition to the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537280/
The Russians have been warning America since the 50s that the emissions damage health, as they had found symptoms amongst people working with electromagnetic frequencies. I cannot understand the protecive agencies not listening.
Gill Lyden
From Mast Network
Letter to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/
Petition to the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537280/
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:14
Bush Administration Policies Based on 'False Ideology' of Power
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:09
U.S.' Prewar Visions Get Further Out of Focus
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:07
Company's Work in Iraq Profited Bush's Uncle
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:06
The Secret Genocide Archive
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:05
Bush Gets Weak Support for Program Cuts
Starmail - 24. Feb, 14:03
The poisoned well
by Werther
CounterPunch
02/23/05
Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, the American public has endured an astounding avalanche of official lies, half truths, pseudo-events and sheer balderdash that will surely enter the Guinness Book of Records. Among the most persistent and infuriating lies of government, to those who have imbibed their knowledge of the past from the crystalline springs of Gibbon and von Ranke, is the misleading historical analogy. Its purpose is twofold: to relativize whatever current disaster the governing class has waltzed the hapless populace into; and to kill any usable past. The technique also has the added benefit of making government placemen sound learned at least in the estimation of an audience which gains its knowledge of the world through Fox News and other State media.
http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02232005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
CounterPunch
02/23/05
Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, the American public has endured an astounding avalanche of official lies, half truths, pseudo-events and sheer balderdash that will surely enter the Guinness Book of Records. Among the most persistent and infuriating lies of government, to those who have imbibed their knowledge of the past from the crystalline springs of Gibbon and von Ranke, is the misleading historical analogy. Its purpose is twofold: to relativize whatever current disaster the governing class has waltzed the hapless populace into; and to kill any usable past. The technique also has the added benefit of making government placemen sound learned at least in the estimation of an audience which gains its knowledge of the world through Fox News and other State media.
http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02232005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:58
George W. Bush, Europe's Godfather in spite of himself
by Alain Duhamel
TruthOut
02/23/05
In order to take root, the feeling of identity needs several factors to come together at once: the perception of common interests, the pursuit of collective ambitions, finally, a few solid adversaries, or, at least, vigorous resistance and opposition. The European Union is finally beginning to simultaneously fulfill all these conditions. With regard to international commerce or the Euro, for example, the member states involved now know that their interests coincide and are even inextricably linked. Moreover, Europe desires more and more to acquire an international personality, to defend objectives as diverse as the Kyoto protocol, the creation of a Palestinian state neighboring an Israeli state living in security, or the progressive creation of a professional European army...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305I.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
TruthOut
02/23/05
In order to take root, the feeling of identity needs several factors to come together at once: the perception of common interests, the pursuit of collective ambitions, finally, a few solid adversaries, or, at least, vigorous resistance and opposition. The European Union is finally beginning to simultaneously fulfill all these conditions. With regard to international commerce or the Euro, for example, the member states involved now know that their interests coincide and are even inextricably linked. Moreover, Europe desires more and more to acquire an international personality, to defend objectives as diverse as the Kyoto protocol, the creation of a Palestinian state neighboring an Israeli state living in security, or the progressive creation of a professional European army...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022305I.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:55
The anti-conservatives
by Pat Buchanan
The American Conservative
A conservative knows not whether to laugh or weep, for Mr. Bush has just asserted a right to interfere in the internal affairs of every nation on earth. Why? Because the 'survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.' But this is utterly ahistorical. The world has always been afflicted with despots. Yet America has always been free. And we have remained free by following the counsel of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams and staying out of foreign quarrels and foreign wars. Who is feeding the president this interventionist nonsense?" (for publication 02/28/05)
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_28/buchanan.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The American Conservative
A conservative knows not whether to laugh or weep, for Mr. Bush has just asserted a right to interfere in the internal affairs of every nation on earth. Why? Because the 'survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.' But this is utterly ahistorical. The world has always been afflicted with despots. Yet America has always been free. And we have remained free by following the counsel of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams and staying out of foreign quarrels and foreign wars. Who is feeding the president this interventionist nonsense?" (for publication 02/28/05)
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_28/buchanan.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:52
Why liberty is necessary for morality
by Tibor R. Machan
Free Market News Network
02/23/05
A sad result of so explaining the merits of a free society is that it begins to look like liberty is the enemy of morality. And it is just this way that a good many people have understood the Western tradition of liberalism. They have come to believe that if you accept the Western idea of a free society, you must not care about morality at all. Indeed, arguably a great many enemies of the West hold such a view. Love the West, reject morality; love morality, reject the West. Yet this is completely wrong. In point of fact precisely the opposite is true. The reason the Western idea of a free society makes a great deal of sense is that unless people make their moral choices and act on them freely, there cannot be anything morally praiseworthy in what they do...
http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/958/html/index.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Free Market News Network
02/23/05
A sad result of so explaining the merits of a free society is that it begins to look like liberty is the enemy of morality. And it is just this way that a good many people have understood the Western tradition of liberalism. They have come to believe that if you accept the Western idea of a free society, you must not care about morality at all. Indeed, arguably a great many enemies of the West hold such a view. Love the West, reject morality; love morality, reject the West. Yet this is completely wrong. In point of fact precisely the opposite is true. The reason the Western idea of a free society makes a great deal of sense is that unless people make their moral choices and act on them freely, there cannot be anything morally praiseworthy in what they do...
http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/958/html/index.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:45
Aufstehen und kämpfen gegen verschärfte Ausbeutung und Verelendung
Flugblatt Nr. 3 (pdf)
Gegen die Abwiegelei von Sommer, Peters und Bsirske und Co.
