Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht: Fast 14 Prozent der Bevölkerung Deutschlands lebt in Armut (02.03.05)

Die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich ist unter der rot-grünen Bundesregierung größer geworden. Das geht aus dem "Zweiten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht" hervor, den das Kabinett am Mittwoch in Berlin billigte. Danach ist der Anteil der Armen in Deutschland von 1998 bis 2003 von 12,1 auf 13,5 Prozent gestiegen. Als Gründe werden die Wachstumsschwäche und die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit genannt. Gleichzeitig nahm der Anteil der Reichsten am Gesamtvermögen zu. Nach dem Bericht bezogen im Jahr 1998 rund 6000 Personen ein Nettoäquivalenzeinkommen von mehr als einer Million Euro. Der Bericht belegt, dass das Einkommen der Super-Reichen ansteigt. Das reichste 1 Prozent der Verteilung der Nettoäquivalenzeinkommen verfügte 1992 und 1995 laut Bericht über 8,4 Prozent aller Einkommen. 1998 bezog das reichste 1 Prozent bereits rund 10 Prozent des Gesamteinkommens in Deutschland.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10571

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Oppose the Execution of Stanley Hall
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=7790327&url_num=52&url=http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=415

posted 02/25/05

Urge the Missouri Governor to commute Mr. Hall's sentence to life because his ineffective counsel neglected to raise crucial objections at the trial and direct appeal. The execution is scheduled for March 16 so please act today!

Record deficits, colossal debt and no clear plan for digging itself out. If the U.S. sinks, it will take Canada down with it.

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=20050307_101541_101541
http://tinyurl.com/3zv3s


From Information Clearing House

A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth?:

Our former ambassador to Uzbekistan refuses to go quietly. The Government should come clean about interrogation methods, he tells Raymond Whitaker

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/articles/Independent%2020%20Feb%202005.htm


From Information Clearing House

When you close your eyes and picture America, what do you see?.

A must see Flash presentation.
http://www.aclu.org/rumsfeld/flash/index.html


From Information Clearing House

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America's reputation.

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17584&c=206


From Information Clearing House

A new "war on tyranny" is being groomed to replace the outmoded "war on terror". Far from being a semantic nuance, the shift is highly revealing of the next phase of Washington's global agenda.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GC03Dj02.html


From Information Clearing House

The Pulitzer Prize winner said the president’s plans in the region go beyond Iraq and include bringing the administration’s brand of pro-American democracy to Iran and Syria.

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2005030122


From Information Clearing House

British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Syria that the world is watching its actions closely, adding to diplomatic pressure on Damascus as Washington steps up calls for Syrian troops to withdraw from Lebanon.

http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=46&sid=30132


From Information Clearing House

"It is all these things around us," says Fatima. "The Americans, the booby-traps. No security, I can't let the kids go play outside because of car bombs and fighting."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1428207,00.html


From Information Clearing House

by AL Kennedy

Abdul Wali, he's dead now. He died after being interrogated by a CIA contractor in Afghanistan, but so what? Then there's Zaydun al-Samarrai. He's dead now. His cousin Marwan Hassoun is upset about this, but you can be sure he's overreacting - after all Sgt Tracy Perkins, one of the people who drowned al-Samarrai in the Tigris, was only given a six-month sentence, so it can't have been a big deal.

http://207.44.245.159/article8189.htm

U.S. Citizen Jose Padilla: Imprisoned Without Trial for 2 Years and 269 Days by our Government

While one of us is chained, None of us are Free...
http://www.chargepadilla.org/


Justice, finally, for José Padilla?

In South Carolina, Judge Henry Floyd, has ruled and dealt, one hopes, a fatal blow to the assertion of an unchecked presidential power to jail a citizen indefinitely and with no access to due process - a judge, lawyer, habeas corpus, charges, a trial, all the basic constitutional safeguards.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3586485,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3qfbs



Jose Padilla: Read: Judge Floyd's Decision: pdf format:

U.S. District Judge Henry F. Floyd ruled that the president of the United States does not have the authority to order Jose Padilla to be held.

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0228/4239834.pdf

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Padilla's indefinite detention puts your rights at risk:

This case is not just about Jose Padilla. It's about every citizen's liberty. If the foundations of freedom crumble under the stresses of the war on terrorism, the terrorists will have won.
http://207.44.245.159/article8197.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspr204156187feb24,0,5203878.story


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

From ufpj-news

We're taking our campaign to protect whales from deadly naval sonar to the doorstep of NATO -- and we need your help.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp and send a message to the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to NATO ambassadors, urging their member countries to stop deploying high-powered sonar systems in sensitive whale habitats around the world.

Last month we began making our case directly to NATO officials. Now it's critically important that they hear a worldwide outcry from concerned citizens in support of our cause.

As the military alliance of 26 nations -- including the United States -- NATO includes the world's biggest users of lethal military sonar. In fact, several mass strandings of whales have been linked directly to joint NATO exercises, including strandings in the Canary Islands and along the coast of Greece.

There is no dispute that intense bursts of high-powered sonar can and do kill whales. The scientists of the International Whaling Commission have stated that the evidence linking such naval sonar to whale strandings appears "overwhelming."

The scientific journal "Nature" has reported that intense, active sonar may kill marine mammals by causing their internal organs to hemorrhage.

In the face of this alarming evidence, it's simply cruel and wrong to use high-powered sonar in routine training exercises without taking common-sense steps to protect whales, dolphins and other marine life. That's why a worldwide coalition of environmental groups, including NRDC, is pressuring NATO and its member countries to stop inflicting this needless suffering on marine mammals.

Please make your own voice heard in defense of whales right now. Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp and call on NATO to take immediate steps to protect marine mammals from deadly sonar.

Thank you for taking action.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Mit den steigenden Arbeitslosenzahlen kommt die Hartz-Reform wieder in die Kritik...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19572/1.html

http://www.NewsTarget.com/005032.html

How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350582/

The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/

Carole Currie is over the moon. Success was down to team effort.

Geoff.


Subject: O2 Mast, Bertram Drive North, Meols

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the planners report to committee is recommending REFUSAL for the third application!

The attached report only details the first half of the petition - apparently there is a supplementary sheet that goes to committee showing the final numbers - approx. 378 total petition and 197 letters in total.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/plg20055055rpt.pdf

A fantastic result all round !

THANK YOU for all the letters and support.

Carole (ecstatic!!!)

From Mast Network (excerpt)

'natur + kosmos' berichtet heute:

01.03.2005 - Wildtiere

Wühler im Elektrosmog

Sendehalsbänder scheinen das Leben der untersuchten Tiere zu beeinflussen.

Wenn Große Wühlmäuse per Sendehalsband verfolgt werden, ändert sich das Geschlechterverhältnis bei neugeborenen Nagern. Das haben britische Forscher herausgefunden. Sie glauben, dass dieser Effekt eine Folge von Stress sein könnte. Möglicherweise werden auch andere Tierarten durch die Sendetechnik beeinflusst, berichtet das Wissenschaftsmagazin Nature.

Der Biologe Tom Moorhouse von der Universität Oxford hat die Wühlmäuse seit mehreren Jahren untersucht. Um etwas über Wanderungen der Tiere zu erfahren, hat er einige mit Sendern ausgestattet. Es zeigte sich, dass daraufhin der Anteil weiblichen Nachwuchses um 48 Prozent gefallen ist. Moorhouse glaubt, die Sender haben die Tiere gestresst.

Unter natürlichen Bedingungen werden mehr Männchen geboren, wenn es beispielsweise wenig Futter gibt. Die Männchen verlassen dann die Gegend und erhöhen so die Chancen für die zurück Gebliebenen. Stress durch Sender könnte eine ähnliche Wirkung haben wie Stress durch Futterknappheit.

Auch bei anderen Tierarten gibt es Hinweise, dass die technische Ausrüstung einen Einfluss auf die Partnerwahl oder Nahrungssuche hat: so haben auf diese Art markierte Kaiserpinguine Schwierigkeiten beim Schwimmen und Fischen. Panda-Bären dürfen gar nicht erst mit Sendern versehen werden – nur für den Fall, dass sie die Tiere doch gefährden könnten.

Quelle: http://www.natur.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=163576

Nachricht von Reinhard Rückemann


http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4977




Tiere und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/196960/

Indirect negative impacts of radio-collaring: sex ratio variation in water voles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553479/

Radio-tracking associated with ‘dramatic shift’ in water vole sex ratio
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549254/

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/050228.shtml
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050228/full/050228-3.html


Informant: JCMPelican


Indirect negative impacts of radio-collaring: sex ratio variation in water voles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553479/

Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540756/

(Normal solar windspeed is between 200-300 range).

Current Solar Wind
speed: 607.2 km/s

density: 0.6 protons/cm3

A large coronal hole is emerging over the sun's eastern limb. A solar wind stream flowing from this hole could reach Earth on or about March 8th.


Informant: Anna Webb

1/3/2005 - Petitioner says 90% back him

AROUND 90% of people living near a proposed mobile phone mast site have signed a petition against the idea, according to one campaigner.

Peter Burley, of Fern Close, Frimley, has accused T-Mobile of putting the health of his children at risk by proposing to build a mast in Old Bisley Road just yards from his back gate.

So far his petition against it has 750 signatures.

He said: “I went to the area immediately around the proposed site, so they are all directly involved and relevant signatures.

“We have calculated that 750 signatures represents over 90% of people over voting age around the mast area — that speaks volumes and I only hope that T-Mobile listen.”

T-Mobile has not yet submitted a planning application to Surrey Heath Borough Council for the mast to be built but has made its plan clear in letters sent out to some households.

It comprises a 14.7-metre mast, three UMTS antennas and two equipment cabinets.

But the residents want T-Mobile to add this to a group of masts on the nearby ranges in Deepcut Bridge Road.