Aufstehen und kämpfen damit der Kampf gegen verschärfte Ausbeutung und Verelendung vorankommt!
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/abwiegelei.pdf
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 16
Gegen die Abwiegelei von Sommer, Peters und Bsirske und Co.
Aufstehen und kämpfen damit der Kampf gegen verschärfte Ausbeutung und Verelendung vorankommt!
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/abwiegelei.pdf
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 16
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:35
Von der Lohnarbeit zum Sklaventum: Hungerlöhne auch in Deutschland
Kiebitz - Die Zeitschrift der Münchner dju. Gemacht von Mitgliedern für Mitglieder - und für alle Interessierten.
Kiebitz 2/2004 (pdf)
http://www.dju-bayern.de/kiebitz/kiebitz_august2004.pdf
Mit dem Schwerpunkt "Freie und Mindestlohn", u.a. "Von der Lohnarbeit zum Sklaventum. Hungerlöhne auch in Deutschland. Die Forderung nach einem Mindestlohn wird lauter" sowie "Frei - freier - unfrei und vogelfrei? Das fest angestellte Arbeitsverhältnis wird immer mehr zur Ausnahme. Über die Situation der Freien"...
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 16
Kiebitz 2/2004 (pdf)
http://www.dju-bayern.de/kiebitz/kiebitz_august2004.pdf
Mit dem Schwerpunkt "Freie und Mindestlohn", u.a. "Von der Lohnarbeit zum Sklaventum. Hungerlöhne auch in Deutschland. Die Forderung nach einem Mindestlohn wird lauter" sowie "Frei - freier - unfrei und vogelfrei? Das fest angestellte Arbeitsverhältnis wird immer mehr zur Ausnahme. Über die Situation der Freien"...
Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 16
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:31
'Sick' building demolished
Look at the roof !!!
[at the tiny picture with the text :"Half St John's House staff became ill"]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1688081.stm
sylvie
[at the tiny picture with the text :"Half St John's House staff became ill"]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1688081.stm
sylvie
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:16
Handyüberwachung in Italien vor dem Kollaps
Starmail - 24. Feb, 13:06
Torturing our sovereignty
by Scott Horton
AntiWar.Com
02/24/05
Though seeing Americans one day in foreign courts, deprived of their far superior (and sorely missed) Bill of Rights, would be terrible, we must recognize that the current state of affairs, where the enforcer of world law claims in every case that those same laws do not apply to itself, cannot continue. The world will not tolerate being ruled by 6 percent in faraway North America for long. If we keep this up, and all indications are that we will, the U.S. may be in danger of attaining official 'rogue state' status itself.
With the current administration's record of pushing all of our rivals into each other's arms, and its monumental wasting of our country's wealth, it is not inconceivable that we could soon be in a situation where we are no longer protected from the rulings of foreign judges...
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=4939
AntiWar.Com
02/24/05
Though seeing Americans one day in foreign courts, deprived of their far superior (and sorely missed) Bill of Rights, would be terrible, we must recognize that the current state of affairs, where the enforcer of world law claims in every case that those same laws do not apply to itself, cannot continue. The world will not tolerate being ruled by 6 percent in faraway North America for long. If we keep this up, and all indications are that we will, the U.S. may be in danger of attaining official 'rogue state' status itself.
With the current administration's record of pushing all of our rivals into each other's arms, and its monumental wasting of our country's wealth, it is not inconceivable that we could soon be in a situation where we are no longer protected from the rulings of foreign judges...
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=4939
Starmail - 24. Feb, 12:08
No charges in killing of unarmed Iraqi
Military: No charges in killing of unarmed Iraqi
CBS News
02/23/05
It was a striking -- some said chilling -- moment in the battle for Iraq, captured on videotape: a wounded, un-armed Iraqi, shot to death by a U.S. Marine. CBS News has learned that military investigators conclude there is not enough evidence to formally charge that Marine.
... investigators say the Iraqi the Marine thought he saw moving could have been going for a weapon. At the very least, Navy legal experts believe the situation is ambiguous enough that no prosecutor could get a conviction...
http://tinyurl.com/69dkj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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This video contains course language, disturbing images of dead bodies in the aftermath of combat and graphic images of an unarmed man lying on the ground being shot dead by an American.
It has been decided that the US Marine who was captured on film killing the unarmed Iraqi prisoner won't be charged.
Unarmed And Wounded POW Shot In The Head By U.S. Marine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/r35639_88936.rm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7296.htm
Informant: Charles Bremer
CBS News
02/23/05
It was a striking -- some said chilling -- moment in the battle for Iraq, captured on videotape: a wounded, un-armed Iraqi, shot to death by a U.S. Marine. CBS News has learned that military investigators conclude there is not enough evidence to formally charge that Marine.