Mr Burley spoke out when the plans were first circulated and expressed his “grave concern” about the implications for his children’s health.

He said he was worried about their exposure to emissions from a mast 50 metres from his back gate and 70 metres from their bedroom.

He added: “I am not prepared to stand by and wait five or ten years to find out if my kids develop a life-threatening or debilitating condition just so that T-Mobile can make some kind of commercial gain from their customers using ‘advanced series’.”

Ward councillor Fran Bennie handed the petition to Surrey Heath Mayor Cllr Paul Ilnicki.

She said: “It is not an actual planning application yet, so I was allowed to hand in the petition and they will put it in the relevant file so if an application does come in it will be ready.

“It is unusual that we were able to present a petition before, as they are usually too late and don’t have the same impact.

“People are worried by a great density of phone masts by their houses. They are not saying please don’t have a mast, but saying put it with the existing masts nearby.

“This seems very sensible to me and there is huge support for this from the residents.”

Mr Burley said: “It is supposed to be policy for phone companies to share masts where they can.
“Orange, Hutchison and O2 are already up there. T-Mobile should share those masts and they have not given a reasonable explanation as to why they cannot.”

A T-Mobile spokesman had said previously: “The careful siting of our base stations is vital to ensure reliable coverage for users of our network.

“In line with government guidelines we consider site sharing and existing mast locations where possible.

“In this case, due to technical and structural reasons, we were not able to share a site.

“We are still considering our options in this area.”

Picture: Peter Burley and Cllr Fran Bennie with the petition


From Mast Network

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/print?id=538452


Informant: Susan

by Bob Babson

The Free Press

3/1/2005

In America, every vote should be counted correctly. Following the General Election on November 2, 2004, we have learned that there were numerous incidents of evoting machines malfunctioning and/or being tampered with and significant voter suppression. Congress is being asked to investigate. In the name of preserving democracy itself, the purpose of this article is to outline two courses of action which will help prevent future voting fraud in all 50 states.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050301085822399

by Jesse Jackson

Chicago Sun Times

3/1/2005

This weekend in Selma, Ala., marchers will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in that city. The violence unleashed by Southern sheriffs and racial vigilantes on that day galvanized President Johnson to push through the Voting Rights Act, giving blacks the right to vote in the South for the first time since the brief reconstruction period after the Civil War.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=2005030110030276

2.3.2005

KLAGE / Die Gemeinde und etliche Bürger haben Klage wegen Handymasten eingereicht. Verlegung kommt für die Betreiber nicht in Frage!

VON PETER SUWANDSCHIEFF

MÜLLENDORF / Laut Aufzeichnungen von Reinhold Jandrisovits, Arzt in Müllendorf, ist das Auftreten der Symptome Schlafstörungen, Erschöpfungszustände, Hörsturz, überaktive Kinder, aber auch die Krebsrate in Müllendorf stark gestiegen. „Absolut Besorgnis erregend ist, dass die Betroffenen immer jünger werden“, erklärt Reinhold Jandrisovits verärgert. Nach Ansicht der Gemeinde und der betroffenen Bürger ist der durch den Mobilfunksender verstärkte Elektrosmog in der Umgebung für diese absolut beängstigende Entwicklung verantwortlich.

VP-Bürgermeister Alfred Schlögl hat nun im Namen der Gemeinde Klage erhoben. Weiters besteht eine Sammelklage von 140 besorgten Müllendorfern. Aber auch Kreisarzt Omar Abudayeh ist davon überzeugt, dass von der Mobilfunkanlage eine gesundheitliche Bedrohung ausgeht und klagt ebenso die Betreiber. Das Anliegen: Die Verlegung des umstrittenen Handymastes. Die Staatsanwaltschaft wird nun ermitteln müssen, ob der Mobilfunksender für die negative Entwicklung des Gesundheitszustandes der Bevölkerung verantwortlich ist oder nicht.

„Standort des Handymastes ist doppelt ungünstig!“

Der momentane Standort sei aus zweierlei Gründen ungünstig, so Reinhold Jandrisovits. Erstens liegt er an der topografisch tiefsten Stelle der Umgebung und zweitens in unmittelbarer Nähe zur Bahnanlage. „Hier kommt es zu einer Überlagerung der Störfelder Mobilfunksender und Elektrizität der Bahn, was wiederum zu einer Erhöhung des Elektrosmogs vor Ort führt“, weiß Reinhold Jadrisovits. Aus der Sicht der Netzbetreiber - in diesem Fall T-Mobile und A1 - erschließt sich naturgemäß ein völlig anderes Bild. Thomas Barmüller, Forum Mobilkommunikation, betont, dass eine Überlagerung der Störfelder physikalisch nicht möglich ist. Die geforderte Verlegung des Handymastes kommt daher laut Barmüller nicht in Frage.

Auch Mag. Christine Lackner, Pressesprecherin Minister Gorbach, meint: „Das Ministerium hat keine rechtliche Handhabe, solange nicht bewiesen ist, dass eine Gesundheitsschädigung verursacht wird.“ Man bemühe sich jedoch, das Problem zu lösen. Für die Mobilfunk-Initiative, deren Gründer Jandrisovits ist, steht fest: Der Standort muss verlegt werden. „Heuer ist Wahljahr, wenn nötig werden wir Aktionen setzen.“

http://www.bvz.at/redaktion/bvz-eis/article.asp?Text=167412&cat=830


Beobachtungen eindeutig - Mobilfunk ist gesundheitsschädlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/520055/

Müllendorf: Es geht weiter...
http://ecolog.twoday.net/stories/632243/

10:30 - 02 March 2005

Residents are set to start a campaign against the possible siting of a mobile phone mast in Stroud.

An application from phone company Hutchison 3G for a 15-metre device at the Prince of Wales pub, in Cashes Green, has been received by Stroud District Council. Despite claims from the company that the mast would operate within recommended health guidelines, residents gathered at a meeting of Cainscross Parish Council and claimed possible health implications made the site unsuitable.

And councillors agreed, voting to oppose the application.

Julia Currie, owner of nearby Croft Farm, was among those who attended the meeting.

She said: "I find it quite amazing. They have the audacity to say we'll have a mast there despite all the public feeling. My own view is that it is near enough to make me feel uncomfortable as a citizen. I'm not happy with the pub site at all."

Coun Darren Jones urged anyone interested in opposing the mast to unite in protest and seek more information about the plan.

From Mast Network

Mar 2 2005

PLANNING permission for the "third generation" mast was granted to communications firm Hutchison in December by Wealden District Council.

Two weeks ago word of the scheme spread and villagers rallied to halt the project over fears of safety.

On Monday Simon Waters, joint owner of Mid Sussex Timber, disclosed that his company was pulling out but denied he was caving in to public pressure.

He said: "I did say to 3G you've got to convince the village what you are doing is safe and so far no one has been convinced.

"I've been amazed by the strength of feeling about this. I have to say it was a pretty impressive turnout on Friday.

"It has never been the intention to put the health and welfare of the population of Forest Row under any risk perceived or otherwise.

"We have listened to what people have said and I told them then that I wanted a few days to think it over.

"My wife and I spoke to a number of people over the weekend and it became clear to us both that opposition for this project was endemic."

Although no contract had been signed Mr Waters said his firm would have received about £6,000 a year from the agreement.

He added: "The financial consideration is not the be-all-andend-all. "We are part of the community and we want to get on with the community. I think we would have lost the goodwill."

The news has halted plans for another protest due to be held again this Friday.

Organiser Paula Simonis said: "I'm over the moon, overwhelmed.

"I'm very grateful to Mr Waters. Good for him. I don't think he's caved in. I think he's done it with dignity. I truly believe he was not aware of the feelings. Now he's aware of them he's man enough to say he won't put the mast on his land."

But the step has angered Hutchison 3G.

Community affairs manager Mike Davies said: "We are disappointed that Mid Sussex Timber have withdrawn.

"The site was gained democratically, with full planning consent, but mob rule seems to have prevailed in Forest Row.

"Mid Sussex Timber has bowed to pressure which is unfounded and unwarranted. It is the most appropriate site in Forest Row.

"If people are not prepared to understand the reputable science and make their judgments on hearsay and mass conjecture then there's no way you can convince anybody. The science is very strong and valid."

Mr Davies insisted H3G would press on with plans for a mast in the village, adding: "We will be looking at other sites in the area including a network in Forest Row. We are looking at lampposts on the highway. We haven't got any locations yet but that is the scenario that could happen."


From Mast Network

02 March 2005 11:27

Campaigners have refused to give up the fight against a controversial mobile phone mast and will appeal against a decision to get it switched back on.

Telecommunications company O2 has been involved in a long-running battle with campaigners over the siting of a mast on top of the police station in Yarmouth Road, North Walsham.

Last month the Evening News reported how senior politicians at North Norfolk District Council said they would have to back down on plans to take the long running North Walsham issue to the High Court, partly because of the substantial cost.

But Matthew Pennington, a member of the Campaign Against Tetra Siting (CATS) who lives on the same road as the mast, said the campaigners themselves would now be taking up the fight.

"We have now appealed the planning inspector's decision against the North Walsham mast," said Mr Pennington, who lives with his wife Rachel Kirk and three-year-old son Henry.

"We're trying for legal aid. We will be asking the planning inspector to reconsider their decision in light of the fact that health effects were not fully taken into account.

"It will be my son Henry who is appealing specifically but then any health effects with people in the region will get added to the case if we get that far."

A London barrister told council leaders that chances of success were slim and a loss in court could lay the council open to substantial costs.

But the campaigners have found an environmental solicitor in Cambridge who is willing to take their case.

"He's had advice from barristers that we've got a case that's worth pursuing," said Mr Pennington. "The solicitor is very respected and has a reasonable expertise in these matters."

The campaigner said he would like to hear from anyone else who might have experienced health effects as they just had a couple of weeks to gather evidence.

"I would feel bad if I didn't at least try," said Mr Pennington, who told the Evening News in January that he might have to move for the safety of his young son.

The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

Families believe the Tetra mast, installed as part of the emergency services Airwave communications system, has caused health problems for people living in the area.

Concerns led the council to refuse planning permission for the original mast and subsequently serve two notices on the slightly altered mast that O2 claimed did not need planning permission.

The notices led to the mast being switched off. The drawn-out row eventually saw a planning inspector allow the mast to be switched back on just a few weeks ago.

A spokeswoman for O2 Airwave said: "The planning inspector has been clear in his decision about the siting of the mast on North Walsham police station.

"The site now gives effective coverage for Norfolk police in the area."

The spokeswoman said she respected the public's right to seek a judicial review, but added it was disappointing that people were being made fearful of the move to the new communication system through "misinformation and rumour".

"It's been delivered to 48 of 51 geographical police forces in the country," she added.


From Mast Network

by Frank Ritter

Tennessean

03/01/05

To my knowledge, I've never tortured anyone. It's not in me to do that. People might be discomfited somewhat by what I write, but never have I -- nor anyone I know -- broken anybody's bones, raped them, denied them food or stuck a lit cigarette in their ear or nostrils.

But regularly these days, we receive new reports that torture is being done in your name and mine, by our government, with our tax money supporting it. In our name, to 'protect us,' our government under the Bush administration can arrest people without charge, hold them for years without access to a lawyer or family, expose them to despicable acts. 'It's necessary,' we are told, 'to fight terrorism.' Is that what we've come to as a society, a nation, a people? Torture, brutality, sexual exploitation, even murder -- it has all happened at the hands of Americans. ... [I]t's not something I ever expected in this day and time. I thought we were smarter...

http://tinyurl.com/4sev6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com

03/02/05

We continue to experience American society as a well-organized system of plunder, violence, warfare, and other dehumanizing attributes, because of the content of our thinking. As long as we insist upon loving these systems more than we do ourselves, our children and grandchildren will continue to be ground down and destroyed in the process. We need to stop revering and energizing these vicious agencies that have never been able to deliver on their promises of a free, peaceful, orderly, and secure world...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer98.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A useful debate yesterday; good to have this all on parliamentary record. Worth reading Hansard:

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050301/halltext/50301h03.htm#50301h03_head0

Andy

From Mast Network

Immer mehr Frauen verdienen in der Schweiz nicht genug zum Leben. Der Anteil der Alleinerziehenden hat sich verdoppelt. Kinder werden immer häufiger zum Armutsrisiko. Artikel von Susanne Bachmann in junge Welt vom 18.02.2005 http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/02-18/010.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 2

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4443


Informant: Sylviane

We are rolling out our PRESS RELEASE for VR's "Divestiture for Democracy" Campaign today! If you have media addresses that you feel we should add to our VR_Media list, please send to Info@VelvetRevolution.us asap !

The release is included here for distribution far and wide!

Please point your folks to http://www.VelvetRevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D and
ask them to use the link there to
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/mailing.php?Mailing=05FC507D500021102290C
"SEND EMAIL TO THE COMPANIES"!

Thanks! Hit us with questions any questions about the campaign at
DV4D@VelvetRevolution.us

We've got new Affiliates coming on board faster than we can add them to the site, which is great!

Also, by way of heads up, we should be able to announce some Congressional support for the campaign shortly! And we understand that RAWSTORY.com is currently working up a feature on the campaign as well! Keep making noise!

We need your help! Please get on board so we can make as much noise as possible!

(See the Press Release below...and distribute!)

Brad Friedman
The VELVET REVOLUTION begins...
http://www.VelvetRevolution.us


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 28, 2005
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D
http://www.VelvetRevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D

CONTACT:
Media - Brad Friedman, VR Co-Founder, Brad@VelvetRevolution.us
General - DV4D@VelvetRevolution.us

VELVET REVOLUTION'S
"DIVESTITURE FOR DEMOCRACY" CAMPAIGN BEGINS!
Demanding transparency and accountability from America's Voting Machine Companies

A coalition of over 80 citizen's groups nationally has formed to address the problems created by the secret vote counting that takes place on the newer electronic voting machines. We announce a nationwide effort, under the banner of Velvet Revolution, to reinstitute vote-counting procedures that are non-secret so that all American citizens can verify that democracy is indeed working properly and fairly. Trusting any person or corporation to secretly fill out ballots and then count votes (no matter if that person or corporation is tested and sworn to honesty) is itself wrong because there is never an opportunity to verify whether honesty in fact occurs. This problem has now been tremendously amplified by the thousands of complaints received on Election Day 2004 concerning observed malfunctions of voting machines.

Thus, on February 21 (President's Day), VelvetRevolution.us ("VR") sent letters to the nine major vote and vote tabulation companies -- Diebold, Sequoia Voting Systems, Election Systems and Software, HartInterCivic, MicroVote, Danaher-Guardian, TriadGSI, UniLect, and Advanced Voting Solutions -- urging them, within 60 days, to open themselves up to transparency and accountability or face a massive and sustained divestiture campaign from hundreds of organizations representing millions of Americans.

Our last national election was rife with documented voting irregularities and allegations of outright fraud because of problems with vote counting and tabulation machines, which lacked auditable paper ballots, open software and hardware, and networking safeguards. Moreover, many of the company CEOs professed strong public support for President Bush thereby calling into question the impartiality of the voting process and leading to a collapse in confidence for the electoral system.

VR and all the supporters (more than 80 Affiliate organizations) of our "Divestiture for Democracy" campaign believe that transparency and trustworthiness of elections are imperative to ensuring confidence in our democracy - the world's most important. We do not believe that companies that count our votes should hide their software under the guise that it is "proprietary," and dispense with paper ballots with the assertion that they can be trusted.

VR is demanding verifiable paper ballots for all votes cast, a paper trail of all vote tabulations, open software and hardware that is subject to independent analysis, machines that are not, and cannot be networked, no involvement in elections or politics by company executives, and independent observers of the tabulation process. These are required under existing law because the vote machine companies are merely extensions of the government in that they are performing a purely governmental function - vote counting - and being compensated using taxpayer funds.

We will broadly recognize the companies that publicly state within 60 days that they will meet our patriotic concerns. Those who choose against doing the right thing for our country will have to deal with a sustained campaign of boycott against their companies, affiliates and clients. We will also launch a broad education campaign for the American people explaining precisely the dangers that these companies represent to our beloved democracy.

Though most of VR's demands are mirrored by recent bi-partisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, VR believes that companies that do not voluntarily make these changes prior to any future use of their voting and tabulation machines do not deserve to have the support of the American public. VR believes that all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, should sign the Webletter on our website to send a message of support for VR to these companies, so that all of our voices may - finally - be heard loud and clear.


Informant: Hopedance

Sonnenbichl-Anwohner fühlen sich von Gemeinde allein gelassen

Peiting - Mit der Diskussion um den "Weilheimer Hof" als möglichen Standort für eine Mobilfunkantenne ist auch der von der Gemeinde als Standort favorisierte Kalvarienberg in den Fokus gerückt. Doch das, was der Gemeinderat in einer Sitzung im Januar einstimmig beschlossen hat, können die Anwohner am "Sonnenbichl" in Peiting alles andere als für gut heißen. Sie fühlen sich von der Gemeinde allein gelassen. "Lieber sollen weniger leiden als viele", kritisiert Theodora Handiak. "Aber gegen das Leiden wird nichts getan."

Das "Leiden" ist weniger als zehn Zentimeter [Anm. 10 m?] hoch, somit genehmigungsfrei, und soll in Form einer Mobilfunkantenne auf das Dach des Trafohäuschens gesetzt werden, das auf LEW-Grund neben dem Schützenheim steht - zumindest, wenn es nach dem Gemeinderat geht. Dieser hatte den Beschluss gefasst, nachdem Experten des Umweltinstituts München, den Kalvarienberg als "günstigen Standort" eingestuft hatten. "Wir sind dem Rat des Fachmanns gefolgt und irgendwie müssen wir uns ja festlegen", rechtfertigt Bürgermeister Michael Asam die Entscheidung des Gremiums. Klar sei, dass keiner begeistert sei, wenn in der Nähe des eigenen Hauses ein Mobilfunkstandort sei.

Ein Standpunkt, den die Anwohner vom "Sonnenbichl" - vertreten durch Theodora Handiak, Monika Heerd und Aloys Zaremba - anders auslegen. "Wir müssen Hilfe schreien und generell Nein sagen", so Theodora Handiak. "Das gilt sowohl für diesen Standort, als auch für den Weilheimer Hof", macht sie deutlich.

Dass den Bewohner einer Gemeinde ein Mitspracherecht über mögliche Standorte für Mobilfunk zustehen müsste, findet Monika Heerd. Seit Jahren engagiert sich die Peitingerin mit ihrem Ehemann in Sachen Mobilfunk. Sie bekräftigt: "Wir haben kein Interesse, einzelne Leute anzuklagen." Theodora Handiak ergänzt: "Wir möchten die Bevölkerung dazu bringen, zu protestieren."

Aufklärung

Die Anwohner vom "Sonnenbichl" fordern Aufklärung: "Warum ist der Standort Kalvarienberg angeblich günstiger als andere Standorte?" Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nicht festlegen möchte sich Diplom-Ingenieur Hans Ulrich-Raithil vom Umweltinstitut München. Auf seine erste Einschätzung hin hatte die Gemeinde im Januar den Beschluss gefasst, den Kalvarienberg als Standort anzubieten. "Vermutlich ist der Kalvarienberg als Standort geeignet", drückt er sich vorsichtig aus, eine Empfehlung hätte er bislang nicht aussprechen können, denn: "Das Verfahren läuft noch, eine Untersuchung ist noch gar nicht in Auftrag gegeben."