... investigators say the Iraqi the Marine thought he saw moving could have been going for a weapon. At the very least, Navy legal experts believe the situation is ambiguous enough that no prosecutor could get a conviction...
http://tinyurl.com/69dkj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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This video contains course language, disturbing images of dead bodies in the aftermath of combat and graphic images of an unarmed man lying on the ground being shot dead by an American.
It has been decided that the US Marine who was captured on film killing the unarmed Iraqi prisoner won't be charged.
Unarmed And Wounded POW Shot In The Head By U.S. Marine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/r35639_88936.rm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7296.htm
Informant: Charles Bremer
Starmail - 24. Feb, 12:02
US caught trying to sneak missile defence system into Canada
Starmail - 24. Feb, 12:00
Bush family wins big in Iraq oil jackpot
Starmail - 24. Feb, 11:59
American dollar in crisis as currency falls hard and fast
Starmail - 24. Feb, 11:58
Non thermal effects of exposure to EMF
I knew Neil [Cherry] very well, a real giant. I learned alot from him, and saw alot of unpublished stuff, such as Motorola's study showing DNA breaks, like as Lai and Singh... Neil articles are real goldmines, and reference for any argument you can think of, not just drop of melatonin.
Please type several words from the following, in a window of any major internet server, such as yahoo, and you get these excellent articles:
a. Cherry on safe exposure levels
b. Health effects associated with mobile base stations in communities: the need for health studies.
Let me explain briefly the short term efects: I am talking just on non thermal effects:
1. In exposure to EMF neurons loose calcium ions (=Ca2+), then, neurotransmitters (whose production depends on these ions) drop.
What we feel, may be loss of short term memory, confusion, headaches etc. Melatonin level drops too, so insomnia is on the way... Thromboxane causes tiny clots that may elevate blood pressure a little, but may also block some narrow vessels. These changes are reversible, and as soon as exposure is terminated, body cells would come back to normal in minutes to hours. Some damage to brain cells remains, as exhibited in rats by Hold et al (1998) in the UK, published in an article by James Clark and David Derbyshire in the Daily News, on July 16, 1998.
2. Peripheral blood is by definition in the extremities, but no other places in the body are safe from clots that may stuck somewhere in narrow vessels, brain included.
3. Protooncogens are genes involved in cell division (such as myc, fos and many others). Normally they are expressed when the cell is going to divide. If the gene is induced to express itself by exposure to EMF, on and on, it may enhance mutaions in it, and eventually may loose control, or it may lose its promoter (control part of the gene) by a reak, then it will push to non stop cell divisions, namely, cancer. It was a surprise that EMF could induce expression of such genes. When a protogene is (unnecessarily) expressed, it may get more mutauions, some of which would not be repaired, and be on the way to loose control, i.e. become an oncogene.
If you just visit Kensworth, damages would be (mostly) recovered, but the longer you stay there, the longer you are exposed, and the chance is going up to get more damage in genes accumulated. Damage in genes stays. if DNA is damaged, cell division is arrested ( by gene named p53 (of the tumour supressing genes) until DNA is repaired. If damage is beyond repair this gene would lead the cell to a planned suicide (apoptosis).
4. Protooncogenes are genes, i.e. part of the DNA, found on different chromosomes (want a picture of them ?), every gene has its promoter, and structural coding part. In the promoters there are sequences that react to EMF, as published by a team of Columbia U, in NYC (Lin et al 2001).
I am studying the activities of about 30 of the oncogenes, but there are many more (I have the whole table). They code for proteins that are the active in cell division. There are internet collection of the mutants found in cancer patients. You can get them and even rotate them and see the 3D structure of their proteins.
Last but not least: In exposure of human cells to 2.4 µW/cm2 Marinelli et al (Nov. 2004) got DNA breaks in 2h. About 5 µW/cm2 was carcinogenic in humans (experienced by staff and family members Americans in their embassy in Moscow in the "Cold War" see Project Pandora).
The thermal emissions allowed for human exposure by ICNIRP or higher than that by NRPB has nothing in common with reality.
Dr. Zamir Shalita
From Mast Network
Research by Neil Cherry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/595220/
A Break-through in Understanding Non-Thermal Electromagnetic Field Effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/522713/
Thermal and Nonthermal Mechanisms of the Biological Interaction of Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/507958/
Phasic behavioral and endocrine effects of microwaves of nonthermal intensity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/252799/
Prof. Sianette Kwee: The effects of radiofrequency fields on cell proliferation are non-thermal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/205735/
Non Thermal Studies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/659124/
Please type several words from the following, in a window of any major internet server, such as yahoo, and you get these excellent articles:
a. Cherry on safe exposure levels
b. Health effects associated with mobile base stations in communities: the need for health studies.
Let me explain briefly the short term efects: I am talking just on non thermal effects:
1. In exposure to EMF neurons loose calcium ions (=Ca2+), then, neurotransmitters (whose production depends on these ions) drop.
What we feel, may be loss of short term memory, confusion, headaches etc. Melatonin level drops too, so insomnia is on the way... Thromboxane causes tiny clots that may elevate blood pressure a little, but may also block some narrow vessels. These changes are reversible, and as soon as exposure is terminated, body cells would come back to normal in minutes to hours. Some damage to brain cells remains, as exhibited in rats by Hold et al (1998) in the UK, published in an article by James Clark and David Derbyshire in the Daily News, on July 16, 1998.
2. Peripheral blood is by definition in the extremities, but no other places in the body are safe from clots that may stuck somewhere in narrow vessels, brain included.
3. Protooncogens are genes involved in cell division (such as myc, fos and many others). Normally they are expressed when the cell is going to divide. If the gene is induced to express itself by exposure to EMF, on and on, it may enhance mutaions in it, and eventually may loose control, or it may lose its promoter (control part of the gene) by a reak, then it will push to non stop cell divisions, namely, cancer. It was a surprise that EMF could induce expression of such genes. When a protogene is (unnecessarily) expressed, it may get more mutauions, some of which would not be repaired, and be on the way to loose control, i.e. become an oncogene.
If you just visit Kensworth, damages would be (mostly) recovered, but the longer you stay there, the longer you are exposed, and the chance is going up to get more damage in genes accumulated. Damage in genes stays. if DNA is damaged, cell division is arrested ( by gene named p53 (of the tumour supressing genes) until DNA is repaired. If damage is beyond repair this gene would lead the cell to a planned suicide (apoptosis).
4. Protooncogenes are genes, i.e. part of the DNA, found on different chromosomes (want a picture of them ?), every gene has its promoter, and structural coding part. In the promoters there are sequences that react to EMF, as published by a team of Columbia U, in NYC (Lin et al 2001).
I am studying the activities of about 30 of the oncogenes, but there are many more (I have the whole table). They code for proteins that are the active in cell division. There are internet collection of the mutants found in cancer patients. You can get them and even rotate them and see the 3D structure of their proteins.
Last but not least: In exposure of human cells to 2.4 µW/cm2 Marinelli et al (Nov. 2004) got DNA breaks in 2h. About 5 µW/cm2 was carcinogenic in humans (experienced by staff and family members Americans in their embassy in Moscow in the "Cold War" see Project Pandora).
The thermal emissions allowed for human exposure by ICNIRP or higher than that by NRPB has nothing in common with reality.
Dr. Zamir Shalita
From Mast Network
Research by Neil Cherry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/595220/
A Break-through in Understanding Non-Thermal Electromagnetic Field Effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/522713/
Thermal and Nonthermal Mechanisms of the Biological Interaction of Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/507958/
Phasic behavioral and endocrine effects of microwaves of nonthermal intensity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/252799/
Prof. Sianette Kwee: The effects of radiofrequency fields on cell proliferation are non-thermal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/205735/
Non Thermal Studies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/659124/
Starmail - 24. Feb, 11:06
ISN'T THIS THE LAND OF THE FREE?
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:56
Captain Morgan, Bohemian Grove, Black Pope Hans
Captain Morgan
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Captain+Morgan%2C+Bohemian+Grove%2C+Black+Pope+Hans&btnG=Suche&meta=
Bohemian Grove
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Bohemian+Grove&btnG=Suche&meta=
Black Pope Hans
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Black+Pope+Hans&btnG=Suche&meta=
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Captain+Morgan%2C+Bohemian+Grove%2C+Black+Pope+Hans&btnG=Suche&meta=
Bohemian Grove
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Bohemian+Grove&btnG=Suche&meta=
Black Pope Hans
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Black+Pope+Hans&btnG=Suche&meta=
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:52
Was Syria really to blame?
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/20/936484.html
Informant: Lew Rockwell
Informant: Lew Rockwell
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:43
SIGNAL CAUTION
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:35
Campaigners lose battle to get 40ft phone mast moved
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:33
How objective journalism can fail to reveal the truth
Kirk Caraway, kcaraway@nevadaappeal.com
February 20, 2005
Nevada Appeal
When President George W. Bush came out with his 2006 budget recently, it received a lot of attention in the press.
Too bad that most of it missed the most obvious problem with it.
While stating the budget was in line with his commitment to cut the deficit in half by 2009, Bush failed to mention the three items that weren't in the budget. First, there is the cost the war in Iraq. Next up, we have the $1 trillion (at least) price tag to privatize Social Security. And lastly, there is the continuation of the tax cuts, which are set to expire, but that Bush said he wants to make permanent.
In other words, this budget isn't very truthful. In fact, deceptive is about the nicest description you can use for it. ... Read the rest at:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
© Virginia Metze
February 20, 2005
Nevada Appeal
When President George W. Bush came out with his 2006 budget recently, it received a lot of attention in the press.
Too bad that most of it missed the most obvious problem with it.
While stating the budget was in line with his commitment to cut the deficit in half by 2009, Bush failed to mention the three items that weren't in the budget. First, there is the cost the war in Iraq. Next up, we have the $1 trillion (at least) price tag to privatize Social Security. And lastly, there is the continuation of the tax cuts, which are set to expire, but that Bush said he wants to make permanent.