Untersucht hat der Münchner Experte bislang in Peiting nur die bestehenden Standorte. Raithil: "Den Standort Kalvarienberg habe ich noch nicht einmal besichtigt."

Auch wenn der Gemeinderatsbeschluss einer endgültigen Untersuchung vorausgeeilt ist, gibt der Experte mit auf den Weg: "Pauschal gesagt ist es immer gut, einen Ort von einer Anhöhe funktechnisch zu versorgen, weil dann der nahe Bereich nicht so stark mit Strahlung versorgt wird."

Bereits in den nächsten Tagen wird ein Team des Mobilfunkbetreibers E-Plus den Standort Kalvarienberg unter die Lupe nehmen. Erst dann wird sich entscheiden, ob der Betreiber vom bereits unterschriebenen Vertrag mit dem Besitzer des "Weilheimer Hofs" abrückt.

BARBARA SCHLOTTERER

02.03.2005

http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/schongau/art1609,254486.html?fCMS=c1ca00aff9a146855492b721241a5567



AUFRUF ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN MOBILFUNKSENDER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535317/

Ratlos in Gorleben: Wo ist der Castor wirklich? Die Geschichte einer Selbsttäuschung

von Andreas Maier

http://www.widersetzen.de/Andreas_Maier_Hoerartikel.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sm4csi/nwo/MindControl/chemtrails-HAARP-Mass.Mind.Control.htm


Informant: Tim White

[The ACLU and Human Rights First have jointly filed suit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Mar. 1. The suit zeroes on Rumsfeld's Dec. 2, 2002, order authorizing new interrogation techniques for detainees in the "war on terror" and seeks benefits for eight victims, four from Iraq and four from Afghanistan, all of whom are ready to come to the U.S. to testify, Reuters reported Tuesday.[1] -- AP quoted the ACLU's Lucas Guttentag, lead counsel in the suit, who said that Rumsfeld "gives lip service to being responsible, but has not been held accountable . . . and the victims have not been compensated."[2] -- AP's Pauline Jelinek added that the suit "was filed in federal court in Chicago because Rumsfeld's home state is Illinois. It seeks an undetermined amount of compensation and asks for a finding that Rumsfeld violated the Constitution and Geneva Conventions on prisoner treatment." -- The ACLU sent to members a two-minute film
http://www.aclu.org/newface?orgid=EA030105A&MX=1952&H=1 and asked them to write to the attorney general
http://www.aclu.org/Prisons/Prisons.cfm?orgid=EA030105A&ID=17564&c=26&MX=1952&H=1 to ask that an independent counsel be appointed.[3] -- Eight months ago the *Seattle Post-Intelligencer* reported that post-9/11 events had "doubled the rolls of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington over the past two years," from 10,000 to nearly 20,000.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/177034_aclu09.html -- In its May 13, 2004, statement, UFPPC went further than the ACLU and called for investigation of the role of the president, the vice president, the secretary of defense, and the attorney general in this and related matters. -- The Western Washington antiwar group called for "investigations [that] may show that the administration has deliberately violated the law, the Constitution, and international covenants and conventions to which the United States is a signatory. . . . If investigations conclude that there is substantial evidence of [the authorization of torture of prisoners], then we believe that impeachment proceedings against the President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General of the United States are in order, as provided for by Article II, Section IV of the Constitution of the United States: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/568/ UFPPC delegations have met twice with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA 9) to discuss these demands, first on Jun. 4
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/718/ and again on Aug. 25.
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/1190/ --Mark]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2345/

SUIT ALLEGES RUMSFELD APPROVED TORTURE

by Alan Elsner

Reuters

March 1, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7775667


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

March 1st, 2005

Cynthia Mckinney Shakes Rumsfeld and Myers Over 9/11 Wargames (See the video )
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/mp3/McKinney.rm

* On February 16th Congressional leadership and two of the planners of the 9/11 attacks blocked, stalled and almost got away with ducking the central question about 9/11. Though they were not forced to answer McKinney’s question, their reaction belongs to all of us. We know. They know we know. Don’t hold your breath that Rumsfeld and Myers will ever be compelled to answer it, but also don’t ever forget the heroism coming from the last bright light on Capitol Hill.

by Michael Kane

Read this free story and other articles here:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml#0
http://www.fromthewilderness.com

Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke regarding War Games, 9/11 Timeline and Myers/Rumsfeld Testimony
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml#1

Several member groups of United for Peace and Justice have been working together in the development of a National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. We want to make sure that all know about this initiative, and that you are welcome to join this effort.

The organizers of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance are launching this effort on the weekend of the 2nd anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq: March 18-20th. For more information about the plans for that weekend and about the ongoing campaign please click here: http://www.iraqpledge.org

And just a quick reminder: if your group has plans for antiwar activities during the weekend of March 18-20 please make sure to post those on the calendar on the UFPJ website: http://www.unitedforpeace.org

Leslie Cagan
National Coordinator
UFPJ



A National Call for Nonviolent Resistance to the Continuing War in Iraq

“The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.” Dr. Martin Luther King

The war in Iraq continues to escalate, with more and more killed every day. The human toll has been enormous, claiming over 1,500 American lives and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives, while wounding, maiming and psychologically scarring hundreds of thousands more. This is not a war of liberation, or against terrorism. This is a war of empire building and corporate profiteering that threatens to destabilize Iraq for many years to come, while sowing new seeds of hate against the U.S. and fueling the cycle of violence and revenge.

The war in Iraq is a war based on lies. It is a war which violates both the U.S. Constitution and our obligations under international law. Characterized by the use of torture, collective punishment, mass bombardment and the destruction of civilian areas, it is a war that shames us morally before the world. And it is a war that is devouring hundreds of billions of dollars, robbing us of resources desperately needed in our own country for health care, housing, education, and jobs.

The bloodshed and death in Iraq will continue until we - the people of the United States - bring this war to an end, and any hope for positive international support for Iraq will be impossible until the U.S. military occupation ends and U.S. troops leave. Democracy can not be delivered in a cluster bomb, nor can it be imposed from under a tank or at the end of a gun. True democracy resides in the will of the Iraqi people. We respect their dignity and sovereignty, and their right to control of their own country.

We call for an end to the U.S. war of military occupation and for the setting of an early date for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Iraqis must be allowed to choose their own office-holders (and not be bound by those appointed by the US occupation authorities) and their own economic policies (and not be bound by the privatization regulations imposed by pro-consul Paul Bremer). All U.S. military bases in the country must be removed; and we call upon Washington to provide funds to aid in the reconstruction of the damage caused by the illegal US war.

We Call for Nonviolent Resistance to the War in Iraq

Times of great injustice call for acts of conscience and courage. In the loving spirit and discipline of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and others, we call on people to engage in acts and campaigns of noncooperation and active nonviolent resistance to the U.S. government, the military, the corporate merchants of war, and all institutions that feed the continuing conflict in Iraq.

To the millions who have marched, lobbied Congress or otherwise protested the war in Iraq, we call on you to continue your opposition, and to join together with others in nonviolent resistance to this immoral and unjust war. Our democratic voices of dissent joined with an unprecedented anti-war movement around the world. We must now build an equally unprecedented movement to nonviolently resist this war and bring it to an end. As the carnage increases and the military quagmire deepens in Iraq, the prospects for peace may seem dim and the momentum of war strong. But now more than ever is a time for dissent, not despair; for deepened commitment to peace, not complacency with war; for strengthened resistance, not weakened resolve.

To all who are sick of heart and conscience over the death and destruction in Iraq, we call on you to join us in nonviolent resistance to this war. For the sake of our humanity; for the sake of justice; for the sake of peace in Iraq, we must act now. And we cannot rest from our campaign of nonviolent resistance until our demands of peace and justice are met.

We call for expressions of nonviolent resistance that are many and varied. From the offices of Congresspersons and Senators to military recruiters and military bases, from our payment of federal taxes to the facilities where weapons are made that become the profits and sorrows of empire, we welcome each and every person who is moved to engage in or support noncooperation and nonviolent resistance, at whatever level, to take action.

To get more information about the Call for Nonviolent Resistance to the War and how you can get involved with nonviolent resistance efforts and campaigns, please go to our website at www.iraqpledge.org

Current endorsers of the Call as of March 1, 2005, list in formation (Please note that we are also encouraging and collecting organizational endorsements of the Call. You can find information about making organizational endorsements at our website.)

Ellen Barfield - Board Member, Veterans for Peace* and National Committee, War Resisters League

Medea Benjamin - Co-founder, Global Exchange and Co-founder, Code Pink

Phyllis Bennis - Institute for Policy Studies*

Michael S. Berg - Father of slain hostage in Iraq

Frida Berrigan - National Committee, War Resisters League

Rev. Roy Bourgeois, MM - Founder, SOA Watch*

Leslie Cagan - National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice*

Tim Carpenter - Director, Progressive Democrats of America*

Noam Chomsky

Gordon Clark - Coordinator, Iraq Pledge of Resistance

Stephen Cleghorn - Military Families Speak Out*

David Cobb - Cobb/LaMarche Campaign, Green Party USA*

John Dear - Jesuit Priest & author

Jeff Dietrich - LA Catholic Worker

Daniel Ellsberg

Eve Ensler - Playwright and Founder, V-Day

Bruce K. Gagnon - Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space*

Arun Gandhi - Founder/President, Institute for Nonviolence, Memphis, TN

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton - Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Detroit*

G. Simon Harak - Anti-Militarism Coordinator War Resisters League

Tom Hayden - Professor and author

Kathy Kelly - Voices in the Wilderness

Pat LaMarche - Cobb/LaMarche Campaign, Green Party USA*

Lila Lipscomb - Military Families Speak Out*

Kevin Martin - Executive Director, Peace Action*

Father John P. McNamee - Philadelphia. Catholic Peace Fellowship* and author of Diary of a City Priest

Gael Murphy - Co-founder, Code Pink

Cindy Sheehan - Military Families Speak Out* and Co-founder, Gold Star Families for Peace*

Bob Smith - Brandywine Peace Community

Norman Solomon - Syndicated columnist & author

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Ann Wright - Resigned as US Diplomat in opposition to Iraq War

Celeste Zappala - Military Families Speak Out* and Co-founder, Gold Star Families for Peace*

Howard Zinn

USCountVotes' powerpoint presentation used this weekend at a Berkeley Teach-in is available. You are all welcome to use it to assist others in raising awareness if you would like.

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCVpresentation.ppt

I have also posted a presentation which details the privatization of our voting systems:

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/ThePrivatizationoftheVote.ppt

FYI, Here is a picture of me at the Teach-In in Berkeley on Saturday.

http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/

The Berkeley Teach-In was terrific because it enabled coordination of efforts at a dinner for the speakers and organizers that will move our efforts to investigate the accuracy of elections and ensure fair accurate democratic elections by 2006 forward.

USCountVotes' statistical audits of elections will be as important a measure of election integrity as exit polling. USCountVotes' is going to make all its detailed precinct level data public however, and will work with any group that conducts exit polls that plans to make their detailed data public as well.

Our database design is nearly finished, and we're making concerted efforts to obtain funding to hire full-time programmers and system administrators to finish a secure volunteer signup and login system and other systems needed to begin archiving and normalizing election data.

Best regards,

Kathy Dopp
http://uscountvotes.org

http://www.lnc-2010.de/html/aktuelle_events.html (Auszug)

Unglaublich aber wahr: unter strenger Geheimhaltung werden seit etlichen Jahren von Flugzeugen chemische Substanzen wie Barium und Aluminiumstaub in die Atmosphäre gesprüht, die der globalen Erwärmung entgegenwirken sollen, aber ungeahnte gesundheitliche Folgen für die gesamte Menschheit haben werden. Schon seit einiger Zeit geistert das Wort “Chemtrails” durchs Internet, was so viel bedeutet wie chemische Substanzen in den Kondensstreifen von Flugzeugen. Aber es sind nicht normale Kondensstreifen, und sie unterscheiden sich auch eindeutig von ihnen. Anders als diese lösen sie sich nicht rasch auf, sondern bleiben lange Zeit sichtbar. Zudem sieht es oftmals nach einer gezielten Besprühung bestimmter Gebiete aus, da teilweise die Muster kreuz und quer verlaufen und besonders bei besonderen Witterungen auftreten, ohne dass es eine meteorologische Erklärung dafür gäbe. Lange Zeit konnten Beobachter solcher Phänomene nur spekulieren, was das zu bedeuten hat. Besonders in den USA gibt es zahlreiche Internetforen, die versuchen, die Thematik zu dokumentieren und Erklärungen zu finden. Für die Meisten blieb es eine unbewiesene Verschwörungstheorie. Inzwischen gibt es einen Insider, der auspackte, und bestätigt, dass das keine gewöhnlichen Kondensstreifen sind. Auf einer Chemtrail kritischen Internetseite http://www.holmestead.ca meldete sich ein wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter zu Wort, der zugab, an dem Projekt in Kanada beteiligt zu sein und sich bereit erklärte, Fragen zu Chemtrails zu beantworten. Offenbar ist er selber davon überzeugt, dass das Shield-Project eine gute Sache ist, aber die Bevölkerung davon in Kenntnis gesetzt werden sollte. Nach seinen Aussagen sollen “Chemtrails” der globalen Erwärmung entgegenwirken.

http://www.chemtrail.de/

Diese Sendung steht im mp3 Format über diesen Link zur Verfügung:
http://tinyurl.com/56u64
Wenn Sie dieses Sendung im DVD Format bekommen wollen, schicken Sie bitte 5,-- € in Briefmarken an das live Net Concept 2010 e. V., Vorwerker Str. 31, 27412 Wilstedt. Kennwort: Chemtrails


Quelle: http://ecolog.twoday.net/stories/548072/

ES-UK is the association for the electrically hypersensitive (EHS). Charity Commission registered number 1103018. We support those made ill by electromagnetic fields/RF/microwaves and campaign for recognition of this illness. This site is regularly updated, especially the 'this week, news update page': http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/

http://www.gmwatch.org

Pharm Aid - contaminated U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala

"This isn't the first time developing countries have been less than pleased to use our science experiments for their sustenance. In 2002 the Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development said their World Food Program sacks of corn were contaminated by StarLink. The U.S., a primary contributor to the WFP, is the only country in the world to have ever grown Starlink."

Pharm Aid

Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala

by Aina Hunter

February 28th, 2005

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0509,hunter,61585,6.html

Latin American environmentalists are criticizing our food aid again after a genetically altered type of corn banned for health reasons was found in the shipments.

The problem is StarLink, a type of genetically altered corn that generates its very own, built-in pesticide. It seems to cause allergy symptoms and asthma, so it's not EPA-approved. Still, a few weeks ago StarLink was detected in bags of World Food Program corn, and now activists in six Latin American countries are denouncing the U.S. for trying to palm off dangerous food on the Guatemalan poor.

http://www.humboldt.org.ni/transgenicos/denuncia_englishfeb16.htm

Five years ago, U.S. factories shut down and supermarkets pulled corn chips, taco shells, and grits off the shelves after more than 300 different kinds of corn products were found tainted with StarLink, which is supposed to be used only for animal feed and to manufacture ethanol.People were getting sick right and left, and the fiasco costStarLink developer Aventis CropScience hundreds of millions of dollars.

http://www.platformgentechnologie.nl/genetech/thema_incidenten/starlink_panel.html

StarLink was introduced in '98, but by the year '00 it was all mixed up in our food supply. Aventis argued that growers weren't isolating it, as they were supposed to, which led to pollen drift.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/agf-fact/0153.html

In addition, grain processors inadvertently mixed StarLink with regular corn at mills and in grain elevators. It seems that no one knew the stuff was so dangerous.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/sueaventis.cfm

When that word got around,alarms went off around the world as countries demanded that the U.S. stop trying to export StarLink.

http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=40422-consumers-urge-ban

The Japanese cut U.S. corn imports by 50 pecent when they detected it in samples the U.S. Department of Agriculture said was free of StarLink.

The Koreans banned American corn all together after detecting StarLink in a shipment of tortillas that the USDA also said was clean. After that, even starving countries like India and Zambia started getting picky.

http://www.biotech-info.net/india_says_no.html
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s714981.htm

The biotech industry maintains that no one has ever proven that StarLink is bad for you. Nevertheless, after the scare, the EPA "encouraged" the developer to take it off the market. As for the huge surplus, leftover StarLink was to be fed to animals or and churned into ethanol. And, apparently, sold to the World Food Program.

All evidence to the contrary, the U.S. denies sending StarLink overseas. Ed Loyd, a spokesman for the USDA, says all corn destined for the WFP is tested for StarLink. He says he can't explain why Genetic I.D., an Iowa-based laboratory, says that 80 percent of the samples they took from aid packages to six countries tested positive for variousgenetically modified organisms (only the Guatemalans were treated to Starlink), but he told the Voice that the tests the USDA used came out clean.

http://www.genetic-id.com/

This isn't the first time developing countries have been less than pleased to use our science experiments for their sustenance. In 2002 the Bolivian Forum on Environment and Development said their World Food Program sacks of corn were contaminated by StarLink. The U.S., a primary contributor to the WFP, is the only country in the world to have ever grown Starlink.


Informant: JHW369

The special interests that want to drill in the crown jewel of the national wildlife refuge system just do not give up. The results of the last election have brought them to the verge of success in the Senate, while the House is already on record supporting drilling.

Urge your senators to oppose any and all efforts to open any part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration and drilling by oil and gas interests.

Click here to take action:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=18638

Be a pipeline not a bucket - Please pass this along

George Washington was not only the military leader of the American Revolutionary War, but also, as the first President of the United States, established the pattern of service, duty, and honor for all future presidents. It is altogether fitting, that on this impending anniversary of his birth, we remember his honesty, integrity, and sacrifice with a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

As a Nation we have much to be thankful for. Our Constitutional Republic has been the model for Freedom emulated by many nations across the world. We have elected representatives who take an oath to preserve our Freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Many of these elected Representatives are responsive to the will of the electorate. However, a great number in Congress are overly influenced or controlled by a 'Shadow Government' I call the Beltway Insiders.

The large majority of Congress will represent the will of the people, if that will is expressed to them with sufficient clarity and force. Otherwise these 'representatives' are too much influenced by the lobbyists of the Insiders and the 'military industrial complex'. We must make their fear of defeat at the polls greater than the power, influence,and money offered by the 'elitist special interests' by keeping in touch with our Representative and Senators.

Please join with us in a day of thanksgiving, prayer, and if your religious observance includes it, fasting for our Congress to resist the wiles of the Beltway Insiders. Specifically pray for the following:

1. Ask for Congress to stand firm in defense of our Republic, with Checks and Balances in place and working properly between the three branches of government.

2. Give thanks for the tide of resistance which is growing against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, (FTAA), amnesty for illegal aliens, and the erosion of Freedom exemplified by the USA Patriot Act and the Intelligence Bill passed in December. Pray for our Congress to stand strong for Freedom and reject all totalitarian bills.

3. Pray for many people to step forward in defense of Freedom and that the forces of the Insiders will melt away and dissolve in confusion and in-fighting.

The potential of a people united in prayer is immense and powerful. Please join with thousands of your fellow citizens this weekend in a day of thanksgiving and prayer for our Nation and Freedom.