In other words, this budget isn't very truthful. In fact, deceptive is about the nicest description you can use for it. ... Read the rest at:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050220/OPINION/102200026
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:24
FDA Fighting for Corporations Instead of Public
NY Congressman is fighting the good fight. Here is an excerpt from Maurice Hinchey's web page.
FDA Fighting for Corporations Instead of Public
Under the direction of Chief Counsel Daniel Troy, the first political appointee to hold the post, the Food and Drug Administration has been weighing in on state civil suits on behalf of drug companies and medical device manufacturers. What makes this particularly unusal is the fact that the court in these cases has not requested FDA's opinion; Mr. Troy is actively seeking out such cases and coordinating with defense counsel as to how the agency can best assist the corporations. This behavior runs completely contrary to the FDA's stated mission of protecting the public from being harmed by the food and drugs they consume. ...
Read the rest at http://www.house.gov/hinchey/issues/fda.shtml Excerpt above is from http://www.house.gov/hinchey/ You might want to check out this page on his federal web site, as well:
http://tinyurl.com/69boh or http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/021405ithacassforum.html
© Virginia Metze
FDA Fighting for Corporations Instead of Public
Under the direction of Chief Counsel Daniel Troy, the first political appointee to hold the post, the Food and Drug Administration has been weighing in on state civil suits on behalf of drug companies and medical device manufacturers. What makes this particularly unusal is the fact that the court in these cases has not requested FDA's opinion; Mr. Troy is actively seeking out such cases and coordinating with defense counsel as to how the agency can best assist the corporations. This behavior runs completely contrary to the FDA's stated mission of protecting the public from being harmed by the food and drugs they consume. ...
Read the rest at http://www.house.gov/hinchey/issues/fda.shtml Excerpt above is from http://www.house.gov/hinchey/ You might want to check out this page on his federal web site, as well:
http://tinyurl.com/69boh or http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/021405ithacassforum.html
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:22
Blackwell: Hypocrisy and the arrogance of power
Blackwell is acting as though violating the law is an ENTITLEMENT!
Blackwell: Hypocrisy and the arrogance of power
Bob Fitrakis in The Free Press
February 22, 2005
J. Kenneth Blackwell is at it again. Ohio’s infamous Secretary of State and master of media distortion and hype, earning him the name “Inkwell” among the statehouse press corps, has announced his partisan agenda for governor of the Buckeye State.
Blackwell, Ohio’s first statewide African American office holder, has rapidly moved to stake out the far right of the Ohio Republican Party as his political base. The Secretary of State has found himself consistently at odds with mainstream conservatives in the state’s GOP.
Last week, the Franklin County Board of Elections, under the control of Republican Executive Director Matt Damschroder, obtained a temporary restraining order against Blackwell. In another of his notorious imperial decrees, the Secretary of State ordered all 88 county boards to buy optical-scan voting systems from two well-known Republican-linked companies, Diebold and ES&S. ... Read the rest at:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2005/1074
© Virginia Metze
Blackwell: Hypocrisy and the arrogance of power
Bob Fitrakis in The Free Press
February 22, 2005
J. Kenneth Blackwell is at it again. Ohio’s infamous Secretary of State and master of media distortion and hype, earning him the name “Inkwell” among the statehouse press corps, has announced his partisan agenda for governor of the Buckeye State.
Blackwell, Ohio’s first statewide African American office holder, has rapidly moved to stake out the far right of the Ohio Republican Party as his political base. The Secretary of State has found himself consistently at odds with mainstream conservatives in the state’s GOP.
Last week, the Franklin County Board of Elections, under the control of Republican Executive Director Matt Damschroder, obtained a temporary restraining order against Blackwell. In another of his notorious imperial decrees, the Secretary of State ordered all 88 county boards to buy optical-scan voting systems from two well-known Republican-linked companies, Diebold and ES&S. ... Read the rest at:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2005/1074
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:20
Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove Attended the Same "School"
Nashua Advocate has a lot of good stuff.
Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove Attended the Same "School"; Or, "The Best Theory Yet for How Gannon Got Hired By GOPUSA and Karl Rove Got In Touch With Him"
By ADVOCATE STAFF
Saturday, February 19, 2005
CBS has put (once again) its credibility on the line and speculated that Karl Rove is the man responsible for bringing Jeff Gannon (James Guckert) into the White House.
Now, why would they say a thing like that?
Is it because Rove controls everything in the White House down to the lifespan of houseplants in the West Wing?
Or because it's a near certainty that, beyond the two men meeting at a White House Christmas party--as Gannon has already asserted--Rove and the ex-Talon News "reporter" have likely crossed paths on other occasions, too? ... More of their backgrounds at:
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/jeff-gannon-and-karl-rove-attended.html or http://tinyurl.com/4r4o8
© Virginia Metze
Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove Attended the Same "School"; Or, "The Best Theory Yet for How Gannon Got Hired By GOPUSA and Karl Rove Got In Touch With Him"
By ADVOCATE STAFF
Saturday, February 19, 2005
CBS has put (once again) its credibility on the line and speculated that Karl Rove is the man responsible for bringing Jeff Gannon (James Guckert) into the White House.