Inscribed on the Liberty Bell are these words:
"...proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof:" Leviticus 25:10


Will Christensen
National Vice Chair
Independent American Party
http://www.usiap.org

Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050228/D88HL2N80.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03012005.html


From Information Clearing House

The testimony of former White House security advisor Richard Clarke to the 9/11 Commission is now thoroughly vindicated.

http://www.thesentinel.com/306486040216774.php


From Information Clearing House

Two human rights groups filed a lawsuit today against Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men allegedly tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://207.44.245.159/article8186.htm

Today my brother passed away. He was one of the latest and I hope one of the last casualties of the insult to civilization we call war. Not the current idiocy in Iraq, Or even the First adventure into that country. My brother was a lingering casualty of the war in Vietnam.

He did not perish as a result of enemy fire, but in a way he was downed by "friendly fire." He died of cancers related to a lovely little tool of jungle warfare called Agent Orange. While the Vietnam conflict may be old news, the stonewalling, lying, and lack of support that sealed his fate are as fresh as today's headlines.

Today our brave men and women at arms returning from Iraq are in a similar jeopardy. No, not Agent Orange, but a substance so much more insidious and deadly: depleted uranium, a metal that is commonplace in the tools of modern warfare.

This poisonous metal is being used in ammunition, artillery shells, tank rounds, and the armor plating on our tanks, APCs and even some Humvees. Like the Agent Orange of the Vietnam war, our military and civilian leaders tell us that this depleted uranium is safe. They say that the radiation levels are so low as to be benign. They tell us that today. Years down the line when these fine soldiers begin to develop tumors, leukemias, neurological disorders, and even worse, birth defects in their children, the denials and stonewalling will begin anew.

To my way of thinking, this is a shameful way to treat those who took up arms and answered their country's call. It will be on you, the husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, children, and those who feel gratitude for these people's sacrifices, to hold our leaders accountable.

It is my sincere wish that those of you welcoming your family members back home can stop this turning away of those responsible so that you need not lose and bury your own as I have had to.

J.M. Collins, Lebanon

http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/opinion/edit03.txt


Informant: Davey Garland

"Zusätzliche Anstrengungen": Gewerkschafterin erwartet "Sinneswandel" von Managern wegen Arbeitslosigkeit (01.03.05)

Die stellvertretende DGB-Vorsitzende Ursula Engelen-Kefer fordert angesichts der gemeldeten 5,2 Millionen Arbeitslosen "zusätzliche Anstrengungen" für mehr Arbeitsplätze. In der "Leipziger Volkszeitung" appellierte sie laut Vorabbericht an Bund, Länder und Kommunen, "alle Finanzierungsspielräume für mehr Beschäftigung freizumachen". "Bei "Hartz IV" zeigt sich schon jetzt, dass der Kompromiss von Bundesregierung und CDU/CSU zu organisatorischen Blockaden und neuen Verschiebebahnhöfen führt, die das Ziel, die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit zu senken, ernsthaft gefährdet", sagte sie.

Zugleich kritisierte Engelen-Kefer die großen Unternehmensführungen. "Es ist nicht akzeptabel, dass große DAX-Unternehmen trotz riesiger Gewinne einen weiteren Beschäftigungsabbau planen", sagte sie. Notwendig sei ein Sinneswandel bei den Managern der deutschen Wirtschaft, die Gewinne in neue Beschäftigung zu investieren.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10565

Werbefilm für Genmais: Leitung der Gentechnik-Kontrollbehörden wird auf Befangenheit überprüft (01.03.05)

Verbraucherschutzministerin Renate Künast (Grüne) will Spitzenbeamte in Kontrollbehörden für Gentechnik auf Befangenheit überprüfen. Nach Recherchen des ARD-Magazins "Report Mainz" geht es dabei um eine Interessenkollision der für die Zulassung gentechnisch veränderter Organismen zuständigen Beamten. Wie das Magazin am Montagabend berichtete, traten der Leiter des Zentrums für Gentechnologie, Hans-Jörg Buhk, und sein Stellvertreter Detlef Bartsch 2002 in einem Werbefilm für Genmais auf. Dem genannten Zentrum untersteht auch die "Zulassungsstelle Gentechnik".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10568

"Armutskreislauf": Kinderarmut in Deutschland soll überproportional ansteigen (01.03.05)

In den meisten reichen Nationen steigt nach Angaben der Kinderhilfsorganisation Unicef die Kinderarmut. Die Situation von Kindern in 17 von 24 untersuchten OECD-Staaten habe sich verschlechtert, sagte der Vorsitzende von Unicef Deutschland, Reinhard Schlagintweit, am Dienstag in Berlin bei der Vorstellung einer neuen Studie. Der UNICEF-Vergleich zeigt krasse Unterschiede zwischen den reichen Ländern auf. Am niedrigsten ist die Kinderarmut in Dänemark und Finnland (unter drei Prozent). Besonders hoch ist der Anteil armer Kinder in den USA (über 20 Prozent). Deutschland liegt im Mittelfeld auf Platz 12. In Deutschland sei die Kinderarmut dabei mit 2,7 Prozentpunkten seit 1990 stärker angestiegen als in den meisten anderen Industrienationen. In Ländern mit höheren Sozialausgaben ist die Kinderarmut nach der Studie niedriger.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10560

AB SOFORT ONLINE:

CROPfm-Live-Sendung vom 18. 2. 2005:
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter
"Folter: Spurensuche zwischen Allmacht und Wahnsinn."
http://www.folter.co.at/

Folter ist ein ständiger Begleiter des Menschen auf seinem Weg durch die Evolution; ausgehend von mythologischen Blutritualen über die Verbrechen der Kirche bis zum amerikanischen Guantanamo. Über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Lust, Gewalt und Mythologie sprachen Chris Haderer und Claudia Altendorfer mit Prof. Horst Herrmann, Autor von "Die Folter. Eine Enzyklopädie des Grauens."

Die Sendung kann direkt von der Homepage von CROPfm als RealAudio-Datei abgerufen werden:
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter

Zusätzlich steht eine MATERIALSAMMLUNG mit Links, Ressourcen, einer Biblio- und Filmografie sowie weiterführenden Informationen unter http://www.folter.co.at/ zur Verfügung. Über Meinungen, Kommentare und eigene Beiträge würden wir uns sehr freuen. Die Site wird permanent erweitert. Über http://www.folter.co.at sind auch weitere Interviews und Radiosendungen zum Thema Folter abrufbar.

Moderation: Chris Haderer/Claudia Altendorfer
Telefongast: Horst Herrmann (Soziologe, Autor)

http://www.folter.co.at
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter

by Danny Schecter

The decline of our media system has been well documented. Every week seems to bring with it news about how the news is screwed up. Media concentration, commercial imperatives and a clear conservative tilt is tuning out and turning off viewers, readers and listeners.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Schecter.shtml?mail=01

by Ralph Nader

Fighting stateless terrorism in ways that create more terrorists is what is keeping many an active and retired military, diplomatic and intelligence person awake at night. But not George Bush, who assures us that he loses no sleep over his decisions or their consequences.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Nader.shtml?mail=01

by Mary Shaw

Hardcore conservatives who attack those who question the right-wing policies and practices of a black woman or an Hispanic man are often the same ones who have opposed hate crimes legislation or supported racial profiling.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Shaw.shtml?mail=01

by Commander Beth F. Coye, U.S. Navy (ret.)

While listening to President Bush deliver his second Inaugural Address, that familiar sinking feeling washed over me again.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301BethF.Coye,U.S.Navy(ret.).shtml?mail=01

Pass It On: The Big Lie

by Bill Moyers

In this interview, veteran newsman Bill Moyers exposes what Americans should really be fearful about. Hint: It's not Al Qaeda.
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

"The Big Lie is that the threat of Al Qaeda is greater to us than the threat of low wages, environmental pollution, the growing inequality in America, or the terrible failure of the Bush policies on schools."

—veteran newsman and former White House press secretary Bill Moyers, in an interview with the Santa Barbara Independent.

Read the entire interview:
http://www.independent.com/cover/Cover953.htm

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12370289%5E663,00.html


Informant: Andy Robinson

http://www.tierramerica.org/english/2005/0205/iacentos.shtml


Informant: Andy Robinson

AIUSA
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0228-07.htm

On the Occasion of the 1,500th U.S. Troop Death in Iraq, Military Families Mourn and Speak Out
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0228-15.htm

Military Families Speak Out as Death Toll Reaches 1500 in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030305Z.shtml

Stop the Draft before it starts:
http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.

Despite what politicians say, there is a high probability that the Bush Administration will attempt to reinstate the draft.

The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national popular uprising against the occupation. Soldiers are dying every day. A report issued in January 2004 by Jeffrey Record, a visiting professor at the Air War College, said the Army is "near the breaking point." The Pentagon has been forced to issue repeated "stop loss" orders and recall soldiers who had retired or otherwise returned to civilian life.

Out of 10 Army Divisions, part or all of 9 of them are either deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Twenty-one out of 33 regular combat brigades are on active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, or the Balkans. That's 63% of the Army's combat strength. This means the Army is extremely overextended. The Bush Administration has been trying to fill the gap with Reserve and National Guard troops, but this is a temporary fix at best. The head of the Army Reserves has recently written a memo saying that the readiness of his forces has been drastically reduced through over-deployment and is "degenerating into a broken force.”

Meanwhile, official U.S. foreign policy is now the doctrine of "pre-emptive war" and "regime change" wherever a leader runs afoul of U.S. corporate interests. An invasion of Iran, Syria, Korea, or Cuba -- all of whom are on Washington and Wall Street's list of targets -- would require tens or hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

Enlistment rates not even able to maintain current force levels, much less provide troops for new invasions and occupations. All four services missed their enlistment quotas last year, and enlistments in the Reserves, National Guard, and regular military are at a 30-year low. Many current members of the armed forces plan to get out as soon as their current enlistment ends. According to a poll conducted by the military newspaper Stars & Stripes, 49% of soldiers stationed in Iraq do not plan to re-enlist.