Now, why would they say a thing like that?
Is it because Rove controls everything in the White House down to the lifespan of houseplants in the West Wing?
Or because it's a near certainty that, beyond the two men meeting at a White House Christmas party--as Gannon has already asserted--Rove and the ex-Talon News "reporter" have likely crossed paths on other occasions, too? ... More of their backgrounds at:
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/jeff-gannon-and-karl-rove-attended.html or http://tinyurl.com/4r4o8
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:17
Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence
I seem to recall before the Iraq war, I think at the time of the Afghanistan war, that someone wrote that in Iraq women could drive and vote. Was that true? In any event, the lives are not better now.
Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence - Amnesty Int'l
by Jeremy Lovell
February 22, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi women are living under the threat of extreme violence and sexual abuse, the human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In a report entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam Hussein had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders and sexual assaults -- including by U.S. forces. Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/3r74q
© Virginia Metze
Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence - Amnesty Int'l
by Jeremy Lovell
February 22, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi women are living under the threat of extreme violence and sexual abuse, the human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In a report entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam Hussein had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders and sexual assaults -- including by U.S. forces. Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/3r74q
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:15
Senate Democratic leadership joins push for Gannon Inquiry
God, it is good to see Durbin out there in front day after day! Democratic leadership joins call for Gannon inquiry; Whip calls on members to join push.
Senate Democratic leadership joins push for Gannon Inquiry
by John Byrne, Raw Story Editor
2/22/2005
Read the article and Senator Durbin's letter at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117
© Virginia Metze
Senate Democratic leadership joins push for Gannon Inquiry
by John Byrne, Raw Story Editor
2/22/2005
Read the article and Senator Durbin's letter at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=117
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:13
Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record
FAIR keeps on swinging at the press deficiencies in fairness and accuracy in reporting. Do you ever wonder if their job would be easier if they instead noted any good work coming out of the corporate press? :-(
Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record
Media Advisory (2/22/05)
George W. Bush's February 17 nomination of John Negroponte to the newly created job of director of intelligence was the subject of a flurry of media coverage. But one part of Negroponte's resume was given little attention: his role in the brutal and illegal Contra war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.
From 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, a country that was being used as a training and staging ground for the CIA-created and -backed Contra armies, who relied on a terrorist strategy of targeting civilians. Those years saw a massive increase in U.S. military aid to Honduras, and Negroponte was a key player in organizing training for the Contras and procuring weapons for the armies that the United States was building in order to topple the socialist Nicaraguan government (Extra!, 9-10/01).
Negroponte's ambassadorship was marked by another human rights scandal: the Honduran army's Battalion 316, which operated as a death squad that tortured, killed or disappeared "subversive" Hondurans-- and at least one U.S. citizen, Catholic priest James Carney. Despite regular reporting of such crimes in the Honduran press, the human rights reports of Negroponte's embassy consistently failed to raise these issues. Critics contend that this was no accident: If such crimes had been acknowledged, U.S. aid to the country's military would have come under scrutiny, which could have jeopardized the Contra operations. ... Read more at http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2452
© Virginia Metze
Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record
Media Advisory (2/22/05)
George W. Bush's February 17 nomination of John Negroponte to the newly created job of director of intelligence was the subject of a flurry of media coverage. But one part of Negroponte's resume was given little attention: his role in the brutal and illegal Contra war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.
From 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, a country that was being used as a training and staging ground for the CIA-created and -backed Contra armies, who relied on a terrorist strategy of targeting civilians. Those years saw a massive increase in U.S. military aid to Honduras, and Negroponte was a key player in organizing training for the Contras and procuring weapons for the armies that the United States was building in order to topple the socialist Nicaraguan government (Extra!, 9-10/01).
Negroponte's ambassadorship was marked by another human rights scandal: the Honduran army's Battalion 316, which operated as a death squad that tortured, killed or disappeared "subversive" Hondurans-- and at least one U.S. citizen, Catholic priest James Carney. Despite regular reporting of such crimes in the Honduran press, the human rights reports of Negroponte's embassy consistently failed to raise these issues. Critics contend that this was no accident: If such crimes had been acknowledged, U.S. aid to the country's military would have come under scrutiny, which could have jeopardized the Contra operations. ... Read more at http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2452
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:11
Bash-the-AARP effort off to a smarmy start
Ellis Henican, Columnist, Newsday.com
February 23, 2005
It's like a Washington sequel to "Reservoir Dogs."
Finally rested up from their cynical assault last year on John Kerry's patriotism, the most ruthless smear squad in American politics is back together again.
And they're revving up for another nasty job.
Their latest ugly enterprise? Sliming the AARP, which had the nerve to come out against President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. ... Read more about the return of the Swift Boaters at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen234154690feb23,0,3772375.column?coll=ny-news-columnists or http://tinyurl.com/4mnwz
Check out the AARP site for their views: http://www.aarp.org/ You will be heartened to see the headline: Social Security: Strengthen It. Don't Destroy It.
© Virginia Metze
February 23, 2005
It's like a Washington sequel to "Reservoir Dogs."
Finally rested up from their cynical assault last year on John Kerry's patriotism, the most ruthless smear squad in American politics is back together again.
And they're revving up for another nasty job.
Their latest ugly enterprise? Sliming the AARP, which had the nerve to come out against President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. ... Read more about the return of the Swift Boaters at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen234154690feb23,0,3772375.column?coll=ny-news-columnists or http://tinyurl.com/4mnwz
Check out the AARP site for their views: http://www.aarp.org/ You will be heartened to see the headline: Social Security: Strengthen It. Don't Destroy It.
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:07
A White House plant?
Chicago Tribune columnist weighs in on GannonGate. To get to it, scroll past the top of the column to this article:
A White House plant?
Rambling Gleaner
February 22, 2005 5:56 PM CST
What did the White House know and when did it know it on the question of the kinky bald guy with the stinky Web sites who got to pose as a "daily pass" reporter in the White House press corps?
He got to help the White House wiggle out of unpleasant moments by asking questions worthy of a doofus, which drew the attention of the blogosphere, which shifted into "high proctology" mode in a recent hot pursuit of the caper.
Bingo, another media incident explodes. Well, good for the bloggers.
But there's one problem left, and that is the big question: Did the White House knowingly plant this lap doof in the press corps or, as indicated in many White House comments, was it just something that happened over time despite lots of scrutiny that led them to conclude he was legit, sort of? ... Read the rest at:
http://tinyurl.com/5tnsc And don't miss the part toward the end where he relates his experiences at a Bush rally in Holland, Michigan! You might as well read about his dogs while you are at it (the next article after this one). I loved his comments on blogging, which followed the doggy post; not sure I totally agree, but great reading.
© Virginia Metze
A White House plant?
Rambling Gleaner
February 22, 2005 5:56 PM CST
What did the White House know and when did it know it on the question of the kinky bald guy with the stinky Web sites who got to pose as a "daily pass" reporter in the White House press corps?
He got to help the White House wiggle out of unpleasant moments by asking questions worthy of a doofus, which drew the attention of the blogosphere, which shifted into "high proctology" mode in a recent hot pursuit of the caper.
Bingo, another media incident explodes. Well, good for the bloggers.
But there's one problem left, and that is the big question: Did the White House knowingly plant this lap doof in the press corps or, as indicated in many White House comments, was it just something that happened over time despite lots of scrutiny that led them to conclude he was legit, sort of? ... Read the rest at:
http://tinyurl.com/5tnsc And don't miss the part toward the end where he relates his experiences at a Bush rally in Holland, Michigan! You might as well read about his dogs while you are at it (the next article after this one). I loved his comments on blogging, which followed the doggy post; not sure I totally agree, but great reading.
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:04
Inoculations - The True Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Starmail - 24. Feb, 09:59
Rätselhaftes Brummen treibt Menschen zur Verzweiflung
Aachen/Stuttgart (dpa) - Frans Frankort hört seit rund fünf Monaten ein Brummen - Tag und Nacht. In seiner Not packt der Mann nachts manchmal seinen Computer, stellt ihn unters Bett und schaltet ihn an. Dieses Geräusch überdeckt den Brummton. "Für mich ist das eine Linderung", sagt der genervte Mann aus der niederländischen Grenz-Gemeinde Bocholtz bei Aachen. Vor einiger Zeit fragte er sich, ob er denn der einzige ist, der das Brummen hört.
Im Dezember wandte er sich an eine Zeitung und schilderte sein Problem. Als der Bericht erschien, konnte er sich vor Anrufen kaum retten: Hunderte von Menschen aus der Region Südlimburg riefen bei der Zeitung und bei ihm an. Sie alle hörten es, dieses unerklärliche tiefe Brummen, das ihnen den Schlaf raubt und sie nervös macht. Das Gesundheitsamt Geleen ist eingeschaltet und will der Ursache systematisch auf den Grund gehen.
Doch das ist nicht so einfach. Nicht jeder Mensch hört dieses Geräusch. Frankorts Nachbarin hört es, seine Frau hört es nicht. "Es ist, als würde ein stehender Lastwagen seinen Motor laufen lassen", beschreibt er das Brummen, das ihn mürbe macht. Frankort ist Akustik- Ingenieur. Er geht davon aus, dass die Frequenz so tief ist, dass nicht jeder sie hören kann. Mögliche Schallquellen könnten nach Expertenansicht industrielle Lüfter oder ein Windpark an der Grenze bei Aachen sein.
Dass die Ursachenforschung viel komplizierter ist, diese Erfahrung haben Menschen in Baden-Württemberg machen müssen. Dort treibt ein rätselhafter Brummton Betroffene seit mehr als vier Jahren zur Verzweiflung. Die Landesregierung hatte 2001 mit einer groß angelegten Messaktion versucht, dem Phänomen auf die Spur zu kommen. Gleichzeitig waren Betroffene an der Universitätsklinik in Tübingen untersucht worden. Die Ursache wurde nicht gefunden; die Menschen leiden weiter.