The President has given the Selective Service System a set of readiness goals to be implemented by March 31, 2005. As part of these performance goals, the System must be ready to be fully operational within 75 days. This means we can look for the Draft to be in operation as early as June 15, 2005.

March 19 is the second anniversary of the war. On the weekend of March 19-20, activists all over the globe will take to the streets to demand and end to the war and occupation. No Draft No Way will be mobilizing to take part in these demonstrations, which will take place just a few days before the Selective Service System reports to President Bush that it is ready to go. We must be in the streets to let them know that we oppose the draft and will not be used as cannon fodder in Iraq or in any new war.

Let's Organize NOW to Stop the Draft:

1) Come to NYC for the March 19 Troops Out Now demonstration. Join the No Draft No Way! contingent in the march. http://www.troopsoutnow.org . Or join the march and rally in Fayetteville, NC, outside Fort Bragg--for more information, see http://www.ncpeacejustice.org .

2) Organize an anti-draft meeting at your school, church or mosque, union hall, etc. Contact us at 212-633-6646 for help and speakers.

3) Organize protests outside the selective service office in your area.

4) Donate to help build a network of educators, activists, and resisters to fight the draft--before it returns. http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml

5) Sign the No Draft Petition. http://nodraftnoway.org/petition.shtml

http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org


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

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050228/ts_csm/atowns


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

Why is the President Punishing Drug Users for Offences He Has Also Been Linked to

by Joe Conason

Toronto Star

On the audiotapes of George W. Bush recorded secretly by his erstwhile confidant Douglas Wead in 1999, the future president revealed how much he feared candid discussion of his personal use of marijuana and cocaine. As quoted in The New York Times, Bush vowed that no matter what rumours and facts circulated about what he did or might have done, he would doggedly decline to answer forthrightly. ... Read more at Toronto Star http://tinyurl.com/5oako or Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0227-29.htm



© Virginia Metze

Democratic National Committee, Pelosi weigh in on Gannon scandal, credentialing

Democratic National Committee, Pelosi enter Gannon fray

2/27/2005

by John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

Saying the Democratic National Committee had not weighed in on the scandal surrounding discredited White House reporter ‘Jeff Gannon’ because the Committee was in transition, the DNC’s national spokesman broke the ice in a conversation with RAW STORY.

The office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has been silent on the issue to date, also voiced their concerns.

Both the DNC and Pelosi’s office shared similar alarm over what they perceive as media manipulation. Each offered a more temperate critique than the spokeswomen for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) voiced earlier this week.

The DNC’s national spokesman, Jano Cabrera, said the Committee had particular concern with what they see as a deliberate strategy by the Bush Administration to manipulate the media. The office of DNC Chairman Howard Dean did not return a call for comment placed Friday.

“We have [real] concerns as to how Jeff Gannon got into the White House briefing room on a serious basis,” Cabrera said. Read the rest at: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=132


© Virginia Metze

Now that the Australian government is increasing its troop levels in Iraq, those troops should know that the hazards they face are far more than being shot by unfriendly insurgents. For those troops the issue of DU is very much an OH&S topic for this list. Is it really worth bringing home a legacy of radioactive poisoning for one's offspring just to support Bush's nuclear war?

Don Maisch



Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/DU/DU_DBDMDB.html
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/DU.htm


A death sentence here and abroad

by Leuren Moret

"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular and a matter of concern."

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

How did they hide it?

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing overseas nothing political."

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."

In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence Š for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:

American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn.
Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime
Against Iraq, Humanity,"
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says
Depleted Uranium Definitively
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care:
Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to Vets",
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html

Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic
Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World",
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:
"Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin
Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death,"
http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,
Germany, October 16-19, 2004:
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan.
Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat:
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War"
by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret,
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leuren+Moret
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/

Joseph Sobran on the devolution of the conservative movement:
http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2005/w050203.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Democracy Does Not Equal Freedom

And we are not the government. Article by Jacob G. Hornberger:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger25.html

Local authority representatives yesterday condemned police for arresting the mayor and the head of a local council in western Athens after they oversaw the removal of an allegedly illegal mobile telephony mast in the area.

Kamatero Mayor Nikolaos Stenos and the president of the municipal council, Nikitas Kamarinopoulos, were taken into police custody on Sunday afternoon and released yesterday morning.

A statement from the Central Union of Municipalities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE) said the two men were arrested after the council decided to disconnect the mast that, officials say, was unlawfully drawing power from the electricity grid and was illegally erected on a four-story building which was being constructed near three schools. Stenos and Kamarinopoulos accompanied municipal engineers to the site on Sunday to take the mast down.

KEDKE said it would ask for a meeting with the government to discuss a framework for the safe installation of similar masts in the future.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_01/03/2005_53534


Informant: Sylvie

VA Opens Doors to Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Seeking Counseling Assistance

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), more than 12,000 Iraq War and Afghanistan War sought readjustment counseling from VA's "Vet Centers." This statistic means two things: 1) VA did the right thing reaching out to these war veterans, and, 2) If so many veterans sought assistance so soon after returning from war, then there are significant problems among many war veterans.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2904

House Speaker Dennis Hastert believes any person suspected (not convicted, just suspected) should be deported to their home countries (or other countries) where they face torture and death. Do Hastert's dangerous comments mean he believes our Constitution and our protections for due process are gone? Has Hastert undermined and abandoned our Nation's values supporting freedom?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2903

When the people are free, when the people are informed of the facts, the people are positioned to exercise their political rights. This is the case in rural Vermont, where average citizens are forcing the issue of the failed Iraq war onto the ballot for further public discussion. This is common sense in action.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2902

Bear Any Burden: The Heavy Cost of Using U.S. Troops as Experimental Test Subjects

The article below describes the terrible price paid by many of our Nation's soldiers so that the Department of Defense and the drug industry can have an endless supply of human test subjects for experimental drugs.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2901

from Vivienne B.

Since the Tetra mast (l k. away) became active last year, I have been suffering badly from lack of sleep, feeling that my skin doesn't fit, headaches etc. etc. The arthritis has become very bad, so suppose I must be electro sensitive. Things have become much worse since an Orange mast - next to a Vodafone became active a short while ago. There is also a datatrack one about lk away, which operates all the time. The high pitched whistling noise that I hear is frequently worse at night and the lack of sleep is just so unbearable.

However our grandson, who lives with us, was rushed to hospital for an appendix op. just before Xmas and the nurses said they had never had so many children (mostly aged 7 - 10) in hospital for appendix. During one week, there were 5 children in there. The frightening thing was that they all lived within about half a mile of a Tetra mast!! This has to be more than a co-incidence as Tetra hasn't been in operation very long in West Sussex.

I am following this one up, as one of the nurses was particularly interested in knowing more of mast emissions. Our grandson still gets tummy pains and nausea - I am feeling the same way and am now seriously considering moving to another area which isn't as flat and open as this one and has more protection with trees, etc.

The reason for writing this (and I know there are thousands out there who feel as worried as I do), is to ask if anyone knows of an area which is reasonably safe? It would be nice to remain somewhere South if pos., simply because we know people here, however desperation means that almost anywhere could be considered. And another thing - where do most sensitive people go for their holidays where they can get away from the emissions and recharge their batteries?

Hoping someone, somewhere has an answer or two. I can see the Easter Holidays looming up and it would be nice to get away for a while. Also, what really really works in deflecting the beastly rays?

Kind regards, VB


From Mast Network

"Man kann sich nur noch die Augen reiben: Gutverdienende Unternehmen und bestverdienende Spitzenmanager fordern von ihren Belegschaften "Beiträge zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit". Die Arbeitszeiten sollen verlängert werden, selbstverständlich ohne Lohnausgleich. Auf Weihnachts- und Urlaubsgeld soll zumindest zum Teil verzichtet werden. Pausen sollen gestrichen werden…"

Artikel von Klaus Ernst, 1. Bevollmächtigter der IG Metall-Verwaltungsstelle Schweinfurt in Klartext, Zeitung des IG Metall-Standortvertrauenskörpers der ZF Sachs-Gruppe vom Dezember 2004 (pdf)
http://www2.igmetall.de/homepages/schweinfurt/file_uploads/04.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 1

by Gary Leupp

CounterPunch

02/28/05

According to Gen. Wesley Clark, a senior U.S. military officer told him in the Pentagon as early as November 2001 that the administration planned, following the invasion of Iraq, to conduct campaigns throughout the Middle East and beyond. 'Oh yes, sir, not only is it Afghanistan. There's a list of countries. We're not that good at fighting terrorists, so we're going after states: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Iran. There's a five-year plan.' We're in the fourth year of that plan, which proceeds apace. Afghanistan and Iraq are conquered, dotted with U.S. military bases designed to be permanent. Libya's been removed from the target list, due to some canny machinations on Col. Muammar Qadhafi's part, and Somalia's drawing less attention than Sudan. But Syria, Lebanon and Iran remain very much in the crosshairs...

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp02282005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Margaret K. Loehr

Common Dreams

02/28/05

The U.S. began bombing Vietnam with B-52's in 1966. Twenty thousand combat soldiers were on the ground at that time, a small percentage of what was to come. That summer I lived on an Army base in Colorado. What I experienced there broke my heart and changed me as a person. Today, to the tune of the same rhetoric, same politics, same promises of freedom, we again send our youth to sacrifice and die. My long ago summer seems like it was yesterday...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0228-23.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

02/28/05

There are several problems with wearing human rights advocacy on your sleeve. The first is that merely holding a vote doesn't mean that a country will eventually be free. Even the Nazis in Germany initially took power by a democratic election. In the case of Iraq, we are a long way from having a genuine republic that safeguards the human rights of minorities.

The second problem, which Carter experienced acutely, is that rhetorically lambasting countries publicly about their human rights policies or their domestic systems of governance often leads to a vitriolic response. For example, the more Carter (and other presidents) pressured China to improve its human rights conditions, the more the Chinese government cracked down on dissent.