"Vor allem die Frauen gehen daran kaputt", sagt der Sprecher der Interessengemeinschaft zur Aufklärung des Brummtons (IGZA/Stuttgart), Matthias Mayer. Der Verein hat sich 2001 gegründet, um die Interessen der Betroffenen zu vertreten. Inzwischen haben sich 1500 Betroffene aus dem ganzen Bundesgebiet bei dem Verein gemeldet. "Das ist kein lokales Problem", meint Mayer. Brummton-Phänomene seien in den USA, in Slowenien und jetzt auch in den Niederlanden bekannt.
Der Verein vermutet, dass elektrische und elektromagnetische Strahlung etwa aus Radar oder Mobilfunk im Ohr eine Fehlschaltung auslösen. "Wir brauchen Wissenschaftler, die daran arbeiten", fordert Mayer. Ansonsten bleibt es nur eine Vermutung. Und die helfe nicht weiter.
Fachleute im niederländischen Gesundheitsamt Geleen nehmen Frankort und die anderen Brummton-Hörer ernst. Dass Geräusche mit tiefen Frequenzen beim Menschen Beschwerden auslösen können, sei bekannt, sagt die Gesundheitswissenschaftlerin des Amtes, Paola Esser: "Aber in der Öffentlichkeit war es bisher kaum ein Thema." 300 Betroffene aus Südlimburg haben sich bisher gemeldet und wurden systematisch erfasst. Mit Hilfe von Fragebögen und in Interviews wollen die Umweltmediziner die Geräuschquelle eingrenzen. "Unser Ziel ist es, die Ursache zu erfassen", sagt Esser.
23.02.2005, Thomas Stollberger
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=9189
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
Im Dezember wandte er sich an eine Zeitung und schilderte sein Problem. Als der Bericht erschien, konnte er sich vor Anrufen kaum retten: Hunderte von Menschen aus der Region Südlimburg riefen bei der Zeitung und bei ihm an. Sie alle hörten es, dieses unerklärliche tiefe Brummen, das ihnen den Schlaf raubt und sie nervös macht. Das Gesundheitsamt Geleen ist eingeschaltet und will der Ursache systematisch auf den Grund gehen.
Doch das ist nicht so einfach. Nicht jeder Mensch hört dieses Geräusch. Frankorts Nachbarin hört es, seine Frau hört es nicht. "Es ist, als würde ein stehender Lastwagen seinen Motor laufen lassen", beschreibt er das Brummen, das ihn mürbe macht. Frankort ist Akustik- Ingenieur. Er geht davon aus, dass die Frequenz so tief ist, dass nicht jeder sie hören kann. Mögliche Schallquellen könnten nach Expertenansicht industrielle Lüfter oder ein Windpark an der Grenze bei Aachen sein.
Dass die Ursachenforschung viel komplizierter ist, diese Erfahrung haben Menschen in Baden-Württemberg machen müssen. Dort treibt ein rätselhafter Brummton Betroffene seit mehr als vier Jahren zur Verzweiflung. Die Landesregierung hatte 2001 mit einer groß angelegten Messaktion versucht, dem Phänomen auf die Spur zu kommen. Gleichzeitig waren Betroffene an der Universitätsklinik in Tübingen untersucht worden. Die Ursache wurde nicht gefunden; die Menschen leiden weiter.
"Vor allem die Frauen gehen daran kaputt", sagt der Sprecher der Interessengemeinschaft zur Aufklärung des Brummtons (IGZA/Stuttgart), Matthias Mayer. Der Verein hat sich 2001 gegründet, um die Interessen der Betroffenen zu vertreten. Inzwischen haben sich 1500 Betroffene aus dem ganzen Bundesgebiet bei dem Verein gemeldet. "Das ist kein lokales Problem", meint Mayer. Brummton-Phänomene seien in den USA, in Slowenien und jetzt auch in den Niederlanden bekannt.
Der Verein vermutet, dass elektrische und elektromagnetische Strahlung etwa aus Radar oder Mobilfunk im Ohr eine Fehlschaltung auslösen. "Wir brauchen Wissenschaftler, die daran arbeiten", fordert Mayer. Ansonsten bleibt es nur eine Vermutung. Und die helfe nicht weiter.
Fachleute im niederländischen Gesundheitsamt Geleen nehmen Frankort und die anderen Brummton-Hörer ernst. Dass Geräusche mit tiefen Frequenzen beim Menschen Beschwerden auslösen können, sei bekannt, sagt die Gesundheitswissenschaftlerin des Amtes, Paola Esser: "Aber in der Öffentlichkeit war es bisher kaum ein Thema." 300 Betroffene aus Südlimburg haben sich bisher gemeldet und wurden systematisch erfasst. Mit Hilfe von Fragebögen und in Interviews wollen die Umweltmediziner die Geräuschquelle eingrenzen. "Unser Ziel ist es, die Ursache zu erfassen", sagt Esser.
23.02.2005, Thomas Stollberger
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=9189
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
Starmail - 24. Feb, 09:43
You Don't Deserve Brain Cancer - You Deserve Facts
Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:46