Other governments feel that the U.S. government should worry about affairs within its own borders rather than meddling in their affairs...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1469


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Stephen Moore

The Weekly Standard

03/01/05

The 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax is now levied only on the first $90,000 a worker makes each year. What President Bush said was that raising the cap (to perhaps $125,000 or even $200,000) was 'on the table.' This was a strategic blunder of the first order. Now even the strongest advocates of Social Security personal accounts are wondering what hefty price will have to be paid to enact them. ...

House majority leader Tom DeLay and others in the Republican leadership in Congress have rightly declared that any tax hike to 'pay for' Social Security reform is dead on arrival, especially in the more conservative House. Bush may gain a few Democratic votes by agreeing to raise taxes, but it appears he would lose far more Republicans in the bargain. In other words, this proposal is a net subtraction of votes for personal accounts...

http://tinyurl.com/5m6zw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Joshua Frank

AntiWar.Com

03/01/05

Silence is complicity, and the antiwar movement is speechless. No visible opposition to the Iraq war has shown its face for months. Hopefully, that will change on March 19, the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion, when millions of protesters take to the streets around the world. Yet a concerted effort to assemble opposition to the war here in the U.S. has failed to develop...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=5011


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

UK: Terror bill climbdown by Labour

Guardian [UK]

03/01/05

Tony Blair's government last night sustained a significant blow to its authority when 60 Labour MPs, including four ex-cabinet ministers, rebelled against Charles Clarke's plans to impose control orders on terrorist suspects -- despite last minute concessions -- and helped slash their party's 161-vote majority to just 14. ... In a significant climbdown to the angry cross-party coalition of MPs who were vociferously refusing to grant ministers powers to detain suspects without judicial approval, Mr Clarke announced that judges will, after all, decide such cases in his new prevention of terrorism bill -- not himself, as the bill currently proposes...

http://tinyurl.com/43jm3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

03/01/05

When Vermont towns hold their annual meetings this year, they will likely be dominated by such typical local issues as school spending and whether to buy a new road grader. But on Town Meeting Day set for Tuesday, 52 of the communities also were expected to debate the Iraq war and the Vermont National Guard's role in it as they consider whether to adopt a nonbinding anti-war resolution. The resolution asks President Bush and Congress to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and calls for the Vermont Legislature to establish a commission to study the effects of deployments on the state...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4833079,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Iraq: US says puppet government uses torture

Houston Chronicle

02/28/05

The State Department on Monday detailed an array of human rights abuses last year by the Iraqi government, including torture, rape and illegal detentions by police officers and functionaries of the interim administration that took power in June. In the Bush administration's bluntest description of human rights transgressions by the U.S.-supported government, the report said the Iraqis 'generally respected human rights, but serious problems remained' as the government and U.S.-led foreign forces fought a violent insurgency [sic]. It cited 'reports of arbitrary deprivation of life, torture, impunity, poor prison conditions -- particularly in pretrial detention facilities -- and arbitrary arrest and detention...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3061520


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Court: Government must charge Padilla or free him

San Francisco Chronicle

03/01/05

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Monday to either charge terrorism suspect Jose Padilla with a crime or release him after more than 2 1/2 years in custody. U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd in Spartanburg, S.C., said the government can not hold Padilla indefinitely as an 'enemy combatant,' a designation President Bush gave him in 2002. The government contends Padilla was planning an attack with a 'dirty bomb' radiological device. 'The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant,' Floyd wrote in a 23-page opinion that was a stern rebuke to the government. Floyd, appointed by Bush in 2003, gave the administration 45 days to take action...

http://tinyurl.com/4zk72


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Trotz Vertrags-Abschluss prüft E-Plus Standort am Kalvarienberg

Guter Willen auf Gemeinde-Schreiben - 100 Bürger demonstrieren

VON BARBARA SCHLOTTERER

Peiting - Es gibt noch Hoffnung für die besorgten Peitinger Bürger, die verhindern möchten, dass der Mobilfunkbetreiber E-Plus auf dem Dach des "Weilheimer Hofs" eine Antenne errichten möchte. Während gestern Mittag mehr als 100 Betroffene vor dem Anwesen an der Münchner Straße mit Transparenten und Flyern demonstrierten, macht Hilmar Möhlmann von E-Plus klar: "Wir überprüfen gerade den alternativen Standort außerhalb des Ortes, den uns die Gemeinde genannt hat." Sprich: Obwohl Hausbesitzer Alexander Rott bereits am 21. Dezember den Vertrag mit dem E-Plus unterschrieben hat, bleibt der Kalvarienberg als Ausweich-Standort im Gespräch. In der kommenden Woche soll sich laut Hilmar Möhlmann entscheiden, ob der Vertrag mit dem Besitzer des Weilheimer Hofs hinfällig und damit in Sachen Mobilfunk ausgelagert wird.

"Bei einer annähernd gleichen funktechnischen und wirtschaftlichen Eignung würden wir absehen von dem Standort", so Hilmar Möhlmann auf Anfrage. War die Antenne bereits beschlossene Sache, so hatte der Mobilfunkbetreiber sich auf ein Schreiben der Gemeinde vom 7. Februar doch noch auf einen Vergleich eingelassen. "Das sind jetzt quasi zwei parallele Vorgänge." Die Prüfung hat man bei E-Plus sozusagen "spontan dazwischengeschalten".

Wenn die technischen Voraussetzungen am Kalvarienberg in der nächsten Woche genauer unter die Lupe genommen werden, soll auch ein Team von E-Plus vor Ort sein. "Wir sind da sehr gründlich, da wir ja durchaus Interesse an einem guten Standort haben", so der Regionalsprecher, der das Ansinnen auf eine gute Zusammenarbeit mit der Gemeinde Peiting betont.

Verwundert zeigt sich Hilmar Möhlmann über die groß angelegte Protest-Aktion vom gestrigen Freitag. "Das ist ein komischer Zeitpunkt für eine Demonstration", gibt er zu bedenken. Und immerhin habe bislang noch kein Peitinger Bürger überhaupt versucht, sich mit der Firma E-Plus in Verbindung zu setzen - Kontakt aufgenommen haben die besorgten Bürger hingegen schon mit dem Besitzer des Weilheimer Hofs, Alexander Rott. "Zwei Briefe wurden mir unter der Tür durchgeschoben, und einen Anruf haben ich bekommen, allerdings war der lächerlich", bilanziert er seine Erfahrungen seit dem Bekanntwerden des neuen Standorts. Der Peitinger zeigt sich unbeeindruckt: "Das ist doch harmlos, ich bin ziemlich enttäuscht, hätte mit mehr gerechnet", gibt er sich betont gelassen. Zudem weist Alexander Rott auf die Antenne hin, die bereits vor drei Jahren auf dem Dach des "Weilheimer Hofs" angebracht wurde und seitdem in Betrieb ist. Weiter möchte er sich nicht äußern. Falls sich E-Plus nun doch für den "Weilheimer Hof" als Standort entscheiden sollte, dann geht es allerdings schnell: "Die Betriebnahme dort würde kurzfristig bevorstehen", so Hilmar Möhlmann.

Vertragsrücktritt

Zumindest muss sich Verpächter Alexander Rott keine Gedanken über einen Rücktritt vom Vertrag machen - ganz anders als der Besitzer des Eisen-Peter-Hauses an der Münchner-Straße. Laut Informationen unserer Zeitung möchte die Deutsche Funkturm GmbH den Besitzer des Anwesens verklagen, der bereits eine Unterschrift geleistet hatte. Wie es in diesem Fall tatsächlich um das Rücktrittsrecht steht, könnte vor Gericht geklärt werden. mm

26.02.2005

http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/schongau/art1609,253233.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim



AUFRUF ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN MOBILFUNKSENDER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535317/

I was sent a message about an electrosensitivity web site in France which is at

http://www.electrosensibles-victimes.be

I cannot read French but check out the graphics!

Don Maisch



L’Association Sauvons Léon: Infos PRESSE Le Dauphiné du 27 Février 2005 & Campagne Nationale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/543923/

Rixensart sans réseau GSM
http://www.belgiquemobile.be/a/index.php?news=471


Informant: Sylvie

Pass It On: Bush On The "Free Press"

by President George W. Bush

Watch President Bush explaining how the press should be constrained by "the truth" -- a constraint we wish he'd apply to himself.

http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton


"A free press is important...obviously there's got to be constraints."

--President Bush at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, explaining freedom of the press to Russian journalists.

Watch a video clip here:
http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/cnn_bush_press_question_050224-01.rm

DU turns into micro particles on impact. These are easily breathed in. One ounce of DU properly administered could kill everyone in MN. The halflife is 4.5 billion years, essentially forever.

2,000 tons is like looking at 1,000 parked cars in a parking lot.

The nuclear energy industry gives the depleted uranium to the weapons manufacturers for free. They have no way of disposing of it, but if they did, it would be extremely expensive. It is a matter of financial convenience.

Most of this weaponry is made in the state of MN. I told the MN AG, Dan Hatch, about it, and said the people responsible should be prosecuted under R.I.C.O. He said it was his job to defend the state and its enterprizes. He said I should write my Congress people.

David Diggins

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


Informant: mark marks

http://tinyurl.com/4ld49

FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE YOU THINK WILL BE INTERESTED

NEWS FLASH: Bush Family War Profiteering

POST THIS EMAIL TO PEACE AND JUSTICE LISTS

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With input predicting federal spending on RFID to grow 120 percent over the next five years, VARs need to understand different agency needs if they want to get in on the action, according to a panel of government IT representatives gathered on Thursday by the Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60403591


Informant: Mark

Microwave Hearing - abstracts, references
http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/new174.htm


Informant: STEAVE


MICROWAVE HEARING - YEAR 1980 : ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS "DECT" ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL ARMS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/226533/